The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1904, Page 5

S MURPHY DOESN'T WANT ~—THEGONVENTION HERE Tammany Leader Reported as Opposing The Evening World's Plan to Bring the Democratic National Gathering to the Metropolis, Although Leading Men Favor It. > Great Meeting Would Attract Half a Million Visitors to New York, Add Enormously to City’s Business and Help Unite More Firmly East and West. | DEMOCRATIC CLUB GOVERNORS WANT NATIONAL CONVENTION. Ata meeting of the Board of Governors of the Democratic Club held last evening the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the President appoint a committee of five to co-operate with other organizations, commit- tees and persons combining to petition the National Democratic Committee to designate the city of New ‘York as the place for holding the National Democratic Convention in 1904. Charles F. Murphy is quoted by John D. Crimmins as opposed to bringing the Democratic National Convention to New York next June. Hz: is anti-New York. He does not want 500,000 visitors brought to this city on the occa- tion of the nomination of a Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Although it is admitted that from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 would be brought by the visitors to New York; although it has been shown, too, that the convention in New York would bring the people of the East and the people of the West into closer communion, thereby effecting a lasting commercial benefit and a closer social affiliation, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, wills that the people of the West and the people of the North and the East shall not come here if he can prevent it. FEARS AN EXPENSE TO TAMMANY. Charles F. Murphy does not want these visitors, because It may be sume expense to Tammany Hall. It may cost Tammany Hall some of ite surplus to entertain the National Democratic Convention come with the delegates. ‘fammany coppers are more to Charles F, Murphy than the welfare of the community or the profit of the community, For days such men as John D. Crimmins and J. Edward Simmons, aided ‘by every merchant prince in New York, by every hotel man, by lawyers, fudges, business men in every walk of life, professional men, politicians of every creed, have been working for this convention. They had all agreed to go to Washington, to spend their own money and devote all their time toward getting this convention. The New York Board of Aldermen on Monday, by unanimous vote, passed # resolution inviting the National Democratic Convention to New York. The Merchants’ Association, through its former President, Mr. King, offered to co-operate in the movement. In fact, there was not a pwbiic-spir- ited body of men or association that did not enter the plan to bring the convention hero with enthusiasm. ALL SET BACK BY MURPHY, All this time Charles F. Murphy has sat back. He has taken no interest. He has refused to express his approval or his disapproval. He was \ che sphinx until he saw that New York all but had the convention in its grasp. Then Charles F. Murphy arose in his might. He announced that he, aa leader pf Tammany Hall, “did not want the convention held in New York.” The edict was final. It came from Tammany's leader, and those who had headed the movement knew full well that to pursue their work was futile, Politics was arrayed against commercial and social profit. The National Democratic Committee would not vote for New York for the place , of the convention with Tammany Hall's leader opposed to welcoming the » delegates, Mr. Murphy ic in Atlantic City to-day. MR. CRIMMINS GIVES IT UP. “Until to-day I was encouraged to believe that the efforts were progress- ing. splendidly to bring the National Convention to New York next June, said Mr. John D. Crimmins to an Evening World reporte;, | | | a “There was no pooies nd State, I must amy that the iuter- of New York demanded, or rather greatly favored, this cons on: it was the opinion of every business man who has been in communica- ‘Uon with me that the conyention, if held here, would be an excellent th: from a commercial viewpoint. “And this is my opinion. “But Mr. Murphy does not want this convention neld in New York City, HIS EFFORTS ARE IN VAIN, “E feel that the efforts to bring the co: nees are iu vain, There would haye donc—and I for commercial intere: political Interests are oppos: . Crimmins was asked the names of the political leaders with whom he had communicated. “L have talked with Mr. Murphy,” he said, “and he will oppose bringing the convention here,” fi Mr, Crimmins would not say sp, but tho inference was drawn that the opposition to the convention by some of the leaders of the Democratic party was because