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6 "SO. 0" BOWERY CLOSED. Nearly All of the Criminal Resorts of That Street Shut Up. THROW OF DICE DECIDED MURDER. Two more Bowery resorts of evil reputation have been forced to close their doors. "Number Nine" and No. 23 Bowery. Each of theae places has #■- criminal history that would fill many records. In ea-ch mar.y notorious crimes have be*n planned, and "Number Xine" In particular is known the country over. This was the resort of the so-called "yegg mer. " as the Bowery names safe Mowers. It was reported that at or- time this ealoon was kept by a "yegg" man. Trho had committed a successful stamp robbery. and out of the proceeds of this haul had pur chased the saloon. Here the lower order of crooka had a steady "hangout," and groups or them may rtlll be Been standing disconsolately outßide the closed door. In No. 23 was planned one of the most brutal murders ever carried out In New-Jersey. Four men Eat at a table In the back room of this es tablishment and threw dice to decide whether they should go to Brooklyn and rob a Jewelry ■tore or to Washington. N. J-. and raid a farm house. As the cast favored Jersey, they shook again to decide whether they should kill the farmer and burn his house, or simply rob the place. The cast decided murder and the crime •was perpetrated. The murderers were afterward captured. Both these resorts have been for many years places of assignation. Men and women of the lowest criminal order frequented the back rooms. For many months the police have been watching for a chance to "break" these plar*««. At the Excise Department it was said >ei"ter fiav that the license for No. 23 had been revoked twice last year, and that no bonding compan> would bond the place this year. *o the license wa* not issued. The closing of the Little Jumbo" a few weeks ago and tnos- more recent clo^ng* mark the -t-a.iv march of the present administration toward cleaning up the disorder *v and criminal resorts that flourished under •fpmmanv Of all the notorious places that JnS^e Bowery to the number pf thirty, only TwVor three r.re left, and their time is approach tap. What the more famous uptown resorts are to the world of society. "Number Nine was to the under world, and the fact that it has been closed will make a great stir In the criminal circles of the Bowery. E. H* HARRIMAN CHOSEN. In D. & H. Board of Managers— Vote of Thanks for President Olyphant. At th* annual meeting yesterday of the stock holders of the Delaware and Hudson Company m. H. Harrlman was elected to membership in the board of managers as *ucr«i«or to the late W. H Tillinghast. President Olyphant addressed the meeting briefly, announcing his intention to retire from offlce at to-day's meeting of the new board. He said in part: "It will probably b<* th* last meeting I sha.il be Kmons tou. and I take this opportunity of express ing xnv heartfelt umnks for tbe support you have TOftWaflT B ' l^ long I>artd Willcox. now vice-president and general couti!*! cf the company, as prealdmt. It is prob • hi# that Mr. Olyphant wiii be asked to accept the chairmanship of the board of managers. CICONE CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. Man Who Figured in Insurance Frauds Held j on Serious Charge. William Cicone, who 1«= one of the Italians who j ■were nrr«<ted in connection with the plot to swindle , Insurance companies by bopus deaths, -was a prison- ! er before Magistrate Zeller in the Harlem Court yesterday, on a chere- of abduction. The com plaint wa« made by Mcrrts Abraham, a saloon keeper at No. 2.W3 Second-aye.. -who charged Cl cone with abductinsr his daughter. Gussie. seven teen years old, on Sunday. According to the *tory of the Irl she had known Cicone for two year?. On Sunday she visited friends in Brooklyn and on the way back, on the Forty-second-st. f*rry. met Clcone. Sb« charged ttal Ciron* forced her to arcompany him at a piFtol's point. Abraham, w!ihi his daughter dis eppearea. got trace of her and Informed the. police, ho arrest«Hl Clcone. ... <'lcone denied using force. Magistral© Zeller held him in $1,500 bail for further examination on t naa>. SKYSCRAPER TO BE LIKE COLUMN. One Downtown Planned by W. F. Havemeyer to Have Smallest Floor Area in City. A skyscraper seventeen stories high, according to William F. Havenwyer, is to occupy the plot on the northeast corner of Rnr<at and Exchange Place, pwrt of which is owned by himself and part by F. W. Favin. This plot, now occupied by two sma.ll business buildings. Is 26x46 feet. Jf such a building is constructed on this plot it will have the smallest floor ar»»a of nny skyscraper in the city, the one. neareKt to it tr, this respect being the building at the nirtheast corner of Broadway and Maiden Lare. the site sf which is iixSO feet. Owing to the advantages it will have in the way of light, as compared with some of its neighbors. Mr. Have meyer says it Is to be called the "Daylight Bulld ing." It will be assured of light on two sides. The combined parcels owned by Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Savin hay«» an area of only 1,066 feet— than an ordinary city lot. It will greatly compli cate th*- light probiem in the southerly half of the block, in which the Stock Exchange is located. A. W. Brunner is to prepare the. plans for the building, i; was said. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS MEET. Th# American Association of Purlic Accountants held iis^springr meeting- at the Astor House last evenin?. Representatives were present from many Btate* and other incorporated bodies of account ax,i ■ In Massachusetts. Pennsylvania. Michigan. Maryland. Illinois and New-Jeis*y. The following wer« recommended for appointment as State ex ejnlners of c-rtlfled public accountants la the State of New- York: Ferdinand W. I>afrentz. presi dent of the American Association of Public Ac countants; John H. I>oomi<e. vice-president of the. fcssoclatlon. and I. It. Sparrow. The proceedings were followed by a dinner, in the couiso of which speeches were delivered by President I^afrentt, L It. Sparrow. T. Cullen Kobtrts, tne secretary of th* association, and others. INSTALLED AS SACHEMS. Ex-S>nator John F. Ahearn. Senator Victor J. Dewlinz. John Fox. Asa Bird Gardiner, Randolph Gupgenheizner. Borough President Louis F. Haffen. fcesator Geexca W. Plunkltt and John J. Scannell w»r* Installed as sachems of the Tammany Society at the regular monthly meeting last night. Th« abffntees among: ihe newly elected sachems "were Thomas J. Dunn. Patrick K>er.an, Charles F. Mur- Dfcy. Daniel F. McMahon ar.J Timothy D. Sullivan. Ther« web iio el«»ction or a. grand sachesn last night, and Justice O'Gorman will hold over. Committees were appointed to arrange -or the regular Kourin cf July celebration. Kx -Governor David R. Francis. of St. T.ouis. has been Invited to make the "long talk." He has not yet accepted. Whact's the dif f erervce ? 75he GENUINE is a certain cure f»r all disorders arising from impaired digestion and is used by physicians in the treat ment of gout, rheumatism and dyspepsia. NATURAL ALKALINh ... WATER ... insist on having the Genuine VICHY SOLD IN PINTS AND QUARTS ONLY. tarn moaiwv. H. Y. CITY BONDS UP IN PRICE. An Increase of More Than 1 Per Cent in the Sale of $3,000,000. Three mitlion dollars' worth of 3^4 per cent city bonds sold yesterday at an average price of 104.33. an increase of more than 1 per cent over the last sale on April 9. when they brought an average price of only 103-28. The total amount of the bids was 530.235.500. or over ten times the amount of corporate stock for sale. The high est bid was 108.75 and the lowest 102. The awards were announced as follows: Amount Price p«T A«(ir<J«l to: iJ^oo" 104 2W Harvey n.k * Son. *■ wo ™*-»> Barbour & Cv it'Svi loa . .V) Jo.huaPr*tt 5-g« 106 15 Hom*r C Newton r-'Xj i 05.75 Fdwirt Dty Barker y*™ 0 - 44 <Jo 1.000 ioe-14 do -- iy^ 107 44 SS&VSK::::::;:::::"; jj^ 1050 ° Elizabeth Hu«m» ™*1 -•- 53.0C0.000 T-.tal amount of bid* received ■ • -* 30 ' 104 33 Average pric^ of «tock - 49 i^ years Term of etork about... .-..,-■ -• 332 per ct. Net income basts about • All of this money is to be used by the city in public improvements. One million dollars of it is to so toward the rapid transit tunnel construction fund. $500,000 for the improvement of the docks, the same amount for new school houses and sites, the same amount for reaving the streets, and the same amount for the new aqueduct. . . Sixty-seven proposals weie received. INDEPENDENT JUDGES. Bar Association Against Places in Private Corporations. The Association of the Bar .of the County of Xew-York at a meeting last night adopted a resolution condemning the acceptance of official places with corporations by Judges of the courts. The meeting was largely attended. President William G. Choate presiding. A number of ad dresses were made in the executive session, both for and against the resolution, and speakers were rheered from time to time so enthusi astically that the applause could be heard a dis tance up Forty-fourth-st. The association did not take up. as was ex petted, the question of admitting women to its membership, but a report was received from the executive committee which announced that it had appointed a sub-committee to confer with the committee on admissions concerning the af fair. According to Secretary Brownell the name of Miss Rosalie J^oew. which has already been nominated to the committee on admissions by the board of governors, was not mentioned. The question of Importance before the meeting was on the report of the judiciary committee, to which a resolution had been referred last Jan uary, relative to the acceptance of positions in corporations by judicial officers. This resolu tion followed the public announcement of the fact that Justice Van Brunt of the Appellate Di vision had been elected to a directorship in the Windsor Trust Company. William Temple Em met offered the report of the .ludiolary com mittee, -which was read, and. on motion, ac cepted. A motion for its adoption brought forth a vigorous protest, and a number of ad dresses were made both for and acainst the resolution. The motion was finally voted down. and the announcement of the vote greeted with prolonged cheers. The report voted down said in part: It I* most deMrablp that all concerned with the £!il! *« \o^helntegrity and impartiality of our judges. Albert S. Bard then offered a resolution which was adopted after considerable discussion, an attempt having: been made by the friends of the Judiciary committee to have it laid on the table for further consideration, and failing in this, an attempt was made to have it accepted with out formal adoption, but Mr. Bar<r? friends in sisted on thr a?c.,riation placing itself on record on the qu^iion. It was not fitting, it was argued, that the association should pass the question over with recommendations. The reso lution of Mr. Bard was finally adopted by prac tically a unanimous