The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1904, Page 3

“ELIAS BAIL REDUCED: WILD SCENE IN COURT Demonstration Made in the Court- Room Itself Against the Prisoner, and Justice Clarke Shouts from the Bench to Suppress It. AGED MR. PLATT’S HEALTH BETTER, SON-IN-LAW SAYS.! Young Man Announces That There Will Be No Doubt About the Ap- pearance in’ Court of the Alleged Victim Whenever He Is Called Upon. The result of Hannah Elias’s fight in the Supreme Court to-day for) a reduction of the bail of $50,000, fixed in her case by Magistrate Ommen, was that the bond was changed to $30,000 by Justice Clarke, and the woman was taken back to the Tombs. Her counsel, Washington Brauns, was deeply disappointed ,in the outcome of the case. The bail is now $30,000 in the.criminal case and | 20,000 in the civil action, almost as prohibitive as before the habeas) corpus proceedings were instituted. The departure of Mrs. Blias from the Supreme Court room was marked ‘by a most undignified demonstration. For the first time in the history of the old Tweed Court-House a Supreme Court Justice stood up at the bench and yelled ab the top of his lungs to court officers to restrain the mob, which seemed determined to get close to the negress. Justice Clarke was indignant at the rough brutality of the crowd, and the dignity of the court- room was thrown to the windé in the wild confusion which followed. The demonstration was fully as great as that which marked the departure of the woman from the Mercer street police station yesterday, when her c@) ‘was pursued for blocks by missile-throwing hoodlums. SMUGGLED ACROSS BRIDGE OF SIGHS. "The Elias woman was brought out of the Tombs early for her trip to the Supreme Court and was smuggled across the Bridge of Sighs while a curious crowd was awaiting her at the prison entrance. At the White street en- trance to the building she talked to reporters while waiting for her cab. my baby all she ral “] have suffered fi © ht to have it. her swollen eyes. I want my baby a: Te rt it Is crnel to me and to her to heep her away. I know it in getting the best of care, it it with me. There is a law hild in prisom with her if she day. All I will say to which says that a mothe: is nursng it and I mean do not want to talk about Mr. Platt to. that I never blackm: more about him. My time will come, rest assured of th “How about « certain doctor and a lawyer who blackmalled yout” wi ked of the wo “Has that been printed?” asked Mrs. s in surprise, won't talk of that now except to say that perhaps the tion for that story.” The cab drove up ad this juncture and the negress got in it and was taken to the Court-House. At the Court-House there was 1 big crowd, and they filled every corridor. When Mrs. Elias was taken into Part Il. of the Supreme Court. where Justice Clarke was sitting, hundreds followed and filled every seat in the place. The police had ‘the greatest difficulty in maintaining order. ~ In the crowd which jammed the room was the guardian of Clara Hud- son, the first child of Mrs. Elias. He has made many effeorts to get the woman to contribute to the support of this child, but has not been success- ful. The girl now works for a living in Philadelphia. / Assistant District-Attorney Sandford appeared for Mr. Jerome and Mr. Brauns for the woman. It was announced that former Assistant Dis- trict-Attorney Osborne has been employed to assist Mr. Brauns in conduct- ing the case, but he did not appear In court. SAID BAIL WAS OUTRAGEOUS. Mr. Brauns quoted the Constitution to show that $50,000 ball was out- rageous in a case like that of his client. Mr. Sandford said, in view of the fact that nearly a million dollars hud been extorted from the complinant in the case, the bail was not excessive. There was more argument, and then Mr. Brauns asked. that bail be fixed at $5,000). Justice Clarke denied this; denied the application for the writ of habeas corpus, but consented to reduce the ball to $80,000. Mrs, Ellas, who had sat very quietly during the proceedings, rose at a signal from her lawyer, and then the disturbance in the court-room began. Everybody else jumped up, too, and Justice Clarke rapped for order. He was ignored. He yelled at the police to clear a passage for the woman, but they were outnumbered twenty to one. The crowd struggled, and Mrs. Elias was knocked from side to side. The Justice: was furious, and it was then that he Jumped to his feet and fairly shrieked his orders at the court officers. The woman was finally got out in the corridor and then the doors