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NIGHT EDITION. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 10 \ PRICE ONE CENT. MAYOR VOTES FOR TUNNEL, Mr. Low Backs Down on the Labor Clauses and Rapid Transit Commis- sion Grants Franchise. RAILROAD STANOS- FIRM. Mayor Said He Was Satisfied That Labor Would Be Fairly Treated, Even with the Dis- puted Prov.sions Omitted. The enimrainstonyitlts expetted.-wil ge'rgutnloug and tiawerinalinc} PONCE: | Operators in Senator Platt’s Office Declares ~ vestigation designed by the President. | | i Mayor Low has backed down in nls! Labor Commissioner Wright will meet the President to-morrow to go| A tragedy on the lower West Side tis | No Agreement Has Been Reached, and that — attitude on the awarding of the the JAbor aspect of the strike situation. afternoon has already resulted in the | . 2 2 Shine tothe, Penneyvania Raltroud |e) che vor Manne of (ho wiring livalons Piet one mn, and another t ying He Knows of No Plan to Resume Discussion. He voted at the meeting of the Rapid na critical condition a ncent's| Transit Commission this afternoon to \ societs 1 ditt t St. Vi it in er ear the He inet oth st furthe | Yesterday afternoon a woman named : uaistence on the Insertion of the - | e attle Adams was shot ina mysterious 3 Boe a i yl Sears nimsdnes se nam 'Gov. Odell and Senators Quay and Penrose — ie explained his vote byt saying tha ers street, and was taken to St. 3 Fy ne the railroad woul IN COLLISION BELLE MEADE Cente Hospital: "Phe person who w Made Pleas for the Ending of the Trouble. not ts ppsttlony 1 al 5 4 rerporsliie Hee tuslenete wee pls ap | inevet tha Sea AMTratutuacs taear| Bt of the case was made by the po- | but the Mine Owners Listened in Silence. past (cee RACING # SPORT GENERAL ON PAGE 10 PRICE ONE CENT, = $< ——oe FMD STAIKE FAILS, SAYS CO, ODELL,. ge [« Circulation Books Open to All.””_ - ROOSEVELT PLANS ¥nrin inyiNe STRIKE SOLUTION Ue FUNG | f= —— President Will Make a New Attempt if Present] FOR A WOMAN Negotiations Fail. OCTOBER 9, DENT BAER WHO WAS IGNORED IN STRIKE CC Man Shoots Her Husband and Kills Himself by Tak- ing Poison and Then Shooting. (Special to The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, Oct. 9,—Despite the refusal of the coal operators to agree to arbitration and the dignified refusal of John Mitchell to the re-| quest -f President Roosevelt that he send his men to work pending a set-| tlement of differences, the President has not lost heart. | In case the negotiations in New York to-day fail to bring about the end, jor the strike, the President will make another effort to close the con- MYSTERY IN THE CASE. ' | troversy. This information comes from a Cabinet officer who talked with Presi-! Shooting Follows Strange In- jury to Wife Received Yester- day, but Not Reported by) dent Roosevelt this morning. It is stated here that President Roosevelt will appoint the Commission , jhe had in mind when he appealed to President Mitchell, despite the refusal jot Mr. Mitchell to send the mer back*to work, State Executive After the Meeting with Coal — lee. labor. Mayor Low added that he had | ; fill warns in believing that the rat-| Apache Damaged When | Evening World Selec-| mis aeteroon » man named pe goat goalt oa antagviin Tamed Iroquois Crashes Into! tionsFinish One, Two) 27... ome of hm mem | oe i ork contractors lo = a street, G il, wher en i 2 FI vo al 2 ‘ the. sm and New York Iador_ woul Her in Charleston| in Stake Race at Mor- | nusbana, wittiam Adame, at No. M Gov. Udell, when seen at the Fith Avenue Hotel after the conference Ua tae i Carmine street, and foun site vith ypevators in Senator Platt’s , said the efforts to e: He voted “aye” for the adoption ot} Harbor. ris Park. Eine Aes to the story told ty eee Operators in Senator Platts oMcs, said: the efforts toy @ndiiaa | bed. Acocrding the franchise In its original form as Adams’ twelve-year-old daughter Mary, stiike had failed. He suid he knew of no plan for a resumption of