The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1902, Page 1

Te. ae oD \ = ae ’ } Ie ON PAGE GENERAL SPORTING NEWS 10 | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | opsen mate's PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. <A TR ATES IE EMRE TT B | PRICE ONE © DiTION el HARRIMAN WINNER 1 GUAT DEAL Railroad Magnate Gathers “In Southern Pacific and Creates a Sensation in Wall Street. GETS $12,000,000 STOCK. Routs Big Pool Led by James R. Keene, Secures Control of Vest System and Completes Country's Greatest Railroad Transaction, Edward WH. Harriman, heading the Union Pacific Syndicate, has routed the Southern Pavific pool, led by James R. Keene, and by the purchase of $12,000,000 * of the Southera Pacific stock has cured control of that system. Harriman, in acquiring an actual ma- Jority of the stock, practically com- pletes the greatest railroad deal in the history of the country. In February, 1901, the original Union Pacific syndicate paid $70,000,000 for the Southern Pacific holdings of Collis P. Huntington, the Leland Stanford estate | And the Crocker holdings. ‘That gave them control, through being the largest minority holders of 9,604 miles of railroad, owned, operated or leased by the Southern Pacific. Since then the syndicate added to its holdings until, at the inauguration of the present market crisis, it held $90,- 000,000 and was within $9,000,000 of own- ing a majority of the stock, By the purchase of the $12,000,000 ad- ditional stock this week the syndicate now owns the road. Pool Lost Millio: It was stated positively in Wall street this afternoon, that the Union Pacific syndicate had taken over the Southern Pacific. holdings of the firm so long identified with the Southern Pacific pool, It was also stated that James R. Keene had let most of his Southern Pacific stock go, but this was emphat!- cally denied, The Southern Pacific pool, in which Mr, Keene has long been the leader, has undoubtedly lost several millions of dol- lars in the recent slump, and it may now be dissolved, because, with the Yyesting of actual control in the Union ) Pacific group passes the possibility of @ stock pool doing ore than transient rallies or declines. Included {n the original Union Pacific yndioate were Edward H. Harriman, John D. Rockefeller, George J. Gould, D. O. Mills, Kuhn, Loeb & Co, and Speyer & Co., which comprises a group of the richest men in New York and the world. In connection with the big transaction it was sald that James R. Keene had quarrelled with his broker because the latter sold to the Union Pacific syndi- eate his Southern Pacific holdings, which went to make up the $12,000,000 block bought. This was also denied by Mr, Keene j And all interested as idle gossip. {| Phe price of Southern Pacific sagged a the Stock Exchange to-day and sold as low as G2 on heavy sales caused by the report that the stock pool in it had disingtegrated. , Keene Made « Boast. Shortly before Mr. Keene's return from Buropo the stock was bulled from 65 to 7%, and the day after he arrived he predicted par for Southern Paclffc within a few months. ‘Bince then the $100,000,000 bond issue proposed has been abandoned and the secuting of complete control by the Union Pacific means a postponement of dividends about a year. Heretofore the Union Pacific has con- troMed the Southern Pacific as the strongest minority holder. This, of gombinations as the Western group, and evidently Mr. Harriman and his asso- clates decided to take such steps as Would prevent, in thelr neck of the T'woods, a repetition’ of the Louisville \\and Nashville deal. ‘The entire capital stock of the South- » \\ern Pacific is $197,900,000 and as Mr. Har- n holda for the Union Pacific aout 000,000 the control cannot be taken ‘way from him. Jvat as W. K, Vanderbilt took advant- {age of the exigencies of the crisis to | take over the Western speculators’ Chi- }oago and Northwestern stock at prices $50-a share less than they paid for it. so Edward H, Harriman has fortified his position by buying control outright. Hereafter Mr, Harriman need not ait up all night to watch his railroad sys- tom, It is out of the reach of raiders and safe from the attacks of specula- tive