The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1903, Page 1

div PRICE ONE CENT. * ° BOAL PRICES UP -HIBHER THAN EVER ‘New York's Supply of Anthracite Is Cut Off One-Fourth Owing to a-New Complication by Which the Railroad Companies Have. Been Outflanked, Apparently, by the Independents. Superintendent Tobey, of the Lacka- ‘wanna Road, Meets the Charge a Famine Has Been Created by Assert- ing that New York Gets More Coal Than Dealers Can Handle. (Special to The Bvening World.) SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 6—Assistan' Buperintendent Tobey, of the Lacka- wanna Railroad, sald to-day that there ‘Was more coal in New York at the pags: ent time than the retail dealers there could handle. * Bo great has been the shipment of coal to New York in the past month, he sald, that the large retail firm of Robinson, Hayden & Co., No. 1 Broadway, yest day “announced that for an indefinite period. they woulg uot accept any more coal from the independent operators, December, according to Mr. Tobey, ‘Hore than 1,500,000 tons of coal were shipped to New York by the codi roads from thig clty alone, The Lackawanna sent $08,000 tons, the Delaware and Hud- son 301,000 tons, the New York, Ontario and Western 275,000 tons and the inde- pehdents 60,000 tons. Y nag 4 The coal trade in “this city ts in a panic. Retailers from all over the city were notified this morning that, owing “to the abrogation of the contract be- This threw the whole trade into the ‘hrms of che independent opérators, the heddquasters of whose sales agente at No, 1 Broadway. Dealers flocked te in droves, bidding against each oUier for coal with which to supply lr customers and keep thelr pusi- si the, consumer the panic will come before night or by to-morrow. Prices, FINE INJURED ~ ELEVATOR'S FALL. Woman and Girl Soream as Car > Drops, but None Was Hurt Very Seriously. » however. a Sesh, and out from @ r-old girl, who heard @ block thered in @ mo- crushed and of ‘the shaft, iny' which have been ruling at 87.00 a ton at the vards of those dealers who have been getting most of thelr supplies from the coal roads at $5 a ton. shot up to 60. Those who have to depend on independents entirely shoved their schedule price up to S15. May Pay $20 2 Ton. Thin does not mean that they will sell it for that. They'll sell it for what they can get. Fifteen dollars win simply mean the minimum, and the consumer will more likely have to pay $20, This is the anawer of the so-called coal combine to the criticism that they have been treating New York badly in matter of the coal supply. ‘They are keeping their rate at % a ton at lewater, bat they have released the Independents from their contract which permitted them to Muy at 65 per cent. of the market price more’ than half of the total output of the independent mines— over 14,000,000 tons a year. Not baving enough as !t was to sup-, ply the demand, even admitting that the combine was selling all its output at the price named—#5—the reduction of one- fourth in the) supply simply puts the He in the hands of the in- and makes them the ar! of Ra ieaten. ier, The retailers of the-city saw-this. at ance when ‘they went to the offices ie usual supply drove them on the jump to No. 1 Broadway, where the holders of speculative and independent coal were ready for them. Prices went kiting. The dealers fell (Continued on Second Page.) METROPOLITAN... MUST PAY TAXES, Mayor Low, Corporation ‘Coun- sel Rives and Comptroller Grout Insist on, Settlemnt! ‘ 1 BH. . Vreeland, Mi . President Birect hat PS sai way Compan, ne fopolitan Company refused to recogni: the olty’s olaims for franchise taxes, and though sults were started to ‘the number of peveral hundred, they hung fire for yeara in the Corporation Counsel's Offic DNUGHTER 1 SAN: THEN FATHER DES Jennie Hunnemeter, a Pretty Harlem Girl, Dies of Poison, and the Belief Is that Her Father Mur- dered Her. HE ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. When the Police Tried to Notify Him of Tragedy at His Home He Was Dying from Pis- tol Shot—He Was a Drug Fiend—He Had Left His Wife. Jennie Hunnemeter, a pretty girl, was found dead from poison in her home, No, 228 East One Hundred and Twenty- gixth street, to-day. A few hours later her father, John, was found with a bul- let in his brain in Tytrell's printing es- tablishment, No. 129 Fon street, where he was employed. He wae taken to the Hudson Street House of Relief, where he’ died. The father and the girl rented the partment they lived in from John C. Campbell, the owner of the house, about wix months ego. He ‘informed Mr. Campbell at the tme that he had sep- arated from his wife, who lived with his four other children at 246 Second avenue. Both father and daughter seemed to entertain the greatest affec- tion for each other. About 9 o'clock to-day Mr. Campbell went to the apartment. The door was open and he walked in. When reached the girl's bedroom he found he! stretched én bed. At first he thougtt she was asleep; but upon going close ‘40 the bed discovered thet