New York Times, The (Newspaper) - June 30, 1908, New York, New York the News That's coo fair I VOL. STREET RY. LEASES 59th, 28th, and 29th i Street Lines to Dropped by FRANCHISES MAY LAPSE Companies Long Dormant and L No Equipment to Operate the In a lengthy decision handed down Judge Lacombe of the United States Circuit Court gave permission to Adrian H. Joline and Douglas receivers ojC the New York City and Street Railway to cancel leases held by tho two com- panies the Central North East River known as the which Includes ninth Street crosstown line and also the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Street crosstown The reasons given by the receivers in their application was that the roads do not Judge Lacombe suggests 80 as the date for the but proper regard must be had for the con- of the traveling He also directs that the lines be turned over .to the companies originally owning This means that they will have to for the companies owning them have been dormant for many and have no or electric power plant with which to operate the The cancellation of the leases stops the transfers other lines and throws back on the Central North and East River and the Twenty-eighth and Street companies old debts into which the tan and the Now York City ignoring the of tho failed to The court's order in all will result in the of the franchises granted to the two crosstown In his decision Judge Lacombe says that the mileage consists of 7.433 miles of single electric track and 12.3 miles of single horse The lease was originally made to the Metropolitan i and runs for the term of the 100 years from Juno 1860. Tho Metropolitan Crosstown Company was subsequently with other i the Street Railway the leasehold is Included With tho property leased from the latter by the New York City Railway The lessee of the Belt Lino agreed to operate the to keep the properties In good con- dition nnd to pny all and a which to On tho subject of this Judge combe these by ruent of the stipulated rental to the lessor company the receiver would be serving tho as the of the Public Service Commission aptly expresses it. He says tho question as to this rental was excessive when originally agreed to is of no he the con- ditions to-day it is. excessive for the lessees to have says the and great changes like ghastly sometimes iin their results to Innocent I are contingencies to which all Investments in. public service tions are peculiarly The tion to the presence of water in the capitalization of the lessor the not even if there certainly ers of the New York City Railway Com- pany power to pump It nor has that is a matter which must be- left for the consideration authorities and Stato In remarking on the each year through the running of the lines now cut Judge Lacombe important thing now Is to relieve the whole system of the constant drain upon entailed by the continuance of tho present Sixty thousand dollars u ynar might be much better expended in improving the condition service of remaining Judge says It will be readily understood that there may be leases which it would be desirable to even at because part of the roads covered by them are essential to inako connection between parts of the but this is not the case In the present Tho receivers ues the the lease may be the leasehold only the real but also all personal property which can bo returned to the and its ther operation by these receivers It would be desirable If this could be done by i Juno 30, which ends the fiscal and railroad but a proper regard for ths convenience of the traveling lic precludes so speedy a of this He says that a meeting of the Bolt line has been called for July 10 to elect a new Board of and that common fairness requires that the company bo called upon to act until its stockholders have had an opportunity to select a board solicitous to protect their Bays Judge will take some little time for the management of the Belt to equip it and to organize an operating and In order that there may bo no falling off la the service the Interim the re- are authorized to make contracts with company for temporary or for the rental of cars and provided such contracts do not expose the receivers to and that liability for accidents not bo Imposed upon the i As to after the lease celed and the roard returned to Its SHOT 8T Revenue Cutter Captures a Mariner After Seven to The New York Ah recalls the story of piracy on the high a eeven in a revenue cuttor was tho a for the safety of a foreign ed almost as it was reached by a shell which camo crashing across bow of his all these were parts of the against a prisoner arraigned be- fore United States Commissioner Foote