The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1905, Page 3

(AEE a) ee eee } cry vs FERRIES ON FI The Manhattan, heading the New FINAL a FIRST 1 Fleet of Five Boats, Welcomed at Staten Island b y Great Throng. (rr remem To The New York Evening World is the establishment of the improved Staten Island ferry service. paper has been a great aid in the achievement of the present municipalization of Fornes, President of the Board of Aldermen that ferry."—Charles V. due the credit of having effected That news The city’s first venture in the operation of Interborough ferries went ‘{nto effect to-day, with Mayor McClellan at the helm, when the five palatial city-owned ferry-boats were placed of Manhattan and Richmond The Manhattan, first of the fleet, car- Melais, rsing prominent citizens and left South Kerry at 1 o'clock, She was met on arrival at St, George by a great crowd of enthusiastic and Joyous Sta- tan Islanders, Buthiings were decorated and bands played. It was the most ¢iwtsome day State Island had known for many years It meant its deliver. ance from an antiquated and tnef- of communication with the clty. ¢ meant much for tie borough's commeretal future. The Manbattan made its firet trip in twenty minutes, breaking all reo- ords, it was sald, Aldermen Arranged Celebration. ander a special one The celebration waa committee of the Board of Aldermen, and sisted of Aldermen Doull. man, Gillies, Collins, Shea, Ri Wentz, Downing and Harnischfe Among those present, in addition 1 Mayor McClellan, were Dock Commis Biouer Featherson, Corporation Counsel Delany, De) Paillips: Borough Pres Borough President: Ahearn, ni ‘ Boand of Aldermer mblymaa Caughton, all the Board of Aldermen in a body, a delegation from 1 id Hoard of and r] » hants of both bonoushs There wo a rush for the first few tickets for irs, No. 400,000 was the first ticket sold, Over 60 tekets were sold before the usual time for the morning rush The festivitios included a speech by Mayor McClellan, in which he formally opened the new system, Following tho| Manhattan, at half-hour intervals, four slater ships—each as blg and as fine @* the othere—left the South Ferry landing. The five boats are to make sixty-two tripe dailf between Manhat- tan and Richmond. Mayor McClellan's Speech, In his speech the Mayor said "Two years ago I promised that be- fore the expiration of my term of office Btaten Island should pave the best ferry service on earth. I have kept my svord, “On a day like this, which marks a reat achievement, it is fitting that the credit for its accomplishment should he placed where It belongs, Without any wish to belittle the work of the Board of Ratimate, of the Sinking Fund Commission, of the President of the Borough of Manhattan and the ; President of th Borough of Rich- mi0nd; without any wisi to dewnct from the services of our most eftivient } | Dock Commissioner and his admirable corps of cnginwors, the chief oredit and thanks ure due to the people of Richmond, "Lot us make public expression of the debt which the people of New York owe to the people of this borough, and that 1 of ali other citizens of New Yoru owe to you for your consiant yeip, your un swerving sipport, Your pauchce in Lie face of dinwuxy, your cousesy and Your inendsnip, “Pho inauguration of this greatest experiient in nunwlpal owaensiip abe MUD Operation mwas Lue Gegui- DUNG Of a Lew epuoh for all tive vor ougns "in New York, “While it ls true that Richmond will beneni from the great intlux of popusa- on that will ¢allow the installation of this new ferry, owe who come here the other boroughs will proit far more, "This ferry is the longest step in the @ireotion of binding the boroughs to- re sc the tf the Tt estabiignes a stand- ard of phnin a in interborough com- munioation that must forever be lived up to, New Yorkers will feel an hon- est pride that we are the obildren not ls of fac the best alty on A teow minutes before the Manhattan Lge her nose out into the stream the antiquated sidewheeler Stapleton fort on the last trip of the old ferry Bhe was bres , crowds wich wal of the gates of bod bd gcd “ot ato my Hi 0 ichmond. Boats Marine Marvels. eth te ferry outa have o¢ amaing Pea in commission between the boroughs | mahogeny, An Innovation is the com lete separation of the smoking saloons from the 6 r rta of the boats Which {s accomplished by the method of arranging the location of the statr. ways, Everything in the manner of Hfe-saving appliances required by the Iutest, steamboat Inspection rules 4s provided. The propelling machinery consists of double compound engines, driving Bro: pellera at enoh end of the vessel. Th re of the Baboook & Wilcox ibe having 440 aquare feat graco and 12600 feet of heating eur Independent pumps and various applied, and two com signalling appartus are boat to Insure againat t. Bich new boat