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RACING # SP GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ____ON PAGE 6. The {(“ Circulation Books Op: “ Circulation Books {Circulation Books Open to All.?? ‘| NEW YORK, “SATURDAY, "SANU ARY 31, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT. — | “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | _ STOPS POLICE INVASION OF ACH HOMES Down Capt. Lantry for Act as Amateur Burglars. “ENTERED FIFTY-SIX HOUSES. ’ Servants Left the Doors Un- locked, and Lantry Had Told His Wardman to Go Out Again Before Greene Rebuked Him. Police Commissioner Greene does not -@pprove of the action of Capt. Lantry, of the East Fifty-first street station, tn . sending his plain-clothes men into the u® houses of wealthy Fifth avenue resi- dents to prove to them that thelr ser- vants are chreless and that frequent Todberies are due to this fact. It is pos- sible that Capt. Lantry will be called up on charges of exceeding his author- ““\ity, although this has not been decided upon. The Captain is ‘'standing pat.” He was at Police Headquarters bright and early to-day, He had been sent for, Commissioner Greene met him, and the *Jconversation that ensued was sufficient to raise the temperature around Mul- berry and Houston streets. Greene's Letier to Lantry. After the Captain had returned to his precinct Commissioner Greene sent him Sythe following. letter: “Capt. John J. Lantry, fourth Precinct: “Sir—Your action yesterday, ae re- ported In the morning newspapers, in sending plain clothes men to enter private residences in your precinct ss, for the purpose of showing that these sidences can be easily entered by “W burglars, is not approved. for the — foul ‘Twenty- ne: “MfsteSuch wetion, if justifiable, ‘will in no case be taken by a police captain without previously recelying the approyal of the nead of the De- fective Bureau or tae Chief In- spectorship of Police. “Second—Rule **, makes it the duty of policemen to see that the doors of houses are properly protecte-, but they have no right to enter houses for this purpose, and! their action should be umited to giving notice to the occupants by ringing the bel: or otherwise ciiliag their attention to the unprotected vonui- tion of the house, but without eu- tering it. “While it is desirable that Be _ 9Wners of residences should , their attention called to the tact that . through carelessness in leaving their joors open their houses can easily entered by sneak thieves, yet the method adopted by you to call at- tention to this was in excess of your, @uthority and is not approved. “FRANCIS V. GREENE, “Commissioner of Police," In addition. to this the Gommissioner made the following statemen: “Capt. Lantry’s action was reprehensi- je and was not justified, 1f one of his men had been shot I don't see how he could have defended himself. “E don't want the elghty Captains tn the Police Department to think that they ean act independently of thelr superiors, a 4s an Inspector, a Chief Inspector Commissioner to advise Captains cog to their powers.”’ Phere is no doubt about the owners of the thouses entered yesterday being an- “gry. A member of the family of C. Oliver Iselin, of No, 3 West Fifty-second street, fairly sputtered when he was cages about it to-day, It an Outrage. “why, at esters ft an outrage,” he paid. ‘The police exceeded thelr author- ft, hey should have rung the front doorbell and informed the servants that the doors were unlocked if they objected ito that condition.” “— was much surprised when I heard ‘that the police had walked right into my house,” said Miss Tomoney, of No. _ Us Bast Porty-wixth street. "Hereafter 1 "hall try to have the doors kept locked go that neither burglars nor police can wet in uninyited,’ Rdward bd Peck. of No, 63 West Fit- rm pony gratified with what Lantry ue he said, ‘I'm glad to know ‘feat my servants - have been careless “And will see that they don't leave the smlocked any mor Dr. McBride, who with Dr. 6tebbins "hes an office at No. 4 Kast Forty-third street, said that the police were going far. He intimated that he would the matter before Commissioner and protest against Capt, ne try being allowed to continue such ‘to that Capt. Lantry seems ui he was asked to-day De auinatiy ke tad sor sending hie nto the homes of the residents of district he drew out the book of. and regulations of the Pollce De- ais read tue Na, cy oR the zh ants * e ‘Commissioner Greene Calls Sending His Sleuths to). WAR-SHP CUT NTWO BY PURSUING CRUISER | British Torpedo Boat Destroyer Orwell Hit Amidships by Cruiser Pioneer and Fifteen Men Pinned Under Hatches Carried to Death with the Wreck, Vessels Engaged in Naval Manoeuvres) and Destroyer Was Dodging Larger Boat When Struck---Crash Occurred at Night and Victims Went Down in Ten Seconds, CORFU, Island of Corfu, Jan. 31.