The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1900, Page 4

pesoustrected within any speci- Fe shall pay the calaries of all shall pay for all matecial ’ What did the Third Avenue et in return for this “ gift” ? © Igot a half-completed road “and nearly $22,000,000 in “abt. 00D DOCUMENT. ‘World has exhibited to to lawyers the Naugh- material.......s esse eeeeeeeessceeee 1,650,000 oom at gocumend@? Rebate profits on purchased material....... 500,000 ever made by a reputanie eat ‘Naughton & Co. should have on the pay rolls—mind, ‘8 income. tbe expected that elther Mr. bigot “Judge” MoMahon would keep wnat ral. By ‘90 doing they cut wart no restriction with this cnont or of the Toad should. ratity ‘ecoum. There never was any ‘lis- BON CONTRACTORS WORKED ‘Went Inte Capacions Maw Reughten & Co., Whe CQlamer Still. by Naughton & Co. 19900 men were em- avenue reconstruc- able to fix that rate contractor. And the he rate the bigger the percent- The. Third avenue road delegated to/ ‘ & Co, the right to buy mater Tea! | In the work of changing Just for the labor of order. fag this meterial Naughton & Co. re- “ 20 per cent. thie was not all provided that Naughton & Co. entitled to all “rebates accruing > * @m purchased articles.” Contractors | whe do similar construction work to, ton & Co. say such « clause is | all comprehension. No business | Man who safeguarts his property with | as care would agree to it. | $6,600,000 IN 15 MONTHS. | @ Co. received im the! months that the work had way on the read Om thie coum was paid fer “superintending” per cont. on material par- total of 91,050,000. was the pay of B. Naughton McMahon for fifteen | Rather good pay for| got this contract, their feceme his is not from the rebates, what thie, synounted than e income of Naugh-| 180,000 en the con- ‘The contract | #3 Bt i ie money due for “work material pur.) oo And ley still 000, qstimated as the “unexpired MORE “BOODLE.” | comes the story ef more) POT tind been stipulated in the | that Naughton Co. were to Ui ‘Authorities which may be for the performance of said natural that the question be ‘who is rexponaible for the Naugh- contract. Evening World can anewer this in the language of two directors of the‘ Avenue lawyer, and Mr. Charles Remeen, &. es niative of the Remsen Ratate | collapse ie sero jargest | Bbc stock u he question, “Who sanctioned | Meugbton * Co.'s contract” both gen- | “AN such ters were lei the @ueentive oMerrs.” nforma- the further surpria was su that ‘of Direct “the copy of | TAMMANT’S BIG SHARE © io Went Where Politics | Cat oa Figure, Deo rs rectors never raw » Lower Bids. firms were concerned in the @f changing the power of the Avenue system. In nearly all mt a prominent figure, Here AJ of them femtingheuse Elecrtric ( om-| tmtereate. | mteck te Crek: een Company—Creker's| bad enormous contracts ‘The price paid for ‘he Be the wubject of an in-| ©f these mentioned SM put io, a bid at teast ' thas the Reeb- telley cable, but @ SoRduit construction tendering in tie com- fot THIRD AVENUE ROA WAS LOOTED AND RUINED. pesesecooceeestsets | (Continued from First Page) Prevevvuveeveu serv enrnrerrrrttrTrrrcrIrsrr rrr. ol THE LOOTING OF THE 3D AVENUE RAILROAD. To “Billy” Moloney....+...+22.2+++++++ $500,000 For Kingsbridge franchise..........++++ 1,000,000 PROFITS TO CONTRACTORS. Naughton & Co. Profits—15 per cent. for ‘‘superintending work” and 40 per cent. for purchasing v Naughton & Co.'s total profits..... 2,150,000 | ; National Conduit Cable Co.'s est’d. profits 75,000 Loraine Steel Company.....-+--.+0-05: 65,000 Roebling Constrction Company........ 100,000 $ United Building Material Company. Profits other concerns........'+.. 