The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1904, Page 10

a FR GOTSHAL " Milermanic Committee Will Re- port Against Port Chester Road Tuesday and Report Will Be Adopted. sy ee tat PRESIDENT BLAMED FOR ALL THE BRIBERY TALK. - Members of the Board Will Show Their. Resentment by Killing Any Chance of Success the Road Ever Had. President Gotshall's champions in the Board of Aldermen have desrted him And the cause of his Port Chester rali- foad enterprise. If a ballot of the full Roara were to be taken to-day it would Pesult in the filing of a unanimous opin- fon against the granting of Mr. Got- @hall’s application for a franchise, so enraged are the Aldermen over the rev- elation that the circulation of the brib- ery stories was traced to the door of the President of the Port Chester road, In view of this feeling, on Tuesday, when the Rallroad Committee: renders its report on the railroad’s application, Wt will he adverse to President Gotshall’s Interest and it will be adopted. ‘This means that the Port Chester road affair will be killed and cannot again be brought up during the term ofthe present Board at least. Public Hearing Monday. Although there is to be a public hear- ing on the Port Chester application Monday, and hundreds of Bronxites are expected to be present to urge the com- mittee to take speedy and favorable action on the Port Chester franchise, the committee will not heed these ap- peals in view of the circumstances. ‘Another feature of the report will dis- lose that the members of the commit- tee have not been assured that Prest- ent Gotshall can command the means to build a road and that there Is no assurance that he ever intends to build. On the other hand it will be shown at that men of responsibility are behind "the Westchester enterprise, and that a high-class modern road will begin butld- ing in the Bronx one month after the ‘Westchester certificate is signed by the _Mayor and the Comptroller. ) Alderman McCall Angry. "We cannot sce, in view of the in- vestigation, how the matter of the Port Chester, application can be acted upon favorably now," said Alderman John .T. McCall. “The facts appear to be that President Gotshall had a hand fn the gireulation of the bribery stories, ‘and the members of the Board cannot, tm jilitice to themselves, vote for hi “pplication. If the Railroad Commit- tee reports the matter Tuesday ad- ly, and I understand that is to be @ohe, I shall vote for the ‘adoption of thie réport. If the New York, West- ehester and Boston road was favored in the Board it was because the members Knew that the men behind that road intend to duild and not juggle thelr franchise in Wall street. No sych as- Surances from President Gotshall have been. received. The people of the Bronx will get rapid trangjt now, but Mr, Gotshall is not the man, we feel fonvineed, who is to furnish it.” _ The report of the Investiguting Com- mittee, to be submitted to the Board ‘Tuesday, will put the origin and circu- dation of the bribery stories “up to” President Gotshal, and he will be se- Veroly criticised for encouraging t he Bribery reports. The report will be adopted. — BANK STATEMENT GOOD. Leans Ace Shows a Decrenane for the First Time in Weeks, » Except for a loss of more than 090,000 in cash the bank statement better than had been expected and da jew of the general bellef held dur- ing the carly part of the week that FP the surplus reserve would be wiped % pat, it might be considered a good pene. The surplus reserve, instead of ‘being wiped out, showed an Increase Sof $177,025, which was due to the heavy ecreare in deposits, amounting to J $20:049,90. The loan account showed a Gecrease of $22,875,100, it being the first time in several weeks that a shrinkage dn this department was noted, The statement follo s 5,100 Seenpeics Ws Tonal tend ora) ee 140.883 “Phe surplus is now $13,001,275 against x last year and $14,301,450 two >years ago. ; ee STOCKS STRONG AND ACTIVE AT CLOSE Good Bank Statement and a Drive at Steel Shorts Combine to Send Prices Up While Buying Increases. A better bank statement than had boon expected, In fact a statement that, all things considered, might be called good. crused the stock market te rule strong during the last half hour of trading to-day, and a majority of the Issues «bowed small gains or held (iose ad- vances made in anticipation of the good statoment, A determined raid was made upon the shorts in the Steel iasues an hour before the close and prices advanced. The rise