negotia= adopted by the Commission prior to the Aint itin the next room, Brockstadt (Copyright by F. Gutekunst, 19 ; . public hearing. Comptroller Grout also! Spy, p THEN BEACHED. CHRISTINE A. AT 15 TO! id to Adams: eRe — | ions. yoted with the Mayor as did the other ‘ ‘| Gl] faeirare i! Yr . <; 5 a members of the Board | Meh (ela yo i ute BAER !IS WILLING TO Oscar Strous, a member of the Conciliation Committee of the National Letter from Cassatt | si Adams, jumping from his bed. \ Before the vote was taken Chalrman ee ONT IER ei ete | THE WINNERS. ‘The pirl heard the two men struggling GIVE FULL TIME " OFE stated Davhe nd cecdived wlcom|| CoA nC er oN ee crn Cob LIS a n8 —— and then shots rang out, she rushed in * at the Ashicnu House at 4.20 o'clock and at once went into consultation muniention from President Cassatt stat-|steamship Apache was sunk in collls eee oer Finnan and found her father in a pool of blood, Pp J f Read ma with Mr. Mitchell wi = ing that the company could not agree! sion with the Iroquois this morning in| durdis 2, Belle of Lexington 3. living on the floor. resident of the Reading Now Willi Mr. 3 M to the insertion of the labor or Wake |the harbor five miles northwest of Screaming in terror the girl rushed i ENS OS to Make Before Mr. Mitchell met Mr. Straus he was asked if he had been im SECOND RACE—Christine from the house and notified Patrolman a Concession to the Miners. seale clauses {n the franchise, S ti in President Cassatt in his letter said in| © eae aii ee aan aty F014 Money 2, Sparkle Ember 3, | Lverlle, of the Charles aireet Lapa ate part: port sid= o: Apache aboy ame The policeman called an ambulance ani i i : a | ie Behe i i TRVIth every disposition to meet the| feet from the bow and extending beloW HIRD RACE—Col, DIN 1 ‘Adams was taken to St, Vincent's Hos- (apvctal td The Rvesing Worl) | with the miners, many of whom are |204 Whether the report circulated by_the ‘ticker” that the atrike wes Sei views expressed by somo members of | the water line. The fore sold was fled g, oom ‘Paul 3. ‘ + Taniter | ital in a critical condition, a Wie een ee =a ae EN oy tte ra of his church, saya that he Ued was true, but he refused to say anything. District Presidents Fahey \— your Board, we cannot see that any a ent down in about twenty ( Isuerlie then went in search of Brock-|Rev. P. C. Nagel, of St. Nicholas’s has found chat the men are not com: | be . tuch provision has a proper place in} ih er Mate Puss wanente second-class cee stadt, At his home he found the door| German Catholle Church, to-day received plaining wo much about the rate wf and Nichols denied the story. thaliteanohia We hav manbellave: teeta ons jae ‘ato spliatera. FOURTH RACE—Wealth 1, Un- locked, but bursting It in he discovered | the following letter from Presidqpt G.| wages as because they do not work ‘Vaaer IN PL ATT’S OFFICE. agreed to cyery other provision that! ynimediateiy after the collision, the masked 2, Delle of Troy 3. the man dead on the bed. He had first a besatty Hie nlecespn & Reading, pus . } | oy é IF, F ot ‘our Board haa deemed necessary to|noise of which was heard. a long dis- rt mars, drunk carbolic acid and then shot him- Fee eR gAtlaNish GEE Frise ant RITGata ERTS EEUT COL ioe of} The conference wf the coal operators and Senators Penrose and Quay, ; ey ts ve es 5 is she FTH RACE 7 elf in the temple. » Oct. 8, day york each week they would) . . SACO TNA ea SL Led dae een inves Be eas ran eyiNote pacers Went 1, [Felt in the temmt non, of the Charles| ‘My dear alr: T am perfectly wiil- |be satisned. Accordingly oa Monday: ‘te | of Penneylvants and Gov. Odell nt Senator Platt's office, which began t 8 t a si to the sand . whe e b . . " liwrote to: President (Bae 4 i provision without gong beyandilay (je beach i _ street station, was seen, he bola) sub eiepa pig Be gto, ine | Kzote to Presiden: Baer statiog tb Wereingic Caikatlermonge terminates atldcis: wherlithetoperatoraiiere Kee : - | ally the same story as related, hf excel ; 5 : a Sulll stantially the & ¥ proposition offering steady work were Senator Platt said that the prospects for a settlement in the near future / ince. ‘It will be to our interest to allot the ‘actors who will adopt proper measures for securing the willing and hearty co-operation of the best class | of labor in the city of New York, and thus, as far as possible, avold delays to the wo Aguinat Exclusive Grant. Lawyer Alfred Pagelow, representing & financial publication, was present to urge that the franchise be not an ex- clusive granc. Mr. Pagelow suggested the insertion of a clause which per- mit of railroads other than the Pennsyl- vania coming into New Yor Henry Mareos spoke In favor of the insertlon of the elght-hour clause. Reason for Change of View. : ; tay 3 warner | Were very attr Mayor uthority for citing the | understanding the signals, the weather | tha’ ,Very Attractive, and it was | ; Pennay ly: a ‘s by far friendliness of the Pennevivanta Rall”| joing partially cloudy, with light nortd- | week’ eat Interesting ‘afternoon’ cf the Interview at the City i-least winds, : lene torent ber WAS superb, It was of dent Cassatt and Vic | Several tugs and wrecking crews are | the perfect Indian summer varlety. "The ERE a Mngt ii’ | now alongside the Apache unloading the | as: In splendid shape and yery SOO eer contide cere|eargo In hopes of floating her at high! fred Walbaum's son of the same tain views to the Mayor which were tide pame was married yesterday’ to Sadie Rot expressed openly, At the ‘meetings | She le out of danger on account of the ne Wwhaterln-law | of | ‘Thoman ” F n ‘of Rapld. Transit and to , Who Was of the Board of arnent that the com: | Northeast wind, but If a southeast wind |ager of the betting one time the man: pany was willing to meet its employees on the tunnel worl more than halt way | sea and the ship would be in great] andi for three-year-olds and up event of jabor troubles, ¢ | Courne, Di Fae ee eee eetetne Maver | danger. It te Impossible to estimate the made up his mind to vote as he did. damage. ‘i whts., Jocks. StF call — Capt, Bearse sent the following tele- [8 ng 2s, feeatern 1 ie | gram to the New York office of the |felle of Lexington, A BRITISH ARMY WHITEWASH 3 alagton, 100, * | Clyde ne: Cochran Blue Book Giving Remount Court Findings Creates Criticlam, LONDON, Oct. %—A Blue Book pub- Mshed this morning contains the report of the Court of Inquiry which has in- vestigated the charges brought against the Remount Establishment of the Brit- ish Army. With the exception of a couple of minor cases, the report not only whitewashes all interested, so far as the alleged frregularities are con- Civile Federation, which one before attempted to settle the strike, called A 1, % we) communication during the day with the operators or their representatives, prevented by unavoldable accidents, Patrol Charles Nelson, of the SIXTH RACE—Hermencia 1, Kalit 1 am quite sure the conditions are van's Island Life Saving Station. We" 2, Numeral 3, but sald he knew nothing of Brockstadt made it would be more eftectiv bring: troops to the region than to the rescue, Wit was told by Capt. | Pearse that he would watt unui’ the saposiee eo GGE Taree, ‘ of | 0 The. Evening World.) Il of tide to investigate the extent Of; MORRIS PARK RACE TRACK, N. the damage. |¥., Oct. 9.—Two very excell akea The bow of the Iroquois was badly | furnished the features as Ment, stakes stove in down to its water line. [Ailaatternoon,, iIaiine Bence After the collision the Troquols re-/ Senator Worth constdered thet his cult, turned to Charleston and sent tugs to Oom Paul, had a good chanee ta wit the Apache to bring the passengers {0 #0 he had him added to the stene this clty. They are all safely here.) With Col, Bill, Igniter and other hing, The Iroquois struck the Apache head | class horses engage, this race prom. on, Both steamers were going at slow | ised to furnish one of the moat ey j speed, but began backing at full speed | Ing events of the