The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1907, Page 1

4 ‘Special ( Grand Jury to Probe. Bank Scandals January 6— Police Ordered to. ‘Close AIL the Theatres on sunday iIunacy Board to Have Public Ward’s Island Hearing Clondy and colder @-night; Tharadny, falr, ~ FINAL RESULTS EDITION | peEEIGE oN CENT. ABUSE OF INSAN MUST BE SUBJECT OF PUBLIC INQUIRY ‘Gov. Hughes Orders Lunacy Board to Hold Open Investigation of the Charges of Brutal Treatment of Helpless Patients. | (Special to The Evening Werld.) ! ‘ALBANY, Dec. 4.—As a result of the prodding administered by Gov. Hughes, the State Commission in Lunacy will make a public inves- tigation of the Manhattan Hospital scandal, following the exposures in| The Evening World, _ The Commission will begin as soon as it is officially notified of the findings of the New York Grand Jury. The ncatts of the commission | will -be Open and above board. wont Ve... President Ferris, of the State Com-} ni NO MEANS (aterview Mr. Ferris sald: “we will investixate the charges of ervelty at Ward's Inland Hospital just) fs soon as the Grand Jury com) notes | fits examination, The Inventixation will be public, and representatives of the nowspapers will be Invited to be pres- ent. The Commission does not wish In any way to shirk-Hs duty or evade Its responsibilities. We realize fully the} gravity of the charges and mean i Canttest Held Up and There’s the fact tithe reason why we did not conduct Nobody to Clear the Streets. @ public Investigation at the outro: Is! Because we were advised against such | @ proceeding by the District-Attorney guid Jude Koener, president of the local { Board of Hospital Managers., We were told that un investigation by the com- mission would hamper the District-At- | @orney and the Grand Jury, “Moreover, we felt that If we under- ook to probe the charges at a Ume when the District-Attorney was making York will be ankle deep in slush. several days to come, laroas ‘of frozen mud, becatise no con: tract ‘has been made. by the Street The Governor is determined that there shall be no star chamber pro- |; URITS REMOVAL If the weather remains moderate New tor I¢ the weather jturna colder the street surfaces will be { 4 ' Circulation Books Open to ae dd ee UNEW, YORK, |. 0. HA Vv EM EVER, SUGAR MAG vA Tae; a WHO DIED TC- -DAY.. Suc Indi NORTH Havemey thin een ii ew Yo! - | meyer afternoon in Commack, near indigestion. fllness became apr able to save his life. Although it residence ™ SUGAR NAGAAT ~HAVEMEYER DIES AT COUNTRY HOME ‘cumbs to We atiek of Acute gestion He Suffered Some Days Ago. IPORT. othe L. 1, Dec. 4.—H. sugar magnate, at his country °, er, dled home re. where he for several days Specs rk when t had froom acute urrled from ity of his were un- 2 seve! rent, but wan stated at early Uns the Hav afternoon | that there was no change in Mrs. Have- fn. examination, it might be said Cleaning Department for snow removal. | meyers co: h con- were attompting to whitewash ine Commixstoner Foster Crowell opened the | cern in the village here over the nu f@gemont und to prejudice ‘the Grand | bids Inst Monday and oxpects to make avemever autome Gury. jan Award within. a day or two, but D “We accordingly (examined only 1-fe people, and the evide we was placed in the hands of Brict-Attorne; -—MORE FACTS READY FOR THE GRAND JURY collected | the Dis- consti) men Tie snowstorm caught the new Com. misstoner entirely unprepared. contractor can cet his equip. | clear the crossings, and they did ithe snow generally rielted or merged with the mud, truth. ofthe de- | Convinced of the by Dr. John joni of brutality given eer ocarthy, who Investixated tne) 8 Packed nerd and travel! treatment of the “insano:patienis by | etrous to smoothly shod horse: aitendants on Ward's Island for The, Commissioner Crowell says that Evening World, Assistant District-At-| soon as the