The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1900, Page 8

“TL UKE < Feeling Exists Against Germany. > MISACR-LORRAINE A HINT, No Guarantee How Long Friendly Relations May Last, 4 He Teile Reichstag. i! a Fake! rs | [ | prevails, but there ef the duration of | f i Deonch President to Be Presented with Pivet Lafayette Dellar on Behalf of Our Presid PARIS, Feb. 21.—Frank J. Thompson, ot the Lafayette Monument Committee, who brirgs the first of the Lafayette dotlars trom President McKin- ley to President Loubet, was presented afternoon by United States Ambas- Porter to M. Delcasse, Minister of Affairs, and the nature of his ex; . q jer ra se Preside Loubet le arrangements for the ceremony of preser tation i FAVORS FRENCH TREATY. Bemate Committee to Report fer Resiprocity Paci—Neo Aegon en Can WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The Benate Committee on Foreign Relations to-day ordered a favorable report on the treaty of reciprocity with France. No amend. ment was made to the treaty. ‘The committee did not take up the rabies treaty relating to the F jacaragua Canal. PASSES THE REIGHSTAG, Iaepection of Ment juding Stringent Penal Clauses, Put Through, BERLIN, Feb. 2.—The Reichstag! Cammittee to-day adopted the amended ‘Di for the inspection of cattle for Glaughter and the inspection of meat. tneluding the more stringent penal pro- Visions advised by the Sub-Committee, ‘WENRY DUFF TRAIL, THE WRITER, IS DEAD. LONDON, Feb. 21.—Henry Duff Trail, @@itor of Literature and a well-known newspaper man and author. died flo-day in this city of heart disease. He tn 1942, 8 40 Paid Help Wants in To-Day’s World BUT Prince Hohenlohe Says! SNS HES | i] be ba be TOPCH ESE EE FEED 1-26-2229 OE SP PE PPPPOOPOOOS OSES SOS SEE EEE Oe MISS KUSSNER HOME AGAIN. ‘Famous American Miniature Painter Made a Portrait of Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. teat GEP4-44 BN ALOA DROOL 444 Amalia Kusener miniature painter, whose dainty brushes have transferred to canvas and porcelain the faces of Kings, queens, a cear and princes, ts due in town to-day She comes from Kimberley, South Africa, vis ftverpool, /any lessons in color, She laughingly am 9), on the eteamehip Teutonic Miss Kusener ts famed not only for the beauty of her own face, but for the beauty of her art. Her brushes have traced the features of the most noted men and women of the present 4. and her visit to Kimberley was made purposely to paint a miniature of Ceectl Rhodes, Miss Kugener finished her comm asion before the siege of Kimberley began. fhe was not, therefore, in the stirring war turmoil which has sur- rounded Kimberley since her departure, An the quest of Cecil Rhodes, however, he acquired quite aetore of war knowl- edge which will be valuable reminis- cences. Miss Kussner should be able to give better pen pictures of Cecil Rhodes chan any one else studying ae she did every line and feature of his strong face for any di The famous mintature artist @ original in her work, in that whe has never taken |verts that she is like Topsy, she was Just born that way child she had a talent for draw- but never thought of color yntil ral yea! ago. Then “whe beean painting society women in this country. Her fame extended. She painted the Prince of Wales, the ir and Czarnna jand other celebrated characters tn the old world The old established custom of painting Inanr lighted from the ceiling has been discarded by Miss Kusener. She puts her sitters close to « window, in a aide lieh!. She has the faculty of mak- ing plain women beautiful, while at the ame time faithfully portray!ng the like- ery She makes godtesres out of more comely women, and isa marvel at paint. ing drewses. NOT HEL Corbitt Thinks He Was CROWD CHARCE ON PEST HOUSE. Sheriff May Be Called Out Mixed Up When a Child, William Corbitt, of 67 East Broadway, has for years been trying to find him-| self. He refuses to believe that Mr. and! Mra. Corbitt, whome name he bears, are his parents, though tly insist that they are | Corbitt asye that Mrs Till'e Corbitt, of 18 Bt. Mark's place, Brooklyn, per: | suaded him to believe he is not himself fhe told him, he says, that he mother, the work. They carried clubs. guns and | was rich and died soon after his birth and that his father soon followed her Then. says Corbiit, when he was three weeks olf be was taken to the New York Foundling Asylum, at Sixty-elghth street and Third avenue. The records show that in September, 187, a man gv ing the name of Hefferdt brought a child | o the institution whom he called) ohnnie.’ Corblit says that child was himself. “Johnnie,” according to the same rec- ords, was taken (9 Toledo, ©, ‘n 18%, by & storekeeper named McGarry, and) later was consigned to a Mrs Hartly, or Barciay, wife of a merchant To prevent his escape—he was then three years old-Corbitt « he war locked up with an attendant in the Bat clays business house for a time Then he was secretly smuggled away to their place in the country In @ month or 90, says this chronicler of infant adventure, there was a mid- it trip on the ratl- lerey, and when he awoke found himeelf = in the New York Foundiing Asy- am. I says Corbitt, he was adopted Corbitt has asked the Health Board to look up his birth WELCH TRIAL CONCLUDED. ‘The trial of Ernest M. Weich, the law- yer aceused of eubornation of perjury. concluded this afternoon and the to Stop Riot in New Rochelle. Since a slight epidemic of small-pox has been prevalent in New Rochelle the town has been excited and part of it quarantined. The climax came to-day when the health officers began evicting a pest house In what is known as Jerusalem Wood, Thirty farmers charged on the work- men to-day and attempted to prevent axes, The contractor, William Carson, tried to fight off the crowd, but was unsueceseful, Hs men had to work From the pest house the farmers went to the Health Office and saw Dr. G. A Peek. who refused the demands of the delegation. Dr. Peck went to Judge Van Zelm for advice, and .the result is that Sheriff Malloy may be called upon to protect the workmen on the pest house, In the mean time the small-pox pa- ents are kept tn Harriscw: street, and the residents think there is a chance for the disease to spread INJURED BY CABLE CARS, |Seventy-Vear-Old Mrs. Harrigan Hart tm Broadway and Patrick Very in Columbus Avenne. Mary Harrigan, seventy years old, of ‘1 Grand street, Jersey City, was crom- ing Broadway at Vesey street this morn- ing, when she was knocked down by a cable car Her left eve wan badty Iacer- ated and her right side injured. She re- fused to make @ complaint against the gripman and was taken to the House of Retief. Patrick Fery, forty-nine, of 113 West Bixty-fourth strest, was struck by a Columbus avenue car at Sixty+hint street this mornttg, and thrown to the pavement. He was badly cut about the head, and removed to Roosevelt Hos- pital —— whom the to- ‘WO EXTRA CHARGS For IT. Abverticemems tor TIE WORLD will be me | ‘THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY $i, 1900, BUYERS WILL MAKE MERRY WHILE THEY’RE SHOPPING. OUT OF M8 He Would Hire Ail Comers: Job! to House, but Got No Satisfaction. “Nobody needs to be without a job.” announced Percival Nagel, Commie- sioner of Street-Cleaning last night. “Any one can get a job at $2 a dav shovelling andw by applying to the first foreman or superintendent.” Taking the Commimtoner at hie word, 4 men and % teamsters assembied early this morning at the street cleaning station at One Hundred and Seventeenth t and Firet avenue. Most of them there at 6 The Superintendent came at 6.30, Out of the 38 applicants the Buperin- tendent selected just nine, “That's ail I need,” sald he with « laugh. 