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: line, mes held __ PRICE ONE CENT. “ Circulation Books Open to All.” MUST DO BUSINESS | — WITH SYNDICATES, _ CROMWELL ASSERTS Life Insurance Companies, Mutual’s Treas-, Tells Investigati-g Committee, urer Would Be Driven out Them Under Modern Conditions. ‘Aw the dofender of Syndicates and Syn- ) @leators Frederick ©. Cromwell, tr rer of the Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, renppeared to-day as a witness Defore the Legisintive Insurance Com- mittee in thé City Hall. He declared that syndicat necessities of the times, that thes @reations of the law which has come to rule financ When Mr. Cromwell etepped upon the witness etand he asked for permission to make a statement, which was a de- were were fanvo of syndicates. First he faced the} eaisiative commiitee, but a moment Yeter swung round on the newepaper- men: “Byndicates are necessities of the f@ree They are the results of the law or combination in finance. We face a e@ordition, We can't get away from h. “When I first came to the Mutual Life Yrsvrance Company Ve total assets were only $108,000.00. Now {ts transactions in gocurities alone amount to over $100,000,- 0 @ year. Conditions Different Now “Twenty years ago, when our premium peoceipts were less, we could then buy our bonds from brokers at the fourth| or fifth price. Now it !s absolutely nec- essary that we should get them at first hand. The law of competition demands At, All large blocks of securities are floated in these times by large combina- tions of capital, and the Mutual Life could not make !ts investments if it did Mot join these combinations. “I will go so far as to say that if we id not become partners in these syndl- cates we would be left in the race. S80 there you are. We have over $450,000,000 invested. $100,000,000 in bonds and there would be a fferent tale to tell if it weren't for the syndicate. Confused Over Cuban Bonds. In explaining the Mutuel Léfe's par- ‘tictpation with James Speyer & Co, in the Cuban bond syndicate Mr. Cromwell’ became confused, “Better leave the stand, Mr, Crom- _ well,” suggested Mr. Hughes, “and tall ft over with your attorney, Mr. Beok. Get the facts straight and then come baok.” “No; stay there, Mr. Beck. “Better to the mountain than bring the moun- tain to Mahomet," at which there was & roar. Mr. Cromwell weighs nearly 260 pounds; LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY Master of Chancery Dead MARBLEHEAD, MASS., SEPT. Col. Henry Curtis, weyenty-one years 014, of Rock Island, Tl, died to-day at the summer home of his daughter, Mra. Horace W. Jones, For twenty years hi 7s fate for Rook Is!- was born in Bos. Mr. Cromwell,” sata Gets His Commission. OYSTER BAY, L. L., 8HPT. 18.~—Pree- ident Roomevelt to-day Aiea the com- mission of Roert H. ot Norfolk, xe. as the Walted Peed) Distriot-At- fomey for Mastern [f.strtot of ‘Accuse a U. S. Treasurer.| ELPHIA, SEPT. 18-—Charges | have been made against Assistant Unit- Btates 7 b ai arempurer Leib here by the ng Ret: ion, seo Sotiviy” in polities ana Tevy- | shadow utes on employees, Steward Accused, Lann, who said he was « ete on @ Bouth American steam- y Magistrate Bree ween sodey i) mao Pg GR a ith fountain pene trom Brosdway ator —— : — in Vermont. Ne it Ligh SEPT, 18,—The first itl ‘ase season agucended' for ahs apa ece of combination | hay let Mahomet come to the Wall With- Attorney Reck ts tn the Battling Nelson. Jimmy Eritt obtss—a deoteded Lgit- | weight. N. Y. Life on Defenetve. The Now York Life Insurance Com- | pany to~lay sent broadcast a atroular! of defense, many coples of which found | their way to the inquiry chamber of the Legivlative Cornmittse In Cty Hall, jin view of the overnight transactions | Tevealed by Treasurer Edmund Ran- dolps, of the company, whereby $00.00 | worth of ship bonds were sold on Dec. lL, 148, by G. W. Perkins, Vice-Presi- dent of the New York Life and Chair- | man of its Finance Committes, to G. |W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan & Co., and bought back two days later, the | | anguage of the olreujar is not uninter- esting. In part it reads: “The New York Life does not loan upon nor invest in stocks of any kind. This has been Its voluntary praotice sinoo the year 1899. “The New York Life's financtal trans- actions are carriad on in the company's name, not in the