New York Times, The (Newspaper) - May 8, 1901, New York, New York AH the News That's Fit to Print COPYRIGHT 1001 BY THE NEW TORK TIMES COMPANY THE WEATHER Probably showers and cooler brisk southeasterly winds VOL NEW YORK WEDNESDAY MAY 8 PAGES ONE CENT In Greater York Jersey J Elsewhere City and Newark IAG ARTHUR REPLIES TO W G T U CRITICS Denies that Great Immorality Ex- ists in Manila Those Who Make the Charge to Corns to the Philippines and In- Conditions May tart reply from Gen to the Woman's Christian people who have cised the army attitude toward immorality in Manila was made public at the War Under instructions from Root Gen Corbin sent to MacArthur a letter signed by Mrs A W President and Miss Marcia Secretary of the Woman's Temperance Union of Columbus Wis another from J W Carlisle of Media Perm In his reply Gen MacArthur ex- presses a strong desire that Mr Carlisle anil tho ladies come out to Manila and look into the evil there for themselves and suggests that Corbin give them tree transportation for the purpose It is quite says Gen thur that the writers ol these letters have only been misled as to the facts upon comment but have ly failed to take into proper tion the disturbed conditions incident military occupation and the state war here prevailing It is further evident that they have very imperfect information of general conditions in the Orient in the referred to and without a THE Republicans Gain a Victory Under the New Disfranchising Re- buke to Mr Gorman Special Ifl The York Times BALTIMORE May Republicans the election for members of the City Council IS out of of the branch Tho second branch of 5 Democrats and 4 Republicans Only 4 members of the were elected to-day all Re- publicans Both branches of the last cil were Democratic Only Go per cent of the total vote was cast The result is mainly due to the followers of Mayor Hayes and holding element in the City Hall turning the regular organization dominated by Gorman's lieutenants In the city Public feeling against Mr Gorman's extra session of the Legislature and the disfranchising also contributed to defeat Hundreds of illiterates both white and colored did not attempt to vote Those negroes who had been taught the difference In the appearance of the words and Republican voted all right but even some of these got badly In one precinct alone five negroes when told they could no assistance in marking the ballot left the booth saying they would rather not vote at all than a mistake In the principal colored ward where two negroes were running against one white rutin and one negro one a regular lican and the other independent many of the voters were completely at sea They were supplied by the regular licans with a rule made of paper supposed to be the exact length of the ballot on hich spaces were marked indicating the regular Republican candidate Various devices were used to enable the man who could not read to mark his ballot cor- but is a rule they were not very successful Several Germans who cannot road English intelligently became angry when they learned that in marking the first name on the ballot they had voted for a instead of a Republican As there were only the names of candidates on the ballot it was EASTMAN TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN BEHALF Tells His Version of the Shooting of R H Grogan Jr Harvard Instructor Not Sure Whether Rim Fire or Centre Fire Bullet Killed His edge of which an intelligent judgment upon I comparatively simple as compared with discussed can scarcely be I will be in the Fall election when question formed i am convinced that the City of Manila nay to-day challenge a comparison as to its moral and orderly condition with any city 01 the United States This condition jis the more remarkable in view of the lack of mural tone pervading the of the the fact that the govern ot the Philippines since the can has been necessarily one of that Manila is the an army of 60.000 men the city i through which this army must come and go and that these many thousands of men are in the prime of life and are remotely removed from the restraining influence That be exorcised over them by their home surroundings It is recommended that the of the inclosed letters or their who desire to know the truth as to tlie social conditions obtaining in Philippines be given transportation TO Manila where they will tae afforded every opportunity to see things as they are the articles in the paper from these writers derived the ideas ex- pressed in their it might appear that the officers of the United States Army stationed in this division were pandering 10 the vices of their men The absurdity of such a is patent Aside from the question of ethics no commander would dissipation and vice which must necessarily weaken the force on which he must depend been confronted with a lem which has vexed modern civilization both Europe and America The circum- stances attending our taking over the eminent of these islands and the method of in Asiatic cities have furnished diffi- cullies in the solution of the problem not easy to overcome as those encountered in the United States where are more settled ing which it Is believed that no city in i America or Europe certainly none in Asia to-day vie with Manila in the good itier and morality which have resulted from the practical measures adopted The patriotic interest taken by the American people in our soldiers in the r Philippines is fully understood and It must be conceded however that tit is accompanied by less direct and in this sense is subordinate to felt by the army officers who com- maml them The care of the soldiers health almost the first duty of the officer arid far from pandering to his vices and en- him to dissipation