The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1905, Page 14

a el ta ata ea x we i . SECESSION THREAT Where He Explained Raise in Rates ==T rouble Deep-Seated and May Split Organization. WHAT CAUSES ALL THE TROUBLE. ‘This is how the rates will average under the various options ‘shite by the upreme Counoill of the Royal Arcanum: a . B o D ‘avatnea Reg. Annual Ad- Constant Age Le vance to 65, after 65. an a 6 1.18 Cy js ‘ 96 66 1.94 7” % 8 1,80 or 8.04 1,04 « 1.61 80 8.53 1,27 “s 2,00 99 3.98 1,54 w 2.63 1.80 4.38 1.89 6 8.04 1.78 2.26 60) 3.99 2.51 2.68 r 6.86 8.06 8.16 0 5.86 (By a Member of the Order.) ¥ The revolt among the members of the Royal Arcanmm against the new rates of insurance adopted by the Supreme Council has assumed gigantic proportions, Charges of deceit, treachery and even bribery are current, and many of the members believe that the organization, which {s to celebrate its twen- ty-poventh anniversary on June 28, has been “sold out” to the old line in- ‘purance companies, At a meeting of New York Council, the largest council tn this State, " Inet night, Supreme Regent Howard C. Wiggins, of Rome, N. ¥., invited to ‘explain the reason for the increase, was hissed by the older members of | order, tried to explain the reasun for ~~ Mr. Wiggin: | the order, members of New York and other councils, THEEATS OF SECESSION. ‘The old men say that the new rates are unfair to them and the young ‘members want to know what guarantees can be given them tnat there will mot be another increase. ‘Threats of secession and the formation of a new fraternal order are Deing made by dissatisfied members of New York, New Jersey and Con- necticut councils, | Members of the Royal Arcanum are Beriously discussing to-day the meeting ot Now York Council, No, 048, at the Masonic Temple last night pvhen How- ard C. Wiggins, Supreme Rogent of the ‘the adoption of the new rate schedule, Which threatens to disrupt the organi- mation. eaplte the great office Was received amid a storm of cheers and hisses, Before his er- rival old members gathered together ‘and talked of New York State seceding from the organization and taking New Jorsey and Connecticut, with her In the formation of a new beneficial order, Three Thousand There, ' There, were more than three thousand | Arcanumites in the big commandery| oom in the Masonlo Temple when the ‘Bupreme Regent arrived and re-| geived in due form: More than half of) thone present were old men upon whom | the inoreased rate will fall heavily, Be-| fore the meeting was called to order ‘by the Regent those old men gathered| ‘in @roups and discussed means to cir- eumvent the order of the Supreme Couholl to increase the rates. “With the members from New York Btate and those from New Jersey and Connecticut,’ said one, “ihe nucleus of @ new organization can be formed that ‘would put the Roya Arcanum out of business quickly.” ' “Cut These Out,” One Says. “The reports of the Supreme Council,” the old man went on, “shows that cor- fain States obtain more money by (- Mhousayds of dollars as benefit than they ‘pay in. Take Arkansas for instance, In , 2008, although the membership in that " Btate only amounted to 023, $27.00 was paid out for death claims, Tho same ean be sald of Georgia, Massachusetts, the home of the order, with a member- Bhip Of 21,000, received in 1903 $95,000 more ,then it paid in. It is time we cut these ‘Btates out,” ‘When after many hours of debate aa j@o the proper time and place to dis- jeuss the new rates, which by the way @o into effect October 1, which debate gesulted in the calling of a special meet- jie for next week, the Regent sur- Wendered his station to Supreme Regent ) Wigeine, | {Phe reception tendered Mr. Wirgins mas @ strange one, The young men @heered him, Mr, Wiggins is not yot out of his thirties. The old men hissed fhim. Bo incessant was the outcry, that ‘the Rogent rising in his might, threat. | fened to clear the room of all but mem. ere of tho council, Supreme Regent Wiggins is a clover falker, As one of the old men remack- he holds, | ed "he clroumnavicated t Rlobe, but} id not dwell long in any port.” Those fwho went to the ine looking for| an explanation ear ay they were when y went in, Mr Wiggins, who is a dramatic speaker ed for more thin an nour. He sad It Works fall‘lyl| Hunting-high and low, All around the town; Asking people everywhere If your watch they've found Away Juat as wive That ts what a little Ad. In. the Morning World will do, Try one if you've lost something jthe Order, 48 quoted. in thet the aotion of the