New York Times, The (Newspaper) - July 24, 1901, New York, New York All the News That's Fit to Print t THE WEATHER Generally winds variable 1801 BY THB HEW COMPANT VOL L....NO NEW YORK WEDNESDAY JULY 24 PAGES ONE CENT In Greater Kew City and Newark What a Tour of the New Gambling Mecca Disclosed A CITY OFFICIAL'S CONFIDENCES Business is Run by a Tammany District Leader He Protection Money Is Collected BOERS SUING FOR PEACE 1 Rumors that Negotiations Are Now ing on in London LONDON July Daily News says We hear rumors that negotiations with a view to peace in South Africa are in London in Long Island City were open yesterday afternoon and doing a lively met every ferry boat Manhattan Cappers had distributed small to people along the street in- forming thorn of the location of the ling places During the hours in which bets can be made on the races the trolley cars were packed to the guards with bettors The cars up in of the gambling places and then crowd thronged the structures which had been put recently to accommodate the ands are make Long land City afternoon headquarters un- less the police and the Queens County of- the places up A TIMES reporter went within five minutes after his arrival was accosted by a Tammany city who holds a job In the City Hall in Manhattan You are not going to write us up are questioned this official If the let us alone for three weeks money all right That's the thing that will stop this game Who is running the business over here he asked Why trie Tammany Kail was the reply a big district leader Tammany Hall who has got the game over here and if we're only let alone for a little while things will Don't you police No Everything is all right there was s poolroom raided here a few days ago Oh that was Dick Cook's place He started down below the dead line You know the arrangement was that there should be no poolrooms below the line of the Court House and toward the New York ferries Cook opened a poolroom down In the old car stable and the police raided the place because he did not see the people in Tammany Hall Do nW the gamblers fear that District will make The Tammany city official pointed crowded trolley cars on Vernon Avenue and Those people know where to go It as if we had all the protection we needed THE TARIFF AND PROTECTION The information as to how the poolrooms had been opened In Long Island City and all the facts about the tariff and police protection were given to THE YORK TIMES reporter by a poolroom keeper of Manhattan He They have raised the tariff on rooms so high in Long Island City that there can't be much in it except for the officials the protection cash Each poolroom in Long Island City is now forced to pay each week Of this sum sent to New York to the politicians who -are way up The balance of the SIM each week is paid by the poolroom keepers to many officials In the county and to other who are expected to suppress all news about the places In Tact everybody has got to be seen In Long Island City All the tariff I paid in a room In Manhattan was a week and I don't see how money can be made by the men they do big business How is the matter of opening poolrooms In Long Island first Word was passed around that a ward man who hangs out at Miller's Hotel near the ferry was the one who would be the go-between in making arrangements to open up That ward man was as poor as a church mouse some time ago but I tell you he has sot plenty of money now He has got more money now than he ever expected to see Was a fee charged the room could be In Manhattan they used to charge new man a big initiation fee when he started in the business but they don't do over here The backers of the rooms up on the day they open find this gives them protection for one Who collects this ward man who makes his hangout at Miller's Hotel around each siml the money for the police An- other man who has an official job at a year and works In the City Hall is known all over Long Island City collects the money for the other officials who have to be seen In the county In what manner is this money said to be paid for protection sent to the many officials you The sum of for every poolroom opened in Long Island City has to be taken DV a trusty man each week to a saloon near the Broadway ferry in Brooklyn which Is kept by a well-known gambler He has foi some time acting representative of Tammany Hall in collecting gambling money Who does the collecting for the loca officials in Long Island Why I understand that the also collects for the county Ehort time ago some gamblers tc oper tip a red and black game and th who are collecting the money demanded a week That rat was too high for the gamblers so didn't open up this one place SOME OF THE PLACES OPEN How many places are open in Lonr Island City There are two places up on and two poolrooms near Cemetery and also another poolroom a which Is run by the gamble SUIT BY MRS McKINLEY She and Mrs Barber Action to Recover Possession of a Mine in Nevada Special to The York Times CARSON CITY Nevada July the United States Circuit Court here suit has been begun by Mrs Ida McKinley and Mrs Barber against John Steele lam Hayes and others to recover Sinn of the Elijah Mine one of the claims of the Canton Mining Com- pany It is alleged that the defendants are operating the mine Ten thousand dollars damages are also claimed for