Dan a weather-beaten iner of the and two it Is stole the schooner Nellie Johnson at -on June 17. The Nellie Johnson was loaded with ft cargo of Tho United States authorities were notified and the revenue with United Deputy shal on started in a chase up and Seavey abandoned the schooner at South Haven and went on board his the in an to Tho revenue cutter thereupon went on the trail the and finally came with it this Wanderer Capt. Cormick of the through his speaking and followed the hall by a fierce command to Seavey only took another Deputy Currier gave the order arid a shot the cutter's forward t gun went whizzing over the water past Seavey and his the BISHOP POTTER KEPT ALIVE OXYGEN Prostrated by the Heiat at Where He Went to Recover from Liver DOCTORS FIGHT TO SAVE HIM GUESTS OF THE Roosevelt Discusses African Trip with Caspar Whitney and Dr. OYSTER Lv June Roosevelt entertained at luncheon to-day two close personal Caspar ney and Dr. Albert as well as Col. L. engineering In charge of the harbor improvements in New York and Manuel Calero of Mexico City Maria Molina of Vera who carried a verbal sage of from President Diaz to President They were escorted to Sagamore Secretary of visited the Republican Convention in Chicago and told the dent how impressed they had been manner in which the convention was They left here ori the o'clock bearing a verbal message from the President to President Col. who visited President at his request to talk over matters in connection the engineer corps of the left with the other leaving Caspar Whitney and Dr. to discuss with the President throughout the afternoon his proposed hunting trip in President he wanted to get all the Information procurable regarding the British and German in which he intends to He said that no nite arrangements for tho trip had made arid that It would be some time before any would be Bishop Broke Down Overwork and Was Unable to Attend Dr. Morgan Special to The N. June 20.- Bishop Potter is very 111 here at his wife's The Bishop came here on June 5 to recover stomach and liver trouble which had prostrated him in The last few heat -had affected according to a statement Issued by his physician this his condition is Dr. J. E. Janvrin of New Potter's authorized this has been greatly by the hot weather for- several and his condition at the present time la very it was his condition such that was Dr. who has been for several years the physician of the Clark had intended to spend the Summer here in a but owing to the Bishop's came here several days earlier than he had Alonzo the son of Bishop arrived from New York Bishop Potter came to lowing his illness in New a few stay he was and was able to be at his of- fice in the Clark Estate's every He also walked and drove He was often seen flailing on A few days ago he said that he felt very well and that he hoped to re- cover In J and ITWO ARREST MAY CLEAR ROBBERIES Threatening Letter Demanding Leads to Capture of Special to The York WEST June 20.- a member of a prominent was arrested to-day by Chief of lice Jefferis on the charge of robbing the home of Congressman Thomas S. Butler a year and stealing two re- The charge a technical one and it is arrest will ilear up many of recent mysterious Ma thick admitted the Butler under and It is thought that may tell At the time of the burglary and blowing at the place of business of ington two months note was found beneath the upon which was rudely drawn a sketch of a burglar at a skull and and others things beneath the word In large The police say they have traced to The most recent escapade of the young according to the and the one which resulted in his arrest although the i charge was not brought against was the Miss West of this a stenographer in and sister of a young woman friend of a threatening which Is said bo almost identical as to sketches and other features with the one left in the place In the letter he demanded that the young who is the possessor of some leave a package containing at a designated spot by a telegraph pole on a certain the penalty death If sho The letter was given to the but the writer did not pear for the Matlaek was making arrangements for a trip to Europe and was have sailed in. a few the longer act of 1885 will no Judge Lacombe also handed down a de- cision denying the application of 'the Loan and Trust Company for the appointment of a receiver for the Central North East River road in its suit for a The Morton Trust Com- pany suggested the name of James R. a former Fire for TO DENVER AND Via Railroad from New York Tickets sold only 1 to 4, good returning until IT. Beo Discussion of the arrangements for funeral of