New York Times, The (Newspaper) - February 1, 1904, New York, New York All the Fit to Print THE WEATHER Light snow colder fresh northwest f VOL NEW YORK MONDAY FEBRUARY 1 PAGES ONE CENT In Greater New York I Bl City and Newark j TWO AGAINST SUBWAY STRIKE Union Delegates After Stormy De- bate Decide for Peace Labor Bodies Now in the Employers Agreement Carry the Day in Spite of the More Radical of the Leaders After a- stormy discussion lusting for nearly an hour at yesterday's meeting oL the Central Federated Union over the tu trouble the conclusion was practical reached that nothing could bo done in tne way of strikes to change the present tion During thj discussion the fact that tho unions now miller tlie arbitration agreement of the Employers Association to by that ment Some of the many tractors whose numbers have inc sions of which Length 200 feet height 70 width 60 feet It will be the cage in the world and be stocked with more than a thousand birds of different varieties The cage at the National Zoo has been of as the largest in the world and Is slightly larger than the well-known cage ot Zoological Garden New but the new receptacle will be at least 40 feet and about ItO feet wider ABUSES OF PEONAGE SYSTEM MRS HOWARD GOULD TO RACE AUTOMOBILES Will Have a Number of Fast Cars for Next Season More Records Ex- to be Established on the Florida Beach Special fa The New York Times ORMOND Fla Jim ment just been made here that Mrs Howard Gould will next for annual automobile Derby with some of the fastest racing cars to be cured in the country Mrs Gould has been con- and this its bearing on the action of the central body yesterday Chairman James E of the tral Federated Union Rapid Transit Com- brought the matter up in the form of a report on the which tool last week nr the subject lie that the Company pive the machinists no satisfaction at ill regarding of non- men at tho Fifty-ninth Street power house By an with the general he the painters had come to a railroad iron not sented j in the original the tral hody mid the rapid transit contractors j grievances but as not in- j fused to consider their James Wilson of the machinists said The it could unless Mr go ther As far us J p.m concerned I believe that it Mr told the mers Company o straighten out m they would be out I am at a loss myself as to to Co 1 tunes Fitzgerald of the marble workers j o Wilson il the Allis-Chalmers Company any union meii Wilson replied that they employed union and non- union men in other contracts but did not employ any machinists at the power house said Fitzgerald why the Association Machinists men out on the jobs of the Chalmers Company in other this matter the marble workers you bet that the workers would have every man pulled out in the unions final of the H B Stevens match race for a trophy the class in which Stevens ami Bowden will also contest and in which the mile competitive record may be lowered arid a consolation race for to be I offered There ire many reasons for believing that or Stevens may lower field's competitive record In the first place Bowden averaged for teen miles in his match race with Stevens bnt on the other hand in the shorter races Stevens has beaten Bowden several times With a five-mile start either may eet easily inside ot for the mile Kither may also touch W K record of The mile kilo- metre record trials have yet to be run the conditions are perfect these may i bring about some surprises During trie last twenty-four hours there have been a number of departures but j there remain a number of prominent i When Mr left last night he said lie was confident that he could do on the It is reported that he did do In He is fled with the record of M Charley Paris believes limit of the THIRTY DIE IN A DESERT j Brutality to Children Revealed In a Re- j j port an a Georgia Case Their Bodies Found Near Dead Th Nnt Yark ATLANTA Ga Jan ot cruelty to children have been made Government agent's report in the Pittman peonage case United States District At- torney Camp who conducted the inary proceedings against Pittman When we first heard of the case we Immediately sent a special Government agent down to farm to gate and the evidence we have gained Man's Well in Nevada Had Attempted Cross a Barren Stretch Eighty Miles Wide Without Sufficient Food and Water Special to The New York Times LAS VEGAS NeV Jan bodies of men who perished in the Nevada Desert from thirst and hunger have been by a body of surveyors who are an advance party of the new San Pedro Los Angeles ana Sail Lake Railroad THe victims met death within a few weeks according to all the evidence obtainable and the condition of the corpses when discovered They died while attempting cross the waste that stretches a distance of eighty miles from Las Vegas to the nia line Many others have lost their lives while trying to make this journey without adequate supplies of food and water but apparently the desert has claimed many more during the past month than ever before The survivors tell of many gruesome sights The bodies were found in groups of four or half a dozen lying in proximity In most instances they had been torn and half eaten by coyotes and buzzards to such an extent as to be beyond tion One body was