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GENERAL SPORTING NEWS "ON PAGE 6. | “ Circulation Books Open to All,’’ | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ } | ; a EDITION — PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1902. PRICE ONE CE! HOW JEROME SLEUTH GOT IN CANFIELD Detective Jacobs Relates His Marvellous Story of Adventures in the Swag- ger Gambling Houses of the Town in Disguise, A PERJURER, OLCOTT SAYS. Walbaum. and Burbridge Will Sue the District-Attorney for Breaking In and Engage Ex- Gov. Black’s Firm. Not since a messenger boy took $20,000 worth of stolen diamonds in a shoe box to the home of Detective Sergeant Val- lely, has the town been so amused as It ie at the remarkable tales of the remark. able deeds of County Detective Jacobs, the man who says he gambled In dis- guise at Canfleld’s, Ex-Judge Olcott ya Jacobs ts a persurer. Former Gov. Black has been retained by some of the gamblers who were raid- ed last Monday night on affidavits fur- nished by Jacobs and when Mr. Black gets the sleuth on the stand there ts likely to be a cross examination that will cause the judge to suspend the rule forbidding levity in court. “Old Sleuth" in his palmy days never wrote anything to equal the experiences of Jacobs—as he tells them. He carries disguises In his pockets, changes his appearance in doorways, and in general is the Ideal dime novel detective. Here Is his account of how he got into Can- Geld's—the most exclusive gambling house in the city of New York:” “i got acquainted with the gamblers tn w York through acquaintances I de at the Rossmore Hotel. I posed a man from New Mexico. I had con- sciderable money and spent discreetely. At the Rossmore I met a gambler who had the entree to Canfleld’s. He was Mat broke and we got very chummy, I told him I would give him $10 If he would take me to Canfield's. He wanted more, but I would not give it. He con- sented, and on Tuesday night, Nov, 25, we went to Canfield “A man from the District-Attorney’s office trailed me. He was about thirty feet behind, I wore a frock coat and an overcoat. I changed my black wig for @ brown curly wig. I olled it up well with vaseline and combed it nicely. I wore on my finger four diamond rings that belonged to my wife. In my Pocket I had about $200. “T had a yellow $50 bill on the outside and tens, fives and ones on the inside. ‘There was no stage money about it. It made a roll as thick as your arm. We went to the door and a negro looked out. My friend spoke to him, “"Who is that with you?’ asked the negro, “'A frend of mine.’ ‘Is he all right?” de I ear by hi “The door opened and we walked in. We went to the alcove room—the one that has the green velvet carpet. There were about twenty-five men in the room. There were at least three gembling tables in the room. The men were standing around the tables playing. “A man, who I have since learned was D. W. Bucklin, approached me. He was the manager of the place. “ ‘Have something’ he sald. ‘No, I thank you,' I replied. Well, make yourself at home.’ T'll do it." Jacobs continues that he was “right at home.” how he walked over » bought $50 worth of lost them and then lost $25 play- ing . Being in a gambling-house he had to live up to the id Sleuth” idea, All the time he was playing he kept his revolver tightly clasped in his left hand in his trousers pocket. “And I'd have used it too,” says Mr. « Jacobs, “if there had been any trouble,” Generally when 4 man has played to his Umit in a gambling house he takes a drink or @ cigar and walks out the front door, quietly and peaceably, Not bs, Here is how he I pulled out some more money as though 1 were go- ing to play, and then begun to cough. Tt was a fake cough. 1 also put my hand over my heart, 1 reeled as though 1 was disay, ‘What's the mater, partner?’ “ ‘I feel sick—I want fresh alr,’ i te- plied. “I ld this to make an excuse for get- ting. out. “The gambler who had got me in the ce had remained only a few minutes, nT went out I met the man from the Distrist-Attorney’s office who had been following me, He saw me go in and saw me go out. I was in the place three-quarters of an hovr. 1 did not meet Richard Canfield. told District-Attorne: it, There was a le: Metzger D! (pectal to The Evening World.) HACKENSACK, N. J, Dec. 6.