The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1904, Page 1

4 je ‘4 A ‘ } y i — We me > wi Serr * 7 Za EVENING CQ aeA: | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | i EXTRA NO. 2| rculation Books WHITNEY PRICE ONE CENT NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1904. PRICE ONE CENT. A M. C. W HITNEY DEAD DULLY GET OUT. PANIC IN COTTON, AND PRICES DROP Rates Fall $7.05 a Bale on Some Deliveries WY WATERS TO SWE NM Henry Herman Leaped Into the ’ East River and Battled with the Ice to Reach John Gerrity. NEARLY LOST HIS OWN LIFE BY DARING ACTION. A Rope Was. Tied Around Him, but He Was Nearly Dead and the Frenzied Traders Seem to Fear that the Worst of the Story Is Yet to Be Told by Those Who Were Caught. BULL LEADER WHO HAS CLEARED $15,000,000 SAYS HE’LL TAKE A REST. TREMENDOUS DROP IN COTTON, AS SHOWN BY FIGURES ON EXCHANGE The following table shows the drop “in prices of cotton on the Exchange to-day: Decline, Per pound. Points. per bale. March fell to......-.++++ 16.40 cents ert $4.55 16.40 cents mw 4.55 16.40 cents 104 + 5.20 16.52 cents 87 4.35 45.00 cents 67 3.35 The cotton market went to pieces this afternoon. When traders were at the craziest pitch of their lives Daniel Sully announced that he was through with the game; that he needed a long rest and would begin a long vacation on Saturday mext. Jt is estimaied that he will take away with him about $15,000,000 in profits. That is what the greatest bull leader of this generation has cleaned up after raids which have no parallel in cemmercial history. That is the amount of money that this young man from Providence, who, less than a year ago, was unknown in New York, and. whose name to-day is known the world round, can lie back with and take his ease, Sully raked the marked to-day fore and aft. He poured broadside after ‘proadside into the hulls of the craft struggling against him In the wild sea of trading on the floor of the Cotton Exehange and they knew not whence the thousands and thousands of bales of the commodity were coming from. ‘Where they stand now they have not the slightest idea. Prices dropped as much in some deliveries as $7.05 abale. There is a pantclry feeling in the ranks of those who pitted themselves against the Napoleon of manipulators. Where it will end no ons can yet say. All that could be gotten from Sully after he had made his sensational announcement was this: “T need a rest. I intend to go away Saturday and J shall take a good, long vacation, I think I have earned it.” Where he will go no one but himself knows. SOLD THOUSANDS OF BALES. . Sully sold his ‘holdings to-day through brokers unknown on the market. "Thousands and thousands of bales were dumped into the ¢rading maelstrom and chasers were sent everywhere to find out who was unloading. That some of it belonged to Sully was taken for granted, but never for a moment wes it thought that he was selling everything he had. “It's just another profit taking break,” was sald when a slump of sixty points marked the downward movement. That was the conclusion market sharps came to when convinced they could not find out who was unloading, It was simply another manipuiation of the bull clique which Sully headed. TheY thought that when they had cleaned up what they wanted then the Sullyites would buy back again at the low prices to which they had forced the market and the wheel would be sent whirling around again for another rise. March cotton was the first to go off from the prices of yesterday—the hbighwater mark that it is not believed will be reached again in another thirty years. . Ninety-one points was vhe drop for March. That meant $4.55 a bale. May slumped for as many dollars and cents; June, $5.20 a bale; July, $4.85, and August, $3.35. No one knew when it would stop. It seemed that every one on the floor was selling and that there were few if any buyers. May bumped the hardest when it went down $7.05 a bale. That was a @rop of 125 points. There was a rally and when the end of the fight came the price had been fouced up 21 points. Ordirarily a one-doJlar margin during the heaviest trading 1s enough ‘to see fiiteon minutes out of an hour, To-day a $5-margin was no more than a (drop in the bucket. - : The cctton exports to-day were worth $4,900,000. They ‘consisted of 61,500 bales. The next record over this is 10,000 bales. Xt is estimated that Sully sold to-day between 300,000 and 400,000 bales. ‘He has jockeyed this for weeks and sold some of it as mamy as four times. When the market closed jt was called steady, and these were the piicos that obtained: February, 15.90 to 16.00; March, 16.19 to 1620; April, 16.36 to 16.40; May, 16.57 to 16.58; June, 16.57 to 16.59; July, 16.65.to 16.66; August, * 16.17 to 16,18; Septemiber, 14.00 to 14.02; October, 12.86 to 12.87; Novem- ber, none; December, 12.40 to 12.50, BIG DROP IN NEW ORLEANS, NEW ORLBANS, Feb. 2.