The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1902, Page 1

=— GENERAL + SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8. che “ Circulation Books Open to Alt’? ited ONE CENT, NEW YORK, FAMINE HERE 1 IN HARD COAL. ‘ Last and Dealers See No Hope of Relief in the : Near Future. BAD OUTLOOK FOR POOR. Increased Cost Will Fall Heavily \ on Those Least Able to Af- ford It—Speculators Manage To Scrape Up Small Quantities The following prices are officially | quoted for coal in New York City to- Wholesale. Retall. anthracite 815.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 6.69 Gon B25 4.50 6.00 “Whe coal tamine is heré now. > w York is practically exhausted. 1 The few tons the dealers now have they will sell only to customers who have bought from them for years. The householder who in previous ¢ years bought coal from first one firm and then another now finds that he is not regarded as a regular custom- er and is dénied even half a ton of anthracite, ‘The use of soft coal is inevitable, declare the dealers to-day. Already big manufacturing plants are chang- ing their furnaces designed to burn hard coal so that they can use bi- marifacturing concerns will use soft coal. It is either a question of that of of going out Of business. They prefer q to tyke chances on being arrested for 4 A violation of the law rather than see a thelr business go to ruin, No dealer in coal in Greater New York bas more than fifty or 100 tons of |. i\ anthracite. Those who have even this quaniiiy are keeping the matter a } * -gecret, so that people to whom they are fiat under obligations cannot make a t demand for it. Ihe In a majority of the coal yards, where at this time of the year there are usually thousands of tons of hard coal ) there are less than ten and twenty ton: More than half of the coal yards are ff closed, the men and horses Idle. i With the coming of cold weather the demand for coal {s insistent, but the dealers refvse to part with more than & half ton or a ton, even to the oldest customers, “We cannot get more,” they say in explanation, “and what we have we must keep for our customers.” ; Big Firms Nearly All Out. The Evening World to-day called up ‘on the telephone four of the largest coai @ealers in various sections of the city \ to ascertain the quantity of hard coal they had. These firms wi u The Communipaw Coal Company. The Jeremiah Skidmore Sons’ Com- \ pany. \ J, Samuel Smoot. ) H. C. Babcock & Co. ‘These firms keep thousands of tons of coal at this time of the year and have whole trainloads of coal arriving almost every’ week. To-day not one of them thas more than 100 tons of coal on hand. 'The Communipaw Company— has more than 50 or 100 tons. The prica is $12 a ton, but little can be bought ror even that. Babcock & Co.—The price 1s $12 a ton. We are thinking of putting all anthra: we have left jn our office safe. Samuel Smoot—The quotations run from #3 to $4 a ton. 1 know of no ‘who has more than nifty tons. Jeremiah Skidmore Sons’ Com- ny—Dealers with anthracite are lying wand keeping still about It. Its + mighty scarce -article. The price is uoted at $12, ut little or none can be Obtained for sven that. speculators have gone throu; Sowas:biying.up’all the fad. By buylng here and ey finally get a car load and it to New York where a dealer 1s tion of half an hour on it. or upeculator fies his own price which’ he ‘lealer is compelled to pay. Hard Times for the Poor. Bott coal has jumped to $6 a ton, coke| {6 as scarce as anthracite, and charcoal has reached a woeful figure. ‘Dwellers in tenements where there are no gai ‘stoves for cooking purposes and team heat realize, that privation Bnd ‘cond. will he thelr The little anthracite that th pave been buying has been sold to 1 fore. week past by the bushel rate of This mea laborer, Foe’ an. it Wages ure $0 ve to give $2 @ Week for fuel, f will almost equal the amount ot prank and IY enough which bah eorovide | his family with ‘Brooklyn there are not hale eae ipt given up baal cally giv