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EXPENSE BILLS. GANTOR COT AL ROW OVER LOW ‘NDORSEMENT? Borough President’s Report|Citizens’ Union Leaders Look Shows Sweeping Reductions In Cost of Paving Manhattan Streets with Asphalt. SOON TO CLEAR ELM STREET. ‘More Public Baths Are Belng Bullt— * Street Signs Are Going Up and He Favors Depressing Car Tracks at 84th Street and Broadway. ‘Borough President Cantor in making fis annual report to-day to the Mayor ells attention to tho saving accom- Pilshed in. his department during the Year: both in prices paid for materials find in cost of the work done. Nearly thirty miles of pavement were id during the year at a cost of $1,- 000 as tompared with about elghteen Milles in 1901-at a cost of $1,819.00. ilar reductions in the cost {s shown fn the work done upon sewers. The report shows that the average Price pald for street asphalt per square yard in 192 was $1.10, as against $2.4 paid for similar work in 191. The aver- ‘age price paid for asphalt block in 1902 Was $1.90; In 19M $2.58. The average price of maintenance and repairs of as- phalt pavement, wearing surface, ,in 1902 was 89 cents, and in 191 $2.85; for #tandard pavement in 1902 $1.49 and in 1901 $2.90, The ‘report covers numerous subjects which come under the jurisdiction of the Botough President. It is expected that Elm street will be cleared of the Present obstructions existing, repaved |nd opened to the public within a short time. The subject of public baths Is considered at length and the announce- ment made that two pubilc baths—one m East One Hundred and Ninth street @nd the other in East Forty-first street are being constructed, and will prob- “ably be ready for use by the first of next August. The work of putting up street signs fis proceeding as rapidly as possible. ‘About five hundred blue and white en- Bmelled signs have been placed on street gomers. It is proposed to depress the Gtrect railway tracks at the intersection ef Thirty-fourth street, Broadway and Sixth avenue and to construct a tunnel for pedestrians under the surface at that point. The depression of the car tracks at Forty-second street and Fifth @venue is being considered, so that the ears can run under the roadway of Fifth @venue in order to do away with the ©ongestion of travel at that point. ‘he Borough’ President concurs in the @uggestion made to the Board of Alder- men. to abolish Centre. Union and Catherine Markets. | Pipe galleries, in which can be located all the gas and water pipes which tra- verse the principal thoroughfares of the Dorough are recommended, and plane @re being prepared to build a section of such gallery in conjunction with the rapid transit subway from Fulton street bouth on Broadway. Public comfort stations and isles of @afety aro to be erected at various Points In the borough. The widening of Park Row is suggested. SHOT DEAD IN BOWERY SALOON. Police Find White House Bartender Bending Over Corpse of Man with a Pistol, nspector Schmittberger has had a warrant for several days for the arrest of James Lynch, proprietor of the White House saloon and hotel, at No. 41 Bowery, the police official intending to close up t as‘ soon as he could ferve the w ames Carter, @ bar- shot and killed Obed Ix years old, of No. 48 t. in the pl From the fact that Pad fn the back of the head the police believe that dt is a murder. Policeman Kiemm And Detectives Brown and Devine were touring the Bowery before daylight to see that all salobns were closed when they heard a shor in Lynch's place and ran over there. In, the back room, which has been a inking place for women, they found Paddock lying on his face and Carter standing over him holding the revolver, Carter said he had been behind the