New York Times, The (Newspaper) - June 7, 1906, New York, New York the News Fit to Showers probable fair V and warmer VOL. NEW JUNE 1906.' Center New h FOR A MUTUAL OFFICI Several Other Jerome After High SMALL FRY TO Testimony About an Insurance Investigator Who by the Cubic Before the Special Insurance Grand Jury dismissed for the term next week it file several nil of it is against one of the prominent of tho Mutual Life Insurance who has figured largely in tho disclosures made since the Committee began its work of probing insurance The indictments are being drafted in tho S Attorney's Ono of the it la be for forgery based on false In tho books of the Mutual Life Insurance What crime be charged in tho other indictments has not become generally It -is known that person to bo indicted occupied one of tho executive places in tho His name withheld the The Indications now are that the In- against this officer will be the sum far ae immediate and con- results are the of the Special Grand Jury when it is will havo been nt work for about six In addition to a and process has been carried on before it which undoubtedly will result in tho of other officiate in three months or so. That many of the men whose names have figured prominently in the insurance revelations will be permitted to go un- scathed through District Attorney rome's mill can new be stated Andrew C. for is one several men to whom District Attorney has it necessary to promise immunity in order to be able to follow out his announced when the in- of to justice the men at the very top of the of in has the that he testify against the men higher up when they are brought to and he has already given testimony before the Grand Jury which has greatly facilitated tho Pro mi OOG of Other persons who have figured in the and particularly in tho present investigation the special Grand as aided and abetted Fields in his to up the he made of large of the policy have received isep of One of these is der W. head of the firm of W. Lawrence official printers and stationery of the A credit for secret expenditures WRE created in that firm by the padding of the billn rendered to tho cupply ment of the of which Fields was the are Edgar W. partner of Lawrence and manager of tho George head of the book binding firm George McKibbin which the Mutual was able to keep xip a similar system of phantom tions identical Charles IS. a bookkeeper with the Lawrence whose name was used on also lor the purpose of supplying Fields with the sinews of war and to cover up the and Charles D. the chief assistant of Fields In the supply All of these men havo been witnesses before the Grand Through theh knowledge of Inside facts they have been able to aid District Attorney Jerome in his quest for the man higher When the cases of tho man to be in- now and others who may be in- come to they will all be as witnesses for the MAY EXPOSE LEWIS GASS Said to Want to About In Andrew C. Fields has offered to furnish to District Attorney Jerome a list of all j the members of the Now Legislature who have received money from him In re- cent and the amounts paid to in- fluence information out from sources which xre it remains now with the District Attorney to determine whether his investigation of the yellow payments .by life insurance com- panies shall be rounded out in this It ie understood Mr. Jerome has hesitated whether avail himself of this proffered information from Hte it is. is as District At- torney of the he would bo unable to proceed criminally any of the legislators who took money from Fields or his agents in 7 To go Into the Jerome of of Mr. ad- visers are urging that he go into the ter for the salutary effect that such an exposure will It io understood that Fields regarded the methods which insurance companies have used in handling legislation in much the same that did when he referred to the higher law in his famous speech of defense before the Legislature last it is no graut amount of sympathy for what Ira considered the holler than thou attitude which various men who have known all about things tho have assumed since the Armstrong Committee's investigation removed the old heads of tha great insurance His Engagement to Miss Boardman of Washington Special to The New June and Mrs. W. J. to-day announced the engagement of their youngest Josephine to Winthrop Murray Junior Senator from the news coming as a surprise to society No date has been for the which will probably take place ing the Summer at the country home of bride's for which place tho Boardman ily will leave in a few Miss Josephine Boardman lea of the three Boardman slaters who have ed popularity in Washington where and Mrs. Boardman established a magnificent home on Dupont Circle about ten years corning from Mies Josephine made her debut In Washington and since then has in Last she was presented Court in London whore she was the guest of the sador and Bhe is more than yeara younger than her future husband and heretofore haa