The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1905, Page 4

mat t es re R BURG City Fathers incensed at Report te that Comptroller Said Board _ Had Lost Dignity and Should Be Abolished. » ‘a wae “WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT US?” ASKS ,ONE. Who's Grout?” Inquires Sulli- van—“He Can Have My Job Any Time He Wants It”— Others Are Sarcastic, The members of the Boant of Aldor- man were anything but pleased to-day at the-erlticiam passed upon the Board by Comptroller Grout last night, at a Ginner in Brooklyn, The Comptroller fn hs speech is reported as having sald’ the Board had lost dignity, talked foolishly and should be abolished, Aldermanic dignity, while seldom prea- ent at a Board meeting, 1s one of the things which the Board prides itselt upon, In view of the fact that there has not been a fight on the floor in the Present session, the members bellevo that the Comptroller's remarks wore Ml timed, There was real indignation expressed by several of the members, (on Hie Fears to Secure’ eforme—Hen. Trepott Baniehes Maxim Gorky to Riga. URC RaThe ut- peeve the face plat organisation ts shown ‘ rg. Even on ‘of public buildings simple Grand Duke’ Sergius's death . Mhey read: sof death passed’ upon toh” wan executed peer Doull wae hari ‘"Phe Comptroller has been sore on ng Organisation of the So- tie Party,” . * Threatened, Marie Paviovna this Board,” sald he, “ever since It Dlocked the eyebar steel when eévery~ thing was being played into the hands ‘of the Steel Trust, Mr, Grout told me personally he ‘was in favor of eyebars and he did not think the Board should interfere in\ a’ matter that was purely technical and that it belonged to the! engineers to settle the question,” “Grout? Who's Grout?" inquired Al- derman Sullivan, "He can have my job ‘any time he wishes It or the people want it, Iam tired of sérving the people end ‘giving up my time for $90 a month. “When a man goes to dinner he I ‘expected to speak,” said Alderman Dowling, “He ia as it. were expected to earn his meal and must aay some- thing, So It was with the appa | ‘he had to say something; and he turn loose on the Bonrd of Aldermen, We Wave not lost our dignity. The Comp- troller is making reckless statements." 1 tman Owens allowed that as the Board of Aldermen had been croated first, the thing to do was to abolish the Comptroiier’a office, “We are the | Beemptroties ‘is ry ory “lad ato a , q rout nak is ‘ho, whote | city, sald Marks. "There ls Tue bacying: aay attention 00, hen “When a man is Pectin 5 his last a] is likely ei an ‘ofted,"” re- mis. On. the Rook tn hin Me, 66 id 1 have. n to i far as I know, ani cat -of the meelt ; i ( mort tay it ainge fenth, is trying to shield’ own, the Grand Duke masloh % with threats twice received letters signed dy iiforming him of his sg of tho asalgnment lly terrorized the never Alderman Comptrolier: once," sald en, Cole He uate “about, the , Board, i td aut here,’ but here te ihe hat ny attacks on the not affect the Honry." was Hi et ANncnan Bosh taxes he Board of Ald be with z, ty tes eat Saat ' nol dignity tt by rh EE en, cone G R 80 mako it Ms Grou yi oo? I think not,’ fe; a f. i if Aiderman GLOSE ON TRAIL. OF ROSS SLAYER > Many Hours Having Received Definite Information, ‘UGEES VE AU STRIA. th BURG, Feb, 8,—Maxim from the for- ihe ed ge knoe ; eh "ed Nal perenne & toa tna On information obtained tronf'a new witness, whose identity ts withheld, Chief of Police Gallagher, of Montclair, and Detective Hummel, of Prosecutor Young's staff are hot on the trail of the murderer of old Mrs, Ross and to have him before night, The mur- deter is known and has been {dentited, ‘The police way that tt is @ clear caso ‘of robbery; murder and arson and that they will be able to prove this in a short tlme, A despatch has been reoelved from North Attleboro,. Mass. stating that Deputy Sheriff B, Carlisle Brown, of that place, has positive information that Frank Harris, allay Bari Wilson, alias Robert, Wallace, {s sald to be the ooachman, 18 really a man named ‘ettis, of Attleboro, who wag in that Mace Sunday, rown says that Pettis left Attleboro a few years ago, and for two years has been employed, he understands, in’ or near Newark, N, J. ry ‘ ; as 7 ” i ‘ yman Ronenatein Intro- BI Lovying 26 Cents a . and OW Manntactirors Feb, %~To divert the at- ralvera from the had As- Rosenstein, of New York, he srafa ct io) Thousend In waids - leve that they the wont i ore it from the cigar- ele the Assembly orm et iry-eoods stores to rank on the premises. INAUGURATION DETAILS IN HAND WASHINGTON, Feb, 2%.