were shut on those still in the court-room. They were not released until the woman was safe in her carriage on the way to the Tombs. Those outside, however, mace it uncomfortable for ‘the woman and her escori. ‘There was hooting and howling, curses and disorder, and Mrs. Ellas showed genuine signs of fear. Back in the Tombs Mrs. Elias went to her cell, where she broke down sala to have and wept. In all probability she will be allowed to have her baby with ber. Mr. Cansard, John R, Platts son-in-law, sald to-day the om man was now fully recovered and would appear in court without fall lo prosecute the Has woman whenever called upen to do so. Mrs, Ellas passed a sleepless night at said that his condition may be such to- the ‘To ng Several tlmes for her | morrow that he will be unable to be paby. ampbell visited her and | present in the police court, Mr, Jerome gave her treatment. |has his promise to appear if his con- She asked the warden ty send for hey dition will permit, but in case he can- baby, but he told her he couldn't do| not the court will sit {n his bedroom so without an order. ‘and there the negress will be taken to Japanese butler, visited her |tell her story and answer to his night and again ac 7 A, Mt. | Charges. Kuch time he brought a buadie} 17 all her testimony the negress will ‘Although she did not sleop |4Weil upon the old man’s infatuation well her appepite remains unimpaired, | f" her and upon the readiness with her breakfast having consisted of steak, | Wilch he guve her whatever she asked chops, bacon and eggs and fruit. | for. But perhaps tue most surpris- ‘Phat there will be more sensational !!"& Part of ‘her tesuniony will be an fevelopmenis In the big blackmailing 8@™lsxlon that she told Platt what he Gass there iayno tonwer duube Alttiough | she told him when he made the statements made often that other men , Payment of $7,500 to her tast month. It of prominence have been contributing | /8 on this specife payment that the to the woman's support will not be! charge of extortion tm laid against her Zrougbt out in the police court hearing She will declare that ut that time a waich will come up before Magisirale suit was actually threatened by ons of Ommen in Centre street court to-mor-| thuse to whom She had already ua row afternoon, there will be other de-la jarge umount under simil MY velopments, stances, RD To-day {t is sald thatthe Ellas woman}; I will attempt to make it clear that she PR ea siteatanea on a large has not beog receiving money from any | hag not react ayy tne bagasse says |. In despe one except Platt and that it was bls. sie will say that she told the oid mon ‘nating aye have been exploded. cording to the prosecution, will prove a gigantic blackmail within a gigantic blackmail. Criminal warrants will be sworn out for two men at once and they will be arrested. One of the two men whom the woman has named as among those who obtained large sums of money from her is an electro-magnetic ‘doctor, who formerly attended her. The other {s an attorney-at-law. They found out, she says, how she was getting her money and real estate, and their de- mands for a share continued right up until Platt's civil sult was brought last week and the secret on which al! but ‘Platt had thrived was made public. In the complaint sworn out by Mr. Platt it 1s charged that the specific sum of $7,500 was extorted by the woman from him in May last on the pretense that she was about to he sued, and if sued would have to divulge the name of the patron to show from whom her income had come. In her statement to the District-Attorney's assistants, by way of defense to thin charge, Mrs, Elias declares that she really was threatened with a sult upon a bill for an exorbitant amount pre- sented by the doctor she has name who had already extracted much money from her under threat that if she didn’t pay him large instalments of his bill he would sue and the secret would be brought out. She aaid that she paid this doctor $2,700 in May last. Got Money Till the Last. In regard to the lawyer mentioned, the woman says that he continually applied for money to avert legal proceedings, and that, possessed of the knowledge that the civil sult of Mr. Platt was be- ing prepared, he made a demand for money with which, he sald, it could be staved off. Mrs, Elias has told th District-Attorney of many payments made under these circumstances. She declares also that Mr. Platt gave her money freely because he was enamoured of her and that the reason why she had to submit continually to the black- mail