—The cotton market showed a nervous tone | rto-day, although {t was evident that the bulls were in control. Liverpool cables caused a break of from 15 to 40 points, Scalpers bought freely, ab- || and warmer, followed by clearing sorbing heavy offerings, and prices showed a quick recovery to within ‘about 10 points of yesterday's close. Small breake and bulges followed other rapidly, March at the lowest sold 88 points lower than tho| ot yeoterday; May was 39 lower, at 17.44, and July 37 points lower. When Pulled Ashore—Gerrity Was Drowned. Henry Herman, forty years old, who works for the city in the Street Clean- ing Department, almost gave his. life to-day to save John E. Gerrity, a coal heaver, from drowning in the East river. When he was pulled ashore from the ice-packed water he was extpusted and only the most heraio treatment resuscitated him. 5 Herman was working at the foot of Eats Elghty-second street when he heard the wild cries of a man come from the tide of ice that was rushing by like a mill race. Brinkman saw that there was no chance to save the man at this point so he ran down the river front to Eightleth stree. There he saw Patrick Hynes throw a rope to the man in the river, but the latter was so benumbed that he could make no effort to grab It. g the cable round his body and giving the other end to Hynes, Herman jumped into the stream. Gerrity had by this time become Herman was just too late to ‘rescue him, Gerrity sank from sight. Ken then Herman dived through the broken ice repeatedly in an effort to reach Gerrity. He was unsuccessful and the body was mot found, : When Herman was pulled ashore ho was benumbed. Much brandy and rub- bing was necessary to revive him. Gerrity fell into the river while work- ing on a barge in the Brinkman coal yards at the foot of East Eigthy-second street. ————_ NEW YORK IIS | Favorites Take the First Four Races at New Orleans and the Bookmakers’ Rolls Are Diminished. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE Dueliist (2 to 1) 1, Typhonic (15 to 1) 2, Ralph Young 3, SECOND RAGE—MecWiilliams (2 to }1) 1, Burning Glass (9 to 2) 2, Le- viathan 3, THIRD RACE—Scorplo (7 to 10) 1, Sadducee (7 to 2) 2, Roue 3, FOURTH RACE—New York 11. (6) jto 5) 1, Over Again (5 to 2) 2, Parisienne 3, NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb, 2—-A Prominent layer ts said to be under sus- Picion in connection with Jockey His- gins's suspension, This bookmaker 1s said to have laid against Port Royal the day Higgins rode the Street horse to defeat and bet on the horse the next time he started and won, Startling de- velopments are anticipated in this case, The track was in fair shape to-day, ‘The weather was made to order for out- door sport and the best crowd seen at the track this year turned out. Big Ben received such a hard race yesterday that his owner decfined to send the big | sprinter after Scorpio in the third race to-day, WEATHER FORECAST. i Forecast for the thirty-six hours} | ending at 8 P. M. Wednesday, for]! New York City «nd vicinity—Rie- | ing temperature with fair to-night, followed by light snow In the early morning; Wédnesday light enow and colder Wednesday night; freeh to brik east to south winds; shifting to weet, WINNER OF FOURTH: RICKARD BOYS CALL HER GRACE? Mrs. Mowbray Admits Visitors Accused by Peeping Husband Addressed Her by First Name Soon After Meeting. MANY WITNESSES WILL BE CALLED TO TESTIFY.' | Lively Contest Promised in Habeas Corpus Suit of Jeal-, ous Spouse Who Hid Under! the Bed Five Hours, Referee Nealls continued to take tes- timony to-day in the’ habeas corpus Suit of Samuel H. Mowbray against his wite, Gertrude Ingersoll Townsend Mowbray, for the possession of their five-year-old boy Girard A mass of testimony will be taken in the case which hifces on statements and counter-denials of what Mr. Mow- bray heard while reposing for five hours under the bed in a room adjoin- ing a foyer where Mrs. Mowbray as entertaining the Rickard “boys” on the night of Jan. 6 : pvisteeeetee Steinhardt, representing . Mowbray, resumed his examina: of the wife. al Mr. Steinhardt brought out that a murror hung on the wall of the room where Mra. Mowbray entertained her friends, evidently for the purpose of showing that Mowbray while under the bod could get a line on what was on tn the room. Bhi! Mrs. Mowbray testified tl first. blocked in the tce. But fast as he was|met arthup (her cat 4 i “On the night of Jam dant September at Cryan's Boniface Hotel, Columbus ave- nue and One Hundred and Third street. Mrs, Mowbray did not remember how jong after Arthur Rickard had known her he called her ““jrace.” By Mr, Steinhardt: Q. On the night of Jan. 6 he called you Grace? A. Yes. He began to call me Grace two months after he knew me. Mr. Steinhardt recalled theenight of Dec. 15 last, when the two Rickards called. Mr. Mowbray had a cold and went to bed. While in bed he Js sup- posed to have heard what suggested the Une of questioning. “Did you say to Arthur Rickard after apd William Rickard Went Blad they have gone; now . Mowbray in or under the bed on that occasion,” interrupted law- yer Louls H. Porter, Mrs. Mowbray's counsel. “It 1s immaterial," returned Mr. Steinhardt, “don't interrupt.” Q. Was there anything the matter with you that evening? A. I don't re- member. Q. Did you tell Mr. Rickard you had a plaster on? A.1 don't remember. Q. How did you get the plaster oft? A. I don't remember. Maybe I pulled It off. Q. Are you sure you didn't soak {t oft? A. No; I'm not sure how I got it oft. Q, What kind of a» plaster was {t? A, Either a Johnson, a Smith or an Allsop. . Allsop js an ale, not a porous aster, A. I'll your word; I never rank it. ‘An adjournment was taken until hoon on Thursday YACHT OWNER IS ARRESTED George B. Campbell, of the law firm of Campbe.