—With the great bulle of the arrangements ‘or the Inpuguration of President Roose- velt\on March 4 completed the work to-day narrowed down to winding up the final details, The headquarters! of the Inaugural Committee was a bisy scene and Chairman Wilson and Sec- retary Hitcheock greeted a host of vis- Wore and conferred with their corps of committee assistants, One of the first artivals to-day was A band of Bloux Indians, who told the committee that they ‘were anxious to paxiicipate in the parade in their native vegiila, Gen, Wilson referred them to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, ‘They cannot be agysigned places in the Provesslon hut may be given some out- dui, copnection with ho, | Toot ton, tlt Meri | fame, wh ich houses bg ulekly be built a good profit sold, " ¢ money this way Youll get hold BAe, honorary. i { THE GRAFT lease. even against invasion by the city: NEW YORK CONTRACTING AND : TRUCKING BATA RIVA TE PT YD DU MI Following are the two reports which were made by Mr, Ruesell: | Mr. Russell's Report. “The lessee has arrogated to Itself, rights and privileges not contemplated by the lease, and has assumed to eatab- without eyen a color of authority. the revenue to the New York Con- traoting and Trucking Company, may be inferred from this statement; In one day 447 trucks and two carts do- ilvered dirt at the dump, which would proditce a revenue of $268.20, “From a partial inspection: we think auch revenue would be at least 840 a day, and this revenue makes no account of the amounts derived from the use of tho nler for loading scows with rock or unlonding them. ‘0 way that one week's the yearly payment namedsin the lease, leave ing profits from the remaining fit- ty-ome weeks for the sole benefit of the lenace.” é ving numerous legal reasons why this Iéase should be annulled Mr, Russell says: “pt our view of the situation Is cor- rect the oresent Dock Commission has abundant ground for public policy and a legal right to free his department from ‘the burdens coming to him as a legacy | ‘trom his predecessor," “Leake of the pler at the foot of West Soventy-ninth street to the New York Contracting and Trucking Company, dated July 22, 1901. 5 Only $1,200 a Year, “Hon, Seth Low, Mayor: ‘Bir—The Board of Docks on the 280 of July, 1901, exevuted a lease to the WALL STREET TUESDAY, Feb, 2, From the opening of the morning mall to the beginning of business in the Stock Exchange every brokerage house in “Wall Street was busy sorting out ordera to sell stocks, The first hour's trading in the Bxchange was a turmoil of selling. Almost every speculative ‘holder of @ small line of stocks had n+ structed hia’ broker to clean him up, and the avalanche of offerings at the Outset sent prices tumbling, A marked foature of the early trading was the wiping out of the’ numérous atop orders that have accumulated dur- ing the recent upward movement of the market, Many weak bull operators were obliged to liquidate to-day ‘in ccupequence of the sharp break in prices. It wasa matter, of curréu gos- stp that John W, Gates and his friend: ware obliged to: sell stocks in ordér to taise money with which to hold their Position in the wheat market, “Has the control of Union Pacific past out of the hands of Mr. Harri: | inant” was asked at BH, Hi, Herriman’s office more than once to-day. i| "Mr. Harriman ts too busy to anawer | such foolish questions,” was the invar.- | Hable’ reply, At the officer of J. P, Morgan & Co, and the Northern Aecurities Company, the question “Have the Morgan-Hil! in- terests eeoured opntrol of the Union Pa- cific?” elicited only tfe curt’ exclana- Yon: “Nonsenge!"