The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1905, Page 1

C7) » MA TET Meet * MNDOO POLICE REFORMPLANS! - TheCitizens’Committee - Express Approval at Long Hearing, * TOACT INHARMONY. First Session Shows that the istration Work Together. FOX CALLED ON MAYOR, There Will Be Another Confer. ence on Tuesday, When Mat-: | ter Will)Be Further Discussed The plans of Commissioner McAdoo, looking ‘0 the reorganization and re- form of the Police Department were endorsed in the main this ‘afternoon by ‘the Committee of Nine, Further con- ferences between the Commissioner and 4 the Committes will be held next Tues: day afternoon at the City Club, wien 4n extension of the work and a tenta-| tive scheme for carrying it out will be agreed: upon, tos Tt t# apparent from to-dav's meeting that the Mayor ond Commiss'oner of * Police have the full confdertce of the Committee of Nine and that the come | , mittee Is working in co-operatalon with | | the administration, Politictans are, ) more than interested in the situation. ' » Whatever the result of the work of the Committee of Nino may be ‘Tammany Halli under existing * clrcumstances, @ands committed to {t, » Mayor MeClatien-ennd-Gormaaioner McAdoo dominated to-day's Committee , of Nine PrDopethies, Austen G@, Fox ohaitman of ‘the eMimittee, called upon he Mayor at the Gity Hall in the fore: oon’ and tally: for fifteen minutes ¥ ebout the sony of Commissioner Mc- * Adoo to make the Pollve Department & body governed by its h and not by Ma members. Afier Mr, Fox had Geparted, Commissioner McAdoo reached the City Hull, and he, top, was @ranted @n audience by the Mayor. From the City’ Hall the Commissioner went to the office of Isaac N, Seligman, the} w; banker, at No, 21 Broad street, where) the committees had assembled. Seven, Membare Present, ‘The m/ Abers of the committee present were Austen G, Fox, chatrman; Jobn G, Milburn, Wiliam Church Osborn, ‘H, De Foreat Baldwin, Isaac N. Bellg- man, Jacob H. Schiff and George Mc- Aneny, Elthn Root and James McKeen ‘were missing. A‘jhough Austen G, Fox ts Chairman of tie Committee of Nine, Isaac Selig- man does all the talking for that body, Previous to the assembling of the meet- dng to-day he told the reporters that the public should understand that the Com- mittée of Nine is strictly a non-partisan body of patriotic citizens, brought to- gether by conditions mn the Police De- Postment that must be remedied. “Mere 1g no disposition on the part of Whe committees to antagonize the administration,” deckired Mr, Seligman, “We want to co-operate with the ad- ministration, and have its co-operation, ‘With that object in view, we have asked Commissioner McAdoo w came down here to-day and explain to uy ‘what his experience as Polloe Commis- ener hae taught him avout the de- McAdoo Explains Plans. The vonforence Jasied and a half. Commissio: M took up all the ume in explaining his plans tor a better poilce force, He went over the soheme Which he outlined to the Muyor yesterday, providing for ad- ditional power to tie Commissioner in cise of removals, the repeal of the law which allows veterans of the Civil War to remain on the force as long as they please, and the abolition of he ; Detective Bureau. as it ls at prepont | conetituted, and its organization one At the ‘ Lusi he conclusion of the meeting Mr. Beligman prevented a short mantel which ‘had been prepared by the cqm- mittee, “He said: “The Commissioner outlined a plane which we will support ie el win, We are in thorough harmony ) ‘ Commlssionér in every rev rCommissloer McAdoo also made {Pet if aati it, of which the following 3 y, and frankly than I have ever talked | Livaietds both about the operation of the Department from & practical standpoint from the standpoint of theory, Ltold the gentlemen what I had learned of the New York police force in a measiire, but I did not get more than half through. I shall meet the commit again next Tuesday afternoon and fi ish h my, of what has been | asked of me, The