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* KIDNAPS HENDRICK ROY. 'IT'S PAPA!" HE SAID. Wife of Physician Concerned in Biggar Case Duped. Following- the refusal by his wife of the re quest of Dr. Charles C. Hendriok that the chil dren be tent to his mother's home. in Hoboken, Thomas Hendrick. the six-year-aid eon. wsa kidnapped yesterday morning near No. 100 Preai d«nt-*t.. Brooklyn, where he had been staying ■with Mr*. Hendrick- I>r. Hendrick, who was the physician and manager of Laura Blggar, the actress, figured prominently la the legal fight that was made to prevent her from inheriting 1 the fortune of Henry M. Bennett- His connec tion with the case caused him to be placed on trial for conspiracy to get the fortune. This caused him to be estranged from hi* wife, who recently has been living with their children at the home of her mother, Mrs. Bridget NalUn, in Brooklyn. He had him arrested for abandonment and he was ordered by the court to pay her $20 a month. Since then, however, he has been liv ing In New-Jersey, and sh« has been unable to ■ret any money. On November 18. Mrs. Hendrick says, she re •etved a letter from her husband, which, con tained this sentence: "I ask you to bring the children to No. 524 G*rden-sU, Hoboken. If you do rot you must suffer the inevitable consequences." FEARED KIDNAPPING. Since then she has been fearing that the chil dren, Thomas, Joseph, five years old, and Mary three years old. would be kidnapped. They have bees guarded with unusual care. Yester day, however. Thomas's grandmother Bent him to the store after his mother had left the bowe, on what turned out to be a false sum mons. At Hicks and President *ts. the toy was picked up by a tall man and carried away in m. cab- Gossip In the neighborhood last night ■was resoasible for the story that the child cried: "Oh. mamma, mamma! It's papa? Charlie Hock, a helper In the grocery rtore of George F. Frlck. at Hicks and President eta., •aw the kidnapping from a distance, but did not suspect there was anything wrong at the time. He declared that the man was tall, and he thought that the man had not had a shave for about a week. It looked as though he wore a Panama hat. The carriage was driven rapidly to Henry -St.. where It disappeared around the corner. About 19 o'clock a stranger stopped «t Mrs. Nallin's house and left word that Mrs. Hen dricka brother, James Naliin. "ranted *o see her et his place of business in Hamilion-ave. at once. While delivering the message ho stood in the shadow of the vestibule, so that a good de scription of him could not be given. REALIZED BHE WAS DUPED. When Mrs. Hendrick rea< bed her brothers Store £u;d found he had not sent for her she almost swooned, because she realized at once that some plot was on foot. Returning home at once, she learned that trie boy had been sent to the store In her absence and had been captured ar.d carried off In a carriag. . Another brother. Patrick Nalliri. who hap pened to be lit home, reported the case to the Hamllton-avf. pdsW station. Headquarters ■were informed, and the bridge and every ferry tmm Rrooklyn were at once watched for a car riage containing a man of the description given and a six-year-old boy. The carriage had had jilenty of time to get out of the borough, how ever. The police of Hoboken. where Dr. Hen drick'f= mother lives, were also asked to hunt for the child. Patrick Nallin is now on a personal hunt for T>r. Hcndriek, and when last seen was in a ■ f mind that boded no good for the phy if the two should meet. Mrs. Hendrick. the mother of Dr. Hendrick. said last night that she had not heard anything jet from the missing boy or from her son. "Dr. Hendrick was here again last night,"' said ah*. "Last week he made several efforts to get all three children. He said they were not being properly cared for, and that the oldest boy, Thomas, was not getting proper schooling. He asserted that he would take the chance of using force to get control of the childen. If necessary, avnd I think he has been lying In wait for that purpose. Not being able to get them all he has probably taken one. OFFERED WIFE A HOME. "Dr. Hendrick offered his wife a home In New- Jersey about t-vo months ago, if «-h* would live with him a«:aln. Bhe refused, and said she wanted only money for her support. Of course, be la willing to support her, if she will live with Urn." The doctor's mother began a little quiet sleuth work herself last night. Us*. Hendrick was placed under bonds last April to pay his wife $80 a BBBBtk. The doctor claimed that when he made the first payment the bonds were legally cancelled, and it Is as e*rted that the higher court gave a decision in his brother's favor on this poim last week. FIERCE FIRE IX BOSTON, Four Story Building Occupied by a Paper Firm Burned. Boston, Dec 2&. — One of the. most dangerous fires that the Boston firemen have had to contend with In a long time, ajjd whicii called into service two thirds of the city's apparatus, broke out shortly a/tar mldiugfct In a four story 6ri*.-k building In Federal Court, occupied by wholesale paper deal ers. After hard lighting the flames were under con trol by 1 o'clock. The building and Its contents •were a total loss. The building was situated between two alleys bo narrow as to make the raJainc of aerial Udders and the use of the water towers impossible and adjoining property was saved with dirticulty. The biiilcljrig wus occupied by Oolemaa Lire*, and Stone & orsytne wholesale nailer dialers, and •mailer concerns. The lues la r.uo.wu, well Insured. YOUNG KAN HOLDS TTB HIS MOTHEE. At Pistol's Point Compels Her to Give Up Valuable Kings. [BT TZLXOKAPH TO TUB TOBCKZ.