The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1903, Page 8

$10,000 10 END A STRIKE TRIAL FOR EMBEZZLEMENT AND HIS COUNSEL. \Donald Call, ex-President of Stone Cut- apesempes yt crimes gr * [MOTHER JONES AND TER ARMY RESTING She Is Waiting for Second | Demonstration To-Night, and | Says that She Likes the LOST HER TEMPER, © TOLD OF ROBBERY Brooklyn Servant Girl Informed Mistress Where Stolen Goods Could Be Recovered and Was DEAD PONTFE "Unfounded Report that Body - Was in Such State that In- {érmerit Would Be Hastetied Gaiisés Tremendous Rush\ to St: Peter’s Church. GREAT CROWD IN ROME FROM OUTSIDE PROVINCES. ' } Cardinal Oreglia Shows Great » ffifluence at the Meeting of the College of Cardinals— Pope’s Will Leaves Much Property to the Church. ROME, Suly %4.—Reports circulated @irly to-day that the Pope's body had | bérun to show signs of decomposition j Sd that the Interment would be has- _} tened are now denied by the doctors. | “Phe reports were generally credited j afd caused great excitement. Many “persons who had deolded to visit the Chapel of the Sacrament, In St. Peter's, on the last day of the lying in state, and thus avoid the crowd, hurried there @O-ay, fearing that {t would be buried to-night, while many persons in the i Provinces took the first trains to Rome, | which resulted in a gathering at St. | Poter's larger that that of yesterday. Otherwise the scene was practically the same, The work of the soldiers and police on duty was more arduous, owing to the burning sun and dust and the @truggle to enter the cathedral, the fainting of women, screaming of chil- @rén and the quarrels of the men. But RO grave incident was reported. * Body in Perfect Dr. Lapponi, in the face of the doubis east on the eMcacy of his process of embalming, went with the other doctors to examine the body of the Pope and found It to be in a perfect # preservation, The dark color . by the face was attributed to the smoke et the many candles burning around. & large quantity of joe waa put under the bier. ‘Uniless the unexpected occurs the In- terment will take place Saturday even- tng, a6 originally arranged. » The most significant mass to-day was that celebrated in the Royal Chapel, known as the Church of the ‘@uéarlo, by the Court Chaplain, by _ ender of the King and Queen of Italy. © When Plus IX. died, four days after * ‘fis death, as this is four days after the Gath of Pope Leo, mass was celebrated in the Sudario Church for the repose ef the soul of Vicor Emmanuel, then fately decease.!, To-uay it was cele- brated for the repose of the soul of Leo XIII The Colleze of Cardinals met to-day to.pass Judg.nent on the note drafted by Maro Merry Del Val to protest &gaist the deprivation of temporal power, The note will be communt- cated Ww the diplomatic corps accred- ised to the Vatican The matter was taken up at yester- } day's “meeting of the Consisiorlal Congregation, Cudinals Steinhuder, Mathieu and Viva note to voice e for the restoration temporal rights, Oregiin tn Victor. Cardinals Agliardi aud Serafino Van- Mutelll, on the cor wanted the note to maintain 11 mild language tae Bjstorical pretensions of the Holy Sec. Cardinal Oreglia suggested a middle course and was susialned by a ma- Jority of the Cardinals present. Cardinal Oregila stowed the meeting that he controle! moe votes than Car- dinal Rampolla when ais nominee, Mgr ‘Larozzi, was selected over Mg Sardi, — Gardinal Rampolia’s nominee, to de- > Aver the customary Latin oration ia memory of the Pope. Cardinal Oregiia Ofice Jisplayed his magnanimlty vy Nominating Mgr. Sardi to deliver the ordtion ou the uuties of the Sacred Col- Yege in cvauecuon Wita the selection of futo wanted the seally the latin % the Papacy'’s Bhe Pope's successor. ‘ Popes Will Opened, a The will of Vope Leo has been opened r @hd read to the cardinals, it covers D) thirty-s:a pases of cisely written manu- 2 seript in the Ponutls own hand. The ¢arher portions coniain recommendations PER st vides The Whert Market. Wheat displayed activity and strength ani ‘Whe start to-day, but corn showed Ale movement either way and was no re than