New York Times, The (Newspaper) - April 6, 1904, New York, New York Ail the News That's Fit to Print THE Fair possibly showers at night winds variable WEDNESDAY 6 1904 PAGES CENT In Greater New V 1 WO I IM'S Sympathetic Action on- hattan Elevated Hinted At of abiding by the majority While it is not intended that the men on i the Manhattan Elevated system shall be i out simultaneously with the calling i out of the men in Brooklyn a sympathetic strike on their part is alleged to be a of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit pooh-pooh the possibility of a strike among their employes who they declare have no grievances whatever and profess ignorance -as to any org But more green men are CROWD OF GIRLS BREAKS OUT OF TRENTON HOME BUYS REALTY BRICKLAYERS TO GO BACK TO WORK Many Chased Through Fields for Hours Before Capture I May Present Adjoining His I to W K Jr 1 William K Vanderbilt according to j credible report has bought the j Will Pending Fifth Avenue from the Coo j I VOTE NOW BEING TAKEN Big Organization to Include Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Interborough Men Secretly months of secret preparation In- tro bringing together of all street employes of Greater York mammoth organization plans are LOW for a big strike which if carried into is destined to He up not every surface and elevated line in the of Brooklyn but which may even xo elevated system in the of Manhattan the Bronx The of a series of secret meetings which have been held by representatives of the men employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and on the Manhattan DU of Jhe Interborough Rapid Transit in furtherance of both occurred in a private in Saratoga evening plete among i MRS EYLER HAD JUST QUIT men are not put solely j lively a day at the State Home for Girls as that rather bothersome institution has engaged and on the Brook l-n cars this Spring than any year since Two when the men on the surface lines in Brooklyn went on strike and the was well aware many weeks in advance of what was coming TIIK GRIEVANCES According to THE information the grievance's the on of wages though this is an important factor in their discontent Con- and motormen declare among other things that whenever they succeed in ishins ii trip in quick time they are docked the number of minutes they come in ahead of the schedule lime When put on extra trips or other words when asked work overtime they declare of receiving their regular rate they paid only the rate accorded who almost invariably arc corners and receive the lowest wage rate in force The men also complain of be- ing compelled to break in a great number of green men Another grievance has reference to so-called spotters arc employed jy the company to keep tab on the number of carfares rung up by the conductors These erty Fifth Avenue from the Coo estate for The house is of the four-story type tration Decision on a by 100 similar CMf TROUBLE 1 Commission to name tNU I g of the Thirty-four Fugitives Smashed Car Windows While Being Taken Back Special to The York Times TRENTON N J April was as in many a day The new Board of Managers met and organized the reign of Mrs Myrtle B terminated and of the girl The occurrence place after the change was made and before things had gotten in running order The were that instead ont parading through the grounds in therr of wages j afternoon they broke out of the institution grounds and disappeared in the woods The State Home has been under fire for to ing No BGG which Mr Vanderbilt bought about five years ago from the I Main estate and which in turn adjoins j Mr Vanderbilt's mansion at the west corner of Fifth Avenue and second Street It is said U be Mr intention to have these two older houses extensively converted Into one j house with an exterior conforming to that of his own which the erty be turned over to W K bilt Jr who will make it his home Plans for the alteration of the houses are now in course of preparation in office of McKim Mead Resolutions Adopted by Master ers aVid Skilled Unions Under the Agreement The general arbitration board of the Building Trades representing the majority of employers and workmen in the building industry adopted TO BE CALLED SQUARE Aldermen Vote to Rename Long Acre Square Site of New Times Building Acting favorably on the suggestion of the i Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners the j Board of Aldermen yesterday on motion of j Vice Chairman Timothy P Sullivan proved a resolution changing the of Long Acre Square to that of Times Square President of the Rapid Transit to name the Forty-second i Street and Broadway station of the rapid l transit subway the Times Station There j was not a single dissenting voice to the arid the resolutions now go to Mayor lor his signature j The suggestion that Long Square be j called Times Square and that the subway station at that point be Times tion came originally from August j Oil FAR Czar Said to be Willing to cept Mediation Offer THE NEGOTIATIONS President of j Company who laid the ma Her before the resolution at the Building Trades Club meeting last which provides that all striking laborers ill all are to turn to work pending arbitration The following was the resolution Resolved That it is the of the This purchase by Mr Vanderbilt Is