} Chicago, Dec. Wilfred Cook, twenty years ©id, «tepeon of the heed of the wholesale epic* firm of Thompson & Taylor, admitted in court to-day that at the point of a revolver he had compelled hla mother to feurrendw diamond rings valued at 11.150. He mM, however, that the ring? belonged to him and wtr« to te given to him when he reached hia twenty -fifth year. He was held to the Criminal Court for trial. ELECTBIC POWER FEOM THE HUDSON Company Formed to Distribute the Force in Syracuse, Utica and Hudson. ▲!bacy, Dec. 21. — To develop the power resources ef the fan of the upper Hudson, and to distribute electric power as far west as UUca and Syracuse and as far south as Hudson, the Hudson River Electric j'« wer Company, with principal office at Queensbury, Warren County, and with H.0G0.000 rapitaJ. wtis incorporated here to-day. TT 1..*1 ..* directors are K. J. West, Bryce E. Morrow. J I' KUUard. Jr.. C. M. DooiltUe and L. V.'. Guern »<>. aJI of Glens Palls. The certificate of Incorpor ation elates the purpose of the company to be to erect d&n.s fccroea th* Hudson River and other •treamj la the counties of Saratoga, Warren and wasblcrton. «ujd elsewhere. ■ **? t '- Si i' itn y *-xp«- v to build another power dam to the Hudson lilver between Glens Fails and the Uf np.m or Uyj Hudson ...vtr Water Power Com f t JR£f»J?? 1 *: Tb * "~ . . «ua V«ii£ * reeUad •t K*xy 1 fc*ls, fly» miles abwvs tilena l-'alia. SHE CHARGES BIG FRAUD. Woman Asks Receiver for Consoli dated New-England Ice Companies. Trenton, N. J.. D*c. 28.— Anna A. Harned. of Philadelphia, filed a bill in the Court of Chancery to-day asking that a receiver be appointed for the Consolidated New-England Ice Companies, whose authorised capital stock la t14.000.000i of which It la charged about $4,000,0000 has been Issued and is outstanding. The bill charge* that the exploitation of the com pany waa a scheme of K. John Kaufmann. of Bos ton, and that it waa a mere stock Jobbblng enter prise, as a result of which Mr. Kaufmann and hia Intimate frtenda obtained everything cf value and then voted to dlseolve the company without so much aa telling the stockholders who were not on the Inride. The complainant aays she ie one of those who received no notice, although holding I.2SA eharea of stock- In tracing the history of the corporation, the bill aays that Mr. Kaufmann waa the owner or pre tended owner of a controlling interest of the Hygienic Ice Company, of Boaton. which it Bays waa then insolvent and mortgaged for more than Ita value. It la charged that Kanfmann's stock was soid to the new company at a fraudulent and fictitious price and that through a directorate of dummiea. all controlled by him. he became the controlling power of the consolidated companies. It is charged that by an exchange of aecuritles and stock Jobbing the new company got control of the Providence Ice Company, Brockton loe and Coal Company, Taunton Ice Company, Common wealth Hygienic Ice Company; Crystal I^ake loe Company, of Quincy, Mass. : Dudley loe Company. of Ablngdon, Maas. and the I'.lsiey lee Company, of Arlington, Mans. The bill Bpeclflcally charges: Tlmt through the manipulation of the Kaufmann fi.eme the said E. John Kaufmann was the presi dent and the active manager, and dominated the whole transaction. That he fraudulently procured frcm saul companies a large amount of property and common stock for the worthless company which he owned or pretended to control the stock of. and received other benenta throucb partldpat 1-.;.- in the transactions whereby the other com r:»ni<« wer* acquire. !. and the other officers and directors also participated In certain benefits which should have inured to the company of which they :irectora. That extravagant salaries were voted by the directors to each other, and the busi ness of tho company was conducted In a profligate and dishonest manner. Subsequently, It is charged, a directorate, includ ing men of financial standing, waa obtained, and by their namea and a misleading proapectua much Btook waa foisted on tha public Thiu directorate waa made uo aa follows: Prr«ldpnt. John O. Bhaw, Boston; vic*-presldent, ward atU'lley, Providence; second vice-presi dent. Waiter S. Hackney. Providence; treasurer, Arthur X Smith. Boston; secretary. Wirt Howe, New- York; j. r fJ»«' ! "al manager, Henry L. Parnell, Boston: directors, Oliver Ames, Boston; Frederick H. Allen, Xew-York; Archer Brown. New-York; KrtVitrlck F. Culver, New-York. E. John Kauf mann Boaton: Congressman Lucius X. LJttauer, New- York; William A. Russell, Boston: Fred W. Smith, Boston; George M. Shepley. Providence; Edward H Temple, Taur.tnn. Mass.. and George Frederick Vleior, New- York. A rule to show cause why a receiver ahould not be eppointed by the court ia returnable before Vice-chancellor Grey at Camden January 11. C. S. ABLER PORT WARDEN. Up-State Lieutenants Continue Con ferences with Senator Platt. Senator Pintt continued his series of conferences with political leaders from all parts of the State yesterday. Every day this week the gatherings will continue, and by the end of It the programme for ths. "*- ** > f session of the legislature, the election of delegates to the national convention, the holding of the Btate convention and other subjects will be agreed on. Governor Odell is expected hero the latter part of the week, in time to tako part in trie final conference, at which everything will be fully settled. Lieutenant Governor Hlgglna and Speaker Nixon aro expected here to-day. Among those who called on Senator Platt yester day were W. W. Worden. of Saratoga; William C Warron, of Erie, and John T. Mott, of Oswego. These are all membera of tha State committee. Colonel Dunn, chairman of the committee, arrived in the evening, and had a talk with Senator Platt. All of those who took part In these meetings as serted that nothing had been finally settled. Dele gates to the national convention, the forthcoming meeting of tho State committee, the convening of the State convention and other topics were talked over In a general way. The general impression waa that the convention would convone