The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 2

STATE WANTS BACK RVERFROKT HELD BY SCAR TRUST Ul Grants to 502,812 Square Feet Envalidated by Erecting » Plant, Plaintiff Says. _ SHUTS THE PUBLIC OUT. Defendants Said to Have Of- fered $300,000 for Quit- Claim Deed to Land. + Papers were fied at noon to-day in the Gupreme Court of Kings County in @ ult begun by the State of Now York “wgainet the American Sugar Refining Company of New York tn which It wee “Prestioally demanded that the defendant! , valive ap ite right to the reven-eighth part +2 tte Williameburg property on which 4 te Big plant, boiler houses, storages and (eo Whe are located. The property in- vetved tn the oult {s about four blocks “long the river front and a long city a Week in depth. There are 604,812 square feet involved in the sult, and it in sald (he Property independent of the plants evected upon it is worth ut leant half a fad suit that the American Sugar obtained the use of the : the public should be ent to (tion. Company, which han 602,812 , remerty only on condition that it clube the property as well. By the ervc- * 2 fe the contention of the plaintiff from the State as far uée it for dock purposes, and tien refining plantn, bol- rN ee THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY CURRENCY BLL. =HOW TELEPHONE TRUST | SENT BY HOUSE | TO CONFERENCE resent var says | R CE nse Vail Says Plan Will | —_—- | Be to Give Telegraph Stock- | Hot Fight When Amendments; holders First Option. | to the Senate Measure | — | Are Attacked. MACKAY ALSO PLEASED. It |President of Postal Declares Efforts to Stifle Competition He Predicts Serious Differences | Had to Be Stopped. Among Conferees That | | Opreking to-day over the long die May Delay Action. | tance telephone from hia country home - tn Lyndonville, Vt, Theodore N. Vall, President of the American Telephone WASHINGTON, Dec, W.--After « hot] and Tolagraph Company and the Womt- debato in the House today, Adminte| tern Union Telegraph Company, maid to tration leaders had their way and eont| The Kvening Warld: “Conforming GLASS LEADER IN } i the Currency bill to conference, At- fo the terms of our tempts to conewr at once in the Senate | @greement with the @evernment, the jerdments wore defeated, 204 to 69, | Bell telephone eyotem will offer every With the Mouse in disorder, Repubil. | ppertuaity for other telephone com- can Loader Mann moved to inetruct the | peales to comnect with ite long distance Houne conferees to disagree to the| mes. We hall emeourage the inde- Senate amendments and agres to the| pendants to come 12 our lines, so that “Hiteheock” tll rejected by the Sen. | Me pUWle may have @ felr opportunity A parliamentary wrangle ensued deciding which service they wast. and another rollcall was ordered to| Phe Bell eyetem etands on the quality ehut off debate. J of ite cervics, A group of Middle Western Democrats! “As for Government ownership, if the fight to accept the Henate! people will only measure the servic: ober Feit hes pny he they get from the Post-Oftice Depart- mant by the same standard they apply imine mortgage 10an8} «telephone service, I am not atrald ‘The bill went to conference, iowever,| Of tho decision, My attitude toward with the Houso managere inatructed | Government ownership is merely to to accept the Benate amendments ex-| point out the quality of operation and tending the rediecount privilege to aix|eervica to let the public judge for months commercial paper und permit. | itee!t, ting national banks to make five-year | NO farm mortage joans. AR THAT GOVERNMENT uses, ato nd the like, it In that the defendant violated thin it, Which is stipulated in the By « vote of 211 to 61 the Democrats Voted down Instructions offered by Rep- i remantative Mann to substitute the nts, “Hiteheock" bil! . PBR $300,000 TO STATE FOR| During the debate Representative Glam declared that no immediate agreement Letween the two houses was likely, @l- though other leaders predicted early action, “There are serious differences between the two houses,” said Representative Glass, ‘and I cannot see any prospect QUIT CLAIM DEgO. it ®ecame known to the Ameri- Refining Company that sult tnatituted, it 1a clatmed that bean made through the to have « quit claim signed deeding over the property j + i ih WILL ACQUIRE LINES, “Wo have no fear of such @ step being taken by the Government. Even