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~ HOWLETUS | ANE COL ATS7 TON Jales Agents Say that Re- tailers Can Sell It at that Price and Make a Good Profit. 115,000 MEN NOW AT WORK. Most of the Mines Start Up and Are Busy Again—More Jobs ’ Than Men to Fill Them— Accident in One Mine, ‘The sales agents of all the coal roads were simply flooded to-day with orders, not only from retail dealers but from Jarge consumers who wanted to cut out the exorbitant prices of the retailers and deal directly with the operators. If the retailers show any disposition to gouge the public, the operators, it Is said, may break thelr lnes by selling direct, The scramble for fuel 1s going to be @o great as soon as the new supply gets here that the agents have decided, after supplying the public institutions and the hospitals, to distribute pro rata what ig left according to the trade which the Gealers have done in the past. That fs to say, a man who has done a $50,000 business will get only half as much coal as will go to one who has done a $100,- 000 business. Why $10 a Tonp ‘There has been no change tn the eire@lar price and there will be none. Retallers will get coal at $4.50 a ton, Mr. Eddy, of Dixon & Eddy, agents for the Ontario & Western, sald to-day: “Inasmuch as the September circular Price of coal will be the price of the frewhly mined coal, I can't see where the retail dealers can possibly charge #10 a ton. The wholesale rate will re- main at $4.50." H. G. Ely, agent for Coxe Bros, & Co, who mine thelr own coal and whip it here over the Lehigh Valey Foad. said: “I can't say posit{vely that the price ef coal won't go above $4.50, but it tertainiy won't go over $5. At that price the retailers can charge a rea- @onable amount and make a profit.” Profit at $7 2 Ton. Ward & Olyphant, agents for the Delaware and Hudson, sald: “At $7 the retailers should make a fair margin of profit. The Delaware and Hudson will certainly not change its circular rice of $4.50 a ton” P. B. Hellner, of the Lehigh and ‘Wilkesbarre Company, agents for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, eald: “No advance has been contemplated. The price will be the same as last year at this time. Of course there {s coal coming in over the Jersey Central which we do not mine, It Is sold to speculators by some of the independent mines for $ a ton and brought here at their expense.” None of the freshly mined coal has reached this morket yet and will not certainly until Saturday afternoon, —_s—_ MINERS CAUGHT IN AN EXPLOSION, SHAMOKIN, Pa., Oct. 23—In reopen- ing tho Alaska shaft, owned by the Phitadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, to-day, an explosion of gax occurred as Robert Mowney and Aaron Dreher walked into No, 1 slope, ‘The men were blown about twenty feet and were badly burned about the head and face. The gas cxtended deeper into the mines and a rescuing party removed the two victims. ‘All the other persons in the slope escaped without Injury. There was * much gas still In the mine, which was aloged down for the day. genes 115,000 MEN GO BACK TO THE MINES. {Special to The Evening World.) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 23.- Work \ t was resumed this morning at the coller- fes, which have been Idle since May 12, and some 1F,000 men went back t. work. At a few of the mines men were engaged making necessary repairs and the full force will be taken on in them as soon as possible. ‘The operators plan to rush coal out as fast as the miners can do it. All men who can work and for whom places can be made, will be engaged, Many of the mines will work with a Wouble shift night and day in order to vertake the demand for coal, Gome of the men are making decided wbjections because they have not been @iven their old places and find none union men in them. ———____ Miolent Hands Busy in Lexington. LLEXINGTO: Ky., Oct. 2%—In a charge to special Grand Jury Ciroult Judge Parker sald: “If every spot where men have fallen by the hands of violence were marked by a Lexington would resemble a olty dead a# much as @ city of the ~TDEATH PERIL RICH HOE Robert Heitermeyer, His Whole Family and Guests Narrowly Escape with Lives, Threat- ened with. Asphyxiation. A KITCHEN RANGE LEAKED. The Millionaire and Some Friends, Who Had Just Returned from Europe, Were Staying in the Ho- boken Home