The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1905, Page 2

POR \ROGKEFELLER § TRACK, | TAKES HAND IN at Annual Meeting of Board Next Week. LINE 10 MOTORMAN|STILLMAN IS TO STAY. Daily Loan of $60,000 to Bol- ster Wash’? Sales, “ Atom Department,"’ Je Lawson’s Comment. Boston, Jan.' 7, ‘The Munroe & Munroe-F, P, Ward @ CoCity Bank affair is simply one Of @ thousand of the dubious deals with which Wall street is honey- combed. While it 1s of great tm- portance in. principle, {t comes into the Atom Departmont in the sreat atructure of “Frensi¢d Finance.” ‘We are now down to: business in {Hrensied Finance” where language ie of nb eodouunt—tole are going to have the stage for a while * Every newspaper in this oountry [whould keep sharp eye on Wash- ington. , Would you mind giving ‘me space to get on record hard and fast, as ‘Twelve o'clock has struck im , Finance” and t . ker in working overtime W. LAWSON, During the past two heavy snow- jetarms there has been considerable ri- valry among the district superintend- ents working under Snow Contractor Bradley to see which could do, the lewiftest and mom effective work in enow removal, All of the superintend- ‘ents have been working hard to carry off first honors and Street-Cleaning Gommisstoner Woodbury, Department, Buperintendent O'Donell and other city ‘oMotals have been watching the contest with interest. ° Now that 't fs all over, Mr, ‘Wood: “ Sapo bury, Mr. Bradi¢y and Mr, ODommell and 7» | ean, ¢ banking institution, lent the | the others have unanimously agreed " |hrm 640,000 a day without, it is charged, | that the laurel belongs to Supt, Hugh ly 2 L, Starr, of the First District. This Ya, Mo. WO FINY” Ja sernp Of pecurtty to stow Alstrict (s one of the hardest in the olty heb ebb bb bb bi bidetlteh: RECORD BY STARR Superintendent of First District Under Contractor Bradley Is , Complimented on All Sides for Work in. Downtown Distriot. to'cloan satisfactorily, as it takes in the financial and business sections of the oity, and the least laxity invariably brings & storm of criticism and ‘to a reporter of The Rivening World to- paaulie tae tha the National City ‘Bank | thet Mr. Rockefeller was bent upon having the reaignation of Mr, Loomis! fmmetiately; but that H. HH Rogers ‘and hls people had allied’ theme selves against the purwuit of such a polloy on the ground that if Loomls's connection with the National City Bank were to bo meverod at thie time i would be & tea admiselon that all thé charges | |MR. WEIN TAKES AN INVOLUNTARY BATH. Im Fit of Abstraction tie Walks Of the Battery Sea Wall, Lawrence Wein, thirty years old, who is. @ Jeweler by occupation and lives at No, 308 Bast Thirty4third street, walked off the battery seu wull this, morning and had an exceedingly cold bath be- fore he was finally hauled out onto dry land, Wein was taking a day off and went Gown to the Battery and composed. himself on one of the benches for a rest, When he got up, in a fit of ab- straction, he deliberately walked straight aver tho eea wall and splashed into the foy wator, He swam around for a while, and the giimbed up on top of some piles twenty- five feet from the wall, He was seen by some of the workmen of the Subway extension and they threw. him a life-preserver, Wein ¢limbed down from the pile, grabbed the preserver, and was hauled abo: a@soow, Then & policeman took charre im, and he was sent le Ph Hor’ treatment Ho ithe Bay a ed STOPS BRIDGE WORK, Cavanaugh Declares Law Is Being Violated on the Fordham Heights Structure, Thomas Cavanaugh, aesistant en- gineer in the office building at No, 43 Exchange place, formerly {n charge of the pile driving for ‘the Fordham Heights Bridge across the Harlem, has put @ notice of violation of law on the work done under the con. tract of P, Sandford Ross, of No. 271 true, : Stillman to Be Re-elected, | Phe meeting of the bank directors next ook ds to elect officers for the ensuing year, Mr, Stillman, dt ta! oaid, to