found partly burled In a shallow grave evidently having been found by another wanderer who buried the unfortunate as best he and then himself victim The thirty bodies were all found within a a quarter of a mile around Dead Man's Well the only water in the interior of the entire desert One hundred feet from this well the surveying party came Across six bodies lying a few yards apart Man's Well Is about half way across the ren territory that divides the little ments of Southern Nevada from the hills of California shows cruelty and treatment credible Children slept on a cot consisting ft a plank which was covered with cotton bagging another strip ot the material serving as a cover it is remembered that ging Is made of cords nearly as large as one's i with large spaces between you can what protection it ed when the thermometer was well below freezing Most of the children showed ugly scars on their ears which came from the fact that the bosses or whoever was in charge of them on the ears with stones held in each On one occasion a large stone was thrown at one of the boys ing him the elbow The the arm and now the boy's hand Is ered and paralyzed SEGREGATION OF SEXES Experiment in the University of Chicago It Success by the Instructors to a re- El J CHICAGO Jan port submitted by Dean George cent to President Harper of the University of Chicago the experiment of segregating j the sexes in the junior work during the last year has been a Dean j Vincent i Unofficially various instructors who have taught the classes exclusively for men or women have told me that from their experience they believe segregation is going to work out as an educational and Three More Including Battalion Chief Not Expected to Survive Rescuers Grope in Jute Fumes at Blaze for scious Loss Only Two firemen were killed and fourteen others were overcome by smoke at a fire last night in a three-story jute storage building at the foot of Noble Street point Chris Dressel twenty-four years old of Engine Company No 138 died soon after he had been taken from the burning building and carried to the engine room of the rope factory next door Arthur Rink thirty-five years old of Engine Company No 138 died In St Hospital at midnight Three other firemen who were taken to St Catharine's Hospital were reported late last night to stand little chance of ing They are Battalion Chief William McCarthy oi the Twenty-sixth District Michael of Engine Company No 115 and John McAllister of Engine Com- f pany No 121 i Smoke pouring hi volumes front the ond floor of the storage owned by the American Manufacturing Company at- WARNER QUINLAN LOSE ASPHALT LAKE High Court of Venezuela Pronounces Their Claim Mine Was Bought Without ing Title CARACAS Jan Federal High Court sitting in full with ten Judges oh the bench has finally handed down a decision in the long-drawn-out case The court gives as Its the opinion the claim of Warner Quinlan of Syracuse N Y to possession of the Felicidad Mine a portion of the asphalt lake in the State of Bermudez claimed also by the New Bermudez Asphalt Com- which holds a concession to work tHe lake is null and void The Felicidad Mine was bought In 1808 by Messrs Warner The court bases its opinion on the ment that while concession of the mudez Company was valid no claim to tho Felicidad Mine could be granted The de- bates revealed the fact that Messrs ner Quinlan had bought the Felicidad Mine without receiving title from the vendors Americans here are gratified at this the high court which is considered to be just mm m mm m i Wilson Liner Nearly Three Miles from Sandy Hook MAIN SHIP CHANNEL BLOCKED American Liner St Louis One Of the Vessels Compelled to Stand Sailor Lad Saved His Part of the Crew Left on Board the Wreck social success One Interesting feature of A majority the victims were tramps situation is that the and railroad laborers who attempted to t cross from the railroad camps in Nevada to the more agreeable climate of nia course is far off He says that this will MUCH UNREST IN RUSSIA wiir to drive fast and be pate A course on which no of Conditions in the Caucasus Almost Ap driving even at eighty-eight and one-half -I miles ah hour will hoat tires Is ideal according to M Charley The reason for the failure to heat the tires and so cause danger is due to the moisture in the i surprise over of tlie suction retard speed has been expressed bv the visitors Europe They also point out the safety lying in a tors Who were radically opposed to gation now say that their experience leads them to favor it heartily Entwistle of the Steam Fitters said there were steam ters employed in the subway but that the was helpless in the matter Why don't out the union men Fitzgerald We arc- bound and foot said Ono contractor has signed an agreement with us and another contractor employs only men If it was one contract wo coil Id do became indignant i on the one side is soft sand to retard a machine breaking away ami on the other side water to check it with s The removal next year of the long wharves at Daytona will make the course safe These wharves Bowden some trouble for he avoided one of the posts nt a speed by but six inches Another thing which will be done will be the abolition at the at the