The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1903, Page 1

4 PRICE ONE CENT.) GENERAL. SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 12 “ Circulation Books Open to All.”? ‘ NEW YORK. FRIDA SEEKS TO AVERT “{” ROAD TEP President August Belmont, Con- vinced of the Seriousness of the Situation, Confers with Representatives of the Men. —— TAMMANY TAKES HAND IN THE SETTLEMENT. coe eames Congressman Timothy D. Suili- van Has a Conference with Belmont Before the Labor Representatives Arrived. ‘Am “L" tle-up which would Jemoralize he passenger traMe of ‘sew York dle ,pends upon the result of zhe curferen: this afternoon betwee: W. L. Jenks, hief of loval inion No. 195 of the Broth @thood of Locomotive Engineers; I. L. Gmith, of the Executive Committee of the Brotherhood, and August Belmont, President of the Interborough Street ‘Railway Company, the lessee of the Manhattan Elevated system. The members of the local order of the Brotherhood adopted a ‘resolution last uight In which they refused to submit t@ @ physical examination ordered a few weeks ago by the Interborough tompany for its motormen. This reso- tution was considered as a direct threat vf a strike unless the officers of the Foad agreed to modify their wemand for the examination. ‘Mr. Jenks and Mr. Smith called upon ®upt. Bryan, of the road, to-day, told ‘im of the resolution adopted and asked bim to arrange a meeting between them and President Belmont, Mr. Bryan told them to come back at noon and In the meantime he would endeavor to arrange ® meeting between them and Mr, Bol- mont. (Consults with Belwowt. Mr. Bryan then had a conference with bis chief. He told Mr. Belmont that the proposed physical examination of ie motormen was obnoxious to them tnd that they "had determined to a man bo resist it. He told him that ‘the reso- lution pasic at the meeting last “night fas tantamount to a strike unless an early effort was made to adjust the matter. In fact, Mr. Bryan put the @eriousness of the matter In such a eur light to ‘the president of the that he consented at once to see the officers of the Brotherhood and consult with them, and when they called back at the offices of the road at noon they re told that Mr. Belmont had agreed ‘to see them and talk the matter over. ‘The order requiring a physical exam- fmation for the motormen was sed peveral weeks ago bY, tho officers te the Interobrough road. It imi lately aroused a bitter sentiment amon the motormen, all of whom were mer rs of the Brotherhood of Locomotive gineers or of the Brotherhood of Firemen. One of the provisions of the order which was generally objected ‘to was that which makes It necessary fo. & motorman to be able to distinguish a otter three-eighths of an inch long at a istance of thirty feet, alternately with me eye and then with the oher. Unreasonable, They Say, ‘This provision was declared to be un- reasonable d more strict than any rule enforced by any other railroad in the country. he Mmotormen declared Phat the: i} were willing to sub Ing within re ut they “ yaoept the company's order in the pres- Tie resolution adopted last night was roted unanimously by both firemen and mginéers, In voting the men under- tood that they would go out on strike @ man if necessary. ‘Even if the Grand Chiefs of . the Brotherhoods disapprove of a_ strike, the men are determined to stop work unless the order Is moditied. They have consented, before making their tinal move, to consult with Grand Chief War- Fen 8. Btone, of the Locomotive Engi- eers, of Cleveland. and Grand Chief J. ‘of the Locomotive Hire- , Sulllvan, Mr. Bel- they an hour's easton! wie , DUL neither Would state Dbject of the conference. al @ presence of Sullivan in Mr, Bel- ont's office caused wide speculation, ft was thought by sume that he had Mdeavored to inject velt'cs Into the threatened strike, by Inducing Mr, Bel- mont to settle the trouble with the motorman. CITS TAKE DOWN BANNER. jurphy Was Right When id It Would Help Wigwam. The Citizens’ Union has decided to take down the banners at Fourteenth atreet. and Twenty-third strects and ‘THINY ES, DIVB-K HOW WILL YO! The Citizens’ Union managers thought that the banners wer all right until Charles F. “Murphy expressed satisfac- tion at them and said he wished they } woula Uc allowed to remain. His idea wan that they would make Tammany oven Sentiments c* a more temperate faracter will be placed upon the new tigezns’ Union tiraers at the points named. ACAINST M. STRIKE. MLEIDEN, Conn., Oct. 16—The count @t votes cast by the union metal work- ers employed by the International Silver Oo.npany, ip this city and eleewhere, Op tne proposal to strike was competed