if it whould eventually be done it would be & wood thing for telephone atockholders. ir property is actually worth con- @iWcrably more than it 4 capitalised for, aside from the company’s large surplus, ‘and any purchase would net them well. *"No dofinito arrangements have been made yet for disposing of the Western Onion stock. That eudject will be taken ($200,000, the American Sugar Re- the land owned by which the company be compelled to move in the event ‘the eult's success, te said tobe worth \¥ over @ million dollars. Most Plant t@ located between Bouth JNfth etreets and west we. @ugar Refining Company Grants Of the seven-cighths 'y the land was han einc been Portions pierced. At ps ahappeea Deputy wi Prosecuting galt Cor Attorney-General Thomas the property is all pri- 1@ completely shut rat ef it i : i i Fj i s rf t tt H Hl E i v4 1 : e | iota, herr eharge in the complaint Gefendent or its pave, y that rules the country ‘he hand that grasps the pen, band that conjures ap { ¢ tl erstwhile “might hays been @ Sunday World ad. Rael ig ea delay, portunityville Monday you'd hold sway great Christmas Number of the World goes forth to-morrow more New York City homes and than are reached by the Sunday Times, ‘ ¢ ADDED ER. in World ad. i dive gree ‘Then, after the Hou back and forth for more hours, Speaker Clark finally got things to a point where he could mame the conferees, and he formally named Rep- resentatives (ines, Korbley and Hayes, elthough a fight for nine, the number appointed by the @ahate, wi mad Ae tho Senate had adjourned vefore the bill was sent to conference, final ratification of the measure by Congrose is of necersity poatponed ef teset until Monday. ‘The bill struck the first qneg when o fight over t! and the ques some of tho Henate amendm wes made Representative (less asked soon after the first of the new year. It te probable that the stock will be offered Grat to Western Union astock- Holders to take up themselves. “Aa for Weatern Union, the property \e In far better condition to-day than when telephone company took it over, It fe in excollant shape to atand on Its own lege and compete with its rival without any agsistance from the Bell aystem. Western Union was hever tm better condition than it ts to-da: If the ital Telegraph Company can otand @, most assuredly Western Union can, too, WILL NOT START RIVAL TELE- GRAPH SYSTEM. “Reports that the American Telegrap; and Telephone Company will enter the unanimous consent to Gigngree to the] telesraph Meld after disposing of its Senate amemimenta and send the bill| Westen Union interests are without to conference Representatives Hard-| foundation. The Bv!l eyetem will not ik of Georgia and Madden of Illinois inded the House should have ae 1y conferreen as the Benate, and aald they desired an opportunity to vote on some of the amendments. Majority Lea¢er Underwood secured unanimous coneent to take up the dill. Representative Murray of Oklahoma moved to coneur im the @enate amend- ments, and the reading of the Atty pages’ chenges made by the Senate was ordered, causing a long delay in getting the bill before the conference commit- tee. ‘The fight in the House developed u movoment to insure retaining the Senate emendment for guarantee of bank de- posite. Representative Glasn declared the enactment ef the measure into law ae it came from the Benate would he a “calamity” “T want the Ot! sent to conference,” ne suid, “because 1 @m convinced that as the bill hap been completed by the Bemate !t would not be a workable law,” He pointed out several provisions in the Genate amendments which he eaid con Aicted. Mr. Glaea attacked the bank reserve requirements as amended by the Senate. “Under this provision,” he ealé, “the total reserves of the banks in the eyay tem, both in cash and in oredit, with ‘ve banks would be leas than at present holding in cash, Within @ few months under these pro- visions we would @ eaturnelia of expansion—ot wild inflattn.” He de- clared the Senate guarantee provieion Was o “more pretense.” “There are things in thie bill which would bring calamity to this country, and they ought not to de allowed to become law," he declared, Majority Weader Underwood closed the debate, declaring that the measure should be sent to conference, and the House lined up for # vote, with the result @tated. The guarantoe vf clepoaite amendment was passed over