vote. The resolution read: Resolved, That In the opinion of this associa tion. it is incomptaible with the degree of dig nity and independence of the judiciary which this association is striving to promote, that judicial offices should be held concurrently with important positions, whether actual or hon orary in private corporations, whose affairs are likely to be the frequent subjects of judicial de cision by such judicial officers or their col leagues. C. S. BRYAN DEFEATS J. B. HARRIMAN. Regular Stock Exchange Ticket Elected with That Exception. At thf annual election of the New-York Stock Exchang-e. the outcome cf which was announced yesterday morning, the regular ticket was elected, with one exception. Charles S. Bryan defeating J. Borden Harriman as a member of the governing committee in the four year class. At a special or ganiration meeting yesterday of the new govern ing committee H. K. Pomroy was re-elected vice president of the exchange. At the regular meeting to-day of the governing committee the standing sub-committees for the coming year will be ap pointed. AMERICAN ELEVATORS FOR DUKE. Marlborough Buys Two Electric Ones from Yonkers Firm for London Home. The Duke of Marlborough has ordered two Ameri can electric elevators for his new home. Blandford House. Curron-Bt.. London. One af them is what is known as an electric passenger and the other an electric service, the latter being used for carrying trunks and like freight in the house. Both are of the "button control" variety. This kind of machine Is operated both from the car and from the hall wayF. By pressing a button placed in the hallway the ear is 'brought to that floor, stopping automati cally when opposite the landing. Inside the car are a series of buttons, numbered, and "by pressing one of these the passenger can send the car to the de sired landing, or by pressing the safety button can stop the car at any point in the asr-ent or descent. The inclosure doors have automatic interlocking fixtures which prevent the moving of the car until the door is firmly closed. The possibility of accident is thus made extremely small, even if a child Is running the elevator alone. Thf- two elevators for the Duke of Marlborough will be shipped probably within two weeks from the Otis works, at Yonkers. In Manhattan alone, so widely is the convenience of the private elevator mi miiliwi. there are over two hundred of the ma chines in private homes. rshe IMITATION is charged water containing ab solutely no medicinal proper ties and is manufactured with marble dust and sulphuric acid. ANALYSIS made by Fraser & Co., sth Avenue, N. V., shows SYPHON labeled " Vichy " to be only Croton water charged with gas. ICELESTINSI NEW- YOKE DAILY tftelßUSfl. WEDNESDAY. MJSX 13. 1903. THE NEW UPTOWN BANK. Union Exchange Its Name — To Open About June 15. The new uptown bank which It was an nounced oome time ago was being organized by Equitable Life. Mutual Life and Morton Trust Company Interests . expects to begin buslneßß about June 15, it was learned yesterday. The bank, which Is to be known as the Union Ex change Bank, will have a capital of 5750.000 and a surplus of $375,000. and will be at No. 135 Flfth-ave.. at the corner of Twentleth-at.. in the heart of the retail drygoods district of the city, a district in which, also, are many large Importing houses and manufacturing concerns. The officers are to be: President, Henry S. Hermann, now vice-president of the Hudson Realty Company: vice-president. William H. Mclntyre. fourth vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society; cashier. John 1.. Cole. The directors are Messrs. Hermann and Mcln tyre. James W. Alexander and James H. Hyde, respectively president and vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society; Alvin W. Krech. vice-president of the Mercantile Trust Company; Robert H. McCurdy. George G. Haven, jr.. Benjamin N. Duke, treasurer of the American Tobacco Company: Thomas F. Ryan, vice-president of the Morton Trust Company. William H. Baldwin. Jr.. President of the Long Island Railroad Company; H. P. Wh^- fth,; Vreeland. Valentine P. Syndar president o\ : the Western National Bank of the Lnited St*tesj Paul M. Warburg, of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. Max I milian Morgenthau. president of the Hudson Realty Company; David Wile, of the H. B. cYaflin Company; Joseph B. Bloomingdale and Emil S. Levi. STARTS ON POLE SEARCH. Fiala Telh of His Plans for Ten Miles Progress a Day. Anthony Flala, the leader of the polar expedition that is being backed by William Ziegler. sailed for Europe on the Kronprinz Wilhelm yesterday, On reaching London he will wait for further orders from Mr. Zeigler. and then proceed to Trondjem. Norway, where the America, the ship of the. ex pedition. Is being fitted out. The crew is now on the America, and the remainder of the party will sail from this port on May 27, under the direction of William T. Peters, the representative of the National Geographical Society. Flala has made his plans for his dash to the pole with mathematical precision and has figured out that his chance of success depends on the ability of the party in the final dash to travel ten miles a day. On the America there will be three depart ments, the deck, the engine and the field depart ments. On the latter will fall the crucial work. Starting from Trondjem about the middle of June, the America wil! be pushed as far north as possible in the summer. A base will be estab lished at Prince