The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1905, Page 1

RACING NEWo AND_HANDICAPS: | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | __ PRICE ONE CENT. F NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1905. TSA EN ERR RE rR PRICE ONE CENT. MUTINEERS OFF ODESSA; CZAR’S SHIPS WAITING Naval Battle May Be Averted if War Vessels’ Crews Refuse to Fight. REBELS’ PROCLAMATION. Inform Bucharest Prefect that Potemkin Will War on All * Russian Vessels. ODESSA, July 5.—The Kniaz Potem- Kine with her 709 mutineers on board thas been sighted twenty-five miles off this port. She is expected to arrive here to-d: when tnere no doubt will ‘be a naval battle uniess the Czar's ships mutiny, the crews rofusing to fire on the me with whom they have expressed sympathy. Six large vessels are visible from Cape Fontaine and are helleved to be a squadron searching for the mutineer ship ‘The city is in a state of excitement again, as the people believe that if the mutineers return they will be more ag- gressive than they were before. Torpedo-boate which remained here have gone to sea, and it is reported persistently in army and navy circles hat the Kniaz Potemkine {s being stalked and pursued by several torpedo- oets, who Intend to sink her. The crews Sf these boats consist of officers who have volutecred and stokers, so there is no danger of thelr refusal to obey orders and destroy the renegade ghip. The Kniaz Potemkine's hours are Geclared here to be numbered. Orew Issues Proclamation. Regret ‘6 expressed at the destruction ‘of such a splendid and powerful baj- tle-ship and at the loss of life, but this fs thought to be preferable to the con- timued dishonor of her presence in the Black Sea commanded by mutirteers. ‘Bofore the Kniaz Potemkin sailed from [Kustenfi ‘a delegation from her crew handed the Prefect a proclamation ad- dressed to the representatives of -the powers in Roumanta formally declaring {war on ail Russian vessels which refused to join the mutineers. The proclamation says the Kniaz Po- temkin will respect neutral territory and foreign shipping, The delegation requested that the proc- famation be forwarded to the powers, Sailors Frustrate Mutiny. The Russian torpedo-boa tdestroyer Bmaotilvy appeared off Kustenj! and sig- nalied that she was seeking the Kniaz Potemkin, It i stated that the Kniaz Potemkin has attacked an Italian veasel carrying noal. ‘There is much uneasiness among Rus- fan vessels at Roumanian ports. An attempt to revive the mutiny on the battle-ship Georg! Pobiedonosets has been discovered, Lt was frustrated by loyal sailors, who delivered six of the leaders to he authorities, —-.—_. NICHOLAS LAST OF ROMANOFFS. LONDON, July 6, 3.30 A. M—'Em- peror Nicholas II. i the last of his race. ot a Romanoff will survive this revolution.” 0 boldly prophesies Carl Joubert, who has written much and authorita- ively on Russia, which he has studied. oubert has just returned from Rusala, He adds in an interview to-day: ‘From ‘he Baltle to the Black Bea, Russia ts mad; mad with misgovern: nt, brutality and hunger. “Wihen 140,000,000 people are mad to- her there can be no. peace, There must be paroxysms and slaugh- before there can be peace. there is butchery, bloodshed. But @oon there will be scenes to which thos 4n the French Revolution cannot com- Pere for horror. “From Odessa to St, Petersburg heags will hang on trees, “The mutiny in the Black Sea is only 't of the general olution, Plainiy the Crimea Js rising, Poland has still to be reckoned with, Finland will agnt for her freedom, pa 107 in the Shade in Berlin, BERLIN, July 5—Heat has cause more than one hundred deaths in Ger- many in the last four days, At mid- day in the shade the temperature was as high as 107 to-day. In the f ry fie ground is lttered’ with fallon dried leaves. OVER HALF-A-MILLION | HALF-A-YEAR In the past six months the MORNING and SUNDAY WORLD, rinted 524,089 separate Wine ‘eal last ¢_gain over year was 70,963. No other New York newspaper gained as many, It Is natural that the morning newspaper having by far the largest circulation in New York City should be the most effi- clent and rapidly growing want medium. Faiveno sThe yorid’s Bes ( "From one end to the other of Russia +The Vesper olght-oared crew from POLIGY-HOLDERS WILL