The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 1

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECE BER 19, “1903. GN AS A AIGET TO BIG. CONVENTION Leading Men Give Good Reasons Why the Next Nominee for President on the Democratic Ticket Should Be. “Named in Madison Square Garden. \ \ “Date of the Meeting of the National /Committee Has Been Changed to "Jan. 12,1904, and New York Business; Men Will Have to Begin Hustling. The Evening World’s cont-ibution of $5,000 toward a fund to » guarantee the expenses of holding the next Democratic National Con- : ention in this city has given the movement impetus and swing. The Wlotel Men’s Association is to hold a meeting to determine how much “money shall be contributed by the hotel proprietors, and arrangeménts fre under way for -he formation of a committee to take charge of the . matter of raising funds, But there in great need of linnte in the matter. The date of the; fmeecting of the Democratic National Commiitee whieh will determine _fwhete the convention shall be held has been changed from Jan. 41 WO JAN, 12, 1904. ‘This shortens the time for o ‘= the campaign (very materially. It will necessitate prompt action by the busines ted, To insure consideration, New York * * There is little. if any, inoney in the treasury of the Democratic party. < “4A convention is an expensive affair. The city that gets the convention! ‘will be ‘the city that guarantees tie most money, proyided that other | Mdvantages can be offered. It will cost Chicago $70,01 the Republican, convention in June, ani that city will probably offer $70,000 or $75,000 | for the Democratic Conventicn. Pittsburg offered $190,000 for the Re- | publican Convention; and wilt) be in the fiel? again tor the convention | jot the rival party. St. Louis, with the prestige of the World's Fair} Behind her, will make a strong fight for the convention, for St. Louis| &s a Democratic city and Missouri 1s a Democratic State. NO COMPARISON WITH NEW YORK. In point of advantages of climate, cleanliness, hote] accommodations, ‘convention hall room, transportation, recreation and amusement, New (Mork stands so far ahead of Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg or any other ity that may enter the lists for the convention that no comparison » @ possible. There can be no argument against the availability of this ity, and the fact is well known to the members of the National Com- mittee, néarly all of whom visit New York frequently. No time need) “We wasted in telling them abcut wnat New York has to offer. , lt will be a show-dowr of guarantees’ Even though New York may | ‘mot offer so much, as some other city or cities, her natural ad- .jvantages might overbalance the superior financial temptation, but such ‘m contingency should not arise. The metropolis of the fs | whould be able to send a delegation tc. Washington next month prepared mot only to offer an ideal city for a convention, but the money to make whe offer good. “Geld In this city that the merchats and business men generally, may jot realize how much money such an occasion brings to a city. Chicago =~ eity tor. six days ut least, and that they will spend over $1,000,00 Chi- ~ “wago has had many conventions and finds them profitable. ¥ > GREATEST CROWD SINCE DEWFY DAY. i Should the convention be held in New York, it is safe to say that the greatest crowd since the Dewey celebration would be attracted. @vening ‘World reporters who have Interviewed railroad managers re- “port that reduced rates would be made from all over the United States. md Of persons in the East would flock to New York, not only (Continued on Second Pege.) ‘MAYOR-ELECT MCLELLAN IS HERE He Will Mail His Resignation as Congressman to the Governor To-Night—To Give Out Ap- pointments Monday. Africa -Soolety Woman, Ar- rested on Complaint of Re- tired British Army Officer. ky Mayor-elec MeClellan arrived in the city this evening from Wamaington, He Wil not/return, and to-.¢ght wiM mail his realgnation to Gov, OJell as a Con- gressman. MeClellan refused to discuss pos- sible appolntments in any manner, but hald that the full list. would. probably be given out Monday night THE WEATHER. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Sund. rn it No, 227 One Hundred and Twenty-first st,i by Detecties Deevy and Galla- ‘on a chargé of grand larceny pre- ed (fy J. A. Fyah, @ retired officer of via British Arm, ats Fynh, who ives at No, 70 Went ianixeh Atreet ind has an office at Siz Lroudy:v, alleges that he gave womara dumond ring worth $1,000, ateh worth. y and a neckiuce hh $16,000, to have them. appraised. fe, wanted to borrow $10,000 from her they were to be the security. the 5 man ater that, | report mapter ta the po ice a olsg! hey ey na teen. searching for 3 Tornierty well known i and moderating to-night, followed | Bell 3. Tnited States |} $6 long a period has clapsed since a National Convention has been| figuring that the Republitan Convention will draw 50,000 people to that sae PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SCENES ATTENDING T. THE OPENING 10-DAY OF THE GREAT WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE ACROSS EAST RIVER. aa 20 70 SHOT, IE COSS WINS Outsider Takes Opening Event) at New Orleans from Another} Rank Long Shot, Hands « Across, Also 20 to 1. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Joe E—Joe Goss (20 + 1) 1, Hands Across (20 to 1) 2, Frank SECOND RACE- Monteb=nk (3 to! 1) 1, Exclamation (7 to 10) 2, Fore- {eight 3 THIRD RACE—Sweet Nell (2 to 1) 1; Josette (3 to 1) 2, Latuka 3. | | FOURTH RACE—Witful (8 to 5) 1, Little Scout (5 to 1) 2, Bondage 3. (Specint to The Evening World.) RACE TRACK. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—Jockey Fuller reached here to- day, After Urpatentng to rain for the ieest tw r final ean rome RACE. i entrance $10; for Six furlongs: pure font sear-olds andl awe tie tockey i 20! covered Me ‘Niveyarati heal 10 104, Mulnollaan rine ‘int J Won drivine THIRD Re Fiye furlonas; puree #5 oll fillies. ‘= It tact good. for three-year- Retting, Str. Pl. 2 4 100 4 Aged Mi ‘The funeral of aged William Becker, who met a horrible death in Westchester Creek, will be held to-day at the Odd Fellows’ Home. in Unionport, where he) had lived for many years. } While taking a walk ‘Thursday after-| noon the old man’s feet became “ast in | the mud at the edge sf tho creck, and when the tide came in ‘ie was dt ‘The Coroner belleves thug the death was accidental, although inmates of the home gay the old man was greatly de- pressed over the death of a friend, —— PERU RECOGNIZES PANAMA. Colombia Loses Another of dated Dec. 18 the Peruylan Government has recognized the Republic of Panama. WASHINGTON, Dec, 19.—The fact of Peru's recognition of Panama was first communicated to the State Perextmene inister, ago) hoping through Dr. Booth’s influ- | Soward her,” She was felled bythe ani- ed to communicate orders to buy ence to get a position trained and stepped upon sll ovaries (hed telaphenenteuntr In one of the New ¥ i of Me weg ton at the exchange, Laing en met death while buying Ch body, She was picked up un-/terel a nomber of dummy nantes on for her parents and friends at hone. ie iivine paint ra um. [te Laake and It wa thls eumtom to end ‘aha Uorne, which was owned’ by i Wo- 149 Gaus, we, ca, fa hun [oruers ty well ta Mr Lalghton Inthe livery concern, was feeding in Thirty {in icra 9 POR PEW aid fumes ¢ dummy customers. The i |indured woman jan saw that man was a consistent bear, sixth sireet, just east of Epaweye hy | Miss ‘T! fag, Sie murket had turned as he ex wore no bridie and the feed-bag almow mae aes : : i} sia eves, Suddenly an automo- Hi xspica! 1 ithe bouks show he would have realized | t of money, loud | ‘The falling glass cut the horse in! aking it Th lass fell on the horse end word buck that the margins were ) doxens of places, and with blood stream- nade. TG re deep cuts from which | jn all rigat. Meantime the firm was ‘ing from the wounds and almost blinded | "At the same ant a bootblack’s | DUJing heavily on its own-account, Le- wed, | pes BANKRUPT FIRM Laighton & Foulke, Cotton Brokers, Forced to the Wall by the Peculations of an Old and Trusted Employee. WOMAN KILLED If BROADWAY nUNAWAY ———-— -*4e Miss Sarah A, Thomas Crushed to Death and Two Other Persons Seri- ously Injured in Mad Dash of Horse! he fraudulent operations of John 4 nx. for six years confidential clerk for the Well-known cotton commission house of Laighton & Foulke, of No, 3 Wiliam sthvet, resulted in the susp sion of the house to- The failure Was announced on the Cotton Kxchange on Sidewalk in Crowd of Shoppers. ¢ ‘ shortly after the opening and created a One woman was killed, one woman) toe agimal’s Lead, was thrown to the | sensation, as Uhe firm ts one of-tiesmest fe man badly” hu nda dozen | street, conservative.in the city. it was ber re other persona injured by a run | oAt the sarhe time the fright understood later in the day, however. horse that sped down Brondway | men making (or the stor waen [t became known that the (roudl on sidewalk from Thirty-sixth ty | down M Helen Tompkins, of No. 82] was due entirely to the peculations of a Thirty-second street, dashing thousands | Necth Beventh street, Newark dishonest employee. Laing