The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1904, Page 1

~ in the club and that hié O K on a card secured admission to Canfield’s,”” PRICE ‘ONE CENT, [ “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | “ Circulation Books [ “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | to All.’’ Che iSO fh —ARDUSED TO SEARCH FOR CANFIELD TOUT Will Get After Him if if Mr. Jerome Will,Bi crown IN STREET; Make a Specific Charge and Give ak hem Something to Work On Other; than a General Statement. STILL HOT ON REGGIE VANDERBILT'S TRAIL. District-Attorney Tells How the Young Millionaire Met His Losses with Post-Dated Checks, and When Cash Ran Short He Furnished an I. O. U. It is up to District-Attorney Jerome to drive the man who, he says, touted in the University Club for Canfleld's gambling-house out of the club. By giving the name of the man to the Board of Governors he can cause action to be taken. “On the mere statement of the District-Attorney,” sald Judge Henry Howland, President of the club, to-day, “I do not see why the Board of Governors should take any action. Not that I disbelieve the District-Attor- uey, bur a general statement like this {s too vague for serious consideration. “We have between 2,000 and 3,000 members in the University Club end among them there may be a man who Induces others to gamble at Canfield’s—assuming that there {s a Canfield gambling-bouse—but if there = such a man [ shall be surprised to know it positively. I think I should lave feard of it if there was any gambling-house persuasion being used in ike University Club.” JEROME’S BLUNT COMMENT. District-Attorney Jerome was told) to-day that somé of the members of the Untversity Club thought that he should have given his !nformation :o'the Board of Governors instead of spreading it at Albany. ‘Oh, h——,” he remarked.‘ ‘That's cheap.” 6 tively agree with Judge Howland. He thinks that the accusation made » the District-Attorney is serious enough to call for an investigation. ‘onsternation bas been engendered by the »nnouncement of the Dis- trft-Attorney that if he gets his bill, aimed at Richard Canfield, through the Legislature, he will subpoena as witnesses not only members of the University Club, but members of his own club, the Union. Altogether Mr. Jerome's frank declarations of what he is-going 0 do and his apparent Lnowledge of the identity of the men who frequented Canfield’s has set quite a number of prominent young men in the social life of New York to studying steamship routes and raflway timetables. DETERMINED TO GET VANDERBILT, It is plain that the District-Attorney is hot on the trail of Reginald Van- derbilt. He appears to believe that the testimony of young Vanderbilt is essential should the law be so amended as to allow of bringing Canfield to trial. Mr, Vanderbilt 1s not in the city at present. He is on his Newport farm and if the Jerome bill passes it will mean that he will probably re- main on his Newport farm unless he can visit New York secretly, While Mr. Jerome has not yet officially associated the “half-drunken kid" who he asserts lost $500,000 at Canfleld’s with Reginald Vanderbilt, he| has thrown some further illumination on the transactions between the mill- jonaire aud the gambler. In his talk to the Codes Committee of the Senate yesterday he sald that Vanderbilt played and Jost at Canfield’s and paid his debts with post-dated checks. When his cash ran out he gave I. O, U.'s. The District-Attorney had a lot of fun with Senator Elsberg, of this city, yesterday. Senator Elsberg is one of the anti-Platt trio, the others Laing Senators Brackett and Brown. .The three age the bosom friends and energetic supporters of Gov. Odell, and Senator Brackett Is the man who is responsible for an amendment to the Jerome bill making it inoperative until next September, after the Saratoga season closes, Senator Brackett'y home fs at Saratoga, and he has acted as coungel for Richard Canfield at various times, THE “TOUT” HAD BEEN SUBPOENAED. Senator Elsberg sald that members of the University Club had told him thoy feared they would be subpoenaed jf the Jerome bilT should’ pass and Canfleld should be prosecuted. It was here that Mr. Jerome got in his dig about the clubman who acted as a tout. It appears that this man was sub- poenaed when Canfield’s case was first taken up, but he escaped without giving testimony on the strength of the decision in the case of Jesse Lew- isobn, who successfully maintained that to testify would incriminate and| degrade him, “I know the gentleman you refer to, strong accent on the word “gentieman,” ald the District-Attorney, with a “I know that he was very popular The surprising statement of the District-Attorney that Canfield offered | 0 into court and plead guilty°to keeping a gambling-house if he could tp unjler the agreement to be let off with a fine has created a sensation ng the gambling eiement. Another sensation bas been caused by the Dietrict-Attorney’s statement that theye are five or six other places as big ax Canfield’s that he wants to get after with the afd of a! law compelling men who go to gambling-houses to testify as to what happens in them. Pre- sumabty