certain to berre-elected President, but when it ‘comes to the formation of the rest of tthe dxeputive stait thro will probably be d. ja equabble. ’ | Mr, Loomis lett his home, at No, 140 Riverside Drive, early to-duy, and wont y to the bank, He declined to . ve @ Teporter at either place, and It was announced at the bank that he fot propose to'make any statement, a ‘wea Within earwhot, however, when | vieo-Prealdent G, 9, Whiteon gave the following interview: | Im Defenke of the Rank, “1 personally had nothing to do with the alleged notes given by Munroo & lunnoe, Whatever has been done should not come within the light of publio critidiem, To-day it Is pract- charged that tho National City stole tho Custom-House, Let me men | say we never got the value of o doilar from the Government without putting Gollaya and cents down for it, and we are not in the bueiness of over-certity. Ing our cheeks.” On the Question of Rent, “Ien't it a fact that the Custom-House fs paying rent on jMoper@y sold to the National City Bank?” “Why shouldn't 1?" 9, you have the mone: ir | Washington etreet, Jersey City, sub- bark with which you paid pil ie your) contracton for the Foundation’ Con- tracting Company, of No. % Nassau “Any funds we have are subject to departmental orders. I may add at this time that the Governmont will withdraw 2% por cent. of its deposits from the New York banks within a very short time, Every one famillar with financial affairs ought to know this, The Government's income is running behind.” ttre ry CUARAR TROD CURE. FOR FILES, faa or dt fe cure in 6 to 14 ‘are. Ba”! ete § street, There are two signatures supporting the affidavit, Cavanaugh is a member of Union No, 1&4, of the International Union of Steam Engineers, He says at because he didn't receive pay as agreed upon he quit, and claims to have tho support of the un! Th complaint is filed with Comptrollor MGrout, Cavanaugh declaring that if he refuses to act It will be taken to the District-Attorney, ‘The work on the bridge essarily be stopped by Cavanaug' ection, SS called to-day, He began to dodge questions immediately, bis lawyer after every question acked. When he refused to say what the capl- talisation of the New York Edison Com- pany ts—information that should be pub- No by law—Lowyer Yonge, for: Mr. Grout, announced that he would haye | booke for to appeal to the courts to compel an- swore to'be made, troller, "Under the law you quired to anawer here." Grout directed Mr. Yonge to take the proper steps for the lesuance of a war- | “t; Tant for the arrest of the witness, Nev- orthelees, ness, followed the tactics of the auditor of the company, and he, too, was told that he was in contemot, cltrant witnesses will be based on seo, tions 854, 855 and 6% of the Code of hig | CIV! Provedure. The law eight daya must elapse before mencemont of contempt proceedings, 'Dhe Supreme Court ts the tribunal with THE WORLD: SATURDAY EV WILL THIS EGG HATCH? re PouLTRY Y ¢ d ed SNOW CLEANING GAS MAGNATES _ SUE THE CITY. (Continued from First Page.) there 1s no competition. The officers of the monopoly are naturally fearful of proof of this proceeding from themselves, Mr. Edwanis was the first witness looking at The 'Troubte Bexins, “Thi jontempt.’ m acting under edvice of coun Protested Mr, Wdwards, “Ry so arting: you are inviting con- tempt proceedings,” warned the Comp- are re warning had no effect and Mr, ams, the next wit- hat com- juriediction, “The charter speot- attendance of witnesses and In his grounds at all, and cannot pertain to the present inquiry.” ‘The Investigation began on schedule time to-day in the finance department, and it wes evident early in the procesd- ings that the lighting companies’ law- yors were prepared to place every ob- wtacle in the path of the Comptroller. ‘When the first witness, H. M, Hid- wards, auditor of the New York Hdiaon Company, waa called, the lawyere of the company were quick to offer objec- tions, They