of j eral Arbitration Board that the special interest because it lakes out of the and laborers return to work under the con- j ditions that obtained on the signing of the RAILROAD BARS RtU bMK I Transit Commission in a letter read before that two weeks ago It then was decided to do nothing until the Board of Aldermen had acted as the Aldermen alone had the power to change the name of j the square The Transit that time expressed themselves j the Slow March of Events in thi Theatre of in Some Quarters to This Gauss j as favorably inclined to naming station j Times Station in conformity with the quest of Mr Belmont the one on the j years Gov Murphy Board of Managers which was plainly i out of sympathy with Mrs Eyler the the she and several of the by at once tendered their tions to effective as soon aa the board met Tnomas P Fay of Long j west side of Fifth Avenue between j general arbitration plan and these meeting Avenue in Brooklyn on There were present at was elected President 0 the which long after some of both companies whose reports io show that the sentiment among the in Brooklyn at least was strongly The men employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system who until recently have baa 3.0 organization with the exception of a society taking in employes classes and to which j 1.1 e company are entitled to membership have been quietly but it is suid organized daring the last three Warned experiences of the when the company's officials through detectives invariably have been put their guard at the very inception ol movement on the part of the men toward organization a unique and method devised specially with a view to battling the watchfulness of tne has been employed FIRST STEP IX MANHATTAN According lo a statement made to TilE TiMKS the meeting on Monday night avid been en the inside of tile present ment since it began the initiative came ITam representatives of the men employed tn the elevated roads in Manhattan a year ago u- i organization as the ilS of tlie of Street Hallway Employees By organizing the mtn air in the class of skilled labor have twice succeeded in enforcing demands concessions from ill bi i Transit Company men they snv are allowed a day for Branch instead of using the money beard Mrs Frederick T Johnson of for the purpose for which it is provided they spend il and their time in saloons and trump up false charges of short fares on which the conductors are discharged rive hundred conductors it is declared last Saturday for alleged short fares on of that nature According to officials of the Brooklyn Transit Company there will be in the neighborhood of 4.000 men employed on the surface roads at the this month There are about 2.500 elevated lines in second and Fifty-third Streets No 008 j tions in dispute on either side d Fifth Avenue adjoins the Frederick latin residence on the Fifty-third Street by arbitration at once as provided for by the general code o arbitration no overtime this instance not work done on Saturday may liot have bought for the special purpose of protecting the the transaction serves to recall the afternoon The representatives of the bricklayers rk Vice John D Carnagy ot Trenton Secretary Samuel W Davidson of Trenton Treasurer and John D Rue was continued as Farm Superintendent Dr DC Hart of Jersey City was made a committee to find an physician for the home the choice to be submitted I at the next meeting for confirmation The i resignations of Mrs Kyler her band who was her clerk and those of five teachers were accepted Mrs Elizabeth of Bayonne was chases made by members of the Vanderbilt concurred in the family within the last three years wholly to preserving the residential character of that part of Fifth Avenue as long as possible Special to TIMES Copyright THE TIKES BRUSSELS April ram front Berlin correspondent the Roir which is reproduced for what i i says that King has taken the preliminary steps to if would be favorably disposed to accept an offer of mediation Shirts and Handkerchiefs of Color j Also Under a Ban such an offer on the part of the or Social Penn April woman wearing a red skirt must venture near the j With thus of tne Pennsylvania Railroad in j the says be difficult fcr Japan to decline a proposal 1 along COLLEGE WOMEN DROWN The organized employes oC j appointed temporary Superintendent of the the Division of the home This was something of a surprise teacher ough Rapid Transit Company number about as it Miss two the motormen there being members would be appointed It is now expected of the American Brotherhood of Mrs will be made the permanent live Engineers are precluded by the j appointee if she gives Mrs laws of their organization from Elizabeth R who Was dismissed in- in strike j two months ago by Mrs Eyler was Calderwood who also j stated in her old position in the hall General Manager of the Brooklyn Rapid The board went over from op Transit Company declined to enter I to bottom and it was partly owing to the detailed discussion of the reported distraction of the attendants on- account trouble among his men the visit and the shaking home Our men have no grievances that we are aware of he said and I do not think they want to strike They tried it in and again in and on both occasions lost I guess they have had enough of strikes If