ore paid to have been taken out by the de- fendants The parties are required to an- swer within forty days Steele is the owner of the Macon City Mine adjoining the Elijah and he has extracted ore from the patented claim his workings being he says within his own lines He says he will con- test the suit and will proceed with the extraction of ores as hitherto Hayes claims no interest in the property his connection with the case being as shipping agent for Steele Mrs McKinley inherited her interest in these mines from her father and when the President was here he had a conference with his wife's agent and decided to de- the properties which contain much good ore They are near Ely in White Pine County AN AGED LIFE SAVER Capt Newhall Eighty-two Years from a Wharf af Lynn Mass and Rescues a Boy Special to The York Times Mass July the presence of many people who were frantically ning about and doing nothing Capt Otis W Newhall aged eighty-two years dived from his coal wharf yesterday afternoon and swam to the rescue of Arthur Green seven years Not a stitch of his clothes did the old The little boy was playing about the harf and in trying to recover a fishline ent over He sank from sight but came j the surface some distance away There rere a number of people about who called or boats and life preservers Old Capt Newhall heard their cries and to the edge of the wharf made a dive He came quickly the shook his gray head and swam or the boy had sunk for the second me The rescuer reached the lad as he ame to surface put his arm about and swam to wharf with un- burden The crowd cheered a restored the to consciousness Capt Newhall hurried home to his bedraggled seersucker costume NO HELP FOR THE CROPS Continued on Pa ere INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS FRANK MOSS DEFIES AND CONQUERS I MOB East Side Heelers and Vice Protectors Menace Him HIS STRONG POLICE GUARD Triumph of the Commissioner in His Appeal for Reform Before the Educational Alliance Weather Forecaster Says There May Be Local Showers In West but No General Fall In Temperature WASHINGTON July the of scattered thunderstorms the ost important of which so far at least reports to the Weather Bureau yas that at North Platte Neb where -100 of an inch of rain fell the drought nd intense heat continued to-day ut the States of the corn belt ures again averaged over -100 degrees in hat area making the thirty-sixth ive day in which the thermometer has isen to 90 degrees and higher Aside from North Platte a trace of rain was officially reported at Des -100 of an Inch at Kansas City some all in North Central Texas some in Ar- some in South Texas and also ome in Northern Minnesota In other Official Forecaster says here may have thunder showers as in the press dispatches through he bureau but that lie had received no advice Irom those points These storms brought only relief and afford little sustenance the baked ground which needs a eral rain According to present there seems to be ho prospect of downpour for the next two Lions such at least The temperatures in the area were not generally so high as they were yesterday but such falls as may have curred have been due entirely to local changes and not to any general differences in atmospheric conditions The hot weather also continued in the Northwest Bismarck N D reporting a record-breaking temperature of 106 de- There is no prospect of any relief om prevailing conditions in the central valleys and the middle West and the fore- caster to-night repeats his forecasts of continued warm weather with scattered for that section The only rains indicated are local storms In the Southern States and Rocky Mountain section Some of the ported to the Wea places to-day Atlanta Ga 86 low temperatures re- ther Bureau at various Buffalo 84 Cincinnati a 104 Denver SO Des Moines 100 90 Jacksonville 90 Kansas 102 Little Rock 102 Memphis 104 90 North Platte 92 Omaha 102 Pittsburg 88 St Louis 188 St Paul Springfield 111 100 Washington D C 90 Springfield Mo 100 Stocks strong Financial 1 anu 11 Wheat No 2 red corn No 2 oats No 2 mixed cotton middling iron Northern No foundry butter Western cream ery Commercial 9 Arrivals at Hotels and A Business 12 Court 9 9 Legal 1.4 Losses bv 3 Marine Intelligence and Foreign PageS New 9 o 12 T United Weather 3 Yesterday's 3 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSE White Julr 23 temperature 68 IT at two Cortes Closed Because of the Heat LONDON July Tho shade in Madrid to-day Tuesday was 308 degrees says a dispatch to The Daily Express from Spanish tal The heat was so overpowering day that Parliament had to be closed ly In Seville Cordova and Cadiz the shade temperature degrees STRUCK FOR LEMONADE When It Was Refused Pittsburg penters Employed In an Office ing Refused to Work Special to The New York Times Penn July Because the George A Fuller Company would not furnish them with lemonade instead of common ice water fifty carpenters and others employed on the new dollar H C Prick office building The company furnished filtered water In which oatmeal was The oatmeal prevents cramps The men wanted lemonade and formed a pool to get it Each was to 10 cents a Yesterday was the first day lemonade was served Every man wanted his worth and drank so much that Superintendent Clark thought they would make themselves ill He shut off their drinks