contract lx awarded he wil torney Manley has decided to ‘submit| put the contractor to work, the matter to the Grand Jury. In pur- 1s any snow left. This year the snow Guance ‘of this desicn he went to the| Temoval contractor will be paid Sfantattan State Asylum on Ward's) Yatand to-day with a stenographer to take statements from witnesses whose ‘men were furnished, It in understood, "pr, McCarthy. ‘Mr, Manley-took with him a number ef biank subpoenas to be served upon attendants, officials an! patients, One fetithe three Grand d4FJeq/now at work pill take up the case of the Ward's faland insane to-morrow afternoon, It ds expected that the investigation will Yast two or three day: ‘The observations of Dr, McCarthy, as printed {i The Eyening World, were {and dumps into the rivers, | years, under an amazing syste } ment, it or upon the depth of the -fall. The Street Cleauilng Denertion | resular men will’not help the contrac~ | however. {some time muat elapse before the suc- ‘The best he could do was’ to have his men this in good shape. In the downtown streets but uptown and in the| [outlying residence districts. the streets 5 is dia- as if there for diwhatuanowehehiakealronitinevatreetsl In former that grow up in the Street Cleaning Depart- the contractor was pald.for re- moving the snow whether he removed not—the payments belng ‘based |tors this vear, except to clear crosaings | land open ‘gutters. Tho department will./ jn this city In Octobér, 1817, His father, furnish foremen at loading | Mrederick C, Havemeyer, way a leader jand dumping vlaces, who will, oversee) In.wugar reflhing ax Had been hin grand. the work and be responsible for \lolink | father before him. |—in keeoine wit drugs’ su =| About auto ma Jout hurr jemerkod 1) gallon | hastily The by y | King but house every dition changed. The that the automob} th was ann died at 3 Henry s four Umes for medicines piies'to be used in the «ick toom, }time a man with the chaum tankn ‘taken to the Havomeyer ‘hous fact secured so hurried) many wag mu oxygen hyd to be used as a last resort, when Inqulries were one, and that was t of feeling will not down, that the sugar magnate was’ wors the fears were verified later when it . During was rushed to afternoon th trip, and tht ur Jumped the store ant carrying two which were 1.30 o'clock thix de its fourth fedly, ran Into In a moemnt of oxygen, that the oxygen was reg as ® sign. that much worse, had been qe, here the Sugar and that the made at the was made to the cdn- was ¢ same reply Mr. Hayemeyer un- however, numerous hurried trips of the le to the drug store indicated and ounced thet: Mr, o'clock, Osborne) Havemeyer was born Tlavemeyer Convincing enough.. Since thelr publica. | out snow tickets. In past years tho the hard and strict German tion they have been repeated by him | snow ticket has been a source of scan- SN TM ess soi tea aa to Mr. Manley verbally and he has algo | dal. Cominis: r Crowell is solely cauitaratenic i niece ed nie eubmitted his origina), notes, The pjis-| try and prevent a recurring one thls) right into the public schools and Griot-Attorney’s office’ Is conrinced that i < jesceekved a few Anishing touches in Pr. McCarthy really minimized the con- ships arriving and departing | Pilvat had’ young Hayemeyer re from the Hrooklyn Na faration for thelr rendezvous ton Roads before satiing for th Gitions» prevalent in tne tate Asylum for the Insane, {t ls not the intention of the wistrict- Manhattan at Hamp- oP Sof former attendants atl p available on thig point. ikerein no reason Way a (ores i wUKatiON should not rer PWGraga Jury Invertisation we real the Whole story of how eur » gortunatesinoane tn the niagniicent hov- Amet Ae a ise eral pis on Ward's Jelund tro, under the) ays dasplie tha offorin of Llous. 