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~ TROUBLE OVER TUNNEL WORKERS WAGES, Men Say Law Is Disre- garded by Contractors --I5 Men Discharged Trouble is brewing among the laborersthe good of kicking? We'd only lose| en the Bleecker street section of the | our places,” rapid-transit tunnel. They sat about] The “bracers” and carpenters were| this noon and read the riot act among | reticent about their wages. One man themselves because they were getting} admitted he got #2 a day. They are) only $1.00 day. Supposed to get from $2.75 to $1.60. The) The prevailing rate of wages law al-|men declare that Italian labor is fast lows workers on the big tunnel #2 a day. | monopolising the laborers’ positions When an Evening World reporter | ‘They say the Italians work for less, and asked one of Contractor Pilkington’s | they express pessimistic opinions in re- foremen how much the men were pald, | gard to enforcement of the prevailing he said; “Two dollars a gars id that’s | rate of wages law. more than they're worth The men quote Mayor Van Wyck as ‘This morning fifteen laborers were dis-! saying in a speech that he would en- charged, leaving about forty now force the labor laws and that only citl- | work. | zens would be employed. There is no} ‘The reporter counted ten Italians | way, the men say, of proving that the Itallans are not citizens. At the same time most of them cannot speak a word | “They're all citizens,” of English. All about the excavations one.” are Americans, some of whom told The The Italians when questioned shook | Evening World reporter they would be thelr heads. "No speaka English,” they | giad to get a Job. ald. According (o the men's story all those When the foreman was gone several! employed at first, when public atten- of the men declared they were getting | tion was focused on the beginning of | only $1. a day, “They'll be nothing | the tunnel, received $2 a day. They say | but Italians here soon,” sald a negro) the 82 men have been laid off and| shov cheaper labor When the foreman’s around we get/and Atty cents is better than nothing, | $, but we are hired for $1.60. Bome of/ they say, and they admit that they do} un get $1.75, We all know we ought to set The first men did. But what's among the men and brought the fact to the notice of the foreman. sald he, “every | sl pine o EUROPE AIDS 80,000 GHICAGD STRIKERS. Labor of Two Continents to Send Coin to Feed Idle Men for a Year. CHICAGO, Apri 9—All hopes of @ the councils of Europe, the situation compromise in the big bullding trades|in Chicago having been brought to the sirike, which has been on for three |attention of the Jeading labor unions on have been abandoned and the | *e other ae imine: ew teu ‘ eget re " Present the families of the loc! etrike ‘eader: : ve adopte! 4 pian whi MY out men are in sore distress. Many @ay resuit fn 4 demonstration 48 10! nave become homeless, having failed to whether labor can dominte capital. pay rent since the strike began. There are 1,000 men .1 the jocked-out| Despite these distressing conditions army, and the Hull ling ‘Tra ‘es Councl!,|the men are standing firm and showing which has charge of the siriar, bas af-jno signs of yielding. ranged to care for these men for a] “We will only surrender,” they de- year or more. clare, “when the contractors come to re to be fed, clothed and their) our terms.’ families properly looked after. To do| There is plenty of butiding work here as been made to the Na-| awaiting men, but no one can be found Bullding Trades Council, which/to accept the jobs. No new work is | being started, and all contracts calling country for the erection of buildings are being | delayed. Hundreds of new structures have been contracted for to begin May 1. The con- tractors are Cary emba: but determined jeep Up the lockout. months tional Organization has promised support. Labor unlons all over the have been asked to contribute to the general fund In order that organised labor may prove to capitaliate that lahor is supreme. Ald is also promised by! BLEVATOR MAN THE TRIE SAVES AIS MY,’ TAXES. im Swell Fiat and Mae the Litt James Brown Petter Seeures a De- cree of Buowden Lee, colored, twenty-seven Rhete years oli, of 48 West Sixty-second (Special to The Brewing World.) Bireet, an elevator man, employed in| NEWPORT, R. 1, April 9.