and a strike resulted Work was stopped torday as this Is a rush the odd strike is costing the company considerable money said This strike is about the limit Lemon ade is injurious and will knock a man out than anything else About an hour and a half some of them I came to me and said that they would go to I work it I paid them for the hour and a half j they loafed What do you think of that? Important Notice to Public Poland Water carloads received Poland Water Depot 3 Park Place N Frank Moss Commissioner re- former and Vice President of the City League addressed the Hebrews of the east side in a mass meeting held last night In the main hall of the Educational Alliance at East Broadway and Jefferson Street in the interests of social purity Iri the city His speech was attended By scenes of disorder never before witnessed in the vicinity of the hall and it was due solely to the prompt and efficient action of a detail of fifty uniformed policemen and a dozen detectives under command of Capt of the Madison Street Station and a remarkable exhibition of courage on the part of the speaker that a riot of rious proportions was averted The appearance of Mr Moss on the speakers platform led to pandemonium among the thousand men and women who packed the hall There were storms of hoots and catcalls and interruptions by excited from every part of the Outside the int were gathered fully a thousand more excited men who hooted and jeered until by the police and scattered Under these circumstances Mr Muss to better advantage his friends admitted than ever before in his public life There were moments when U was admitted that the slightest show ness on his part would have turned the great audience into a dangerous He did not hesitate but Into a rent of fiery invective in the district rot mince words nor did he withhold names in his allegations of corruption He finally won his audience by meeting his detractors on ground When he luft the nearly an after the meeting had closed escorted by a squad of he was followed all to The Second Avenue and Canal Street of the elevated railroad by a mob of several in which the and groans were mingled The meeting was held under the auspices of the City Vigilance League and when the speakers were announced ago it became apparent that there would be The speakers were Mr Moss John P Faure the Rev H and Abram Benowich The Hebrew newspapers of the east side Immediately started a bitter attack on the Commissioner based upon a book written by Mr Moss in 1897 entitled The American in chapter nine of which the author was unsparing in his criticisms of the Drews of the east side He referred to them as ignorant and uncleanly and said they would sell their The Zionists of the east side and many Russian Polish upon their orator Masliansky not to appear the same platform with Mr Moss whom they denounce as the deadly enemy of their race There rumor that sonal done to the speaker f he appeared upon the platform Rev Mr Masliansky refused to listen to the exhortations of his countrymen to ab- sent himself from the meeting saying that the opposition to Mr Moss's presence was being stirred up by the Tammany leaders of the district and all the scheduled ers were on hand last night when the meeting opened MR MOSS'S GUARD Mr Moss took no chances even with the police safeguard He arrived at the hall accompanied by Dr Matthew Seattle President of the City Vigilance League and escorted by Detectives Hammond and Dillon the chief detectives of the league and ten of their These men stationed themselves In the front seats and on the stage and at no time Was Mr Moss further than three feet from one or more detectives Dr Seattle as Chairman announced the object of the meeting He said It was In the interests of good city government and with very few words introduced the Rev Mr Masliansky as the first speaker Mr Masliansky spoke in Hebrew and was cheered He referred to Mr Moss in no way and devoted his attention ly to the desired betterment of the civic life The audience was respectful but rather constrained and inattentive From the outside of the building could be heard the shouts and cries of the mob which was struggling with the police at intervals Abram Benowich followed speaking first in Hebrew and then in English His speech had to do principally with the present un- satisfactory condition of the Hebrew of the east side and although he spoke earnestly the audience was plainly becoming impatient for what was expected to be the dramatic feature of the evening During the closing periods of the speech in fact came the indications of the dis- that was to follow The speaker referred to the rumored tred of the Commissioner by the Hebrews and proceeded to defend him A storm of cheers and hisses broke out all hall and the speaker ended his ad- dress In a babel of interruptions Mr Faure followed in a short speech which was respectfully received and then Mr Moss was introduced As the Commissioner stepped forward disorder ensued Half the was on its feet moment many hissing and hooting wnile others cheered and the police and ushers plunged Into the crowd and singled out the leading spirits of the opposition and hustled them the door Men stood up on seats and shook fists toward the stage until pulled down by friends or unceremoniously hauled down and thrown out- by a policeman There