The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1906, Page 1

” & proceeding went has rolled. dream\iy Fat _pl cu ‘ Circulation | Books Open to All,’? |. NEW ase LLNS HOR TNO lL ARE Ri, FRIDAY, ADDED TO Gh GOST BY TRUST Consolidated Gontracied Last Year, with the Octopus for 255,000,- 000 Gallons at.4 1-25 Cents a Gallon. THIS IS ONE CENT A GALLON MORE THAN OTHERS PAY. Startling Discoveries Made in Examination of Books from ‘‘Bill’’ Tweed’s Cabinet Down —Overvaluations Exposed—Ninety-one Less Miles of Mains in Use. Standard Oil -has been trapped in gas. This time Assistant Cor- poration Counsel William P. Burr, of New York, is the mighty hunter, Troubled. eyes’ from “26 Broadway” are bent upon Mr. Burr and the hearings growing out of the contention by the Gas Trust that the “80- cent law” was confiscatory. Frantic efforts have been made by theRockefeller interests to pre- vent the city of New York and the State of New York, appearing jointly us defendants, from getting a continuance next Monday for the taking of further testimony before Special Master Aghur ink missles CHINE TOW along since July 16 was the unexpected production by Mr, Burr of an original éontract made between the Standard ON and Consolidated Gas Companies. This document, drawn In November, 19,5. pro- vides fot the Welvery-tn two years by the Standard Oll of 25,000,00 sallons of ofl to the Gas Trust at 4 1-% cents per gallon—an exeese of 1 cent a gallon or &2,550,000 om the contract. over the price -pald by other corporations to the Btapdard Ot fo, the same grade of oll. The kind of oll contracted for Is known in the trade as 2 desree H RACING PURS Wiliam Rockefeller in Both, \Card at William Rockefeller 1s a director of | Fair - Grounds Ronaolidated Gas Company sce 5 a ncaa Ouse he Consolidated | Open and. Winners Gas Company pleaded that. it was! Hard to Locate. “compelled to buy all of its of! from | Bjandard Oil because there Is no other company in the East’ capable of sup- plying the large quantities of ofl it/ NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. consumes. ‘The $2,590,000 -exceas paid 3} od against the Lor nee an aad only an ex-| FIRST RACE—Gold Circle (3 to 5 | ‘amination of the books of ‘Stand, and out) 1, Glenover (4 to 1 for Would discioge Into whose hands this place) 2, Spider Web 3. | hus-tatten——— ean, Five Cents More a Thousand. — THis difference of cent per | SECOND RACE—Woodsaw (8 to gulldu iu the cost of - 5 and 1 to 2) 1, Cperator (8 to 1 Barr to-day to an Evening World reporter, “means a difference of for place) 2. Happy Jack 3. five cents on every 1,000 cuble feet | THIRD RACE—Airship of was sold. Therefo it cam be) readily understood why the price paid for iactor in of bY cents for © With State Senator Alfred RK. Page, author of the §0-cent gas law and coan- sel for the retiring Attorney-General, Julius Mayer, Mr, Burr made a hurried trip to Washington on ‘Thanksgiving ; Day. ‘They conferred with James R. Garfield, of President Roosevelt's cabl net, who has been hacking away at) Standard Ol, and they did not return to New York empty-handed, (7 to & 1 for place) 2, Auditor 3. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7.—Mudlarks were in demand at the Crescent City Club to-day, and the crowd went out to the course with thelr eyes peeled for eet-away things. The first two weeks of the Crescent City meeting ends | to-day, and to-marrow the pontes and |'the crowd will shift over to the Cit Refused Access to Books. | Park. track for -two- weeks. Beare Early in the procecdiigs Mr. Burr | will be plehsed at the change, and rac- domanded. permission to inspect the jing will be benefited because continuous | Ddooks of the Consolidated Gas" Com- | racing at one course makes the crowd paay, also (9 inspect Its various plants | “track @ore,! good on Manhattan. ‘This was rofuaed by } Favorite All the Way. the company. Application was then | paneer made to Justice Lacombe in the United Name vy chit ed of Ce Slates Circult’ Court, before whom’ the | *Gold Circ "Garner, Bee proceedings were originally brought. | nite Wek, B.A. ‘Startia yore Judge Lacombe referred the matter | Nancy Mart’ 00, Alex 30 10 tack to the spovtal master, and Mr. | sicy darker 14 Berti Wilams 12 Hi Masten, who was then a cindidate for | Royal Bond. 114, SW hel| 8 Bupreme Court Justice on the Judiciary, | Honvell, 108, Manters.. m4 Nominators’ ticket, allowed an exam- | Veneto. 