PROFIT BY " SNEAK” BILL \Clause in Law Inserted by! Henrv B. Hyde Entitles Them to Surplus, SHARE IN $78,000,000. Senator Brackett Will Ask Court of Appeals to Pass On Question at Once. Senator Brackett, counsel for M Mary 8. Young, a stockholder tn tha'| Equitable Life Assurance Soc! ty, has} discoveredu a clause in the ate In- surance law which, {t ts sald, will giva Equitable poltey-holders the right to an immediate share in the $78,000,000 surplus held by the company. The Senator will ask the Court of Appeals to pass on the question at once, and If the court should decide in favor of the pollcy-holders the Euqitable will find itself in deeper water than ever, decause of the grafting practices laid | to Ite officers Strange to say, this clause in the In- | surance law was Inserted by Henry B. Hyde, the founder of the company, who, it 1s declared, sought by it to gain posression of the surplus, instead of paying an annual dividend to the policy-holders, This law was enacted In 1808, and to- day it 1s termed a “sneak bill," for it way slipped through the legislative body just as “Jokers are in these ad- vanced days when an “inside job” Is intended. | “Joker” In the Bill. The clause is incoroporaied in the | statute of 1868 as Section 87. The bill | reads. “Any domestic life insurance corpora- tion which, by its charter or articles of association is restricted to making a| dividend only once in two or more yeara, may hereafter, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary.n auch charter or articles, make ami’ pay over dividends annually, or at loriger intervals, in the manner and proportions and among the ‘$500 000 For THe HEATHEN By T. E. Powers. Hes BURNING MY MONET parties provided for in such charter or arucles, ‘The joker in this law js that the com- punies were permitted to pay dividends jannually or at longer intervals. Mr. | Hyde immediately proceeded to invent his long-term deferred dividend policy. The last clause appears to be as vital as the ‘Joker’ Itself, It requires that the company ‘make und pay over divi- dends annually or at longer intervals, in the manner and proportions and among the parties provided for in auch charter or articles.” Life of Poticy Seven Years. Now it is maintained that since the statistics for forty-five years show that the average life of the policy is about seven years instead of twenty, the | twenty-year polloy, as well as the ten | and fifteen year, exclude the average Ppolley-holder from all dividends on his | policy. | But the charter of the Equitable pro- vides that dividends shall be distributed | among the policy-holders, who havo! paid premiums for five years, And the law which Hyde himself had introduced declared that the distribution should be among the parties provided for in such charter, which would seem to include those who had paid premiums for five years, There is no doubt that the ma- sory, of those declared by the ¢ e' 0 ba entitled to dividends are excluded by the long term policte: Opposed to the Hyde "'Sneaic Bill" 1s the very charter of che Equitable, which reads: “Beginning with Deo. a1, 1809, there shall eb a distribution of’ th surplus profits of the company at the eni of five years and at the end of every FINE CARD TO-DAY FOR BRIGHTON’S OPENING But Mr, Hyde overreached himself. | BY FRANK W. THORP: (Special to The Evening World.) BRIGHTON BEACH N. Y., July 5—Dhe entries for to-day's races are as follo) Race—Three upward) six furlongs. By Kmenia RACE TRAJ year Probable Joukeva: Rediern Diamond” Flum y Amelia should win here. ee rte to get around | Ackate ... 105 wckly should win for Ben ongnt Roseben for the place position Second Race—Steeplechase; short Probable H'- Prob. W'a'ts. Jockeys +188 five-year period hereafter, SWEDEN ORDERS MOBILIZATION -OF ITS ARMY King Oscar Will Not Tamely Submit to Secession of Norway. ns One Best Bet. ANGLER. pdx and) jim Newman 2 Griccaway Gatevoll STOCKHOLM, July 5,—Activity {n mul- litary circles followed the issue of the — order for the mobilization of the Swed- alment ish Army, a proclamation of which will No nandi |Probably be issued this week. The mo- ‘Third Race--The Distaff Staken;|Dbilization which was ordered to give Peseracrt es jbacking to the committee from the Probable H’- Prob. | Swedish Riksdag to