steady, The markets at St. oiiia and Chicago were firm. market in the Northwest opened lower, fater rallied with the other markets. Offerings at all points were light, bly 0 here. bullish. Closing prices we: for a distribution of gifts amung The @mber in this market sold up #8 cent. In the first ten minutes. After corn also felt the strength of |, and railied 1-4. Western senti- ' ters’ Union, Admits Big Hold-Up in Brooklyn--Court Lawyer's Plea of former President of the |\ Stone ‘Cutters’ Union, made the remark- \ ble aliniesion to-day at the trial of ex- my easuier Lawrence Murphy on a charge of embwaling 312,00, iGat he had do- maa ded (860,00 fo a settlement of @ atrka in Brooklyn, ‘And It might have deen ) $100, 90,"" he calmly added. Calli then described in detail the nego- tations by Which $10,000 was finally paid by the & imp! pyers’ Association He hm! been put on the witness stand before A \dge: Newburgor and a jury to prove tha tt file $10,000 had been given to Murph © @# treasurer and wan a part of the aur te prisoner is accused of having emt esWled. The revelations con- cerning the orginal demand ‘or $50,000 were broug’t * OUt on cross-examination by ex-Agsisa (nt District-Attorney John F. McIntyre.) counsel for Murphy, who chasges that \"¢ money was a part af the-‘‘graft” wf, secret committee of th untorl, whose aypmbers made a practice of holWing uy tt © employers by strikes and thasats of * tikes. Marphy) Mot to Texrity. When the trim \vas resumed to-day Mr. McIntyre ann wanced that he would not call his cligf ¢% the stand. It had been his intention | let Murphy tell about the so-called “J, Wor graft,” which he said amounted to 4 W0) among the committee of the Ston cutters’ Union dione, but Judge Newbu wer intimated that he would not let the @efense go 80 extenatvely Into the matter.» Doreld Call “My contention,” Mr. Moi tyre sald, “4a that Murphy, we have a, Wa before, did not rob the unton, He a Wn't get any of the money—not a dollar of the $12,000. He doled it out to the oth 48 as ® contribution to the organization, Greater than Police Gra “A highwayman who holds one up o.¥ the public highway and takes his watch has no title to the timepiece, I can call Col. A. D. Bird, Mr, McClellan and Mr. Rankin, of the Boss Builders’ Associa. tion, to testify to the plot by which the Stonecutters’ Union was to get $50,000 from the employers. This was the great- est grafting scheme that was ever in- vented—greater than the ‘system’ of the police eraft that has been ulred tn the public press within the past few years.” John Boy former treasurer of the Btonecuters’ Union, was the first wit- ness called to-day. He told about con- tracta with surety companies and how he had turned over to the defendant| $1,600, He also turned over a cheok for} $9,000 from Col. Baird to Murphy. | Charles A. Tucker, secretary of the| Becret Committee, which Mr. McIntyre| contends engineered the extortion pro- cess, was called by Assistant District- Attorney Nott to tell about the change! in the by-laws. No Secret Committe , He Says, Witness denied that he was secretary to any secret committee, or that there was any secret committee. “It was the Executive Committee,” Tucker saéd, but he admitted that the meetings were secret. Mr. McIntyre read the resolution ap- poluuing the secret commitiee of seven, but witness said he had sever beard of it. Donald Call, former president of the Stone Cutters’ Union, took the stand for the Assistant District Attorney. He sald that on March 12, 1902. he conferred with bosses in Brookly: over the tele- phone. On the following day he went tu Brooklyn and talked with eleven em- ployers. The talk lasted most of the) day. id you get a check on that day?" Rave it Renkin gave me the check,’ WORKMEN'S RIGHTS Criticises Murphy's Defense. witness sald ‘and T had ft eartified, On M. h 19 I got a chock from Mr. Ru- Densvein tor $i over to Murphy. Got None of the Money. j.