of the Host. Robert Heltermeyer, millionaire leath- er manufacturer, his bride of a year and their three guests are recovering from partial asphyxiation in his Ho- boken residence, in which they narrow- ly escaned death, 7 Mr. Heltermeyer was so seriously af- fected that he was unable to leave his room to-day, and one of his guests, Miss Dorothy Armstrong, of Philadelphia, is confined to ber bed. Dr. Grew, of Hudson street, Is in attendance, and pays all will recover. Miss Armstrong, her sister, Miss Grace, and thelr aunt, Mrs, Ernberg, have just returned from a pleasure trip to Paris and are stopping for a few days with their friends, the Helter- meyers, In thelr handsome new real- dence, No. 88 Hudson street, Hoboken. How Accident Happened, ‘The leakage was caused by the break- ing of a rubber washer in the big g19 range, which had just been put In the kitchen, Mrs. Ernberg arose at 3 o'clock this morning and was barely able to reach a window. She managed to raise it and refreshed by the fresh air, aroused Mrs, Heltermeyer. Then she fainted. Mrs. Heitermeyer got to the street with ‘difficulty ‘and called Policeman Meyer, with whose help she returned and raised all’ the. windows, ‘The. Un- conscious persona were then revived. Mra. Heitermeyer’s Family, ‘Mrs. Hyitermeyer was formerly M! Bessie Sihith, of Hoboken, and js a daughter of City Treasurer Smith, who is also very wealthy. BOSS PLASTERER SEND ULTIMATUM, Refusal to Advance Wages May Cause Strike of the Entire Building Trades. The Doss. plasterers “to-day issued a statement td the public in which they Tefuse to advance the wages of thelr employees from $5 to %, as demanded by the 1,700 men now on etrike. ‘This may precipitate a calling out of the en- tire butlding trades. “To submit to the men would mean the entire disorganization of our busi- neas and the leaving of the direction of our affairs to the workmen,” said Presi- dent James Thompson, who with an executive commitize of four drafted the statement. “Judging by past expert- ences a dasie of settlement cannot be reached except by arbitration.” Under the constitution ot the Opera- tive Pldwterers' Soclety only one boss 1s permitted to go into a single bulld- ing—making it necessary for him to per- form both the ornamental and plain plastering, Formerly the latter was sub-let, and thts is the principal bone of contention, as a great deal of the ornamental plaster {s made by non- union workmen. The bosses declare that only last April they advanced the wages of thelr men from $4.50 to % under a promise from the men that they would sign an agree- ment to stick by these wages for an elght-hour work day. Before the agree- ment was drawn up, however, the men demanded $6. LINERS DELAYED BY COAL STRIKE North German Lloyd Officials Will Sue Operators for De- murrage in Cansequence. Ocean steamships are sadly affected by the coal strike, Vessels are sailing on the principal lines from twelve 9 thirty-six hours behind their schedules f ‘ against on acemate ne 4 eral suits have been brought coal companies In consequence. The White Star Hner Cevic shoud have sailed at 8 A. M. on Tuesday. Owing to delay in getting coal the ship was held until 1230 P, M. yesterday The North German Lloyd steamship Aller was twenty-five hours late in gct- ting away for the same reason. should have sailed at 10 A. M. Saturday, but did not cast off until 11 A, M, Sun- day. The Grosser Kurfuerst, of the same line, was twenty-six hours late in sail- Ing. Suits have been brought against the Berwvnd-White Coal Company by the Lloyd officials for demurrage on ac- count of the delay, * The Oceanic, of the White Star line, was not filly coaled when her sailing hour arrived yesterday and the work was completed wnue the vessel was be- Ing warped out of the dock. ROOSEVELT COMING NOV. 11. President Roosevelt has sent a letter | { Friend, cross-examined. to the New York Chamber of Commerce accepting the invitation to attend the annual dinner of the Chamber of Com- merce, Nov. LL. The acceptance of the Invitation was admitted at the Chamber of Cominer to-day, but the President's letter was not made public. je. It| SAW HER RIVAL IN A VISION. oe Jennie Blasco in Court Faces Contractor Sloane, She Sues for $25,000, and His Beautiful Wife. TELLS HER TALE IN TEARS. First Met tne Rich Bullder on a Wet Night on Broadway, and