end ot each leg in long races Controls will be established and the come in at speed turn slowly and then go out at- speed thus correct for driving The accident to Anarchy LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Feb Is no sign of improvement in conditions in the casus says the Moscow correspondent of i HZ id u to know what the Ehrlich yesterday caused this decision of Walking was ever At the Ormond tourney Mr good for or what Federated i won six first prizes and one second prize every week for j Knd broke every record from one mile to lie said verv bitto'rly: Things an fifty miles Bowden won four and to the bad are more men j five second prizes and in than there five first years ago and this applies to every trade I Stanton of the Electrical I ers said that matters in the way of settlement but some of in i Central Union evidently i a policy I When my union continued j Stanton T am going to try tn get a tior through fur the members of my Inter- i national Union to boycott of the Company in other j less they can come to an agreement with iis That is the way to set about it original with the Rapid Transit Contractors Association did not Stevens won two and four second Oldfield a first Laroche two seconds and Tracy one second G H Curtis won two firsts in motorcycle races Not one of the competitors to have had any trouble from grit entering the machinery said that he think or expect that his ring for matters that lie had foremen lie admitted that tho original agreement had nothing to do with the of the delegates became very right and At one point it looked a strike which not possibly inconvenience the contractors against whom tlie had was soing to be ordered iser prevailed and tjie report of the committee was simply adopted with understanding that every possible means would be taken to end the tangle COLORADO FLIER WRECKED One Person Killed and Thirteen Injured Near Miller Kan on the Missouri Pacific Road KANSAS CITY Mo Jan Col- Flyer on the Missouri Pacific that Ifft Denver Saturday afternoon Kansas j City was derailed near Miller Kan i day while running at the rate forty miles in hour engine and rear car a Pullman alone remained on track The baggage car smOKer and a chair car were thrown into a ditch upset and shattered I Krown of Ransom was killed and thirteen injured one t the tlm two hours DOUBLE NIAGARA Himself in Peril on a Detached Ice Floe a Man Rescues a Boy and Both Are Saved NIAGARA FALLS Jan after- noon hundreds were on the ice bridge below the falls a large not j away from the bridge near the ice ain On was John Morrison of this city i While the crowds were staring in fear at the man's from the ice mountain James Murty slid down into the open water left by the detached floe Morrison in danger himself on the de- cake which at any moment might have been swept gorge to the whirlpool saw the boy's danger Lying flat on the floating ice he awaited the re- appearance of the boy As the lad came gasping to the surface of the ice-cold water The Times The news of an attack on the residence of the Governor at Tints is confirmed If is reported that tne recent demonstrations have alarmed j the authorities at St Petersburg in view of the positions occupied by the demonstrators It appears true that fries of Down with the were uttered in a hail where were assembled a large ber of industrialists and technical men Russian all over the empire are manifesting tendencies with more than usual candor say Russia will not dare go to war if tho Intelligents keep full al home Recent dispatches from Russia state that conditions in the Caucasus almost approach anarchy Bandits make frequent raids en banks and railway stations and usually succeed in carrying off plunder These brigands it Is stated are armed with costly rifles and ers of the newest make The ya of St Petersburg complains that some one thoughtfully provides them with lish weapons ammunition arid powder In bales and cases that are imported into the Caucasus under the of sewing and technical CASHIER SHORT But If Is Said That the Franklin Bank of Cincinnati Will Not Lose a Cent CINCINNATI Jan report of the who have completed their nation of the books of the Franklin Bank of this city shows the Henry Burkhold to have been short in his accounts K Burkhold was superseded as Cashier months ago and has been so his financial collapse that he Is not expected to recover Kilgour President of the Franklin Bank says there will be no and that the bank and the creditors will not lose a cent Burkhold has given Mr Kilgour power of attorney to sell securities and settle up his affairs and out of the of holdings it Is thought about will be for his estate Morrison grabbed him by the and hauled him on the floe The crowds cheered Morrison to the echo and soon ropes were got and cast to him The floating ice was then slowly drawn to the ice bridge and both Morrison Murty leaped to safety there came a cry requisites are found splendid weapons such as might arouse the envy or a good hunter The raids instead of being made by as was formerly the case are now made in broad daylight On Jan 4 for instance eight armed Brigands eaSly in the afternoon made their appearance the premises of the Mutual Credit Bank at tais and