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ee Se i (of the $200,000.00 Ramapo STATE LEGISLATURE A CARNIVAL OF LOBBIES. Most Powerful Is that of| +he $200,000.000 Ram- apo Conspiracy, Before} Which Even the Gov-| ernor Is Checked. (Special to The Evening Worl.) ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 13—The lobby. ints who are fighting to proiong the Nfe conspiracy have an inning this afternoon. ‘They appear before the Cities Com- mittee of the Aasemb!y to oppose the bill repealing the charter of the com- Pany. A delegation from the Merchants Association of New York ts also on} hand to demand the passage of the) bill. ‘The influence of the Ramapo lobby is felt on every hand. It is ax mysterious as it is powerful. The only active Agents that publicly procialm their ins terest are Edward Lauterbach and his uasociate, WC. Trull. But there are/ even more potent forces back of the company than those represented Lauterbach end Trull j Restraing Odet Even the Governor, who during the campaign was outspoken in favor of the repeal of the Ramape charter, {x npparently held back by this same tn- fluence. He js ntrange:y silent con- cerning Ramapo. Members of the Legisiature who ap- Preciate the powers of the lubby pro-| tecting Ramapo say that nothing short of a peremptory demand from th mor for the passage of the Slater or Mor- ‘or three | directing the i {The ‘ooby Interests are apparently i | sentative of the ain eenent bill will compel the passage —_—>——-- Stletther, ' question they are asking is: t . Vullite Governor dety the ioboy? All That Operate with at ie certainly: “Uy Wy th Governors to i nid iat’ onoacs [ie cane dost by ect Freedom and Any he Legislatuce The D ac 8. Fred Nixon, the Bpe men are the Assembly and the real bose Chance of Success Have Stranahan, the “O. K."’ of the Ree enate Cittes Commit- nd Assemblyman Kelsey, th aire publican Organization. he same committee In the lower islature: la Chairman of we tee, Lobby’s Busy Season. | [atrike:: measure wneaks Jo, Their por itive bills this year specify the kind of ext books that must be tsed by puplis down to the authors’ names, The Telephone iobby ja mainly man- in State organiza: | Depurtment)—this | to do the work, | esible « paring for a busy = thos not fi the Republie. Promii ny. t which inmittee « in pollt Insuran~ ax gineady been coms the * i anizatlon qe Influences of ‘The Brewers’ Lobby Is a. strong IOphy and agree to tae red of {alr this session. There propose) Uux on insure compan beer bills—the Burnett and It is ret Improbable neither of { brewers, becaus ta ite purity o are in actly he Rafiroad before It, b his work | tion Ike the active y Renuoitean Stute! power In the Railroad are many lade-! oth hows nt and, howz shut ouit es which have not been | doors ma’ the public Lobby Trust committee exceuttverresslons, they can-! extensive lobby influences not bar the way from the Rallrond | Thirty-fitth street, which will he city in the neighborhood of $1.0 nd betietlt only a few property owners. | cay. John Ford ts the repre- | cori: property owners. The | ready MII war reported to the Senate yester- J aver jes ure appar: | if nitek horse | i down the Capitol 1. They have al- that nothing will o without thgir Ex-Senator peniy bows done to Rama, arts comment. ae bien, ' ie One fundred and Many Other 1 jen street Estate Lebby there {a the School Text Book oy. There are two representatives ot the ‘ble Book Trusts here. looks after bitin in the Benate; the other the Asrembly. Their work Kinds—pos'tive, to see that commin: legislation Is Introduced and progressed, | balloon prices negative, to see that no objectionable or ing for Just such a bonanza for years. fi slight success yesterday by having the Assenbly Cities Committee report out the Smith bill, wi gives to reat {others along the Mprovement Juicy to unload at MARGUERITE SYLVA WEDS MANAGER MANN. QuINcy, Sylva, the Princess Chie Opera Company, wan secretly married to