* _ Still the expert tape readers in Wall Street give much credence to the ru- mors that Harriman and his friends ate how minority stoolsholders in Union Pa- cific, Bince the twentieth of this month the sales of Union Pacific common shares on the floor of the Stock Ex- change have aggregated more than 920,000,009, ‘The total isaug of common atock $s $120,000.00), Wiile there Is ho Coubt that a large proportion of the trading in Union Pacific has been spec- ulative there haa been evidence of com- petitive buying, and It Is known that large blocks’ of this stook have been taken out of the market, In some of the most ‘conservative brokerage houses the bellef that Morgan and Hill have |_| THE WORTD»_T WEEK’S REVENUE A. ! ALDERMEN STAND BY CONTRACTS. RATES HIGHER (Continued from Mshed a dumping board to its profit Fy Wwol ‘Firat Page.) New York Contracting and Trucking Company for ten years for Shun pes’ annum, payable quarlorly, the tesseus to have the privilege of two renewals of (3 years each, at un advance rental of F cent. per annum, othe pler 1s 142 feet long and Gl fe wide, ronal by the department at a Coat of $20,000, nnd the record shows SE the Yi expense for re- ‘s“has been 1,00, } Pa he ‘bed nat revenue from the pler has been as follows: | 1.85; |, $984,70; 1885, $1,004.83; 286, 8} "1887, $11,800; 1888, naughty 1889, $770.68: 1890, $963, 74; Rg 1,048.66; 1808, $248.10; 1804, $800.46; 1895, 7B; 1806, | $357.98; 1697, $363.76; | 1898, $395.14; 1899, 8679.05; 1900, $697.49; 1001, $229.44, A total of $6,878.70. In. addition to these sims more than 82,000 was re- celyed for dumping privileges. The socond report Is aw follows: Sept. 24, 1902, ‘Hon, Seth Low—Sometime last Thurs- lay a scow belonging to Messra, Cun- | Pingha & Kern was moored at the foot, of Ninet h street, North Riv- er, to load paving-stones that were to be carted to Staten Island for the Bor- ough of Richmond, “The Superintendent of the New York Contraccing and Trucking Company re- used to lot Cunningham and rth thelr seow or lovd from there, Mr, Cunningham had mide a written request on ihe Dockmaster for this privilege, While the controversy was going on Dockmaster Herger appeared 48 also did John J. Murphy and James E, Gaffney, officers of the New York Contracting and Trucking Company, “Cunningham and Kern maintained they had equal rights with the others. Murphy and Gaffney contended that the plier, had been leased to them, thur giv ng them the prior right to the lease with the further right to deny its use Ba any one else should they 90 deter- mine, “Dockmaster Herger agreed with | Murphy and Gaffney and ordered Cun- | ningham & Kern's teams off the pler and ‘to remove the acow, ae Ed sat ia of beard was called un ai agreed wi Murphy and Gaffney an oiered Cunningham and Kern to have @ tug haul away the) scOW. “Nir. Cunningham then offered to take Another berth and pointed out two ves- sels at the Piet that were nhelther loading nor iinfoading, ‘This, and all other suggestions were treated In the game way by Murphy and Gaffney and finaliv they caused the arrest of Cunningham’s driver. In court the driver was discharged. “Ag a result Cunningham and Kern i 1892, 189%, their acow to One Hundred and nth street and unleaded at extra cost to then,’ _ 1S NOT b In a decision just rendered by bei Court of Appeals and written by Judge) ‘Werner @ modern “‘apartment-house” held not to constitute a ‘tenement,’ |The case is George Kitching et al., ap- pellants, versus Kate C, Brown, respon- dent, i ‘The sult’ was originally brought to re- strain the defendant from erecting tenement-house upon her premises in Went Beventy-firat street. In the con- veyance by which the title was obtain» ed tn 1878 the following clause’ was in- aerted: ‘That no tenement shall be erected upon eald lands.” It was con- tended that the houses erected, three of the apartment order, costing, $400,000 and eduipped in tha elegant modem style, were tenements within the meaning of the law, After reviewing the legislative mean- ing of the term “tenement,” as defined in the statutes, the lexicographlo and ENTRIES AT OAKLAND. RACE TRACK, OAKLAND, Feb, 28. The entries for to-morrow are as fol- WA! FIRST RACE. chic, purse, —Hait mile: (Tye notice--Happy, Reiser pee HO (niedsea 144 