been fied almost entirely with diplomatic contingent In Her sisters are Miss Mabel who has beeri prominent in reorganisation of the American Red and A. of New Senator Crane is a of large who since coming to Congress in the Autumn of 1904, has at the Willard and taken little part in Their Made Three Weeks FEW AT THE QUIET WEDDING Seattle Clerk Took Dust from Turned In by United States Secret Service agents in this city are tracing the movements here of a Westerner who is to a inal The Western man i3 now in jail in charged with from the United States Mint in two He of some of the plunder in this the Secret men and they are trying to find all about how he spent his time and his money while he was registered at the Hotel To that end a clerk and a telephone girl em- ployed have been subpoenaed to go out to in the George Edward Adams is the name of the man who Is. in He is about 30 years until was a clerk in the The way the ives he got his money abstract all the expenditures incurred from phials and fill up with bv Andrew C. In pursuance of his j earth the hole caused by tha abstraction The Bride Was tho Wife of Thurlow Weed Hennen a Mrs. Isabel the daughter of the late John A. was married day afternoon at her 105 to Lewis Cass the well-known lawyer and former Com- modore of the New York Yacht Mr. Ledyard is also the newest Transit The marriage a very informal The engagement had not been and only the immediate members of the Morris and Ledyard and a few intimate were present at the The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Richard B. Mattice of the cheater Presbyterian which the Morris family A report that Mrs. Morris and Mr. yard were engaged was several months but It was They have been engaged for only three and practically no one of relatives knew of the All the arrangements for the marriage yesterday were of the simplest possible The ceremony was performed in the parlor on the second floor of ihe and there was little attempt at decorating the The bride wore a dress of pale-gray silk and carried uo flowers of any Except for the con- gratulations of everybody there was nothing in the way of a reception The bride and bridegroom most immediately left tho house in Mr. Ledyard's and departed amid customary shower of Only Twenty Not more than twenty persons witnessed tho and of these nearly all were the bride and Mrs. the was as were the bride's two Dave Hennen and Alfred with wives and and her daughters by her firat Muriel and ry B. the acted as best Mrs. Rome Colgate and Miss sisters of Mr. Ledyard's first were with Mr. Ledyard's Mrs. Lewis Cass Mr. only is in Ho was notified a few flays ago of the approaching marriage of his and a cablegram of expressing great pleasure at the was him Outside of relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Morris the only others SAILORS BAR CANNED i Men of the Say They WMl Reject 'the The sailors of the and ar- mored squadrons and the torpedo of the Atlantic fleet declare that when they are assembled in New England waters a weeks hence for the annual Summer manoeuvres they will not eat canned This stand is taken because of the packing house Under the regulations canned meat be served at three times a week when the ships are at and as there Is no reason to believe that that tion will be the commanding Of- of the various ships under Admiral Evans will havo no alternative but .to place it before the men as of While they are in port the eat fresh The Government has such a mendous amount of canned goods on said an officer of one of the ar- mored cruisers last that in to get rid of it it was found necessary to make a regulation requiring that It be given to the men three times a How does it it is not so bad if you are but it requires a mighty fine cook to make It ROCKEFELLER THE LINER Lively as a All the Way Across the LA PROVENdE WINS THE RACE Beat a the by About Four but the German Ship May Hava Covered More BOSTON Fire Started and Firemen Who Fought It Badly June the escape of the electric current that supplies tive power for the elevated All transportation service through sub- way and on part of. the elevated was shut off for nearly two hours this The trouble occurred at the Street station of the under ton The elevated power cables became short and an explosion Tine cables began to and the subway quickly filled with All elevated trains running through the subway came to a The surface cars continued to enter the subway from the Public Garden for a despite the dense and the half had to make their way up the exit stairs to the A company of led by Chief went in to fight the The Subway is equipped with hose and water but the instant the water was turned the burning who liad hold of the hose received a vere Another explosion occurred In a hole near the corner of Tremont and Eliot Chief who a party of wag knocked down by an electric Three at the Pleasant Street entrance to the Subway were blown slight jy injuring three Windows in neighborhood were shattered and a delivery was The fires linatty burned themselves the The re- Cable to TKE NEW D. feller was an object of keen interest to English newspaper men during the brief time he spent this afternoon at Plymouth on porters tried to induce him to talk about Standard the and canned but he would riot utter a word on those All' tlUt the newspaper men managed to find out was that Rockefeller was going to France and that he would probably be home in From his fellow the re- porters learned that Mr. Rockefeller had been as lively as a cricket all the way the with zest into the and amusements of the ship's company making self very popular with the GUATEMALA RESELL VICTORIES Government Twice Insurgents CITY OF June 8.