New York Times, The (Newspaper) - December 3, 1903, New York, New York All the News That's Fit to Print THE WEATHER Rain or snow brisk to high northerly winds VOL THURSDAY 3 1903.-SIXTEEN ONE CENT In Greater Jersey City and Newark j TWO OBELI FORGE M III BRUCE OUT Congressman Ward to Succeed State Chairman Dunn CHANGES TO COME William Barnes to Retire as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican Organization to Go Gov Odell yesterday made the first move la his plan to bring about the complete re- organization of the Republican Party in the State He brought about the retirement of M Linn Bruce the Chairman of the lican County Committee his action being taken in response to a challenge which was given him by the Platt men that he dare not openly declare Mr Bruce's removal Odell's friends assert that Platt men There's Bruce's head the Governor don't dare hit it And so against his personal desires but feeling that it was necessary to show that in the belief that his services ought to be J employed in that difficult post for another j term if he could be induced to remain Mr Bruce however for professional sons concludes that he cannot serve that The efforts of the Democratic press to the party in the Chairmanship of th much to the regret of jis alt he had the power the Governor struck out j tho act and last night there were few who were asserting that the Governor was not yet the real power in the Republican Party in the State The Governor will give still other stir up sedition in the Republican Party and to disrupt the friendly relations which have so subsisted between its leaders have been unavailing and the unpleasant rumors of enmity between the Governor and myself ought now to be set at rest George W Dunn Chairman of the Re- publican State Committee spoke of Mr Bruce's work as Senator Platt Gov Odell Mr Bruce and I have had talks to-day on various matters relating to the work of the Re- publican Party in the campaign next year Mr Bruce Informs us that his professional duties will not permit accept a re- election as President of County Com- I sincerely regret his decision and think all active Republicans will unite In this sentiment OTHERS ON GOVERNOR'S LIST Gov Odell is far from satisfied with this his first signal move in his campaign for the regeneration of the New York County Republican organization District leaders will feel his hand every day of the year from now on if he can carry out the plans he Is now almost absolutely sure he can bring to accomplishment There are tain of the leaders on the list of the Ascribed and how to rid the County Com- of them is the problem Gov OdR is working upon with the help of his tenants among the district leaders tor Platt will be expected to keep hands off The simple but weighty reason why Gov came to New York Tuesday night and set himself to work yesterday was because every move he was making toward the Committee and ing conditions in the Assembly districts were being balked with considerable result every district by friends of tor Platt The Governor was satisfied however rray have been the intentions of ator PI itt to live up to the agreement made at Was hington the former should assume ive party management there were that some of the more in- 1 friends of the Senator conferred with him and advised that he not yield g to tho Governor but continue to n control of the New York County organization without reference to the as north of the Bronx he still insists that he has no fight with Senator Platt and that he never will have A year ago he declared that the party was suffering from incompetent management and would meet defeat His prediction has come to pass Mr admits that the Governor was right in his view and ne is said to ba willing that the Governor should take the active management of the party in the State in hand The Governor has right that the men placed in the charge the party machinery lacked organization and he is now seeking the right men ana will retire the stumbling blocks WARD TO SUCCEED DUNN A fact which did not leak out until was that Col George W Dunn promised both Gov Odell and Senator the Washington conference with Roosevelt that he would resign as Chairman of the Republican State Com- It was demonstrated to the faction of all at the save that as an organizer he has proved a failure The retirement of Col Dunn will be lowed by the resignation ot William Barnes Jr of Albany as Chairman of tho Executive Committee of the State Com- Mr Barnes both and Platt consider has the requisite abilities for Chairman of the State Committee but Mr Barnes does not care to take up the task with defeat next year in tho his friends and interfere wherever there was reason to think that the Governor intended to introduce too rigorous sures Gov came down Tuesday night to remind the Senator of his promise or ment and to demand that further meddling by district leaders cease And It was wails that the Executive was dared to show he could do As a his exhibition of power Senator Platt is apparently ready to in to the Governor with respect to the County Committee