were disturbed groups all over the hall when Mr Moss raising his voice to the pitch began his speech I thank those who welcome me here he said and for the hisses I care not at all I have been fighting your tles here for eight years and I am not ing to quit now because those who have been seeking to injure you for that length of time are now trying to turn you against me Many persons tried to Interrupt at this point but the speaker waved them down and raised his voice still higher The hisses come from three classes of he said The first the of this district whom I- have been fighting for eight years They are here night and here for a I know many of them They tell you that I hate these unspeakable wretches who would de- bauch your homes The second class those who sell yo worthless lottery tickets They are here because I am on their And your here In this district in 1893 and I found that your strongest men were Silver Dollar Smith and Max Hochstim Under their leadership you had sold your own brothers to the spoilsman in blue I tried to close those dens of infamy that I found here in We went into the police courts and found more than 200 of the Silver Dollar Smiths Max the Charley Cramers and Martin Engels and were chased through the streets by them Oh I know them all I have wrestled with them There were a few cheers here and or two more Interrupters were thrown out by the A man down near the front arose and began to vilify the er Mr Moss turned upon him fiercely Look at he shouted to the ence Look upon his face -I think I know those features I fear no criticism from a decent Jew But these cadets at Allen Street I would strangle them if 1 could From the outside could be heard again the hools and jeers of the crowd gathered in the street This crowd was being charged by the police Listen to the said the speaker Listen to the cadets and thieves and Those are the people who would have you When I wrote that book that some of you object to it was the days of the ward heelers It is still the day of the ward heeler but you have improved since then I admit that I may have gone too far at that time In my description but I want you to know that whatever I may have said then I have steadfastly stood for the east side There Is a platform enough for us all I am not a Jew hater Mr Moss then concluded his appeal with the cheers largely predominating over the hisses At the conclusion of the meeting a crowd of fully persons gathered out- side expecting there would be trouble when Mr Moss emerged from the hall There was a roar of cheers a Jd hisses when he appeared and H great crowd followed him until the car at Canal Street FIREWORKS EXPLODE AND CAUSE DISASTER WILL ASK FOB II COURT OF Seeks Vindication Through Judgment of Naval Officers Then He Will Sue Maclay for Friends to Whom He His Intentions Say He Cannot Expect Fair Play One Man Killed Another Has His Arm Torn Off and Third One's Head Is Cut One man was Instantly killed another had his right arm torn off and a third was hurt about head as a result of a pre- mature explosion of fireworks by the St Vincent's Society of Brooklyn at Hudson and Prospect Street shortly before midnight last night v The society has been having a celebration of which the public display of fireworks was the culmination A great crowd had gathered to see the show the final effect of which was to have been six large bombs fired simultaneously into the air Agnella twenty-five years 383 Metropolitan Avenue had been engaged to discharge the fireworks For the last piece he used a mortar which had been ex- temporized from a section of Iron gafc main This was a cylinder about three feet long by six Inches In diameter The bombs had been loaded and the crowd gathered closer and Agnella came forward with the match In hand He applied It but Instead of the beautiful illumination In the air there was a stunning explosion and the iron pipe flew In sections in all directions One fragment struck Agnella In the breast and went through hla heart He fell dead before the of the hundreds of spectators who Immediately fled crying vout with terror Another fragment went through the side of the house 137 Hudson Avenue It went up through the floor and then took a backward course out of the rear of the Building On the way through it struck hennas McKenna an who ad been watching the show He was y cut about the head Frank Selino of 124 Hudson Avenue was i the front ranks of the spectators His ight arm was torn off by another lent Selino was taken Brooklyn Hospital but McKenna preferred to stay his wounds had been dressed y the same ambulance surgeon newspapers which print ithe advertisements of these swindlers are represented here They have committed crimes in printing these advertisements and I wan to say here and now that I will such swindlers and such papers as long they continue to break the law These newspapers have got at them get mad And some of your have found time to sell you these tickets They are mad for this society has put Its foot on these swindlers also This is the precious crowd that would have you hate me I know them and I am afte them The speaker had advanced to thg veri edge of the platform and glared about ove the turbulent throng with anger and de termination in every feature The in his voice attracted the crowd and ther was less turmoil The ceased and the