The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1903, Page 10

MERRILL CSE Gov. Odell Hears Argu- _ ments on the Application ' for Extradition to Massa- chusetts and Then Re- serves His Decision. NOT YET SURE OF GUILT. Sor/of the Accused Man Argues Against Extradition, Lawyer for Mrs. Cohen Com- pares Merrill with Tweed. hs £ Gov. Odell to-day heard arguments in ‘the application of the State of Massa- ‘chusetts for the extradition of Moody Merrill, and at the close of the hearing wererved hie decision, | “The whole question, {t seems 1” me," waid the Governor, “is whetner a crime thas been committed. The fact that an dndictment has been found is no evi- sdence thet crime was committed or that Mr. Merrill is gulity,’ if an indictment was found, +, "“Wor that reason I will reserve my | decision until 1 have examined the pa- pers in the case. If alter an examina- ton 1 believe the man ts guilty 1 will wee that he goes back to Massachusels, if, on the ovier hand, 1 am convinced of his innocence 1 will not sign the FeQuisition.” ‘The main argument against the ex-! feradition of Merrill us mude by ow @on Winthrop, who contended that the courte of Muesachuseiis and the State ‘ot New York were being used as a cul- ection agency to obtain ine cam vf Mire. Sarah M. Cohen against his tucner. ‘The young man, who is uw iawyer, had ussooiuted with him in the deiense pt his father ex-Magistratce Wentworth aad Louis Lowenstein, while Lawyer Auehmair appeared for the Boston cred- tors, The hearing was in room No. TH, of the hotel. Gov. Odell sat on a feta and the lawyers were rangea ‘about him. ‘Che hearing was u very in- forma! affair, Gov. Odell announcing he Twould admit any and all statements Sbat would thiow any ight upon me case Cane Ten Years oll, The indictment was returned ten Years ago, when Merrill fled from sos- Yon, where he hud: been prominent in usiness and poliucs. it was charged ‘at the time that Le had left outstand- fing claims of over $300.00. Merrill went to Silver City, New Mexico, assumed ‘he name of Col. Charies Grayson, ana @fter a stroke of luck in a mining ven- ture became a banker, die is now and hus been for several years President of the Sliver City Na- onal Bank and was the Southwestern ‘orrespondent of many Wastern finan- ola! institutions. He became proniinent ‘im politics in New Mexico, and of late Years has made frequent visits to this city, where he maintained a home in West End avenue. A phe won of the man under arrest re- ed the history of his father, told o: Years of service as a public man in on, how he had once run for Mayor jet Paeiele enn bat bees a Jeader of his Pile then toldsot the: reverses that ame to his father in 1893 and how he found himself owing thirty or forty ‘per nin Boston large sums of money Bn, +1 possession of nothing with which 40 ,./ them. forts to Pay His Debts. “@he son told of the father going to the great Southwest, unknown, no stigma attached to ‘his name’ and where with nothing but his ability Bnd hone *y of purpose he had lald the founda: ‘ of a small fortune, and how thie mo. > had been sent to Boston to claims against him, Py eal that to John Fottler, Jr. his father's friend. een sent in al $18,000 to pay the claim of Mrs. Cohen, and he produced a letter, in whica Pottler ad:nowledged the’ receipt of ‘one draft of $5,00, and saying that the money had been paid to the woman. In regard to the claim of Mrs. Cohen, ste said they did not dispute st, but that all she wanted was her money, and she would have had it but for tho treachery of a man his father had sup- to be his best friend, A copy of a letter written’ by Mi! Cohen to Fottler was placed in evidenc: to show that she knew Merrill had ised to make good. In this letter Cohen had written that she was Worry that Merrill hed not kept his ‘The letter, the admission of which was objected to by Mr. Lehmair ghowed that Fottler had not turned Over the money to Mrs. Cohen. Demand for Extradition, (Mr. Lehmair in bis speech urging the jor tO grant the application for ‘extradition denounced Merrill as a thiet| had While | re WINTHROP MERRILL PLEADING FOR HIS FATHER AT * HEARING BEFORE GOV, ODELL, AND ACCUSED BANKER. | AT SCHOOL ORDER They Are Heaping Maledictions | on Supt. Maxwell Because Their Language Has Been Slighted, They Think. i Because he recommended to the Board of Education that German be made merely an elective study in the last year of the course in the