The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1905, Page 3

1 MAYOR TN ESSE “AISLIGHTING TUST Declares in His Annual Communica- ‘tion to the City Council that Over. charges Are Unbearable and that ‘ity Should Build Its Own Plant. Members of the Board Were Late in Arriving, and Messengers and Tele- phones Were Used in Securing a Quorum to Receive the Messo~s, They had a hard time getting the Board of Aldermén together to-day to fear Mayor MoClellan’s annual message, After the Sergeant-at-Arms had @hased messengers all around town and had stood at a telephone for two hours a quorum was finally corrailed, Then President Fornes rapped his gavel--a new one marked “1905"— presented by the’members In recognition of courtesies exchanged during de- parted 1¢04—and the board for 1905 was in session, Down the centre alsle walked Private Secretary to the Mayor John O'Brien, clad in frock coat and striped trousers, the left fapel of the well- fitting frock showing a pink, In his right hand he carried the Mayor's Message tled with a blue ribbon, Handing the official communication of the City's Exeoutive to ‘Molonel” Michael Blake, who has boen Chief Clerk of the Board of Aldermen for many years, and has received the annual mesa- @ges of reform and “regular” Mayors, Secretary O'Brien bowed gracefully and retired. ‘The clerk announced perfunctorily the receipt of the Mayor's message, ‘and a motion to print and refer to committee was put and adopted in a twinkling. City Clerk Joseph Scully was a feature in the ¢ime-honored ceremonial, fn that he transported the message from the hands of Col, Blake to those of President #ornes, There were no flowers nop evidence of past New Year's day celebra- tion, but high hats were in the forefront, Alderman “Reggie” Doull was resplendent in one, and so were Alder- men McCall, Wentz and Owens, who were appointed by President Fornes to @wait upon the Mayor and notify him that the Board of 1905 was in session ‘and was prepared to receive any communication from him, In the opening paragraph of his message Mayor McClellan dealt with the finances of the city, calling attention to the report of the WANTS Comptroller as ito the unoollected taxes of the city, now REFORM IN amounting to $61,000,000, He saye radical faults exist in a COLLECTION Aystem of taxation which permits us to reach such a cot+ OF TAXES, ‘*ttlon, and unless a remedy ts found they will ultimately bring our finances to @ state of embarrassment, Hither the uncollected personal taxes were imposed without proper estimate of the responsle bility of the individuals or corporations assessed, or the machinery to enforce pay- ment ia defective, Uncollected real esiute taxes ought to be a good asset, being Mens on the property, but, since 1889, no Comptrotler in Manhattan and the Bronx has undertaken to collect them by tax sale, the mcans prescribed by the charter ‘The practice of living on borrowed money from January to October costa the etty annually $2,000,000 in interest, adding to the burden of taxation. A cure for this, for the accumulation of uncollected taxos and for the other weaknesses of our financial system must be had by legislation. I shall appoint a commission to examine into our financial methods and report a plan to perfect them, Iain in favor of municipal ownership and operation of an electric Nghting Plant to Nght the streets, parks and public bulldings of FOR A PUBLIC New York, T do not believe that government should engage In any LIGHTING PLANT, service which can be done botter or as well by private en- terprise, or should invale business felde in competition with the legitimate trade of the citizen, Where service rendered by private corpora- tions is unsatisfactory, elther because of its inferiority or excessive cost, It hecoines the province of government to take control of that utility for ite own usos. The prices which the city !s compelled to pay for and electric light are #0 out of proportion with the charges in other citles that they must be extor- tlon: No rellef is in aight, as there appears to be an absence of real competition, ‘This matter has recelved the attention of the Board of Estimate and Appor- tloument, and at its last meeting, after hearing the opinion of the Corporation Counge! and Judge Dillon, a commission was appointed consisting of Prof. George C, Seaver, of Columbia University: W. T. Cary Hutchins electrical engineer, and Nelson P, Lewis, the engineer of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, »-and instructed to report, ar soon as possible, general plans and estimates of coat for a muntelpal lghting plant for the streets, parks and public buildings of tho city ag