The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1906, Page 3

wv ,}iam H. Van THE HGH CHINESE OFFICIALS HERE TO BE SHOWN Imperial Commissioners’ Here as Chamber of Commerce Guests. TO STUDY OUR SYSTEM.! | Tuan Fong and Tai Hung-chl | Want to Find Out Just How We Do Things. Selzing the two Imperial High Com- missloners of the Chinese Empire by the hand as they stepped off the train | to-day Mather Knickerbocker Is taking | them over the bumps and high places. With thelr fifty secretaries, personal; dodysnards, cooks, valets, Interpreters, custodians of the imperial rubberneck Dinoculars, air and foo testers, and 316 odd pieces of luggage, His E: lency ‘Tann Fong, Viceroy of Fukton and Chekiang, and His Fixeellency Huong-chl, Assistant Empress Tstan's Treasury time to dust off ir brocade pajamas Ani perk up the red balls on t sll | caps before they were whisked away to luncheon at the Chamber of Commorce. | We are going to show Tuan Fi Tai Hang-Chi. Th aye journeyed | eM th: way from the Sacred Walled ci of Peking to be shown. They are sted In ecommerce and indus- {n Wall streot, in whims and pecu- | muntelpal govern- | courts, buildings and | ures 1 i Inchigh finance, . Natio slons, sons. nt f Prepared for a Stay. A visit to the lobby of the Avenue Ilotel soon after the of the Oriental investigutors w: of thelr preparedness. A prot of express dumped pyramid after pyramid of campaizn euutpment until the floor of the lobby was en- cumbered to the last square yard, Th ments, other pr: Firth arrival | vat fon ets, al! writtten over with here were Chop sue! dishes, Imperial double-bollers, royal ehow-dong griddles, exalted — spiders. atew pany of and sa over pretty dra 4 lizards raced ‘in artistic desicn Then there was the suite of fifty; the, secretaries in braided kimonos of blue fanfi black, wearing natty Jittle skull “caps on which there were modest Ht tle red buttons: the bodyguards, ma- fors, chlomels and entenants in baby- | blue uniforms, and sleepy looking, | cussing Inxuriously at the secretaries and supernumeraries as they t Hover the bazeuge and salaamed to ‘august names writ on the more dfs | tingu. hed pleces. A suit of twenty-five rooms was pro- | {vided for Their Excellencies et al. funn Fong and Tal Hung-chi have every comfort in rooms 2% and 2%, one [flight up. The et al. are distributed be- tween the cellar ayd of so they may Hearn at their diverg altitudes and re-| late their observatiohs to the imperial) | pred investigntors, | The fifty-three names are spread upon tthe register of the hotel, beginning with the Imposing chicken tracks of the two Commissioners and running down to the flourigting signatures of Secretaries | Choo Choa and Cho Fer, Johnnies on the spot and interpreters. Choo Choo ts a dapper lik Me chap, whose green blouse | ‘4s embroidered with pale sunflower He has a nervous habit of fussing along and talking to himself in three lan- ‘Thus he keeps in practice, guage: Cho Fer is short and dumpy, unusu- fiany nimble on his feet and able to dip Tinie head on the carpet in one move- Fment. \ Chinese Minister Here. © As neither of their Muchnesses the {commissioners can speak English these two alert young secretaries are very {important members of the sulte. ‘The Chinese Minister Sir Chen-tung Mdjan-Cheng, who is a graduate of an } American College, accompanied his two Aistinguished —fellow-countrymen to ew York and sort of introduced them Saround to the persons they met tmme- idiately upon their arrival. A delegation of representative New Yorkers were waiting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to Tecelve the High Chinamen upon their arrival, Robert C. Ogden headed, the bunch. ‘Phen camo Rev, Acthur S$. Lloyd, Will- Steenvergh, John . Bos- nited States Secretary of Williius and Wiliam ster, former Mornay ‘Dulles. “Wihile they were making the low bow to the two Excellencies Gen, Frederick D. Grant, arrived with a of glit- tering aides and gave the high military bign of welcome to the Chinamen, The American officers and the Oriental diers In tholr ‘baby blue uniforms sa- luted one another gracefully as they | {ripped over the luggage In the hotel ‘Tuan Fong {3 an eager-looking Orlen- taly al featured and Ketn-eyed. He has a Roman