The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1903, Page 5

IN STRIKE ACTION cout Traction Officials and the , @xpecting a strike and were in constant @ommunication TROLLEVMEN HAL Police of Newark Still Appre- hensive and Are Ready for an Emergency. SENTIMENT AGAINST TIE-UP. President of Public Service Corpora-| tion Promises Employees at All Night ‘Meeting that Evils Wilh Be _ Remedied. nebula, aoning? | 2 | with their representa- tives at various points until this fore- Just before they left for home to rest they were informed thet there ‘Was apparently no chance of the men out. meoting of the Bxecutive Com- of the Union was held in Lyric last night and lasted until iate this Sporning. It was decided that the oppo- of the olt employees of the cor- poration who protested against striking was too formidable to make such a There is to be a meeting of the union Mate this afternoon, however, at which @onditions will again be discussed. ——— JERSEY CITY TROLLEYMEN VOTING ON THE STRIKE. The Jersey City employees of the Pub- Uc Service Corporation are voting at their headquarters in Phoenix Hall to- @ay on the strike question. The ballot- ing will continue until 8 o'clock this evening. The voting 1s going on in an orderly manner and there has been no Gisturbance of any ind. The polic ereserves, which had been on duty all night, were sent to their homes this morning. Dlaborate prepa- rations had been made by Chief of Po ice Murphy to preserve order in the event of a strike being declared, and similar precautions will be taken to- night if there are any indications that the men are going out. So far as can be learned a mapority of ‘the local trolleymen are averse to strik- ing. and it is believed that the decision of the local union will be against a rike, ‘The Public Service Corporation offi- clals, besides invoking the ald of the police, had made otner preparations to protect their property. ‘Nhey had pre- pred to turn their linemen into a force of cavalry. and with this end in view had hired horses on which to mount the men and procured a supply of saddies and bridles, The mounted linemen, in ‘the event of a strike being declared, are to perform the double duty of patroiling the tracks and making repairs In case trolley Ines are cut by the strikers or thelr sympathizers, -—>—. _ONE THOUSAND MEN READY TO REPLACE STRIKERS. ‘Men to replace the motormen and con2 GuctorS of the Jersey Unes in case of a atrike are being hirde in New York, In case of trouble one thousand of these can be hurried to Newark in a few hours to break the backbone of any etrike, The men are under pay of the company, reporting three times a day to @ man said to be J, L, Shannon, at No. 4 Greenwich street. They receive $2.50 @ day and report at various hours, s0 that'a hundred or more are available nearly all the time. The men who have deen hired were gdvertised for in the regular way and tol dto bring thelr ynifonme with them. Some have only caps, others have trous- ers and sume a coat, Faw have a full uniform. As a whole they are not a preporsessing lot, most of them being men in hard luck. The man who. Is known as Shannan this morning sald: “I have 1,000 men, and in case there 1s @ strike they can all be in Jersey In a few hours. Tho yare experienced men and tho roads wil suffer no tie-up and but little Inconvenlence in case of @ strike.” a IN USE SINCE 1852. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrap—The on That Cures and Is Vrencribed by Leading Doct®rn, Whenever you have a case of cough, old, bronchitls, croup, asthma, whoop- ing cough, measles, hoarseness or sore lungs in the family, and the doctor Wishes to give the patient speedy rellot STATISTICIANS NEED NO LONGER WONDER AT THE INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR—HERE ARE SUFFICIENT CAUSES FO SSOVTHOOHGVOOOS GHOOHOED oe ruc! WATER VSED ks WALL ST, We fre Conperse#o \ 458 wes ano SPIRITS» vlan paces TARG ona Att, T° ORINKP SPHSHSOOS 7 THe Conver a Gin rt now sumed 1,539,081,901 gallons of wines, malt liquors and distilled spirits, an average of about nineteen gallons for each man, the per capita