Dar—violating the Excise law—and that Paddock was shot out there and nad Fun back into the wine room before falling. When asked why he had shot Bim Carter replied: “He was trying to ‘touch’ the pa- trous of the pizce and 1 ordered him out. When he refused to go there was @ tight and [ shot him, Carter was locked up at the wiarlage street station and Paddock's bod: Rent to the Morgue. Paddock live d with hard-working and repu usin Allen strect, but he himself hud spent he Inst few yoars in lowfing about the Bowery saloons. ‘The ‘police arrested James Flynn, of io, #2 Chrystie street, and lomon of No, 68 Ludlow es 4 who nds of Paddock, and who, they | Delleve, were In the saloon at the time Huth the ethootina, They are held as Carter ‘and five witnesses wero held examination by the oo lagisirate Hreen in rust rt. Carter Was repi tender in the p’ 5 rese bc Mouinicate by ‘Dineen & O'Hare, out ne ae lement was made in court by him of the witnesses. ‘The; Pid at y to the Coroner's aaskias AT THE BALL. an the Other Politicians Absent from the Anawanda Olub. only office-holder at the ball of the anda Club in Walang Clty Senet wes nets Connorton. for Criticism of Mayor in Con- vention to be Held at Cooper Union. THE BODY MEETS TO-NIGHT Friends of John De Suggest Him as Fusion Candi- date for Mayoralty, Despite His Oppositior to Incumbent, The Mayoralty campaign will be formally opened to-night at Cooper Union, where more than 1,000 delegates of the Citizens’ Union will gather to adopt a platform for next fall. An effort will be made @s goon as the convention is called $o order by R. Ful- ton Cutting to put through resolutions giving unquallfied indorsement to the administration of Mayor Low. This ef- fort will provoke a contest, which may decide whether Mr. Low will be the next fusion candidate. The leaders will try to hold back resolutions criticising Mr. Low and his administration, but officers of the Cit}- zens' Union admitted yesterday that it wold be difficult to keep down such ex- Dressions among the delegates. When the convention is called to or- der to-night there will be 534 delegates trom Manhattan and the Bronx, 89¢ from Brooklyn, and sixty-one from Queens and Richmond. The Twenty-first As- sembly District will have thirty-eight, the langest representation, Among the delegates from Manhattan will be John De Witt Warner, who at- tacked Mayor Low for his advocacy of the Bostwick Rapid Transit bill last week. There is a disposition on the part of Mr. Warner's friends to commence a movement in his behalf for the fusion nomination for Mayor, Sa nnnnEDnnE RRR ERIE OVER 7,000 DOCTORS PRESCRIBE AND RECOMMEND Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. Lot shows the favor with which mem! profession regard this great medicine: Gentlemen: Duffy's Malt Whiskey was in- luced to me through a consumptive tient whom I was treating. | 1 called on one afternoon hy ‘of about two Paonia = gna Pearce th ‘thi uss he was fo foueh Sater ands sho vo atated th that she had been using Sothing ‘but good food and plenty Duffy's. Pore Malt wie | Her improvement war so ‘ked that went directly aud purehaced it for several other patients sufferti imilarly, and in « short time they all experienced decided imm- provement, and fro rsonal observation and physical examination there was great {mprovement in, the tung fi er sue. Two o ‘Consumption who had Laryngeal (Coneuription of the Throat) are now en- rely well. 1 am employing it extensively in m; jow in La Pneumo- nia, Anaemia (nab tion or Ma- Favinus), starvation from Inck of, assimtta- tion of trod, always In oonvelescen its ugrecablendss to the taste and stomech of all people and conditions makes it a pan- Acoa for almom all diseases, Yours very respectfully, » WILLIAM HOOKER VAIL, M. D. St. Lou a, Duffy's a, ‘vine, “Whiskey cures Con- General Debil ty, Colds, Bron- ria, Typhoid and Low ‘Fevers, Depression and “Weaknose fron w er causes. It builds up and nourishes tho body, it invigorates the brain, tones up the heart and proicngs Ife. A leading New York doctor. said. AVOID SUBSTITUTES, CAUTION.