In this city late In April, and that it would instruct Cie delegates for Roosevelt. Mr. Warren, who has been frequently spoken of aa being the choice aa national eommitteeman to succeed George R. Sheldon, Raid, after talking with Senator Platt, that he was not a candidate for the place. "Nobody has ever nsked me to take the place," he said, "and I don't know of any movement to place me there except what I have scon in the newsr-apers." He added that ho did not pay much attention to talk about warfare in the party. He declared that he regarded Senator P!att as leader of the party in the State, Some of the trouble makers had been trying to make out that Governor Odell was trying to el»»ct him national commltteeman to oust Sheldon and discredit Senator Platt, he said, but he believed that Senator Platt and Governor Odell had a thorough understanding, and thought the stories about trouble In the party should ceuse. Mr. Worden, who has long been looked 0:1 as a lieutenant of Senator Bracken, who in the last ses sion of the legislature warred on Senator Platt, declared last night that he rc«ank'd Senator Platt as leader of the party in the State. "Senator Platt," he declared, "will control the next State Convention, and will have all th© say about delegates to t'.ie National Convention. 1 be lieve that he will be State leader as long as he lives or cares to exercise that function." It was announced last night that Charles S. Adler. of the VUlth District, would te appointed Port Warden to succeed the late W. W. Capron, of Steubea. Mr. Adler is well known in the Vllltii District o# lieutenant of Charles 11. Murray. president of the Republican County Committee. He has been repeatedly elected to the Assembly from an overwhelmingly Democratic district. Others who talked with Senator Platt yesterday were J. B. H. Mongln. of Seneca; Samuel Btras bourger Theodora P. Oilman, ex-Deputy State Controller; J. H. Cole, chairman of the Repub lican County Committee of Greene County; Gen eral McDougall, of Auburn, and James S. Whlpple» of Caitaraugus. DIVIDEND PAYMENTS IN BOSTON. January Disbursements About $25,000,000, the Largest on Eecord. [BT TEIXORATH TO THE TBrBCWB.I Boaton, Dec. 28.— Frank A Rußgles estimates that dividend payments in Boston for January will be about 125,000,000, as against 922,000,000 In January. 1903, and ia8.000,000 six months ago. January 1604. will be the banner month for dla trarsemanta, the nearest approach to It being 1 $24, 000.000 in January, 1900. ERIE IMPROVEMENTS. Cleveland, Dec. 2S.— lt is thought here that the appointment of J. M. Graham, now chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio, to a similar position with the Krie. m«*ns the beginning of the four tracking of that road aa far as Übrnellaville. three tracking it to Salamanca and double tracking the remainder of the road, except, possibly, the Cin cinnati dlvlfclon. The lino is to be reduced to a maxtajum grade of &-10 of 1 per cent. Mr. arahium'a appointment will be effective on JhXiuary I. QUEENS WATER COMPANY'S CAPITAL. Albany. Dee. 21— certificate filed with the Sec retary of State to-day attests the increase of capitalstoek of the Queens County Water Com pany from taSO.oOo to t1.0w.000. GOODWIN BROTHERS GET PIER. Coenmlaßioner Hawkes yesterday opei-ed bids for the lease of the new pier at East Twenty-first-st. The bidders ■ were: Manhattan Transportation Company. $3,900; Albert H. Haatorf, 0.096; Bouker Contracting Company, $B,flix>. and Goodwin TJroth '■™. 15.250. The leu** waa awarded to Goodwin brothers. ST. PIERRE-MIQUELON ELECTION. Bt John's. N. F.. Das. ii --Tho contest In St. Pierre ar.d Mlquelon for a representative to the French Chamber of Deputies resulted to-day In the re-election of M. Legaese by a small majority over X Fromor.t. As M. Lsga*M represented th« fish ery inUresti the small majority by which he has been re-elected is considered to shcrw tne <il3«atin facUoa with axistto*- conditions. **"••*"* I NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1003. THE CHURCH A BYWORD. That the Result, Says Methodist, if Self -Denials Are Given Up. EXCITEMENT OVER DANCING RULE. The Rev. Dr. Daniel Halleran. presiding elder of the Elisabeth district of the Newark Conference, waa the first speaker yesterday at the Methodiat Preachera' Meeting, No. 160 Fif th-aye. He diacuaied the question whether the well known "amuaement paragraph" of the Book of the Discipline of the Methodiat Episcopal Church, paragraph 248. should be expunged or amended. He opposed making any change. He said: When Methodism abandons her crucial self-de nials, biota out the line of demarcation between herself and the world, and merges her distinctive tenets, to court the favor of th« pleasure loving and the pleasure seeking, the tides of holy favor which havo borne her to thousands of homes, to millions of hearts, and to many lands, will forevei recede. Then will the Methodist Church become a byword and a hissing to mankind and an Inex pressible sorrow to her Lord. Dr. Halleran denied the statement that Method ism has been losing ground of late years. A lively discussion followed his address. The Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard, one of the secre taries of the Methodist Missionary Society, speak ing in opposition to a change, went so far. It Is re ported, as to say that any one who favored cutting out tha amusement clause ought not to be In the Methodist ministry, and should even be placed on trial. There was much excitement over this. The Rev. J. A. Hensey favored expunging the disputed clause, because It had never been en forced by the Church, and never would be en forced. Another minister declared: "If a man honestly believes that he will some day be called on to account to Christ for the deeds of this life he will not be likely to spend his time playing cards. Surely, no special prohibition la