reorganization but not a single one of the Platt leaders who were the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday would concede that the Governor would have his own way In tha State in the quest for National delegates though all prefaced their observations or answers by hinting that nothing but harmony existed Senator Platt jind Gov Odell There Is much speculation as to who will succeed M Linn Bruce Those close to the Governor declare that he has not yet fixed upon a mar capable of going through risers of the National and State campaigns SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOB fREE SPEECH Trinity's Trustees Retain Prof Bassett's Services DISAVOW EXPRESSED VIEWS Declared Booker T Washington est Man in brate Official's Action N C Dec Board of Trustees of Trinity College after a sion lasting until o'clock this ing declined to accept the resignation of Prof J s Bassett It had been tendered because of the criticism following a recent declaration by the professor that Booker T Washington is the greatest man born in the South with the exception of Gen Lee In] the last century The Trustees 18 to 7 not to accept the resignation of Prof Bassett They save to the public to-day a statement of their position In the matter which in sub- stance is as i We have had before us offer of Dr Uohn S Bassett to resign his of History and it is made clear to us that it was not presented out of voluntary decision to sever his connection with tho college but that it was tendered under coercive influences the outside and because of a feeling trtat his further con- with the college might bring in- jury to It Candor impels us to admit our that Bassett has expressed certain which gave offense to many and we are glad to find that these opinions were expressed solely on his own ity through a medium which Is in no sense an organ of the college and not at all in his capacity as a college official so that neither this board nor the college cao be held responsible for them On the contrary it clearly appears that the Faculty nnd the students disagree with certain of Prof Bassett's far as we can ascertain unanimously Neither do we agree with him Nevertheless both Faculty and dents with equal unanimity have their desire that this board decline accept Prof Bassett's offer of his nation nnd for the following reasons which seem to us high and vital we do decline to accept 1 Any form of coercion of thought and private judgment is contrary to one of tho constitutional aims of Trinity College which is I to a sincere spirit of tolerance j 2 Wo are particularly unwilling to lend to any tendency to destroy or of year as the head of the most limit academic liberty I We believe that society in the end of Alexander T leader of the j will find a surer benefit by exercising Ca by to he had not bestowed any thought whatever upon the position He declared he did not know who would be selected as Mr Bruce's successor Mr Mason paid a ute to the work of President Bruce and declared his belief that he should be shown proper recognition for his effective work I during his Wief incumbency i When Gov Odell left for Albany early last night he expressed himself as feeling I perfectly satisfied with tho situation i He is confident that Senator Platt will not i interfere with his for the I of the Republican Party in New York j County anyway I Senator Edgar Truman Brackett happened I thr Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday in i thr Avenue Hotel yesterday staring nis in the face Mr j of what nad he T think tho events of the past f show that our attitude of last si Barnes is young and the older heads quiesce in his plea to be allowed to retire for the present The leaders having cast about for a good organizer have about settled upon ex- Congressman William L Ward of Chester Westchester County for Chairman of the Republican State Committee He I possesses they feei the requisite abilities There was some talk of William C Warren of Buffalo for Mr place but when Mr Warren was in Albany on day it was tacitly agreed between him and Gbv Odell that he should so on the tional Committee in place of George R Sheldon It is known that Mr Bruce will re- recognition at the hands of the Governor in such manner that he will not have opportunity to feel that the time he put in from the middle of last Summer to the present which included the conducting of the Low campaign for the Republicans has been wasted j MR The determination of Bruce to retire was arrived at after consultation with Gov Odell Senator and State man George W Dunn It is believed he saw the three men separately President Bruce issued the following I An effective administration of the of President of the County Committee ing the coming in view the pending National and State elections will require ail the time of the President for at eight months I have had under consideration for some days whether or not I could accept a re-election I find myself at the parting of the ways I must either practice law or practice politics I prefer the former I have spent many years building up a law business and