objected to the witness being sworn, objected to his testifying, objected to the Comptroller making the investigation and objected to the form @8 well as the character of the quts- thone asked, Henry Yonge, representing the Comp- ter the Comptroller was empowered to investigate so Jong as the investiga- tion sought only to establish the just- ness of the claims filed by the New York EXieon Company, The Witness was sworn, Mr, Yonge examined while the Comptroller ob- @erved the proceeding from a seat near the witness. “What are your duties as auditor?” “I have charge of contracts and bills,’ “Then you are familiar with the ree- ords of your company?’ “T can't answer that “What books showing the cost of production ate kept by your com: pany?” *“ decline to answer.” Again Refuses to Answer, Mr, Yonge asked if books showing the cost of maintenance and existence of conduits were kept by the compeny, but the witness refused to answer, Asked regarding the standing and names of certain officials of the New York Edison Company, the formation of the company and the standard of measurement employed by the company, witneas declined to answer, Tho, witness was prompted by the corporation's lawyers: throughout, Lawyer Yonge avked Edwards If he had in his possession or had ever seen a tract between the city and the New ison Company, Auditor Et. feaned forward and whispered to ng, representing the Edison Company, before anawering, Both Mr, Grout and Mr, Yonge pro- tested against the witness “conferring” with his lawyer before answerin, Edwards finally anewered that no, knowlege of such contract, On thi ir, Yonge produced an aff- to be signed by the wit. h he swore that as auditor “We have the law on our aide,’ says) the vt Comptroller Grout, | feally provides all that ts required to} enforce compel answers to questions, letter to me Mr, Brady, vice-presl of the icdison Company, denied our might p) ‘Wern! to make the investigation as outlined, /fOHN® attempted and bases hie refusal to teatify on the) Brad: grounds set forth in his communication. ‘The fact is that his grounds are ho and contracts” of the Ni . bon Company, low York Béi. Lawyer Yonge returned to jeot- ot the "New York “Hulwon Came og Tignting witness," he asserted, “Is of+ | dine page tau Thvealipe lon concerns only ir ne tO city (lite Howe” a not ‘two prices Onge, quick ‘¢ in the Edison law- Mr. 0 and we are question, onl un Maghti prose aques- thet \e68 oh) nfo lighting are tah mp tly o' know el oa et red ENING, JANUARY 71905. PLAYWRIGHTS “FAGE CHANGES Lee Arthur Sued by Beauty Dootor, Who Seeks ‘Judgment for Alleged Unpaid Debt of $15. It wag with the deepest horror that Broadway learned to-day of a $15 lien on Lee Arthur's face, Never before had his associates along the iiiiminated thoroughfare suspected that hia face did not belong to him without reserve, But now comes Dr, B. P, Robinson, of No. 62 West Thirty-fifth street, a beauty doctor, and sues Lee Arthur, Playwright, for $15 balance for work performed upon the Arthur visage, Ho for having his features amended, but balked after putting up. $$, Papers have been served upon Mr. Arthur commanding him to appear in the Eighth District Court on Jan. 18, and show’ cause why judgment should not Issue against him for the amount Dr. Robinson claims, He {8 also ordered to bring his faee, properly marked for identification, and @ photograph of it before Dr, Robin- fon essayed to change it without pain, His Visuge Marred, ‘Cis a gad story, thie narrative of the troubles of @ playwright's features, Let us, sympathetlo reader, begin at the beginning thereof. To begin with, nature was kind to Lee Arthur, He has @ very powerful voloe. As to whether he owes naturo anything for the psyaloxnoniy ashe handed out to him has often been a matter of dispute ut Browne's and Paddy Roche's, However that may be, Mr. Arthur Was certainly Aatisfied with his tace for many years after coming to New York ffom the Sou, suh, Whenever