85,000 700,000 beeeeave cevsseses «+ $4,675,000 Grand Total.... t# romd of; taining to hie receivershin One of the news agencies is authosity | g for the statement that applications will soon be made io the courts by the re- cetver for permiesion to isawe §10,000,00 cortit Bente SF is eadeaa lB to jete the improvem: on the eyetem and to carry on tne Siicient Kt necemeary to construct such expensive material But the Third Avenue people said they wanted the best and likewise got the dearest. And the stockholders? Well, they paid for it It {8 an unfortunate development of Court on} y all mie j Company. | The first foreclosure suit on the As near ae can be judged from ihe] merous meévhanics’ Hens Mied ag muddled books the expenditures of} the Third Avenue Ratlroad Company actual cash were represented this way:| was brought in the Supreme Court t To iton & Co Gay by the National Condult and Cane! Fix rkes and interests ‘Chanbany Operating expenses ‘ The a clone a Hien, for| 9144, te. ne lien w Jed ai bD 2. $5,400,000 GONE WHERE? [Priv ictenuants ‘are the Third Avenue and the Forty-second Street, Manhat- The to | tanville and Bt Nicholas Aven | 000, There the Kingsbridge Rallway Companies *| Did it all ge to the other con- ¢vactors! | APTER BRIBE HUNTERS. That is what Receiver Grant is to ve | Petive called upon to decide This is how the debt of $21,287.00 was! piled up: For acquired railroads (notes) Hoard Watching F&F Hour wi vee! of the Police Board. sao] President York P| Due Naughton & Co, and other tet ne understood to-day that if contractors the Patroimen's Benegplent Associa- Borrowed money Uon hae authorised the raising of a Interest fund to secure the passage of the eight- Total 008i ri azi.38, hour law in the Police Department {t This te what the experts figure is now | 0&® clearly brought Meelf within the required: Provisions of the charter de@ning an association with which patrolmen are | Prohitited having any connectton. Pree- 4.000,0m | Went York comtinued: A committee of the Patrolmen's As- sociation waited on me two weeks ago To complete the power-house . $5,000,000 q To extend the “Huckleberry road A To complete improvements on varlour lines system be made | told them the Police | Moart wax unalterably oppomed to the ports, has sued © Bere) ieninour law. ‘The committee denied jn been presented. | responsibility for the Maher blil, pending BANKERS REFUSED AID. lin the Leeisiature Since then I have learned that the organization has taken rt When Kun, Loeb & Co. the bank-|acthon relating to it ers, looked over the books of the Third | pie guise under which the as Avenue Company. the ap condi- Gea ter chee Cee I ence te to be rendered to the bill t* A the road | ems nt of counsel. It asked the firm sntent a) fer granted that Jamyers Undertaks job. in advocacy of 4 bil unless t Vea, reviled ine bankers, “on one| tained by some one inter Ro condition |lawyers wear in advocacy af a | “And that” this bown will take “That we eit anhatiiiine “Ne anawe | NBW BATTALION CHIEF. And that nif Kuhn. te | of it Terpeny, just appointed hat- Then came the cate, with the GRANT TO RAISE $10,000,000. I \ Kahn, Leek & Co. Would Take ve. [om for the te tive Isewe of Reeeiver's Terveuy stan " tock Cortisentes, In the depertment that has gene good | * Receiver Hagh J. Grant vietied ine Work OMices of the Third Avenue Railway ond cea, ai gee y chief in the en Nife-may yh York Fire De bas euved seven yecame connected with twenly years ago Ff 1 Track 1 in Har in Pp: wh Cleveland. now sa: Foto imap eA sald, was to reasbure the goubters and Jet their money remain been to see the Dis- ae Se a view immunity for her husband, would t Bta vidence. re leslie trict- Attarne; fy the alleged head of CLEVE ‘THE WORLD: FRIDAY’ EVENING, MARCH $, 1900, LAND NOT ILL. “NOT BEEN 80 WELL IN MONTHS.’ STATEMEN T OF EX-PRESIDENT. Dictated Exclusively to an Evening World: Reporter. Grover Cleveland, ex-President -of the tes, told an Bventng World reporter to-fmy thet he is in better | health now than he has been for several months, if not for years. He is angry from top (o toe over a story published today which placed him in the list of diotingutshed invalids. nited Bi In & morning newepaper Mened @ report to the effect that Mr. Cleveland wee sarmingly 111. Giton wae eompared to thar of James |G. Blaine during the year prior to bis | death. It was stated that his lecture | enpagemente at Prineeton had been cancelled by reason of the alarming con- dition of bée health, and tt /was plainly intimated tht he was slowly dying of * | Bright's divease, the allmant which car- | ried off Mis great rival for che Presi- dency. An Evening World reporter went to Princeton this morning with instructions SPLEPLELOLOTE DE LESS SHO8- 1464-64 +6-6-44664000604 | 10 find out the exact truth regarding Mr. | Cleveland's condition. He called STATEMENT OF HOW LESLIE WAS CAUGHT «i! Trunks Shipped by Wife Were Followed by Detectives. Chief of Detectives MoClusky told how the capture of Cecil Lesiie, tb Franklin Syndicate man, in Cleveland, Was brought about, Detective Me- |/*Peci#l Connell, who was shadowing Mre. Lee Ve, followed her last Tuesday to Phila- | deiphia, where she stayed a day hin she went to B iiadet there shipped two OR, J. H. WIKOFF. was pub- His oon. paper. ering brow. He made no attempt )| wrath. the | phasis, “thet if they find any \ a to-day From | juffalo, and trunks McClusky wired MoConnell Lael the trunk: ‘leveland at licate Levile in His We te’ pennil rere without Leslie's con! ‘orld was the turni 6 case againet Miller, gry a the 10 twenty him and one against toned among the ho marie) hence from © tae Norh a COL, ASTOR COMING HOME Col, John Jncob Astor, whose Yankee loquence har made quite a marked im. preston im the capitals of Rarope, where} | he was teceived in a manner befitting a Mi fret-clase A No} American, with some- thing Wetter than bie miltions tog - {him tithe among men, has ended ale served nt mt PPO-l Ne Winter holiday ond le feet 4 tnebes in hie be 4 seas, homeward bound, one of the few big men fe men: NO Open GROVER CLEVELAND. Mr. Cleveland ie t with low- His face flushed angrily. to conceal his “Wl you say for me to those who ¥| published this.’ he said. with slow em- §|ment in publishing a!-noying things of Casperfeld & Cleveland, Wares) 144 BOWERY. “BOWERY SAVINGS BANK B A poor diamond or an unreliable watch ts not cheap at any © Tbuy dry goods store trash or from small irresponsible i} factory prices, cou; led with the security of a wri i her ting worth Hie.0R, The East Side Mourns for the Three Little Freidners. Finnked by lines of sombre-clad women, wailing and weeping, the bodies of the three little victims of the incen- diary fire at 1@1 Third avenne were borne through the streets of the eagt aide to-day on their way to the Wash- Ington Cemetery in Brooklyn All Inet night the hodtes of the burned children, EMe, George ai Samuel Fretdner, had Jain in the undertaker’ shop at Willett street. No further away than the heads of the caskets sat the father. With him, sharing his grief | and desolation, were many frienis When dawn came they still waited. The mother, aimost insane from grief, wan with relatives, Then came the march to ;he cemetery Crowds of people blocked the progress of the hearse, tn which were the three coffins, hemmed about with the FROMEn= | ing women, Their shrill cries rose above the murmur of the throng. The east side is intense in ite grief. Clear to he gateway