The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 1

ae Oia a 3. NIGHT EDITION GE -NERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 6. ‘ 2 EE , be PRICE ONE CENT. “ Circulation Books Open to AlL”” NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGU STI ——— 15, 1902. RACING- BASEBALL GENERAL 92 SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 6. ~ PRIC BE ONE pM =—— THOMAS GAVE. IN STOCK T oe Broker Admits’ Gitt and Also that It Was to 0 Hla NEWS TD PARTNER POST. $80,000 CLERK: ‘Moor Wins aise Race, +. Enable Bouden to Begin Suit Against Northern Pacific Merger—Cockran and American Tobacco Syndicate Talked of at Peter Power flearing. ton L., Bouden, a clesk for Byoker i. R. ‘Thomas, declared at the hearing of the No therh Securities merger suit before Commissioner Mabey in the HMederal Building to- day that his emptoyer made him a gift of 490 shares of Grest Northern stocn worth $80,100. It was given when it was decided that he was to appear as a pliintif in « snit cyainst the railroad com- ‘his ac- his be sold and placed to count.” “ He acknowledged that account was a‘ 1 matter’ tween him and his employer. MATOS AND CASTRO AO FOR BATTLE so. Revolutionary Commander in| Head of the French War De-| Venezuela Said to Have 8,000 Troops Under His Command. WILLPMSTAD, Island of Curacoa, Aug. 15.—A correspondent of the Associ- ated Press has had an interview with Gen. Cruz Monagas, Chief of the Vene- zuelan revolutionists at Barcelona, in which (en. Monagas sald foretgn might be sure no coercton would be applied to them, According to lutionists have % sections, men upward One division of §,000 men, commanded by Gen, Matos a n. Domingo Mona- waiting an attack Monagas the revo- livided thelr forces into gas, Ie at Orlpuco by President Castro, who is at San Casimiro. ASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The only in- la received by was con- ‘ommander merely an- at Laguayra. He from Port of Spain f ids trip up the Orinoco. mation the results 0! —_———— PHOEBE HANAFORD'S DAUGHTER'S ACT. Child of Woman Minister and | Wife of Former City Clerk} Shoots Herself at North, Tonawanda. NORTH T AWANDA, N. Y., Aug, 16.—F jorence Warner, wife of Thom- as E, Warner, former City Clerk, to-day shot herself with a revolver aiclans say nnot live porary insanity ts given as the reason for Mrs. Warner's attempt at sulelde, Mrs Warner is the daughter of Rev. Phoebe Hanaford, of New York, the first ordulned Woman minister, ——— HIS JOKE TURNED ON HIM. Ex-Brewery Employee's Work as Artint Causes Libel Suit. Because he drew pictures representing | Bienry Grengen, manager of the Rubsam | @ Horrmann Brewing Company, at| Btapleton, Staten Inland, as 4 monkey end a pig, William B. Platt has been held in $500 ball to await tne action of the Grand Jury on a charge of libel When Mr, Grengen was made manager of the company he Introduced many innovations and to reduce expenses he Gispensed with the services of William B. Platt, master mechanic of the brewery, haying of all the machinery. Platt was indignant at his discharge and, Mr. Grengen erta that he drew caricatures representing manager as a monkey and @ pig aring that they would not be recognized he jabelled them with Grengen’s naine He distributed these works of art to oustomers of the brewery, who thought it was a good joke and exposed them to view in thelr saloons, Mr. Grengen could not appreciate ¢ humor of the joke and bad Platt a reste MINISTER HINTS each containing from 1,000 | who for years had been the! Broker Thomas said he transferred the stock to the clerk to enable him to bring suit, he (Thomas) not car- ing to figure as the principal. His par-r-r, Mr. Post, de*tared on| the stand, that the transact‘on wes not known o him Telegrams showing apparently that Peter Power is now known as Blake in M ntreal were brought into court, 7 b y read. Lawyer Limberger for Broker Con- tent, refused to all the figures! asked concerning dealings with the | Content firm of persons named in the! hearing. | of tne Western Union merger Mr Benedict. | (Continued on Fifth Page.) AT CALL 10 ARMS, partment Recalls Memor-, able Defense of Belfort Against the Germans, PARIS. Aug. 18.