The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1900, Page 4

“i oo. STING OF ~ THEN AL: Sugar and Third Avenue Features of the Market. ‘PRICES WERE IRREGULAR. ‘Weakness at the Opening Was Soon Lost—Trading on a'Smaill Scale. ——s qrices cm the Stock Ex- ¢o-day were generally tower, ied menue, American Bugar and iy hy 3-4, to 98 1-2; Brook- 134 the ferred 1 1-2 ee the market continued bare of fi mm. closing was life! id heavy at @ devel below ian: ments Move. total sales of stocks to-day were shares, and of ja $1,683,009, par value. The Closing Quotatt ‘Third Avenue Ratiroad and its auxiliary fey ' ¥ pe will qu mtlon companies, and in general to do such| the affaire of t bana sh] acts may be deemed judicious and sees a ®55E* Ee B52 FBBET ONS | GRAND JURY'S. DENIAL ! ee ee yee rae PLAN OF THIRD AVE ———+ p> Committee of Three to Act for Creditors and Stockholders. privilege of participating in all benefits avoruing from the work of the Commit- tee TO HAVE FULL POWER. A clause of the agreement provides as ‘The agreement between the Protective Committtee and the stockholders of the ‘Third Avenue Ratiroad for a mutual Protection of interests and the event: ual reorganization of the road was is- amRregate he agree Creditor whowe acoounts over $15,000,000 are a party to ment | PROTECT STOCK AND CREDIT Accoming jo the terms of (he agree: mem the Protective Commitioe in to be known ax ‘The Committee, Ht fp to proma: anity between the creditors harmony of action between orediters stockholders order to prevent lees and sacrifices, ‘The Committee is authorized under the agreement to take all uch proceedings as shall seem necessary of proper for the purpose of effecting a reorgantza- Hon of the affairs of the property of the The plan is w protect the Third Ave nue property from disintegration by Frais. | tne 9 temporary fund to meet the pres | ie the road and later effecting 4 permanent reorganization, Revolver Grant approves thls plan, and, in the event of ble appointment being | made permanent. it ke jerstood Unat | he will cc rin every way with D 1 The Bvening World learns th here will be no Grand Jury investigution of the Third avenve plundering undl after Receiver Grant my Nik report to Judge Lacomie. of the United Slates Court, The re duty i to re port first to the SUBPOENAS FOR OFFICERS. Subpoenan, however, will be issued on Saturday eummoning cerivin — officers and directors before Arsistant District Thie ts only enable bt for the Grand Ju Mr. Grant will report on Wednesday next, and after that the Grand Jury Will be free to proceed with its Invest! mation It ty waid that the first men to be funmoned will be President Bliss ani Edward lout DF MeMahon and Bernard proper. lem authorises the ury. The title all claims and stock are to be transferred to the Committer be used to bring about harmony and a reorganization of the property. The committee has lesued truac cer. Uficates in leu of all claims and stock placed, and these will afford the berts egpect to complete thetr time to permit me to file my preliminary repor of the condition of the with Jodge Lacombe on March 1 made no further changes in IMOURNERS AT WER DENOUNCED PreacherAccused Friends taterview with Fore hird Svenue Is Repadiated, ‘The Grand Jury this afternoon fled a resolution with Recorder Goff in Part of General Sesslons. deprecating the publication of an alte terview with Foreman George Haven ¥ of the Grand Jury, in relation to the affairs of the Third Avenue Railroad Company Petnam er The resolution denied that Forema: of Wakelee at Putnam or any other member of |e] Grand Jury bad glven any Interviews or Funeral. made any statements regarding the usiness before the body There Was much @xcitemént in Bath —_—~S-— Beach this morning among friends of WHEAT WAS STEADY | Somen Wakelee, toe real estate deaier AND CABLES FIRMER, | eno kitied nimenit on Monday at Nine teenth and Cropsey avenues, over re and a, Marks made over hie body last evening by Rev. J. Slater of the Cropmey Ave nu@ Methodist Bpiscopai Church, who ducted the funeral services “If this poor bedy .. clay could rise up again in flesh and blood, it would poimt a finger to some of those here present and say that they were responsible for his