The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1903, Page 14

HEI cHOWN FOR THREE MEN IN CAB Senator Hudspeth Led Vig- orous Fight Before the Senate Committee for a Favorable Report. WAKELEE’S EARNEST TALK. Leaders of Both Political Par- ties at Trenton Eloquently Ask for a Law Which Will Protect the Lives of the People. (Bpectal to The Brening World.) TRENTON, Feb. %.—Senator Robert 8. Hudspeth, at the hearing before the Benate Committee on Ratlroads and Canals in the improvised Senate Cham- ‘ber yesterday afternoon, when Senate Bilis 89 and 90, introduced by the Hud- gon Senator and his colleague from Bergen, the ‘three men in a cab’ bills, came up, led a vigorous fight for a fa- Yorable report on one or other of the smensures, Mr. Hudspeth said that he was not particularly anxious for the paseage of either bill, but would cheerfully accept ® good substitute that would give the Wesired result, should the committee de- cide on reporting the bills by substitute. Senator William J. Bradley, chairman of the committee, with his felolw mem- bers, Dr. Isaac N. Barber and Col. Nathan Haines, opened the hearing a few minutes after the ecssion of the Senate had ended, and Senator Wakelee, who stands for one of the bills, made a Saort speech {n which he outlined the purposes of the bills. He said that the bills had been drawn and introduced because of the recent awful accident at Westiield. Qne Man Betwixt Life and Death. “It Is true that the matter was brought directly to our minds by that horrible affair,” said Mr. Wakelee, “but there ts no more danger now than there has been all along, and no more than there will Ls in the future while these great en- #ines are used on the roads with only tivo men to handle them. This fs simply @ question whether the State wishes to #llow one man to run these great ma- chines, where only one man’s life, one tan’s consclousness, one man's sight 1s between the innocent passengers and death.” My. Wakelee was followed by the Hud- #0n Senator, wao had provided himself with data concerning the operation of tae big engines. When Mr. Hudspeth Fezan io talk "Col." Dick Reading and {he other regulars of the railroad lobby moved over and seated themselves be- ud the Hudson Senator, The latter hin wastily over the provisions of the Qills fathered by himself and Senator Wakelce and then went back to 18% nd 1900, when a bill simflar to those before the Committee was introduced in the House by Assemblyman Benny, of Hudson, Then he described the Wooten engine minutely, and gaid that the engine had been pattererned after an English type of engine, and that Mr. Wooten, of Philadelphia, had experimented to find @ suitable firebox for a certain purpose, which purpose, Mr. Hudspeth explained, Was to find a way by which the loco- motives could burn “culm,” or the ref- use of the coal mines. Catastrophe Was Prophesied. “A few years ago it was prophesied with much force that unless the Legis- Jature took precautions such as were recommended in the bill then under con- sideration there would be a catastrophe that would stun the people of the Sta eaid Mr, Hudspeth, "'Unfortu- Rately that prophesy has come only too true, But whether the passage of that Dil at that tlme might not have pre- vented the recent accident at Westileld is a matter for the serious consideration of this committee and of this Legisia- ture, “That there isa crying need for some @uch legislation is certain, I am not tn- sisting on my Ulll beonuse I am a@ prac- toal man in railroad matters, nor ie - my friend, the Senator trom Bergen, but I am willing to accept any practical meagure that will attain the purpose of safeguarding the travelling public. We have no railroad commission in this State to regulate the affairs of the rall- Feads in such matters, so this matter is within the supervision of this Legisla- ture. This supervision should be exer- ised with discretion, the legislation @hould not be too drastic or tyrannical fo far as the railroads are concerned. ‘The hearing was adjourned until neat —_—— ENGINEERS THANK THE EVENING WORLD, At @ meeting of Centra! Division, No. 41, Brotherhood of Locomotive En- ‘Sineors, held last night in Masonic Hall, mer of Pacific avenue and Whiton Jersey City, resolutions were commending The Evening for taking up the fight for » man on Wooten fire-box or mogul and appointing