'H, We aro te itentanta mis Via 4 ee fe aC UR oh tne Jan y-Yard in prep: | er bay to aut all Ain niador the Hay worked a lattorner to confine his investigation |Were held up in the tower bay | sunation Carthy aerved asmonth ws an attendant. icandy Hook at 10 o'clock Rosny rebel Krust ane @ince the publidation of the facts, Jano storm. he was forced to anchor j made ta avenues have been openéd by whieli loft the Jix f Gig: District-Attorney’s arslatinis may }to os t Fash patisty themselves thit systematic am) > MoOrtnK answer «1 ) persistent brutality was’ the rule ai ‘Yompktn t > ¢hrough the hospital. Tho aiony | {Ito “aed ty dic 2 formation of the fixth ‘stre hed when he jumped right inte moyer & er factory and s hard asp He wan ‘natur- a Worker and & fighter and this Ine on his part was responaibie Powerful Su 1 desperate fight that has been ep It golng and crush opposl- Ing attitude, Was shown mover rafiaed In 1897 to uestionas £ Nn the Sonate com- ed to know tow indy Pteil a ait Ha contempt. And eventually ara azine has been ex- 00) up, He had Hs was lald our on evein the olt: ands Ritth avenu DN bei, of modern American Venice, arr ves to Loula- yi Bere” ene WEDNESDAY LONG SHOT WINS, HUT FAVORIT IS NOWTER With Cénstantia, 2-to-5-S) Notfer Up, Outside ‘the Money. {—-—- | TRONLER LANDS A RACE. | Hoodoo Jockey Rides Asteroid, the Maiden , Event Winner. * (Soecial to The Evening World.) NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 4,—To- day's ‘offering at City, Park dropped back to the old style of quantity-at the quality. In the first four were about as many horses as could be crowded into the fields, and they were a chean lot. There was no attempt made to produce anything that looked like a feature and the business of the day developed Into a book- makers’ battle with the players, with conditions decidedly in favor of the men who lay the odds, To make cold. was de- expense of races there matters worse the day was dull, and dreary, The attendance Ndedly Nght, FIRAT RACE, = “lNotter . Ott =e Ree Florence ieell -Goedtke 30 Silver Cup 6.02, 95. .Griftin 9% Ed! J 3 0) Mis 20 Una 3 ‘ Knox Boyd H j Matt Hearcy imokene 3 Sylvia GIT Bee) foo, -M. White. 106,, Mountain 5... 12 Sallie Barry 108. !Dryer ime Won by Georgia Girls La Souer was soc nd, Apache third. Sallie Barry ran away on the way to the port OND RACE. Six furlongs. Starters Weight. Jockeys Betting. Anterold |... ‘Troxler Ww Tom MoAtee Ratley 0 Durwble J. Lee 2; There a! * De S¥armo 70 Con otter fountain Tix! RanPisher La Garde Mad Auiitant, Alvise Dar! Ruskenetta Stellaland +. Del Won by Anteroid ) McAfee waa a ond and Durable wan third THIRD, Mountain MeDantel @: Lavatrina Sumeex Agnes Dorothea, Linda Lake Won by. Severs ynd and Feast third Sie WIFE WHILE” “IN DELIRIUM TREMENS. Woman's Jaw Fractured by Bullet From Drink-Crazed Hus- band’s Pistol. fomy years old, of Walter Johnson. No. 25 West Thirty-nintr, street, shot and dangerourly wounded his wife, Kate, to-day while suffering from de- Urlum, tremens. The | bullet struck Mrs. Johnson in the right cheek and fractured her Jaw. She was taken to the Roosevelt Hos- pital where it Ix sald she haa an even chance of recovery. ‘The husband was arrested and held in $5,000 ball in the Weat' Side Court to wait tho result of his wife's injuties, Pe BARING AND COMPANY TO DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. ‘A despatch from Boston that Baring & Co., the American representatives of Baring Broa. & Co. (Ltd,) of ‘London Jand Liverpool, and the New York representatives of fyidder, Peabody & Go% of Boston,, will dissolve partner- ship gn Jan. 1, was confirmed this afterndon at the offices. of Baring & To, In thia city, ‘This firm is composed of Hugo Ba Ing, George D. Hullowk, the New Yoric angy Menidery-and_Albdert L, Waon. Mts barkig Will return. to Lor don, it ty Celleved. Kidder, Pewbody’ & Co..