yoand showed that abdvut three- y the olen Wee Opposed to a fone vote was taken Gq. BOVE! He. vores Ls Sconipany6 refusal ty trent tbe oi, demand form nine-hour day with iy for-€ent hours. | ; WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours! ending at 8 P. M. Saturday, for New York City and vicinity: Occasional light rains to-night; Saturday unsettled, probably rain; fresh southerly winds. THOMPSON UP O GRAFT CHARGE Widow of the Late Sergt. Gil- hooley Says He Paid Ex-in- spector for Promotion by Having Life Insured, MONEY PAID AFTER HIS DEATH TO MRS. THOMPSON. Mrs. Githooley Obtains a Sum- mons and the Ex-Inspector Will Have to Answer to the Chargé Next Wednesday, A summons was served to-day on former Police {nepector Walter 8. Thompson calling him to Justice May- er's Court of Special Sessions next Wednesday to answer a charge of ex- tortion. Thompson .was not arrested, as 1s usual in such cases. On the information furntehed by Mrs, Margaret Gilhooley, widow. of the’ po- lice sergeant who Wa ghot and killed in saloon .@t Fourth street and Sixth avenue by an infurlated negro last May, Asalsthnt DistrictvAttotney Lord asked for the aummons. Th an affidavit covéring five typewrit- ten pages Mrs, Giihooley says thnt after. her husband's death she found among Wis affedts & policy on his Ife for. $2,500 fayued by the New York Life Insurance Company. he safd that the policy was Payable to Mrs. Thompson, wifo of the former. polico inspector, and that the company paid Mrs. Thompson the money. i Continuing in her wit Mrs. Gil- hooley sald that at ime her hue- band was* prom. ted! to a eergeantcy he told her that he had primesed to Thompeon §2,500 Le securing motion for him. ‘he did not nave the money hé said ihe had let the ctor insure his life, making it the pro: rr al le to Mrs, Tho! ar able to's mpPeon, as security for “MONK™ GANG THUG GETS 14 YEAR For Highway Robbery on the East Side- George Meyers Goes to Prison—Held Up a Saloon-Keeper. 2 Fourteen years at hard labor in the State prison was the sentence that George Meyers, twenty-five years old of No. 141 Allen street, sald to be one of the foremost leaders in “Monk” Eastman's gang, rectived to-day from Recorder Goff, for highway robbery. In Jeatinclyy the prisoner the Re- corder said: “In my experience I have hever seen so many casex of highway robbery In a corresponding period of tme than have been brought up in the courts during the past two weeks. I owe a duty to society and the com- munity to glye 4 warning to men of yee character, 10U nave been arrested efore and deserve to be made an ex- ample of. ‘Meyers's wife, who was in the court- room when the sentence was \ro- nounced, collapsed and was led away by several youths. Un ine night of Sept. 17, when the rio s between the east side gangs took piace, Meyers hed up and at che point of a res voiver robbed Antonio \..nna, a saloo keeper, of No, @ Allen sireet. Meyel secured $1 CZAR ARRAIGNED IN COURT. He Is @ Siberian Wolf Hound’ and Is Valued at $700, Czer. the seven hundred-dollar Si- berian wolf hound belonging to EB. M. Lockwood, Sccretary of thg National Register Company, of No, 4 Wall street, was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court” to-day, charged with beng a vagrant. He was turned over to his owner. who had been advertising a ro- ward of 360 far his ret Ward of Bo for urn during the According to Policeman O'Rourke, the animal Waiksd Gy to him last night and thrust his muszie into the policeman s hand, At. the plerccr street station- howe, where he took the doe h irned of the reward that Mr, ew had offered for ‘ts return and notified the ¥ 19 o'clock. HELD FOR THEFT Inspectors Worked Long on the) Case Before They Suspgcted, Haff, Superintendent a the Foreign Branch. HEAD OF DEPARTMENT, 200 MEN UNDER HIM. Marked Money Sent in Decoy Letters Alleged to Have Been Found in His Pockets When} He Was Arrested. Alexander Haff, ths Superintendent pt the Foreign Mail Branch of the post- Office at Morton and West streets, was Grrested to-day by Post-Ofice Inspectors Boyle and Meyer. Haff was arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields on a charge of embezzling let- ters from the malls, According to the Inspectors $8 In marked bills was found in Haff's pos- seasion. The bills, the inspectors said, had been sent by them in “test” letters. Haff was sent to the Ludlow Street Jail in default of $3,000 bail, He has been in the Postal Service since 1874. ‘The arrest of the Superintendent came @s a decided shock to Postmaster Van Cott and the other officials of the Post- Office, for no man in the service stood higher in the estimation of his superiors and his