a committee to ) Prenton nd arrange for @ hearing re the oom ittee on Railroads and She bills Introduced by Sen: ry lapeth to compel de to Si lay & third man to ri cab with the engineer. ng Was Swell atrended. ‘Chiet J, Dwyer ‘The meeting se ee ‘and each mame faa pledged to secrecy son concerning lon. joue AM names don the commnaites to Priore Holidays. ito, 25. — Assemblyman peeueed a bal making REVERT ee WORK BEGUN ON GREAT TUNNEL. First Stroke Made in Made in the Penn- | sylvania’s Tremendous Bor- | ings Under North and East | Rivers and New York City. HOUSES RAZED TO GROUND. At Foot of West Thirty-second Street One ef Four Enormous Sections Into Which the Great Undertaking Is to Be Divided. The first stroke was made to-Say on the work on the Pennsylvania Rallroad tunnel under the East and North Rivers and through New York City. The de- struction of buiMings at the foot of West Thirty-second street at the North River was begun to clear ground for sinking @ shaft and establishing a basis of operations for what the engineers have named ‘the North River section” | of the tunnel, ‘This seotion will extend from a point in the centre of the North River to the site of the terminal station at Seventh and Eighth avenues and Thirty-second to Thirty-fourth street. For the alnk- ing of the shart a number of small buildings and the plant of an tron works will be razed, When the work on the great under- taking, which will eventially cost the Penneyivanta Railroad Gompany about $50,000,000, was actully begun at 10.30 o'clock, there assembled at the firet | building 20 be raged the chief engineers, Charles M. Jacobs and Alfred Noble, and thelr staff and a number of others immediately interested in the work. The shaft which was begun to-day will extend down to the level of the tunnel, and then the work will be pushed west under the river and east lene ‘ Or EORENER NETTIE ct THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1903. LOWEST PRICED STORE IN NEW YORK POR PINB G00DS5. Ehrich Bro aS AVES so 22d | ue eee bs NEW _ YORK. New York's Fastest Growing Store, WEST Ss. under the city to connect with other sections. ‘There are four of these, one extend- Ing from the terminal east to a point under the centre of the Hast River, one on Long Imiand and one in New Jeraoy, bealdes the one which is now under con: struction, REDMOND URCES LAND PURCHASE. His Amendment to the Address in Reply to the King’s Speech ls Made in a Spirit of Con- ciliation. REMEDY FOR IRISH EVILS. LONDON, Feb. %.—The Irish leader, John Redmond, in the House of Com- mons to-day, moved an amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne on the aybject of the Irish Jand question. Mr. Redmond'e speech was most con- ciliatory. He sald the amendment was not Intended as a hostile demonstration against the Government, but aa a friendly warning to the ministry that he and his friends believed the Goy- ermment was engaged in framing a great measure of justice and appease- ment for Ireland which, in the words of the King's epeech, would “complete the atolition of the dual ownership of the land.” Ail he (Raimond) wanted was an as- surance from the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Wyndham, that the Gov- ernment was engaged in an honest at- tempt to solve the problem on the Hnew suggested by the report of the recent land conference, which, the speaker Added, “aered “an “uneramled appor tunity to end the agrarian troubles and conflicts between classes in Ireland, Mr. Redmond pointed out that. the compromise proposed in the conference report was impossible without State ald and warned the Government that if there was any attempt by the juggling of figures to make the tenant bear the whole burden of the transference of land it would be vigorously opposod and the whole scheme would be ruined, The State, Mr. Redmond asserted, must supply the difference between the amount the tenant could afford to pay and that which the landlord could af- ford to take. » Wyndham, in replying, declined to. commit himtelf to any ‘wholenale oMclal approval of the land conference report, which, he sald, avolded or skirt- ed many considerations which muat be taken {nto account. The value of the work of the conferen: sould hardly be overestimat: thay a large majority of the on and tenants desired and were ready to mako er Mow oretary concluded