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+ aground POLICEMAN ON RAMPAGE te ee ee KIDNAP BOY ON STREET WEATHER-Rain to-night; Tharsday, fair, RESULTS ED PINAL [TION “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ PRICE ONE CENT. A NEW YORK, WEDNESD PANIG ON ELL ERRYDOAT RAMS INTO —--- 200 Passengers, Mostly Immi- grants, in Peril and Vessel Loses Propeller. LINER GOES AGROUND. Fog Also Causes Collision of Trains on Brooklyn “L” Road. The dense of fog shrouded Greater New York and vicinity blanket which to-day seriously interfered with navigs tlon, and was directly responsible for several a ts, In Brooklyn the mist WAS 80 that a Lexington avenue train from Cypress Hills crashed Into a “dead” train at Fulton street and Ala- bama avenue, seriously injuring the Motorman and throwing the passengers Into a pantie. Afloat conditions were even worse. The North German Loyd liner Katser Withelm IL, bound tn from Bremen, ran in Gedney Channel and was several hours before she was held for floated The Ellis Istan 1. the ferry-hoat plying between the Battery and Ellis Island, lost {ts way in the fog when off the Battery, and after groping around for fome time crashed {nto a stone pillar, "Just off the Aquarium, and the 250 pas- feng thrown mostly into pante. immigrants, The boat were finally , landed, but not until her forward pro- { Deller had been bumped of ‘The Ellis Island had been so delayed Dy the fog this morning that {t was 10.30 o'clock before she reached the Battery. Ordinarily she arrives thers at § o'clock, bringing immigrants and the night working force from the isiand and re- turning with those who work in the day shift, Hit Sea Wall Head On. The day force assembled at the Barge Office and were waiting for the ferry. boat when news reached them that there had been a collision, A rush was made along the water front and the Immigra- tion officials were relleved to see the Hillis Island churning her way to the Barge Office. After considerable delay landed her passengers, From them tt was learned that, after Tamming the sea wall, it was fourtd that tiie boat's forward propeller had been Snapped off, and that she was otherwise disabled The Immigrants were in a frenzy of fear when the boat struck, and it re quired herote work by the officers to Gilet them. Many of the women tried to Jump overboard and they were only restrained by force. The boat discharged her passengers and taking the waiting day force on board returned to the Island, where she was laid up for repairs, Shipping was tied up generally, A fleet of steamships were compelled to chor off Sandy Hook, Ferries Abandon Schedules, Al of the ferry Ines were compelled to abandon thelr schedules early in the day and commuters, especially those patronizing the New Jersy llns, strag- gled into the city anywhere from one to two hours late. hortly before 1 o'clock the fog be- came so dense that the streets were as dark as at dusk, and street lamps were Nghted, At intervals the fog would litt, only to settle down again, readily calling to mind the streets of London under similar clrcumstances. Shouting team- sters guided their horses in and out of the blocks that cons.antly occurred down along the water front, and it was with the t difieulty that they ely way to the ferr — BIG LINER GROUNDS, BUT IS TOWED OFF BANK OF CHANNEL, On the bay the fog situation 9 could mak serious, The North German Llos Wilhelm If. bound tn, tom Brounded in Gedney Channel and sent & wireless message to the company's of- (Con 1 Serond Be~ y Th wets. Dratts, press. | Cracking A Qutlic convenience in the path of travel, "ses 5) AS GRAFT BATTERY Wh POSSUM IN - AOLDED CAGE FORM. TE i —_— Throng Sees Col. Curious Potts Bear Gift to House and Back Again. Col. Potts, of RB Breckenridge Potts, effort elect Taft a sve possum at noon to-day. Col. Potts failed in his kindly \ mission, ‘Twas as plump a possum as ever possumed, and Co}, Potts captured it In {ts native wallow, somewhere on the ‘oke, Va., Col. John ah, made a spec- tacular to present President- Alas! wooded rim of the famous Potts es- ' tate. He brought the Mttle animal all the way from Roanoke in a handsome gilt parrot’s cage, and, after having it carefully combed and manicured, he set out with it this morning from the Broadway Central Hotel. With haughty di y Col. Potts saun- tered out of the lobby with the caged possum in his hand. He left the hotel ,Vla the bar to avold the gaze of the curious, but some six or eight hundred he navigated the thick and halled a passing Ing his heels a fog of Broadway xicab, Distanced the