in Steel preferred was quick and soon the stock was selling 3-4 over the opening. This advance felped the whole market and St. Paul crossed 140, witle Wabash preferred, which closed at 31-2, sold up to M41-4. Atoh son, upon which London has ‘had a bull tip for same days, showed decided strength and advanced to 69, while Union Pacific, which it is believed will be aided by the settlament of the Northern Seouritfes muddle, was strong also and gained 5-8 of a point. ‘There was some good buying of the Rock Island and Erle issues and both re- sponded readily to the stimulus, Read- Ing also whowed strength on the report that the May earnings would be very large. The opening did not in the least give promise of the increased activity nor strength which suddenly developed. Amenican Locomotive during the early, trading, when the whole market showed « downward tendercy, was an excep- tion and made a gain of @ full point The advance was sald to be due to favorable results from the company's recent Canadian acquisition, The Realty ‘ssues also showed ex- ceptional strength on the denial that there was friction between the Stillman and Gates interests. ‘Dhe preferred rose 1 1-4 points and then teacted 1-2 point. Adams Fxpress sold 2 per cent. higher and United States Rubber preferred was strong. Rubber Goods, on the declaration of a regular dividend upon the preferred, advanced 7-8 over the last sale. On the advance there was quite a little short selling of Steel and other issues. ‘The toal sales of stocks were 148,30) shares, and of bonds $1,041,000, The Closing Quotations, y'@ highest, lowest and closing prices t changes from yesterday's closing and from last recorded sales are tol Pant! WHEAT MARKET. eb (hye Tish. 1%. Wheat started steady to-day on the! An & & Ret: Wh Ay + absence of cables from the English | ‘Sugar 12% ay a i markets and with Western crop news{<' 1 Saf pe oe oo tt ‘Offering little incentve to the trade. Balt crear iis ay + Corn: waa also steady, with no feature | Brook nT nes 485 fom pO “to the business. Can 17m a “New York opening prices. were: | ‘ 1 tas “Wheat—July, September, 84 1-4.|¢. 140% + % ‘Corn—Iuly, 54 7-8; September, 53. Ig seats) »* Chicago opening prices were: Wheat | ees _ —May, 99; July, 86 5-8 to 868-4; Septem-| Set ft ber, 808-8 to 1-4 to 3033-8, Corn— ef Mot 2 S May, 47 3-4 to 47 5-8; July, 48 1-8 to 48 1-4; | Movnatean att % 0 47 3-8, yer. By tr rid closing prices were: |i: i tle A+ te —————_ 1 + COTTON MARKET. Reading ae Pi | Gotton opened easy to-day, with | hock Inland pt ust & lets unchanged to $ points lower, |Bollth. Pacific ear Wy bityhig of July and August by a Sain ho, bf. | Ghent Wall street interest was the /St,t-&° F- 3 u feature of the market, presuma-{inloh Pacific 2 @ movement to cover shorts, The nd was productive of less adv; ance of the heaviness of New Or. Phe opening prices were: May, 12.61 eptember, 11.19 might have been expected, chieny |W | Win, Cent + Advance. Full deacritpion of the Glanta’ Kame in Chieage to-day will be und in the FINAD EDITION of ‘he Evening World to-night, HOW SOME SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS SPENT THEIR TIME, ON BOARD THE GROSSER KURFUERST, “CUPID AER |e ie by PRCT Mill [A 2 WOMAN DIES IN LOBBY OF CHURCH Sinks to the Floor During Ser- vice and Is Carried Outside, Where Priest Administers Extreme Unction. While attending mass early to-day in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, on BSixty-first street near avenue, Barbara Petzel, about seventy years old, of No. 1143 First avenue, sank to the floor and was carried to the lobby where she died just as extreme unction had been administered by the Rev. Keo- phil Matzu, who was summoned from inside, It was ascertained Mrs. Petzel lived at the First avenue address with an Italian woman. The latter had left the house early in the morning and had not returned when neighbors carried the news of the death to the house. ‘The body was taken to an undertaker’s es- tablishment. [RADIUM CAUSES THE EARTH'S HEAT? Prof. Rutherford, of McGill Uni- versity, Advances Striking Theory—Says Radium Is Probably in All Matter. LONDON, May 21.