she has described was that Mr. Platt had told her that their relations must nat be disclosed, because of his family. Neither the doctor nor the attorney mentioned by the Elias woman has been employed by her for some time, accord- ing to her story. In fact, she says she dispensed with the doctor's services four or five years ag ‘Another feature of the Ellas case which may yet have some bearing was upon the future of the negress the application for a third time before a city magistrate of the girl who says she !s her daughter, and who charges her with abandonment. Again the application was refused, but the girl's attorneys declared themselves as determined to prosecute the case to the utmost, and to carry it in the end to the highest courts. Don’t Want Prosecution., They maintain that the papers of adoption of the girl by the Rev. Tray- rs Hudson, of Philadelphia, seventeen years ago, are Irregular, and that Mrs. Elias can be compelled to accept the girl Clara as still her daughter in the eyes of the law, and consequently a possible helr to her estate. ‘This negro girl was born to Hannah Ellas when she was an inmate of the ‘Almshouse in Philadelphia, where she went after serving a term ue the Phil- adel ia penitentiary for larceny. — aa catera for John R. Platt, War- ren, Warren & O'Blerne, are taking no interest in the criminal prosecution of Hannah Elias, They have been opposed to these proceedings from the first, be- lleving that the money alleged to have heen extorted from Platt would be spent in defending a criminal action and that there would be less left for their client to get back if the elvil action is decided fi: his favor, Lyman E, Warren, of th low firm, when asked if Platt would willingly appear as a prosecuting wit- ness against the negress, sald “Let Jerome find that out himeelf, He {x conducting these proceedings. I have nothing to do with them.” Hannah Ellas, who has become #0 ac- custumed to every luxury money can buy since the days when she was a pauper and an ex-convict. Is Hving ‘There luxurtously in the Tombs prison. iq little difference In the appearance of this negress, who is accused of black- realling rich old Platt, from other negro women held prisoners in the ‘Tombs, Lives In Laxury. ‘The stories of her beauty, of ner graceful figure, of her smile and fascl- ‘True, r than her dress in the prison ts better that of other prisoners ands! taina an exclusiveness not affected in 4 are just as thick, her nose just flat and her figure just as squaity, and her hair just as kinky as the lips, noses and figures and hair of half dozen other negro women in the Row. fortune whioh permitted her to Wo In Or ene threatened sult, and, thay hy luxury at No, 2% Central Park West Shanty at he at Leese ve large. bank ascounte to pur, | 8¢e GAVE her the money to settle the chase valuable real estate and to place | ™*tter so that there need be no break herself in a position to be blackmattea |! thelr relations, : ' out ot 0,00, He Lawyer and Doctor Involve Old man Platt ia confined to his home Immediately following this . Fitty-fourth ies street, and it i@ there will be a big But Hannah Elias does not mean to give up the luxuries at her command, There will be no hard prison fare for her while she is in the Tombs. ter food Is the best and is. paid for out of her own pocket, There are no coarse cot in her celly Her linen has been substituted. Costly “Nigger Row” as a rule, but her lips| HER FIRST IN THE gowns hang about the narrow Inclosure and she wears @ richly colored kimono when she sits in her cell. Her own manicure set have been brought to her. She is a prisoner in “Nigger Row," but she ts the most luxuriow prisoner “Niger itow’’ has ever 8 is a prisoner in the ‘Tombs her seven-weeks-old child 1a in the landvome mansion In Central Park West in charge of a nurse and Kato, the Japanese butler. Her baby 1s_being attended to by Dr, Vantine. The doors of the house have not heen repaired since the assault made on them. by the police when the woman's home Was stormed to arrest her, Dr. Van Tine war quite willing to talk’ to-day to an gpven Vorid’ ree porter, He amar Gene World re “T have attended Mra, Elias on for alx tengey She has iad ones doctors in that time, among them bein, Robinson, who delivered her frat child. raft, Shere jartholomew and likely “To mo Mrs, Ellas always referred to her aged protector us "The Counsellor: Until the Green murder I was. Ignor- ant of Platt being ‘Tha Cou lor.” She did not tell me and I don't care to Jearned it. nor do I care state where to say how I first came to treat her. led Mr. “Pay Mra, Ellas had a pet name for.