every effort is made to maintain a high standard of true manhood in the young soldier and re- turn him to his country when his service is over a citizen who will be a credit to tho hard school from which ho was graduated a committee be sent to Manila as recommended they should also visit other ports on the Asiatic coast for the purpose of comparison and before leaving acquaint themselves with the tics and condition in regard to the social which obtain in cities nf the United States of the same population as Manila Having done this T am certain that they upon concluding their work here taka home to their friends a very different idea of the conditions of the American Army both as an army and as a civilizing agent than they appear to have obtained from tho reading of certain newspapers nor do 1 that they will concur with military authorities as to the wisdom of the rary expedients resorted to to meet the emergency conditions presented Gen reply to the specific that he has licensed and houses of prostitution is that he has done nothing of the kind that fallen are not licensed nor are they in land in the Philippines and of them have been deported from the islands there will fce numerous offices and dates of three or four parties on the ballot The fact that the Democrats were CAMBRIDGE Mass May climax in the Eastman murder trial was reached to-day when the defendant himself took the stand to tell his own story The room was crowded to suffocation with at- and interested Cambridge citizens both women and men The spectators heard Kastman calmly relate his acquaintance with Grogan which he declared was always pleasant saw his horror and emotion as he told of the tragedy and his grief when he related the scene on the ing of the last Fourth of July story was clear and concise and ho wavered but little He went into no elaborate details but answered only the questions put to him by his lawyer For two hours he was on the stand his testimony as to his relations with gan and the Incidents of the fatal day He declared that the shooting was an accident and thaf up to last October he had always believed that it was the old rim-fire pistol that discharged the bullet which killed his brother-in-law The struggle which followed he said was for the possession Of the pistol which Grogan had in his hand Eastman said that he went to Grogan first to assist him and then because of the expression on his face to get the weapon away from him He said that there was so much noise and confusion in that struggle that he could not recall how many times Grogan SON OF HILL TO MARRY Engagement of Louis W Hill and Miss Maud Taylor Lives in This City Special la The York Times ST May engagement 13 announced of Louis W Hill second son of James J Hill and Miss Maud Taylor ond daughter of Cortland M Taylor of New York and formerly of this city Mr Hill is President of the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota He is about thirty years old It is a coincidence that the sister of Mr Hill's fiancee also married the son of a railway President This sister is Mrs Walter Oakes of New York her husband being the son of ex-President Oakes of the Northern Pacific Cortland M Taylor came hero from New RESCUES FROM BURNING APARTMENT HOUSES Several Persons Injured and a Number Reported Missing Some Jump from ed on Lexington Avenue and Spread i to Sixtieth Street Fire which started Just before last mid- night in the ground floor of the York some years ago He was President of apartment house at Lexington Avenue corner Sixtieth Street drove twenty or more the Ba to New York about a year ago Miss Maud Taylor is about years old She is a tall blonde and popular She was for a time a hospital nurse in New lork Like her fiance she is fond of golf She became indeed ohe of the most expert players among the women of the Town anil Country Club She was often seen as well upon the Roadside links Louis W Hill is now in New York MRS BOTHA ABOUT TO VISIT MR Report that She Will Ask Him to Advise Boers to Surrender LONDON May Daily Chronicle says It learns that the health of Mrs Botha wife of Commandant General Botha has broken down owing to worry and her constant journeys between her husband and Lord Kitchener The paper adds that Mrs about to sail from Delagoa Bay to visit Mr Kriiger and to appeal to him to persuade the Boers to surrender Lord Kitchener reports the capture of another hundred Boers one twelve-pounder one nine-pounder one Maxim and a tity of ammunition revolver went off But that it did gp ott i Gen Kitchener's first long review of thi was almost certain He did not know how he received his own wound bat that he did eel in most of the wards notwithstanding so j everything possible after the affair to many negroes remained away from the i Grogan to the house and was polis is taken by the Republicans to mean that Democrats as well as Republicans took the opportunity to rebuke Mr Gorman I and his lieutenants for the new election j States Senator McComas j night sent a telegram to President ley stating that the result was the con- by the citizens of Baltimore of the Gorman election law and a victory for good government It appears that nearly all the independent Democrats voted the Republican tickets CELTIC FOR TOURIST TRADE Mammoth White Star Liner Has Been Chartered by Frank C Clark of This City General Manager John Lee of the White Star Line confirmed last evening the report that the new Star Line steamer Celtic which is nearing completion in land had been chartered by Frank C Clark the of 111 Broadway The vessel will be utilized in the tourist trade The Celtic when completed will be the largest ship afloat by several thousand tons She is being built immigrant and freight trade The is expected