105. Glasmer “sw 10 ination of the Gas Trus't books for| yvMvanMpAulltte entry | Gol Circle, a hot favorite, went to. the front mt ‘the! start, niade all the runing and. w ally by. three lengths. Spider Web was second to the stretch, when she tired and was beaten @ hear for the place by Glensaveer. SECOND RACE. 1905 as to the cost of making gas, and as far back us tho consolidation of the &as companies, Noy, 11, 1884, as to the cost of Its real chtate. Warwick, Mitchall & Co., with James’ Fee-quarters of # mile Hall in actlye char wot this dimeult | Satie weight, goeke: (soy Job. They are ‘the shartered atcount | woodeaw, 210, f smith &5 Ld i 4 Operator, 10 bley... “2 x Ants, t now appears, who examined the jerbeadig Bah OL FS Paraet ayes Dooks avid wocounts of the People's Gas FAR. 100, Lon 0 4 Company in Chicago two years'ago and | f}auey 106, Wishart ied | found the cost of ens making there to [Aner “tot barton: ob ‘be 1-2 cents per 1,00 cuble feet. or 8 | Adbelt, 100, Aubuchi & +83 cents less than the Company contended, |Dan McKenna 100, sfoun w 4 Hore for the first time! tx printed tho | Viol | 10d Faylor pou reneral conclusions arr! ved at by. the | Bvening Star, 107, Hel 8. chartered accountants, which now form | Pity. 107, Calls 1% 8 aon pmiportent part of the defense of- Wootsaw: went to the front at the wart, fered Bee eocity and State of New| made all tho running, and. won easil York fon the scent aus jaws A length from. Operator, who. beat Wavy What the Accountants Roported, | yank stor. the (place. — Abdeil showed 2. Ws Bnd chat the fetalleunt cif Titne—135 4 minnuiactariag mn wtrlbatte 1 the oll to private connumers Airship ‘Never Caught. . in ¢ ty of New Vork by the | UMRD TAce—Three-quartern of « mile Consol Company daring | Name, Weight, Jockey, Pi fhevene nos was bab cent ee | ANN MI 1. 4,000 cuble feet, Thin cont inela uinbia Gir), 100, "Van Dused a} charwe for, tiepreeintion of tert | Audie. 130, Mobante ns 43 chntx “oer 1,000 ouble feet. the | Ni tigiman 10k A. Martin At ® i 3 grme: a mind by the company tn base ny, Ai ‘ a 3 a4 “ made alt the Tu a 2 We further find that Wxhibit. No, ty Aneel by ened fhe, TABRIDE and nn Man gubmitted by the Gpesceunnlited he Consolidated closed iatron and Aualt Rahat nea arene and heat Auditor a neck; oldie pool alee it! Harweny In the Soul, of When Evang Ale tea mmpsany fo Malte age ein (Cuntinued on Second Page.) | hurt. | killed |Jured and six more hurt in « fire th and tto 2) 1, Columbus Girt {3 tet DOWN DECE oMBER!7, MINE * Circulation Books Open to All.” 1900. 2 SEVEN McCutcheon, ball Star, His Life as a Hero Three Other Volun- teers Crushed to) Death Under Fall | ing Walls in Sight: of College Throng. THE ‘DEAD. MICUTCHEON, JAMES, of Pixts-| burg, Pa.. fulloack on football team. |LA'NOON, E8TY J, of Ithaca, mem- ber of Volunteer Fire Department; crushed to death. NICHOLS, W. G., of Chicago, a student; burned in his bed. | ROBINSON, ALFRED L., of Itha?) ca, member of Volunteer Fire De- partment; crushed to death. RUMSEY, JOHN C., of Ithaca,| prominent attorney and member of Volunteer Fire Department; crushed to death. GRELLE, F. W., of Orange, N. J a student; burned to death, CHMUCK, J. L., of Hanover, Pa a student; died of injuries, FATALLY INJURED. POPE, C. A,, of Ithaca, a student. Six other students were painfully to The Evening World.) Y., Dec, 7—Four atu- three volunteer firemen, (Speclt ITHACA, N. nd prominent men of this clty, One stydent was fatally dents Intter wero tn- | |deatroyed the Chi Pst fraternity) hou on the Cornell” University early. to-day bodies of two of the student yletims are still burled in the rulns of the bullding. McCutcheon, the football tar and a substitute player on the Cornell team, died as a herg in his efforts to save his