a whole, by boroughs and by districts. This project if decided on will be greatly alded by the iise of the rights reserved In grants heretofore given to the Consolidated Telegraph and Blectrical Subway Company, and the Empire Clty Subway Company, and by virtue of which these companies have consiructed and now maintain their condult systems, Section 4, paragraph 8 of the agree- ment of May 15, 1891, 19 as follows: | “Said party of the second part shall without charge supply to the clty of New York al) space in said subways, conduits and ducts, neces- sary for Its electrical conductors, and the electrical conductors of each Separate department of sald city which may now or hereafter be re- quired,” SAYS GRIME HAS OT INCREASED Distriot-Attorney Jerome De- clares That Statistics Given Out. at Polloe Headquarters Are Misleading, District-Attorney Jeromo was at his office for a couple of hours to-day and had something to gay regarding the large number of homloldes in the city during 1904, The records at Police Headquarters show that during the year there were $31 homicides in the boroughs of Man- hattan and the Bronx alune, Many of these were the result of accidents, more than sixty of the victims being ‘killed by the surface care, "The Increase In crime during the year Juat cloned,” Mr, Jerome aaid, “wes not #0 great as the pubHahed reports indi- cate, In fot there has been no tn- erease in orime ut all, my records et@w, taking Into consideration the in- crease in the population of the two boroughs, “Tt 18 not trustworthy,” the Diatrot- Attorney oontinued, "to dnfer, because there hes been ai tnoreaee in the num- ber of arrests for various crimes, that the number committed has been any more than would naturally follow the Inorease fn population, In fact, the onoes where defendants have been ac- fually held tor homicide and other crimes have been less in some years when the population ihereased the most, In many reportéd cases of homicife and other orimes an investigation by the Ditriot-Awornpy's office hag whown that there wore no grounds upon whieh ‘to bane an indictment and no defendant could be found in the case, Beveral of the much-advertized murder mystaries of recent date have tumed out just this way,"! ee Gineers, and the third member to be named by the Mayor, Such a commission should secure the highest effctency, ’ Incidental to the subject of water supply service is the high-pressure fire-sor- vice aystem, whose instalment was authorised Jeay than @ year ago. Inevranco intereets and business interests generally may be gratified to learn that the Department of Water Supply expects to have it ready for operation during the present year (1905). While the administration of the public sohool system fs not within the direct NEEDS OF control of the Mayor, I havo regarded {t with the gravest THE PUBLIC concern, belleving that our civic progress depends largely pn the provisions for education, One of the first acts of my SCHOOL administration wae to ask for the co-operation of the Board SYSTEM. of Maucation in supplying a seut for every child, and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment loyally supported mi In tendering to the Board of Education all the money that might be requinad for adequate accommodations for the 600,000 children seeking admission to our schools, The Board of Education has done well, although tts work has been retarded by labor troubles, which have interrupted the work of construction {n permanent buildings, and by the diMoulty of securing sites for temporary bulidings nt advan- tageous rentals, ‘We may derivo aatiafaction from the fact that im the first year of this admin- stration more money has been appropriated and expended for schooi buildings, and more sittings have been contracted for, than in any previous year In the Mstory of the city of New York. The polloy now dominating the Board of Education, if actively pursued, wit!, with your co-operation, bring an early solution of the question of accommodation, The opening of the Rapid Transit Subway and the demonstration of Its success 1s @ cause for congratulation to the public of this city. ‘The necessity for further subway facilities, notably on the east side, where CITY WILL transportation lines are now almost overwhelmed by the NEED MORE crowds’ of the rush hours, must be kept ‘continually in SUBWAYS, ™nd and provided for as promptly as possible. A progress in subway extension can be reported that is almost as gratifying na the experience of the advantages of the completed por- tion. I refer to the work in lower Broadway, under the East River and on the Brooklyn side. The plans, which are being carried forward ‘with remarkable raptdity, insune uninterrupted connection between the Bronx and Brooklyn, The Manhattan terminal improvement of the Brooklyn Rat pending the construction of a complete terminal, Has been stopped by the litigation of an unimportant question involving a email leasehold. This proceeding has avowedly only the object of delaying the work, In the meantime plans are nearly ready to provide for the fuller utilisation of the present faolilties. In the complete .terminal conatruction I shall recommend that the utmost advantage be taken of the costly elte by carrying up the structure as many stories as will be needed to furnish offices for the City Department and effect a saving of rent sufficient to pay Interest on the immense expenditure involved, The cdministration of the Tenement House Department has effected notable progress In @ more perfect, thorough and uniform enforcement of the Tenement House law. The object held paramount tn this work has been the bettering of the poor without undue hardships to the property-owners affected. Discrimina- tion and favoritsm have been avokled as the recognized best method of making ‘the Improvements Involve neither injustice nor hardship, The practical elimination of the social evil, with ita deadly moral contamina- tion, from the homes of the people is a most important and beneficent effect of the work of this department, Lua) In the Department of Parks conditiona were found presenting great and pe- cullar difficulties for the Incoming administration, In the thickly settled parts of the city the need of new parks and playgrounds, Here we have the right to the free use of the conduits in which to place wires for the transmission of electrical currents, This RIGHT OF right removes from tie discussion a large element of ex-| FREE USE OF pense, ani seems to leave it open to the city, even if it! CONDUITS. should not build dts own generating plant, to perhaps secure In the open market the electrical current, conveying ft, If necessary, from lovalitles outside the clty or State of New York, I do not apprehend that the matter of purchasing the lamps and poles now sin use, or, {f that be inadvisable or unprofitable, supplying others dn their stead, would offer any serious problem In connection with this subject, {t 1s suggested that still another economy may be effected by the utilization of the waste and refuse collected by the Btreet-Cleaning Departmat, for this, {t 1s urged by competent authority, will very likely generate all the current needed for lighting in streets, avenues, parks, docks and public buildings of the entire city, The experience of many oltles and towns In England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has demonstrated that their ligliting has been made possible by employing thelr mixed yefuse as fuel for the malting of steam, which in turn is utilized in the generation of electric currents, The process calls for well-designed, well- dullt and intelligently managed destructors, The incinerator used by the Street. Cleaning Department in West Forty-seventh street, where a current !s gener- ated for lighting the stable and dock, shows the practical results that are ob> tained even on so small a seale. Data has been furnished showing Uhe very considerable extent to which this method Js carried, especially In the cities of Mugland, and the actual prod- wet per ton of refuse. There are scores of {llustrations In Great Britain of the successful operation of these plants. With 5,600 tons of refuse gathered dally by FUEL FROM (ho Department of Streot Cleaning—twice the per cuplta THE CITY'S quantity oollected In London—New York has a power-pro- REFUSE. ducing fuel that showld be used profitably, It would seem feasible, therefore, to settle two propositions at the same tme—that of municipal lighting and that of utilizing the olty's waste as fuel for | of police protection to which they are justly entitled, | The most important object to be sought, In my judgment, 18 to improve the ex~ | are well under way,’And the people of Staten Island will soon enjoy the benefits and the proper care of the established popular pleasure grounds were both press- ing and !mportant questions, Stbstantial progress has bee of affairs, In morale and effictency the police force of the clty of New York equals any similar body in the world, In numbers only Is {t an infertor made all over the city in remedying Hie state PRAISES organisation, and the wonder fs that It executes so well the MORALE OF Infinite variety of tasks thrust upon It. The force has not THE POLICE, {ncreased proportionately with the population, property value and needa of the five boroughs, It 1s