of distilled spirits has dropped from 2.86 to 1.36 gallons in the past | even with this some get away with a great deal more than their share, woman and child in the country. While UNCLE SAD Wika Loon Oneess Ha GETS on jme forty years the per capita of wine has malt liquors from 1.87 to 17.49 gailon: times as much wine as a generation ayo and nearly ten times as much beer, And FeOUS increased from .26 to .63 gallon and of | s. Each person now drinks about three | RICH MILL OWNER VICTIM OF LOCK JAW Fatal Attack Follows Slight In- jury Reveived by William G. Scott, of Paterson, While Busy in His Barn. PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 1.—Wnllam G. Scott, who lived at Preakness, near here, died in the General Hospital from lockjaw. He ‘had been in the hospital several days. He was injured in his barn two weeks ago by being caught between a wagon and the side of the barn, His injury seemed light, but symptoms of tetanus set in and he was taken to the hispital. Mr. Scott was born in Dumferline, Scotland, about sixty years ao, and came to this country jn 1840. Upon the death of his father he succeeded to the mill business founded by the latter under the name of the Franklin Manufacturing Company. He was considered a wealthy, man. Mr. Scott was chosen the first sec tary of the Board of Trade of this ct and held that position until five years ago, when the board disbanded. He was, a lover of sports and is said to have} owned the first steam launch that sailed in the Passalo River above the Dundee Dam. re ty, | His widow and five children survive) P! him, BOY SHOOTS MAN BY ACCIDENT AT FAIR Crowd Sees Youth Wound Wes- ely Pierson, Probably Fatally in a Shooting Gallery on the Westchester Grounds. (Spectal to The Hvening World.) WHITE PLAINB, Oct. 1.—In full view of hundreds of people gathered in at- tendance at the Westchester Fair, Wee- ley Pierson, of Nyack, was accidentally shot to-day by a boy of the same name in charge of the shooting gallery. ‘The merry-making was at its height when the accldent occurred, There were several thousand people in the grounds, Participation in the various sports sud- denly ceased and the crowd gathered around the body of the wounded man. Pierson was employed in tthe restaur- @nt on the ground, and during an off hour, went, to tht shooting gallery to try his skill at the targots, The’ boy who Is responsible for the shooting wae in temporary charge, A physician was called from White Plains, The condition of the wounded man is very serious, CORNER IN LARD CLOSED. CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—The last day of grace for the shorts in September lard showed that Swift's corner was a suc- cess on paper. Falling to get the grease those who had sold and could not deliver were forced to cover in the pit. The price was run up a half cent 2 pound or $1.75 a tlerce, and closed at li cents bid. “Swift & Co. control the entire stock ‘here, 122,000 tierces, ‘There are rumors of many defaults, All through the past month’ there has been a pouring in of cash lard to this market to fill September sales, and at and a positive cure, he prescribes the medicine that always cur i sitll ures—Dr. “Bull's © other formula has ev 5 covered that 0 effecilvely Cures alt die: eases of the throat and lungs as Dr f pee eye. bs =. n these days of substitution the pub- Ne should be very careful al \- futes and new Teredies ‘cakninets iy made up of harmful drugs, and pati Weak digestion should eshecielie’ seen rations containing fish oil and DI nts. Thaw a the same time there has been a decided effort to move the lard @way and into’ corsumption. In one week there wore exports of almost 60,000 tlerces. ‘The Swift Interest has kept the lard moving, Swift & Co. have been called upon to pay out $4,000,000 for high priced lard delivered to ‘them by small outside i Lara for Octobem is offered at i . It ia the general bellef that Swift is made a big loss on the deal and, still has the "corpse' to liquidate at a heavy discount, Molineux Judge Renominated, BUFFALQ, Oct. 1.