with express ing the Dope that the splrit of good- sense and good-will animating the ro- ort would be emulated by. th n its consideration of the forthcoming measi hich would make {t possible for Ireland. to lay the social foundations upon, which tt was alone possible to rear fabric of healthy, national life After Mr. Wyndham's explanation Mr, Redmond withdrew his amendment ) House ‘The conference to which Mr. Red. mond referred was held in Dublin, and it was agreed there that a scheme of land purchase would be urged by which the tenants would be helped with Gov ernment loans at low interost to pur- chase their farms. NO WESTFIELD FINDING, Uniom County Grand Jurymen Said to Be at Varine te The Byentog 14) BDUIZABETH, N. J, Feb, %.—The Union County Grand Jury met thie morning to hear the report of the @peoiat committee appolnied to inquire into the Westtle d aac nt. djourned at 1.30 o'clock and told not examined that oes were alachary ed until further notice. The Hi meet again to-morrow morn- is said they are at variance as to BERLIN, Bob. %.—The Anti-Duelling League,.under the Presidency of Prince Fancy Cheviots, value. O HAD TRANCE-TAL WITH LAY-LOVE But a Sceptical Policeman Over- heard One Side of It and Es- corted Young Mr. Jackson to Madhouse. CAME HERE FROM CANADA. Here's one for the theosophists to bufld on, ‘As Policeman Langans, of the East Mighty-eighth street jon, was walk- ing along Madison avenue, near Ninety- thind street, to-day he noticed a richly dressed young man leaning against the lamp-post, gazing up into the sky with rapt attention and apparently carrying | on @ spirited conversation, Langans walked up behind the young man and, atening, heard “] tell you, Helen, 1 am coming back to you. Yes, I am coming back to you, and 1 am sorry I went away. You don't way? Well, I never would have thought it? Langans kicked himself several times to mee if he was awake, looked up over $25 Spring Suits $ ~ to Order for A 6-Day offer worthy of your most earnest consideration, for it embraces a better Suit and a more artistically Only Three Days More of more than doubles, ‘i attend the sale. Upholstered HW) Seat Parlor 8, value $6, at 2.98) Upholstered Spring Seat Parlor Arm Chairs, inlaid frames, 4, 98 value $10.50, at............ 5.98 Highly Polished Mahogany Finished Arm Chairs, value $12.50, at-. Iron Couch Beds, complete, with rev versible mattress ni and bolster, cover- edin fancy denim worth 7 3 50 15 finished Suit than we have ever RUNAWAY TRAIN CAUSES WRECK. Dashes Down Mountain Side, Overtakes Another Train, and Flagman Is Killed and Three Car Hands Injured in Crash. WILD RACE FOR SAFETY. ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. %.—A runaway train going at full speed down the mountain side at Kitanning Point, just West of here, early to-day, crashed into another just ahead of it and the two were wrecked, One man was killed and three others badly Injured John Cox, @ fiagman, who was caught in the crash, was the man kifled, bts head being out off, Richard E. Cooney, the engineer of the runaway trein, wes fatally turt, and Harry M. Story, bls fireman, and ‘Thomas W. Leeth, a brakeman, were seriously injured. ‘The trains, which were heavily boaded with freight, deft Pittsburg within « fow mimutes of ‘each other and were the housetops at the blank skyline end| under full headway when they neared then walked over to the young man and tapped him on tao shoulder, “Who's your heavenly friend?” asked ~ | Langans. The young man started violently and wheeled arou Just a Litthe Trance Talk. “Why, 1 was just talking to Helen, he said unhe vod quiver of an But 1 guces t had etter explain, My home Ottawa, Canada, | am an ex coumtant and after @ Lift with came to New York to look ployment. While | waa walk Maiison avenue 1 got a com through the alr waves that Helen was nd loaning up agacnst a trance nd squared sck home Magintrate lions put by the »| smash-un. Kitanning Point ‘There they began the descent on a steep grade. The second train as it was half-way down became unmanageable and dashed down the incline. Engineer Cooney whistled down brakes and made every effort to ease the rush of the train, but he fatled, and the runaway with warning whistles shriek- ing, dashed down the mountal ing every minute on the tnain The engineer of the latter, realising the danger of @ ooilision, had opened up everything wide and was flying down the steop grade at @ speed that threatened to derail the cara He could not escape the pursuing tratn and after a wild race of five miles the runaway overtook the other, the trains meeting with @ crash that wrecked sev- eral of the care and caused a genoral ‘Traffic was de’ es MISSING NAVY COLLIER? 