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" WEAVER HAS A NEW BOMBSHELL INRING ARRESTS Durham and McNichol Dis- cuss Talk of Themselves in that Connection, DEFEND THEIR COURSE. 7 | Detectives on Guard in Office of Official Who Has Just | Resigned, ROOT ADVISES THE MAYOR. a) Important Conference Held While! Philadelphia Awaits Sensational Developements. (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, June 18. Addi tional arrests are expect'd as a result of tho startling disclosures made yes- terday at the hearing !n the case of Belect Counciiinan Frank H. Cayen, who is under $2,500 ball on charges of| being unlawfully Interested In the city oontracis. Until an early hour to-day Mayor ‘Weaver was in conference with two of Kiln legal advisers, ox-Judge Gordon @nd Joseph A, Auerbach, of New York, Fepreseniing the Committee of Seventy =a citizens’ referm organization Attorney Gordon, speaking for Mr-or Weaver, authorized this state- Y ¥ arrests will follow as the re- Bult of the invest ot say Syst what the nature of the prosecu- tions will be, but they will be of a Most striking character, Mr, Auerbach will remain in this city the rest of the week, and will assist in the legal pro- ceedings. “Wo discussed the suspension of the filtration work and the arrests of oth- era implicnted in the municipal mis- Goings were considered,” Durham Hears Rumors, Insurance Commissioner Durham and] Btate Senator James P. McNichol came | up from Atlantic City this morning, ar- riving at Brond strect station a few minutes after 9 o'clock. They were eccompanied by Mrs, MeNichol and her | five children, Jnsurance Commissioner | Durham was questioned concerning the statements made on the stand yester- | @ay by Daniel J, McNichol, and sald “I haye never denied vhat I was tn terested in the McNichol contracting firm, and thought that it was generally recognized, I have heard the rumors that warrants are to be issued for me on @ charge of conspiracy, but know noth- Ang of the matter beyond what I have geen in the papers and the reports that are in circulation,” Senator McNichol said: “Up to the Present the total amount of filtration contracts that have been awarded me @bKresute $13,660,000, We are under Bonds of $8,000,000 for the proper ful- fillment of the specifications of these contracts. This bond of ours continues in forco for five years after the com- pletion of our contracts, “T say again that the work speaks for ftgelf, and that every detali connected With those contracts 1s open to the fullest inyoutigation, We have been at work on these contracts for about four years and I defy any one to accomplish fn twice the time what we have accom- plished in those four years,” As to the manner in which Mayor Weaver had accepted the resignation of Mr, Hill, as Director of the Filtra- tion Bureau, McNichel had no comment to make, and when asked about the rumors of a warrant for his arrest, wald: Know nothing about such a war- \oy | sul $500,000 100 CHEAP FOR SITE OF MONTANE Stand Theatre Purchase 8} Grout Declaring It Was Rought at a Bargain. SALE ORDERED TO STAND. | Borough President Littleton | Alone Opposes Closing of the Deal, AFFIDAVIT FOR TAMMANY. McCarren, Dady and Coffey Not In- terested, According to Sworn Statement of Balley. —_—-_ In spite of the efforts of Borough President Martin W, Littleton, of Brooklyn, to have a resubmission of the Montauk Theatre purchase, tho Board of Hstimate to-day voted against it, and the private sale of the property to the city for $600,000 will be consum- mated Mr, Littleton was the only, man who voted for resubmission, after a report Comptroller Grout had been read, which gave the opinions of a number of prominent real-estate experts t In- stead of being excessive, the purchase pric 8 very moderate, ‘The Comptroller sald he was induced to make a statement and submit a re- port, “In view of certain m.sstatements de in various quarters” about the nasa, He then said so like at this time to call pur “T would the attention of the Board to the action of the Downtown Association taken In Brooklyn last night. This association niet to consider what steps It should take to compel this Board to revoke Its action, After considering the subject they declined to take any action be- cause the experts they had employed veported to them that the value of the property was $500,000. And this in spite of the efforts of a reporter of an op- position paper, Who spoke against the purchase for half an hour, Worth $573,000, One Said, The