The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1901, Page 2

ei lo ‘Chance of It Being | Made Public by [Ic- * Mahon, Who Is Off to; Florida—Nixon to Aid += Philbin with Evidence. Murphy Orders Cort- right to Take Action, Tammany HAS SUPPRESSED the TY Teport of Nixon's Committee of "Five 'for fenr of the effect of the reve- Tatisaa it contains. ‘JThis report after being signed was geatito Chairman McMahon, of the ~h@irefusea to give it out, denies he ©. has it, and to dodge the Issue has /gone'to Florida. The report of the Tammany Commiit o@:Five will never become public through | the Tammany Executiv mmittec a RO: meeting will be calle! to receive it. It a proposed to let it drop. Chairman Nixon sald that if the Tam: | many Executive Committee aid not give! out the report he would, but Mr, Nixon Bet out of sight to-day as soon as he tad @isposed of a hasty breakfast. I+ “wens to Teilladelpita. an hour eariter Chairman Daniel F. McMahon. of the ammany Executive Committes, + Vwhom the “Anal report’ of the Nixon J comraittes was widressed, was caught an Evening World reporter at his to-da: haven't seen the report of the! Nixon committee,” he satd. nd tan | = ening to Florida on the 12 o'clock train! Je) 8q be wone ten days. 1 ha t calted ¥ | Ry meeting to receive the report Mr. McMahon wouldn't discuss situation. Chairman Baldwin, Pei: Comanittee, nnid: “ee “Our committer meets Then we mny speak Smpeaks for steelf, It In a FARILY SAVED BY POLICEMEN x Men Dropped from Win- + dows of Hotel to the Street. ‘ the of the Citizens |; to-morrow. | of The situntion |) nad Aiinale, to 3 SA woman and three children were taken) by policemen through emoke-flled \Naliways out of the “Hotel on the Raine," at West and Duane atrests, to. | day in fire that caused about $11.00 damage. :Beveral men who had cone back the hotel after valuables dropped from the first floor windows to the street “The firo started tn the basement of the five-story brick bullding N. Duane street, occupted by J. ¥. Produce merchant. ‘Tho flames burned |‘ nto the flooring of the hotel, which ad- Joins, and filled the place with smoke. Five lodgers who were there went to Tip to Gamblers Sent, 3 Out and All Poolrooms' Are Warned to Close—! Tammany Executive Committee, but) | ma ETRE THE a ae WORLD: “TUESDAY (_ BYENING, TERRUAEY REFORM IN FULL BLAST. “Reform: has come!” erled the red-headed tipster, as he hurled a power- feu breath Into the editor's free, Hully x sever cms pushel the Kyetalinn into de waggin an jon de Row, rushed him to de court, pippine all One cop rattled him in de slats and eee ewlped de pipps an at all de wey on de waggin. Keform has |come, you het!” | Acting on this tip the editor sent ont the able arUst, Mr. Powers, whose t that "Reform has come. he corner graphite pencil reproduces the f No explanation is newled for the Uttle plouure REFORM HAS COME -NO MURPHY TAKES PROMPT ACTION. | sincere work of Lewin Nixon, but ina wiser and probably a sadder] James B, Reynolda, of the Univeralty | Settlement and manager of the Seth | toe | Low campaign, said lee | ny what you will, the resignation! Police Comminatoner Murphy arrive: | of the Nixon Committee following the | at Headquarters at 2 o'clock tont jw Murphy iy a cea: | and until neon was with Deputy Cate fersion on the part Din ect Devery, going over routine ousiness | fun preteauations that ain the city w autney have iiven changes the situatt reform elements When asked If he wae ready to ap-| point his second deputy, Col. Murphy ald he was not cane to re together for th not the} When shown a newapaper clipping an the Comuntt a AE tal watch told of women who frequented Tan di that direction against Tam | Me vioinity of the ok! Tivoll, the Pekin many.” and the Dore and annuyed rempectable EIGHT-HOUR LAW DECLARED INVALID. Court of Appeals Decision Rogers-Coler Case Hits City Employees. in} De cops are pinchin’ de pippin peddlers / Murphy Takes Prompt \ Action and Orders XE S zs o WW Sa 4 iI] Sh | Once on Complaint Against Women. presented by the committee, ‘The com: niftee ts stil in existence until formally diecnarged by the itive Committe of Tammany Holl. Until then 1 can't say anything. A member of the five was waiting | for the Com:mtsstoner, east would take tmme: n what- ever report was m: that his de partment would investigate any report | and enforce the law on Mr Nixon's or ny citizen's complaint. He *had re- ived several complal within the! st few days, and all woul be