The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1903, Page 4

iL THE LATEST NEWS « Ouediage daacas SOA d as Pabst Nhy sus'cuhks Uy Lows F THE BUSINESS WORLD. mGKS SHOW [20,000 SUBWAY. AKET LOSSES) MEN WILL QUIT fally Led by Buying Movement|General Strike in'the\Tunnel To- “in Missouri Pacific Failed to] Morrow Is inevitable Unless ‘Hold Pennsylvania’s Weak-| the Contractors Submit to ‘ness, Hurting Values. =” Demands. YORK CENTRAL DOWN./CALL MADE ON M’DONALD. and Canadizn Pacific, 8t.|Sub-Contractors Meet Himsin Con! Paul, Mexican Central and Erte} ference, but Admit that\No De- 0M the List Showing Declines— cision Was Reached and/that a Bome Big Sales Recorded. In wpite of special strength in spots,| For several hours to-day all the sub- fooks sagged generally throughout the | contractors engaged in building the “during ‘the afternoon session of the |}rapid tranalt subway were in attend- t and registered declines of 1-2| ance at @ meeting in Contractor John b 13-8. The dull and listless character |B. McDonald's office endeavoring to de- the market was due to professional! vise a way to prevent a general strike for the most part, while com- | t0-morrow among the 20,00 laborers em- On-house business consisted of |bloyed by thom. At the close of the long by tired longs. | Seanton no decision had been reached by ; it the only impetus given to|the contractors and the impression was! Flee was the purchase of 10,00 sharee| freely expressed that no decision could jssour! Pacific by Butler & Broth-| be reached. ‘who believed that the poor ahowing| Failure on the part of the sub-con- the March earnings was not o euf-| ‘factors to accede to the domands of mt reason for a decline in the|th® Workmen means that the biggest of the security. A rally of 1-4) #trke in the history of the subway will d through the list on the stregth |O& rectpttated to-morrow. Recently \the laborers employed on the blg job {ils purchase, but the m7 srket #00N| Ioae demande form uniform rate or ted again on the weaknems in Penn- | $3 a day and an eight-hour day. ania, in which the liquidation of| Contractor MeDonald attended thi Out 5,000 shares caused a decline of | Meeting during the preliminary disc yhen he was seen by an Event “8. Reports that the interest on| World reporter” Mr. McDonald a recent loan of $33,000,000 would have}"'We are trying to prevent a strike. be paid vy the company within a Cunt say & word about the situation at was the pricipal cause of the| atone of the representatives of the rgest declie was | Workmen was invited to the conference Son ee cere man | Thelr wide of the controversy ‘had al- Seen cien Lore Central, wl ready been pregented a@t earlier con- 114 per cent. | terenees between the individual con- ‘The Western selling orders in Mis-| tractors. They then delivered the witi- Pacific, Union Pacific and Atchi-| Matum that unless thelr demands were Ss abat granted by to-morrow all Jaborers em- M were based on the bad weather Inj ployed on subway work would be called West and Southwest. which will| out. t e ” Lom rn ing to pay $2 we a bad effect on the oats and corn] ,Mhe comtractors are wil p t en-hour day, b Hi grant ni though It will not injure the! ther concession, it'ts learned. 4 fition of winter wheat. \ si eee Nea yn Rapid Transit lost some of| CURB STOCKS FIRMER. early gain, but st!ll retained an ad- eu he nee of 8-8 on good buying by the tive Western houses. [Northern Securities Show a Gain puthern Pacific, Canadian Pacitic, St. Un he ,Omtelde: MArket: il, Union Pacific, Erle first preterred| Securities on the curb to-day were Mexican National showed losses of /qulet but a @hade firmer, Northern while Atchi Erle, Baltimore é | Securities sold at $8 1-4, a gain of 1 per jo, Wabash preferred anid People's Gas viows loge. American ed 1-2. at 3-8 and U. 8, Bteel $3 were strong at a ‘The bid and asked prices of the prin gipal outside securities to-day were: Bid. Aaked. | + By ‘The Closing Quotations. day's highem, lowew and closing = yemerday’s clos Nort! jas High, Low. Close. Oh'gos. | QP oar hd Sa 1 | aannattan Traneit 1% — MU. w, Steel Ss 8655 BB = | seaoant ain 12h — | Seaoard pf au Bly Kl aherive 8 Vila 8 | weltie Columbia a4 BoS ea a By + oe! 4/° LONDON STOCKS FIRM. Pl American Raliwass Steady % Other Inanes a Fayor, ‘| American railways were steady, with ban good undertone, in the London stock | market to-day, Sirong investment buy- ling of Canadian Pacific and Grand hy {Trunk shares evident, while all- Bj around firmness was displayed In the H | seourities markets, which was taken to Indicate that the non-reduction of the 4 ( ee discontinued, South Africans were uns | changed, while Rlo Quitos were « shade | a The Wheat Market. “Istrength West was reflected herve <8; Fe. September, 7) $4 0 14 7-8. r . 313-8 bid. Chica, . MM. opening prices 1 Wheat--July, 12 1-4 to 721-8; ay, TM 10 Tt 1-8 ptember. 10° Corn—May, 443-80 441-4; July, 45 1-8; September, 44 2-2. New York's closing y, 80 7-3; J ‘= we ¢ 2 3 +14 oe priges were 16 8-4, Sep- 1-2; + 5 Corn—Ma ; bid; September, Chicago corng prices were: Wheat WIFE GETS ALIMONY To As; July 2 1-8, 72. 14; Septembr, . W 1-8) 90 1-4.) Corn—April; HH: May, um —_——-—— 44 1-8; July, 45 1-8; Septernber, 44 1-2 - Am, HG, Woolw: $15 a Week, Herbert G. Woolworth, who ts suing) phe jocal cotton market o| » iy otto e pened steady ite, Martha Gwynne Woolworth.|io.gay with prices unchanged to four & divotrce on atatutory Krounds,! points higher. The early strength was give her $150 to pay a lawyer for| que chiefly to firm cables, supple- WIM Draw | Pid: Li camine (soso ncered The Cottoa Market. her and $16 a week alimony peoied By cold eal ipheuch the oO uth. boris bo! a tle on th the trial of the case, Justice ret iuc Inver the, trade quieted, ‘ale #0 ordered to-day on the motion| hough the market retained a firm une Frederick A. Southworth, who asked) dertone, with near months creeping ty + higher on bull support. ‘The Geter BW weekly alimony and $1,000 coun-| ShOWea freesing weather in ‘Texas and aie fea. gradually working |ts way southward. Ts Woolworth was managing one of the! ‘The opening pricen were: May. 10.48 : to 10.80; Ju 2 10 10.04; August, 963 Of stores owned by a relative, 41/1 9.66; heptember, 8.92 to 8,03; October, when, in 1897, he married hin | 8.43 10 8.64; Novemb 82 to 8.56: De: ', 8.54 offered, i » Martha Gwynne, after having |cember, 8.88 ( Lent her to Boston to Anish her educa~ eee & ction. She is now an actress, and he SHIPPING NEWS. averal co-respondents, met “on a WAS A SUICIDE. 0 FOR TO-DAY. 14, 6.4 -Moon wats, 10.22 TIDES, oo asec ca Wig) Water. tom Water deer Declares that 81K | eave, sek. AR et At ats werner's olan i : t Shot Mimsols, Hell Gate reer Oe ELS jury bas declared that thesilx merchant, of No. PORT OF NEW yorK, ARKIVED, City of Memphis Hs Ally Port Mar INCOMING STEBAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY, Bank of England discount rate has been | for a time. but a subsequent renewal of| NELLIE FOLLIS, ACTRESS. CRITICALLY ILL OF TYPHOID. Musical Comedy Star of ‘The Billionaire” In- Miss Nellie Folliy, one ofithe cleverest of the musical critically 111 with typhoid fever in Chi cago. According to a message:recelved from that city to-day, hope that she The malady contrected by ago while she at Ithaca, N. caution was take vent infection town, At the Ume Miss Follis played there the fever epldem! higher. | populatea ‘hundreds of students fled from Ithaca, had abated, Wheat opened fractionally higher to-|{"® students lest their lives in the epi | hit. a there is litile 1s supposed to have been the actress several weeks vac filling an engagement although every pre- at the thme to pre- Cornell fected While Playing at Ithaca, nlo and as many more of the towns- ple were cartied off by It. The fever pest was the regult of polluted water which came from the reservoirs of the