— When you ank for Dufly’s Pure Malt Whis' you get the genuine, lous dealers, mindful of the ex- eellence of this preparation, will try to sell you cheap imitations and so-called hiskey sub- and 4 sure you only absolutely pure mi Which contains medicl biving qualltics. Look ‘to trade-mark, ‘Phe Old Chemist, the label. ‘The genuine D 1s sold in. bottlen Bal never is i Duk by ai faire abd ‘proce 00 lever In any booklet, Witt Warner key Is a form of 4a tid | StEGELf;boPERG Friday, Aprit 17. Ohe Wen "s Store-WainFtoor. A Special Offering ‘ae 00 Satin Lined Gop Coats 50 Tan and Olive Coverts and Black Cheviots. About 75 Coats in all. Also Top Coats in gray, brown and tan shades, black and dark gray coatings, serge lined. Guaranteed Rain Coats ‘That combine style, grace and utility, Sizes for all ae of men. { ‘kable values in Rain Coats. Taest GARMENTS HAVE BECOME A NECESSITY—NOT A LUXURY, feu) Coats in all. en's Spring Suits. Fabrics in choice variety of patterns. All the new mixtures. Also Black, Gray and Navy. All sizes. About + 350 suits in all. White Quantity Lasts. Gntey-Yine Dollars- Friday FOUR ROOMS Furnished Complete at S1 25 Aware on exhibition at ourahowrooms. Write for list a! goojs fer these outfits, OLSTHAED PARLOR SUIT, ralisiten, Te PRET WIDE. BY 104 PRET” Lows 6-FOOT PIER MIKROR, 27 INCHES WINE. FRENCH PEVPL PLATE GLASS. CARVED BASE, WITH IMPORTED THI ROLL ORNAMENTS, ALL HIGHLY POLISHED BEDROOM, furnished complete at . + $18.75 DINING ROOM furnished complete at . $35.00 ite for list of these outfit’. ONE DOLLAR PER WELK OPENS AN ACCOUNT Our iberal Credit Terms hold good also in the sudurbs of New York or on Long Island, tn we Jersey or Connecticut, Gur store can be ed by trandfer on all lines Elevated Rall- \TIL 10 O'CLOCK. SITH BT. & STATION AT THE DOOR. WITH CHOICE HANDSOME DESIGN AND The HISTORY of MEN’S CLOTHES. , wooac, “Styles that were and styles that are. The youths of Babylonia, to make them- selves look swell, Wore flowing robes in colors bright and painted checks, as well. Our youths to-day who wish to dress in manner up to date Will find here clothes of latest style at prices moderate. Gravenette Overcoats at $10 & $15. ~ “We place on special sale two lots of Ox- Acad t ford Gray Cravenettes (Priestley’s fabrics) AD. 1903 © re) just fresh from our workrooms—52 inches =, \ 1 acefully hanging from broad shoulders. Gi A bie riced at $10.00 are worth $15.00 Those fated at $15.00 are worth $20.00 Sale of Silk Lined Overcoats “at $15.00, 100 Tan Covert Box Coats, silk lined, and 50 Black Worsted medium length Overcoats, silk lined to edge of lapel—both cut in the broad shouldered, loove style. The regular price is $20,00—the sale price is $15.00, FILLED! ry (,00ds( FY (50d: SIXTH AVENUE. 21ST At Notably Gee Women’s mae Suits ta Coats Attractive Prices! Women’s Tailor Made Coats! Women’s Tailor Made Suits! 4: 98 You can buy CHEVIOT AT 10° 98 BLACK BROADCLOTH} AT BROADCLOTH ane AT FRENCH VOILE BLOUSE |AT 1 4: 98 SUITS in black or navy—| 24: 50 SUITS in black and JAGKET, Diack, Mined) JACKETS, with strapped collarless Blouse — with! royal—Blouse is made throughout, ‘sizes 32° to 465 seams and silk lined, single cape—vest of fancy braid—new/with ° circular cape, stole fronts and|$Pecial value. 