New York Times, The (Newspaper) - January 2, 1902, New York, New York i AH the That's fit to Print THE WEATHER Fair and not so cold wind shifting to southeast VOL ttO NEW YOKE THURSDAY 2 PAGES ONE CENT In Greater York T- City and CENTO OPENING DAY OF STATE LEGISLATURE Senate and Assembly Hear the Governor's Speaker Nixon's Address Deals with Tax Reforms and Public Protection of Governor's Lifc Suggested ALBANY V Jan Many State Senators and Assemblymen had to forego the pleasure or Uie holiday with their families oii account of the tional provision for the assembling ol the on the first Wednesday tiary Durins bills in both houses or's was bors of each T the Senate there was the usual floral display on the desks preliminary had to bo held the same whn were chosen year bavins been selected nt caucus The had decided not to KO the useless form nf dates in The P of Albany Assistant ill Adams A B of Principal John K and First Assistant R C of Cortland An unusual the Senate's session was receipt by of a basket of roses from Odell After the reading of the Governor's sage the Senate adjourned out of respect to the memory of the laie Senator Russell Monday at o'clock The Assembly slower to complete Its organisation than the Senate as the of balloting for each office was tied out the minority members having for every position Those ed by ihc Republicans were as Clerk Col Archie Baxter of seant at Arms Frank TV Principal Jacob Kemple of New York First Assistant Doorkeeper Andrew Kuhn of Second ant Gray and C of lyings The er M Palmer of will be minority leader on the floor ClerK Calvin J Sergeant at James Stevens of Green pal Doorkeeper E King of First Assistant Doorkeeper of New York Second Assistant keeper Philip Duy Of Krle and er S of York The floral In the Assembly even than -In Senate Buck of Speaker's desk rested a panel with f horseshoe 1 the of a few personal friends Hardly a member was not all the desks having at least on them MR SPEECH Speaker Nixon after thanks for the honor of a fourth election to office referred to the of President and the to make laws dealing with Anarchists 11 A State special ment fur any attempt upon the life of the Governor might well be enacted he said The tlie Speaker's address was In as fallows for the improvement of our present tax system which is frequently Inequitable in its practical operation should receive our careful attention and con- In before the las Assembly I sakl upoiivthis sub- The most measure before us that failed of Tax The division of opinion on the indicated the subject must be studied und there must be a of education the people In they want This is certain that the present law for the nf personal property is grossly unequal ir its operation and miserably Vear by yeur the of tho State increases and the of personal on the tax lolls decreases Worse than that it is the widows whose mortgages gel On th tax rolls i while wealthier people bv devices avoid sueh liability I that a be imposed can be alike from all 1 trust thin public may so meets a remedy will he found for the present unjust and a1 law promptly the most eminent political our country advocate a complete tion of State and on the ground fhat the State Is too tory with tax upon the various counties feasible abolish our State land the amount required by the Constitution Article VII make payments on the canal debt and I hope to sec the accomplished this year There of burdens left for to bear In the local taxes for improvements schools roads and so on the growth of our State In population the an- appropriation fur the the has not Increased since That was and that amount has continued to be our annual appropriation for common ever since years that have elapsed since any such annual appropriation has been cities villages of much more rapidly than the so their proportion of the public money has Increased the amount a rural district less than It- ago when the Slate appropriation was less This money is distributed by first for every teacher The are in every city and town require a ber of than ever before The country school have one teacher though the attendance of pupils may have diminished as is the case The result is less and less State money to the districts while ers have constantly advanced Thus the burden upon the rural taxpayers increases every year until farmer is tux more other taxes combined U seems me that the growth of the State demands a substantial Increase In the school appropriation and the conditions as to the relative ber uf teachers employed Rive an added claim in behalf of the weaker districts ail believe economy but I would not record State by State to schools Our State has record of being the first of all the to make an appropriation to support com- mom schools fur the education of the people Appropriations for this should increase the of the State with aid to the Interior dis- where expenditures have has diminished tax falls unon those who toll hard for a limited income build and raise men in those and their patriotism and zeal for education never fail I The Assembly to the of I the Governor's after that the annual appropriation was Introduced After the selection of seats the session I was adjourned until j Tho of Oov IM OFFICERS BOOKS UNDER SEAL If Perpetrated to be Fully Exposed M DE London Famous Will U Is Said Retire and Be Succeeded by an American Jan de as Paris correspondent will retire to private lite It adds that he will be