The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1907, Page 6

THE EVENING WORLD, STATE AND CITY UNITE IN WAR __ON GAS TRUST ALONG Two LINES SATURDAY MAY 23, 1907, OWNER O BHEEK'S VASES © That Didn't Stop Him from/SUITS IN STATE COURTS Issuing Chattel Mortgages Against Them. Franchises did | Real Estate Ar: Both Held Under “Dead Titles.” Referee Masten Took Court's} Tip in Fixing Fran- ‘chise Value. MISS RIDPATH HAS. ON vt | x r ite ®” Member of the Emperor's [tht "at on, tte Gas Trost has opene ndiemayed by the work against &- law so far done, Attorney { ‘Mam 8. Jackson | Counsel Blitson and MMe able assist ant, William P. Burt, now attack ‘the giant | jcorporation in its pleces First—Value of fran: Second—Title of ren ‘A Beautiful Chiness woman, the widow Wal Knh, Chinese Commis the Bt. Louls World's Expost- fe es86 to be the rightful owner) get of ancient Chinese porte | That the Gas Trust has no municioal Mow repose in the office of J. | or other franchiae, and that even if it Boeck. the missing diamond | had such franchise it cannot be capt- iy ‘amd indy’s man. The vases are | talized against the consumer, is the ook and key ina email oice ad- | contention made. The lighting company fhat of Marcellus, Pitt & Co, | must show cause next Tuesday in the Broadway. Supreme Court why action daould no ‘Phe china is axid to be very rare ana | Drowsht in the name of the people © MAM years oid. Boeck clatmed that |New York to terminate the existence Wes worth $100,000. There are about | the trust, on the ground that it Four giant vases of |®° raz ang also that it is a mo- | nopoly WS | City and State join in squeezing from ahaa 0 ves. | the Gan Trust an explanation of it» Bol Guawenhetm. the copper | Position conceming franchises, with the | exception of ome of which all have ex- hol@e a chattel mortgage | ag seo ‘he china given to him by tm return for $1400 cash ioaned. | Som, Tore 388 fF ciatmant ts Miss Sadie Ri- | yeerrono'itan, 1688, path, who was to have married Boeck | Horio, 196 Fone, Mise Ridpath holds dil of | seunsctal, 1907, for the-china against $10,000 whieh | p oh Giaims she advanced to the missing | Relic of Tweed Oiys an ‘The other, the Knickerbock: om- peny, bed nothing resembling a fran- chise to assign to the present Gas China, who holds a chattel Trust, except an alleged right to oper ‘There are others also who ate @ questionable franchise obtained Swnership. | fn I8Tl by noted members of the “Tweed ‘the china tx said to belong to! Ring.” The appearance of the names @t these. When Kong Wai Kah,, of William M. Tweed, A. Oakey Ha fepresentaive of the Chinese Peter B. and James M. Sweeny and R » Chime to thin country Boeck |p. Connolly among the first assigns of Ble train. Boeck apoke excel- | this particular franchise, recalling 4 and had participated on | most unsavory chaptes in the history ae of the government in suppress- | or the ty of Itself sufficient to driag Qe Boxer redelion K: Wa! | the franchise, witch expires in 2913, had tle wife's china on exhi!tlon, into grave au when the World's _ Was over) he real entate which the ¢ity ts about representaions which : pag theta ig talons ‘which 15°! to pring sult 9 recover from the Gas Trum fs valued by the company at ee ree eee Oak fa roa at $54,017.04. It ta between Twelfth ave- ¥ roe: ror | nue and the river and Forty-frst and to fly from a Si | Peainst him tn Philadel: jana worty-ffth atreets, within the lin ft of Tom pi eet, berxsin Fourteenth the Lanes of Exterio Hundred and > at vulnerable | — most ‘another claimant is sala to be! Cheasire, American Consul at oat to remain in this cou: | $482,285, and by the expert for the city and When pi Forty-second © and Forty-fourth leds the Y vcemetanen wa Ad Bixteenth streets, and the strests, and that portion of the plo That Frenchise Value. | In Gefense of the Gas Trust are a ps mi: legal gladiators headed by Joseph 11. Choate. One of these, Charles M