{Did vou get any part of the check for $10,007" Call was asked. He re- plied that ho did and that it belonged to the organization, He gave the check to Murphy walle taey were working on the Cathedral of Bt. Sohn the Divine. r. Nott brought out the fact that phy had made no report about the nex of the organization, — Witness urphy arresied and visited him in the Tombs la waich Was aiso turned If) Mr. Melntyre wan permitted to err Call, interrupting the Assistant Attorney (MUFBDY) that ane would give y a money he Would ot be prosecuted Mr. 'Metntyro asked. ee an oe not.” m redirect examination Cal! ruled told him that he bet hoy broad, Murphy id the check was safe, On further cross-examination Call id that as walking delegate he got $00 a day. or $33 a week, apd ax Preai- © nization '$2.a night and dent of the or, as a member of the secret committee compensation.” He didn't know whether or not the secret committee ever kept track of expenditures, Th witness got confused when McIntyre wanted to know why, when he was called from an open meeting to a conference 200 feet away, he telephoned the result of the secrt ‘conference in- stead of walking into the hall. Demand for $50,000. “After the strike was ordered Brooklyn," Mr. Melntyre asked, Col. Balrd, Mr. McLaren and M kin, officera of the Loss Builders’ Assu- clation, confer with you?" * Yes. “Did you ask for $50,000 to call off the strike? it might have been $100,000." tn did t Col. Baird, Mr. Rankin and the other gentleman laugh at the amount. What did they offer you to call the strike off?" “They offered us $3,000, and we all Jaughed. Then they began to come up we began to go down from. $50.00) 40 $40,000, to. $30,000, ‘to $25,000 and so on, + Then we held a conference and decided 1 Wt to accept a penny less than $10,000." “What was the consideration for that si « We told the bosses that we would sho; ® id that there would ve no more troul We. The defendant's lawyer again spoke of ne highwayman who meets your in ths the ht Worehtand wwivo Tove you of your watch. He said the robber had no title to the Wateh and declured the code reads t theft Is the taking from the proper o Wner. Ju: \we Black’s Detense. Judge N twburger interrupted to say that if tha } was the defense he woul Instruct the Jury to bring In a verdict for the peop te. nit take de fondant.” the Judge said, “pecelved. mo. \ey from the organization of which he w. ¥ treasurer, he should ac- count for jt, ald if he cannot account for it then he Wust be punished.” “Then,” said Mr. McIntyre dramatic- ally, “the law i.vdorses the conduct of these men who Aye extorted money, Yom gdio.ooo. From: the Brooklyn Boss ders. ‘Not all,” the Judge replied. Phat ‘will be Ye efteas Mr. Me- yro sald. Injyre No, 4, Henty 8. Sohwind, cre- ated something of i{ pensation by ask- ing In a very vehement way whether orders on the treasu.ty were verbal or ritten, “Gall sald they were ntade by resolution of the organization the war- rants therefore had to be indorsed and countersigned, “Wasn't It the habit of officers to get money, from. Murphy ‘whenever they Wanted (t?' Mr. Melntyre. asked. fptiave heard of that,” Call replied, Ge Vv ot any.’ € “Didn't sofficers. go to’ tis home and t money?” iti have heard about it.” Didn't you tell Murphy, in Aug! ot to Treturn a —— cent of the $10,000 William A. Norrie, who succeeded Call an president of the union, told about releasing the LEMS INS Surety Company from. Hanittty when the $12,000 was withdrawn. Mr. Nott asked | ““Wewent to a restaurant,” witness dia.” | sald, “and Murphy explained timt it was The check was (then shown to wit-| too late to deposit the money in a bank. ness, 1t Was made oUt for $10,000 to the| The checks were indorsed and turned order of Murphy, to whom witness| over to Murphy.” rane trial was adjourned until Mon- day DEFINED BY COURT. Strikers Fined and Told that Every Man May Work on Terms That Suit Rim. BYRACUSE, N. Y., July %4.