I cannot abandon it I have therefore to-day informed Senator Platt and Gov Odell that It would be im- possible for me to accept a re-election The reports that I have in view any appointive position or designation are out foundation in fact Apropos of the announcement of dent Bruce Gov Odell made the following Following up the conference with tor Platt and Chairman Dunn this Ing I have talked with Chairman Bruce in reference to his remaining Chairman of the County Committee I have said that i bis work was satisfactory and that if he would continue he would meet with my cordial co-operation and aid reasons however he has declined a re-election to the regret of all those who have interest of the Republican Party at heart Senator Platt also had something to say with reference to the decision arrived at by Mr Bruce He gave out the The Governor Col Dunn and myself conferred to-day regarding various matters of political Interest In reference to the Chairmanship of the New York County Committee we all agreed in Mr administration to have most admirable and we united siori was justified ODELL NAMED ASSEMBLYMAN Governor's Influence Nominated J S Parker in Washington County Special lo The New York Time ALBANY Dec Odell's hand was felt in no uncertain degree in the lican Convention Whitehall ton County Monday when James S er of Salem was nominated for the sembly vacancy by the death of Gen W H Hughes Washington County had always been considered a Platt stronghold and the result on Monday has set many to ing Leader Isaac V Baker of Comstocks resentments The search for truth should be unhampered and In atmosphere that is free Liberty may some lead to folly yet it is some should be ated than that fail should think and speak under the deadening of sion 4 The matter that has engaged our at- tention is than local interest and will be far in its results 3 Trinity College Is affiliated with a great church whose spirit and doctrines are tolerant and generous and a due regard for the teachings and traditions of this tian society requires us to exercise our judgment in harmony with its spirit and doctrines Viewing the matter in the light of those wider Interests and finding that there Is no complaint against Prof Bassett's moral character his scholarly fitness his energy his competency as a teacher or his com- mand of the confidence of his classes we are sure that duty requires us to decline the offer of his resignation We state as a fact that Prof Bassett does not believe in nor does he teach social equality and we have confidence in him both as a man and a teacher The statement is signed by T F Marr and J H Southgate as a committee After the announcement of the action of the Trustees a large number of students gathered on the college campus and hanged In effigy Editor Josephus Daniels whose who owns one of the sites being J paper had led the fight against the ered by the State Lunacy Commission for I promulgated by Prof PRELATE CHOOSES POVERTY the new State Hospital to be located north ot was in Albany last Friday and was given orders by the Governor It is charged to name Archbishop Harty Leaves St Louis for Parker Mr Baker his friends say protested at first saying that Hon W D Stevenson of Argyle was the man the Republican County organization had selected It is said that the Governor made It plain to Mr Baker that Mr Stevenson could not be nominated that Mr Baker did not have votes enough to nominate him and could not get enough At any rate Mr Baker went home and on day Mr Parker was nominated by ation It is now stated that Mr Parker is to Mr Baker as leader of ington County He is thirty-six years of api ambitious and wealthy Mr Baker has been the leader for six years Mr Parker comes originally from Great rington Mass and has resided in Salem since 1888 was educated in Cornell University and breeds blooded horses INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS 6 Commercial 11 Hotel Arrivals and Buyers in Page 11 Business 11 Court 11 Losses by 2 Marine News and Foreign New 13 5 14 United 5 Weather 10 ft 2 SECRET of Fact Drives from Albany Special lo The New York Times ALBANY Dec is W of Warrensburg came to town to-day to talk over Warren County politics with Gov Odell He intended to remain here until the return from New York The fact that he was married last March and published the announcement but few days since furnished his friends with means to make his stay miserable and tha congratulations were so vehement that he beat a hasty retreat this afternoon taking the train for home He explained the for failing to publish the marriage notice at the time it took was because he was afraid the would rig him Fire in a Kansas City HATS CITY Kan Dec mill and elevator the Post Office and a block of business buildings were destroyed by fire early to-day The loss Is estimated at with light Insurance The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin NEW SERVICE TO TAMPA In order to accommodate the heavy traVel now moving to Tampa and the Coast of Florida the Seaboard Air Line Railway will on and after Dec 5th operate a through Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car on the night train to Tampa In addition to the one now operated on the noon train All Information as to rates tickets etc furnished on plication at office ST miah Manila with Limited Funds Special Id The New York Times LOUIS Dec Archbishop J Harty of the Church at Manila Philippine Islands and destined to become a power In the archy of the Church St Louis sessing only the clothes on his back With only sufficient means to supply immediate wants he started on the long journey across the Pacific Ocean Even the purse presented at his last public in the church Archbishop Harty turned over to the church treasury ing the small sum that would prove cient to keep body and soul together until he arrives in Manila His life regular and business Interests amounting in all to almost were conveyed by Archbishop the Parish of St Leo Holiday South Via Southern Railway New York Offices 271 and 1180 WEALTHY LUNATIC DEPORTED Son of Salvador Coffee Planter Not mitted to Land SAN FRANCISCO Dec Inspector A De La Torre Jr boarded the Pacific Mail steamer City of Para on her arrival from Panama and way ports day and stopped the landing of Fernando Gallegos an insane son of Salvador former Minister of Salvador at Washington and also at Berlin It is reported by passengers young Gallegos was violent on the trip It was represented to Inspector De La Torre that the young man was dis- family and wished to be ad- mitted to the United States merely to be treated in a sanitarium The immigration officer replied that the law forbids the landing of insane persons without regard to condition In life Salvador Gallegos brother and attendant of the young man was also ordered deported in accordance with the terms of the law The Salvadorean Consul will appeal to Commissioner of Immigration North and if this Is unsuccessful an appeal will be maije through the Salvadorean Minister at Washington to President Roosevelt Salvador the father of the boy is one of the wealthiest coffee planters in Central America Are Pure Special assorted cases for Holidays A very present Send for descriptive list 138 Fallen street New York DR CYRUS EPSOM DEAD Son of Ex-Mayor of New York sumbs to Pneumonia in Roosevelt Hospital Dr Cyrus Edson son of ex-Mayor lin Edson died late last night In the velt Hospital from pneumonia Dr Edson was born in Albany on Sept 8 1857 He was educated first at a military Neck N Y and after- ward at Columbia College where he rowed In the Varsity crew He was also a ber ot the famous Henley four Dr Edson graduated from the College of Physicians and Burgeons in 1881 and was chosen by his class as Grand Marshal In 1882 he was appointed Assistant Sanitary Inspector in the New York Health ment and was promoted through the lar grades to Commissioner He was pointed by Gov Cornell as Assistant geon of the Twelfth Regiment on the staff of Col Cruger and served in this office for about one year when he received an pointment on the First Division staff He was President of the Board of macy of this city and of the County of York In 1893 and during his career he held the Chief Inspector of the Second Division in the New York Health Department Visiting Physician to PUTT AMENDMENT CUBA New to Appear in the Wood Inquiry i JOKER AIDED CONCESSIONS These Were Granted by Military ernor and Were Fastened on Cuba by Altered Language the Charity Hospital Vice President oj the American Society of Public Analysis and Secretary of the Committee on Hygiene of the New York County Medical Society Dr Edson was also the author of many articles on medical and sanitary subjects and the inventor of useful surgical ments He was President and Director of the New York Pharmacal Company Vice President and Director of the Rapid Safety Filter Company a member of the St Andrews and New England Societies the Larchmont Yacht Club and the Society of Medical Jurisprudence He was married twice first to Virginia Churchill Page who died in 1800 and later to Mary E Quick who survives him GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST FULLER COMPANY DECLARED Special to The WASHINGTON Dec is at hand to show that somebody tampered with Section 4 of the Platt amendment as It was passed in the United States Senate and International Union of Bridge Structural to Fight CHICAGO Dec general strike against the George A Fuller Construction Company and the of that company was declared to-night by the Ex- Board of the Bridge and Structural Ironworkers International Association now in session in Chicago The fight against the Fuller Company will be centred In New York City where the Fuller Company Is said to have assisted In the formation of a rival union of bridge structural and architectural ironworkers The Fuller Company is said to have con- tracts aggregating more than in the following New York Kansas City Baltimore Philadelphia Omaha St Louis Boston Washington and Pittsburg Nearly men are said to be directly affected by the strike order In these cities and In the event that sympathetic strikes are called rhore than would be The support of the