The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1909, Page 1

.GAS TRUST DELAYS ae 80-CENT RATE PLEA FOR HAINS MADE TO THE JURY tand \ Weather—Snows colder to- Wednesday, nee | RESULTS EDI HONEST JOHN 0ST $2,000 ON-A FLUSH It Was Straight One Seven High, but Mr. Black Had One Eight High. {AND MR. BLACK DEALT. Picked Up $4,500 in Poker ; Game While Learning Way ' of New York. "fhe Hon. Honest John Kelly was not his usual smiling and hospitable self, tt was observed along Broadway to-day. He returned the pleasantest greetings of his many friends with a suspicious glance. If he detected anything like amused inquiry in thelr smiles ‘he brushed by with a mark which sound- @d something lke Please eliminate that!" On the other hand, Mr, Bill Black, a person who recently arrived in Broad- | gs learning fast and doing well, met Bis friends with a smiling countenance and the remark that it was.a fine day, spite the weather. He stroked’ mod- Wily the black epaulettes in front of | his ears and allowed that he had no} tomplaints to make, and that it was a| pleasure at any time to meet a real | New York gentleman like Mr, Kelly The legend of Broadway, for the matter is one of those which Rroad- way speaks of only in whispers and with veiled and cautious comments, | is that It happened last night not very | far from Broadway and Forty-second | atreet. It was poker. Mr. Black was deal- | fng, Others who were present, be- aides the Hon. Honest John, were Doe Ogle, who denies emphatically that he 4s related to Mr. Doc Owens, and Willy ‘Williams, an artist, who practises his | Professf#n on Broadway, and another | Man, Whose connection with the party is not regarded as certain enough to fustify including him in the fame of the historic occasion. Mr, Black, as has been said, was @ealing. When it came around after the opening Mr. Black, quite timidly, yaised the other gentlemen $10. Mr. Kelly shoved in $10 and drew one card, MF. Ogle and Mr. Williams also stayed and drew two each—the mysterious Gut- pider threw down his hand--and Mr BI Black sald he was too Ured to give | himeeif any. There ped at once a Spirited contest between Mr. Black-- who had dealt—and Mr. Honest John | Kelly as to which could throw $10 chips | bel the centre of the table faster. Mr, le quit. Mr. Williams quit, "Let's throw the limit off,’ suggested . Black—who had dealt. “Sure,” re- Nr, Honest John Kelly. “'Can't j "remarked Mr. fast enough. ty-five,”” Black, the action to the word. y."" sald Mr. Kelly with a smile. e hundred," observed Mr. Black, me a Baber TAA coaxing @ nibble into a edged bite. gre un dred rejoined Mr, Kelly. thousand,” murmured Mr. Black ing back ie ‘nis chalr to get at-his wali. pearcutnaly, at Mr, faire ay egkeds Mr. BI ‘ho had dealt—looked ferent Ctr "Kelly. “Call it nounced Mr. Kelly, also Fruee a wallet, "I don't want to ranger.” Gey Sikck snowed an) olght high ol it flush of diamonds, Mr. Kelly said something which he says escaped him in the heat of surprise, and laid cone a seven high straight flush of earts. Mr. Ogle turned up a full house of jueens on kings. ai Kelly said he had enough. So aid th 6 rest. Black, of Especially Mr. PINAL] _ | throughout the country, was practically | Queens County, \the decedent. TION “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909. STUDENTS FIGHT FLAMES IN PEEKSKILL’S FAMED ACADEMY Hampered by Intense Cold, Storm and Lack of Water, They Fail to Save Military School — Furniture, Books and Other Belongings Carried to Campus, PEEKSKIL., N. ¥,, Jan, 1%—The; The students and faculty with the em- Prakskil! Military Academy, famous Ployees of the academy immediately or- destroyed by fire, ably trom a defective flue, at 3 o'clock | whioh started presumi- | books and other things were carried out, The principals of the academy, John C. this afternoon | Bucher and Dr. Charles A, Robinson, The weather was Intensely cold, with | directed the work of the fire force. a alent storm provalling, and added to this was the dif ty in securing water to fight the flames, | One hundred and fifty students of the aeademy