has disap of shoppers to one side, striking those | She fell directly in the path of the | peared, The animal's front hoofs struck ve ron the bead, and taen the wheels vorse. i ix feet who could not ge ° with his feet who could not get out we Wan Absolu fy vr his way and dragging a swaying wagon ual ; over others who fell in his path. passed over her body. Across the way ine ty. He wes caintiiy: eaten ‘The woman who was killed Miss | Miss Thomas tried to Dreak througa the 1), hus employers and only because of struggling women in the Sazuh A, Thomas, a beautiful young rway 1068) this was it possible for his system of woman fiom Ind‘ana, Pa., who has beea |cape from the plunging ‘ih and the | deception to be succensful. Mr, Latgh- visiting Dr, and Mra. J. Arthur Booth jesreening wagon. The crowd was too }ton is the exchange member of the firm 46 West Forty-ninth street. » great for her, ard she was forced Wo the | and taing not only kept the books, but came to New York less than, two mo sidewalk, Just as the horse sprung was the only person in the house al- tw ontalning two women and of Broadway with ne frightental dashed toward the sidewalk, break ng through # plate-glass window four teen feet square In the millinery est Hsiment of Miss Bacon, at No. 107 Wes: | Thirty-aixth street steadily, and Latin | qvacinued to pour orders over the tele- ~ | Phove LO Mr, Lathenion to well, tae lai ame alarmed and ordered Lalag cure More margin from “Smith,” “Brown,” whicaever dummy Auing hapyened to be using at the time: Within a ve soort Ume Laing would fad she (ord (ne her last to the sul rounc or on the side- H Anto the plate- fotel, vail, Lass. the porxe dast Window of stand on the corner was knocked down, Heving itself to rotected t s find Victor Chive 1g itself to be protected vy margins of veur customers, Poured im Selling Orde Yesterday was @ strenuous day in the cottun mirkei, covton going up as high #9 18.25 and closing at 18.19 During tae morning Laing poured in selling orders Jn desperation, Nothing could save him but a turn in the inarket. ‘Time ana again Mr. Lalgaton asked if the mar- wins of the dummy customers were all Khe und Laing replied thut they were At 1 o'clock Laing evidenuy saw t the animal burst down the sidewalk turning south at Broadway. He cleared | jp Victor Che the stroet and made for the sidewalk. gins” His injuries ‘Thousands of shopperx were on the Could nut rise to hie “feet, Poached Chain? baroral they hore! Wanl Cote that rset, peaesa Way upon them, In making their own es-|each other in their fright. A. dozen cape they ran over each other. fainted and were dragged from the side- Halt a dozen women were knocked | f ‘scape the horse's down before the horse crossed the | run to the LA a ‘Dhirty-Afth street crossing. Men tried | fell from exhaustion and loss’ ef blood to stop the horse, but #0 maddened was], 48 Keon as the the brute and #0 crased from paln that | women br Gitta ne plunged ahead, throwing them aside. |Ma ha At ‘Thirty-fourth street the wagon , {heatre, lo) swerved to one side, and the guard in) ba a big department store who had selzed nzo Was thrown from ne falling e such that he ot ng aw falf'un hourslater, Mr up with an order a dummy None of the wo en hud res (Continued on Etghth Page.) him at ratin | Mayor Low and City Officias Enter the hattan End of the Structure as Represen tives of Brooklyn Enter thz Other, 4 They Meet in the Centre Where Forn Ceremonies Take Place. CITY’S EXECUTIVE FORMALLY DECLARES OPEN) FOR TRAFFS me Arrangements Are Gorpinten for the: Display of Fireworks Which Will Beg 8 o’Clock To-nght---President Roos _ Sends Regrets of His Inability to Be taand to the Breen Nee “The bridge is open!” went up tle e Musie from a séoreof bands; military parades, b: works anda perfect torrent of oratory were only inciden’ ceremonies opening the new Williamsburg Rridge, the nel greatest of the great bridges of the W: orld? OPENED BY THE MAYOR, In the presence of a distinguished company see Low afternoon received the bridge from the Bridge Commissio the contractors, and after a glowing tribute to its erigineery Buck, declared it open to the public. As a squadron of light borse, escorting Mayor Low, Mawhatts and their guests, and a troop of cavalry escorting Borough P strom, approached either end of the new Wiliamsburg 8} through the mist could be.seen the dim onttines of this structure’ the great Brooklyn Bridge, which Mayor Low opened twenty years Following a light luncheon tn the Mayor's office, the Aldg invited guests. escorted by Squadron A, of the State’s light. horse lancy street roach to the new bridge. ‘The