The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 12

aS, Editor iat, of the of the New Ro- 8 ohelle Pioneer, Tried to fe Squelch Playwright’s Political Boom by Poking Fun at Him. When Augustus Thomas, who haw for years engagéd in the work of ising United States of @, OMe at a time, was arraigned the police court at New Rochelle to- Saay and charged with assaulting Editor “Sweet, of the New Rochelle Ploneer, ‘there was a large and interested audi- sence of hand. r. Thomas Is one of the dents of whom New Rochelle feeis uid, and everybody was anxious to itness the proceedings. | Former Judge John J. Crennan repre- @ented Mr. Thomas in court. © Yr was apparent that Mr. Thomas haa “mot cooled down to any extent since feading the Ploneer editorial in which was referred to as “Miss Gussie" and @harged with being two-faced in politics. | Wants to Be Mayor. | Mr. Thomas was greeted by his} friends and giared at by the editor and Bhe editor's friends, The Republican | politicians of New Rochelle sym@pi- | ‘Phize with Sweet because Mr. Thom baa President of the New Rochelle Dem: tic Club, has been developing po- tical strength In a way that makes oy a lUkely candidate for Mayor on "| the Democratic ticket. =) "We do not admit that there was an Ss assault, "said Judge Crennan. “It is } question of veracity between my nt and Editor, Sweet.” © Close scrutiny failed to reveal the lump fas big as a baseball which 1s sald to} t Daye appeared on the editor's neck jvunder tho influence of Mr. Thomas's @eherous hand, But it was very evident {that the feelings of the editor had been seam a whole lot. He was not Dleasea at the fact that no record was ‘made on the police books of New Ro- “chelle when tho playwright was ar-| | Pested yesterday. Police Capt. Timmons {took Mr, Thomas's pedigree in a room ‘eit the main court-room. fa GE PRANKS OF THE ‘WIND AT . THE FLA TIRON BUILDING SHOWN BY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN TO-DAY DURING THE GALE. “Winat js the charge?" asked Mr, omas, after !t had been set down *dhat he is forty-three years old, married RUNAWAY and lives on Lather’s Hill, New Ro- ghelle. - ‘Assault in the third degree," replied) the Captain. a Thoman’s Definition of - “Well,” said the playwright, ‘when 1 ‘was on @ gunboat the jackles after a bat used to say ‘you can put me down as} ) drunk and dirty or dirty and sober,’ ” ‘When the case was called an adjourn- “mont was asked for and granted, with understanding that if the County “Wudge oes not transfer the case Mr thomas ‘will plead in the police court ‘mex. week. > Hdltor Sweet did not like the arrang?- gent at all. He raid that he had been | ‘jaseanited and knocked down in his own house and that his assailant ehould be nished. In addition ho volunteered @ information that he will sue Mr. iomnas tor $90,000 damages. co “Mr. Thomas was elected pres! it of the Democratic Club, of New int for the Demo- momination, the MUNIOH, Bavaria, one haven for the former Grown Prin- cess of Saxony. Her unfortunate father, who bears the tle of Grand Duke of] Tuscany, out who has no throne. has offered her an asylum now that all her tiles have been stripped from her and she i# dented even the privilege of seeing! again the children she deserted for her Belgian lover. Prof. Giron. It was officially stated here to-day| that the Grand Duke had made known his willingness to be reconciled to his danghter on two conditions. ‘The first] of these is that she shall never see Giron again. She has alren the Belgian. She parted f pain in her heart and tears in her ey mayorality loneer, which is a Republican organ, AB been poking fun at him. In its turday imsue {t referred to his alleged arance as one of the speakers at Jalls Thomas (‘Miss Guasic.” “But what Mr. Thomas objected to was article published last Saturday about reconciliation’ With Robert | because she hoped that her sac ‘orbes, Receiver of Taxes. The article| would lead King George of Saxony to} Related the trouble “Miss Gust allow her to return to Dresden to seo| her children. | Not only was this refused her, but she was informed that If she set foot, on Baxon poil she would be arrested, It} was then reported that she would prob- ably call back to her side aer enamored tutor, and it 1s thought that the Grana | Phomas had tn getting a tax bill, and {wnund up in this way: ) "When she finally succeeded in ob- = taining Ger tax dill she found that a ‘penalty had been imposed in the shape Of interest for her neglect to promptly ‘pay her taxes. Naturally Miss G, Pomewhat ‘riled.’ She refused to pay jhe interest that was the cause of the ‘Mifference between the lad and lassie, ae CROWN “PRINCESS TO GO TO HER FATHER. 