Dr. Morgan of Trinity who April 30 called public attention to Bishop Potter's was announced at that time that the Bishop would be unable to attend the He had been ill for some and had been obliged to give over lor the time participation in the affairs of the At the of Dr. death Bishop Potter had been confined to room for a week in his 347 West It was said the original breakdown had been by and that stomach and liver troubles had made his condition On May 1 was as cannot that he is very ill. Dr. Potter worked too He seemed to be but he found a week ago that the strain under which he had been working had proved be too much for his breakdown .is purely Mentally he Is tho same capable Irian he always has His physical weakness was brought about by the tremendous amount of work he Trouble of the stomach and of the liver added to his I hope with all my heart that he will but useless to deny that he la very At the time of Dr. Potter's former Dr. Frederick rector of St. and Bishop head of were called upon to do much of work that had formerly been done by Bishop 1 Thousands to Resume Work Long Business Special to The New York 1. feeen termed because thousands resume work after an ness of The prosperity movement is backed by of big who realize renewed prosperity Is sweeping over the country after the financial depression of the Among the largest corporations to make July 1 a Is the Illinois Central After an ness of eight months men will be put back to work In the Illinois Central The heavy demand from for steel has resulted in increasing the pay of all the big steel companies of the weeks the Illinois Steel with Its enormous plant at South has ita working until normal conditions have been help also will be employed The Harvester Company has ill of its and many of the departments are day RUSHING ORDERS FOR Production In the Break the Jutie Special lo The New York June on coal production for June in the triot will break the With one day's production yet to be nent operators say the high mark has already been Opening of the season in tlie month's instead of Its having opened in as the case is said to have been responsible for the addition this there are In for more lake Which will keep the mines in until the end of July at expect to an lent month when their books June are The Ohio River Bridge Con- business dropped to 10 per when the financial sion already shows pull-up 15 per of normal in This is. the road which brings all coal River great lakes and the The Baltimore Ohio Railroad arid the Pennsylvania Railroad in the district bid fair to show a return to They will lack only 20.per of last June's ing the fact June was the est June in history for the The Pennsylvania lines to-day gave ders for tons of ballast to be dis- one At Pottsville the Pine Knot of the Philadelphia Reading Coal Com- which is the anthracite coal operation in the started up to-day in the of a largo number of the company's The colliery will turn out 100 a or a. total of about FALLS FROM HIGH Train Guard from Subway Tracks at 125th Policeman Baer was riding uptown on the of a Broadway car yesterday At 125th Street he saw the body of a man drop off way which is fifty feet the ground at this and fall the Sub- directly oh the tracks of the The pulled up with the of car almost upon the sprang off and picked him He was but Baer hailed an automobile belonging to the Health Department and ci riven by James and put the Injured man in ordering Naylor to drive full speed to the J. Hood Wright Within ten after his fal was the the man Dr. ARRESTED ON FRAUD Organizers of Central Life Securities Company May Be June 29.-B. F. Edr ward F. and Thomas organizers of the Life Securities Company and half a dozen subsidiary were arrested charged with the mails In a scheme to de- The complaint upon which the warrants for arrest was issued made by William M. a United States Post Office He charges the i Rhodus brothers with 'a violation of Section of the United States that the ter In tlie alleged scheme was received by O. M. Melrose 111. The defendants were at once arraigned on the tho hearing of which was postponed until July 9. A joint bond of 000 was filed and they were States District Attorney Sims stated that the investigation of the tral Life Securities Company and its auxiliaries would probably be prolonged for several Five witnesses were heard by the Grand Jury this Herman Ff proprietor of a department store at told the jurors he benight several thousand shares of stock of cor- after an agent of the Brothers had spent several months vassing the a mill also of said he had also invested in the and that about 100 residents of Neenah had done found had