of the ferry-house at the foo of Roosevelt’ street trailed the people. Then they left the hearse and (he mourners in carriages to go to the rest of the way alone. CONGRESSMAN EPES IN A CRITICAL CONDITION. WASHINGTON, March 2 —Congress- man Epes, of Virginia, was operated on at Garfleld Hospital to-day for pendicitis. His condition is critien! Mrs. to-day that Receiver Grant has discov- ton of the system, Biatement of Dr. Jal i ered that the books of the road are uhn, Loeb & Rave consented to Wikoff, Mr. Cleveland’ this sort they are welcome to do ‘t In & terrible tangle, If they are wer | act a8 managers of the reorwanisation /® 1, physician, to an evening | These reports are made up in the office. | 70 Figit |] straightened out they are expected to | ord iets soe af f0,00,008 resetvere cere] ®) World reporter: They are absolutely without any pretext Fo Satie te" Prana: | ean “ rector | | ‘Third Avenue Rallrond shares estab: re is absolutely me 3 or warrant whatever Fane applied 2 MNS TT NA ened nother ow” record thie morning tom fer th The one thing that qualte when they solt down to 41-4 on | After Reoe! Stock ‘Exchange. ‘The opening guote-|@ Mr. Cleveland t | flee a pereen to ade hours running threagh the books | tions wee {7 1,700 shares After a you er 1.” Then you have been somewhat indie YIG@ GD any bs 4 bis: make) 4 feable rally the price eciined to 1-4. | | : he held up bie bande aad ese) Pirther talk of @ heavy asxeaament on| _ D | pomed, Mr. Cleveland?” j — experience |ctatmea: the shares was the only known rea | Gee D| for to-day's decline, but 0 sformation : | RReamatiom, Nothing Woree, | opontes knowledge. “Ohnea ts the only wi fg gg < Rerneomstng from LauLAied a nd sent up hiseard.| “OM yes, | have had « lot of trouble — no Dorition to know. Cleveland mansion and se | . yew, se 9 The stock made « parti | Atmeet linmediately a light though Arm WIth rheumatism, a* everyboty knows Ae ether persen has so | WHO $5,400,000 lye heavy and without step sounded on the stairway and the Hut I have got over tha: now and am in| wide oie - port | emate me svok |” The offictais of the United States Dis: | ex-Preaident came tripping down aa! good condition. record of as trict Court are inclined to thing that! \, “4 ss + | SBCSOLS we Account |the Bankr act does not apply to! blithely as 4 schoolgir ‘These reports are extremely annoy for One-Third | me. Ph dt verge Rallroad Company, | Red Cheeks, Bright Kyes. jing. 1 don't think the newspaper vn»| Mrs. Pinkham has had. | at ite credMore cannot put it into! ‘i i - ‘That Were Sank. | Rrepbuntaie hammrupicy. igi -aedh as ‘| The reporter, who saw him a few | here would wend out such reports, They Qygp @ hundred theu- ‘The Third Avenue stockholders « oy Pe yetid 4 of Cag of BI act onl months ago, Wax amased at the change | are inade up in (he offices of the pape’s gage gages come defers asking [A of that seotion reads: “Any perso for the better in his appearance, Hie (hat orkot them, her each year. Some pers “What hae bees bape cme debts, except a arporatlon | step was alert and full of spring, like) ‘Ir Ix sail that you are planning <0} ethere by mall. * 0 er Mone uf dollars whieh were tm the 220 as’, voluntary bammpte | cnet of ap athlete, take a pleasure trip to Florida?” ‘And has heen going treneary of the Third Avenue read of the same section ti were bright, bir skin clear,| ‘I don't know whether I shall go or! ‘after Saat hy Natural person. except a His eyes were bright, clear, | \ en fer 30 Goring (he past Afteen menthol” | w, garner or & person enguged chlef-| ni ace ruddy, His cheeks glowed with |Not- I have not made up my mind, But ‘There are some who are bold enough it rming or the tillage of the sail, [* fe , a