The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1906, Page 1

SCORES MEN WHO SHELTER y in THENHINSELE \/ Miary, at their home, No. 838 Hast Fit- | RESULTS EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. ‘ircula’ | ¢ tion | Books Open to All.” NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1906. THE DENS OF CHINATOWN “Would Lease Property to Devil as a Branch of Hell,” Says Rev. Mr. Peters, at Hearing on Even- ing World’s-Park Plan. ROOKERY OWNERS LEAD IN OPPOSING PROJECT. Fight Desperately for Chinese Slums, as They Did for Mulberry Bend—City Officials and Leading Citizens Favor the Improvement. «he Evening World's plan to transform the cesspool of vice known ‘as Chinatown into a public park took a long step toward achievement to- ’ @ay when a public hearing was held in the City Hall. Borough President ‘Ahearn presided. | Mhere is no opposition to the proposed park outside of Chinatown ~ self. A few of the professional objectors who try to cry down every poheme for public improvement Injected themselves into the proceedings, (but the opposition came chiefly from two classes: ‘The Chinamen and white men who maintain the disgraceful dives of Chinatown. The owners of the dives—the respectable property holders—who do not ome out in the open, but retain lewyers to voice their opposition for $425,000 LOOT OF ROBBERS IN BANK HOLD-UP Gang of Twenty Sur- F rounding Chintown want !t wiped out. ‘The bead of every city department hav- ing to do with the health and happiness ‘of the people of the city want China- ‘wiped out. Ministers. ohilanthro- men and women who know ‘that Chinatown fosters want ut. Rey. Madison C. Peters the ministers of the city fhe @ftvocated the park plan at He also expressed his Property owners n the district a || g EI tt a rs 2 { te the bottom of the oppost- @eclared’ Mr. Petors. “Greed of fandlor4, who would rent his prop- to dhe devil for a branch of hell ay {if he could get enough Ice to cool the B S Fame Oey san wore prtenw, | FOUN Russian Institu- and others perfectly fa- the unspeakable conditions poovalent the festering old tene- ments taclae the narrow streets ; ‘All they talked for was fis public health, for fresh alr, for ‘gepen and tress where now germs and migwobes breed. Against them stood y well-fed, bejewelled welledressed, men, who boldly maintained, that no tion and Get Cash. { MOSCOW, March 2%.—The Mutual Credit Soctety'’s bank was held up and Tobbed this afternoon of $425,000 in cash, The officials of the bank were just on the point of closing up for the afternoon when an armed band of twenty men suddenly surrounded the building. While a ‘ whee ‘exists tn Chinatown. To hear fome,ot them ilk one misht Imagine | some of them kept the bystanders at @ Ci\inatown } distance others entered the place and at @hmt “in passing throtésh the nostrils are assailed by sweet per- fumes, the sight is ravished by pleas- the polnt of their pistols compelled the employees to hand over the bullion. Several of the bank guards attempted to interfere, but were overawed by the menaces of the robbers. The bank Js situated near the Bourse. t fy belleved the perpetrators are part of a band of revolutionists that have planned to use the funds to further their designs, The gang worked in per- fect unison and had evidently carefully rehearsed the robbery before the at- tempt. Despite the efforts of the guards the : @Gontinued on Second Page.) LED WIFE, sis ar tag AURUMASTER WINNER OF FAIR GROUNDS THIRD Nameoki, 15 to 1 Shot, and Husted, at 5 Purse at City Park, ° FAIR GROUNDS RESULTS. MAIR GROUNDS, NEW ORLEANS, March %.—The big entry list here to- day was greatly reduced by withdraw- als owing to the heavy condition of the track. Ordinary fields met in the vari- ous events, but they were all well matohei and this meant brisk specula- j ‘tion, selling: FIRST RACE—Four furlongs; maiden two-year-olds. | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ NO LAW AGAINST YELLO Wwonrrem—watr and Colfer; Welnenday Fi W DOG FUNDS, JEROME TELLS COURT Gets the Place Money, to 2, Gets Third j Lucy Young. 