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"Disgraceful etroy our property, . . baste for any talk that I am to be o [RESULTS EDI PRICE ONE CENT. | WORST TANGLE ON“L” AND SUBWAY: PUBLIC IS ANGRY Conditions During Rush Hours on All Interborough Lines, Ehor- “mous Crowds at Many Stations Clam- oring for Chance to Get Downtown, NEW EMPLOYEES HELPLESS, POLICE RESERVES CALLED. || People Ask Why They Are Made Victims When Practically All the Old Experienced Men Have Asked to Be Taken Back—Fright- ful Congestion Ail Around, PUBLIC, SAYS HEDLEY, MUST HAVE PATIENCE, After Mr. Hedley reached his office to-day he said to an Evening World raporter:' “We're doing all we can to get the Subway and ‘L’ service back to where It wae before the strike. The public must have patienc we have a big Job before ue, We are taking the m ack as fast as well oan, but when we treat thom as Individuals it le naturally a alow pro- cess, Every man undergoes a thorough examination before being taken back, and we look into the strike record of aach man, We will not have a man in our employ Who ysed the atrike ae an excuse to de- “In a few days at the most things will be, running all’ right” Not since the Interborough ‘strike began have trafic conditions on the elevated roads and in the Subway boen so bad as during the rush hours to day. Although the strikers were advised to hustle back for their jobs by thetr leaders on Saturday, and applied for them by the hundreds, hardly a ‘train on any, of the Interborough lines to-day was’mannod by an experi- enced crew. ; Green motormen on the elevated roads jerked paseenaers off their feet by their clumey handling of the motor cars, inexperienced guards and con- ductors started trains before the gates were closed, and in one or two ine stances serious accidents were averted by mere good luck and Nothing else, ‘At the Forty-second street Subway station the crush was so terrific that bun- dréds of men and women waited while a dozen or more trains went by, and then gave up in despair the hope of getting downtown by way of th \under- | chedvicd See noe eam Confusion on Every Linel\. SAYS SETH LOW half Stations south of Ninety-sixth street had no chance at all, These stations Former Mayor Declares He Will _ Never Again Be a Candidate | tor the Office—Statement to ‘Simplify Matters. filled up 80 rapidly. that it w. ii sible to get up to the tleket erie food nature which hag prevailed before Was absent to-day. "Tho chlef complaint of sufferers, who were jammed in and gees about untl) “most torn trom thelr backs, wa; tho Interborough ts now masihg eh pubic suffer while tt wets reven, ae former employees, be he people could gee no re ed Why there should not be at east Whiston to conditions like those te ni pee before the strike, It erboraugh would take back even & considerable percentage of the old men, enabling It to rua elght-car trang, it wna argued, there woutd be marked tellef, But the great majority of men at work In the Subway to-day, wero new men, many of them mere boys, Diagraceful Scenes, Conditions were so bad at every point that even the Interborough officials made no attempt to deferd them, They admitted that to-day was the worst day they had had, but sald to-morrow ‘ExMayor Low will not be a candl- @ate for Mayor again, He said so to- day in these terms, “Bo far as I am aware there is no candidate, But 4 may simplify the problem of those who are concerned if T say that under no concewable con- “Utton can I be induced again to enter the fleld of muntotpal politics ar @ candidate for Mayor. This is my attl- tude, and I cannot be induced to change it.” Would see a big Improvement, as they Beveral weeks ogo in an after dinner| Would put: 500 of the ola men back af speech Mr Low sald that In his opln-|work to-day, ‘They explained the com. fon the term of Mayor should be in- creased to four years, Later a bul to that effect was Intrmiuces in the Legis+ Jature, From this and the fact that in goveral Brpubitogy quarters the opin- fon was widely expressed that the f er Mayor would make the bes: able candidate 1g make a tient Tammany next ‘ail toe deduction V8 moun fusion by saying that they had been Unable to place enough of the old' men at work, and that many of the motor- cars liad been put out of commission during the strike and would not be Available for service again for some VAs! days, aveept ane Hundreds of roturning atrikers ap~ Peared at the Interborough offices to- day, having been summoned there by Postal cards from the company telling them that thelr applications for reln+ |statement had peen accepted, At one time the. crowd was 6o great that tt filled the cornidons of the twenty-third |floor and crowded the stairs down to: |the