—Fifteen members of the crew of the British torpedo-boat destroyer Orwell were drowned in the Channel off this place to-day after the vessel had been cut in two by the third-class cruiser Pioneer, also of the British Navy. The forward part of the destroyer sank into the sea, but the after part, owing to the water-tight compartments, remained on the surface. The latter was towed into port and docked. ‘The accident occurred at night during naval manoeuvres in which sev- eral English warships were engaged. Among these was the‘unfortunate Orwell, which, running at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour, was attempting to cross the bows of the Pioneer, which was ploughing ahead to prevent her from doing so. It was a play at warfare, but the sudden termination of this part of the) battle game was intensified by a scene of horror. Thirteen men pinned down under leaking hatches with the water pour- ing in upon them and they fully cognizant of the fate that was to be theirs, wlhtle the sailors of the Pioneer made desperate but ineffectual efforts to rescue them, was a partial result of the collision, CAUGHT BETWEEN DECKS. The other two who lost their lives by the collision, were thrown from the deck into the water and drawn down in the maelstrom that was occa- sioned by the sinking of the forward half of the destroyer. ‘There were frantic cries for aid and shrieks from the men who were caught in the hold. They were terrorized by the frightfal crash and over- whelined by the swirling water as it rushed below decks. Aceotding to the story brought into this port by. the crew and captain sthe.cruieer;the sunken part of the torpedo boat was submtrged in lese than ten seconds, Then the other section, borne on the crest of a great wave, leaped over the sea for the length of several hundred yards. During the manoeuvres lighis had been lowered, this being a part of the strategic practice. When the vessels met the Pioneer put on all lights, and she unshipped all her lifeboats, but there was little that could be done in the way of rescue. CAPTAIN’S STORY OF CRASH. The captain of the cruiser in relating his story of the occurrence said: “We did not know that the Orwell was so close at hand, although I was fully aware that an attempt was to be made to get in front of us. “It was my purpose to outwit the destroyer, but the attempt was all too realistic. When we struck the boat a shiver ran through the Pioneer, and I) could the next few seconds hear the cries of the doomed sailors of the boat.” “We had gone clean through the boat and it is wonderful that she did not sink altogether. We had great difficulty in getting the men on the after part of the destroyer into our boats. “Speed on the Pioneer was at once reversed, but it was too late, for the work of destruction had been done.” SIX TY-FIVE MEN ABOARD. There were about 65 men on the torpedo boat destroyer. of only two of the fifteen lost have been recovered. The Pioneer is a cruiser of the third class. Carried 224men. She was built in 1890. She is of 2,200 tons displacement, with 7,000 indicated horse- power and two propellers. Her length is 305 feet, her beam 36 feet 9 inches and her draught 13 feet 6 inches. She has a two-inch belt of armor and carries elght 4-inch guns, eight 3-pounders and two torpedo tubes, besides the usual complement of smaller rapid-fire guns. She has a speed of twenty MAN KILLED AT BOY'S FEUD MAY COST ONE LIFE. The bodies HALL OF RECORDS. Carl Tognalo Fell from a Scaf-| Young Viconte Pushed to Rail- fold and Alighted on his Headj way Tracks and His Body Forty-seven Feet Below. Badly Crushed by a Train. /Carl Tognalo, @ mechanic employed in the erection of the new Hall of Ri ords, at Chambers and Centre streets, was invtantly killed this afternoon by @ fal) from a scaffold, This is the first fatality attached to the construction of the Hall of Records. ‘Tognalo, who was employed by Jacobs & Co., sub-contractors, was at work on @ scaffid under the akylight above the main court of the building, The scaf- fold 49 #ix feet wide and securely bullt ‘Above him, on the iron work of the skylight were Foreman George Carter and other workmen, 14 was the duty of Tognalo to pass the heavy glass plates up to his fellow workmen to be fastened in the frame- wors. In doing thls he lost his balance and fell forty-seven feet to the marble floor of the scaffold, alighting on his head. He was dead when an ambulance A feeling of antagonism existing be- tween boys of Jersey City Helghts and the lowlands Hoboken, which has repeatedly shown itself in desperate stone fights, was the cause towlay