to be for service next July Mr Clark who her is now on his way to New York from England and is expected to arrive here on Jt was reported yesterday that Mr Clark had chartered the Celtic for President J J Hill of the Great Northern Railroad This is an error however and is probably due to the fact that Mr Clark is the New York agent of the Great Northern Railway of England The similarity in the names of the two systems is to have been the foundation for when asked about the rumor Mr HIM the report yesterday said he had no idea of chartering any such boat If E charter a ship said he it will lie one that can turn around in the Mississippi NORTHERN President Mellen Does Not Believe Re- port that Vanderbilts Have Wrested It from J J Hill Special to York Times ST PAUL May C S len of tho Northern Railway dis- credits the story that Vanderbilt interests have wrested the control of that road from J J Hill and his associates Speaking of the matter to-night he 1 certainly do not believe the story T was with Mr Hill until I left New York at the end of last week and I firmly be- lieve that he had at that time the slightest idea of disposing of a dollar's worth of his Northern Pacific holdings Furthermore I do not believe that Mr Hill is dealing with Northern Pacific stocks for speculative purposes He is taking a personal interest in the road and its tion and such stories as this I believe are without foundation As to the report of his resignation Mr Mellen I have not resigned When I do I will undoubtedly take the newspapers into my j confidence ed with grief found that he was to last October he had always thought that it was the bullet which nan killed his brother-in-law but the tion of a bullet by the ment at the Grand Jury hearing had shaken ils belief until now he was not prepared to say whether It was the rim-fire or tne from Grogan's pistol which was discharged during the struggle that did the killing The day closed with an interesting match between the accused and At- torney General Knowlton The latter planned his leads in the most subtle jer and executed them with great but he found alt his blows parried with but few tions and then they drew but little He made Eastman say that he could not remember how he held Grogan's revolver when he got it away trom him whether he grasped it by the muzzle or the handle or that after he had obtained it whether it went off The Attorney General's last question Do you think you could stand before vour brother-in-law to-day his pis- tot in your hand discharge it and then ot that you had shot him Eastman's reply was Not if J was Jn my right senses The cross-examination was not finished when the court adjourned for the day On the stand the defendant spoke in a lather low voice yet his replies were very distinct The trend of his story of events preceding July 4 the day Grogan was shot was to effect that his relations with Grogan always were pleasant and that from the of they were on terms of greatest friendship He denied that any quarrel took place in November 1800 that any jealousy existed because Grogan Had undertaken the business left by their father-in-law or that he ever had said in the presence of Grogan's mother that Grogan's NEW COMBINE PHILADELPHIA DEATH KATE Registrar's Report It ed the Birth Year IP The York PHILADELPHIA May report of Chief Register Show to the Board of Health to-day was rather in that it Pian for Absorption of Ontario Lake Superior Company by Consolidated Lake Superior Company Special to ilic York Titties PHILADELPHIA May Confirmation was to-day obtained at the offices of the concerned of the report of the plan for the consolidation of the dated Lake Superior Company and the On- tario Lake Superior Company by the ab- sorption of he hitter company by the for mnr The Consolidated Company's capital will he increased from to that during the last week and last t yob of which will be preferred common stock Scuth African operations dealing chiefly with the invasion of Cape Colony and dated March S was published in The don Gazette yesterday Lord Kitchener says it has been his cor- staht endeavor since taking over the com- mand to Improve the fortification works along the lines of communication thus re- ducing the guards He has also caused the evacuation of the garrisons remote from the thereby obviating convoy corts He commandeered upward of horses in Cape Colony since December Lord Kitchener favorably mentions 200 officers officers ana men PHILADELPHIA TIMES SOLD Purchased by Mr Adolph S Ochs cipal Owner and Publisher of The New York Times Mr Adolph S Ochs the principal owner and publisher of THE NEW YORK TIMES has acquired by purchase The Philadelphia Times The announcement of this fact was made In Philadelphia yesterday when the formal transfer of the property was made Witness rela day ted the incidents of target therf Philadelphia more eats than It lias generally been thought that This applied only to thf City of Paris where it to be the result of During thp last week there were in this city births and deaths During the last year there were births and deaths Killed Her Father and Herself ST LOriS Mny Baare aged fifty bailiff the St Louis School Board and an in the State was shot and killed at his home night by daughter Ida N Baare aged twenty who then turned the revolver upon herself inflicting a wound from which she died in two minutes Both were shot through the head The action of the young was premeditated as was shown by a letter which she left In- it said that the frequent insults offered to her mother by her father became unbearable and that Bhe hart resolved to kill him and then self Mr Baare was taking a nap when he was killed INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS The stock of the Ontario Company is to be acquired by giving in par value of the new issue of Consolidated pre- practice on the morning of the Fourth or dining and of going to the swimming races irt company with Grogan Eastman said he found the races slow and started back home with his wife He denied that he urged Grogan to come back home but that the latter overtook him on the way home One or the other suggested that they re- sume the target practice This was done Eastman said that as he stood with his back partly turned toward Grogan with the old revolver in his nand the pistol went off Eastman was greatly startled He saw hands go up and he seemed to stagger and immediately after there was a discharge of Grogan s revolver Eastman sprang toward Grogan and ob- served his features From this said the witness I cannot give an exact and consecutive count of what took place I know I sprang forward with the idea of assisting Grogan and as he staggered back the revolver In hand went off a second time I rushed toward him to grapple the weapon put of his hand I was whirled about him and here was a struggle for the possession of the gun on my part There was confusion exclamations noise and and the next 1 remember was the deep Indra wing breath when he burst out with thing like Damn it 1 am shot Finally I got possession of the revolver after a long struggle and was brought to knees I know ex- what happened after that because of the fright and horror and ot the cries I cried out to him to let go while on his part he said in the most agonized tones oh oh I next re- member that we were running and that we came together again for another gle Some weapon 1 don't know what lay On the ground and I tried to kick It out of the way Here examining counsel Did yon ever have any feeling of malice or jealousy toward Never in my whole life Did you ever have any thought of harming Never nor toward any human being Mrs Eastman wife of the defendant was on the stand most of the forenoon She was visibly affected by the minute ex- amination as to the incidents Immediately evidence as to the intimate relations between her husband and Grogan She CASTLE LINER ASHORE The Castle Grounds Near Cape Landed and the Vessel Undamaged CAPE TOWN May steamer tallon Castle of the Castle Line which left Southampton on April 20 via Madiera April for Table Bay Cape Colony is ashore on Robben Island not far from here She has relief troops and gers on board All the passengers have been landed The vessel struck Just as she was about to anchor owing to a fog She is in no way damaged and It is hoped that she will be saved CHOKED A PHOTOGRAPHER Capt Herreshoff Caught Three Trying to Photograph the Broke Two Cameras BRISTOL R L May New York newspaper photographers were caught on a wharf at the yard to-day ing photographs of the Constitution and of the officers and the crew of the yacht They were roughly handled by the in- censed shipbuilder who confiscated the cameras of two of them and destroyed their plates The third escaped with his camera to a skiff that lay alongside the The other two were arrested and taken to the police station by Capt Hoard Later they were released with a reprimand The watchman first saw the men who liad reached the wharf in a boat He ried to the spot to order off the intruders Some objection was made by the artists and in the midst of the controversy John B Herreshoff appeared He was very an- gry and he at once took matters into his own hands He directed the watchman to seize one of the cameras while he moved toward another One artist offered ance and Mr Herreshoff seized him by the throat and forced him to give up his instrument Meanwhile the third man had Jumped into a boat and escaped with his pictures Mr Herreshoff directed his watchman to take his man to a small building in the yard where he took the other also They were locked up and the Chief of Police was called The men were taken to the station The boat builder however retained the cameras and de- the plates MRS NATION Calls to Cell and Then Fights to Prisoners Help to Subdue Her Special la The York Times WICHITA Kan May an attempt to secure her freedom Carrie Nation night had an encounter with the turnkey of the Sedgwick County Jail and as a re- sult she has been placed in solitary ment and is under constant guard About dusk the old lady began to beat a tattoo on the floor of her ceil with the cot upon which she is supposed to sleep This constant noise bothered the prisoners and they requested the turnkey to keep her quiet hen Dick Dods the turnkey opened her cell she pounced upon him and began to bite and said she did not remember any such Stocks irregular Financial Pages 10 11 and 12 Wheat No red corn No 2 mixed oats No mixed cotton middling S iron Northern No 1 A sufficient amount of new preferred stock of the Consolidated Company has been underwritten by a syndicate to insure the financial success of the project More than two-thirds of the stockholders have consented to the proposed plan The par value of the preferred stock will be -in- creased from a share to E V Douglas James J Swartz and F S Lewis are Trustees to carry out the plan and a special meeting of the holders of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company will be held in New Haven Conn on May 16 to approve the plan to be sub- mitted BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY flint diaries II Flint Hag Op- tion on the Plant Denied to Tlie York Times PHILADELPHIA May ton and Borie Directors of the Bethlehem Steel Company flatly deny the report that an option on the property has given m A butter Western to Charles R Flint of New York It was also denied that any combination is being ery Commercial 11 At the Hotels and Arrival