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* BELIEVED ROOSEVELT “WILL CONSENT TO. ACT. Diplomats on Duty in Washington Now Declare that He Second Request of the Powers to Ad- judicate the Venezuelan Trouble, WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The United States Government is awaiting the reception of formal responses from the allied governments to the Preel- dent's last suggestion, that the Venezuelan dispute be referred Hague. So far these responses have not come to hand, but {t is pretty well) understood that they will hold out for arbitration of President Roosevelt himself. Signs point to che President's ultimate acceptance of the trust, though nothing positive is yet known on this point. The State Department has learned that President Castro would welcome the selection of President Roosevelt as arbitrator, and as all pressure will be hard to resist. Opinion varies as to the termination of the blockade of the Venezuelan ports. In some quarters it 1s assumed that {f President Roosevelt accepts the duty of arbitrator, the allies will call hand, it is pointed out that custom requires the terme of the arbitration to be accuraely defined, and this will consume some time, pending which the blockade will continue. President Castro's acceptance of clears the way for his acquiescence in the request of the allies. ferred here that the insistence of England and Germany on the President's | acting is founded on their belief that to disregard his decision. Little doubt js felt that Castro would repudiate an unfavoranle decision from The Hague tribunal, and the whole diMiculty would arise again. Some State Department officials believe that the allies will hold, after Rs the award is made, tnat the President is under moral obligation to see that | ¢ Venezuela complies with its terms. President that as arbitrator, he would be acting in a private capacity and that it would be as ridiculous for the Powers to expect him to execute his own decree as it would be for Germany to look to King Oscar of Sweden to make the United States comply with his award In the Samoan case if The President is convinoed that Vene- | , suela would rather carry out the award than become a disgraced nation. If the allies accept this view the question of a guarantee will be re- The President hopes they will see it in this “this country refused to abide by It. _moved from consideration. light. , There is a hope, almost amounting to expectation, that the Seligman plan to float a bond issue to pay all consummated. FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR IS SENT OUT. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 22.— OMciai announcement is made here that Sir Courtenay Knollys, the Acting | Governor, will issue to-day a special Royel Gazette containing a declaration of war against Venezuela, This act Is one of formality, taken with the Inten- tion to legalize the prociamation of the blockade, ‘The Mirror in an Inspired article says: “AU commercial intercourse between Cannot Ignore the to The the parties interested are united the off the blockade at once, On the other THE PEACEFUL BLOCKADE IS.ON. Et RLD: MO DAY EV - PPORSOGITDICS9990909OD +21 $E9649 FPSIEDDOOOSEFOOORG President Roosevelt as an arbitrator | ° Tt is in- Venezuela would not be in a position But Secretary Hay agrees with the of Venezuela's pressing debts will be | the two peopies is interdicted. When | hostile vesscls capture a neutral the property on board {s not affected, A | free ship makes free goods. They may} | capture the enemy's shias and the | | enemy's goods on board, but they must spare neutral vessels ‘and all goods therefn, whether belonging to the enemy or neutrals, and also neutral goods found in the enemy's vessels.” The declaration ‘will have the effect of legailzing the selsure of Venezue.an warships. { —E SAYS ALL VENEZUELA LOOKS TO ROOSEVELT, The Red D liner Philadelphia got in , thought a political campaign was on. | aL aly, z Aten, D8 heed MARK. 2 Wy. ROSSLYN EASY PREY AT POKER Actor-Earl Tells How Three Smooth Americans “Won” $1,550 from Him in the Etruria’s Smoking Room. HE DISREGARDED WARNING. The Farl of Rosrtyn, who te o better actor than he is a poker player, even without beasting of his acting, appeared in Jefferson Market Court to-day as complainant against Jerome MeiXay, & “capitalist,” of Harrisburg, Pa, Mr. McKay !s charged with beasg one of three who gave tho English nobleman a@ few lessons in the great American game at a cost to the nobleman of $1,550. But when McKay appeared before Mag- {strate Deuel