or covetous operators, ————=—__— Courtney Back at Cornell. ITHACA, Nov. 14,—Through Coach Edward Courtney's work In preparing the Harvard 01 for their annual class races it is likely now that closer aquatic felations between Cornell and the Cambridge university will result. Courthey has returned to Cornell, where he will again take ‘up bis duties coach for the Ithacan oarsmen, ——— / } Reduced Rate to New Orleans, Pennsylvania Railroad will sell trom Nov, 1ath jat Convention of American Hard- trip Uoketa at $36.15, Ware Arnociation, roun bend Cor eleven days. cdurse, left it open to attacks by such | “SHARE PROFITS,” SAYS MR. CASSATT PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 14.—President A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsyl- yania Railroad, in urging upon the directors the advisability of making the advance in wages which has just been granted to 100,000 employees, made this remarkable statement: “The country is passing through an unexampled period of prosperity, and as far as the Pennsylvania Railroad is concerned this prosperity is bound to continue for at least two years, if contracts are kept. It is time our employees be given a share of this prosperity. All the railroads in the United States and all the employers of labor are contemplating an advance in wages. The cost of living has increased 20 to 25 per cent., but wages have not increased accordingly. “This movement is bound to come, and the Pennsylvania may as well lead as follow. We have more business than we can handle, and can't see our way out of that diMculty unless we keep our men loyal to the company and help them while they help us. I therefore recommend a flat increase of 10 per cent. in wages, and advise that the announce- ment be made to the employees first and to the public later.” FRANK KINNEY BEATS BIC FIELD Craneville at 7 to 2 Outruns Al- MORE ROADS T0 ADVANCE. WACES. President Cassatt, of the Penn- sylvania Company, Says} hambra and Ornature in Sec- Their Move Is Only a Begin-} ond Event at Bennings To- ning. Day. 3 MANY MILLIONS INVOLVED.| TRUE BLUE WINS THIRD RACE PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 14.—Forty thousand more of the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad are to benefit by the action of the Board of Directors ip authorizing an increase of 10 per cent. in the wages of its employecs. ‘The order was extended to-day to the lines west of Pittsburg, and it ts estimated that {t will cost the company more than $3,000,000, {n addition to the $4,200,000 re- quired annually to meet the increase east of Pittsburg, It ts belleved that this action will be followed by other roads, a8 in indicated {n the statement made’ by President Cassatt when he recommended the advance. The sim olved repressats 3 rer cent. on the capital stock of the Penn- sylvania and means just that much less in dividends. A similar advanc? by all the lines in the United States would put $24,000,000 Into the pockets uf the em- ployees. THE WINNERS. | FIRST RACE—Frank Kin: Slidell 2, Guesswork 3, y ty SECOND RACE—Craneville 1, Al- hambra 2, Ornature 3, THIRD RACE—True Blue 1, Mal- den 2, Dandie Belle 3. FOURTH RACE—Merry Maker 1, Grall 2, Black Dick 3, FIFTH RACH—Emshee tingalsher 2, Blackatock 3. 1, Sn- . SIXTH RACE—Witfal 1, Bondage Imaker 8, (Special to The Evening World.) RACE TRACK, BENNINGS, Noy, 14. —large fields were the rule at Bennings — | this afternoon. In the first three races | there were a total of seventy-eight en- | 3 a ———. | tries. The first race had thirty entries, but all of these could not start, be- cause the Jockey Club rule which per- mits only one horse to every four feet of track width prevented, Largo flelds are an abomination from After Being Turned Out of a Saloon and a Drug Store There were no stakes down for d jelsion and not even a handicap peared on the card. The beat race looked to be the fifth, which was for three-year-olds at seven furlongs. Hunt- ressa, Blackstock, Extingulsher, Se- tauket, Remorse, Emshee, Cornwall and others were engaged, The weather was cool and pleasant and the attendance was good. It picks up each day, and Saturday will prob- ; edly furnish the banner crowd of the 1 meeting. The