twenty-second and . twenty-first | floors, —— who used WORLD WANTS last week did not “put it off until ay They will neszly ait } better this week th the Bh sons who did. It is not too fate, perhaps, for you to catch up with at least 6,479. of the others— those who started yesterday by reading TO-DAY the Sun. day World Want Directory, ees WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P, M. Tuesday for New York City and vicinity: Fair tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy; fresh northeast winds, od, “ i gi cola sila iy dia A A ea ec Uc tal, Rate, covering neoosaary vx or ado, ascording to hotel YET | thelr clothas were! STARS IN ANOTHER This Time She Carries Off the Third Race at the Crescent and’ Terns Rod. CRESCENT CITY WINNERS. es FIRST RACE—Charley Fisher (4 to 1) 1, Woodlyn (20 to 1) 2, Miss Aubrey 3. 2 SECOND RACE—Dixle Andrews (B to 1): 1, Prestige (7 to 10) 2 Pacheta 3, f THIRD RACE—Ralnland (4 to 5) 4, Matador (9 to 2) 2,!Terne Rod 3, FOURTH RACE—Gian Gallant (20 to 1) 1, Rawhide (even) 2, Torlo 3, FIFTH RACE—Avenger: (6 to 1) 1! Max. Rose (7 to 1) 2, Safeguard 3. (Special to The Evening World.) New Orleang Jockey Club. to-day en- tered upon the fifth week of Its’ effort \to convince ithe local. racegoing public jthat {t has. rights aboye éthove of the older onganization and’ seemingly the backers of ft are as full of confidence as they were at the beginning of the fight, Tho news from Memphis bringing the {nformation that the opening would be March 27, as originally planned, camo as a clerful reassurance for it meant that in the event the Crescent Clty Jockey Club parallels the dates it will be with the disadvantage of haying the more {mpontant. meeting up Het line drawing away from there the Western tables of prominence that would tend ‘to add strength to the local end of the Wexterh Jockey Club fight, Of the programme at the new track to-day there was Nttle to be sald saye that it afforded an excuse for a orowd to attend and the oppontuntty for specu: lation was given, POLICE RAID IN. “Circulation Books Open to All.”” "NBW YORK ATHLE City Track, Beating Matador |? \—Iulla Bowne took non in’ the ‘tal of J. 1 nt denoned: min{ater wit hwhom ste eloped, belts. then ‘grtvuahe' bach B wre | f With ‘nis'fade betwept his he ‘woot’ bitterly all: througt-tmer, ‘rom Mey 17 until a day ‘in. wore you-away with Mr, Coniove?'’ ¥, MARCH 13, 1905, IC GAMES' TO-MORROW NIGHT, ‘ite. ern, the firat question’ asked gy'the ‘prosdot- | tor, os ihe An‘ objection: waa: immediate! Julia, nervous to. he tremulous of. vowe, and: ‘chalr, whispere: "T cantt, anewei vig Bhe ralsed hor .vell Just ‘above: (hér ‘Ups, the rest of her face being’ hid, She, admitted ‘having acoinpaitied: Cor- York, si i Could Not Remember, “1 don't remember,” was used.by hér with wonderful rapidity for all the time’ succeeding the return, the subsequent elopement and’the appearance in Wash- ington, asked the proseoutor. 4 “Sue,” “Have you forgotten him?" , "No," came the only strong answer of the witness, i When Julla oBwne ent the court- room the greatest m. prevailed, NEW ORLEANS, La., Maret 18.—The LATER SIXTH RASE—MONTPELIER J EXTOL (6 to 1) 3 AT CITY dova' to Mexico and\ retuming'.to New | “All vantahed ¢rom your, mind?’ |) tn Yom) Of: memory: strange itigerary. ' evi ‘They laughed in the hey ' to ther caitap’.the Jath third his | hic ie ‘ { Little: Synipathy for Her: gotten him?” A , RESU *(Gontinued: on Second Page.) Cl Qo AT CRESCENT CITY, . (7 to §) 1, DIXIE LAD (6 to 1, PARK. SIXTH RACE—JUBA’ (4:to 1) 1, BRUNSWICK (6\to 1) 2, bURSUS (6 to 1)'3, SEVENTH RACE—ORDERLY DELAVAN HOUSE, SHEROD (6 to 5) 3. , AT HOT SPRINGS." FOURTH RACE—BAIKAL (7 to:1) Ay 8TyALILAN (6 to:1):2, Detective - Bergts, O'Connor and Lyons, of Inspector McLaughlin's taft, |Uhls afternoon made a spectacular raid lin the ‘Tenderloin, Without the knowledge of Pollee Capt, \yohn W, Cottrell, they smashed ihto the apartments known #s "Room 24,'' on the first floor of the Delevan House, at No, H1431 Broadway, and arrested six men, charged with violating that section of UBIN (30 to 1) 3, FIFTH RACE—OSSINEKE (7 ) 2, STARTLING (even) 3, the Penal Code relating to the keeping of a “pool room." | The Delevan House ts owned by Tom O'Rourke and {8 patronized by all the sporls, ean ell 55 Wheaton the bisaktant t age of winter. wheat,» TW! ont ney Gu Urol for the mlovaaahs ey fo Ba (6.to2) 1, SARNER (10'to 1) tol) PRETTY GIRL (@ to t AT ASCOT, SECOND RACE—FORERUNNER (4'to 1) 1, SCEPTIC (7 to ? 