name of any Individ- ual or individuals. “The company's money in never used, directly or indirectly, in any transao- | tfon for the benwft of any individual. Officers Cannot Borrow. “No officer of the company ean bor- Tow money from the company or in any way use the company's funds for his own benefit.” Frederick H. Shipman, assistant treas- urer of the ew York Life, was the first witness. Hoe presented a list of syndloate transactions whioh showed that the former treasurer, the late 1. M. Gibbs, on Jiu. 4, 159%, reosived as his share as managegr of syndicate @ commission of $981. Mr, Shipman added that Mr. Gibbs turned the check in to the oonpany. Sometimes Divides Profits. a it the custom of tie sompany to joint socoounts overt ite pl DF Gite beakers on bonds which the rork Lite had bought? A. It ts in pare bara aagt AW A yolk) the banks san si ays fi jaloker than the pany when #t ss Pts dektrable to well « ieree lot of securities. inlesteten v mn interes! rn = Ng ae kT never rage of “Jolat edountet: @ SBunply that “Wwe “ere there to make ail tae money Wwe can for gur policy-holders. Q 6, h fon Joint accounts are profitable? DOVE TO HIS DEATH FROM THE WASHINGTON BRIDGE INTO RIVER. (Continued from First Page.) Harrington went with him to-day to insure his return to the house by noon. Mr. Hansing appeared to be quite cheerful, He talked of his prospects for improvement and seemed to think thet he would be greatly benefited by a change of @cene, ‘he doctor and his patient walked out upon on bridge so- wether on the south roadwi ‘When the Diage of the pan over the was reached Mr. Haneing sud- across to the north rot the north yosd off his pt fad aetarted ih the railing. ted to. gang of laborers close by inp pursult of his peti smn iba Pugs |B nds, alae Oareman Titus's Story, Was o Wealthy Man, a ena ng f Hola He Mr. Hansl staat vite yt wite an 8 ganelon’ i BARON KOMURA STRICKEN WITH TYPHOID FEVER Dr. Delafield Makes the An- nouncement, but Is Disputed by Envoy’s Physician. ‘That Baron Komura, the chlef Japan- ese peace envoy, has typhoid fever in ite first stages, was the announcement made to-day by Dr. Francis P. Dela- field, who wee called from Virginia to dingnose the case of the patient. ‘The Raron, who haa been ill for the past few dnys, was thoumht to be suf- fering from qallstones of the biaddes. Yosterday his condition became that Dr. Delafield was nent for by Dr. | W. B. Pritchard, the attending physi- clan, and Dr. George Brewer, who had | been called in consultation. Up to | late hour Inst night the peace envoy) was determined that he would start to-morrow with the members of his party for Japan, and he clung to his determination until this morning, when Dr, Delafield tasued strict orders against the trip. ‘The Baron's to Mr. Sato, ranged from tending to the higher figure. Tt has been agreed among the phys! clans that ais medical statements con- | errning the Baron's condition shall be tusued by Dr, Pritchard. ‘Whe latter stil clings to his original dlagnosia thet Baron Komura ts euffer- ing from inflamed gall stones, His statement given after Dr. Delefeld's diagnosis was made public says, “My original opinion was that the Baron was suffering from an inflamed | gall bladder and I stil hold to that opinion, ‘Chere ia nothing serious in the Baron's condition now, or at any rate this mornin Dr, Pritchard would not, discuss Dela njon made public i yee, and when a ‘ed point if it Pwasa't correct, laughingly Repl “This temperature, acconting | 99 to 102, but | | was seen later at his) st Thirty-second street. | Apa! ay (gry. case | oe the. a veo Ea CANADIANS TAKE AMERIOAN TUG. Cruiser Vigilant Captures Bertha L. Cookill with 5,000 Lbs. White~ fish 100 Nets ariel PORT DOVER, Ont., Amerioan febing tus Bartie L Goon, of Brie, Pa., tured about twenty inion east of Port Mudweli yesterday’ bi = Canadian opuboer Yi ean report that it he nets’ wi Rese a tt custome author DUTCH CAPTURE JAVANESE CAPITAL) ,,0. AMSTPRDAM, Sept. 18.