track was in {ts usual fine shape. FIRST RACE, @ half furlongs, every point of view. Not only {s there | James Ross Went to a) ory Bangers tthe riders, but such | Church races are never run true, | ap- NOT ALLOWED TO DIE THERE. Rather than have a sulcide disgrace the stone steps leading Into St. Mon- fca's Catholfe Church, In Seventy-ninth street, Policeman Edward Burns to- day carried the writhing body of James Ross for half a block before calling an ambulance. Ross had swallowed the contents of a bottle of vermin polson. He was taken to the Presbyterian Hos- pital, Five Starters, whts., Policeman Burns, big and scrupulously | rank Kenny, ig,tandry {lpr es SY Plaee, conscientious over the custody of streets | Slidell, 107, 6 H in the vicinity of St. Monica's Church, york, 1k {ie | was dumfounded early to-day when he| Henderson pat ght apeeaas digvovered the form of a poorly dressed | Ruyike, 107, She. 181% 58 3010 man lying on the steps over which he|Ondurdin. 12, 4 Sieh ¢ 8 and his family went to worship last ‘nermian. 104, Sunday, ‘The man said he was James 8 Be Ross, ashcart driver, of No, 1497 Ave-|c 2 8 nue A, and added: : % 3 “LT have just committed sulelde,” Starter, es 8 Without a moment's delay Burns te ate ion 200 0 grabbed Ross about the walst and | Ings, 104, Bk dragged him to First avenue and then g 2 turned in a call for an ambulance. Be he Ross was found to have taken a mix- ture of benaine and naphtha. Although ) ,Frasch ° 3 2 ue ho intended to kill himself because ne | Sine, Susan, 107, soot Lie viceveee 19:19 19 Start good. Won driving. Time—t.08. Cassville made the early pace, but was passed by | Frank Kenny.’ who stayed In front to the end, winning in a drive by a head from Slidell, who was two lengths In front of Guesswork. SECOND RACE. Five furlongs, lost his position in the Street Cleaning Department last Wednesday, Rosa will not die, as this vermin poison is not fatal to a human being. He is @ pris- oner at the hospital. Policeman Burns is He sald: ‘The idea of his taking the dope on very indignent. rhers, whtr., jocks, St.HIfFin, the churen steps. He ought to get six Gannon fae a Tg" months for that alone, I am going to the seg that he gets his due, for I think he ae did 1t on purpose, Just to think of try-| sine a Gorter, i69; Se ialgalos Ing to die in front of a church after] Redfern i 3... 5 ho oe Be being thrown out of a saloon and a| MIyie Soir aT aaa eka ry Jdrug store! He must have thought the hain 10-10 Tk 6030 church was easy, but,T nabbed him in te Ye pike Jeannie Marie, 110, : . 100, Blake. 312 13 20 8 rc Motz 18 Forecast for the thirty-six Bw 2 in, 8PM. aid, 104, Walsh um Rone ending at) M. Satur 1) silver Foun, 10, Ontwi 1617 16 100 3 ¥, for New York City and f|Pine Brook, 106,’ Mor dn 1919 19 50 16 Start poor, Won ridden out, Time—t.01 1-6. jcinity: Partly cloudy to-night; turday cloudy, followed by rainy light to fresh variable winds, becoming south to east. Alhambra was the pacemaker to the stretch,sfollowed by Craneaville, Healing Salve, ‘Mennenfield and Jeanne Marie. In the run home Cranesviile raced to the (Continued on Tenth Page.) ce To Care # Cold in One Day. An Official Stenographer Gruggiata refund the money If it fall tp guru, | ts at the. natant. command of bualneas ry 1@ mon at the mes SW. "Grove'e signature ia on each box. ‘gig'asé ‘en the Pennsylvania Bperia: ° ao ! Students and groans by the STARBER 1S SOUGHT FOR BY POLICE. Mystery Shrouds the Motive That Prompted Him to Attack Pretty Mrs, Gardi- ner,of Bath Beach. SHE TELLS QUEER STORY. Man Knocked at the Door of Her Home and When Ordered Away ‘Attacked Neighbors Who Came to Her Assistance. ‘Who was the desperate man who tried to lure Mrs. W. R. Gardiner,of Bath and Fifteenth avenues, within reach of his murderotts knife on the porch of her home on Thursday night? 0 An all-night search of the woods and swamps around Dyker Meadows falled to give any trace of the fugitive, who now stands a good chance of belng a murderer, for one of the men he stabbed in his furious di for freedom will probably die. ‘The story of the visit of the queer “unknown” was told In the following was to-day by Mrs, Gardiner: Mrs. Gardiner’s Statement. Mrs, Gardiner, who is a remurkably | pretty woman, made the following state- ment to-day to a reporter for The Even- ing World: “I was in the kitchen shortly after 6 o'clock last night with my two little step-daughters, Alva and Helen, when there was a knock at the door. Alva asked, ‘Who is there, and what do you want?’ “'l want to see Mrs, Gardiner, & voice replied, but I could tell that the speaker was trying to disguisc his voice, She Describes the Ma: “The man stood in-front-of the”hou: and I got a good look at hit He wore a Mght overcoat and derby hat and T would know him again in a crowd. He walked down past the porch where we were hidden, but he could not see us and when he had gone we rang the bell and went into Mrs, Catherwood's house. She sent for Policeman McMann, who lives down the atreat, but he was not st home and his father and brother came back. They met a Mr, Buchmueller on the way, and the three men came to- gether. “They went with me and the children to our house and looked around. Whon we came to the front again the man wan standing on the front steps. 0 stood there in plain sight, but he walked up and sald, ‘I want to see Mrs. Gardi- ner.’ “Mr, Buchmueller said, ‘What do you| want to see her about?’ and he repiled | that it was none of his business, I stood there, but was afrald to speak, and Mr, Buchmueller told him to get away from the house. ‘I came to see Mrs. Annie Gardiner,’ he sald, ‘My nane is Norah Gardiner,’ ‘At that Mr. Buchmueller tried to push the man off the steps, and they both went down together. When it seemed that the stranger was getting the better of the fight the younger Mr. McMahon ran out, I just saw the flash of a knife and Mr, MeMahon ran away, saying he tad been stabbed. His father ran out and got into the fight, and he, too, was stabbed. Frightened Them Before. Then the man broke away and fled. I am sure he ig the same man who frightened us so five weeks ago. Concerning Mrs, Gardiner's relatives and who she was before marriage a lit- tle more than a year ago there seems to be an air of mystery. Questions alons this line asked by the police are an- swered evastvely. , Louls Steffens, who lives across the street from the MoMahons, was at the Gardiner home when Mr. Gardiner re- turned home about 8 o'clock laat night. When Gardiner was told of the occur- of the night he asked If it was When his wife sald it was he said “Oh!” and went Into the house. ‘The police who are working on the case will go over the whole myatery this evening with Mr. Gardner when he returns from New York. Cam Gardner Tell? Special Policeman McMahon, the eon of the man who was revously wounded by the “Stabber,” 1s working hard on the case. He says he {s con- vinced that Mr. Gardner can tell more about the case than he hts done up to the present, ‘ Mr. Gardner is employed by the J. Ott- mann Lithographing Company, in’ Bast Houston street, and it was there that he met his wife. ’She was then a fore- woman and had been employed there for a number of years. The superin- tendent stated to-day that he knew pos- tively sho was note when she married Gardner, MRS. NATION AT HARVARD, Greet Speech Against Cigarettes and Whiskey, BOSTON, Nov. —Mrs. Carrle Ne- tion made ‘a violent attack on whiskey and clgarettes at Harvard to-day and rnat gree! with and Students, Cheers patlies atte aserac Upinck and White” the Popular Geoteh te al) right—We & geatlomen’s @rink 40 a MRS. GARDINER, OBJECT O of beginning 4 brighter era of existence WOMAN OF SEVENTY-ONE suicide this afternoon by hanging herself with a rope from the transom over the doorway of her room in her apartment on the top floor of the Ponce De Leon apartment-house at No. 1157 Lexington avenue. only been absent from the house for a few minutes. cipal of Public School No. 67, said he believed his mother was temporarily insane. Chief Clerk William B. Hillman, who was former secretary to John C. Sheehan, and William Chamberlain, former secretary of the Republican District Committee. pointed to the vacancies. made for the “good of the service.” FS TABBER’ SIRE ORPHAN CHILD SEEKS TO DIE. + Little Grace Clark Attempts to Jump from the Fourth Story of the Foundling Asylum. Appalled at the prospect of golng