—-Hiram ed lis and Otto Benz, strik- owe wddresset io is eaccutors, Cardinals|ing moulders from the Stearns shop, Rampoilia, Mocenn: and Creton, on tne! were found guilty e fempt of court best way to p ve the Impulse given) to-day by Justics am 8. Andrews “alee su ae tne poucy LosteFed [by hia confirmation of the report of Phe wcucher. (aen eAumeraces all the| Wiliam G who heard: the mo- Oy Leo, she money left} tion for contempt of court in referen: yy the Pope in constined tn a safe in| powers was 7 and ced to Bia private aparuineny, tae keys to wiien| Powe™* Was fined $7 and sentenced te wre tk tn J ut tae executors. | thirty days; Lillis $0 and thirty Ally tne, ta find bulldingy | days, and Benz was Aned 0 eC ‘or charitable and equcus| i a Honus purposes are put in the name of|, Justice Andrewa's report in part fal- the Ho. See to avoid possible claims |!Ows: fron relatives. The document also pro-| “As to the merits of the original dls- A) of the Pontif's relatives’ his phyme|? between the parties I have no and, some close personal friends |Knowledge. Certain truths, however, we tendants. all host to be self-evident. With or without reason, alone or together, work- men may leave their employers. By ar- BS bi 1-8; Septem ly, December, $1 4-8, Corn—| sought plember, 665-8 bid} De- prices were: piember, 161-8 0 3-4, Co bid; De- ‘orn— acts made criminal by our penal ode. "I find that the three men delib: Whest| disubeyed the order of The court, his makes It a case of criminal contempt 6] Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders.! nly, questo: vat nm left is as to Prevent riot or disorderly | Wis The .o er. pul t to be infil Tem tor what they have done. men TAB CLOSING QUOTATIONS. To-day's highest, lowest and closing prices and net changes from’ yeater cloaing prides or tr recorded salce are aw follows Net High. Low. Clos.cthinge Amalgamated Copper .. 41 35% SIN — Amer, Smeit, @ Ref... 42) 37% tlh — ty Am. Smelt, & Rot. pf. 89% 89 80 14 American Sugar a4 American Sugar pf. — ay Atch., Top, & 8 ay Atch., Top, & § s Baltimore & Obio. * Baltimore & Obio pt dyin — 2 Brooklyn Rapid Tran — Canadian Pacific +i% cake & Ohio. Cat, Gt NM EM. a. Wor one, MM, & St, Paul Ohh MI a st. Ppt ol, Fuel & tron Den, & Rio G.. gwument or py uasion, by appeals tu] N sympathy or prejudice, they may lead bd others not to take their vacant places, ty | "But here they must stop. Every man i may work upon the terms that seom in }to him best. If he cannot his personal ik Mberty ts abridged. It ts his right as a cies free man. To protect him In hist right = governments and courts may use their =} full powers. If they fail to do so they =i fall in their duties. g t was to enforce these every-day |\ © Lawn z rules that the Injunctign in this action | 8. Stel 8 was granted. It permitted the use of JU. 5. Steel pt y all peaceful methods. it almply pro-| Waleeh © -| hibed the use of terror or vioignice, Tt | Weer Union Tel... 3 Contra! Wis, Central Advance, we Decline. to ‘ you go to Murphy in the m the District-Attorney's of- | floe, after having seen Smyth in the’ Prosecutor's. office, and tell. him Mr. | Ran- | dec are the Brooklyn shops as union| | ATTORVEY LIFIN TIE CASHIER SHERWOOD “CAUGHT AT PANAMA Man Who Wrecked the South- port (Conn.) National Bank) Reported Captured at Isth- ; mus—Will Be Brought Back. A- despatch from the Isthmus of Pan- Jama announces that Oliver Sherwood, | the defaulting cashier of the Southport |(Conn.) National Bank, there to-day and wil! this country. Sherwood was the trusted employee of the bank and had almost the full control of the inatitutlon when in May last he disappeared and it was found (the bank had practically been wrecked When the fact of the embezzlement be- came known tt was found, it is alleged, that the model of propriety in Gouth- port was a hale fellow well met in New York was a rounder and all that implies, He led a dual life, tt in |charged, and led it at n pace that startled those in the staid old Connecti- cut town, who had looked upon Sher- wood as a model man, Women, automobiles and the wildest {extravagance are sald to have character. ized his visits to this city. BULLS FAVORED IN COTTON MARKET. Covering by Shorts and New Buying, Absorbs Supply, with Weather Outlook Poor. | war arrested be returned to Tt required but little support vy the Dull eloment to start covering in the cotton market to-day and prices ad vanced from the opening. Soon after the call September sold 8) points higher than yesterday. July