needed. Tills clause's only effect is mischievous." The Rev. Dr. J. Wesley Johnston, of the Old John Street Church, created some surprise by as serting that the much controverted clause was not fully In the Book of Discipline at all. He de clared that it had never received the required ma jority In both the General Conference and in the local conferences throughout the country. Pome of those who spoke yesterday regarded the clause as unwise, as well as unnecessary, and yet said that If they should chance to be members of the next General Conference they would vota against expunging It— first, because no real Meth odist wanted to indulge in the prohibited amuse me.us, and. second, because tho church was under fire in these days, and if the clause were now wiped out the step would be hailed by worldly people everywhere as a backward step. The Rev. "Dr. T. L. Poulson, of Lawrence. Lon* Island, picking up a box of "reward cards," de signed to bo used by Sunday schools, paid: ''The discipline forbids cards— and here they have cards for sale by the Methodist Book Con cern. Perhaps these are not tho kind of cards some people mean, but how am I to know Just what cards are forbidden and what are not. And then there Is horse racing. There are different kinds of horee racing. I have raced horses myself— l hava raced against the presiding elder and even against the bishop. And I remember with great satisfac tion that my horse beat the bishop's. Now, should I have started proceeding's to expel tho bishop— and myself— from the Methodist Church? If para graph 248 is to be obeyed there is uo question but that eurh a proceeding should have been started." Dr. Halleran sold afterward that even those who must urgently favored excision declared them selves without exception opposed to indulgence In the forbidden amusements. ... The Presbyterian Ministers' Association had Its annual luncheon yesterday at the Hotel Albert. The Rev. Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston presided. The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, of thj Broad way Tabernacle, spoke. His th^me was "The Place of Dogma In Preaching." He asserted that the idea prevailing In many quarters that the day of adherence to dogma is declining 13 far from being true. THINKS POLICEMAN A SUICIDE. Tirst Story Was That He Was Killed, While Chasing Burglars. That Patrolman Frederick Rinßler committed sui cide and did not accidenally shoot himself Is the belief of Coroner Berry of The Bronx. Ring-ler died at his home. No. 910 Trlnlty-ave., The Bronx, on Saturday from the effects of two bullet wounds, received during the nisht of Decem ber 21, while chasing burglars, who had entered his house. It waa reported. "While going about the house Ringlrr stumbled and fell, accidentally, it waa then believed, discharging his rovoivcr. Coroner Berry says the bathrobe which Ringler wore waa not pierced, but that the revolver waa held doss to the flesh, there being powder marks on it. The inquest will be held next Tuesday. NOW 135 PROFESSORS AT COLUMBIA. Ten Years Ago There Were Only Sixty-six — New Courses Offered This Year. The new catalogue of Columbia University, Just issued, shows that the total number of professors ar.d adjunct professors la 135. aa against eixty-slx ten years ago. There aro nineteen clinical pro fessors and lecturera, seventy-one Instructors, flf teea demonstrators, fifty-eight tutors, thirty-three curators and lecturers, 121 clinical assistants and assistants. Among the ofHoers not of. professorial grade sixty-eight are newcomers. A brief an nouncement of the new school of Journalism la made, but no special detalla are given. A circular giving complete Information for prospective stu dents is promised in the near future. The departmental atatements give the details of the newly established work in pharmacology under the direction of Professor Herter; of tho new courses in philosophy and psychology offered by Dra. Woodwarth, Montague, Sheldon and Hughea, and Professor Nichols's course In problems con nected with radiation. Tho School of Medicine the smallest ♦■ntering class for years. Sixty per cent hold degrees, and over 90 per cent have ,t least one year of college training before taking up their medical work. The schools of applied science show a record «n rolntnt—6i3 candidates for a professional degree, thirty-nine special Btudtnts and eight graduate students. Thore are 498 students in the graduate faculties of political science, philosophy and pure science (not counting education). Twelve students are can didates for the decree of doctor of philosophy, with education aa the major subject. MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT IN FLTTH-AVE. Dr. John M. Otto Found with Fractured Skull— Robbery Not Motive of Attack. A mysterioua and possibly fatal assault upon Dr. John M. Otto, of No. 915 Second-aye., la being In vestigated by Captain Burnend, of the Tenderloin station. Dr. Otto was found by Patrolman Fagar, of the Nineteenth Precinct, shortly before 12 o'clock last nitrht, lying with a fractured skull at Thirty* slxth-st. and Flfth-ave. A considerable sum of money and a gold watch and chain were found In the injured man'a pockets, thus making It appear that the assailants had been frightened away suddenly or had some other motive than r"bb>-ry. Dr. Mills, of the New-York Hospi tal, who responded to the call, said the man had not been drinking. There was no ice at the point where he lay that might have c tuaed him to alip. He was in a critical condition when taken to the hospital. RARE EXHIBITION OF MEZZOTINTS. Most Important of Its Kind Ever Put on View Here. There Is on exhibition at tbe I^enox Library a collection of early English mezsotlnta which, for educational value, is notable. It is the moat impor tant exhibition of Its kind ever on view In this country. Thuo axe one hundred and sixty pictures, including