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NIGHT EDITION. POLO GROUNDS, May 31.—New York Everything was jo splendid shape for ‘ GENERAL ail ¢ apap es I ate 5 ation Books Open to All.’’ ee ‘a a : _| “ Circulation Books Open to All,” | ae PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1902. PRICE ONE CENT, 1 7 SSSR = = = === = en ) | F > cexoano mune" || AGGIDENT AT GRAND CENTRAL, Rint One Man Killed; Seven IN AUTO ACCIDENT, . Sensational Georgetown Sprinter Covers Di Other Persons, Includ- . Beanies rw resid tance in 93-5 seconds—Beck, of Yal ing Four Women ree ey Millionaire Attempts to . Makes New Shot Record. 2 | FEATHERSTONE, ANDREW. Runinecnel Dri h A rain filled with 3,000 passengers, hundreds of them wo-| Until Fourth Inning, pcan s tte roaalae eee ae eee untheEngine Which! 47, members of some of the most prominent famillesin New| When the Phillies ——— See the Accident on| ee ee sreton,| Mauls Troops to the! York, who during the afternoon had witnessed the athletic} One R | LemUREIE RBS S08 OMe OE tre mnt eee Staten Island Boule-|gccn ined, tight agm and lett, Peekskill Camp. games at Berkeley Oval, had a narrow escape from death in] CCOTe One Hun. Nee ee eae a ee selan.|(erresea itn Cie eae tourece ar vard -- Owner of Ma- |tex broken. the Grand Central Station late this afternoon. lahip. Amat heat in the remarkabte| i to-day, and gentle sephyrs. b chine, Who Tried to|_ BRICK, JOHN, Stapleton, crushed.! cram ts iT WITH A JERK Their train entered the station and crashed into ihe re-|GAME A BRILLIANT ONE® time of 9 2-5 seconds. Thin breaks acer imenMrepiatt tt Break Réccrd, and Will probably die. ene Pdied al at ll end of the ahi crash was fol- tis srorla's| amatenr record andl yecordn ing to smash Tooled ° 4 , HAY, Mrs. ELLA, Concord. S. I., lowed by the screams of many women in the oars and on the : jeauale the world's professtonal! promising indeed. The evant wi Chauffeur Arrested. | nead bruised. Throws One Soldier From the| platforms. So great was the foroe of the impact that the for-/"“woia cr tress Procentg) nn nature neta | tor aa the id yard dah ta ‘ «JOHNSON: tire, OSCAR, Rossville. | Platform with a Force That] ward truck of the first car beoame ungeared and the car itself} wan, shrewd Tactics Suce|,(PREBUE OVAIE N.Y tested athlete trom, Harvard lg ‘ho e yan Milled) aeapeonge seco wets _| Cuts Open His Scalp—| dropped several inches. Nearly every one of the 3,000 passen- y ACHES SUC™| rhe nals in the Inte meet, ‘The fact that Doth rosay emi Although one man was kill TAYLOR, Capt. THOMAS, Quar F ceeding ind field champlonship gam -| and seven epectators were in-lantine tation, 81, left arm and| EverybodyGets Shaking Up.) gers Was thrown from his feet. Great excitement followed the : [cided at theae beautitol grounds this a1- | 309 yards vesterday tn ten seconds : GIES, wali lees neue crash and several women fainted. They were quickly revived. | {eznonn under weather conditions that) Gynt. Another race. whieh 58g jured by an automobile at the} two WoMEN. names retused.| 45 an engineer Cornelius Vanderbilt, No one was seriously hurt. lear naacinnia ne cemeeiareri J clone and exelting finishes in the prelim-| much Interest was the meeting speed trials of the Automobile] bruised. Second Lieutenant of Company G, | Dhomas, cf. | inary contests yesterday: aroused the Jo-] Willis, of Harvard, and Beatie Club of A . Statenvleh| sacaeaee = ——--=—= | Twelfth Regiment, was not a shining | Bean iS erent SLi pe ayer aport bit noek, wf California, and* Conve } of America on Staten Is success to-day. In his efforts at the SERS jithex 2 Bema to ALrive DEER eee Fase ales 4 and Speedway this afternoon. name of Danzer, also a resident of | inroti of “the iocomottve attached. to ia sla : ee SSN eas 2) ee) wahoey cee olock. BEaNEce ons ; : 2} Cleveland) fand connected) yitH ose |e, drain) eacing thie company teithe aliman, 3b. | Admirers of every college were on yelled out, “all out for the the police of the Borough of|Baker company. In some manner Mr./ State camp a reeemealitoltue. floor j Qhilds, 2b. hand, Hoats of giris and