-@(. Boston, | J ane OR aL Nowa Wall atree ey, and both Mr. Hallock and me assoclated with {the oflce of Baring & Co. In this cliy It Wan sald that othe clerky em. ployed by that firm) will abdout alt employment with the Arm: of & Co. when Batya Td sane Oo Y, Collector ot E ort, Appraiser, Backed Nevada N. Stranahan has resigned | from the oMce of Collector of the Port of ‘Néw, York, and Edward S, Fowler, former Appraiser of the Port, appointed to succeed him, Mr. Stranah: health, devote much time to the duties of his position. His friends say that he con: templates a long vacation tour for the has been resigned because of il! Of late he has been unable to plirpose of regaining his health. Mr, Fowler js a veteran In the servic of Uncle Sam, He was service in this city at the time Secre- tary of the Treasury Corteiyou was stenographer in, the local Post-omice. Théy were friends then and thelr friend- ship remains, pointment of sponsible and which Mr. Stranahan vacates Mr, Stranahan's resiqnation has heen considered inevitable. for months, He spent. Inet summer In Europe under jenecicay treatinent, at which ime thera | was a lot of scrambling among New | Fork politicians far nts Job in the posta as is shown=by. the ap: Mr. remunerative Fowler to the re- position forrne apr! known to howler, sit in Sparta {} made without senators, Platt and Depe eotereheca eathatalt pyar. on | ectved no assistanoe from Herbert Par sons, Chairman of the | Republican} County, Committe, but had thie backing ef Timothy 1. Woodrum, cuasounesiy: Dati L druid of Secte- DECEMBER G70 SPECINL BRAND JURY TO. PROBE THE GRIMES OF HIGH FINANGE }that haa been sa 1907-6 Who Res igns, STRANAHAN QUITS; E.S. FOWLER NEW | PORT COLLECTOR schoo by Woodruff and the Friendship of Secretary Cor- telyou, Lands Appointment — Long in Government Setvice. ' tary Cortel tn as It was wi in 190 1 WAS most en he was made his fw Appra — ALL REGRET’ TO LOSE-STRANAHAN, CORTELYOU SAYS, WASHINGTON, Cortelyou, Dec. 4.—-Secretary in announcing “Navada oN Stranahan’s rosignation as Collector Port of New York, sala atatement the na for- mal Insued “to-day: “Or New York, | because of { Collector Stranahan, resigned fie position i Ict-Actorney. health, It wan with great reluctance | Fi09 ‘decided that Commissioner Bing- | ctAttorn At the department accepted this resig-| “> find not capbctauy. ordered the raids! May Probe the Trust. nd only u as Capt. Parroll eting s learned ron and only upon his Inatstence.| unter tae ordert Of Unmerton Watts) Ht wan learned from another source es {rom thi office to the Was upon the Inspector that the respon. that Ict-Attorney had been no- of, all, and w acknowl. | ADluty for the Taide rested, | Ite dis. tiled fore January a mass of rs charged the complaints against ‘the : , . ot eon one of | irumprastoner and capeain gaa neta fg Information would be lald before him - w York he evor iad, "During Col. Por the Fowler has been eighteen months Anoralser an admi ctory that of the istration allke to the he bas’ xiven Intorésé1 and the Dus! York He b and fair. We organized tho working force as of N EAS F Touch fire's Ger und) tty Decree see ee ; Sunday World Wants Work Montay Morning Wonders. seedy sed Wey At District Attorney Jerome’s Request to Be Succeeded by Fowler Justice Dowling Authorizes the Empanellingof a | hird Grand Jury on Jan. 6, 1908. M4SKES A MYSTERY ABOUT | HIS PROPOSED: PROGRAMME. lIt Is Believed About Criminal Courts that the j Bank Freud; Unearthed by Attorney- , General Jackson Are to Be Investigated, The District-Attorney’s Office awoke with a start to-day when Mr. jerome-went before Justice Dowling, in the Criminal Branch of the Su- January term to take up matters of “too grave importance to submit, to either: of the two General Sessions Grand Juries devoting their time to routine criminal proceeding: INSPECTOR HELD Although the suddenly aroused Dis- “the many persone admitted Mrt Jerome to prosecute the Attorney