a fracture of the skull and There is very hope that he will It was not until the man had In the hospital for some hours he re- gained consciousness for a moment and said that he was James a. Subway living at 537 Hooper He lapsed unconsciousness ho could explain he fallen from a train or from the or how the accident had MAY Hinted That Politicians Come to Failed t Special to The New-York June ing the Allegheny National j Bank of which recently failed for more than and for Cashier William Montgomery Is now took a peculiar turn in court when attorneys for and the bank and asked postponement of a case In which the bank arrangements ms inter- were just TQ ACCUSE WILSON Police Say Doctor Attended a Member of the Special to The New York June There Is no question ir my mind it was poison that killed this answered Coroner when asked whether Dr. W. Wads worth had any report to him of the result of the autopsy upon the body of Dr. W. a known who died after drinking a portion of a bottle of at his home last am also satisfied that the poison was not the Coroner con- Beyond that I do not care to go internal organs been re- moved from the body and are now in the hands of the elty for j I cannot say anything about any possible The whole matter will depend upon the doctor's is made it will be time enough to find ovit where the bottle of ale came from which Dr. Wilson I know positively that it did not come from a but ex- where It did come is something my detectives are The Question of motive may be an important element id this dismissed of The police officials nave they that Dr. attended during a fatal illness a of the family Of a voung man who will be charged with be- ing the PRIEST CHARGES Says the Chester Traction Company Caused AH the to The Nerv York June Rev. Joseph assistant of St. Michael's day admonished his parishioners in mon to continue against the Chester Traction but to be renewed his declarations to-day he are ing all of to that they are in full with the men who dealt with For years the trolley people con- trolled the politics of the city and have not lost opportunities to The people in this case consider it. time to rid themselves of this the traction people are for dynamiting other though blamed on striking men and their completed whereby every cent of money would be paid back to the the city of and the Individual The courts had given Judgment against and there was to have been argument for and against reopening by request waa postponed to give those fixing the bank's While it is printed affairs a here that Directors of the bank who have posed as have suddenly some old stock of great by which they will be able to pay off every it -is also hinted that Cashier Montgomery lias forced his old political associates in Pennsylvania to come to the rescue under of j In any the place from which the cash Is to come has not been haade TO PHILADELPHIA EVERY HOUR ON 4-DAY TOUR TO HOUR IN TWO Valley R. July 8. Return 6. New Jersey Central schedule on Pago 13. quire 85G, Y. FOUR DROWN IN Houses Swept Away When Cloudburst Sends Kansas Creek Out of its June persons are known to have been and a number are as result of the overflowing of Hargis eas of this which was caused by a north of here about 10 o'clock last The flood came without warn Ing and carried away houses and other buildings before the people could reach places of The known drowned Shirley a young married Mrs Mrs. and a babj of a Santa Fe engineer named Numbers of persons floated away In their houses or on the many o seizing limba of trees as their houses floated thus pulling selves to places of al and boys in many from tree tops and house 6dOJ Columbus for Red New 909-FOOT Architects plans for New Equitable Life 62 Stones FEET TO FLAGPOLE TIP Eiffel Tower Structure at Broadway and and Pine If plans which were filed yesterday with Building Murphy are permission to Is the Singer Building and the be put in lie shade by the projected new planned tP stand on the block bounded by Cedar the site of the present building af the Equitable Life Assurance The cost of the building is estimated at 1; This new building is to bo 009 feet above he exclusive of the will be 150 feet higher to itsi H. acting the Equitable filed the plans which fpr a building sixty-two in With Its feet the new building will ower nearly 300 feet over the 612 nch of of the Singer and he 637 feet 5 inches seem also to be comparatively The Washington feet in wiir measure scarcely more than half the height of this now and the famous Pyramid of now only 451 feet will be actually less than half as Only one erected by man will exceed the hew In That s the Eiffel at towers 984 feet above