thelr escorts jdred.” A few minutes later, Cham » Richmond at first made no ar | Bane lost control of the steering) ye o4, a goldicr's head and broke the ‘ fy Cimplre=-Bmpite ‘i | eanetee he reese nei es werent aay) nie sanai Seca Sy this ° 5 coupling between the locomotive and : (Spectal to The Evening World.) for athletics, there was fully five thousand - scattered around the grounds and in the: © rests, nor did they insist upon a statement from the man responsi- ble for the accident. This was W. C. Baker, Presi- dent of the Baker Motor Vehicle Company, of Cleveland, O. He was trying to break a record with one of his machines and was run- ning so fast that bystanders aver front wheels were off the ihe ground, About two hundred yards from the finish ]ine Mr. Baker lost Control of the steering gear, He, with a man who wes in the vehicle with him, junied and escaped injury. ‘Thy deserted: machine ploughed into /the crowd Mining the Speedway and did not stop until the body’ of John Brick, of Stapleton, became so wedged in the machinery that fur- ther progress was impossible. trict-Attorney Rawson, of the bor- ough of Richmond, ordered that the speed trials be discontinued. There will be no more racing on the Staten Island Speedway. Hours after the accident, W. T. Capt. Tobbs, of the Stapleton Sta- tion, Boulevard Hotel at Grant City. | Police Station and locked up. The advisability of admitting the men to ball is to be dic:sissed later in the afternoon, Andrew Featherstone, of West New Rrighton 8, I., an innocent bystand- er, was the man who was killed, The trouble occurred during the running of the seventh event, and the death-dealing machine was the only electric motor entered. “It was built by the Baker Motor Vehicle Company, of Cleveland, 0., and was driven by W. C. Baker, presi- dent of the concern. On the seat with Mr. Baker was a man of the Immediately after the accident Dis- |biles in the United States would be put jai chauffeurs or manufacturers. Among Baker and his companion, Denzer,) were placed under arrest by Acting | The arrest was made at the; | Goutd. They were ‘iken to the Stapleton | went After Records. The machine left the track and crashed into a crowd of spectators | sitting or standing on the grass alongside the Speedway. The news of the fatality travelled like wildfire among the 10,000 spec- tators strung along the Speedway course. It was feared for a time that the mob would attempt to wreak ven- ;geance upon the unfortunate chauf- ,feur, but the police hurried him and his companion to a place of safety. Injured Cared For. The injured were conveyed with all speed to the Red Cross emergency hos- pital, providentially established near the Speedway, and the doctors and the nurses could do. The final event of the trials, a free-for-all competition, was not run off, The course over which the speed trials was held was blocked out of the Staten Island Speedway between Dugan Hille and Grant City. Attracted by the an- nouncement that the fastest automo- through thelr paces, an Immense crowd gathered along the mile stretch. Most of the forty-nine machines en- tered were owned by millionalres of this city, but all were driven by professton- the prominent New Yorkers who had machines entered were: Lewis Nixon, Jefferson Seligman, Al- bert Bostwick, Percy Owen, Charles D. Cooke, H. H. Rogers, §r.. William Gug- genheim. E, P. Britton, E. R. Thomas, Roy A, Rainey and Mrs, Howard the first car, The start was made from Sixtleth street and the North River. When Com- pany G arrived Lieut. Vanderbilt found that the first section of the train was to be drawn by locomotive No, 1764, one equipped with his patent firebox and other Inventions, He ‘had the locomotive transferred to the second section, to which Company G was assigned, and announced that he would run the ma- chine himself. Engineer Cornell willingly resigned his place to the young milllonaire. Lieut. Vanderbilt pushed the lever to the first notch and gave the throttle a Jerk that made those on board think they had been struck by an earthquake. The smokestack erupted like Mount