examples of the late seventeenth cen tury, a wide choice of examples of tho eighteenth century, and work of some of the more modern en gravers. The pictures are taken from th* collections of J. Plerpont Morgan, who lent half of them; John L. Padwalai'.fr and others. The exhibition waa ar i by Mr. Weltenkampf, and is free. Ie eapedally rich In prints of the period Irom 1770 to 1800. C. OLIVER ISELTN AS SANTA CLAUS. Passes Gifts and Refreshments to Pupils of Pi oman Catholic School, New-Rochelle. Although riot a Catholic. C. Oliver Iselln was tho Rejita C'laus who made five hundred children of the Roman Catholic parochial school of New-Rochelle happy yesterday by distributing candy and gifts. He atti-:; the closing exercises of the schools with his Bisters, Mrs. Delancey Kane and Miss Oeorßine Isclin. Both Mrs. Kane arid Miss Iselln are Catholics, and they pressed their brother into service. He enjoyed the task. His 808 helped him. After all of the girts had bean taken from tn.i tree, Mr. Iselln arid US sisters, assisted by tha larger boy» of tlu» school, handed around refresh ■stats* A VICTORY FOR BINNS. Rule Barring Him from Chief Ex amination Held Invalid. Justice Fltsgerald. In the Supreme Court yes terday, decided that Deputy Fire Chief Blnns Is entitled to examination by the Municipal Civil Service Commission for the place of fire chief, left vacant by the retirement of Fire Chief Purroy. Commissioner Sturgia called on Deputy Chiefs Aheam. Lally and Kruger to present themselves for examination, they hav ing been deputy chief for over blx months. Binns. who has not been for that period a deputy fire chief, contended that he and all other deputy chiefs had a right to take the examination for promotion. The Fire Commissioner objected to the ex amination of the Junior officers on the ground that If it were permitted men of little experi ence might be Jumped Into the place of chief over the heads of experienced officers. Justice Fitzgerald says ths legality of the rule of the Fire Department confining the ex amination to <Jf puty chiefs of over alx months' standing was disputed on the ground that It imposed restrictions in promotions inconsistent with the constitution and statutes of this State, and that analogous rules had been Judicially held void. He points out that a difference of one day would permit an officer to take the ex amination, and eaya that Binns was for eigh teen months prior to his appointment to th* higher grade acting deputy fire chief, and that his fidelity to his services has been un questioned. It may well be held. Justice Fitz gerald says, that Binns has brought himself well within the rule, even under the assump tion that it Is a valid one. lie holds the rule Invalid. FLAMMER HITS "V ROAD. Bryan, of Interborough, Explains Cold Car as Exceptional. Goaded by a severe cold, which he declared he aaught In an unheated car of an Intcrborough Rapid Transit train. City Magistrate Charles A. Flammer. expressed himself with great vigor when he entered Jefferson Market police court yesterday morning. He declared that the railway company was guilty of gross "meanness" In Its efforts for economy; that it waa guilty of a misdemeanor under th« Penal Code, and that ita officers were liable to fine or imprisonment. He expressed a wiliingnesa to accept a complaint against the company, provided ecme one would appear before him with a proper case. He continued: On my way downtown yesterday morning. I waa obliged to take a rilxth-ave. "L" train on Ninth ave. to get to court. 1 noticed after boarding the train that, although my car naj suyyiied with electric heaters, these haters were not being used. By the time my train ha.i reached Forty-eecond-st. 1 was thoroughly chilled, and 1 noticed othor paa seiifcers on tho train wera suffering just as 1 was. When I quitted the train at Etghth-st 1 felt most uncomfortable, as a cold had already taken hold of me. Thia morning I find my culii mud) worse, although I resorted to preventive measures. From facts broupht to my attention I believe no effort is made on the part of the company to heat many oi the trains sent out early in the day. Such action seema to me to be decidedly cu'pable. Section B*s of the Penal Cods covers th« offence of which the company, in my opinion, is guilty. I am perfectly willing to accept a complaint against the railway company on these grounds as the basis of a criminal action. E. P. Bryan said last night that he had heard of Mr. Flammer"B remarks, ar.d that the c;iso was being investigated. He went on: I do not know why the car on which the magis trate rode was not healed, but w> ?.r*. trying now to find out. I do not doubt his Statement at nli, but do not brlieve thf» condition is at :U1 R I think there simply hapi .*• tied to be something the matter wtth this psriiculnr car. I have ni»ver received a complaint before. The company aims to have all of its cura comfortable in all kinds of weather. WATCHING PARKS MEN. Gang of "Wreckers" Though Disor ganized, Under Surceillance. The men in the coterlo of "rough necks," who were supposed to be at the beck and call of "Sam" Parks when any mischief was to be done, are still closely watched, it was stated nt .the Building Trades Club yesterday, though the band Is disor ganized. John Cooper, of th* Cooper- Wlgnnd- Cooke Company, a member of the executive com mittee of the Iron League, jaid: Not long since one of our foremen w.is attacked on our contract at Fifty-ninth-st. and Lexington ave. by four men, who, I believe, are members of the crowd Parks used to control. They came os tensibly to look for work, and enticed tho foreman from the top story to a lower part of the building. whore there is a platform across the beams. There they set on him, knocked him down, broke several of his ribs, dislocated his wrist, and were tryinsr to throw him to the ground when help came. The tactics