of Out-of-Town Amusements Page Business 14 Insurance by Intelligence and Foreign Page New 1 Real 12 United a Weather ge 8 yesterday's 3 band made the suggestion that the party comprising the Eastman and Grogan ilies return home from the swimming races on July the day of the shooting Mrs Eastman also testified that in June the lock on the tomb containing Grogan's body had been tampered with but no one had asked permission to open the tomb Attorney General Knowlton declined to cross-examine Mrs Eastman Electric Line for Texas Special to The New York Times DENISON Texas May first inter- city electric railway in Texas was formally put into operation yesterday and cars are making regular half-hourly trips between this and Sherman ten miles south including track in both cities the line Is fourteen miles long and is a substantial modern electric railway The line is owned by Chicago was built by a cago company Raised Thank Offering NASHVILLE Tenn May Board with the Cambria and Education of the Methodist Episcopal nn South to-day Bishop Galloway presiding Dr J D Recording Secretary reported that the Steel Companies On the Street the i opinion prevails that the present year may see a union of the three companies though their absorption by the United States Steel Corporation is regarded as unlikely The three are largely owned by the same pie and the consolidation could readily be effected if regarded as desirable It is be- that if not consolidated a close working agreement will be effected A well informed financial interest ex- presses the opinion that Bethlehem Steel will be maintained in a position ent of the Carnegie Interests as a matter of policy e ordered by the General Conference thank offering for the twentieth century had been raised Bishop Duncan delivered an address on mission schools The work of classifying colleges was com- 1 A Train Every Hour For Buffalo Niagara Falls and the West by the New York Central Lines Two cent mileage ets are Nation back Into her cell It has been learned upon good authority that the local Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union people are quietly forts to have Mrs Nation declared Insane The other women who had been ed with her got tired of their stay In jail and to-day readily accepted bail when the same was tendered DAMAGES FOR A LOST ARM Case Decided Against Metropolitan Street Railway Company After Four Years of Litigation j A verdict for given to the guardian of George Gumby against the Metropolitan Street Railway Company in the Supreme Court yesterday is the result one of the legal battles in an tion for damages ever tried In the Court When the case first came up fn Presiding Judge took it away from the jury An appeal to the Appellate Division resulted in an order for a new trial Two trials followed and in each the Juries disagreed The fourth and last trial began on Monday before Justice of the plaintiff On May 22 1897 George five years old in company with Caleb eleven years old attempted to cross Sixth Avenue at Third Street A horse car owned by the street railway company knocked George down and as a result of his injury he lost his right arm A Cup A cold bottle at Adv families into street and many people had narrow escapes The police and fire- men aided by onlookers rescued several persons Two were injured and taken to Presbyterian Hospital and several are re- ported missing The fire started in the butter and egg store in It spread rapidly and soon had extended on one side to 754 and on the other to and and to 130 and 134 East Sixtieth Street around the corner Mr and Mrs A M Young who lived on the fourth floor of No 758 jumped from the window of their apartment into a life net held by the men of Engine Company No 16 and citizens Mrs Young received severe contusions and internal injuries and after being treated was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital Her husband was also taken there suffering from contusions Truck was the first to arrive on the scene Ladders put up and Fireman Charles Fay aided a family of five whose names could not be learned to escape from the firt escape of 750 In the mean time ambulance calls had been sent to the Presbyterian Hospital and two in charge of Drs Dorman and arrived Patrick Conway of Park Avenue a took a woman from the first floor of No 738 while Driver John Mela and William Clifford of Truck No 3 cued three women and a young girl Crom j the first Policeman Sullivan of the East Sixty-seventh Street Station took a man named from the fourth floor and Policemen Stump and ot the same station aid- ed William Johnson his wite and year-old baby to escape from their ment on the third floor of the same The fire was discovered by Inspector sor of the Metropolitan Street Railway who with an employe was going to ington Avenue and Sixtieth Street to work An alarm was sent in from the box located at Lexington Avenue and Street At the same time Charles Rafsky of 1.771 Broadway who was passing blew a whistle he carried and brought the police The fire spread so rapidly that a second and third alarm was sent in almost at Fire Chief Croker was on the spot in a short time and assumed charge Chaplain Smith was also on the scene and took an active part in reviving those who were cued from the burning buildings The lice reserves of the East Fifty-first and East Sixty-seventh Street Stations were called out and had a hard time keeping jack the big crowd that gathered In an in- credibly short time A man was seen standing at the window of the third floor of as if he about to jump Then he and it is eared was either burred or smothered Miss Waldron living at No 738 on the fourth floor attempted to jump into the Ife net She missed it falling Into the arms of half