integrity had always been un- questioned. Was Dased at First. When arrested he seemed dazed, but recovered himself quickly and took the matter’ quite calmly. He delined to make’ a statement. . About seven months ago complaints began to come to the postal autorities trom foreign countries that letters, orig- {nally containing money, had been re- ceived with’ the contents intact exgept Ing the money eaclosu: Inspectors Boyle and Meyer were placed on the case, and since that time thave trom day to day ‘tested’ practic- ally all of the half hundred clerks in the diatrfbution division of the foreign pervice. One by one the clerks were proved honest; but the complaints kept coming in with provoking regularity. Boyle and Meyer were quite porplexed, never suspecting the superintendent, ‘The clerks were shadowed to and from thelr work, and even their home life {inquired Into, but none could ve found who was living beyond his income. Suspected the Superintendent. One day last week the inspectors noticed that the Superintendent came down to his office a few moments before 8 o'clock in the morning, although his oficial time for reporting was not until One. of the clerks voluntecreil the information when asked that he came down early to djstrioute person- ally the trail for Sweden and Norway “to help out." This was an act that under ordinary conditions would have been gulte praiseworthy, but as practl- cally four-fifths of the complaints came from those countries, the Inspectors saw {t in a different Mght. Accordingly, four “test” letters were placed in the out- joing Swedian mail and ono disappeared, nis morning a number were prepared and placed in the mail it was known he would handle. When the despatches were ready t inspectors found two of Une letters cv | talaing $4 each were missing. The two inspectors then went into Mr. Haff's office and commenced discussing ordi- nary topics’ with him, When suddenly the superintendent excused himself, and | got up to go out to attend, as ne ex plained, to some oMcial business. spector Meyers followed him lavatory, where he quickly door and rescued the “'test’’ letters, he! claims, thag a second late: would have disappeared through the sewers. A mo- ment later the marked bills. the Inspec jars say, were recovered and the super-) Intendent was plactd under arrest Was Quickly Promoted. | Haff, whose salary was $2,200 per year, | ted to the service In Decom- nd for a time was an ordl-| Then he was made night the second division, and . 20, 1900, wax promotad to the tendency of the forelgn brai A he 200 men under him, He liver at No, 518 West One Hundred and Forty-Arth ‘street with his wi® and two daughiers. ‘The latter are to be erad- | uated shortly from the Bronx Higa Bognols. ‘fhe arrest of Haff resembles in many respects that of Supt. Vorhis, of Sta- {fon 8, who is now serving two and a pelt years ta prison for n almilar of- tase. ACCUSED HER HUSBAND. Said He Threatened Her Be She Wouldn’t Live with Him. Edward Wright, of \No, 490 West Twenty-fifth street, was arraigned be- in the West fore Magistrate Cornell, Side Court to-day, chai Elizabeth with threaten! that he merely asked his wife to live with him again. . "You have just come out of Danne- mora Prison, have you not?’ asked Cornell, said Wright. “You served a year there for having stolen a boat from Juage Parker, of the Court of Appeals, didn't you?" “Yes, sir,” answered the prisonor, On “the consent of Mrs, Wright the Magistrate pargied the man in the cus~ to¢y of his brother William, ae: WOULD-BE SLAYER DEAD. PITTSBURG, Pa,, Oct. 16.—Willlam F, Slegnor, who shot and badly wounded Amelia Garrett, & stenographer, at Edge- wood, Pa,, and then cut his throat and put a bullet into Hlomocgpathto Ho! th Miss Gar regainod ness, but Is still In a critical Her mother Hx er im. ares ' PHOTOGRAPHED TO-DAY AS: THEY WERE LEAVING THE PLAZA JOHN A. DOW BEN JORDAN MATCHED Featherweights Will Battle for International Championship in San Francisco During the Month of December. An international match Although the question of a referee will de left open until Jordan's: arrival, {s very prevable that Eddie Gra be selected to judge the contest oMclated at nearly all of the important | be arranged. for Corbett,, and. {nh tha bouts which have taken place in ‘Frisco |“ Gorbett Is training hard at Johnson's. recently. up In the Bronx, for the Callahan maten Harry Cordett, @ brother of Jim Cor-|and Js already ‘in fine shape. He has é neta 01 greater part of the fat that he bett, who is the leading git of the! dioked up during the summer and is| Pacific Coast sporting men, has deen! Working very fast. He will | 5) for ghe world's, selected to hold