for Years Trusted In an Alleged Promise of Marriage. | Miss Jennie Blasco, who asks $25,000 damages from William J. Sloane, a wealthy contractor, of No, 222 West Fifty-elghth street, because of his al- leged breach of promise to marry her, solemnly made tn April, 1899, as a climax to a courtship extending through thir- teen long years. took the stand before Justice Levintritt in the Supreme Court this morning and with deep emotion told the story of her shattered romance. Weeping Bitter Tears, Miss Blasco, a tall, graceful woman, dressed in mourning and heavily yelled, was accompanied to court by two very pretty young women and her counsel, Abraham Kaffenber, of the firm of Howe & Hummel. She was pale and seemed very nervous, and constantly sought relfet from smelling salts. Be- fore Justice Leventritt convened court Miss Blasco broke down several times and wept silently, her two companions exerting every effort to soothe her. Shortly after Justice Leventritt took his seat on the bench the defendant, who is a stockily built man, entered the court-room with his wife, whom he married about two years ago, shortly after the suit was brought against him. Mrs. Sloane, who 1s a really beautiful woman, was also dressed ail in black and heavily velled. She sat by her hus- band and her dusband’s lawyer, Mr. Friend, hardly six feet from Mise Blasco, There was a striking contrast in the bearing of the two women. The plaintiff, with vell down, hung her head, and seemed to exert every effort to con- trol her emotion. Mrs, Sloane entered the court-room jJauntily, and upon altting down raised her vell and beamed upon her surroundings. Story of Broken Faith, The plaintiff! was called to the stand and told her story in a volce broken with sobs, “I met Mr. Sloane,” she sald, ‘one dark and story night fifteen years ago, I was walking along Broadway alone and had no umbrella. He gallantly offered to share his with me, and in this way our friendship began. He called on me frequently and took me to theatres and other places of amuse- ment. After he had made a number of pas one was tee USS EN eEy age and was lying at No. 242 West Twenty-third atree! gsked me to marry him. I told him that T would have to think the matter over, Finally he pres. me so hard and seemed 90 sincere in his affection that I accepted.” Here the witness's emotion overcame her and she was unable to continue. Mr. Sloane eeemed very much amused at the plaintiff's distress. She finally mana; to control herself and went on to tell of the defendant's constant at- tentions. When she recalled his caresses and words of endearment she broke down completely and sobbed aloud, The plaintiff, finally regaining calm, told of ‘nursing the defend throuigh'a long period of Mine Promise of Marria, “He told me I never would regret my devotion,” she continued, “and told me again and again while he le helpless in his bed that we would acon be united for life."" ‘Mr, Kaffenberg interrupted the plain- tiff's. story to offer In evidence the fol- lowing letter, written to Miss Blasco by Mr. Sloane eight years ago. ‘Dear Jen: T received ir wel- come letter and, as T have Ittle time will write you a few Ines. I am getting! along nicely, here, only found time hangs heavy’ on my hands. I am_ not used to doing nothing and begin to think {tts pretty hard work. “Expect to be home about the tenth of April and will be glad to see you for It Is as Finke says, I have a whole lot of girls and take them to the balls I can’t find any one like yourself and will hold on to you unt!l you shake me. I think now I made a mistake I didn’t bring you along. A couple of: hundred, more or less, wouldn't make any difference. ell, what a lot of nonsense I am writing, but it at least shows you I am thinking of you. Hoping you are well and happy and that we will meet soon, yours WILL." Seven ¥ After He Met Hi ‘The leter was written by the defend- ant while he was in Hot Springs, Aries in the summer of 1898, about sevenl years after is first meeting with Miss Blasco, you see the defendan: 18992" asked Mr. Koffenberg | ABTHL “Yes,” replied the witness, her ips quivering and her eyes Alling ” with tears, ‘the came to me one day that month and he waid ‘Jen, we will be mar- ried in Beptember and ‘then we will not part again’ We went to Sheephead Hay in September and made all our