—At the inauguration monument to-day at Villefranche- in ‘ranco-Prussian war, Gen, Minister of War, made an Andre, addres peaking to a delegate from Belfort exhorted Belfort to remember tne the is history of |ts flag and to hold | it In readiness for the ‘day when the | coumtry will recail all its children to arms Gen, Andre referred indirectly to the refusal of Col. Saint Remy to assist at the closing of the unauthorized Cath- che schools on the ground that he was Christian, and declared that a soldier | Ought to be to sacrifice even his | ersonal con’ ons at the command of his country, Belfort resisted a slege by the Prus- ns from November. to Feb, if, when by order of the Governmei he’ garrison of 12,00) men ed | with the honors of war. of war T.U.CONVENTION ROUTED BY FIRE. Body was Just Leaving Pike’s| Opera House, Cincinnati, When Blaze Started—Al Escaped Easily, | CINCINNATI, Aug. 15—Just as the | delegates to the International Typo- graphical Union Convention were leav- jing Pike's Opera-House for the noon re- cess the building was discovered to be on fire, | MeCarthy 2, | Paristenne 2 commemoration of an in- | | be a feature. These events have been 15 to 1—Shorthose, 4 to 1, Evening World Select- ion, Takes the First— Zoroaster, 18 to 5; In tervention, 2 1-2 to 1, and Old Hutch, 8 to 5, Other Winners, THE WINNERS. FIRST RACES orthoxe 1, Mamie Warth 2, Olefiunt 3, SECOND RACK—Moor dren 2, Krank MeKee THIRD RACE—Old Hutch 1, Benste Flying Buttress 3. RACE — Intervention Aurtenville 3. —Zoronnter 1, Caugh- 1, San An- FOURTH Ln FIFTH RAC nawagn 2 Winn SINTH RAC drum 2, Sa 1, Conun- (Special to The Evening World.) SARATOGA, N Y., Aug. 15,—There were no stakes on the card to-day. |The entries were a little below the average in quality, It was an inter- esting card nevertheless, and prom- ire? a very pleasant afternoon. Zoroaster roke the track record In his race by 2-5 of a second, To-morrow there will be some of Oe. best racing of the meeting. The ted “States Hotel Stakes, worth Neen: will be a rich plum for the two-year-olds, and all the cracks, with the exception of Irish Lad, are engaged. The Delaw Handicap, for three- year-olds and upward, at a mile, will | have a cracking good field, and a | new world’s record at the distance \s predicted if tno track remains fast. The Trouble Steeplechase will also extensively advertised and a great crowa from neighboring towns is ex- pected, The attendance to-day was up to the large average, betting was brisk and weather conditions were per- fect. Little Erbsmell, who was hurt py the falling of Dr. Hughes yesterday, is still unconscious in the Saratoga Hospital. The physicians say tnere is no fracture of the skull and that the boy has a chance to recover, John E, Madden has added to his (Continued on don spiath Page.) TIME A TRIP OR COMMIT SUICIDE, Absconder Garrison Decided on the Former, Because He Thought He Had No Right! to Take His Life, ‘5 0 The Evening World.) BRIDG N. J, 8, Ware, cashier of the Cumberland Trust Compasiy, wae to-day appointed 3c in the tons. ‘en {hes cult ured. to the At At | County; selected | tenement Ne. { when they coll Tere 'V ' Henry Smith. Hundred and Tairiy-third years. of No. 254 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, in| trotting Association was ushered in the cheek this afternoon. his home on the third floor into shooting putty balls at him. The boy was not seriously in- | At Washington (First Game)—Washington. 6; St. Second game: Washington, 2: St. Louis. 1—12 innings. At Baltimore—Cleveland, 5; psa, counts at $1.800 a year. Divorced less than one week, Mrs. Elizabeth C. J. Harry Ostberg, who was named in the sult against Mrs. Evans, were mar- rled at Cos Cob, Conn., by Justice George W. Brush, Aug, 15.—John | age as thirty-elght and that of her new husband as twenty-eight, SEVERAL FIREMEN OVERCOME AND TENANTS 'N PANIC. blaze in the | The fire was cellar ond K a dense smoke ansed and were dragged out by their compan- CMe Were ra! fire avers ome by smoke in { oon, Italian residents in the 45 and 47 Mott street on firemen founs it diffi- 12 Chinese and ed 10 Nos ite before it was put out. 0 v.uik in the smoke. ate SHOT Boy WHO ANN LOYED HIM forty-five yeas cid, of No. oJ: West One, street. shot Thomas Boyle. thirteen He fired a rifle from a window of a group of boys who were | Smith, who is a cripple from rheumatism. serrendeted police. AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. suis, 2. Philadelphia (First Game)—Philadelphia. 