—Ernest Ruther- ford, Professor of Physics at McGill University, Montreal, in a lecture before the Royal Institution advanced the striking theory that the earth heat Is not attributable to a molten mass which has been slowly cooling for a million years, which has been the generally ac- cepted theory, but to the presence of radium. Prof, Rutherford's address was listen- ed to by a distingufshed audience, in- cluding Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Prof, Dewar and other great scientists. Prof. Rutherford was the first to measure the mass and velocity of the electrons of radium. He announced the probability of radium being contained in all matter, A Fascinating Romance, Thrilling and Unique. The Woman Who Is Now a Woman in Name Only—No. 43. SA NM Lae At" Ny <n Wy Se — ee | fv WN 7/7 “I stand in the glowing twilight And gaze on the evening sky, On the glorious sunset banners That athwart the hilltops lie, Till the diamond eyes of heaven Look down on the bond and the free, But I see the stars through the So what are they all to me!” New York Jife in its most dramati great new romance “Prison Bars,” by The Even! World next Thursday, Mav = prison bars, ce, heart-twisting form ts pletured tn! the Frederick A. Brown, which will begin in SERCHED LINER FOR CRIMINALS Detectives Hold Up La Savoie in Hunt for Frenchman and Wom:n Companion Accused of Colossal Swindling Abroad ‘Though the passengers on the French lper La Savole. that errived here to-day. sailed throughout the Voyage under bri 1- fant skies and over untroubled seas, they went through an ordeal upon de- parting from Havre and also when they arrived in New York which gave them as many thrills as they would encount- er on a trip of incessant incident. For the nast few weeks the police of France have been searching the four corners of the republic for a man and woman accused of swindlings which amount to 200,000 francs through a fraudulent security company, an Amert- can get-rich-quick concern on a mag- nificent scale. The man’s name ts Pic- quard and the woman {s called Adele Lampbun, nore the sailing of La Savole a week ago the Commissary of the Par- {sian police sped to Havre and with Ave uniformed and heavily armed gen- darmes he made a tour of inspection throughout the ship. Notwithstanding this Incisive search, however, no trace of Picquard and his companion was found. The investiga- tion had delayed the ship several hours before the captain was notified that he could sail. Even then the Commissary was not satisfied that his search had been sufficiently thorough, and he tele- graphed to the Pinkerton Agency in this city to post a guard at the gangplank of the Savole upon her arrival and note every passenger who left the boat. Promptly upon the arrival of La Sa- vole to-day six Pinkerton men were posted angplink. ‘There were nlso several vernment officers ‘mong the Custom-House men who went over the baggage, who had been wistructed to ald the French police tn thelr search for the alleged swindlors: The passengers submitted amiably to i scrutiny, which bore the same results, no evidence of the pres- ence of the French couple being found. » carried 9 first cabin, i and 746 steerage passengers, I a Sa} second cabin Among the passengers were Filsaboth earny, sister to G earny; M. Del Satar. Peruvia ister tu Colombia, and F, Ossa, an at- tache of the Chilean Legation at Paris, who is en route to represent his govei ment at the St. Louls Exposition, A band of about forty Syrians, in ple- turesque native attire, attracted atten- tlon on the pier. They are going to St. Tan's to inhabit the Syrian village, ‘What threatened a more serious delay to La Savole was a strike that had heen planned by the officers of the vessel on the night before she sailed, News of this project reached the oMfelals of the company, one of whom made a record trip from Varls to Havre at_midnight, He met the discontented officers and warned them that {f ther tailed tor port at their posts at sailing time th would be neremptorily discharged. Thev obeved this command and the proposed strike failed poe CURB STOCKS LISTLESS. Trading Quite at a Standstill and Iittle Change in Prices, Securities In the outside market were practically unchanged to-day, with trading almost at a standstill. ‘The bid and asked prices of the principal out- side securities wer Bid, Asked. Bi 4! MH 35 Great Norther: 165” 474 Greene Copper 1% 354 Havana ‘Tobacco mB” 39 Havana, ‘Tobacco 8 ter, Paper 3 . iter i tty ant nom 13 Japanese x 4 \ Northern Securities Uri Baty Standard Oil x-div 12.” 