she was dead. alittle table by the bed was an empty bromo-seltzer bottle. ae Donovan, of the Hatten he gation ‘was summoned. le said she sha been. polsoned, but an autopsy would beisedes-: sary to détermine the nature of the potson. bs ‘The eergeant.of the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station called up the” father to nothfy him of his daughter's death. Mr, Tyrrell went to the ‘phone -and told the sergeant that hardly five minutes before Hunnometer, or Charles Henry. as he had known him for twenty years,.had been found un- conselous behind the elevator with a bullet wound in his head. Father Missing Since Saturday, Jt wae learned at the Fulton street printing establishment ti Hunnemeter had not been geen since Saturday until he was found dying behind thi shaft. Mr. Tyrrell said th he man had worked there under the name of Henry and was alwa; very close- mouthed about his personal affairs, but had spoken of separating from his wife about six months ago. Mr. Tyrrell sald that often people would call up on the telephone deking for Hunnemeter and Henry would answer the Capt. tective Bureau, who Is now tn command of t sixth gtreet station, took death; and bromo-seltzer bottle ‘had died trom someiih murdered. He # tiat Hunnem jand arsenic Jn before golng tothe H to-day found. a “i father of ‘the eald: , Ul ik was po iter and Mothet Heare the News, De NRT, Nas Nad ot NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1903. MEMBERS OF THE BURDEN FAMILY ; AND THE HOUSE WHERE FIRE OCCURRED. i Sites BURDEN HERES BURNED BAT Exploding “Alcohol Lamp Set Fire to Her Millionaire Father’s Mansion in-Madison Square. ——— ‘AMILY FLEES TO STREET. ‘The’ deautttut home of 1. Townsend| Marti, Bactlett, O/Briew Height and Burden, facing Md@ison Square, at No. APPEAL: RE GANT. BE CHIEF AGA The Céurt of Appeals Hands Down a< cision Unanimously Declaring His moval from the Police Force Was Le and Dismissing His Suit:for Reinstate Judge Cullen Holds Unconstitutional -the ba Giving the Governor Power to Remov the Chief, but Other Judges Refuse to On. that Question at: This Time. ~ (Bpectal-to: Th Evening Worlt> Justice Cullen-in-his»prevailing: ‘MUBANY, N. ¥., Jan, 6—The Court |‘*aya: < ‘The law seems: to have ©f Appenis to-day affirmed the Judgment} yin a con pode % of the Appellate Diviston in the action tng the peastarte cane aa 0 of Wilttam 8, Devery for reinstatement] the Legislature constantly in the anf an Chief of Police of New York City.|0f the draughtsman with the 'The decision of the court confirms the p rptibvel of Devery trom office. ‘Pho Court of Appeals !s unanimous In| Diled with. ‘The next attack on # reeching this decision, but there is a| lidity of the statute is hat it. Ateagreement on the question of passing| the Mederal Constitution in t on the constitutionality of the law cre-| Pairs the obligation of a co ating the single-headed police Commis- sion of New York City under which every wae removed, and which gives to the Governor the power to removg) the Police Commisatoner appointed by the Mayor. / The opinion of the court was written by Justice Cullen, and in it Chief Judge Parker and Associate Judges: vice be entitled to be fetired on nual pension of $3,000, ‘Vann Conour except oh the question pf any b x the onstitutionality of the dséection.| city and the_poliee,fanems The s MeClusky, ex-Chief of the De-| piace East One Hundred and Twenty- | take arge of the | Was GREENE APPOINTS -/CORBETT WILL: TWO NEW CAPTAINS)” FIGHT JEFFRIES, Sergt. Ferris, of Harlem, and Detective-Sergeant Becker, $20,000 Purse Made by San Francisco Club. of Brooklyn, the Men. “Police Commissioner Green. this after-| BUFFALO, N. Y./ Jan. 6.—"Jim" ‘noon ‘appointed his first captains. The!Corbett, the ex-heavy-weight champion, fortunate sergeants were Detective Ber-| who ts showing at one of the Principal eant John Becker, of the Brooklyn De-l vaudeville houses here this week, an- ‘tective Bureau, and Sergt. James B./nounced this afternoon that jhe had ac- Ferris, of the West One Hundred #h4/coptea the offer of h $20,000 purse, made ‘Twenty-fitth street fon. ‘Becker iy the Hayes y A.C, of Ban Fran- headed the eligible lst, while Ferris} oiso5 to night "sim" Jeffries elther in ‘was ourth on the ligt,-and Th onder *9tararch’ or April. Corbett has begun appoint ‘him, Gen. Greene had to June) training at a gymnasium here for the the names of Berets, Jan W, WOFMAl! -onteat, Cortett 1a willing to Nght ‘Soon after the appointments had Jeffries on the basis Of % per cent, to announced the winner and % to the sloser. Pe tase a aa BENZINE STARTS FIRE, John Holland,’ a printer for the Fox ‘Press at No, 327 Bowery, wae carrying @ can of bensine past @ hot stova to-day ‘crops| When & boy opened the stove to put he coal in it. § Dgst Dwenty-sixth street, wae pertly | judge Haight in « memorandum ex- destroyed by fire early this morning, and | presses the non-concurrents es follows: . it furnishings, Where Judges Disngree. Sacto Feeney “ve conour th “the opinion ot -Joaee " : as to the parts is a cee et els has utiful ‘helresses in jn jwhich he holds that.the provisions of oath. Miss Evelyn. of if the act giving the Governor the power richest and most. to remove the Commissioner whenever Amprica, was seated in the vapor So ils eopaion: tie Gs een ee and was enveloped ith lazing | #0 require and that he a! nol elig- uid. ebay thle for reappointment, are unconatitu- Bhe wae badly burned “before she was | tional. I dq ‘hot believe it necessary or rescued by her mati, Gertie Fagerquest, | wise to how determine these questions, who was burned ebout the arms and| for if the provisions of the act should shoulders and again burned in'Ber effort | he held invalid as to these questions it to save herselt. 