meses said to-day to @ reporter of The Byening World: i “Ony one side has been heard on the GIRLS 10 § 0 SSA Police Decre Tt They Caught ef minors. Detective Lieuts. | pany vould i and Rein, arsigned to the shop-| 68s for & istrict, aceured the woman of 4 ,#soTne earn 6 per can’ te & thousand cubic 24,090,000 valu @leven-year-old Liliian Hooney, | {or ‘good will.” witha i |. BM Wert Eighteenth street, and | evideuos before him that the franch.sce Told Annie Weinecke, of | HA4 expired and that thera, was any thing Dut good will for the Gas Trust Artvur H. Masten, the Jawyer friend of Whitney and Hyan named by Judge | Lacombe, allowed the company $20,(0), | oi, which item turned the scale against Twenty-ninth mores and sirest to) thi i of usin; t ¥ 1 tn o ing expeditions. Uetle sirta in court | the “plenty Cont Ges Law.” sugnented ” street, when &. before Magis t they had a Higgins to| Hoth Judge Lacombe, who gramted th Resieaili ees geht ee J shirt wa kets and other on wgainat (he cheaper gas law trate tman, tn weft Llijan Hooney said ter_in Chancery Masten, were x « the Mt wet Bire. hiiggina ab Corporation Counsel | under 4 th ago at the a of | the late Willan C. Whitney, who afier pr rey Was Coming home ed me to shoppin fi from with became associated with Tho: the genlus of the Gas Trust 2001, | wad F. Ryan, me Lcoukt halp her If I would. | Whitney's influence with President husband’ fe Was nol big | Cleveland elevated Lacombe to the Fed- ally, and that | eral benc Judge Lacombe, on | April 2. 188, swore in Mavten a. a ding Master in Chancery of the | Cirouit Court of the United Btates They Are Old Friends An Evening World reporter to~tay in- of Judge Lacombe how many ferred to Masten, « ita attention to a report culation that Masten had been f by him because it is true we told & story siong ne aaid that another travelled with th ‘The girls w | anes and Reln saw df 0 girls acting ‘ously to 8 | ore a Week ago. t sotorday they r ce have been an intim Erteng of Mr, Masten for ears, | know of allied to pass. upc of this court than M Joinutes the woman and her | ot again in @ dour: | eam ¥ speeend mre, and the de- | Mr ed them dividing @ lot | was an handkerohiets and va nh ‘they had picked ur Aur- | asked. e | oF 19.070 7 have re As bearing 10 #0 Whon red thie impor he. A tending masters. besides Mr. Masten Aw w tases he had referred to Masten in” Bineieen years, Judge “There are & great 4 in t9 weal) tt id befor now of no mons peple men than my old friend Ma» 4 che 5 was f Lacombe ts & poo | het ae = 4 . - " ny Pera f ye yeere old, § feat 7 os. weishing| to ¢he pr gy a, arith dark hair and a eeady| orotpey : beard, The first Joints of ¢he second | Peck Mt Bt Miek's Ceti . and third Angers of the left hand were| ceremonies began with a Pontifical missing. mass. Five of the sixteen priests are members of the Poulet Orter, the rest ternoons be snebece ror” be MANVILLE, BR 1 ry two on hi ¢ e! ty are the University ead’ the bal Ben recaived ak Masten Took Judge's Tip. Aqptig Mews wives te 6 tanteome a, a 7 mt the lard easterly of Tompkins street ax) JB Ue : ‘tala out under the act of 18% To this he 2. | aed "the, commeny thas no title what-| 9g) | C Whitney, of No. 4 West ry sround th WILL LEAVE Assets of Consolidated Gas Co. by Itself, Its Friends and the ae and State Ketimated by Eatimaced by ‘Beate Real ostate $10,604,255.95 Plants Mains Services ~. . Meters and miscetina Working capital Current suppiles ....... National Coal &@ Coke. . Astoria plant 4,200,000 property $,616,470.08 Total 9.08 — $91,029,124.95 k hises 24,000,000 — Good-will ..... Total debveessepessvces $96,086,959.08 Proceeds of i plant but tempora vested, d such in- ¥ nt ies 5,500,000 3101,686,959.08 Kong Ww ai Kah’: sw lidow Who Is’ Real Owner of Boeck’s Porcelain “J reaidence Soventieth liggi i question of franchise and real estate, street beat knows 4 Rachel Higgins and Pupils | svestion of franchise, *atauted ‘many Fe, bafny a, mem de Z = ividing . |years ago, and the pole considera: Tinto the, Downtown ~ “4 Si Di iding Loot was that the taker should promptly de- | Hr \ en “Rachel Higgins. the mother of three| mosey, thereby re ng & contract | ( I t living at No. 24 West, oh le as much withja the proce th street, was held in Jefter-| of the Constitution as are all other con- fen. Market Police Court to-day for! “ln their efforts to awell the assets 0} Be : St A tins (aia) be a charge of impairing the| tne Ges rust, and show that the com- Whitman Saw Speed Violation) : Himself on uid ii “; on Broad Ww ay FINGERS MISSING = < tagned i ' SIXTEEN SEMINARIANS GRACE OHURONM, | being secular priests who will May 25.—A letter | Upon dioeesan work at once. ed here to-day aa jetor of : race OC Aron ba during the nine to Stas te 8, ORDAINED AS PRIESTS, enter ‘There were present in the sanctuary over one hundred priests of the city, ‘Mar. Lavelle wee thp attendegt to the me three hours, m [GOLFER GRAHAM $5,000,000 SALE BURGLARIES IN MAY BE “SILENT” = MONTH BY MAN SMITH HOLDING — OUT ON PAROLE | Magistrate Brown Condemns | Practice of Giving Liberty | to Confirmed Thieves, Wall Street Conjectures that Big Deal in St. Paul Was Eecima! by Master en. $13,461,000 u 16,500,000 Ex-Amateur Champion Ac- (22,636,000 , recs (1,292,228 4,194,000 f cused in Court of aul 3261.6 * 41100,000 i Pai : tt in =: Ss] ji lace (1,726,811.82) 3,616,000 ae tee pire 50,000 12,000,000 PATERSON, N.-J.. May %.—Archte | = <a Graham, former Amateur Golf Cham- | er neti ed vlon of the United Btates, will have to aaa “7 ; appear before Judge Soott in the Gpeo Cae {al Sessions Court on Friday next $83,857,000 Answer to a complaint pf assault and battery The charge against him ts | made by Edwant Sceery. leading flortat ofthis clty. who keeps a place | on Main street. Both met move tn the YELLOW FINGERS, LLOW HEART, SHSMACISTRATE Crane Lets Brown Go Back to Baltimore With a social circles here and are mem- he Hamilton’ Clut club in this city. the atning- | which place ia alleged to have of the trouble between the Sw over alx fet 500 pounta, while inom the trout when he we Rebuke. ; | went 1 t!| tp the chet. Jose; Brown, alleged crook cigarette fiend, who has been arrested] When he came out and was about t numerous times In company with a band | #!t down, he lege’, Graham e red 4 to-day | the place intoxicated and made tnsult- Brown. wan arrested b Mr. Crane, ex Demo: Magistrate ¢ that he did not jail, and if arrangemen am H Welsager also showed Magistrate him to pract 1p to Brown, return, Who will see to it?” inquired the wife wil ied Brown, beck a itl dressed in yostion, ste rane lectured Brown the Centre | ing rks to him. Sceery, with the t at the requ of Lawyer two women, started leave the place, Welsager, of No. 44 Broad. | ham kicked and erty of Baltimore. d before he could who is twenty-six years olf Lieuts, Fraree and Jay night, and when [became hysterical and the dining-room lagistrate Crane Was oon deserted. told the Magistrate| Next day Sceery says he preferred aduate of the Univer- es’ of ungentiemanly conduet and ryland and @ member-of the and b When asked why he with crooks, Brown as ‘ was on @ secret mission and acted. upon fe Chairman gation id prove bis as | of the Board, and after ing to the wistrate Crane remanded | story of Sceery and one witne: alled Graham into the room and he the board was ended from that enjoying Sceery, who pook of the University club. had been sos had graduated in 19s. {pr Mahler offons photograph was in the book . Brown's certificate admitting suit and patiory aa ryland, It. iy Otehatn, soppeared before bim ach In Maryland Mt sky omtered to appear for trial before er, 1904. widow,” Mr. W rt, “and is uncle is ery Frank Brown, ernor of Maryland and now the Hils ¢ leader of 8 rane told Mr. eare to send Brown to could be made sore news MORE WITNESSES who said he wo efore some other