-Gen, in command tlie revolutionary troops in Southern has won two The Government forces have been driven Gen. Toledo I is receiving heavy forcements of well-armed AT Packers invite Wadsworth and Cannon Favor It HEARING GIVEN TO PACKERS Democrats Propose to Appoint Him Mr. Special The New York June burn is to the late Senator man cording to the for eader of the laid down at Mr. Blackburn has been defeated and this Congress is his 'The arrangement is Intended aa a graceful compliment to him by his col- No More Magazine Articles Until He Leaves the White Special to The New York KANSAS June a publication for Kansas City High School ment from the White House that the President hereafter not write for publication his incumbency of his present except on matters of lic and in an official The statement Is made in letter from Secretary Loeb in reply to a request for He grave to a fund raised at a ft from Mr. secret work to get and stave off legislation and insure the friendship oC men powerful in politics by the moat means were passed on bv the Mutual it IB understood that the Grand for the present at has not been asked xo take any action against the members of that Robert who was Chairman of the committee and came back from Europe on a cabled to appear before the Grand for in- wiil be held responsible for the quarterly amounts of which he had paid to himself on his voucher in lOOi and it has been pretty clearly although charged to legal ex- went to the yellow Protection for In connection with this it is learned that Mr. Olyphant before he consented to act as Chairman of the Committee on Ex- made it to Richard A. then President of the that he would under no conditions assume tho responsibility of standing sponsor for all the Items of expense he would be called upon to pass In the short time lowed the Committee of Expenditures to do the work in. The committee met only a week and sat for an In that time they were compelled to pass upon hundreds billn from the various departments which accumulated during the The osi 55. the go 1-d. according to the Government de- had accumulated about worMi of gold would go to San and turn it into money at the Assay it. in under- he posed as a man who got his gold the Klondike or some other of fortune Re turning to the Mint he would repeat the Perhaps Adams would still be at largo if miners had not begun to complain of thti money they received for their bringing In a dust which they thought to be Al they would get only small amount of money after it was Their complaints finally led to the arrest of at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Mrs. Robert Horace and Mr. and John O. Mr. is Mr. business Mrs. Morris and Mr. Ledyard are bers of two of the oldest and most inent families in New grandfather was Francis one of the first of American millionaires to identify himself with horse He was pioneer of American breeders in tho endeavor to win laurels on the lish His famous set of as they were made famous the Morris all These mares bore the peculiar names of Francis was the founder of The Jockey Club and of more Morris's John the who is said to have made an immense fortune in the Louisiana was the founder and owner of the Park for years the most most popular race course in the The property has now been and the like the Jerome is no longer used by the Metropolitan Its place on the list now being occupied by mont John Morris's Dave Hennen and still keep up a but more for reasons of sentiment than to AT GREENE Six Americans and 18 Mexican Statement Pagre 1. Page 12. Court Page Financial Pages 10, 11, and 12. Marine Intelligence and Foreign page 12. Page 11. Heal Pago Weather Page Yesterday's Page 2. 