698 FINE COVERT JACKETS, unlined skirt—entire suit trimmed with) plaited-—the sleeves and skirt are unlined,|at and pick your choice of d ny of taffeta, entire suit trimmed with tabs of silk, 1 & 98 BLOUSES, with Joni ferent shades of tan: VORLEROUeE <UKE Set eabp, diale, one san has pa seams, is satin lined VOILE BLOUSE SUITS— ani 1 tailore in blue or black—collar- Ned be trimmed with Braid, silk + 50 COVERT JACKETS of 98 AT 98 SEO, CHEVIOT less Blouse — trimmes Bi 'S, In black and navy, 13: palate ine I; with be gimp and tassels —new sleeves/The collarless blouse is trimmed” with vem, ee ing sleeves, finished. rath turned bad and skirt—entire suit is trimmed with tancy brald and ornaments; unlined panel folds of silk, front skirt trimmed to match blouse. cuits, changeable silk lining. irls’ isses’ Spring G ts] ]Py Girls’ «= Misses’ Spring Garmentsl{fs eet Music 1 MISSES’ SPRING SUITS—of Etamine and | GIRLS' SPRING COATS—6 to 14 year pecials in price $17.50, special price, black braid; price ‘The Shepherd Boy. IRLS’ SILK ATS—6 to 14 Down Where the Wuraburger ETS—t4, 16 and 18 year stets, in| Car sles with lire collars & Li fine Covert cloth, with. strap 11 B78 LITTLE TOTS’ SPRING SILK COATS— ] Dick Hawk waltses 3, 4, 6 and 8 year sizes, with large, 98 Also the followin, and 18 year sizes, with Parisian 6: vests, trimmed- skirts, in blue COATS—6 to 14 yeas sizes; pice med with braid and silk; special and red; price. MAIL ORDERS dams BLACK PEAU DE weal AT «98 FINE COVERT JACKETS, ‘ae lined and well eo 0. Flower Song, by Lange. Jolly Follow Waiteea, a he Palme 3 ker My Old Keatucky Home, wong. Old Folks st Home, Rally tn Our Alley, esapte Centeasien Rosary, by Soriag fons. by Mendetesobn.| "tel toms. com} i> caching arrangements of standard y woud for beginners, suitable for The Last Hope, Cavalleria Rusticana Inter’ Over the Waves. Unger his Ttoekbae March, Echoes of the Ball, Jolly Fellows Waltz, La Paloma. MISSES’ SPRING CLOTH SUL Simple Confession. Invitation ‘to the Dance, La Gzarina. The Palms, Stephanie Gavotte. Venetian cloth, with fancy vests sizes, in red and blue habit cloth, and trimmed. skirts; regular J 28 trimmed with white cloth and 98 te tee Vals ot Re cabee bi MISSES’ SHORT JAUNTY SPRING JACK- 98 yar oe Hai) large collars, trim- ‘7 crit ates ‘Waltzes. ith lace; Hal pric Fragesa Marah. lined throughout special ech hire cara haat raverite fancy collars, trimmed with lace; tions especially j special pricesssevee and black; special price GIRLS’ SPRING DRESSES—6 to 14 year GIRLS’ MONTE CARLO SPRING sizes, in fancy dréss goods, pect 98 58 heel eee Farts aes Dress Goods, mail | aon DO yg i OO | aaa eae 125 = TBE THIS GREAT OFFERING COMPRISES : 45-inch MOHAIR BRILLIANTINES—43-inch All-wool TWEEDS—38-inch All-wool ALBATROSSES—STRIPED MOHAIRS—All- wool SURAH SERGES—GRANITE CLOTHS, &c., &c. Nota yard in the lot that would not readily sell at 50c. These very desirable Fabrics for Spring and Summer tise FE» BO! 6 SO! Black Dress Goods worth THIS MAGNIFICENT OFFERING COMPRISES : 50-inch All-wool BLACK CHEVIOT, sponged and shrunk, value 79¢. a yd.—44-inch Black All-wool CANVAS VOILE, value 75c, a yd,—54-inch Black Imported MOHAIR SILICIAN, rich lustrous surface, correct weight, value 85c. a yard.—45-inch Black Imported NUN’S VEILING, value 89c. ayes —45-inch Black Silk-finished German HENRIETTA CLOTH, value 79c. a yard, THIS SPLENDID OFFFRING COMPRISES: 42-inch Black Silk and Wool CREPE D PARIS, value 1.00 a yd.—-50-inch Black All-woo! RAINPROOF SERGES, value 1.25 yd,—52-inch Black All-wool Satin-faced BROADCLOTH, value 1.25 a yd-—4: Black French VOILE, value 1.00 a yd.—46-inch Black Imported TWINE CLO Cj value 1.25 a yard.