The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1902, Page 1

' SPORTINGN Gaaee ON PAGE | RACING#SPORTS GENERAL , Che “ Circulation Books Open t EWS 9 AL” tan phiry c} Ll Vili, =— | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’”’ ] ‘ PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1902. MONEY HARD PROBLEM FOR “WALL STREET New Year Payments Mean, a Drain of $200,000,000' Before February andCon- ditions Give Concern, | SHAW NOT LIKELY TO HELP. Leans Above Legal Rate and. Valuable Stocks Sacrificed to! Meet Obligations—Losses to Banks Serious. | Where ts Wall street coing to get the | Money it must have to meet its de- Mands for the next six weeks? | That is the problem which ds agitating | the financial uis to-day, | If It ts not solved soon there may he| ferious trouble for many who are co far from shore in thts crisis. Conservative bankers cstimated for! The Evening World to-day that the| actual requirements to be met between now and Feb. 000,000. Of this amount $149,000,009 must he paid out for dividends and interest Jan 1, about $29,000,00 Is needed for the year-end payments and $40,000,000 for | new combinations, | No Help from Shaw. Advices from Washington y by prominent Wall street houses Ry that the Treasury Department is | Jnot contemplating any new financial | Moves. }) Treasury ofMfcials do not view the sit (uation in the money market as mater-| ally, changed from its condition for | the last few weeks. | This means that there |g no prospect | for fellef from that source and that Wall street must look to some other sour Gold. jgaping out in two directions, to South” America and to San Fran- cisco, while the losses of the banks to the Sub-Treasury are large enough ved to- to seriously threaten speculative in- vestments. ‘The money that was sent to the In- ng purposes ts not e and cali at more terior for crop mor coming back, and both money.are lending privately than the legal r y For 30 and 9-4: paying 7 and > whils call money money brokers are | per vent. Interest. | is firm at 6 pe cent. Having exhausted its plans for get- ting money from other sources to | eet its demand, the sireet resorted to Hauidation je last expedient in tho stock mar For several hours to-day good paying * ‘atocks were ruthlessly sacrificed, Div- J*"idend payers and non-dividend payers went to the block in the endeavor to i Ry meet loans which were called by banks or which are expected to be called at any time. Shaw Goes Bi . In this vicarious sacrifice to exigency | hundreds of thousands of dullars were lost to-day. No pariicuiar stocks were selected Lo bear the brunt of liquida~ tion, All shared in the enforced de- cilnes, peereiary of the Treasury Shaw, who held a conference at the Appraisers’ Btores, in West Fourteenth street, with Appraiwser Whitehead concerning pros- pective canukittes for General Ap- praiser, sald there was nothing vf publi interest In the conference, Although the Secretary didn't discuss the tinascial situaiion, it is knowa thar he believes Wall street should take care-of its January disbursements and the dividend to be paid before the New Year without any further aid from the A THB Zhausted the sources of relief through the National ‘Treasury when ‘danger of a crisis was more Immi- hent than now appears, and he didn't like altogether the way New York bank- ere treated his efforts to relieve the , jon. situiin few exceptions they txnored his rellef plan through Increased circula- tion and falled to take out circulation nh juest financial matters gen- ly, Secretary Shaw Informea a Wall eet financier that he would soon re- h Feared, we the plan of putting Government pate . ‘his was discontinued some time ago sed 11 atreet. tion is correct, but they are some- retary, Shaw returned to mm Rational bank depositories to ee atthe drain on the surplus Money P' anxious over the temporary” situ- tot Oday. ingen iiely that a delegation of bank tauv T ylinit of $9,000,000 month, Decaute, othe Secretary's efforts to ald a Bankers says that the Secretary's po- They faite severe money” pinch, res will go to confer e him on the financial question, 5 — / WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six fours ending at 8 P. M. Fri- day, for York City and wie! yt Rain to-night, prob- ably turning to enor; Friday partly cloudy coldér; fresb north to northeast winds, tucreasing. 