usin has’ been recelved ‘since fe Blaisdell, at Fitty-ixtn reet-and the Bast River, ie il. firma tn welt Rf they. had gold dozen their a storia Supply - Is Exhausted at) The aftthracite supply in Greater! THE NEW REPUBLICAN BOSS OF NEW YORK, GOV. benjamin B. Odell Jr., arate chey) want done. is clear-headed and a quick thinker. He is diplomatic and rules his following by doing, to a large extent, While he is always willing to yield, he can be as T HURS SDAY. GENERAL. Close Personal Study by Haydon Jones, firm as steel if necessary. He is a man of popular personality. He is a good listener, peeks little and talks to the pone | speech. | He He has fewer enemies, dresses well and atylishly. Huntressa and Som- World Selections,Win Their Events. vip THE WINNERS. ST RACK—Mollie “Brant 1 River Pirate 2, Nevermore 3, (COND RACE—Huntressa 1, Zo- roaster 2, Black Dick 3. THIRD RACE—Old England 1, Whiskey King 2, Arsenal 3. FOURTH RACEK—Sombrero 1, | ‘Examiner Z. No third horse. FIFTH RACE-Trinity Bell 1, The Black Scot 2, Miss Buttermilk 3. SIXTH RACE—Arden ¥, Mixer 2,! Gleunellie 3, | GRAVESEND RACE TRACK, Sept. 25.—In the first race John A, Drake | in anid to have backed Nevermore for $50,000, ‘The Lamplighter colt did not relish the going and Drake Jost his big wager. (Special to The Evening World.) GRAVESEND RACE TRACK, N, ¥.. Sept, %—There {s no use saying any- thing about the weather that prevailed at Gravesend this afternoon, because the more one thinks about It the worse it sceme, It in sufMcient to say that it could not be any worse. Ice water could not have been colder than the rin, and {f Lieut. Peary had been as searching and far-reaching as the east wind he coyld have found the North Pole in a walk, But the regulars came down just the same. ‘There were plenty of empty benches in the grand stand, and even the band failed to cheer the few chilled occupants of chairs, Only at the bars and in the ring was the real hot stuff to be found, and the regulars partook of both In Mberal quantities. The card was Interesting and prom- ised good racing in spite of the mud The Parkville Handicap was a good feature, and there were two other good handicaps. The track, of course, was a canal, and tae horses away in front generally counted with the long end of the purse, brero, Also Evening DRAKE LOSES $650,000. OLD ENGLAND'S FIVE-POUND EEL PARKVILLE RACE IN WATER PIPE, of the Barrett M | facturing Compa South Brooklyn. PULLED OUT When a five-pound eel tries t gle through a two-inch there is trouble, particularly pipe feeds the boilers of a m turing plant, Such an eel tried {he could not see the water rising In the guage, although the pumps were work-| long and was perfect in shape. ing full force, Ohlef Engineer Stewart] Tin was born this. morning | telephoned the Water Department, ask-|to Frances, the wife of Patriclo Lom- ‘ing why his supply had been cut of. | paral, of Yo. 128 Hester street. The Superintendent Skelley telephoned | pamturdis @heve been married four back that the water supply was all rs and Mary {ts their first child. right and told him to exam'ae his water Imperatorl, of No. 638 Lexington pipes, By tapping the pipes with @) avenue, who attended Mrs. Lombardi, | piece of metal the obstruction was fo- cated and a section removed. pipe. Stewart almost fell off his iadde: It was an eel and he tried to Being the slipperlest thing could not budge the eel than the pipes of the Barrett Comp: Is suposed to have the Mains from the Ridgewood ite Chief Engineer Stewart ate the supper. a Book, but Receive: FIRST RACE. Handloap; for two-year-olds; about six fare tongs. Rotting, itattie, whis., Jockeys. GL HIL Fis. Sur Place Brant, 114, Odom. 2 1% 1" 4 8 Pirate, 116, Shaw... 4 41%: rmore, 109, Lyn 5 Bt rio, Le Smith a Miennels 1 32 » pia ebay Late at pont Time=1.31 3-5. Mollie Brant jumped away In front and raced head und head with Mart Mullen and Mlyria to the turn, whera the latter was done. were in close company to the stretch, where Mart Mullen quit, River