—52-Inch Black GRANITE ETAMINE, value 1.00 a yd. conte {2 it a Goods Worth THIS REMARKABLE OFFERING COMPRISES: SCOTCH SUITINGS, 46 to 50 incl wide, in a very super! ecb RaAlly, puarantees to be absolutely all wool. These ‘class Suitings are very, le and in great demand for Blouse Suits ‘and Se rate Skirts. They come in light and dark mixtures of gray, tan, blue and brown. New Spring «x¢ Summer Silks “vtec Low Prices White Washable} All-Silk Hair -line| Black All-Silk Taf-| Black All-Silk Tat in white—a special lot of | Habutai—27 inches wide | Striped Grenadine— fetal Inctes ideas Back Ae an importer’s surplus stock |—a soft, lustrous and heavy | 24 inches wide—in colors of apis nigh fining sae extra heavy quality—* at little cost. Neat stripe | quality—especially adapted | nile, mais, turquoise, light , | guaranteed” and highly poses—‘‘wear guaranteed” | effects, particularly desir- | and highly serviceable for | blue, gray, cardinal, helio Friday & Satur- day’s Specials in Corded ee Silks Apel in selyedge of | ommended for naa | Waists and Com- jand black—a reg- every yard; regu- vice; a regular Wah Walkie, 30°, bination Dresses; 35°) jular 79c, quality, 50° lar ane 80c. yd., 6 c 1.19 quality, at, value 39c. a yd.,at | value 45c. a yd., at Lat ..ceseeeereee S5A SeAD per sisesaeee This $10.00 Go-Cart, Complete with Rod, Par- aso! and Lace Cover, for Made full reed sides—is shellac $ 6” tinished—enamelled green running {é > gear—has rubber tire wheels—patent front brake, These news (Tesh “Spring. aisles. are in RECLIING GO-CARTS--Handsome_ and special de- best soft vici kid, with patent leather tips sign, with full reed roll and solid sides and reclining and kid tips, with low-heels and also very back and adjustable dashboard, with English steel high Cuban heels; strictly up to the min-grunning gear, green enamelled rubber 10.75 ute as snappy New York tire wheels; value $15.00. styles. “The best shoe val- ués ever offered,” and a ° In the Photo ‘Studio saving of 85 cents on each i We will continue our remarkably successful sale of the following pair. CABINETS, per dozen. , CABINETS, best carbonette finish, per dozen... 33% Eyeglasses «4 Spectacles ig 00 Gold Filled These include rimless as well as framed goods, The lenses are high grade imported periscople crystals, Two thoroughly competent optical specialists are in constant attend. ance to test your vision and care- Jully fit each pair. GUARANTEED GOLD FILLED EYEGLASS WOMEN'S BOOTS AND Ox- FORDS, 8 HANDSOME STYLES, REAL VALUE $2.50 A PAIR, AT Girls’ Best Grade Black Vici Kid 3-Strap Spring Heel Slippers and Patent 8 to 10% sizes—regular c Goltskin 3-Strap ‘Slippers— sultable|s-0°g4'95 special price. . 85 | . for street wear—every pair at our! 44 to 2 sizes—regular price cut price a most unusual value. $1.50—special price, CHILDREN’S BEST QUALITY GOODYEAR SEWED WELT LACE SHOES with Patent Leather tips and spring heels—these represent the manufacturer’s spring line of samples — 8 to 1034 sires tgs price $2.00 ai 35 $4.50 CHAINS, with hairpin or holder attached, for -~special price...... i 65 Optical Depariment, Main Floor, Front, 21st Street Sida. Specials «ww. Choicest Groceries icv ma! 11 to 2 iret price $2, 0 —special price.. Friday and at notably Saturday’s low prices pam Cereals, na Dried Fruit. (3 Canned Vegetables, | 9" Delicatessen, try —séBakkery, Boing Oats | Beet, To'"g" Cora | katy weoee Bir rege pie 98e aa ‘te Brest ie A: ‘geet mt | Reemotion Hitt Ret sa |e Eamonn, oars Beas | Cake, bb. ee, 5a) 1b ‘i vi Dae] | Bay. 14c ingles Beans, Silsed fale a Pu crean | Choce oh a See ke regen e288 Le Ee brat iS Me a Apples, Whele, ive! 5 dos. : q iene 12c os. 306 | ayinach, meas |etrawnercy | MM > ‘ie fe $2 Applies, Whole, uited ‘Prone, vs, Std. can, | Beete, ies ‘Cervelas ae Hee 2c | Ee ds | a8! "1.50 |B'ne, 3,35 | RO. ens Granulated Sugar cm Bacon (Squire's) ex: jorders), 25 Ib. bag 7 20}tra selected, lean, 12° raha de oe Ata ax edi ‘ re