Comptroller then submitted his report, explaining in detail why the rapid Increases In land values In Brook- lyn had made tt seem advisable to ac- autre this valuable strip at once, His n ations, @ald the Comptroller, re- in an agreement on $500,000 for the property, Mortimer J. Brown, an expert In Brooklyn real estate, he said, and Assistant Corporation Counsel Quig- ley recommended the acceptance of this offer, Mr, Sterling, Acting Corporation Counsel, sald the Comptroller, then had Mr. bara Bushnell, of the D. & M. Chauneey Company. make an estimate on the property and he fixed the value at $549,453.90, On the figures of Mr. Bushnell, Including the building and cost of reronstruction, Mr. Grout sald, the city was facing an award of at Joast $573,000, Mr, Reynolds atood ready then to withdraw from’ his agreement. ‘The Comptroller gave the following appraisals, which have been mude at this order by experts: Mr, Bushnell, of the D, & M, Chaun- coy Co,, $549,453.90; Mr, Brown, of the Finance excessive, . Lavett Robbing, # Howard & Bons, h objection to the Pee sald the Comptroller, has been made by a sing!s the argume jon t# only Department, approved as not the Sit offer of $500,000; George 59.02; Messns, Rustin & Porter, $535,060; ; John FB. James rant beyond what I see in the pap However, I sholl be at my office In Betz Building every day attending my business, and if any one to. wants me they will have no difficulty in findly me.” Named In Arrest Talk, Peralstent rumors are in cliciiation t> the effect that the men, whose Tents are being ysis id, it sh n 0c already bee Neurance Commi: Bate Senator J mer Director of Pu Costello, Jonn W. Hill, whos tion as ‘Chief of ‘the Filtra was aovepied yosierday a Fe, thayor vevelae wo men Who ware employed as bli @pectors on various poruuns of tne fil- tation work. Jn some respects the arrest of former Chet Hill would pro prising os the arrest of Dur tor it oy + Weaver immediately after the tions at the Caven hearing, and Was only a few we that the Mayor had councils in te his salary froin, F200 to 80 a ability as an engineer ise recogni Tammany Leaders Not In. | Comptroller Grout spoke rather terly of tae allegations that ce itielans are lo make a grea money out of the deal, He sworn statement dy Frank Ba | trensur | ontaule pany hone of the follow Phoatre Cr | ing y ever had any | or ov Dany Pred aeAdor | and the Mr. Bailey si fey sold his steck Jn Worth sold his in 1909, i tleton got the Mayor's eye ‘eport Was finished, and said ion was ratsed by) the actton of the Board nd he moved a recon- vote of the last meet- fon of the phen the proposed purchase T take no stock," Mr, Littleton said, E foimtions “rulsed regarding the honor of member of thiq Hoard, worth $1 Cl better and that it was by referendum OF COU NEW SUBHAYS Grout Tells Littleton He Would Know More About Municipal Construction if He Had Lived Longer in Brookiyn. jThere was another tively tilt to-day between Comptroller Grout and Bor- ough President Listeton on the sub- Ject of municipal construction, In a communication to Comptroller Grout, President Littleton stated that tho Rapid Transit Commission proposed to disposs of the new subway in Rrook- lyn to the highest bidder, ‘This propo- sition Mr. TAttleton claimed was a vio- lation of the law regarding franchises, which places a Ume limit on them. He also ameerted that if the new sub- ways are to he disposed of to the high- est bidder and built by private parties there could be no municipal construc tion, Comptroller Grout, in presenting Mr, Littleton’s communication to the Board took oveasion to say that the law misstated, and declared what if the Borough President had lived longer in Lrooklyn he would have known the law vote that municipal construction was settled. “You mean to say I would know more if I had been born earlier?” interrupted President Littleton “If you had lived longer In Brooklyn, I sald,” repiled Comptroller Grout, tartly, “It seems to me you are a more ar- dent advocate of municipal construction asa candidate than as an office holder,” retorted Mr. Littleton. ‘As he undertook to explain that the Rapld Transit Commissioners in thelr report had admitted that they had oon: sulted the three interests and could not tell if the new subways were to be built by the municipality or by the! private Interests securing the franchises the Comptroller broke in with: “Don't you know that no matter how they are built under the law they must become the property of the city?!’ President Littleton annealed to the Mayor, for protection from the Comp- thofler's Interruptions, ‘The Mayor an- swered thit he would protect the Prest- dent of Brooklyn. ‘He, will pmtect himmelt if neces: sary, remarked Mr. Littleton, looking sharply at the Comptroller, who sat on tho opposite site of the table, President LAtueton's communication was finally ordered sent to the Core poration Counsel for hit adyie LITTLE BLACK ‘MAN OID TT Real Live One Is Blamed for the Theit of Two Diamond Rings and Cash from Woman Who Was Moving. | A Mttle black man !s wanted by the police of the Alexander avenue sta- | wn, He is not a myth, but a real lve | black man, tinged with vellow, but his {dentity has not yet been established. He {e wanted on the charge of com- plicity In the theft of two diamond | rings worth $60 each, another ring | worth $15 and $10 in cash from Mrs. | HAT ORIN: PRINAW EVENING: JUNF 1H 1905, RSE HE DOESN'T WANT A CROWN McClellan Put Aside the Schuetzenbunder Crown of Gold, See i jst Jare David McClure, [station at Fourth FORTS FILED ON TWO TUNKELS Commissions State that Every) Safety Appliance Seems to Be) Embraced in Plans, and Ap prove Proposed Works. The commission appointed by the Ap- pellate Division of the Supreme Court to consider the application of the Hud- son and Manhattan Rallroad Company has filed a report with the court to the effect. that the tunnel railroad pro- posed by the company ought to be con- structed and operated, The tunnel in question, so far ag it 9 In New York State, staris from this State line under the Hudson River and comes under the Hu on to Coruandt street; goes under Cortlandt street to a point about 100 feet west of Chureh street, thence} curving to the north and under Dey pet and private property to Fulton street, and running west to the State line again, There is to be @ station at Dey street nd a subway for foot passengers to Broadway and under the subway to the uptown station of tho subway, The Commissioners are Charles Bulk- | jy. ley Hubbell. James W. Boyle and Oscar Loew!, The Commissioners appointed to de- tormine as to another tunnel under the Hudson, that of the New York and New Jersey Railroal Compamy, also filed a report with the Appellate Division, They William G. Lavies and George R. Read ‘This ie the tunnel which enters Man- hatian under Morton street, and 1s to have a terminal at Christopher street. It has been provided that {t shall be ex- tended under Ohristopher atreet to Sixth one under Ninth street to the Subway avenue and Astor place, and the other under Sixth avenue to Twenty-third street. In both of tlm reports mention ts made of the methods pursued by tho Chief Engineer, Charles M. Jacobs, who is the engineer of both oompantes. Spe- celal comment {s mado on the faot that every appliance for safety appears to be usd and thes the Indications are that both works \b be carried to a successful and satisfactory conclusion. The Appellate Division is vet to pass upon the two reports, Wee! the th charge and declare m, Mrs. seen an committed the ro Collier adinittec A negro 4 r furalture w Both Cere ign in Clementine Collier, of No, 717 East one it Hundred and Forty-sixth street | Mre, Colller moved yesterday to her present address from No, 497 East One| Hundred and Thirty-fifth eet, She employed Charlies Cerello, forty ‘sold, owner of a moving 83 Kast One Hun¢ {and elghth street, to do the work she missed diamon she arrest of Cerello 1 als ittle black she Court to-day, w oall (or examination Sunday, ——— CREDIT MEN WINDING UP, MEMPHIS, ‘Tenn, June 16—The 1 day's session of the National Cony tion of Credit Men was opened by adiiress by William A. Pre: New York, former Secret soviation, on "An Enduration Bankruptey System FREIGHT TRAINS ‘State Board of Railroad Com- NTH AVENUE missioners Issues Orders for Relief of Present Conditions in West Side Thoroughfare. ALBANY, N, Y., June 16.