—Ed- ward Metzger, twenty-six years, died in the Hackensack Hospital to-day of hy- @rophobla. He was bitten by a mad , every EE eae i enti and Lehigh Valley. $88,000,000, Lehigh Valley and vania, MORGAN T0 OWN COAL OF AMERICA Plans to Gobble All the Anthra- cite Fields and Consolidate Them Under a Trust with $400,000,000 Capital. BAER WILL BE ITS MANAGER. President of the Reading, Who Now Dominates the Coal-Carrying Roads, a Factor in Deal to Buy Out Independent Operators. J. Plerpont Morgan's new Coal Trust will rival the Northern Securities Com- pany. It ts to be wholly aa prodigious in scope and in some respects will outdo It. In planning the big deal the great financler has reached out for all the anthracite properties in the country worth owning, and nine coal carrying roads, The capital to be ropresented will be very near $40,000,000 and all the workings of the concern on a mammoth scale. Mr. Morgan has already chosen his Meutenants and {s ready to pay down $145,000,000 for the mines of the inde- pendent operators, He will control the huge combine as absolutely as other projects he handles and will be the real Coal King of the United States. It 1s expected that the detalls of the anthracite deal will soon be told, to- gether with the announcement that the independents have accepted “Morgan's price for their property. President (icorge F. Baer, of the Read- ing Rallroad, also head of the New Jer- sey Central, whose refusal to accept the Presidency of the Lehigh Valley put Mr. Thomas there, has promised J. P. Morgan to become head of the hold- ing company when the Anthracite Coal Road Trust {s carried through, This statement was made positively to-day hy competent authorjty. Mr. Morgan wanted Mr, Baer to assume the Presidency of the Lehigh Valley. ‘There were two things in the way; firat, Mr. Baer's refusal to take on eny @ranter burden an@ the lesser problem of a law which stood in the way. ¢ Mr. Baer !# reported to have sald to Mr. Morgan: “I cannot decept the Presidency of Lehigh Valley because I now carry as great a burden, as President of two op- erating roads, as I can oi Is “When you want me to become Presi- dent of a general corporation to con- trol all the anthracite roads, I shall be glad to accept. but I do not care to direct the individual operations of any roads other than those I now have in charge,” It is on the distinet understanding that Mr. Baer shall become the head that the new combine of coal roads is being evolved, eer NEGOTIATIONS SOON TO BE UNDER WAY. (Special to The Evening World.) SCRANTON, Pa., Dec, 6—That the Coal Trust has plans under way for absorbing al the independent coal oper- ators and removing them from the field forever 1s admitted here. ‘The collieries will then be controled entirely by the coal carrying roads. It ts estimated that the cost will be between $140,000,000 and $160,000,000. ‘The division by distri. the raflroads which would share in the distribution, the Independent output and valuation are ax fullows, Scranton—Oytput, 3,861,372 tons; value, $25,000,000, Pittston—Output, 2,070,890 tons; value, $18,000,000, Erie, Delaware and Hudson ‘Wilkesbarre—Output, — 1,620,808 ton: value, $14,000,000, Lehigh Valley, Dela- ware and, Hudson, Central Rallroad of New Jers and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Hazleton—Output, 6,354,574 ton: Schuylkill output, 6,152,890 tons; value, $60,009,000; Phitadelphia and Reading, Le- high Valley and Pennsylvania, ‘Total output this year, 18,361,408 tone; value, $145,000,000, Total output for 1901, 69,906,951 tons, A feature which would be made a por- tlon of the plan would be a saving by dispensing with the middiemen. If the entire anthracite’ fleld was in the hands of the ble companies they, acting mutual interest, could save ‘by dispel ing with the middlemen about. 925.000 4 year, It belng estimated that = vides dost the companiés close to 60 cents a ton. sorption plan, one have, understand it, been formed yet. The pperators are’tog busy with the hear- in fore the Commission, but I con- alder the absorption of the Independents a plan which will not be long in de- veloping. year, Ascommodations Bo aere anarivenla Dobelal, Lares New, Fork e-teenetsac is “lhe was talking, Senator Plunkitt en- Fy as fer as T PLATT SAIS | TAME AT FROM ALDERMEN. He Would End Tunnel Dead- | lock by Giving the Board) of Estimate Power to Act, | on Franchise, TAMMANY STILL OPPOSES. But Indications Point to Deter- mined Effort by Friends of the Measure at Meeting of the Board Next Tuesday. Senator Platt has contributed a sug- gestion for the settlement of the Penn- sylvania Railroad tunnel deadlock in the Board of Aldermen. Speaking of the matter this morning, he sald: | “I stated my position a week ago, and It has not changed. I think that if} the Board of Aldermen refuses to pass | the tunnel franchise, the charter should | be so amended that the power