thor- wags Mr. left Murphy for nveatigated lunch thout nown —-+ CRANE AGAIN } ORDERS RAIDS. Crane relterated Jo a lem Court to advlend Capt. John Flo f the Hundred and ‘Twenty-ixth street statlon-house, to ‘rald any yambling- [house in hia precinet—and there are at his ast three in full blasi—and seize every | blece of gambling paraphernalia found | It ls com- proprietor. et that the the pris- ‘a, we will n ¢ can 1 send him * emauid | 2 . the Magisira: “AI the. p © got te do la to . he called his patrolman, Lins] eatd these pla and raid them again fen and said xooD a Wipe try do business, hat % her, will break them u hiet Cortright up here right] “ijDrean Uhm OM. ed of a police cap- wway tain rotting: Into trouble by raiding a nef” he sald te Cortraht, "I wane] xambiing Jo! ‘The gamblers know Detter than U NIXON TO HELP to Invemivate thls rikht away and Sompl itt to me to-morrow morning with- out fall, also a house on Thin street, pear the Bowery. Get the exact cone When asked if he hat anything to y in regard io the Commities off Five's withdrawal from the vice eris| Dosirfet-Attetney Philoln sald to-day sade, Col) Murphy salt that he was under the ‘mpreasion that “Tcan't say anything on the subject! Lewin Nixon would continue to prove Just now. 1 have stiened Teportusetiil to the Distrlet-Attorney’s omce Cortright toReport at ‘ pinisietet int! leiei-it. fieleltet-i-t-i-i. a ee in the matter of supplying evidence; They were visied to-day tett places where the law was being| Leleurely a ward man left each sta- a! violated. jtion after « ink with the Captala He Mr. Nixon, in this connection, would} visited the be acting, of course. aa a private citl-jand “tipped a word zen. Mr. Philbin dectined to sate on] By noon half the por what he based his impression. cloned tight as a drom. Of course, this does not stop ihe fol- | lowers of the horses. ‘The handbook POOL-ROOM MEN GOT WARNING. | man supplants the poolroom man. It | {# the same man, only his offics ts In hie ‘hat and there !s no chance for a rald. But he will accept only large waxeri never leas than $10. ‘The #2 man is trowned on, and when he approaches he ts told: Nothin’ dotn’.”’ AN the gambit and) pool-rooma In the ‘combine! « The pool-room men are my closed or closing ap to-day. The neg, They were told by in order has gone forth. {ae jnnthuTeerelsialwarrel It came tn the uaual and familiar Way. | oor gar aome onet the tip In t A detective sergeant from Headquarters | went the rounds of the «tation-houses in precincts affected. He aati a few words fins in each station. \é last night. Some captains by the detective sergeant olose up." That war all he said: passtbly a ne But the gamoiers think ine eent out as a preparation for an ex- on from Lewis Nixon in the repor: tks pe Comins Cee, of Five, w foe |\CHURCH BELL TOLLED BOR ie EVP HERMIT. DOCOOO GC NNT SINGS teenth street, jim a mild attack. WILLIAM M. EVARTS - ILL AND VERY WEAK. Though Family Is Summoned His Condition Is Not Considered Critical. Bax-Genator Wilkam M. Evarta is lat gave him « cold which developol into his home at Second avenue and Four-|a milf case of pneumonia. He has pneumonia, but it) “He has not been strong for some ertheless, tame, for he is, 38 you know, eighty which he deemed best ro send for the members) three yeara of age. His conatitution, of the family, and they are now all in| however, {s wangerful, and we hope sued to recover ALBANY, Feo. 2 —The Court of Ap- Deals hax aMrmed the judgment in the ease of William J. Rogers again nptrolier ‘ork, Rogers balance due on a con- which the Comptroiler on the ground that the / had not complted with the | or contractor urt dechires the law unconsti- the street. e O'Brien writes the prevailing Ernest Ochnson, the proprietor, did {orinion, and declines the law tn vtolw- think there was any danger, and [ton of t snstttution left his wife and family tn the hotel Hecause Its actual The smoke became ny dense that} tits an! ea Une Reunésman Burke and Patrolman 1 money uf the city . er were ordered to take them out. The foeal property-owner fo nt went In through. the smok: nd found Mrs, Oehnson, her = tifteen-year. Pras i invades righia of and a daughter, her five-year-old son and ay property in denying ¢ aod iy } baby. ‘They were ulmost overcome by } oan eles cal wtih the smoke. The two policemen br them eafely to the gtreet Beveral of the lodgers the building to get val left behind. The smok in the lower haliways that they ~ from the bulconies