of the expense to which Tammany Hall would be put were the convention held here. Tammany’s coffers are not full these days, and Tammany is guarding its treasury, even though Tammany would ve put to practically no expense by the convention coming here. WOULD HAVE HELPED THE CITY. “This convention, if brought here, would have a beneficial and Jasting effect," Mr. Crimmins continued. ‘It is what New York needs, I havo worked to bring it here solely for New York's commercial profit. If I have failed it has been because politics has been arrayed against me, and I went into this plan for New York’s benefit with no political end in view. “I would continue to work for the convention except that I don’t want to ing > ‘ tion here under the ctr- t about the good thin coms irre I bad workea whe I aee that [ant Attorney-General go to Washington with a committee and then fail in my attempts to bring the cOnvention to New York. Bringing the.convention here with politics arrayed against you {s impossible. ~- 1 must therefore give up what I had hoped to be enterprise for the whole of New York.” @ gteat commercial x ‘ THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1904. OnIeS ON TRL FR P.O FRAUDS Former Congressman Before! the Bar in United States Cir- cuit Court in Brooklyn, Judge Thomas Presiding. EX-CONGRESSMAN DRIGGS. The trial of former Congressman Ed- mund H, Driggs, of the Third New York District, on one of four indict- ments charging complicity with the re- cent postal frauds, was started to-day before Judge B, Thomas in the United States it Court, Brooklyn. The specific indictment on which riggs was brought to trial alleged ‘that between July 5 and Aug. 5, 1900, tho received $3725 from the Edward J. Brant-Dent Company for influence he exerted as a memiber of Congress in Inducing the Post-Office Department to purchase 2 automatle cashiers made by the Brant-Dent Company. Under this indictment there are six- teen counts, each specifying a particu. lar check Driggs is said to have ri ceived, the aggregate amounting $3,725. Mr, Driggs is represented by Attorney Hugo Hirsch, while the Government is represented by District-Attorney Will- fam J. Youngs and C, H. Robb, Assist- for the Post- Ofhee Department, who has come from Washington to assist in the prosecu- tion. Sitting with Mr. Youngs and Mr, Robb ts Major Little, chief of the Post- Office Inspectors, who has worked up the evidence against Driggs, and wnv assisted Avsistant Postmaster-Gcneral Bristow in uncovering the postal frauds. Most of the day was consumed in se- curing a jury to try the case, Because of the publicity given und a political undercurrent much difMficulty was found in nolan ae jurymen. Mr. Youngs said he would Insist on having a very high- class nel. Major Little is killing two birds with one stone. ‘That is, while ne Is attend- ing this trial he is ‘securing from Post- master Van Cott a long and unabridged statement concerning the business methods prevailing th the New York Post-OMice. Contrary to the expectations of coun- sel the jury was completed with litte diiiculty. Attorney Hirsch then moved to*quash the Indictment on which bis client, wax orought, to trial. alleging that the law on which it was founded is unconstitutional in that it deprives citl- zens and Government omcials of their personal rights, and also on the ground that the iudictment did not show that the defeugant had performed any ser- vice for the Brant-Dent Company. The motion was dented, and District- Attorney Youngs inddressed the Jury concerning what the Government ex- pected to prove. He’ said that the pur- chase of 20 automatic cashiers from the Brant-Dent Company was made by the Post-Office Department on the or- der*of First Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral Perry 8, Heath and George W. Beavers, and through the influence Con- gressman Driggs had with them. ‘Then he mentioned the checks which he said the machine company nad given to Driggs. He sald he would prove that Di@zgs was to recelve $0 for every machine the company sold to the Government at $150 each. Robert M. Dent, of the Brant-Dent Company, Was the first witness called by the Government. He testified that his company had sold about 600 ma- chines to the various departments of the Government at #150 each. He was on the atand when the court took a recess. Machine, $50; Commission, $100, “George M. Miller, general agent of the Brant-Dent Company, was called to the stand during the afternoon and testified that he saw Driggs in Washington in March, 190, and made an arrangement with him whereby he was to be paid 350 commission for every machine pur- chased by the Government, Some time later, he said, Driggs gave him an order for %0 machines for