acute moment was past H HIS WAR ON VICE There Is the third class of persons hiss ing here and this class I do not object ti reason that they are men and women honestly mistaken The have in mind that book that I wrote year ago Now about that book I came 11 Safe Swift fully describe th steamers of the Hudson River Day Line Sc Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON July Admiral Schley has accepted the gage of battle thrown down by his enemies evening he sent telegrams from Great Neck to two of his close personal friends Informing them that he intended to ask Secretary Long for a court of inquiry and to bring suit for Sibel against Edgar Stanton clay for the assertions contained in the latter's History of the Navy In both of these telegrams Admiral Schley an- that he would let the Maclay libel suit watt until after the court of Inquiry had completed its work and reported its findings In one of hla telegrams the Ad- miral the first step should be an Investigation of all matter by a court then a civil action afterward I am preparing to take this course The recipients of the telegrams under- stand that the Admiral's reason for this course of procedure Is that he desires to avoid being placed in the false position of a naval officer who prefers to face civilians rather than members of his own sion He wishes to be vindicated by naval officers and then as a matter to a sailor die wishes to be vindicated by a civil court TO PRESIDE In asking for a court of inquiry Admiral Schley goes counter to the advice of many of his friends who claim that he cannot expect fair treatment from a court by Rear Admiral and der of the Bureau of of Sweden Capl Philip of the Texas is dead There are other officers who occupied subordinate positions but whose testimony will be important who will have to be to Washington to give testimony be- fore the Lieut Staunton who was Sampson's Flag Lieutenant is now com- manding the in Porto wa- ters Lieut Commander Sears who Schley's Flag Lieutenant is at the Office in New York Lieut Wells secretary is on the Kearsarge while Lieut Marsh Sampson's secretary is on the Mayflower Lieut A C Hodgson who was the navigator of the Brooklyn Is Newport Of the various executive officers of the vessels Lieut Commander Seaton who occupied that tion oh the Massachusetts is at while Executive Officer Harber of the as is Naval Attache at Paris and St THE COURT'S FUNCTIONS A court of Inquiry differs from a martial In that it has no power to inflict a sentence It Is organized simply for the purpose of Investigating questions of fact but it has ample authority to the inquiry complete and exhaustive The naval regulations say of Inquiry shall have power to summon witnesses ter Oaths and punish contempts in the same manner as courts-martial but they shall only state facts and shall not give their opinion unless expressly required so to do in the order An important officer of the court will be the Judge Advocate and Recorder who in- the witnesses Secretary Long Will undoubtedly take unusual care -in the election of this official who may be hosen from the list of Captains who with Dewey In the Manila battle lie sessions of the court undoubtedly will e open although its members have the ight to prevent this There is no appeal rom the decision of the court as to the or admission of testimony ions arising as to the relevancy or ty of which are invariably decided behind doors PROSECUTION RESTS IN THE CASE Closes Its Case Before Galling All Witnesses Summoned Defense Outlines Expels Correspondents of Three New York Newspapers ition Nevertheless there Is reason to leve that Admiral Schley acts wisely in RAILROAD WILL BURN OIL Pacific Locomotives to be Equipped to Consume the Beau- mont Product Special to The New York Times AUSTIN Texas July C Van Vleck manager of the Southern Pacific Transportation Department was here said that arrangements are perfected as rapidly as possible for the use of Beaumont oil for fuel in all the ives of the Southern Pacific system It Is purposed to first equip the Ives operating on the division between New Orleans and Houston with the hew fuei and when this has been done the Ives running between Houston and San Antonio will be likewise equipped The company is also preparing to use oil in the on all the divisions west of 121 Already oil is being used on about miles of the system in California thousand barrels of the Beaumont oil have been shipped to Phoenix Ariz where it was placed in storage tanks The company is boring Its own oil wells In Beaumont field It Is estimated that these wells will furnish more than enough oil for all of the locomotives on the whole Southern Pacific system The company is four large oil storage tanks each with a of more than gallons These tanks are situated at Houston Beaumont Lafayette and Algiers Later tanka will be San Antonio El Paso and points west of there DEAD BABY ON A CAR Mother to Little One an Jf It Alive to Suspicion Special to The New York Times PLAINFIELD N J July Owen of Westfield while holding her Infant child about months old at Boynton Beach yesterday discovered that it was dead Fearing that she would not allowed to carry the dead Infant back home with her In the car Mrs wrapped the infant In her shawl and thus concealed the dead child carried home To avert suspicion the sorrowing mother