The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1904, Page 2

RN gma MPOOEN a ak: ‘TNE W YORK BAY ICE BOUND, SHIPS FROZEN IN AND BIG ICE FLOES “BLOCK TRAFIC North and East Rivers Jammed \ and Navigators Find It Al- most Impossible to Force | Their Way Through. “TWO,CITY FIREBOATS PUT OUT OF COMMISSION. Several Coal Barges Sunk in Harhor—Ferry-Boat Service 1s Crippled and No Attempt Is Made to Run on Schedule. Havigators of the East and North Rivers are having the experience of Melr lives to-day dodging the Ice foes jor cutting a way through a pack of ice cakes that are delaying all sea and river traMc. The northeast wind which haa bgen blowing across the bay has Jamme@g the Narrows ‘with ice and filled Up the East River. On the Jersey Side of the North Riy: the ice covering Is a\moat tmoenctrabie. The schedules of the ferry-boat com-| panics have been so diserranged that} it.can hardly be said running plans ut all. Have been going to the resc ely ot mere lined up ageninest the Socks hnve beon badly damaged. Every! ind F craft that has been doing buel- mess{n the rivers these Quzen days has suffered extensively. that Lines Saffe ‘The greutest vulferere are the men along the docks at South Brooklyn ‘The’ steamship Suffolk, of Norton & Co.'s Australian line, held for two days thé Atlantic Dock, was nally pulled throuith the ide by the concerted action of five tugs, The volunteer, Phventx, Olympia, Barrett nnd Independence got Unes'to her and after the hardest sort of @ pull brought her owt. Most of the tugs ‘Were injured in the work and re- lief ‘Was sent to the crews. The Lovekekken, a Norwegian} steamer, at the Independence Sto | managed to get an opening. through the ice blockade and got away wi parual cargo shipped. Most of the steamers of the tramp variety tha were,jucky enough to get clear of the lige were forced to leave partly loaded. Many..of them coaled divectiy on the ice from vortable bunkers mounted on sleds. ‘The Manita, a Porto Rican steamer, was another of these to leave the harbor with a fractional eargo. ~The dynamiting of tho ice above Yonkers has sent vast cakes down the Mudson and been u great source of in- terference with the traffic in the lower river. Two Firebonts Disabled At has been estimated that 2 per cent, of the tugs have been disabled, Soino have had holes stove in them, but the as a rule, consists In broken propellers. ‘The drydocks of tho Erle , at the foot of East Third, Sev- vhth, Stanton street and at Weehawken are filled with disabled tugs. Two of the city’s Nroboats, the Seth Low and the Hewitt. are disabled leaving only tony in commision. Beven,coal barges have eunk in tho harbor.’ These nave great holes sunk they xo. " in them@and dow cases the coal is ree 3 oat belonging to the Penns vena Railroad had a hole torn in her side to- “py while crossing the Nortl River and 14d to be towed back to the Jersey side, No sooner had the cars boon ree moved than the feat sank Ferr)-Boat hervice Crippled. The service of tie Staten Island Ferry Gompany is badly crippled to-day tn Gonsequence of two of gic boats iu that} line being temporury disabied and, Zoreed te discontinue thelr trips to Shy was taken in vuple Uf tgs to her Staten Is «lip The other disabled ferry-boat is the Middletown, one of t ts, She was also badly dams s taken te tug Oiifton In consequence iT being taken tt boats to make the New York. Owing t the bay the boats have been hourly trips to New York The ice in Flushing Bav loosened the | of a twe y ettee each last night, and) thie en the villige woke up the louse War missing. It hod fos aprons the Pay to Colleae tanayred itaelf at The howe belongs t Improvement towed back to It the buy clears of ——<— Type : ’ THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUA RUSSIANS DECLARE JAPS LOST 2 SHIPS (Continued from First Page.) aes | the Chemulpo fight are eloquent Jn their praise of the skilful and gallant They say he inflicted all the damage pos-| conduct of the Variag’s captain. siule to the enemy's vessels and then destroyed his own ships. that a sailor could not do In the face of such tremendous odds. ja making a protest against the Japanese Admiral's attack as a breach of Corean neutrality, as Corea, being occupled by Japanese troops, has lost her neutral character. LONDON, Feb. 19.