—Fourteen years 0 it took the Republicans of the Highth Judicial District ten days vw nominate John P, Lambert for the Su- reme Court bench. He was ¢lected. took less than ten minut epublicans to renominate n The Democrats to-day indorved Lambert held the last Moiuneux OLD MAN MOURNS HIS MISSING $1,000 Says Stranger Persuaded Him to Invest Cash in Faro Game and Has Him Arrested— Judge Blames Victim. Bowen Wheeler, a whitevhaired and saintly-faced old man, who lives at No. 60 West One Hundred and First street, made an unsuccessful complaint of iar- ceny against Edward Phillips, a profes- sional gambler, in the Centre Street Court to-day. Mr. Wheeler said that several weeks ago he met Phillips, who, he asserted, persuaded him to enter into a scheme to break a faro bank. All Mr, Wheeler had to do was to get $1,000 with which to sit in a game of faro in which Mr. Phillips dealt. According to Wheeler, Phillips was to deal him out a fortune. Instead, he | paid, Phillips dealt for the house and @ot Mr, Wheeler's $1,000. The old gen- tleman asserted that Phillips told him there was a slight flaw in the system, but thought if Mr. Wheeler got another $1,000 it might come out all right, Mr, Wheeler suddenly came to end felt that he had been buncoed. He had Phillips arrested. When. Pend akee] Barlow heard the chi he that under the law he not hold the rigoner, as the venerable complainant was a victim of his own plotting to do wrong URGE CREASE N IMOIGRATION September Record Is Broken- Figures Show that 5,543 More Landed Last Month Than the Same Period in 1902. ‘The September yecord for tmmigra- tion is broken this year by the month which ended yesterday. The official figures for this port show) an increase of 6,543 immig-ants landed at Ellis Island i excess of the num- ber landed in September, 1902. The number landed in September, 1902 was 42,309, while for this year it is 47,852. ———==— GUN QUARANTINE ASKED. Fenr of Yellow Fever Prompts the Request to Government. WASHINGTON, Oct, 1—Fearing an epidemic of yellow fever, a number of persons living along the Rio Grande have appealed to the War Department for the establishment of a “shotgun” quarantine and that soldiers bé order- ed to this duty. While the oMolals of the Department are alive to the necessity for action to prevent the spread of the disease, they have concluded that the present out- break does not justify such radical steps as contemplated by the reqest for troops. ——————— H. M. HANNA GIVES $100,000. CLEVELAND, Oct. 1-H. Melville Hanna, brother of Senator M. A. Hanna, has given $100,000 to Western Reserve University, the Income of which is to be devoted to the promotion of in- struction and research In anatomy and kindred subjects, ; ‘The department thus endowed !s to be named the Henry Willson Payne De- partment of Anatomy, Mr. Payne is a son of the late Senator Payno and a brother of Col of New York, —_——a— Fifteen Years in Prison for a Drink KINGSTON, N. Y., Oct. 1.—For try- Ing to break into a barroom to get a drink while returning from a Fourth of July celebration Jacob Ten Eyck, a no- y Judge Van Bitten to iuora Br gon for fifteen years and months, Ten Byck has a xecord of six eoavictions for burglary. ¢ } TURKS WIPE QUT WHOLE VILLAGE Men All Slain at Razlog, Villages Burning All About and 3,000 Fugitive Women and Babes Gathered at Rila. SOFTA, Bulgaria, Oct. 1—The whole populatiqn of the district of Razlog has been massacred or has fled, a despatch trom Rila Monastery reports. Threo thousand women and children, fugitives from the Turkish soldiery, have arrived at Rila. Many villages around Razlog are said to be burning. The depopulated town is surrounded with tents occupied by Turkish troops, who avoid fighting and attack only innocent people. Lettera from Monastir say the Turk- | r time, elved a heir firesides and. tr: ted to ret arians have a | val n ty their hom and v lagey 'Phowe who do not return and | refuse to trust to the mercy of the| Inverlal Government. will, be. pursued and homes destroyed in tae se- Verest hien."