—The State Board of Railroad Commissioners issued directing the New York | an order to- Central to improve the conditions in| Eleventh avenue, against which the West Side Tax Payers’ Assoctation complained, Relief from the freight train nuisance In that avenue between hirtleth and Sixticth streets was sought from the Legislature at the re- cent session in the form of a bill com- pelling the rallroad company to place {ts tracks in a subway, But the meas- ure failed to pase. The State Railroad Commission rec+ omments: ‘That frelght trains operated in Bleventh avenue shall not consist of more than twenty-five cars, and that no freight train shall be started from the Thirtleth street yard until it !s known at the Sixtleth street yard that there fs space for the train in the Thir- tleth street yard, and vice versa. ‘This recommendation, the Board States, 4s not construed as being im- perative under all circumstances, but only when conditions render compliance practicable, Further recommendations are that be- tween the hours of 6.45 and 7.15 A. M., 8.30 and 9 A, M., 12M, and 1 P. M,, 3.4 and 415 P. M, and 445 and 515 P M, as few freight trains as practicable be operated on Eleventh avenue, Also that ‘a flagman be stationed by the company about in the centre of the block be- tween ‘Thirty-elghth and Thirty-ninth streets, and another between Forty- fifth and Forty-sixth streets, over the countr iW t Ine of this Mr. Hill has thus far refused to make | RALAHe CAGRUSITY. a@ny statement concerning his resigna- of only ed 2617, an tlon or the reasons that led up to tt was {mined Kola for $800: beyond the bare statement that the 600." interrupt 1 Grout. | ‘ é ol work had become uncongenial and that Well, call ft #8, umed Mr. | LIE YRIA, JUNE 16,—Col. | je desited to engage In a private Titietoh, “that would not Justify .°| von Wissman, former Governor of ¢ Pubiness that would prove more luera 00 for this strip out of tho Montauk) man East Africa, acetdentally | shot ; { let Dy abel himself in the head while deer stalking Detectives on Guard, roe eR AMIECTICE SCIEN Ey re-sub> today at Fischern, His death was in- The doetctive w ns last ni UA e alcmembs e ratey | stantancous, t Ain charg of the Bureau OC i AM he m amb ts of th ter we ration offices in the City Commient iter ed to support their | ation of tn the CL request for. $100,(00 for general expenses Tees ae ane and #2100 for the extabiiamment of an ATCHDISHOP Meets Pope, ESI Ne) W15) enginvering force, Mr. Grout advised i Fil . opaRnAne Bee ut Pirector of the | the appropriation, whieh Is to be raised | ROME, JUNE I'he Pone to-day re- i< Feached the offices absut Ko ice | by tWenty-year water bonds ceived In private audience the Most Re ‘ Se npanied by George 8. Chiet nd John J. Keane, Archibishon of Dubuaue, | of the Survey Mursau | Jia, The Pontiff ¢ raed with his visitor t, ebster hive bee Yaced in tem= " Ma \ e o P| ‘ Mr, Svahaton he been niaced tn tem) WAS “MISSING” 65 YEARS, | in the most cordial mainer, biet Th, _ \ Mr. Hicks sald there was no Mkel!noud Wravin. Fol Pgh Hick maid here was no Wkeltiew Mtr, Travia Found Hts tromer tn Mrs, Taft Going to England. . dure uw would affert the New Zeatund hy News | wasn IN JUNE 16—-Mrs, Taft, by by of the Ade “foi ti £W vill a Boia ern ana ap a ife of the Bearetary of War, will sail Jetective was only “n f fifty-threo years wugia Sav and ber three Measuro and by Lira) years, nw Oxford to remain ’ en heard ithe autumn { Fs) few minutes |p { Gentral OMmice detective was gunrd. Root In the City. Former Secretary of War Root gounrel for Mayor Weaver, arrived afternoon from New York and w ity Wall, wh 4. medately to the re ‘went into conference with the Ma 4 4 the advisory board of fourteen clu } ar Noll, assistant commissioner of Wa , Tt was accepted by the May bas of the gas ii ght. temdored his resignation to- been under suspension since until of Dunedin, to- hs brother, ny, AWAY to sen. > dled and | nes $39,000, all over for his brothe! ter was received from Jomen ee dacdlieied ts Wada. Tra Travia ft the | watermel othing caNme of this until three monthe ago when a let- = Important Forcign wore John ©. nd, ts dead used by the bite of a joveniber, Mr, O' Kee and was out his work when one hand, MAS! at seventyef from blood Ath th hit armful Arrested as Accessory. VALDOSTA A. JU Rawlings ha been arrested as an ace cessory tot ssassination of Willlam and Hattle Carter Tuesday night, Raw- lings's sons, Josse, Milton and Leonard, have been arrested and lodged {n fall. the Bher!ff found two Icaded shells and a knife in his pockets. Rawlings was then placed In » pall. palate nd hors DOVER, ENGLAND, Ameriean | antic, owned by Wilson | the New York to Heligoland for Emperor Cup are now AN, ack spidi was a ware Killed While Deer-Stalking. ,Died At 74 of Spider Bite. yur polsoning sin ner on n bitte Sleeping Sickness Epidemic. BOSTON, JUNE. 16.— Ame Bourd of Foreign Missions has rec reports from {ts African mission relating to the peculiar disease known as the “sleeping sickness,’ which Ix seriously affecting Central Africa, par ticularly the Kinsdom of Uganda, The | reports sow that Unere have been 4%,- OS} deatns within dam from the lt is believed that the malady J. 4 Ready for Heligoland Race, JUNE 16.