afternoon, ci | after realizing that « collision was un-| In the Bronx Highweigh ht | avoidable. [here fran slag a splendid’ tletd, andicap The cause of the collision ts not un-] 7 5 . Six Shooter, Slipthrift, Unmasked, Whiskey ge |acratood, but Is sald to be due to mis-|Very fast sprinters? Phe ene events | should come up It would cause a heavy | FIRST RACE. Schoharie, 11 Swort Bite, Pa : . Rice Bastile, Be Creamer. f G 2] Start’ tale, Won ridden out. Time—1'09 3-4-7" | St. Finnan jumped away in the lead | at the start, but Ondurdis had the early | Speed and went right to "lone followed. by" Bt. Finnan and alee ly | Lexington.” They r ye Well Into the aiteteh. where Sraqey une! | “While entering harbor in below Fort Sumpter, Iroquols collided with Apache. staving hole twenty feet wide extend- ing at break of forecastle deck below water line port side, filling fore hold full water and shin aground forward, Will have lighter ship to ascertain dam- age, Will employ Ighters and endeavor | noved'into the ie Finnan | ” 0 ad ind. wor get ship whart. by a scant length. Ondine vat | cae tiring, fast at the end, Insted ee Home Office Gets Details, enough to beat Helle of Lexington neck for second money At the New York office of the Clyde SECOND RAC | cerned, but finds that the unprecedented | Steamship Company {t was sald that! For filles two yearn old; five furton, demands made on the Remount Est they were In receipt of a despatch from| Lely lshment were met with extraordina the company's agent in Charleston to) Starters, | ockes S10 Fin, Str. Plate, | ethene Connmlauloner the effect that the Iroquois was at her Ne Ra ye AEP | success, The ‘8 polnt out|dock in Charleston and the Apache 4% 2" 5} that the wastage of horses {n South | had been beached in the harbor for the W109" Re ‘Africa reached the enormous rate of 199 | MtPose of relieving her of the welght | Navan, Mi Landry. & 4 th per cent., and find that the system o¢ purchase abroad met the requirements of the public service. of a portion of the cargo. Neither steamer was serlously damager and the | passengers have all been forwarded to | their destination by train, Ada 410 Lady Josephine, 111,0d0m 10 i Sweet Marjori oe Ss Michaels ‘Attention is drawn by the Commis ——<—— : Ing the transport of animals byrait' in| BUILDING WATER SOAKED. [isis ints, ‘10s. ' the United States and Argentina,” Roxboro 116. Spencer ommenting On the report, the West- —— ferry Reel, 105, Redfern minnter, Gazette EON ant asWveats) nte in No, OT Spring Street [Nery Reel, 105, Redtern | “it wi ereafter rank na a British " Start poor. Wo classic, a8 a most subtle description of | cr) trom, Runaway Task. Nevarsta ah dd tb ad the working of a British Institution, and | A thousand-gallon water tank on the| tne gate wad difted, the lead after oF the Tanner nich Js Justified | top of No. 97 Spring street was emptied | fortable lead, pliote “held to tne i a - this morning down through all the |dip. where she began to awerve ett " u on cloned 4 BIG REFINERIES’ FUEL. floors of the building and did $2,000] Ay nels pace until che lant Wu ees | | damage. Christine A. got her head in front and | | phe tank supplies the tenants with} Won by that margin. Gold Money was Standard Company Using Refuse O11 in Place of Coal, All the Standard Olt s large refineries in Queens County and Gre point began to-day burning ofl in boilers and stills, ‘Che fuel thus used @ substitute for coal Is a refuse oll“ Tho oll 1s burned in pipey invented by the milllonaire Herbert M. Pratt, son of Charles M. Pratt, one of the founders pf,the Standard Ol! PeBPany: Some danger is attached to the ex- ot fierce of the explosive qual- the second, the same distance before Spa ¢ Esher, who closed very strong, oon THIRD, RACE Belle Meader’ tor thrte-year-otds irlongs of Withers mite , water. It 4s locked at night. An em- | ployee of the Boston Skirt Company on the fourth floor turned a fa last night after the tank was locked and left it that way. The tank was turned & The seven jon this morning at 7. No one arrived on| starters, st the floors below for an hour and the| Col. Bil, 8 | water ran down damaging the stocks of |{gniter, 118, 2 jothing of Julius Machby. J. Dolsen, |Oom Paul me . Nathaniel Cohen and the Boston Skirt /Eunt ice Wiuledan | 4 Company. . 