Reina), Geo,’ A. Knight Pai—Atking, Je SECOND RACE—Five furlongs revidio, ihn ; is, Templevon Gienbrie +s if bought control of the property is firmly grounded, Union Pacifie Jed the decline at tho opening of market, and the weak holders taiherad to For half an nd there was a een Ing on the part of s: te in Pacifle to cover thelr numerous stop order's, With the later recovery of the market, Union Pacific advanced to with. {n a fraction of its ppenibe. price, and continued an active factor In the trad ing, Bouthern Pacific was in steady 4p mand, and maintained a fair degree Of strength. ‘The wide range of buying. In Southern Pacific Indicated more or lees Susans pree NE HOH. 4 THe hal Oa | ther with Erie an rooklyn Ra) | Rranait” developed: decided popularity with the small operators, The promised boom in Brooklyn Rapid Transit partly materialized tor day, This stock was one of the most animated leaders of the market ufter the opening slump. It rore from @) 3-4 lo OW 38, but receded on eager selling for profit taking. All of the clerks! and small fry in Wall street have had) the tip to buy “B. R. T.” for the past two weeks and many persons got the stock In ithe neighborhood of 63, Bo many small lots came on to the market during to-day's rise that i was evident | tont to. take a small profit, Frle's spirited movement commanded widespread attention and certainly jus- tified the predictions made by insiders lately that “Hrie is golng higher,” Strong houses sent heavy buying orders Into the Exchange shortly after the |Hoon hour, and under the stimulus of brisk trading ithe price of Erie common advanced from 451-2 to 471-8, falling off fractionally on free offerings, The purely spot utatl element in Wall! atreet welcomes this movement In Erie ‘as “a good thing,” Some of the leading Wull operators declare that {t ls on the carda that Erie common !s to go to 60, Northern Securities was the feature on the curb, selling off about 2 points on| fears of a delay in getting a final deci- sion from the United States Supreme that the small speculators were con-|s *Maud Muller Follow Me *Midanao Padua .. SIXTH RAC: Wins *Tannhawser *Arthur Day Tom Rtley . Mr. Di *Hariem Sailor Inspector Munroe . Expodient . "Hellas 197 —— DESPONDENT, SHE ENDS LIFE, Despondent because of an estrange- ment with her ‘husband, it 1s supposed, and at the same time half helpless with rheumntism, Mrs, Mary Miller, seventy years old, committed sulolde to-day by of a friend, Mrs. Mary O'Connor, at No. 34 Bast Fortleth street, Her hus- Court. TO CURK COLD I) DAY, ke Laat 1 i a ine fatund moe Opies cane Al y ‘a Olgnature on each box. ‘Sie, band lived two doors away, at No, 348, but she left him a week ago after a quarrel, BY r | ([THEDEFIANCE] ‘ern | | timed, MODERN APARTMENT pe Decision by Court of Appeals Permits of Bulld- ing of Former on Land from.Which the Latter Is Excluded by Deed ee drinking carbolic acid In the agantment | é: R’S RE (Continued fro! NTAL; \ (NEWYORK DEATH THUG ACCUSES m Kirst Page.) \ | } Yostizate the flop of Edward M, Shop: | ‘afd from the poaltion of counsel to the | Rapld ‘Trans't commission at $10,000 a/ Year to that of counsel for the Ponn- | sylvonia Railroad at $0,000 a year, Favors the Tunnel, “Tam heartily in favor of the Sixth) Avenue tunne) franchisee The corpora: | tlon. that asks for it {s paying the city) three times as much asthe Pennsyi-/ vane Railroad paid and is getting about | Onestwaatinth of the value the Pennayl-| varia got ‘Of course, the newspapers must have fenputions, 90 they take a fall out of tis every time they think they have a Ghance. Our esteemed Comptroller has been taking a fall out of us, too, The Comptroller is wasting his time work- [ing for the vity, 1 read that the Bar~ | tum & Bailey Circus is paying a woman $100 a second for an act. ‘Mhe Comp- troller’ line Ix in’ tho, clreus business and he 1s worth $1,000 @ second, How- ever, I will give the Comptroller credit tor being like mysolf—in the service of | | the city for all there (s in It-for the clty, The legislative body was ever more careful and square in granting fran- chiges than this board has been, ‘The newspaper! editors ought to get