Supreme Council was taken deliberately and with the view of benefitting the entire organiz- ation. “In our existence,” the Supreme Re- @ent sald, ‘our order hes paid $95,000,000 to redeem our obligations, to Insure the prompt payme: obligations in the future the step we took was necessary," ‘The Supreme Regent begeed his hear- ers to give the matter careful consid- | eration, stating that in arriving at tho! new rates the Supreme Council hat IN ROYAL ARCANUM Hinees for Supreme Regent at Meeting DIVORCES LAWYER WHO Former Wife of Henry G. Weil Freed from Attorney John Reilly. Tustioe Gtldersiceve in the Supreme Court to-day granted @ deoree of ab- solute divoroe to Mra, May Evangeline Rolly from John Reilly, a lawyer, with an offlce at No. 265 Broadway. Just GOT HER DECREE TAB Wows: vw usuawwAY KVENING, sUNE 14, I. ACTRESS AND DIVORCED BUSBANDS, The company was one managed by Charles Frohman, and an aotress inthe, cast was May Evangeline Wood, of St. | Louis, The broker fell in love with her the momont he saw her step on the 6. He secured an introduction, and they were married on Jan. 22, 188%, by « Tustios of the Peace in Jersey City. Because the wife was @ Catholio and Mr, ‘Well a Hebrew the marriame was kent from the knowledge of Mr. Weil's rela- tives until June 3, 1899, when Mra, Well made tt public by inserting an adyertise- ment In the newspapers, Soon after this Mra, Well brought sult for divorce, with Mr. Reilly, one of the handsomost men at the lew York bar, for her counsel, In lieu of alimony Mr, Weil my hts wife $150,000 and the Court guve roission to regunie the ure of her maiden jname, But Mr, Reilly had fallgn dn love with his ee @nd they Were mua on Maray 22, 3002, by Tustioe MoGar Sy, jot City hei A few months ago Ly, husband and went | erat the Hotel Maurie two months over four years ago Jus- tice McAdam tn the Stpereme Court ranted @ decree of divorce to the plaintiff of to-day from Henry Good- man Well, a militonatre stock broker. Her counsel then was John Rellly. Bhe married her lawyer tn 1902 and the pro- ceedings before Justice Gildersleeve to- day marked the finish of the romance. George Robinson, of No, % Nassai street, appeared a counsel for Mrs, Rellly tn her sult, which was unde- fended, Mvidence was adduced relating! to various acts of infidelity alnce Jan. | Sra, 1, 198, Inagmuch as Mr, Reilly had) to tive ntolnette, not interposed a defense the decree was| Ming her application for divorce on |mranted on the motion of the plaintitt’s| APF how nay just purohased « hand attorney, ho aide, ‘Not: Mr. Well was a young broker with a/f big business when he happened to at- tend a theatrical performance tm 1897. Reouring the divorce ‘trom table CS based them on @ mortality table made! up from the records of the organization | from its beginning, “The responsibility rested upon tne Supreme Counoll,” Mr, Wiggins & sorted, “to protect In the future your wives and children, and we did so upon @ basis as enduring as time itself," Many of the members present left the hall with disgusted looks upon their faces long before the Bupreme Hegent finished, Protest Meeting To-Night, ‘There will be a meeting of the Past Regents and Regents of the Royal Ar- camum of this city and adjoining towns {n the Silver Building, Washington street, Brooklyn, to-night, The protests of several councils against the Supreme Council's order increasing the rates will be considered and some action will be taken to sus- tain these protests, “We are willing to pay more," sald a sixty-vear-old member to-day, “but {t tan't fair to make the old men shoulder nearly all the burden of making up the sum needed to continue the order's in- surance business, Nor ‘do the younger ‘members favor the present plan, and it {s absurd to say that more young men will be attracted to join in the face of the knowledge that they must endure disproportionately large increases as the years pass, “It there is a deficioncy, the increases in aswssments should bo made #0 that all the members will pay proportlonute- Jy, the older men paying more, but not 90 much more that the premiums will be prohibitive, “Another point the members of all ages are raising in objection to the Supreme Counoll'a a is that the un- fair increase for the old men constitutes 4 breach of contract. After collecting Qusesoments for all these years, the} Viper of the omer suddenly demand eavier conteraplntad.. Would the ela mnembuss have remained in the order and con- Unued to pay the assesements If they had known what was in the future tor Uhem? ‘That 8 the