Rudolf Land, which is 602 miles from the pole. After wintering: there the dash for the pole will be made next spring. Fiala has fig ured out that with the strictest economy he can carry supplies for 140 days. That will give him seventy days to go up and seventy days to come ba "AHhouKh eight miles miles a day Is the record average of travel up to date." he said yes terday. "I hope to beat it and average ten. If I can this it is a mathemetical certainty that 1 shall succeed, but" . And the gesture expressed more tl He hftted that he would take a large number He hinted that he would take a large number of sledges and only a few men in the final stage of the journey and that his hope cf success lay in the excellence of his men. Among those who will be members of the field force will be Francis Long, of the local \Veath?r Bureau. Mr. Long who j- a man well along in years, with a wife and family. nas mace two other trips to the Arctic regions— with General Gree ly when he was a sergeant in the Signal Corps, and another with B. B. Baldwin last year. Mr. Long will be the meteorologist of the expedition. He has a fine record for endurance in the Arctic regions. When the remnant of the Greely party was found by Schley. Long was the only man of the party who was able to walk about. He has received an indefinite leave of absence from the Department of Agriculture. He was born in Germany, but came to this coun try early in life. He served In the United States army for thirty years. He believes that Fiala will come nearer to success than any man who has at tempted to reach the pole. SAYS GREENE THREATENS DISMISSAL. Dr. Myers Declares Commissioner Promises Summary Action on Delinquent Captains. According to a statement made by the Rev. Dr. Portland Myers. Police Commissioner Greene has given written assuFance to the Law Enforcement Society, of which th© Brooklyn minister is presi dent, that if the society finds violations of the law in any precinct after a captain has denied the existence of such violations, the captain will be dismissed. "Commissioner Greene has done what no head of the Police Department ever did before when the Parkhurst and other societies were seeking to reform conditions." said Pr. Myers yesterday. "He has sent us written assurance that our efforts will be backed up. It Is the business of the police. General Greene told us. to hunt down and convict lawbreakers. lie has said to us: 'Send your evi dence to me. I will dire-t the police captain in each instance to investigate. If he reports to me that he finds nothing and your society goes in af terward and do-s find something, off will come that captain's head." " Mr. Myers said that his society could not go on forever doing police work and hiring detectives at large salaries, and now that the attention of the public had been called to the real stateof affairs ft was "up to" the police In the future. The fines imposed by Judge Crane on convicted handbook meT on Monday will hardly prove a strong enough deterrent to gamblers, Dr. Myers how little they cared for (heir pun l«hment" he said, "several of the convicted men walked out cf the courtroom after they were sen tenced, and right in the corridor offered to bet on the race 9 with my detectives.' DAVID LAMAR WITHDRAWS CHARGE. David l>amar appeared as complainant In the Torkville Court yesterday against John L. Cloe, his former valet, whom he charged with the lar ceny of $292 and a gold watch valued at $150. He fore the cases had been finished Mr. Lamar agreed to withdraw tho complaints providing Cloe left the city at once. This the prisoner agreed to do. — • FUND FOR JEWISH SUFFERERS. "Work for the relief fund for the Jewish eur vlvora of the recent massacres in Kishenev. Russia, is being actively pushed by Jewish leaders here. It is stated that they purpose to raise $500,00) by subscription, one-half to be used at once to relieve the wants of the sufferers, and the remainder to be kept in reserve against emergenciep. The sum of $20,000 has already been raised, and sent by cable to Russia- Various means will be used to swell the fund. Governor Odell is being urged to attend a benefit performance at the Windsor Theatre on Friday night and those in charge express confidence that he will accept. Other benefits are being arranged, and other means of raising money are being dis cussed. THE BODY OF MISS RAMSEY HERE. The body of Miss Anna. Laura Ramsey, nineteen years old, who died In Cairo. Egypt, on April 7. arrived here yesterday or. the steamer Hilltarn. Miss Ramsev was a daughter of President Ram sey, of the Wabash Railroad. TREE RESEMBLES A LANDSCAPE. A collection of Japanese plants, garden orna ments, bronze Jardinieres, old stone lanterns and similar articles gathered by the Horticultural Association of Tokio. Japan, will be sold without reserve at the Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms, No. 238 Fifth-aye.. to-morrow and Friday afternoons, beginning at 3 o'clock. The collection Is now on exhibition. The objects, numbering 1.443. include three groups of plants classified according to their hardihood and the care they require. Those in Class A are. said to be perfectly hardy and may lie left to themeeivea out of doors through all sea sons. Those In the other classes need more or less care nnd Indoor life. Among the many curious specimens of tree training is the Bon Kei, a reproduction in niliiiit ture of a landscape. Bonkal. No. 277. is said to be an exact re production of the view near Blwa Lake. Dwarf pin>>s are numerous in the collection. Sarusuberl, No. 382, which 1b swld to be over one hundred and fifty years old. i» putting forth young Bhoots and will bloom fringed flowers In midsum mer. It belongs to Class A. IMITATION. BOUNDARY COMMSSSiONER SICK. Toronto, May Justice Annnur, one of Canada's Alaskan Boundary Commißsloners, is ill, and may not be able to act on the commission. He had in tended to start for England on May 22, MYSTERY IN ASSAULT Watcrbury Has a New Outrage to Solve — Youvff Woman Robbed. WatPrbury. Conn.. May 12.