public schools, | Supt. William H, Maxwell ts being gen-| erally condemned by the German news- papers, The Staats-Zeltung says edi- torlally: “Dr. Maxwell came to this office and asked us to deny the often repeated as- sertion of Tammany Hall that he would abridge the study of the German lan- guage in the public schools. He sald In his explanation that he had always sought to advance the study of foreign languages in the common schools, and that he would continue to do #0. We had up to that time believed him, but now who can belleve anything the may says 7" But the representative Frenchmen of, the city are satisfied with the order, which also makes the study of French eleative In the last year. Frederic R. Coudert, jr., in saying that the Alilanco Francaise, which he represents, {8 sut- {stled with the order, continued: “When I learned that there was a plan to make the study of the German language in the public schools compul- sory and to leaye out French entirey, I called upon Dr, Maxwell and made a protest In behalf of the Alliance. ‘The way the affair has turned out Js entirely satisfactory, I think, to the French in this elty. “Their numbers are few and they do not figure in politlos, They have, so to speak, no vote, for they are not a ¢actor in elect! “Under the old me the pupils were not getting enough French to be of any practical advantage. Now they will be abe to take up the study seri- ously in their last year and to be in a position to continue it when they go to the high school. RIOTERS AT A POWER-HOUSE. Sr the worst kind. He said he was a Botaniter, a plunderer and a scoundrel fwithout a conscience. The speech was a | ¢ yalarly bitter one. He referred to rill going to New Mexicoand under ‘ah assumed name becoming the Presi- dent of a savings bank. He sald: “And Wis man had the impudence to head a is ¢ tion to Washington to make. a! prematatton to the President = it Seat of the ates. The lawyer dented that at any time! his cHent’knew of Merrill's whereabouts fn any thah a general w: He said the game Distr.ct-Attorney who was in ¢ fice when Merrill was indicted was there to-day and that this man wanted to place Merril! where he belonged compared Merrill to Tweed and said he (was the same sort of a thief. He told Sheen ste filght to Spain and his be ven over to the custody of the authori. ‘ ‘of the Btate of New York, notwith- tanding the fact that there was no ex- Radition treaty between this country /§ @ad Spain. °| Forty-sevenih 8 n prison. He |liceman orde Striking Utalians Gather and Threaten Workmen—One Arrented. of striking ‘Transit stru A gi the Rapid course of « laborers visited power-house in eventh ave- nue, between Fifty-eighth and Pifty- ninth streets, to-day and began to threaten the workmen employed there. Patrolman ¢ of the West ation, was sum- Patrick Ryan, The po- , Which num= to leave, went away with the ex- Lester Vitio, of > 2%: West Sixty-eeventh street Vitlo, Me (Entee says, persisted 1 shouting threats and maledictions at the workmen and jereated such a disturbance that he wa arrested moned by who has ¢ ‘ontractor arge ed the dered about thirty nd they all {ception of one, Romance of Love, ' Peril and Treasure, [the jar THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1903, CUBAN CAME AT CATHEDRAL OR Syndicate Secures Ground Ad- joining the Site of St. John the Divine to Introduce Great Spanish Sport. PAY $450,000 FOR THE PLOT. Promoters of the Athietic Enterprise Say They Will Show New York How to Play “Jal Alal,” but Will Church Permit Game to Go On? If the synilcate of Cubans which has purchased the property adjoining the tlle of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Morningstie Heights, carries nut its plans to establish thereon a big Jai Alat court, anthems of worship will ) Fooring upward amid crios of gaming YOU MAY SMOKE ONL” STATIONS ‘Ban on the Weed Is at Last / Memorial Day ° Exodus Taken Off by General Super- intendent and Patrons May Puff on Platforms. “Have those fool ‘no smoking’ signa on the station platforms painted out. Let them smoke these hot days anywhere but In the women’s waiting rooms and in the cars." Just these few words spoken over the telephone by Genera! Superintendent Frank Hedley, of the Manhattan “L" road, awl presto, the thing was done. Workmen with hammers and painters with brushes are to-day biotting out the signs which have for years been a cause of great annoyance to the half million