“ Counsellor.” She called ain: bars fan fresuently spoke of him as such presence. She called him tris for rs, lone before the birth of her last 1wo Sditee a o made out the birth cert ficat ich resulted in the Distro: ig . going to the house last fall. i BU < from an abdomtaal hernia, st though she is not In so serious a con- dition now as she was in the latter months of Ist year, ‘Dr. Darlington, the Health! Commis loner, had already received private formation of the last birth. A nu sent by him was one of the two nurses present at the last birth on April 5. “Why did I say ‘white’ In the birth certificate? Because T took the moth- jer's word, I knew she was a ne- gress, but there is no rule of the Health Department compelling a physician to fill in after the line on the blank tha: the child {s colored. 1 took the mother's word. She sald the child was white. The child when born was very Mght It in true, however, that the child 1s now getting darker.” MSS LENA MORTON S NEAR DEAT Daughter of the Ex-Governor Fails to Rally from Operation for Appendicitis, and Small Hope of Saving Her. VALS, June 9.—The condition of Miss Lena Morton, daughter of evi #. Mor- ton, of New York, became critical to- day owing to the development of blood polxoning, A member of the family only a ray of hope remained. ‘The patient is at a private sanitarlum, where the family is assembled most of the time, Miss Morton was stricken with malady some days ag clans sald that the and the physi- in attendance soon dedided that she would Maye to go under the knife, She was removed from her home to the sanitarium, and on Tuesday last the operation was performed by Prof, Routler. It was thought to be wholly ful, but the patient failed to rally as expected and has been steadily grow'ng worse, Miss Lena Morton, who ts the fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi P, Mor- ton, {s tall and attractive. She was @.ven to athletics and a prominent fig- ure in the younger circle of soclety, _—— | DID NEGLECT CAUSE DEATH? coesne Mra, Wilnon Comm Riverside Houpltal Oittetal Mrs. Alico Wilson, wife of William Wilson, a coachman for Philip Lewl- jain, called at the Coroners’ omMce to- Jay and asked Coroner Scholer to aid her in punishing certain ometals of t Riverside Hospital who she alleges are Hesponsiblo for the death last month of her son Louls, two years old. The. Wilson child entered the hospital with measles, but was discharged as cured on May 9. Several days duveleped Aihtheria “ana hea opis ne Agalnat the mother charges that neglect was 1 sponse! for the cht! therla. Coroner make @ thorough oer roan aster ‘ silver-backed brushes and her silver, NIGHT THE JAIL. ~HENSER'S WIL Famous Freemason Left Es- tate to “Polly, with Whom | Have Lived Happily for Over Thirty Years.” The contest over the will of Charles Heyser. the famous Freemason, between his widow, Elizabeth Heyser, and Mary Ann Morris, the woman with whom hoe had lived for thirty years, and to whom he left his all, was begun te-day before Surro- gate Thomas. “I bequeath all my estate to Polly Heyser, whose maiden name was Mary H. Ann Morris, a woman with whom I have lived happily for over thirty | year: wrote Magistrate Alfred E. |Oommen, as “Charile’ Heyser dictated from his sick bed on Feb. 17, Heyser | dled the next day, and then it all came jout that he had lived a double life for nearly half the sixty-four years of his lite. Family Lived Near “Polly.” rs widow and children lived at No, 9 Sixth avenue, while he and “Polly Heyser” had thelr home ten Mocks at No, 407 Sixth avenue. er," a tall woman of full figure and with tron-gray ha'r framing a fair face, sat all In widow's weeds on one side of the trial ckamber, and Elizabeth R. Heyser, small, plump and pretty, with hair as whitened as Polly's, and also in widow's weeds, sat upon the other side. Judge Ommen w the first witness, He told how “Charlie” Heysar, a vet eran in the Old Guard, once Command- er-in-Chief of the Scottish Rites Masons ‘and a Mystic Shriner, sent for him on | Feb. 17 last and asked him to draw his will. “Polly” Not His Wife, He sald. “When it was done I asked him ‘Charlie, do you say this 18° your jast will sald the Magistrate. “He raised himself on his elbow, and lifting his hand, said: “I swear tt’ eyo then went downstairs and que tioned Polly as to her m name. went. to my home and drew up the * which Mr. Hi slqned next day m: resen asking me and James A. Bes and Ellen Haight to sign tt as