during the fight on the floor, but when the conference com- mittes was ready to meet it was we ferally understood that Repres {Glass and the House conferees | stand againet tt | TOOK BICHLORIDE TABLET. | | Phywclans eglan os pital are trying the life of Blevking, old, ng at No, Oo Brooklyn, who was Sixty-second street, taken to the hospita: early toeday eufe ering from bichloride poisoning Sievking mot up cast night to take headache tablet and got the bichlort by He did not know, b 1 about three how he had swallowed poison. of mercury @o into the telegraph busmess for a variety of reasons, If any one reason Predominates. tt ts that the company bee all it can do to take care of its own telephone business. “Besides, we have in the Beil no organisation to handle a care of the telegraph business. would be y It before we could bulld up the necessary organization, “That is just my contention of the futility of the Government attempting to go into the telegraph business, It has an organization adapted to handling the postal service, but !t has syatem to handle 9 telegraph busi- Organisation takes timo to bulld neas. up and efficiency te only attained through perfected syetem and organiza- tion, “But it 1» enough to say that the com- Dany dose not wish to go into the t Graph business. It has enough business of ito own kind on hand. RESULT 18 GRATIFYING, SAYS CLARENCE MACKAY, Clarence Mackay, President of the Mackay Companies owning the poatal telegraph system, discussing the Govern- ment’s Uction in splitting the telephone- ‘Western Union combinetion, said: “It has been a bitterly fought con- test. The result is a gratifying sulu- tion of the whole trouble, We hope and ‘Delleve !t will work out #o that no fur- ther cause tor complaint may exist @ither on the part of the public or on eur part. “Aayboty with any perspective @8 al] could have seem, during the past few years, that there would "We teel grateful to the administra- tion and particularly to Attorney-Gen- eral McReynolds for the result. The Department of Justice took the matter up on Ite own initiative and without any attempt to shift or evade responsibility the Attorney-General has brought about thie complete solution,” Vall Gut of Heston oud Maine. BOSTON, Dec, Theodore N. Vall, Provident of the American T and Telegraph Company, day from the directorate of the Bo: and Maine Railroad. It was stated that Mr. Vall, who recently reigned as « director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ra! 4, desired to lossen hie business responsibilities, Yaeht Afires @AVANNAH, Dec, 9.—The Avalon, a emuall gasvline yacht belonging to Charles Meyer of Now York, caught fire near Davfuskie Island yesterday and wan demtroyed. Mr. und Mra. J.B, Penny -}loaning money on teal esta -_ WILL SELL W. U. STOC + _ THEODORE N.VAIL~ {RY IN LEEHAN CASE IS OUT: HE HOPES FOR ACQUITAL (Continued from First Page.) i ing following Mra. Turner's supposed Meappearance she met Mr, Turner, her husvand, Mr. ‘Turner was driving to town in his wagon, She asked him where Mra. ‘Turner was. ‘Home,’ he eakl. And when sho asked him why she 4i4 not rile to town with him he aald that she had @ bicycle of her own, “This was the morning after the al- leged murder. Mr. Turner was inc Jant night. He was sitting right there outalde of that rail, and the prosecu- tion did not call him to the stand to contradict the testimony of Mra, Quicker. Why? Did they fear that he would corroborate Mra. Quicker? You know that would have meant the end of the case of the prosecution.’ PROSECUTOR ATTACKS WIT-: NESSES FOR THE DEFENSE. Former Assistant United States Die- trict-Attorney Walter Bacon summed up for the prosecution, He laid espe- | cial stress upon the testimony of Mrs. | Buckingham, who sald that she heard @ volco which sounded like that of Mrs. | Turner in an automottlo driven up to her house on the night following that of Mrs. Turner's disappearance, Mr. Bacon said that the story wae unworthy of belief. Hoe attack story of Jennie Morey, who that fhe saw Jack Clayton coming out of the woods on the afternoon Mrs. | Turner disappeared. ‘Tho man she saw was Leehan, the attorney said, The lawyer demanded that tho Jury convict the prisoner. Mrs, Lynoh han been in receipt of many leifers wince she got behind the deiense in this case, Most of them have been from private detective agencies offering to get the right man