42 —______ Grand Duke of Tuscany Offers Her an Asy- lum on Condition that She Shall Never See Tutor Giron Again, Feb. 9-—There is home on condition that she never see him again is due to his desire to stop her resumption of that mesalliance. Another condition which rera ‘Imposes Is that he shall have the nana rignt to fix the place of her abode and select her entourage. Wish Is to establish her In soine o the way porsi she may live forgotten, sion of his in order be bee The Intul i rs love he bears his World-scanial daug the Grand b f his exaiter position It is presumed that nis aut OF that apart from the worll ana has duke, way- NF word has been received from the foriner Crown Princess, who ts still iu Geneva, ping because of the re fusal of her royal Saxon father-In-law ta permit her to sce her ehidren, Tt is not known whether she has recalled Giron, The tutor has been quoted in Berlin despatches as being willing to somal from her or to go ty her as she ive between She must now make a retiremen from the wol or further se Giron. As sh nother again, lone yance al and ann ja about and as she dou Hiness with to become a ubtless hopes some time to be permitted to see her ghildren again, {t 1s considered prob- able ‘here that she will accept her ee > Bach party accused the other of fault, _ btu neither would admit ariy~neglect on Qheir part. Finally Miss Gussie was Btricken with nt on the lungs from wing the rag. Her indisposition * t her to a realizing sense of her ep ve EDITOR STIRS MLE. PREACHERS They Prine ane Statement in Meeting that the Methodist Church Is on the Decline in Some Places. ' She called on the Hon, a le 0) res be tion ‘pleaded for fon iveness," She bly raved his pardon and scl. n promised that fn ‘ihe future she @ mend her erring ways A JOKE, SAYS LEWISOHN. and@ His Brother Did Not Win $6,000 at Lakewood, this oMice, No, i Broadway, sald th Teport that he and his brother Fred won $6,000 at roulette in the Albe- 4 Club, Lakewood, N. J., on Satur- ©) GBy hed no foundation in tact and was ld rst aw a joke, and to keep it up confirmed tater at the club-house. it is true that 1 was at Lakewood Baturday evening,” sald Lewisohn, 1 was with those named in the paper reports. During the covrse he evening we were joined by others, WHO wald they had been gambling at h8 Glub-house and asked if we had not m there. One of the men, pointing y brother Fred, laughingly we had been over to the Albe- had won between us about roulette. Later on some of the at the club-house, where the f our alleged winnings had gone nda joking confirmation hats ihe way the report feixvculation, and that’s all there THINK HE’S A PESSIMIST. This was a field day at the Methodist preachers’ meeting at No, 150 Fifth ave- hue. The editors of several of the of- ficial newspapers of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in other sections of thei country are in the city to attend the! meeting of the Boos Committee this week, and four of them were scheduled to speak at the meeting to-day. There was a large attendance, and much in- terest was shown in the accounts given of the progress of Methodlym in far dis- tant places, Before the meeting closed, however, # bombshell was thrown by the Rey. Dr, J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of this city. The previous speaker, D. D. Thompson, editor of the SHOT THROUGH HIM, | Northwestern Christan Advocate ot Chicago, had spoken in a most enthu- silastic way, saying that there had been 4 million and a half converts made by the Methodist Church in the last four years. Dr, Buckley disputed the ac: curacy of these figures. Ho declared that statistics showed that Methodism was actually declining in some of the Bastern conferences, He believed in looking at the facts and waid it was @ grievous mistake to take an over-optim- “sm Gets a Heavy Shock end May D: in eptablishing a now ane the Mast ‘wenty-nien of the Metropolitan @ iy Peter Madine, an a. f ny Lenox avenue, 4 may die trom siakoments were mahementin, aps ahd muoh regret was expressed th: should have made them. Dr, Bu |made several short answers to th tacks made upon him. Duke Ferdinand's offer to give her -a| father's offer and bla Giron stay where ' posed by other members of the meeting at he ckley at- He pointed out to some of his critics that they were not ponsible for his views, his honest optnéons. Dr. Buckley said: but they “People who are old or elderly Yt) poculaitly Hable to be mistak tverything is all right or all w who ever lived ay of hey lif this problem up t dren had been, Rut she never Why was It that 46 8 Much bettur wero are he ng with n My mother was one of the clev~ ‘0 the «2% when thelr parents were so much inferior to the parents her own children had “The trouble about many of th }ivaln of the present day Is that ing done without evang: chey sig and forget all is the, old ce man shows in mar is in hls ng come to him. whic © 10 experience or know! had,” 6 Tes noth- elints. nt n cards, and about onver- face, in his manner, that he has h owin- ledge. © Trouble with Preachers, trouble with too many preachers to-day ix that they never teach the Delty’ of Christ Intty of Christ mere theological point st they peaier t mahal They deity’ of “T don't ° mpent al truths searatne the al should Br h the crucifixion and not to t with @ purpose, is not to preach all, Phere are preach the div- but that ia a different But the B remission be overlooked, To reach itat thousands of men in this elty who have