W. D. Mann in New York last Spring. Mr. Mann sald to-day that the mar-| STOCKS. BREAK AFTER A RISE. —— Sugar Sells Off and Other Prominent Issues H Sag. : | guerite The buoyant market for Americans! fn London and na number of favorabic | statements of railroad earnings brought | a large demand for a number of stocks} in the market to-day. Atchison, which w: don, sold at and 1-2 on the tra fer of 10,000 shares, compared with n Monday, 4nd #00) sbaren of Western Unton were sold at §9 1-2 and %, com- pared with $$ 5-5 on Monday. Reading second preferred advanced 21-8, Chicago & Eastern Illinols 2 1-2, Norfolk & Western 1 1-2 and People's Gas a point. ‘Advances In the Internationals were sot as a rule fully up to the London jarity and considerable realizing met the opening high prices. Smelting lont 15-8, and one oF two minor stocks wero =” a fraction. ‘She Nehtness of the demand for stocks at noon and the tendency toward specu- up 2 if tn 1. pion. A bres The Mel pert. Federal dive! lost 3 1-4, Colorado Fuel 2 and Stecl & Wire 2 3-8. In tho railroad quarter sharp losses were gen- tral, Bonds were quiet and trregular, Weatern Union was pushed up anew tu 91 and General Electric also rose 2 These movements did not bene ulte points, rts te general market, which was reactlonary all around, aure in the liquidation brought onty Tallies and. the selling was re- prices to the lowest rangers, Pacitics, Sugar, eco, the Jocal Tractions and the siocks were all rl Pacific's loss extended to 4 points from the best. There were some Small rallies when room shorts covered. The closing was generally weak at about the lowest. A sewed, erylny newed, ca The conspicuously The Closing Quotations, {Mimourt Pact RAMAPO HELPED. ) BY FISH'S BILL Assemblyman Disclaims a Job and Promises to Amend Measure. m (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 13.—Assemblyman Kop- ert J. Fieh, of Madison County, has stirred up a hornets’ nest by the in- troduction of a bill reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee to-day which, on its surface, le apparently an attempt to continue the Ramapo water monopoly In power, no matter if the present Legisiature repeals the charter of that concern. Mr. Fish disclaims any intention of fathering 2 new Ramapo deal, but the fact remains that by the provisions of his bill a domestic corporation of this State may “with the consent of holders of % per cent. of the stock, sell and jconvey ite property, rights, privileges | and franchises, or any Interest therein, or any part thereof to a forelgn cor- poration, engaged in a business of the same gencral character and organizea In the State where the principal tan- gible property of such domestic cor- poration {# located and its principal ase had been kept secret for business | business {s carried on." coven, although their intimate friends} It would be the easiest thing In the] > were aware of {t. Mann ts the manager | world by the provistons of the measure of the Herald Square Theatre, of New! for the Ramapo monopoly, if its charter] | \Is repealed, to convey to a New Jersey ——— | or Connecticut corporation {ts water} {rights und optons, Assemblyman Fish claima to have just realized the danger In hin bil) to-day. To an Evening Wortd reporter wee now that my bil In a little broad and 1 will not press tt further z until ft has been amended to take out objectionable features. But 1 want to ;@asure you that in no wise was tendel io affect the Ramapo q & “IT simply Introduced tt to stralghte Zits! Bila “ A A, 0-00-0000 8-0 o- 0-0 Ond 8 Con, Todac ho de Mateo out uddie that exists in if - tora granite company. Senator Proc vole de r. THREATENS THE CITY. tN 7 Woodside Water Company Objecta te the Removal of Its Pipes, Employees of the Department of | Highways 4o-day resumal the work of j dizeing: up the pipes of the Woodside | Water Company on Jackson avenue. Long Island City, which have been or- dered removed by Highway Commission- er James P. Keating. The Commissioner and the Water Company are both under Indictment for maintaining a nuteance jn not Placing Jackson avenue In a proper condition after the Company's pipes were lald, The Woodside Company sent a formal protest to Mayor Van Wyck aaying 11 |, would hold the city responsible for all damuge done. ae eee Mexican Mo., Kan. Mo.) Ken. & Tr Wseult Steel rial Tube Few American Bidders, LONDON, Feb. 13.