the Earl sald he didn't want to be a “squealer,” and McKay was discharged. to-day from Venezuela. She ts the first| “The people were greatiy excited,” he| poe other two persons who became steamer to arrive from a port of the disturbed South American republic since the crisis came. She carried thirty-five passengers, most of whom were Porto Ricans who boarded her at San Juan. ‘The passengers and crew report that, while there was great excitement in La Gusyra, no acts of vivience had been perpetrated by the peop'e at the time of the sailing of the eteamer. The bicck- ‘ade had not been established. There were no foreign cruisers In that port. The Philadelphia pased several loafing around at sea along the Venezuelan coast, but they made no attempt to hold up the ship. ‘Antonio Pachia, purser of the Phila- Gelphia, sald that when he went ashore ofe evening while at La Guayra he |went on. ‘They wero marching up and [down the streets, yelling for President. {Castro and President Roosevelt. They | jall seem to have the idea down, there | |that Roosevelt ts a regular fire?eater, Jand they exp st him to come to theif |rescue leading a_band of rough riders, {pistol in hand, In all thelr’ parades jthey have the American flag floating | side by side with the Venezuelan ban- ner, and they are confident that the \United States will not let the Germans | harm them. The man tn the street | hates the Germans much worse than he docs the Engiishman. He attributes ti jcriais to the desire of the Germans to make a big display of power.” Lieut. Edward Gebhard, an officer on| | the German crulser Panther, was also | | passenger on the boat. He ts said to| |nave come north on amission of some j#ort from the Admiral in command of,| |the German squadron, He refused to ali. eee Seon Eee, CASTRO SAID TO BE VERY ILL FROM SOME MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 22.—There is a report current that Presi- dent Castro has been seized with a nouncement of his indisposition has secretary refuses all agitated. mysterious illness. Only a bare an- been given out at the palace and his particulars. The President’s friends are greatly KIPLING IN VERSE LASHES GERMANS. Poem Printed in London Times Likely to Cause Comment. LONDON, Dec. 22.—The Times to-day prints a poem by Rudyard Kipling en- tiled ‘The Rowers.” In view of the present complications in Venezuela: It will cause much comment. It reads as follows: ‘The barked oars fell an hundred strong, And banked and threshed and ground; But bitter was the rowers’ song As they brought the war boat round. ‘They had no heart for the rally and roar ‘That makes the whaleback smoke ‘When the great blades cleave and hold ‘and leave ‘As one on the racing stroke. ‘What veckoning do ye keep, And steer her by what star, If we come unscathed from the Southern deep To be wrecked on a Baltic bar? “Last night ye swore our voyage was done, But seaward still we go; And ye tel! us now of a secret yow Ye have made with an open foe: “That we must Ile off a lightless coast And havi and back and veer Al the will of the breed that have wronged us most 4 For a year and a year and a year, “There was never a shame in Christ- endle \ hey laid not to our door; And ye say we must take the winter nen, And safe with them once more! th is y “Look eouth, the pir pny A Nhe capes ‘When we stood forth, but they stood fast | And prayed to see us down, “The dead they mocked are scarcely cold; Our wounds are bleeding yet; And ye tell us now that our’ strength is #0) To help them press for a debt! ‘Neath all the flags of all mankind ‘That use upon the seas, s there no other fleet to find, That yo strike hands with these? “Of evil times that men could choose On evil fate to fall. What brooding judgment let ye loose To pick the worst of all; “In eight of pence: from the narrow seas, Over haif the world to run With a cheated crew to league anew MA Goat the shameless HOLLAND NEUTRAL : IN VENEZUELA ROW THE HAGUE, Dec. 22.