1G. 7, Kooins and 12. Help Situations 12. and Page 8. and Paga 1G: 7. and Summer Pago PaKo 9, PENNSYLVANIA TUBES take active part in turf They have only a few horses in and the all is not seen at the finish of the bfg handicaps as ft was in former Dave Hennen Morris was appointed by Mayor McClellan to the Bronx Park Commission a few days Mrs. Morris's husband Thurr low Weed from whom she has divorced for ten Mr. Barnes Is the grandson of Thurlow He Is well known as a and is a part owner of- The Albany Evening The decree of divorce allowed Mrs. the custody of the two Lewis Cass is one of the lawyers in the His firm waa afc Carter Led yard until the death of James C. when Mr. John President Rea Says Air Leaks j G. then practicing in Rafae of and Louis Torres gave out an official through the detailing of disorders at where a between the Americans and Mexicans at the mines of the Greene per Company resulted in The statement says trouble was Mexican workmen going on strike trying to force others at work in the lumber yard to join In the resistance they encountered 8upt. Metcalf was the lumber yards were and Mexicans were In subsequent which covered 'a period two five Americans and sixteen were killed and a ber the authorities not being to suppress the disorders Americans and who numbered all On the third day arrived and complete order was Both sides were dis- armed and work was resumed at the NO conflict of any the statement has occured Gen. Torres and Gov. Ysabel still remain in charity Mrs. Rockefeller kept to her room most of 'the time on account of the condition of her June French Line's new steamer La on trip from New York this arrived at S o'clock this The time of was six days two hours and forty-eight Official figures of the voyage of La Provence which been received New York the distance covered by the steamer as The after clearing the bar at Sandy Hook May 31, at P. 49fi, 405, 500, 513, and the last day's run being distance covered be- tween noon on Tuesday and toe time of her arrival at 8 o'clock last While the time of. her passage has not been officially the time given in the Havre dispatch within a very few minutes of it. She must An hourly average speed of 21.79 and broken the record for the passage between New York and Havre tiy approximately two As La Provence the minutes before the Line which York on the same clearing the bar at It ia figured that the French vessel beat the German ship by 4-houfa and 2 minutes to that The official figures of the age have not been received In New and a comparison of the trips cannot fairly be made without these It Is asserted that the Deutschland lowed a more course across the Atlantic than the La making passage about a hundred miles and while she was beaten to the Scilly she may a faster trip in point of hourly speed than her French The time the to where arrived at P. M. was about five twenty-two and forty 'The President has written for The Outlook tind Magazine within the last few in addition to two No for his change of policy is given in Mr. Ex-Mayor Stuart for Governor of by June Re- publican State Convention the following STUART of B. i Have Not Delayed difficulties the engineers of the tunnels have In boring through the Sand of the Bast River bed off Loner Island the work has suffered no according to Vice President Samuel About a fortnight ago on the Thirty-fourth Street ferries saw violent In the river the Long City slips which took the form of a at low It evident that tho bore under the river was and this coupled with the stories of the defects In the Subway from the which had just been ventilated before the Rapid Transit Com- gave color to the story that the diggers had struck a rious was heightened by the of dumping of tona of clay over the Rea said yesterday that the entire to had not been de- and was not now behind tho Since the trouble at Island City there have been stories of similar in the umler the North One account said that work had been temporarily In denying that such was the case Vice President said the men are at work right now at the heading's of all the i became a He has always shown Interest in and owned the schooner From 1001 to 1902 he the Commodore of the New York Yacht He was succeeded in the office by Francis G. Mr. Ledyard has known Mrs. Morris for nearly fifteen James C. Carter was the lawyer for the and with his decease the family affairs were looked after by Mr. He re- cently sold his house at 2 East seventh where he has always lived with his son since the death of his first who was Miss Gertrude the William B. He has now taken an apartment in the fany at 27 East ond where he and Ledyard will make their home They will spend their at the Ledyard mansion at Ono to Chicago by Tho Twentieth Century Limited of tho New York Central Leave New York P. arrive Chicago next Tho ride in tho DC 4 in IS PHY of Cambria Auditor Kt TOUNO of Tioga Secretary of Internal Affairs HENRY HOUCK of The platform commends the National and State advocates giving to trolley companies the right to carry advocates a two- cent passenger rate on steam and deals at great length on State The ticket was the one agreed upon by United States Senator Penrose and other party leaders in advance of the though attempt was made by certain country delegates to form a com- bination to break the The President was commended for hla aggressive action In regard to common carriers who violate and the pending designed to reform abuses urged upon The ticket represents all factions of the party and the party leaders harmonize all past President Roosevelt is said to have advised the lection ot ticket in belief that ft will help the Congressional WARRANT FOR W. Wisconsin Secretary of State Charged with Attempted June 0.