Crowd. Into the taxi Col, Potts crowded his jthree hundred pounds of dignity and jhis ‘possum, first giving the chauf- | feur instructions to proceed at all pos- ‘sible speed to the mansion of Henry {W. Taft, at No, 36 West Forty-elghth |street, One or two hundred of the jcrowd pursued the taxicab for half a jdozen blocks, but then gave up the | chase. | Presently the green horseless hack |drew ‘up before the aristocratic resi- ‘dence of Banker Taft, A dozen or so re- | porters were grouped about on the pave- | ment, and they greeted the appearance of Col, Potts with high glee, affairs {being mighty dull with them at the time. | Col. Potts delayed getting out of the feab while he combed his handsome goatee and set his Stetson at a proper jrakish angle, Then he got out grace- ‘fully, drew on his gloves and reached in for the cage, In the darkness of the cab's interlor ho Inadyertantly poked his ‘finger too far in the cage, withdrawing \it suddenly with a choice flow of Roanoke expletives. Nipped His Finger. But Col, Potts swiftly recovered his composure, chuckled in his beard "The Uttle devil bit me," lighted a match and skilfully located the cage. Inserting his thumb In the ring from which the cage swung, Col. Potts lifted the capactous | wire prison daintily aioft.and proceeded Jup, the steps of the Taft home with | slow and aristocratic stride. | Stopping to draw on his gloves, Col. | Potts pressed the doorbell with his jPinky, drew a silk handkerchlef from ‘the tall ofehis frock coat and began mopping his brow. When the butler appeared at the door Col, Potts ad- dressed him loftily: “Sirral, tell your master | Potts, of Virginia—Col, John Brecken- ridge Potts, of Roanoke, Va., sah— de- |sires to present to the Hon, William | Howard Taft a live possum that the | Colonel captured with his own hands, sah," “Mr. {animals to-day that Col. Taft Is not receiving any wild said the butler telly, whereupon the heavy bronze door | swung forblddingly out upon Col, Potts. The haughty Virginlan went at the bell again as if he intended to push the button through to the next house. He announced publicly that there remained only one strong desire in his soul—to ‘rend that insolent funky limb from limb He ceased his discourse very sud- denly, however, when two secret se vice men opened the door and bor {iim with suspiclous looks, j “Beat it.” hissed one of the secret service men, and Col. Potts beat ft. He | ered be witout >» lb whkh the caged dened (igatly. Retur he a bis rig phan ntully: I that man, but never ilgarly interested persons were trail- | TEAR BO STULENON STREET BY KLMPERS (é MY HAT ON) | You KIN STRAIGHT? (senrcn ——— MI ‘Onslaught of the UARY 2 Y, FEBR ; Woman and Two Men Force Lad Into Pas and Vanish. |RELATIVES SUSPECTED. | Mother Beiieves Ralph Wes- ton Jr, Was Brought Here From Philadelphia. THe MOMENTOUS WOMAN QUESTION WiLL UNDOUBTEDLY BE LIBERALLY | | (8p | s ning World.) DiscuUSSED PHILA Feb. 4—Wohile re- | — turning to-day from a grocery store on | VAIS | SOCIETY WOMEN \Ralph Watson, who lives at No. H | North Fifth street, was approached by AD FIGHT (| two women and a man, forced Into RNCLL CLUE. pose ee districts of the city are being patrolled. : anit Ralph, who is a decidedly striking, | Opposed to Sale of Liquor, dark-hatred, blue-eyed little fellow, was! , first missed by his stepmother ater he! ‘They May, Force It. to Haverford avenue, where he had been sent by his mother on an errand, Ralph Watson Jr, seven years old, son of passing Haverford avenue car and k! napped The police force of the entire city be- | gan a search for the lad and his cap: tors, the railroad stations and ferries | are being watched, and the outlying Mhad Weer ab¥ent nearly an he She! ' |hurried to the grocery store, where she Abandon New Home. learned that the lad had started for his jhome nearly a half hour bef [began a search of the neighboravod, At\ women of the neighborhood, instigated | Fifty-seventh street and Haverford ave- s Ave- and led by Mrs, Lillian Barney, widow nue she enec d some of Ralph's Pe Dane compantons, who told her that they had ries T. Bar the Cornell t seen their playymate stopped on the. versity Club, may b: led to abdne corner by some strange persons. They appeared to talk to him very earnestly, the informants stated, and when a trolley came along started in [its direction. Ralph hung back, at Jwhich they grabbed him foreibly by the arms and practically Into the car. don its plan to establish itself in a big brownstone residence at the southeast | corner of Thirt-eighth street and Park | avenue, A