—The Govern- ment of the Netherlands has decided to observe a strictly neutral attitude In the Venesuelan trouble. Ships of the blockading powers will be prohibited from coalifg at ports of the Dutch colonies. —————— EARTHQUAKE KILLS 2,500. List of Victims im Central Asia Keeps Growing, LONDON, Dec. 22,—A despatch from Russian Turkestan, reparts that the earthquate at Andijan Killed 2,600 people in and near that city and deatroyed 1,600 houses. The rumblings continue, The authort- With "the destitution. of the marving, ion. more or less capitalistic on Rosslyn's money were “Doc Owen, a well-known card sharp, we picture is In Capt. Titus's collection at Pollce Headquar- ters, and a one-eyed man, whom Capt. Titus does not have the honor of know- Ing, much to his regret. ‘The Uttle poker-piaying party which caused all the trouble was aboard the Etruria, which came into port y terday, ‘ine Earl says he noticed three- well-groomed persons playing poker to- gether every night In the smoking-room. 4 nand at the game. He chought he had been in America long enougia to learn a little something avout it, and anyway he was wot willing co udmit that an American could do anything better than an Englisbma' “You know,” sald the Earl to-day In telling of his experience, “these «haps seemed to be all right and it was 80 beastly dull that Thursday night 1 de- clded to take a hand. It was lively enough after that. I lost £53 pounds the first right. Of course, the next morning I wanted revenge and we Went at it again, and this time 1 lost his very strange, I thought, put I was very angry. 1 couldn't win & bet. was just pegging away my money. kveryume 4 gov a good hand there was nothing doing, Once 1 got 4 Queen full and no one drew earas. It Waa very annoying. Biesa my soul, you noms T only woh three pots the whole trip. “Well, after the game on Friday the purser came to me and sald, “I say, old man, I wouldn't play any more with I'm told that they are not on the Now, this didn’t seem right to me, you know. I'd been watching the game closely. A lot cf pasengers had been standing about and they hadn't seen anything wrong with the cards, I anked the purser, but I was stubborn, uu Know, and J thought that [ could tl Fy take care ‘of myself, even If they were professiona] card-p.ayers. “80 on Raturady i had another try at it, This cost me £101. Why, I never won @ pot. After that I concluded I had enough. There was a bit of talk among the ‘ssengers about the way 1 had been ‘skinned,’ I belleve they called it, I didn't want to 1am Ike a welcher, you know, and I said nothing, One of the men, this MeKay, came to me and sald ha understood that there might be some trouble about the game. He wanted mo to understand that he was on the level and offered to pay me what I had Ion! “Why don't you pay me now, then ed ‘ed. ‘I'll pay you when we get ashore,’ he id, and that’s all there was to It until ianded and the purser told the de- tlvea what had-happened. Then Mo Kay was arrested, but the other tw chaps got away. He wanted to fix things on the pler, but the detectives wouldn't permit It,’so T made the com- piatot,”” “Doc” Owens is a well-known card eharp. He went abroad with "Paper Collar Joe, nown crook, golng over be- Nov, 19, but got no gam: cause the detectives put the purser of plans, ‘The H the steamer onto t ite on Ww "s Hees no Mokay's ‘pictures was HS*SSa ie wae "a Gavttanion trom risburs, Bit he Is mot known there, taken at Ri It was dirty weather and very dis-: agreeable aboard, and aler some presa- ing the Englishman consented to take jon. th ia eeibed ie remarkapiy prety, hve Bee ——————_—_—_—_—__= ts nanos Gallery. q Bi r CHAUFFEUR FINED ~ $95 FOR SPEEDING, Was Guiding Machine of A. M. Huntington, Nephew of Late) Railroad Magnate. | Senford Gutchane, chauffeur for Archer Milton Huntington, a nephew of Collls P. Huntington, was fined $25 |in the Court of Special Sessions to-day | for exceeding the speod limit, Mr. Huntington made a hard fight for his man, bringing {n testimony to show that the conditions were such that the automobile was going as slowly as It ORINECO RIVER POCOTED 10004 POeDOGOE 3 RR | | 2S? 2 OH9SSGG9S2-9E@ Vi i00 FOUND CUILTY — ‘FEATING BONS |Committee Which Tried Princi- pal Brennan, of the Truant| School, Recommends that He, Be Suspended Without Pay. USED NAIL-STUDDED STRAP. | Alfred 8. V. Brennan, principal of the Now York ruant School, has been found gullty of infilcting corporal pun- Jcouid, but this testimony was disre- garded by the Justices The offense was, committed on Dec. 7 in Petham avenue, near the White Plains road on a downhill stretch, Po- Heeman O'Rourke made the arrest. The Justices held that the fact that the ma- chine was running downhill did not lesnen the necessity for the chauffour to have It under complete control. ‘The Huntington family hye had con- siderable trouble with vightnt police- men on account of their automobiles. Mrs. Huntington herself was compelled to allow her chauffeur to xo to a police station recently because he was carry- ing her too fast along Fifth Avenue. WIDOW HOLDS FORT. AGAINST ALDERMEN Mrs. Socol Has Held Her News: | Stand for Months and Court | Is Asked