hoisting engineers is being sought as It is counted they quit no Iron could be hoisted even if men could be secured to take the places of the other strikers The International Union of a branch of the recently formed National Union of Building Trades is expected to assist the ironworkers Appeals will be Bent out to-morrow JERRY Populist Thinks the Democrats Should Win Next Year Special lo The York Times DALLAS Texas Dec Simpson the Populist leader and man from Kansas Is an advocate of the nomination of Judge Parker of New York as the Democratic candidate for President next year Mr Simpson who is now a miner and rancher In New Mexico Is in Texas helping to organize Independent packing houses to fight the He said I consider this the Democratic of a generation to elect a President The policy for the Democratic Party to low is to nominate Judge Parker on a tariff reform and ism platform The gold and silver wings can unite because for the time being at least there is no financial question before the country Mr Bryan has no present Presidential aspirations and his friends would not be likely to make trouble if a liberal form were adopted and Judge Parker be given the nomination JUDGE SOUTH CONTINENTAL ALARM OVER BRITAIN'S MOVE ON TIBET before the amendment was Incorporated In the Cuban Constitution It was posed to be Identical but there is a marked difference between the two This matter will be brought out in the investigation of Gen Leonard Wood be- fore the Senate Military Committee An effort will be to that Gen Wood was cognizant of the change It 1s asserted that Section 4 of the Platt Amendment which applies to various acts of the Military Government embracing con- cessions when adopted by the Cuban Con- Convention was changed to the advantage of a number of cessions granted by Gen Wood The fourth section of the Platt ment as it passed Congress was as That all acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy thereof are ratified and validated and all lawful rights acquired thereunder shall be The Platt amendment was passed as an act of Congress and in the usual manner was finally deposited in the State ment A transcript of the Platt ment was made and on May 31 1901 sent through the War Department to Gen Wood as the Military Governor of Cuba Wood on June 8 transmitted the document tc President of the Cuban Constitutional Convention Senor Mendez Capote On June 12 the convention ed the Platt amendment and added it to the Constitution already adopted As It appears in the Cuban Constitution the fourth section of the Platt amendment Is as That all acts of the United States In Cuba during the military occupancy of said islands shall be ratified and held as dated and all rights legally acquired by virtue of said acts shall be maintained and protected An examination of the Spanish text of the section shows of the charge that there was tampering with the language The charge is that the changes in the section as it was adopted by the ed States Congress and as It appears in the Constitution are exactly what was desired by a large number of aires such as the Jai the Castaneda Electric Light and Power Syndicate the Cuban Railway and many other lesser concessionaires The effect the distinction between lawful rights acquired thereunder ami rights legally acquired by virtue of said Is at once obvious A lawful right might have been called into question by the i e Cuban Congress fae French Papers Point Out That Control at Lhasa Means Supremacy Over the Buddhists LONDON YORK Special Cablegram LONDON Dec of the most widely read Russophil organs of the French press says the Paris ent of The Times comment on the Brit- ish expedition to Tibet and assume that its real object is to pave the way for a British protectorate One paper says that by a protectorate over the King ward will secure control of the re- ligious influence of the Grand Lama over the Buddhists The second journal says that Great Britain has had designs on Tibet for half a century Lhasa the Inviolate and venerated sanctuary of exercises veritable supremacy from the Ganges to the Amur and whoever be- pomes its master will soon find his recognized by the fanatic and millions who inhabit the high plateaus were the home of the earliest conquering races of the earth Russia it is added has maintained commercial and friendly relations with Tibet and the Russians are naturally un- easy in regard to the bold move of their rivals The correspondent thinks these are not expressions of purely French opinion but are echoes of the views entertained on the Neva WOULD CLOSE OPERA HOUSE Such Is Mr Intention if chestra Refuses to Play Conried manager of the Metro- Opera House said yesterday that he would fight it out to a finish with any labor agitators who tried to force a strike of musicians in the orchestra on account of the failure of two female harpists to join the Musical Protective Union was no responding challenge from the union during the day and it appeared last night if its officers had planned any tion they were not ready to divulge what it was The orchestra played as usual