de- clined 6, selling at 13.2, and August was unchanged. In addition to the early demand from shorts, moderate new buy- ing was noted, chiefly of autumn monwhp, ‘ars this helped to absorb whatever cotton was on sale as a result of predicted showers over the Western | Delt to-night and to-morrow. | About 5,000 July notices, Issued to-day wore stopped by a prominent local house. | in the afternoon were: October, 9.88; Decem- The September, der, 9.68, Prices fell oft quotations bein ust, 12.80 to 1 1.74; to ary, 9,62. to March, 9.00 to $62 The market closed steady COTTON SCARCITY BAD FOR ENGLAND. Seven Hundred Factories, Employing 360,000 Operatives, on Short Time. prices 10, ard the close, the y, 13.15 to 13-20; ‘Aug- 10.78 to vember, plying to a ques- LONDON tlon in the House of Commons (o-day erald Balfour, President of the Board of ‘Trade, sald 70) cotton factories in Lancashire were working on short «me and 350,000 operatives were affected, This was due to the deficlency in raw cotton. ‘The question of cotton-growing in the British Empire, in order to create a sup- ply outside that of the Southern (Sates lof America, was recetying careful con- sideration, and the Board of Trade was ive any practicable help din the matter LONDON STOCKS DEPRESSED Americans Cloned Weak After Ir- regular Course the Market, } LONDON, July money were ~The of lerately abundant Jn the market to-day and rates were easy Business on the Stock Exchange gen. erally was depressed, in sympathy wit gilt-edged securities, which were ove welghted by a number of new issues of stock, Tho Jan “Russian rel also constituted a distuyolng element, thougin the geneval feeling was that ti questions In dispute will he amicably armnged, Console were weak and hegtit wits refused to resvond to the inilu- of good divi nds, ‘Americans were irregular and flat on New York a ices, which were not satisfac here Was no disposition to give an scourities support ant they closed Grand Teunk was Me In srease @x- ceeding exo . but the stock a terwami reacted with the rest. Kaflins aagged. LAWTENCE MUICPAY KEENE’S FIRM AND ANOTHER FAIL IN WALL STREET. (Continued from First Page.) the Harriman interests in the fight against Keene, who would not allow his name to be mentioned, said to-day, in regard to the failures of the firms: “All the banke with which we have been in communication report their loans in as gvod shape as they ever were. I have no doubt that a number of smaller houses were in the same boat as Taylor & Co., but they are houses that are of little importance in the financial world. After this I think there will be a clearing of the atmosphere. The failure of a firm like that of Tay- lor & Co, is deplorable, but what must be must be."’ Tho total sales of stocks were 1,336,300 shares, and of ‘bonds $3,595,000, TAYLOR BECAME A BROKER AFTER HE WED MISS KEENE. No one ever heard very much of Tal-|Was Mr. Taylor who admitted on the bot J, Taylor, of Baltimore, until he] witness stand recently that he had paid came up from the South and won the| William N. Amory the money with hand of Jessie Harwar Keene, whom|which to examine the accounts of the he married at the Keene home at Cedar-| Metropolitan which formed a basis for hurst, L. I., on May 14, 1892. the District-Attorney's investigation: Then everything worth having that ‘The young broker started out in life money could buy seemed to come his] wifi a mood name and well equipped way. In a short time he showed his| mentally, byt with few dollars, He was father-in-law that he lad the proper| employed for several -years in Keene's stuff in him to be trusted in Wall street! omce as a clerk. His home is at Cedar- lone and his fortune went up 1n| uret, adjoining that of the millionaire bounds. As Josh Billings used to 8ay.