* ‘The utionary Committee at Mo- nastir report a long list of atrocities vominitted by the Turkish in September, ircluding the e slaughter of a number of children, wao were hurled from high rocks, “It 1s) stated that the Turks killed over 200 sints in several villages and that/ le teking 130 villagers as prisoners fevesko, they slew seven:y-five. At another plice elghteen women were tortured and then shut in a barn, which was set on fire —<————_— HEAVY FINES FOR MASHERS. TOLEDO, 0., Oct. 1—Toledo will have an anti-flirting ordinance on its books. The ordinance is introduced by request of the Board of Public Safety to protect women from the ‘masher’ nuisance and was drawn by the City Solicitor and approved by the County Committee last night. It provides that any person who shall unlawfully follow. pursue or otherwire inolest oF insult any female shall_be fined not to exceed $50 and oosts. The City Solicitor says it will reach the class against whom tt ts almed. MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT. Many men look for many preference, There are those looking for perfect foot comfort, in a Shoe. To them we are glad to say: Here itis. Our U-CAN-B-E-Z (You can he easy) Is the Most Comfortable Shoe Made. We created it; it is our exclusive, original production and not to be had at any other store. pose of giving the utmost foot are thousancs of gentlemen in who cannot be induced to wear any others. In materials, workmanship, finish and service they are equal to $10 shoes of private makers. ALFRED J. CAMMEYER, 6th Ave. & 20th St. things, each according to his Designed for the very pur- ease and foot comfort. There this city wearing them to-day ing place makes you irritable, despc A chronic sore is the very best evidence that your blood Js in an un- healthy and impoverished condition, that your constitution is breaking down under the effects of some serious disorder. h, will sometimes so pollute and vitiate medicines, like mercury or pota the blood and impair the general results in obstinate non-healing s Often an inherited taint th birth breaks out in frightful eating age or middle life, leadly germ 8. S.S. this ‘e. S S S pure blood ona natural color, the discharge of m S. S, S, is both a blood purifier and tonic that gro, of Ellenville, has been sentenced} and at the same time tones up the system and builc >If you havea chronic sore write us. Nocharge for medical advice. “THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CCog ATLANTA: GAs ® | CHRONIC SORES Signs of Polluted Blood. ° There is nothing so repulsive looking and disgusting as an old sore: You worry over it till the brain grows weary and work with it until the patierice is exhausted, and the very sight of the old festering, sickly look- cs of the most offensive cha | tt has been lurking in the blood since | Whenever a sore refuses to heal the blood is always | at fault, and, while antiseptic washes, salves, soaps and powders can do much to keep down the inflammation and cleanse the sore, it will never heal permanently till the blood itself has been purified and the s and poisons destroyed, and with blood is purified and invigorated, and when rich, | the body the fle ondent and desperate. The taking of strong tem that the merest scratch or bruise ' ‘Me US Friday's Unusual Values. : RICE quotations are Aown in the Store as well as the Street, yet---there is a difference. Wall street's drop in prices means hard luck for thousands. The economies presented at Abraham & Straus’s mean good fortune for thousands. October’s commencement marks the real beginning, of Autumn---the new season. And for the month’s first Friday the whole store is filled with a magnifi- cent showing of the new goods and with price-prizes it will be your loss to miss, The prestige and power of the Abraham & Straus organization have never made stronger effort. Here are details which, should stir you to early action in response, Notions. Great Sale to Start October Axiom: No store in the United States ever even attempts to sell Notions of the highest grade for prices as low as Abraham & Straus prices in these great occasional sales. UTUMN dressmaking begins in earnest now and everybody will be as busy as bees for a month:to come. Modistes and home dressinakers will need a plentiful supply of the little things that are as important to dress as rivets are in a ship. So we starta SALE OF NOTIONS. You may, be sure that everything here is of first quality. You may be sure of a saving—the price list shows that. Cut it out and bring it along—it is the surest way not to forget anything. Spool Cotton and Siiks. ee yelcetenay ean nde Dae ied abdomina Machine ol. 4 ounce kine % . 