Ithaca Water Com- pany, according to expert bacteriolo- gists, But Miss Follls and her com- pany, presenting “The Billionaire," heeded a warning and drank none of the city water, For that reagon her physicians are at a loss to explain how she became Inoculated with the typhoid germs, They are agreed, however, that they must have been comnvunteated to her in Some way during her engage- ment at Ithaca. Mies Folllw Jumped into instant popu- larity when she made her appearance in "Phe Bulltonaire” at Daly's ‘Theatre last fall. In the leading soubrette role her songs and Tun-making made a great “SANDY” SMITH ILL. 4 4 % x Si “any. the average being about 1-4 per [cent Chicago opened 1-2 higher on cold] % weather news. Corn was firm, but the {rise brought out moderate short selling, which checked the Improvement locally| Business Man Naupiis, Siectin ™ Pei ine Withem Ii... Harts icheels, 1 1L, Copenhagen. der, San Juan, ie London, ) Genoe, Nepler Washington, Prone, 4: Many Friends! icken with Pneumonia, York's 10.00 A. M. opening prices| ‘The many friends of Wil _Wheat—May, 80 3-4; July, 76 3-6 better known aa | of Cura health and physique, attack of grip a year ago, whic ened his constitution and treatment, however, aining his old form when atricken Ith pneumonia “Sandy Smith has a regiment of friends among notable New Yorkers and he is held in high esteein for his hearty meriners and genial disposition. He Is a man of wealth and prominent im business ’ because of| circles, | hls prominence in the. sand trade, were! @ucen *Mt grieved to-day to learn that he was se-| riously {i with pneumonia at the Ma-| nelmina ha ap Jeatic Hotel, where he makes his home. in Mr. Smith, who was a man of fine! Dr. Fils, former President of the High suffered from an| Court of the Dutch Indies, In behalf of re France and Belgium, to be arbitrators By excellent) of the Frepoh and Belgium THE HAGUE, against Venezeuela, ae B.Altmank¢ PARASOL and FAN DEP’T. Parasols, Styles for Cosening and Prom- embracing ettes, and Duchesse and Point a l’aiguille Lace Covers, Lace Covers for Infants’ Carriage Parasols, Fans, including Empire, Louis XIV. and Pompadour toise Shell and Oriental Pearl mount- Hand-made Lace Fans. N FRIDAY, May HATS and TOQUES offered at considerable in prices, in the Trim- med Millinery Department on Third reductions many exclusive de- Umbrellas, Parasol- with Amber, Tor- Also a variety of Japanese Fans. ist, @ number of of the New York and Stamford Railway and Joseph N. Dickey, members of the je" Whitehead and dward 8. Hine, Company, appeared in opposttion to the extension, FINANCIAL NEWS BITS AND CHAT OF THE BROKERS, | Wiillam B, Brown, the recognized bull leader of the New Orleans Cotton Ex- change, who has been co-operating with Daniel J. Sully in all his recent deals in the near-by deliveries, has applied for membership to the local Cotton and Coffee Exchanges, Halle & Stieglitz have opened ‘their new offices in the Johnson Building. ‘The firm intends to give more attention to its banking business and to enter more actively into the underwriting of securities. A. D. Wheeler has been elected President of the Chicago Telephone Company to succeed John I. Sabin. He will also become Chairman af the Directors of the Central Union Telephone Company, The firm of Campbell, Harriman & Co., of No. 11 Wall street, was diasolved to-day by mutual consent and a new partnership formed by Henry C. Campbell, Edwin P, Campbell and James E. MoLean, under the firm name Camp: ‘bell Company. Ses. ‘ ¥. M. Van Horne, who has been in charge of the bond department of F; ‘arson, Leach. & Co. for nine years, will take charge of the bond business of the First National Bank to-morrow. This bank has a greater interest than any other in the country In stocks and bonds, Its total security holdi abenen y Ings amounting to about E. Clarence Jones & Co., members of the Stock Exchangy, are open . , golng to @ stock department, under