The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1901, Page 1

EDITION a “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ PRICE ONE CENT. : i901. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY L } a Judge Cowing Flaysthe Police for Inefficiency NIX EWIS NIXON » A GAMBLING CO and Warns New Grand Jury to “Let No A acathing indictment of the police force was dellvered by Judge Cowing to-day when Instruct! ad Jury in Part I. of General Sessions, He declared the department waa “wil- fully blind” and that many criminals “go unwhipped of Justice.” ‘The Grand Jury was impane Maynard ‘Hollisten, a linen merchant, of TL_Worth street, ax foreman, He has na member of former Grand Juries. ‘After instructing the Grand Jury as to their duties and directing that they first Investigate four or five hundred gomplaints which have accumulated dur- ing the Christmas holldays, Judge Cow- ing said: % at thin special term 1 ow to draw your attention to a ef cases which Is generally Mieved im the community go un- whipped of justice. If, an 1 sald before, the police force is wilfully Blind, who is to menaure in thin Great city of ours the duty that ts imposed upon them? It ts helleved has been too mach too much dea led, with this community. | People Muat Insint. Renerally thought that the time na come when the_peopia must Insist for the:r own protection that the crimi- law Js observed as it should be. I fe no doubt that so far ap it is In Four power you’ will seo that these Fe sersone who violate the Iaw, be they thelr politica) be or, low, whatover affiliations or religious prociivities, pinished. ASSESSMENT UP a, ee % «Commissioners One Hope «Lies in Big Personal Collection. ia Wil Mas Commissioner Fe!tner announced to-day that the city’s personal propery Assessment had been increased £2,60),00, Te ts vald that this ie Tammany's plan cod showing before the voters coming election. Since the rate was Ike! year than last the Tax Commissioner? have been figuring upon a method to meet the Increase of $7,000,000 In the Budget without going before the pudlle mith a tax rate of 2.4. Unlesa there is going, to be a great ent of “sweating off’ perronal taxes the income ftom this rource will be s0 large that Jt will not be necessary to put twenty points extra on the tax rate. During the past few years, however, ft has been found almost Impoxsible to collect personal taxes, Milllonalres who are ifberal:y assessed elmp!y 59 before the Commissioners and swear they don’t ‘own the property they are credi e} with. Unlesr the Commissioners themselves Feduce the assessment the uzarieved 2) Parties go Into the courts and have 14 cut down or establish residence clre- where, thereby depriving New York of any of their wealth. "che Commissioners don't want to! face % tty unpopularity which a twenty-point ralse In the tax rate will bring upon the administration in the year of a municl- pal election and they will make a de- termined effort to collect more personal taxes than ever before, ‘The books will be opened.to the. public on Monday next, when It will be sen what the exact valuations are. ————___ SAYS LANDLORD BEAT" HIM. Missionary Declares It Reply to a Comy Chauncey T, Nach, a missionary, came 20 Brooklyn from Marsachusettr and rented quirzens from Swanton, ut & Fulton street. “Last Saturday night: a compiaint-na|~ Hi to lack of heat was made, and the ndlord, according tod 's statement b-day. belabored him with his fats, When ‘he got tired) Swanton ‘turned Nash‘over to another one of his lodgers, XS] whd began where Swanton left off. The ade his com BI treet rea! rik tein Bi: a the efforta of evangelism” ee EY Guilty Man Escape.” + NEW GRAND JURY WHICH WILL AID TO CRUSH CRIME. The members of the new Grand Jury impanellel by Judge Cow- Ing to-day are: MAYNARD HOLLISTER (foreman), merchant, 71 Worth street. JAMES S. KEARNEY, agent, 417 Produce Exchange. DENNIS W. MORAN, stone dealer, 280 Broadway. JOHN J. CLARKE, smith, 900 First avenue. EVERETT J. WENDELL, merchant, 8 East 38th street. ROBERT W. W. STUART. banker, 