— Margaret Crane. r.ged twenty-five, ft well known young woman of this <ity. was found in School-st. caily to day In a semi-conscious condition, with signs of bftvtaC been waylaid, beaten Rnd robbed. Miss Crane left her home in Oeorge-st. last evening to attend a meeting of a singing society. It Is understood thiit she also expected to visit her brother's home. At 1 o'clock this morning she was found in a house in School-st. with her face bruised and covered with blood. A physician who was summoned declared that her cse was critical. There is a large bruise at the base of the skull, but the physician is as yet unable to determine whether or not the skull is fract ured. The young woman is at times partly conscious, but is unable to tell anything which would clear up the mystery A number of detectives who were put on tne case to-day found no clew. The mot. v c * or the crime is believed to have been robber^ 3 a9 fo^ nd 8 Crane's purse was missing when she *as roun PRISONER'S MOULDING IN COURT. Pulp Busts of Washington and Napoleon to Show Man on Trial for Murder Is Sane. Lifcsize busts of Washington and N»P°lf°n an * a figure, of Liberty that had been moulded in the Ra/mond Street Jail by George Drake on tr al for the murder of his brother-in-law. John Lacey. w ,re presented in evidence by the District At tor- Be, yesterday. This was done in order to refute tbe contention of the defence that Drake is Insane. The busts were cleverly executed from pulp mado CLERK'S BODY FOUND IN MORGUE. He Disappeared Ten Days Ago While "Doing" the Bowery. . The body of William P. I.oughlin. the young clerk of Mills & Gibb. who disappeared a week ago Saturday night while "doing" the Bowery, was found in the Brooklyn morgue last night by his brother. John Loughlin. of No. 1.380 St. Mark's aye Brooklyn, with whom he had been living. jssJtsr ffi.-siS-K' ™K! ? !f glasses ofbeer. and as he was not accustomed to Mmsmmm John Loughlin's search for his pother led him to the Brooklyn morgue last night. The keener .bowed him a body that had been picked up In the Bay at Sullivan-st., Brooklyn, on Mondaj . and ne recognized hi«T brother. There was no money nor Iweln norany papers in the pockets, although he young maif had a card case le .tters. some lew<=lrv and between $40 and *>0 when he disap beared HI" relativos believe that he was lured Fnto Vome East Side dive, robbed and then thrown into the river. LIABLE FOR DAMAGES BY BLASTING. Appellate Term Decides Against Subway Contractors. The A ope, late Term 0* the BupreSM Court yes terday handed down eleven decisions affirming judgments aggregating SUM. recovered In the Mu nicipal court bar .Jacob Marks, as attorney for va rious tenants of tne building at the northeast corner of Broadway and Ninety-sixth-st.. against Norton & Dalton. contractors for the subway at that point. Porno years a«o n water pipe was laid on the rock in that part of the city, and In M« 9t "lgthe rock in the subway work this pipe was broken, causing the water to flood the basement of tne building, and destroying property of the. tenants St This oasTsettles the question that the contractors along the subway are liable for damnges by blast ing, though the rffect of the blast may be « n / or «; seen. and that the contractors are responsible for dirt recks or other substance thrown by the Mast on property along the line of blasting. The>'.can not shield themselves by any excuse that the dam age was unavoidable or that the city was at fault. SAYS SMALLPOX IS A GOOD THING. Physician Says It Is To Be Wished for Rather Than Feared. Hartford, Conn.. May O.— According to Pr. Thomas Mullisan, of New-Britain, smallpox is a good thins to have in a community. It cro-rvda out other diseases. Pr. Mulligan says, and lowers the death rate. Addressing the convention of the Connecticut Eclectic Medical Association this morn ing. Dr. Mulligan declared that smallpox was some thing to wish for rather than to fear. When small pox does prevail, he said, there are fewer deaths from it than from any other disease, and in years when it rages violently there, are fewer deaths from all causes than In years when there is no small pox Pr Mulligan condemned the use of vaccine virus and antitoxin because, he said, their use pre pared the victim for either another disease or an early grave. ABSORBED BY GENERAL ELECTRIC. Stanley Company Taken Over— Alliance with Storage Battery Company. Schenectady. N. T- May 12.- At the annual meet ing of the stockholders of the General Electric Company here to-day the number of directors was Increased from thirteen to fifteen, according to the plans already prepared, and other important busi ness was transacted. The representation of shares was to the number of MMM The following were I re-eleoted directors: Gordon Abbott, Oliver Ames ( A <.offln. T. Jef ferson Coolidge. jr.: Frederick P. Fish, (.eorge P. Gardner Eugene Griffin, Henry U Higginson, J. P erpont Morgan. J. P. Ord. Robert Treat Paine. 