11: Detroit, 4. Second Game—Philadelphia. 5: Detroit. 2. Boston—Boston, 2: Chicago, 1- Baltimore BIG FIGHT TO BE Str i. Zz, The date of the fight between Young Corbett and Terry | McGovern at Louisville, Ky., will be Sept. 22, and not Sept. 15, as announced last night. age LATE RESULTS AT HARLEM. Fourth Race—Little Elkin 1, Ravenburg 2, Lady Chorister. | Fifth Race—Philo A; Egg Nogg 2. Pericles 3, ——"0r 0 AT KINLOCH PARK. Fourth Race—Jim Clark 1, Felix Bard 2. Blue Mint 3. Fifth Race—Barnacle 1, Nimble Nag 2, The Advocatpr 3. Sixth Race—Bacchus 1, Satchel,2, Hucena 3. + SAYS WOODRUFF BACKED NASON. William Hepburn Russell gave a some interesting facts to-day Be con-! nection with the appointment of former Coroner George | ment he did not know that charges had ever been made against Nason, | SAVE PLAYMATE It waa on the recommendation of Lieut.-Goy, H. Nason, of K as examining inspector in the office of the Commissioner 7 he Mr. Russell said that at the time of the appoint- Woodruff that Nason was | and at his personal solicitation, he said. $——<—<—————— MARRIED A WEEK AFTER DIVORCE. Mrs. Ostberg gave her Some dit- auditor of tie estate of the absconding | drove to the home of a justice of the peace, Eyerybody succeeded in getting out of the blazing structure without trouble. The fire started in a sub-cellar George Joffee's grocery, where a boy smoking cigarettes. The flamen ad rapidly, but were under control within an hour, causing a total loss of of jwas heayiest losers are ¢ Janey, ge groceries; Henry Straus, cig bac the Pike est | | ate and Manage; "i the Opera: House ser ‘FOR GENERAL 8- 8-HOUR DAY, International Typographical Union jake n Klgh Aug. b.—T onven Internalional Ly pographi al) \o-day adopted a proposition for | sgKressive campaign the next year CINCINNA of the Union jan | for 4 universe elght-hour law nt Lynch and Vice-President vere directed to act with all ns where the working day ex- weds eight hours and’ secure observ: | ance of the elght-hour hi CRUSHED TO DEATH, James Tracy, of No, 161 Kost witty second street, Was crushed to death to-day between the wall and his ele: In the’ Adama” Express "coin: any's states, at Borty-ninuh sireet and: Broadway, eo Baoh Wi Resweee New York aut ww Cad : Kiagoruelyle Sign ale qu may 7 debtor, County Collector Garrison, re- celving his appointment from Supreme nurt Justice Charles E. Garrison, The large bus! * house was closed to-day. The contents of the letters he left to Various persons ha became public, | but in one it ts known that Mr, Garrl- son wrote out my brains or taking a trip. I take right to take the life that God gave me.” Nothing further has been learned of hy missing bonds. In the early summer i sold $13,000 Dividing Creek Bridge bonds. All of this has disappeared. It is stated by an otticer of the Board of vholders that it will take the ac- ntant ten weeks to go over Garrison's the exact amount account to ascertain of defaleation a WEATHER FORECAST. recast for thirty-six ending at & P.M. urday, for New York City and vicinity: Partly cloudy aturday partly cloudy, light to fresh winds, mostly morth to ent. \ ¥ how Ceave bid kak 225 Fe Bn Azetve ficulty was experienced hecause of the divore of Mre. Evans, and the couple + WON FREEDOM BY MARRIAGE IN JAIL. After remaining in T.udlow Street Jail two days Hyman Ress, forty | years old, of No, 820 Madison street, tis 4 case of my blowing | Year-old Sarah Minesilver, a cloakinaker, of No. 347 Madixon street had sued him for breach of promise, claiming $10.000 damages. the tip for I do not feel that I have @! her mother went to the jail and Lawyer Rosenshein drew up a civil con- | docto tract, Phen the couple ieft together. vor, injured, / iter wet Sees poltied, James Ryan, twenty-two years old, of No. while at work on the Rapid