question, 1s thp | der keeping Cath? Phat is a matter of honor to, be a {yonor fe, be considered by the Supreme Change Is Absolute, Robson, Supreme Secretary of Bos! Gee- patehes this morning, as eayingt “I do not aah that any nowt sot, Gal SRA ARE A On fs Ww. 0, rates Than ieee made by the Supreme ‘une protests mils have any ‘and while hey wil not “Neot, ‘The only effective so- hy By injunction restraining Council from putting the sftect. It Is possible thet Will be got out by those the plan, though. thus tar have been no threats of that kind, 1 t I fi) » not think that even that would \ccomplish much, for winen a. change nthe rates Of the A. 0... and those opposing ght the matter Into Manauohuaette Superior Court decided that, while a wovernin could not decrease a man's peneht wie with. out hk consent, it could, according. to the laws governing Inaurance In “fra. ternal ‘aocleties, change the ater ad-, usting the proportion of costs, Will Test the Matter, Notwithstanding Mr. Robs : marks, it is the {ntentton ot ceria tn thi c i State to test the now! of the Supr Coustell tc aude he pre oll ‘to arbitrary oh As absolute, be went In, t eourt, the in the courte of this ole. members of the Arcanum are now asking what gusrant / Rom aking what gusrantee can there | Inoreaned in anoth Years, v the Massnohu- i fey Comm rnlseloner ‘that efi the, panes will be final, or it’ enougis money is not forthcoming a, the change, then there must eithor ve @ latger numbor of annual assessments, has Been ast jae Ma Thaurince Com @ result or] si BIG GIFTS T0 PRINCETON BY THE ALUMNI Annual Income of $100,000, 336 Acres of Land and a New Hall Announced, acres of land almost contiguous to the university property. more than doubl- Ing the amount of land held by the unt- veraity, of an annual inoome of $100,- 000, and of @ recitation hall to coat about $200,000, were announced by Pres- Ident Woodrow Wilson in his address at the Princeton commencemem to- dav, ‘The land ie the gift of the Alumni and dnchudes the links of the Princeton Golf Club on Washington Road by New Camegie Lake. The $100,000 income was seoured by the alumni commitiee of flity ‘and has warranted the engagement of fifty preceptors to undertake the new method of Instruction used at Oxford. ‘Tho new Recttation Hall is the gitt of & small group of friends of the univer- alty. It will be built in the Tudor col- legiate Gothto style, The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon Mayor George B. McClellan, of New York City; Dr. An- drew J, McGosh, of New York City; Sir William Mather, of Lon4on; John Hus- ton Finley, President or the College, of the Clty of New York, and Dr, James Curtis Hepburn, of Orange, N. J., the oldest ving graduate of Princeton. Dean Andrew F. Wert, who conferred the honorary degrees on Mayor Mo- Clellan, said of him: “Winning by his conservative course the increasing confidence of hia constit- uenta and fellow-members he soon at- talned recognition as an influential, able and conscientious legislator, As Mayor of our motropolitan olty ho has repeat: ed with emphasis IMs earlier recont of sterling ayalides in a larger way as officer of administration and to-day, by neral consent, stands as the best fayor Now York has known within our memory," This waa Princeton's 168th annual commencement, ‘The academy procos- to Alexander Hall was led by ex- ident Cleveland. and. President Exquisite patterns, 10.6 feet Large dining-room rugs, 10.6 UROL MAURRAS SOM RPM RNP I ‘ASTEST GROWING STORE & REFUNDED Restaurant. fats Serve {n our Restaurant bes we 1 and 2.30 & splendid table tine lunch of tive courses for asc, Also a splendid ala carte serviceall day, Between 2,30 and 5.30 P. M we serve Brick ice Cream and’ Cake for 5¢, ortunities for Tomorrow's Shoppers. PTL SATISFAG ath thenbe wi Me Surprising Oppc In Everything for the Home are Rea: Furniture Far Below Real Value. Highly Polished juartered Oak ideboards, like Mlustration, sere Pentinetrontcaee opy top,-w French mit. rors; at 300 Soild. hae Box Seat Dining mene 1679 Grawers and large hat box; heavy highly polvanee, value $2,755 me brass handles, welle 7 finished, value $7.50, sale price, 100 Bed Outfits on sale to-morrow tn all stzes, including a brass rail bed, like illustration, an all steel spring, a wool top mattress and 2 feather pillows. HID 7 98 Big Savings in Rugs. $12,50. Complete at Royal Axminsters. Wool Filled Rugs. $6.50 Fancy China tings, per roll of 40 yards... Mat- 4.50 $10.00 Japanese Mattings, per rol, of 40 Yards.eoceseee $12.00 Japanes> long and 8,3 feet