1 will aggregate $26,- | — RICH MRS, WATERS AND (NAVCTE _ HOUSE IN WHICH SHE DIED. | AY IN | THE DEATH OF | | | |NEW ELECTRIC “L” TRAINS. | Ran Over Ninth Avenue “LY Road for the First Time. The first electric train was run over | the Ninth avenue “I. line to-day. Of: |, ficlais of the road announced that reg- ular trains would be running on thia line within a few da This will com- plete the change of motive the whole system. power on It will be necessary to run some steam trains for a time on both the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines, as the \tractors have not furnished a sufficient number of motor cars to equip the entire system with the new rolling stock yet MORGAN PROMISES T0 AID THE POOR IN GETTING GOAL Financier Tells Commander Booth- Tucker He Will Help Salvation Army Establie~Fuel~Depots —High Price Is Operators’ Revenge for New York’s Sympathy for the Strikers. e Interest in the situation myself and will do d you in your efforts to supply the poor with “1 am taking an act all in my power to , col This was the message received over the ‘phone to-day by Commander Booth Tucker from J. Picrpont Morgan. It brought a sigh of relief and joy from the Salvation Army leader, who has been vainly striving to buy coal for the poverty-stricken families of New York. “Phis reply means more to me than an offer of money,” said the Com- inander to an Evening oWrld reporter. “Indeed, I did not ask Mr. Morgan for financial aid. I only begged of him to use his influence in establishing some headquarters where our wagons can secure coal. This he has prom- {sed to do, and, with the great financier’s aid and my brick device, I hope very shortly to releve a majority of the suffering. SENDING OUT OIL-SOAKED BRICKS. Commander Tucker, though delighted with Mr. Morgan’s promise, will not wait for it to be realized. He fe beginning to-day to distribute all through New York asbestos bricks which, dipped in kerosene and placed in an orcinary stove, will heat a room for five hours. The bricks are sold two for five cents and the price of heating a tenement apartment by this means wi!l be only a few cents per day. Commander Tucker says that something must be done instantly, as the |»: poor are wrapping themselves in burlap to keep warm. His agents are able now to secure only a ton of coal each day. ‘This is a mere nothing. The poor are freezing in many instances, he says, because they are too proud to be seen carrying a pail of coal in the streets. If Mr, Morgan establishes a place where the Salvation Army wagons] | can get coal it will be delivered to the houses, New York's sympathy went out to the striking coal miners in thelr great fight against the combine last summer. For that sympathy New York ts to-day shivering with cold and paying double rates for the fuel which the |r combine condescends to dole out to it. New York is now “paying the piper,” as the Coal Trade Journal, organ of the combine, sympathetically puts it. “There is not going to be any too much coal for months to come,” gloats the organ. “What this means to the mine worker, the operator and carrler can be readily estimated. They are all in for a good time financially.” And the public, the New York public especially? What about its good time? The public must “pay the piper,” says the combine's organ. The Evening Wor!d showed yesterday how New Yorkers are being forced fo do it by meana of “speculators;” how the rivers on both sides of Manhattan Island are swarming with barges loaded with coal; how miles upon miles of loaded coal cars stand on sidings over in New Jersey, with men, women and children freezing to death in New York for the want of that coal at a decent price—any price, even. ‘There are men,in this.town who on Tuesday went from coal yard to coal yard, offering $15 a ton for coal to heat their homes. They couldn't get it, although 60,900 tons or more were Within ten miles of the city, The coal operators, through the “speculators,” were taking thelr revenge on New York—a eugar-coated revenge, to be sure, for New York is rich, What if the poor do die? They sympathized with the strikers. The well-to-do have money. They can pay higher yet for coal. So the “speculators” hang on Roe NADe