were at thelr studies alarm was given, and all we safe the bullding CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARY the building was doomed. years old hen the marched nator from New York, about $100,000, ftect | man R f y Fea iyes ‘Mike Alderman” pee: call him—and Alderman Frank L. | ey John V, Duffy, Trusted Employee of American Snuff Com- pany, Taken Into Custody on Warrant Charging Him With Forging Checks for $3,800, John V, Duffy, confidential secretary American Snuff Company, of No. 11} ber. Fifth avenue, was arrested on Broad- way this afternoon by Detective Joseph Woolridge, of the American Bankers’ Association, and Detective Hart, of Po- Hee Headquarters. investigation checks, The detectives reported that who had access to Mr. disclosed = the Dufty, Duffy “was charged with having | book in his absence, had been spending forged Mr, Condon’s name to a series | more money than his salary warranted of checks, ranging in amount from]on Broadway, and that he had been $200 to $800 nnd aggregating $3,800, The checks were on the Second tional Bank. LADY BERESFORD’S WILL speculating In the stock market, yesterday they applied for | for his arrest IS FILED IN RIVERHEAD Document Disposes of Estate on Long Island Which Is to Be Sold for the Benefit of the Decedent’s Son —Property Worth $10,000, ' RIVERHEAD, GL. L, Jan. 12.—The will of Lady Lillian Beresford, who was the Huntington, William Rasquin, a lawyer of who, fs named as one of The other executor haw, a brother-in-law of ‘These are to sell the prop- erty, and after all expenses are deduct-! estate at Dorking, In England, RAILROAD PRESIDENT GUILTY Judge coln Inn, W.C., the executors. Alfred H. Ret butler In the employ of the decedent. OF ATTEMPTED, BRIBERY Head of Tube City Road in Pittsburg Was Accused of Of- fering Money to a City Councilman — Misdemean- or Charged and the Jury Judged the Case. ganized a fire brigade and fought the) flames, while all the movable furniture, | In an hour after the alarm was given The Institution is about seventy-five | Mts Dowling Invites Mr. Down- | Among !ts many noted grad- uates ts Dr. C. M, Depew, United States The loss was Mr. Condon went South to attend the way from Texas, and who {3 described | lof Martin J. Condon, president of the| funeral of his mother early in Decem- | sociate from Brooklyn out into City Hall When he returned he was unable’ Park, promising him some entertain- to balance his checkbook properly. An forged | Alderman Downing prudently forebore Condon's check- and a warrant ed to send the residue to England to the administrators of the English will of the R. Marshall, of No. 10 New Square, Lin- London, a solicitor, and is | James Cottington, of Dorking, England, Lady Beresford died yesterday on her en a CET SH BY ALDERMEN “Mut,” “Cur,” “Loafer,” “In- |, grate” Enliven Meeting of the Board. Winning and Pesthy: Poker Hands | Which Cost “Honest John” $2,000 CHALLENGE IS GIVEN. * ing Into City Hall Park tor Exercise. The spirit of repartee was alive In the i b 4 . 1 ~~ D a i & Aldermanic Chamber of the City Hall ihe afternoon, possessing with violent those eminent statesmen, Alder- | Royert Downlng, of Brooklyn, | Dady's | Doviin of Manhattan, leader of the! |'Tammany Hall majority. The amiable servants of the people in open meeting applied to each other | such epithets as “mutt,” puppy," |tcur." “loafer,” “dog” and “ingrate.” | Neither called the other a dachshund | nor went Into degrees of definite canine descriptions, which might have caused |Immediate bloodshed. Dowling clamorously Invited his as- }ment of an athletic nature there, but from venturing away from reach of his, + |Inkstand, Word of the debate spread | rapidly through the City Hall, and any audience ihat taxed the capacity of the | chamber assembled | £ | The discussion arose over a vote on} an appropriation of $220,000 for street re- pairs In the Bronx. Downing voted against It, and expressed his views on the subject at somé length. He has a a penetrating falsetto volce, which he uses in a manner that he may esteem melodious, but {8 not. “Sing