succeeded by Arthur Fullerton an American RAMAPO TO BE INVESTIGATED Wa BOSTON Jan Mr Holahan Informed that President I M de Blowitz Cantor Has Called Expert ants Courts a Thorough Examination as Paris correspondent of The I One of the first acts of Jacob Cantor of the Borough of Manhattan was order that the books of the outgoing officials In all of the his control be and locked President Cantor intends to call ill to-day the expert of the Commissioners of- Accounts start a last four years of the officials of De- of Streets and High the of Public improvements and other President would no detailed statement about the matter except say had such action to be a- protection of city's interests I I do not claim he said that there i has been any wrong doing or that any startling will be made sin examination No can what the books will when they are submitted I The work is to be and there has It will be ferreted 1 It was stated yesterday that important disclosures be made by the of Accounts of the tion in reference to the asphalt monopoly and the of doing business the j department over which Commissioner I Times is William Morton a i man who has boon fur about ten i with M do Blowitz At- tending work in cepl international and He is the Rev M of anil is about thirty-eight years old After being graduated from Harvard -in the uf with honors in English and Mr Fullerton connected The Boston tiser as critic and did con- dramatic criticism In the same year to and obtained a position English magazine a period was an editorial writer on 1 he Times which him to Earls Three Hundred Guests Safety Morton House Menaced Croker Fourteenth Street Stores 1 Burned over thirty years In that is saM has news beats tor his paper other correspondent of alarm Fire was discovered this morning in the engine room of Keith's Theatre on Fourteenth Street between Fourth and Broadway The fire was discovered by Burns the engineer of the Morton House which adjoins theatre lie rushed into the hotel and notified the clerk M de has now been the Paris j who sent in an alurm from the box in the of The LonCon Tlmes__toi- Chief Croker arrived at the fire on the Before companies got to -e was rapidly and through tiie engine room to the first floor Immediately Chief Croker sent In a alarm and the firemen plunged December the smoke and fought the fire tho staircase leading to the cellar and engine room There was great excitement amon's the in the Morton The horel rapidly filled smoke anu Ou and women clad in their night j newspaper was he who revealed In work the fin a letter to The Times the the German military party to up engineer another invasion of France ana it was he who seat the text of Treaty of to The Times before It was signed M de Blowitz was born in He has sometimes been writing fiction under the guise of news but lie himself has suffered as have few well known men as the result fiction written fled from their name but Opper that he is a Jew and he was born a German subject Daudet in an article printed Ii t the Paris in ISST disposed of these the staircases and rushed into the street on an average about j rumors correspondent Is en- rnc and corridors of the hotel a year spent through this titled to the i k the prices of asphalt paving Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe and the guests ing of WyeK Blowitz if BOSTON'S VENETIAN PALACE Mrs X L Gardner's New House About Which There IE Much Secrecy to be of Fine Arto Special ly York Mass Is no longer any doubt that Mrs John L intends her the be for the benefit of the people of Boston On Uoc 1 In the hands of a corporation capitalized at marie up of shores She Is Treasurer of the corporation President is John Gray The other Directors are Henry Harold Jefferson Charles L Thomas Sears and ner known Isabella Stuart Gardner In the Fenway President salu Our relations the State Government are most cordial That was all he would say Mr Coolidge I not see why the papers should nor the work of- Mrs Gardner The corporation has a definite purpose which will be beneficial to the and public As for details 1 am not at to gu into them The newspapers have shown little desire to assist Gardner Indeed she called at Police this noon to protest against the publication of of her palace to which no news gatherer had yet obtained en- trance The entire work of construction and furnishing has been carried on with utmost secrecy and it Is her Intention to preserve her privacy until such time as she shall see unfold to the world 1E5 TOWS MR PAYNE CONTEMPLATES NO RADICAL CHANGES James P Keating has -had controller our The I he wants to use It is not i but a good Catholic ami he was which Is to not born in Germany but in Moravia Another line of investigation which Is to not born in Germany but in Moravia con- i I be curried on Commissioners of hu was an Austrian subject until -e j to lay bare all the facts about i he naturalized Frenchman In the J the attempts the I very few -i grope their way to get out to the street Theatre Is a six-story building and Morton House Is five stories high in the same Next Postmaster General Does Not vor Postal Telegraph Ncr diate Penny Postage Is The Jan this talk j about of policy to as Postmaster General i C to-day It would ho exceedingly me to express an opinion on the of the department without having a more SPEECH ES BY TOSH M Eugene Crean Says If King Edward Goes to Cork He Will Be Hunted Through the Streets 1 Jan A