Pelee in action and the cars moved by fits and starts that Jarred the teeth of the soldiers. At Seventy-second street, where there is a curve, Lieut. Vander- bilt gaye another yank to the throttle, Soldier Thrown om. The. trad leaped like a frightened Boldiers were thrown from S, and those standing up were hurled to the floor. John Williams, a private of Company F, stationed on one of the platforms as a guard, was swung from the train by the vehement spring, alighting on nis head in the iniddle of the next track. Fireman Walworth was looking back and saw the accident. He reported it to Lieut, Vanderbilt, who made an emergency stop just in time to throw down everybody who had been able to Bet up. Members of the ambulance corps of the regiment picked up Will- fams and carried him to the train, where fve stitches were taken in. his sealp. | Ileut. Vanderbilt went back to the ec in. which his company was At Dobbs Ferry Vanderbilt concluded to go out on the locomotive again and The trials were held under the aus- | pices. the Automobile Club of Amer- ca with the object of reducing two | world’s records~29 4-5 seconds for the | kilometre and 51 4-5 seconds for the} 1 spring by M. Serpollet, In a machine ot his own make, the second was made Henri Fournier in a 60 horse-power gn the Coney Island Boulevard | all. | urnier was not on hand to-day, but} the maohine In which he made his ‘phe- nomenal record was. It ts owned by Britton & Levy, and had been condl- toned for the'trial cuntll it rar as smoothiy a8 a wat Stripped of every~ thing not absolutely necessary to secure | locomotion and with Chauffeur Walsh | . the machine weighed 43,240 ounds at the start. A more favorable course for speed | =z (Continued on Fifth Page.) | Lieut. jirst record was made abroad this redeem himself, He stepped onto the platform of the first coach just In time to be assailed by a flood of water that almost drowned him. The locomotive was taking on water from a trough be- | tween the tracks, remarked nohe reached enjoying myself.’ THREW ACID ON WIFE. Herman Came Home After Long Absence in Ugly Mood, sording to the story told by Mrs. y Herman, of 198 Beach avenue, Jo! A Ma’ Broux, her husband, Jobn, returned to his home yesterday for the first time in two months. She told him to get out, He selzed her by the halr and throw murlatic acid over her. Magistrate Hogan held him tn $1,000 ball AMERICAN POLO TEAM WINS | FIRST GAME ——wet Score is Two Goals to Battle on Horseback. LONDON, May 41.—The American, P polo team won a great victory at Hurlingham to-day, Messrs. Foxhall Keene, Larry Waterbury, J. EB. Cow- din end R. 1, Agassiz met and de- feated by two goals to one a team composed of the pick of the best polo players in all England, The match was the first in a series of? five for the International Cup ) which John Watson and his team efter a hard fight carried to England in 1886, The weather was fine and the ground good, but a little soft. An enormois crowd, including many ladies, was present, Joseph H, Choate, United States Ambassador; Hénry ‘White, the Becretary, and the other members of the United States FROM ENGLISH. One at End of a Fierce Embassy, witnessed the game. Play began a few minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon. Waterbury Shoots Goal. The contest opened well for the Americans, L, Waterbury shot a goal) in the first five minutes, and was much applauded by the American sec- tion, When the goals were changed the Englishmen seemed to have mat- ters their own way, and kept the ball continuously near the American goal, | until R, L. Agassiz made a splendid | ¢ run the whole length of the field, rid- ing off Charles D, Miller, of the Eng-| § lish team, and opened the way for Foxball Keene, the American captain, who, with @ fine long shot, scored another goal, | in the third period England shot a| «Continued on Fourth Page.) COADING WTATION IN LONDON, May Bi~The fetoclated Preta learn that the Uniied tases erulecr Ban Francisco le now on her! fer making | up| diplomatic 4 Unit Jalen ie Weat African | way to the United Btat exh urveys und i thon w ule 'of siti rese a 9 ‘Liberia CALL FOR FENDERS ON TROLLEY CARS, Killing of Little Louise Sop Has Aroused the People of Mount Vernon—Father to Sue for $50,000. (Special to The Evening World.) VERNON, N. Y¥.,, May t.