Arbitration Waits On Castro's Word In Venezuela Row
Washington reports a day of waiting as negotiations hinge on President Castro. Bowen may represent Venezuela at the Hague protocol while Count Quadt and Count von Slolleben handle allied interests.
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1902
Page
2
Washington reports a day of waiting as negotiations hinge on President Castro. Bowen may represent Venezuela at the Hague protocol while Count Quadt and Count von Slolleben handle allied interests.
Berlin reports Prime Minister von Richthofen will not respond to Great Britain about arbitration until Castro answers the Hague tribunal proposal with reservations. Officials expect arbitration to succeed regardless. In Caracas Castro rejects apologies, while German merchants offer funds. In Rome, Italian minister Tugeni is assigned to oversee The Hague peace court proceedings.
Caracas reports deny a US circulated claim that British marines landed at La Guayra Commodore Montgomerie says the landing would contravene British policy toward Venezuela Port of Spain notes Fantome reached base after grounding near Barrancas with no damage Guayra reports Prins Willem V Dutch ship and German schoolship Charlotte arriving Tribune captures another schooner and sloop Red D Line says Maracaibo may miss mail deadline if shipment not landed at La Guayra Currents note steamer backs to Curacao awaiting instructions and concession talks continue
Senator Jones of Arkansas, chairing the National Committee, rejects any threat to the Monroe Doctrine from The Hague arbitration. He argues Europe would not risk US protest, and that loans to South American governments would not trigger occupation or sovereignty loss. He expects no future complications infringing the doctrine.
The War Minister orders officers skilled in local languages for forces in the Amur region. The Oriental Institute in Vladivostok will train forty officers in Chinese Japanese Corean and other Mongolian languages as well as French and English.
A secret-session meeting of the International Socialist Bureau was held in Brussels this afternoon. A motion on the potential outcomes of the economic war alleged against Europe by the United States was debated. Resolutions were drafted for later publication.
In Rochester on December 29 a funeral procession for Fred V. Miller’s grandmother was halted when union hackmen threatened a strike over a non-union driver handling a carriage. After tense negotiations, a compromise allowed the cortege to continue to the cemetery.
Eastern capitalists heavily involved in a proposed subway and elevated system to the stock yards district conferred with a prominent attorney in Chicago. They asked him to approach Mayor Harrison to pursue the franchise, seeking a curb to curb subway with four tracks to prevent downtown congestion.
Bishop I W Joyce arriving in Ind to dedicate the First Methodist Episcopal Church said the churchs twentieth century bank offering will exceed 21 million dollars and set a world history record for denominations. Subscriptions close this Wednesday withJoyce asserting the total will be the largest ever raised by any denomination.
A circulating report claims Senator Hawley plans to resign but sources say he is not considering stepping down. Health has been an issue, yet he expects to return to his seat after Congress reconvenes. His term runs until March 4, 1905.
Boston dec 29 Miss Carla Wenckebach Wencke Bach professor of German at Wellesley College since 1888 died at her apartments on campus at fifty. She long trained in Europe and the US and authored educational German books with her sister Helen Wenckebach. Her editions included Schiller and Scheffel works and other German language texts.
Berlin reports show German critics attack American self-importance and the Monroe Doctrine. General von Boguslawski argues withdrawal from the Venezuelan blockade would reveal weakness, warning that European powers face "thumb screws" if they recognize the doctrine as international law. The piece notes German media praise Roosevelt for refusing arbitration and criticizes U S arrogance while stressing ongoing blockade tensions.
Berlin indicates broad German desire to end the dispute quickly and avoid a prolonged Hague process. Public sentiment favors Roosevelt arbitration as the fastest exit, while Neueste Nachrichten criticizes U S reluctance to enforce an award.
In St. Petersburg on December 29 General satisfaction grows over Roosevelt's handling of the Venezuelan controversy. The Bourse Gazette lauds his recognition move as a splendid Christmas gift to Europe, praising Roosevelt for forcing recognition of the Hague Tribunal.
Albert Gray and Herbert Mason were trapped by ice on the Empire State Express baggage platform from Buffalo to Rochester. Detectors captured them in Rochester after the men, soaked and frozen, could not escape, both charged with vagrancy.