—The Japanese Legation bas received a copy of the note issued by the Chinese Government giving its instructions in regard to the neutrality of China, and the reply of the Government of Japan, which 1s to the effect that Japan is not seeking any annexation of territory and will respect as far as possible all the Chinese palaces, mausoleums and public buildings. Photographs Taken from the Battery for The Evening World. ° SULLY 100 MUCH There {8 no question of Ru Brokers Trying to Get Some of His Cotton Profits Fight, Him in the Pit, Then Beg for report differs. radically Jnpaneso tons of ships. sburg in the harbor made no report of any Japanese boat betng sunk. RUSSIAN FLEET TRIES TO GET OUT OF PORT ARTHUR TIENTSIN, Feb. 18 (delayed).—The Russian fleet In the harbor of | Port Arthur attempted to get out to-day, but the formidable Japanese flotilla which has bottled the port up for more than a week was on the alert and the effort to escape was a failure There was a sharp action, in which some of the Russian vessels and the forts at the entrance to the harbor were damaged. There is no! mention made of any injury to the Japanese fleet. HAY’S NOTE AGREEABLE TO. THE RUSSIANS. | 8T, PETRRSRURG, Feb. 19.—A telegram from Port Arthur states that the Japanese have captured the steamers Kolik and Bovrik, of the Okhotsk- Kamchatka Company's line. Russia's reply esador McCormick to-day. from all previous despatches, The United States gun- Rasian omic ve no statement of Dante! J. Sully has proved himself the Yapolean of the cotton pit, and to-day, the situation, dictated terms to some Wall streot fi- nanclors, who thought that they could scare him and take a little of the money from him which he nas squeezed from others during bis great bull campaign, These men irecently during the brealc «continued selling sold cotton freely when they should have been entered the pit and soon shoved prices up to a pofnt where y were forced to bid for to settle with him privately. as If prices would reach 100 points or mreater loss Sully ana settled at seme points above were short and when that option began | attempted to fight the! the battle until Mr, to advance they gain and contin note on China was handed to Ambas- | bkiding for 5,000 blocks of July | He took all that was offe | became clear the situation WASHINGTON, Fob. 19—Secretary Hay to-day received by cable from Ambassador MeCormick the reply of the Russian Government to the prop- losition relating to Chinese neutrality. to be responsive to our note, and its substance has been communicated to e (the Governments of Japan and China SCARCIT orts then gave up © about 80 points entiy's close, was advanced by manipulation It is considered by the department ——<2¢--—_— OF FOOD CONFRONTS HARBI Are waiting at ig from cold and aS bea bought freely sion houses were trated in the jower Yalu Valley Nigh spirits and aa pecting reinforcements, The Chinese are quiet and are bring to some extent to the fall in the f value of paper money, s is altogethe pected that there will be sufticient sup- plies of bread, meat, butter, petroleum ler, but not enough sugar, pre- , and that ‘there! ¢ scarcity of boots, not to be expected that such stores cant t cotton Jumped to leaving Man- : huria owing to the dearness of pro- of which are required for whieh tn some meats and line demands for LUCK FOR LAWYER UW CLIENT'S CHARM j May $150 Check. but the “Prof.”! ~ Went to Jail, fd Hf, Jenkins, a middie: | hysiciat, who has an | Sixth avenue, ap- agistrate Breen In Jef. ferson Market Police . baying been “Fretted in the police court on a whary- of disorderly conduct. | Jenains, Who clalme to be the only| House to-day facts to the President 8. a4 ef an alleged moonstone | that up to this moment a décision has ehed as to the ans be made to the Russian Government. It is anid that the reas the declination to receive Mr. Morgan th degree Mason in the world, is ates owhich yond who touct aL manner of ont | When Jenkins reac yer Mark Alter, {e. ware dincunsday enking dlspla his maone lentaily he told the lawyer rellons ih ya if Obras d children are unable to get’ \RUSSIA BARS arrive for some time ae OUT OUR CONSUL AT DALNY peninsula during the progress of jhos- WIFE TELLS € SHE WAS DECENE (Special to The FE bas been informed that Edwin V. Mark Alter Rubbed “Prof.” Jen-| Morgen witt not receive an exequatur) They fear that they may not be able to afford such officiais a proper meas- ure of protection in times of violence. Tt nlso is suggested that as the United would be charged with fowthe protection of t there would be many eh: | for severe friction, which It ls desirable °, from the Russian G kins’s Moonstone and Got aj izing him to eet ax United States Con- | Mr. Morgan ts now on his way from Washington to his post rancisen and; hh point the! wnment author: ening World.) 