college mates. Many others of the students also proved themsélyeg heroes, six of ‘those | Injured belng hurt in the work of res- 16, The monetary loys by the fire, the ort- gin of which ts not known, was $200,000. The fire was spectacular and har- rowing. ‘There was ‘a fifty-mlle an hour gale blowing from the lake across the campus, and thousands of: students and townspeople were powerless In the | face of this combination of the eli ments, McCutcheon, the football pl er, and C, A. Pope performed | wonder- ful feata in rescue work. The first named died a hero after suffering sev- eral hours In the hospital. MeCutcheor was Mterally cut to pleces by falling: glass and stones. Pope almost cut his hands off breaking In windows so that the {mprisoned students might escape. It ts thought he will die, Chi Psi fraternity house was the finest chapter house jn the’ United States. It was bulltvoriginally for Mrs Jennie MoGraw Fisk on a commanding bluff overlooking the campus and Cay- uga Lake. Hecause-of the premature death of Mrs, Fisk the house passed Into the hands of the Chi Pal fraternity, It cost, ‘with {ts furnishings, $260,000, There. were sleeping quarter for occupied last night, ‘The’ weather was ritterly cold. and the galo howling dcross the pampus had the effect of keeping ‘everybody indoors, House Like a Furnace. ‘The fire originated about 3.99 o'clock in the Kitchen in the basement of the fraternity house, It spread through | the baxement, climbed up the stalry to thy back hull aud ate Ita way Into the main cofridor, ‘There Was plenty of. fuel for it. to feed on hére and in the room on the ground floor, ‘Tho tdors were of hard~ wood, covered with, rugs, numerous window seats and lounging chairs were wmothered with hundreds of soft rugs Trying to Reach. Victims in the! Flames. Mein his bed. thirty men in the bullding, and alt-were}~ DIE DIE IN BLAZE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY Foot Cornell ‘‘Frat'’ House Where Six Died; Football Star Who Gave Life as Hero Gives | dies MeCueeheon i | Indlan clubs, flags and trophies. This acted aa tinder and in a fow minutes the ground floor was a furnace, The flames swept up both rear and front | staircases, cutting off escape of tho: on tho-#oors above. ~ Students to Rescue. Althowzh the conspicuous position of the fraternity touse made the fire visl- ble for miles, the alarm. was not ivan | in Ithaca for half Un hour, There wax delay in getting out the apparatus, and in time mandged to drop from windows on the second floor. Others had to walt til the foreman arrived and put up ladders. 0. L, Schmuck jumped from and died six hours: later, bodies were buried, Many Students Heroes: Many of the studenta, especially thore {dentified with football and athletics, distinguished themselves “by ;deeds of heroism... The men who finally> saved | themselves. trom the fraternity eee showed bravery of the highest order. Not one.man would go to safety un- Ul he had convinced himself that his roommate was out of danger. Conse- quently the men escaped jn palrs savo in two instances. F, W.'Grellé, of Orange, N: J., had no roomjmate, Ho was roasted to death J. L, Schmuck, of Hanover, Pa., lost his life in trying to save that of his room-mate, W. G, Nichols, of | der 4 ation | cause of Chicago. beaded paar ert i Lecter St ono time Minister to Franoe, tr Schmuck and Nichols_started to leave 16 Geant AL f Soha wittadtingserl Llpppen! Was, Mtacalx reare! of awe. ie 7 | day lohn Cropper, 3 AWY | w a member of th Soclety of th the bullding together and not) walll |i “wan prominent. inc social] Gineigoaticand of the Baste of te Schmiick was safe outside ald he dis-( {Ire ih the national capital: | Wwartbe agi | cover that Nichols had been left be- oe i EI, | hind. Although the chances were 100 to 1 against him, the brave youth went back into the burning bullding after his | chum, He found Nichols dead, burned to a| While the noontime crow en he fell back in hin chair dead. erie on the floor of a hallway. Al-| St Adam Lincke’s lunch- here wAs nothing on the body to though blistered and roasted: himself, | Schmuck df his best to drag the body th a window, The flames overwhelmed | him finally apd in an agony of pain, | with his clothes all ablaze, he jumped | from a third-story window and mistained fatal injuries. ae and ae walla were ined with wan Assembly tenced to the Elmira. Reformatory for fourteen months by Judge day, James ts elghteen yearn old, ‘ooper Bauaro, broth, DR. A. £. MACDONALD DEAD. Or eI FIC MOUSE the Apy Court in ider va the ne Haggert different nam District overalls He ente Had ts to-da, fight of the 1 down seliate Division of the the case of Ike L. New Amsterdam Gas |more delav in getting up the hilt, In{ Company and thb Central Trust Com- the meantime, panding the arrival of /Pany of New York. The setback, how- the dremen. the studeuts did the best,| ever fs only temporary and A they could {n the work of rescue. | passes the question along to the G Those in the building who wakened | eral Term. neacieaiaiait ae William Gardiner, of No, 623 Hudson ee firemen were killed waite stretchingya hose under the wall of the)” Na* arrested to-day Ino fraternity® house facing the gorge, | {08 with the death .of his br Others aseisting thom narrowly escapes. | Frederick, thirty-three rs old, last The stone walls collapsed one after|night In St. Vincent's Hospital. Death | another, forming a great pile of wreck-| was cused by a fractured skull, fol- age covered with ice, under which the jlowing a wrestling match between the y, the enterprising ; Fifteenth | Was sen-| nes in last the fall, Roaulsky to~ and Dec. 7.—Aceldentat ata: who Was about fe u r i ra old, florid and heavil mat and _onler fiva fe % vo feet ten ind te had aken OW A sandy mustache Guxyd with gray, oes +o ———— +} hnelder secured an injunction re- | itil: th “ogas company from shut-| ting off his supply besuse of his re-} fusal to pay at the rate of $1 per th GAS TRUST WINS ONE POINT The first setback in the people for $0-pent, gan was hande to-day Supre Scbn: and fect. The nd the order kas company appeated, is now reversed and | other appeal will be taken, In case there are contentions brought pe} want by the lawyers for the Gas 1 that have not appeared ju o Se Ses the taken {othe higher. courts seers" HELD FOR BROTHER'S. DEATH. a Jar two brothers on Nov. | Frederick Gardin Fr was picked up tn | front of Nor 13 Gansevoort street that ight and remained In a comatose con- on until last night, when he i he pollee” learned that Freder! TO PRISON FOR HIS WAGER James |vourmatpo registered éighteen times un h w ho Improve the eection hws by showing them to be defective. ———- + t+ GAS KILLED RICH LAWYER. WASHINGTON, a ull had been fractured by a fall dur Ka wrestling match with Wi}l! any pleas for meroy a were made for | admitted ts guilt a bat t here he almed, but sald he had| ft he could register any pleased, and was inspired, by a laudable ambttion 10 wite, who is in Now York, was r of the Inte Robert McLane, nuUrythe man, MORGAN fIAS QUIT JOBr7 | 2%!" MacDonald, a broth- | tliness, iS S 23 of Dr, Carlos F. MasDonald, tho | Dr, MacDonald waa about sixty-five = allonist, and himesl? an expert on in- | Y&M old.sand for about thirty years Elections Superintendent Sent | sanity, dled this ROG ae hisshomn a: harge of the clty Inaane asy- senity dled) this ash i Ho 1s murvived by his widow and Resicnation to Governor o} [Ney 431 Riverside Drive, utter w long | two children, @ son and daughter, Nov. 89. LG OATS TREES George W. Morgan, State Superintend- ent Of Elections, resigned his office on Nov. %. The resignation was Med with the Becretary of State In Albany by Mr, B 6 se pec Ue EEE Saran pee Alexander Marco, an electrician. in | Marco waa busy around the eae tmediately pe Baise mpany's powerhouse, No. | when he came In soniant with wires The Acting Superintendent of Wlec-| 128 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, won| currying’2,00 volta and Wee killed tlons 18 Ln AL Swazey, : Lod _ ace slequroouted to-day whe “gi work, | stantly, Engineers on Way:fo See Jout of Jersey {the Government RESULTS EDITION meen — ; PRICE ‘ONE CENT. OPERATOR SHOT v N