43 Exchange place. OSGOOD WELSH, merchant, 43 Cedar strect. WILLIAM A. MARTIN, real estate, 50 East 125th street. GEORGE LAWDER, painter, 306 East 58th street. WILLIAM E, BABCOCK, dry goods, 109 Worth street. GEORGE WICHELUS, grocer, 343 Hudgon street. JAMES O'CONNELL, undertaker, 131 East 106th street. JOHN WICK, stovés, 605 Efghth avenue. HENRY W. GREENWOOD, retired, 222 West 23d street. HERBERT L. GRIGGS, banker, 15 Wall street. JEREMIAH M. MARTIN, real estate, 436 Lenox avenue. AARON S. THOMAS, shoes, 133 West 73d street. MEYER THALMESSINGER, Vice-President, 135 Grand street. THOMAS K. FRASER, retired, 20 West 22d street. WILLIAM G. MURPHY, broker, 2 Wall street. EDWIN N. DOLL, tailor, 140 Nassau street. | | fat} i U i a AN EFUSES 10 GIVE UE PROTECTORS ¥i A i \ ‘Trected by some one. DAVID L. KIRBY, insurance, 111 Broadway, WILLIAM DE FOREST HAYNES, merchant, 24 Thomas street. “He whd violates the law must expect to meet the punishment for so doing. “The smaller crimes, perhaps, are not thought much of, but they work terrible | (Continued on Second Page.) MRS. LEASE WON’T QUIT PUBLIC LIFE. “Greatest Living Stateswoman” Is Silent [ “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ AD ONE CENT. ———— | Tammany, Terrified, Makes a Defense Through the Committee of Five—Big Money Paid by Gamblers, b Nix Chairman Lewis nm, of the Tam- mary Fiv real « ment at the meeting of that Committee this afier- noon, which, he sald, every point on whi there was versy Mr. Nixon said ia effect that the mittee had found out that a" wan c ing big money from gambl Ouse keepers in the name of Tam: Hall, the Parkhurst and Comsto Cetles for protect bines" pocketed this money ani ha power to give protection, but Jainly awindling thelr dupes Mr. Nixon didn't tell who the combine, mor who recelved money. And though he sald the “combine’ had no power to protect thelr dines, he ‘ed to tell who djd protect them in their Inw-breaking—thaugh he and his committe have repeatedly admitted that the gambling-houses were pro- covered any contr y were thy Here is the #iatement read t the ; Nixo ‘ Prat tament made in. tals morning's [papers and in the aftermon extras, the first pince I have never publicly mentioned by name any leader of a dis- trict na being conrected with the ‘Comm- bine.’ Had I become poateased of any any leader I pneu ately presented {t to the nave uve Committee of Tammany. Hall “We are in afaic-way.to get the evi- dence against those respons ‘ble for cer- tain abuses, So far all that han been obtained has been turned over to Mr. Platzek to be transmitted to the Dis- triot-Attorney and, naturally, I) shall prot, implicating 12,260,000 SHARES IN MAD STOCK Realizing on a Gigantic Scale About Her Divorce Suit. Mrs. Mary Elizateth Lease, the “great- cat living Azierican stateswoman,” late of Kanras, dented that she will retire from the strenuous Ife of the lecture Wiatform, to an Evening World reporter when he called at her flat, § East One Hundred and Twenty-first street, thls afternoon, “Is It true,” she wan asked, “that you have Lecome rezonetied to your husband, have withdrawn your sult Yor a divorce and will yourself retire from public life and rettle down to domesticity?” Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, who never “talks, but “delivers an oration," looked indignant, then declaimed: “I Aave io Intention of dropping out of public !Ife, On the contrary, I intend to be more active than ever, if that possible, Iam booked solidly with dates for my lecture tour until a year from | next May. I shall go Caulfornta. “Any woman with pronounced views upon political, economle and other pub- le questiona can never retire from pub- Me Mf ‘As to your other question, I do not care to say anything about the legal Proceedings begun by me against my husband. If the proceedings have been dropped the court records will show. “L’am here with my tour children. Charles H. Lease, my eldest son, is 9 clerk In the Custom House, My eldest daughter has a good place aa w teacher in Public School No. 