18.-On the {certificate of the death of a young man le the rules of the Roman!' »|Catholle Church, of wiich she ts a mem-| Central Hotel last Tuesday by taking sul at Dalny | He responsibility touch at Vokoha State Department will be a hhn what course to pursue, sion was not altogether un- expected, but It in nevertheless the sub- ject of arnave consideration by the State of Many thingaymay happen, {t Is pointed Morgan arrives even in Japan, which will determine the course of the State Department, and it in sug- ted that there ts a ponsibility that e Russians may not be masters of the Linntung peninsula is said here that after all| grounds to have the ceremony the Russian course is consistent, in that | She declares she been previously and divorce: itter as of sufficient impo to warrant a personal vinitao the White where he presented the It can be stated the fact was con- the principal o i t Harger in April, 1991, ceremony was performed 4 y celve any consuls at Dalny and the only official the: United States | 3 commerelal | ne aastgned for ut he was single and reviously married, ne present your, Harger, h, Was arrested on a charge ‘The announcement i» made that the decision In Mr, Morgan's case does to the newly Morgan, having been fo one of the American si several years retaries of em- od we few dvreceived a chock for new clients Were Cth yannoyed because Alter ; he => —, Phe no foreign. bassy At St. Petersburg, is popular with ment by a fraternal order collector, and b's fh nd the prevent petitioner met It is further stated that while f gcmina, was assiduously co; vern- ceedin, thoes consuls, by his. of any other States Consuls at Mukden and Antung, e Cheahire’ and Davidson. consulates ace in Manchuria and the taking the ground which he wa i ve hits a8 @ consul If pollti- ™M- teal considerations did not forbid, But 4t is explained that the reason for Russia's action ie nurety military; the army officers desiring that there shail BOGS eae Btate Department, t that province is would apply ment. for exequaturs not recognizit 2 uurting, dil 2 vores pro: started pe fe bad beam granted 4 ‘DR. CONRAD 1S dictment Is Found. Dr. Edward Conrad, who was arrest ed last week at his sagitarium in West Forty-seventh street, and who was dis- Goff, after the Grand Jury had dt rearrested this fternoon by Detective Sergeants MeNaught and Connolly on & bench warrant, issued in the Court of General Sessions, an Indictment found by the Grand Ju j to-day upon the resubmission of the |case by District-Attorney Jerome. Judg- ing from reports in the District-Attor- Iney's office this afternoon, this second indictment was only obtained after con- siderable friction between the District- Attorney and the Grand Jury The County Medical Society, through in collecting evidence against Dr, Co: lrad which formed the pasis of a raid on his sanitarlum, This evidence was laid before the Grand Jury, but on Wednesday the Grand Jurors dismissed the complaint, wherrupon Recap ter | Goff. discharged the physician's hati ton. | bond, yew tl r troops: District-Attorney Jerome secured an} from the city. attacked SHIPPING NEWS. i citer our utmit the case to the Grand | (gain with a few hundred m. | Jury, and according, to the report in their early judgment of the evidence. Foreman Beattie, or the Grand Jur, had a long conference with Record erstwhile bull | Goff this afternoon, 5 | "Whef Lr. Conrad was arraigned be-| Morales. One of tie dead was brought hart Recorder Goff Assistant Diatyict-lin with the army and next day search ver: | Attorney Miner asked that bail be flxed! parties went out through the brush and $15,000, but the Court thought $10,000] brought in the rest. — No ony knew |: was enough District-Attorney Jerome Resub- mits the Case to the Grand Jury and This Time an In- The bench warrant was the result of] fending army who wore a unifotm. its counsel, Champ Andrews, spent $3,000] strong for them, Ao they Joined in wt ey eS RY 19; 1904. -- ble 5 TUGS AND FERRY-BOATS MOVING IN UPPER BAY+ __- ONLY WITH THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY, TRE SLIPS BEING FILLED WITH HUGE CAKES OF FLOATING ICE. COMIC OPERA WAR. J THE EMPRESS . WSAN DOMINGO) OF CHINA DEAD2 the Government and the} ager’s Demise from Canton, Revolutionists Both Marched! but the Rumor Is Discredited Up and Down the Hill. in Official Circles. The cocoanut Iaden schooner Lavinial toNDON, Feb. 1%—A special de- M. Snow, which arrived here to-day.