such a meeting as this has been held it is very likely some one representing the company was there and then we will know all about it bye and bye The only thing that could tie up our road would be a strike of the power house force undergoing that the girls The inmates were mustered at 5 o'clock as usual for religious service During this riod there was no indication of any trouble being planned girls were restless They all knew of the changes and their state was laid to this Five Persons Lose Life by Capsizing of Boat at Tampa TAMPA Fla April persons members of a pleasure party of seven from the Florida Methodist College at land were drowned near Anclote house last The dead Mrs ot the President of the college Miss O'CONNOR o Atlanta Miss SLAUGHTER of Sutherland Miss ol Sutherland Mr ot Sutherland President Walker and Miss reached the beach The bodies of Mrs Walker Miss O'Connor have not yet been of the other three lost their lives Wre washed ashore and President taken the party out tor a cruise to the lighthouse but met CHICAGO FOR CITY OWNERSHIP Votes Heavily in Favor of Taking Over Street Railways CHICAGO April municipal election to-day the Republicans elected eighteen Aldermen and the Democrats teen One independent Republican who re- the machine in the Sixth Ward was chosen a member of the j Plaint fro I tern Tlie Pennsylvania future The penalty for injunction will be summary It is all the fault ol the Italian women L emanating from powerful ally who make a pastime of gathering coal optimists it is said attribute tha slow tracks and dress appropriately the occasion in what they have always march of events to the ta tint cil The last Council was publicans 32 Democrats 1 independent Democrat and one Socialist The next Council will be 30 Republican's Democrats 2 independents one whom j is a Democrat and the other a Republican j and one i The chief interest in the election j ever centred in the vote on the proposed municipal ownership of the street railways j In this connection what is known as tlie Mueller passed by the last j was submitted to the The thought was a beautiful shade of j red I Red shirts and red handkerchiefs are also tabooed The Irish iml j hands must wear dark blue or colored shirts The fact that so many fast i i trains are being run stretches j out stoppages has caused a general com- I flash of a red dress or us they have rounded a curve j with express trams has made many j prematurely old say Pennsylvania have A LULL AT PORT ARTHUR Mo Warships Not Ever Boats Seen Near There Sirce Sunday After the exercises they were- marched j rough weather and the boat latter the j Federation of Labor EXCISE DENIED But the Police Fire and Ferry Bills Will Be Passed Inter- Special to The York Times ALBANY April Elsberg day presented to the home rule conference a report concerning the little amount of home rule which the Republican leaders of the Manhattan orgaiiiza- have concluded it is advisable to grant have always looked upon the j Sonic life was to the conference by u unorganized employes of the j Edward Lauterbach and William Halpin j Transit system as a put up a stiff plea for excise nu other reason as a dangerous j tlon They wanted the restaurant I With the recurring jir said the recent conditions of a consolidation of the street in the city with regard lo excise were aij oi both boroughs and the on the liberty of j at times claimed 1.1 increased contact between them And Mr spoke for the New the completion of the Interborough j York County Republican Committee said j w Transit lines now under j that he regarded acli of th ili advisable Senators Raines and Malby however As he calling of a meeting among the j convinced most of the members of the con- at once have attracted the at- j that if the Party j out upon the grounds for ation and almost immediately thirty-four of them made a concerted break for j erty The grounds have no wall and they easily escaped and scattered but inside-of hours twenty were back in the home having been taken the attendants with the aid of some of the older who not only took no part in the escape but dered all aid to the attendants Four mure of the girls have been picked by the police of this city anil are up in the police station Six are as yet i ot accounted for One of the girls here when asked why the pe said it was because in the Florida College is located at- Sutherland on west of the gulf about thirty miles from Tampa the girls the restraining hand POSSE BROTHERS Dead Men Resisted Arrest Engineered i f to Stop Texas Feud j Special to Tlie York j DALLAS Texas April mid Walter Herring sons of B H Herring and law authorizes Illinois to construct with the most prominent families own operate and street Henderson County were killed at their j to 1 provide the means vote j near Athens last night while re- j stood for and against the I siting arrest Their father proposition pn the proposition that the I- in the Athens jail in city once take over the GIRL BEATEN BY STRIKERS Was Taking Place of Employes Who Warned Her to Quit Work CHICAGO April Van Gelder aged one ot of girls j employed as press feeders by a local ing establishment fn place of striking bers of Franklin Union is the victim of alleged slugging tactics employed by i the strikers j While on her way home accompanied