long has been taken on | |the property and the w has already begur carried him| The opposition from the fact the club desires to sell Hquor in Mrs, Watson notified the pollce of the | the new club-house. In order to do so Twenty-ninth District, and spectal oM- ¢ nts must be obtained from a speci cers were despatched on the case, It Is | fled number of property-owners within a rit of renovation | | thelr bellef that the boy has been kid- | designated area. Thus far tt has been | happed by relatives from New York, | und Impossible to obtain the necessa }with whom he had lived all his life, |consents, and, as the club cannot flour- | following his mother’s death, few months ago, At that time he was brought to this city, his father having married again. | The relatives of the mother protested jagainst giving the child up and have been trying ever since to get posses- sion of him. One member of the fam- ily said to be especially anxious for the guardianship of the child, according to Mrs. Watson, !8 Mrs, Winifred Burlin- until @}ish without a bar, it appears that a new location must be BLE Mrs. Barney lives at the northeast cor- ner of Thirty-eighth street and Park yayenue, The n hood is one of the juuietest and most exclusive In the etty. }J. Plerpont & palace is a short avenue, Mrs clubhouse project yund that a m is no | Morg: distance away on Madison | Barney opy from the tly pdt t, taking the gr private residence son, of Bath, N. Y., the boy's aunt, un-|place for a club, der whose care he was for several] She found a way to make 4 tio tive when a repres Ail anes the club called on her and asked Mr. Watson is In New York to-day, !sign hier consent to a liqui but has been telegraphed to return | only id je Withheld her ‘ of that city have also |DUt she enlisted the acti home, The police of that city have also | Rut aie enlisted (he act In Dhirtes been notified to look for the boy and ‘elghth street adjoins the proposed club- the trio, heuse, and Mrs, James Fargo, of No, 120 East Thirty- 1 street,” ‘These three have succeeded in holding up the |IIquor license, Seymour P, Thomas, of No. 49 William | street, who Js in charge of the affairs | of the club during the absence from the | city of President Roger Lew!s, admitted | this afternoon that the plan of taking | jthe } avenue building might be given up. He attributes the opposition | to the objections of a few wealthy ma- trons of the neighborhood to the sale of | point so close to thelr homes, the MH Club | ————— SENATE CALLS FOR REPORT ON CONEY ISLAND FARE. ALBANY, Feb, 24,—Senator Wagner's resolution calling upon the Public Ser- | vice Commission, First District, to ad- | vise the Senate as to the reason for the delay In reporting its decision in the matter of a flve-cent fare to Island on the Brooklyn Rapld ‘Transit lex 7 ee | Company's lines, and asking when such |decision may be expected, was adopted |been made to refer the resolution to |committee. A similar resolution passed |the Assembly yesterday eee ‘FLOORED BY EX:GOVERNOR, OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 4.—Stung by the epithet “lar,” applied to bim by B. Coney TO DISBAR LAWYERS When the discussion of the case of IWitiam Hep t the B, Jones, of this city, during a meeting arn Russell aga! of the Mer hange last night, | Pittsburg Trust Company and ex-Gov Pardee floored the | {tS absorption of the Waal n Lite former with a blow wich landed flush | Insura pany was concluded be on his ehin ore hostiltles could be | Justice Erlanger, in the Supreme resumed Jones was teken away by @ * this afternoon, the Judge called patrolman, ry A. Rubino to aceount for the ‘The meeting was called to discuss the lished ent signed by him and proposed amendments to. the city | Edward W. Hatch, formerly a Justice charter and the memorandum agree-|of the Appellate Division of : ment with the Southern Pacific Com. | preme Ce r the Buffalo pany. After Pardee had finished aj ment, and insinuating that Juat | sperch he and Jones indulged in a dis-;langer had agreed to appoint receivers ston which terminated nlows: for the Washington I heeatge there a elena [were fat fe i} ivers, On asking if Rutino and Hatch had TAMPA RESULTS. 