the forfeits for the prin- featherweight champlonsaip has been] clpalx and club. clinched between “Youn rbett,”” the} Charles Horan, who Is looking after king pin of the feathers side of the] the Interests of the Englishman, has in- Atlantic, and Ben Jordan, who holds the|#tructed him to sail for New York on title in King Edwards Comins. | Newt Wednesday's boat, He will stop ‘The contest wil] take place before the| over a couple of weeks in the East and Hoves Valley Athletic Club, of Ban) Will then go to San Francisco to train F sco, during the month of De-| for the contest cember, probably a week before Xmas. Corbett's Other Boats. ‘The conditions of the match call for). Corbett .will go to ‘Frisco a the men to we's not more than 126) first of November, accomp: | pounds at 8 o'clock in the afternoon of| trainer, Harry Tuthill. He | the Wate set for the battle. | tests on in the. Bast before | The bout Is scheduled for twenty Pee eee ied ie tone oles ta rounds, sealant Marauta of Queensherry | pha next Wedneaday’ almnts ‘Tue sen rules, with five ounce gloves. ne déclded. In Boston on Ost. aie .C. for a fifteen-round jour- it face during the first weex in Ni Jn elther St. Louls or Knsas ¢ has| WAITING WORD ON “L” TIE-UP The chiefs of the locals of the Brotherhoods of Engineers; and Firemen are now. awaiting word from President Belmont, of the Interborough Company; wh the “L” sysiem. afer a i men went into consultation. It is expected that the result of their conference will be cancun Fifth Race—Duclist 1, Va Second Race—Testi Second Rare—Qird Pan Thiet Have—-Hetzel) z, Mr Belmont and the officers ed any minute. SAY Ge i t RESULTS AT BRIGHTON BEACH. n Ness 2, Black Fox 3. eo d , AT WORTH, First Race—Tancred 1, Major Dixon 2, Mandamus 3. mony 1, Chockayotte 2, Determinati-a, On ' RESULTS AT ST. LOUIS. First Race—-Niss Gould 1. Wilhelmina 2, Helen Hay 3. del, Rusk,2, Hoof Beat 3. fallory 2, Dolly Gray's, ney. A’match with Tommy Sullivan to take} a moer t be arranged. for «Corbett, and in. that hich may result in,a tie-tip of renee with the brotherhood , starter and directors of the road) ¥uxenia, murch. 11414 ‘YOUNG CORBETT” AND — |WOTAN WINS AT O00S OF 8101 False Price Against Hampton Stable’s Candidate in Opening Event—Oarsmen Beats Fast Field in Second Race. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Wotan (8 to | Outcome (6 to 1) 2, Bobadil 3. SECOND RACE—Oarsman (3 to |2) 1, Eugenia Burch (11 to 5) 2, | Tribes Hill 3. 1) 1, THIRD RACE—Tot San (4 to 1) 1, 'Golden Drop (16 to 5) 2, Judge 3. to 1) 1, Injunction (13 to 10) 2, Stolen ‘Moments 3, (Special to The Evening World.) BRIGHTON BEACH, N. Y,, Oct. 16.— Though th © no stakes at Brigh- ton this noon, it was by far the most in ing programme of the meeting. The card bristled with horses of class and the contests promised to be keenly fought and very interesting. The card attracted also one of the best crowds of the meeting, ¢he grand stand being filled to overflowing and the ring uncomfortably crowded. The weather, threatening during the morning, turned out bright and sunny and furnished a fine afternoon. The track was fit for record-breaking. FIRST RACE. Bix furlongs, Batiae: Str. Pl 8 5: Starters, wats. jockeys. Hick: St Hf. Fin, 112, Gannon: (} oy alder, 99, : Fiagstatt, 1 a Gragiallo. 1 2 5 Meharit. 115, Bullman... 9 9 9 12 6 Naughty Lady, 100,urnai2 11 100 80 12 Jasper, 100, Cochran... 2 5 11 200 89 Gelar Rapids, 08, Higgins 36 1 6 ¢ ‘Start good. Won cleverly. Tline—1.14. SECOND RACE. Mile and @ sixteenth, Starters, whte., Jocks SHI. Fin, 1, Redfern. LG 1% 16, W THIRD RACE Six furlongs. D._of Kendal, Start good. Betting Str, Pi. 4 16-5 P Hewittlo 10 Won ridden 10. out FOURTH RACE. Mile and an eighth Kc, Betting, Str, Pl. Starters, whts., FOURTH RACE-River Pirate (3) BECAUSE OF HUNGER; H8 WIFE ROBBED Just After Their Arrival in This Wicked City; Mrsz “Elijah HI.” Was Visited in Her Car by a Thief Who Succeeded in Stealing Her — $1,500 Diamond Brooch. STARVING FOLLOWERS CREATE A SCENE IN THE GARDEN; Had No Breakfast, Though It Was Paid for in Advance—The Great “Prophet” Ane nounces He Has Been Sent by God D to Save This City, but He Has Doubts: Two circumstances helped to shake the placid self-esteem of John ander Dowle this afternoon. In the first place, the followers of the ; Prophet Dlijah MJ. made loud demands for food, thereby shocking the prophet, who would have them live on his honey words alone. ‘a ‘Then came the diroful tidings that before Mrs. Dowle had left her private at the Grand Central Depot a thief had entered and stolen her $1,500 dime mond brooch. ’ The “Prophet” glared at those who objected because they found B® breakfast in Madison Square Garden, though they had paid him in advance He gritted his téeth and denounced this sin-ridden city when he 3 how his wife had been victimized. 