on to their 50,000 tons or more, waiting for a rate of $20 instead 1 . CONSPIRACY FOR HIGH PRICES. ‘Talk to the honest representative of a.coal railroad and he will tell you there is a very wicked conspiracy to raise the price of coal, but he will blame the independent operator. He will remfnd you of the days when the strike was on and his. railroad company beneficently saw to it that the | % deserving poor got coal at 15 conte a pall; but he will not remind you that then un election. was soon to be held. Talk to the independent operator, and he will tell you the combine is a crusher of the: people, bent on making trouble, for the independents in the hope of forcing them into the combine in order the more easily to control the whole coal situation. It may be that the assertions of both the combine and the independents ‘are correct, \ It ters not. to the public so far as results go. The public ‘WAS, WATERS, |rtreet house to take charge of the body. LITTLE KREBS CHINS AU Cheered on by His Sweetheart, Exhausted Cyclist Makes Frantic and Successful Ef- | fort to Regain Lost Ground. Rich Old Woman Expires | Suddenly, Just as the Litigation for Possession, rn of Her Fortune Is Begun. | SCORE AT 4 O'CLOCK. | Newkirk and Jacobson. ‘Leander and Floyd Krebs. McFarland and Maya..... : Stinaon and Moran i Fetr) | John and Menus Bedell. Assistant District-Attorney Gar- iyi, ana Turvitte van Sends Police to the House |Gaivin and Root... of Death, Where the Doors) Darclsy °nt Franz Kre | Keegan and Peterson..... os Are Found Chained. | | whe sensation of the afternoon iat Madison Square Garden was woman whose $200,000 eatate ts a matter |ferniahed by the almont exha “e of contention between Secretary Will Frans Kreba, The plucky Mite fam G. Conklin, of the Franklin Bank, | rider made « sudden spurt at 3.70 and the old woman's granddaughters | o'clock, by adoption, Sadie and Dorsnae L¢| partner, «a Brantz. died to-day at her home, No. 451} Th West Twenty-first atreet. [eakere est. Twenty-first. street. ven the When the ueme of the old woman's {three Iape behind and gives them death was recelved at the coroner's of-/@ Chance once more. Krebs was flee this afternoon Assistant District-|all owt after his wonderfal ride Attorney Garvan and Coroner Scholer and was pnt to bed at the went Immediately to the Twenty-first the track. H Schults, led in H that were w eprint. KRAMER BREAKS A RECORD. AUTHORITIES SUSPICIOUS. Mrs, Sarah N. Waters, the aged team only and an autopsy will probably be per- formed before the dead woman canbe | [while on his lon, buried, Mr. Garvan said this afternoon that there are suspicious circumstances Frank Kramer broke another copnected with the woman's death (hat| world's record at Madison Square require a searching investigation. Garden thin afternoon, riding a Before going to the Twenty-first street house Assistant District-Attorney Gar- van sent Detective Brinley, who is at- tached to the District-Attorney's office Brinley went to the West Twentieth street station and got two plaln-clothes policemen. When the three policemen | arrived at the house they found the front door guarded by an old woman. who opened It as far as several chains with which it was fastened would allow. No amount of argument would persuade her to admit them, but the noise brought 2 young woman, supposed to be one of the adopted granddaughters, to the door, and she allowed the officers to enter. A short time ago the Misses Le Brants applied to Justice Leventritt In the Su- preme Court to have commissioners ap- pointed to decide upen Mrs. Waters's mental condition, and at the same time an appilcation was made to appoint a committee to take charge of her prop- a rs, Waters ‘had three husbands, but |+ never any children of her own.’ Her first husband's name was Delarie. “Upon his death she married a wealthy mer- chant named Jones. Friends of the Misses Le Brantz aver that In order to trick Mr. Jones, their mother was taken from a charity asylum, when she was only three days old and brought up by Jones as his own daughter. ‘After his death this adopted daughter married Le Brantz and four children were born. Of the four only Sadie and Dorsae continued to live with thelr foa- ter grandmother. ‘Their mother was married again to Albert Mullens and moved to Anchor, W. Va, After this their foster grand: mother became Mra, Waters and it was through Mr, Waters that Secretary quar mile unpaced tn 25 aec- onds, This clips three-fftha of a second from the old record, Fourteen miles an hour t# the pace being wet by the six-day riders at Mad!