—Financlern say that the American tenders for Exchequer bonds are very amall, probably under a million. Germany is tie largest foreign tenderer aiid France ts next. It is un- derstood that the Poat-OMce Savings Bank gets the busk of the bands, ontinental Buyers Take Ameri- cans at Advance —_———me Amerlean ratiers were strong in the 2 Landon stock market to-day, Atchiaon SHIPPING NEWS. © gun of 2 LMANAC ¥OR TO-DAY. Ac pmmon, showin an i pints. There Gov. He ts not at all like the plain “Ben” Odell months obstrusive, exacting. dealing directly with men and demonstrating to them tn ten minutes, that he knew more about their affaire than they themselves, nifled, austere and keenly analytical. Gov. Cotton Peleen FE | neu : THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENIN GOV. ODELL IN THE Slouchy Man of Democratic Ways Has Be- person. not only from a sartorial point of view, In the ol@ Gaya he used | slouch hat or any of thing that could! m: DEATH-MASK OF NAP 56.0.5. Roe br006-3-9-DBOOOO. Col, Jullan #eott, of Malnteld, N. J. longed to the Spooner colleciton, After} the artist, found a mack of Nupoleon In the owner's death It felt of the one hands of persons who did know its} 4iq wonde! tnd finally passed to the ash- (Spectal to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb, 13.--0d 1s voted by watched him narrowly and diversified Intereats--practical and otherwire—to FEBRUARY 13, 1901. OLD DAYS AND NOW. come a Fashion Plate. ODELL IN EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. BEN ODELL IN AMEN CORNER. be ured to cover hia wiry hatr, hat imnbuscade of 1 silk lateat 1, of Newburg, the “regulara,” who have with absorbing Now he shiny weare a and new and of the coat with which he used to has glven piace to. the bearing the Impress f the most rk stateeman . form and office of be a singularly strange whom they knew a scant three ago. Then he waa democratic, | * insinuating, practical and rovement on > distinguish tr from footmen. suggesta the he Lando! awl"? Now he ts dig-| that of m ils dinner creat ing of the or outalde | obwlously a wi Odell ts an entirely different but in his general demeanor. to wear Al there !s nom: OLEON FOUND IN ASH-BARREL. “a Bend 63-09 arb ond oes wood alcoli per gall had for Jamate: lovai dard ty net Mr. dD. Hrely cured. STAB MAY MEAN MURDER. | IP it Our February Furniture Sales continue at a rate that is leaving last year’s record of sales far é in the rear. the lowest price it can be consistently sold at—it is no wonder that we are booming things. For Thursday we enumerate three particularly good values. Steel and Brass Beds. | 60c. Gork Linoleum Thursday at 29¢. . Just a hint to keep the Carpet Department active. specially E. S. Higgins's famous all-wool Tapestry Brussel Carpets ata price that should instantly enlist your attention if you've the slightest carpet need; per yard... And it’s a mighty good Matting, too. double or more. 1 then you'll have use enough for nice cool Matting; per roll, 3.98; per yard... Cheap only in price; elsewhere you'd pay a third as much agai Art Squares, 9 ft. long and 9 ft. wide; reversible; therefore tw Special sale Thursday Real Irish Point and Tambour Lace. 27 to 40 inches wide in ivory and white. Iy «15 upholstery department an added touch of activity Thursday, we make the prices per Vard, sees. sess eeeeee 1,000 ‘Pairs Fluted Ruffled Muslin Curtains, 3 yards long, well mad handy; inexpensive, but all the more attractive for that; pair... Furniture Slips—We will make you a complete xt of; Armure Portieres—Seli colo’, cxtra heavy; Furniture Slip, Covers. binding, $14.00, for... Lnrnny/VJ~ WOOD ACOAOL THE QNCER. Druggists Use It to Save) Money May Be | Especially Beds and Bedding. ithe Great clearing sale of Mattresses and Iron Beds. We are just Cle |} through figuring our stock and find we have a larger stock of Beds BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 13.