of the tire then entered dows, Three alurms were ser 5 filge was practically contined to basement in whieh it started. cousius $10,000 damage. The hote Was i ened by water about $1.00 * RIGGING CUP DEFENDER. rouds and Stays Heir es; Y Bristol White Yn @. BRIBTOL, Fev. 2 : Billman'xs men 4 Herrestaft lof: tor i; Jéngthe of wire rigxtr ‘ alaynall stays for the The loops for the m: Slower ends that are to cour S > the tumbucklee were measured! aplicing, It is the obvious keen pace with the construct wfeel mast in splicing riaging. The fact that were dincharged and cause a Feport that the work of riveting woul Hei DE Gelayes. but other metal work wet fave been engaged, and while they ar 2% EOP Griven at top speed the work te gue i an dag on well. 1 ABE provdey. New stagines were need | gee on the-lnterior eines of the i re ‘ Ht er the work of fastening ale a the lower atrakes are now pretty weil ey ed up. | E be a ee | ( Ont Hinse at ~ Clyde Fortlock's. i 4 fire started at 4.15 thin afternoon i tat stoned ‘ a West Mairty+second ihe Imperial Hotel. « informed the f1 throug nation, and pay an whieh ty dimeutt ube compe exp ra river, are inno: the eeewith COMED WANTS .. TROOPS TOSS Cuba Not Restive But| Willing to Wait for Settlement. intervention we misreprem Ne effect that ndependaher If they wi lrew a ‘eared Wood. | provinions of Syndicate ‘Th the municipaitty has no right to act a: an agent of the State in enforcing ¢the| the Inw relating to :the Drevalling rate of wages or hours tabor, INSURANCE BILL STANDS. Senate Refuses to Amend It After Heartag Pro ALBANY, Feb, 26.—The Benate C mittee on Taxation, after a hearing aiven to New York fire insurance men, refused to amend the In@urance bil by If the proposed Exemption of Morteaae | Tan bil! is amended xo as to make « (ax fled or tf of } per cent. on the moi gage there will be a flat exemption f insurance en. savings banks and! trust companies, so that they will not be) Uixed twiee on thelr surplus, i - tntention to Dble to-day of Benacor When toe action there wai on hand. Senator F Kuniod aort of way. to aL RRAEADE awticatly moved a In order that Sen nay iniwat nerve ant aya ord Built the Tower and Stipue tore tie finally. raac lated He Should Live There Till Death. have The Sen- he lone) + me from. a few reasons tn Leame a He from wear After h recluse. Pittsourg, where he was Iroad engineer of erea wife died here ne oe- ame known ski!) for dren the ph the Soutn Away Central Che with the} that he was to make the belfry | uli mean TO UNDERWRITE STEEL. tallttacliiedaea! tise | to Tahe New Stocks, the ruination of the teland. Attorney Wellman Dis- was National Hank Clty Bank, Nath Ark 1 Rank of Commerce. iat National] taken and Nattonal up in reb mony, tors giving it as their opinion tty man ) from strangulation. the Within efaty days be ighing among nex adder G were to withdraw Moko with them, mez declared that he recog- fact that the United States ansible for the establishment of @ stable government {pn Cuba and It is sald that the ryndicate has edied itecif to take $269,000.00 of the}: the new corporation. and It te believest it will clear 12 per cent, on the subscriptions. Wellman began summing up at afternoon session. He aaid Minnuck was the backbone of the prosecution and that on hin test: mony and those of the two insane pa- tents the whole cane restet. He then dissected Minnock’s past and Grip, 00 (be cause, %° IN DAVIS TRIAL. | WASHINGTON, Menage of che Uills should Tre | THiaé home Netayes hee were quite incoherent Rebs a Meee ela oe ee enalt int noting ADEN VEIe rep { | There he lived, in apite of the eftorte the “arguments” On thet tomer af South Jag pin friends to persuade him to the | muaioer. che bite were lald wette, Lehurch tolled sesterday for ©. | contrary, unttl within a few days of his i === sutton, the man that for ten years{em, when he reluctantly consented to cout! not withdraw until auch a cons) lived | the tower and was koown as} * removed to the house of a friend. ation way brought about s Vine Shermit af the belfrs | No one here knows any details of his he work of Manding Over the reins Y 2) ta oie of government tov theshew. iepuplic|, fe was. clenty-one)/ years ald vod | previous j'kas an, Undertaking Involving mich | ———— Pincali gi Mas Weems ORLA aR as | tine and labor and a@ large amount uf | pends and experience ont part of not belleve the Dta- tie Cubans n!the work of seit-Rnvern- LE ea le ees tint after Mins neral added that the element viet (he muni lpalities was not seg he ater of che isinnd. \o4 were In and could na free hand. It It Is understood in Wall atreet to-day] sects the Character of thas che Underweiting Syndicate, whteh - i jis back of the gigantic now steel core Witness Minnock. poration. will tnelude the following aaa Nnancial houses and banks; JP Morgan & + Kuhn, Loed & | phe early part of the day fn the trial jCo. Ladenburg, ‘Thalmann & Co, Spever}o¢ Jesse R. Davis, the Bellevue nurse, & Co. HW. Bo Holling & Co, Lazard] charged with causing the th of Loula) Freres @ Co. Auguat Belmont & Con] Hilliard in. tae lion, {portant mir: | Stexmund Klein ; > on Feb, 3.