these other places are running, because Mr. Jerome said that it is impoesible to get a police officer into them. The chances for the Jerome bill appear to be favorable. Should the amendment stalling off action under the bill until September fall to be killed in' the Codes Committee the Senate will probably kill it end the bill will become operative as soon as passed, Canfield is in London or on the Continent. He {s paying his usual annual visit to the other side and is not expected back for some time. The ‘si ape cme is of the opinion that Jf he esq “t+ hit theageh Canfleid ea tis ae "s Franklin Bartlett, a prominent member of the club, does not en-} FIVE RESCUED AT BROADWAY FIRE Panic Among Twenty Women Employed by Jacob Ginsberg,} a Furrier at No. 1,158, and Firemen Used Scaling Lad- ders. WHOS POLICE RESERVES OUT Guests in the Victoria Hotei,| Just Opposite. Were Badly! Scared--Fire Caused by Ex- plosion of Gasoline. There was a panic and a crowd of several thousands in the streets calling out the reserves from the Tenderloin Station at a fire caused by an explosion of naphtha and benzine in the fur-reno- vating establishment of Jacob Ginsberg. lat No. 1188 Broadway, late this atter- noon. There was dense smoke. causing ex- citement among the twenty women am- ployed by Ginsberg so that five of them were carried down the ladders, fainting, by the firemen. One of them, a gray-haired woman of sixty-five yveurs, was in a dead faint when the firemen found her on the fire escape, when these fite had gathered and were about to Jump in thelr fright, for smoke was pouring out of the win- dows of the third floor, where they were. ‘The guests of the Hotel Victoria, on the opposite corner, were also thrown into panic by the volumes of dense | smoke and fled to the street. while the | usual afternoon crowds in Broadway | gathered about the scene. Thewrowd became so, great that the | reserves from the West Thirtieth Street Station were sent to the scene. The Seneca Club, a Tammany district | organization, has its rooms on the sec- ond floor of the bullding and was slightly damaged -by the fire. One of | the members of the club found a Mias | Donahan lying unconscious in the hall- way on the second floor and carried her | down stairs to the store of H. FR. Kirk de Gon) wegre she wagireviveh 7 RUSSIAN SHELLS RIDDLE Mikasa Strack by Ten Projectiles panel Bombardment of Port Arthur—Sev- eral Other Warships Damaged in Same Engagement Under Repair. (By the Associated Press.) PORT ARTHUR, <hursday, March 17 (delayel).—According to information recéfved from Russians at Shanghai, during the fighting at Port Arthur February 10 and 11, the Japanese battle-Ship Mikasa was struck by ten projectiles and seriously damaged; two Japanese battle- ships aid two cruisers have been docked for repairs at Nagasaki av Sasebo, and 2,000 wounded men are said to be in the Japanese hospitals. All the Russian wounaed and sick at Port Arthur are making good progress toward recovery. Last night and to-day passed quiet! ST. PETERSBURG, March 18—. off Port Arthur, Previous reports have told of the damage done to a Japanese baitlo- ship, but this is the first time the nume of the ship has been mentioned, Reports have also been printed of the injury o two Japanese cruisers which were seen being towed into Nagasaki for repairs, one of them with a bad lst to port. 200 JAPANES SE TROOTFS SHANGHAI, March 18,-—The United States cruiser Cincinnati, arriving | here from ChemulIpo, where it landed American refugees from Northern! Coroa, brings a circumstantial report of an encounter between 800 Russians | and 200 Japanese, north of Vingyang, in which the were annfhllated. The Japanese forces are now advancing from Pingya and that the ! frst corps, or fighting line, is composed of not less than 125,000 men. The Russians, 30,000 strong in the Yaiu district, ate retreating ov Corea, according to Japanese advices, and are fortifying the north vank the Yalu, preparatory to standing a siege. This indicates that the first great battles of the war will bé fought in Corea and not in Manchuria PARIS, March 18—-No reports have been received at the Poteign Of- fice or elsewhere confirming the Bourse rumor of a great Japanese defes which probably grew out of the unconfirmed Shanghai report of the a feat of 200 Japanese by a Russian force’of 300 men, Japanese FELL DEAD ON “L” CAR. “L" train, Brooklyn, to-day at the De Kalb avenue atation, vey Suadenty Over-) Several woman fainted, but had re- come'in Brooklyn. covered when the train pulled up at the Michael Halvey,. sixty-seven years | prankiin exeste station, There the # who kept @ little candy store mt |’, was vnreled off the ae a dead on a Lexington avenue Mich: ody of jo, 483 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, train and Yintteges $0.8 drug store, i ’ sos tlcrsnalbietinisie + boats albuicie NEW YorK, FRIDAY, Manc HR [DANIEL J. SULLY, THE 2 P. M—The Admiralty’ has * no confirmation of the reported loss of the torpedo-boat destroyer Skori] 9 KILLED BY RUSSIANS.) POEs SAN cas WEATHER—Clondy To-Night; Saturday Fatr, 110°CLOC 1904, COTTON KING, E FAILURE / < WAS ANNOUNCED TO-DAY. LONG