4 for half the day. offered at the price. DAYS Thursday, February 26. Friday, February 27. Saturday, February 28. } Monday, March 2, Tuesday, March 3. Wednesday, March 4. F $10 is worth saving on your $25.00 Spring Suit without the sacrifice of quality or style or finish, this is your op- portunity, and Ehrich’s the place. Hundreds of elegant woollens have been selected for this great event, and the “par- ticular” man will find dozens of patterns to his taste among them. Fifteen dollars is a mighty small price for a stylishly cut and properly finished man’s spring suit, but we can compass it, allowing you choice from such splendid weaves as Scotch Tweeds, Pepper and Salt Mixtures, Fancy Crashes, Mixed Cassimeres, Black Thibets. We Guarantee You Satisfaction. UR statement will be our guarantee. We offer you for $15.00 a full $25.00 Your Suit will be cut and finished equal to any $25.00 Suit possible in New York. An expert cutter will cut the Suit, expert tailors will make it, expert hands will finish it. if the Suit doesn’t please you when finished, you can have your Blue Clays, Sa lPlain and Moire Taffeta $12.50, Unparalleled Lace Ruffled Swiss Curtains, 3 yards long, full 39¢ width, striped effects, deep fluted ruffle; value 75¢., at 49¢.; also the same Curtains, 234 yds. long, at, per pair..... 200 Pairs of Ruffled Bobbinet Lace Curtains, beautiful lace edge and lace in- sertions, deep fluted lace ruffle, 3 sates ong, full width; value $2.00 per pair, at.. Victoria Stair Car- h width at| 22-inch width, ‘ ( inch width.. 6,000 yards of 1 yard-wide Brusseline fectly reversible, value 43c. per yard: sale Ic N price.. Carpets, in parlor, sitting-room, hall and stair | patterns, Value 69¢, per yard; sale price. . 490 MN room, chamber, also hall and stair patterns value $1.00, at... 69% | 22c.3 ‘the 18- Carpets, splendid selection of patterns, per- Alexander Smith's and Higgins’s ‘Alt- Woot Brussels | Best Quality Brussels Carpets, parlor, libra Blue Serges, Linen Warp Japanese Matting, worth $41.75; roll of 40 yards, at $7.98 per roll, or, per yard... eeeeee 20c) | {ces like these have never been quoted by any other store for’ eaptoeay John Bromley reversible Rugs. Ten different designs| in Oriental, Persian & Floral Patterns. We cannot fill mail orders. Smith’s $30 Axminsters at $20 AND money back, | “ugh and aa cs, tay toa 20 00, H nd Orient lesigns. e ins To-Morrow---Expert Measurers Will Await Y. and 6 fest wide; $30 values a.ssvess . | Sale Beg Pp a JAMES McGREERY & GO. JAMES McGREERY & GO. Ladies’ Hosiery. Ribbons. Black, ribbed lisle thread, with white and colored silk embroidered insteps, or entire length lace weave, —double heels, soles and toes. ribbon,—44 inches wide. 4,800 Yds. Colors:—blue, pink, mais, lilac, green, cream and white, 1g9c. per yard, 4oc per pair. Rothenbers co. _Last Days of February Furniture Sale. Two weeks ago we were ahead of the best previous record for the entire month. days are vastly more important to you than to us. you may rest assured that you are neglecting golden opportunities if you do not Sample Parlor Ghairs and Sofas. Great Bargains---Reliable Floor Gove Goverintel Japanese and China Matting. A Great Offering in Bromley’s Smyrna Bice. | These are Sanford’s Brussels and strictly all wool, in a beautiful Stern Brothers. Flannel Department \ [ Fancy Striped Granite, Armure & Natte, ) 500 Fancy Silkoline Comfortables in new and desirable designs, for double beds, Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Promptly Refunded. 14-7" ST. Our Greatest February Furniture Success, So the last three When our inducements are so good that business Mahogany Finished Arm Chairs, some with upholstered seat and back, value $13.00, at Parlor Sofa, with inlaid back, seat slghly _dumaged value Parlor yen best puis ered in silk damas ee 9, 98°. 