downfall,” said the preacher Wheat opened barely steady whade lower Cables were firmer, Do- meatic crop news was more or less bear- Ish, and the price current favors that fide of the market. Corn opened fatrly meady, but dull New fork's opening prices were: May wheal, T2; July, 72 1-, Beptember, Chicago's opening prices were: Mi July, 61-2; May corn, ‘ork's clos were: Pi cshed, Tur Hip ached tga” B14; March, 76 1°2. May corn, # “Two years ago he was « Ged-fearing man, Many of you are Shylocks and are reeponstbie for his death Some of THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1900. THE HALL OF FAME, eee ee OELe OU EeEOoeel Stee ier serreeeeeeeec obo Cee eee bere re e+ BIRD.S, COLER WATCH 006 oF CITY TRBASURY? WIFE FACED HS FIANCE © | Millionaire Booth’s Son Coon cree eee ee ee eed Says He Recalls No Marriage. Untul he an furnish bonds to give 8 weekly to his wife Willlam Booth, fr. twenty-four years old, son of the mill tonaire president of the Hurricane Isl- and Asphatt Construction Company, at 7 Broadway, must remain in jail Young Booth six months ago married Dora Ostrander, ten years his senior, His recollections of the event are hazy. he claime He #a houre after he met the woman. ‘The couple lived togetiior three months the woman alleges Shen the ce A Me a iatatad oy ‘1 hall fh OMY in vanuery Mrs. Booth saw the! Monal institution Ate ‘Tryst Company this afteruoon. “The Committee # lave power to a Mra ™ ie he theatre stands almost isolated, 3 a in prem by Frederic P. Olcott, | prepare and to adopt a plan of reor- | publishet announcement of Booth’s en- Hig a square in front and the gardens orate a, “it bell y| Coatrman; Louts Pitegerald and T. Jef-| ganization, and'to appoln: reorgantaa- mere to Mine Sadie Carr, (pues of the Palais Royal behind, Both these} mains, which was not ondihans te ferson Coolidge, ir. the members of the | tion managers whenever, tn ite Jude [Of A wealthy contractor at & "| spaces were thronged with people carry 7 ol Protective Committee ment, it shall become advisable so to | Seventy-sixth street. She called on Mien | They eagerly watohed the operations tee SOURAST erage” Past FRIDAY AND SATURDAY —last two days of The wgreement |e intended for stock-! 44 When the commities shall have} Carr of the firemen, who crawled about the] y battalion of troopx has now arrived holders and creditors of the COMPANY. | adouted such plan a copy thereof shall You are an impostor,” sald MIS®) poof, conspicuous in their brass helmets is assisting the salvage of the % . AN who agreed to \t* be lodged with ihe Mercantile Trust {Camm She called the servants to show | phe firemen were engaged in saving as ole library and archives, sa scount on urniture. invited to file claime and stock with the Company the woman to the 7 }much of the properties as possivie and Mercantile Company Notlee of the ling of such plan shal) | fm the hati Hooth collided with his) the square in fromt of the th © was) The Theatre Francais, or Comedie ' Before 3 o'clock many stockbolMFs! icreupan be given holders of the | Nife Phe wife upbrakied and thrent-| jetered with sults of furniture, & Fran was situated on the Fiabe du ‘ T’ ade Sale f ts had taken advantage of the plan an@/rnige corriph vnd such plan shajlp ened, the husband scorned her She! ‘phe theatre, which is the home of the| ‘Theatre Frincalg near the Palals fr 0 eo 4 considerable amount of tock WAT oome winding upon all the sald hold: | Met, Ink vengeance | Comedie Francaise, wax only reopened | Royal, and oceupled the highest rank placed on depostt aie 8! her story to the oder Booth.|4 fortnight ago after having been reno! among the theatres of France. It was “1 know ald millionaire Ine my son must support. ye In Sorkvilie Court this m Mie Hooth told Mawtstr Piammer that he young man’s father had disowned him The court tried to bring out her ante- ecdents “That matter je immaterial This ty a legal marriage Young Booth said he had been Injured ‘'y acar and went to the home of the nothing of bts she sald. Carre, His brother neglected hie re-] woman who was frightfuily burned about |acones from the writings of celebrated i vem to notify hie wife. He maid he|the face, and who may dic as a result] French dramatists, and with