and clear up the case. ‘The letters ahe handed over to her lawyers, She re- ceived one this morning from Cinoln- nati, on similar lines but from a private party, giving the name and address of @ man in Indlapolis who can clear up "the mystery. “This is different from those recetved id Andrew J. C, Stokes, one “We will y take up the matter with the Cincinnatl party after this trial is over, Mra, Lynch is not going to stop with trial, She {8 going to conduct an tigation on her own account and going to spend her money and her time In clearing up the mystery of Pine Needle Lane.” FREEDOM FROM TOMBS HIS GHRISTMAS GIFT Harey’s Sentence Made to Cover Time He Spent in the Tombs. Willian Garney, who was convicted | before Judge Swann ten months ago of defrauding realty brokers and who }as| been in the Tombs since awalting sen- tence, receive! a welcome Obristmas wift from Judge Swann to-day, The wentence of the Court was ten months! In the Penitentiary. It was wo fixed! us to include the time already spent in prison as part of the sentence, Ap he was convicted in February last, he was iberated iinmediately, Harney's sentence was pending eo liong at the request of the District-At- Htorney. It ts sald he has ulven the pros \ecutor valuable information as to the operations of those in the business of ta this sity. He was arrested tn January Speer, a wy West One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street. Speer negotiated for a loan of his di ® farm tn . After he aad paid and $160 in various informed by Harney the deal waw off. demande for his U ey CURRENCY BILL AND TELEPHONE DEAL LIFT STOCKS «Continued from Firat Page) wall en of the telephone company. Other directors and officers of the telephone company took places in the board vf directors of the Western Union and dominated Its executive com- mitte Under orders from the G iment, z 20, 1018. TELEPHONE TRUST K | TO OPEN ITS LINES TO INDEPENDENTS Wilson Administration Com- mended for First Victory Against the Combines. WASHINGTON, Dee. 9.~The greatest Onti-trust victory of President Wileo1 Administration thus far—the voluntary Giseotution of the eo-catled telephone trust—commanded the attention of all Administration oMoials to-day. Next to the fact thet all the features Against which the Government was pre- paring ite enti-trust sult will be elim- inated with the consent and co-opere- tion of “big business” iteelf without ,veare of court fighting, the principal topic of discussion in Administration cir- cles to-day wae, What effect will the dis- Solution have on the movement for Gov- |erament ownership? ft hen been ge erally expected in Congress that auch a Plan would soon be urged es an Admin- |ietration measure. ‘With the voluntary dissolution of the eo<alled trust actually under way, however, Attorney-General McRéynolds and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to-day prepared to pcan the details of the separation of the American Tele- phono and Telegraph Company from the Western Union and the work of disen- tangling telephone affairs throughout tho country which threatened Bederal ac- tion, Not only has the American Telepnene. and Telegraph agreed to give up ite contro! of the Wedtern Union, but It has agreed not to extend its monopoly of local companies in the telephone field. But the most important point to the the telephone company must sell ite Western Union stock to disinterested persons, Mr, Vall will have to resign from the presidency of Western Union and with him must go the following directors: E. J. Hall, H. 4. Thayer and Union Bethel, of whom are vice-presidents of the telephone cot pany; Henry P. Davison of Morgan & Co,, John I, Waterbury, Henry 8. Howe and Robert Winsor, all directors of both companies. American people, oMflolals declare, is the telephone company's agreement to ex- tend the use of itm toll lines to all le- cal companies, That concession, which le admittedly more than Attorney-en- eral McReynolds expected to secure in @ legal fight, opens long distance fa- cilities by telephone to many communi- ties which have long been denied it, As the work of separating the two Mg companies goes on points en which they may be in doubt will be submitted While George Gold stiD remaina @ director of the Western Unton, practl~ cally all of bi tly’ tock holdings were sold to the telephone company in 1909. Out of a total capitalisation