97 Malet Hayes, TEliort, 107, ay. seine. 102, Munro, is OS Billy Handsel, 07. Koerner. os 2 te 3 Won by Husted, Airship was secontl) and Lucey Young third. Time—1.14 4-5. | FOURTH RACE—Kercheval (3 to 5| and out) 1, Rickey (out for place) 2, | Nonte Luctile 5, | VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Griffith’s Men, WINS AT THE POLLS. | sisvicnacre HEARING ON EVENING WORLD'S CHINATOWN PARK PROJECT District-Attorne HIGHLANDERS TAKE CHANCE | WITH THE COLD WEATHER —_—_—_—_—_$_-¢ _ — ____ Wrapped Up in Heavy Sweat. ers, Go Through Lively Practice, Then Run Two Miles to Headquarters, BY BOZEMAN BULGER. (Special to The IRMINGHAM, Ale Starters, weights art Jockes camp to- . gustan Sorta. YUL, MeGe | the Esquimau villaze ac the Wor Gint rate, a wi Fair, Griffiths was willine to t , b. Jones.. MoU NON, 2 f Thee Bae th Sik Sete: Ga Grose INT VERNON, N. ¥., March 2. | chance with the weather, but the local May Glimore” 101, 1 —Village elections were held to-day in manigemen: could no: stand the ehi Duchess of Montebello, 10 | various places in Westchester County, | preezes, and the enme was called off Hiackwell, 104, AuDy on ?|m North Pelham James Reilley, the | It ®ll arobably be oliyed to-mory Say, One, os, “apbine {| village blackemith, was elected Presi-| Baliplayers from the North hae. Le, 108, dent on the Independent Democratic |2™azed this morning to awaken see snow failing at a rate that bb by. Sister Hoffman; Glad Pirate was sextnd and Jd. Jr, third SHCOND RACE—Selling; six furlongs. Startors, weights anit jockeys. Str. PI thieves made their escape with their booty. The police ars hot on their trai! and hope to make several arrests to-day. Many shots were fired and in a few moments the streets were Milled with a crowd of people. The robbers had WIR PISTOL : Joseph Bylang’s Jealousy _Leads to Double Tragedy. were already in possession of the money by the time the people began to gather. ‘The band acted with coolness. The robbery is conaldered one of the boldest and most Brazen that has been committed in years. The secret police are powerless to explain the success of the robbery. CRUSHED TO DEATH WN HEA MOTOR A lttle wooden shed on the flat roof £ Joseph Bytang, aged twenty-five years, this afternoon shot and Killed his wife, teenth ‘street, | Bylang then fired a bullet into his own Y temple, killing himself instantly, Bylang was a bartender. Noighbors gay that he had_been jealous of his >) Wife. There wore no witnesses of tho tragedy. Both mere dead when the doors of tho Mat were forced. worked with such celerity that they |} P the greatest | Piri ood. 98, i 5 | Enverite, 105, Bedell . 4 Dan MeKenna, 111, More! 1 Ad. High, 110) Livingston io AProkston, 112, Hoffman: le Gay Adelaide, 109, Obert. 75 Whorler, 10,1, Savith: 8 Shenandoah 118, Robbiy ‘ y Henrietta,” 112, Di Tame iis 2:5, wi Enverite; Dan McKenna was woasad and Ade High third. the; THIRD RACE—Mile and three-sixteen! welling. a 4 & ‘by Aurumaster; Nameoki soni and R. F. Williams third. FOURTH RACE—St. Valentine (7 to 10 and out) 1, Hollomas (out tor place) 2, Little Scout 3, ——— > CITY PARK RESULTS. CITY PARK, NEW ORLEANS, Maron %0,—This looked like another bad day for the cholces here to-day, The track was muddy and under these conditions anything Is Hable to happen. The flelds were of a fair size in thelr original form, but the customary scratches re- duced them to some extent, FIRST RACHE—Three and @ half furlongs 5 —— of a department store on West Four- ne Botting. _ RUSSIANS SHOT DOWN teenth street holds the secret of the] starters, weighty and jockeym, Ser. Pl. ‘ horrible death of Adam Wissart, crusneq | Tom Dolan. 