out &meng strangers to make her way in the world, Grace Clark, a sixteen-year- old orphan, who has lived in asylums Mince she was a baby, attempted to commit sutcide at the New York Found- ling Asylum, Third avenue and Sixty- eighth street, to-day. Only the quick intuition of one of the sisters in charge kept the little girl from hurling herself from the fourth- floor landing of an outside stairway. She was taken Yorkville Po- lice Court, where her manner and ap- pearance made such an knpression co Magistrate Mayo that he offered to Give her a position in his housenold. ‘So that after all the attempt of Grace Clark to end her life may be the means allow her to live at the asylum, but in- sisted that she should contribute some- thing toward her support, She was to have taken a new position to-day. e sisters had spoken of her to a gentlewoman, who had promised that she would do all she could to wean the orphan from her love of (ho asylum. One of the sisters was to have taken her to her new home at noon Two sisters of the Institution, pass- ing along a hallway in the fourth story, saw the Clark girl climbing through window a few » was to have been taken to her new home. They ran after her, xcreaming for us- sistance. A trained’ nurse heard their eres and Joined then The three we Junt as the ¢ the rail with to the street. ‘tr the handling of trresponsibie children they had diMculsy in reatraining ho! until Dr. Jos Dwyer camp to the ed the gel Into the to ached was elimol Intention of dus they the balcony gover aping ark & the assistance and dr house, Dr court. wh Krom to the composed. ‘ourt. the Founding ah ws World 1 pretty position, posses O'Dwyer took h pol Hen she became Yorkyille polic back to the for her, Left an orphan when a baby, the Clark girl was sent by her relatives to a found- ling asylum. Several times she was transferred, her longest period in a re- treat for orphans being spent in Spuyten Duyvil. She was transferred from this place to the New York Foundling Asy- lum six months ago because she had | grown out of the age Ilmit of the more northern institution When transferred downtown the girl was asked by the sisters to zo out and work for her own support. They of- fered to secure a position for her and girl tum she arter shld. Se TS Ee 1, nt to Kl myself," she pro All mn Je nd me i W of it | -Tsuppase | «tand how not been In charge the sist t know other pesole and Lam afraid of strangers. am IT afrald cf women who are and keep house, aly married HANGS HERSELF TO TRANSOM Mrs. Honoria O'Flaherty, seventy-one years old, committed The old woman was found dead by her daughter, who had Nirs. O’Flaherty’s son, William P. Flaherty, who is the prin- eo CHIEF CLERK REMOVED BY CORONERS. The Board of Coroners at a meeting io-day voted to dismiss Two Republicans were ap- The coroners said the changes were St LATE RESULTS AT LAKESIDE. Fifth Race—Miss Liza 1, Althea 2, Compass 3. MORCAN HOM GURING A COLD. |Financier Expected to Go to | Office To-Day, but Changed , His Mind and Transacted His | Business by Telephone. ;HE MET ALL H!S CALLERS. ‘ street was filled with rumors about J. Plerpont Morgan's e financler was absent {Wall again to-da heamh b aune t BOGUS REDS. BLACKMAIL, MILLIONAIRES Police Unearth Plot to Fleece Rich Men Through Mails by Band Posing as Nihilists, GET FORTUNES BY THREATS, Man Under Arrest Reveals that Band Is Composed of Fa- mous Criminals and Operates in Many Cities, As a result of the arrest of William Becker, a ship's carpenter on doard the steamship Americus, accused of being one of the “Russian Nihilists” who fur weeks have annoyed prominent million- aires and bankers in this and other cities by writing threatening letters, the police have extorted a confession that has put them on the trail of the boldest sang of blackmailers that ever operated in this country, ‘The man Becker, who ts not a Nihilist, made a confession to-day in which he implicated five men and gave their names. Scores of detectives have been turned loose from Pollce Headquarters cities in search of the leaders of this band. Famous Criminals in Bi At first the police thought that the writers of supposed Nihilistic letters to J. P. Morgan, John W. Gates