e new cell- a repetition of such price lowness may never happen. was willing to support her, but was dis-]of her injuries. % ng painting by Dubufe the younger, of | owned and is out of work He ts mak-| The theatre contained many fin¢ | Trough enlightening the world. ee home with the Carne iihsde Cl wehiniine, teoreseutita tale-| cs tal canoes sorties Wading out 125th Street West, Between Lenox and Mixa Saale Carr visited Booth at} brated dramatists, and also some beau-| of the foyer was a giatue of George Seventh Avenues. Yorkville Prison. She said she would | tiful mural paintings, which doubtless fiarlar cocenated France dtieeting marry him when he procured n divorce. | perished In the flames laurels to. her three dramatiste— His father sent to learn what cisposi-} A rehearsal of the comedy “Bajazet™ | Moliere, Cornetile an ine, * | | tion had been made of the case. $244,201 LIBNS ON BUILDER, the jebinsesn 4 Wal- face, Wakes Assignment, Andrew J Robinson, business under the firm name of Rob- WOMEN’S trimmed with handsome silk Ingon & Wallace, at 123 East Twenty. insertions. braidings end thitd street, ade an assignment day ‘| forthe bahowt ot sis Ce. Caer Heavy Pxm Gloves, appliques finished with deep N. Talbot, a lawyer, at HW Pine street, silk fringe. "an nes, in ween rene enn {| Material for bodice trimmpd in were fied agninat the firm yes- terday and at Fifth avenue, nd Fiftyesieth street, 259 Broadway 20 to a West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, 26 to West One Hundred and Twenty-fteh treet and MM Bast Seventy-fourth strres. Twenty-nine other claims were Med ly bullding material men this morning, ageremetting $153,817. CHINESE CONSUL ANGRY, Pretes San Franeiece Police Over Quarantine and Threatens te Appeal te Treaty Rights. SAN FRANCI®CO. March &—The Chinese Constl-Goneral hete has issued 4 proclamation which is indorsed by the Six Compantes, protesting against the action of the Board of Health and police ja querentining Chinatown becouse of a common er an operation. He declares there is SPP EEE OPE ERD ESE re OE ORR OE REE Re Ree eR It oceurred three | husbandt the ‘If the marriage is genu- a builder doing ‘The bulldings mentioned tn the Heng were the New York Hospital, 158] [J "== Madison avenue LADIES’ GLOVES, Foster Hook Fastenings, 3.Atmand@e. Tan, mode, grey, brown and black, 4 heok,—-piqué sewn, washable Kid, $1.00 per pair, JAMES McGREERY & 60., Twenty-third Street, A Sale of GIRLS’ SAILOR DRESSES — and / — ‘ BOYS’ CLOTHING ARSON IN PARIS’S buna THEATRE BL. AZE. Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 10th. | —\; oa GIRLY SAILOR SUITS. Mile. Henriot Burned to Death in Come- 150 Sere Suit Hower own, die Francaise—Sardou Weeps * $3.00 at the Flames. bl ya $3.40 BOYS’ CLOTHING. . Sailoe Suits of Blue Sergeea broidesed shield snd collae, 3 to 10 yeary, Dowble Beeasted Guits of Mite ed Cheviots, 8'to 15 $4 5 years, Top Coats of Covert Cloth, . . 4 and 6 year, . 8 and 10 years, . $1.85 300 Suits of ‘Striped Percale, PAIB, March §—It ie now asserted tha tthe Theatre Francais fire was not accidental, but due to malevolence. M #, chief of the Municipal Labera- tory, hag made an inquiry into the mat- had Just been concluded when the fire broke out. ‘Two of the actresses, Mmes Dudiay and Henriot, were still on the stace when an electric wire fused and, oe eee & spark catching the scenery, the whole er and {s convinced the fire was due. stage was soon in flames. Satlor of Guimpe tan and olives to 15 ~ neither to mas nor electricity, because | The actresses barely had time to cs- effect,4 to 10 years, 95c. $4.50 - years ». » © wo « Mme. Dudlay had to Brescued 11 cor tume and let down from a window Mme. Henrtot's mother arrived, heard he ascertained that several dressing) rooms @n different floors were on fire at the same time. ‘The charred corpse of a woman was|a report of the actrem’s death and found this afternoon in ruins It} nearly went ‘crazy outside the the- wae identtified as thar of Mile Henrlet,Jatro until reassured by M. Jules Clare Children’s Guimpes, 75c., 85c., $1.35. who was 4 promising young actress. Lotte, the novelist, who In thé director The face was so burned that it was lof the Thoatre Fruncals and who anper- [very