almost Impos- olble, therefore, to afford the people of this city at all times the fullest measure The force now numbers 8,291 officers and men. Applloation has been made for an increase of 400 patrolmen and substantial arguments are advanced in favor of a very much larger Increase than that, 6 In 18% there was one patrolman to every 540 of this city’s populetion, Greater protection to Hfe and property was demanded and an increase of 80) men was authorized, To-day there 1s one patrolman to. every 674 of population, a per caplla representation which is below the standard of the great cities of other couniins and very ‘much below that of this city for the preced!ng iwenty elght yoars, Tho three-platoon system which has been adopted during the yeu: has justl- fied the oxyectations and hopes of Its friends and advocates, Funds should be provided for perfecting {ta patrol telephone syatem, for only one-half of its station-houses are at present equipped with this valuable police adjunct, The entire Borough of Manhattan will be thus equipped in a fow more weeks, and the funds being available, the system will be duly installed in the Bronx, Dizewhero it will be extended as rapidly ae possible, The work of the Munictpal Civil Service Commission 18 of growing importance, amination system itself, The common-sense methods lately Introduced are steps well taken In that direction. Capacity and fitness tor the service required are tho real questions to be determined, and it 1s quite impossible to do this by a purely academic standard, ‘Aas full movision 19 necessity may require should be made for the develop- ment of the Commissiun's work, I ehall in the future, as in the past, regard the spirit as well as the letter of the law in furthering its fullest enforcement, ‘Additonal responsibilities have been placed on the Department of Correction by the aot of the Leglelature creating a reformatory for male CORRECTION, mindemeanants on Hart's Island, and establishing a Board of Parole with power to parole and discharge inmates of the in-/ Docks AND stitution, This carries with It increased expense to ithe City FERRIES, of New York, and the Board of Parole has asked for an ap- propriation of $100,000, The modern estimate of the moral rev- enue to a community from such discretianary juriedlotion over prison life ts #0 well founded that I feel the money will be wisely spent, Contracts have been let by the Dock Department for five new high-speed ferry. boats for whe muntolpul ferry connecting Manhattan and Staten Island, The boats of vapid transit, New terminal plans for Bt. George and Whitehall docks have | been adopted which will make material improvement there, ‘Three new plers have been constructed in the Che): “2 @sotion, and two others are in course of construction, A new department, that of Licenses, was added to the olvil service by the Legislature of 1904, and game Into existence on May 1, The Commissioner licenses and supervises all employment agencies, and the department exe: 8 a whole- some protection for the, employer of labor and for thone seeking such employ- NK W, HIGGINS, WHO WAS INAUGURATED AS|CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF TRE STATE IN ALBANY TO-DAY, ‘and more valuable service in the year 1904 than ever before, The number of pa- tlents treated has increased largely over that of any previous year, An intelll- gent preparation for the present and the future Js evidenced by the Increased facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis. A forward step in connection with the Bellevue Hospttal is the proposed taking over by the city of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses, f The efficiency of the Mire Department has been largely increased during the year 194, not only by the addition of 419 fremen, but also by the repair of an ‘old fire-boat, the building of a new one and various improvements of that char- acter, The most pressing need of this Department at the present time, and of a part of the city, Is the extension of the pald Fire Department system through- out the more thickly settled sections of the boroughs of Richmond and Queens. The inspection of milk by the Health Department, one of the must Important aingle reforms prosecuted, has resulted in the condemnation of a great amount of unwholesame milk and the establishment of a higher standard for all the milk shipped into the city. 1 regret that the work of the Health Department in the suppreswion of the soft coal smoke nulsance pas been seriously interfered with by a recent decision of the Bupreme Court, which declares that the section of the Sanitary Code pro- hibiting the Issuance of amoke from the