a dozen and men She was injured and taken to the Presbyterian Hospital James E Conway of Madison nue one of the men holding the net Into which Mrs Young jumped was thrown to the ground and received a severe sprain of the back and a scaly wound He was ken to the Presbyterian Hospital Mrs Wanamaker on the third floor ol No attempted to jump Into the life net She struck the fire escape on the floor receiving internal Injuries Earl Reynolds a bystander helped her to the round and she was removed to the Hospital Carrie Johnson a servant girl living In No 738 is reported missing Across the street the residents of the apartment house Barbara threw open their for the benefit of those who hod been made homeless by the flames Those who were rescued were taken there At o'clock the fire was under con- trol The police then made the following report of 33 years old 1.833 Madison Avenue injured on left hip while to sart Elizabeth of 138 East Sixtieth Street went home PATRICK T fireman Com- pany No St injured but on duty Mrs 24 years old ot 1.18 East Sixtieth Street jumped from fourth floor internal injuries Hospital YOrNG D M 27 years old Auditor Armour Beef Company jumped from third floor East Sixtieth Street Internal injuries WALDRON Mrs ELIZABETH years old Bast Sixtieth Street from third floor internal injuries Presbyterian pital The apartment houses were all damaged uut the worst was and 738 Lexington Avenue both of which are gutted The others are not so badly damaged Of thn residence houses on East Sixtieth Street No was badly damaged the other two being more damaged by water than by fire On the ground floor of the enue buildings were stores D M A man a hair dresser occupied the first floor of No 782 the Lexington Laundry the first floor of No a tailoring ment in the first floor of No and F a fruit dealer the first floor of Shortly before 2 o'clock Chief Croker had withdrawn a part of the engines and the firemen were beginning the work of going through the buildings and searching for any possible victims of the fire May Phillips Corn to to The York Times CHICAGO May Covering by a few scattered shorts advanced the price of corn to-day from cents to cents It rested finally at cents against 51 cents the closing price of yesterday The trading was in small lots bushels being the parcel that changed hands on any one transaction H Phillips was in the pit all day but did not seem disposed to bid the market PHILADELPHIA May Time's of this city print the following editorial announcement of its change of ownership and declaration of the policy the new As the proprietor of The Philadelphia Times 1 may appreciate the task 1 have undertaken to maintain an honorable and important position for it among the delphia newspapers The newspapers or this city are Jn able and strong hands and In their capacity reflect every phase of public it is not in- tended lo Introduce unusual methods or policies to win the good will of the public The Philadelphia Times has been an im- portant and influential factor in the dally life o this community for more than a quarter of a century and under the arid able guidance of Col A K Mcr Ciure and Mr Frank McLaughlin its his- tory was tilled with great achievements unselfish sacrifices for the public welfare and private honor and pure loyalty to the best Interests of the city State and try It shall be the endeavor to preserve all the best of these traditions and retain the respect confidence and good will of all fair-minded people who may read The Times In acquiring The Philadelphia Times I am seeking no advantage other than to secure several hundred thousand readers for its daily and in thus serving the to make the newspaper prove attractive and profitable to all mate advertisers In the conduct of this paper there will be no faction of any political party to be vored no personal ambition for public of- fice to promote no selfish interest to ter no private ends to seek no friends to push forward by the influence of its col- and no enemies to punish The Philadelphia Times has been acquired for the purpose of conducting honorable business enterprise to offer to the public a high-class journal at a minimum of price n other words to offer a newspaper with All the that's fit to print for small sum of 1 cent The newspaper will first and foremost be dedicated to all that Is for the public fare It will be Intensely American ng oh all occasions the belief that the United States its institutions and its ple embody the highest and fairest type civilization and that our country is the aest the sun shines on In- party affiliation the newspaper will be fundamentally but it will seek to advance the Democratic principles which have beeri for more than a century the bases of our exemplifying the imperishable truth that a Government of the people for the people and by the people can only endure when honesty and integrity are its guiding principles and legislation serves no private ends at the expense of the public White this paper will have its political predilections it will in no sense GAMBLERS STRIKE AT COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN Seek by Legal Means to Restrain Justice Jerome's Zeal Order to Show Cause Why He Should Not Be Prohibited from Acting as a Committing Magistrate ft legal step intended to restrain the of the Committee of Fifteen In its efforts to rid the city of New York of gambling houses and other vicious resorts was taken yesterday It was in its diate effect merely the securing of an der to show cause why a writ of tion should not be preventing tice William Travers Jerome from acting as a committing Magistrate In certain cases Justice Jerome has signed all the committee's warrants for arrest and has the police in