At a Republican Club meeting Mayor Low was elected to membership with all forty eight votes cast. J. P. Reynolds, the mayor's private secretary, was also elected a member, signaling closer ties to the party.
At 11 30 last night at 22 Park Avenue relatives reported Dr Flint did not visit and Cornelius Vanderbilt showed greatly improved condition amid cautious optimism about his recovery from illness or distress.
A brisk storm paraded through the city as rain and sleet alternated with snow. Pedestrians slipped on ooze covered streets while temperatures swung from 87 to 36 degrees, with traffic congestion and slush downtown. Weather officials called the storm a transient Atlantic coast event with no fixed date.
Police Commissioner Partridge announced 125 patrolmen from the civil service eligibles list and sought a new list of 25 more. He dismissed four officers for being off post, while a police board found Inspector Walter L. Thompson and several captains and sergeants fit for continued active duty.
Isaac Lang eight months sues Dr Ephraim K Broud for $25000 in the Supreme Court claiming the physician damaged his right eye at birth. Guardian ad litem father Louis Lang, a 9 a week waiter, seeks aid under poor plaintiff provisions. Justice Fitzgerald reserved decision on bond motion.
Independent sheet and tin manufacturers outside United States Steel Corp meet at Hotel Lincoln in Pittsburgh at 10 AM to oppose price cuts. Steel Corp has slashed tin plate from 4 to 5.60 per box and sheets about 5 per ton, forcing two rivals out and threatening ruin for several independents who hold pricey contracts while raw material costs fall. Some plants have shut down rather than lose money on underpriced contracts.
Dr William R Harper and Deans at the University of Chicago weigh frank co ed statements printed in an Eastern publication in response to the query Would you prefer to be a man or a woman One hundred girls replied eighteen want to be men eighty one want to keep petti coats one wishes alternately while thirty four want to be wives and mothers nine to be noble women and one to be a missionary or a mistress of a mistress
Announcement advertises the seventh edition of the Annual Financial Review for 1905 to be issued January 4, 1903. It outlines worldwide finance and trade surveys, industry outlooks, legislation, consular reviews, price tables for securities and bonds, company capitalizations, import export stats, price charts, clearing house figures, money and exchange rates, and advertising rates.
At the Educational Alliance last evening Rev Dr Joseph Silverman and Bishop Potter spoke on Jewish social and economic status. Silverman urged assimilation into American life while denouncing ghetto walls and jargon as barriers. Potter endorsed English use and warned against conflating religion with politics. The Justice Lodge of Bnai B’rith hosted the event amid hisses, applause, and demonstrations.
He calls the Jewish people to be a people of spotless integrity and to take an active part in surrounding affairs. He says living without blemish will make them a great nation and the laws will settle themselves. Rabbi H Maskarski speaks in Hebrew and Yiddish and defends Zionist movement and the sacred dialect born from wanderings.
Special to The New York Times from St. Louis reports Isaac H. Taylor, Director of Works for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, condemning F. W. Ruckstuhl’s conduct as chief sculptor. Taylor says Ruckstuhl overextended himself by claiming $58,000 worth of work and bypassed the commission, prompting possible reassignments and a probe into chaotic conditions in the sculpture department.
A Burlington freight train on the Spearfish line broke loose on a steep grade near Deadwood South Dakota. The rear section climbed backward after a broken coupling as the car conductor leaped to safety. The runaway descends two miles of track through tunnels and a carton before derailing over a precipice a hundred feet sheer. The incident left the freight cars tumbling into the stream below.
A famous painting by Copley the first Boston artist has arrived in Boston from England. Titled The Pelham Children it is believed to depict the artist's own family and marks a notable event as the Copley Society plans its annual artists festival. It was sent to Benjamin West in London with no mark and West praised its coloring.
Lloyd Lowndes Jr and Robert R Henderson were appointed receivers for Maryland Paper Company in Cumberland after a Rhode Island syndicate acquired it. Insufficient capital is alleged to have caused the failure and no assets and liabilities statement is available.
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