| sate from Canton says {t is reported had bad weather from the time she left 5 Macoris, her last port of call in San|!n official circles there that the Dowa- the schooner and headed her off her; ‘The Chinero Legation here has heard course. Ono by one pleces of her head-| yotning of the reported death of the gear carried away and altogether she lost much of her head canvas and some rigging, ; The schooner reached Macoris Jan, 2,! The Dowager Empress of China ts when the town was in possession of| considered the most wonderful woman Morales and his forces. A day or twe|of the age in the public eye. For forty later a force under Jiminez was reported | years she has ruled China with an in- to be in the neighborhood about to at-|telligence as astute and keen as that tack the town. A sortie of Morales's} which characterizes the statesmanship troops was planned fo meet and repulse |or polity of men trained to the bust- the Jiminex forces. Mate Wood, of the| ness of government. She qwields a schooner. tells the story of the battle|sceptre which for autocracy and des- Dowager Empress and discredits tt. EA Id deers ee potism knows no equal in the civilized | charged from custody by Recorder 2) nd surren-| ¢ gemi-clvillzed countries of Asia and | ered several times while we lay there. It was a comic-opera war, When Jim-| Africa. 1 missed the complaint against him, was| 'nez was coming to attack Macoris the) ghe cajoled the Emperor Into a mar- only lorales, force in tha city werel riage after she had been introduced volunteers, They started out to repulxe the attack, ‘The gunboat Et Presidente | {nto the Imperial household In a doubt- was lying in the harbor and a Meulen-|ful character. One story, that is gen- ant from her led the forces. Ho was|erally believed, is that she’ came to fhe only officer or soldier of tho de-| Peking as a slave. Her wit, her bright- rhe troops marched out two hundred|ness of mind, her perspective faculty strong and were gone two days, ‘Then|soon made her the leader among the they came back accompanied by some| women of the Emperor's court. Tung three hurfdred others, ull cheering for! Gne fell a victim to her wiles and at the} Jimi; C1 MART lemthed the sce CANNETS. te, {time of his death she was the virtual the Morales troops kept the Jiminez} source of all power in China, For two army some miles out of Macoris, an: | generations she has held the whip hand in which the Morales contingent de-j;@nd her indomitable will. clded that the Jiminez forces were too| The Empress was born in 183, the daughter of a poor Manchu noblem then: and me - coris un- Ger thee fag ned back to Macoris Un= | rom 1961 to 188 she was Empress Co- A few days later Morales sent a force , Regent; from 1831 to 1889 she was Em- of regulars to capture the city ond in| press Regent, and since that time has | the face of ther attack all hands de-| been Empr -Rege . serted the Jimincz flag and wont over | bee? Empress Co-Regent, her Btep-son e to Moral " unboat El Presidente | ruling with her, sailed away a fer a few day ——— Morales wii n. "That is the way they fight down D Soe te ene le after:| there, Am soon as one aide, ga é ; | tne le Grand Jurors took exception | victory all thome who. fought against | ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY to the attempt to make them reverse| them go over to the victor, The only /Sun rises, 6.49/Sun acts. 5.99/Moon sets. $49 casualties In the war during our stay! In the port were twenty-six wounded PORT OF NEW york. and two Killed at the time the regulars attacked and captured the city for Anite which side they belonged to sq all of | Mannheim . + Rotterdam An Indictment was found against Miss] the wounded were cared for