chimneys of the city is unreasonable, in restraint of trade, against public polloy and void." | An important factor wanting in the administrative control of tuberculosis has been supplied by the establishment of a special clinic for the itroatment of this disease, opened In Maroh, with which 1s conneoted a corps of trained nurees, DRUGGED, SHE [YACHT PLUNGES SAYS, BY SON INTO AIR HOLE Servant in Employ of Enger-|Racing at Terrific Speed Over brand Declares While Family; lee Craft Strikes Unnoticed Was Absent at Church Young) Body of Water and Three Oo- Man Attacked Her. oupants Are Nearly Drowned. John Pngerbrand, thirty-four years] Three daring tce yaohtsmen lle near ‘old, son of a baker residing at No, 602| death from injuries and exposure as & West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth | result of running into an alr hole while street, was locked up yesterday) racing over the Gardiner’s Bay course, In the West One Hundred and) off Orient, Long Island, Twenty-fifth Street Police Station upon| ‘They ure Frederick ‘Tabor, his | tlon ment as well, During eight months the generation of electricity The subject Is in Interesting one, and ft ts hoped that it will recelye carefil consideration by your honorable body. While the right and authority of the efty to establish and maintain a plant for supplying light to the public streets and buildings appear from the recent | opinions of the Corporation Counsel and Judge Dillon to be settled, it may be | that when such a course Is determined upon, Interested persons may resort to Vexations litigation to returd or defeat If porsible the proposed plan, For tho purpore of renuving even the semblance of a hope of such a result, I have emused to he prepared 4 measure for Introduction in the Legislature about to convene, This measure will be simply declaratory of the right and power already Oxisting In the elty, but itk enactment may prevent many so-enlled taxpayers’ sults by which private Interests may seck to Impede the Institution of a public fmprovement Recently the Board of Mstiniate and Apportionment received trom the Com- missiones of Watcr Supply, Gas and Flectricity, a report, predicated on the find. | {ngs of the Burr Water *ommisston, recommending the adoption of a plan for | Requiring watersheds and building aqueduots and mains, roughly estimated. to cost $00,000,00, ‘Mix report wak committed to the three experts, Mesars, Burr, Treeman and Herring, who ha preyiously made an exhaustive examination Into tthe question In the Interests of the elty, and their opinions on the recommenda- }\ tlon cf the Commisstonor will he delivered to the Foard of Hatimate and Appor- \tlonment rome time this month, If the clty decides ty take up the project, I belleve the worl should be placed she hands of @ commission, One member appointed from a list certified to the sy the governing body of the Chamber of Commerce, one member ap- fm the une list certified to the Mayor by the American Soolety of Civil Kim i : } ‘i / he debartment caused refunds to be made In 86 caste where money had been illegally taken from patrons, bath employee | and employer, Undergghe present comtrel the Retievue and aliled houpttale have done greate: i the complaint of Miss Caroline Linder- man, seventeen years old, a servant in his father's employ. Engerbrand Is single and lives with his parents at the | address above, which house belongs to his father, The girl last night was at the home of her uncle, Michael Nearing, No. h2 Lawrence street, She has been In the employ of the Fngerbrands about six months. She was left alone In the house with young Ingerbrand yesterday morning when his parents went to ohurch, She alleges that he asketl her to smell of a bottle containing some unknown deenc- After smelling It she, says she fainted and remembered nothing, When rhe recovered hor senses she became hysterical and, rushing to a front win- dow, begun to pound on it until she broke part of the glass. Several men massing in the street, helped her out of the house. Upon the statement of the girl, Dr. logers was, called from the J, Hood Wright Hospital, He examined the girl and declared that he belleved her gharges unfounded; but the girl insisted upon making a complaint against En- gerbrand and he was locked up on the technical charge of being a suspicious person, He denounced the girl's atate- ments as false, met BURIED BY THE CIT/, 4 NORFOLK, Va., Jan, 2—-A man aad to have been Andrew L, Berg, of No. 16. Third street, Hoboken, N. J., who was drowned here, was buried by the city to-day. The body was not claimed. For a Business Worth $2,000, There are quite as many men who will work up a good paying