SHOTS WN AGHIN N JAPANESE BATTLE-SHIP IN RAGES AT NEW ORLEANS, Lacache Wins Opening Event at 15 to to 1, Docile Takes Third at 10 to 1 and June Collins Captures the Fourth at 13 to 1, (Spectal to The Evening World.) NACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, La. March 18—For the first time in. somo weeks mudiarks were gften an oppor- tunity of earning a pur® to-day, The going is depp and heavy, arfd the change in truck conditions was responsible for a number of scratches FIRST RACE Six furlongs Netti Starters, lit 103 itowell 5 won, but streteh nin out Hist would hve i lost the list was ror st the end. Haly race and fit Starters, wht. 4 ffi Munter, mit Ait company ‘ front or thelr eld until w the far turn. In the run home the th went to pitovs and stopped to a] Debenture, Walk, The Aoish resolved {twelf into H gonteet between Docile, Bhort Cake and” Spencerian, Tbe former drew | rime—1.64 WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Lacache (15 to 1) | SECOND RACE—Truffie Hunter (7 to 5) 1, Falbala (1 to 2) 2, Georgia! | Carter 3, 1, Spencerian Cake 3. | FOURTH RACE—June Collins (13 sette 3, 5) 1, Safe Guard (21 to 5) 2, | rick 3, SIXTH RACE Atheola (7 to 1) |Nimble Nag (20 to 1) 2, Staader 3. Tittawood Hadlant H "giant's 1, Hist (9 to 2) 2, Half a Hundred 3.) | excitement. THIRD RACE—Docile (10 to 1)|Even the members of his own firm cbuld not get to him. (40 to 1) 2, Short seclusion for nearly an hour and then telephoned for his lawyers. Through FIFTH RACE Circus Girl (12 to| tho downfall uf Sully Dr. o | | NIGHT EXTRA | "PRICE ‘ONE CEI SULLY FAILS FOR WILD PANIC IN COTTON ——— oe = Stirring Scene of Excitement in New York Exchange When the Announcement Is Made that His Firm Had Suspended— Speculators Engage in Rough and Tumble Encounters During the Panic. EW ORLEANS, TOO, IS BADLY AFFECTED BY NEWS OF FAILURE. Had Cleaned Up the Market and Was About to Take a Long Vacation in Europe When He Began to Operate Again, and This Time the Bears Got Him in a Corner and Forced Him to the Wall. Daniel J. Sully, the Cotton King, announced his failure this after- noon. Five weeks ago he had $3,000,000 cleaned up in less than a year and was practically out of the cotton market. Instead of going abroad for a rest, as he had said he would, he got back into the market and the bears have been taking it away from him at the rate of $600,000 a week. It is estimated-that -he is carrying 300,000 bales of- May and July: cotton, on which he has lost an average of $10 a bale. “Mr. Sully was unable,to meet his obligations,” sald a man copnected with the firm of D. J. Sully & Co. It is very probable that he will have to sell his seats on the New York and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges, the Produce Exchange, the Coffee (Exchange, the Stock Exchange and the | Chicago Board of Trade. | WILD SCENE ON THE eX CHANGE. All the scenes of pandemonium that have occurred on the Cotton Ex- change since Sully came to New York and started to bull the market were eclipsed when the announcement of his suspension was made this aftrnoom: For a moment there was dead silence. Then a roar went up that was heard all over the block. The members sailed into each other in what looked to be a rough and tumble fight. thrown to the ceiling, clothing was torn and several members were knocke:! down and jumped upon. When a measure of calm was restored the floor was covered with broken chairs, smashed hats and pieces of clothing, During this excitement the market declined about 200 points on the active options. This was followed by a slight rally, but the close was weak and flighty. Ga the Stock Exchange the announcement of the failure caused a fall- ing off of the general market, but there was a quick rally and very Utue It ig sald that Sully had no Stock Exchange deals on at this time. The cotton market has been keeping him busy. When Sully sent word to the Cotton Exchange that he would have to suspend he double locked the door of his office and refused to see any one. He remained in them he aald that he would not make a statement to-day, but that some- thing might be sald by a member of the firm late in the afternoon. to 1)+1, Presentation (4 to 1) 2, Jo| BEARS REJOICE AT HIS FALL, There was a great rejoicing among the bears of the cotton market over Hie ins made life a nightmare for them for a year. (Continued on Second Page.) FROM YA NS reed that only five Innings should ed, and although the Yantgans were first to score and had the regulars pees for the first three innings, at 4 of the fifth the regulars were lieanee righy six runs to fou was st W'S: \ Latter Touch Up Up Matty’ 3g Bend=) ne Heviin and aninican some od BP AE "3! ers in Second Inning, but Big herd ru on 2 karat ete te i Pitcher Then Lets Out a eared Pals) aed Link. | MORE NAILS IN THE LID. Requires Dally Repocts to of the precincts tn ecting them to ternoon sent ar tains In charge Mathewson. p Umpire—MeGiapity 1 ty The Evening World) HAM, Ala, March nts had ident training weat taking advantage of It. After warming| (nCh. up with ten minutes of easy throwing Manager McGraw started a game be- Furniture was smashed, hats were “