the and the of the new be included 11 measuring tower witt to take for curb to flagpole tip will be a stretch of The be thirty-four OF 489 feet with a of feet on 152.3 feet on Nassau and 304.2 and on Pine and Cedar Above the main will be a square tower of twenty-eight capped with the tower and pola feet The are to be of j brick and with trimmings of terra The the Renaissance presenting j bays set between Doric pattern; corners being offset with clustered The bays will be elaborately decorated carved The roof of the will be finished with cupolas several high around the base of the The i tower structure will be In two one section the the The main will extend The building is be equip pod with a group of thirty-eight passenger built In two in a great dor finished in ornamental feight of these elevators will run to tho top the to there will elevators for The of the with Its to Supt. Murphy In a fifty-eight survey SUMMER CAPITA Gov. Hughes and Family In the Adh for Special to The New York N. June 29.-. With tho arrival here to-night of this place in. the heart of the Adirondack Mountains the mer capital of New York With the who came up In a rivate car on at this morning arriving hero it were Mrs. their E. their two Misses Catherine Baby Elizabeth and Mrs. B. who will as secretary and stenographer to the and M. B. his private will have a for he do tramping and during his by the Governor Is built of logs with the ark and is one of the most attractive if many about From the eranda there is a view of. Upper mountains FOR DEFINITE MM them to show lot map BOYS SET Then Wait to be Wet by men's There are two adver in Harlem which owners about as much as they bring In They are at Street t and 125th. near the police Each fence has a on an average least once in ten The fires so far or the the fires are youngsters Who like to the engines turn out and new that water like to get fences et by as they t o I i ce rie Ye been i the night fire under in. According to the law of a fence should be safe now but and confidently expect a run 125th within day or LARCHMONT LAWYER Lewis Taylor Secretly Mar Old Mary bonne Special .to The York N. 0 une In anc to-day by the there was a Ninety-ninth that a Street fence I cs 18-Year- news pf the Lewis local and Mary the eigi daughter of Mr. Taylor is about 4Q years Donnelly first learned of the ment when he received a telegram from his dated New Y In which she told of her marriage t and they were off a Donnolly learned t ter and Taylor were Friday Drt Otto Unt at his married i a 1'. he her m he had was admired Donnelly since was a and vis 11.1 ng a c b us i n In Now It is said that Taylor lias her that when they would be Coal Men Not Guilty of R. a de by the Cour the cpal of were Indicted Jri bf to price of declar case came up in the Superior to Cour she grew up this who 1007, on a regulate the d- not guilty eight To-day were returned and the deal bf all answers srs were freed Senator Takes a Drive Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas who has for some time at the Is much improved ana yesterday he took Jis drive his QBE AT BEAK HURLS Long Island Thus Escapes Ar- Then Speeds Special to The New York GOOD June g to stop automobile he iad exceeded the speed Judge Bishop of this village leaped into the seat of the machine as it drew up to him Instead of submitting to the clinched with the threw him from the and then sped Judge fell in. tho gutter along the but was seriously He had noted the number of the machine In the short time H and has turned the information over to the who in looking for the Was Attorney for Heirs in a fully Chicago woman attorney has just received a fee of She is Miss Mary E. who fully prosecuted a on behalf of the grandchildren of the Bross for tho distribution the estate the provisions of the will the estate was to be held in trust until the youngest of grandchildren reached age of 30 That was the con- struction placed upon it. by T. the contested Miss. Miller argued that should any of the heirs before the youngest reached the age of 80 years an would be done Judge Carpenter ruled the of the will would make the estate vest at too remote a period and bution of it. But Ritz Nearly Three Months After Removal of After living for three months with ounces of hfa brain Joseph a of De Kalb died On April attempted Ing himself in He was taken Mary's where Drs. ward McNulty James F. took out about four ounces of brain For a time It waa believed that there was a change und he gradually grew after the learned to play a game he never able master he shot SAY His Managers Bryan mates Southern Special to The New June that Bryan has overestimated his