- son Square Garden, with an occasional Durst of speed on the part of ‘the Be dells. McFarland or ‘Patsy all anxious to regain tha’ McFarland, {rom whom ao much w: expected to-day, is in poor condition, jand his trainers have begun to admin- [ster the “dope.” Under the Influence of the drug he made long sprints, and once, shortly after 1 o'clock, stole halt a lap on the bunch, He came back to them, however, but when he left the |track he wanted to bet $0 he would regain the lost lap before midnight. He will have his hands full when he tries St. for neither Leander and Krebs nor fewkirk and Jacobson mean to give up Barclay’s recovery came the breaking down of his partner, little Franz Krebs, who tratls along in the |rear at all times despite the encourag- ling shouts of his sweetheart, who ts always at the side of the track. He !s certain to lore another lap any time a long spurt is put on, fur he has the €reatest JiMculty in keeping close to the bunch, ‘The Bedell brothers expect to catch up again, but It 1s hard to see just how they will do !t, for & will take a sprinter of exceptional abliity to shake Conkitn.” of the’ Franklin Bank, came |of the leaders. c er property’ " tO ae dead woman's papers are| While Leander and Krebs are the now in the hands of Secretary Conklin. |popular favorites the way in which who took them from a trunk which stands in her bedroom. The two adopted granddaughters: in their action, which was begun in the Supreme Court, sought to have the deed which the old woman gave to Gecre- Newkirk and Jacobson jumped to the front shows that this team which had up to that (me attracted little attention, is the one to beat for first money, Leander has tried hard to go clear of these two, but his spirit has been tary Conklin one of her houres. valied met squarely every time. at $15,000, set aside on the ground that the man ‘had obtained an unusual influ- STRANGLER AILS BOY ~ INTHE PARK Little Michael Kruck Found Dead Near the Sunken Road, with Evidence of Murder, ¢ NO CLUE TO HIS SLAYER. Marks on His Throat Gave In- dication that Man Who Killed Him Had to Struggle Hard— He Was a Newshoy. Efforts are being made by the police to find the strangler who killed, In » Jonely spot in Central Park, Michael Kruck, son of Henry W. Kruck, a tallor living at No. 711 Columbus avenue. When the body waa found the youth's fdentity was not known. Mrs. Kruck Identified the body to-day at the Morgue, She became hysterical. screaming that her gon had been murdered, and that could be learned from her wi that the Ind attended school and sold newspapers after hour: Every indication poliits to murder. On the Iad's neck e deep tncisi a dozen finger nails. On the check Is the abrasion left by a viclous bite, in which the teeth marks are plainly vis- ible. ‘The doctors, police and Morgue at- ndants who have examined the body rea that the boy was strangled to death by some one who had a atrong and muscular hand, a& Jt would require to sink fingers so deep in the neck as they had been {n the boy's flesh. So far the police have no facts beyond those Incident to the finding of the body. Théy have a number of theories, the most popular of which js that the murdered boy was the victim of one or more other boys, that he waa decoyed into the park and then assalied. Near the Lodge. Tha body was founds near the lodge of the superintendent of the reservoir in the park. ‘This lodge Is on the bridle path which runs north and south along the Fifth avenue side of the park and is a stone's throw south of the sunken Highty-sixth street road through the park. This road ts paved and over it runs @ cross-town line of horae-cars. The body was sprawled out on the sandy road and must have been step- ped upon had there been equestrians passing at that hour of the night. But no horse-back rider had been along the path since dusk last night, the body were scattered the boy's armful of evening newspapers. Some of them wera stepped upon and had been par- tlally buried in the sand as