of Injuries to Samuel Viconte, ten years old, which may cause his death, The police are looking for a Jersey Heights boy who pushed the other to the tracks of the Erle Rallroad in Hoboken, Vivonte, who was unable to get up immediately after falling, was run over by @ coal train. The victim now lies at Bt. Mary's Hos- pital, where it was found necessary to amputate the leg. The boy who pushed Viconte to the tracks 1s not known to him, For years there has been a feud b tween the boys residing on the eley Hons and those who reside in the Hob: ken valley arrived from Hudson Street Hospital. Tognalo was tainty eye, years old, mar- ried and had child: He lived tn Blocekt"s treat ar tt jleecker etree, Sore a GE Foote Tognalo. when he al SO ——— Short Time; Short Line to Ohicase.’ Sunday World Wants ESS" Work Monday Morning Wonders, Viconte, who lives with his parents at No, 629 Madison street, Hoboken, de- clases that he was pursued by the boy, who apsaultted him, and when pest the ‘tracks was given @ push Sofie ASSAY OFFICE FIRE MENACES 043,000,000 Mysterious Blaze Threatens to Melt to a Solid Mass Huge Pile of Gold Held by the Government. FUMES DRIVE CLERKS BACK. Explosion of Gases Led to the Flames, Which Threatened Huge Accumulation of Pre- cious Bars. Forty-five million dollars of Uncle Sam's gold was in danger of being melt- ed down in one solid lump by a fire in the United States Assay Office, next door to the Sub-Treasury, a little after noon. It came from a slight explosion of gases used in the laboratory and created a dense and suffocating smoke, but the firemen got the blaze under control in a short time, The damage was small, mostly to the furniture and fittings of the office, but Wall street had a good deal of fun over it, ‘The fire started on the second floor where the heating retorts are. From the laboratory on the first floor there runs a pipe up to the roof to carry off the noxious gases. This pipe {s tocated just betwen the two buildings whose rear ends abut from Pine and Wall streets and make the assay office. It is flimsily constructed of wood and has no covering on the roof to prevent sparks from falling down it, should they chance to drop toward the Assay Building, Origin a Mystery. How the gases came to ignite no one knows. It was at first assunjed that there was @ leak in the wooden pipe which permitted the nitric acid fumes to escape, and that {t was ignited from the fire in one of the retorts, but this is denied by all those who were in the office. ‘They the fires had been drawn and all work stopped for the day. There was a gas Jet within four feet of the pipe and possibly the gas was is- nited in this way, or a spark may have fallen down the pipe from the roof. In any event, a ttle after noon Edward FE. Fage, the computing clerk. who was on the second floor, saw through the chinks in the pipe sparks and then smoke, He gave the alarm and the apparatus for fire fighting was rushed out by some of the clerks, while the others hustled to put away all the loose assay samples and to lock up the great vaults holding the dazzling for- tune of $45,000,000 in gold bars, _ Clerks Stifled by Fumes, ‘The clerks found that the gas in the flue was too much for their hose, Be- fore they could get It fairly ¢tarted the wooden flue was burned through and the suffocating fumes came belching out into the room, It was then a case of get to the street or choke to death, They all ran pell-mell into Pine and Wall streets, cach taking the door that was nearest, Some one had meantime turned in an alarm of fire and the en- gines came clattering through Wall and Pine strecis, he tiremen buckled to, but they had a hard job for a few minutes. The smoke permeated the whole neighbor- hood. There wasn't much need of the establishment . of fire ie Ag one who got too close simpl: nd and fought for his breath until ne could back out of range of the acid-l smoke. * Huilding in Danger. Deputy Chuet Kruger was in charge of the fight and he soon got his men where they could train thelr hose lines on the flames which first reached down to the first floor and then shot up to the roof ‘The building béing old, and largely of wood, was at one time In danger of de- struction, In a half hour the firemen had the flames under control, ‘The second floor of the bullding and the attite above are entirely burned out, An entire new roof will have to be ‘put on, and it is estimated by the police that $5,000 will hardly cover the famage. Secretary Shaw a week ago recom- imended to Congress that $190,000 be at ted to build a new Assay Office, Hilding was old and unfit for the it was put to. It is hoped by Wall] street men that the fire of to-day will hasten action by Congre: ——— GENERAL STAFF BILL PASSED Senate Acts om Army M Yoeated by Secretary. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-~The Benate has passed the general staff bill advo- cated by Secretary Root, with an amendmeng providing for retirement, oo WEATHER FORECAST, faiy and warmers brisk to # westerly winds, becoming south ne seaport tear Noms Baimeniey PN FF i lee A | ASSAY OFFICE WHERE FIRE ¢ POPPED 200520002 HODDDHONGOS BURGLAR CHASE core ON “L” ROAD NEAR DEADLY 3D RAIL. Charles Meyer Dashes Out on Track and Hops Over Ties for Several Blocks with Policeman in Persuit. t Charles Meyer, charged with burglary, station. He was followed by Rich was caught after a sHarp chase over the | Kennedy, of No. 23 Bast One Hundred and Ninth treet, Plerse Farney. of MENACED $45,000,000 IN GOLD. SUODEN EAD TD VENEZUELAN PEAGE PLANO. Flat Refusal of Germany, England and Italy to Accept Minister Bowen’s Proposal to Share Revenues Equally Gives Warlike Turn to Affairs. Baron Von Sternburg, Who Came Here to Negotiate a Settlement, Cables Emperor William that the Outlook Is Gloomy-=— France Will Insist on Her Claims, WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.—The allies om equally the ee have rejected Minister Bowen's last pro- San er Cnanwed posal that all nations having clalms pa conned thatthe “Caco eaeas against Venezuela be given the same. Baron treatment as the blockad!ng powers. The answers of the allles have been re- celved here and they reject in toto the proposal This flat refusal of @£ngland, Ger- many and Italy, couched in emphatte language, brings matters dangerously near a crisis, and may lead to combine action by the United States, France and other nations having claims against Venezuela, to force a settlement Just what this may lead to fs only problematical, but the situation ts one not desired, as it might give Germany and the two nations allied with her an excuse at any moment to make a move on Venezuelan waters that might lead tan general clash. Roosevelt Concerned. a8 go impressed dled his Impressios jam. answers received Ee ian Rowen from Germany Italy were to the ettest cree tnd could not consent that the United and the other claimant ni that at Be hy Emperor W: rhe Knowing “the con that were to follow’ the presantation of this wer the representatives of the al took upon themselves the resi of withholding the notes of ernments and og again cabling, a fetraction of thelr preferent mand. ¥ Exchanges are still in between the Italian, British ant German embassies, but there is evidence that the yielding. It they hold out thetr ard President Roosevelt and the members ties of the Second Avenue “IL” 10-48Y, | tq wast One Hundred and Thitteenth ot Me Cablast are Pay een oon tativenion “ALE HeE| Beoughtitoubayierecat ona Gosiaungred ‘hitteenth| corned by this latest hos:ile acton an pogontl an street, and John Mulvaney, of No. 276] take |ittle pains to conceal it. fusnl nnd the Washington crowd o citizens and a policeman with | West One Hundred and Fighteenth} when Baron von Sternberg, who has ndstith a pistol, He had to be beaten into in- hg : just arrived here to conduct the neso-| Meanwhile Mr. Bowen Is biding? Le 2 nenalbility® before. he. could’ be arceated Not a train was in sight. and Meyer|ttations in the Veneauelan matter, called | time. He is Berl Caravan AE Meyer and a cmpenion, who escaped, | Chose the tles as the only meine oflon President Roorevelt to-day to present Sees that the broke into theapartments of Mrs. Min-| ape. He Jumped down on the track | nis credentials he was quite as optimis- nie Indig at No, 2% East One Hundred | 0°'towly mineing the third rat) ltic as to a peaceful settlement as he and Ninth street and were leaving with Held at Bay with Pix |was when he arrived In port yesterd everything of yalué in the place,! The three pursuers were | He assured the President toat Em- wrapoed up in two bundles, when the|heels and chased him as | peror William's sentimenis were most|as the representations of powers woman met them coming down the|Hundreq and Ninti street where the | oF! and dewired ihe pleasant rein-| Ar tue ee Sota hae now pause stairs. They shoved her aside and ran! burglar suddenly turned and came to| Hons to continue In ev thout any communications betweea put the front door, Mrs. Indig saves bay with a pistol almed at the trio NH UP poh gt oS chase, srytn, Mulvaney knocked him down but Meyer \ ne oe rang Ae) ay Wrance to Innist. Crow n im Chane. was up in a twinkling and levelling bis . ina South Ameri He understan During a call to-day of Mr, De Mar- A crowd was 00n at the heels of the | Weapon at the men aaaln he told them onroe doctrine fully for he kerle upon Secretary Hay. the fact de- fleeing pair, the man, who not to approach