—James Brown Potter, formerly of New York, appeared in Supreme Court here to-day and petitioned that a decree might issue declaring him a citisen of Rhode Island, under a law passed by the General As- sembly two years ago. In his petition Mr. Potter declared that he had leased @ house In Newport and remained here with his furniture and Personal effects, intending to make Newport his permanent residence. The the Palisade Plats, at 225 West Sixty- aixth street, was held in $1,000 bail for the Grand Jury by Magistrate Meade, in the West Side Court this morning, charged with rtealing Jeweiry from the flat of Mrs. Beach, an artist, who has apartinenis in the Palisade. The jew- cry has been disappearing plece by piece for some time, and a week ago Mrs, Beach notified the police. Pawntickets for the jewelry were y decree of citisenship was issued, found in Lee's rooms. The prisoners served four years for a flat robbery| The effect of the decree is to estab- Mish prima tacte evidence in the case some i his tu ie ht | ee eet oer ne eevee ee 100 jan attempt should be made by the Tax Rogues’ Gallery. Commissinores of New York to collect from a Potter taxes on his personal BRITISH BARK WRECKED. Ghe Iranian, from New York Nev. BS for Yokohama, Gees Down om Japanese Coast. YOKOHAMA, April %&—The British Bark Iranian, Capt. Watt, from New] yiion pe tietnabe a York Nov. % for this port, has been | age, the sah ‘. ~~ v4 Wreced on tue Japanese coast. The | prises: bsg captain's boat is _iatsaing. ‘The Iranian was a 5 a four-mastes reel {ing Into the house of Dy. Joseph veasel and was built at Workington in Kucher, at 5 Kast Birtoth rest wos ME. She was of 2.79 tons register. Her, ahip with Walne Senator Seat to the Island. substituted. One doliar| not complain for fear of losing bead FRYE CAN THING IT OVER,| |fateoman Whe Claims Relation W. we of fenator Frye who was ar-. | rested yesterday afternoon for break-) Knowing How to Breathe|' Means Knowing How to! Live in Perfect Heaith, » creased. Spec’al Training Insures| early in Ife and continued late. not ning but to guard upon physical exertion, BY J. GARDNER SMITH, M. D. he attainment of graceful movement in hese exercises Is Impossible, Respiratory practice should be bexun | The oa | of the lungs may be thus In- Intelligent breathing does mucn sly to facilitate walking and run ainst disease of course, depend The man who pacity Bodily demands, Strong Lungs and Dejq| sever makes much physical effort may velops Grace of Action, prepared for an emergency, such as in- Dr. J. Gardner Smith, formerly | instruetor in ph: siea! trainino in the New | York public schools ond at rresent physical director o/ the Heplem Branch ¥. MC. A. | and President of the Harlem Medical Ase sociaticn, has writ'ena series of icur are ticies for ihe Tiviag Werk of outdoor exercise and the bes: me hodsto fo low 0 obtain beneficial resulis in breathing, carriage of the body, walking id running The necessity of outdoor exercise Is becoming more appreciated every ay. Upper Chest Breathing. nd 2 instructors, while admitting the wood done by gymnasiup practice, ad- vise open air stimulatidnh, How many of | the thousands of persons on our streets know how to carry themselves properly? To economise energy in order to obtain beat results with minimum efforts? To walk properly, to run properly, to | acne properly, ate satura! outcomes of F Upper Chest Exhalation. , proper breathing. The inst helps to aid|* the others. Without natural breathing UGG MAY Now Reported that His Resignation Had a String to It. ‘There is a horrible suspicion in the air, It spolled the breakfast this morn- ing of Abe Gruber, Collector Bidwell, Capt. Norton Goddard and many other honest Republicans of this city who take &n active Interest in politics, and who have been rejoicing lately in the belief that the local machine had at last) shaken off that old man of the sea, Lemuel Eli Quigg. It ts now suspected that Quigg did Mot mean it; that when he sald he was out of politics he meant the phrase to be taken in a Pickwickian sense; that in resigning as Chairman of the Republl- can County Committee, he had a string attached to nis resignation, and that at the “proper time” he pects T..C. Platt to pull that string ana puli him