many cases to see that the warrants were The writ of prohibition was asked for late yesterday afternoon by Lawyer Charles L Hoffman attorney for Thomas Morrell George Black Charles Edwards and ert Williams four of those arrested in the gambling house at 111 East Fourteenth Street when the place was raided oil the night of April M Justice Gildersleeve of the Supreme Court granted the order to show cause and it will be heard by tice to-morrow morning The men who ask for this writ were to have been examined before Justice Jerome to-day but the order to show cause acts as a stay of proceedings until the motion is decided The petition to Justive Gildersleeve sets forth that the defendants were arrested od information furnished by Lew L baum and warrants were signed by Jerome The warrants charged these men with the commission of a lelony prior to the time ot the filing of the Information though Kosenbaum swore that the said lelony had been committed on the said April au HIM The petition sets at considerable length the circumstances attending the raid on the premises at 111 East Fourteenth Street the two safes there and the subsequent breaking Into them It is alleged that Justice Intends to act committing violation of the Constitution ot tne State and of the The charge is made thai Justice Jerome has acted as counsel to the prosecutors of the petitioners and that he is proposing to combine the positions of a collector or of evidence against them and then as committing Magistrate upon the ciency of that evidence that his con- duct Is against all known rules of be a pa ty organ will be 1 ure and custom and judicial propriety and tl t a lor thesa ly opened to the discussion of every ques of public Interest without regard to Its editorial views The news columns will be absolutely impartial and accuracy the end desired It Is unnecessary to attempt further to outline in detail the general policy of this paper other than to say that it will be as a decent and ly newspaper complete In Its news service free of typographical freaks and sensa- tional news manufacture It will stop at no expense the the day and give its leaders and as intelligent an Interpretation of the news ai possible What v 111 be for and amusement will not offend good taste To sum up the newspaper will be edited for Intelligent and men and women It is their patronage and good will we hope to merit and to win The association of this with THE JBW YORK TIMES by reason of controlling ownership of that newspaper will only ex- tend to co-operation in gathering rews This relation be very Intimate and should be to the advantage of both erties T have associated with me in the of this tny brother Mr W of The Times who will make his residence In Philadelphia and will assume the duties of general of the property HP brings to the papei rine journalistic edge and on experience in affairs that well qualifies him to develon the cies as above outlined jealously the good traditions of The Times and to maintain all that is honorable in its past record Pledging to serve the best interests of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania In their political commercial and social I earn the good will of all good citizens ADOLPH S OCHS i ia unjust and Inequitable for reasons When Justice Jerome seen at home West One Hundred and eighth Street last night Col Robert Grier Monroe counsel for the Committee of teen was with him The Justice salu he not as yet been served with the order 1 think that 1 can show all the causa that the Supreme Court he said In both ol the safes captured In the raid on the premises 111 East Fourteenth Street we found gambling paraphernalia and 1 think if we produce it before the Judges they will consider that we shown sufficient cause for our action Should Lawyer Hoffman secure an lute writ I know of no process at present by which jurisdiction in those cases can be transferred I don't think however that the Supreme Court will interfere It it does 1 will submit humbly for I tainly don't wish to go to Jail Speaking of the charge that he acted as counsel to the prosecutors of the ers and proposing to combine with the inconsistent position of a collector of evidence against them and then passing committing Magistrate upon the cy of that the Justice I would consider that I was ting a wrong I did not examine LACKAWANNA STRIKE Employes at Scranton Quit Work on Refusal of Superintendent to Grant a Nine-Hour Day SCRANTON Penn May strike of Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad employes was here at noon to-day by the refusal to grant the request of the workmen for a nine-hour working day at the present rate of wages A Grievance Committee of twelve men representing the machinists waited upon Superintendent of Motive Power Lloyd and requested the concession He re- fused the demand A report was made by the committee and the men decided to strike at once All the men went out including machinists blacksmiths boilermakers and helpers en- gine wipers and laborers to the number of 100 Word of their action was sent to all other men in similar occupations along the line from Hoboken J to Buffalo These with the shopmen who struck on Saturday for the reinstatement of the man Hicks discharged at Dover N J makes nearly Lackawanna men on strike in Scranton DOVER N J May strike at the Lackawanna shops here remains un- changed The strikers are rejoicing over the action at Scranton The belief Is eral however that the American tion of Labor will not support the strike The leaders of the strikers claim It will The strike was started because a man was laid off for for absenting himself without permission or being sick STREET CAR MEN STRIKE up except at those times when shorts a desire to cover