5 in Edgecombe Avenue; my younger son, Ben, ix in the City College, and is of great help to me as my secretary, attending to all my bookings ror lectures, and my younger daughter {s attending school "In the clty, We are very happy. Surely the Public can be interested in us no further than that.” far West as | ROW OVER FREE LUNCH FATAL. Tucker Dead from Wound | Received in Saloon | Arthur Tucker, who was shot In the stomach by Terence Boylan, the bar- in the stloon at 2398 First ave- 2, died in Harlem Hospital afternoon as a resuit of his in- t ! ‘Yucker, with several others Into the’ saloon, called for drinks ani went to the free lunch counter, consumed what tne bartender t wasn dinner apie Tucker called for more ‘sucker Insiated, and, It Is cl Jan came from behind the bar a piste! and tired. . je was released on $1.50 bali, but will | mptly re-arrested and ‘held on a ‘Tucker Waa twen- went Ge, and wien he refused, aimed, Boy and drew be prot charge of homicide. tyrone years old. ROOSEVELT STARTS WEST. Vice-President-Elect Roosevelt arrived at the Long Island City atation this atternigea on the train which left Oyster He refiised to answer any. ry as to destination or how long he eepecten to s ; Hie ‘com be gone. ‘SUICIDE OF A COLLEGE TEACHER Melancholy Drove Clar- ence Wood to Hang Himself. | ‘larence D, Wood, Instructor !n Kn- Bish’ Mterature at Brown committed eufclde to-day by hanging himself to the door of his room. He wan visiting his brother, Dr. W. Wood, at % Halsey strcet, Brook yn. Six weeks ago ae came from «roy dence, 3, 1, where the untversity in| uated. He suffered at the time froin acute melancholia, b raays, But ana the avaoctation with hu family Kecmed to improve his condition anu av went buck to hin work in a mote che ful framo of mind, Revea.y the nervous affection him again, una ae deca yesterday to c come nome. He-ieft Providence with a fefend and reached Brooklyn a: 8 o'clock ths morn.ng. Later In the day he 100k some money for his brother to deposl. in 4 savinga vank, Shortly beto: jon he was in the din- ing-room, talking to the doctor. He sald ne wus fesing Tl and would go to his room to He down. He went npatatra, and his brother in a few m.nutes tuil.wed, to nee It ue cuuld be of any ald. He foun) the young man hanging w the tedroom door, He cut:him down winathictor? Wood was’ twenty-three was nty fa olds and. Nad promise ‘of @. dle: ir Oe Untveraity, | Down Early, but They Reacted. All revords were broken in the stock market agnin to-day, ont the two-mil mark In sales was pasxel by a big] ee ope: ‘Tee total sales of stock for the whole wan over 2,%0,000, and of bonds 13,718,(00. ‘The previous record w. 000 whares, recordeded lust Fri It wan a remarkabie hour naw the most reckl: of stock for taking of profits ever In Wall atrevt. ig changgs in prices renuited. The absorbing power of the market|and viol wi vanes extraordinary, and jater prices ad Delaware & Hudson went up 14 points, and Baltimore & Ohio went up, speculative 57-8, the latter reacting. ‘omenal rise of the latter part of the ker sellers to take profits ne. dvanc large m8 In prices had been so Aden and the resulting profits represented such large amounts y that even the most aspiring lor Wan eager to skim the cream Ituation and convert the sudden Into hard cash. thle in Some stocks, The eagerness of dila to selze the ston war the cause of sudden t relapres in prices in nearly ka which have had the big- 4, The consequence of the unloading was successive sof a hail to A point in prices and othe » est adva Ir Speculators who had been lucky enougn! resulting extreme declines running up to get Into the market before the phe- 5 points. SOLD GAMBLE. Brought Prices Tennerace Coal lost that amount and New Jerscy Central after an opening tise of n point, dropped 5 on two succes. sive salex, Northern Pacific was forced to 27-8 t ay and Pennsylva- nla 2 points. ‘The reaction reached 2 to 21-2 In Reading, Rock Island, Atchison proferred, St. Paul, Erle firet preferred and Delaware & Hudson, 1 1-2 in Rea Ing first