male patrons of the elevated trains. Who has not climned the elevated stairway with a lighted cigar and after occasioned at the sight of the sign defied the same? This is the ob- Jectlonable warning whien patrons of the “L" may now gaze upon for the last time: Smoking or Carrying Lighted Cigars or Cigarettes on the Cars or Platforms In Prohibited. “Here we have been running fifty smoking cars on the Thin’ avenue divi- sion," sald Mr. Hedley to an Evening World reporter to-day, “yet passenge are warned not to smoke on the station platforms or in the cars, It was time to pull them in long ayo for they mean nothing, I do not favor the posting of any rule which {s not enforced to the letter, and for that reason they are be- ing obliterated from tne stations.” “Will smoking be permitted on the station platforms of the other three divisions where there are no smoking cars?" “Why not? Iam a smoking man my- self. If passengers are allowed to smoke upon the station platforms in one case I can see no good reason why they can- not be allowed to smoke all over the system, They will smoke anyway, and I am having all the meaningless signs painted out or pulled down. When on the closed cars the patron will be asked to throw away his weed, likewise In the women's waiting rooms, but the ban has been removed elsewhere on the system." JUDGES IGNORE JEROME'S ATTACK. Only One of “the Many Eccentri cities of the Would-Be Ruler of Creation,” Says One. Distict-Attorney Jerome's attack on the judictary, made Inst evening at the dinner of the Drug Club, will pags un- noticed by the Criminal Court judges. They are so accustomed, as one of them put ft this morning, “to the many eccentrici tle: Oun-be ruler of all creat regard it simply As another le outbreak. All of thi ‘al Sessions judges. against whom District-Attorney's rade was directed, when spoken garding It would be undignified ‘to agtice of the remarks. “Tt in merely an opinion,” Judge Wai ren W. Foster remarked. “and ev: ed to his own opinion his hosis what a dim- 8 to obtain convictions “in Mines of criminal cases, Dis- Attorney Jerome said at the din- take any the Judges been opposed to elect! ry, aad wherever t system prevails there ts always a in dntegrity, Our Federal res with that of Eng- an Irishman might You never hear anything bout our Federal judges at least not | west of the Mississippi, “Of course there are men of recognized ability on the Criminal Bench, but there sits no lawyer in our criminal courts to-day whom the lawyers of the city of New York would have selected to pla there. Hero we get the topsy-turvy idges in our erlminal courts, staying the action of the District-Attorney la criminal) case until a pending suit In a civ court 1s disposed of or a settle- ment Is effected. You may get togeth I ha with a bunch of lawyers and then hear things sdout our judiciary that would bring the blush of shame to the fa ‘upright citizen, Then when you understand things you begin to realize that ee District-Attorney ts not: these the of- ‘ved of to |unchecked, and, considering the precipt- this morning, agreed thet | ie i HOLIDAY MAKERS. “IN-RECORD RUSH the Greatest Ever Known, Busi- | ness Houses Closing and Em- | ployees Hurrying Out of Town The first real rush to the summer re- sorte began to-day on the early trains trom the city. Every ferryboat to the |rallroads of New Jersey was crowded with a merry crowd bound somewhere for a three days’ outing. The Grand Central station and the Long Island Railroad stations poth at Flatbush ave- nue, Brooklyn, and in Long Island City, were crowded with persons bound out of town to spend to-day and to-morrow and Sunday. In many business houses to-day will |be a holiday because of Memorial Day \falling on Saturday. Employers and employees, taking advantage of the fine weather ang the opportunity of almost ‘a half week of rest, made their arrange- ments @ome time early in the week, and this morning started on their out- ing. ‘The great majority of pleasure-seekers | seemed bound for points along the Jer- sey coast and for the country places on Long Island. Nearly every car that ‘passed the Flatbush avenue etation dis- jcharged a fair proportion of its passen- gers there The station at an hour when the rush a rule is from the Inbound trains waa crowded with men, women and children outward pound, with hand baggage, golf clubs and tennis racqueti While the rush in a way was expected by the ratlroad