would not say what too grave matters" were, tn his om es ¥; prepared s\ of high finance that have come to git in| Attorney-General Jackson's recent InVestigation of suspended banks, trust companies and fire insure; ance corporations floated en wind.” Asks for Grand Jury, - Appearing before Justice Dowling tn the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court Mr. Jerome sald: PAIDING FlGH trict-Attorney's request and {saued am order upon the Commissioner of Jur- ors. ‘This order calls for the impanel \ ling of fifty grand’ jurors in the Crim: {nal Branch of the Supreme Court on Jan. 6, From this panel the special obarging Grand Jury will be drawn. : } After the order had been’ issued Mr, The action was Based upor a section Jetome was asked If he would state the yf the Penal Code’ wich ihakes it a ture of the complaints he would lay nisdemeanor for an officer or individ fore the Supreme Court Grand Jury. n the complaint of Andrew Dargan, menjber of the Sharkey A, C:, who » Oct. 1, got a summons for Polite ynmissfoner Bingham, Inspector yalsh and Capt, Farrell, of the West Zxty-clghth street station, xem with oppression. to do anything tending to place the He replied that he was not prepared property or legal personal rights of an- to lasue any statement at this time. other In jeopardy, and it was clajmed! “Is {t not true, was asked, “that you wish to submit complaints arising trom ‘Attorney-General Jackson's recent in- vestlsation uspended banks and trust companies “1 have rectived no complaints from Mr. Jackson of any sort,” sald the Dig that under this act the pollce had un- arrantedly and without legal right in- féred with the Sharkey A. C, by ma-! liclous raids upon the club at {ts box- [img-sessions, After hearing the evidence Magistrate of Inspector for a Nearink before the highs upon which he would be requested to F er, gourt, | bring eriminal proceedings: ‘The affairs I'm about thred 6: S imagine its the same with tho other) and the Excelsior Fire Insurknce Com- Magistrates who have discharged the, pany were mentipned as matters of frat chib managera_and boxers. ‘Therefore 1 hold Inspector Walsh for a hearing be fory the Court of Special Sessions." | import in {nal action: bie vantemplated crim= It ls known that | Attorney-General BANKER SCHIFF TO GIVE Bea pe yst AEM te the next ' $250,009 TO COLLEGE, NE REC EIVERS | A he i Meco hee Aen a “STOWN FAIR, J Vanker. will do ses > | Sion on met ni= { NORE Dec. t-United States tlon { offered with the proviso that the | pistrict: An Waddilt toxlay decided Goliege | raise an ‘additional. » $%0,0%. t onoe name’ receivers for ts al of thia latter eum has al. |t2 Ato) Ps About » ‘by. Joon! sapitetion, | Jamestown Baposition: Recs! oneied, vt ‘ ae prente Court and asked for the drawing of a special Grand Jury for the ~ tone : sores Police} “1 pave to request Your Honor. tor Magistrate Finn Scores Police} (7 (ris upon the Commissioner of a Jurors for a special Grand Jury f 4 ¢ Members ry for for Annoying Members [ie sanuary term. ot tha courts wale tls true that there are two General of Sharkey Club. _{ Sessions Grand Juries sitdng, thelr AAS oS Hume tw full upied with routine mat. _. rs. 1 ow ped. this third’ Grand After many police rads on” th ry for the purpose of submitting to arkes Athletic Club, in iis rooma a tterx of-tgo xrave Importance to yadway and Sixty-ftth street, Max Brg a sie UP ee Lua tne ye OS 1 1 with routine matters, Finn day 1 Inspector} “phe matters I refer (o are of such J Walah in $100 bonds for a! hear wrtance that a grand jury te serve before the Court of Special Sex. {the ends of Justice ‘properly. mist dee so that It may be finally determines [ YO! 1s entire end uninterrapted time to the limitation of power wh ty 1 coat in a polic noun the city Court. Issues Order. % Justice Dowling granted the Dis- The case came Into court this time