displayed by the?? men make it appear to me that they belong to the old Kans who used to do work of this kind for l':irks. "We have the names cf about seventy people forming an Inner coterie In Parka's old union." said L. K. Prince, chairman of the press commit tee of the employers' association, "who did work of this kind. Some of them are ex-convlcts." There was another conference at the Building Trades Club lato yesterday between the three labor members of the gi neral arbitration board of the Employers' Association, who are trying to save Local No. 2. and the executive committee of the Iron League. Two plans are undrr consideration. Thn first ie for tho new union to organize an inter national association The second is to take in all but the undesirable Parka element of Local Not 2 nnd get a charter from tho International asso ciation, of which Frank Buchanan is president Members of the league who were seen said thnt If one of these plans was adopted it would be the second one WILLIAM STATNSBY HURT BY FALL. Former Chief of State Bureau of Statistics in a Serious Condition. "William Stainsby. former Senator from Essex County, and the predecessor of Win ton C. Garrison as chief of the State Bureau of Statistics, la in a serious condition at his house, No. 1,130 Broad-st^ Newark, as the result of a fall on an Icy pave ment on Sunday. Mr. Stainsby Is In liis seventy-fourth year. He was for many years the Republican leader In the Newark Common Council, and for several years waa the president, and exercised an important In fluence In shaping municipal affairs. For several years he served In the Board of Works, and was president of that body. Mr. Stalnshy was on" of thr'-e men who llrst organized the Republican party In Newark, and he I 3 the only survivor. His work In the State Bureau of Statistics was con sidered excellent. CHECK PRONOITNCED WORTHLESS. Brooklyn Man Charged with Offering It in Payment for a Play. [BT TELEGRAPH TO THE TKIECVE.I Springfield, Mass., Dec. 28.— Per,cy FX Rldgeway, of Brooklyn, waa arrested here to-night on the charge of passing a worthless check. He came to Springfield last week, and introduced himself to William H. Webber, manager of "The New-York Girl" company, playing at one of the theatres. lie said ho waa Interested aril wanted to get into tho theatrical business. Ha met most of the girls in the company and dined them gen erously. He arranged to buy a half Interest In the play for J3.872. and yesterday gave to Manager Webber a check for that amount drawn In favor of "Percy I-;. Uidgeway" on the Bank of Loasj Island, at Flushing, sad tlsoed "James Nelson w . l'l!l 'l ! ? ntl president. Flushing Gas Company M Mr Webber presented the check at the City MaUoAai Bank to-day, which was told by telephone that : » was worthless. The police were infi.rmed and they arrested Rid fway at hU hotel, where "The New-York Gin- company la staying. RidVewa-r admitted he knew the check was of no vain* «-v RARE EDITION OF HORACE FOR N. Y. U. At tha quarterly masting of t!... New -York Vnl veralty Council yesterday annoui of tho receipt of a »v . from anoi contributors and Of the picsonutlun to the uni versity of a rare old copy or Horace the Btrn.hurg edition of 1498-whiPh waa printed Ism than a generation afwr the first Horace, .ml tains woodcuts old«r than these or H Dot***. Thia book was presented by It M It j INSURANCE RATES LESS. New-York Fire Exchange Approve* Discounts. The New- York Fire Insurance Exchange, com posed of fire Insurance underwriters, yesterday ap proved the report of its special committee on equalization of rates, which recommen<Jed that per centage discounts In the rates of risks belonging to the following classes, and in the amounts stated, be approved, such discounts to apply to contracts taking effect on or after November 1: On risks rated under mercantile schedule, except listed storage stores, private warehouses and fire proof office occupancy (these three classes being excepted because each already enjoys especial ron sideratlon in the treatment given it), allow a dis count of 10 per cent from rates of buildings and contents; on boarding and livery stables and pri vate business stables, a discount of 10 per cent; on breweries, a discount of 20 per cent; on churches, a discount of 10 per cent; on theatres, a discount of 20 per cent. These discounts are to be considered as reduc tions of rate without change of hasard. and can cellations for the purpose or with the effect of giving the assured persons the benefit of the re duced rates shaU not be made at other than short rates. Discounts are to be allowed from the rates given on cards, and allowances for sole occupancy, auto matic) fire alarm, 100 per cent average clause and for automatic sprinklers, if permissible, are then to be made in the order named. Where sprinklered risks are equipped in accordance with the highest recognlxed standard of protection, the report con tinues, a trreater allowance than at present might properly be made, and the appointment of a com mittee of five Is recommended, to confer with the survey committee of the New-Tork Board of Fire Underwriters, with the object of obtaining a re vision of the board's requirements for sprinkler equipment. These rate reductions apply to all the boroughs composing the present city of New- York, and have been recommended after an investigation by the committee covering the experience for tha last ten years of leading companies in writing, given classes of risks in this territory. "Theae re sults." the committee's report says, "show that the ratio of losses to premiums has be«n decreasing for three years past," Fire Insurance rates, which were made particu larly high in 1902 because of the inadequacy of the water supply and pressure, a condition now being remedied. Fire Commissioner Sturgis said yesterday with reference- to the decision: "This is a