—According i to the Medical and ‘one or two wholesa’ » prosecuted on the charge of using | Jamatea ginger. * freely sometimes become totucly bil An Investigation as to U turers of the dangerous in against wholesale concerns tn and this evidence will be sued in pros cuting the gulity partic yer { QUICK AND SURE. Retin Sarised Uekine. wl good value at 820 Remedy Which Rently Cores ¥. Collins. commenced using th a tine when iny ¢ i nothing could cure It, but before | had used | Pin Mfty-cent package | began to feel eas) Detter, and now ft can ho It ts the quicken! remely I have ever tried or heard of. Vion, Thomas Willison, of Port | “-Juat one package of the Pyramid Plie Cure for me, and | lose no oppor: | tunity of recommending such a remedy,” | \inos Crocker, of W tog mone through an une operation for 3 Sure to please every purchaser; all sizes...... e-third. ginger Isa 2 with ety compound has bras: FONIERS, the securing 0! rails ant full othenbers 43 No Mail Orce's. Satisfaction Guarant:-d or Money Promptly Refunded. West 14th St. Furniture Bargains. THURSDAY’S TELLING SPECIALS. & With two great floors crowded with good, honest, stylish furniture- --and every piece ats Sa Chiffoniers. Massive; heavy bras's_rails Large 5-drawer Golde: head and Oak Chitfonier, foot; two : ass spindles; extra well made, wit! brass vases panel ends, carved. ind mounts; | Wort Made up in the best % well enam., AGA ticking and all sizes. Un- loon solid) brass ie doubtedly one offered the New Y IN YeArS.uesee see f the best bargains rh pl dles, well finished, worth 3.98 | We are selling an immense amount of Linoleum simply because we persist in selling the market's best and most popular grades at about half regular prices. It has given us the reputation of doing the biggest Linoleum busi- ness in New York—and we like it. For to-morrow we 29 ofier another great shipment of Genuine Cork Lin- oleums, 2 yards wide, in many choice patterns; our pets. * 50c special price this sale, per square yard, is.... sess sees Fancy Ghina Matting, 10c. a Yard. In some of the other stores you'd have to pay 10c Spring is only a few weeks off, and Ingrain Art Squares Very Gheap. wool filled Ingrain good; excellent 2.98 réains. ates 25¢, Bs Special Offer in Handsome Gar As a strong feature we 0! Clean, fresh and extra heavy. Vestibule Laces---Great The regular prices are usually «:5c. to 75c. a yard, but to give the BSCCL OCHRE HCHO BELA DodSEnac OTRO DOCULDOLE. eat seer 2a best experts workmanship, quality linen strunk DADE OOOEE tice fringe, extra wide ant \ per paires Furniture Sale Notes, and Mattresses than we should have at this season of the year, amd’ we will cut the prices to clear them out. OUTFIT NO, 1.—This outt consists In of @ strongly made iron bed, with x 7 brass mounts, a good woven-wlre Grain alcohol costs #10) soring and cotton-top mattress. | ale the substitute can be! sizes 3-0, 3-6, 4-0 an value Mirurgtcal Society druggists here will | the manufacture of} polished oak or mahog- H any finish, high: back and wood seat, special price for this, fale, ¢ tipple in! towns where whisk * Phyeloiane say th th ctw veruge le 1. S BEM loan CHIF- mounts | ni and | heavy all-iron | Made, well worth fabric with | 1:0: special, all black hatr 3.98 $3.45] Bureass. ENAM- | OAK BUREAUS, ¥alue 315:9 95 AU3, vanes, bow spring, «dh support vy white . with extended foot brass mounts and hse 3.90 | Le lour_ price : YAK BUREAUS, value $20; Sar price 32,98 1.75 Unusual Values in Couchese Morris of Garnett, saye “1 Pyramid Vile Cure at | e waa bad. 1 thought Drauss Tod tv due $5.00; IRON ven fabric SPRING, and