— of little Louise Sop, the four- year-old daughter of Charles fop, the Buperintendent of “Bonnie Bra the country residence of James L. Reynolds at Pelham Manor, by @ trolley car, has aroused the authorities here, and to-day \t was announced that steps will be im- ly taken to compel the corpora- dera on ail the cars nning wil hold an inquest Jnesday and the jury may MOL The killis ecommend fend in ite verdic Benator Isaac Mills has been en- agid by Mr. Reynolds to look after Mr, Hop's interests at the inquest. Mr, Bop Will Institute a sult againat the company | ‘ur $90,000 for tho death of hiv ittte | daughter ova 0-3 o—0 — -00010 -00000 (Continued from Fourth Page.) Eighth Inning—Smith was under Hulswitt’s fly. Sparks tossed Hallman’s roller to Doyle in time. Doyle returned to Childs. o runs. Jackson walked. Sparks’s foul was taken by Jacklitsch. | Jackson stole second. Childs got Doyle’s fly. Washburn beat | out his infield hit Smith fanned. No runs. \ Ninth Inning—Voorhees lifted a fly to Dunn. Thomas got a | pass. Browne safe on Lauder’s error. Douglaag forced Browne at second and was doubled up at first. No runs. Yeager watked. Lauder fannéd.- Bean safe on Childs’s miscue. Dunn forced Bean and was himself doubled at first- No runs, eS BROOKLYN-BOSTON BOSTON ... -2010000 BROOKLYN ... 0000001 ee LATE RESULTS AT GRAVESEND. Sixth Race—The Referee 1, Lucky Star’ 2, Kingraing:8, eee lant hy Senate stiri EMPEROR DINES LIEUT.-COMMANDER POTTS. BERLIN, May 31.—Emperor William eeems determined to remove the impression that he refused to receive Lieut.-Commander Templin M. Potts, United States Navy, who is to succeed Commander William H. Beehler as Naval Attache of the United States Legation. Besides granting an audi- ence to Lieut.-Commander Potts after the review here yesterday, the Em- peror invited the officer and Mrs, Potts to the gala opera performance and asked the Lieutenant-Commander to dine with him at the New Palace, Potsdam, to-day. The Shah of Persia and the Crown.Prince of Siam were present. : A DOWAGER EMPRESS HONORS CLARA BARTON. ST. PETPRSBURG, May 31,.—The Dowager Czarina was especially gracious to Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross Society, when receiving at the Gatchina Palace to-day the delegates to the Inter- national Red Cross conference, who have been in session at St. Petersburg. Her Majesty repeatedly thanked Miss Barton for coming 4o far to attend the conference, PHILADELPHIA .- NEW YORK . 020 000 0 Q eeeere ——— eee “SILENT” SMITH BUYS HARNESS HORSES. LONDON, May 31,—Unusually high rrices prevailed yesterday at the annual salo of William Ashmead Bartlett-Burdet'-Coutes’ stud, composed of harness horses, James H. Smith, et New York, was the principal buyer. He paid 450 guineas ($2,862:50), for a pair of chestnuts, and 250 guineas (81,312.50), for a single harness wiown mare, 2S PRESIDENT STEY N IS PARALYZED. | PRETORIA, Transvaal, May 31,—Acting-Hresident Steyn is suffering from paralysis and will not participate further in the peace conference at Vereeniging. He has given his parole and has gone to Krugersdorp, about Afty miles southwest of Pretoria. et OLD WOMAN MISSING ALMOST A MONTH. A general alarm has been sent out for Emily Mason, an aged woman | the thirty-at. M. Sunday for New Vork City and vielminys Fair tormight) Sunday fair to cloudy, Uy t to who has been missing from her home at No, 1194 Fifth avenue, since May . Mrs. Mason was seventy-seven years old, very bent and infirm, She wore a «ray woollen wrapper and slippers and no hat i [field doing work which might | their playing, and thelr practice looked 5 aseball fans are certainly generous ‘folks. The way they turned out this afternoon io see the unlucky Giants do} battle against the two-time conquerors | yesterday was really a surprise, The} Saturday haif-holiday and the lack of some better place to spend the