on peril of being killed, [fully studied everything that | Seloped that he french charge has Pe Hdding himself of nis buncle Policeman John MeGeough, of the One pon agp about it by American | (0209 Irene. instructions from. toward Gecond gavenue through One| Hundred and Fourth Street Station, “Iie knows and understends how the) Government to insist that, France ona Hundred and Eleventh street, Sudden-| came up a minute later and called upon| American reople regard the doctrine, | M0 Tori ne Nenesuelan claims. ly he darted into the doorway of a flat building and was lost track of. Meyer kept on to the corner and ran| Into the entrance of a saloon, A moment later he emerged from a side door tn One Hundred and Eleventh street with: out the bundle, Mrs. Indig spied him and at her cry of recognition the fel- low ran up the statrs of the elevated| Meyer to surrender. He refused, had to be beaten down with a club fore he would give up his pisiol. He was identified by Mrs. Indig as ‘of the burglars and Mrs. Annio hart, of No, 222 East One Hundred Ninth street, who said that he ente her store a week ago and snatched from the till | MAN DRIFTS TO SEA ON SCOW, BUT REFUSES TO ASK FOR AID, Two scows are adrift beyond the Sandy Hook Lightshi one with a man aboard and the other deserted, the two men who were on the latter when she broke loose from the towi tug having been rescued. Tugs are cruising about in search of the scows. La Lorraine, which arrived to-day from Havre, passed the wre Ad-| goow with the man-aboard six miles west of Fire Island Light- ship and stood by; but he did not ask for aid. The scows broke loose from the tug H. B. Chamberlai Capt, Peter Cherry, | which tows refuse for the city. merits ttreeeecersereenee= LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fourth Race—McChesney 1, Hargis 2, Harry New 3. Fifth Race—Brief 1, Satin Coat 2, Hayward Hunter 3, palselinanieSucnuunaae yy MAY BE A FIREBUG’S WORK. _ Fire in M lieved to have been the work of an incendiary, was small. Acker- . Annie MoCue’s flat, at No. 371 Eighth avenue, aftenpoon..was. of such, a mysterious origin that it is be: “The damage and ,admizing the American people as he “and earnestiy desiring thelr good woukl never for a moment think ws the letter or the spirit of the and be- Having the personal assurance of Bowen that ihewe French olalms net be discriminated aga! ie rstecns. at present. from. ace Pat as soon as he shall be assured that the aliles | ret atment to, the aa hatlon, and in joined by the r her claimant nal rh ay one Outlook Gloomy, when he had called at State and sited tary and later thks afternoon visited Minister Bowen and reau the pontblank refusal of Germany, England and Italy BLOCKADE WILL CONTINUE UNTIL CASTRO FULLY YIELDS, i BERLIN, Jan, 31.—The apparent hitch | | dent Castro wants !t to be understood | in the Venezuelan negotiations at Wash-| as constituting part of the 9 per cent... ington is explained here in the following | offered to the blockading powers. manner ‘As the latter would thes have only 1? and the ered H0 Pu Department 1 resen= ons. exD Tatives ives of ha. the Venezuela hypothecated jo France| per cent. left they regard it a4 inade- some time ago 13 per cent, of the cus-| quate, and hence are not wiillng to toms reveipts, which constitutes 4 prior- permit the inclusion of France's pet | ity claim upon the Venezuelan customs, centage, It 1s believed here that the The blockading Fowers are quite willing | blockade will not be raised until Presl lto recognize It in this sense, but Presi- | dent Castro yields on this point, Ip, a GERMANY OFFERS TO BUY CHILI'S BEST WARSHIPS. ng Chill, Jan, 81—Private) pray ang the \y mored cruiser Eamers agents many have proposed t?) isa and have offered to take aver the Government the immediate pur-! ihe warships now being built in Europe! chase of the Chilian battleship Capitain, for Chill SAW DEAD WIFE COME IN ON WAVE, The search of George Grandon, ngehoreman, for his wife, Mamie, who had been missing from their home, No. Brooklyn. siace Deo ay when he came upon her body in the water off the foot of Adasns street, Grandon had gone down to the docks to look for work and was attracted to the Adams street pler head by & @roup idlers, who were looking at somo ob- Jeot in the river, He joined it and J the body of 4 woman. A moment later the hair washed back from the face Fe the corpse and he recognized his wife,” arene had been out of employment © some time preceding bis wife's @ge |<: Ns} im because hi id not support he Was thirty years of ag Es Victim Caught Under eri E Wa! Others Injured, SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jap —T large department store at Lubin & Co. was aesiron Frank a by