114, Nicol, op as i> IN ELECTION RIOT, | ® @ bs ctectric motor to-aay. No one King, Leopold, | aw the man killed. His helper heard | Hondlag., 12) GWM Moiniyn (og him ¢ry, but was too late to ald him, Ayth Di LODZ, Russian Poland, March %—A| Wissart had been the assistant en- | Pnvolla, - sBumbet of Revolutionisis to-day swr-|gineer at the store for twelve years. “younded @ hall and fired through the|He was thirty-elght years old and ‘windowa at persons who were uttend-| lived with his wife and family Ms 4 mecting at which the methods! {t was’his duty to. mind. the amevora voting. wire being discwised. The! which run the six pacsenger and freight 2 grédted a panic, and when the| elevators. These motors are housed in “in tho hall rushed out they} :m#ll frame structures on top of the Eon by. the Revolutiontots, | Yi, >uiding. lise i ms belng wounded. t wupposed that Wissert bent over tot cavalry ‘then came the seit and the stout sleev as caught by a rapidly- persed the rioters, killing ix inch. ft ve a wher He rounding spven of them, ard and apiomed with ¢ force between the fly-wheel and the metal framework of the motor. The helper found Wissart’s head and part of the into. this six-inch Before the the ma: of his |8' Won by Tom Dolan; Beau R:umi Leopold taird, second and King ‘Time O42 UB, SECOND RACE—Selling: mile and an elghth Botting. Starters, weigh Str. Pi LAddon, i Pic haa ah Two 24 Dungasnon, 104, Ko los 75 ‘Aaclepas. 100, A! 8 v i, 109, D, OB | Turrandlo, 108," W. Me wo 4 Piller. 102, Dealy. is 3 Fox, Hunting, 102, 'B. Millor: 1 th mehr Won by, Liddon; Pwo, Ps was second enay and Dungannon third. ‘Time—1.57. THIRD RAQH—Haxidicap; six Jurlonga, se yak and Jockemm a . rs wactiaBreten sen ticket after a lively campaign, Rel |who ts a Fire Commissioner, | canvass, speaking nightly and bringin ley, winds a |tO x |to his support many followers of the 5 ald parties. He made the race on a | the ,; Municipal Ownership ticket and sue- ,,tha ————___ Horse Docking Bill Passed, |&* ALBANY, MARCH 2.—The Assem-|~ ‘bly passed to-day by a vote of 91 to| °°” 17 the bill prohibiting the docking of 2" horses’ tails. The representatives of, fancy horse brecderd expect to kill the bill in the Senate. Ww ran however, and rapidly passed away. hance, it was soft turn the streets white. w in the South at phis season of year {s an unusual sight, Ov tt have been in “hock” for weeks past ‘prised his opponenta by winning out. | Were hauled out this morning and jlocal populacewas The Highluinders miffled head le shivered some, but fiths desided that he would take a Consequently the men were it through the regular manoeuvres the fleld and kept warm by wearing heavy sweaters. Vhen the practice was over the team in a bunch to the Athletic Club two miles distant, so as to prevent any : AT CITY PA Fifth—Percy Clark 7-10, Adare Friends cf William Rockefeller that he was suffering from a cance This is the first conviction of a juoh a case. LATE WINNERS AT FAIR GROUNDS. Fifth—Raviana 20-1, My Gem 1- Sixth—Goldie 4-5, Ezra 2-1 place, Fugurtha. eee Geneon WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER HAS CANCER OF THE TONG which for the past two or three years has been troubling him greatly. Recent reports of his illness are attributed to a probe able renewal of the symptoms previously displayed. +42 TROLLEY CONDUCTOR GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. | Albert Oreman, a trolley conductor, living at No. 337 East | Ninety-fifth street, was convicted of manslaughter before Judge €gster to-day. While acting as motorman he ran a Lexington venue car into a mail wanon, killing the driver. | 1 place, Simon Kent. RK. 1-2 place, Julia M. | UE. s announced this afternoon Tat tie hase pf the tongue, possit huly Bane next will | in th skies mit. p long drives and scorcting grounders was practice the Cordovas and Clareniions playing | Uned builldt Metropolitan employee in Words swung & heavy y in an Opinion. Sub- _ mitted To-Day to Judge O'Sullivan | Declares Campaign Contributions by Corporations Not Illegal. DECLARES NO CRIMINAL | - INTENT HAS BEEN SHOWN. |Mr. Jerome Asserts He Does Not See Way Clear to the Prosectftioa of Life Insurance Men Who Contributed to Re. publican Campaigns. District-Attorney Jerome announced to-day that he has been unable to find any law making the contributions of the funds of a corporation to @ political party for campaign purposes a crime. He is unable to see his way clear