committ afternoon at t afternoon thereafter if the members have time to attend the meetings, After Commissioner «McAdoo gets through with his exposition of ideas ea | day the cominittee will be r oall witnesses, It Is proceedings will be of a star chamber nature, r some polleemen may be ealled ‘who would suffer in the estima- tion of thelr fellows If thelr connnec- tion with the West aetna should be- come known LAA MT this time, \ zt aire ate Hes al cms Wk Wa ? ; i. “Tt fallsea to the committee more free: | will meet to-morr City Club and eye a The body has not been identifi eady to} probable that the SHOT ae ROBBER DRIVER INA SLEIGH of a tier He Had Hired. - Reached and His Pockets Rifle, ‘Farmer Going Along the Road | Found Geo ge Wititams, of Watchung, Lying Lifeless, \ PLAINFIELD, N. J., Feb, 2—George ‘Williams, @ grocer, who lived at Wat- |chung, in Somerset County, was shot |and killed to-day by a stranger while | being driven from Watchung to Mount | Horeb, Mr, Williams had engaged the | man to drive him to Mount Horeb. When they reached a lonely spot in| the road the stranger drew a revolver | and shot Mr, Wilifams dead. The man |chen searched the dead man's pockols \and took everything he had, He then fled, leaving the man dead in the slolgh, "Phe body’ was discovered by a farmer jpassing «long the road. A search ia | being made, for the murde\r. Ser io NO RACES T0-DAY AVHOT SPRINGS Track Frozen Over During Night and in Dangérous Condition, So Programme Goes Over Un- til To-Morrow. +——— (Special to The Rrening World.) HOT SPRINGS, Ark,, Feb, 2—Races declared off here this afternoon. The track was frozen with hard ridges and was in absolutely dangerous con- dition. ‘Nhis is not the fret time that the track thas frozen over night, but rising temperature usually thawed out the, hari clods before noon and made! racine ponetble, It is sald that pool-rooms will be wy mitted to open here on New Orleans races during the afternoon. The Kentucky Club Stakes will be run | posenpe TOW. and this will end the meet- ing. ‘ | FAST MILE TRIAL BY MOTOR BOAT (Bpectal to The Evening World,) PALM BBACH, Fla, Feb, 2—A, D. 150 horse-power auto boat of W, Gould Brokaw, covered a kilometre over the Lake Worth measured . course to-day with official timing in 1,21 and a mile in 211 2-6, Both trials are new records, a MAN AND ee whi KILLED BY TRAIN! Woodbury, Ne J, Within a Few Hones of Bach Other, sons were killed by trains within a fer ‘hours of each other here to-day, Bisie Balley, nine years old, atruck and instantly killed by the Mau- rice River express. She was crossin, the track and did not notice the bil proach of the train, Previous to the death of the child the of a man had been found sone: side the track, He had evidently killed by a train early In the pert (4 | Ls than one-tenth of the 75,036 wants published in the Morning and Sundtay World fast month called for answers to be sent care “he World office, , Yet the few thousand want advertisers who did use The World office letter boxe got 97,406 Answerts, ‘This record has never been ap proached in any previous January in The: World's history. It is an increase “f 37,888 Answers over the same mon} hy last year. Jerseymian the an the Victim ‘A SUDDEN ATTACK, Slain’ as Lonely. Spot Was’ THE MURDERER. ESCAPED Proctor Smith, driving the challenger |{ Two Fatal Aceldents on Track at; WOODBURY, N, J., Feb. 2—Two por} | | YJ | | Monte ‘Attell, the Califomia bantam- Lwelght fighter who is said to ‘be -ns ‘great a fighter an hie brother Abe, will ‘ytke his’ first appearance inthe etst Ja a boxing contest on Tuesday, Feb. H4,'at the Douglas A, C., of, Chelsea, Mass. His opponent in’ this bout will JAKE LANDERS be’ the acknowledged bantamwelght champton (of New, Bhgland, ‘Jimmy Good spiaer Cale Beats Out Ram’s |Waieh, vot, Boston. Armangemeriie’ tor 1¢ fikht were completed to-day, Horn, the Favorite, in Fifth’ toh boys: will clash for fiteen founds | 0 {at 116 pounds weigh In at'6 P.M, on Race at New Orleans—Turt the niet of the vontest,’ ‘This bout. oe NILSSON WINS NEW ORLEANS, RESULTS. FIRST RACE—Triumvir (6 to 2) 1, Lite Lieb (110 1)°2; Hetdon 3. “ SECOND RACE—Redman (9 te 1) 1, Baywood (19) to 6) 2,’ sa Gold 3, THIRD RACE—Matador (18:to 20) 1, Astarita (9 to 2). 