nose and oclearly-cut features. though ifs stringy mustache and goateo and rather high cheek-bone: mark tho Mongolian, He wore besid: his’silk kimono and pajamas a fur-lined overcoat, Tal Hung-chi, who is fat and jolly-looking, does not ‘differ much in feature from the popular tea-chest va- riety of Chinaman, ‘As insignias of rank the two commis- sioners Wore on thelr skulleaps ‘balls of isted red silk cord, All of thelr sev- retaries wore smaller buttons of the! game sort. | Their. personal cooks and valeis wore buttonless, Likes America, Yes. It was with some difficulty that a snapshot Interview vas. obtel ned, with ‘uan Foi rou » Choo, the in- paeerter His Witenes baascee one caped to’ his room through the jam of oplo and barriers of Jue In the hotel lobby. He was brushing his queue ‘nd changing hig slippers preparatory to being drigged to the Chamber of /Commerce for a commercial and high Anancial welcome, There were four secretaries, and a ‘ywolet at the door walving away crafts nd salam! voice of ha V any. Tae and fell, aa-be, worth CHIEF CROKER’S COZY QUARTERS IN GREAT JONES STREET FIRE HOUSE Fire Quiet. of Hote! Spends Fire trying to sleep j Its no fun even for a strenuous fire chilef that Is used to dashing here and re and everywhere. to move from quict of the Broadway Central otel that Tilly Haynes ran so many years to a fire-house where the horses keep stamping all night long and the clanging of the false alarms jar the walis, The Chief had little sleep in his head- | quarters last 0) ber of less. for he has heard for th got th aut through th | of the horses. ‘WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1906, Specially Photographed This Afternoon by Curtis, of The Evening World’s Staff, Chief Forced to Leave Restless Night. Chief Croker had a hard night rough the stamp! his bed In hi but when he awol was as chipper = this usual, at No. 42 Great Jones* street ir) here were an un al num- alarms and the horses were rest- Croker !s more used to the alarms, m awake or ssl: he past twe ‘ears, but he of the habit of sleeping stamping and the ni At the Broadway rere was only the disturbance from ty His Man’ when there was a real fire. Fire Quarters at Hotel. At the Broadway Central the Chiet had two rooms and a bath. ‘The tur- nishings belonged to the hotel. There were Oriental rugs and some olls, ce F sides the pictures of action that deptct|feht im the Department, put he has the character of the man—the Empire| pulled out a winner e time with State Express at top speed, the Rell-| lying colors. He is up, aguinst the ance running before the wind with|hardest figtit that he ever had now Shamrock ILL, fire engines galore, and |The trausfer of Croker irom the hotel also a picture of the lute Fr; Crok-|( the Great Jones street headquarte: er’s big auto that he was killed tn at|dtwonully oppasite from Pant Kelley's ‘Palm Beach. ld sae ts aie eacone a @ pra = . . onmisshiner jen has nade to in Sheer the only pictures that) qicate tha: he is antagonistic to Crok adorn the walls of the Chiefs rooms] when Nick Hayes left Sn Dee, now. here are no rugs on the floor, ” the Chief transfer a lot of men The Chief has been taroweh many a ge Was the reason given for the day, had a long talk and the result was t were sent 1 to. th Frie O'Bri Clellan say that th Commissioner is t of the J is making ‘oof of this these same men po with the C hat all the cit_places, Part of the Fight. nent_o the TOKC! [19 L215 GUIECTS- act. O'Brien, when he came in the next] the th men ry et of am to in 4 way—luxu about um satist \ to Comp- ent didn't | ‘Con= the pedii~ tel r of the t The Gost year, y Chief Croker sald: a sollier to com-) cif I wanted to, wil that comes my May ings disappear if he is’ not and August Excellency acks that he be excused from an Interview until some: thing The entertalned at a banquet ht alton enting the mi Pros}y Bape! chure whiel room | s seen of requested sed with what he } * Choo Choo wa & over three fellow-secretaries he an Fong's room and nt later with the terse the shadow of your tall bufld- His High happen: imperial commissioners will be on Friday that promises to be a notable o¢- n of the sort. A committee repr eresta of the Methodist, Lutheran ged for the banqui