If the orchestra refuses to play will close the opera said Mr Con- ried HIM Apparent Indifference and Hearst Booma Special lo The New York Times WASHINGTON Dec Livingston Georgia the leading crat on the House Appropriation tee said to-day that Judge Parker of New York and Senator Gorman of Maryland are the men most talked of in the South as probable Democratic candidates for the Presidency while Mr Hearst is also ing strength in that section Everybody knows said Mr ston that Senator Gorman is strong in the South Judge Parker would have friends In the South if he cultivated them but he does not seem inclined to turn over his hand to the nomination This parent Indifference on his part Is leading those who would aid him to pound the perfectly natural If Judge Parker is not interested enough to contest for the nomination would he be interested enough to fight in I am convinced that either Gorman or Parker can defeat Roosevelt I do not say this for buncombe but because I feel it It Is useless to explain the reasons for that belief One would not have to go beyond the wit the feeling in Mr Roosevelt's own party against OMAHA BOODLE INVESTIGATION Bribery and Municipal Cor- to be Probed OMAHA Dec The Federal Grand Jury to-day resumed the investigation of alleged conspiracy and bribery In connection with Nebraska Post Office appointments The cases under consideration are those of Alma and Orleans The testimony of two bank cashiers of Alma showed that Postmaster Mitchell rowed about the time of his ment as Postmaster at Alma Mayor E to-day an- his intention of investigating grafting by certain city officials he says has been going on for some time He began by calling before him City Pound Master McLaughlin whom he openly charged with receiving money for duties never performed He also announced his Intention of bills presented by the city garbage and others which he says are excessive and which have been paid out proper authority Convenient Service To Valley trains for Chicago St Cortlandt St Farm is nothing more app for Winter's breakfast Try a There is nothing more appetizing and delightful For instance the Jai an Immoral gambling concern might have had its ten years concession modified by Congress as a consequence of pressure from an enlightened public sentiment But with the law of the land protecting all rights legally the Cuban Congress cannot enact into law any of the Jai Alai charter no matter how iniquitous it may be By a stroke of the pen it Is unalterably fastened on the Cuban people for the riod named in the concession There is no proof in the hands of the Senate Military Committee as to where the Interpolations in the Platt amendment were made They could have been made in the Department in Washington They could have been made in the office of the Governor of Cuba They could have been made in the Cuban Constitutional by friends of the concessions that would be favorably affected by the vital influence of a change Ul the Constitution of the new republic the fundamental law of the land scending in its sanction any law that the Cuban Congress might pass In this connection there is testimony before the committee going to show a more decided insubordination on the part of Gen AVood against the orders of Secretary Root than any Gen Brooke has shown This was in the matter of the Castaneda concession A syndicate of which a ber of Boston and New York capitalists were members and for which General Griggs was attorney desired the same rights which Gen Wood chose to grant the Castaneda people The concession given f latter had been Initiated by the Spanish but required acts by the Military Governor to complete and perfect it Gen Wood to uo this had Issued two orders Root directed him by telegraph to rescind nis tion on the ground that he had violated the net forbidding concessions While General Griggs R A C Smith of the Boston Fruit Company J A Hayward and another member of the Syndicate were in Secretary Root's office a telegram came from Gen Wood appealing to him not to order him to rescind his order Secretary Root was Incensed at this and thinking there was but one order sent a telegram saying in three or four words Rescind your order At this Gen Wood it is charged in the statement before the committee rescinded one of the two order but the one of less Importance and the necessary one ing the Castanada franchise stood and now has the protection of the Cuban Con- by reason of the changes which were made by some one in the fourth tion of the Platt amendment The original copy of the Platt ment which was sent to Havana to be for- warded to the Cuban Constitutional Con- vention Is among the archives of the ban Government and an examination of the document ds one of the things which may call for the visit of a sub-committee to Cuba The committee will meet row It is declared by Gen: Wood's friends that before long there will be a reaction In favor of Gen Wood Senator was at the White House twice to-day and had long conferences with tho President The tide has run thus far strongly against Gen Wood but now his friends say that there