6 5 0 ‘SMart good, Won driving. Time—1.274, era was the speedy one and pace, showing the way to Continued on Tenth Page.) —-————___— Grand 0) Makes Time for the Musiness M: The Vernaylvania Ra: So-Beur” train $ eras P.M. daily.*° Chicago leaves New York having taken carbolle acid before shoot- ing himself, The captain did not know where elther man was employed, nor did he know anything about the shooting! of Mrs, Adams yesterday. ‘At St, Vincent's Hospital it was the woman walked in there about o'clock last evening, with a bullet wound in the neck, She said she did not know how she recelved the wound. A litte later the police learned that Mrs. Adams had been in the habit of visiting Brockstadt in his rooms. He was forty years old, single and a ‘long- shoreman, Adams was @ plasterer. In the hospital Adams was found to have a badly lacerated face, and oken nose, as well as thie bullet wound, He sald that before shooting him Brockstadt had beat him about the ith the butt end of his revolver. Brockatadt Shot Her, Adams later told the police In that Brockstadt shot her. Mrs, the hesp She said she and her husband had known him for years. She often went to his house with her {ittle girl. Some time ago her busband quarreled of his driondlin house and a walk with him. Broadway and Cham- bers they quarreled, and Brockstadt shot at her, she said The bullet glanced from her forward, making but a slight wound. He then walked her to St. Vincent's Hospital and left her, This morning he left a box of candy for her at the hospttal, Tne hospital au thorities, at the request of the womi sent word to the husband that she was there, He did not go to see her, lie stead he remained around the house ‘This afternoon he went to bed. Her little daughter Mary and his three-year- old son Herman were playing about the room when rockstadt came In, Accord: ing to Mary, this is what happened Papa was on the and Mr. Brock- [stadt went up to him and sald; “W ald y do to that Mette woman?” ine sald: ‘What little woman? You Hattie?” Mr. Brockstadt sald ‘Yea. and papn r. Broc ndt grabbed and dragged him onto him in the face with a lot of times and then shot me pa the his him. Gind He Killed Himnelt. Mary was taken to the hispital he saw her mother r that Brockstadt had it’ was the woman's have not that ck of the tripl they presume it was jeal ‘ woman witch led Brockstadt to quarrel not only with the husband but with her tor New York City fair and coolers winds becoming Friday fair; worth and fresh, a eee ween Business Hours, ny Spectal Inara New ives Chicago 8.05 A. a., i York the told him he didn't know what he} a him i n't Know what hi such that I can keep the promise. “Will you kindly tell me how 1 He does not know that it would induce men to go to work, but thinks it would nt. The conference was confined to statements by Gov. Odell and ators Penrose and Quay. The operators had nothing to say. can give this assurance to the men to see mast effective? Your truly, ald in restoring amicable relations CH ‘As to suggesting means of assuring PORGE TED Aa RR eta the men steady: work Father Nagel will Father Nagel, who has been In this| suggest posting of notices at the col- \\elty forty-four years and In close touch | }jerles offering {t PAL CONFERENCE “MOST UNSATISFACTORY”—PENROSE _ Senator Penrose. who was present at the coal conterence in Mr, Piatt’s office. left for Pottsville, Pa.. late this afternoon. he said to The Evening World that he did not know whether there would be another conference to-morrow or not, but that no arrangements had been made for one. Just before leaving the city Senator Penrose notified a iriend in Philadelphia that the conference had been “most un- satisfactory.” Se DEVERY GETS INTO TAMMANY HALL TO-NIGHT. It was announced at Tammany Hall this afternoon that. William S. Devery would be admitted to-night at the mee f the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall, instead of being kept out until Jan. 1, as was expeted, he will be welcomed and made to feel at home with the one leaders. nr ene TAMMANY’S LATEST SLATE FOR JUDGES. li was reported late this afternoon that Tammany’s latest clate for Justices of the Supreme Court contained these names: E, D. Amend, Vernon M. Davis and Edward McCall. 