Judge n to Bal The p AGAINST HAYWOOD, he namey of several additional Witnesses on the indictment against the! ,couse\) miners, the defense noting an mier @ decision of the Idaho Supreme Court, whioh held that flhg of additional witnesses « the rear said er down for @ moment,” the Mag “kl bas begun, is error without Aas eaohen a cel \eyy Richardson declared that e had retired the Magistrate RP gy wee neate | for the Btate prosteuting not know the aa-| testémon) Mr. R y, 2 riked tyr ardson said a delay might be ‘\feBean, w ¢ court-room on the garetto ar x was tormer tentiary under Gov her service. V dal the pen NABISCO SUGAR WAFERS Even though the appetite has been indulged to repletion, you may still enjoy Nabisco Sugar Wafers; their fragile goodness never loses its ¢harm to allure the feast to a delight- ful close. Dessert confections to served with ali beverages. be desserts and In ten cent tins, also iu twenty-Ove coal ime NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY for Heirs, ‘The impression is general in Wall, ‘Masfstrate Stetnert declared in Shes Street cirvies to-day that the mys |lem Court today, after James Brawn terlous #ale of u large block of St. | had confmased to five burglaries in one Paul stock will soon be traced back month, end that he had Seen convisteg to the estate of the Inte James Henry |of feiony three times end wes Smith. Thir conviction is jof the Elmira Reformatory on based on the fact that no other known |that he dikin't understand why a a@gn interest in the securities of this rall- atth @ record tike hat should be eumet® road appears to be large ugh to | loose. warrant @ transaction of such magnl-| “Why,” ead the Magtetrate, “This tude. man hes been out only stipes March, The transfer of the stock certificate was made through the brokerage house of Clark, Dodge & No. M. and H. Claykson, of ‘ead here are five Ourgtartes confessed to in one month. Wheat protection has 49 Wall soctety against criminale of this clagp, No. # tr they are to be released on parole? wireet, Wall street acting 4n be: f of the mys Brom 4 a man who gave the pracy Sn ae wat been | name of Wiliam Macklin were ploked 80 carefully screened from the public The certificates were made in they bs Aine fico Yo. dSraein £ Newmann clerk ne broker apd Manbatian arenes He eave Go natrees, and hacktin eat he Itved Bast One Hundred end Forty: sons. The same ymaurd th transac ‘MM. &@ Ho Chark fred ag one in Wall mea Henry | 17 4, becoming Vosiigation, learning when 5 La ne cud give amy “Bforma- at the police stauon that Brown, ° : was known to him as wt to Thaw ng ia Bag {98 / had been out on parole alnoe involved no less than ‘waa in Rhe prison, ‘of preferred and 10.00) | When Brown discovered that 1S: ab ge ie ‘As /Tecord wes troken he sald: that driven him ¢rom home and » abso maid ghat £200 Seoond svenias, Apr k lue of the stock the an investmont of se figures led finan- t to the conclusion ate Was the unknown proad also that er. mit gave a matiafactory the Count to-day and were Here are Brown's latest vioiim: MMe Aronson, No. Arod of the oetate 20 flispcee of any or all that they we the siocks for by Che eriseted tant Maer 4 On fle complatnts for burgiary base@ amon of Ure/ on these robberies Frown and Meckita among were helt & (begin ts 7) LONGWORTHS TO VISIT ALASKA, eet WASHINGTON, May %—Representa- tive and Mra, Longworth left yester 4 in Cincinnatg | © Interst One of he large etock te Rat day. for, their home ‘ ruld not after a Orief visit at the White eo stock After a short stay In Cincinnatt Will po to Alaska to spend July. B. Altuum & Cn. AN EXCEPTIONAL SALE OF MISSES’ AND GIRLS' GARMENTS WILL BE HELD COMMENCING MONDAY, MAY 277TH Fith Avenue, 34th aud 35th Streets, Nem Porky Start the Boweis When you suffer with tphnet Cried or temich Wetcntinn via toe ras esl Sete ae paket BEECHAM’S PILLS Sar an oF Nature’s Constipation Cure In owes with full directions, soe wad age.