2d; George Foster Peabody and Charles Steele. Ex-Governor W. M. Crane of Massachusetts and William C Whitney, of New-York, were elected to fill the two new directorships. The inference from the foregoing dispatch that the election of ex-Governor Crane and William C. Whitney to the board of directors of the General Electric Company meant that that company had finally absorbed the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company was confirmed last night by a repre sentative of tho Whitney-Ryan Interests, who added that th© transaction meant a closer alliance be tween the General Electric Company and the Elec tric Storage Battery Company. The control of the. Stanley company was acquired nearly a year ago by William < . Whitney. Thomas F. Ryan. Thomas Dolan. William L. Elklns and P. A. B. Widener. There have been from time to time reports that the Stanley company and the Electric Storage Bat tery Company were to be merged Last winter it was learned from good authority that negotiations were in progress looking to the acquisition of con trol of the Stanley by the General Electric Com nanv but .n March it was announced that these negotiations had been broken off. The terms upon which the control of the Stanley company has now been sold to the General Electric could not be learned last night. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE OPENING. Newport. R. 1 . May 12 -The annual session of the Naval War College is to begin on June 1, with the officers appointed to the class reporting to Captain French E. Chadwick. U. S. N.. president of the col lege The next day the session will be formally opened by Secretary Moody of the navy. HITCHCOCK ORDERS LUMBER SOLD. Ardmore. 1 T . Mny 12.- Secretary Hitchcock has ordered the sale of the two million feet of lumber seized by officials in the Choctaw Nation recently when s-verai large lumber mills, running In viola tion of the law. were ordered closed by the Interior Department. The seized timber will be sold Imme dlately and the proceeds expended in behalf of th« Choctaw trih.. of Indians. Secretary Hitchcock's action makes it Impossible for mills to operate in the Indian country. WAS THE OLDEST RAILWAY ENGINEER. Chicago. Muy 15-— Rynere Van Sickle, said to have been the oldest railway engineer In this country, has died at the almshouso of Wlnnebago County. 111 , at the age of nlnety-uix years. He was a graduate of Princeton University, and after leaving school had an engine on the old Bordentown and Trantoa Railway. 11* had lived in Rockford Bine* A6Ui. . -^ USE IX HEART EAILVRE Mmt—gt M'Ui lirin«; Back Life to the Dead. Though many of the leading surgeons here have known for some time of Dr. Kemp's suc cess In resuscitating dogs by heart massage and forced resDlratlon. yet the detailed account of Ma work given by Dr. Kemp on Monday night, as recorded In yesterday's Tribune, ha* amused new Interest In the experiment* and speculation as to the value of their results. Dr. J. K. Traub. of No. 228 West B«venty flfth-st.. one of the speakers at th« meeting, de clared last night that hereafter it would be the duty of every physician to try heart massage in cases of heart failure due to shock or suffoca tion. Anaesthetic poisoning, he aaid. was really shock, otherwise this operation would be of no avail. Real poisoning, he explained, was a chemical change in the tissues which a restora tion of circulation and reapiration would not combat. "The tissues of the whole body must b« per fectly normal except for the absence of the vital spark, and a saline solution must be in jected Into the blood at once to prevent a chem ical change, though a do* may be revived even without the salts." ,_ „. * v , « Dr. Thomas L. Bennett, of No. 111 1 \* est >'ne tieth-st.. a specialist in the giving of ansesthet ics. declared Dr. Kemp's method to be similar to, though better than, t'no "Maas" method Of heart manipulation, in which n<> incision is made, but. instead, great pressure is brought to bear above the heart by means of the fingers, which are moved back and forth as in a mas sage. He declared that by this method he had revived twelve patients suffering from anaes thetic poisoning. He said that the incision method was not new with Dr. Kemp, but that he was the first to follow It out thoroughly and achieve any success. BRYAN'S HOLD RELAXING. G. D. Meiklejohn Says Influence in Next Convention Will Be Small. Georg© D. Meiklejohn. of Nebraska. Assistant Secretary of War. says that William J. Bryan will not be able to exercise a commanding influence In the next Democratic National Convention. Mr. Meiklejohn was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night. "ilr. Bryan will have a bunch of delegates in the next NattonaJ Democratic Convention who will think as he will, but his hold on the Democratic organization in the West is relaxing," said Mr. Meiklejohn. "Nebraska, to begin with, Is not a Democratic State, and that makes some difference with Mr. Bryan's prestige. Mr. Bryan was a Pop ulist, rather than a Democrat. He got to the top by riding on a wave of Populism. That wave has subsided, and Mr. Bryan has been compelled to subside along with it. "I ha.ye seen the prophecy that he would bolt the convention in ISM it" the platform did not suit him. I don't belltve he will iio anything of the .kind. He has a prosperous weekly newspaper and his la come from it is a comfortable one. His subscribers are largely Democrats. If he should bolt the con vention he would