in the Grand Ball- vterian, i 5 Reformed hés have arrat h will be give of the Waldorf Wil Prominent business men are also in-; terest ready. ceived for seats that extra tal have ahe hi made “ Former Saci vreside, guest and Chine: enks, on York: hero; B, Coghlan, the Chinese Minister, the Chinese Com- missioners, Murray Drs. Araneta Game tary: of the Pre: elgn mission work In China. AWhen the Commissioners arrived at the Chamber of Commerce to-day they were who have tonal as ou time China, the th need After a brief visit to the Chamber of Commerce the Commissioners were en- corted to the Stock Exchange by FE, 1H, Harrh other introduced to J. P. Morgan on their way. ed in this entertaintrent and al- so many requests have been re- les will to be set In the Astor Gallery of jotel. Preparations are now being to laty 1,000 covers, tary of State Foster w hore Will be with him at the table the Chinese Commissioners Sir Chentung, Liang-Cheng the | se Minster; Prof. Jeremiah W, , LL D.; the Hon, Charles Denb “Gov. M, Linn ‘Bruce, of New K, FP. Shah, the Chinese Consul | Gen. Grant and Rear-Admiral Jo- | the dinner will be Emery signs aud snow flurry, taken just enought to ‘rhe penkers at grow stead) row 16 weatier, Morris Kk, Jesup, Butle: N-cholas ‘Bishop Gree H, Hutton, Frank well and Arthur J. Brown, Seer: ‘orlain Board of For- will tell of their, JO-NOLVOW liven out cold spell tanks in th Missions, who introduced by Morria K. ‘Jesup, anid: “These distingulshed men come here to examiny our educa~ and political institutions aa well r trade and commerce. I feel the is coming when we shall need It m not be In our day, but ime is bound to come when we will «hina bo carry on our induatries."" ter. Iman, Morris K. Jesup and several financiers, street! hey met and were firing Have you seen Inst nteeht 9 Father? See how hi w he spends sh Srect was Winter is clove at hand and Prophet has announ.ed that New York will haye some real js due to start to-night and by all the A not April or September, change towards evenlt northwest win to There is no outlook for 1 than a light snow to-nign diction does not look farth station, Ww: CH, JOY! WINTER 1S ~ PROMISED AT LAST Cold Wave on the Way and Overcoats and Earmufis 1 Coyne in Handy. cold weather, it will be * Not much portents there 7 Yes, real snow. once ap an authori how that this is February i | sioner of the District st Columbla, pre- = lon iy due lo start i s Ing with brisk morta to ds. “Lhe temperature. will ily colder ali night. ‘o-mor- marked overs ‘and the pre. ml@ht, At any rate, that the prospect is’ for a that will set the hot water he bars a-bubbiing and may even give the street peddlers i chince to get rid of the ear muffs that have hoon feeding the moths since last win- | ONLY FIRED BLANKS. Storekeeper, However, Wan Held for Trial for Carrying Weapon. Mrs, Florence Hill, of No. appenred before Moss In the Essex Market Court to- as complati ‘Water Magistrate diay inant inst Harry aut. 0. 384 Cherry street, The woman charged Kaufman with a, Shot at her trom a revolver when sho went into his store to complain that he had given her lt- tle daughter short change, The testimony of the palicemaa, Kessler, of. the Delancey hhowed that the pistol blank cartridges and ae in Chic: CHICAGO, Feb, Governors, Oommissi tives of insurance National Co YB the jot It ie the Weather Buroau may 0e | cuss measures of control of Insura but | companies in th State: {Soereeras he Vatlous States. nis: | pledged to oppose the treat two were not in Washington at the time the pledges were obiained ‘he leaders believed the pledges were still In effect and a caucus at this ses- sion was not needed, have however. by the action of Senator Pat- Thomas A. Drake, 1i Ided at the open! convention to order. Jot the Ife insurance Joommittoe of monstrated the uns callin, neys~ together the jerieral, Tnsuran ritories, ‘The meeting, result of j gota, States. yalling exexitement lic In general, there holders. Columba: “A Dill to lumbla, bat ohi may be’ ¢ jon. which, by the malin 1.