—A despatch from Batavia, Iwland of Java, ¢ nounces that the Duich troops ha ca) hanett Paps, of Pring moe eg Mita ny rhe STATE BOARD PROBES INTO “L” WRECK Interborough Officials on Rack as to Causes of Accident. The State Raflroad Commission held | @ special meeting to-day at No. 17 Battery place to consider their in| tigation of the “L'* road wreck. Com- missioner Francis M. Baker, who made @ rigid personal inspection of all the curves and danger apots of the system, together with the safety devices em- ployed, made bis report in executive eeaeion. Mr, Baker oritictsed the company se- verely for its parsimontous course in al- lowing deterioration of roadbed and structure and retaining an antiquated system of signals, De Lanoey Nicoll, counsel, and Charles A. Gardiner, genera! attorney, appeared | m@ to-day’s hearing on behalf of the} Interborough company. Asks for More Time. Commissioners Dunn, Baker, Aldrldce and Dickey were present. Vice-Presi- | dent Bryan, of the Interborough, asked for more time to prepure for bie ox- aminntion. He said that every effort is being made to get in all reports and | also to find Motorman Kelly, as tae | oMolals think it highly desirable to | have him end his story. Tho request | was denied, and Manager Hedley was | sworn, Searching questions were asked to show that the junction at Fifty-third street and at Obatham Square oan be arranged so that lines will not cross at grade, but Mr, Hedley evaded these by putting the wuuie mater up to the ohlef engineer. Kelly's Train Signals Right. Mr, Hedley said he arrived at the scene of the wreok on Moday forty minutes efter the acoiden favor the wyeak iD ean ee seeeriees ignale at were twp, wile diecs and u sign'on tne rauing "Bouth Ferry, Ninth “avenue, ich were the proper pene ret proper aligns of @ Ninth | As t the track signals Mr. Hedley Mi signals were eet for the ry gurra’ ands aie oe was yellow, was open, Sh areen. Light “or dpe, "Was “ar ‘Gerdner cain ut giearly pete ain rb Seen it Ly one of — 0) oyeee fa for. four een was call plainee miothods 9 Ine emplo axeee Ieee suites, | a third street, an the enatibeene, \= sare coe Grekee No Right to Leave Tower, eaid arrangements we: oh thet a gucl was not man to ae Pifkocthied and ho switohman streot wiille on duty, and allowed to pother" an, the tower aloes te| ved by aed i the Dre aa the ash and stig ak avenue tines fy 0d, peteGiith tried to evade thie r question said » motorme: ‘eup-| Paiged to He work’ ten boura’™ | uring rush hours what ts the max'- ae tea ek rune Poa Sues x # in bot direction at the Fifty-shird street ain Lown waa salerese ooh FAIRBANK RETURNS HOME, foam, Sa Bopt, 18.—10e-Prest- Peirbanks have returned: hers Includl is Jopale, b oth een avi Preasea in oi dlreotion, ‘trains per a Ane tt moka loa od car or forty feet on. tt raul. | NEW YORK, SEPTE MBER 13, 1905. f [ ae Circulation Books Open to All”? A PRICE _ON CED T. —=—s GROUT DECLINES TO AGAIN TAKE PUBLIC OFFICE Comptroller Writes Mayor McClellan that He Will Not Accept Renomination, Comptroller Grout has decided that he | will not again run for public office. In & communication to Mayor McClellan |to-day the Comptrolier formally made known hts determination, Predicting Mayor McClellan's re-eleo- tion, the Comptroller adds that, despite his liking for public service, he finds that if he were again to run he would be financially embarrassed at the end | of his term if elected. In fact, he he would be plunged in debt. It is regarded as significant that the Comptroller addresses jis announce- ment to the Mayor. who, it has recently developed, has been endeavoring to auape the Tagmany ticket. It has been asserted in various Tam- many quarters that Mayor McClellan, and not Leader Murphy, will name the mer. for the important offices who are to run with him. In his letter to the Mayor Comptroller Grou saya: Bept. 13, 1905. Hon. George B. McClellan, Mayor. “For a year past it has been my pur ¢, often publicly uttered, not to be @ candidate for re-nomination for Comp- “roller. ‘Your cordial expéeaslous to me the day before I sailed, made public while I waa away, and repeated since my return, have led me to give the matter most oareful reconsideration, and I regret deeply that I cannot see it my duty to change my decision. “There would seem to be ittle doubt that you will receive the triumphant re-election to which the hign character of your admintsiratton entitles you, and any service which I can render to that end can, I think, oe given as effectively, and will be given as oor dially, whether I am a candidate or not. “On the other hand. personal reasons | of most conclusive welght demand that I should retire. I have been aight years consecutively in public office, and a» large part of my time