Transit Tunnel at Sixty-ninth street and) oaiied in the Court Broadway, this afternoon, was struck by a Ninth avenue car and badly was this afternoon married to cighteen- The girl The girl and SEN ; SON WOULD SUCCEED ALDERMAN BRIDGES. John J. Bridges, son of the late Alderman James J, Bridges, of Brooklyn,| ja a candidate to succeed his father in the Council Chamber, Tate Alderman have started the movement, and it is mevting With much fa- port having b The young man is now employed in the Surrogate’s office. candidates are in the fleld, WORKMAN HIT BY CAR, 230 West Sixty-first street He was taxen to Roosevelt Hospital, tee BABY DEAD | N ASH HEAP. | The body of a three’months old baby wag found in the ash dump at Pier 61,'Rast River, this afternoon by Thomas Wolpole, of No. 640 Kast | Ne York’ City ‘Thirteenth street, The body wm ine to the Morgue and the Coroner ae a panic among the tenants. and great ex- | Evans, of Brooklyn, and) Friends of the| Two other! FAVORITES LOSE AT SARATOGA: ZEPHYR CAPTURES $5,000 TROT. ‘anaubon Boy Boy Takes the | 2.04 Pacing Race in Straight Heats — Hentas Crook, Driven by C. K. G. Billings, Wins Wagon Race for Pacers—Favor- | ites Do Weil. ON BEACH RACE TRACK, Andy n Boy won the pice in straight heats, Nee the 85,000 trotting stakes in| nts, MHontax Crook, driven by C. K, G Biltings, [nese a tn straight heats, Wal nil won the 2,16 a! | trotting novel won the wagon race for race, (Speclal to The Byening World.) BRIGH NY, IN BEACH RACE TRACK, Avs 15—The fifth day of the Grand Circuit meeting of the New York Under. weather conditions which could ot have been improved on. But the awa showed a falling off. The at- tendance was not more than 2,000 per- sons when the contestants in the first event on the programme were started ‘on the first heat of thelr journey. The card offered for to-day consisted | of three races, two for trotters and the other be pacers. was the John H Tanults 2.% class trot, for which a purse of $5,090 was offered. There were six starters, among them | such circult winners a’ Zephyr, 2.11, and Directum Spier, 211-2 who re- | cently won at Cleveland. It was the | first event to be decided and claimed | the attention of the spectators. The stx candidates looked very fit. | Zephyr Wins Firat teat. After four unsuccessful breaks, they [came down on even terms and were nett away, Zephyr, the favorite, at once took the and by the careful nur. sing of his driver, Ed Geers, managed to remain I front all the way, crossing ithe line a winner by a length fn front Hallie Hardin, who just lasted long ugh to retain the place from Maxt lead thisd, who came strong at the finish, Tim QL be, The next event was the first heat in| th cass pacing. There were five participants, They were Audubon Boy, !Connor, Shadow Chimes, Fannie Dil- j lard and Indiana, Audubon Boy was pr favorite at 3 to 6, Shadow Chimes Beaten. Shadow Chimes took the lead closely Audubon Boy, who had the a Chimes retained his lead | until they turned into the stretch where Driver Hudse Auduber) Boy down land ut stallion "passed Shadow (h! *, holding the lead to the finish, ng easily by a full length from Dillard. who was second on Sixth Page.) TRIES INVAWN TO Thirteen-Year-Old Ar- chie Fulton Plunges Into Water After | Drowning Lad. | | Jcthn Doody, ged eleven. of Van Pelt lavenue, Mariners’ Harbor, | fell from the dock at the £ ing Star Road, at 8 o'cloe noon and was drowned aten Inland. MM this af | Hix little playmate, Archie Fulton aged thirteen, leaped Into the water after him, dived for him three times, ‘ad brought him to the surface After hauling him to the shore young Fulton worked over the uneonsel body and another ymate teleph i for Dr, Wi of Port Ricamond, The worked « the child for an hour, but could 4 ore lite ——--- LEITER NOT SERIOUSLY JILL. (Oat Deriving When fF Was Made Aw Hin RAR HARHOR, Me Aug bi A re received here that 1 % Lolter, of Chicago, was seriously tlh {nquiry was made to-day as to the health of Mr, Leiter It was learned that he Was out driy ing and wax not seriously i When Gustaye Moore's name was of Special Seasions, | In Jersey City. It wis annuunced that he had