it,” advised Alderman Dowling, who sits right across the centre aisle, down in front, from Downing. “'Set It to music, Sing !t. What are you try- ing to give us, a tenor solo?” “Why, you mutt!" yelled Downing, turning upon his colleague, "you were croakin’ three months ago, You'd ought to have croake "Croak” in Aldermanese means to die ‘The delicat rence conned Alder-| man DowHng's condition of health re- cently, when h@was given up by a bat- talion of doctors, but rescued himself| from the xr and put on seventy | pounds of ht by the coplous use of olive ol! as a e ve “Little Tim’ Sullivan, who has no ob- Jection to warfare. Mr. MeGowan’'s coat-talls had hardly been lost to view, when Alderman Dowling arose and asked the privilege of the floor, It was granted him with- out dissent. Thereupon he delivered himself after this fashion: “T desire to state,” he said, “that the gentleman from Brooklyn |s a oon- temptible loafer and an Ingrate, a coward, a cur and a puppy, Any man who would make such @ statement about another man who has been flat on his back, by the will of God, de- serves to be taken out on the public highway and torn mb from limb by his fellow citizens. I have nothing but contempt and disgust for him.” Dowling sat down and Downing sat still, The crowd gained in numbers, knowing that Downing would have to do something. After a few minutes he arose to talk about a subject before the DAY 10 SAVE HAINSS LIFE Will Take To-Morrow, Also, in Final Argument —Switches From Unwritten Law and In- sanity to Establish Reasonable Doubt in Jurors’ Minds. For seven“long hours to-day John F. McIntyre handed oratory | Club. eloquence, Texas—who had dealt—sald so. ‘He Board, and having the floor proceeded DAL i eked away $4.50) in bills In his wallet ; ny 4 hich | t@, state something about Dowling, and dramatic climaxes to the jury sit-| ) T'S defendant,” he sald, “has en-| ached gurand dollars of It had been ig | PITTSBURG, Jan. 2—President Cam: | this afternoon by ghe jury before which |". members of this club,” yelled = sughtnw, (ie ot a ss storm the last pot. eron, of the Tube City Railroad Com: he was tried on a charge of misde-|one of the spectators as Dowling | ting In the old Town Hall at Flushing, | from doin that room jp Jeron, y meanor In attempting to bribe former squared nimeelf for seh Downing, |t0 convince the twelve men that Thorn- | yonder. at the Bayside Yacht Club, and ARRESTED ON MURDER pany, was found guilty as Indicted late! City Councilman Willlam Martin. seek ee toate rian’ ait hag e| ton Hains should not be nent to the| Parte of which were born in some) t eS —__—_—_—_——_— ——-—— made those pauline a ABOUL Me | Coron ig part. IB. th jer of | le mind #eeking notoriety at the ex- ne (we. : 5 eee: | puppy himsel e Is a contempt. | ¢ air for his pa) nthe murder Of} ponge of a h ltte S ei three. is , 1.83, Bright Boy also ran! |e 4 won't stand for this annoyance ; NaN aye ' caaigten arges Animus, " A . | Purse; for fovr-year- ‘every time I get up to speak 1 8 A. And when court adjourned | ite referved to the ¢ Jan. 12.— ener. of ever to. the eer sen lee uery weeps About seven furlongs and upward (valet riders); mKe and “Come out In the park,” howled Dowl- | for the day the men who have listened Ile PROReeUtDrA TAY North Codorus, Pa., is in Jail here on i upward lighth—Counter and, MO ¢Van- smash yer face! satimonyite sii AVGGealce i ‘ @uspicion of murder drought to the at-| fo ery UN e), 1 to i 4 An a2 to 5, first n't smash anything,” re. | tO the testime A v Ks) as pa ef tention of the authorities through an/| St Vatentine, 17 taker), to 18 tog re | | had still to face another ot Me- | tia : alleged confession made by Misa Irene ‘ and f to 1; Renoita, 137 (1, Crow iG At | Intyre’s effort to pateh up a battered C sasald i at Nt to Land 4 to L third alten r ze with words, and a day « , fe le is . Taurer, aged eighteen years of this! LE ‘inte imitap and Virgil eis Ing the rest of the ning and | defens h wor 1 ff Mr How probat e city. Wihile on what was believed t aH ran. Charles G. Gates fell at start, got Dowling contented