to Oust Her. | Borough President Jacob A. Cantor! and the Bureau of Incumbrances are ordered to appear before Justice Scott, in the Supreme Court, to-morrow, and tell why they have not evicted Annie Socor, a widow, who sells newspapers from her snug berth under the "Li" atairs at Franklin street and West Broadway, so that John J. Mocaulay, | who got an Aldermanic license over her | head, may ensconse himself there. Caesar B, F. Barra, who got the order }from Justice Scott in an application for | mandamus ordering Prosident Cantor ito oust the widow, sald she had the license for the place till April 23, Me- ‘Caulay had “influence” with Alderman Michael J. Kennedy, of the Third Dis- trict, who secured the assent of tho Board of Aldermen to his Mcense for) the ensuing year. at $10, Mra, Bocol, | in deflance of Aldermanic orders and regularly Issued $10 licenses, would not/ | Dudxe from her coy a\and, and has held the fort seven months, YORK MAY GET THE JOB. Ex-Police Commissioner tloned for Election Inapector. James Sheviin, the associate Demo- cratic leader of Kings County, who re- turned from a hunting trip in Florida last ulght, called at the Willoughby ‘street auction rooms this morning, where he met Hugh McLaughlin and a score or more prominent Brooklyn Dem- ocrats with whom he disoussed the se lection of a possible successor to Elea- tion Inspector Magulre, who, it Is sup- wed, will have to glve way to an ap- polntee by Mayor Low, ‘After the conference Mr, Sheviin said that nothit nite hed been decided. |. however, thet the name of He admitte: Bernard J. York ned. ex-Police Commissioner was prominently thor — ‘The Newark police have been asked to search for Nellle Edwardson, ff. teen years olf, who Is alleged to ha run away from her home, No. 308 John- gon avenue, eee Cite dane Wacbas her a intention o rene stance, The folesing Kir in de~ height, with dark hal ey 0 eald to be @ clever elocutlonist and @ good singer. 'pragy Kh Men- {3 ishment on puplls, and the recommenéa- tion has been made by the Board of Education committee which tried him, that he bo suspended without pay until February of next year. In order that the man who beat the bad little boys with a strap studded with nails might not feel too badly @bout bis punishment, the committes recommends that after February Bren- nan be transferred to one of the ele-| mentary schools as principal. The report of the committee was given out to-day by A. Emerson Palmer, Bec- retary pf the Board of Education. Th trial oloscd Saturday, decision being re: served. Tt hnd been in progress for three | weeks | Brennan was charged with having pun- Ishet soveral of the puplis too severely. | ever was the boy who was al- lened have besa beaten with the nalestudded stray Oscar Lehr was ane other of the victims to make tomplaint. | Taere was MUCH CAUCE OF rein oy the public, amit Supt. Maxwell, after consultation with the ‘President ‘of the Roanl, Charles G, Burhingham, decided to put che man on trial. An orferly in to, the achool, Marons I. Grown, was alto on trial fur similar alleged offenses, but | ho derision has Leen made public in his | ceria report af the committee will he r made to the Board of Education at Its meeting to-mortuw. It ts considered probable that {t will be adopted a LITTLE SANTA CLAUSES. Two Youngaterx Who Didn't Be- Heve Caught with Stol nm Toys. Biome one not well versed in mytho- logical classics taught Ernest Daust, | thirteen years old, and his little alster, Pauline, seven, of No. 61 Evergreen avenue, Brooklyn, that there In no such person as Santa Claus, #0 they started out to accumulate the presents they be-! Meved the absence of Santa Claus would deny them, They had secured about $14 worth of toys in Mrs, Mary Jermainé’s | store, at No. 127 Broadway, when foxy Detective Westels arrested them. In the Willlamsbrg Police Court this morning Ernest was given to the Chil- dren's Society and Pauline went home with her mother. Fort Jail. Margaret Finley, now serving a term of thirty days in the Paterson Jafl for Arunkermess, has learned that her hus- band, William Finley, with whom she had not lived for years, died recently, in a Brooklyn, leaving an estate valu 000. Mrs. Finley will file a claim for dower nigh’ eel Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pilis Must Bear Signature of (ica Pood BEE FACSIMILE WRAPPFR BELOW. CURE SICK HEADACHE ‘Tadules, dost: teed ae easier Sah aeeeninr Fire in Car Believed to Have kill, as It In probable that in the 700 sacks of mall destroyed wero many |Christman presents matied from New York