---A warrant for the arrest of Secretary of State Walter H. charging attempted waa issued to-day by Judge The complaint is signed by State Insurance Commissioner The trouble arose out of Insurance Com- missioner Host's charge that Houser in 1903 offered to give to the fund If Host would render a decision favorable to the Equitable Life Assurance Society in the case the distribution of ROOSEVELT ON Regrets Hie Loss and Expresses 1. pathy with His June John National Secretary of the United Irish a letter from President Roosevelt to-day In which the President declines an Invitation to attend the memorial to Michael to be held here The letter Tlie White B. 4, 1D06. My Dear have received your kind and rearet that it is out of my power to Mr. was a personal friend of and I sincerely his I have written to Mrs. to express m Sincerely Mr. John Irish Fast trains to and St. by West Shore Ask a. West ticket agent for Adv. SPOKE AFTER 21 And Used Voice to la ft Hot Enough for You 7 June After twenty-one years of which time he was unable to utter an intelligible Louis Mendelson suddenly recovered his speech return of words was as mysterious as the affliction which silenced him long. Is 38 years arid until yesterday had not spoken since he was 17 years To the surprise of his three brothers and his he walked into their wholesale liquor store and is this hot enough for Samuel one of his was so shocked by the unexpected re- mark that he failed to answer the He called his two Other Jules and and to the great prise of all the man who had been dumb since boyhood repeated his mystery perplexed all himself was unable to ex- plain the Ho told his had felt a sudden tickling in his vocal chords and the impulse to at- tempt speech grown so strong that he could not resist it. When he he discovered that his voice Episcopal Clergyman Quits Church Rather Than KANSAS June The Rev. Charles Ferguson of this city resigned to-day as a of publications in ton intimating that a charge of heresy might be made against him on account of statements made recently in his Church in this city by Pundit a Hindoo After Buy Sack LONDON YORK Special June 7. The insurance correspondent con- firms a report current on Tuesday that the which was cap- tured and condemned by the had been The correspondent Japanese sold the steamer for to the Coast Company of New the original The carried war risk insurance of and that has been KANN NOW MORGAN of Art Collector cler Interrupted the Special Cable to THH NEW YORK 1908.] June Kann day admitted for first time that J. Morgan had been negotiating for the of Rodolphe Kann art Kann IB the brother of the late M. Kann regretfully that Mr Morgan had interrupted the negotiations and had goneTto He indicated that he expected that the be It appears that the negotiations were so near a successful at ono that every one in the secret posed that the collection was about to pass into possession of- Mr. Morgan Guard Captures Deserter In Varda man Mansion Reception June brilliantly illuminated was handed to Bishop At well of of the Episcopal The Rev. 3ttr. son stated that he had committed no ecclesiastical but that he resigned to prevent the embarrassment of the members of the NO Seven Bills Over TIM Next June House Committee on the by a vote of 10 to 7, to-day referred the anti- Injunction bills .to a special tee with instructions to to the full next Two Messrs. Birdsall of of voted with the against the It was explained by Republican bers that the hearings on the subject closed only the latter part of May and that the question involved numerous im- legal principles on which hasty legislative action might For this reason the course taken waa deemed to be most wise and the that made the highball Committee Grants the and Packing Official Attacks tbe and His The Ntw York Juno Contrary to he repeated statement that there would be no hearings on Inspection the House Committee on decided to grant such a hearing in responso to the request of a representative of who represents the other packers of Mr. his defense of the invited the committee to go o. Chicago and spend a week at the ng At intervals during the day he this urging the to accept it. At the close of the Chairman Wadsworth said it was lively the would He had had talk with Speaker Cannon about and had learned that the Speaker was in favor of It. The expenses would have to be met from the contingent fund of the and the Speaker was agreeable to If the committee goes it will take week for its The fact that the hearing was after the repeated assertion that there would be and that they have ready a likelihood of extending considerable coupled with to visit the packing has already caused talk here that the in to delay consideration of the entire meat inspection question so that it can be killed on tht