339 men who falled fi ia line and marched silently to Nagles house at 6 East One Hundred and Thir- eth street. There a frightened ser- At told them therCommussioner was at his downtown office, Several men in the front rank said they had seen him gt an upper win- dow. The servant withdrew. ‘Then the on and marched to The Worl ces. said Mr. an Evening World reporter to- th work. ‘aa kkeeper Monaghan Puts Al? Breker’s Eugene Monaghan, who is accused by’ the cotton brokerage firm of John Col- line & Sons of embessiing over $0,000, was arra gned before Magistrate Mott in the Centre Street Court to-day. The case was adjourned untl] Friday afternoon John J. Collins, senior member of the tried unsuccessfully to obtain a confession from Monoghan. oner claims that if a deficiency ex! in the firm's cash accounts Oscar L. Col. Mina, son of John J. Colltna, ta the real offender. Young Collins has not yet been found. — PITCHEORKED WAR HBRO Papte Was Weunded at Santiage and Again in Argument Over Philippines. Charles Boelito, of Midwood and Kingston avenues, and Frenk Papio, of New York and Lefferts avenues, Fiat- | bush, could not agree in a discussion of the Philippines Soelito punctuated hig words by stick- ing a pitohfork into Paplo's stomach, which \# why Boelito was a prisoner in (he Flatbush Court this morntug Papio’s injuries are so serious that Magistrate Voorhees decided to hold Boeliio for the Grand Jury | Paplo was wounded in the battle of Santiago and claims the distinction of raising the firat American flag in San- jtaae after the surrender. EE VICTIM OF BRAWL DBAD, |MoLean’s Bullet, Fired in Quar- rel Over Wo Killea Miteh John Mitchell, who was shot last Mon- ‘day, died this morning tn the Brooklyn Honpttal ar the result of his wound. Samuel McLean, who did the shooting. was arraigned in the Adams Street Po- Nee Court to-day. Magistrate Bristo held MeLean for examination Delia McLean, over whom the men quarrelied, was held in $00 bail as a witness. L. L TRAIN IN A DRIPT, Wt Delayed by Snow and Sand for| hie wife, continues to search through Fourteen Hours Near | wi A train between Long Island City and! |Bmithiown waa staliel Monday after- poon for fourteen hours near Mineoia.| Sand got mixed up with the anow: nea the locomotives could do nothing |ENGLISH ACTOR HARVEY COMING HERE NEXT FALL, Martin Harvey, who is rewarded as England's coming actor, and who has created @ sensation by his acting in “The Only Way,” i coming to this jcountry. He and hie entire company will come here tn October under the management of Marcus Mayer, and will jopen at Wa Theatre, this city, Nov. 2 The sement was closed by cable yesterday. —— Weedruff Takes His Room West, | Léeut.-Gov. Woodruff. his vice- | presidential boom, ts on hi iy to Chi- cago to-day to make an effort to impress the West with his personality and poli- tical ambitions. He is going to speak in Detrott and at various dinners and meet. ings in A millies McKinley apa Woodruff buttons are being distrip- eo over the country, and no effort is being by the Liew ernor ai Bast tenant -ow. his. friends. to wi and the Went to Nie side. — —— Hew te Re “Pestea.” (Prom the American Piet) For the man of the world—the man affaire—eccurate knowledge of events absolutely epsential If he desires t a “posted man” on all O63, New-Broom Nagle Said AN ARMY PUT HIM TO TEST. 339 Then Marched The pris- | | | showed a sign of insanity B. M. sOSTMAN, ‘Treasurer. OTs WENT MAD AT SEL New York Man Sailed as a Passenger on the Saale. LONDON, Feb. 2.—Mr. C. A. Otis. who was a passenger on the North- German Lioyd steamer Saale, trom New York, which touched at Southampton Feb. 14 on her way to Bremen, has be- come insane and has been taken to an asylum at Milton. He says he is a partner of W. F. Newell. of © Broadway, New York, but he cannot give a coherent account of himeelf. 