| was arrested to-day on an order signed by Supreme Co. _ tice Dickey in an action brought against him by Charles F ,,ar- ris for $10,000. He was released on bail. ployed by Campbell on the latter's yacht Roamer as skipp>~ and, with the steward of the yacht anda sailor, was arr in Wimington, Del., for mutiny and imprisoned fifty-sev They were acquitted when tried and Harris © damages. SETH WILKS OPERATED ON FOR A>. ‘Ex-Assemblyman Seth Wilks, widely known anvong Rep: fican politicians, underwent an operation for appendicitis at a sanitarium in East Thirty-third street this afternoon. His | ar. It was announced after the operation that Mr. Wilks was doing well. -heaith. has. been-.poor-for- W. C. WHITNEY, WHO EXPIRED AT HIS HOME THIS AFTERNOON.| AMMLS WANG ' = only chance to save the patient's life. : GIRL SN PICTURE Mr. Whitney was told that he might not live through the operation, nelius Vanderbilt and her little daughter, Gladys, who were in the houes, were al® summoned to the sick room and said good-bye to Mr. Whitney. oo Pretty Minnie Richter, Who }2t once that Mr. Whitney would never stand it. His breathing became more © Cared for Children Abandoned | ..tousnoss. ay” by the Mother, Has Offer of The first change for the worse came at 1 o'clock when Mr. Whitney Marriage by Letter. seventeen: | sisting in the treatment of Mr. Whitney. Harris was em- jes Richter Mr. Whitney had repeated sinking spells and came out of each a littlt t Jamaica, | bit worse than before. Oxygen and stimulants were used/on him, but Me failed to respond to the treatment. two ttle Lloyd by their ooo AR WHITNEY'S CAREER a ptier ex at he ts an} energy, backed by natural gifts of a rare kind, brought him the prestige | ree Cole. (Continued on Second Paye.) hi hats Mod ents Pneumonia, 60 years CONGGIOUG TOENO, DIED WITHOUT PAIN Hurried Preparations Had Been Made for -a~ Second Operation, Which the Patient Was — Unable to Withstand—Recognized Danger and Bade Good-Bye to Relatives. i DIED UNDER THE ETHER. DESPITE THE DOCTORS’ SKILL, Day Had Begun with Slight Rally, but Soon After Noon He Sank Rapidly and Hurried Preparations Were Made for Last Vain Bat- tie with Death, 2 Se Wilflam@ottins Whitney died at 4 o'clock ‘this afternoon at his Tes idence, No. 871 Fifth avenue. | All hope of Mr. Whitney's recovery was given up at 3 o'clock when Drs. Bull, James, Walker and Poole examined the patient together. It was thought that a second operation might save Mr. Whitney and plans for one were made, but the patient sank rapidly when put under the ether. Harry Payne Whitney, his wife, Miss Dorothy Whitney.and Miss Ram-, ‘di jolph were all at the bedside when Mr. Whitney passed away. The end was painlees. Mr. Whitney was conscious until the last, and it Is said bade farewell to the members of his family and to the physicians who have been so faith ful in their attendance on himfrom the first. DEATH KEPT SECRET AN HOUR. The news of Mr. Whitney's death was kept secret for one hour. At 6 o'clock Mr Whitney's secretary, Mr. Regan, appeared at the front door of the Whitney house and summoning all of the newspaper men to him said: “Gentlemen, I regret very much to have to announce that Mr. Whitney died at 4 o'clock” . Mr. Regan went back into the house at once, The morning reports from the sick-chamber were of the most favor able kind. Mr, Whitney passed a better night than. he had since Satur- day, when the burried operation was performed on him, and it was be- lieved that he had a good chance to get well. + The bulletins issued officially by Dr. James were optimistic in their tone and there was general rejoicing among the hundreds of friends of the great © financier, bs It was said that the pain had almost entirely left Mr. Whitney and that he was resting quietly. A It was learned later that Mr. Whitney was under the tnfluence of ether ,| When he died. The second operation, which had been considered, was not abandoned when Mr. Whitney began to sink, but was grasped at as a desperate and but expressed entire willingness to take the chance, He bade farewell to his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and to bis daughter, Dorothy. Mrs. ‘Cor- The ether was then administered. This was at 3.30 o'clock. Dr. Bull stood by with his instruments ready to bégin the operation, but ft was seen and more labored, and at 4 o'clock he passed away without recovering con- had a sudden «inking spell, The nurses were very much alarmed and Dr. James immediately sent out for Dr. Bull and the other distinguished physicians who have been as te that he ed a William Collins Whitney was the eighth of the American Whitneys, wal Jand, although his gentus followed a different line than that of his ancestors, his life, like theirs, was filled with an overflowing measure of success. Like! ai the! his progenitors, William C. Whitney fought for all he got. An indo ‘Shs A RECORD OF SUCCESS, |