to inaugurate prosccution of the offle cers of insurance companies who gave the money of policy-holders to the Republican State and Natlonal campaign funds in the past ten years, SOLCENT GAS FOR THIS CITY OW ASSURED Mayor McClellan Signs, the Bill and Says It Is Fair and Just. ‘The District-Attorney's conclusions ara embodied in a long brief submitted to- day to Judge O'Sullivan, of the Court |of General Sessions. The Grand Jury, |two weeks ago, through Judge O’8ul- |llvan, asked the District-Attorney to look up the law on campatgn contribue tions in order to determine {f, given as sumed circumstances, h contribu. tions mare by the officers of a corpora- tion constituted a basis for criminal The facts as assumed were the facts relating to the contribu- Uons mado by the New York Life and other {!n@urance companies to the cam- | paign fund of the Republican party last year, Court Also Looks at Law. proceedings ois | The District-Attorney was to have handed his brief to Judge O’Sulliy: 80 Ee ullivan Mayor McClellan has signed the 9 woveai days avo, Dut his investication cent gas bill, and all the measure need’ was so. thor 1 that consumed ‘ ot the Governor, More time than’ he anticipated would now {s the signature of th PF lee De Mequired in the. be ig, Judge As he bas declared himself !n It8 © sullivan has al-o been looking up the favor, there is nothing in the Way of auestion and will submit his {des to the and Jury, possibly t orrow, It is delay. nat does not Mayor refers to the similar bill v Introduced last year, and deplores the fact that it was lost larg: througa ¢ the votes of representatives of (his j nility of cold from coo E Sint Ww of Lured Tite Biemingaaan a tieue Bs | city. He belleves the measure is for | “From itn extenc enged the Highlanders for aj the public good nation of fhe ou tad 2 of indoor baseb to be played Wall street was on the anxtow nthe: Fourliat Sot TABSE hate Monday night. An admission tee | all day. Brokers big and little show tre commission >» olaireed and the whole receipts | to know If the Dill Sees portale on. winner. he ju willing t | GIANTS’ PITCHERS DO GOOD WORK ON asant and was re task has work and wea Mayers narkable. Sunn. taking risks of stoppinj provided, and in the afternooi up against each other, through several innings, No score was kept of the results, but runs were scarce and the pitchers were abled to get in good work on the slab, twirler except Mathewson was and they on to take his turn, FOUGHT DUEL WITH HAMMER AND HATCHET Two workmen fought a bloody duel this afternoon on the fourth floor of a and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, One of them is in Harlem Hospital In a bad way, 1 Tolman, a carpenter, of No. ng going up at Broadway is foil “then blows, an’ Nelson used his hat’ a weapon, hammer. while There will be ne! nted to show he thinks he SLA B.! the first Ume in two week confronted displayed her warm enough to per- Tellman cn e asking for ring a possible effe m of anyt ° ‘Ket the Mayor ref wo Crime Without tn iutentions public U The Mayor's me. Mr: seroma: holds ‘in: His’ brief thee there can be no crime without evil ins measure will, | test, and. he a Latin ‘ act doe en le ag »-rations eng ‘ating gus In the city of ow giving York uilesed “When a similar measure was before because the property the Legislature last year, 1, as May y of a corporation, All requested each Senator trom this yur orims re statutory, and un- to favor Its passage because 1 less the acts supposed constitute lar- convinced, after careful investigation, | cen: any statute mal that the price which !t prop-sed tc ing’ tablish was not unjust to the gas ¢ panies. The bill fafled, and filled, fortunately, through the some of the city's own representat “Those who supply illuminating are public utility corporations, They are | entitled, therefore, to a reasonadle profit on the cost of production and distribu- | tion of the commolty they serve. If the legislative rate 1s sufficient to produce such a profit they have no right to com- a NAME OF BLISS ON $75,009 