witnesses, Seemet a my Perfectly Rational, c Judgment Charles Heyser was not under the Influence ot a that he was perfectly ratlonal a the will expresses his will an: The wi introduced ’ “She was the only wife T ever he had." sald Judge Omm invited him and her to my weds Officer James “A. Roott testifies corroboration. of dudwe commen He sud he had known Charlew MH. Hey ser ave. “Mra. Ellen Haight, of N. South seventh. street, “Brookien she was fs hirse in atte Heyser his sald, she had known him witnessed his will Feb. 7 forty the dav befure he dled, and that he was mentally sound. . Sauvalle, of W who attended ness, sald he saw J had made his he dying man ssemed my sald be was glad he ha ed of his estate. dispe He estate. Included th bol the § lived with where avenue houses, Polly Heyser and where his wife lived with their children of long xeo. Thes eiildren are Edgar Wells Hevser Will- nH. Heyser, Mrs assland, Mrs. Marit and Misx ‘Amma teyse tary Re Mg who J abet thet mother In contesting thelr After a long recess, to enable the contestants to decide upon thelr course ae . fh Noe Heyser's will to be admitted to and then tuke the mater to the Su- [% witnesses, but allow Cha’ prema Cour. ‘ Firs eer THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1904. HANNAH ELIAS, IN “COON ROW” CELL IN THE TOMBS PRISON, FINDS STRANGE CONTRAST WITH LUXURIOUS HOME IN CENTRAL PARK WEST, INTHE CORRIDOR OF READING HER LETTERS Be a a St tO a a et WIDOW CONTESTS WIFE LEFT ONLY The day before he had tela = mS n atten: 1 the institution was sent what he wanted the will, snd when Belle removed her to. the he had done he said ‘This was ta viola- SrAL L want to tell you a secret that requires a pa: Polly ‘ia not my lawtul wife, but I n five days in Bellevue want her to have everything I own, to another instl- for she has been true ae steel to me 5; [tor thirty-four years, Q . after her discharge, re- Hy Weked him if he had a lawful wife|turned to the house at No. 363 Weet living“ Helsald he had and that she|Thirty-fourth street, which she owns, was living at No, 9% Sixth avenue. J and Mr, Leonard, her lawyer, id to- asked him what he wanted done witn| ‘Bty that she allowed her husband to the medals, swords, , badg nd em-|live in her house up to the time of 6 thfma'‘which ‘had been. presented to |death, He ts wealthy In lus own rigut, him, and he sald he wanted Molly to[it tw valid, ir, Leonard sata hat have them all, though Mr. Egan was allowed to live ,| for masses mT Palin $5 TO HUSBD Mrs. Julia Egan, Whose Estate Is Valued at $100,000, Cuts Off James Egan in Her Will —All to Her Lawyers. The will of Mra. Julia H. gan, who died on April 14, was filed for pro- hate to-day and under tt her husband, James Egan, a distiller, with a place of business at No. 38 Seventh avenue, gets but §, because of his mistreat- ment of her, according to the state- ment in the will. The bulk of Mrs, Egan's fortune of $190,090 goes to her lawyers, Henry H. Leonard, of No. 43 Broadway, and his Partner, Thomas W. Tyng, and his son, Harry P. Leonard, who gets the ehtire residuary estate. After a brief confinement in a pri- vate institution at Amityville, where she was sent at her husband's buhest, id upon the recommendation of Dry. Allen Fitch, Austin Flint and O. J, Wileey, Mrs. Egan was released under @ writ of habeas corpus, and after a trlal before a Sheriff's jury was de- clared perfectly sane. Her release from the asylum was ob- tained through the efforts of the law- yers who are named for handsome ieg- acies in her will, At the time they se- cured the writ they asserted that she was the victim of a conspiracy on the part of her husband, who wished to get rid of her. Before being sent to Amityville Mrs, Egan was arrested at the instance o! her husband on a technical charge of disorderly conduct. This was in Octo- 1898. After being locked up in the Fifty-fourth street court prison all night Mrs, Bean was arraigned be- fore Magistrate Deuel and committed to Bellevue to have her santty inquired nto. Upon this same day, according to the testimony offeret before the Sheriff's Jury, her husband went to the Amity- Ville Asylum and pald to Supt. Wilsey for fe kw board. ‘Thereupon in her house she never forgave him for haying her sent to an asylum. Under the will filed to-day Mr. Leon- ard and his partner, Mr. Tyng, get $5.00 each An ado} son, Frank Egan. ts the same AMoUNt, and except for a minor bequests the residue is left to Harry P. Leonard, the lawyer's son ‘Specific beqtiests are: To her brother, Richard Hogan, $1,000; to her