there wes @ mirror behind tho bar his po- nition was always atrategical. Not until vocently did st oovur to him that there was something the matter witht his trontisplece, A trip to Chicago wes responsible, Mr, Arthur was compelled to spend weary (ays there, He worried and fretted and wondered why, whenever it came the turn of anybody else to buy, & fire-engine or some other disturbing element would pass the door, Gradu- ally, too, a6 was inevitable, he began umulate his visage sections ‘00 upon of Chicago atmosphere. ‘Wrinkles ironed Ont, ot back ‘his own barber didn't know ‘him. Hip f4co looked Ike the preliminary surveys for the Pana- ma al—or he thought go. Neverthe- leas he had his bright winning way aud cheortul amile, #o what cared he, you might think, seems that he did care and went 4 Robingon for vdviee, Dr, Rob- ht sould restore the Lee Arthur coliention of features to all ite tine Orilllancy and pulchri- tude for (ioe money, He turnished the scenario, Mr, Arthur accepted’ his terms, the playwright went regularly to the dootor’s beauty emporium and had the wrinkles iron oath ot hollow shetks bie" 7 the ckeeka ot @ dairymald; the lines ind his eyes, which had been ro- of a map of the Western Fatal Gift of Beauty. me Mr, Arthur was hee caine @ ¢erritying thought, “aw bec When ‘ho foations— exact—and Thi ba, analatint SSoed tqion hia wich onan ag: Who, oeeded,mimaris on ora: Mme fatal pitt of beauty wea ay Aye aaron tl Ba leer Ar aed uty, and Comptrelier Again Aypoated To, | 2H St Coat te the polidelr of peat be Ne" Compliant ain metals ed he, “would I be tn- watibaTaee neater et Bara he ary “Da you re to xi apres [end Greer lammerstein than be called aS . Ye lew, “i ag by edie of counsel,” answered “Then JY shall adiveo that for commitment be a; the, Com ae for," anid mato the application,” sald take until Tues. lawy promised TRENTON, N. J. Jan. 71.—George K, pale bond ot 8 in hase ol Urata Beatee poulldl was approved M, Lanning, of the United ‘trlot Court, — Gay thage, ch. ¢. —— Bennand—Hettle Gree SHCOND RACE. att $ aid 5 had | tent’ Pig $300,000 guaranteeing leq of ae fl by Ji Sa TNS HOT SPRINGS ENTRIES. HOT SPRINGS, Ark’, Jan. 7,—The entries for Monday’ races are as follows: — Gitte Buttercui — James Wi — an. — Tri jarvin — Charadella, — Delonion ‘Third Race—~Thi ~— Red Re: 160? Dundall — Wild Irishman, — Preon ...) — Lady Gari! FOURTH RACE—Mile 188 FIRIT RACE—Three-eightha of H troller, announced that under the char- | puree, bi ole orka Mata mn, Fitth Race—Soven-elghths of a mile; 141" Batorre —= Pancreatis Maroo . iver slectie Critical, Martlous ort ts poe rue reason why he ceased to visit the beauty doctor, But the dootor thinks was because he didn’t we a @ neaper for hi 0 deen oi i MY lg ey urke’s rathskeller and have his face chan, wihod toui| DRUGGED, ROBBED AND SHANGHAIED, SOLDIER SAYS Drank with Strangers Near West Point and Woke wp on Oyster “ (Bpecial to The Evening World.) TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 7.—Drugged. robbed and then shenghaled ito an oya- tet-boat ig, the Chesapeake Bay ts the story of Robert MeCullen, twenty-two years ol4, of Philadelphia, Bergt. Gilbert, the local U. 8, A, re- crulting offlcer hete to-day, ap he asked to be sent back to the army, {rom which he jg marked as a deserter, Sergt. Gilbert communicated with the War Department in Washington and was instructed to forward McCullen to Weat Point at once, which_was done, len declares that at «West Point et drugged and robbed, and when next awoke was on tne oyeter-boat in the, Chesapeake Bay, Hg enllated in Atlantic Clty and later cepigned to the cavalry department at West Point, One night went a short distance from the Point, where he drank two glasses of beer with strangers, and ‘a8 oF ¥ | when he recovered he w: hue oyater | ey escaped three days ago when the graft way he re] haye to Trenton by ooal trains, whero ported for duty. MeCullen will ‘to stand oourt-mantlal