the Post-Office De- partment. Miller said that the company: itself recelved only $0 for each machine and paid about $100 in commissions. BLINDED BY ACID THROWN BY WIFE Martin May, of Jersey City, Has One Eye Destroyed and the Sight of the Other Will Prob-| ably Be Lost. wo Mrs. Elizabeth May. who was arrested | In Jersey City yexter iy afternoon on charge of throwing bolic acid into the isce of her husband, Martin May, | was held in $1,000 bail in the Gregory | Street Court to-day on a charge of | atrocious assault. She made no state: | ment except to deny the charge. The Mays have been separated eight | montha, ~ Ye May went to his wife's apart: , at No. 143 Provost street, to see thelr daughter. Theresa, eight Vvears old, He says his wife came to the door and without warning threw | the netd into his face. The Kurgeon at St. Francin’s Hospital, where May is, reported to-day that. his left eye Wax destroyed and his right eve tnjured so badly that the sight will probably be lost. Mrs, May's daughter ‘Theresa was taken’ from her at the Gregory street SPO. ee ee SEMTOR CLAY HT “AT PERRY HEAT Declares that if He Had Any Part in the Postal Scandals He Should Be Indicted with Others. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—When the Senate met to-day the resolution of Senator Carmack directing the Post- master-General to send to the Senate the papers connected with the Post- fice Department frregularities and pro- viding for a Senatorial Investigation was taken up, and Senator Lodge moved its reference to the Committee on Post- Ofces. Mr. Carmack resisted this motion, de- claring that {f departmental irregulari- tles were to be investigated only by th departments themselves ft would not be long unti!l they would be “a stench in the nostrils of the people.” The only safeguard was In Congressional tnvesti- gation, he said. He mentioned a num- bef of such inquiries which had brought out Important facts, and urged that the inquiry be permitted. Senator Clay (Dem.), of Georgia. eX- pressed surprise that there should be oposition to the resolution, and he called uttention to the declaration of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow and Counsellors Bonaparte and Conrad that the investigation should be carried further. He declared that the Bristow report “demonstrates the absolute guilt of the late First Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral, Mr. Heath. He (Bristow) says himeelf that this leading high, oficial was guilty, and the proof is over- wholming. If this is true, Mr. Heath should have been indicted. “I will do Mr. Bristow the credit," he continued, “to say that his report shows that the frauds of the Post-OMce De- partment originated in Heath's office. If so, he must have had cognizance of them. Then why should the sub- ordinates'In that office be indicted and rring especially chase of the cash registers, in which conection Mr. Bristow said that the element of fraud could be eliminated. ment, “Tf.” he said, “this report speaks the truth, Perry “Heath, originated all the frauds in his offic “If.” he continued, ‘the report {s not correct the fact should be known and Mr. Heath vindicated. If the charges are well founded Mr. Heath should be Indicted and puntehed."” As for himselt he did not want .o- do any-Injustico to Mr. Heath or others, and for this rea- son he desired the investigation, Mr. Clay also declared that the Pres- ident had reflected seriously upon Mr. Heath and had desired the retirement of Mr. Heath from the secretaryship of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Penrose. Chairman of the Commit- tee on Post-Offices and Post Roads, ex- ressed his wish that there should be an investigation. but added that tiasmuch as there was disagreement as to the phraseology, he preferred to haev the entire question referred to the Commit- tee on Post-Olfices, pledging himself to call an early meeting for the purpose of taking the question up. WEALTHY FURRIER SUED BY HIS WIFE Mrs. Hugo E. F. Jaeckel, Sr. Asks for a Divorce and Is Al- lowed Alimony Pending the Trial. Justice Leventritt, in the Supreme Court to-day, allowed Mrs. Elizabeth Jaeckel, wife of Hugo E. F, Jaeckel, sr., a well-known furrier, $710 counsel fees and $80 weekly alimony pending the final settlement of an action In divorce, The Jaeckels formerly Mved at No. 121 West Seventy-ninth street. and have five grown sons, two at Williams Col- lege. The complaint sets forth that on cer tain dates in September the defendant lived with another woman at the 8t. George apartments, No. 226 West Fif- tleth street. The defendant's answer does not dispute the charge. Mr, Jaeckel sald to an Evening World reporter: "I am in hopes that this will go no further, and I have been inform- ed by my three sons, who work with me, that their mother may drop the proceeding.” Mr. Jaeckel is located in business at No, 37 Union Square West, Fifth ave- nue, near Forticth street, and Leipsig, Germany, and is worth $350,000, a —— SHOT UNCLE BY ACCIDENT. Nephew Then Tries ¢ Suicide, but Fa: Cristallo Genario, a wel ness man of Woodridge, was acciden ally killed to-day by his nephew, An- tonlo Orillaglo, of New York. ‘The young man was aiming at some snow birds when the shotgun slipped Commit | and the contents entered Genario’s | heart. 