2) ESCANABO (9 to.6)'3,. THIRD RACE—TRYO! SINCAQO (6to'1); reassert | 7 bring bi ! tiled to cateh "admit being with tim in Ql the (places; which) made iup thelr (Allis, Bofeae’a palpable attempt, at ih. forced the - ristbilities’ ef ; the 08 OF ‘Jeered. at her and je puswed) them by ‘The oply one the girl had to: help her the ordeal was Comoyva, and bee in teare with his face buried tn i 4 Only once did ehe get = glimmer of sympathy, ‘That was when ghe \an- swored the aiestion, “Haye you for- Her “no'’ provoked a » A,LON@ CITY PARK WINNERS. “PIRBT RAGE—Onuibeen (0 to 2) 1, Bow .(7,to 8) 2,)8t) Fury's, SECOND RACE—Gray.Dal'(6 to 1) 1, Temple (6 to,1) 2, Tilehimingo 3. THIRD RACE—Lidwina (even) 1, Midnight Minstrel (42 to. 4) 2, FiNts's, FOURTH SRAGESti Tammany in) 1, Bld Bilver (16 to 8) 2, Goy, yree 3 { FIFTH RACE—Roundelay (8,to 2) 4, Bazil (8 to 8) 2, Saladin’, (Special to The Evening world,) NEW. ORLBANS, March 18.—Anothor card of, seven réces was offered tho racegoers by the officials at the City Park track to-day, Although there wus no stake event on the, progrunime every one of the races had ‘ts usual large number of eritries. Owing to the threatining weathor ‘there was not as large a crowd as on other days, the. talent coming to the conclusion that it is hard to plek win- ners over @ heavy track which the horaes had to travel over to-day,’ There were a number of stratches pomted on the board before tho horses wore called to We syst tor thd syst race, — HOT SPRINGS WINNERS, FIRST RACH—William Maftit (7 to 2) 1, Bva een tt tol) 3, Lavenia True GS to 4) 8 Time—0.49 4-5, S8PCOND RACE—Kildae (7 to I 1, Pancrentis (12 to 1) 2, Belligerent (7 to 2) & Time—1.15, SHTRD RACB-Sidney C. Love (even 1." Grenade (8 to 5) , Don't Ask Me rt to 2) 8. Time+1.43 8-5, ASCOT RESULTS. FIRST B, (12 to 1) 1, stag (@ to 1) 2, Maggie Mackey (9 to WP A ies $149,065,000 FCR IR TAIN’S ARMY, Maroh 1.—The army estl- , Issued this afternoon, total $149,065,000, an Increase of $4,915,000 over the last estimates, ‘he increase {8 due to the provision 085,000 for the rearmament. of, the Eee otnerwiee there Would have The estimates provide home and colonial and Dreaetagt fo et Taken on the Battlefield, but Oth Nations Will Insist on Seeing Te Before. They Are Si CZAR SU Disaster to Russians and Financial S squadron,’ in ‘the opinion, of regarded as a hopeful sigh that peace i$: at hand It is learned that a Russian ‘offical has Rusela will be forced to:ask for peace 1 Convinced end Japan val! } il took rie a soore lookout for nogotiated between Russia ‘and: Aireot, providing f J a nettioment of their dimoultiaa, . Big. Nations Watohing, FOUGHT TO GET AT WANAMAKER Soaré In Big Philddlelphia Store of Millionaire as Man Threat. ening to Kill. Tried to Reach the Merchant.” (Bpectat to The Evening World.) PHILADPLPHIA, March 18—An at+ tempt upon the Ife of John Wata- maker, the merohant ptinge, by an ap- parently Inet ‘man, startled the shup- pers on Cheathut street, the city’s faah- fonable business thototighfare, about noon to-day and. threw them into; atate of excitement verging upon panic, ‘ Nn The man tried to force his way tn the office of Mr, Wanamaker in Wn i latter's large department store ai \ ‘Thirteenth and chakest atreots, for] tained by the the avowed purpose of taking Mr, | Hearst, had Wanamaker's life, _ {the Appellate But a policeman wen near at hand| Tented, and the man was arrested before he} As’ Hoon as M could carry his threat into execution, | tho denlaton) of ‘Whon taken to the Central police sta- | to Brooklyn, arriving tion the man said he was Squire Cooper, | hind Commissioner Oakh and that he meant to kill Mr, Wana- maker because the merchant had as- sailed his honor, G Beyond this the man would give no have been unable to learn his real name ifthe country and sitar tag Justice Kelly. stonn ho 4s demented and has ordered his re | he might Know: al When the men made hls appearance pany, | Mn WV Iliamsa na aponse, “Where 1s Wanamaker? He hag jn.) attachment fa Where |s the man. Nothing but his} William’ J. Care, course to men aid Wouen had blocked: the door ton, puking 0 a ty while cool-beaded “pdt and. the aeten duction in the or address, but a pollce surgeon who So ee mony on. the ground that. moyal to the Philadelphia Hospital for | Then the nlatnurt's he startled every one within earshot) yeral tl but 8 fi the A slfoal sued and Justive Kelly blood will Wipe out the Insuly troller Grout, objected: way thr which the man was should be underuto 4 vunted up. a policeman and told hin | helr-awn miele fh a soa account of himself, dnd ap yet the police} shown that shoy wi where else, ; has examined him {8 of the opinion that a ocmpetert expert Tr Hat the. Sen Arthur Willams, of the We by crying in atentorian tones; | te an sulted me and I mean to have his life. iegue one, in a twinkling a. crowd \of excited) evidence. that counsel 10P: ing. to, y the Wanamaker. yay thi ackton. what the troubip was, me)