carried off rubles locking the doors of tho bank behind them Three days before this five brigands raided the railway station at killing one employe and wounding several others tho accident the train was j late a ad making up time It j nad -o orders to stop at Miller went Sv full bring derailed on the of tho town The front trucks of th car jumped the track and crashed I a freight Handing oil a siding 1 car following the far at right angles across the track onr forward cars chair car following the partially telescoped the the latter was smashed into kindling wood EXPIRED AT POOR Henry Schmidt Jr Supposed to Have Heart Disease Henry Schmidt Jr thirty-one years old of the firm of Schmidt Holzhauer sterers at Sixth Avenue died suddenly last night on the stairway leading to the fourth floor of the flat house at 50 West One Hundred and Fifth Street About 7 o'clock Frederick March of 910 Columbus was going up the stair to call upon friends on the fourth floor when he Schmidt sitting on the stairs holding Ivs head in his hands and ing He notified his friends but they didn't recognise him neither did a number to the i of other tenants in the house Tlie janitor Frank Winters called One PLANS BIRD Bohm and Sullivan of the West One Hundredth Street Station who telephoned an ambulance When Dr Westcott ar- Aviary at the St Louis Fair Will Be 200 Feet Long 70 Peet High and 60 Feet Wide I to The Times WASHINGTON Jan Baker of the National will have i charge of the exhibition of birds at the St Louis Exposition lie says the exhibit j be the largest and most interesting ever at- tempted He has out the contract for an aviary for flying the 7 Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town 10 Losses by 2 Marine Intelligence and Foreign Page 10 Real 10 7 Weather 7 rived from tho J Hood Wright Hospital the man The body was to the station house where letters were found in his Partner John J Holzhauer of Leonard was sent for He made the identification positive It is the theory the police that Schmidt died of heart 1 disease He was and the I could net learn his address He for- i lived at One-Hundred and Holzhauer explained that his ner had gone to the house to Miss COMBINE TO LOOT CHICAGO City Attorney Says Personal Injury Suits Aggregating Are Sidewalks at Fault CHICAGO Jail Injury suits amounting to are pending against the City of Chicago according to the report of City Attorney John V ski made public to-day The Council the Legislature and finally the people are pealed to for relief Sidewalk caused the majority of the suits Hfr in his report shows that the interests combining to loot the city in this way amount practically to an organization Names of lawyers mostly young men and doctors occur with great frequency in the list suits The City Attorney says the up of suits continue for some even should the city at tear up every wooden WThe City Attorney says the main cause of condition is the deplorable state of the finances which makes it impossible to care properly for its streets and walks The remedy he says Is a new city charter The many judgments awarded the city are pointed out and torney says that unless favorable action is taken in regard to a new charter inevitable bankruptcy will result MORAL DANGERS OF COLLEGE Opinions of President Eliot Provost Harrison and Other Educators Read in a Philadelphia Pulpit Special to York Times PHILADELPHIA Jan Rev Dr C Edgar pastor of the Street Methodist Episcopal Church read to the members of his congregation to-night letters from college authorities in this city and elsewhere telling they considered the greatest moral danger that threatens a college student in a large city Some of the opinions given are President Eliot of ing away of the student's time in trivial self-indulgent occupations and animal pleasures Provost Harrison of the University t ot The separation from sacred influences of home and probably church also The temptations to explore phases of life to which the student had been a stranger John E James of Hahnemann Coir Absence of home restraint and home life Commenting on these expressions of j opinion Dr Adamson If the reports in the newspapers con- the countenance these forms of temptations by some who are guardians of interests be true It is time thut the citizens ot Philadelphia rise In their might and lives on the part of the men who are in charge Of her affairs traded the attention of the night man Thomas O'Hara who turned in an alarm Engine Companies 115 and and Hook and ladder Company No 56 re- The firemen dashed Into the building and mounted to the second story where the whole floor was filled with dense smoke from the burning jute The lamps were put out by the fumes and they groped about in the darkness ing to turn hose on the firer but soon succumbed and fell unconscious floor three more alarms had been sent In fend the firemen on the second alarm went to work to get out the men who had been overcome inside They made a dash for the second story and groped about tHl they came across a trate body nere and there and handed them one by one to their comrades out- side Ambulance calls were sent to the St Catharine the Eastern District the berland Street and the Bushwick Avenue Hospitals and nine surgeons