| speculator, and he 1s now the father of “everything seemed to be greased’ for|a son and daughter. the bonefit of the young Mr, Taylor: pale etal ael etic ae eyny The firm of Tathot J. Taylor & Co., consisting of Mmself and his brother,| W. L. Stow, of W. L. Stow & Co, is Alexander Kirkland, became the right | one of the most widely known of all the hand of Jim" Keene in all hin specu- |New York traders. He has been a di- lations and has continued so to this day grector af the Mexican Central Ratlroad yeral years ago Foxhall P, Keene] since October, 1902, and 1s deeply inter- thought he ought to do something be-| ested, although not in an official ca- sides ‘hold @ reputation as a sportsman, | pacity, in all the large trunk lines. He and he was credited with a special part-| engineered the deal that seoured control nership interest in the brokerage bus!-|of the Evanaville and Terre Heute ness for which his father 1s said to have] branch for the large finanolal interests pald $200,000. which he represents. Mr. Stow a man of family and In Many Stock Raldn, in the prime of life. He la a great outs door lover and owns an auto. He and Taylor has been in every raid and] his chauffeur he: ve been aquecse that Keene! has esasyea or|(hren ocossions ter erate learried out in the last ten yeara—the| one Som Gen ee noe was mi rea fp Rubber Trust deal, the Southern Pa-! formerly & alaposed of It, “tne ee ae cifle pool, the raid on Metropolitan. It bringing $176,000, ——— cause there was very litttle buying STANDARD OIL a DROPS HEAVILY. | ,Af'*",20",ite market stented tor downward course, touching 37 3-4. Nearly all local shares were weak. Amalgamated Copper deciined to 353-4 a new low record. In the last hour there was a general recov Amaiga- mated crossing 3 and Copper ot. Rockefeller Stock Falls Almost 25 Points, Leading the Curb Market in Slump. Standard Oll was attacked on the curb| with’ shore bream n, Was, irregular to-day while prices were crumbling on! stocks. United States Steel, United the Exchange. It easily succumbed and| Fruit and Mexican Central showed the | principal weaknes: They closed Above the lowest sat aah, —— STOCK EXCHANGE SEAT SELLS FOR $60,000. ell away almost % points on a sale of shares at 600. The other outside securities were also, affected. ‘A new low record was made in Ameri- can Can preferred, it being hammered | down to %, The bid and ‘asked prices} of the principal securities were: Bid. Asked, ool Ht A seat at the Stock Exchange was sold to-day for $60,000. The last previous sale was at $67,500. HER HUSBAND’S BODY FOUND IN JAMAICA BAY Mrs. Thomas Glennon Says He Went for a Day's Fishing and Never Returned, ‘The body of a man found in Jamaica Bay yesterday was identified to-day by Mrs. Mary C. Glennon, of No. 142 Weat street, this city, a# that of her husband, Thomas Giennon, He had been mise- ing for several days. Mra. Glennon says he went t the club-houses on the Ba; fishing. Ne 600 SB Standard O11 19's poard Ale Line pt. CHICAGO BROKERS REPORTED IN TROUBLE. A Private Despatch to Wall Street Says Big Firm Is Likely to | Announce Failure. A private despatch to a Wall street! firm woas recelyed this afternoon from | ieee ; SPs was seen to get on a tral Chieago stating that a big brokerage! {ation “und. take Up rain, At Beaside house in that city was In trouble and) platform. It fs supposed that he tell was likely to announce {ts fallure soon.) off while the train was running across the trestle. —————— LOSES FIGHT FOR EARLDOM. House of Lords Deotd Claimant Poulett, LONDON, July 24.—The Committee on Privileges of the House of Lords to-day decided against the claim of William COPPER GOES LOWER IN BOSTON MARKET. TLOSTON, July 4.—The Boston market ned steady to-day, but quickly sold off on renewed liquidation. After the first hour the market was very heavy in sympathy with the weakness In New |Turnour Thomas Poulett, Viscount Hii York, It 1s not believed, however, that {!ton, the former organ-grinder in the any financial weakness oxiats’ locally, /Sitcels of London, to the Earidom of Prices declined on fo palling. bee aanorta tee tn favor of the late Karl's | Police Escort Afforded Her. ROOSEVELT NEXT TUESDAY. She Turns Away an Aged Caller | Who Seeks to Interest Her Scheme to Do Away with All Szloons. “Mother” Jones and her army were “rerting up" to-day preparatory to thelr ‘second appearance In Madison Square to- night. The vallant leader of the band ‘aid her ‘resting up’ at the Ashland