talked to the dead infant as though It was alive Though the cars were crowded not a passenger suspected that the child was dead this decision Secretary Long has intimated In conversation that should there be a court of inquiry he would make It up and would ask Admiral Dewey to serve as President the other members of the court being Hear Ad- on the retired list who were re- tired before the beginning of the Spanish war This would In the opinion of many In- sure a fair Investigation Admiral Dewey Is absolutely Impartial and was on the other side of the world not only during the Santiago campaign but also during the year of controversy over Sampson and which followed The Rear Ad- having retired before the Spanish war may be supposed to have no personal on either side whatever their opinions may be But the best hope of an Impartial Investigation lies in the tion by Mr Long that he would make up the court himself without assistance from any one PERSONNEL OF THE Rear-Admiral Schley's friends say that an Inquiry made by a in the tion of which Rear Admiral or anybody connected with the Bureau of Navigation had any hand would doubt be fatal to Schley and It is the course for the Chief of that bureau to lect the members the court The tary usually acts on the tions The court will consist of three members It Is said that Rear Admirals Francis M Ramsay and Andrew E K Benham re- tired are likely to be the other members of the court No name has been mentioned for Recorder Neither of these officers i known to have ever expressed an opinion on the merits of the case Admiral Ben ham retired In 1894 He is the hero of the Incident at Rio de Janeiro In 1894 when revolutionary fleet was fired and compelled to respect the American flagi Admiral Ramsay retired In 1897 and was for several years Chief of the Bureau o Navigation The controversy wit Vome to a head quickly now arid no tim will be lost Rear Admiral Schley will re in October It is naturally t be supposed that he will want the casi out of the way before he retires the investigation will necessarily one he wll to move quickly AsiC from this the tone of the Admiral's tele grams indicates his purpose to act soon Secretary Long will appoint th court at once and it will convene at th earliest moment f WITNESSES PAH AWAY Under the last naval appropriation law I1IINOIS DISPUTE of Father Withdrawal Resignation Received Too Late Special la New York Times CHICAGO July publicly announced to-day that the tion by the Rev Jeremiah J Crowley of the pastorate of St Mary's Church Oregon 111 had been accepted Father withdrawal of the resignation twenty-four hours after it was sent out came too the Archbishop had reached a decision and THE POINTS AT ISSUE WASHINGTON July Post will say that it might be difficult j state the exact questions which ome before the Schley court of Inquiry ut that Admiral Schley condensed them In letter written to Senator Hale Chairman t the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs IS 1890 In this letter the Admiral the criticisms of himself un- heads as alleged delay off Cienfuegos Cuba alleged slow progress Santiago de Cuba from Cienfuegos retrograde movements on he and of May This refers to he turning of the fleet from Santiago Key West battle of Santiago and tlie of fleet It is says The Post that Admiral Schley in his Tetter to the ary requesting a court of inquiry will these grounds of criticism and at Secretary Long in turn will repeat hem orders assembling the court WANT CONGRESSIONAL ACTION to Tki New York Times BALTIMORE July the members of the Maryland delegation In Republicans and Democrats will favor Con- gressional investigation of the son controversy Senator McComas is now out West and his views on the matter could not says he will stand by Schley In the future as in the past Congressmen Schirm son and Republicans are mined that the matter come before Congress Congressman ng the Sixth District from which Admiral entered the Naval Academy Is ng the in the Maryland Admiral Schley either behaved with valor and skill or if the accusations against him have any foundation he should je and cashiered it 13 unfair and unjust to make these constant charges against an officer who through a one career has met the best standards In the naval service unless some tion for them can be shown The people of Maryland have heard these charges with impatience and have exhausted their in hearing a reiteration ot them The time has now come when Maryland s representatives will demand a Investigation of these charges The honor of the American Navy and the sacred truthfulness of history require it If Schley be guilty he should be dis- missed from the service If he be innocent his accusers should be silenced forever and venom turned upon themselves Congressman of Dis- says that it looks to him as If Ad- miral Schley had been unjustly treated He would support any movement in Conr gress that would bring to light all the true facts of the naval campaign and end the whole controversy It seems to me he said that If the charges against the bureau clique are not disposed of a grave danger confronts the navy PITTSFIELD Mass July represented by District Attorney Hammond rested at o'clock this after- noon in the trial of Robert S Fosburgh for the alleged killing of his sister May The conclusion was unexpected it being known