pre- paratfons to marry, but he was com- pelled to suddenly ‘go away for some time, When he returned he seemed as affectionate as ever.” “Then In 1900 he did not come to see mo for a long time. I had not heard of any other woman, but I had a dream that he was belng married to another. I asked him about It and he sald yeu, he was going to be married. “Oh, Wilt T sald, ‘what then will become of me? ‘I can’t help ft, Jen, he sald, ‘I have brought this woman to our ‘family and they wan't me. to marry her.” ‘Why have you not taken me to meet your family? I asked. He replied because hie father objected to Finally he sald desperately, ‘Well, I will bring her to see you and you can settle the matter between yourselves But he never brought her,” sald the witness, tearfully, "and went .out of my life completel, “pid you ever have any other offers of marrlage ence your engagement to Mr. Sloane?” axked Mr, Kafferberg. 4 Other Om “Yes, I had two," responded the wit- ness, “one from ‘Frank Goodwin and one from William Moore, but I had given my love and promise to ste Bone, and refused thelr offers.” . “Did Mr. Sloane offer to compromise the suit?” asked Mr. Kaffenberg “Yes, he offered me a thousand dollars and told me that If T-would not he would bring Witnesses to prove hee [1 was blackmailing him and that T was a bad woma Mr. answer and the court it to go on the record. Edward Hytnes, associated with Mr would not allow; “You' wel a widow when you met { Mr, Sloane?” be ‘vember, About thirty-aine. Ie {t not true that you were once a er, “or fortune-teller, and that in No- : 189, you were convicted before Whom} Friend objected to Miss Blasco's! THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1902. CONTRACTOR SLOANE AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE LISTENING TO MISS BLASCO'’S TALE ¥ We So urs: — Mrs w/eanie Blasco- Magistrate Deuel of the mistemeawpr of fortune-telling. The witness replied that the charge was for allowing fortune-telling In her house, She admitted that she was ar- reste? and taken before Magistrate Deuel and put under $1,000 ball for good behavior for six mo®s, Mr. Sloane went aurety on her bon “It was at the time of your arrest that you had the dream?" asked Mr. Hymes Dreamed of Another Woman. was a prophetic vision “Before you had that dream or vision,”* asked Mr. Hyams, “didn't you nave an idea, because of Mr. Sloane's continued absences, that he was going to wed an- other?” No," replied the witness, “Is ‘It not true,” asked Mr. Hymes, “that at one time you were arrested tor disorderly conduct?” Admits the Arrest, Yes, sobbed the witnes —a pail fell down in my yard and hit a woman on—the head—she sald—I did of B.". “Who was this William Moore?" “He was a friend of mine for many years,” Did_ you ever go to the theatre alone with Mr. Moore after you were engaged to Mr. Sloane?” Yes, untill Mr. Sloane told me that he did not t m@ to go out with any other man, Mr. Sloane, when called to the stand, sald that, Instead of offering Miss “at one time | Blasco his umbrella on the stormy night of thelr meeting, he was accosted b her and invited to her house. He test{- “No," replied Miss Blasco @rmly, ‘‘T)!t—and had me arrested. I pald a fine | fed that when he told her he waa going had the dream two monthe later, and {t| to be married she suggested that he pay CLOSE UPA AM, All-Night License for the Dela- van Refused on the Report of Capt. Walsh, of the Tender- loin Police Station. Thomas O'Rourke, the well-known sporting man, will have to close his plage, The Delavan, at No. 1451 Broad- way, every night at 1 o'clock except Saturday night, when ft will have to be closed at midnight, and remain closed until Monday morning. This is because of the refusal of Po- lée Commissioner Partridge to renew Mr. O'Rourke's all-night license, It wa learned at Hgadquarters to- day that the applicatidn Tor an all- night Hcense had been refused be- cause of the report of Capt. Walsh, of the Tenderloin precinct, to Inspector Brooks, and that the place would have to remain closed except during legal hours until Nov. 8, on which date the application may be renewed. spector Broke this morning ad- mitted having received the report that the Delavan was not a fit place for an all-night Icense from Capt. Walsh and having made such a report to Com- missioner Partridge, and the