died, Moore, who. Was acu of stealing a small sum of money from the company that had employed him, | was a consumptive NO SLUMPS, BUT DAILY, REGU. | LARLY, month in and month out, ip elreulation The marik maintains @ lead of Tens of housands over any other paper, ‘The feature | “THO BATHERS AT CONEY [OLAND MYSTERIOUSLY DIOAPPEAR IN THE SURF, Friends of Politician’s Son Believe He Was Drowned and Clothing of Both Men Is Found in Bath-Houses, but Police Think They May Have Arranged to Vanish—Pe- culiar Circumstances. the persons in charge of the bath-house, Although it was generally known among: the bathers that a man had been drowned outside the ropes, no attention was paid to the fact, and the Jollity in the water went on. Clothing of Two Men Founda. The young women who had been left on the beach by Gray succeeded, about 7 o'clock In the evening, in getting the bathhouse people aroused to a sense of Deepite the fect that there are per- sons who say they saw James M | Gray, the son of John Morrisey Gray, jthe Brooklyn politisian, drown at Coney Island yesterday and that Henry Walkuns Hollenberg, of No. 168 Woouiand avenue, New Rochelle, who was bathing in the same stretch of surf is missing, the Coney Island police incline to tue belief that{ duty. Gray's clothing was found in the eliher Gian wae 'drowhed: room he had engaged. Greatly to the | spy | surprise of the bathhouse attendants | They can assign no reason WHY) citing of another bather was found in. young Gray shouid Icave his clothes in th bath-uouse and go away in his bathing suit, but they say that there are indications that Hollenberg ar- | ranged hir disappearanag. The view of the police is engen- dered by the stand taken by the life-} savers stationcd along the beach at the point whee the two men were bathing. They say that while there was a eport that a man was drowned jout near the raft, such reports are | common and that there could be no drowning unknown, to them. % another room. This shows how safe the surf at Coney is these days. Two men said to be drowned from the same bath-house, in the same little stretch of surf, in ope for the agility and attention to duty of the men who are hired to make the Coney surf safe. John Morrissey Gray 1s prostrated with grief over the loss of his son. H is sparing no expense or trouble in the | effort to recover the body, but so much Ume had elapsed between the drowning ||” and the news of it that little can be done but await the mood of the tides, © Father Sure It Was Gray. “There is no doubt,” said Mr. Gray to-day. “that my son was drowned at, — Coney Island, He told me he was going down there to take a swim, fact that he has never been wanton home before over night leads mato the belief that {t was his last swim. The = Gnding et bie Reve with vai a pers and a ‘keepsake nt him from Asbur} For datety in Future. Nevertheless Coroner Flxherty, of Brooklyn, has arranged to bring what he calls the lax methods of pre- serving the safe.y of bathers at C:cey Island to the attention of the Kings County Grand Jury and his] 5, recommendation is based upon a per- sonal investigation. Hollenberg was a plano salesman and wan connected with the Musical Courler. He comes from a prominent family of Little Rock, Ark., and was well known in the Southwest. A sensational divorce proceeding In which he figured is well | remembered in that section. Two | months ago he married a second time New boy." urray, of No. 145 W; Brooklyn, whi Cons the youl tragedy. She m oun wen accidentally and non to the beat This 6 on, They had known The other from childhood ong ae the confidence of Gray ‘his ability as a swimmer, Grappled for the Body, sue Jand took up his residence at “My worst ousplcions were <o a) | Rochelle said Miss Murra} feard some men he Mrs. Hollenberg went to Coney Island this morning to Investigate the report that her husband had been drowned. | She sald that her husband had not | been home since Tuesday afternoon, and from her composed manner and her con- {versation, the police inferred that she | was not convinced that she was a widow. | 1¢ the theory of Police Capt, Knipe ts Hollenberg has taken advant- ane of the