office, merean. tile or manufacturing business and then turn around and vat it at a big srcrifice, as there are men who are successful money-makers but MORE succesful “spender MANY enterprises well worth $2000 are told every week for $1000 or less by men who either NEED THE MONEY, or "think" they do, 30,807 Business Opportunities, many of them very rare bargains, wore adveitised dur- ing 1904 in THE WORLD These figures show a gain of 2648 1, over preceding year, and more Business Greeny ak the were published in any other New York newspaper, brother Henry, and William 3. Brown, of Gardinor's Bay. They started’ out in the early morning on thejr big ice yacht Frost, which stands taller than any |other boat on the bay, The sun has been softening up the Ice for the last three days, and yesterday the bay pre- sented a amapth sheet of water, two inches of It covering the tce, Their friends told them that the joe was un- safe, but the hardy yachtamen, who are accustomed to taking the risk of jump- | ing alrholes and Ice floes, laughed, and set sail. They skimmed back and forth at a mile-a-minute speed all morning, olroling and crossing the bay time and again, At noon they took up the chal- lenge of a Greenport racer, and with @heots drawn tight and boom high tn the alr, two boats started acrors the course from point to point, Goen Into Alr Hole, Midway in the bay, when the two boats were going neck and neck, with every sheet taut, the Frost suddenly came upon an airhole that was sur- rounded on all sides by a bunker of fee ike ithe crater of a volcano, They could not dodge it, and ‘the Frost struck the bunker and shot Into the alr, It turned ag It fell and the three men were pitched Into the open water of the alrhole, In falling they struck the ragged ice of the sides and were badly cut, Rencued in Nick of Time, The Greenport racer came about In A moment and its crew went to the ald of the men jn the water, They got them out, but not until the Frost's crew were unconscious and stiff from the cold, They were rolled In blankets and pounded and rubbed to keep up olrcu- lation, Dr, Skinner was called over from Greenport, alx miles away, and | when he arrived he found Henry Tabor so badly hurt as to require opera tion, The doctor drove back after !n- struments, and it was late in the af- ternoon before the three men reached shelter, All of them were revived, but it {s feared they will develop pneu- monla from thelr experience, pial Nala | ROBBE RS GOT N. Y. MAIL. Seven Sacks Taken from Train tn France Found Later Rifled, PARIS, Jan, 2—A mei robbery 18 reported by the postal authoritles to have occurred between Chanteuges and Prades, hie contents of seven sacks are missing, They are believed to have contained a considerable quantity of im- portant New York mall The sacks were found in a diteh to day rifled of their contents, Ward wide | Tog, tow a | etapa Declares in Inaugural ernor, Will Guard Personal Independence. (Special to Tne Evening World.) / ALBANY, Jan, 2%—hrank Wayland Miggins was formally inaugurated Gov- ernor of the State of Now York to-day in the Assombly Ohatnber of the Capitol, In his inaugural address he followed the lines Jaid down in his let- ter of acceptance, promising to admin- {ster the affairs of tho State with an eye to the good of all the people, Gov, Odell, In wolcoming his successor, mado & short speech, in which he refrained from saying much abowt his own ,ad~ ministration, but whieh wos heavily laden with good advice, Despite the disagreeable weather the city of Albany and the surrounding country turned out a great crowd for the Inauguration, Nearly one hundred of the leading business men of Olean, Gov, Higgina's home town, got In early this morning, displaying a line of plug hata the like of which Albany has not looked upon in years, The Olean busl- ness men acted as personal escort. to thelr distinguished townsman through- out the inauguration ceremonies. The Inaagaral Parade, ‘The Inaugural parade formed at State and Pearl streets under command of Brig.-Gen, James HH, Lloyd, of Troy, While the parade was forming the te- Uring Governor and his stat moved from the Capitol to the Executive Man- sion under escort of a platoon from ‘Troop B, the local cavalry organization, The parade was headed by Brig.