and second preferred and # point or over in Baltimore & Ohio and @ Jarge number of active stocks. There were plenty of opening advances ranging from | to 2 points for important stocks, Including Baltimore & Ohio, the Tobvaccos, Erte, Texas & Pacific, Onta- rio & Western and Tin Pitte, Reading com:non was rushed up nearly 4 (Coutinued on Second Page.) ut None Reached the Chiefs. net discuas It until it, “AR ata fan ¢ “the ne HAS passed upon places a | to aquar, ain sum t« collected monthly the Parkhurst, Comstock and (Arittom; while there or two agents of these so- Vina form nization pmibine,* chat blneckmat, r interview there fo men Known as ix organized for and they k iding to be pay-[|men who c mmany Hall the money they | re sorthy | for the protectioin they are sup. | munity: {posed Co furniah in ite name, Ms g yearn thege men h {Hila Dusiners, and no mat Ix in power, the sume brazen disregard Jof all law has been apparent, and im- j munity from arrest has been sold ail_have go the principle that | iWhen the men conduct gambling whments here who have pald these; for 4 tion learn that. this money tained by the combine, they would make the town too hot to hold them, While elo y Is retained by the And these socleties nfldenca of the com= men know whom wish to open places ¢ 1 having found act In deflance of given short Toarttt, are natural that these men do coll on | account of Tammany H cc protect thes. im accounts for the almost deflant attitude of the gamblers, who thought the money reaily went ‘higher up,’ and the inecant obedtence of thos in the ting, who, with guilty consciences, {f any consetences, knew that ‘on could be obtained. “Mr. Croker has not received one cent of this blood money. : ‘Judge McQuade assured mé this K that none of the money has been recetved by him as treasurer! of they designate a “aquealer’ ts he in greatest cintempt, it the same time, when they see that jthey have been deliberately swind! they will be of the opinion that puntsh- | ment should be inflicted. “The way the gambling business ts worked Is that practically all houses! timmany Holl pay $25 per week and $100 per month) h must pay in addition a large percentage} cach, were levied. upon the rambling: of their receipts. ‘From thg Ist tothe Sth ofeach month men may be seen'going to the houses of the man who recelves this money to pay houses and pool-rooms under. the guise of political assesaments juat before tho = last election, I take this occasion to say ney was not pald to Tam- their portions, though the 8% per week} many Hall aad’ that he roa who oki and the $00 per month are collected in] it were swindied by those who levied Nal Alsi riétal It, and ft make this statement upon the “In addition to this and to still fur- | qunhortty of the Chairman of the Fi- ther protect the men who run there! Tammany Tlie pair \JURY DISAGREED IN THE M’DONALD CASE, Gambler Released on $5,000 Bail, but Im- mediately Rearrested. while! The Coroner's Jury tn the Inquest over the body of George Price, killed by Mites MeDonuld, the Kambler in a battle In a Harlem cafe, disagreed. Elght of the Jurors stoed for acquittal and four for 1 verdict of murder, clght maintained that the gambler ted in self-defense and the others he assault by him was unpro- tot was a divisional verdict. ht jurors found that ‘eGo: Price to hia death by a pistol shot wound ‘n the abdomen, the pistol being In the hands of Miles McDonald, tn welf- 1 defenne.”