House, in Fourth avenue, while her fol- lowers spent their hours bathing thelr skecter-punctured bodies in :he salty ‘waters of the East River. They think New York js all right, but they wish there were some other way of getting |here from Philadelphia than through | New Jersey. | ‘The champion of the 95,000 child tex- tlle workers now on strike does not think that she will be able to make her jdescent on the President at Oyster Buy ‘before Thursday next. “Haven't you received the intimation,” |she was asked, “that it would be better |!f you did not attempt to see the Presl- dent?” “Of course,” sald she, “But,” with a taugh, “that doesn't bother me. I'm golng to try. State logislation for the reilef of the child-workers of this coun- try has failed, and now I think {t's about time that some national measures were adopted for thelr protection." ‘At thts moment a very old man en- tered the room and asked for Mo:her Jones. “Now what do you think he wanted?” she asked with a sinile.. “He plan that’s just about put his upber stor; out of business. He wants to c.ose al the saloons in New York and establish fountains at every comer. He said he needed me to help nim in his” cheme. I was to get $10 from this one and that one, and in & short time we would have a million and then we would be- gin building the fountain: $4280, 11 IRE LOSS HERE N19 Commissioner Sturgis Reports that the Department Has Re- duced the Amount of Damage by More than a Million. ‘The annual report of the Fire Depart- ment for the year 1902 has been sub- mitted to the Mayor by Commissioner Sturgis. It is a voluminous one and covers several pages of the City Record. the last year show that the appropria- tion for Manhattan and the Bronx was $2,054,879.98, while the disbursements chargeable against this amounted to $2,710,818.46, leaving a balance of 824,- 866,63, In Brooklyn and Queens the ap- propriaion was $2,199,941.02, the disburse- ments were $2,054,833.21, leaving a bal- ance of $145,107.81. ‘The result of the year's work of the department, the Commissioner declared, has been reduced fire losses. He adds) that In Manhattan and the Bronx dur- ing last year there were 5,640 fires in- volving @ loss of $4,288,111, which 1s ‘The finances of the Department for] Promptly Placed Under Arrest PLUNDER WHERE SHE SAID. Silverware and Clothing Hidden Un der a Coal Pile In the Cellar, Fur nishing Explanation of Mysterl ous Burglary In Residence. If Mary Schmidt, allas Schneider, had not lost her temper she never would have been arrested. As it ts, she wae arraigned in the Butler Street Cour: Brooklyn, this afternoon, charged with, the theft of silverware and clothing. valued at $200, from her mistress, Mra Lena Bernstein, of No. 143 Sands street, Mary (9 six feet tall, twenty years! old, and hae beautiful blonde hair. Two) weeks ago she was heard screaming by” the Bernstein family, in the dark our of the night, and she told her emplo; ers that two men had entered her room,! had grasped her by the thro>* threa~} tening to kill her if she gave the alarm,) and then proceeded to rob the house, She followed them, and saw them helg themselves to property, which they placed in a sult case, aud jumped from a window. The loss of silverware and clothing was discovered, and the matter! was placed in the hands of Detectives Long and Gray. They found that em trance to the house had been gained from the outside, and belleved Mary's story. - Yesterday Mrs. Bernsteln and Mary had a disagreement, with the res that the girl was discharged. As stood on the porch she suddenly eae! claimed: SYou think you're mighty smart, you? Wel, if you want to old stuff, Aig under the coal pile in cellar." ‘The detectives, informed of Mary's | i]mark, did dig, and found the m! property. Mary was traced and tested. She refuses to make any ‘tase? ment. ALDERMAN GAFFNEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY. He and His Counsel Accorded Privé lege to Inepect the Grand Jury Minut Alderman James BD. Gaffney, under tm dictment for misdemeanor in connection with the leasing of the pler at the foot ot West Beventy-ninth etreet to the New York Contracting and Truck . of which he !s President, to-day not gullty before Judge MoMehon Part I. of the Court of General ceserved the it to ples orialy 29. in the mean thes C hey and his counsel will AVE BN OPPO! tunity to inspect the minutes of Grand Jury, on hay ar aie advised of all tho evidence talc him ‘in secret and upon which the Tha S, ‘Murphy, brother of Charl 5 irphy, er a Murphy, leader of’ Tammany Hall, whe) was dointly “accused "with Aldey affney and then exonerated, was Corma ally dlocharged from custody thie we fernoon by Justice Mayer. ? World Wants Never Beaten! 