sister, Mary Ann Be $1,000, and to the Rev. John anon, pastor of Bt Michael's. Church, $1,000, to be applied to charity, $5,000’ for himself and $00 for my soul.” Sgan contest the will he his $ to St. Michael's orn, Should Mr. will forfelt Chureh SAY ALL DEBTS WILL BE PAID Attorneys for the Federal Bank Think Creditors WIll Not Lose. During the argument application of Attorney-General Cun- neen to make permanent the temporary appointment of Leo Schlessinger ax re- calver of the Federal Bank attorneys for the bank submitted the aMdavits of William M. Woods, who succeeded Da- bank, in to-day on the Vid Rothsehild ts president of Uy and Rober A. Doolittle, nit ws cea a“that the Hani Iner's classification of at least 1 worth of assets as uncollectable 6. y say this is all collectable and s the Bank Examiner included pital stock as Habilities, it there whl be $6,970 ugh to lquidate every Mability Hoskovitz & Levy did not oppose the temporary recelyer perma- aving It to Justice Glogerich to hat was the best courge for all Cashier making intorest Lecuuon was reserved “Crimping” System, and 12,000 Men May Be Called Out— Insist, Too, o# Higher Wage Scale. x a That a determined effort has been be-| fun to tle up all the stewmahin linen! employ of the different st panies are interested with the crimp The system employed The men who would employing vessels alone Atlantic const was announced with emphials (o- day by Daniel J, Sullivan, general sec- retary of the Atlande Coat Marine Firemen’s Unton. A strike order has been Issued affecting nino Mnes with offices in this ctv. and. ascording to} Mr, Sullivan, the 103 steamshios plying) up and down the coast for these line: Will be emptied of thelr firemen Unless, they grant the demands of the unien, abolish the crimping syatem and adopt the unfon scale of wages. The order to strike will be passed to 12m) © In regard to the strength of the unton Mr Sullivan safd to-day: “We hold in our unton the experienced firemen manning the coast boats. If the compantes get scrub men to take, tueir places they put their passengers in immediate peril. Furthermore, St Is a matter for the Beard of Marine Underwriters to look into.” ‘The Lines Affected. ‘The following are the nine lines with Mces in New York to whose firemen the strike order has been extended ‘The Savannah line, employing twelve | steamships; the Old Dominton line, with elght vessels; the Clyde line, with elghteen; the Panama line, with four; the Mallory ine, with fourteen; the Morgan line, with twenty: the Ward line, with sixteen ithe Red D line, with five, and the Porto Rico line, with slx. In the case of the Savannah, Panama, Morgan, union has no grievance in regard to wages, all these lines paying the unton/ The four remaining lines are | requested to pay an Increase of 16 1-2) ;), | vana scale. cents a day. The demand to abolish the crimping syntem extends to the entire nine lines, and the officers of the unlon declare that they will exhaust their resources fn an effort to do away with what they characterize as an unbearable abuse. Mr, Sullivan said to-day that there were six crimps or boarding-hcuse | agents in this city, who control the entire shipping of firemen to the nine lines mentioned. “We have proof.’ said the general MRS, WOODEND IS AGAIN AWITHESS Ward and Red D lines the| . The Wife of the Former Broker Questioned by Receiver Gru- ber, but Is Unable to Remem- ber Many Incidents. Hearing in the case of Dr. W. FE. Woodend. head of the defunct stock brokerage concern of W. BE. Woodend & Co., was resumed to-day before United States Commissioner Hitchcock: in the Federal Buildinis, Mrs, Woodend accompanted her hus- band. “Abe Gruber, the recelver. called her to the witne trond asxed her to read her testimony given at a previous examination. “You said when your husband told you he was in trouble.” asked Mr. Gruber, “that you sugmised a Calivra was imminent?” “qT had no right to surmise anything, qwell) from what you saw and TS and heard nothing, I under- stood that Bradbury was going to put y in.” ier, Woodend displayed @ very poor recollection of her previous haga Bhe said she could not remember the cireumatances of her recelving the $4,709 which Rumley, the oat: is Anes have taken to the hous i eyed the fatlure, She admitted having received It from: her husband. Judge Hok has signed an order em- powering Receiver Gruber to apply to the Judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin for an order to compel the examination of the officials of the Had- den-Rodee Company. of