strength in and that the best he can ex- on the first ballot j s GOO Marvel of and J. R. Beamish of to-day that Judge Gray would be at declare that Gov. Johnson has much more strength in the than Bryan gives him credit an- L. J. Handy of Wilmington will nominate Judge and that O'Boyle of the seconding Marvel and Beamish are managing Gray's NORTH Convention Instructs by a Vote of 523 to 194. Juno Democratic State which been in session hero a sine crowning labors by instructing for J. Bryan a vote of 523 to 194. The fight over the Bryan instructions occupied closing hour of and was thrashed out amid considerable the winning easily was 2he convention completed thp State delegates to the Den ver and platform during the Bession which at 10 o'clock this The on United States Senator Sim nions as a National which ised to develop into something the took a recess Sunday Only ten were against Mr. The adopted out a dissenting approves the ad- ministration of and con- tlie extravagance of tho last Louisiana Senate Passes by Vote of 29 to 4, BATON June Louisiana shall be a high State for the next two years was finally decided Assembly tho Senate passed the by a vote of 4. This measure fixes tho minimum parish license minimum State at with maximum spinning up to thousand dollars Duma Approves ST. June The Duma to-night the Finance Minister's biil authorizing an Internal loan of to i cover budget Democrats Favor a Statement That Will Not Be BRYANTO CONSULT LEADERS Prohibitionists Will Endeavor to Platform Declare for Their Boorn Special to The York Juno tion plank and the Presidency con- to bo- main of discussion tlie advance guard uf tho Democratic Convention leaders and It is strongly here that tho plank will not be as radical as some leaders feared written by opinions differ no to the nature bf the plank be all of one mind in. that It shall bo a definite and specific Such members of tional aa have discussed matter are unit in that wording of ohall leave no doubt the of any ao to the au this It Is now generally that tbo resolution wIU noc provide trials by jury Ja of contempt of In any way measures might be as tho of the Federal i The fr ends Mr. say euch of hia critics as are already expressing themsel The pla has not a- f ul of Mr. possible A predicts by Gom the Ret. sa thing In of on tho f gestion tion at pared v have .us Tho f if is Commit the cph It question that a a in w recent State Of not 1 bring tl cratic I they ha of doleg which 1 ai Gen. We o cratic tain a for the fighting es .in fear a radical aro UJG not been it been and Js which is under deep and It is to bo the to consult of- t of party in any in this resolution IB S. of a fight should Bryan ah plank such as is demanded Thomas a of Committee from I will bo a of the e on representing arid I for one do ny power suggestion s A will n and oSr of convention if original the was mild com- th that which would -s ht over the 1.0 only in which the o oil and possibly oped to-day the brought to the effort will be in ado to ank In Its favor placed 4tform. prohibition 1 be headed by B. of demanded in that it it declare in favor of followers were ih their efforts in their own it have mndo to matter up They assert i from a number fions from tho States ve recently prohibition Jt in declared confidently by adherents the platform does not con- plank it will bo that x the kind of has been to lie The V to Chanler ened mention days that he Mr. 111 o vein en by a sin official place on Only OJ day as This the p o Presidential situation just it was of i1 Now Boeing to have and 1 as prominently aw It to the ment New has no authority to speak 3'or and that hm the t. dictated by and iero New York 5 well qualified to the o new Chamberlain al Ho Is In much lavor with eome and it is to Denver and Return Vta Inquire 855, mentioned Providential will be personally to Mr. If tho latter -Is tho booms lo ill the fact i with the among tl ated outside of York ey are generally encouraged by that already six mon. havo been aspirants to Ihe Vice believe mat. New York delegation at number of an a far bettor chanco of obtaining the bo if the delegation the Empire were standing Vice had fort will open headquarters at the Savoy and Andrew sons of be in De their solidly for Marvel this or go Gray would not accept the nominal ami that he pledged for iver and the fight for of filed with but of tlie con- filed relate to thirteen oi these are from the Dis- the five seat tests act S of the contest having been filed Se Pennsylv Tho Firs have of Chi and Beven are from the and Sixth inla and Second seat each in No- contests yet to bo filed came the Chicago cases tho First to Tenth are In-