2, Inquisitive Girs 3, FOURTH RACE—Kickshaw (8 {> 2) 1, Old Stone (6 to 1) 2, Tobog- gan 3, 4 FIFTH RACE—Jake Sanders (10 to 1) 1, Ram'e Horn (3.to 2) 2, Ine specter: Halpin 3. i “Was, fair but cold, and a flerce witid from the north swept the Mink and rendered fast. time Impoaal- |), ble A crowd Which taxed ‘the eat diet eb en ania aad FEB, 2-—G18ST DAY. 493 TI Ah tour ian (Bpeciel to The Evening World.) NEW ORLHANS, Feb, 2—The seat of war on the Western turf has” beon {transferred trom Hot Springs to New Orleans, ‘The meeting of the American Jockey Club, which was scheduled to \be held at Hot Springs, has been trans- ferned to the Crescent City, Already Ha Corrigan, J. L, Rhinock and George f Cox are here while the other deldgates) 311 | MONTE ATTELL MA TCHED > TO FIGHT BANTAM WALSH [Former Will Make His First Appearance in. the East in Bout with | _ New Enigiand Title Holder on Feb, 14, SKATING Me aes EVENING WORLD RACE CHART AT NEW ORLEANS. SUCH A HEADACHE) { promise to be one of the gieatest bat- tles between little fellows that has ever been whinessed in New England, Walsh ia & remarkably clever youngwter while | Mtell, on the other hand, Js a rugged slam bang fighter who tears night in at the sound of the bel) to- finish his Opponent as quickly as pomsibie, Another: {mpartant contest which js alated to be fought before the Douglas A. C..will be a: tig ede bout be- ig aid Cone reat tighter and vd a anion, | fhe sar ee ane ke "weir ey are iy tthe fay ein at} cacao S| of, ‘the rb ON Watched the hockey CAUGHT IN RAID, HE TOOK POISON Figuring that He Might Be Called as a Witness, Ended William A. Mills, of Brooklyn | END ST Employees Reach’ OLD SCHEDULE RESTORED | As Soon as Possible New. One Will Be P; Giving the Men. Fifteen Minutes’ Wi End of Runs, as Demanded, Providi Trains Are Not Behind Time. hye erhood of Locomotive Firemen, ame and the. professional, races. ‘Phe, first ade, a halt mille for pro- temlonols, had eaveniries John Mion: } ed LAtor vad.» Bapk wis | won my with Bapties. ‘gogond an a nie, sty ih “wih jeri rs c abe third, Tim aptien fal ss, ip, ai ee His Life, “Pedr of bel cae a 6 & pool-room p\ beaetil lthare driven Willlam i Paina @ clerk, of ne | NO, Mt Emireon place, Brooklyn, to eo |muiclde to-day. Ho dled suddenly at his home, and: Dr, ‘Frank: H, Ross, who was oalled to attend him, haw notined the coroner that he belleven ‘Mille took cyariide: of potasslum or «poison of almilar nature, Mills and) Emil Nielson, ‘of No, Btate street, were caught by: Capt.’Gal- lagher ‘Tuesday afternoon collecting a bet they, had mado on @ race at New |Ofleans with’ one Alfred 8m! Belo was attested, Nielaon and’ Mill taken'to the btation: house as Titian: Mills’ appeared to be in great fear that hisname would et into theinewa> nd! that his Na a tee would he had been ‘playing the races, TRACK SLOW, we spoke to hie wite about tt, but oe mile. Tee faid nothing of an intention to end his by Prime Min- | yi¢9, it 3 Smith was arraigned in Adams Street 7-9 | Court yeaterday and held on « charge of violating the law prohibiting the placing bets’ upon” hopae races; Capt, lagher furnished’ the tétimony, Milla and Nielson were not called, When Milla reached’’ tis home ‘last night he told ‘his wife of the court rina Ha Oe Voanras are due here in the next few daya, Preparation for the opening of. the Panama Park meeting are going on and the outlaw horses are continuing =| proceedinge and expressed the fear that, he ‘might be. oflled before the Grand Jury, In) that case, he sald, he would surely jose hla position, The to arriye every day, Fifteen of Corri- Lid tying got in from Chicago lest nig The contract held Wy Sidney Bender on Jockey Oliphant has been dectaret vold by the Western