—-The resigna- f Frank «A. Vanderlip, Assistant of the Treasury, wi the Department to-day: the qua tion of hit | r than March §. MY become identified Bank of New Mout tte. renrted ‘that will soon go to Europe on an tm. for the bank. ICE PREVENTED SUICIDE. ». 239 Monroe Jumped tnty ihe Fast River at of Beventh street to-duy tn an} -| No, 9, westbound on the W atrendanc ‘The Rev. Prescott Evarts, of Cam- bridge. won of the ex-Senator, raid this morning: “My father has pneumonia but Is not in immortoce danger. He ts doing fairly weil, It ts not true that his mind te affected He im perfectly ragtonal but very weak. The recent weather changes ia Wallace Hopper ts very t over the report that her cracks mare Lady Holyrood war isnominiously defented yesterday afternoon by i horse driven by young Reginald Vander- vilt in a race along the east drive of Central Park. “1 don't wiah to talk avout such nat: | tera,’ sald Mra, Hopper this noon, as! she took her seat bevide a giant coach- b in her Uitte hackney cart, pre- paratory to leaving her home on Weat Forty-neventh street for her customary | (irive In the park, “and I won't say any | more than that the Impromptu bruah | dil occur, that 1 was not etopped by a policeman, and that, contrary to what nome of the papers havo said, I beat Mr. Vanderbilt; that my mare lady | MILLERSBURG, Ind., Fob, %.—Trai ‘adash Roi was wrocked here early to-day by broken rail, The entire train was thrown from the track. ° Thirty persons were injured, some riously, but nobody was killed. ‘The train left Detroit at 4.0) A. M. to-day, two houra late and was trying to make up time when doralled. car, three day coaches and (wo sicepers, ‘The train consieted of one combination | Gn, for tmpgpvement, We cannot tell what may happen, of coprse, and the family will remain in attendance for a few days vet.” Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, who Is ex: Senator Evarte's family physictan, corroborated the Rey. Prescott's state- ment. He said Mr, Evarts lad passed and easy night, and he expected him to | 5 improve during the day. MRS. WALLACE HOPPER BEAT VANDERBILT. She Says So Herself and Nobody Has | Contradicted Her. Holyrood dit. Now, you know the whole story.” Mra. ilopper, who {s regarded as an xpert in hacknesw, and who has been known to pick quite as many winners an Lillian Russell among the thorough- bredw down by Coney Inland's aands, of hackneys hore, all of which mre entered for the next horse show, and abe has mate & a point to xercine ut leaat one of them datty. Yesierday she took out the best of the ka, Lady Holyrood, and when near MoGown's Basa wern your Vander- bilt came along with his hackney cart. Aoconiing to reports the two teams were racing at breakneck speed a m ment Iacrethe Vandersilt antmal ha Ing the lead, when » policeman etopp has a stable Mre. Hopper. But the actress denten this, Ther hivalry prompta one to nay tha Hopper won. MANY HURT IN WRECK OF WABASH FLYER. Train Making Up Time Thrown from Track and the Cars Smashed. It was derailed by a broken rall, every coach and the engine leaving the track. The Lake Shore ran a special train {rom Goshen to the scene of the wreck, taking twelve doctors, and the regular train took four or five doctors from Ligonter, Buch of the passengers as were not Injured were provided by the Lake Shore with uUckets and went on to Gnicago on the regular traia of that BROOKLYN WOMAN IN CRASH. fam re] Mra, James Sperry Painfully | attempt to emt hie Ife. there wan Hii effory failed) becaune too mi toe In the river. | He, wae tenciied by Pd jon and Louls Sturray, of the Merritt-Chapman Wreck- ine Compan ry ein i & prisoner at Bellevue, in Craah of Southern Trat COLUMBIA, B.C. Feo, 2%—Mra- James A. Sperry, wife of the managing editor of the Brooklyn Times, ‘was hurt ta anaccident to the Florida mall tram the Bouthern road, south of ‘here to-day. Mrs. Sperry'n nose was broken and ahe suffered considerably. from ahock, Dr. 1. 