1 ‘Mr, Otis is a member of the firm of | Newell & Otis, mining engineers, in the Aldridge Building, @ Broadway, H's partners, W. F. Newell and Lane K. Stone, first heard the news when a rée- porter for The Evening World told them. They were greatly shocked and hardly able to believe the revort “Mr, Otis was in fine health and epir- | tte," said Mr. Newell, “when | saw him | | sat! on the Basle a week ago yesterday. | He went abroad for recreation and} was to visit Paria and London for a month. “We had heard no word of any trou- ble and it ts very strange. He never “He is not married, is forty years old and lives with his mother at & West Eighty-fourth street. She is a very old woman and | fear the news will kill her. I shall keep it from her if possible. “lL am Mr. Otls's brother-in-law, as well as his partner, and will probably go over and take care uf bim.” Exchange. NO TRACE OF LOST WIFE. Mit Vately Seeks Mrs. Kottmeyer, Whe Mys- tertously Disappeared. William Kottmeyer, the young wife of the saloon-keeper at M3 Fire: avenue, who disappeared from her home last Friday with her little child, Kottmeyer, who is much older than hospitals, believing that some accident has befallen his wife. AFTER UPTOWN SCORCHERS Chiet Devery Recommends that the Batire Bieycle Squad Be Kept Above Fifty-niath Street. Chief Devery has recommended te the Police Board that the bicycle squads be | withdrawn from all posts south of Fitty- ninth street. ‘The Chief claime that most of the scorching and fest driving take place jon Riverside Drive ami the boulevards |above Fifty-ninth street; and there are not enough bicycle policemen to stop it. street should the ocession arise. pageomnnneaten |MR. AND MRS. DIEZEL’S SILVER WEDDING DAY. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diese will cele- brate the twenty-@fth anpiversary their wedding to-morrow at Hall, in Bast Bighty-etzit street. this t ile } ? ii iT iy lf g f CM i O Lt t THOMAS P. SWIFT, First Vice-President ~ second annual reception aii en- eertainment of the Buyers’ Association of America, which will occur to-night Will eclipse anything of the this city. Mt overfiowing, with in tnion ler ft Fully ira ol onal bodies in the country. RUNAWAY; WOMAN HORT. Mra. Stillman Badly Injured Trolley Wreek om Heetsie- berry Read. Mrs. Frank Stillman, forty-seven years old, was thrown from @ runaway trolley car on the Huckleberry road this morning and injured so badly that her death is feared. She lives at Si East One Hundred and Fifty-seventh treet. ‘The car, packed with passengers, wae coming down one of the steepest ef the hills on the Boston Road. Bither the brake failed to hold or the motorman lost control of it. The car bounded forward. It went flying down the hill at an alarming pace. Passengers screamed in terror, and an attemm by some who lost their heads entirely to leap off to jnetant death was prevented only by the strength of the cooler ones on the plat- form, & At the bottom of the hill was a sharp curve, As the car struck it, it jumped the track, The passengers were hurled into a promiscuous heap. Mra. Btill- man, who was on the platform, war huried headlong against the pavement Some mow ber Hi, but up. unconscious when Tt is thought her head and cond me ee Sao . as fast orews from succeeding cars|Rapid Transit Company and the stories that have for basis the fact that you are a director of it, a statement from you would be of val the subject?" cane up manned them. The dent occurred at the junction of Boston road and Third avenue. JARRED THE TENDERLO! Pretty Weman 1: and Messenger” Kecort Made a ficene. | Cornelius Vanderbilt Rep- en Rd broke the force of; sult in wee [eit alliance. away with the impression that Cornelius he, pried, edt thy, Forginam ios: | Vanderbit hos been reinstated an the! fOr ¢ ten: DEORGE W. MITTLER, Second Vice-President. 3. A. KRAUS, Secretary. N TUNNEL FOR INSEL resents No Othér Interests. Cornelius Vanderbilt says that his membership in the Board of Directors of the Rapid Transit Subway Construc- from New " ton represents solely his own interests. Mee lead Cuammere brives He denies that he represents the joint in-| )pnPuanee 10 paw teres Mr. R. 