Pirate | then came through and closed fast. was, however, never able to get up. Mollie Brant winning by a head. | it.ver Firate was six lengths in front of! Novermore. SECOND RACE, olds and up; mile and, Starters, whts.. Huntreasa, $4, Zoroaster, 139, Black Dick 11r G StHIE Fin, 2 wy Huntressa took the lead aS i revelled In. the sloppy mud myth, | Zoro the to the Wi doers had ali tor 8, ewhen “Binks ipa Snoueh, roaster then went on after the leader, but could never get le eabinet: MADE RICH BY CARNEGIE. RNASHINGTON. Sept. 25 —President|teom Master Told Speaker Hender- joosevelt passed a comfortable night ¥ and ate his breakfast with great relish Ligeti inlay Aaa to-day. treet gossip says that Andrew Dr, Rixey, Surgeon-General of the the fron and steel king, has [Nath: Dre O'Rellin: Surmenn General ce | made his brother Scot, Speaker David the Army, and Dr. Lung made an | B. Henderson, of lowa, a very rich amination of the wound and reported} 8" ; The other two) that it was in a satisfactory condition, |e, 18 credited with advising the They expect the inflammation to be Speaker how’ und when to Invest in allayed without complications, Abso- | Stck# ce He | lute quiet has been enjoined upon the Prealdent. There was a silght rise in the dent's temperature last nie reached the temporary This was attributable Phite to the in. The announcement ts made ¢! will see no visitors, save the mi of his cabinet, most important business. The President did not leave his bed ee Between Luncheon and Breakfast bostnter man, travels trom, ew Ne Special, Leaves Work Stopped at Plant ALIVE. water through ths pipes of the Barrett Man- [sv box and excited the admiration of the ufacturing Company's at the foot of | doctors, but it died this afternoon ag a Smith street, South Brooklyn, to-day | result of exposure in the damp cold and 175 men were laid off four hours at | The official cause of death $s given as a cost of $10) to the company. pneumonia. Engineer Patrick Welsh found that} The baby's name was Mary Lombard, Something that looked like « pleee of black flre hose was seen hanging to the ‘The thing began to wiggle and eed Stewart, This dene the eel was jerked 0} an explosion like that of a gu was thrown into a water barrel stl alive, He wan 38 Inches long. # 3-4 Ir cireumfere: d weighed 4 Tt ha: veiled mo PRESIDENT MAKES GOOD PROGRESS, Sits Up in Bed and Reads Visitors Save Members of t after ent Incident to his removal from the and then only upon the ven te my, 27 Shows ng are, one. rpptiee thee : @ho want. Tiniest Child EverBorn with Breath in Its Body Lived Twelve Hours. anu-" nyin WAS PERFECTLY SHAPED o whee pipe if the janufac- d to go Ten ounces of baby—the smallest child ever born alive—came into the world this morning and would probably haye lived had not the weather been so for- bidding. It was hurried to Bellevue in It welghed ten ounces, was eight inches was surprised at evidences of life in the diminutive Infant. After a little work he succeeled In getting the Lombard! doll child te do what all healthy bables do just after they are born—cry. It was a feeble, piping cry, but it came from good lungs and the doctor was en- couraged, There being no facilitles in the Lombardi home for the care of Such a very iittle baby he advised that Mary be sent to Bellevue. Patricio, the proud but perplexed father, secured a macaront box, which he ned with cotton, Into this box Dr. Imperator! packed the Infant. Patricio put the box in his pocket and walked to Rellevue, where he turned his offspring over to Dr. Carter, ‘The doctor fell in love with the Infant at once. He, sent post haste for Miss McCullagh, the nurse in charge of the infant's ward, and directed her to get an incubator ready for the new patient, No time wae lost in putting little Mary into the incubator, and then all the doc- tors In Bellevue gathered abuut to look and admire. All agreed that so small a baby alive was one of the sights of a lifetime, r pull it there ts ut q un. He and is hes in pounds. feet