dificult to identify {1 but M.Jintended the lowering of the works of . | Coquelint and other socletaires of th) art from the windows, Most of the! 7 | Comedie ran. wh ec soen the [statues and paintings are now saved Children’ Soir AU the Merge Oaslarh poslively | SE Matis tap oetageean oh ired Misses’ and s Reelers, Pique Frocks and that it ts that of Mite. Henriot. on the seene at about 1 o'clock and . onsite auuried aut moot, it WAT bury" inte tears when he saw the bucis| Ane Dresses in Russian Blouse and Sailor effect for not disovered immediately, with the doomed, A part of the dome Spring ‘wear, result that the theatre was burning fur- rixade got work. Even then appliances were quite Inadequate to cope with the eons flagration and by 1. P.M. the Interior the building was a roaring furnace. ‘The dense column of smoke rising from fire attracted crowds from all parts of pec ally when D> news #PF ad that it was the Theatre Francais which Was on fire, it being regarded as a na- ari P M The fire is now mastered and there Is 4 tm fe ty Boys’ Double Breasted, Sailor and Middy Suits, Adjoining edifice a theOheeet or bute, Top Coats. as at first thought probable. i; The interior of the theatre is com- , ie Cigeiceth Sorect, Nineteenth Street and Sint Avenue. pletely gutted, Only the shell of the |H. \n F. & F, e | re the fire the forsly fice and the external galleries of the first and second stories remain, The Jack of steam fire engines was largely responsible for the rapid spread of the vated for the Exposition throngs ex- pected to viel Parte during (he year, [with Dumas fil drama, ‘Diane de Lys,’ for which @ special set of scenery and costumes had been provided It ts fortunate that the fire, built in 178, but was much altered in later years, (he facades being modern. The Doric vestibule contained a statue ‘Tama, the (ragedtan, by David @ Angers, and figures of Tragedy and Comedy, by Duret. bearing respectively Spring Sale of Upholsteries, This week's selling, though we expected much, has been double what we planned for, Yet we had such a generous margin of broke out so early, as an hour or so later) the features of the celebrated actresses A 7 . the building would have been filled | Mite. Rachel and Mile. Mare wonderful values that you can hardly be disappointed in assort- with a matinee audience and a disaster The “foyer du public’ was adorned S r) would probably have resulted. with @ statue of Voltaire, by Houdon, ments if you come Friday and Saturday. But at 6 o'clock Satur- ‘Thus far only a few personal injuries have been reported, and they are most- ly slight, with the exeeption of a with a chimney-plece, with a relief rep- resenting comedians crowning the figure of Moliere, by Lequesne; with busts and day the greatest sales in these lines known to current retailing will be over. To miss these opportunities means your loss—as SALE OF DRESS GOODS, on Friday, March 9th. B. Altman & €o. FRIDAY and SATURDAY, GIRL BEATEN STRAIT JACKET. Ladies’ “Suit Robes,”—fine Venetian Cloth, — Skirts to mateb, $17.50 suit; or $35.00 $1.10 Pam. Regular Value $1.85 ANKLE FETTERS USED BY MBS EYLER. They are made of leather, lined with weel, and are fastened to- 2 steel chain. When fastened to a girl's ankle she cannot ¢ more than twe inehes. And yet Mrs, Eyler's friends say Tailor Suitings, — Vicune finish, Latest “Homespun” grays, browns, modes and’ beiges. Width 54 inches, ¢ 76 conep ype yard ; RENTON, N. J., March &—The reve- | stood before the gif! and encouraged aaa conceming the brutality prac-| her degradation. “I never struck tiaed on the inmates of the State Indur- in my life,” said Bamford. “I ‘bumped’ trial School for Girls, under the direc- oes. poe mp en sg Me Ryler, almost eurpass be- | bad—they are only mischievous, bene de ap | do a lot of things just to plagwe the teachers, but they are pumished like SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. 625\0un sete... .6.60) Moon seca mon wate, \fanty Hook - Govermpr's Island Hell Gate “ ‘They told that girls were punish ta straltestiate beat em wat ia | are ented’ Wich the Gale of ‘Wabened bs a | Sentiage 40 Cuda, $3.40 . pt. A, Sle mes taut: | JAMES MeCREERY&CO,, ‘) ' mouth was cut. I wiped i tears from her face with