and other millionaires were written by some mad cranks, but from the startling revel&- tions made by the prisoner Baker they have learned that the writers of these letters are some of the most famous criminals In the United States and that they have been operating successfuliy and collecting fortunes In blackaiali for months, Had these men been content to con= | fine themselves to the smaller fry, wiom they frightened with their blood curd- lng epistles into turning over small sums of money, they might have con- from his office day, He remained} it his Mad. avenue home and trans-{ acted ull his business by telephone, ft’ was reported that Mr. Morgan was] suffering fro tack of lumbago, but this was de his home Wis sad that Mr. Morgan caught a night of the banquet. but th in any wa Me haw this aft Chamber of Commerc attack was not serious intend t for his qmantity of m. | remand | MoM ably be There ing Herbert to go ature rotary uptown the day w it t nts offte, a num hie 3: and Ch Other visitors w in financial cir of a Lusiness ch to his of jock t who look # dd epont tie magnate, | h was would pro- | row of cahers at his to-day, them | ce, Mosgun's the} 2 proms | whose ealis} th among Mr, Lit m son-in-law, bank racter, KEENE AUTO IN TROUBLE AGAIN, | Millionaire's Machine Frightens Horse and Aged Farmer Is} aut * oppoelte Hallock, a farm v hit horve wax The mac road, He ¥ 1 Upped over i were t nber of the hor ine a n int ch were a frighter a dash ate The wh to boxes old the ground and fell On him. me of ‘his ribs lungs, were broken crushed into his and his c bone was broken in two pla Death in Massachuactts Fire, REVDRE, 3 Nov. 14.—William | Fullon lost his life and Edward Cotter | was severely burned at a fire in the D, & 1. Slade Company's spice mills he to-day. ‘The men were grinding 6 Sixth Race—Prima Il. 1, Satrap 2, Lady Rice 3. AT LATONIA, ifth Race—Flying Ship 1, Suburban Queen, Scottish Blue, . Sixth Race—Guide Rook 1, Flop 2, Khaki 3. ‘ % oY NM spate ses dla act cinatuabttin syivania Special. when fire burst from the machine, lon Inhaled the flames and diet. —————— — Not a Comfort Neglect Ladies maids a special feature of the Penn: ‘tures of Badly Injured by Falling Boxes | tinued thelr machinations indefinitely. But emboldened by their success they | thought that they could frighten such men as Morgan, the Vanderbilts and John W. Gates into disgorging to them great sums All of the letters which are now {a the hands of the police are signed with five names, purporting to be the signa- desperate Russian Nihilists, They are fictitious, and the real names | of the leaders of the gang are now in | the p session of the police. According to the confession made by this man Becker the gang has operated n most all of the larger cities of the and the police here have now rroboration of this atatement in let- ters received from many cities in the country, Operate in Many Cittes. Death or tife-long insanity through the agency of a subtle poison was the penalty named in their blackmailing letters for failure to send $1,000 to “C arton’ at the general delivery. practically convicted himself nrough the stratecy of Capt Captain asked him to write ‘ mate of the steamer ericus, Instvucting the mate to permit search his room fo men to The prisoner readily agreed, and wrote age. When 4 was compared to the ng the similarity was si that handwriting experts that they were me hand. been so per- that Captain men on wateh the Post-Oftice for two weeks, Their ewarded when the to the window no to show was finally jerman mail for "C. C, Barton.” Attnoked Detective. As threatened it the letters, the Ger- attacking jetectives and al- ned on the detectiv b whe hi weil When tk suid he foufted lon-house «ae. en the victim of an fn City [att P. and knew s of Russian Nintliscs © the threats made t wealtay New Yorkers, He said he me maa in tae park and after taklog sev: i drinks with him the fellow aswet nto get his mail at the Post-Omice The German was taken io the a detective, but when he could no? tor had tance he pan uc 1a mad n cial Train ( Pencet Arcoumt Yate em Prince.os (ootuall game, via Penasylvania Rairoad Leave West 23 and are now scouring this and adjoining ~