men, no preparations ‘had been made for the Immense crowd that sought transportation, Equal to the emergency. howe extra. cars were attached to all trains, so that the inconvenience to those anxious to get away was slight. ‘The greatest trouble to the rallroad Ipeople will come on Sunday, when the Persona who left the city to-day and those who will leave {t to-morrow and n Sunday morning will endeavor to get ck to the city on the late trains about the same time. ‘Phe railroad officials aay the exodus from the city to-day is a record-breaker for this time of year and is accounted for on the ground of general prosperity and the triple holida ——<—<—— ELECTRIC CAR IN MAD TOBOCCAN. Brake Gets Out of Order at Top of Steep Hill on Amsterdam Avenue and Crowded Vehicle Plunges Down Declivity. One hundred paswengers on an Ams- terdam avenue car had a narrow escape from plunging down the hill from One Hundred and ‘Thirty-ifth street to-day, tous declivity, to almost certain death at the curve OW, ‘Phe car, No. 948, had mounted one long incline that runs from One Hun- dred and Fortleth street and started down over the brow of the steep de- scent, when a plece of the ateel frame- work under the front of the oar and attached to the brake gave way, and the vehicle shot forward. Every passenger in the car realized} | tho peril, The car gathered speed each | instant and seemed to those aboard to| be rurhing down the face of a cliff. At first they were paralyzed by fear, then, when they evinced an inclination | to jump there was a loud snap and the |car was checked with a jerk that threw |every passenger forward on hands and | knees, ‘The front of the car seemed to rear up from the track four or five feet like | a frightened horse. Then it crashed down again with the wheels thrown off the track. For a few seconds It rolled across the cobbles and athwart the op- posite track. Then it stopped. fn examination showed that one end of a long {ron plate about six Inches wide had dropped from the bottom of | terest New Yorkers tn and Stabat Muters, and Gregorian chants | wil have a regular accompaniment in the rattle and smash of “pelota’ bails against the cement inclosure. ‘where 4g no reason for assuming that the gentlemen from the gen of the An- 8 will abandon thelr scheme to in- game that rules Havana and the great cities of Spain. They have pald $450,000 for the remises on which they propose to erect the Jal Ale court, and A. Anudjar, of a Front street importing house, who Is nt the head of the syndicate, saya that Urey are going right ahead to spend $200,000 or $300,000 more for the necessary improvements. Cubaus Mean Business. The Cuban says this in all sincerity, but perhaps the church people may find a means to induce them to move the game to some other location. Anudjar and his colleagues, whose names he |s withholding for the present, have con- templated Invading New York with Jai <Alai for some time. Several months ago they purchased elghteen lots, fronting on Central Park West, between Sixty- Afth and Siaty-sixth etreets. This prop- erty was sold when they found a more desirable site on Moralngside Heights, While Jai Alai or Pelota will be new to New York, It has had sporadic boom- Jogs on the Pacific Coast. It struck San Francisco a few years ago, and for a time was quite popular. Then it pailed on the Westerners, who would rather det on the chance’ of a Casey getting from the platy to first base on a buat than on a Weyler or Alfonso, whose name they could not pronounce, swat- Ung a bail against a stone wall ‘with a bat that looks very much Ike the tool used in cricket. Jaf Alal wasn’t fast enough for the Wild and Woolies; the action didn't show. Wil it be’ fast enough for New York and the Gates, who come here with the slogan of “Betcher a million!” Players Get Big Snlarte: It has been sald that Havana {s pelota wild. The game is an institution and the government lets privileges to pro- moters to conduct It, These privileges made against Gen. Leonard Wood. ‘The professionals who play it are all im- ported from Spain and are said to re. Ive marvellous salaries, some of them much as $12.00 a year. t ailitetes and some of By in meeting or serving a ball are really wonderful. The ephere {s quite heavy, about the size of a base- vail, but much harder. The play ts on ‘the sides of a central line in the court, one side serving while the other takes’ the ball In baskets Havanans will bet thelr