with the Board of Aldermen and co-operate with us In our work, for the public | good, Thelf eriticiams of a contracting company that had..the good fortune to get the Pennsylvania contract are ill J, for one, am glad that the contract went to a lacol and reliable firm, friendly to the city government,” erman Shields of the Bronx #poke with some heat of ‘mongrel lesues of newspapers,” He sal it Is & goud thing for the city that the Pennsylvania work {8 in-gompetent hands. Alderman MoCalt assured his col- leagues that the reagin the newspapers ‘fare pounding ‘certain contractors''— A TENEMENT. judicial meanings, Justice Werner cays the Intent of the legislators must be considered, The context of the cover nant, ho saya, shows that the conveyer of U roperty wished to guard agains’, offeraive and noisome uses of the prop- erty {n order to’ preserve the character ‘of the logation for fine residentlal prop- erty, Justice Werner says in part:, “Many of) the conventences and cle- gancies) contained in the apartment | hounes were unknown even in the man- ' eions of the rich in 1878, to say nothing of the ‘tenement-houses’ of that day, ; | “We have now ‘an ‘apartment-house’ as difterent from the ‘tenement-house in the dheracter of its inhabitants, in | architecture, in the number and variety | o¢ ite equipment, and, in short, In all the essentials that can differentiate one piece of human abode from another, as the palace of @ king fa difterent from the straw-thatched hut of one of the poorest of his subjects ee el ASCOT ENTRIES. ee q ) TRACK, LOS ANGELES, Feb he entries for to-morrow are as follows: FIRST RACE--Maidens; welling; five fur- Rneoteno «+ Merry 81 $Lookaway Brookdale atari Yko Nd Beau Emperlal SBowman the Fiddler. *Sinloado. laura BoM, Our Pride Mie Lowi Ceeat Mogul ‘Miss Provo sChiet Aloba |... “Hlverniee s..6 THIRD RACE—Six furlongs; purse ae ee . nh ‘ Pultoeew Mitaiia FOURTH Montoya Dr. Tom “Tuckbaol Entcula *Nanon « Wint(ridas, Str Christ Fptado Palm: * 00 96 tere + OF FIFTH RACK—Selling: Buglehorn *Frangibl Brook's Course, 102 tHelgeat. #invictus, *Fortunat Met Tal *Duroar CHILD KILLED BY CAR, Hr Father Arrives Just in Time to See Rody Lifted Out, Koso Foigel, five years old, of No, 03 West One Huhdred and Seventeenth | strect, was killed by an Highth avenue | trolley ear at the One Hundred and Seventeenth street corner this ufter- noon, Her father, a tailor, was attracted from his shop by the crowd, forced his way through and arrived tt the car | just in time to seo the mangled body of | the child taken from under It, He be- | came temporarily {ineane, as did hie wife, who had followed ‘him from the ony The body of the ohild was taken to| the Wost One Hu and. ‘Dwenty- | aixth strect station and w police guard; was placed ov ie parents to pravent them barming “honmelves mis / i {tl — meaning the Murphy outft-was be- onuse thoy are striving for circulation, He was in the newspaper business him- self, he said, and knows sofething about it. “Honest Competition.” * Alderman Malone, of Brooklyn,’ sald it Was posuliar that the newspapers should oviiicise a contractor for getting on honest contract in honest competl- tlon, Alderman Morris, of the Bronx, fald that the people of his district are th favor of more transit facilities, He announced that it Js a good thing that the c¢ntrasts are going to friends of he “organization” rather than to, ite enemies, d Alderman Owens, of Harlem, pro- claimed that he was pleased: that friends of (ie organtzatiyn tn were getting the contracts, and Alder- man Redmond, of Brooklyn, expressed imilar sentiments. Alderman Doull, In. Whose district the new Pennsylvania terminal is being bullt, made @ long speech. aaa hewsipers,"' complained Mr, Doull, “persistently misrepresent the motives dnd intentions of the Board of Aldermen, More then that, the Alder mon are misquoted In the néwspapers. “My name nas heen used prominently to-day in setung forth the tac that f opposed the Pennsylyania tunnel fran- a ise. It is printed to-day that 1 ac- fed Alderman Suifivan to the com; Ra} Transit, Commission to secure the’ Iheer of a clause giving the Borough President authority to. grant