back into the office again. Mr. Quigg was found in his office the) {eens by a reporter of The Evening | r, b i ‘ou have ingest GEES nt ets | fomain as tae County Chairman’ A ‘dark oud spread over the little Re- | can ‘tace he snapped back: ‘a at you a amas « the cls po a that ag et “Wou. yarn ittee be lc "sitet, d2 you intend te aii wi s _ em) et Ineoaveniense | 5. ipligenrapaligd oe Jury or (Mor can safety, Proper re ought to yemain quiet. tleed by ra sing the and forward to the not raixe the shoulders. j band and place the right pal NOT GET OUT ive to a good old age, but he Is never Abdominal Rewpiration. se of a portion of the lung, enjoy asiy violent effort with | . THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1900.. \ EASY TO BE STRONG IF YOU FOLLOW THESE RULES. SUGAR HAD A TUMBLE. ay rage Pca 1, Sepathe little oth, the jt le at 6 sia ud and on “thre “ |Led the on Off After the Opening Advance. In response to the higher quotations |from London, prices moved upward rap- at the opening of the stock market to-day, bul a decline in Sugar later led many issues off. Brooklyn Rapid Tranait and Anaconda Mining were the etrong excepilon of American Sugar received he chief attention in the early hours. Brooklyn started at 76 1+ gain of vi and fractionally reached [wether un advance of 1 4-8 points trom | Saturday. Anaconda suppemented the |heavy buying in London, and Jumped 11 34 points, to 54 1 or exhale, digtend and contract) Sugar was ex nd taived Hateratiy. “Thus the (Cent, at 115 1-2 to below 11S in " f the chest ie ten minutes on seling of large by air Inhaled ae op i #tock. expel the alt by cone |" er cheat upper) The Pacific shares were the most con- a “in |spicuour in the raliroad group and ad- etatially Monit” Manhattan foliowed the advance in Side Acttey than ke of | Yauco pgets premett, th) he ninth rib, will hep one to! at about [Broosyn Kapld Transit by a gain of DOZEN A DAY. Rese was any Nhe market became feverish on the diderstand this exerctie active and quite CHEST BREATHING. uihere are tires types of, breathing:- per feet abdominal and lower * chest breathing ed chest sh vy Kn position. the upper Upper chest breathing may be pr 4 y chest upward fifiest extent. Do Inhale whte Exhale on bree jominal respiration do not move the cheat wall or bend the body, On Abdominal Exhalation. “one, two," or inhalation, P} ress the upper chest { the. lower end of the sternum, Bs ty inhalation the right hi should be pushed forward, and on exhalation in > yee should recede underseath singers have almost com- ‘The best and plete control of the lower chest der my resignation,” said Mr. Quigg slowly and deliberately, “I will do !t. but T will do nothing that will inconv: Republican y. Vf my, tion ts accept I have no he: jt Collector Bidwell wil Atlantic Trane. Four meapolls, ef port, the Firet Fine Meamers. ‘The Minneapolis, first of the four new teeamships of the Atlantic Transport Une, arrived In port to-day, She ix com- manded by Capt. comes direct from Belfast, where she was bullt by Harland, Wolff & Co. She will befoliowed by her sister ships, the Minnehaha, Minnetonka 4nd Minne waske. The Minneapol's is 6 feet long © feet beam, 44 feet deep, with a grow Ireland | tonnage of 12,7 and a displacement of 26,000 tons. Her net regis.ered toniage fo 8G1. Bhe is Mtted with four masis and has one funnel. Accommodations are arranged am 4- ships for 30 cabin pastengers. Bhe cat. ries no second cabin or sieerage jas- aengers. BURNSIDE IN THE MUD. Transport on Her Way to Deck for Repaire When She tiruunded im the Bay. Preparations had been made to-day ** | tor docking the transport Burnside for pauy. repairs at Morse ship yards, foot of Testis street, Brooklyn, but up to a late hour the vessel had not reached there. The Burnside left her anchorage off ™ Liberty Island for the yards about 9 Tel o'clock. She crowed the bay and was Just at the-entrance to tye Erie Basin when she grounded on « mud flat and all efforts to free the transport failed and it was decided to walt until high water this afternoon before making «| other effort. Burnaide arrived from Porto Rico The will tender your Bieon| Caba on Saturday with thirteen by cab.n passengers and thirty-two soldiers Bhe is booked to sail again on April 21. a can party nor the