coats on thelr champion and the money that changes hands at ‘ood game ts remarkable, ‘he grand-stand Intended for Morn- ingside Heights 1s to have, accordnig to the promoters, a capacity for 7,000 people. There will be side attarctions and every facility for the pleasure of patrons. It Is not unlikely, !f the prop- er arrangements can be’ made, that there will be other games besides Jal Alai that will stand for a bit of a bet. BABY FATALLY INURES A BD. Little Johnny Eichler, Playing on Fire-Escape, Drops a Ham- mer on Seven-Year-Old Harry Kies’s Head. Seven-year-okl Harry Kies, of No. 549 West Fitty-eecond street, is dying at Roosevelt Hospital from an injury in- advertently inflicted by a two-and-one- balf-year-old child. The boy's condition 1s so critical that the hospital physictans have trepanned bis skull. The public schools are closed to-day, and young Kies was enjoying his holi- day with a crowd of his companions, He found a stray cat In the street and Invited his friends to go to his house and watch him feed the tramp kitty. He got a bow! of milk and fed the cat on the sidewalk in front of his thome while his chums stood @round i an admiring circle, ., On the fourth floor of the flat house lives Mrs. John Eicher and her two-and- avhalt-year-old son Johnny. While she was working In the kitchen Johnny was allowed to play on the fire-escape in front of the building. He had found a tack hammer and was having a great time with it, but it slipped from his Uny ‘gras and bounding off the escape dropped to the street. The head of the hammer struck Harry [Kes on the to} of the head. Ie dropped to the sidowaik unconscious. Several men passing carried the lad into Als house und the police were no- tilled. Kles's companions were mystitied by the accident and seelng the hammer on the sidewalk concluded that some ot the eirange boys in the crowd that had gathered to waten the cat eat, had struck him. Detectives from the’ West | Forty-seventh street station were sent out o InvesUgate the mysterious assat but little Johnny Elctier had run orying to his mother to tell about the lose of, the tack hammer and the truth of th acotdent came out, Johnny was sorry he said anything, When his mother heard how seriousy Harry Kies had been injured she spanked Master Johnny soundly. pe ee Sa Euchre Party at Webster Hall. A reception and euchre party will pe siven by St, Mary's Holy Name so- ety this evening at Webster Mau, Bleventh street and Third avenu ‘There are handsome prizes for the non- the car and c ht against the Bel- ck,” rae, eae sayed ‘an ‘hour bse eietratis wae delayed an nour te the car be it back ongthe tell and puabed ‘to the barnn : pavers and stil) more handsome ones \ Miss Anna Merritt, the chiki a ~ formed an ugly incident in the charges | | weak or impoverish G00 STATISTICS (SOUT SUICIDES but Sunday Runs It Close, Do- mestic Troubles Then Becom- ing Unbearable. SHOOTING IS MOST COMMON. Three Tim Many Men as Wom- en End Their Lives, and Mar- rled Men Are in Largest Propor- tion. NEW HAVEN, May 29.—Prof. Will- fam B. Bailey, of Yale, who for five years made a close study of suicides in the United States, has prepared a number of Interesting tables and a mass of statistics. He observed 29,344 cases during that time, but for the sake of convenience he makes his report on 10,000 canes, Of this number 7,781 were men and 2,219 were women, and Prof. Bailey be- Heves that is about the usual propor- tion. ‘The favorite suitidal period Is between thirty and forty vears, fol- lowed by that between twenty and thirty. Married men are more prone to take their llves, but proportionately more widowed, single or divorced women com- mit suicide than men in like conditions. The proportions are shown as follows: Total. Men. Women. Single . seers 4,064 3,129 925 Married 4,807 3,817 999 Widowed . + 679 498 183 Divored . + 198 137 52 Unknown 262 202 68 Total + ++10,000 7,781 2,219 The favorite method employed by sui- cides is shooting, with poison a close second. The following table shows the principal causes: The favorite day 1s Monday, Sunday belng next. There is a steady decrease from Monday until Friday, when there {8 a great increase, falling off again to a minimum on Saturday. Of this Prof. Batley sa: “For those who have endured through: out the week there is pay day at hand, followed by a day of rest. Among th males Monday is pre-eminently a day for suicide. Women prefer Sinday to