permits to open the streets. "Tt ls stated to-day in the newspapers that our pu *% Is to throw into the hands of a ¢ in contract’ng company a million doNars’ worth of work, want. to say that wren I opposed the Pennaylvania franchise I did so for the best Interests of the city, Aly attitude his since been indorsed by many high city otficlals who, with a ‘holier than thou’ expression, ¢ay Ania that we should not grant franchises In perpetu- ity, That was the stand I took on the Pennsylyanii franchise, and IT would tuke {t again under the same cireum- stances.” ‘ Mr, Gaffney’s Delicacy. Alderman Gaftney's action jn leav- ing the chamber made St unnecessary for him \to vote against granting tne franchise, which he would have had to do to be consistent. His ed sense of the fitness of thing } not a} low him to vote for a mensiire that may lead to a nice fat contrac: for hie New York Contracting and Trucking Company. | FLAY JEROME IN THEMORSECCASE Lawyers for Abe Hummel and Other Indicted Persons De- clare in Court He Caused Grand Jury to Act Improperly. In the arguments before Jistica Kene- fick, in the Criminal Branch of the Su- |. Preme Court, to-day, in behalf of ex- |: Justice Fursman, A. H. Hummel and Benjamin Steinhardt, indicted for-con- aplracy, and in the pase of the latter two for subornation of perjury, arising out of the Morse-Dodge divorce scandal, ex-Judge D, Cady Herrick, De Lancey Nicoll and John R. Dos Passos, repre- senting respectively the three accused men, denounced District - Attorney Jerome in round terms, The attorneys argued on a motion to inspect the: minutes of the Grand Jury in order that a motion to dismiss the in- dictments found against their clients might be made, Mr, Jerome was pres- ent to fight against the granting of the motion, ‘ Calle Jerome a Czar, Mr, Dos Passos said: “Under Jerome indictments are turned out with almost the celerity of an automatic machine, Mr, Jerome and Mr, Rand are like an Emperor and tho Czar,” Ex-Judge Herrick argued that the de- fendants were: privileged to find out on what evidence they were accused. He declared the Indlotument was founded on improper evidence and that he had the right to know what it was, ‘How can 1 ascertain the facts unless the Court will give me an opportunity to go into the Grand Jury room?” he asked, ‘How can we move to set aside the In- dictments unless we know the evidence against us?” Then De Lancey Nicoll took a filng at It “Tg the District-Attorney's case #0 weak that he doesn't dare to let us Know. the evidence before the Grand Jury? he asked. “Ie dt true that Pronunent men must not be permitted o know what, the evidence alleged against them 18? If the District-Attor- ney were a8 satisfied as I am that thig case js based On misconception and perjury he would dismiss it.'’ y POs Tett He) but re: turned to argue against the grantin of the motion, r id ‘the court-room was crowded with lawyers during the arguments and the greatest interest wes displayed on all sides, District-Attorney Jerome _ocoupied two houra In the argument In opposition to the motion, He declared it should trot be granted at thls time, for the rea- won that other persons not yet Indicted or arrested were sccused ih the same case, and to make thelr names public, or even to give, tho defendants notice of them would jeopardize the interests of juntice and the people's, case, Justice Kenefick took thp case under advidement and reserved d§eision, A H ANGED FOR THE MURDER OF GIRL. Philadelphia Man Poured O11 Over Victim's Clothing and Burned Her to Death, PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 28.