1, Corey, of Washington, hig shoutder sprained and other passe Kers were shaken up. ‘The train wae thrown Into a ditch by a broken rale twenty: miles Gamblers Closing Up Ah Over Town Because of “Tip” Sent Out by the Police—How the Tip Was Passed Along. may give out now that Tammany has suppressed tt. CHINAMAN TELLS OF OPEN GAMING. ‘Tom Wu, a Mott ereet Chinaman, called at the City Hall to-day, saying he desired to ace Mayor Van Wyck to complain of the number of gambling- houses In his district. Wu said the'evil in #0 vad that the young men are (no tending to their bu and t the reputable merchants ‘ot "iat ne borhood are #uftering In consequence. Wu mentioned a Buraber ‘of places in which he joing on. He said that in one place ta n Fe Nl street there are ten tables, sand aren others had from two to, fou: Wu also said that poltey th ie iriaved 10 in six places in Pell street and places in Mott atreet. and pe numbers of the houses. that the Mayor was not vined to see Police Murphy. NEW POLICE BILL BEING PREPARED. A Republican leader near those oen- trolling the ae tion waa reported hia afternoon as having announced that & tate Police Dill far more drastic than the one prepared it will be pre: sented to t tare and paseed this session. It is said thas thax dill wil take the entire police force out of the hands. of Croker and Tammany Had. MORE POLICE TRANSFERS. Police Serat. James Churchill, = frend of Republican Committeeman Fred Gibbs, waa to-day transferred from Flushing to the ‘Tenderloip, Pr cinet. Some months ag Churchill was Tranuterred” trom the Nineteenth Precinct to the wilds of | Fiyahin® cergt. Patrick MoGirr, who was former Commissioner Sexton's oon: fidential nan and recently ed from roundaman to sergea day transferred from Tondquarter placed in charge of the Yorkville Tsauad WRECK OF THEATRE TRAIN. Smashed in West Shore Yards at Wee- hawken. The pansengers on the West Shore theatre train were given a great rcare fast nigut in the Weehawken yard when a drill engine pullioy freight cars crashed into #. @ mad rush for th . ‘The train. ato) suddenly and. the trainmen quieted the Engineer Peter Ji th LJ tty impossibl: ey gine No. tt and the two aches were badly wrecked: both driv- rods being knocked off. wna necessary to get an entire new causing delay of an hour. one hurt. CONTAGION AND INFECTION. jer aseeneer Eni ing La Grippe Is Infectious tut Not Coo tagiows. Contagious diseases are communicated from one person to another; fofectious dis- tases aro conveyed through the alr. Smallpox 1s a contagious disease; La Grippe ts Infectious, When an epidemic of the grip is prevailing {t Is in the alr we breathe and po one Is safe. ‘The only safeguard {n the highest pomstble condition of health and on the first appearance of a cold ia the head to uso some safe antiseptic like Stuart's Catarrh Tablets freely; a tablet taken every hour or two for a couple of days will be sufficient to break up the al taok. La Grippe attacks the weakest part of the system; it may be the lungs, heart. liver, atomach or kidneys, but wherever It finally locetes it almost invariably etarta whb a cold in the head and throat, or, In other words, the dissase sz the beginning fs acute catarrh. ‘This {s the reason Stuart's Catarrh Tab- have been so successful in breaking Up attacks of grip, The antiseptic properties of the reihedy destroy che germs before the whole system Is thoroughly infected. Dr. Anniston says: Stuart's Caterrh Tab- lots, being free from cocaine and barmful drugs, should be freely used at this time of year on the first appearance of grip symp- tome They check the excessive catarrhal secre- stop the fever and prevent pneu- e compored of antiseptics and may ah ttle ehlldren ap freely aa by Dr. Lewiston, mse My teeal reser! for the grip is Stuarts tarre Te whioh can be found at all it dra to the house for a or two we and use the tablets freely, ‘aad 1 Dave never beara any complaint of failure to cure.” $20,000 FIRE SALE. LEVY, of 2 & 4 BARCLAY ST. t (UNDER ASTOR HOUBE.) Is selling FISHING TACKLE, SPORTING GOODS, UMBRELLAS, CUTLERY, GUNS and REVOLVERS, and all’ kinds 4 Mer- chandise at 25. on the Dollar of what they cost to manufacture, own to dam- age done to the above Bods By smoke and water. | Sale: lasts to March lL. LEVY. ' The Way to Win is the & be ured: adults, lets. World Want Way.