BROADWAY pence toile SW One Bullet Fired at William Judson Henning by Thomas O’Connor Passed Through His Hat and Other Lodged in His Leg. POLICE TRY TO ARREST HIM. WHEN THEY LEARN HIS NAME, jOrder to Take Him Into Custody Reaches the, Hospital Just as He Drives Away io a Cab—Shooter a Telc- , \ graph Operator, | | | | | There were hundreds of eye-witnesses and thousands of ear-wit | nesses to a shooting that occurred this afternoon in the heart of the finan-- }cial centre—on crowded lower Broadway—at the busiest hour of the! | Judson Henning, a mining: promoter. t Henning, a big, florid, handsomely dressed man, dodged one bullet | and caught the other In the leg. He got away from the Hudson Street | | Hospital ina el bust asa pa nolieanay received word to arrest him. : IN VISITORS 10 FORT HANCOCK identity, declined absolutely to tell the} Satie of the feud between hi O'cenoor, ad wien O'Conner wantek! to talk the police wouldn't let him, It) was from the victim's wife that a rem! porter for this paper first learned Hen :ning’s real name and business, The -réport of O'Connor's Started a stampede among crowd hurrying along the street to luncheon. The pante spread up ant, down Broadway for blocks before wns checked. b According to eye-witnenses the broker | walking down the west sido of Broad-) Way, came face to face with. O'Connor” directly in front of No. 87. Henning extended his hand in gréoting and said’ casually, “EHello, old man."* Whether or not O'Connor made a yer- bal reply nobody. seemed to krow. At any rate ho slapped aside the proft- fered palm and, jamming his own hana Into his overcoat pocket, Jerked out a revolver, the polished metal flashing in. the sunshine, Bullet Through Hat. revolver the great) Gun Tests All Asked as to Citizenship. President Hutton, newly elected head the American Soclety of Mechanical ngineers, caused a sensation this aft ho ordered a thorough in- noon when vestigation of the nationality of a party|’ Before Henning could do more than of visitors on a apecial train of the| ‘ow up his hands in an Instinctive Jersey Central Rallroad conveying a| Sttitude of defense O'Connor fred, Henning ducked. That act gayed his life nyention of 600 engineers to the ‘Tho ball paased through the crown gun ts at Fort Hancock: 1 “Certain complications have arisen, |" heh: hat. Ses was the explanation given by the Pres-| He “urned to run. The second pullot ident for his canvass, entered the ijeahy part of tle hip at Later he sald a rumor had reachea | the back, and, passive through at a | day. Thomas O'Connor, a telegraph operator, fired twice’ at William i i 4 downward slant, came out on the Inner vide of the right log. O'Connor stood stock still for a mo- ment as if to watch for the effect of iis aim. He saw Henning staggor for- ward with a cry of pain and terror, totter and half fall, halt run down the. steps leading to the basement area of the buliding. Then he stuck the gun In his pocket and turned to make off. He hadn't gone 9 dozen feet beforo was about to pull train City that a number of Japanese sples were abodrd. Although {f would de ‘tmpossible for any. one not armed with a Government pass to enter him as the proving. grounds, in of alll the recent Japanese war President Hutton deemed {t pru- on the vlaw talk, dent to find out just who w. traln. “are you an American citizen? was the auery addressed to each passenger. | Policeman Foley'grabbed tim. Foley, All answered satisfactorily, but the af-| standing Just across the #treat, at the fair caused much comment, mouth of Exchange place, tn the "I felt it my duty as President of] | this soclety to make oure that all the party were American citizens,” sat die, Tutton. @hadow of the Stock Exchange, had "? (Continued on Second Page.) Sir Vagrar 3- walos ratio indi¢ ad Com- Ig Coal 1M) INCTION is DO Divisio yin n decidin the appeal made] from) an injuntion te straining the potioe from University Club, @ pool-room, that the sdigtion te enjoin the police from enforoing tions of law atter the granting of such 2 an tne! aigs its protection,” saya the Court, 1 4) re Li aie can