of $100,000,000 the GouJd and Sage hold- ings were $29,000,000 in round num- bers, The telephone company paid an average of about §84 per ahare for the stock, The price has been below that figure on the Stock Exchange for the last two y BLAZING EXPRESS CAR ° PUTS TRAIN IN PERIL to Attorney-General McReynolds and the Interstate Commerce Commission for decision. Administration supporters, after in- formal conferences on the telephone dis- eolution, and going over so much of the plan as has been published, were of the opinion that the latest development would at least retard the movement to present the Government ownership ques- tion to Congress. Some thought the company’s Voluntary readjustment to meet the views of the Department of Justice has created an entirely new alt: uation, which tho Government ownei ship supportera would have to consider before going further. — FEDERAL OWNERSHIP Messenger Forced to Hang by Chain from Door as Flames Raged BILL IN CONGRESS. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. #,—Government t Om | Attorney siri Within. AWeeial to The Eveniag World.) NEW LONDON, Conn., Dec, #.—The firemen of this city had a hard fight towday to extinguish the flames in an express car of the train which reached this city before daylight, Charles Bill. ings of Woonsocket, the messenger, dis- covered the fire Just after the train left New Haven, He tried to put It out himself, and before he realized his danger found him- self cut off from reaching the reat of the train, He escaped being burned to death only by working himaelf out of the aliiding door at the sldé of tho car a ewinging by @ chain until the train reached tho city, He was almost frozen. A number of Christmas packages were Gentroyed and the coffin containing the body of David Lonergan of New York, which had been expressed to Boston, was charred, ——— BULLDOG AFTER BITING IRL DRAGS HER 200 FEET MONTICERIAA, N. Y., Dec, %.—-Kager Ketcham'n bulldog attacked Dora Ro- eenderg, 2 child of eleven years, near here to-day, bit her savagely about the face and other parte of her body, tore her clothing and, when she fainted from weakness and fright, dragged her 10 feet across a field toward his kennel. The timely arrival of an automobile part ved the girl, and the dog was beaten off and wshot, The child @ ine critical conditi Dora and Vera Marcus, twelve years, were walking along the road together when the dog attacked Vora, knocked her down and was snapping at her body when Dora tried to drive him off She put @ milk pall over her head to protect her ‘The enraged animal turned on the rescuer, Vera escaped with alight injuries. a Two Children Strack by Auto. Yetta Fine, nine years old, und her wix-year-old sister Diana, of No. @ At- torney street, were struck and knocked down by an automobile at Grand and ie to-di The machine was driven by Abel W, King of No, 7 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, Yotta’s right log was badly brulsed and her face was cut. Diana's right ear and right side were bruised, They were taken home tn tho automobile that had burt them, Crook: « |) and Harney of New York removed Mr. Meyer and re at the hospital gay !t is too ty predict the onteome of the a.other man who Were on board. The | Avalon was bound from New Yerk to Fernandina, Tt war valued nt $15,000. mack J. Whitden arrived from the Campeche Shetng Neh, the largest catch ever made, nk witl 40,00 , Lt . Judge Chatfield in the Federal District | Court in Brooklyn to-day sentenced John | A. Smith, @ Flushing letter carrier, to the Federal prison at Atlanta for two lye Hmith was found guilty of take ing eighty letters from the maits trom which be abatracted #170, ownership of telephone and t business was sought to~<day in tion introduced by Representative Lewis. He asked that the Post-OMce Commit- tee present to Congress a bill which would take over on Jan. 1, 1916, the country’s telephone network, and con- tinue the operation thereafter by the Government of the entire telephone and telegraph business over these lines. mer's telephone systems would be exempted. ———— AUTO ROBBERS’ HANGOUT _ MENACED BY A FIRE Fire in Saloon Where Bank Loot Was Divided Empties Big Tenement, Fire euriy thie morning in the aix- story tenement, No. 28 Thompson stroet, occasioned 4 panic among the twenry fam.lies occupying the upper floors, It was put out in a few minutes, doing $800 damaxe. No one was hurt. ‘The ground floor is ocoupied by Migh- act Pascal! as & saloon. It was in the back room of this place that the $26,000 stolen from @ messenger of the East River National Bank in February, 1913, was wplit up by the sobbers. The piace waa then owned by Jamee Pascal, “Jimmy the Push,” @ brother of the Present proprictor. ‘The thieves took the money from the messenger {1 front of No, % Trinity place and escaped in a taxicab to Park Place, where they took an elevuted train to Bleecker street and went to “Jim- my's" saloon, Pascall was arrested Feb. 28, 1912, end Ave months later sent to Matteawan, a STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. SAY LEMON TRUST HERE OPPOSES NATIVE FRUIT Bankrupt Firm's Receiver Makes Charge in Suit Against Steam- ship Company. Charges that lemon trust existe In New York and has been maintaining an expensive lobby in Washington, D. C., to bring about @ reduction of the tariff on lemons are made in @ suit for damages | filed in the Supreme Court to-day by ‘William C. Armatrong, receiver of the Dankrupt firm of Mercadante-Regan Company, againat the Sicula Americana, @ ateamship company operating @ fruit Mine between Italy and New York. The local offices of the company are at No, 17 Battery place. Armstrong says that for several years @ combination of importers has been paying two pence on every box of lemons imported into this country and that this tax has gone to Washington to support @ big lobby with agents in Congress to oppose efforts made by Southern Call- fornia lemon growers to retain a protec- tive tariff on the fruit. The mutt asks for the recovery of the money collected for the alleged lobby, Attorney Alex Fox filed the action in behalf of Armstrong. WONEN PROTEST AS POLCE STOP MOVES OF SLAVES ‘Continued from Firat Page.) ton pending Magistrate Murphy's de- cision. Mr. London's visit to court multiplied his troubles, for in the hallway outside of Magistrate MoAdoo's office he was served with papers in nine suits of $100,000 for damage*. Eight were brought |by Solomon Hester, proprictor of a j cafe at No. 76 Second avenue, and one by August G. Merle & Co., makers of infants’ and women's headgear, in West Seventeenth street. Hester said that te moving picture folk had asked permission to photograph @ Hungarian wedding in his place, and to his horror ho had found his pre- sented five times in the pictures as the headquarters of the White Slavers, His wife, who had been present at the wed- ding with her baby in her arms, had been depicted twico and the infant once. Mr. Hester thought $100,000 none too wich damages for each offense. Merle Co, said that three of their oldest and it employees had left after seeing their place of business depicted as the meeting place of a factory girl and a cadet. LONDON ARRESTED AT DOOR OF COURTROOM. London was on hand when the hearing was called. Sergt. Edward J. Quinn, who made the raid last night, put him under arrest and he was led at once before Magistrate Murphy. M+. Gruber immediately moved for hs discharge, saying: | . ; “Thin “ense hes already been passed ‘on by Magistrate Ten Eyck, who decided last Tuesday that there was nothing objectionable in the pictures. It seems to me that officers of the Inw should wtand by the Judges of the inw." Magistrate Murphy declared that the case had come before Magistrate Ten Eyck v.. a summons and was before him on @ warrant and must revelve a review. “I wee by tho papers, Mr. Magistr: that you are quoted as having witnés: the performance and passed judgment | on it,” remarked Mr. Gruber. | “I did see the performance, but I made No public comment,” retorted the M istrate, and Mr. Newburger added he refrained from comment, though he had witnessed the films also, Then Mr. Gruber asked for the ad- Journment, which was granted. ‘In the mean time, Your Honor,” de- manded Mrs. Bolssevain, ‘can the per- formance go on?” |MRS. BELMONT SENT A LETTER OF APPROVAL. It wae then Magistrate Murphy ex- pressed his opinion, Mra 0. H. P, Belmont, who’ had taken an activo part bofore Magistrate Ten Eyck, was not in court, but Dr. William J. Robin- | on, of the Sociviogical Fund of the Medical Review of Reviews, had a let- ter from her in which she said: “In bringing this series of pictures to public attention you are doing the world @ mighty service and future gen- erations will reap the