never had the Goapel pre- Sented to. them coud reach them, in the manner 4 to be saved, them. | Whi) Calvinists, that none of fall away. the older 1 ina manner They are to be vhich the ‘heath: grow the m which fa en ane x light tha ¢ faith tea cannot @ fis’ elect ever nore I think that very few fall away who were really converted,” ——$—$—$—— ” Fishback, of Ark LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Gov his home in He was seventy-two years old. widely known 4 the author of the Feb. —Ex- William Fishback died to-day at Fort fmith of paralyats, He wee by which the Legtala- bwok tata ture tore over to. pay pertoa, ves Tedonstruction | Entire Third Class Stands To- NAVAL CADETS STILL LOCKED UP, their efforts to get around Winds not low from every point of the com at this corner, but they have « way of blowing upward, lifting the clothing of the women in a most em barrassing Wi Their skirts wre around their waists as {f soaked In glue. It was impossible to disengage them in the teeth of the hurricane that was blowing. and the women were forced te run across the street, followed by tite Jeers and laughter of the men who were congregated Just to sea these sights. gether at Annapolis and Re- fuse to Stop Hazing. (Bpeeial to The Evening World.) ‘ANAPOLIS, Mda., Feb. 9.—The entire third class at the Naval Academy 1s atill in confinement because they wilt not give the pledge to stop hazing which Capt, Brownson has demanded. A meet- Ing of the Academy Board was held to- day to consider further ateps Capt, Brownson has refused to accept the resignation of Midshipman Robert To Drive {Lolterers | Away: W, Pearson, of the fourth class, Young} Policemen detailed at or near this Pierson {s the midshipman who received | corner received orders to-day to permit a broken Jawsrecently in a fight with|no one to stand or loiter. They had An upper clasaman. Tt $s claimed that] their hands full. Policeman Tracey. of he has been annoyed until it Is impos-}the Broadway Squad, whose duty ft 1s sible for him to remain. to nilet women across Broadway and Capt. Brownson ts unwilling to leave cer them clear of trolley. cars, was under such circumstances, and has|compolled to leave his post and keep granted a two weeks’ leave instead. At|the mass moving. the end of tals term conditions are} At every pint which commanded 9 Ikely to be Improved, view of the famous Flatiron corner Tn the meantime the present agita-|squads of men congregates|. One of the tion has stirred naval circles, and it is | most versistent of the lolterers was ar- believed that Capt. Brownkon Is likely |tested by Policeman, Bennett, of the to succoal where the efforts or the |/‘hirtieth street station, Ue dismuted former Superintendent were not alto-|the policeman's rikit to tler him te kether successful move un. and the poll ted —— him: He wae arraigned in’ Jefferson BIG FLOUR FIRM SOLVENT. |*!"*ct Court this afternoon i At a 100-Mile Rate. ‘Around the corner of the Flatiron to- Heoker-Jones-Jowell Milling Come | qay it was estimated that the wind blew pany Recetvern Discharged. = William Brookfield ang Charles E, Kimball. # of the Hecker-Jones- BANKING BILL IN CONGRESS. were dlsch at their -| Aldrich Meas Given Greater test by the Jorsey Court of Flaatlelty to Currenes. Chancery to-day... Through their coun-| wach 9.-Senator Al- sel, Sherrerd Depue, they showed that 4a bill autnorie~ dich to-day Introd ing banks which are national deroit taries, to deposit for the safcguard ng of the Government other securities than Government bonds, The intention of the ‘ill is to give greater elasticity to the currency and permit of the release of larger amounts of the Government's funds in times ol stringency. the company Is not insolvent, During the twenty-seven monting preceding May BL jta sales were 00, ana 14 Profits $1,028,000, Its ngsets are 33,850.- Plies and’ sbisiview 32,08, 688.80 Vice-Chancellor Pilney agreed to the Gischarge of the recelvers on the con- dition ‘that mults of Oharies F. 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(Continued from First Page.) of 100 miles an hour at noon According to the record in the Weather Bureau, it, was blowing officially. sixty miles an hour. The Weather Depart ment calls this a gale. At the n Buildias people who make the trip around tae corner. 0 Twenty-third street Jt is not a gale no} a hurricane nor a cyclone, It fs some- thing Unat hits the pedestrian in solid chunks. It is a solidified atmosphere contensed by some mysterious opera- tion of foreas not yet known that has enormous power In the wild, riotous breeses that blew to-day this mysterious power stopped people from ‘every’ side. Though. the wind was from the northwest, officially. at the corner of the Flatiron Building {t_blew enough, at a point second and scarcely a. breath It was proached Twenty-third street that he ov she was suddeniy assaulted by flerce asts streets, was blowing. hen the pedestrian ap- t of air —_—_—_——_—_— JAMES McGREERY & GO. Silks. Opening exhibition and Sale of Spring Fabrics. 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