lose a large number of his sub scribers, and that would not be •» pleasant thing for him. to think about afterward. I am not a bettin™ man but if 1 were I would put my money on V- eveland as a candidate for the nomination Th*re seems to be a leaning toward him from all around the country. Five or six years ago if any onr had «aid that Democrats would ever turn toward Cleveland and Clevelandism again he would have been regarded as deficient In Judgment. He had no friendf then. The party workers are gett ng desperately hungry again, however, and in looking around for some one to nominate they are forced to remeraber that Cleveland won twice, and that the Democrats have not been able to elect any one but Cleveland President in forty years. It will toterestlSgto see what the radicals in the DMno rratic r?rtv will do with Cleveland as a candidate Roos^veft or any other good Republican would beat fclm hands down." CIVIC FEDERATIONS TO MEET TO-DAY. Local to Consider City Strike*— National to Stick to Routine. It Is Said. The executive and conciliation committee? of th« New- York Civic Federation are to have a "business dinner" this evening nt th* Ashland House, a call for which has been issued by I^wis Nixon and Samuel B. Donnelly, chairman and secretary, re spectively, of the federation. The dinner is ar ranged iii order that the members of the commit tees may have a chance to get together and get down to' an understanding of their duties. There will be. an informal talk over the labor troubles in New-York and the labor situation generally after The m executive committee of the National Civic Federation, of which Senator Hanna is president will have Its semi-annual meet "f to-day at its headquarters, ir. the Mission Building. Fourth-aje. and Twentv-second-st. Secretary Ralph M. tasley. of the National Civic Federation said yesterday that nothing but routine business will be done The National Federation cannot interfere in local dis putes. BRESLIN GETS NEW HOTEL. Has Ten Years- Lease for Hostlery on Site of Sturtevant. James H. Breslln, who conducted the Gilsey House for more than forty years, has closed ne gotiations with the United States Realty and Con struction Company for the leas* of the new twelve story fireproof hotel which that company intends to build on the site of the Stvrtevar.t House, at Broadway and Twenty-ninth-st. The lease is for ten years at an annual rental of J150.000 Tna United States Realty and Construction Company bought the property about two months ago from the Sturtevant heirs. PAIR PLANS CHOSEN, IT IS SAID. C. B. Luce Named by Rumor as Architect for Stats Building at St. Louis It is understood that the successful plans for the New-York State Buildlne at the World's Fair St. Louis, 1904, at those of Clarence B. Luce, of No. 242 Fourth-aye. It is expected that such will be the announcement at the monthly meeting of the New-York State Ex position Commission, which will take place at the commission's headquarters. No. 12»> Broad way, this afternoon. The other candidates are G. L. Hems, State Architect, whose plans were originally favored, and York & Sawyer. Goverror Odell. in thf course of his stay in St. Louis in connection with the ceremonies, is said to have remarked to S member of the New-York commission that in his opinion the site for the New-York State Building: in the central plateau of States was finer than that of any other State, that of Missouri not even excepted. GEORGE A. KOLB HEARD FROM. Wife of Missing Marine Engineer Gets Dis patch from San Francisco. George A. Kolb. the business manager of tha Marine Engineers' Protective Association, who has been missing from his home for several days, has been located In San Francisco. Mrs. Kolb. at her home, No. 321 East Thirty-flfth-st.. said yesterday. that she had received a dispatch from her hus band In San Francisco. The telegram was received last night. It read: "Am all right now. Will start for home at once. Notify Mr. Murphy." Mrs. Kolb explained that the "Mr. Murphy" spoken of was Daniel Murphy, who is the assistant business manage-- of the association. Mrs. Kolb said last night to a Tribune re porter that she though her husband must have been taken to San Francisco by force. "Thr>re could be no other reason for him to po " she added "His financial resources would not allow him to go on his own account. If he had not been In some sort of trouble he would not have said: 'All is well now.* I cannot be lieve that he ever would have left me volunta rily for he was very fond of me. I am much puzzled over his absence, and I think it w, be a very Interesting story he will have to tell when he is home again." TO DO AWAY WITH COMPRESSED AIR. Rome. N. V.. May 12--The T'tlca and Mohawk Vull«y Railroad has purchased the Rome City Street Railway, and will begin to-morrow to equip It with electricity, making it a part of the system which the Utlca and Mohawk \ alley operates throughout Central New-York The Rome road has t»«ajOD«rated by. comi>rt:»a«d> a4r« KATSER IS PERIL AT SEA, The Vtstgel's Ron* Crossed by a Cat tle Steamer in a Fog. The passengers on th« steamer Kaiser 'Wil helm der Gross*, which arrived her* yesterday from Bremen, had an exciting experience last Sunday morning about one thousand miles from port. It was foggy, and the steamer wu pro ceeding at half speed, aound'.tig the whistle at intervals, when It was discovered that another steamer was In the neighborhood by the con tinuous wh!3tl!ng on the starboard how. Th-j Kaiser helm