for five years previously was given to pubile affairs, One's private uffairw necessarily suffer, But during the past four years the condition has been worse with me, “While the salary of the office is gen- ‘ous, as public salaries go, It 1s no groater than I had been earning at my profession, while the demands of office and the ‘increase in expenses and in the requirements of my family have been such that cach year I have speut two or three thousand dollars more than Poy, income, These defojencies have brought me #o near a |my fesources that another four years would mean @ diMfoult retrenchment or running tino deb.” Roosevelt Sends Portratt, Presilent Roosevelt hes sent an auto Hote 6 of wo th - a ities fave eet fair to be held for In- N. J. The pio- nt of motor wer and having charge of the maintonan and ment of rolling stock, ts Red, ton dally inspection of all fraing and doclared the are of the wrecked t feot sondition. asliieabeinis not ‘know is tional that could have mye cry me have prevented this accident diner objected |switonman. Snokwone’ but “nobly soon |sented to do #0 at the afternoon session, Jackson Won't Testify, Ontef Engineer George H. told at the afvernoon session preoaution# taken at the treet Junotion to make ft ductor Johnaon, the told of he ac Then Tow- Jackaon was . His ap pearance told plainly of tho strain he nad been under. He stood on his rights under the law and refused to tenth Q. you any aintgrmntion that you mnie oh rd ai would it on thu ASoldent? A mor any Uy Yahias, Soaring PI the Ly trey safe, and wrecked Boe BOY MADE BOMBS, NOW Constructed Three Infernal Machines and Wrote Dozen “Black Hand’’ Letters. SENT THEM TO RICH MAN. Infatuated with Girl, He Planned to Frighten Father with Threats. A confession wan secured to~lay from Thomas French, the seventeen-year-old Bust Orange (N. J.) youth who Is under arrest for sending Black Hand letters and infernal machines to Valentine Riker, Secretary of tho Prudential In- surance Company, of Newark. The con- fession clears up not only the Riker persecution, but several other mysteries that have perplexed the Hast Orange | authoritie Young French admits that he sent Mr. Rikor twelve Black Hand lettors and two Infernal machines, One of these twas cleverly constructed and would have wrought damage bad it been care- lewsly opened. An Incendiary, Too. The boy also confemed that he set fire to the Columbla School In Bast Orange, where he was a pupil, and burned down the Coggeshall barn by boring @ hole in the wall with a bit, pouring in a can of kerosene and drop- ping Mghted matches upon tt. In the past year he haa turned in many false fire alarms, has told weird stories of orime to the police and gen- erally kept Hast Orange stirred up. ‘When first the lad was arrested theo was suspicion that he was the sender of the hombse received by Jacob Schiff, | the banker, Edward Wasserman, the broker, and M. Guggenielm's ons dur- ing the Summer. | Close inquiry has dissipated this sus- Picion, The boy is not familiar with New York and doubtless has never heard the names of the men mention: | He ts nil Glert mentally, but Is pos- ed of ot cunning th: | actiine bain tice authorities. oF the Oranges wit they set out to dis- cover who was annoying Mr. From” inquiries inade sof the tay by [an Evening World reporter to-day it pears that he was impressed with the Riker, fee was too bashful to make an outward display of his infatuation, Thought of Itanapeing, Into his mind there appears entered an idea of idanap out o! ow the letters ec he signed with nd andl stored, with thefhing pictures of dag- pers, ing blood and revolvers belching smoke and bullets, He constructed his Infernal machines in a little workshop which his parents had fitted up for him on the top floor of thelr luxuriously appointed hone at No. 2 Arlington avenue, East Orange, and mailed them from Paterson. Fi wing each machine he would write « rlos of ietters demanding 360 or Constance. nae ‘Ou seem to think more of you do of your daughter,” he wroeeat dhe of his communieatio ‘The first infernal sent in August. It was a crude arrangement of gunpowder, absorbent cotton and clockwork in a wooden box. The second was more skilfully fashioned, It con- sisted of bre oartridies fastened in & wooden blouk, with the detonating posed to the flame of matches hin | would have been ignited. by raping