583 Paid Help Wants in thio morning's World. $1,297,724 less than the aggregate lo Paid Help W. In the same territory during the yéar 234 bie Ny. penis ia thee : While Aisclaiming any egotistical spirit on ‘his part, Mr. Sturgis has this to say of himself. '“{t should be added that the constant presence and watchfulness of] AGENTS 18 the Commeeioner Nina the past bwelve| Sanene 22 [emt Sity: ton So wae fits 8 BARTENDBRS 2) MILLINERS phs, have prevented the laxity which ery under: the last. administration | BOOKBINDERS .....11| MOULDERS ..... ad Sh Sra On Tontnce ote | 3a | Naan Rae e tee Te oe the: ‘ ¢) BUBSHELMEN ....... 3] NURSES ...... Commissioner, of the chief of depart-| See BY Peles : ment and possibly others of the higher officials from fire service, CANVASSERS PAINTERS wrhe conviction Rue promotlons ee CARPENTERS . PAPER-GUNGERS... naw being governe merit an 4 tisulshed, service and not, as under the| CHAMBERMAIDS PHOTOORAPHERG.. late administration, by Influence, po-| COLLCTORS . PIANO HANDS&.. Iftical pull or Indirect money consider- ation. has reawakened in the department the fine spirit of generous competition and rivalry which was perishing and which converts a perfunctory service into one of magniticent energy and herole effort. PRESIDENT IS ONCE MORE AT OYSTER BAY. from Sayville, at 11.35 o'clock to-day, He left Lotos Lake, the country home of ‘nis uncle, Robert G. Roosevelt, on horse- back at 4 o'clock ‘this morning accom- panted by his eldest on, Theodore, Jr., and his two nephew Thetr trip con- sumed seven hours and a half. ‘The President and his young com- panions arrived at Sagamore Hill some: what fatigued but otherwise in excel lent condition, All were enthusiastic yer the trip, which they greatly en- joyet JBresident Roosevelt soon after his ar- rival set about disposing of the busines: which had accumulated duri h sence. No visitors are expected at Saga more Hill Sue lng: the day, but Gecretary of the Navy Moody will arrive this evening on a tug from the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, He will pass the night and @ part of to-morrow at Sagamore Hill, —— SAVED FROM DEATH-CHAIR. Charles A. Prescott, the eccentric recluse who on June 2 murdered Pat- rick Whalen at No. 330 Court street, Brooklyn, was to-day committed to the Matteawan Asylum for the Insane by ‘county Judge Aspinall, Prescott’ was declared bi 2 4 FEBDERS ..... ‘ FIGURES . 2 Still Accompanied by His Young} FIRDMBEN . 2 Companions, He Rides Back feted “3 from Sayville HOUSEWORK ...... 28 OYSTER BAY, July %—Presldeat| HORSHSHOMRS ..... 3 Roosevelt arrived at Sagamore [Hill | JANITORS ... 4 1 COOKS .. PLUMBERS . ooo 00 Bo eo = Sco ie - ELECTRICIANS « EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES FARM HANDS. KITCHEN WORK Just a Mere Mil-lion-aire, See the man from Pittsb: tn the Waldorf-Astoria, tet’ le A mere mil-lon-aire. He feels de-ject. ed because John W. Gates hag “raised” him out of a poker game by betting a million on one hand. What chance has the mere mil-lion- aire? He has just ordered a sume mer drink and has nodded to iw hotel clerk. His mil-lion is fast, How can he make another mile lion and still more mil-lions? Here are a fowl Pointers: Why, by watching The “Business Opportunity” column. the chance {s there for the msn witha hundred to the man with a millon. This morning, for instance, there are 44 advertisements under heading in The World; there sre ners of a Sruneing business, of al cigar store, a saloon, a groc tore, a ne launery. oye) ah « deat nt 74 Patong