though struggling feet had pushed them under. y Stil Warm. Pollceman Costiger, of the Centra} Park squad, was passing down the blind path, making his regular tour of the park to rout out tramps, when he fell over the body in the dark. At that point there is no light, and he could not dis- tinguish the limp form in the road, Stooping he felt that the body was atill (Continued on Second Page.) enoe over her feeble mind Mrs, Waters has been bed-ridden since jast August and was slowly losing all her faculties, including the power of speech, She died at 6 o'clock thiw morn- ng. fintiam McConnell, the Janitor of the building adjoining No. 41 West Twenty first street, told an Evening World porter this afternoon that he was Sponsible for the sult brought in the Supreme Court to have the deed of the wenty-first street house to Mr. Conk- fin set amide, He said: “Tam a member of the Pequod Club, which occupies a house owned by Mrs. Waters, situated at Eighth avenue and Twenty-ffth street. tellow-member of mine, a real-catate agent named Jones, came to me one day last August and asked him why I did not tell him that Mrs. Waters’s Twenty-first street house was for sale. I T did not He then by know anything about showed me tho record’ of a deed which she had conveyed the house to Mr. Conklin, her agent. ‘This deed w made In August. so I went immediately and told the Le Brantz girls, who a: friends of mine. They brought suit to set aside the deed. “Had T that accldental discovery the property would have been sold and nobody the wiser, “1 do not think that there ts anything suspicious @bout the death of Mrs. Waters, as she wana very olf woman and has been practically dying for months paat.” Besides the pollcemen there are now in the dead woman's house the Misses Le Brantz, the nurse and Dr. Campbell. ‘Mr. Coniklin's contention {+ that the mother of the Le Brantz children was in Mra, Waters's house as @ servant. ‘Coroner Scholer said this afternoon after visiting the house that the death of the aged woman appeared to be shrouded in nvystery and that there was a great many things that he would have to Investigate, He sald: * “wy have learned that Dr. Campbell attended Mrs, Waters last night shortly hetore. har ,death and that after she dled, at 8 ovclock this morning. he per- Bonally sent for Undertaker Grane, of N West Nineteenth street, ‘and ordered him to embalm the body at many more laborers late this once. .This.js.a most unusual proceed- {ng and demands the most rigorove Investigation.” Dr. Campbell , {t ts said. is mentioned as executor In’ one of Mrs. Waters's will, which leaves the bulk of her prop: erty to Secretary nklin, ee ' The Quick Way fa via the Ponasylvaule Spectal, tho Ly reports, Glenogeigher ‘ation mald,: 6° 1,589 miles 9 laps; John Bedell eat wh OSES LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race—Latson 1, Qptimo 2, Prince Blazes 3, ; Sixth Race—St. Tammany 1, Brookston 2, Kiss Quick 3. —_—_—— ++: 5 O'CLOCK BICYCLE SCORE. Newkirk and Jacobson, 1,590 miles; Leander and Floyd Krebs, 1,590 miles; Butler and Turville, 1,989 miles 9 laps; Stinson and Moran, 1,589 miles 9 laps; McFarland and Maya, CRUSHED BY TONS OF ROCK IN SUBWAY; TWO FATALLY HURT. A oave-in of “wet” rock in the tapid-transit subway exca- vation in Broadway, between, streets, is known to have fatally injured two men and hurt Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth afternoon. One of the injured men is James Murray, the foreman. About fifty men were at | work where the cave-in took place. Without any warning the lower strata of the rock wall on the west side gave way. Before the men had a chance to reach a place of safety a section of stone and-earth about forty feet long and ten feet wide slid down into the hole. A priest aided,the resceurs. Seg gee HEAVY SNOWSTORM TO-NIGHT. The, local weather bureau announces that a heavy snow- 8) storm will reach the city to-night. and Menus Bedell, 1,589 miles 9 laps; Galvin and Root, 1,589 miles 8 laps; Keegan and Peter- son, 1,589 miles 7 laps; Barclay and Franz Krebs, 1,389 miles > Tlaps. The best previous record is 1,731 miles, lone of the claims which Is now to b Jsubmitted to arbitration, Venezuela con- IN VENEZUELA: RANGE PROTEST. London Hears that an Effort on the Part of, the Allied Forces