example set by @ young an who went to Coney Island, fie her clothing in a bath-house, went to another place In her bathing sult, put on a fresh outfit of apparel and eloped. surf saying that a youne drowned out near the Inquiries the bath-house people a dae eee Ee eas aso tam untll it came time for the bathrooms after by some of the taaciter aimee the savers had been git at grappling body of a drowned aaron ‘aoc Thomas Reilly, who of the life-savers at said to-day that neltber he nor fr were at fault in conn th drowning a eae and Hol they were e “buring the afternoon,"’ ‘nat cast. Reilly, “my men rese who wore exhausted beyond nates It Is hard to keep eek ee fo out to the raft. ‘They ernera correct, Peculiar Circamatancen, ‘There are peculiar colncidences in con- nection with the disappearance of the It was said at first that they id that’one of | the te otshtng had two men. Bag | were not acquainted. A sister of yoUnK)and sand in his lrg ve Gray says that ghe has heard her} un outcry made by s bather i tiother speak of Hollenberg, The men|or people around him | the van do nothing if they have ni their attention directed previ that particular person,’ Coroner Makes Inqulry, Coroner Flaherty, of Brooklyn, who has made a thorough inves & the bathing pavilions at Cont +i is preparing a presentment for ‘ ae occupied adjoining rooms in the bath- house and went into the water at the same time, By swimming under the Iron Pier they vould have avoided the observation of those who knew them on the beach and escaped to any number of places where they might remain 4 f ir ob-| County Grand Jury asking that ; concealed, if that should be thelr o fake ection against the lex mel er Jeet. aaa the eratection of leg teas ore otieed Mr. Gray believes that nis son | at that resort, In report drowned. Friends of the young man | the names of the proprietors Se reeias ing seera this belief, If the men were | places who violate all the laws in thelr purault of money. He tells of places where intox! men and women are allowed to go ci the water, of alleged lfe-savers spemi more time in the beach paloons . than among the bathers and of so-called . that are so full of holes that to launch them. ce yesterday when Gray lost thelr lives tn plata view of the beach and the Iron Pier has roused the Coroner, whose attention been called before to the looseness of | drowned their bodies will certalaly be washed ashore before many tides have swept in, and until the bodies do come ashore the Coney Island police will work on the theory that there were no fatall- tles In the surf at Coney Island yester- day Young ploy of former Sherif Frank life-boats™ it ts Imposatt and ‘Holienbe jray was a foreman in the em- Creamer, of Brooklyn, who is now in the con-| Deen Called Wencing bathers in distress tracting business The young man bad) jn the Coney Islan aire sot been well and took a day off yester- ; r the purpose of taking a surf He was accompanied by a young womaa, ALGER WILL TH Walted for Him on the Beach, Bhe refused to go Into the water and sal on the beach with another young J woman of her acquaintance whom elie had met at the Island, Gray told her he was 14g to swim out to the raft ind promised to come out of the water Ex-Secretary of War Soon a snd s after Afteen minutes, The young women he bvach saw Announce His Candidacy t him climb on the raft and wave his hand ty them him dive,| Succeed Late Senator Moy; In a few lee? a coan- Millan, motion among the bathers out near the raft and then they heard that a man SEES nad been drowned, Inaminuch as Gray the beach and bad not been seen by the young women on shore to climb onto | Advisory Qounct! of che State the raft, they felt instinctively that he| Republican Chibs at the Hotel iG was the man who had been drowned, |ti4 noon President Penton ‘They looked for the lifersaver, and found [tat next Monday Gen. Be him loliing on the sand talking to one| Secretary of War, will of bis women friends, formal announcement They, could obtain no satisfaction |the United grates either thom (he lordly ilfa-never 0 tram tints Jeanie ~The News aT afternoon s ‘At a meeting of DETROIT, had not returned ue