time was probably the cause of the crowd, It was not the gathering one sees when the Giants are playing 14) good ball, The turnstiles did a steady clicking, though, and by the time the game began fully 7,000 were in the seats. Those Philadelphia boys were certainly swelled up some, Their two victories over the Glants made them fee! that they could not be beaten, aad at that they had some cause to boast. They ficured themselves sure winners of the day's contest, and even the most rabid New York fan would not dispute thetr word. Jn practice they looked very much the real things, too. AB for the Giants, ono, can Imagine how ‘humiliated they appeared. They looked just ke ebildren who shad been chaaticed by thelr parents, and while saying nothing, one could hear a mur mur which showed their Intention of Retting even with such a weak outfit as the fellows from Bill Penn's town. Giants Early at Work, Ail morning they had been out on the better though they had spent some time In udy, Hartley, the new outfielder, bad not put in an appearance up to the time the game began, and it was the same muscles. and in a minute decided that the elon- | gated Voorhees would be the man. Frank Bowerman’s sore hand did not heal over night and his injury was so bad that he did not even get into unt- form, so the receiving end of the Giants’ battery found George Yeager in place. First Inning. omas rolled the ball to Smith and thme°was ie Anish. Four pitches. wide of the plate gave Browne a walk. Yoager's good throw a minute later caught him when he was trying to steal second, Three pretty ones over the Plate retired Douglas, No runs Dayle put up a foul over Jackiitech's head, and, of course, the Quaker. got it It a close thing between Voorhee toss and Clark at first on the G: but the ball got the decision, Bmith reached first when Douglas dropped Hulawitt’s throw. George then gmde a neat steal of second. Yeager "boosted the ball Into Thomas's hands No runs, its | Second Inning. Bmith ran dack of first base to take Barry's fy, Jaoklitech lined ball over Bean's head, and as | gon’s slow handling, the Quake: | (Continued on Fourth Page.) “NINE YEARS FOR TR County Burglar Wh fended Wimaclf Denied New T |AVERS, | De- if William Travers. the Queens County burglar, who has been greatly in the public eye because of pin defense of himself againat the charge of burglary, © today onvieth was arraigned for fore Justice Moore tained againet hin in a prior came He was weatenced to nine years and two the in Bb and he Wax re hucky He might have ot thirty ye r the habit Wal priming) & ve npecity charge h he was convictad warm that he whieh ” PRR nee pele Cape. ROU A mation tor u Gow (al was diamine: ELEPHANT TOPS I$ EXONERATED. | an a , bekiy QUEEN'S FIRST OVTING, ihe Coroner's Jury in the case of James F. Blount, who was kilicd by THE HAGUE, May 31.—Qu wit “Yops," the circus elephant, to-day found that the deceased came to his | helming took ver fret autine to aay death by his own, reoklospness and by interfering with the snimal, | gnGs qomne time in’ the Castle Loo park. | i [ling off a rush by Col the tournament. The cinder path was as hard as rollers could make it, and the fleld was in perfect shape. The weather conditions were more auspicious than those which pervailed KING HANOVER WINS payiliors. eBfore the firet heat in the dash the Executive Committee took (Continued on Fourth Page) Masterman Is Second and Hyphen Third—E& Crowd at Gravessnd. and Curfew Bell fell at the Lost Chord unseated Green at the pool on the second time around, | pluckily remounted. The other: raced {n Indian fle until balt from home, when Miss Mitchell lead and won easily by @ length | Rowdy, who was half a tength in’ of Perlon. (Special to The Evening Worlt.) GRAVESE RACE TRACK, May M.