all value $3.5); Goudle etly way Tal | Jarvis: | 500 Handsome Chairs. After ha ceastul nur piles and after trying wny biden oak frames, well made y was considerable buying E in this departinent from the Continent. ‘Cantonal Jor short sales| pum r oC salves and ointmetts without # the best material ome ae: ities were fem. being fav. i arog market Foreign Vest {fe ny wonder that ean find words « riemanship, covered orably in nv y successful clos- ie a a . a Pile Ci 4 leather an > ing of the exchequer bond loan, which | sandy Hook... cae) by a [Mateahes Held Withoat Bait to |yeaise forthe Pyranld Pil Cure, Un was subscribed more than twice over, | Governor's | ca market, March Walt WeCnbe's Condition, aiecare did ae more good than all the rei Henne Tho money market conditions aiso| Hell Gate Ferry Lays May 10 9.13, and July Reiter eultes 1 had t before. It in eo alnple aud and fitted | 9.50 ¢ ‘or. were favorable, while Contangoes were k unloons to 9.19; May to 9.15, and July an the W ent lites Timothy paintes: to uae that I felt po Inconvenion witha fina 13.30 COUCH for. easy. aia 7 to 9.10. . Mul ey, of “I, treyetirst atroet, [Pein eee ust a 18.0 COUCH for, Rann COC bE oe he opentues prices, seeges Hemruary si van held without ball to awe the re. [8 wish aur nw COUCH for. Advance in Wheat. ARRIVED. esti ne Site Sunes $10) bids {sult OF Injiiries| ke /JamnesyMetude, ot 2d) OS every State In the Union aud “av j| 5.09 COUCH for. : srg Galveston | July, 9.11 AuKurt, $7 8.74; | Columbus avenue, ‘4 eo recognize it 09 COUCH for. Stendinexs was the feature of the grain New Orleane| Beemier. S17 to 420: October, SULaEH ee eee ania CeHTae Tecra ect | bey numeri ees recom LES: £30, ue markets to-day, followed by a sharp merara | Dabs November, to 798; Decem ‘ He t surer{ ald cheapert pl BED COUCH, all imetal, § advance. May wheat sold here from OUTGOING STEAMSHIFS 790' to 7.83. CThirivobsaen steve |” tye Pyramid Phe Cure cures every form f flited’ with ma- : 792-4 to), und in Chicago from 7% to [LED TO-DAY, ATE hin Work. foC ive came toy pile, iehing, protruding or EMEA aa ang frost 1 48: 751-2, in face of easier English cables, | Germanic. Kensington, Zouthampton Dropped Dead While ork. re. : they were a parttele of pain, mealtre a. value 2. ioe ¢ Moderate Continental buying of July | $Peit,,t (of Washington, Colon] award Cullinane, fifty-two years old, | Unable to mgtee as to the Jljar lis calc without detention trom dusty ec: WeNDROIE COUCH. soft ‘ wheat was a fésture, Local trade war femme e A pr.nte! 1 in the Job office of | Farbage they fought ) AoKnife wet being In tuppository form aut} ORRIS CHAIR. edges and covered in figured small and mostly buying by whorts, INCOMING STEAMBHIPS, the Evening Post. Broadway a bere | Lt igi ‘ OR RIS ICH ALR. fntortor lined. with n 3 New York's opening prices were: July DUK 1 verniie working. at hia desk —thia = éfecta are lasting and not merely tem areveral so 5 98 lin, special price for this Dy wi eat, TD 38; aay, if Le} offered. _ cite Ga, ing wan atricken with apoplexy and Drop pun r reltetise alate ° sale ce deeeeaeene es 1) ni ces wel y 00, nuten, + r hs fi . te H ihicago's opening p jay | Milano, Hamburg, inw minute, CAE The trade re- {is iy berintens, cont | eee! eae Dona Amelia, Lisboa. Maaaltie, Meet Ww York's closing prices wer in Congo, Hi lay wheat, $0 # offered; March corn, 4%. nomin- Ne closing prices, were: ‘8 - 3 toh prattar: May Reduce Itw Capital, The Consolidated Rubber Tire Com- pany wil}, It. wa capital from §40,000,000 to $6,000,000, turns of Cape Colony for 19) show the; imports Increased about £50,00. The} exports were only £3,147,679, aga:net 4. Gia, incipal ‘decreares were H aid to-day, reduce its produce, &£1,68,380; £13,478, EUUTE. inarcotl havin the most delicate. Druggivta everywhere sell it avd report real katisfaction wherever used. Bing] wit Wei alied tree by adéressiug tha der a ie ij at iy . wid Drug Co, SarsGall, Sich. f cause and cure of piles