wide; you can match any furnish: ings and save $7.50 on HLM Cy 1 buy; special ft, Yong x 9 feet, wide, shown in all colers and offered at a splendid saving; you may want more than oneed, 98 At sesere cone e Mattings, sal ene Gifts to Princeton University of 336) i i iD N. 6 STRANGI:R TRIED TO KIDNAP THEM ‘UNKNOWN MAN THRILLING RACE WITH RUNAWAY, Mounted Policeman Finally Seizes Horse by Bridle and Saves Occupants of Trap from Perilous Situation. —aae A horse attached to a fanoy, high trap in which were seated a handsome woman and a well-dressed man, became unmanageable to-day at Seventh avenue and Ono Hundred and Thirtieth street owing to the breaking of the. traces, and ran away. But fo rthe bravery of @ polloeman two persons would prob- ably have been killed, ‘The horse ran for three blocks with the trap, having many narrow escapes trom colliding with passing vehicles, when at One Hundred and Twenty- seventh atrest Mounted Policeman James 8, Cavanagh turned his horse alongside the wunaway and seized the bridle, Another block was passed In this way, when at One Hundred and Twenty-sev- enth street the horse swerved to one side and pulled Cavanagh from the sad- dle of his horse, ‘He olung ¢o the bridle, however, and after crossing One Hun- jdred and Twonty-fifth street, whore ‘they narrowly missed @ ocrosstown car, the policeman succeeded in bringing the trightened horse to a standstill, The man and woman, who proved wo be H, B. Snyder, of No, 108 Hdgecomt, avenue, and Mra, Denning, of the same address, were uninjured, Mra, Denning, however, was hysterical from the ef- feota of the wild ride, They gratefully thanked Cavanegh tor his brave aot and placing the horse and trap ia a nearby siaule istt for home, Cavanach was badly bruised and his uniform was torn, but he remained on duty, He has @ post trom One Hun- dred amd Tenth to One Hundred and Forty-fifth surest on Seventh avenue, the work of which waa formerly per- formed by three men, Since Commis sioner McAd.o formed this traffic squads in the downtown districts Jt) hae drain- ed most of the mounted force in Hare lum and given extra territory for the men left, pated’ 4S Bure uals that f fig ah bh han- Bway. The morohanis vanish avenue are complaining avout the Riper Stee nace sates | ae and. ini comm , on t ubsed' cone SNOW IN SILESIA, HIRSCHBERG, SILESIA, JUND 14.— Bnow fell here yesterday and unseason- Woodrow Wilson, with 175. occ les the Bacheies ef Aste desten, NN Sy ble weather prevails throughout Slee mich has Q8inyea and Gasaeaed g Wthe. cous ta ben TRIES TO KIDNAP THREE CHILDREN, |Coaxed Two Girls 2 Girls and a Boy Into Buggy on Ocean Park- way, Brooklyn. Although the precinct police refuse to become excited over a case of reported attempted kidnapping in Parkville, all (ne residents Of that section of Brook- lyn believe that a man woaring a back | mustache and a brown slouch hat and driving a brown horse to a buggy with red running gear tried to steal seven- | year-old Serville Delan, four-year-old Mercedes Delan, his sister, and seven- | Yeas-old Florence Wanbig lasi night, Charles Dolan and his wife, the pare vunte of Serville and Mercedes, live at No, 142 East Seventh street, Park- ville. From tholr rear plegza they hay view of Ocean Parkway, which runs about 800 feet from the house, Serville, Mercedes and the lite Warbig girl were playing beside the Parkway and in view of the house after dinner yesterday evening, while Mn Delan was on the plassa reading and his wire was in the kitohen, Little Girl Wae Crying. As twilight gave way to darknesd Mre, Delan called to her nine-year-old son Joule fur the other children, Louls tan to the Parkway, but could see nothing of his brother or sister, He walked about a block, when he met Florence Warbig, crying 1nd exalted, “A man in a wagon hag carried off Serville and Mercedes,” she declared. “He had me, too, but 1 jumped out and got away, Run and call your papa.” Instead Louis ran up ithe Parkwa; another block, where a mounted polive- man was posing under an electri Tight, ‘The Uttle fellow told the pollceman what Florence had reported, but he did not know whioh direction the man in the buggy had taken, By the time this information had been secured there was @ delay of at least ten minutes, Policeman in Pureult. Finally the policeman started on « Tremen Alexander Carpets; value § All-Wool NAS ad | halls; value $1.45, at al Axminstors, Res value at... Carpets Bought To-morrow Will Be Made and Laid Free. Smith's dous June Salo of Garpets. 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