1 tory a, and there were other narrow several daring’ rescues, In Bath Ww! Lamp Exploded, Miss Burden’s maid REPLY ~ Ex-Ctief Devery did not appear to be surprised whin told of the action ‘ ‘ of the Court ras '. Svan Ghrieking with pain and fright Miss | “A little bird on my " Burden endeavored to leap from the | ll @ few days ago and put me wise,. rubber case of the cabinet. which had|easi the ¢ormer Ciiief, ‘ll expected been buckled about her, only her head|to get tt, and I got tt. But I'm no . The cabinet was filled with|equeaier. What the court says goes Games and the scattered aloohol spread | with me. the fire over the young woman's body.| “of course, I wish it had been differ- With remarkable vresence of mind. the ‘was on the police force for folded ‘the sides of the cabi, ont, Here I hee gel Could about hee iat 84] twenty-four years. T worked my way and while thus smothering the Ramos |¥0 by attention to duty from patrolman she unbuttoned it and freed its victim, |to head of the force, Now I'm thrown ‘Throwing a long bathrobe about her|out when I'm beginning to get old, and Mies Burden and her maid ran to the|I'm robbed even of my pension, It wag second floor, wiiere the members of the | pretty small business taking my pension family were ssleep. Mr, Burien was|away from me, That wasn't mine, ‘The | out. of the city, Mre. Burden and her|belonged to my family, And if I had BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT ADMITS FEWER CARS ARE RUN NOW THAN A YEAR AGO, Jacob L. Greatsinger, president of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran- at the hearing on car jamming in Brook- sit Company,admitt been reinstated I'd have had about $10,000 to give to the poor people of my dis- tater os " Dad “Would you bave taken cha e > lice force if you had been rel: ted T° as naked, "would have gone to Mulberry. street long enough to make application for & pension,” was the reply. my mind long ago that ever should be In my favor 1 would never get into police again, uess all there wlid @ couple of houres and sell them. You know for me down in Mulberry street, 't draw any salary time—not after they cut down my sal- from to 490 & month.” "omiblasioner” Greehe wher (Continued on Second Page.) ot the informed x {lyn oevre the, Railroad Commissioners: this afternoon that Brooklyn lines were running fewer oars now than a year ago. Regarding the heacway. of cars Mr, Greatsinger displayed a “What is the carrying capacity Mr. Sheehan objected. ?” asked Judi eaid Mr, Sheehan, “omy | am going to h “You can’t hela me down,” replied Judge Daly, at which woolul. ignorance. road?” asked Juige Rely What are you afraid of there was great applause. TN HOISTED FLAG UPSIDE DOWN It Was Above Seboot! 14, and Pee~ the Daly. “Nothing,” you cown,” Considerable surprise was expressed oy those ip the vicintty of Grammer Bchool No. t Bixty-eighth street and Lexington avenue, this morning when it Was observed that « signal of distress wes flying from the fagetaft above the school bullding. Police Captain Brown burried to. the LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. » Fifth Race—Telamon 1, Jerry Hunt 2, Grantor 3, re eM bt Bs rrnemena ret "GREENE MAKING UP LIST val WARDMEN. Greene s: 8: afternoon . making up the Police Commissioner soda, t oF new plain does not purport to vision of the law whitch 1 cumbent who bry-4 be. for appointment ‘is ‘ur thls afternoon of though he was plsan tore in the matter. DEVERY TO KEEP ‘0 FIGHTING 7) —s ‘There were no new day ingthe case of ve. Tammany Hall, rs yers rested preliminary t@. on his fhjunction many jeaders from tve Committee without vo ‘The other side did gome tall among lawyers. ‘I hed no intention of many/Hall last night,” said Dever day, “but they had 100 cops ho ¢ root It’s @ wonder that 2M and 100 more on the me. Mummy didn't call on te lett for me is to/ it had ve got a little money walt: | Nin there for a | the ri leaders who for years, m: T JQHN.A. SONNTAG. Af ——— Parkway Ot John A. Sonntag, the Hotel, Why ple Thought There Was Trowbie. | som Died, Alleged to. Be tor of the Parkway Cinoke wrraigned before the Harlem Court, to-d maintaining 4 disorderly held to AD bail for row, ‘the Parkway Ctfele which young Jame To Now Tear'a Day, smnyeiery. An aut “ae al“ NO SQUEALER,” DEVER' T@ COURT'S RU =