practical denial of the statements made recently by th* friends of Chief Croker that insurance rates were being raised. I have known since Auiruat that a committee of the Board of Underwriters was considering the question of a reduction of rates, and this Is the result of it. "The remarkable results which the uniformed men have produced In preventing fire losses in the last two years are due, in my judgment, to the im proved equipment which they now have and the increased zeal and interest and intense desire on the part of the men to make a record that would show their recognition and appreciation of the fair and considerate treatment they have received. Old members of the department In the various grade 3, from firemen and engineers up to chiefs, and men retired from service, but who keep up their interest In the department, come in almost daily and tell me there has never been so much harmony for many years past and so little friction between men and officers as there is to-day." SAFES FIVE FROM FIRE. Policeman Rescues Women and Chil dren from Burning Building. Patrolman McDonough. attached to the Union Market station, yesterday morning saved five lives in a fire In the three story tenement house at No. 9«5 Avenue B. The first floor of the building la occu pied as a cloak and suit establishment by Poma ranta Brothers. The housekeeper Is Mrs. Louise Thielmann, who lives on the top floor with her daughter. Mrs. Semanges, and her two children, Lottie, one year old. and Charles, thirteen years old. Mrs. SemangeB # was taken 111 Sunday, and was removed to a hospital. Yesterday another married daughter of Mrs. Thielmann. Mrs. Sophia Sleman sky. of No. 561 East Sixteenth-st.. accompanied by her daughter, Henrietta, two years old, went to vi.ilt her muther. When the tire broke out McDonough was on the opposite side of the avenue. lie turned In an alarm and. in a few moments was making bis way through the smoke to the top floor, hurrying the occupants of the building to the street as he went along. All the rest were out by the time he reached the apart ments occupied by Mrs. Thielmann and her relatives. He found the two women and the children at the top of the stairs, apparently afraid to go further because of the smoke. The Dollceman called for heavy clothes, and. telling the women to wrap them about their heads and take hold of his coat tails, he caught up the two small girls in his arms and started down the stairs, with the boy and women hanging to hia coat tails. One flight down Mrs. Biemansky fainted and let go, falling to the floor. McDonough continued on down the stairs. however, and took the girls, the boy and Mrs. Thielmann to the street Then he went back to Mrs. Slemansky and brought her out. Sha waa re vived in a few minutes. MAY PREACH IN STREETS. Mayor Signs Ordinance Making Chang* — Only Ordained Ministers Had Privilege. Mayor Low after a hearing yesterday signed an amendment to the ordinance about preaching In the streets. Lay workers properly vouched for by responsible religious organisations may now do this. Hitherto only ordained clergymen had this privilege and under certain restrictions. Permits may now be issued covering more than one dis trict. This change the missionary -workers greatly desired. Helen F. Clark, of the New-York Foreigners" Mission, No. 21 Mntt-st., was one of those who spoke In favor of the amendment. Miss Clark so Impressed the Mayor that Immediately after she had ended he said he would algn It, and did so. AMBULANCE HORSE ANSWEES CALL Gets Loose from Driver and Races Away, bat Goes to the Eight Place. "Tom," the big black horse attached to Necker*s ambulance in Union Hill, safely made a record breaking trip to the West Shore depot yards. In Weehawken, almost a mile, without a driver, on Saturday night A call came in for the ambulance, and "Tom" lumped to his place, the harness waa clapped an his back, and aa "Al" Meyer, his driver, stepped to cne aide to get his overcoat, the horse darted through the doors and headed for the West Shore depot, where most of the calls take him. Meyer ran after him, but was soon left behind. The horse safely made several turns, passed three trolley tracks and went down the steep hill lead ir.g to the West Shore depot without a driver. The call actually waa from the West Shore depot an Italian laborer having been hurt. The man waa in the ambulance and everything waa in readiness to return when the driver arrived. TORTURED TO DEATH BY HOT EGOS. Letter from Bulgaria Tells of Turkish Cruelty to a Macedonian. The Rev. M. N. Popoff. now In this country, has received from Sofia, Bulgaria, from an official of the Bulgarian National Bank, who la a Mace donian, a letter containing an account of Turkish atrocities In Macedonia. The letter says, ra part: Have you heard that Laaar Racheff. of Mehomia, died a month ago in Salonlea? You know ihit he was In prison. In Mehomia he haa been fear fully tortured. They (the Turks) burned him with tnajut taken out of boiling water He wTsTaid on his back and on his bare breast the hot eg, a Just taken out of boiling water were rolled In ci.u»euu*nce of this a disease waa contraotedln h<.» chest anu he died in the Salonlea prison. Having been n*ked by an old Protestant woman who vi» lf-I him Just before his death sgonv if he had any wish that she could convey to hia family he "My only wish at present la to be laid In the grave <ii Poor, am possible." PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING. The third meeting of the American Philosophical Association will open to-day at Murray-Dodge Hall, Princeton University, and continue to-morrow and Thursday. Among those who will appear with papers ami discussions are Professors Karl Schmidt. Wilbur M I'rban. James K. Creighton Alexander T. Ormond. Dr. William T. Harris. Ralph B. Perry, George K. Montgomery, Edward C Spauldlng and other*. LENTZ ELECTED CHAIRMAN IN ESSEX CO. The annual meeting of the Republican County Committee was hold at the committee headquar ters In Newark lnst night. Major Carl Lents was re-elected chairman of the committee for the twelfth year. There was « bitter factional fight ' t ' v , r ; r the chairmanship at th* party primaries last rail, and it y.