—More hundred State officials, including several | caucus of held at 10,30 ‘ax | the Leg fo State ol New York, which so clearly ite Leet2)R, for | terson in supporting Jiners| tion's pasition, His attitude created aur and others of 80 many States and Ter-, prise ‘und ance of a caucus call, It 18 stated that he was Informe lis speech ago. joners of companies nsuran and call companies lature ent nec ranoad than | better insurance laws throughout country, was tie princlp Governors, Commissi ce correspondence begin | November by Gov, Johnson, of Minne- with the President of the United and deep ch o States and t regu! th a uniform avoldinwy. t) than MOVE FOR GENERAL ASURANCE LAW for Notable Gathering Insur- bo dis ed "The exposure of tie methods of some the by of ity however, is the direat | last | “It was felt that In the g:neral pro- among the polley-holders, and the pub- great dang that the varlous legislatures about to convene might adopt drastic measures | , which would not only be unreasonably | burdensome and harmful to insurance | Sh compantes, but also injurious to policy- “After full consiteration the fllow- ing plan was agreed pon. and which has the approval of the President and the Commissioners of the District of | jaler to santo Domingo to the sta be introduced In Congress which shall be a code for the regula tion of insurance In the District of Cc with necessary wor at the opening session to-day o yentton called th 12) posed party consideration 1s the Sango Domingo treaty. 's sald to-day that at the las all bur ‘They fore e | determing | So far as known now the stion bs the only. on but It is the intentlom to secur ‘agreement. If possible to have pat caususes on statehood, Puilippine tarlft and railroad rate legisinuon. ‘Tiliman's resolution calling on the President to send to tre Sei the letters from the United Stat cred ‘Mr. | partment in 1904 wast WASHINGTON, Damoeratic § beginning that there would e on the Don:lntcan feeling | urged not to make his povitiou ps before such acticr as the p CAUCUS CALLED ON SAN DON INGO New York Scandal One Cause Democratic Senators Want a | Party Understanding on Tre ALM. two of been [ upon ha the Committee on Mr. ‘Tillm He salt an ma the news) the Feb, eral minority lead- soasion thelr number were is respor de no objection, that he only wanted light on th ry} on as to Whether the Gove 4n: form to make it applicable. | Santo Domingo had been cot ‘Ter- | the present arrangements, aty. on Saturday, was ance, Attorneys-General and representa-' Issued to-day, The chief subject of pro- and these n much concerned, the Administra- ible for the ssou- be- yer purty confer- question and ve rey should taken, Dorin to be con a bee “un id= day refer Foreign Relations. | the | neck AEPORT FAVORS AN “ELASTIC CURRENCY Committee of the Chamber of Commerce Suggests Plan of Financial Reform. A report calling for a moro elastic currency ‘was read to-day at the Cham- THRE PERISH AGTING FIRE ON TROOPSHE ‘Long List of Injured and Missing at Blaze on Transport Meade. 1,000 LIVES ARE IN PERIL. | fessel Loaded with Troops for | Manila Was to Have Sailed To-Day. | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—Three men! are known to have been killed, several | others are injure’, and a number of | others are missing on board the Unitet States Army transport Meade. Tho | | stewrner, which was anchored off here with soldiers and supplies for Uhe Phil- ‘Gppines, caught fire early to-day and flamed up from stem to stern, with fire spurting from her hold. The smoke wae so dense that many of those on board who tried to rescue thelr com- rades fell unconscious, while others staggered about lke drunken men. THE DEAD. Capt. Charles Dakin, of Engine Company No. 4. G. Wallace, Mende. Hennessy, third officer of the Thomas, fireman oon- nected with 4 Engine Company THE MISSING. | Charles Gill, operator for Chiet Fernandes. George Brown, of Engine No, 12. W. Reagan, of Engine No. 12. One of the sailors of the Meade, name unknown, It may be that some of those report- ed missing have been saved by tugs that swarmed about tho transport, feady to offer assistance. It may be also that some of them are dead in the hold, THE !NJURED. United States Transport Service. Louis Cook, foreman Truck No. 1. Hatallion Chief Fernandes, of the Fire Department. Lieut. J. Gilbert, of Engine No. 2. Capt. D.R. Sewell, Engine No. 12. BILL FAVORED = IN CONGRESS Roosevelt Sanctioned the Measure Which Goes Through Committee. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb, L—Much to tha surprise of Congress the House Commit- tes on the District of Columbia ordered that the bill establishing the whipping- | post for wife beaters in the District of | Columbia be reported. The meagure will | be sent in without recommendations. Under the rules the bill goes on the House calendar, and can be called up on the next day devuterl to the consideras tion of District of Columbia affairs. Representative “Bertie” Adams, bnohelor member trom Philadelphia, in troduced the measure, which has the indorsement of the President, Members sage for fear of the possfble conse= quences to wives. One of the argu ments made against it 19 that a wife have him arralgned and whipped, that upon his release he may mi ‘ her, yeted to report the bill are cr Michigan), Allen, Morrefl, Campbell, ‘ Inviley. Greene, Beldler, Blackburn, Kiting ‘Those voting against it were Sima’ Meyer and McLain. ‘The President recommended the estale mostage to Congress a year ago. t recommendation has been taken up the Chief of Police and the Judges off. The bill provides that any man com! victed of wife-beating shall be side jected to corporal punishment by being. ‘The whipping is to be done by the Marshal of the District or one of hts deputies in the presence of a physician. generally have advised against its pase | when angry with her husband may ‘The ntembers of the committee and Babcock. lishment of tho whipping post in bi, the police courts, given not more than thirty Iashes, Sse TO MODIFY CLAIM Capt. George Wilson, of the . Mende, shoulder broken, First Officer Lasnck, of the Mende, . H. Dahl, second officer of the Secretary Root Acts on Cal- houn Report on Venezuelan Asphalt Muddle. be Sommoree meeting, wi t t<rlal High Commissionera of the| Gabriel Cuneo, freman, R Lohaul coaad ThteinenaineentrOne cer Chinese Empire uikien ad d Che Klang, ad His Excel- Ass. Hen 1 Hung Chi, |tary of the Imperial 4 ury. Follaw- Jing the repert for eurreney a report [asking for an amendment of the Chi- neav exclusion laws permitting Chinese [net of the coolle class to enter the Uraied Stutes was passed. The tmport of tis was gulsered by the imperial Commissioners and they smiled blandly, J. Pierpout Morgan was elected Viee- President of the Chamber, to succeed late Marshall Fiek!. His term of office will expire May, 1907. The report on the currency question was exhaustive, dealing with the ques- tion that has arisen in some quart ag ta the advisability of the Treasury Department's issuing a special emor- goncy currency to wlieve a temporary Ughiness of the money market. The Bjsunce Committee of the Chamber a this ndewn 3 belng open to all {the objections attaching to fat money, ‘The remedy suggested is that the banks jbo allowed to ksue and retire their currency at will. ‘They objested to the present Nadttation or redemp- Hon of natlonal bank notes to $3,u @ mouth, report was bight in by John Chairman of the Com- nee and Curren @ was pleased w Jacon the rep ‘uultied his’ remar by sayqig: “We Shull never be able to free our- selves from tnanclal uw inty unttl we issue gold or gald cont Sas the only bests of ow y, revo: mendation of Co Is not Ukely to ald situation much.” M < 1 solition pro- Dol ao Committeg file amd that sident vf the Chamber be em- pow: ty appoint a Committee of ve to confer with men from other fal cen h the tdea of con- the question and mak- ing a report to tho Secretary of tha Treasury and to the President of tho United States. His report was adopted, A. report condemn the Mortgage Tax law was read lopted. "Nhe a fon that in- ax ont es a com: ested hy tie imposition ot alf of one per cont, for of mortgages. committee on internal trade and rovement bro in @ Teport {n= ing President Roosevelt's statement lus message to Congress that ateps ould be taken to protect Niagara Falls nat further detriment In ‘diverting m for commensal purposes. ‘Danis was unanimous! opted. BULLET MAY KILL HIM. Newark Youth Accidentally Shot While Cleaning Pintol. NEWARK, N, J, Feb. 1—Wemall Houscher, twenty years old, was clean- Ing his revolver tn hts room when the ‘0 as aceldentally discharged, entering the young man’ ing @ bad wound. He t, James's Hospital, dQ he might not re- | Het and. {nilkc hurried to » it was the was er lives with his parents at Kossuth street, Not knowing ver was loaded he handled it carelessly. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, ment of into ers had gald that jae te Patterwon the arrange. The Kind You Have Always Bought yy Tuan Fong, of tant Secre- The Meade, on which wore 1,000 men all ready to sail for the Philippines to- day, Was anchored off Folsom strest when the fire started in the forward part of the hold, The fire spread in a Second to every part of the hold of the ship, It spurted up through the hatch- Ways, and before the officers and men on board were fully mroused from gleep the entire ship was a furnace. * The alarm of fire was sounded through the city and every available fire-fght- ing apparatus was sent to the sea front. Hight hundred barrels of lime were stored in the dock in front of the Moade. The fumes from the burning lime made it next to Impossible for the firemen to get close to the burning ship, but they staggered there and then fell, thelr lungs filled wlth the poison, Fire Department's Great Work. The lst of dead, injured and missing shows that the men in the fire depart- ment risked thelr ves to save the men on the ship. After a dozen engines had pumped water Into the hold, assisted by the fire- boats, the fire was under control. The men on tho Meade were com- posed of the Second Infantry and the Eighth and ‘Thirteenth Batterles of Light Artillery. the fumes of burning lime. Nef Operator Lassak and others of the crew threw themselves @5wn Into the hold and managed to struggle back ring Wilson. Lassak was himself | ater rescued from death by Joseph | Cook, of truck No. L and an “unknown man, both of whom tovk thelr lives in report of Judge Calhoun, the special commiastoner, who was sent to Ven- ezuela to investigate the claim of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Com- vany against Venezuela and other claims of Americans against that coun- try. ‘The Gecrotary will instruct Mr. Rus- sell, the American Minister at Caracas, to renew his efforts to obtain a aati factory settlement of the asphalt cilat This Will bo presented to the Venezuel~ an Government in a modified form as a‘ result of recommendations made by Judge Calhoun, de to In so as the claim is found to just, Mr. Russell will be instructed press for its settlement. If President Castro again refuses the Secretary will then announce the subs Sequent counse whieh will be pursued, = Se SS Transport Service, was overcome and injured while trying in vain to save Third Oficer Wallace. Eighty thousand dollars in gold, be- Ing carried as miltary treasure to Ma- nila, was sayed from the ship and guarded by soldiers. Capt. Gilbert, of the fire department. was overcome’ three times by smoloe, returning time and again to his work, until he at last was carried away un- conscious. Fireman McCloskey was overcome by smoke and curried out, but revived, and made @ herole attempt to eave his chief. Capt. Dakin, whom he knew to Deeds. of heroism marked th efire.|be in a perilous position, almost loag Capt. of the Meade, |his own life in the unsuccessful effort. fell do and lay crippled| WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The Quar- and_ unconscious, ngling to deach | termaster-General received the fol- lowing despatch from Supt. Devol, of the transport service at San Francisco: ive discovered at midnight in hold No. 2 of the Meade. Unable to put out fire without flooding hold. Fire out at 3A. M., and now pumping out water. ‘vhird Oflcer Wallace and two city firemen overcome by smoke and kil thelr hands, of the J. H, Dale, United States with envy since 1. i new fabric that has s its uses, is made in By the yard - | A.G. HYDE & SONS, | 361-3¢3 Broadway New York, Even the rainbow is turnin came to town with all its glorious colors and tints and hues to enhance the beauty of your gown. HEATHERBLOOM TAFFETA, the one quality—the best. all lining counters. 150 shades, - .nches wide, 35¢ a yd. Petticoats at petticoat departments. 50 shades, $2 and upward. Sailing delayed for some days. report lat reen EATHERBLOOM upplanted silk in all 150 shades, but only Ask to see it. | | 4