the Norwegian Stor- cp Odds ‘thing in their coming consultation, to- “yy 4 gether with the first interview which 8% 4 King Oscar has granted calling the Nor- 3 | Westan Constitution o his support, |shows ehat the proposed secession of ane — |Norway will not be tamely submitted to BIE | gatlotta showed a lot of speed in her|by the aged monarch of the two coun- last race, and loks the winner here. tries, Running Water, though a slow begin- | With a display of deep emotion at | ner, should beat Cousin Kiva for the | Norway'y treatment of him after wht | place. he termed as thirty-two yenrs of un- tip. Olis| Fourth Race—The Brighton MM) ceasing labor in the country's inter- —| one mile, robable H'= Prob. | ¢#t#, King Oscar declared that no son Keone plechases, AD on ste Starters, | Batlotta 100 105, no 105, 105, 1105, Her | HENLEY-ON-THE-THAMES, July 5. | Philadelphia row the crack Leanders to- | day in the second heat for the Grand | Chailenge Cup. and interest in the con- test runs high. ‘The Americans won | Many supporters by the defeat of Christ College inthe first heat, and to-day the | English experts, while believing Leander , will win, are net overconfident, This heat tw expected to decide the race, al- | though the winner will have to row the Club Netique, the Belgian crew that VESPER CREW ROWS | LEANDER AT HENLEY Heat on Thames To-Day Likely to Decide ‘iiss 04 Grand Challenge Cup Race, and iy Americans Are Confident of Success. American style cannot prevail over that ground that the] for 1 Americans use a sculling style and fail) sixth Atnee-Maldenss one and a to put in body weigit of Leander, Rowing Club by using mech the same which are somewhat similar (o those o the theorles of the row ing sharps were upset Coach the Vespers, said he belleved the Amer to be much better than the British. and his bellef is strengthened | G by observation of yesterday's racing, Starters. jockeys, cap. Odde| or grandgon of his would ever accept Reldame O'Neill... .109 0) the Norwegian throne as offered by the Delhi Nicol oO 8 Hae 98 6 | Storthing. Martin 18| “When the King of Norway consid- =|ers that the welfare of the country =| demands that he veto a bill, his nght Beljame should win, ‘The one she has|to do so ts unaonditionally shown, and uty Dela, ‘and oho could nave | he would be false to hia osth it he to Delhl at any | did not exercise this right with his con- Ivan the Terrible should b¢ | science,” said King Oscar, referring to his veto of the consular bill, “The Constitution provides that a bill Probable H’- Prob, | CAN be passed over the King's veto by Jock cap, Oda | three successively elected Storthings. ON 8: ww 5: ace — Selling, two-year- olds; six furlongs, Starters, Wia'ts. Rapid tt ot f She. Elizabeth % 10| “The Constituuon supports me in every particular, Thus the Norway Con- stitution, my own conscience and my i Consular bill.” Tor of th Forest FIREMEN HAD-LESS S10T Be Fave on the prass wa . He should win to-day, ought to beat Sir Russell position TO DO THAN IN 1904, The six telephone operators at Fire Headquarters had been told that they 1d have a busy day. But there had HW prop [been Only eight signals. and fourteen Cap, Gada] StH alarms up to 4 P.M. and the pee, NR Levening was corresponlingly quiet Smith Ok 2% | Lust year there were forty Wildepe'd’<: OF Eland fourteen still alarms before 4 P. M In yesterday's | wtaveemel aptlen. the Club Na- the 108 the blades stopped by the employees of the Thomas RArAge at No. 783 Seventn avenue, wi there were $100,000 worth of automobiles One auto was damaged, Dempsi Hime store at No. 613 West Fifty-ftth and let them down. John Fall, 0 Fina A aly cut, but re “Q ANDY, YOU’RE NOT SO WARM!” The Consular ill was passed by only vin =| consideration of the welfare of both Anodyne =| kingdoms were my gulde to vetoing the o signals = What looked like a bad fire was Six firemen, were standing on the root of a shed at fae in a hay, Hie and street at 6.85 o'clock when the "e ave WALLST. Hook AND BIG SKYROCKET CAUSES LOSS OF $20,000 Three-Alarm Fire Burns Fac- tory Building—Many Smaller Blazes, ably caused by a big skyrocket, a Jarm fire earl yto-day gutted the five-sory store and manufacturing butld- Jing at the northwest corner of Tenth Javenue and Forty-fourth str Nos. |615-619 Tenth