—Charles Yarnall was hanged herd to-day for the murder of Bella Boyce, On May 7, lv, Yarnall and the woman, who was but twenty-two years old, quarrelled over imoney, matters, Yarnall removed tle burne:’ from a lamp, poured the oli over the girl and get fire to her cloth- She died in a hospital a few hours later. oo SUES POLICEMAN FOR $2,000, derick Goetzger, of the enth #ireet station, was Deputy Sherlf Walgering ive $500 ball to-day on an. order signed by Justice O'Dwyer, of the City Court, } ton’ for $3,000 for false arrest br by Louls Cohen, Cohen says he was arrested on a arge of Joining with two other prison- eva In making a disturbance at Belas- co's Theatre on the bvening of Feb. 4, when he was not pers at all, He was discharged by tho | Magistrate next morning, the policeman him as one of uty fall nite \ ) {ARR AISRALA APPRAISE |YOUR FORTUNE "TOLD, love, ‘business, Exoeeds. that of, London Be- cause of the Impure Milk and Food Supplied to the Citizens of Metropolis. THIS CITY DRAWS FROM A LARGER TERRITORY. In Accidents, Too, Lond in Re- ports Fewer than New York- ' Slocum Disaster Swel Here Considerably. Health Commissioner Darlington -to- day gave out a comparative statement of the death rates of New York ’and London, In which he says that there were 77,985 deaths In New York Inst year‘and 7,00 in London, ‘The esti- mated populationeot both cities Is New York 3,066,000, and London 4,654,000, ‘The death rate per 1,000 In London is 16.6 and New Yorit 20.2. “here is no question,” siys the Com- misatoner, “but that New York nas an unusually high death rate, but tt Is particularly true of last year, Tho pre- vious yenr the death rate wos 188 per 1,000, , Due to Impure Milk. “We have a great many deaths from darrhoea in the summer season In the tenement district. The people there don't take proper care of their food and especially the milk, Itis placed, In many cases, in unwashed bottles and unel placeg, and as a fesult two out of every four deaths of ohildren were due to that source. There were 25,68 deaths of chil- dren }ast year; 5,626 of these were under “wo years of age, while Tndon had 4,901, Due to Slocum Disaster, “Now York had 5,195 deaths from ac- eidents, while in London there were 1,008; but the Slocum disaster added 1,(@ to our puniber, . "Tn rege rd: to smalipox, the conditions hem ore much hetter tian ih Tyndon, while we ba more deaths from scarlet fever and. diphtheria. than they had Jn London, “One great reason for the higher Meath rate in this'Gity is that we draw ‘from @ greater area than Lonuon, In this country thete are 80,000,000 “people, while in Great Britain there are only between 30,000,000 and. 25,000,000,"" ——— FRESH AIR CURES ‘CONSUMPTIVE BABY. Given Up by Physiclans the Mant. "one Reatored Child to Health hy Ontdoor Treatment ‘That consumption during its ‘early Btages' can’ be cured by fresh alr has been proved by Mr. and Mrs. James Manton, of Beach street, Stapleton, 8, I.. who have ‘brought thelr one-year-old son,; James, jr, back to health and strength when physicians and medicines had failed to benefit, When told that the child waa suffer- ing from tuberctlosis and that fresh air wae the only hope of saving Its life Mre, Manion made a crib for the baby ‘and there \t has been kept through every day during the past winter, Even when the teva came with its sero chit in many Diankots’ was Kept In the crib outdoors, Its health began to im- ove and to-day there is not a Bf the pulmonary trouble lett. =o? GUARANTEED CUR . A SuABARERND CURD Zon reams q leeding Brugeins ma money It falle to cure In 6 to 14 ‘hayes 8 ” ment Silks and Dress Goods. 3,800 yards 21-inch Imported Black Dyess Taffeta Silk, 85c. value ; alsoan elaborateassortment of Cotored Taffeta Sith, 75¢. value 3] on sale Wednesday at 5sc, yd., an unusual opportunity, Dress Goods Dept. 150 pieces Ali Wool Chathes Dresden effects; also sopieces Panama Suztings in black and navy blue, 46 inches wide, Wednesday and Thursday, at 38c, yd, Larne Taylor, Broadway and Twentleth Street, Fifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street. PERSONALS, marriage; send birthday and 10c, Prof. Thanett, Bridgeport, Conn, HELP WANTED—MALE,. Real LL Petal 2 costbo bg boll HOY WANTED—Improved ling Caso Co,, Lis Won Brodwa ee among HOY. AN TEP # ie ‘Auto: matism, which I did at once, After I had taken three bottles I felt a great deal better, DA ei i MB al hc ed a a ~ POLICEMAN Thomas Welsh, Under Arrest for Staten tsland Highway Rob. bery, Declares Healy, ex-Po+ licoman, Planned Job. That Jeremiah Healy, the ex+pollee- man, who Js now fighting fot reinstate. ment tn the courts, visited a thieves! den In this city and mapped out a ‘eames paten of erdme in Staten