County | Currier's OM Restaurant Cieses. Fd aol 99 Revie tae five-story eating-house at 144 tn that 1 40] Paice varect. seslgned’ this neon to in Havre re Fietechauer and Asel Merrell. ian. and diversion oe iprne Our. Sidney Layland and! hia an the re-terated ported absorption of the New York Central. Btrength of the local tractions wes In these exercises it fe important that there be no constriction about (ie waist 8 Uitiadey reacved on hea s or lower chest. Many Women cannot of ihe Totaccos, Sugar ahd (he ihe vigorously because of such con etal socks ‘ Practice in the n air) Sued sols velow 10%, com; 4 wih) uit he sought, Even a dozen deep | le the opening price, and the | the a day, properly taken. will 5 | Met stocks yrelded over a p f- | ) toward strengthening the lungs | fio, Hochester @ Pittsbur better maintained than other de a.i- Ment. Ralioads were quiet and ra ne | Tho bond market was quiet and | bt inne jot the trading prices | the afiernuone k | Gains, Claties, were less than a point though’ Missourl Paci rose abswe to the other Pacitics did not develop any oy pai he tren The market mde a further slow im- provement fn the final hour under ti - enee of goreriag by the room gharia, Wear moved up to [11 4 as Wi? 3-4 at the low Salant ant. The loeai trac- 4 of nearly iq rantit nearly reac: Pacific rove buoyant ri The response elsewhere in the rall- Togd Unt was moderate. osig War active and firm, but moat ks showed net lonses, pes total of stocks to-day were poco shares, ‘and of bonds $2,402,000, par value \Phe Closing Qu Doras + Company we} Nig ubove | J | Alone may miss them, we shall be glad = them also with goods ordered by 1 "Cash Coffee. ito at" We know it to hawaii ft in this et to-day for anything tke the money we ish, is 16¢ Holland Java.so6n one oughly excellent in all respects—one that we are glad to recom mend to all our customers, —The real rich coffee Bogota. taste through and through. Formerly so rare that only the swel est caterers bat * wl ay Im Repose @ fy ne at emer te oc by TEN ey ul Tobee. We ats wie and getting them in pr condition to WD ° 7 7 ear the strain incidental to walking 484° vat Mining a8 EN i Gy A running Auch, ie 72 ie Vidual who understands how | Minin? : 2 fin] Q js chant Is able to meet the jut @ weed i re readily. Ii the person who | {trokivy ies h ne to. Breathe, shortness of Hut tn gy as Jdom seen Burtingto: tis i iver: breathing whan ae rs : i # 1S ne raved circulation, ant better health The second artiete of “How to Stand Prop: = LINER. Mi HAVE. SUNK, Missing aiiten, Is Prac- tically Given Up Col & Hoek. Val Evening cmvoiid 1 3” | whi RK moar Hectic re Nerfuin & Went Nettk & West Northern Pacitie ms | itt 1 Py By wis 1 10% Here. 1% % Bad 2% a ss | Navigators of steam craft that ply the 218 Hi § Atlantic Innes between New York and | Reo, bs] i European porta have practically cowsdd | faye ie He | keeping a lookout for the missing |Rawhern Raiiway of ie | French line steamer Pauillac. Capt Teun‘ cc | Gocquel and his erew of forty-Ave have | Texas gs | probably gone down with (he ve ’ Hy | are sunk #3 PM of ex en exposition are resting on the |t> % 55 M ia z ori ee | ett m of the wes. By the lack of the | machinery, among which was comprised | Wen *tstey tei RR tructural and mechanism for the | Wheel @L & 1 moving sidewak desigy for the | Wheel, @L. E24 pf 3% Champs de Mars, the opening of the Ex- | + Cutie | Position, it was at fire: thought, might ve einped, bat the mavuoccuvers on | LONDON STOCKS FIRM. Pes? Je of the water were given dupli- | cule orders. | Much private property exibition in the Atieican secuon w inciuded in the Pavilac’s cargo. Ame: | the shippers were the J. L. Mott iron Works, the McGraw Publishing Cor pany and the Hygientc Optical Com- Several of (he exhibitors, real- wing Una chances of the Haul ever reaching po ni, have w ready | prepared Pind ohipped dupiica | intended for |Amertean fsenes Were Steady Mrom Anaconda a Featere in Mines, |fair volume of business. American securities opened steady, with Indications of favorable progress upward, owing (o the presentation of this week. exnioit the fortnightly settlement of the the Paine and important | There is in Unis department an indiepo- | guy rises... 