avenue and Nos, 501-503 West Forty-fourth sireet. The ground \foor was occupied by xmall stores, the second floor by William Armstrong, car- |penter and builder; the third floor by the | Oontestioners’ Improvement Machinery Company, the Domestic Electrical Com- pany and Demorest & Eckerson, ma- chinists; the fourh and firth floors by ‘the Becker Plano Company. The dam- age was estimated at $20,000, but may be much higher when the plano company’s loss 1s ascertained. The fire charted on tho second floor. Janitor Charles Seidler, who, with his wife and son, lye in the building, was awakened by his Scotch terrier Pete pulling the bedelothes from him and vator shaft afire, and shouting for help attempted to fight the biize. Pollco man Winkler, of the West Forty- seventh street station, turned In an alarm and ran to Seldier’s aysiatance, rrying out Mrs, Seidler, who had been overcome by smoke. Battalion Chief Devanny turned in a second alarm and Deputy Chief Ahearn, who responded, sent in » third, which brought Chief Croker, The firemen were forced to fight the flames from lad- ders, and several of the men were over- come for 4 short time, but returned to thelr posts. The fire was confined to ‘the butiding after a two-hour fight Fireworks Cause Many Blazes, The three-story factory at No. 421-45 Bast One Hundred and First street, oc- cuple dby clothes manufacturers, sus- started from fireworks, The clothing fuctories of M, Maccaront anc Gunsbers ain were destroyed. rackers started @ blaze on the sais Instantly Killed by Train, Peter Baler, thirty-four years old, of/ candle was set in the centre of the), Jersey City, em- powder, and the boys scampered away |of the dying children to the ambur ndier by the! out of danger. lances, ran ath street arking loudly. Seidler found the ele- | tained a $10,000 fire to-day supposedly | ADEAD, 16 DYING, — 500 MAIMED IS HOLIDAY RECORD And This Cost of Celebrating the Fourth in Greater New York Is Only One- Ninth of Price Paid by Entire Country. 100 FIRES CAUSED BY CARELESS PATRIOTS. Death List Likely to Be Swelled from Lockjaw Resulting from Injuries—Soldiers Badly Wounded by Shell Bursting During Salute on Governor’s Island. As a climax to a Fourth of July celebration marked with death and in- jury throughout all the city, there was an explosion in Williamsburg last night in which five boys were fatally injured and two others seriously hurt. This explosion, which was caused by a man throwing a lighted cigar into a box of powder which the boys were carrying, was only one of hundreds of other explosions which brought death, fatal injury, blindness, broken bones and scars to the celebraters. FOOR DEAD; HUNDREDS HURT. i In this city alone four deaths were recorded. Sixtean other vite tims were mortally hurt, and fully 500 more are in hospitals, some 60 Seriously injured that recovery is by no means certain. Fireworks caused seventy-five fires in Manhattan and the Bronx and twenty-four in Brooklyn and Queens. This great list of casualties was in spite of the fact that there was an exodus from the city yesterday such as was never recorded before on the hol- day. Every one who could get away from the city’s heat and noise did so, ALL CASUALTY RECORDS BROKEN. The list of injured 1s not all in by any means, but as far as it goes New York has broken all casualty records, and the death list is likely to be swelled from day to day. For dreaded tetanus will now come on apace. In a few days every hospital In Greater New York will begin to receive tetanus victims, following injuries which to-day may seem trifling. A few years ngo tetanus was even more fatal than the dreaded spotted fever. But sclence has in a measure eliminated this, as antitoxin treat- ment has proved most successful. In 1903 there were 406 fatal cases of tetanus in the United States following the Fourth of July celebration. In 1904 there were only 91 fatal cases, showing the good effects of antitoxin, According to statistics gathered to-day from 150 of the principal cities of the United States, thirty-six people were killed and 1,677 Injured by ex- plosions of firecrackers, flrearms, gunpowder and toy pistols yesterday, SEVEN BOYS HURT IN EXPLOSION; 5 DYING Five boys are dying and two others tout. Cautiously the bova approached are