Island, wag ae- clared in the confession: that District: Atloriiey John J. Kenny, of Richmond Bowngh, wrung from Thomaa Welsh, au alloged highwayman, to-day, Welsh was arrested for holding up and robbing Thomas MoKenale, a° \{ wholesale foed morehant, of ‘Tompkiis. ville, ax the latter was returning to his home on the night of Feb, 17, Mr. Me» Konale was knocked down with @ Widgeon, beaten fito unconactonsness and robbed of his waten and shatn and aK, few days lator Welsh ang Healy hrrested, the latter suspected of being a confederate, This raspleion was hased on hints that Welsh dropped, To-day, It la @uld, the prisoner made @ clean Dreast of hig dealings with Healy and told of the pling that had been made to terrorize Staten Island, On the day before the hold-up, Welsh tolt the District-Atiorney. Hoaly visited a thieves’ hangout on Water street, this elty, and declared that the graft waa too easy to be neglected in Staten Isl+ and, “Ho told us," said Walsh, “that ho could put us up against a fot of rich | men who carried large wads in thelr clothes, and he arranged for the robs bevy oc My, Mekongle, On the following als ht he took mo and Winkey Brogan, & , | pal of mine, to Tompkinsville, “Brogau and L hid behind a tree and Heoly stood a litte way off. When our amin cane along he whistled and I Jumped put and cracked shim over the head, Then Brogan ¢ame out and wave Mins a few taps, after which we » nt through lim and cleaned out his hats, Kl us that we andere dtd.” highwaymen fled way of Bergen Point and Jersey City en SIX YEARS FOR SWINDLER, Albert L, Lambert, of No, 110 Bast Hlehty-aecond street, who last August awindled a mumber of tenement dwell- ers on the east side by issuing bogus fire insurance policies, was to-day sen- tenced to Sing Sing prison for six years Md Judge Newburger in General’ Ses- 0 Slept with His Stockings On to Cure His Rheumatism, Arthur Perry, of B, Altman's store, was attacked with an accute form of sefatic rheumatism, Luckily he had & friend who made a wise sug lon. He told him to put Volta powder in his stockings and wear them day and night, Hedid it, On the morning of the second day the pain was nearly gone, and three days later it had vanished completely. He says he hopes to spread the tidings so that others may be as lucky as he, Volta Powder is sold by Riker, Hegeman, Kalieh, Bolton and other best drug stores, and the leading department stores, Sent by mail for $1.00 by the American Volta Co,, 13 Astor place, New York City, vad SE meme “CANDY - SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY, Walnut Cream Kisses...P Chocolate Mellow Fra! SPECIAL FOR WEDNESDAY. Plantation Bonbons,....Peand 106 Chocolate Mola ‘ Blow Oandy.. st PAINS Newport News, Va., July 22, 1903, Last summer while recovering from illness of fever, I had a severe attack of Inflammatory Rheumatism in the knees, from which I was unable to leave my room for several I was treated by two doctors and alea tried different kinds of liniments and rapuiclans which seemed to relieve me rom time I was not any nearer One day while allie et ae in for awhile, but at the same ea Rh 8 Tor ve it a an advertisement of 8, I decided to and I still continued to take it rege larly until I was eutirely cured. I now feel better than for years, and I cheer, fully recommend S$, 8. §. to any on¢ i su in, polka dots, figures and bein) larva sit ! fering from Rheumatism, — Rheumatism is caused by uric acid og some other acid poison in the blood, which when deposited in the muscles and joints, produce the pharp, cutting pains and the stiffness and poreness cullar to this disease, §, S, 8, die rectly into the circulation, ‘lt irrtas ting substances are neutralized and filtered out of the system, the blood is made pure and the general health is built up under the purifying and tonio will write ua about effects of the vege: table remedy. Write for special book ,on Rheuma- tism, sentfree, Out i vise free all who their case, The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. physicians will ad- DIED. DYKMAN—At Whito Plains, N. ¥., Feb, 28, 1005, RLLA CLINB DYKMAN, wite of Henry , Dykman, Notice of tuneral horeaftor, 4 e