that there were witnesses held In j reserve a number having been summoned by the and the end was so unlocked for that it found the defendant's junior counsel as he expressed it at where to pick up the threads of the which he in his opening statement for the defense He however succeeded in setting forth nearly the whole of the facts upon which de- tense is based He began his statement after suggesting to Judge Stevens that the case be dismissed for lack df evidence and getting Court's ruling that he would not entertain the motion Mr the of the night of of May Fosburgh and declared that it was but the truth he told His references to the tragedy and his touching allusions to the dead girl and her relations to her brothers drew many a female spectator and there were not a few moistened eyes in the room when court adjourned before he had ished his opening Address The chief witness for the Government day was John Nicholson head of the Police Department of Pittsfield Officer Flynn who searched the Fosburgh premises morning following the tragedy and who found the single shoe which has figured as a portion of the Government's chain of evidence was also a witness to-day Capt White of the local police was the first witness of the and his nation was resumed by Mr Joyner His testimony was notable for his remarkable lack of memory and the many things which he did not know concerning the case NEWSPAPERS CONDEMNED At the opening of court a sensation was furnished by Judge Stevens who after an address to the correspondents ot three New York newspapers ordered them cluded from the on ground that their articles concerning the case had a tendency to Interfere with justice Tha Judge declined to take more severe in the matter as the publishers df tha newspapers were outside of his tlon and the identity of the writers not known to him In referring to the matter the Judge said in substance that his attention hart been called to the publication of ar- ticle purporting to be a description of n visit of the Fosburgh family on Sunday last to the burial place of May Fosburgh which appeared in three New York papers yesterday and which described in- alleged to have occurred at the READY TO ACT NOT TALK GREAT NECK I July Ad- miral W S Schley declined to-day to be drawn into the discussion of the Santiago campaign restarted by Maclay's history When seen the Admiral in the presence of his wife and his son Dr Schley I do not say anything further not at this time The whole matter has passed the talking stage and has reached cne of action Too much has been said ready much of importance and much is not important relative to this relative to Admiral Sampson and myself I do not know that I will Issue any statement later I may and I may not If a statement seems called for I may issue one but that will be independent of any action I may take What I shall do I do not think proper to discuss at this The Admiral would not say if he had de- termined upon the course of action he will take He said that If he made a statement It would probably cover the whole matter but that he was not likely to make It while here because to make It he would have to refer to papers and documents In Washington and would not trust to his memory although It was acute He said he had not read Admiral son's contribution to the latest discussion He had not known that Admiral Evans had spoken in his behalf but said it was true that neither he nor Capt Cook of the Brooklyn knew the code arranged with the insurgents by which the insurgents were to signal the arrival of the Spanish fleet He said he did not know there had been such ah arrangement such a court was empowered to summon an civilians and put them under oath Ad- and to the N miral Schley has the right to appear by counsel The only delay will be in getting the witnesses some of whom are far away Admiral who next to Admiral Schley will be the principal figure at the inquiry is stationed at the Boston Navy The Captains of the vessels pating in the Santiago battle are rious stations Capt Cook of the Brooklyn is at Annapolis Capt Clark of the Oregon Is at League Island Capt of Admiral Sampson's flagship the New York is at Newport Capt now Rear Taylor of the Indiana is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Capt now Rear Admiral Hie Uli uau i a I had chosen a new pastor for the church Evans la detailed as a member of the board The name of Father Crowley's successor I Of inspection and survey to this city bulris n a tri Capt will not the now off on a yachting trip Capt Biggin fight He adds that the attacks on Father j son of the Massachusetts now Rear Ad- Muldoon have only just begun New York Man Killed by a Train JAMESTOWN N Y A Devoe was run over by a train on the Erie Road and instantly killed at Kennedy to-day His home Is In New York City and he was visiting his son In this city Pennsylvania Limited to at tha run in 28 houn No tan miral is commandant of North At- Squadron Lieut Commander wright of the Gloucester Is Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis Sharp of la executive of the Hartford which is now off the coast Beat and recuperat gn may be found on the Cout hours by old Dominion Steamships Fast trains Department issued orders for me I am getting rest I but this controversy Is con- coming up I find I have many friends who are standing up They