bear the name of a borough a! he Greater chy. INQUIRY TO STOP INTIL ELECTION Insurance Probers Want to Get Busy in Their Districts. When the legislative ingurance inquiry Was resumed to-day {t was announced ‘that an adjournment would be | Yaken to-night until after election, Five investigators are candidates for tlon—Assemblymen Cox, Wemple, MoKeown, Prentice and Rodgers—and want to get to work In their dis- j of th thoy triais, The next session will be held on Nov. |8 and unless there are other develop ments meanwhile James Hazen Hyde will then be called Emery MeClintock, of actuary the Mutual ‘was recalled to the witness-stand, He denied that elther the Mutual, Equitable or New York Life made a practice of evading the inw by writing two policies and calling them one to escape the provision requiring a certain ree from the premium of a term polley to be set apart. Down to Dec, 1, 194, the witness said, he had figured out that dividends had not paid on $322,000,000 of In- surance carried by the Mutual Life, This was under the deferred dividend system, and while tt was a fact that had never bepn unfokled to State In- surance commissioners, It would have been cheerfully told if the information had been requested Says Dividends Will Go Up. MoClintock mude the prediction that in the future the dividends of policy- holders would go up instead of deoreas- Ing, a8 bas been true of the dividends paid by the Mutual Life, Pressed for the reasons for ble pre- diltions that policy-holders are going to Bet more dividends from now on, Me- Clintook said that Russia and Japan would both be ijeeding money shortly ‘and their deaninds would send the money market soaring, Ineurance com- panies with surpluses, sources from whieh this money will largely flow, will benefit and consequently they poor: holders. Mr. MeClintock added that human nature wouldn't let the interest rate go lower than Its present sure, Fluctuations and reactions had the history of the world ever since men began to make money asx! spend Many Things Considered. l ting the policy-holders divi- dendy Of the Mutual Life, there. are things consid yred. nything that would bring a | ene aad make it inibotalble tp oartnquakes.'( hl et ct Ronsbirdei~all ‘these things are 2 counted “Well, why don't you inolude other calamities?” asked Senator Armstrong. oy crops, or legislation i ), for instance?” ’ answered Meclintoak, ‘Those are ordinary risks of ness. MeClintoo! teatined. that he diin't know whether they fire at “14” or an ourthquake at "18." Sy. way the policy-holder alwayw gots the benefit of the doubt. ‘Twenty-three ct, yours!” shouted a voice in the gallery, — EQUITABLE NAMES NEW DIRECTORS. At a monthly meeting of the Board of Direotors of the Equitable Lite Assur- ‘William C, Redfield were nominated as directors, and will be voted for at the November meeting. Bir William C, Van Horne, President of the Canadian Aan oa Rallway ott save , Designed, but he wee at once ted to succeed himaelf. ny M, 4) VOR. AND | Capt.Bupl- | UAELLIGZDOU, Pelted with Bad Lemons By Street Crowd in a Tam- many Stronghold, A Tammany orator named Martin, resplendant In frook coat and silk hat, stood upon the rostrum of a spellbind- enw’ cart at Bethune and Washington streets ‘at noon to-day and bravely spouted In the face of a rain of mis> siles and the bellowings of several hun- dred Hearst sympathizers, His voice held out until the bright! lanterns above Nis head were shattered aeriatim and his shiny top-piece hit with a epolled lemon, Finally he was compelled to atop, | while Peter P. Sherry, who te running Anes Boclety to-day, J. D. Kiernan and | parter, for Assembly in the Seventh District, telephoned for more policemen, The ar- rival of three policamen from the Charles street station saved Orator Martin from further molestation, though their gresenoe coul not stem the remonstrating oheers of the Hearst crowd, ‘This was not the first trouble Tam- many spellbinders have had in the heart of Patrick Keahon's bailiwick. The Muntetpal Leaguers have been growing in demonstrative strength there for the last few weeks, and lose no opportu- nity of discouraging the efforts of the Democmitic onmors to win votes. The Tammany leaders of the district have called upon the police w have three or more poltcemen présent at their meet- ings fn the Seventh to protect thelr #poekers. FLAMMER SAYS. HE WILL FIGHT IT OUT. Both Hé and His Son Repudiate Story that He Had Aban- doned Hope. An evening peper this afternoon pub- Ushed what purported to be an Inter- view with Edward Flammer, son of former ity Magistra Oharies A. Flammer, saying that hts father was sinply staying on the Republican ticket aa candidate for District Attorney to oblige the convention which nominated re him, and intimath@ very strongly that he had given up the fight. Mr. Flemmer and his ron wore sven together at their law offices, No, 280 Broadway, by an Evening World re- Sald’ Mr, ‘Hammer; “Tt ts um bg T have given by A the fant or that of piving nave enter tt T am on e. thok (to tne and LK sia by san & vigorous canvass, I are ieee the inthmation that 1 rt yt dea of retiring, Bald Kdward Pes “The inter- view with me fs false. 