by j her younger sister Alice Miss Van Gelder railways into its control the vote stood 120.744 tor and against For the temporary of street railways us Hie city is prepared to take them vote was for against On the tion of whether or not the members of the Board of Education should be elected by direct vote of the people instead of by ex- appointment as is the present and conditions have existed since were particularly by the find en yesterday one of the Kennedy women was talked to ly by the brothers Neighbors sent notice to the officers at Athens to come to the locality of trouble before the Kennedy men should start out for Marshal and a posse Inn SCATTERS CROWD WITH KNIFE Twenty Girls Awaiting a Car Chased and One Cut of Mrs Eyler removed they would brt by the attendants She Eyler was a mother to the J attacked and brutally beaten by men j and the opposite of what it has been she declares are striking press nis excitement wan caused at Third Avenue and Twenty-third Street early last evening by a man about with an open knife and eirls a toward men n Brooklyn was to success of the New York County j i he was of the girls saiu they feared there old be a to the strait jacket legislation as i and ers or their sympathisers is said to be in u critical condition pair of he was arrested he cist one in the arm and caused a panic the crowd Waiting at the transfer tint of the Twenty-third Street pars In point or tne in Station he working for the firm but refused She was said was Joseph Fanelli thirty years within a few doors of her home when two c rough the attacks anyone of in Par ie law It aroused the suspicion of the pored the excise law It was certain n who through the j to than it could possibly gain j ill their service l members of the New York County j ii soon become aware of its 1 organization finally admitted that it j of organization better unwise lo was hit upon A lew j But they said it was necessary were ktown to bu in favor of j for them to take a stand and they said I were approached and through i they would frame a on own e- of has since be introduced but of course other forms of punishment said to be in vogue a few years ago Mrs who th upon her during recent years a Dlow ln tne Bne unconscious silence still refuses to talk When I and moaning on the sidewalk midst about girls waiting for in interview after her home it was found that her nose had for the surface cars and commenced to il n with the home was severed re- i been broken and her face bruised as it j a knife about his head tion witn tin was sei i reu ie One hand was j 1 would talk for the i badly lacerated having apparently been if there was anything to talk ground under the heel of an assailant about j ried to the James sible with a the temple Springing inside the house he seized a rifle and a fight began were fired Walter killed instantly -nu lived only two !h- SUKI his pocket which In- to his a before he K M Day of the head out recover of tile dead are th feud YORK tty Win W AT in tlie vicinity of Port hours The situation is much as hirs no hostilities sum fort at night I nothing ut f either of the no sign night c of 1 regard must It state of quite from for- mer experiences when cruising in i I have seen large of des'anati'Ui presumably an i their object the victualing Ar- thur are signs of the Ih TO is no table change in situation The Duke IJoris has left Port Ar- to join the field folVe RUSSIANS PLAN A SURPRISE JEROME REPORTED That Cossacks Are Disappear for a Short Time YOKK to I has Bine through an j be The homu bills already in will be Ive city the right to increase the force to dispose of reinstatement on the betr A 1 cards were printed in others The pink for the signatures of n on lines for on Special to The York DEPOT J April Three girls Anna Monday Anna Gordon of the many girls who j escaped from the State Home for Girls at Trenton this afternoon walked to this ng at 7 P and created great the town by their shouts TO END AUTO place arriving at 7 1 the white the surface should cards fall Into the the railroad employes they would j 1 the wiser for pasteboards j no printed whatever j -.1 for name occupation and ad- Three were to each em- one for himself two which were to i by him to friendly I their i on the lines where j ih last few months the men have complained about their ilic of organization has made is said to been ally Here the am are being organized On the elevated they are being CHAIN on Monday evening d which are said to the force of BRYAN WILL FARM A SPELL Won't Return to Politics Until the Crops Are Planted lo The York Times LINCOLN Neb April Bryan will flon his overalls desert politics temporarily and enter upon active a farmer Not until the Spring is completed and the crops planted will he return to the political life er and Blackwell who the girls were and i they in company with a dozen or i boys at once tried to catch them After running through and j for two and a half hours were caught by the boys who handed them to the Marshals who put them on a trolley car them home in care of Motorman White who was met at switch bv the The other girl Anna Gordon caught at V M by the boys While en route to Trenton the two girls in the first car were so devilish that they deliberately smashed the windows in the front of the car Machines