responded They worked over the unconscious men who had been removed to the rope factory next door but Dressel soon died Father Fire Chaplain and rector of St Church Front and Gold Streets administered the rites to sel The firemen found great difficulty in ex- the fire It was not known how the fire started The damage was ed at Those overcome by smoke and to the hospitals BATTALION CHIEF of the Twenty-fifth District EMIL RUCH of Company CHARLES MEDOWS No 138 WILLIAM QUICK Engine Company No 115 JOHN DEMPSEY Endue JOHN 115 ARTHUR 138 BATTALION CHIEF MCCARTHY of the District I JOHN MCALLISTER Ensine 138 CHARLES Engine 21 CHARLES WEEDMAN Engine 115 PETER GAPPNEY 138 FRANK HERMAN 115 Engine 115 MICHAEL MAHONET 115 Dressel had been year in the ment He lived his parents at hattan and Noble Street was removed to the Greenpoint MR WARNER'S THREAT Losing Firm Blames the United States Government and May Bring Suit Against It Jan M Warner of this city expressed the opinion to-night that the Judgment of the Venezuelan Fedr eral Hight Court had been Influenced by the presence of United States warships in Venezuelan He added that his firm might decide to bring an action against the United States to recover its losses Mr the firm is in Caracas The title to the Asphalt Mine Mr Warner saifi was obtained from Spaniards who located the mine under the laws of Venezuela HISTORY OF THE CASE A Contest of Rival Corporations Almost Brought This Country and Venezuela to Blows The ease was finally decided by the pst court in Venezuela best known us the asphalt and at certain stages the term was not a misnomer The involved were many standing but entered upon their most phase early in January 1901 At that time the asphalt from being I fight between two large In a collision which occurred the Bristol City Line steamship Boston i Cily and the Wilson liner Colorado afternoon in the lower bay tha j Boston City was almost cut in two by J other and so disabled that Station say that not at home when he called and Mrs Allabough he did not knock at the door of the apartment had been trying for some time to married said Mr Holzhauer but religion stood in the way They went to different priests but none would marry them without a dispensation Miss Ryan being u Catholic and Schmidt a Protestant He told me recently that he PROTECT A FAILURE Two More Stations Needled for a ice Between St Michael Special The Ntn Tims TAG DMA Washington Jan to the December the Government's attempt to provide a wireless tele- graph service between Nome and St Mi- chael Sea had proven a ure Che expended In building tions Michael arid Port Safety near Nonie will be lost unless the la Willing to double the money spent by providing two stations Experiments early in the Winter showed that distance was too great for such called from her 1 transmission Winter weather i and that identify I Schmidt Mrs Allabough declared last I night that she had not seen the all that dav Miss Ryan returned to the apartment about two hours after Schmidt SCORES THE RICH OF CHICAGO CHICAGO Jan Rev Dr James S Stone rector of St Episcopal Church the membership of which is ly made up of wealthy caused comment in the course of a sermon he denounced the rich of Chicago He said in That multitudes in this city who fear God nor regard man is largely to two the ig- and weakness of many tions and the other the Irreligion of our Influential and well-to-do people There are many exceptions noble and praiseworthy for which we thank God and take courage But for the greater part the people of financial and social Influence in people who could If they would do so much for the salvation of the city the people that are going to suffer the most In that terrible conflict between the classes that is threatening the country the nearness of seems apparent the centre of which will be this very city the end of which no people who should be the first in Christian ple and are living the fives of pagans nice pagans if you will but as surely pagans GAMBLING HOUSE OUT AT SEA Special la Tlie New York Times TACOMA Washington Jan dispatches via Dawson say that further complications with the Washington ties are likely to follow the Inability of the Federal Officers at Nome to carry out President Roosevelt's wish expressed through the Department of Justice that gambling be absolutely stopped in Alaska Sporting men of Nome have big gambling casinos on the Ice on Bering Sea three are there conducting the faro and other games recently closed at Nome The players Immunity be- cause they are outside tne three-mile limit The casino was built In sections and in the Spring will be sledded ashore for lar use next Winter MRS IN LIVERPOOL 1 Much Mystery as td What Has Been Done Regarding Her but She Is No Longer at Aylesbury LONDON Feb Dally Mail this morning says that Mrs Is now in Liverpool and that the con- ditions attach to her release from That she will not appear on the public stage or write a book of her experiences and that she will in no way endeavor to attract public attention to herself A great deal of mystery attaches to the action in connection with Mrs but it can be definitely said that she has been removed Aylesbury Prison At the United States Embassy it was most