Jockey Club and ‘will ride free lance here. for, ‘Ran Up to: Fast Tri Triumyir, which wes makin bet he was collecting’ when Capt.. Gal- ugher forced his’ way into Smith's place was the frat he had ever made, he told Mrs, Mills, During the night he complained of pains and a. general feeling of slck- ness, but he asked for nu medicine and appeared to aléep fairly well, Mra, ri Rediian Ror to the tro at ht in au int it went lot ae Pra) 408 TilRD 495 HIRD Batten sie a y Magetio- “hi ex. ‘a lor He tan sot ‘Alice te hs, eee ‘ Appearance at the meeting in ‘was made the choloe: and plese Bu the Siren of pee fae ind waited with hi jhe ages, rating in pehina ua ihe i with set the early paces tation Aired in the run hone an umvir, taking command in ie na home, Bay away without an effort ywood. the choloe In was ridden by play the early |= but teed he showed in some of his pre- ‘rages, In the ‘earby: tunning Mills, wrose at 7 o'clock and went to prepare breakfast. She was about to. call her husband at 7.0 o'clook when her nine-year-old daughter, ran into. the: kitohen and told her that Mills was crying. She found him in convulak on on’ the floor: of his bedroom. ‘BILLIARDS BY ati a vi vice, and Sid Silver showed the ’ wa Rounding the far turn Redman’ moved up and Vwed command entering tho homestretch drew away at the end pis — rie Owner in » rain et aK Binion, i ht ae H Se ee mee ‘or The - year-olds. and upward; puree 8000; on driving, Winner, b, a bis Staats and won cleverly, Wt. at Matador Never Caught. ti imrnine \ ‘adlor @o far outclamsed his fleld in te te) mace that his backers ac- | (4 cepted 8 to § about his chance, At no in in doubt. Matador rushed ‘to the front in doubt, Matador rushed to the front | when the start came.and led all the way peers ‘under restraint at the end from etarita, pee NS) SKATING IN PARK Jast quarter, Inn fointyre could wee ridden op at oetie. was very rank and nag ~Actly Pai aie Seale Ape ay W, a Gi ne im (Bpectal to The Evening World,) hf i My 114 OHICAGO, Ill, Feb, 2—Charles 8. » tp r Fi AY 6 Schmitt, of Racine, Wis., won his first as 18 | game of the Diamond Claas A Amateur t Bone ran mugh im race. To 7B he on Tournament this afternoon at not him mtraight. eons had no | the C, A, A., from Bd Rein, of Chicago, by the score of 800 to 281, The gam ‘was closely contested from the start, | vin ane, be Won dri ro, points of the gamé, Reln's Inability to SUNDAY EVENINGS, i the! 4 |Conimiustoner Pallas Orders Lakes Kept Open to Skaters After Sunset, Park Commissioner Pallas to-day {s- 3 | Judge his stroke caused hing to Boa | Schmitt made a high rw His leverage wes 4 63-62. Bell's ‘gh run | was % and his average 4 37-61, Sixty-one Innings were pINyed, as fol- lows: 36,5 it oon sued an order permitting skating on} ithe Central Park lakes on Sunday even- Ines beginning next Sunday. Hrerowe4 forge the lakes have been closed to ; Skaters at sunset on Sundays and the new order ia in the nature of an ex- {periment, but will be continued unless \there ts sorlous objection raised, Commissioner Pallas sa: count of the shortness of the skatin, season he believe sthat skaters shoul ‘have the privilege of usink the park Jaltes Bunday evenings, ellings for mile and an eighth. FOX HUNTING (0 to 1) 1 AINSPRING 3. that on ao- handful of wheat from ne ring | sWedish Kid, Lou M., Royal: Arms, Hickory: Seni Hand: e rrgeepinner, Little Boy, Burke Cochran and: Lee King.also.ran, 6, B: votal, Ly ‘Oo 1, he 0, 38, hy 1, 9, three-year: Reins 4, 16, . tal, Sobaltt’s high run, 3. Rein's high run, 2, Charies Threghie led J. B. the second match of the afiernoin in the | first seven tnnitigs by only a small mar oo. a esta of the men getting a good ven Innings Ww: 0301 ib ee “O96 Os Oot BELLE INDIAN, (3'to’5) 2, ithe, score for Threshie . Usk BEST AMATEURS . each player gaining the lead at different | Schmite—4, #1000, 0 11 & 0, 6 “aa "9,4, i9"1,°0,'0. | 1 0, | 1M, & 0, 0, fy it 0, 0 0, He 8, 0, 10; toe | 381, Stark tn | on ‘with the old one. © \ Interview. Stormy ‘at: First. The first part’ of the interview. be- | tween the Kanes ‘and Mr, Hedley waa: sen th keep Hi the men aaa ‘the new be maintained Poeetb! ic end of each pound believed thomagives entltted, ‘Bhe men vigorously denied’ that there had been any intentional ‘delay on thelr part, It was obvious that oo, agreement could be. reached Unless the new schedule was abolished as a starter, Me, Hedley agreed to do this and the men agreed to go back to the schedule whinh thay complained of last week, é over the details of the new schedule, 'and when they got through had reached & thorough understanding, The new schedule is to insure the men thelr fifteen minutes of reat at the end of each round trip, tut only on condition that they are on time, If ‘they are behind thne, it is sald, ‘they will Lose Just that much of \thelr leleure, At the conclusion of ithe conference Mr, Hedley made this statement to an Evening World reporter: “We have had a-two-and-a-ial? aour discussion between. the management of the Interkorough Company and. tho employees of the Subway division, We have discussed all th¢ differences be- tween the management and the men Bach” aubjet of difference has been sat\sfactorily agreed upon and settled by both parties,” Mr, Hedley declined to give any de- tails of the settlement, but the men were more communicative and outlined the agreement reached as above, Mr, Jenoks, who was especially jubilant, away. Tt will continue until the new ech Jule ts worked out and adopted, | which Is satisfactory to w “Bverything ts satisfactor, '$1,000 Will be paid by The seid Mr, ! G. W. Woerz at the pistol point brown and close’ together, His tonstantly t! iI] of the situat 'General Managee’ Hedley and Comi tlement of Differences, with Con. | coslon. on Both Sides. . There will be no rtrilee Fe the Subway ot For two houra and a half’ to-day the situation was thy General Manager Frank Hedley and the th represented in the Subway—George Hl, Pepper, of the . | ctation, of Hlecttie and Btreet Railway Employees; \the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and”! It was agreed between the Interborough Comipany and tives of the men that the fiow achodule, which precipitated he abolished on Saturday In ‘favor of the schedule which the present one was adopted, ‘and that yhich will satiety the men’ will be p i Weeks to complete the new echedule, and meantime the Mr, Hedley ily a the fatth ‘Then for nearly two hours thay talked Wi We get the old echedule back right | “a hea "epi a, RIKE a Satisfactory Se Is TO BE TEMPOR or on se “L' roads, ‘Teaders of the’ wWinlam iH, Ponny, s00n ae pods (Boectal to ALBANY, | Feb: iidahaw: tt of the i oat rea ait asylum became apparent In. Yesponse to the pie f Ing World, they were All the experts with one ported months ago: which Odell ordered’ the $42,000 48 not only unaul worth the. price, Mwo of the experts pay ble, remote from” an supply, and totally unfit” poses Intended. One of dents saye that. other places more. st Comtock site, He adds that the tainable within thr H 000 gallons a@ h 4 Angtitution will reaultg, wallons a day, He also says the alte: sorub trees and that’ have to be hauled Tong @ only expert who the Baker site 14 Dr, Carlo a fi Prealdent of Boat | cin. 8 Wye Boy ‘World for information that will lead ti detection, arrest and conviction of whom the police have been unable to capture, despite mission since of similar crimes by apparently the same ind Description of the Woerz robber: Five feet eight. igehes tall, rather stint, and shout five years of age. His face was narrow and sallow, his hat may or may not haye been due to the ¢ ion, He spoke like a man of education. ‘ His: consisted, so far as the family could see, of a which came hearly-to his feet, and the collar of which up to conceal as much of his featuien pind His) soft one of gray and was crushed in at the crown. ie they a 9 te Taney ve for Sn een te Rewart the robber who.held up. on Jan. 9 in his own eyslids had a way of ¢ bg