For the greater part of the session the young Corn King eave his attention to July corn It was re- ported after the close that had dered out bushels of his cash corn to go all rail to Boston This traders say is an Indication that he intends to make It lively for shorts before he gets through with his May deal receipts and the absence of try support combined to weaken the July price Phillips was Inclined to support it on the break The country Is selling corn ly or consignment in order to take tage of the high prices now current in this market BIG PAYMENT ON COAL LANDS to The New York PITTSBURG Penn May The Consolidated Coal and Coke Company will pay to-morrow on the company's recent purchases of bama coal lands which aggregate The purchase gives the Pittsburg Company the Southern Interests that had become formidable in River trade L Rhodes and other Pittsburg officials of the United States Steel Cor- admit that the combine will don all small and old mills and concentrate others In and about Pittsburg Some of the plants are not economical and will be dismantled or Improved Golf Yoke Norfolk Knickers Are It Fulton Tie Up United Traction Line in Albany Cohoes and Other Places ALBANY May Imes of the United Traction Company operated in this city and Rensselaer and those extending from this city to those cities and Troy and Cohoes have been tied up since One of the greatest railroad strikes that has taken place In this section of the State In years is on and threatens to extend Up to midnight the lines of the company operated In Troy and Cohoes had not been affected but a strike on those lines Is expected The strike is composed of the employes at the Albany Rensselaer and Watervliet branches of the system The Troy and hoes employes who practically have the same grievances have not as yet taken final action The strike according to the men haa been brought about by the refusal of the company to accede to two the company employ none but members of a branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America arid that eight men employed be discharged or compelled to Join the union and that all night car men and ex- tra men who now get cents per hour be paid 20 cents the compensation of lar day men There have not been any overtures made as yet either by the strikers or the com- pany Thus far the strike has been con- ducted in a most orderly manner There has been absolutely no violence or stration cl any kind carefully into every Complaint brought be- fore me As far as my collecting evidence goes they take juries every day to inspect tile scene of a crime and as In my of Magistrate 1 act as Judge and jury I not inspect the scene of the Monroe I think this writ has brought out a con- dition of affairs which Is very interesting because it will brine before the public ex- what part Judge Jerome takes In the various raids There is more or less understanding about it and it will give us a good opportunity to state under oath just what part Judge Jerome did take It will make a pretty little history connected with the issuance of those rants issued by Judge Jerome and if the public could be informed of every Incident connected with the of those rants and the serving of them they would appreciate the actual condition of affairs GAMBLERS BAIL FORFEITED Bench Warrants Issued for Men Failed to Appear in Court Four gamblers taken in the initial of the Committee of Fifteen last February against whom indictments were returned by the Grand Jury and who were to be tried before Justice in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court yesterday failed when their cases were called Bench warrants wore immediately for their arrest and their bonds of each declared forfeited the protests of half a dozen that their clients were detained by illness in the family by weddings in Baltimore and by pressing en- Basements in anil other Distant points Justice Fursman said that no such excuses would be accepted in his court The four men John ROB and John Watson captured In the on the gambling house His West Thirty-first Street on Feb and John Williams and Frank Jackson taken in the raid on ITS West Thirty-second Street on Feb II Their bondsmen were John W of Bast Ninety-fourth Street for Roe Dora Stein of Street for Theresa Weiss of West One dred and Twenty-second Street for and Richard Mack of 145 West second Street fur Jackson The professional bondsmen around building were very much alarmed when the tidings reached them They took the allure to appear as an Indication that many more forfeitures would be recorded similar reasons JUSTICE JEROME AS EAGLE t tiou Hint He A Member tlie Order In Justice Jerome's mall yesterday ing was a letter notifying him that he had been elected an honorary member of the Order of the Eagles Accompanying letter was the badge of the order made of gold with several small diamonds Justice Jerome said that he could not understand why he had been elected a member of the Eagles This Is an tion of which Senator Timothy D Sallivan is President Among the officers Joe Vendig John L Sullivan Sam C Austin Timothy Foley P H Nolan John R Leo Mayer and Mark phy Not many members of the which there are said to be about considered to be working in operation with the Committee of Fifteen None of the members of the order would discuss the letter received by Justice rome yesterday Many of that the letter and badge must have been a practical joke Justice Jerome refused to say by whom the letter of notification was signed POLICE CAPTAINS SHY Manifest Reluctance to Accept the Port i of Acting Inspector j When Police Commissioner Murphy pointed Inspector Adam A Cross Acting Deputy Chief the that there were twenty Police Captains would be glad to do the work Crow kM