telegram Tho Times says John K p the Irish Nationalist leader -ar a In County If the Government i postponed Irish legislation until would not be sorry because interval be used raise such a frame in all of would be burned to ashes A from Cork to The 1 says that in speaking at a of the local branch Sir M P re- ferrod to King KtUvard's expected visit lo Ireland He if the Kins to i they would hunt him the streets as they did before contract by of Public ments This department has been under control of President Maurice P Under the new charter this board Is j Ished President Cantor would say whether any important Information about I the relations which are supposed to have existed between certain politicians and city officials reference to the con- tract have been discovered Mr Holahan was seen at his East Fifty-fifth Street last evening He at the head of a department of the City In- of his actions In I will examine my books and do it Public officers are not placed in steal and do they ought to be punished If the new Administration Investigates the departments they are what is expected of them and what they should us public servants do I will also say that if they find when they in- it Is their duty U let lic know it On the other hand should they find that everything is all right why they ought to let the public Mr Holahan the Ramapo contract Yes M replied vehemently I hope they too The public never got the truth about that and if they make an investigation maybe they My side of that has been published tor I never could get a newspaper to do it- Yes let them Ramapo and I will help them In sons red to become Frenchmen M de is ar officer of the of Honor and a Doctor of Philosophy cal knowledge have at th s time THE TWIN SISTER i By o'clock the flames had spread i remarkable rapidity and it as if I he firemen would prevent part of tile V i sec 1 have been credited with be- i them from spreading to ever i English Version of chief feared that If the fire pot wig Fulda's Play Cordially Re- the least the entire block on in London to THE NEW YORK TIDIES in LONDON Jan he of serious purpose arc so the u from tin engine room London Louis Parker's A little after the fire had spread up stairs its way to the stores ad- joining The clothing store Co at East Fourteenth Street was a of flames In a few minutes as svas cigar store of Diaz a cigar ihg in favor of n postal telegraph say that 1 never express I wish to od myself e a1 a in the of justice as be- tween are and who be taxed for support of the Government V i oil be- or and the tax not he left those least able to pay it I thai a small lax that be -.11 col- inay yield a large tax BRITAIN'S LOSS OF PRESTIGE f Max Nordau Declares that Greatly Exaggerated i VORK TIDES An by Max is the correspondent of M1 Nordau says the Continental ets of evil greatly exaggerate the dice in her interests as a world power by the South African war that the concession to the United States in o the canal treaty was not events in South Africa but was rather the re- of Great Britain's new conciliating her mighty cousin by every available mean and of excluding from the domain of a hostile er him M with an allusion to the of tho British colonies to the Motherland every way in power f to say continued Mr that I was Public Works for five years one of the Indictments brought against the in the City Government hat the Public with corruption from beginning to end When went into expert to examine the office That examination was when were In power in possession of- It- lasted weeks and it the end of tile experts reported to Mavor they hail been unable to find any evidence of corruption or Ining t will add that the of the City Government were also examined a the city of the corruption they found was in the Office where a failing tn turn over the City a discrepancy that on i investigation proved to be said before T trust that this In- will take the made on the public mind that Tammany is n will bo corrected in the public version of- the German -poetic piece by called The Twin produced at the DukO of York's last evening may have a but It Is run play of an old re- ono of and ston and riot remarkable fnr whatever the of its mati original may be Its fibre however is dramatic is a improbable story of a betrayed ning back her husband's affection by pretending be her own twin It is so as to give fine histrionic op- to the two Henry notably j ful with audience in denoting traits and moods of a stillen libertine transformed into an impetuous dealer at The firemen went directly to nn effort save the ad- and joining property j Croker when he saw such rapid headway sent j third the storage the basement was -j i stored a of oils and paints i carloads all Inflammable stuff burned briskly and the gases and odors drove the firemen back repeatedly I tried force their and to confine the blaz volumes of upon that subject I believe in the industrial the pie themselves to attend to 1 do be- in the Government engaging in all kinds of business I li has been said that T an in favor of a of letter postage one cent this point 1 will say that j rate would be a penny j but the first want is the best facilities can be obtained be extended j to the fullest extent before by the L lieve in the Postal to the rural in giving nnd lages and the farming communities the benefits of free delivery which the many abuses have grown up Iri Service A amount of Is sent by mail should not be the