Inspector added: “I intend to close up every such place in the Tenderloin if I think {t R to-day, but he falled to Influence Com. missioner Partridge. ——$—$_$_—_— Ex-Congresnman Bagley Dead. CATSKILL, N, Y., Oct. 23—John H. Bagley, a former Member of Congress, dropped dead to-day, as he was entering the Catskill Nattonal Bank, of which [he was a director. He was prominent [in village affairs, being a trustee at the time of ‘his death. “In early life he was @ steamboat man on the Hudson River |and commanded several vessels, He was seventy-five years of age. MARSHALL FIELD WON'T MOVE HERE “Chicago Is a Good Enough Home for Me,” Says the Mill- ionaire Merchant Prince. Marshall Field, the millionaire mer- chant of Chicago, who arrived on the Majestic from Liverpool to-day, denied positively that he would build a house here on his Fifth avenue property. |. “My home will remain in Chicago," he sald, “and I have no Intention of ever coming to New York to live Mr. Field, who has been apending lthree months at Kissengen for t |baths, added that trade relations be- |tween this country and Germany were | now excellent. "On the same steamship with Mr. Field was Mrs, Ole Bull, who has been. in {mourning for two and a half years. She jas present at Bergen on May 1; when the statue of her husband was unveiled. She will spend the winter at Cambridge, Mass. GOODELLE IS REAPPOINTED. | Court of Appeals Again Names Head | of Law Examining Board. ALBANY, Oct. %.—Willlam P, Good- elle, of Syracuse, was to-day reappoint- ed by the Court’ of Appeals as a mam- ber of the Hoard of Law fxamtners for a three-year term at a malary of $2,500, | Mr. Goodelle originally was appointed to the board, of which he ts the Preal- dent, for @ one-year term, and twice has been reappomted for a three-year term. $$ One bundred years ago the popu | tation ef New York City was 60,483. To-day the patd daily. New York City circulation enjoyed by The World tn ON WSPIRATION, Editor of Musical Paper, Sued by the Composer, Says Plain- tiff Writes His Compositions to Order. HE HAS NO MASTERPIECES. “Inspiration,” He Say: js the Spirit of Genius”—He tells the Jury that a Brass Band Can't Play Famous Men's Works. In continuation of the trial of the sult for Ibel of Victor Herbert against the Musteal Courier before Justice Truax in the Supreme Court to-~day Mark A. Blu- menberg, proprietor and editor of the Musical Courter, was called. He was examined by Mr. Haines, an associate of A. H. Hummel, counsel for Herbert, He said Herbert had never written any music worthy of being played by a symphony orchestra, and that there was a great difference be- tween the leader of a brass band and ; the director of a symphony orchestra, which played masterpieces. No muster- piece, he said, could be written to order, as ninety-nine out of one hundred were the result of inspiration “What {a Inspiration?” he was asked. “The genius of mvate,” he answered, “There are isolated cases of where pre- ludes to pleces already written have been composed by request, but they aro very rare." WENT ON THE ROOF TO KILL HIMSELF: John Tripken, Tired of Life, Left His Room, Climbed Through a Scuttle and Shot Himself. John Tripken, of No. 739 East One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, was found dead on the roof of his home to-day. He had committed sulcide by shooting. Tripken had been missing from his home for twenty-four hours, He had climbed to the roof and olosed the scuttle after him when he made up his mind to kill himself. A few moments before the discovery of the body the police were notified that he was missing and a general alarm had been sent out. A member of his family, after the house and the neighborhood ha} been thoroughly searched, thought of the root and forced the scuttle So far as in known the sound of the shot that ended Tripken’s !ife was not heard by any one In the house ———— O'ROURKE'S MUST ‘HERBERT'S FOE {CLERK ACCUSED OF CONCEALING THEFT Alexander Walters Arrested for Alleged Complicity in Steal- ing Big Stock Certificate. Alexander Walters, a clerk for Ames, Swan & Co,, No. 25 Broadway, was ar- ralgned in Centre Street Court to-day charged with complicity in the theft of a 100-share stock certificate of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Bt. Paul Rallroad from his employers last April. Allan 8. Hedges, a