emphatically declared yesterday that Mrs not been pardoned and that she was still a prisoner Reports from Aylesbury are to the effect that she has been removed to some institution in wall The Home Office and the Governor of Prison refuse to make any kind of statement on the subject If the ordinary course had been followed Mrs Maybrick would have been taken to Holloway if her Immediate release were contemplated but she is not there The details given yesterday in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper the visit of Mrs mother Baroness de to Aylesbury Prison on Jan 25 appear to be correct She afterward de- scribed Mrs as very busy with her work in much better spirits and ing forward to her release came near becoming an issue be- tween the United States and Venezuela Far many weeks during the early part of States warships were kept in close proximity to Venezuelan waters pending the issue of a situation which only of much diplomacy was halted on the brink of a crisis The New Company ob- a concession from Venezuela which the company construed as covering all the asphalt lakes in the Department of mudez The Venezuelan Government ever construed it as covering only certain lakes in the of- the province and granted a concession In the northern so-called a company took that name and in which the Warner Quinlan Company of Syracuse was chiefly Interested The Nrw York and Bermudez Company thereupon announced Its determination to drifted about for a time finally running on to where she now Is her forward hold filled with water and all general cargo part of the ship loss Her bulkheads kept afloat aft 1 vessel carried any j and when the collision occurred the Col- I lowered boats and took off the dis- vessel all the who did not to remain aboard The Colorado was but slightly damaged and after standing bjr for a naif hour to render assistance up to the Phoenix Line pier at Hoboken her own berth at Pier SO North River being occupied Thr Boston City left her pier In North River at o'clock in the ing under the command of Capt John Carey and piloted by G R Romayne Tlie first officer J W and tlw j second officer S C Davidson ahio on the bridge The vessel carried tons of general merchandise which was to deliver at the Ports of Bristol and Swansea I The tide was and the j out in the lower bay was very clear when the Boston reached the end of the main ship channel about three miles west of Sandy Hook At this point main ship channel makes a sharp turn about what Is called the tail of Spit THE VESSEL'S As the Boston City reached this the officers on the bridge noticed the Coir standing In about two points on tlw Boston City's port bow arid a mite distant The Colorado was coming from Hull with I n 1 nn ill 1 1 Mi a general carro but so light that one drew only twelve feet of water While this distance the Colorado Is laid to i sounded one whistle indicating My is to port ami I will on the starboard or right side this signal the Boston City Is said to have answered with whistle which meant that she would to the signal The Boston City then continued on course and started to turn about the her officers apparently no further attention to the vessel The Bristol liner Is said to resist any attempt the had the further right of since the pie to take possession of the ered in the new concession The Felicidad Company appealed to the Government and also took the matter to the courts The lower Court of Carupano the district in which the concession Is located ed in favor of the Felicidad people but the New York and Bermudez Company also known as the trust took the matter to the Supreme Court of Venezuela In the meantime the succeeded in obtaining an order from the Superior Court at Cumano granting them possession pending the decision of the Court It was nt this point that aspect of the contest changed from that of a legal battle to that of warfare Tlie New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company armed its employes and fortified the asphalt lakes Cm Jan 15 the property of the company Vas threatened by an firmed force of who demanded the surrender of the property and that the private army of the trust lay down arms The Venezuelan Government allowed It to understood that the threatened was the work of revolutionists but it was established beyond doubt that it really by the regular troops of the Republic Only the arrival of the United States ship pion with orders to fight if necessary averted serious trouble It was about this time the Venezuelan Government seized the two ships belonging to the Orinoco and Trading Com- pany and provoked a whole lot of trouble The United States attitude in the matter was that the companies as well as the Venezuelan Government should remain passive and await the decision of Supreme Court and United States Minister Bowen at Caracas lodged a strong protest against the interference of the Venezuelan Government in the trouble was found FAMOUS TRAINS TO FLORID jf Fla T Iff Ltd A M Atlantic Unit Down on Ike River This delightful section of Florida reached In comfort by the Seaboard Air Llm Railway Pullman can Service turn Call 1.183 INCREASE IN PRICES Government Report Shows That An- Costs Over 39 Per Cent More Than Five Years