seriously Injured in WilMamsburg|the box and made ready to. relight Hospital to-day as the result of an ex-) the candle. plosion of powder at 9.90 o'clock Inst st ut that instant four men stroll night, when the youngsters were cele- | out of a saloon at the corner and brating the Fourth of July. Lighted ted on the cub in conversation, cigar ashes thrown Into a box of pow- ee took the glowing stuup Jer the boys had in thelr possession | ¢r o from ‘hla lpe, lghted caused the aceldent. The enure Will- ‘away, an ossed the burning end famsburg police force Is seurching for | som witnesses aesiare, cite ‘his man, but there ts no clue to M8| the crowd of children in the centre of identity. the street and purposely threw the The Injured are: |@hted cigar butt among them, His act ALWICK, JOSEPH, elght years old, of’ was probably an Innocent one, No. 95 North Sixth street, will dle. T! 1 r AIGKT THADDEUS, “fourteen yeare|, TRO Durning clear landed squarely im doubttut | The explosion that followed shook FRA: WILLIAM, eleven years old, of | the neightborhood, No. 88 North Sixth street, will dio. KREYAET, ANDREW, thirteen yoars old, Beven Boys Blown Vr of No, 91 North Bixth street, will die. Heven boys grouped around. the paper MAUSBR, WALITER, thirteen yearw old,| bOx were hurled in all directions, ‘hey of No. OT North Sixth street, condition |lay in the street as they fell—torn and critical | blackened beyond possibility of recog- RUSAMBSKY, JOHN, thirteen years! nition, old. of © 87 North Sixth street, will die. ‘orth Sixth street was inimediately Plea Merete Bas n yeert °A.\in a state of wild commotion, Fathers All day long a score of children. tne |224 mothers, frantic with grief, rushed n= to the place where the motionless bodies cluding the victims of last nght's ac- 42:8 piace where the motionlens bodies cident, were busily engaged In wather- | vainy tried to pick out thelr own, ing unexploded firecrackers, and storing But the task was almost hi i the powder from them in a big card: | pron fe ’parent's eve could popgleae. board box. When night came the little | fumiliar Hues in the blackened and bate gelebrators, intent upon accumulating | tered faces of the injured boys the material for one big final salute In| ‘pheir clothing hung in smouldering honor of the day, scurried up and down | shreds upon tiem, leaving absolutely no North Sixth street gathering in dam- | clue to guide the parents, aged skyrockets, pin wheels, Roman | Meanwhiie some one had sent in a fire candles, and fireworks generally, that jajarm and another citizen had ‘phoned had misfired | Word of the accldent to the Bedford Ave- Three Pounds of Powder. |nue Police Station, Captan Gallagher Shortly after} o'clock the kox hela/tespended in person with all his re+ Jat least three pounds of powder and the “eves, arriving just in time to cheeks | boys decided to set It off in ov tert ctewds that hurried to the ene ground floor of the five-story brick | mendous charge, On the stoops of /from all parts of Willlameburg. ten a veltt va J fe one rumen neighboring houses sat the parents, Parents Mad with Grie eft sire 0 place of 3 i sat the Gagin % Damages estimated at $1,000, | The bos's had kept thelr recrat well, 42d) jruvry culls were sent to tae Hastern ‘A fire in the three-story irame build-| no father or mother had the faintest | pistrict and Williamsburg Hospitals at Ne, 22 West’ ‘Phirty-fourth | suspicion of the de contents ot theland three ambulances responded {n ne ing Inu te of | une and t tn ct MeMunus, caused 64 damage. yaterious white box charge of Doctors Dorn, Rarick and mos 3 ah , O@U 0 damage, ‘ 7, ? . . i he ceed en teaser | Chuckling gleefully over the noisy | Dangler Heitler, in the six-story brick tenement |surprive in store for the neighborlioud,| yur jor the assistance of the police, at No. %3 Broome street, did $800 dum-|the children placed the box in the| the hospital surgeons would have been centre of the roadway, at the Inter- | powerless. Half mad, with grief, thy section of Worth Sixth stneet ad! parents of the seven boys clung to the Wythe avenue, ‘Then # short dighted ' ),qiey they could not Identify. It was vssary to use force in the removal A the fMtokering weene was re-enacted saale-e Cal yest and died at the cepitals, where the parents