in nd nervolr. eel for She looks like one of those little Japan- on ese dolls that peddlérs seit the streets. Surprisingiy enough her Coa tures are regular and her head is wel! formed. s No Pres! |]. WEATHER FORECAST. Hous h erent , extlte/ Forceast for the [hours ending at SP. for New York City ana vietnity: Cloudy, with rain and co tinfed cool to-night and Fr thirty-six M. Friday hat he em bers I0-OUNCE BABY. interest on 1, will p clreulation, WASHINGT! Shaw to-day “statement! ~~ ited in banks. ment, ment, ST. LOUIS day; fresh to ‘The Sunday World Want section ny f@n inexhaustille fountain; it is ted entimated Shaw's plan for the rel street by anttclpatin, vernment bonds ma- turing between October and J ore thant 820,000,000 tn | the Treasury “Money once covered Into the Treas- ury (and this of course includes the sub- | treasuries) cannot thereafter be depos- | Of “AIL rumors of experiments have been | unauthorized *6y tH® Treasury It {s to be Moped ‘that the putite will place’no credenfe In virgnries atart- ed by: irresponsible ‘And uhtfustworthy men of the street. “It Is now hoped that the understand: thatvth® .Preasury to the exterit of its ability, stand by the banks, east and west, | SINCINNATI . = He {s fond of a good cigar and can make an excellent after dinner perhaps, than any other man in public life. ‘COLDDAY KILLS. SHAW WILL LET OUT $20,000,000. Secretary Has Plan’ to Afford Immediate Re- lief-to the Money Market. that Secretary 7 fat Walt) that’ the banks will myment of| business and every worth protecting. i, “Pee only way to get money out into circulation, after has been actually covered tn, Is by t stand interest by ever that two-tenth ne per ath which Isat the fat rate as hrofit ‘therepy’ tn allow Depart- Depart owt |'320,650,000, (ernment, if this offer shall cepted, will be, in round figure $220,000, country will Depart es ‘ “§CORE-BY INNINGS. . : AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. At Chicago—End of sixth: "St. Louis. 3; Chicago. °. a MANAGER LEDERER APPEALS TO COURT FOR CHILD. Argument was heard to-day by Justice Gildersleeve in the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by George N. Lederer, theatrical manager, for the custody of his six- year-old son, Maitland. Lederer is being sued by his wife, to vhom custody of the child was awarded. . Justice Gildersleeve reserved decision. maakt — LATE RESULTS AT HAWTHORNE. Fifth Race—Caliban 1, Mey Boer 2, Leo Newell 3, ' Sixth Race—Muresca 1, Ida V . 2, Alfred C. 3. p00 AT ST. LOUIS. Third Race—Lighthunt 1, Lynch 2, Hotterator 3. Fourth Race—Schwalbe 1. Buccleuth 2, Slue Blaze 3, Fifth Race—Four ‘Le COLOMBIAN INSURGENTS RETREAT. PANAMA, Colombia, Sept. 25.—Traffic across the Isthmus is free. and, part of the revolutionary army having retreatea to Agua Dulce, the danger of a battle on the Isthmus is be- | tieved to be removed. af C. 1, Barklyite 2, Deeskin 3. eae eee ———__—_—+$--_—_____° PARTRIDGE TRANSFERS Pouce SERGEANTS. et a Commissioner Partridge to-day transferred Sergt. Schlopp- man, of the Kingsbridge station, to the West. Thirtieth street stetion, vice Sergt. Hogan, transferred:to Kingsbridge. He dis- missed from the force Patrolman Goetz, of the Fourth avenue station, Brooklyn; for disobedience of orders, and Patrolman Cummings: of for hig of ts e Seventy-cighih Precinet, Borcugh of Queens, north and south, and it is hoped also the amount maturing betore | |, ane 30, 1903, Isr tn round figeares, The profit to the Gov- be ace PLATT COMES BACK ALONE Deposed Boss Returns from Saratoga with None of Old Follow- ers to Greet Him. ry is of n:|SAYS HE WANTS A REST. payment of legal obligations. of th. Government. ‘These may be antcl- 13: Offara.ta ae pyre Thomas C. Platt, who went to Sera- ¢ anticihate. the,’ 1 * fa faite Tabereat "ie now" offers to un] = with brass bands ands ate al ‘asin Maturing betweenfition tn hit hat, returned a Oct. 1 and: the end_of the fiscal vest it ea el asa. ole! presented mithin sats, dug. at a revate [this afternoon ent