will be just as much said In his favor R B SAILING DEAD Son of Famous Gun inventor Expired Probably from Heart Disease Robert B Gatling one of the sons of Richard Jordan Gatling inventor of the Bun which bears his name was found dead in his bed at 62 West One Hundred and Fourth Street yesterday Mr Gatling was single and rented a suite of apartments from Mr L A Hendrick Yesterday afternoon Mr not having seen Mr Gatling about all day found him lying unconscious as he thought on his bed with one leg out from under the clothes as if the man had made an effort to get up Dr James B Kenzie at 04 West One Hundred and Fourth Street whom Mr Kendrick declared that Mr Gatling must have been dead for some likely from heart disease A brother of the dead man Richard H Gatling of 209 West One Hundred am venth Street was out when a call wai FIRST SNOW CAUSES Also Brings Out Sleighs in i for the Magnums Winners at Central Park Casino Other Skating on I Prospect Park Lake Winter settled upon the city il doubt last night the roar of i ing muffled by the snow Some jji went out and captured the 5 champagne offered by the keepers of KMT 3 to the first to on runners and Juvenile New to sleep to dream of arctic delights Forecasting what was to come in there was a light fall of enow as the toilers were going to work in morning but it only whitened and then melted The weather did seem cold on going outdoors hut many win left j their heavy overcoats at home j ted it before reaching their places of ness especially as many of the and surface cars heat FROM BIRD TO Special to The York Times LOUISVILLE Ky Dec beth Bird of Harrison County near Paris started early in life to feather her nest well first venture outside of the home nest was when she married Bud Martin When Mr died she married Edward Crow a prosperous farmer When the time came to change she allied herself with iam Robbin and lived happily until the matrimonial season for Mrs Hobbin again rolled around Then David Buzzard a widower appeared Mrs Robbin became Mrs Buzzard to-day Into the Buzzard eyrie the bride carried one little Martin two little Crows and one little Robbin One little Buzzard was already there to welcome them Thone at may rest Cure All druggists made but Mrs Gatling said that he hai gone to inform his mother who lives with the family of Hugh O Pentecost a lawyer at the Ariston apartment house at Broad way and Fifty-fifth Street She said she believed Mr Gatling was in the insurance business He had come to New York from Hartford about four years ago WARRANT BURKE SCOTT Victoria Theatre Management Has One Issued for Missing Treasurer Although the management of the toria Theatre and The Office Boy com- pany expressed themselves as believing that some harm had befallen E Burke Scott the company's missing Treasurer secured a warrant for his arrest from Magistrate Ommen yesterday afternoon It was explained by Manager Bowles of the show that this action was taken In order to make the detectives bestir themselves rather than because they thought Mr Scott the that he held as C B Dillingham's representative The reasons the theatre officials gave for their theory that Mr Scott was the victim of an accident were the evident haste of his departure the fact that he took no clothes away with him and the general disorder in which he left his sonal belongings both at the theatre and at his boarding house 230 West fourth Street That his wife Kate Condon who is Ing the West with The had not heard from him or even of his was evidence by a telegram re- at the theatre late In the dav I The warrant for his arrest was obtained by Assistant Treasurer Jones and the as been stolen was That sum was handed over to Scott from Saturday night's at tho office PRAYER FAILED TO SAVE HIM Old-Time Actor Dies in Saloon While Wife and Daughter Kneel by his Side While his wife and daughter were ing fervently according to the Christian Science faith it is said George Thompson fifty years old an old-time actor died last night from heart disease In the rear room of Thomas Smith's saloon at Sixteenth and First Avenue Thompson had acted the roole of Uncle Tom In Tom's State In the Union and in parts of Canada Mrs Thompson and her daughter Mary strong advocates the police say of the Christian Science faith were walking home from a meeting with him when the exertion of walking in- the storm overcame him I must sit he said staggering through the rear door of Smith's saloon Thompson sank into a chair and fell for- ward on a table his face buried in his hands Oh mother pray said Miss Mary so that he will get well and come homo with us Mrs Thompson had an armful of and from these she and her ter each selected an I sitting beside the stricken man they in loud when Dr Palmer a lie bulance surgeon arriv to read and pray rere still praying Hospital walked up to the table The man Is he said The surgeon Florida and the South Via Southern By S fast trains daily A Itt f M P M Through Pullman sleeping and dining cars New Tork Offices an uad 1185 more during the rush hours Slight as the snow was it caused on the electric railroads