1 never sare any such statement. I was asked reporter for an evening paper tow whether my father Md pins to aay on the ticket, and told him most em- phatically that he wae Bei oul “nae ONE pay me eae ‘ignacure te eee ¥) Sea MISSLES STAKE. HIGHAM ORATOR OTHER NOTABLES 1905, AT FIRST TRIP OF COMI1IUSS/ONEF RUSSIA SEIZED BY FAMINE TERROR (Continued trom Birat Page.) by pollee and troops, the soldiers in barracks are kept under arms and squads of Cossacks are in evidence In the sirees which are filled with tdle mon, Traine in the Baltte provinces are no running, and the situation ts reported very bad at Riga and Ltbau. Collisions are feared, assembled at the Moscow etation and gendarmes interfered twice to restore order, but there was no bloodshed. The roads in the Volga region are at a standstill, and ¢o-day a general strike was proclaimed on the two nalning lines running out of St. Petersburg, Traffic ceased this afternoon ‘on the Southwestern Iine, the St, Petersburg- Warsaw line and both the Baltic and Poltah systems. Hospital trains having on board 600 sick and wounded soldiers from Manchuria are held up near Mos com, The condition of the men is sald to be pitiable. All the oatton milla and other factor- tes, on the bahke of the Nea, struck this afternoon, The League of Leagues has seized the opportunity to come to the support of the railroad men and has adopted a resolution in favor of a@ general strike of all prafessions, The telegraph op- erators are joining in the movement, and the suspension of rallroad traffic, it ta feared, will be fullowed by a complete obliteration of communication between interior points. The British Ambassador, Sf Charlos Hardinge, who bade farewell to Em- peror Nicholas yesterday previous to leaving St. Petersburg on a mission in connection with the proposed Anglo- Russian understanding, was unable to start for Bngland this morning because no trains were running. He will leave the capital on the first available mer. Telegravhic cammuntcation between St, Petersburg and Kharkoff ts broken, The workmen of the Putlloff, Koljotno, Alexandrovski and Nevakt works stryck this morning. Warned by Witte. Count Witte warned the deputation that @ continuation of the strike could only result in bloodshed, either by com- pelling the interference of the military or by the fdmine-stricken populaces of the cities torning upon the strikers, “Remember,” he sail, “the Govern- ment may fail, but with it you will perish also by playing Into the hands of the bourgeotsie you are fighting, Tr conclusion Count Witte advised the men to return to work, but his advice, lots. | however, ‘wae howled nd the res- olution to sitike was Groat crowde | Prince Hilkoff believes that the etrike be prolonged, as the men are jout funds, Resides this, he declares is impossible for the men to realize clr dream of tying up all the rail Is simultaneously. With the aastat the railroad battalions some Prince says, will be run. of the revolutionary leaders here leclare the present strike is simply a est of strength as a prelude to a come plote strike of all the suclal groups, Prince Hilkoff, the Minister of Rall 4, Whose appeals to the strikers at Moscow were so unvailing that he could hot get an engineer to bring bim to Si, Soni road Petersburg, but who, with a fireman stoking, drove his own engine, arriving here b and dust grimed, ts not blamable for the fallure of the govern- it to keep its promises made in the ing to increase the wages of the railroad men, That responsibility rests on the Min- ister of Finance, Prince Hilkoff ex- pects to meet the railroad delegates here, but they have already apparently burned thelr bridges at meetings held last night, and whieh fnued until duwn thig morning. A dozen of these of the mot enthuststie chia vr were held. Moscow In Peril, reMlOBCOW, Oct, .