can rest assured that I appreciate their and fairness I snail not point them In anything except in their Sarent desire to have me talk I will not o that The visits of the reporters to me are annoying not because I do not like them but because of my determination not to talk I must seem discourteous to them When I am asked questions I hate fur the sake of the questioner to refuse to an- swer fearing lie will think I am The Admiral does not appear to be ing In the least He had not read the history until to-day when he ob- a copy and began its perusal He admitted this much but would the book even in the abstract and with all reference to himself omitted 1 have not read It all yet and even If I had I am not a critic ot such was nls way of refusing to discuss the book It Is said the Admiral refuses to discuss the matter even with the members of his family and tells them as he tells all others that may must wait till he acts Special Train Pat On Lackawanna Railroad's Mountain Sper leaves York every Saturday at Arrives Monday morning before Adv It No More To travel to St Louis Via tbe Pennsylvania Only 28 boun from New There could be no more breach of said and calculated to Hie minds of the jury and the public ana de- feat the ends of justice The of these newspapers are outside the Com- and therefore outside of my jurisdiction but if proof were given to me of the Identity of the writers I would deal with them as the action deserves It Is ray privilege and my duty to the these papers from the courtroom Judge Stevens then requested the Sheriff to ask the correspondents of the three papers to leave the courtroom and out further action four men and two men left CAPT WHITE FORGETFUL Capt William G White of the Pittsfield police who had not finished his testimony when court adjourned yesterday called to the stand after the stir ing the expulsion of the newspaper cor- respondents Mr Crosby asked him a tlon about the identity single shoo found in the Fosburgh house and then turned the witness over to Mr Joyner for cross-examination The questions of the the defense seemed to disclose a lack of memory and an absence of on the part of the officer when he was called to the Fosburgh house At the beginning of the tion the witness said he could not ber who accompanied him into cellar of the Fosburgh house when he was ing his investigations nor could he recall just what he did at several points He said that at the time it was told he believed the story of the family about the burglars The witness could not tell whether or not any one beside Dr Schofield and the de- fendant were present when Robert told hint the story of the tragedy He did not just remember in what room they were when the defendant told the story and admitted that It might have been in the room where the body of May Fosburgh lay He sala that he could not describe the furniture in the room In response to sharp questioning Capt White that His attention was called to various articles of overturned furniture by members of the family and that he did not remember that he examined anything to which his attention was not first called by some one i Ido hot recall I cannot say was the answer to the question Did you see any of the matches that were found In Mr Chapman's house Policeman Daniel Flynn of Pittsfield who aided Capt White in the search of the Fosburgh premises gave testimony much the same as that given superior adding that the defendant denied that the shoe found belonged to him Mr Fosburgh saying that there was not a button shoe in the house The shoe was dry witness said and he stated that he did not see any broken castors on any of the beds Witness beins asked concerning the weather conditions said that there were some stars on the night of Aug 50 but it was quite dark It a cloudy night he said and the next day was a bright Before the witness was lowed to step down he was questioned again concerning the shoe found in the house He said that there was nothing about the appearance of the article to at- tract more attention than would be given to any other shoe The next few minutes were devoted to some brief points of evidence R Gardner assistant manager of the field Electric Light Company whose home was nearly opposite the house said he heard cries of Police IT about o'clock on the morning on which May Fosburgh was killed but that they came from if direction opposite the Fosburgh house He looked out of a window but everything seemed quiet He said there was an arc street light quite near the burgh house Frank J an of the electric light company however said that all the lights In that vicinity were turned out each night at o'clock THE LAST WITNESS After the District Attorney had offered as evidence a calendar to show that there was a new moon Aug 24 1900 four after the date on which May killed John Nicholson Chief of Police of Pittsfield and the leading and practically the last witness for the prosecution called Chief testified in a careful de- liberate and moderately slow and held the attention of every person in the which Chief Nicholson took In tho began when he reached house between 5 andi 6 o'clock In the morning Aug 21 The first persons he met were the defendant and his brother at once told him burglars the marks r witness two ars and began to call his o arks and the hey pointed out the ss two I noticed that