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Jammed Hard and Fast in the | Ice, and Tugs Had Busy Time Breaking It Up Around Them. Following are hourly readin) taken from the thermometer on front of the Palitzer Building: above zero, 12 Midnight - 1A. M. 2A. M. 3A. 4A. 6A. 7A. M- BA. 10 A, The cold wave has about spent itself and the gero weather has taken its d parture for a few days anyway. 4 outlook now 1x for continued cold, brisk | weather, with light west and southwest winds, and a relief for the city from | the zero conditions which have caused so much inconvenience and suffering since Sunday. Tho cold wave has caused a tremen- dous amount of troupie and expense and It leaves the rivers full of Ice, the railroads all tied up, the city choked with fee and snow which the Street-| Cleaning Department ts wrestling man- fully with and things upside down gen- erally, Steamboat Men in Trouble, Hard luck stories were being told by tug and steamship men on the river fronts to-day, the ice in the harbor having caused a tie-up of craft such as has not been seen in many yeurs. Hundreds of tugs nuve been put out of commission by having their copper! bottoms torn and cut by butting) against the ice, the Dalzell Towing Company alone having had eight of tts! largest and best tugs put out of com- mission, This is costing the tug com- panies hundreds of dollars, and they in turn are charging the owners of steamships fabulous sums for extricat- ing their ships from the ice, | In the Gowanus Canal ts the Norwe- gian steamship Condor, which started from her pler to put out to sea on Mon- | day. She managed to get within about | fitty feet of the mouth of the canal when she stuck fast and has been there ever since, Tug after tug has tried to break through the ice and get to the steamship, but have been unable to do! so. The captain of the steamship has offered large sums of money to any tug- boat captain who will get the steamship | out. | Ferry Passengers Delayed. | ‘This morning when the ferry-boat Bal- | Uc, of the Wall street line, reached the jend of her slip in Brooklyn, she was un- | able to land her passengers. The ice | had formed a solid bank at the foot of | the sip and two tugs had to be secured | to break it up before the ferry-boat could enter, It was 10 o'clock before she | reached Manhattan again with about | 600 business men, who were greatly in- | conventenced by the delay. | Struggling to Remove Snow. The snow contractors said to-day that by night they would have every street in the city oper for traffic. Up to this morning 900,000 cubic yards of show had been removed in Manhattan, 200,000 cuble yards in Brooklyn and 0 cubic yards in the Bronx, Kleven thousand ‘men and 3,000 vehicles have been engaged In the work. ‘he bursting of air piper on New. Haven local tratas delayed some 9,00 commuters several hours, and there were numerous other accidents, eylinder heads blow.ag out, the oil Ino signal lemps freedink xe ‘they went out and couplers snaps: ie hetween cars. Two big passenger stewmships—the Ivernla and the Mesaba—got In to-day bringing stories of rough seas, show ail hall squalls and terrific head seas in crossing. Ivernia, of the Cunard 1 left Liverpool on Dec. 26, and she was delayed two day's over her usual time by i ine, the weather, The Mesaba left London on Dec. 2%, and she was two days over due. Neither vessel reported having met with accidents and both came in without having sustained any damage, They were plentifully covered with Ice and both were delayed some time in ‘king. Owing to the wind, tide and Ice, @ Mesaba brought but six passengers, ion? Sick Headaches? | | | am'a Pils will speedily give relief, Take 9, hand a ae Ba bow the digestive organs, eed feeling and days will enable | sepeated for a few ARE ESPECIALLY SUBJECT TO WOMEN 22 WINTER CATARRA! Pe-ru-na Cures a Cold Before It Develops Into Chronic Winter Catarrh. Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe Are All Winter Catarrh and Will Develop Into Chronic Catarrh if Not . Checked at the Onset. Pe-ru-na Is an Absolute Protection Against Catching Cold. 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