6 yard ple 80 § les, beet qua f Basting Cotton, white, aay ne p Alumi: Thimbles, a doz ing Brest only, 6 yard a1 To n Cushlona ze Bindings and Beltings. Dress Shields, « um Binding, all Tight weight Dress Shlelda black, white and col- phy: and 4, jece.... Se Twilled Seam Binding, black Celiuloid Collar Buttons, dozen $e, Enamelied rs ca and 4. a a ralr .. Washible palr, 6c donbie ned Dress pair, tc.; a spool... + Black hind Sewing Silk, Yards on @ spool, assort i» Double 8 31 Belting, tnoh, bla¢ 2 a pece, ar Braics and Tapes. Large rolis of cotton Ta non-twiat widths In a pac Tape, rted colors, a dozen... Spools, ea hs Black = Darning Hose Supporters and Gare 888 iciica a fee ter Elastics, + pleces, a dozen pieces for Cotton Side Hose Support- Skirt Bindings, ers, in black or white, for 1 atterns. ard Brush edge Skirt Binding, women a and ope b Sabegyhaccce beers black only, a yard.......e dren, @ pair... none Hooks, Cord ed; Binding, Fancy d ‘cotton Side Miscellaneous Items, Baya’ Walst black oniy. a yatd... te Hose riers, assorted Chinese Ironing Wax. a doz-* P23) Ne eae Worsted peice Binding. spa a pal i De A mannan £2 Sain fidor, real lack and cole ook-c pporters, aasort- estos Iron Holders, eac! Black an ors, 6 y pok-on Supporters, aasort- As! ch Banisieimenieyt e ed colors, a pair... or telephone orders filled. Only @ limited quantity to each buyer. $17.50 Tailor Built Suits, $12.50 Oe a hundred—the pity is that we couldn’t get five hundred of these Suits. But the hundred Not sent C. O. D. 4 Women’s will make one of the most talked about sales of the season—even here. ni : nce of the materiat, that It is the smartness of the style, the finish of the tailoring, the excelle J make them such notable value. Such style and such pricing have never been joined before. . They are made 1 wy tue and black, two styles, one the three-quarter len y of the splendid Lymans ville cheviot, in navy And black, two styles, one the, three-quarter d skirt coat, blouse front, with caps over shoulders. pretty, taffeta. yen & 5 med with taffeta bands to match jacket. The other style is also throne Meera eee nance Roce care uation frimmenaterial,, forming straps, Pon teams, Norfolle effect, doubles bands Of een kore, fare botton; falshed with band and rows of atitenl elie ae, ; ot Sw | value, if re floor, front, Central Building. 8 quarter length, collariess, with wide breasted blouse front, lined with satin. instep length; sizes 42 to 44, full 817.60 Second Footballists: Here Is Armor. HE assembling of Football supplies is nd haphazard business—done as we doit. Cer- tain things have been demonstrated as best —by hard, hard testing on the gridiron. We have’ them here in full assortment. A number of the! more important football organizations intrust their outfitting to us exclusively. Two reason actuate them, First, they can rely on the goodsij Second, There Is a Distinct Price Saving. To-day we announce a large group of reliable Football supplies for prices which are even uni our usual. It is the season’s opening, if you wish® to call it that. ree Vests, Shin, Guards. Head‘ Harness, Young Men’s Suits, $9.75 ELVE-FIFTY IS THE PRICE THAT’S FAIREST for them, in fact as far as style and finish are concerned you might hunt far to get such Suits even for that. But we do @ big yearly business with the maker, and he took off a slice of usual profit for this occasion. The Suits are particularly smart and stylish. Coats are single-breasted in the new Autumn ‘node!, with broas shoulders, snug collar and lapels and the back wit! curve to suggest the figure. Made of the cheviots—fine gtuffs for wear a3 well a8 looks. sizes 16 to 20 years. 