hinki 2 ic, PT onte will Sell maki eply. In a uartere |20Y unincorporatea company. and any that tinge of pink which comes to those | !'m thinking of It Le probe} to e@ reply. many q' T* corporation engaged principally in the) ably be very soon | Evening World reporters have heard| manufacturing, trading, printing, pub-| Whose vital organs are in good running i: . i the nature of these replies. The explana. Pry a Rerentie f era tas, OWNS | order ‘and who seek health in the woods “WH true taat you have sive up) be adi mi {voluntary bankrupt | ind on the water, | EROS MetiDe SE) Seekereal et the! URirer the ma! ehere.jupon default or on an impartial trial) sity? geined! WEROR what {Af shall be subject to and entitied to) His appearance was no more io bel.” the benefits of thie act” i al fi ‘Tha! is another thing about which are wiee ry seoking ade was lett.” The Pennsylvania Tron Works Com. compared to that of jaine—pale, | 3 a | ny to-day Med a lien a the! ait a wth i soe | Newspapers have been troubling m: ‘ viow fre @ women whee STAGGERING EXPENDITURES, | irs svsnue “the ort, mc chalky, carers, with great res |i nr. lneiand. "Therein ares] Oly OMe Re Mee Phe sum i# staggering In ice agere-|raliway companies for $s. He! under his tack-lustre eyes—than is that | of jetures, 1 simply promised to *° | peolaily when Itle freee Peery 1s wast: the books of the), 2 aunts eis es, Thay | on trained heavyweight Aghter to an | 44 and give the University boys a talk een: fare: N Quinn $200.70, and E Ceags | SEs teeta student or two some time during te Winter.) are ii @ bettie Earnings for fitters months on all | Rough. $4 “What can [ do for you?” asked Mr | avatars (in aggregate) | Ponte stock closed to-day at 47 1-2 le There was no formal series of lectures! gf gz | | ——ga— Cleveland, grasping the hand of the re-| srranged. 1 have not cancelled my ar-| at! addi- FORBCLOSURESUIT BROUGHT porter with a grip of steel rangement to (ik to the boys, att |) @mg@—thenm write Mra. ‘The reporter showed him a morning} expect to give (hem the caiks later on | L Mass. wee : Pinkhars, | yam, North Grand St. “L” Station, _ SS “* | | » Then wh jew Le ohn we sell a itten guarantee? Fardrops fine gem, ye oF Sorews, 1 r diamond, very Tiffany setting, \ karat, y sets linn. th special, ae ~ $45.00 "$30.00 $25.00 Genuine P. 8, Bartlett 3 oz. silveroid cases, carried by Rit $8.00) mea throughout the world.. We havet fo tle, made of her ae Evenings till 8.303 Saturdays till 10. ‘ust cular of spectal bargains, Send for our rated cir Mail Orders receive prompt attention. + of position. : ‘he, and ‘he SPECIAL 5, Reston Chips (ilied wich D Bal ¥. sooteh, with vaniiia cream centre) fret only weed in faveringy Aworted Fret and Nut v0 kinds) tere (hem Me Ih: cur price, t@rvolete, on ihe, DY | i 106 mute mak» thie a e~ tively on Rat.enty ib TURDA' Butterscouch Creams id Bagiteh Better. Genuine Turkish Fret Fig Paste bey“ Chorolate Peppermints (Revered jum righ) th 1B6e Chocolates 0 yanet be Deught elsewhere at ol vanilla ane as they should be, we 10¢ 10c 1Se 19 CHILD VICTIMS. “——-—- l= “FRE IR NTS ON HAPPINESS. EARLY | These dre just a few suggestions SPRING IMPORTATIONS OF | for next Sunday, directed with a spirit of common-sense and a desire to see you enjoy yourselves, | | Che Fasso Corset [To Begin sot retro leuith: fey “fond ase howe bia J and will ing” pleasantly, || dress slowly and go down to bymas- be found to contain distinct || tast at peace eit ‘me wurid, Bet features for the coming season, || thankful fo> wfat you have to eat, B. Altman & Co, tad that it Is Sunday. If those who, cater to your ease have done thelr | duty you will find your Sunday paper ' at your plate. Then, when you have started