benefit.” SHE BUYS BEEFSTEAK BY PARCEL POST Woman Saves 14 Cents by Pur chase Made in Wis- consin, of Appleton has demonstrated to Mra. F. J. Fransway of Poughkeepale, N, ¥ that the parcel post can be used oco- nomically for long distance shipments of fresh meat, He nas refused to cater to purchasers who demand immediate delivery. The butcher shipped by parcel post to Mrs. Fransway to-day two pounds of sirloin @teak und the same amount of sausage, Mrs, Fransways gain on the transaction, after deducting the postage, was"l4 cents. Bhe paid 18 cents © pound here for the steak, ‘Tho hike epsie price ls % cents. FIRST PETER DOELGER PRIZE APPLETON, Wis, Dec. ¥.—A butcher EXILED TO SCOTLAND TO GET SOBERED UP, Poor James Must Let the Ghhie Product of Harry Lauder’e , Bailiwick Alone. ‘Take t from Mra, James Annan, be ing seen without a stabilizer, perform. ing terroatial loop-the-loops and wal. ‘planes tn the bonny land of Scotland, means a strong probability of ehortly viewing a place that is much mice oloked at from the outside lootdag tn than the other way about. With ¢hia in view Mra. Annan wae at the Ancher line pier toxiay, when the liner Cal!- fornia sailed, in charge of her husbemd, who ahe @ays has exponded much velu- able time and money in attaining a stago where he was ripe to be poured back tn the bottle. Twenty-three years ago, says @fra, Annan, who runs a little paint shop, @ doctor told her husband to take @ drink how and then for his health, For that longth of time James hae stuck fafth- fully to the prescription. James wan to have sailed for the lead of cakes (not of buns) @ week ago. But in the pleasing exhilaration of depar- (ture James partook of several Deouch An dourls-es (this ‘being interpreted jneaning stirrup-cup, or rather, {n hie ; case, sailing drink) and missed the teat, not to mention hia cnoney, @ gold watch and Ucket, Mrs, Annan bad him arre: then, but in court relented, and promised the ‘Magistrate that ¢f fe wouldn't send her husband to the work. house she would seo that he saied ¢or Dundee, where he hee folks and where the regulations referred to tn the feet Paragraph are in vogue, “Well, he'll be seven days on water, anyhow,” philosophically remarked Mre, Annan as the ship putled out of the desk to-day with James safely on board, SCARE AS TRAIN JUMPS TRACK AT FLUSHING Passengers Stampede for the Doert but All Escape Injury In“ the Smashup. % A train-load of matinee-bound age urban dwellers had @ narrow eseape this afternoon on the Wiiltent ing Divivion of the Long Island road when a thrée-car train Jumped an open switch just outside the bridge station at Mlushing. Tho train, an electrical one, waa csmy Ing into the station elowly—s fact whieh Probably averted a disaster—when it ran into an open switch which the @ew of a freight train which had just talme the side track had left open. The motorman, James Barnum, ree through the car shouting a warning, and women, who constituted Jority of the passengers, rush for the doors. The the two behind 1t Jumped first car plunging into a the side of the track. In a& the forwamt end, although it butit of steel as if ft had been oo paper, The passengers were badly hate but beyond @ few cuts and Gruims none were injured. F TRIES MURDER IN SING SING. i ti tl i chit +H Sullivan, County on May 13 to serve from tem te twenty years in Sing Sing fer enag laughter, moval. Sullivan, who has been osm sidered weak-minded, was the butt for his companions’ Jokes and the rage tmto which he always flew amused chem. ‘This morning, when Peter Lagatute, sentenced for burglery, sald something to Sullivan under his breath, the tar- mented man turned on him with @ et and struck for his head, Légn- uta’s skull wae fractured, Other prisoners grabbed Gulliver, who was immediately put in his: eth Legatuts haa a good chance to recover. GOLOIDS ster Gomple PREZ. Gee Ov,, 2 Med. Av... ermoil, 280, O'NEIL,—-JAMES J, O'NETL. in the OBR Brtet services this nara the Presbyterian Chureh, N at 2.80 o'eloak, the New Church Yard, was born in New York . 80. und is survived &, wife and his son, James Denia Carriages will meet 12.28 trim at Basking Ridge, N._J. LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, I a . e3 KEWARA— Mate yiseas, ASK, 4B ad 191 from store room, fom, Iofaiith Wiovernors Island atlon leading to arrest |' Sold in Bottles by Dealers Everywhere Order a Case Today!