1 this statement and sent {t to the!! i Rabind suld boldly that T RACE—Four-year-olds and up sald dustice Eslanger, “your ward, selling, six fu of this court ‘was menda- yards—Moyen, 110 (Har he higvest degree, and the ex Hever We Cirving nishment that ¢ " ould 1,3 to 1 third e, 2 12 Fudge Washaki Vagvan ville, King ertity Thorpe, Hedemption, whan also Divi- ran, ! y THE ALBANY MERCHANTS MAY 5 TAMPEQE THE WHOLE FEMININE DELEGATION ‘9 Stn. G'may ATTRACT CON: SIDERABLE Novice SHE BRoucar HER BAGUAGE WG STARVING THINS. ASK TO BE SENT 0 WORKHOUSE > Magistrate Barlow Grants Odd Birthday Gift to Pair Luck Frowns On, | | measure enivering with cold, hunger and de- Jected, Robert and David Logan, twins, entered the Yorkville Court to-day and requested that they be gent to Black- well's Istand for thirty days each, as ken in spirit and pocket they and with no prospect of finding the work we} they had so zealously sought here for two months past. It was a sorrowing tale they poured into the ears of Magis- trate Barlow. We are just thirty-nine years old to- day, David sald, “and after tramping the streets of New York Your Honor,” for two months, sleeping in hallways) and picking up an occasional crust, here | and there, we decided that If you would | be good enough to put us away for thirty days, by that time we might be in condition to renew our search for work.” Robert then told the two tramped here from Philadelphia, where they were discharged from the League Island Navy-Y when work grew | slack. He sa they were born here, In Third street, and after always get- ting work together they had been com- pelled to separate, David enlisting in the Fourth United States Infantry, from which regiment he was honorably discharged, three years ago. how had We would enlist now,” Robert sald, “put unfortuna we are above the age limit and there seems nothing else for us to do but become paupers. We are honest and temperate, Your Honor, and God knows we would do anything to earn an lionest living, but our clothes so poor now that no- ey all call ue tromps ar out are so thin and body wants us. and tell 13 10 “Tt ts a sad bi ay, Your Honor, as ver thought we would become question! @ brothers at some ength Magt ow decided that they were wor ts of charity ano commit em e island us they had requested. a ee Kine New Turkish Haths im eve tall and ‘Turk ry oFogre also barber shop opea Qaly odern tad | vile Circulation Books Open to All” | | 4, Suffragists and Antis | Upon the Garrison of the Capitol at Albany ‘which opened headquarters In Alt \againat the proposed legislation. | | | i.) 1909. —————= PRICE ONE CENT. TAYING TO DODGE THE oSUE OR BAL SUT ANY ABA Crowd Capitol and Urge Leg- islators to Pass Bill Favoring Them. (Spectal to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb, Voman fragists from all parts of the state, but principally from New York City, stormed fight for the ballot. Every morning brought a from somewhere, and at 2 o'clock this suf- the Capitol to-day in thelr train from carly delegation afternoon the Assemb! amber, where the and many had to be content standing room in the corridors. The Judiciary Committe of the Senate and Assembly early In the present month announced their inten- tion of giving a joint hearing on the to-day, and the New York Woman Suffrage Association, ny hearing took place, was thronged with State at the beginning of tho legislative s¢ sion, planned a demonstration In favor of the measure that was Intenda to emphasize the demand which the Suf- fragettes are making for the privilege of the ballot. ‘That they planned well was proved by the great numbers in attendance and persons of note in the gathering. The New York State Association op- posed to Woman Suffrage, of which Mrs, Francis M, Scott, of New York, js president. had a large delegation in opposition to the hill, ‘This association has been urging the various members of the Legislature by letter to vote Mra. Elihu Root, wife of Mr. Root, United States Senator-elect, is one of the vice- presidents of the association. Friends and foes of the proposed leg- ‘{sletion were very busy, but kept strictly | apart, Many sought out legisiators fo: personal pledges 01 votes. Re Anna! Howard Shaw, President of the National | Woman’ Suffrage Aesoclation, led the| forces of the suffregists, making the} principal arguments in thelr behalf. | Legislators Listen, Many of the Senators and Aasembly- men cheerfully submitted to the button. | holing and when the proceedings began stood about the chamber, for seats were at a premium, and listened to the argu- ments pro and con. “Where 1s Mra, Mackey?" the Suf- trayists were asked, for tt was noticed that some of the prominent women billed to appear were not present. Oh, she could not leave her child, Helen, who is Ill," was the reply, “And then, too, you know Clarence Mackay }ad an operation on his hand the other day, both of whioh kept Mra. Mackay from appearang. eand where {9 Mrs. Lydig?’ was an- other queation put to the apectal woman of the train, Mra. Lydig thought the trip You know, Wall, | be too hard on her ane really would have to 4et up rather wou arly And Mra. Belmont, where le aho?” Cutting her trees tn Newport; you nee, the soclety women have ao much Another woman could nat eome bee (Continued on Second Page. NN RAG TWICE TRIES 10 KI INOFFENSIVE. MAN e+e Harte, Crazed by Drink, Attacks and Pursues Bystander and Victim Es- capes Only After Desperate Fight for Life. ARRESTED IN A SALOON AND HELD IN $2,000 BAIL. POLICEMAN IN RAGE. “He Is a baazgerous Man,” Declares magistrate, Refusing Request of Police Lieutenant to Parole Prisoner—Was Not in Uniform. William J, M. Harte, a policeman attached to the Church street sta- tion, while crazed, it is alleged, with liquor, chased an inoffensive man into Stockes's coal yard at Thirty-fourth street and Ninth avenue to-day and held a loaded revolver at his heart. But for the agility and strength of the threatened man he would have been shot. Harte was held in $2,000 bail in the West Side Court this afternoon by Magistrate Cornell on a charge of felonious assault, the Court remarking made by a police sergeant for Harte’s parole: “No, sir; no parole for this man, He === The a request was is a dangerous character,” man attacked {Cauley MeGinn Tat v living at } fifth street lao Harte left his sat lo ees =| by Harte was forty-one years old, a 0, 310 West Twenty- He is a man of good repu- Station house in citizen's ik this morning, At 830 McGinnis, who was at HALTS TRIAL (F |Thirty-third) street and Ninth avenue | waiting to see the superintendent for i |contractor named Downing, whose yard |ts at that corner, Harte came up to Mee c| |Ginnts and an oath asked him what jhe was colng there —_>— © upon Fired at Fleeing Men. MeGtunis did not re 4 but walked up } enue a shert distance and then re- x the Accused COUNSE! tirned, Harte waa sill there ant again MeGinnis moved When he re- Urges Him to Enter |iumed the second time Harte nag bie Law par Jand, with a ery of rage ig after Plea of Guilty him, at the same time drawing @ ree volver. MeGinn!s von this time. He had : : | not gone twenty feet wl Aa a result of the discovery of © DIG) sig and almost felt don plot that was exposed last night In sped past } some unexplained manner the bribery | He was fright trial of the lawyer, Carl Fischer-Han. | 10 se@ Harte sia no he heard a bullet as tt ed and turned around ring and stumbling i after him with his re aon, was broken off abruptly to-day | ended socinnts Further developments which came to! ner of Tuhatresrana reese Thirty-for phe ran Into-t coal yard, following boys be- light made {t plain that Stephen Bald- been conducting the de- about to withdrawafrom the win, who hi tense, case after urging hie client to plead Heving ft was When Harte « 1p to MoGInnia he qullly to a lesser degree of the crimé| placed the muzzie of his revolver at for which he has been Indicted and wae man's heart. His finger was on 4 the tr: er MeGinnals nis theow himself upon the mercy of the, (0) 00 eR | oom re Court. and pushed tt astde As 1: so the It was expected that dark would see j pistol flashed and the bullet burled {t+ tn pelt the fenee at the rear of the the fina! scene of this sudden denoue- ment, Although those directly inter-) Yard The men strugg ested refused to be Interviewed regard. Halte was no mateh f laborer, Ing the disclosures of a crowded day tt Wh? Wes A imusculy h and sober. wae learned from authoritative so fe was holding sMeeman with that between the time court adjourned *3® Ha Areman uniform en- last night and before It convenad this |" wed. He Knew Harte and morning Diatrict - Attorney rome | C#lled him by that man's & lmurned of an alleged plot to sald to MeGinnts, "Give me Flaoher-Hanaen from any posaibill conviction in the present trial, | Fireman Took Weapon. Lawyer Thr ne to Quit. The laborer wio lel the polleeman's Although full particulars were 5 hese USE nee ince the Ing, It was wald that the so-catieg UO’ vero a was of a piece with the de.) Medinnle s e W rty-weye i ation and Sergt. Mos enti Grath wen n Mr. Jerome claims Fis: Street po! Hansen employed when he was ¢ a charge of extortion last sums ) to apprehend fh a saloon at fith avenue and Hurly this forenoon Mr, Jersiie went to the Justice and told him what nh sa condition t ad learned, ‘Then Mr, Baldwin waa , ng and wae 1 into the conference. Ho was i on Becond Page) —~_— Finest Cranberries Plentifal, Wholesome and delicious with ai! meats, %@ frei \ (Contl t to en- for the yeen sent out lurto’s plato!