bookkeeper of the firm, was arrested at the time and is now in the Tombs awaiting trial, Walters is alleged to have been cog- nizant of the theft, The main purpose of his arrest is sald to be to make cer- |tain the case against Hedges, whose trial is to come up shortly. Hedges, it is alleged, stole the certif- cate and borrowed $5,000 on it from Zimmerman & Forshay, who thought he was getting tne money for Ames, . Instead of giving it to them he eltipped, but was caught. Walters lives at No, 1450 Sixtleth street, Brooklyn, and is twenty-elght years old. TROOPS WOUND RIOTERS. French Cavalry Charge Mob of Strikers in Dunkirk, France. DUNKIRK, France, Oct. 23—A mob of striking dock laborers to-day set fire to the barrels of ofl and other goods on the quays, and also set fire to the house of a mine owner, Further serious strike disturbances occurred at Dunkirk to-day. Barricades were erected and the cavalry was com- pelled to charge the rioters. Some of the latter were wounded. Martlal law has been prociatmed at Dunkirk. SEWED AN INSANE WOMAN IN BLANKET Unusual Methods Had to Be Adopted to Remove Mrs. Fitz- simmons to Bellevue. In order to transfer Mrs, Helena Fitz- simmons, of No. 25 Vandam street, from the Presbyterian Hospital to an am- bulance which was to take her to Belle. vue, it was fc sew her up In dnecessary to-day blanket. pies The woman, who Was Violently insane, fought Dr. Briggs, of the Presbyterian Hospital, and Policeman Waddell, of the East Sixty-seventh street station, until they had to call for assistance. A's they had no straitjacket in the hospital or ambulances, they with great dimeuley wrapped a blanket about the woman and sewed it up. The woman's head, ahe t into ambulance, the only of her body visible, 8, Nites! ns was several days ago taken by and, John, to Dr, Josephine a's ‘private sant: tartum a 68 East Seventy-ntth gtr up to that time, been treated by Dr ntew, of No. 43° West Thirty-eighth stre Sh in the sanitarium f the East Bixty- were notifie:!. Policeman Wadd the hou doh from th excess over that of any other paper ‘would popetlate the city of that date. the check line and hung to it while the lift went to the bottom and wi completely wrecked, 4 QUICK ACT SAVES LIFE. woman the hospital quietly, but od a short Ume after her arriyal there she J such a rumpus that It was finally Joseph Bergen, an employes in tha|“ecided to transfer her to Bellevue, automobile establishment at No, % West Hanon Ronen’ Sixtieth street, 1s congratulating himself] Hanna Keaumes fils Tour, on the narrow escape he had from) EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 23.—Senator denth while taking two machines down| Mark Hanna began his tour of Indtana | = oom in the elevator|/here on schedule Ume this morning from the storage room in the clevator tithe Senator appeared tn “kood health, 49) DR ORTOATE - 5 with the exception of his ever-present oe ee he ted ene was some: | Fheumatism, He spoke in the open alr thing the matter with It. Tesank rap-/ at Witlard Market, where | he | was ldly, and to save himscif he clutched greeted by I people, many of the ‘ factories in the city aaving closed for SAYSCLEWS 060 SABUCKET HOP Woman Lost $5,000 in Stock Transaction and Sues for Permission to Examine the Books of the Firm. BLACKMAIL IS CHARGED. Franklin Bartlett, Banker's Lawyer, Grills Her Attorneys and Says Action Should Be Probed by Bar Association. Col, Franklin Bartlett, counsel for erry Clews, the banker, delivered in Justice Hall’ spart in the Supreme Court day a scathing arraignment of the law firm of Woods, Barnes, Dean & Callagan, attorneys for Mrs. Nellie C. Adams, who {s suing the broker for $5,- 00, alleged to have been deposited by her with the firm of Henry Clews & Co. for margins on certain stock transac- tions, Col. Bartlett in opposing a motion to compel the banking house to deposit thelr books with the County Clerk for inspection, charged the woman's attor- neys with having mado false and livel- ous statements in their papers, for which thelr conduct should be drought before the Bar Association and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. She Makes Grave Charge. Mrs. Adams alleges in her complaint that between Nov. 12, 1900, and Ma: 1901, she depostted with Henry Clews Te Co. $5,000 to protect her margins In tho Purchase of certain stocks. She