ncab att and ¢ Foaked wit pping ¢ a touk 4 hot from his and sailed w from. it. He feeble and shuffled hat ed to the ¢ one gteet@l him save a few newspaper reporters, who asked him to tell thom som; v@ his turn dowa In Sara ‘t ‘ “Loam tau polities tostay”* Ured and wet ant wanted to rest. The Afor Was hot expected in “New York stil to-me BROOKLYN WANTS SECOND TUNNEL, vw morning. ers Extension Plans of Bor- ough President Swanstrom Pennsylvania Co.’s Requset. The Rapid Transit matter ¢ Boroush ’ ting Brook! Swanstrom u projects. as follows That Brooklyn tunnel No om the Battery to and ator ers adjo business. he Comin out doing furth: pe tet Observation Car on Pennsyl pecial, a Special ts now egutp, ved Pullin’ obmerw: York’ to) Chlagdo The Penakylvai with a perfectly new, ea car, 20 ours ee SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE ie he said petulagtly, : * Cards were sent to his room, but he | rofused to see anybody, He sald he w Rapid Transit Board Consid-. |Up-State Leaders to Join in | the Conference Which Will Smooth the Way for the Convention. |COLER'S CHANCES GOOD, |Tammany, Hill, McLaughlin and — Other Agencies Favor Him— Doubt as to Whether Judge Parker Weuld Accept. P all probability the candidate for nomination for Goy- . ul leaders at * tho pice! , » to consult about the “an }wnd the platform and fix upon @ } to hoad the ticket. | Indications” point to the nomination lof Bird 8. Coler, The mame of Chigt ass | Justice. Parker has been mentioned: : clon, buteit fs not peti will accept. Mr. Coler fs satis! Tammany Hall, Brooklyn | alm jd for him, and he fe liked un ate. 3 James Shevlin, of Brooklyn, holder omination of Judge Pi be cause he ig un because he consid wer a stronger candidal This does ¢. indicate that he Wow [not support Mr. Coler should Ju | Parker de himself out of the | this « that hi factory te ores Be not, he to © Judg says but Hugh Me! that Kings County js for Coler. Mr. McLaughlin sad he. was- talking) © as an ‘individual when he (In i Coler's candidacy, but he would nominate the former try to for Governor. ughlin was found In eonsil- Bernard J. York, James a weazened man whom he | adu “Mike, an ex-prise-fight= 1% He was askéd what he thought of). ie » alleged victory of ‘Timothy? | Woodrutt In Saratoga. g od a Hint The Parable of the Poker G ty “Well,” said the old Bors, “Tim's Veiry inds me of a poker game T On here was a friend of mine at \ tine in the game and he was losing Bi 1 told m so, and he s#id th es came into the world without-a sHIpEy and that if ne had to go out of ki poker game without a shirt he couldy ul over again, Tiny Thm Wet convention with part of a shine | auirt }ine start Into the | and came out the way my friend oe Be into the. world—shirtiess. is just like Mike, here: oh | | old in the ring “he” vdruft Mike woulcn't (gi sidestepped to deep, fig out of the way, Woodruff side-st Jin Saratoga. His fight was @ bite Woodruff is a quitter, As for Mr | qividual, 1 want to say that df) there: \isVany censure against him the ne | s would have dug It up Tong, aga: ne Am at s absolutely nothing Pee i Mr. Coler. He would” nor and’ We can wit he Republican party” has the taxpay so long bs nt a change. are and enermetlel 1 would give al make with pbbing, was nsked If the would-go to Sara- for Mr. 5 }, smiiingly, “reminds, Ti tell the story about Coler. lie WII Accept » by an Events and made the fol- says was 0-day eg the nomination {f ft 1s oppositign to ies ouly far as 1 oan itl THUD, WE cen swith Tt very. effort tn He the, nomieation, 1 chance to: wins myself alone. © y Whether ayo rionsin the York: can ould, ‘mak no deanite states Ln on eS Contiueteas anich «Gay. re one taxi 2 and the growing @Ue%= @ for thee ueM, Hy ckinpalan. Duttols in this Stat MNought that tw manng W Pond ho Young D. actors on the Stuge a Panic in the Audten HAY —A. polivem the Alhambra Tl weatre last. ni came suddenly Insane and began A his revolver ag the attong. ‘A panic followed, but yen tton of a. mi sted ‘the walléeaee