at West Poir* » VICTORY FOR GERMANS. BERLIN, Jan, %—Lieut,-Gen, Von rotha, Commander-in-Chtet of thy German forces in German Southwest ‘Africa, cables that Mejor Melsler had atubborn fights Jan, 2, 8 and 4 with a ter fifty hours’ fighting. ‘The Pees ey not Yet heen ascertained, —— Mr, Dooley corporal punishment, wife beating ey opanking: in next Sunday's World! WYNNE IN TOWN TO SEE WILLGOY Postmaster-General Comes to This City and Disousses the Administration of New York Office with New Head. Postmaster-Gin, Robert J. Wynne, of Waehington, called on Postmaster Will- son to-day, and tho two were closeted in the latter's private office for sev- eral hours discussing matters connected with the administration of the New York office, The Postmaster-General re- turned to Washington at 4 o'clock. “My visit here at this timo,” sald Me. Wynne, “is ‘preliminary to'a second ROOSEVELT A President Gathers’ Legislative Advisers About Him and Dig» cusses Tariff Revision and Proposed Plan af Action. WASHINGTON, Jon, 7,—Ning of the leading Republicans in Congress met President Roosevelt this afternoon to consider with him executive questions: now pending before Congress, ‘The conference wao hold at the Instance of the President, was entirely informal visit I shall make within a week or ten days, At that tlme I shall prob- alleges that Lee promised to pay $59! ably remain tor several days, and with the new postmaster go more in detail into the postal affairs of New York, “One thing I: want to say ts that the Postal authorities in Washington will approve of ¢nch and every recommen- dation of Postmaster Willcox # long ‘a8 the recommendationa are within the postal regulations and appropriation, Will Not Hamper Willcox, "T hud as the Firat Assistant Post- master-General many ‘eas relating to the New York Poat-Office, but I shall indorse the recommendations of Mr. Willcox. The Department does not in- tend to hamper the new official by any of its own views and ideas, We fel that he, belng here and on the ground, {a better qualified to know the require- ments than we {i Washington. Mr. Willoox's administration will stand or fall entirely by his own acts, and his recommendations as to promotions, re- movals and other matters will be ap- proved by me as Pastmaster-Gonerai. “We recognize that New York needs many things, and that the postal situa- tdon here is bad, due to congestion, and 4t ls my present intention to give Mr, Willcox every dollar out of. the general otal Appropriation thal can ibe spare any frot 8) rain a point to give Mr, Willcox if anything more money, having in view the demands and needs of other Gities. As an old New Yorker I appre- Glate the commercial tmportance of New York as @ city, and I am going to assist the new Postmaster in every way to give the city of New York an efictent service, More Branch Post-Offices, “Ot course, all of these improv. will bave to be alow! Yard aout be kept In ay ton, 1 remedy for congested condition un- auestiopaniys {9 more branch t-of- ces, Ag an illustration, we a sta tion in Wall street. An been made to us of a ty there, and a admirab); kaapted. jen | in On told tol aha was at Baltimore and mado his! thowgand Withers and occupled Grose. | ly for our pur- the rent aged is in round UP appeared ‘perponully before the st ta tran eas ace ry “4 fiat sxpial to the many needs if due ow Kork and ‘that ad- itional funds were necessary. I hope jes) ee find our quota tni asa result. fi tisfled that within at ngater, Willcox. will have "imate: ieproved the congested situation es. But o PB ria)l id.) lo what, if any, action ty to be taken, in character; having beon extended by ©” lim to those who were to be presenty Thoat invited were Speaker Cannon, Senators Aldrich, of Rhode Island} Allle fon, of Iowa; ; Spooner, of ‘Wisoonaln, awd OH. Platt, of Conheotiout; ang | Represéntatives Payne, of New York; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; Tawney, o€ Minnesota, and