the charge of William J. Sweeney, at thelr Phiiagot. phia office, with a wire connection to this city. James J. Hill left for St. Paul, Minn., to-day, He mrill male » I 5 z an extended t over the Great Northwest system before returning to this city. He says ts trip has nothing to do with the relations between Canadian Pacific and the Northern Securities roads in the Northwest. James Ross, of Montreal, who arrived here trom Bur way ‘Can. , ope on his te > ada, will hurry to his home city, where the affairs of the Dominion ‘tron and Steel Company deinand his attention. It Js understood that lating @ reorganization of the company's finances, ican HUCKLEBERRY ROAD —_|TO DEPRESS PRICE FIGHTS ITS RIVAL OF CITY’S BONDS. Union Railway Oppo: the Pro-|Grout Learns of Wall Street Com- posed Extension of the Stamford bination and Invites Foreign tn- Railroad to New Rochelle, vestors to Crush It. Arguments for and against the plan| It developed to-day that Comptroller Grout is engaged in e war agal Company to extend its road beyond the those ‘Wall street combinations Een village of Larchmont to the city of New have sought to keep down the price of Rochelle were heard at the Fifth Ave- olty bonds, He only recently ae ed nue Hotel to-day by Frank M. Baker of the existence of euch @ Pee hl ME Raiisond Mommfesiondne | and could see no way to circumvent it Btate B The route of tae proposed extension is| ¢xcept by inviting foreign capital, This through lands of C. Oliver Iselin, cross-| he has done on a large scale, causing ing the Petersville Road, through lands| ¢Very financial circle in Europe and of Thomas G. Hall to Oak street, New] Asia to be informed of the advantage Rochelle, and on various streets of that| accrul: from the purchase of New elty. ze cl Tones ate'k Charles H. Young appeared for the veral foreign offers have been made, New York and Stamford Company, Sup-| the fret being that of the Imperial Ot- of 3 orting him were Eugene Carpenter, toman Bank of Constantinople, whose check was received to-day re pur- New Rochelle Board of Trade, and| chase of $1,000,000 worth of bonds. Cy Wendt. of Larchmont. A fs am Villlam’ C. ‘Trull, representing the New York and Westchester Rullway ONDS Company; W. H. Page and Edward CITY B GO TO TURKEY. Maher, répresenting the Union Railway Imperial Ottoman Bank of Cun- stantinpole Hays $1,000,000 Worth, Convict Swam to L The Imperial Ottoman Bank of Con- OSSINING, April 30.—Thomas York,| stantinople, Turkey, has purchased $1,- sentenced in 191 to ten years for bur-| 000,000 worth of New York City bonds glary, escaped from prison to-day pby|at' the prevailing rate. A check for swimming the river, Guards are looking| the amount was received to-day oy for him. Comptroller Grout. eis CAMMEYER. The Public Is Coming ~ TO OUR BASEMENT and securing the best shoes in the city at rare opportue nity prices. We are the largest shoe house in World and gibe the greatest shoe values for the smallest amount of money. If you have not yet come for your Spring and Summer Shoes, why not do so at once? Read the list and prices. Men's $3.50 Patent Leather Lace and Ox- fords and Black Kid and Box Calf ‘ Lace Welted Shoes, — Pair. 1,000 Pait Men's $4.00 fen's $3.50 box Calf Oxfords.2.00 000 Pairs of Mere HM D5 O|Men’s $2100 satin calf Men’s $3.50 Black Kid Lace and Congres: ae 1.50 “high military heels...... a0 | Men's black kid Lace, welt Men's 83.00 Black Kid, (plain toe Pe rena YB Ses 208 % pal len's $1.50 Shoes.0.s1. fenen pipe abat is 2.00 Men's Satin Calf Lace.. ve POI Ia) USE ° Women’s $2.50 patent Women's $2.50 | rere Modes high and $2.00 Black Gaban heey, and black Kid Lace Shoes| with patent V with patent father and kid, leather and kid § 50 tips, light and heavy soles 9 Pe $i. 50} Women's $2.00 and $1.50 Black Kid ’ 90e, Patent Leather Ox- 00 [S+sevee. Pairs | Women’s." $3.00 ' Patent 1:90 Or anda MOTO a am We 's $3.50 Box Calf and Enamel Leather Oxfords, welted