-Gen, Lioyd and hix staff, escorted by a sauad of police, ‘The military organizations {n line Included companies from Troy, Cohoes, Schenectady, Gloversvillo, Am- aterdam, Whitehall, Glens Falle, Sara- toga, Hoosick Falls, Olean and Albany, The Unconditional Republican Club and the Young Men's Republican Club, of this sity) were as ny clvillan or- anizations in the parade, eGov. Higgins and former Governor Odell walted for the parade with thelr YS HE Address That, as Gove. His Prerogative of | stafts at the Executive Mansion, thoy fell Into line behind the olen business men and rode to untrance of the Capitol, where troops formed a lane through they passed, Oath Already Taken, Gov, Higgins took hls oath of last Saturday, go thia part of the mony of ing hwralon way music and Mr, drevs. Hefore he ‘had been minute hy sald: “He who seeks to please all men fall. No. ocmpromises should evet made unless the renults, obtained: of a lasting character, more eaxily cured than through discensions, Mr, Odell referred at length to they gradual growth of our system of ernment to conform with ly advanced conditions, He ave tn the State of New York the contint desire has been to foster and safegua) the Interests of capttal and farmer, the artisan and the mi until our wealth has Increased beyoi the dream Ghaverics and the employs wages ment of labdr at remunerative has been made wossible More tralised Anthority, Government, said Mr, Odell, does, exist for the’ enforcement of Taw, also for the encounagement of fi gens, He advised veer no at nges be made to Interfere be Bile? onal, religions or other a considerable number of the tha state, He referred to the : a great corporation, With a f government that 1s becoming more } mors one of centralized ant ity, Bx prone eonnaeice Nae jae Wi continue ie work 01 ogress advancement that has made the ire State the greatest com in the Union, : At the conclusion Of the in the Capitol Gov, Hi wife and tha members of the ministration re their wives public reception at the xecutive sion, A dance 1s to be given Ing at the Hotel Ten Byck, HIS LEG BROKEN BY WILD BLAST. Frank Fay Was at Dinner In His Tenement Home When a Rock Came Crashing Through the Window. Two ‘Adwble-deck" tenements were bombarded by flying rock, and the lex of a tenant, Frank Fay, waa broken as the remult of a premature or Improperly covered blast in the rear of Nos, 166-168 Hast Ono Hundred and Second street to-day, A gang of laborers working under an unknown contractor was blasting a large rock which stood on the lot preparatory to erecting a new house In One Hundred and Firsg street. ‘The explosion ‘filled the alr with flying rook, which crashed into the rear of the tenements, breaking every window and wrecking the furnishing in the rear rooms, Frank Fay, living on the second floor of No, 168, was sitting at dinner when a fifteen-pound stone struck him on the knee, breaking his leg, His brother-in-law, named ‘Gil- christ, ran to the Bast One Hundred and Founth street station and informed Capt, Brennan, who sent Deteotive El. lish and @ squad of policemen, By the time they arrived the excavating gang had disappeared, and the police are now trying to learn the Iden I of the contractor, who may be arrested, rockery, Blass and fixtures jn the rear rooms of the fiats occupied by ‘William Wallace, ground floor, No, 166, and of William 'T, Smythe, third floor, JIU JITSU AT Jap Burglar, Star of Vaude Show at White Plains F Tosses Tramp and with “Black Hand” ny (Special to The Wvening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. New Year wus celebrated in manner to-day by @herift J Merritt, who gave a vaudevilin” tainment in the jail here for the | fit of the prisoners and @: his guests, Previcus to the show, the first Japangse burglar ever Sherlff had a turkey dinner. the jail inmates end passed around, Y Yi feature of the bebo Fi a wiratng hha Banh e this section, 10 i ember yf the go-called Boctety and then gave tho “ilu-fiten” style of del trough ‘the wi get 101 5 tri burglara then wan m3 et negro told coon stor ion mo. Lge eri Ute se6er nie onisonera thears for the Sherif end re No, 168, were demolished, GROWTH FROM 1883 TO 1904, The World's a dr bona fide, average city circulation, in NEW YORK CITY ONLY (excluding all country subscriptions and sales) in the years; in 1863 + (© 2 2 8 26,872 a day. 1083 6 te ee OO ae 1990 - - - + + 246,505 “ 1895 - + «1+ 405,190 * ; oo ee a Oe 1901 (See foot note,) 464, 1 88 iA 1902 - 476,074 ‘ ou 939,343 - from The Morn'ng World's stated e! circulation, The Morning and Sunday World’s regular average, bona fide, ” net paid circulation now exceeds by more than a million copies a month IN NEW YORK CITY ALONE that of any other morning and Sunday newspaper, F THE ADVANCE IN ADVERTISING. ! The number of COLUMNS of advertisementsin THE WORLD in the years: 1883, , 4,626% columns 1 count 1aa5, , _12,092% “" 1900. 33,077: 1890. . 23,832% ” 043,109 published was 86,877 in 1883, the orld} in the year ending Saturday 1698. , 29,313 first calendar the number published was 928,648,