the ends against sandpaper hadt the box containing the machinery bee liding off the tap. Over LY the nos it opening It, and BSergt. Bell oagetully Gissected Tt with a ora Bail French is overgrown boy, fully 6 fect, tall, "Ho le neal Arqaser! and npt bad looking, but he fing quecr light gray eyes, A’ preliminary exain. {nation was held in the Enst Orange Pollos Court to-day and he was to await further investigation on part of the authorities, ROBBED OF $1,000 ON WAY TO EUROPE Marusoh, Who Was to Have Safled To-Day, Attacked on Street. John Marusch, of Middletown, N. ¥., came to town yesterday to engage pas- sage for Europe, and was to have salled to-day. He got $1,000 changed into cer- Ufled checks and leilere of crédit and wandered imto the wilds of Williams- burg. Two men Jumped upon Men as he was oy have ping her, and Tob) Se ER hor fesovered, $10,900 Given to the Bling, money whioh the alty a: to the worthy bilnd was trlbuced yeoterday the building Dopartmi ston, street, a by Chief Mocarthy, ‘The city gave aw: every bind person yer tol hundred and ninety were benefict ‘Phe wpplicants paseed Into te ment of ain aa th were call hat recelyed th dts ig hans ving- i ros. ry oT BETTER THAN HARLEM. NEARER THAN BRONX. GET RICH BY BUYING NOW at East Elmhurst cri] OEP TREROVE SPRING Va Half Hour from Herald Squar Send Postal’ fo for mle FA Views. Bankers Land & Mortgage Co, Manbattan Ay., Bikiva, N. ¥. CONFESSES xteen-year-old Constance ON NEW CLUE IN THOMPSON Capt. McCauley Goes Out in Person and Quick Ar- rest May Result. Following the reward of $500 offernd by The World for the arrest and convictlon of the murdered of Jacob H, Thompson, a Inte exchange editor of the New York Times, who was found dying In his apartment in the St. James Hotel, No. 109 West Forty-fifth street, nearly a. week ago, Acting Chief of Detectives McCauley went out himself from Head- auartors to-day on an entirely new clue that’ may lead to an arrest at any mo- | ment. Tho latest clue came in the shapo of an anonymous communication to the |Central Office. It was at once turned lover to Commtssioner McAdoo for In- |structions, The letter was of so much |tmportance that the Commissioner in- | structed McCauley to look after it per- sonally and to say nothing to any one about 1t, ‘This precaution was to pre- vent any miscarriage of justice, The Acting Chief of the Detective Bu- rea sald nothing to the half dozen men that he ‘had assigned to the cuss about the new clue. When the matter was put before the Commissioner he said: Following Every Clue. “I cannot talk about the case at the Prosent time, We are following every clue that oomes to this office McCauley ts out on the case himself ‘The police to-day are looking for a negro servant who had a key to Mr. Thompson's rooms, This clue was fur- nisnad by Mr. Pintmont, the janitor of a building at No. 61 Fifth avenue, where Mr, Thompson's brother-in-law is en- gaged in business. ‘The hotel management deny that a third key to the room {s in existence. The management also deny that two guests recently have been robbed by some one employed about the piace. YOUNG JEWELLER William R- Thomas Had Quarrel with Mother and It Weighed om His Mind. With a bullet-wound in his right® tem- ple and a 88-callbre revolver lying near him Willtm R. Thomas, thirty years old, a well-te-do young Jeweller, was to-day found lying dead in his hand- some bachelor apartments at tfe Han- over, No. $23 West Bnd avenue. A note lying near him read: ‘Dats is the result of_my own trouble. ‘The sulclde fs sald to have been the son of a wealthy and prominent Philadel- phian who died some time ago. His sul- clde ts said to have been the result of a misunderstanding with his mother. ane fect that he had quarrelled wiluh mother ds said to have preyed on the eine man's mind. Thomas came from Philadelphia and pad been ae aie the past year at the Hanover, was empoyed by a Maiden la se, and shared his bach- elor apartments with a friend. ‘The lat- ter retumed home this afternoon and found tke young jewsller In bed, partly dressed and dead from a bullet wound in the right templ ——— DEAD IN THE NORTH RIVER The body of an unidentified man was found In the North River at the foot of Bloomfield street to-day. The man ap- ed to hi 1 About thirty-five dressed in a blue were no marks of body. 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