'T. Wilson, or any of the Vander- Dilt interests other than his own, of himself and his father-t . This denial ects avide the impression (hat he represented in the Board the ‘andoriiit or New York Central inter In @ collective sei that might re- ‘ow York Central-Rapid Tran+ It 19 also intended to 40 “head” of the Vanderbilt family. Mr. Vanderbilt was asked this ques “In view of the importance the public Attaches to your association with the Bubway Construction jue. Do you care to say anything on “I really do not care,” he said, “to discuss the matter at all. I would rather! ;,. @ Man's Dress | 5°thing be said. I do not see that I have any such importance.” “One story, Mr. Vanderbilt, is that you went into the construction company| shops wi Tt takes a great deal to shock the|as a director in the interest of your Tenderloin, but nevertheless it received WILIONS NEW SCHEME Directors of the Third Avenue Road Pian to Close Deal. CORTISS ACTS FOR CLIQUE, His Statement for the Com- pany Backed with which fs to “finance” the company, Aji parties cemcerned refused to discuss the pending negotiations, but a suecese- fal termination was expected. ‘The question of the treasurership of the road was settled to-day by John Beaver, who said that he had resigned and William H. Curtiss was appointed in his place. Beaver is now asistant treasurer and auditor, It Ie understood that Mr. Curties rep- resents un influential clique in the com- pany. TO CONEY IN 20 MINUTES. Preject ter a Tunnel trem Cham bers Street to Breoktyn Connest- ing with Transit Lines. “To Coney Istand in twenty minutes.” ‘That is the latest repid transit slogan. ‘The Intest scheme—and it te farther advanced than the public knowe—ts for il Rajlroad and the South Uines.on the qgst, and with: dermround 5 on Manaa! ‘This peoject would questions of 4o-day y the rl Hi E i z B 5 | sk i : i | i i reac! New Ye easy touch of | the Gi a Mate Beard of Bzam- re and Sanitary Iaepec- tion of Sheps. ALBANY, Feb. %1.—In the Assembly ay the Brennan Barber bill provid ing for a State board of examiners ané for the sanitary inspection of barber Provided i ‘uilled” after some debate. ‘The motion to strike out the enacting | father-in-law, Richard T. Wilson, who is! clause prevailed by a vote of 73 yens te & compound fracture of Its nervous} said to be interested tn the rapid tran-| 42 nays. it wag a beautiful young woman, attired in ‘s evening dreag sult, and her| j excort, and dressed in the garb of a messenger boy, who did it. if not wisely, to Thirtieth, along Broadway, the pair sallied, followed by an ever-inereasing| more about thie, I will say that there crowd, and fully twenty policemen were|ig mo foundation for any such passed, but not one sald a word or made/ ence In the Board of Directors any attempt to Impede their progress. | resent solely my own At Thirtieth street the Haymarket} otners. was reached, and as they were about to enter the woman became hysterical and/ +; No trace has been found of Mrs,’ the pseudo messenger boy grabbed her! about it. I really do not know why Iam so it. 1 should that oiber mabery of the ‘Boetd ‘would be more “ee or Fy soon be interested in and threw ner into a carriage. — MRS, ASTOR SAILS. Left thie Merntag en the St. Leaie te Be Gene Abroad Until Jaty. American liner St. Louis this morning for her annual trip abroad. She will re- main in London a short time, then go to France, réturning next July in time for the Newport season. Mrs. Astor, despite her busy Winter, on the visit to her tacusene, at Roem a, ee STOLE HIS OWN CHILDREN. ae i Tin | | : i ! i ry t | system at 2.90 o'clock this morning. And| sit scheme.” “I do not care to discuss this, but it “Another story, Mr. Vanderbilt, is that ig the Board of Directors you represent Mr, Otis te a member of the Mining] The woman had evidently dined well.| what are known ag the Vanderbilt in- From Forty-second street | terests and” — “While I must decline to talk any infer- 1 rep- interesis and n> “Bt I had rather nothing be ea!4 on he subject. Presently 1 may talk fully venture?” but others.” SHIPPING NEWS. Mra. Willlam Astor sailed om the], H H i —___— jn Pine Lember Now. companies controlling the pine lumber output of North Carolina has been ed and will be capitalized et $2 this city and seek to conti Jamber market here. The panties own about four billion timber and have « sawmill 1,500,000 feet a day, ——=— [itis pl | i fi a n a