—Three stake races, beautiful weath- er and a fast track were the attractions that brought out another enormous crowd numbering way up In the thous: | ands to the Gravesend Track this af- ternoon, ‘The stakes were the Carleton, which brought vut al the crack three-year- olds, the Hudson, for two-year-olds, which sent a splendidly matebed bunch to the post, and the Greater New York Steeplechase, These made an array |f which promised the grandest of sport. Injunction, ‘The last seven days in point of at- MACH et ates a tendance have eclipsed anything in the |™ Start good. Won ridden ot. ‘Time—1.t history of the Brooklyn Jockey Club. River Pirate made the running FIRST RACE, won easily by three lengths, Bir Ve For maiden two-year-olds, five furlongs. petting, | Nels and Injunction raced up to him @ “.|the turn and the three ran heads THIRD RACE. : ‘The Hudson Stakes; for two-year-olds; five longs, old pajched-up team, that hardly knows white: Jocks. MtHalt Bia. Gt TNACY, Be a Bret inter te Danelowae ini inight: ga aoe a oa Se comet Into the stretch. Teee ae | field, and one does not have to be told At; arms 3 G0 Sa Rae ee patel fi oe . how the rest of the patchwork looked. Cochran 16 12 G10 4| hels, who was-a length an ft Manager Fogel's guess as to who . 108, Dosget 8 64 6" © 20| front of Injunction. pees: would pitch for his team was a last Shea BT 7 3 65 eorraety ea minute one, He had nothing very mi FY The Carlton Stakes; for three-yearolds; to choose from, but he made It a hi 2 | mile. Job anyway. He looked Frank Sparks's ab | starters, whie,, jocks, Se.Male via, practice work over and was much Im- ig |King Hanover, 115. Burne 2 16 Lr pressed. Then he saw the left-handed i 2 hee Hat, Beleae FP Fig fellow, Washourn, practice, and itked | 31° ‘97, Bartee 18 16 4) Ginard, fim, too, But not until 3.29 o'clock did ie Mary. tg ova IR IT 12 fo tegen, 18 he make his decision. Lord Turco, 100, 5. Woods 1 ca art! good. Manager Bhetteling, on the other hand, | sare fair, Won driving, Tine. 01 yateatormnan wae quickest te Seeae e. he Was o had: not so much thinking to do. He| Mount Hope jumped away tn front | Fynnen, who di ‘away a hy 2 has pitchers galore, and, ¢ suffering | and made the running followed by | fore Cunard and Masterman a eoupl with dislocated shoulders and strained | Stunts, Col, Tyler and Julia Arthur pe tha: lowe ee beck exer to He saw all hands at work | There was no change to the stretch, ‘and at the head of the atrets elo: lose lowe but Kt Stunts took the lead and stal- Tyler won by ‘There the leaders. In the drive tha Hyphen was the first ng Hanover stalled off a length. Col, Tyler was half a length | yay and won by a length, Mas ' in front of Mount Hope. was two lengths in front of Hyphen. ae FIFTH RAGE. ‘ioe aoe Croeplernnty, Handicap to upward; imate > auout (wo and oneshalt op three-year-olds and «: farlon; Starters, whta., Jocks. Miss Mitchel! Mara Rowdy, 146, Barry... Perion, 140, Donal Lost Chord, 135, Green Curtew Well, 136, Velton So nnomesae 1a, Helder art good. Won handily, Time—5.01 | ¥ Perion cut out the running, followed | een by Miss Mitchell and Rowdy, Clasher |" start gool Won arly ALL RECREATION PIERS OPEN TO PUBLIC TO-NIGHT, — +¢e-——_——_- Places Where Residents of Congested Section May Enjoy Rest and ?ure Air, found on them, sume Uvett children, enyjoyiig @ reeves and breathing the pune ait: sew or Knit and the themselves, 1 ly policed, ‘and ete freedom patrons, absolute (is the verdict gf Jom of how to 4 thelr share All the ree tion piers, built under the Walker law a. efforts of The be open this evening the result of the id and there will will the " ening We reation P be fine music by a first-class band on each pier: and There enix t T haitan now Phird street, Must iver, the others f t made easier lowing one or two each year until now h in the these fine resting wlacen for the peo ' ty of ull classes are to \ t ra were opencé Hast River at Third, Vw \ Jat the Wet I ¢tlesh wt e Hundred ant Twelfth i boy tumbled overboard One Hundred and Twentyenin twenty foo, deop.. Cate Ml Fifieth and Harrow N f Volunteer LAfesaying Hiver Lhim out and hie mother # The piers aie all trusted upon id took him ti same general vl ' two di oe with promenudes and jaath BLOW TO PURSIPURB ©€ r of soda water and po ‘ i} RAVIDS, Mich, Mine dies other slinple refreshments ‘t ‘ » rand Rapids iM dente (or thou ‘ n lot when it ds hoi and ap: | oe