soles, te datest cae a fashions ey 2.5 sortments of the best and most reliable kinds manufactured. The prices we quote on the various lines are as low as pre- vail anywhere and in many instances are less. There is no uestion that we can replenish your stock of Spring and ummer Underwear to your entire satisfaction. this sale. The prices are much under those usually asked, but the quality in every instance is up to: our well-known high standard. Tlorida Water, 6 oz. bottle, usually 25c; special a 19¢ ri Bay Rum, 8 oz. bottle, usually 25¢.;|Toilet Soap, dozen different odors, special at. sh seee cece 19¢ | Listerated Tooth Powder, usually 25c.; per bottle....... +++ 7c Violet Talcum Powder, usually 15c.; per box: 8c - Cold Cream, ¥ oz. jar, usually 12¢..§¢ | Hair Brushes, solid back, are genuine Smelling Salts, usually 15c. per bottle; ;bristle and / extra quality, usually special for this sale... ©)| Cooks and Waiters! Women’s $3.00 and $2.50 Patent Leather Lace, weited soles Hemet s $3 Oo Black Kid, Patent Leather tps Lace, Women's $1.25 Black Kid One Strap Sandals......, Boys’, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes. ‘Bors’ sal Uf L ee: | Me *l i ing heel. But- loss’ salin calf Lace, 8 £14.25 tana M shar: ig hee! widths 1.00 ae ee ‘widths, sises 11 to2.. Youths’ box calf Lac LC ET Na ent leat - €. er oe, Bact Be Sh 2.00 ing heels, sizes sHstor Men’s Summer Underwear. (First Floor.) Our stock of Men’s Underwear'is replete with fine as- Meh's Brown Balbriggan Shirts and| Men's White Merino Shi Drawers, eich, 39¢., 50c. and 75C | Drawers, cath... 75c, n S1OG Men's French Balbriggen Shirts and| i riekcha Drawers, each.........+.+08¢75¢ |Men’s White Merino Shirts and Men's Natural Shirts and Drawers, | Drawers (4 wool), cach..o««e $1.40 each, *50C | Men's Lisle T Men’s Natural Merino Shirts and Drawers, cach.. as ae gLo0 Drawers, eachsees.... e002 25C * s Men's Natural Merino Shirts and | Men's American Silk Shirts and Drawers (3 wool), each... 00 Dae in novi blue and salmon Men's Natural Wool Shirts and Leet i +°§1.75 Drawers, each........-..+-.-$1.40|Men’s Silk and Lisle fancy striped Men's < Boattaa ter" pear Her) Shirts and Drawers, each.....$1.75 Shirts and Drawers, each... ..$1.39 | Men's Imported Brown Lisle Thread Better Grade. a Shirts ani Drawers, each...:.§3.50 34-inch Shirts, $1.85, 10c. Men's "Belfast Linen Mesh” Shirt each size—30-inch Drawers, $1.85, |and Drawers in white and eel 10c. rise each size. CACN. «6. ss seesssseeee.. 0000 83.00 Men's Glastonberry Shirts and|/Men's “Scrivens” Patent Jean Drawers, natural wool, each. .§1,39 | Drawers, each........75¢, and 85C Opportune ‘Sale of Toilet Articles cist noor) For Friday and Saturday. We can thoroughly recommend every article offered in usually'25c. for‘box of 3 cakes....15¢ Tooth Brushes, very fine quality, usu- Heavy Rubber Combs, usually 15c,; ciakat.. LOC | 756. +--+ Herve recess: 49c 4 China and Cut!Glass. Specials for Friday and Saturday. basement, USTRIAN CHINA TEA SET of 56 picces, three tte decorations to select from; special for Friday ani ' $ 5.00 Saturday.,...+++0¢ peace Value $6.98. ‘ALSO—TINE. IT ‘GLASS SALTS AND PEFPERS, aos sae IE coe oped for Friday.and Saturdsy, each} = 25 Value 50c. In eddtiomto-the,M, Kid Gloves. ‘ia'Gioves wmien axe ee ‘ eented in the newest cor “ rect colorings for the Spring and Summer:sea- |: sons, a general stock is shown of Kid end Suede, also Mocha, Cape and Chamois. Glowes for Driving and Outing, as well-as-Silk,?Suede Lisle, Taffeta and Mesh Gloves. h Chantilly, Lierre.and --Maltese -Laca- Mitts, -in Black and -White, pee ; pane For Friday and Saturday, May Ist& 2d: FOUR THOUSAND-PAIRS OF WOMEN’S GLACE GLOVES, will be offered at Tans, Black and White, . . 78c. per pair. om CHILDREN’S GLACE GLOVES, Sizes 8 to 8 years, . . 48. per pair. Elghitenth Street, Nineteenth sireet and Sixth Hocwue, CA? VERTISE FOR \ THROUGH Worla Wants. Sanday World Wants Work