615 Seaboard Alr Line. cman Ts Seaboard Air Line pi 16h Th White Knob 6 t ee German, Trench, Bel, and Dutch Lines Lower Price to $10, COLOGNE, Rhentsh Prussia, May 21. —The German, French, Belgian and Dutch steamship companies have de- cided to reduce thelr steerage rates to sin ty ceder ty creat the cut from Liverpool and Auwerica, ard line's ndon to | HIMSELF AWAY Love-Sickness Took the Place of Sea-Sickness on Board the Grosser Kurfuerst, with 880 Sunday-School Workers. UNMARRIED HOBOKEN TRYING VESSEL’S CHARM. Swains and Maidens Gather Near the Boat, Hoping They, Too, Can Become Engaged as the Seven Other Couples Did. Rents may be raised in Hoboken as a result of the spirit of romance which pervades the town since the arrival of the Grosser Kurfuerst with seven en- gaged couples on board. Lovers line the plier of the North German Lioyd line and gaze reptur- ously at the ship whereon fourteen souls found complete happiness when thelr stomachs didn’t happen to bo bothering them. More than one of them believes that Cupid ts still hiding in the hold, and that he came as a stowaway with more than 800 Sunday- school workers, who attended the World's Sunday-School Convention in Jerusalem last month. Already afl Hoboken knows of that seventy-two days’ trip and of the four- teen blissful voyagers who may soon be seven. Old women nod their heads wisely, mothers sing softly to their babes, and young men and maidens turn thelr sympathetic steps toward the dock where only German is spoken perfectly. Ship Makes Lofe. “You see ut,” remarked one of Ho- boken's most promising young lovers, last night, pointing to the big liner as it rested in its berth. “Shuah,’ murmured the maiden bv his side. “Vat is ut -| Genuine Whalebone Corsets, “Der Grosser Kurfuerst? think it vas, @ prewery?” “But vy you poindt ut vit your finger oud? She was coy. “It makes lofe.”" “A boad it makes lofe? Vat a non- sense!" “Not with the han's, tt don'd make ut, no. It's a inflooencer.”” “A influenza?” “You mistooken me, It ain’d a sneeze, it's a ship. A girl and a boy, they go by the boad on, and then fs ut."’ vy?" “That's the reason. Your heart tt joomp and then you find it oud.”” He drew her closor to him. Vat dit you Even the Moon Kindly. And then, as the kindly moon hid its face behind @ cloud, he folded her in Ais arms. Officers of the Grosser Kurfuerst won't admit having seen Cupid aboard, but they confess that many of the pas- sengers betrayed signs of having been pricked by the little fellow's arrows during the long voyage. Meanwhile Hoboken {s standing on the dock’in cooing couples trying the | absent treatment for all it is w. JAMES McGREERY & CO. Sale of Corsets On Monday May the 27rd Short hip Batiste Corsets, trimmed with lace, Sizes 18 to 22 inches, $1.25 Value $1.75 Long dip hip, Batiste Corset, with Supporters attached, Sizes 18 to 30 inches, $1.45 Various models, $3.50 Value $4.75 to $8.50 Dimity and Swiss Ruffs for Shirtwaists and Summer Dresses, §0C., 75¢. and $1.25 Twenty-third Street. FURS UNDA [wort{ The Captain and the Typewriter Girl. A West Point Sensation Which Began with a Box of Candy and Ended inthe-Office of the Secretary of War. A Story of the U.S. Army Moral Standards. I!) Chicago’s Most Beautiful Society Women. A Page of New Photographs of Western Social Leaders, Golden Gate to Hell Gate in an Auto. A Nerve-Testing Journey That Is to Be-Mad for a World’s Record. The Man Who Hiccoughed Nine Days Without Sleep. The Astonishing Case of Harry Taylor. and the More Astonishing Letters He Received Offering Cures for His Strange Malady, The Charcoal Burner Who Saved $100,000. A Little Story of Real Life, with the Moral. “What's the Use?” The Czar and His Spook Seances. The Unfortunate Russian Monarch, Who Allows Himself to Be Governed by Spirits Called Up by a Medium. The Book That Shaped John D. Rockefeller’s Life. The Career of a Massachusetts Merchant, and How It Helped Make the Oil King What He Is To-Day A Wife Murderer’s Remarkable Confession. The Story of Franklin P. Rose, Who Killed His » Wife to Prove that He Loved Her. Happy Family That Lived on $0.00 a Year. An Exposure of the Astonishing Way in Which a New York Family Got Along Without Paying Bills. A Clever Story by 0. Henry, The Romance of an East Side Boy. Confessions of a Successful &c. &, & Il Mother, GC, “|STORED ANDINSURED. | It is requested that custom. erswillleave FurGarments. to be altered or repaired, as early as possible during the Summer months, to facilitate their prompt de-; livery in the Fall, JAMES McGREERY & CO. Twenty-third Street. New Hats and Gowns. Sketches and Descriptions of the Very Latest Creations for the Summer. Fire inthe Funny Side Hotel “A Combination Picture in the Comic Section That Will Make You Laugh. Other Good Things as Well,