mn With | Darrin's final argumen ate, |drews, Birehtleld mi her deathbed Inst week she mad fs et up without rider and ran In ahead. jangry uu fering ena and grow | Before he had minutes fie aske whe der t saa la ‘OND RACE—Purse; for four-year- - ainivra madactt evident that hecwoutd {an oath; thes i ; statement that Keener killed a man on| oye and upward; one mi ae Mare 5 es | FD | Metntyre made it evident that he w n oath, they way they have no Sortt Codorus farm last July in her | jorie, 1 (MpCabe), 6 ta 2,7 to 10 and 1) CURED OF DE EAFNESS., invoke the so-ca nwritten law tn toward the it when is y d f HEYBURN RE-ELECTED, presence, and made her swear not to|to 4, first, Molar star, lie dininey J BOISE, ‘ addition to the alleged Insanity of the dant threatened to take their Alwulge tho crime. Sho sald the man|li,4 to Sand EEN OSE, Idaho, Jan. 12—United States | Remarkable Reanits from Use ofan| slayer, but In the afternoon he aban- vith an instrument of death, was not known to her, and that Keener purled the corpse In the yard. She de- plared that he painted the house to cover up the spots of blood and fresiily jed the yard to hide evidence of the (Gore jand out, chird. Time, | senator jal. On this testimony Keener was arrested. Diatrict-Attorney Ammon ts making search of the premises to-day. About itty residents of the vicinity were en- this Astemnocn in digging, Bony Be tea’ th the supposes he Pea, Werdad ‘except of Sr 18 (McCarthy), 4 to 1, 4 te [3 in on Start_and Prince of Pilsen IHOH T HASEUER Wad to-aky)| Inviaible Ear Denim doned both, and was laboring hard to they say he acted with bis b ae san re-elected by both branches of the Leg-| strg. V, Pool, of Brooklyn, and Alea.| build up a reasonable doubt in the nan life THIRD RACE.—Purse: for four-year. |iSlature in eeparate sessions. The Dem- | auder H. Carson, of Hast Orange, N.J.| minds of the Jury e same men cor olds and upward; five furlongs-W, G. ocratic vote was divided between Judge have rec: ed their hearing by the use A almos! e and procured private course! Williams, 100 (Crowley to 1, eve /c, 6, Btockslager and W. W. Woods |9f A-,0- Leonard Invisible Bar Drum,| After announcing aimost at the out- hal Gee sD) Gn and 1 to'2, first; Away, % (Brannon), 8| B x ‘ Mrs. F who Is advanced in yeara,| set that he and the prisoner “stand 4 t Michie! Laka i to 5, 3. to Sand 1 to % second; Soiree, 147 | The vote was as follows: Senate—Hey- | now hears perfectly, which was impos-| nore for the purity of womanhood and ng they were bosom friends of (Murphy), 10 to 1, 4t0 Land 3 to 1, third, | burn, 11; French, 1; Stockslager, §; cura Eg a ag the sancitity of the American home, Ait eased. How improbable to say, j 2; FORy > ‘ ree, a ¢ tor, | the eltity he ¢ e 0 Valor Arawake, Fury Grandma, | Woods, 2. House—Heyburn, 4; Stocks- igs also been wondertully’helped. “the| he proceeded with strong emphasia SEY) VALCO MB 0 ae net lager, 5; Woods, 4. | Ream of this drum, Leonard, most recesses of their hearts no resent- FOURTH RACE—Purse; three-year- 4 SOA, ‘No. IIs Broadwaye cured |to Say the Atatement that the | et Uo (olds and upward; about seven furlongs. > pelt of deafness, Mr. Leonard will \jprisoner was being condemned be- | ™°" it, biel Sir Vagrant, 125’ (Jobn- vocsh AND INS’ Out, second; Haymarket, Wi luncheon—Caranagh’ MENTAL maraiatate | Fi In passing on to | the question of Capt | (Continugd | on Second Page.) cause he was his mad brother's keeper, and that the prosecution was based oa Weal or "nnd ae at ee nee __ AB TAVERS PLAN TO REOPE | 4 conspiracy born In the Bayside Yacht | tf atl D BY TS. + ‘Conference of the Legal Lights Held This Afternoon to Arrange for a Rehearing on the Law Passed by the State Legislature. WILL ACT ON THEIR REPORT. Early in the Day It Was Reporte That the Company Would Abandon the Fight, | but. This Proved to Be With- out Foundation. . If the lawyers for the Consolidated Gas Company have their way | that corporation will not submit tamely io the decree of the Uthited States | Supreme Court that the price of gas in this community is 80 cents per | thousand feet. The legal gentlemen got together this afternoon, and, after the quibbling manner of their kind, decided to apply for a rehearing of the question of the fairness of the law, irrespective of the recommenda: tion of fie Court that the matter should be left toa eat test. OVER AS wb ee meee ine this afternoon Would listen to a report from counsel resolve to put the 80-cent rate ‘But the lawyers had not fully digested the decision and asked for fur foree at once, ther time to prepare advice. the Board of Directons awalt the call of the B. Gawtry, to iH and the law. it conference in the office ge man © Sterling Tt was re- it Joseph Choate had been nto the conference, but this John Junior Severely Injt Ly, While Standing in .: ont of | were tn Marlbcrough Hoiel. conten dl, so secretive Preparing a Motion. Li is und d that the lawyers hold on the sidewalk the rapacious bile is as Hkely to get you proof of his assertion he will display « fractured arm, a collapsed nose and divers and sundry brulses and contu- stons which were inflicted upon him this | afternoon by a taxicab on the sidewalk in front of the Mariborough Hotel, Thir- | ty-sixth street and Broadway. of this period In which to rmal motion for a rehearing, Through seme tortuous method of rea- soning they figure that they can again throw the matter of S8)-cent gas into oubt. After the lawyers have decided upon a course of action spelling delay it will be up to the directors of the Con- Junior, with other actors, WS) soidated Gas Company to take action. standing In front of the Marlbgrough They will meet within forty-eight entrance discussing matters of interest jours, probably, to discuss the mattre. and watching the beautiful ladles pass!” some of the directors are in favor by when a taxicab driven by Morris Na- | at immediate compllance with the law n, of No. 3 West One Hundred and and prompt repayment of the $4,000,000 th street, came whi: anal hinarentsta Inweaeeaye by United vadway, Ensconced In the tax Commissioner Shields for con+ Keeping. @ vate htul eye upon the dial Others, who cannot abide the wea : Hs 1 ot} Bela mount ¢ MA ng back any money to 3 , 8 i Lo er to selze upon any rales le kala lity to avoid estab- Nathan wai Despite the rs to earn fees In , ft may be stated here is a strong sentiment in the as not. IN) fe a Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, dg: | decedent for the benefit. of her son, , ee |posing of her property on Long Island, | William De ta Poer Beresford, ‘The will Dow) Ing Obey DR ee BENE ate tsco —_——_ fat the of the court will not Sad iaied: ti the: Surrondtelmiomice Nore || waaidated Maiyziti@¥,andewas) wits (ecu nmes, ole Hremicer tg SCC a 6 - | tf you ask dohn Juntor, actor, of No. | 30 {nto effect until judgment Is entered, at noon to-day document, which /nessed at the American Consulate at| {aimed from making a reply at the| last West Forty-fourth street, about 1 | it days from the date of reaching isposes of an estate worth $10,000 near | London by Richard Westacott, United | moment. But Mr. McGowan, scenting | ee Me es Coun eit ba Utne la sone tiree Was offered for probate by {States Vice-Consul-General: Gerald c,| trouble, soon resigned the chalr to Jhe will tell you that even if you stay ke Diie lawyers;purposa’ty’take) | ng anxiety of the mitinued litlgatla that hand door swung cpen and gainst a big, hollow cast-iron elec fier etandi is at curb Ine rate In favor of prompt and coms “The far waa dhaved: ot lete compliance with the Supreme to the grot and top pled ov i mangats spon Mr sucl Service Board's Hands Tied. is fe utterly te 1 ninor compante dropped to dewalk, Auto Also Hits Him Timber erth i ! i} he sdewalk, fan over f i Junior's ¢ WW he s The the ruins of the taxicab, proceed aN his way downtown with’ the Ta ft Bank Prank trolley car ' t of National Anthony 3} Brady Bs Own eatadlignment. Imer, W. 4 Addicks, A. H. Elliott, Riectrie pnd Turkian bathe |W. P. Bliss, Ly M. Greer and John W barber shoo, ove day. gad | steriing, of the Jaw fina of Shearman & —-— urkish Bathe Pulltaer Buliding, Qaly | ¢ {i