* Lawyer Levy moved th: digcharged, but the asked that’ he be held The Coroner fxet which was furnished by John Bascor loft City Island, } Mra. McDonald rushed at his client be Istrict-Attorne: forward and ¢ was imme- nurge of fel- IHAZING PENALTY WASITINGTON, Jan. ‘To the pend- ing army reorgunization bill Vent of Miasouri to-day offered the fol- lowing amendment: “The oMtcers in charge of th Point Military Academy abail im Senator | w! IN NEW ARMY BILL. West Point Cadets Found Guilty of the Practice Will be Expelled. enforce such rules and regulations nt the practice of hazing, and found gullty of participating shall be expelled from and shall not be real cadets therein. any in xuch practle Ue oin Iie Meeting In ance with the Cha The Munielpal Council to: very near violuting rection : charter, which directs a meeting at nogn on th January each year, Fifteen members are necesan a quorum, but only fourteen 1 themuelves, Just one-half of th number of members of the bogrd fourteen waited for nearly an how then Councilman Bodine arrived an meeting was held. President Guggenheimer committee, consisting of ouncilmen Goodwin, Brice and Connolly, to walt on the Mayor and ask him {f his annual message was ready. The Mayor told Finally appointed a the committee that he would commun:- ¢, (cate with the Council later, and the - meeting edjourned. i: ss Aceord- | Back tn Albany W. Proposed New Measur NY, Jan, 7.—Gov, Odell tlve Chamber to-wday, having m New York City, th s or Watt a r «recommended in hi Lewixtature, bring to A’bany ted meas: Executive will probably Tslature this or the ce —Ex-Senator Silver Repubjlcan, wan nominated by the Joint caucus at3 A. M to-day for United States Eenator, —= One Day ableta. All brug 1s to eur ‘. dos. . 35¢, WTKINLEY ILL /—WATH A COLD Attack Declared Not Serious, but Callers Cannot See Him. WASHINGTON. T.—Preatient Me- yo has a elk nying himectf to i In not serio the reerptt be given att the Diplomat uite Howse W {the Inte Ane 14 Navy Harber, yhew of MeKinley. —————_—- }who wax an i [Mebebeleleteieteieteieletelelelel-telel-iel |¢ WEATHER FORECAST. for the ¢ aix bh me cading at % Tuenday for New York City Forecu! irty- Inestay | pop thee d _ [him unsucces FEAR WITNESS “15 MPPED Detectives Are Seeking Thomas Minnock for Bellevue Testimony. detectives been for Thomas J. Headquarters have Min search sporter who a the Hillard care, appeared st the nurses in Bellevue ey have looked for Moanock 18 aw re the racd Jury and testlf jcknents may be Tt ts feared that way by persons why nating him from ——_— KILLED IN BILLIARD-ROOM. the young man who George O'Hara santor In the latter's was y Dav and vicinity: Cloudy tos nights fale and colder Tuen- days fronh to brink worth. west winds. FERRE NEE EEE EEE EEE S| night, died ty at 223 Broadway, last 1, Hood Wright Hospi- tal this atte YM O'Hara made an ante-mortem state- ment to Coroner Zucca. Cantor was asrested god held wihous, hadls y a. bilitard) partor: onlous assault preferred Dean on behalf of Edward oonane one of the men wounded by: McDonald: id he would furnish ‘the alsi Itness to-day wi is The first wi Ri one of the witnesses of it MecDona Onawa row, Hundred and “T heart K ken the He lives at 316. East: One Forty-first streot. ennedy sity to George Price: Ww anything speak it cnnedy draw a. revolver m his right-hand coat pocket. Mo Donaid grabbed hia hand, thrust tt uj er went o} fn the alr and. the revolv Albert T. Weston, the Coronera who’ performed the autopsy body, was shown the re McDoriaid “when the shoots ie piatol-shot in the witness’ testified, ‘suet ‘bave a made by the man who wore thi t discharging the pistol himself. You mean that McDonald must have fired the shot into his own coat?’ asked | Lawyer Lavy. | _“Imean the man who wore the coat must ‘have fired the shot that st Dullet hole,” was he i Seerersaaa sae MORGAN NOW IN. ELECTRIC LIGHT Financier Heads Syndi= cate That Absorbs Boston Concern. T fron hen | be | ‘ON, hd the Boston ‘ompany, held in this city to-day, was Voted to lease the property of the yy to A new organization to be med by J. P, Morgan & Co, for @ © m of not more than ninety-nine years. at an annual rental of 10 per cent. The stockholders of the Edison Eleetric _ Sight Company, it ts understood, ag thelr next meeting will take simiar action, which will result In a consolidas on of the Boston electric lighting ine.) terests, BOsT 1ockh FAMILY OF FIVE BURNED. Lewiston, wax burned early to-day Taylor, his wife and three smalloug dren, the eldest only: five years of% perished in the flames. nd SF way Prospects for the © Hy Ra ‘Ate tudtonted by, the pi nay tyasta: Railroad é