allke, and | Bt Sy Galvont , 2 Nurse at the doctof's sani-| the two dead were buried at the same | giorerdyic Rote gans ON SUICIDES LIFE Visit to the Coroner’s Office of Former Fiancee of Man Who Took Acid in Hotel May Ex- plain Why He Killed Himself. A hondsomely gowned young woman. unusually pretty and wearing a quan’ ty of Jewelry, called at the Coroner’ OMece this afternoon and asked for a who committed suicide at the Broad carbolle acid, The man had registered E, Blume, of Baltimore. Phe young woman, who refused to was not a grave one sentence had been suspended. Her fiance, however, had felt such remorse for the érime that he brooded over {t constantly, His despondency was increased when marry him, Before th Insured his life M her favor for $1,000, and she desired the death certificate ‘in order Lo collect the money. ther of im, but xhe has not vet been found.| time with milit honors, = WANTS INSURANCE give her name, said that she had been|gramme ts unmistakably to procure a engaged tg the dead man, whose reai{naval force that will exceed that of name was Eugene Brandenburger. Dur- }Germany.” He then gave figures show- ing their courtship, ene sald, he had}ing the strength of the German army been convicted of grand larceny injand what it will be in the Immediate jeneral Sessions, but as the offense future. soneuelo, q ibrait WANT BIGGER NAV Conmuelo, HUM gg, Siclana. Gibraltar, Grangense, Barbad OUTGOING § MSHIPS. INCOMING STRAMSHIPs. ric,” Liverpool! SAILED TO-DAY. DUB TO-DAY, nitz, Bremen. ©o Charleston, Main, Bremen. Monroe, Norfolk. Saratoga, Nassau. Eastern Prince, Brazil. Tallahassee, Savannah Tiomo, Yucatan. Rio Grande, Brunswick —.— | of the skin, as in eczem: HUMANITY’S WORK GETS A SETBACK. BERNE Switzerland, Feb. 19,.—Incon- sequence of the war between er J , the Federal Council postponed indefinitely the international conference summoned to meet at Geneva May li to revise the Geneva Conven. tion with the vtew of improving the treatment of wounded men. 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LADIES’ WALKING SUITS, formerly #24.00, now #16.00. | LADIES MILITARY COATS, jformert 821,00, now $14.00. INGS TILL 9 O'CLOCK. ~ Agents Wanted. We want agents In every elty and town to Jexplain tho merits, of ihe Inst fire extin- Guisher on the mark automobile owner, i ing nenls one; Write Imnicdintely for terri- | tory: | NEVERMYSS FIRE INGUISUER CO, Middleta DIED. FEE —On Feb, 17 at his Long Inland City renide 91 Crescent at., Astoria. ‘THOMAS FER, beloved husband of Lagra. Relatives, friends and acquaintances are Invited to attend his funeral on Sat- urday morning at 10 o'clock; thence to the ChurehTof Our Lady of Mount Car- mel, where mass will be colebrated for the repose of his soul SEEDER PET Laundry Warnts—Female. Bast Congressman Fitzgerald Hits Roosevelt in the House and, Tells What He Claims Are. Aims of the Administration. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Speaking to- day {n the House on the appropriation for more warships. Congreseman Fitz- gerald said that to whoever can read the signs of the times the programme of this Goverament Is plain. fam aware that official dental wilt be quickly forthcoming,” he declared. “Nevertheless, I aasert that the action of this Government in ity naval pro- Admiral Dowey, he said, in @ hearing, SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY. i before the Naval Committee, made the] 9° Te Gnanae atatemen I think we’ ought to be # little ahead of any country that in Iike- jy to attack us. I tiink if we were to nove forty-elght battle-ships in twenty] vears they would let us alone," Mr, Fitzgerald inquired who could] 8 say that at the end of twenty vears the dolicies of the Government mieht not require a navy practically equal to that abst the Covonees | ‘continuing, "Mtr. Fitzgerald A i took away the wphere i a growin, “ took on, consisting of pocketbooks, a scarfpin and a cigarette case. re fecling of in this country. here ie an aim ‘We will deliver trom 1 \ universal Dellef, ever ereet friends, | 20 ibs. at the following nan fr ite ton Jam ~ | Pati man. nau! Bee NDY Washington's Birthday Souvenirs, ___ 4 Handsome, Appropriate Souventr Commem- orative of the Occasion Wil Be Presented to Each Customer on Friday and Satarday. SPECIAL for SAT URDAY. LA SPECIAL for FRIDAY and SATURDAY