2 Mrs. Carl F. Stern, daughter of Dowie. private secretary to her mothey and wife of the Chief of Police of Zion City, announced the robbery. She said: “My mother put the brooch on a table in the ‘oan of the car while she went to the dressing-room. The train had just ok in the station. ‘when she came out of the room the brooch was gone. Just then saw a man going out of the car. This man had Loarded the car just @ ute before and. was permitted to come aboard becapse he had given common greeting: ‘Peace to you,’ and we supposed ‘he wes one of the Re storation Host. He must have been a thief.” “I COME FROM GOD,” HE SAYS. “I come here as a prophet sent direct by,God,” said John Alexander Dowle, self-styled the Prophet, the Restorer, Elijah III, &c,, to the re forters gathered around him in 2 small room off the concert hall in the! Madison Square Garden this afternoon. e began his remarkable declaration of war on sin in Gotham with the LDowielte greetirg, “Peace to thee,” after he had ordered two newspaper photographers to be bounced bodily into the street. a 3 ve When the “firing” process was accomplished by the Dowie Prophet continued: y “[ have come to restore New Yoriito the host of Zion. I have not sem any of my officials because I believed that this, the greatest city of the coum- try, was worthy of the careful consideration of myself. I believed that L myself, should open the campaign which would bring this great city under the banner of Zion. a as “Do not mistake me, Iam the friend of law, the foe of anarchy and the} evasion of law. If the law bears hard or seems wrong I will at all times submit to it because it is the law, but I will ever fight to change it because it is wrong.” ‘ Then Dowle recalled his long fight in Chicago, where he was arrested e than a hundred times. maker claim the right of the people to pray in their own homes, and the BS t to minister to those not wanting doctors or drugs, but who Wish place their confidence in God. God is the healer of all evil. “T believe the Bible from cover te cover, afthough I would not copy % It is a record of good and evil. Even Job wrote nonsense, yet it fs the. greatest book in the Bible. Job was written on the inspiration of God: before tHe book of Genesis. It is tne oldest book in the Bible. “[ have fought many battles and I think I have won them all. “] have not been unduly depressed in adversity, nor have I been unduly. ated in prosperity.” * eee acnead to come to the eyes of the “Prophet” and he walked up closer to the reporters and said confidentially: é “why, I even think it is harder to bear prosperity than adversity.” 7) CHICAGO—THERE LIES HIS HEART! He said he had come in no foolish spirit to say he would do this an@ that. He had come here to work. He said he loved Chicago, for there had been his triumph. ‘ “[T come not as John Alexander Dowle, nor as the head of the Christian” Catholic Chureh in Zion, but as a prophet sent from God. “I care not if you smile at the word prophet. I care not if your facile pens cast aspersions on me. It will be ridiculing the man who brings tae rscesage of God. “We love Christ because He {s our brother and our father.” Here the “prophet” caught sight of a woman reporter, and advancing to her he patted her patronizingly on the shoulder and said: “And we love Christ because he is your mother.” Then Dowie wept,’ Then the reporters essayed to ask a few questions on temporal matterm — “We will simply do the work here which we have done in Objoago,” | “In Chicago we have visited 2,000,000 persons eight times without Here we ought to visit every home at least twice, We ha trouble in spreading tes eae righ said. special effort. seventy nationalities among us and we vill have no message in all languags.” ‘Then Dowie introduced Elder Newcomb as his press representative, would be his mouth-piece, as he put it, and then presented his wife oa hl co-worker, As he beckoned for his son, John Alexander Gladstone Dowle, to up for his introduction, tné “Prephet” becamé excited, shook bis Bat reporters and said: X “1 want to deny as a malicious lie the story printed in the Bast son swore at a baseball game and that I slapped him for it It fe. 8 Iver Pirate. 116, tis id Injunetion, 12 $13-10 14 Stolen Moment aaa 743 oo 1s 40> 10, Time—1.32 2-3, “What about that $5,000,000 you are eaid to have come here for?! asked. ot ae “PL tell you all about that," and his face beamed.” a of ofBciala. and did pot. ienaw. 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