Ago The New WASHINGTON Jan facts con- the production of coal that are of melancholy interest to the general public are brought out in Edward Parker's annual report in the volume of Mineral Re- sources for 1902 which Is soon to be issued by the United States Geological Survey The first is the loss of life incident to the Industry of coal The second Is the steady and considerable increase in the price of both anthracite and bituminous coal in the last five years The total number of lives lost In the coal mines of the United States In 1002 was as compared with In The total number of men injured was In 180.1 ana in 1902 The largest number of lives lost per employes in 1902 was in Tennessee where 200 men were killed by the explosions in the Nelson and mines The average price at the mine for a ton of anthracite of pounds out the United States was in 1808 In In 1900 in 1901 and In This shows an Increase of over 30 per cent within the last five years lA still larger percentage of Increase Is in the price of bituminous coal throughout the country A short ton bituminous coal brought an average price at the mine of 80 cents In 1896 cents In 1000 in 1901 and in an Increase of 40 DR FAREWELL SERMOK New Factor of St of Bonton Special to The New York Times BOSTON Jan Rev who has served for twenty-five years as pastor of the Emanuel Church preached his farewell this Dr Parks will go to York where he is to fill the St Bartholomew's Church pit left vacant by resignation of Dr Greer Every seat in the church was filled and hundreds stood in the aisles all eager to hear the pastor's departing words Every said Dr Parks acknowledge of men outside the church and we must all under- stand that many men who never go to church lead blameless lives and have the highest Ideals But there is a decided difference be- tween the Christian and the non-Christian Earthly idealism Is depressing to the mind but Christian idealism Is elevating was going out on the ebb Several i minutes later the officers on the bridge of the Boston City sounded the j signal by the rapid blowing of the several times When the officers on both vessels saw that there would be a collision they handled their ships that the Colorado struck the on the port bow Just j abaft the forward rigging at an angle of j The Boston City was low the water and when slie was struck the held so the water that the rado shoved her bow into the hold of the Bristol liner a distance of twenty while the prow of the Colorado smashed the bridge carried away all of the port side of the pilothouse and exposed Hie wheel in the When they struck I the vessels were going at the rate of three knots an hour I The officers on the bridge of the Boston City before the collision jumped to the fifteen feet where they landed shaken up but not Injured At this point the greatest confusion pre- on tmr and It wu only to the action of the officers of Colorado that lives were not lost the collision occurred the engines of both vessels were still backing away and hanging together for a few seconds vessels again parted When the bridge was carried away the signal wires from bridge td the engine room were cut und there was no means stopping the en- gines which continued la back finally the Boston City on the mud of Southwest Spit As the vessel grounded on the bar boatswain of the Boston City been below MR LITTLEFIELD TO RETIRE Special to The New York WASHINGTON Jan ot Maine who took such a inent part In connection with efforts at legislation in the last Congress lias in- this Congress until the debate on the mileage question came up In the House observed an inconspicuous course Being cne of the debaters In the House and a man of distinct ambition this has caused much comment among hta admirers It is now said on good authority that he has decided to retire from public life and accept a flattering offer to practice law in speaks frankly of his dis- appointment at the obstacles to be met In house by man who attempts to work out any of the great problems of legislation now before the country He regards the task leader who attempts to secure for the people aa more a matter of than fair Ik came rushin who deck of his jump and ordered over to take off the men if they have to leave suddenly When thn hnat was in the water It was seen that the had been left out of the bottom ami rushed in filling The engine room force stood by their to the last never leaving them until ordered to do so by the Captain The hole in the side of the vessel did not reach ths room missing tt by several EIGHT MEN LEFT ON BOARD In the meantime the Colorado had backed for several lengths and then her boats lowered to take the crew from tho injured steamship The first of these to get away made for the swimming boatswain whom it picked up BO excited that he had swal- lowed quantities of salt water and was on the point of sinking For half an hour the boats hovered about the steamship but their assistance WM not required at once When Capt saw that his vessel would be proceed he ordered sixteen of o twenty-four men to leave the with them he came up on confer with the of After the col put of made Boston City the opening of the merchandise out and either went to the bottom or floated away on Ilia i