Monday. Religious excitement may have something to do with this, but nearly a third of the domestic troubles leading to suicide come on Sunday. “More than one-fourth of the sulcides from financtal trouble and ill-health among women occur on Monday. They apparently lack the courage in their d condition to take up the struggle of a new week.” TWO KILLED BY FLYING TRAIN. Seven Others Were Badly In- jured When a Wrecking Crew Was Run Down at Waverly, Near Newark, (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., May 20—A freight train wreck occurred early this morn- ing on the Pennsylvania Railroad just below the Lehigh Valley rafiroad bridge. ‘Two men are dead and several injured. The dead a RITO DELMIO, No. 198 Miller street. FRANK LOPRETE, No. 149 Broad street. The injured are Frank Topsey, No. TORT RTT STP TY ET Monday Is Their Favorite zy, ; Total. Men. Women. Drowning + , 800 490 816 | Shooting + 8,247 2,980 287 Polson + 2,750 1,831 919 Cutting + 810 895, 115 Gas .. . 666 466 20 Jumping wee ATS ay 123 Hanging ........... 952 780 202 Miscellaneous . 302 29 83 Total 7,781 2,219 NEAT WORLD Here’s the Whale That Swallowed Jonah. The Bible Story Cor- toborated by Science, and the Expedition That Is About to Prove the Truth of Jonah's Re- markable Experience. | SUNDAY’S | | | 300 Innocent Persons Marked for Assassination Chinamen in American Cities Frightened by a Recent Order of the Highbinders Which Condemns Them to Certain Death. The Amazing Sequel to a Girl’s Abduction. A Mother’s 23-Year World-Wide Search for Her Daughter and the Marvellous Manner of Their Reunion. Belief, Will the “Lizzie Bor- den Mystery’’ Be Solved at Last? Is the Finding of an Axe About to Clear Away the Clouds from One of the Most Fam- ous Murder Mysteries ? $300 in Prizes. A Story Almost Surpassing Do You Want to Buy a Nice Volcano? There's One for Sale, You've Heard of It. Popocatepetl. Will Rockefeller Buy It? Are You Competing? Further Details of the Sunday World's Great Physical Culture Offer Which Is Open to You and All Other Students in Its Free School of Health. An Opportunity You Cannot Afford to Miss. 190 Miller street; Peter Albana, An- thony Frank, Joseph Hamilton, Vincento Demetrio, C. A. Thurber, engineer of the train, and Frederick Cain, fireman. The latter two are scalded and bruised. Topsey 1s the most seriously hurt and will likely die. He ts in St. Michael's Hospital. To save him from being scalded to death in the wreekage, where he was pinned down by the debris, his resou- ers had to out his right arm off with a railroad axe. The bodies of Delmio ‘and Loprete are still under the wrecked cars and it will be several hours be- fore they oan be removed, The accident happened about 4.45 o'clock, Some time yesterday a fretght train of about eight cars, which were empty, were derailed. It was while working in an effort to clear away this wreck that the fatal one occurred, Fast Freight Upon Them. Loprete and Delmio, both laborers, were under two coal cars, placing eome ghains in position preparatory to replac- ing the cars on the tracks, when a fast freigit ploughed through’ the deratled train, Ar open switch about a hundred yards away sent the fast train over the ricaded tracks. Dhe engineer of the moving train tooted his whistle, but no particuiat attention was paid to it by the workmen, as it was ordered that each engineer do #0 passing this point, The men remained at work with the train bearing down upon them. ‘Topsey was standing on top of one of the cars and was thrown ahead di. rectly in the path of the engine. He was pinned by the arm beneath the locomott He Was making desperate! attempt oe red pienele vas moantn ‘encap) steam from the. engine enveloped ns bony.’ The rescuers ‘had to Aght their way. through steam, and when ey reached Topsey he asked them to do something to get his arm loose. He asked that they cut Biirm on, ‘one of the "The ane fired man was then hurried to the hos: pital. That the wreck did not prove ey of tie, wrecking, crew in whisk many of the. wi in whic the dead men worked’ had Just. st The New Money- Malady Myalgia. Look Out For It. It’s the Worst Thing You Can Have. Only the Rich Get It. to eat, and they were seated along the rails’ when. they. fast freight A SERGE be crash into the empty cars. Si 8s ey sada Mrs. Osborn on Fashions, Mrs. Ayer on Beauty, - for Women. Everything in the Way of Instruction for the Falr Sex by the Two Greatest Authorities, (