to Display Only State License While in New Jersey Special to The New York Times TRENTON the laws marie by the Legislature is one ing of State licenses shall be removed from as soon as tho machines enter this Commonwealth only the New Jersey license number be displayed of machines The lay is due to the fact that bile owners are stopped by constables to ascertain if among the three or four cense numbers there is a New Jersey one they scattered screaming he gave chase i to one and stabbed her in the arm fell in a faint and darted down Third Avenue A crowd of men followed crying and Stop j i At Twenty-second Street Policeman j Hauplman the knife and scissors his hand grabbed him and May in the man Radigan arrived TIMES PARIS A St street till arrived and arrested iho Dr Brooks Bellevue attended o cut which the man hud inflicted on his arm The young woman who was cut could not be found after the excitement had subsided A ROMANCE Maid He Once Snatched from Be- neath Horses Hoofs Will Go on Assembly Calendar Passage of the Probably lo J York April j Introduced by at the and Col oil Attorney lerome j to O n that by the tl for -I short with their Ve ail of course hear them at a given point which kept secret We -an anxiously fresh ex- by the Cossacks of I lit Ural the Amur who will soon IK and For the present to do m wife returned j where he has been l ill say nothing is of The Commoner of the farm- RUNAWAY INDIANS REPENT Carlisle EXCISE ISSUE IN NEBRASKA Majority of Towns at Municipal tions Vote for High License OMAHA Neb April were held in to-day except hi Omaha The issue generally was on the of license or no license although the Assembly calendar for to-morrow The is certain a 1 debate as there arc powerful interests working to defeat it The impression gained j from talks with members of the Assembly is that the will be passed Many of i l hf up-State members who would like to I vote against it will not dare because of S the which has been aroused for i it through the publicity given Mr arguments in its favor What lie will do with the A romance which had Us start two years j is not definitely known The is that Patrolman James Hastily he will ask Attorney General the East Street Station who opinion on its constitutionality and if by Uie Baikal Cossacks v nose ance will be a surprise for the Another St saya it is reported that tin? sunk a largo of at mouth if the Valu and that by lUu means has been he is a cousin of the Attorney it to be j by the Of ai will sign it rescued a pretty girl from the hoofs truck horse on his Park Avenue beat after she had fatten on the slippery crossing culminated happily last evening in St Senator Brackett who has acted as at- for Richard is confident if the should become a law Jesse and any CONVENTION SPLIT ON PARKER to Seek New William Jackson of Rosebush tion Michigan and Peter F Francis of Old Maine two Indian dreamed of renown in the walks of life while they party lines were drawn in some places 1 the result is expected to forecast in some Fame n j degree whal elections j l The campaign in South Omana has j i hotly contested on party lines Returns I received to 10 P M indicate that the i Democrats have elected Thomas Hector j Mafor with the remainder of the ticket were being taught i Republican A of the outside In before joining the force 11 letter carrier He is i is of talk here o-t boodle in j with but it cannot f TOKIO have been from to t ie effect when the scouts entered or tlie town deserted by Russians The Korean residents of the town in- formed the scouts that the forces on the reaches of the Yalu detached parties wo but he looks scarcely tin ne rainy day two years ago he was I Cayuga County Democrats In- anci on to go out as soon as called j and Uninstructed Delegations representing the employes i N Y April was a to raise sugar beets and plow straight I towns v rows at the Carlisle School They with walked to New York where the walks of life are supposed to be easy to for high license SAW HER BOY BURN TO DEATH j under the ct a WE truck lie often tone s served tw One rainy helping pedestrians over his Avenue crossing when Miss Mansfield stepped past him and slipping on wet pavement j Picked at Baptismal Service for be traced to any credible source PASTOR ROBBED IN CHURCH via April Bridgeport Chinamen horse Hastings hey j Conn and occupied 1 INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS When help arrived he was beyond aia and i tS- Page t Hotels e 11 Page 11 Page ID y Marine Intelligence Page 1 Page 14 Page Page 1J Page Page Z when he grew 1C be a man I Latest Shipping News i The White Star Line steamer I from Liverpool Is reported by wireless i telegraph as having passed the Nantucket i at A M Sir Henry Irving Back in London LONDON Henry Irving re- turned to to-night He is in ex- health and greatly enjoyed hia tour in States the e ings in bankruptcy in the United States l District Court of this city The combined incident liabilities of the Barrett brothers gate and combined assets of WK are shown No cause Is for the failures not intimate convention Delegates were elected to the State convention and I resolutions the i Administration of j President Roosevelt Odell i The Drink All ind countries is famous The authorities here arc mails opening yH the t ST Apri Jen