and frequent in all boroughs generally by brilliant electrical displays view of accidents 1 these were terrifying to many and not i few left the elevated trains episodes and went on to their nation by other means While the snow was falling 4 luse blew out on a bridge train leaving Brooklyn stalling It on the incline tying up the system for about an-hour Within a very few minutes of the beginning of this trouble a De Kalb Avenue -j car jumped the track on the Manhattan approach and a doleful procession wnu the Icy wind and snow in its teeth started to march across the promenade while other proceeded flown Fulton Street to ferry For the first time the new trolley scraper was tried on the elevated v Though the fall of snow was light it gave the management an to see how the would work and at midnight the train reported satisfactory results The scrapers are the invention of j eral Manager Frank Hedley who came Jrom Chicago the operative chief of 5 the Interborough Rapid Transit Company v Each scraper has six steel blades which are lowered by means of a wooden so that they rake the snow from the tric rail just ahead of the contact shoe The mechanism is so arranged that the J blades may be lowered to within an Inch of the rail or within any fraction of an inch or until the touch the rail In case of a light snowfall like yesterday's ii it was necessary to lower them until they i the rail In more J storms when sleet freezes on the rail It be to lower the blades so s that they exert considerable pressure In order to force off the hard ice Only the front and rear cars had ers yesterday but passengers throughout the frain were able to hear the whining they made on the third rail and tha guards were kept busy answering questions as to what caused the new noise TbQ blades kept the rail entirely clear of j In Chicago Mr said they were equally effective in the heaviest Winter storms Just one-one hundredth of an inch fell 4 at this flurry according to the Weather Bureau The observers there detected tha first j flakes of the evening storm at but it was a quarter of an hour after that 3 before it attracted much attention down in v the streets Then it came fast and furious and by 11 o'clock the fall had exceeded inch and was increasing rather than ing j Winners of magnums at the Casino In i Central Park were A G Moulton of tbV 1 Athletic Club who drove south at about 8 o'clock yesterday morning in a handsome cutter V-1 McGuire of Fort Washington Br J in a similar equipage at about 10 o'clock in the evening and was declared the winner of the magnum given for tha first arrival from the north At the Pass Tavern where the same offer prevails the winners arrived last night They were Max who A keeps a at Broadway and Forty-fifth ft and who gets the bottle for the first sleigh driver from the south and Doddi Irving who came from Seventh nue and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth ana was awarded the prize for the the terms ol tne gift ever there must be sleighing on the day following their arrival At midnight it seemed beyond question that there would be sleighing to-day At Huber's Hotel Jerome Avenue and One Hundred and Sixty-second Street Case's old place where the custom of a bottle of champagne to the first sleighing party has prevailed since days of Commodore Vanderbilt if not lore fhe prize was won at o'clock last evening by I Leboid and P W Stevens riding in the same sleigh and coming from Ogden Avenue Abbut five minutes later team drawing a sleigh ar- rived West Sixty-seventh Street and the riders were much chagrined to think that after coming so much further they had lost bv such a narrow margin Mr and Mrs John R of tho Hotel drove up In a sleigh to the Inn last night at and claimed the magnum which la offered there under conditions similar to those at the McGowan's Inn Mr and Mrs J H Tooker of West One dred and Second Street arrived ters of an hour later and found to their disgust that the magnum had already been won Several other sleighs arrived still later A large crowd was at the inn to the sport The going was very muddy The outdoor skating season was opened at Prospect Park's big lake ernonl The school boys and girls were on the lake skating in large numbers in less than an hour after the announcement was made The skaters enjoyed the sport tor four hours when the snow began to fall and the park officials thought that it be unsafe to allow the sport to go on any longer At a squad of armed with lanterns and appeared on the lake and drove the merrymakers off The did not have such an easy time as it took them about two hours to clear the The lice was about four Inches thick and S there was good skating while It lasted It was stated that if the snow stopped the of- would have over 200 men at wow clearing off the surface and the i -I would day allowed to swarm on the lake Earthquakes at Two EFFINGHAM 111 Dee quake shock lasting several seconds WM felt here this afternoon j LOUISBURG C B Dec her Were considerably shaken by a earthquake but no was done v Burnett's Extract of Vanilla the standard Sold by but ft