90.75 Second floor, rear, East Bu! Boys’ $4.00 Suits, $2.75. tw : is the young chap between 7 and 16 years old that wouldn’t be the better out- fitted for a sturdy double-breasted new Suit of cheviot ? Who’s the mother that won’t appreciate a dollar and a quarter saving on the price ? ‘The cheviots are of splendid quality and in the dark, neat mixtures that show soil the least. Tailoring Js of the should have— the strongest thread f The new stock includes Pants, Elbow and Shoulder Pads, Nose Masks, &c, Note a few of the special values: Boys’ Pants, well padded and finished, sizes 24 to 30. Fine quality Pants, canvas, extra heavy paddin; 48¢ sort boys’ cloth ne. the sewing, the smartest shape for the Sults.. Cees Ba . Second floor, rear, East Butlding finis ioe Football Jackets... ...- Shoulder and Elbow Pads Shin Guards of canvas. Shin Guands, all leather. Morrill Nose Masks. regs Spalding’s Footballs, fu Better es. ses Head Priscilla Condensed Milk, 9c. Wie we put the Priscilla label on anything Hess » Fourth floor, West Building, $3.50 Tea Sets--$2.69, Dy thin porcelain Tea Sets in two new. inthis Grocery Store, it means that the article is the best to be had. To-m| have news of Condensed Milk, prepared eT Us, and #0 wood that it wears the Priscila abel, “There ts every inducement for the thrifty house- f jn a goodly supply of this Milt at Oe. a can. LEDUC PPI CEnird tioor, Weat Butlding, $2.00 Sateen Skirts---$1.29, trim and pretty and well finished that they would sell on sight at the regular price. and very pretty floral decorations. One ig| a brown effect and the other a’green flower, There are 56 pieces inthe sets and the usual price}: for them here is $3.50. Friday’s price in $2.69, The Set includes: ‘The sateen {s lustrous with fine mercerizing and in black One dozen Cups and Saucers, One Pitcher, ground with graduated polka dots of white. Skirte are One dozen Tea Plates, One & fowl, lade with flare ruffle, @nished with white stitching In One dozen Preserve Saucers, ‘Two Cake Plates, tallored eftect se eeeee teense 20 One Tea Pot, One Bowl. : 1! 1. Bast “Bultine Basement, West Buflding, Household Helps, ME that are specially small) priced as well as, being spe-g cially good. ‘ The Rollman Food Chopper, Chops one-half pound @ Stockings---Underwear. YME of Friday's special values that won't be nexlected— for } you must have them, anyway, and when the prices are lowest then is the time to buy: Waists---Fine Values. ERY many pretty new styles are arriving almost daily—we have never deserved your confidence in this line more than just now. And tor special values here ts one 2Se, minute; acter, sores upon the limbs or face in old can be accomplished—the polluted ain circulating freely throughout around the old sore begins to take | natter ceases and the place heals over, Pais your blood in order | sup the general health. small, but efficient. The Handy Vegetable Slicer, 10c, Cuts several styles of fancy Toledo Coal Shovels, 49c, ull polished, group of $4.00 Silk Waists at $2.98. Most are of black peau de sole, yy made with a yoke of pin Women's 25c, Stockings, I9c. Fast black cotton Stockings, with unbleached split. sal also, fact black, fleece ned § ‘omen’s 25c. Underwear, (9c. Dish Mops, 2c. . Di Best cotto handles; a very useful Mop Stick, 8c, Holds mop firmly; folds mop .! and has 5-foot r 59¢, and und with, pretty novelty ts a model cloth, with colored silk and tripes almost in Persian The Waists are in tailored hy large, pearl buttons down t and turnover collar ties of all : Shek white Second floor, centre, Central Bullding, ~ le 'w he fron with a dlack silk stock, A splendid stock of Sweaters ome unusual values in i red for $1 oh. Boys’ 40, Underwear, 24c. tra heavy, fleece lined Under- v natural Color; size 26x34; ankle length Drawers to match. Matn floor, front, Centra! Building. Wash Tubs, 49¢,, Children’s Stockings, 24¢. ae ila front, treed tack, full gull polished, one piece dade Medium and hes 1 nd turnover collar, Othe ; aoe RA 5 bla tbbed a of Ught blue, white and red Serub Cloths, Seis ad double knees, heels s surah with 9 yoke of fagoting and | J Sc\mported flops f jorubbing CMNE i rench knots