22.50, ateee Heywood Bros.’Recliniog Go-Carts, exactly like illustration, rubber tire wheels, adjustable cushion, patent foot brake, white parasol with ruitle, lined with green; value $14.50; 9 98 ° 7.50 special, complete, at... nee Gurtain Offeri urtain Offerings. Brussels Patterns Imported Lace Curtains, 334 yards 1 long, 54 inches wide; A Lucky Purchase of Saxony Lace Curtains in the most magnificent patterns ever shown: re- sels Lace Curtains; fine net and best wo oD. 98 manship; actual value ZA ona at.. Renaissance, Cluny, Irish Point and values range up to $2.75 pair; sale price. I 50 productions of the finest French and Brus- 60c. Linoleum, 396. « When you get the best Gork Linoleum ¥, time in coming to Rothenbery’s; As fully two yards wide; 39 —Ruaranteed—and shown in a wide range of the ¢ est patterns, at a Price like this, you ought to lose no worth fiom 60c. to 7c. per square yard, sptcialeess.... We Cannot fill Mall Orders at this price. Heavy China Matting, all colors, 40 yards to the roll, at $3.98 per roll, per yard 5,00 0 7,50 10,00 $15 Wool Brussels Rugs, $10 variety of Persian, floral and medallion patterns, rich colorings, to match al- most any furnish ; Sizes 10 ft. 6 in, by 9 ft,;$15 rugs; special to-morrow at 10.00 will offer to-morrow in their forWomen’s Waists & Children’ s Dresses French Printed Flannels, in a variety of colors and designs Regular Prices 60c to 75c yd. | 28° Black French Taffeta rib-| Black spun silk,—sheer and bon,—3% inches wide, soft, with drop stitch designs, — double heels, soles and toes, Yoc, per yard, 3,000 Yds. First Floor Twenty-third Street. 1.25 per pair. Sale of Ribbons Je To-morrow | § TAFFETA RIBBON, 4}4 inches wide, | (in white, black and all "desirable colors, 19¢c Value 30c yd, Twenty-th ird Street. WHY EXCISE CASES FAIL IN COURT. Commissioner Greene and Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome Seek Discrepancies in Testimony. —_— enna JAMES MoGREERY & CO. Stationery. all black, extra 200 boxes of India Mull, containing 96 sheets paper and 100 envelopes, Commissioner Green after a close study of the excise question, has com to the conclusion that there is some- thing wrong with the way the patrolmen Press thelr complaints after the arrest of alleged violators of 65% 250 boxes Ardsley Vellum, containing 120 sheets and 100 envelopes, 45¢. Magistrates, and cases when they are held b; tates they are discharg fons, Gen, Greene has conferred ame the Pistrict-Astomey in an jt in many Sythe cles in ven in the Slice courts and that ater in Bpeedat Sessions. The Dis Attorney has put @ force of men work comparing this evidence, and ix expected ‘that Ih. the course ‘of a ip wide 0 ven Jot~ Twenty-third Street, Exceptional Values in Women’s Silk and Lisle Thread Hosiery Extra Fine Black Gauze Lisle Thread Hose, plain or with unbleached double soles, Extra Quality Gauze Lace Lisle Thread Hose, in new instep and entire length effects, Pure Thread Silk Hose, French Pure Silk Hose, gauze weight, double soles, Pure Thread Silk Hose, with open-work insteps and handsome embroidered fronts, West Twenty-third Street. \ 29° 39¢ Value $1,50 21.18 value $2.25 91.48 vatue $3,00 91,95 ; f Value 45c Value 60c fine quality, double soles, ry dispiayed. "uuusual othes were of th to reler i to the Hollies vue aileniste, ake, XOUNE man shrugged his shoul: sald gu ew ens is empectally active at brane ne ite a ‘prin= | nd % pH ya Rs Ph Pa sich | wt) Ae) nua Hpoecesen ry 2 ube Hie obalaea 'serat ramalo oh fre ee We 2 German Steamer eporis Pass One that May Be the Alesand The German steamer Erna arrived here to-day from West Indian ports and reported that on Monday, in latitu 33.90, longitude 74.60, Btates navy “POF,” "GVBF. that though he though: | mit | sf code al ale of the revenue cutter A! i ee. her ae The signal letters "PO national, cade, mean “No intelligens of,” fliers “GVBE are the iw soviet Smet Rete ay ssi bw teint ik eeherndanys gone 1k eeale “charges will ‘he “matte against policemen who have made excise arrests, ‘To-day, ss a reault of the Dis- trict-Attorney’s | { lon, are Wore made against Pol jcemain ‘Badg: of the Morrisania station. —_—_[—<_—_—_—_—_——_ Avurded $1,000 Damages, WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Feb, SA jury in the Supreme Court, Judge Dickey presiding, to-dey ewarded $1,000 damages to Mrs, Anna M, Hill against the Union Railway Company for injuries recetved lagt fail. from aS Fourteen Racchorves Burned. CAMBRIDGE OFTY, Ind, Ped. Fourteen fine racehorses, being held