Grosvenor, of Ohio. The Senators are members of the’ Befinte Steering Committee and the Reprosemts atives of the House Ways and Means Commits, in addition to the Speaker, The personne! of the delegation’ Ine vited naturally would suggest that mate tors relating to the tani werd to be considered at the ponference, as “the ' Senators called by the President’ are the tariff experts of the body they rep Tesent, and the representatives, except the Speaker, aro the leading mombera of the Ways and Means Committes, which would Initiate any tariff 1égislae ton that it might be deemed desirab) to present to Congress, r On Tarif Points, The President hag indicated tt to be hls purpose to consult with members of Congress before recommending any ac- tion regarding the proposed revision of the tariff, That consideration of that subject Is one of the subjects taken up at to-day's conferences iq known, Differences of opinion have arisen aa and an effort was made at the Cone ference to reconcile these differences, and, if possible, to determine upon @ Une of procedure that will be satisfac. tory to Republicans generally, Tho members summoned to the cone ference spoke for themselves as indie viduols and for other Republican mem- bers of the Senate and House with he| Whom they have conqulted regarding tho tariff question. ee WRECKED CREW HERE. ~ Men of the Dutch Steamer Andania Bronght from Havana, ‘Twenty-two seamen, composing the crew of the Dutch steamer Andania, which wae wrecked.on Dibow Key Deo, 2%, while bound from Galveston, Tex., ‘to Hamburg, were brought into this Port to-day by the Ward Line steamer za, from Mexican ports and Havana, x ‘The crew abandoned the steamer, ook | ——— HANGED HIMSELF WITH ROPE MADE OF A SHEET. Man Whe Called lself John Groen Ended Life in Bowery Ledging-House, Alter making a rope of a torn bed sheet, a man calling timself John Green hanged himuelf to the transom of a room at the ‘Palace Hotel," a cheap lodging-hous), et No, 28% Bowery, this afternoon. ‘(he body was found by the clerk of the lodging-house. Green had been stopping at the place for two weeks. During that time he drank heavily and seemed deeply de- prevwed, From words he dropped it was understood that he had pn and wai been nister in the clty and ae bas bee) them o steve thean gee bis condition, —_— DEAD SAILOR IN THE SEA. seems, ATDANTIC CITY, N, J. Jan. 1.—A corpse, apparently that of @ sailor, was dlacovered floating in Barnegat Inlet to-day, Tho lfe-severs put out in a boat to bring the body, but when they renohed the place where it had been goon it could not be found. It is be- Meved that the man had been washed off some vessel during the big storm that has been raging in this locality, — Mr. Dooley, corporal punishment, wife beatin, spanking in next Sunday's World COLLARS wit, ARE 4 PLY RELIGIOUS NOTICES, st, GEORGN'S CHURCH, Stuyvesant square, Rev, W. 8. Ralnsford, 'D, D,, rector,—The Right Rev. Bishop HM. Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of New York, ‘will preach on Bun- o'clock, day morning nex’ atl fan, ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS, ARRAN CHEMICAL ENGRAVING COMPANY—Tho ‘@unual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors, for the ensuing year, and for such, other business ns Inay prop: erly come before the mecting, will be held | on Tuesday, Jan, 10, 1005, ar 20! Oak at, York.’ W, Beo'y. | BALL," to their boats and were picked up by the steamer San Juan and landed at | Matanzas. They will be sent home by the consul of the Netherlands in this ity, Capt. Van Der Deen, of he ‘Ane | dania, remat in Havana. WANTS! WANTS! Branch Offices THE WORLD For the Reception of Advertisementeag . (ue Regular Advertising Rates, gat Now 188 At Nos, @D, 183, 247, 485, HH AV—At Ni P (i) 840 Wort, bse HOA ET So eh Nos, 122, 124, 277, No 14, ie 117, 197, Nos, 048, 755, NaAT A Me tare fe tte 108, i! BRONX, aMLiD AV—Ab Now sOdd, 2 LD AY Ab dow 1000, B10 quar SENATORS MEET ’ | | te