de- clared that the firm was not doing a legitimate brokerage business, but, on the contrary, were and are still a “buket shop,” engaged solely in gambling, and that they did not buy or sell stock for their customers or victims, but merely recelved and registered thelr orders and took chances of paying them their Frofits and pocketing their losses. The banking firm deny all Mra. Ad- ams‘s allegations except as to the de- Posit of $5,000, which, {t Is alleged, was wiped out by her injudictous speoula- tions, against which she was advised by the firm. ‘Mrs, Adams's counsel, in applying to Jvatice Hall for an Inspection of the firm's books, stated that they would be satisfied to have the books examined at the offices of the defendants. They declared that they desired to see by the coks whether Mrs. Adams's deposit of $5,000 was really exhausted. ‘They urged that they had maie every possible effort to learn whether it was ‘true that Mrs, Adams's deposit was ex- hausted but had falled. Col, Bartlett said such action would suspend the firm's business. “There is no merit in this applicatton,”’ de paid. “and if this sort of thing is to be allowed on a blackmailing action Itke this there will be no end of such prac- tice. ‘This woman made a contract with the defendants and the market went against her, and she then hired a firm of attorneys to bring a suit against her brokers,”" “We are not to be intimidated by this Kind of business. We are not settling any blackmailing suits, and we will not be blackmailed into paying this woman one dollar, Your allegations are worth- less, because you would not dare to publish them except in the shape of a complaint or affidavit, because you would have been criminally prosecuted for Ilbel if you did. “Is it @ proper thing for a firm of attorneys to put libellous statements in a co! int inst a firm highly re- scted in business for years? “The contract made by the plaint has no bearing on the action. Pri hy merely @ fighting excuse to search for what does not exist. “I think the attorneys who represent Mrs. Adams should be sent to the Bar Association or the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court," continued Mr. Bartlett. Lawyer Callaghan retorted that Col. bad case, had re- Bartlett, tryt: a sorted to yelling blackmail’ and had had a adopted this expedient. Justice Hall said {f counsel right to examine the 8 of Henry Clews & Co. they should be allowed to do so despite what Col. Bartlett sald, Justice Hall reserved decision. YOUNG'S FRIEND ROBBED CHURCH? Schweitzer, Intimate of Mrs. Pulitzer’s Slayer, Accused of Stealing Chalice. Fred Schweitzer, an electrician, of No. 06 West Ninety-first stret, this city, a friend of Willlam Hooper Young, the murderer, was arrested on a charge of grand larceny in stealing a golden chalice from the Church of the Sacred Heart, at Stapleton, S, I, and this morning held {n $50) ball to await exam- ination on the charge. Schweitzer was released on ball, his bondsmen being two men and a woman, who, from their elegant appearance, are wealthy, In an alleged “fence,” patronized, the pollee say, by Schweitzer, the chalice was found, among other articles, Dis- Attorney Jerome set about con- x this chalice with the one re- ported stolen from the Church oft the Sacred Heart, at Stapleton, 8. I. It ts said that Jerome secured a confession from Young revently, which Impltcated Schweltezer with the theft of the yalu- able chalice, and yesterday afternoon Detective Summers was sent out to ar- rest Schweltezer, trh ec CRIPPLES: BRINGS L Petition of Little Sufferers warded by The World Elic Promise from Famous Sur geon to Visit New York. OPERATES FREE OF CHARGE. & Viennese Bone-Setter Will Treat Helpless Children and Will Be Entertained by Best-Known Men of Profession in This City. Surgeons of this city were gratified te day when they learned that Dr, Lorens, the famous Viennese bone setter, i coming to this clty to treat crippled children free of charge. The announos- ment came In the following letter: Chicago, Ill., Oct, 2% To the Pdltor of The World: I have received the petition signed by crippled children of New York, and I answer in all heartiness “Yes.” ‘The question of payment in money Ia, not one which I have considered her® in Chicago, and I shall not consider it in New York, T shall be In your city for one