to act on | franchises will be transferred to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. That !s @ perfectiy constitutional propo- sition. T have never proposed that the | Legislature should grant the franchise directly, without the consent of the city, authorities.” | In this connection it ts significant that the friends of Gov, Odell at the State Republican Headquarters deny to-day that there is any friction between the Governor and Senator Platt over the | tunnel proposition. ‘They further de- | clare that Gov. Odell has not committed ‘Nimeelf to any lne of action in the mat. | ter, though he has ruled that for the| Legislature. to pase the bill over the) Hoard of Aldermen would be unconstitu- | tonal. r ce EDI Calling a Full Meeting. Every indleation now pe mination on the part of those immediute- ly concerned in the Pennsylvania tunnel | enterprise to push the franchise through | at the extra meeting of the Board of! Aldur:nen, Following close upon the reported | change of heart by Aldermen Diemer an’ Downing under pressure from the} Republican leaders in Queens, by which | it Is expected to secure a favorabie re port from the committee having the| question under consideration, comes the miber of the Board of Aldermen to- dax by City Clerk Scully: “President Fornes directs me to urge upon the members of the Board the Im- portance of thelr being preent at the meeting on Tuesday next, the §th inst, |The Committee on Railroads will in all |probabillty report {ts findings in the) | matter of the Pennsylvania tunnel fran- chise at this meetin, | ance of the members of Board {s urgent- ly requested In order that this very Im- portant qubject may receive the most careful consideration.” The change of front by Diemer and Downing converts the minority of three, Goodwin, Owens and Peck favoring the tunnel franchise, into a majority, the defection leaving only three opposing votes, Lundy, Wafer and McCall, in the committee, Tammany Will Oppose It. Tammany has tuken no part in the discussion over the Pennsylvania Rail- road franchise. “There has been no necessity for in- terference,” sald Leader Charles F. Murphy to-day. ‘No instructions have been Issued conceriing the matter." Further than that Mr. Murphy de- clined to discuas the situation. While tered and declared that he was hostile to the granting of the franchise in its present form. "The Pennsylvania Rallroad,” he said, “is a gigantic corporation which can well afford to pay the city adequately for the great privileges {t asks, It can filso well afford to admit the elght-hour clause, as a matter of good faith if Nothing else, If the matter comes up thing to say, and I guess there are many other members of the Senate who will agree with me.” Notwithstanding the suddenly changed views of the Railroad Committee, it 1s ted that the Tammany m bers of board will vote unanimou: against the franchise unless the railroad agrees to accept the eight-hour clause. Tam-!\ many Hall members of the board are willing to accept a compromise on that ‘score, all the other considerations which have been advanced being relegated to the rear. Alderman McCall outlines the position which the Tammany Hall members of the board would take thus: “If the railroad persists in refusing to accept the eight-hour clause, the franchise will be defeated, Tammany Hall controls the working majority in the board, and the Democratic members will stand to- gether in the Interests of organized labor.” Alderman Downing admits frankly that he has changed hia views and wiil yote for the franchise, but Diemer, the | 18 confessing hin change of heart. How- GETSTHE" BUDS’ fo%mwing letter, which was sent to every | Detained Cuban Children Admit- ted by Treasury Department} will Now Be Sent to the Point: The police of Mount Vernon have been FORMER SPEAKER THOMAS B. REED, PRONOUNCED BY HIS PHYSICIANS TO BE CRITICALLY ILL. NO BURGLAR FIGHT p REESE Ge ‘But There Wasa Commotion in His House, and Neighbors Wonder What It Was About, found no one in the room, and a subse- Loman Universal Brotherhood | unapie to discover that there was any] auent faaseh shroughinat the hous fated : 0 4 . y a‘ « | burglary or attempted burglary at tbe) eee atacoeiiie tees tee helo’ Nad | house of Attilio Morosini night before aroused a!l the inmates of the house, A despatch from afternoon announced Cuban children who were held up by] the Immigration authoritles at this port] “ wf when they arrived here en route to the Point Brotherhood Mrs. leader, at Albany this winter I will have some- | land, self personally wife, Mr. and a full attend | CHILDREN Loma School of Mrs, Katherine Tingle: Bpa’ they appeare: assertions. iy The littie Cubans can now go ahead fins, and worship at the feet of the Point Lomi Goddeus. Save ‘Tee Pennsylvania 1, sGontibied on Beoond Pago) __..' Hm Aide at Lil F. that Universal offictals at the capital, There was a hearing in the case to day at which counsel for the Children's Society of this clty and for Mrs. Tingley appeared and argued the question. Facts were presented concerning the character of the school, which had been held to be} balls which are attached to objectionable, and the decision was that there was, nothing about it which was likely to injure the morals of the Cuban youngsters, The decision is a great victory for Tingley and who still cling to her as the only reat When the children first came to this country from Santiggo de Cuba, representations were made to the Chil- dren's Society echool was not a fit s children, and the society made a pro-/here this afternoon of the Polytechnic kreparatory Schooi, of teat against allowing the Httle ones to Commodore Gerry interested him- in the matter and ap. peared before Immigration Commissioner Willams mission. Mrs. Tingley's friends rushed to pro- tect her name and that of th Among those who went on the stand in her behalf were A. G. Spalding and his who are believers in the tenets laid down and upheld by Mrs. Tingley. A lot of questions were asked Mr. Spaid- 7 . ; ing when he was on the stand, He wasto 5, second; Glennevis third. Time— asked abou a pet dog who was alleged ee as sei to be known as the “Purple I and to-haye a soul, something about leav grass having feelings ried. Just like real folk when the merry fell from the fourth floor of 744 Broadway and was killed. those that the to argue -against springtime comes, Iding and the other Theoso- phists denied all these things and grew very indignant about them, They said the school was eminently fit and proper. ‘They were permitted an opportunity to adduce evidence, and from this decision d to have made good thelr Aldermen were sentenced this afternoon by Judge Jolin |. Mul- ’S SOCIETY LOSES.| !**t- and Mr. Morosint denies emphat- Washington the Theosophists Polnt lace to bring up There was also and blades of id getting mar~ maira etre’ tst Railroad worvice Hanis Special leaves | dally. %o® e and for a time there was considerable excitement, A night watchman who Is employed to guatd houses In the vicinity was in front of the Morosint residence when Mrs, Morosini thought she saw a burglar and uttered a scream, The watchman, thinking the house might be on fire, blew his whistle and several policemen soon reached the house, In'the mean time Mrs, Morosini had thrown the key of the front door out of the window, and when the police- meh arrived they and the watchmen en- tered the house. ‘They found every window closed and fastened. The door was’ jocked and there was no poesible wey by which 4 burglar could have escape man sald he stood in front of the house until he and the policeman entered it, and he is therefore positive that no one ically the truth of the published story that he had a conflict with a burglar. That there was a commotiqn In the Morosini residence about midnight on Whursday is not denied, but the facts as en by both Mr. Morosini and his wife e as follows: Morosini, who occupies a bedroom with her mother, awoke about midnight and thought she heard a nolee at the had} foot of the bed. She partly arose in the y}ded ani thought she saw the form of a } man tn the room, She gave a scream, (the outcry awoke her husband, who es a room across the hall, . Morosini jumped out of bed and 1an to his wife's room, As he entered nis heed came in contact with some thie ele came out. the por-|"Gn ‘the bureau in Mra. Morosini's » € hese « 1c) in the | room there wart a sum of money = Ua SL LL EAL aa fides Various articles of Jewelry and cre, Making maleate Peele dther things of, value, and a burglar val Mr. Morosin{ turned up the lghts, but | cou:d hardly have overlooked them. HYDE PARK, 105; POLY PREP., 0, CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—The first meeting of the crack schoolboy Lom football teams of the East and West resuited in the ucica: Brooklyn, by the Hyde Pek School, of Chicago. The score was 105 to 0. The Brooklyn boys were no match for the Westerners at any department vu: i hicago lads rolled up their score with comparative ease. ALE a SN LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race—Scorpio, 9 to 5, won; Pride of Galore, place 7 4 thelr ads school " FELL FOUR STORIES AND WAS KILLED. Charles Robinson, thirty-five years old, of No; 219 Bowery, ration’ a MAYOR OF DENVER AND 11 ALDERMEN SENT TO Jan. DENVER, Col., Dec. 6.