carriages were occupied as follows. Mayor Low, President Cantor, Alderman McINines and Secretay | nolds. | Comptroller Grout, Rear Admiral Rodgers, Dr. Lederle and Cont. alde to the Rear Admiral. Chief Judge Alton B. Parker, ex-Goy, Levi P. Morton, Gen. F. Vi and Corporation Counsel Rives. Judge Grey, President Fornes, of the Board of Aldermen; Park Co sioner Eustie of the Bronx, and Correction Commissioner Hynes. Judges Bartlett and Dennis O'Brien City Chamberlain Dr. 8. * Gould and Tenement Commisgioner De Forest. Gen. J. 8. Wilson, John Bigelow, Commissioner Robert (#rier and Dock Commissioner McDougall Hawkes, President Cromwell, of Richmond; President Haffen, of the Bronx, Aqueduct Commissioner William H, Ten Eyck and J. J, Ryan. President-elee> John F,. Ahearn, Aldermen Sullivan, Harburger Porges. F. B. Thurber and Former Commissioner of the New Bridge Nixon, Smith KE, Lane and James W. Boyle. ae Right Rev. Mgr. Mooney, H. A. Rogers, City Clerk P. J. Soully 4A ; derman Devlin. cae Aqueduct Commissione® John B. Windolph, John R. Voorhis, of the; Board of Elections; R. L. Scott and Tax Commissiner Semuei Strasbeurgerion Other carriages were occupied by members of the Bcard of Aldermen, om Er : .; man on the book KES Were sei Hd not be found! a dumm. for Lal was summoned from | . nd had a consulta R Benedict mh the firm to-day, that om whom the firm had Tito whom it had sold on th al una SUNDAY WORLD to-morrow will contain a Che Sunday World’s Stories. (ie notable bit of fiction by O. Henry, a new writer “A Chaparral Prince” and will touch the heart of every reader. Pathos, interest and action all abound. Dr. John Coleman Adams writes a holiday story that brims with Christmas kindness. Simeon Ford talks tenderly of the Hotel Christmas Dinner. there will be who is making a name for himself. both ways usty and must delly ruined We sold at the Our purchases in help us, but every- ated that we cannot ont of ft now. countant had been veral he private nd aund by Dr. Calderon, the Peruvian A litte latter ‘a cablegram from Mr, by snow or rain in the early morning; Sunday rain and warm- er; fresh easterly winds Increas- ing Sunday to higher. Consulate In Bouth Afeien, high in English aivords her bus- Neill, the United States Charge and Secretary of Legation at Lima, arrived, plating tine the Peruvian Government Consul Panama, there- bie recognising the new blic, as hi oredential rs ‘addreaped to it. 4 ——$———___ "Pinehurst ern its employ id moved fro No trace of the There will be more than 100 things of interest in The Sunday World to-morrow. that he ome time aKo. has been found ———— Florida Bant Coast Servic Dally via Southern Ry. Lv. New York 35F, M, mmediate Canseeion at at cu THE WORLD. | PRESIDENT SENDS REGRETS. sound his partner |. A} 4G Letters of regret had been received from President Roosevelt and every” member of his Cabinet, Gov, Odell, ex-Mayors Grace, who is ill; Edson, wha” suffered recent bereavements; Van Wyck and Mayor-elect MeClellane ayor Smith Ely had not responded to the invitation. : But the participants in the parade included an ex-Governor, three || several members of the clergy, all the age loads of Aldermen. ‘ end of the new bridge that the crowds ges of the Court of Appeals [Perough Presidents and eleven ¢ In Court) Square, Hrooklyn, which point Borough President Swan- | dispersed ism strom, Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal| At the new bridge the Seventy=ineess and other dignitaries left, there was a Regiment, 800 strong, commanded ‘ greater crowd, But that crowd did not] Col. Willam G. Bates, was in walliamag ¥ Aating proportions | The infantry, accompanted by ite band begin to assue int nntil the handsome Froop ©, with every rider in his gaudieat gold and spangles | and and motinted on a restless, foam-fleck ort | bridge. charger, rounded Into the square on a} ‘The two parties, exch accompanied Dyer fa trot jae p of cavalry, entered 4he en it seemed that the cayalry}at either end at exactly the same would ride right through the walls of} and met in the centre, where # the City Hall, a bugle sounded and the| platform nad been erected. chargers halted instantly. An orderly| When the salute of one hundred carried the commander's message (O| by the army and navy had died President Swanstrom. That official) tha clty oMcials and th eee came out on the steps and the cavalry-|carriages for the men saluted, a banquet was srpead. ‘Then the crowds commenced to come, |desultory kind was Deke pe Pe it was not until the Brooklyn | occasion. pEraree A te WiMamepaRtee of fifty-nine pleces, wore dress uniformay was distributed throughout tbe