week after I return from St. Louis and San Francisco, I shall see the crippled children of the poor then and shall treat them free of charge. ADOLPH LORENZ. Since receiving his $100,000 fee for com Ing to this country to treat the little daughter of J. Ogden Armour, Dr. Lorenz has been giving his services free to the poor children of Chicago, and bis successful clinics have attracted the ate tention of the best surgical talent of this country. Famous Men Look and Learn. Men who were highest In thelr profes sion have been glad to watch the opera tions of this famous specialist and learm of him, Dr. Lorenz will arrive here on Nov. & and will conduct his operations at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, at Forty-second street and Lexington avenue, In a letter to Dr. Virgil Gibney, superintendent of the hospital, he says: “I will.place myself in the hands of the hospital authorities and make such demonstrations as will please them.”* Dr. Dexter Ashley, assistant to Drm Lorenz, has also written to Dr. Gibney, Mey Hold a Reception, The latter sald to-da; “Dr. Lorenz tells Dr. Ashley that Be will surely come to New York and form operations for us. I also lke to entertain him and arrange a re ception, if that is possible with the limited time at his disposal here.” Already preparations are being made at the hospital for the coming of the distinguished guest. A number of sub- jects are being selected, and these will te turned over to Dr. Lorens. for dem onstration. In the wards there number of pages peumllas, to that of the Mttle Armour girl. Dr, Lorena’s coming was the direst, result of a petition sent to him by The World and signed by a number of crip= pled children of this city. LORENZ BREAKS GIRL'S FEMUR IN OPERATION. am CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Prof. Adolf Lorens had the frst mishap in his American experience at to-day’s clinic at Mercy Hospital, The femur of Belle Mason, on whom he was operating, broke while the doctor was treating her. The frac ture was accompanied with a sharp report that was heard distinctly all over the amphitheatre. Prof. Lorenz stopped the operation at once and sald the: accident was the tenth that had occurred In the course of his caring for more than 1,000 cases of dislocation of the hip. The patient is detained in the hospital, securely bound in plaster bandages. “It postponed the operation,” he said, ‘put in no way affected the ultimate outcome. In fact the patient is in bett condition than before the fracture, a there Is better assurance of her complete recovery from the deformity. STILLMAN GONE WITH HIS WIFE Gov. Murphy’s Secretary Up His Newark Home and Is Supposed to Be'in New York. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Oct 2—Claude Stilts man, the private secretary to Gov, Mun phy, whose whereabouts interest a num ber of Newark and New York people, has not returned to his duties, nor has he Visited his usual haunts tn the city, although he has been here on differen¢ occasions since Monday. Early to-day three large moving vans were backed up In front of the Stillman home at No. 8 Third avenue. Severaf moving men accompanied them, and bes fore the neighbors were aware of whag was taking place the house was destite tute of furniture and the vans were moving down the avenue, Mrs, Stillman sent the children te their grandparents in Elmira, N. ¥., and it is supposed she has joined hee husband in New York. Stillman's financial affairs in this clty have not been fully explained yet, He was heavily interested in what {s knowm, as the "So-do"’’ Company and also in @ concern organized for the purpose of res fining steel. He Invested heavily , as it was expected the Government would adopt the metal for use in the construe. // tion of warships. This proved a disap. polatment, as the Government decided” not to make use of ve the thirty minutes he remained in the ol - , When Schwelaer was arraigned be- fore Magiatrate Marsh In the Second District Court, at East Stapleton, he pleaded not guilty, and was released in 3800 ball to awalt examination one week from to-day. ‘The church, at the time the chalice was stolen, wae stripped of ali its costly service of gold. } The investigation into Stillman’s a gounts at the Murphy Varnish Goi 5 has not been completed, but it clared the concern will not thing. se tas