ground of of time to go into it at One of the committee said to-day that the committee disposed to bo nt all over the and that it would timo needed to prepare proper Government Experts The grant of a hearing was a even to some members of the The sub-committee which had charts of the preparation of the outlined in YORK had its work to the full com- with the It be adopted in place of ihe Beveridge and the was made and Thereupon Secretary Wilson and Labor Commissioner were and asked to be They went up to Capitol at once with Dr. Chief of the Bureau of Animal and as soon as they arrived the hen ring Wilson read a prepared in which he denied in effect all the charges of the re- port. His testimony developed the authorship of the Wadsworth After ho had gone over tho Reynolds in and a deprecatory denial of tho sertions it he took up the and began to read it. He had covered the first five the committee adjourned for In those sections every protest he e ep on tendered by any Provision ami every to her last In- ment he suggested had been covered by the Wadsworth And while by the provost guard of the State Militia in search of a young man who waa The truant was found hiding and dragged down the stairway and through the consternation among the Gov. Vardaman and his wife both protested against the but the protest was SMASH Bricks Thrown While Have Parade for Delegates of the Retail Inter- national rode through the Bronx in wagons laat night in the interest of their movement com- pel shopkeepers to cloee at 7 o'clock in the They displayed signs Good Put shopkeepers who aro I ua forever ovit of keeping working The men rode yelling through St. Ann and Brook between Bast 143d Street and the Southern Suddenly some one threw a brick through the front window of the grocery store of Abraham at 841 East 141st Then the windows of a dozen or more stores which were open after 7 o'clock were A riot call was sent to tho Alexander Avenue Police Station and the police ar- rested a dossen including Peter Monahan of Kast liath who is said to be President of the John Branley of Alexander and Martin of 231 Bast Ninety-fourth SCHOOL it. Annoyed by Fired and Wounded Himself Charles who livas with his father at 510 West Forty-seventh and who is a pupil at Public School No. 58, at 321 West Fifty-second has been so busily engaged with his studies this term that he not had time to other boys in his They taunted him about Aw be a real said one of them cut out the Why don't you get play prefer the I haven't he A The taunts Yesterday he armed himself with a revolver and as his schoolmates in front of him outside the school at closing time to he drew the pistol and holding It in the air pulled the The bullet entered his left Lowering the re- volver he discharged it The ond bullet entered his right His mentors wae taken to Roosevelt Hospital arrest for concealed His wounds are not ST. LIMITED VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD New York M. arrives St. P. M. next Through train of Pullman the Wadsworth he was this argument and protect he was several times backed up by Mr. Mr. Wilson declared that It would be great injustice to one of the in- of the country to snap through an and not digested which would be certain to inflict hardships upon the packers and cause them tremendous financial Wilson made it perfectly clear that the packers are quite prepared to for their despite the threat of the President that he would forbid use of the inspection label on their export Mr. Wilson boldly attacked tha motive of President Roosevelt in ing criticism's of the packing and strongly implied it was something else than the to secure improvement in tho inspection and sanitary conditions at tho packing He also took a fling at the investigators to Chicago by the and demanded protection against these whom he classified aa and Exaggerated In his preliminary statement Mr. son when report of and Reynolds was for the first time this tlon put in. a position we could defend Much com- ment had been previous to tho re- and as you can readily see by these comments were bly Knowing wo re- frained from answering until we could learn what the report contained have something definite to reply the live stock and packing tries have suffered an Irreparable injury by the unjust and unwarranted criticism of the past few weeks I am sure it un- necessary for mo to repeat to you who are In with the agricultural interests of the If the original motive was simply the to improve the in- and sanitary then I say the criticisms been doubly un- just and for In very inception of the investigation the commission and their superiors had the assurance of the co-operation their guarantee was given that any practical recommendations would be welcomed and We are now and have bean ways in of tho extension of Vie also of the adoption of sanitary that will insure the very best I most respect fully call your attention to the tions of Messrs. Neill and Reynolds la their all of