004-0 —— ——— WANT TO CONDEMN HALL OF RECORDS. The Department of Buildings tis afternoon applied to Jus- tice Leventritt in the Supremé Court for an order condemning the old Hall of Records as unsafe and dangerous. The Justice held the matter over until to-morrow. nee LATE RESULTS AT WORTH. Fifth Race—C. B. Campbell 1. Money Muss 2. MeGyle 3. Sixth Race-—Scotch Plaid 1. Obstinate Simon 2, Compass 3 AT ST. LOUIS. Fiith Race—Van Verde 1, Pennant 2, Caelana 3. by Sixth Race—W. B. Gates 1, Linden Ella 2, Zazel 3. (morning, safd tuls afternoon that he believed the beginning of the During the meeting the operators and the Republican statesmen em~ f gaged in earnest arguments, which at times could be heard far above the rumble and roar on Broadway. pe | Those who composed the operators’ party were E. B. Thomas, Chaire Bis. | man of the Board of Directors of the Erie; Presidents Fowler, of the New | York, Ontario & Western; Truesdale, of the Delaware & Lackawanna; Oly+ phent, of the Delaware & Hudson, and John Markle. : “We arc here,” said Mr. Thomas, “out of courtesy to the senior Sénator No plar for strike settlement has been from the State of Pennsylvania. submitted to us.” GOV. ODELL'S SPEECH. | Upon their arrival at Senator Piatt's office the operators were escorted. | to the room in which ihe Senators and Goy, Odell were awaiting them. After a few moments, when all were seated, Gov. Odell got up and made & ~ speech. | He outlined the effect that the strike has had upon Republican politics | and assured the operators that the tome had come for a settlement. Goy. Odell toox pains to say that he was speaking at the request of the two Senators from Pennsyiva After Gov. Odell, Quay talk to the operators, who listened with the deepest attention. MITCHELL'S MEN TALK TERMS. President Mitchell, of the Mine Workers’ Union, called District Presle ats Duffy, Fahey and Nichols to his room in the Ashland House at 2.80 — ai and Senator Penrose made a long Senator a o'clock this afternoon and submitted to them the propositions that were y and last night to end the coal strike. 4 made to hin: to-de “Mother” Jones. the venerable strike leader of the anthracite regions, allod into the conference ure of tne advances made to Mr. Mitchell by the political and Neither was also rhe businoss interests that are aeeking to end the strike Is not known, Mr. Mitchell nor any of those inte tod would talk about them. the District Presidents into conference Mr, Mitchell had | Before cyilin ) persons at various points throughout the conveying ‘to long distance telephone talks 9 ders, anthracite regions, supposedly the absent district | oy . > 24 ” CONDITION THAT CAN END THE STRIKE, lon is this: If President Mitchell can secure from the opefs > of every demand made by the Shamokin Convention he can 6 information regarding the proposed plan of settloment, Tho con ators a &! call’ off the s neasure is being ce jeubmit ft to the District Pres t rike ard order the men to work at once. If any compromise (7) sidered Se has no authority to act upon It, He musts ts and if they think it well it 1s for @ to call a convention to vonsicer the question. ‘This convention could not meet and determine its line of action im Pag fa than two weeke. Mosea N. Solomon, the Chicago lawyer who called on Mr. Mite ‘the strike was in sizht. » al The distinguished gathering of statesmen that considered the strike all day in Senator Platt's office dodged ire ae = - ee ,