to Capture President Castro Has Been Met with a Desperat Resistance from the Venezuelan Army. — Paris Will Call Upon the Kaiser to Explain: the; Seizure of a French Vessel, and Unless: Amends Are Made Without Delay May Ensue. Germany and England on the one hand and the Venezuelan on the other is now under way, according to a report sent out # afternoon by the Central News. During the day it was in rumored in the lobbies of the House of Commons and was eredited in spite of a statement from the Government that no ficial advices had been received from La Guayra during the day. The report here is that the marjnes landed from the ellfed warships attempted to capture President Castro, who had come fre Jaracas to La Guayra to assume command of the Venezuelan forees and that a conflict was at once precipitated. The marines attacked in the streets of the city and fierce fighting ensued, & stubborn was the resistance of the native forces that the allies compelled literally to fight their way inch by :nch through the tow ae No intimation has been received here as to the result of tha battle, and at last accounts it was still in progress. The Venezuelan army in La Guayra numbers 3,000, armed with modern Mauser rifles. They would probably be forced by hundreds of armed citizens, who have been supplied i. Castro to resist the qpntemplated invasion of their country. ARMED THOUSANDS RALLY | TO VENEZUELA'S DEFENS LA GUAYRA, Venezuela, Dec. 11.—Citizens of Venezueta ere rallying 3 arms at the call of President Castro. All night the roads between and this port have been blocked by moving detachments of armed . There has been an almost ceaseless rumble of wagons bearing erms an ammunition to the front. z When daylight came 2,000 native troops, with elghteen field guns an® commanded by Gen. Ferrer, Minister of War, were encamped on the helghts above this city and 1,000 more, headed by President Castro's brother, Were hourly looked for. In addition to these one thousand private citizens have volunteera®: to ald in defense of the country and all have been supplied with guns a cartridges. From every direction men capable of bearing arms are hi ; ing to the ald of ihe Goverament. Hundreds are expected from the interior as soon as they can reach here. All classes are responding to the call to, J defend the futherland and President Castro has become, for the time at: — least, a popular hero, his firm stand in resisting the aggressive moves of Germany and England having struck a popular chord. Rioting occurred at Caracas when the news of the selzure of the reached the capital. British and German flags were publicly burned. mob marched to the pataco and was addressed by President Castro, shouting “Death to the Germans,” “Death to the English,” the mob the German legation. ex The windows were shattered with stones, and attempts made to foree an entrance, but without success, and Mme. von Pilgrim-Baltazsi, wife the German Minister, wno has been fll for two months and unable to Caracas with her kusband, was thus saved from violence. The rioters pussed to the German Consulate and the German resit quarters. All the windows in the Hotel Klindt and the German Club i shattered FRENCH VESSEL SEIZED MAY LEAD TO TROUBLE, @ - mmanders the over the captured joraands Ob t ne Ossun Behe inabie to say at merchant steamer, The oMeciais here ar Present what steps W matter, put it is belie Ossun is released tions will be made to Ge This indicates the delicate state of the 7! situation and the possibility of inter- national compleations, France protested against the seizure of the Ossun by the Veneguelans and put {na claim for indemnity. This is months was, agtaed the forces resident Castra > was a milli enezuelan fag 9) amer. Hs an V decided to sink the: t mori ie Tot out A Lane, anid the Mangarite,. aiken very «mall vessel, were SanS * hich’ was ‘captured: athens Was spared, In ylow Of made by the Frehoh: ire H. Qulevroux, whow Tt is thought here that the seizure of !ine officers In. command eg the Oseun oy the Germans was due to i; the Ossun was the p om enforced service of that vessel | a Frenchman. the (Venesitelan fag. bie. shel The “Qeeaas Ie Grepch nationality e Ossun ie con- Kross 5 to be unquestionable, ing, Sootiand, in, ceding that the Ossun was a French ‘vessel.