continued signalling, the whistl* being sounded for eight seconds at intervals of % minute. The whistling of the approaching ves sel came closer and closer aboard, and the en gines of the Kaiser Wilhelm w?re ordered stopped, i":»ddenly there loomed up in, the fog and directly In front of the steamer the form of the other vessel. She was attempting to rroe» the bows of the Kaiser, and succeeded in clear ing her by only about forty feet. It was discov ered by the name on her counter that she was the steamer Planet Venus, a cattle steamer, on her way from Philadelphia to Avonmouth. According to Captain Cuppers, of th" Kaiser Wilhelm. there would hav^- been no <langer if the Planet Venus had not ported her helm, but had continued on her course. Some r.f th« passengers, who oniy realized th»ir peril after the Incident had occurred, thought that th» commander of the Planet Venus had mistaken the fog sijsrnai for a signal to go to port. The suction of the screws of the »t*>am ■- whe:* she was docking drew th* Kronprinz Wllhelm, which was moored on the other sld«» of th« pier, out Into the stream a few feet, and rar ried away the freight and second cabin gang ways. The Kronprinz Wilhelm -vi« to sail aj 4 p. m., and a few of the passengers and their friends had gone on board the vessel. No era was injured, although several men employed on the pier attempted to prevent the gangways from falling into the water by grasping th<» lashings. The knotted end of one of the lash ings flew into the air with a crack and struds the Iron side of the pier with a noise Ilk* » pistol shot. CANTOR STANDS BY THOMPSON. Says He Appointed the Superintendent Aftex Thorough Investigation of Qualifications. Borough President Cantor said yesterday that T.v had received from the Civil Service Board a stereo typed communication requesting him to vouch fo? the qualifications of Henry S. Thompson, his new Superintendent of Buildings. "This request." said Mr. Cantor, "was in accord, ance with Ku!* No. 6, and simply called for arj assertion on my part of the new appointee's quail* I flcatior.s. I simply replied that Mr. Thompson ha constructed many of the best building.? in this city, Philadelphia, Boston and other cities, and that h<§ had great experience in the building line. I adde4 that he had the confidence and indorsement of tai business community, and that his character ami Integrity were unquestioned. I Informed the Civil Service Board that during the last five y»ars i:r.« mediately previous to his appointment he had beea engaged in the building business for h:m«- that for several years preceding that he was a partncS in the Thompson-Starrett Company, building coc* structors, and for soma time previous to ttut he had been a partner in th^ building an. l construction firm o- Thompson & Adams. I wen: into this matter very carefully before appointing Mr. Thompson and '•onsi«ler <J very carefully all o£ bis qualifications for the position. I did n»t ac: hastily In the matter, and when I appointed him I did so knowing fully that he was entirt- : quali fied for the place. His enemies may harp aa thH matter M much aj» they see fit. bur T did not act carelessly in appointing Mr. Thompson. I knn-w that he Is well qualified and that he will remier a> good account of himself, ani all of thes* allega tions about his not being fitt^'l for the position ar* buncombe. I am satt?fle<i that he will <H'erinten4 thf workings of the Building Department in a man-* ncr satisfactory to myself and those .-loaeiy Inter* ested in the operations of that department." MRS. MARIE CORRIGAN DIES. Th» Rev. George W. t'orrigan. rector of St. Joseph's Church. Newark, received wr.nl yesterday that Mrs. Marie Corrigan. wife of Mi brother. Pr. JoFeph F. Corrlga.i, died on Monday at her home, near St. Leo. F!a. She had been an invalid for several years. Mrs. Corrfsran was a native of y?w ark. as were her husband and his brothers. Father Corrigan and Archbishop Corrigan. Dr. Corrigan, formerly practised in Newark, but moved to Florida twenty years ago. He gave up practice subse. quently. and has been ensraged in orang;» growing. Mrs. Corrigan leaves several children, one «f ■whom. Joseph E. Corrigan. is a law student in this city. The burial will be in Newark. Store Opens at 8:30 A. M and Closes at 5:30 P. M. Nobody Is Flus tered and Uncom fortable this Month PREPARATION DAYS * are delightfully cool and pleasant. No need to swel ter in Winter togs while buying those for Summer — unless you procrastinate. Don't blame the weather if some muggy, sweltering morning comes suddenly and finds you unprepared — Negligee Shirts— They're all ready, or we'll take yonr measure for Shirts to order, and get them out promptly. If you can't come to see us, telephone 6900— ISth and we'll send a man to see you. Men's Thin Suits— The com plete warm weather btock is ready; and you'll find it hard to match, for quality or low prices. Women's Summer Dresses — Never was such variety known before to ready-made clothes. Xo matter what the need — suits for morning wear, dresses for after noon and evening — superb variety is here. Clothes for Boys and Girls Everything needed for the tod dlers, and every age. to the young man and young woman. Summer House furnishings — Here Wanamaker's supreme, whether the thought be of Furni ture, Rugs, Slip Covers, Awnings, Btd Coverings, Linens, Silver, China or Kitchen Things. How Can We Help You? John Wanamaker, Formerly A. T. Stewart A Co.. Bro»>lwii\. 4th nve,. tHh and l»ta "» •