39 Se2 sets... 621 Moon vets p.cte | sition to sell for the new account HIGH WATER. tothe mituvest detail. Bvery’ stratd of | Southern Pacific was selling somal to fener tat at wire and vit wore on ine bridge was | 41, Union Pacific at 1 Reading Rf 1s Island oe aiven rt in the mode Loulevill Nashville at Ks ad ‘ ch, tt adaiticn, bore the venamental |e a te. aur at 19s ‘3 mele we at" *° ing again became nent by an et: ne copays were provided vance of a full point over New York's PORT OF SEW YORK, oc the bridge, bUL were never | Closing price Baturday, selling at 8334. The model Was tmade ‘bythe {om te Matted ST Ruebiing Company ware la ne port on Fev. 6| WHEAT WAS HIGHER ON BETTER CABLES. ;:; chcauel He had 4 crew o Wheat was strongly influenced by | foreign news to-day and opened higher with a good many of the local traders covering eanved, wh j the German! “s fi met an Cape hw nd sign y by: in ¢ t Cas Sverweelened in one of the tem: | New York's 0 opening peices weet: tx that swept ove the ‘Atlant n | wheat, a 2 Septem Fevcunty. alts weighty care would juickly semd her to the botta Kmeamehip. which recentiy arrived | wheat, @ 1-8. Jul ted hy & | Mk May ‘oats: mae New Yorke ct * Spree trea ae 8 elonged to An Easter pleasure for the children—the Gillies Annual Distribution of Ea ter Souve- y buying Nirs, which begins to-morrow. crel'in large beaut ful canners gay with flowers except in the mercurial ope and birds and happy-faced, brightly dressed chiidren; there are panels or plaques with couid have it—now at a A EASTER GLOVES. aresr wportarions SHOWING LEADING STYLES AND T.NTS IN “THE MARVEX_GLOVE’’ ae A LARGE SELECTION OF OTHER FASHIONABLE GLOVES AT POPULAR PRICES, THE FASSO CORSET conforms to every change of fashion. To meet the present style of gowns, the new importations include straight> ront models in the MARIE THERESE, HAR'E ANTONETTE, CARMEN and ROXANE. Imported Solely by B, Mitann & Co, There are ‘Bise 19x91 ek) cute little embossed and 1s) cut-out doggies, handsomely Ii hi ‘hogr in colors by Raphael | uck & Sons, the color publishing firm of New York London. The souvenirs are FREE only purchasers, as in former years. That “ or telephone when asked for. ; Broken Java, ~jiuntres bf a Commi for it ce aan uid kegs friends, i of the genu ne re poe we know to be all sb eueur Tenuetereee & Rane 00 costly comes direct from iN TEAS prices begin bee Then on rete high Bait money's we Eafe an die ee When if vy oncmere OFFER is Is sold ta io jase ite. : Gillies Coffee Comunill its | Established 1840, | ce List Maine ited. * WAT SUGAR TRO SUGAR TRUST LAND. we % jou to Compel Vacation of Long |!ittle Bactrian an tees Ite 2 Inland City Property Argued ALBANY, mad> State oy | Company fifteen years ago and trans ferred to the Sugar Refining Coy pa A hes! ala ah given by fu nt fallen the grant of "and on the groun uated at the foot the Land Poard had ro right The proe.ty is ¥. ty va | the plant of (rhe Suga whi | were ana 2%; June $22 to 924; July, 983 to 2B; | August, $23 to 9.4, September | R45; October, 417; Novernber, £09 to 861; | December, The London security stocks displayed 43; Febryary, £0 to 808; Mar | a steady tone throughout to-day, on a|/to £0. Market steady. | SHIPPING NEWS. | Alsenbers Bie Grande Sinweapoiis fan Marcor Kaieer : tn sei wh Fooce: son juan fining Company to vacate « parcel of Jand within the corporate limits of Long Ne! Iniand City, New York, which was granted by the ‘The closing prices of cotton to-day | Coffee—or 5 jbe. Ts ce PREE, of CR ey 288, 936, 297 & $80 Washington Sto eta BABY CAMEL, HERE Apecam= ence in Central Park Mes ) at Albany. © mageric bigedesncss pa (Spectal to The Rvening World.) “Have you seen ¢ ANY. A 1 9. “An effort is being |Came this morning. Re- po (he Noy Tete ae THE WEW BABY CAMEL. to ¢ now a part of the cliy of to the Mutual Léfe Insurance e Atcorne) an appl.ca- ompany for a hat a part of the land ts sit- of a public street bird aD ir Retin! h, if the ‘application is ars tf hav be removed. ie ted as & AuTi tank Boned ered The Cotten Market. April, 929 to $41; May, 937 to AH to! 8M to 402; January, £0 to ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. ARRIVED. Raltimere Brunse ies Pauitiac Be! Galveston OUTGOING STEAMSHIP, TO SAIL TO-MORROW, im der Comanche, Bremen, E Pom, CRartenton Orieane. INCOMING STEAMBHIPS. DUE TO-DAY.