—The ilary schooner yacht At- Marshall, ht Club, arrived here When the father came to the Jail with; shortly after noon to-day. All the aux. Jons and clothing for ‘the song) ‘larias entered in the race from Do: William’ here preparing for the Which will take place to-morrow, of and Telegraphic News. ¢ Have We Been Shocked? CLEVELAND, ©, JUNE 16—The record on @ selsmograph recently in- Stuled by Rey, Father Odenbach, of Bt. Tkuatius's Co » has shown & pronounced distu © to exist, of chich the nature t# not yet known, he selemle we 8 recorded yester- | aay of gre. naity and Mather Odenbach saya that It 1s not Impossible shat ft might be dne to either the Mount Won or the earth sale il records can let pointy where her desinograpns, go that the Titbating. point may ‘be determined tam of tehingulation, nothing | Fan be known. Lt 1s," however, A) disturbance or earthquake, Rhodes Scholar a Sulcide, ro ile Coss (inOb Inn arly vod ove 50c, 75c, $1.06 and sc. gunn ww. 1.{ 10 the Coast in 95 Hours, gilarantee ticket in. $1.25 at all stores, @ Columbia, 8. C, the winner! CHICAGO, JUNE 16—The eighteon- || every pair. ota Cee. sthodes American scholarship| hour trains of the Lake Shore and ot [at Oxtord syntveralty, nen ery | the Pennsylvania raltroads between Itted sutelde by shooting himac j mitted scat night, He had been i, |New York and Chicago have openad ‘Sir John Wilcox Dead. LIVERPOOL, JUN jn Liyerpool and London, morning aft born Ips ae 0,—Sir John Areh- {bald Wilcox, prineipal proprietor of the | Liverpool Courler and largely interested lin the tobacco trade as a manufacturer led here or Will Confer with Taft. PANAMA, JUNE 16.—John Findley Wallace, Chief Engineor of the Panama. | Canal, leaves Panama to-day to confer with Gecretary Taft on canal matters and also to purchase materials, Some big orders are Ilkely to be placid. among which will vitrified bricks, Rock crushers ai rollers for use in paving Panama wil also be purchased Conger at His Post. | CITY OF MEXICO, JUNE 16—Ameri- officta of Am yesterday, ly to President Diag in the Hal tasador in In transcontinenta anges just Rew posibilities traMe, With o by ‘the Rock Annoul Jed out avenue and thence with two branches, |, be one for 7,000,00 can Ambassador Conger was presented the National palace land system, it will be from New York to SEVEN NAMED IN WIFE'S BITE GET-RICH-QUICK | BLAMED FOR INDICTMENTS, §—LOGKJAW Marrin Contingent, Included Playful Prank of Spouse in in Philadelphia Count, Italy May Kill Man Are Fugitives. in Harlera, The PHILADELPIIA From what the dovtors tn Harlem United States Grand Ml | Hospitol ean learn of the history of a true DED of Inlet “the case of Joseph Golzerane, of No, spiracy agains: he One Vandred and Wifteenth Krank 'T sto treet, who Is suffering from a severe alias Thomas Harpe sof lockiaw, his wife in Ttaly te ulus nsihle for the malady. anel wr Planeta Alina eye At first sime of Golsarene's friends kieach Riehmond; ‘Mhiomas H Quinian | believe \ Ut erlet the loss of ie ialclle Gianam, ulea Bopiiv Beck, |A0Me money had tetanus. aeee Mie, Ldward) Dunne, alia be [Golaareno came from Italy short ‘i time agu, He has been working here va Cola t ; fe indictments are the outcome ofjas a laborer almost since the day he the sreeent “edbuse, of Fauteticli-aulek” tande bun ety. The persons lie cuncerne in tis Clty ie ae Storey) He had hardly had time to learn hie dicgied Welw connected with the Coen Company and the Provident In- Yestment Bureau, which were closed vv Government officials. ‘All of the Indicted persons, exception of Stanley Francis, way from work to his new home before 0 Itallan sharpers managed to swine die him out of all hie iaoney, The Italian grieved over his loss and with the ro fugl- ves fro jus i hen deca MM, e n c nn pensaries, but y r rellet, Finally, on June dos ‘ows locked, and he was sent to Harlem Hospital, To 8, Which hi an ved in KILLED HUSBAND could only talk of the loss Th d 8 knew that t the disease had i} atient biting his neu owever, failed to reveal a yund, | oning Golaarene, the | a that pretties Crowd Cheers Pretty Young Wil- eat is? ath liamsburg Mother Who Used LF ARt ea atne Knife to Protect Herself—Will ql A hart hb | was ida Yr good-by at thelr hom Appear June 28, “TA ime oc MAN AND HIS WIFF With a ble crowd cheering her M | KILLED BY . 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