and Brooklyn. Of the 700 bags, |been mailed probably |F. HEDLEY TO RUN (Cnyistas, Open evenings. NTA CLAUS'S MAIL 15. BURNED. Consumed Christmas Pres- ents from New York and Brooklyn. SOME FROM NEW ENGLAND. | ° There will doubtless be many disap- pointments and heartaches throughout | the country during the next few a result of a mail car burning on ew York Central Raliroad near Peeks- however fifty were saved and have WOMEN ATTACKED BY TWO BURCLARS Daughter Beaten and Mother Terrorized by Negroes, Who Broke Into Store. screamed = “murder, mother. The men rushed upon the man and knocked her down, and one man held her the o:her broke the cash drawer and took the Content Mra. Kennedy, who waa fainted, and was ineensible f time, place and some articles of val negroes ran out. leaving Mrs. lying on the floor, The latter’ alarm when they disappeared, search being made, two colo whose names were not given were ed up on suspicion. # Mrs, Kennedy and Mrs. Doody under the care of a doctor. (Special to The Evening World.) TARRYVOWN, N. ¥.. Dec. 22.—Mrs. Bridget Kennedy and her daughter, Mra, are !n a serious condition to- day, having been beaten and terrorized dawn, Mrs. Ken- nd feeble, keeps a fon street and lives n her daughter, She is ¥ Roody, y two negroes bet Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wi Established Over Twenty-five Years. been forwarded to thelr destination. Chief Clerk McBride, of the Raliwny | Mall Service, returned this morning and eported that the loss was not so great As at first supposed, as a large portion of the mail matter destroyed was what is knowp as “se consisting only of newspapers and magazines. About % per cent. of the mali In the car came from New England, having e Thursday nty sacks Of having ved ser Wilhelm a4, contalnent friends an ade and in th evening and Friday, Sev the mall was foreign, late Saturday on der Grosse, and, doudtl Chri 8 presents from relatives on the other rient @ will be appointment among the ing in the Philippine soldiers serv- twenty sacks of the mall were en route to San Fran- to be forwarded from there to. and ulti Japan, p Was probably malled maay weeks ago. SUBWAY. Chicago Man Coming Here General Superintendent, ICAGO, Dec, 22.—Frank Hedley, Su perintendent of the Northwestern “L," the Lake Street “I ang the Union loop, has resigned to become General Suverintendent of the Interborough Com- pany, w York, He will soon leave to give New York, as h “the finest rapid tran In the world, Mr. Hedley sald to-day that trains would be running in the subways in elght months, {f not sooner. So suc- cessfully has he handled the Immenae traMe on the loop in Chicago that a train passes the stations every minute In the day with little or no delay. He alxo invented a protection for the third rail that has proved successful. eo CROKER’S XMAS CARDS. The Former Doss Sends Kindly Greetings from Wantage to Hila Friends, his friends in a decorated card, with this sentiment: “All kind remembrances and best wishes for a happy Christmas and a bright Now Year, from “RICHARD CROKER." The card is done In gold and blue, The cover design Inciides sprigs of holly leaves and berrler, embossed in gold. A lucky horseshoe, toe up, ts stamped M gold tn the centre. (RAN West 14.65 moh (SP RELIABLE CARPETS A “LAST MINUTE” RAMBLE through our store will reveal useful gifts to fit all fancies and pocketbooks. SMYRNA RUGS. WERE NOW 6x9 ft. $12.50 $8.50 7.6x10.6 20.00 14,50 9x12 25.00 16.50 All-wool quality, Oriental designs and colorings. GILT WINDOW SEATS, $9.00 (Reduced from $12.00.) Covered In fancy damasks. Furniture of special designs which ap- peal to the festive feeling. No matter if the Christmas allowance has given out, select all you need and “LONG CREDIT” will wait for payment. CASH on CREDIT (QwPERTHWAIT 104, 106 and 108 Wesr 14% St Y NEAR, 61 AY. Brooktyn Stores. Flatbush Av. near Fulton St. 50 Cents a Week. ‘The adove machine, 3 drawers, drop-head In oak, price only $19.60, $1.00 down and 0 cents Easy Way to Buy a Christmas Present, We sleo keep New Home, Domestic, Western ‘Untoo, Singer, Household, Wilcox & Gibbe, Be. 916.00 to $25,00. Bpectal terma 14 prices tor Write; salesman will call, Seoond-hand machines $3.00 to $7.00. Bvery machine guaranteed, WESTERN UNION §, I. CO., 1716173 Third Ave., near 16th St. iilerable dis- Richard Croker has sent to many of this clty a Christmas greeting from Wantage in the shape of We diseount for cash, Guaranteed for § years.*) IN. S. BRAN '\=3 Open Every Evening Till 11. 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