Milwaukee, and F. 8. Bradbury, Chairman of the Board of Directors of that company. Irving L. Ernst, Mr, Gruber's personal will go to Milwaukee to obtain the o der. ———— MERCHANTS SEEK ACTION. Committee Makes a Few Reunests of the Mayor. Witilam ¢. King. S.C. Mead, H. Dumont and F. B. De Berard as a com: mittee from the Merchants’ Assoc tloi and requested that If ne ecided to ask Gov. Odell for a special session of the Texislature that he submit four pills | Instead of one repealing the Smith bill ‘They want the Aqueduet Commission Jegisiited out of existence and all of its powers transferred to the Department poly, Gas ety the iapid Transit Commis- to build ubways, othe or Water they want WG to be authorized sion A ‘all future galleries in and they Want “real powers’ given State Railroad Commiasion xo that {t | may take action on 1 transporta- jon problems, Uihe Mayor sald he would take the re- quest under advisement ee FELL FROM FIFTH STORY. ' Julius Schrleger, of No. 308 East Fighth street, a roofer, while working on a cornice of the new five Apartment-house at No. Gi8 West One | Hundred and Twelfth street to-day lost | his balance and fell to the ground. After haviug “contusions and abrasions | of the face,” according to the J, Hood Wright Hospital record, dressed. Schr!- ger refused to stay In the hospital and went home Sunday World Wants Work counsel | called to-day on Mayor McClellan | secretary. t certain men is simply thisi) secure work Om the coast boats must pay $7 a wee a © beard in these crimping houses) fof food that is unfit to eat. not possibly live in these places the board they are compelled to pay i nothing more nor less than a shakes down for their jobs, Want System Abolished, Now, all that we demand! from the companies is that they abolish this sys tem and pay us the union: scale of wagon, We hi taken this agree- ment to the heads of the different come panies and urged them to comply with it. Of course, in addition we dei {that thére shall be no change in th number of men employed, and thati the union be recognized. In the face ol absolute proof, the companies have. de nied the existence of tho crimping. a¥s- tem, the officers of the companies have 4 refused to consider our demands, and 990 consequently we have been co: to Issue strike order, i) bis: na¥e, have agents In every big olty om the Atlantle coast who will present the same demands to other lines, and: If they refuse to comply will order the Won to sirlke as soon as the steaine ships arrive in port. Our agents are James T. Mahoney. Beaton: Dablel Pee terson, Nortolk, Va.: Wililam Robin- son, Philadelphia, and Henry Dixon, Baltimore. These men are now awalt- ing the arrival of steamers to call The officers of the different seen to-day, were inellned te c& the u pee pee at no strike that coul Ordered would cripple thelr lineses | The officers of the Ward Une deel the Virtiancia would sail for hem at her scheduled hour today, — They sald that as far va this AhiD Wale concerned no firemen had gone out. Deny Union Statement, At tho offices of the Porto tie not only was it denied that there any strike, but it was positiv werted that the statements ¥ the oMcers of the union were. untrie. None of thelr steamships is booked £ sailing until June 18, The officers of the Mallory line al deny that they shave encountered strike diMculties. Six weeks ago, th aw, they had some trouble with t firemen, but thelr grievances were of private’ nature and had nothing what.” Syer to do with the inion. The tag Pe patched wn and the boa! ¥, on schedule thm: be: FIREMEN’S STRIKE.NOT ~ FELT DOWN EAST, nostox, Jan 12 OLE Merchants and Miners’ and the Metrow politan Steamship Companies reported to-day that their busine delayed as vet by the st the Atlan ist Iremen’s Union, The firemen of the Joy line steam Dominton struck about a week gor bat after slight delay the places of the men were filled ee The | men out. expect to have new men take the places of the firemen her Joy line boat rum” ning te this port late this afternoon, — ‘The Metropolitan officitls said» that” they had no dificulity with ther mem, | Up to this forenoon Jess than thingy firemen were out In Boston. The Union demands the abolition of agreements or dealings with boanding-house keep= he steamship companies, and nee in wages by the Joy Ene, $100 I It You Can Suggest . THE BEST NAME FOR THE BEST TRAIN: That Wiil Run to the } World’s Fair. pipe: | PORTERS Service Begins June 19th Over the ERIE and BIG FOUR RAILROADS. 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