—Mayor R. P. Wright, jr., and eleven of the District Court, .to serve four, months in jail for con- empt of court:in. disregarding: the ‘ihjufction issued by Judge ullins toxre$train the enactment of an ordinante granting a inchise to the Denver City Tramway Geimpany in the form in which it was presented. fe SAYS MR. MOROSINI id. ‘The watch. | DEATH FEARED Dr. Gardner, Who Has Been Attending th | Former Speaker During His Illness at the: {Complication of Appendicitis and | Trouble Has Baffled the Physicians, for Nearly a Week Until To-Day Have A | nounced that They Had No Fears for tt Worst, 3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Dr. Gardner said late to-day that |been no change for the better in Mr. Reed’s condition from that in the bulletin issued early to-day. \ In response to inquiries as to Mr. Reed's actual condition Dr, jsald that it was extremely serious, His condition he regards as very critical. \ Friends of ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed say that the cause of Bi ness dates back to last Saturday night, when he attended the Mark. dinner in this city. He remained up until after 2 o'clock Sunday ling, chatting and smoking. He arose at 6 o'clock to take a train for | delphia, While in that city he took a Turkish bath, going on to | ton in the evening. ~ 3 | HIS FIRST ATTACK LIGHTLY REGARDED. Shortly after his arrival at the National Capital he complai pain in his abdomen. ‘Not thinking his ailment to be serious he | about his business as usual on Monday, attending the Supreme © . two hours after this visiting the Capitol Building. z It was his expressed intention to leave Washington for New York day night, but instead he went to bed rather early and sent for Dr. rn | who relieved his suffering for the time being and said that his ‘not serious, Mr. Reed passed a fairly comfortable night and arose im | morning refreshed, He dressed and went to the Capitol, where he most of Tuesday upon his feet. be While in the marble-room of the Senate he was seized with the and most violent attack of returning pains. This was in the latter the afternoon. Mr. Reed was hurried to the Arlington Hotel, where Dr. Gardner was summoned, and he found his pati registered. 5 Y serious condition. A trained nurse was called in, and toward morniy Reed's physician reported him to be resting comfortably. “A s DOCTORS CHANGED THEIR MINDS. ‘Announcement was made that Mr. Reed was suffering from an |utlack of gastritis. Thursday night this was changed after a co of physicians, and ex-Speaker Reed was sald to be afflicted with c r appendicitis, His wife and daughter, who had arrived Wednesday, tioned themselves near at hand, and they have since been in con tendance upon the patient. In a bulletin issued late Thursday night Drs. Goodnow, G MacDonald stated that Mr. Reed's condition was critical, not on of appendicitis, but because of the development of uraem{c Marked improvement in Mr. Reed's condition was reported last his present change for the worse comes in the nature of a surprise friends. FOUR PERSONS DED IN TRAN WRECK. Seven Others Injured in a Crash of the Fast Express on the Canadian Pacific Railroad. FEACH DEP Premier Combes Is ( Ejected from the Rosiru the Sitting Suspended, — TRURO, N. 8. Dec. 6—The Canadian Pacific fast express which left Halifax for 8t. John and Montreal this morning was wrecked on the Intercolonia! Rall- Members of the Iii way near Belmont station, in this (Col-/engaged in a free fight vil chester) county. Four persons were party members, the Premier, My . y from the killed and seven passengera and one| was forcibly ajected r ue and the sitting was suspended eda a ape tense excitement, wy ‘The names of the killed had not been | “Tee OT a ince arose when learned here up to an early Nour thls] progrocsive Repablican, a afternoon, It ix reported, however, | erick Humbert aa a ‘Boulangist d¢ that Engineer B. T. Rider is among the dead. bert case. Patrick Case Pat Of & Ta ed ‘Arguments In the motion BITTER COLD AT SARATOGA. tea for Albert Patio ; 15 Degrees | called for a hearing before Goff, who sentenced Pal Seasions to-day, d Patrick's former counsel, attendants of the Morgus permitted to testity, at nd Thermometer Regist Below Ler (Bpectal to The Evening World.) SARATOGA, Dec, The meroury dropped to 35 degrees below zero durin the night. “ The cold wave, together with yester- Y wfall of ten inches for al th= [és ae oad tullctiedged wi conditions. = for leay! alge.