RECEIPT, Angered by the repeated denials made by Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, that he had receivsd $75,000 on one occasion, from ‘Judge Andrew Hamilton, as a contribution to the Republican cam- palgn in 189, Hamilton to-day displayed ° n plain. “It Is clearly within the power of the’ Legislature in such c: to fix a race In excess of which the companies may not charge the public, provided that it 4 voucher, purporting to be signed by be not unjust to the companies. The Cornelius N, Wiss, which shows that rate heretofore fixed has long been un- $75,04 Was given Oy Hamilion to the fair to the public, Both prodicer and iican Vounty Committee in Ove consumer under such circumstances are . 1su6, mowed bythe work that the CHante| consumer under such cincumenencer ‘i ai ate aeslien must be posses 3 entitled to justice as 5 an Maybe this may stimulate Mr, ¥ must be possessed of a great array of | Cntitled to teen at, “and any | memory” Wald Att. Haduhoas wit iooee slab material or else the batting eye of | marked inequality to el:her would not be; as though le were up to a 1188 to the regular and substitute members of | upheld by the courts. | think sone more, does it no the team has gone astray. “The city at the present time has this he receipt 18 a voucher for $75,000, Memphis will continue to be the home| exact question awaiting adjudication in Mr, Lillss's shame; and dated of the Giants, with the exception o1 its contests of all the clalms of the gas nl 20, 188. The voucher ox: trip to Nashville for three games, | companies for the past three years. The pli amounts Were pald in commencing Saturday. The team will! outoome of that litigation, It Is ex- two vou erst for $10,002, Oct. return here, playing Sunday, and remain| pected, will silence every question on 3, and tie second, Oct, 20, fo. $65,000. until March 31." ‘Then the first game in| this point. e figures are raised from $10,000 to Louisville will be played. “If this measure was confiscatory of $13.lW. ‘of the gas companies, I hen Mr, Bliss was told that such a the property ae yucner had been s would withhold my approval of it under all circumstances, ut It is-not con 1.) at Se avaues fiscatory, and the unsupported stat. We ee Mr AGH tO monts of the companies’ representativ to that effect are overthrown by the r port of the legislative committee which last year examined the aubiect ae wed as by the investigations of the expert engineers who have beey engaged In the city's behalf in the Itigation referred to. “phe posltion taken In this memor |aum Is no departure from the principles of our system of government. It is no declaration of new rights or duties, Tt has t ‘pport of justice. Is based upon the co” mon Jaw, and ts, in fnet, pro- motive of every Interest Involved, elthor Investigatin making this matter publ malice on my part tow: eee HAMILTON SPOKE TOO LATE TO SAVE M’CALL, 1 loan his hat Neloon’ ketuse AN March 20.—Former Super- i (ROCKEFELLER HELD IN | intonacnt of tnsuraace 1ouls P, Payn, | who was a close A. McCall, aid to-~ Hamilton ‘had co! wo or three months ago and deliv end of (he late Joha i that if “Ani DERISION BY MOODY. ————_ | CHICAGO, March 20.—Attorney-Gen- | Wien Poho up to Pole 5 surance committee the spec place less | erat soody to-day In presenting the | £0, the Insurance commibied tit spent bad cuts ila head and fa Goverrment’s sido In the case againat | hu dive toda | Belson | was gov ered with blood, but | the Beet st referred sharply to John “Hamiiton inade a great mistake," LPB Orardnan caved for the ar cious | D. Rockefeller and made allusion to his | continued Payn, "There was ho reas. a man’ and took. him away in an ambi | “VoWuMnoe of suvpyenus, why he should have remained In Paris ai oer et. | ‘Tne sarcasm of the Attorney-Gei so long.” lance. In the Harlem Court Magistrate] sought out much laughter, Bellis fea | Do you. think he told the committ, Baker held Belson to await the resulta! Yousie in restoring quiet in the court the truth?” was asked, of Geumaan's 4ajuclen Sa ees "Soy": moplled: 8