—Thin clty to-day of siege, The price of 1 and there is great| the poor, Many por Hving in heighboring provinces and who came scow Are Camping in| the streets « ) persons are Hving In cars, On the Kagan line the stationd are in the hands of the troops, The vost and telegraph offices are! strongly guarded by Cossacks. The populace is hecoming pani ky, WINDAU, Russ, Oot 5-"The Gov- has ‘published an ordor ft railroad employees with three months’ imprisonment and $00 fine exch if they go out on strike. pi tie Rta “THE” ALLEN’S CLUB IS RAIDED ONCE MORE. Onee again has “The Allen's pool- room been milded, ‘Tnepector Hogan, Capt, Hodyins, of ihe Mercer street station, and twenty patrolmen visited the three-story brick building at No, #0 | Sixth avenue this afternoon with a war- rant and formed their way to the seound | floor. | They found more than 200 men and | the usin) pool-room furnishings, Inelud- | ‘na racing shvets, velephones aut the like. John Gorman, of No, 1% Waverioy BUNAWAY DRAGS. lit went place, who was and John Coyne, a jainver, Elehth ave- nue, whe was very active about the place, were arrested. ‘The parapherna- Va was aleo reised ‘The place & known a8 the West Bide Club and has been mided about four score tines, bess nai iad CITY FERRY. FEODUACKION Aref MOODLE eka MAN INTO RIVER Horse with Wagon Plunges from Pier Head and Then Swims Out, In rescuing a peddier and his horse, who had plunged off the end of the Street Cleaning Department pier at the foot of East One Hundred and Tenth street and the Harlem River in a run- away to-day, two men in a boat upset wnd had to be rescued themselves by two other men, Including @ policeman, who Jumped in after them. Five men, and the wagon were all tn at once, river, Abraham Berkowita, of 0 1505 Park avenue, was going Kast {In One Hundred and Tenth street at Madison avenue, when an automodtie frightened his hore for the river front {t struck @ car, scratching its side, and frightening the passengers, but it bounded off and went on. At the end of the owils frantically The animal bolted At Third avenyve, street, with Berk Weel at the reins, the horse dushed through a group of employees on the dumping pier, and plunged off into the wager, In the plunge the horse broke loose trom its harness, and started swimming toward Ward's Island, Berkowitz remained on the Wagon, whlch floated and held him partly out of the water #0 that he was not in immediate danger. William Adams and James Jones, em ployees on the pier, put out after Berkowitz in a rowboat “Save the horse! save the horse!’ oried, "1 can wale Adams and Jones had @ rope and ‘Adams made & Iago with which he trled to catch the horse, which was atti} swimming toward Ward's Island As Adama stood up to swing the lasso, he overbalanced the boat and t, both men going into the water, ey were near the horse at the time and the animal, kicking out in the water, struck Adama’ leg and tone porarily disabled him, Thomas Corkey, andcher employee on the pier. jumped overboard and swam out to Adama, whom he helped Jones dally oavgnt the he guiding ‘hen psi the A880 at 0 shore, owlts, oy ordoxe dat the anita Roan fell on the wagon, @ Was in danger of drowning, and ¢ nite y and Jones were too busy and too far away to help him, when Patrolman Coleman, of the Past One Hundred apd Fourth street station, plunged off the pler, unttom nll, and brought the sinking neddlor ashon DRUGS FAIL Try leaving off Coffee and use POSTU FOOD COFFEE “COURT LECTUR WHITNEY AUTOIST ‘Sends for Employer to De- mand Man’s Discharge as an Incompetent. | | | Magietrate Crane wae in an aggremtve mood to-day when Joseph Frits, a chauffeur for Harry Payne Whitney, was arraigned before him in the Harlem Court cha with overmpesding, Policeman O'Sullivan, of the Haat Eighty-cdghth street station, chased Fritz on his bieyele from Fifty-ninth treet to Dightieth #treet on Fifth ave- nue before being able to overtake him, O'Bullivan told of the chase with much dramatic gesture, Frite who was formerly @ profeasion- al bloycle rider, sneered at O'Sullivan, “You are a bum rider If you chased me that far,” he ald, “Oh, he is, eh?” put in the Magistrate, and Fritz waa sorry, He took the leo- tue that was then delivered to him and admitted he did not know how fast he had been going, ‘It was raining,” he sald, “and the avenue was dead— not @ soul wae about.” Magistrate Crane made the batl $300 for trial, and when a saloon-keeper with many thousands of dollars offered to go om the bond he was promptly turned down, “No, won't take your bond, Whitney—this man’a employer, Tele- phone for him to come here, I want his man discharged from hts employ, He's an Incompetent,” Fritz was taken back, and while watt- ing for the arrival of Mr, Whitney, told the jatler that be had been arr on the day before the big Long Tel auto moe, and that at that time the Duchess of Marlborough was an ocou- pant of the car, They were held up between Mineola | and Hempstead by @ constable, In the car with the Duchess were Mrs. Mc- | Tutyre and Mr, and Mrs, Harry Payne Whitney, | ‘The trial was het right thera, and we were fined $20, which Mr, Whitney | paid, That's the way it should be | done, It does awa thie spending the might in the station hewn ¢ DINNER TO GEORGE P, RownL.| ‘The trends of George,P, Rowell, dean of the advertising world, wii tender a| dinner to bir on Tuesday, Oct. 81, at the Waktorf-Astorta, in honor of his retirement after a long career, Gen Stewart L, Woodford — will presto. 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