your breakfast, commence to read. It will help you digest your find out what is going on in this busy world; see what the Boers have done to the Eng- lish or the English to the Boers; in what way McKinley hag surrendered Another kopje to the trusts; who has jrun away with a million dollars; | what the weather will be—every- j thing, finish your breakfast, and then resume your After | per is only a small part. The best is | before you. Take up the color pages {and glance at them. On the firat pege you will see (provided, of course, | vou have the right paper, which | | dreds of thousands of you will) a picture that will Interest you more than any other picture which could be published this week. Just what ‘it is you must guess at present, for 4 {to announce tt so far ahead would The story of our Spring and | not be advisable. Winter mark-down sale is near- Whe you may turn to the ing its close. | TE- next page. There you “Phe last chapter brings 'o- upon will learn of some beau gether all the survivors to a/ tiful American girls “ happy ending.” ‘ | who have married titles, what they Fancy mixtures, plain blue and bieck senges| are dloing, whether they are happy or and cheviows | hot, how they look to-day—all about Suite when you cam make a match, $7 them, with new and striking photo» and vest, $5 Singiy, cout $2, trousers $2.60, vest $1.l—many of thew suite are aristocrats! Rraphs, trom $18, $3) 294 $25 famiilen Habing oat you will be prepared to enjoy the story A handful of overcosis of the same rank, now is imodat A fe Prince Alberta and cutawaye, So of an accom) 4 coats r Done ing crocodile who, Golf breeches, scattered left-overs, marked | or which, in the Interests of science, ‘ {allows himself to hav ney veete, 10 conte | smallpox, lockjaw, scrofuia, consum with @ wer tion, croup, colic, searlet fever, toot arge-some grea. WS) ache, cholera and diphtheria, and seems to enjoy them. It's a lsesom The survivors are at our in patience worth studying. Prince Stroet store only; but - don't forget our two other stores Subse- you may feast goer inc! eyes on a whole page —they have matters of clothing | if of brandnew Parie hat- interest as well, 'quently gear, If your are rs man you had hetter tear this page Rocras, Part & ComPany, out before your wife gets it umless you have’ plenty of momey to der on bonnets. The ions of the artistic Frenchman will defight your eye, anyway, no matter to which sex | you belong. ‘ollowi: ost Style for your wechmcome | This pabtene fae re a e months. [ fort for your feet x. tele of the millions of dollara teen English Square Scarf s blebein "BIER. 1m New York every high grade quality—all the, prise that the vast sum of $1000he new ing effects in fancy} changes hands for this foaming stripes and figures, 50 cts, |\0' Goinam brewers are among the —_—_—_—_— |the world. It's really surprising! 1 unappropriat Almont every site propertion of emai stees. is one of thi beverage in New York annually, and \ 1000 Dosen Ne ‘ Se ; ext '* Frank G. Carpenter's Solid Black Sox, “j, ‘imnice nite point of a traveller and quaranteed fast color-—double| Onder 22 2, ridier. 1t is one of heels and toes— er Mr. Carpenter's weekly tet- {tere from the Far Bast and ie in- structive as well as Interesting. This may also be anid of the account of human sacrifice by religions enthusl- asts In Holland. A queer But trne piece of news that may make you | shudder. (Having gone to church and re- turned, you may again take up your reading.) 5Octs, a box (4 pair), At our three stores, Varchuet Carharle(o. Three Cor. 13th, | subway |Scdals, (To mmr mm elas most mysterious baek Resume, robberies has just | veen solved, and nearly all of the fi. i j shee lik ! | Z ff nN