-ar ut4 ° Lent* was de^afJ »" candl- v«. Sheriff, nearly 60 per cent of the JUDubil. can vote kali . . Usd against bjci. * PIPER WANTS THE $ Inspectors* Reports Show tfr m Myers's Evidence Worthless. GREENE REPLIES TO MINISTER Police Commissioner Greene replied yesterday te the statement on Sunday of the Rev. Cortland M/. era, pastor of the Baptl3t Temple, Brooklyn, % which the clergyman declared he would seek »o have General Greene and Deputy CommtssJssjst Piper Indicted. The ComaEissioner had reesl««t reports, ordered last week, from all the QU^eetors having charge in districts wherein were titrjatei the places named in Mr. Myers"* complaint. Tkeaa) places numbered fifty-nine, and raids were raatf, on thirty-one of them. Some of the reports stated that Walker, eo;as«| of the society, when called on to give certain eft. dence. refused to do so. and refused to assist th» police In getting evidence against the places tk # society had reported. General Greene continued: "We raided every place against which en* to*.* of evidence could be obtained. In th» twenty-elgis places not raided ■■ evidence could is obtained, and I do not believe poolrooms existed In the**. Really, It was ludicrous to think of raiding sewn of the places mentioned. One number glv»a was «M Pearl-st. The last number of the street '■• <£, The Inspectors had corresponding numbers * a the street Investigated, but found no evidence .4 poolrooms existing in them. "One place mentioned was >o. «3 W est Thirty. second-st. It Is a respectable boardlns house, sev eral men of business prominence residing th«r* The Bartholdl Hotel, at Twenty- t.-s;»i-st. at* Broad-way, was also mentioned, but I thar.it It is needless to say that we found no occasion to rail it. "In another Instance the detectives found the ad dress given them to be an industrial school fc» women, and still another was an unfinished ssssV in " Commissioner Greene said be had not ensasxe? the services of a lawyer to fight the thrtatea«£ charges against him for neglect of duty. Deputy Commissioner Piper said he had two tn. stances" where he knew agent- of llr. Myers* society had been arrested. One was that of Leoa Langfeld, who. Captain Piper said, was arrested under the name of John Langford, and gave h:» address as Nix 30» West Fourteenth-**. He was charged with trying to "shake down" a woman, the captain said. There was a counter charge, against the woman of soliciting. La&gford was discharge'^ The other ease was that of K. aver. and, wb» had beer, employed by U. 3 society and who is now a fugitive from Justice, charged with presents? worthless checks. The deputy commissioner addei that he thought Mr. Myers had better be retdy with the $200 offered by the Myers society for sons charity If he proved that any member of tna go, clety had ever been arrested. The captain declares that the charts n( te. Myers that he had given sergeants* badges to «a« ployes of the society were falsehoods. SATISFIED WHITE IS SHAMXDKL. To Be Executed Despite the Appeal of Or* Mary Walker. Albany. Dec 21— Dr. Mary WalkT has wrtttesj to Governor Ode'l an appeal for Fraalß White, the young colored murderer, sentenced t» die at Auburn Prison to-morrow. He mad* In his cell on Thursday a furious exhibit of freaay, and Dr. Walker believes him Ir.sane. Collins, the prison superintendent, has reported to the Governor, however, thit the 1 • i declare White undoubtedly as break Is an instance of cr The Governor will not Interfere cution to-morrow. HIS SUICIDE T.ATD TO INSAJTITY. F. H. Enderby, Formerly Insurance Man Here, Was Seeking Health in Denver. It was learned yesterday that Frederick IT. Er« derby, of this city, who died on Saturday night la a hospital In Denver, was a suicide. He was well known In lifa insurance circles of this city. .V. friend said yesterday that Mr. Enderty ORSt tassj killed himself while suffering from a temporary attack of Insanity brought en by acute n* ft" t j Buffering. For some years he had fceen tro'ib>>l with a growth In the bones of the sknll, whl re quired a serious operation by a specialist a ya ago. He found little relief, however, and la.^c October went with his wife to Denver, hoping 1 > Improve with the change of climate. Mr. Enderby had an office at Xo>. 123 Broadway. For years he was connected with the North Amer! - can Life Assurance Company, in the firm of Stevenson & Enderby. He was about thiny-flvt* years old. TO LESSEN COST OF CONDEMNATION. Merchants' Association to Join Law's Delay Commission in Seeking Legislation. It was announced yesterday that the Merchants* Association would probable co-operate with tr » Commission on the Law's Delays to obtain th» passage by the legislature of a measure to restrict the present excessive outlays by the city In con demnation proceedings. A letter was received by* the commission from "William F. King, of th» Merchants' Association, saying it was the purpose of the association to move at the coining sr-sslo.a for legislation to abolish the abuses connected wlt^v the condemnation of private properties for pubiia uses. The commission is preparing a bill for a, similar purpose. The letters also said: As to the need for such legislation ih're can ha no dispute. It has been the aim of Jurists every where to eliminate the fee system from adminis trative charges wherever possible. an<i in any <*aj;* to restrict the Inevitable abuses connected with It by requiring all fees to be paid ir.to the public treas ury, and reducing them as nearly as possible to Urn fair cost of the service render* In the case cf condemnation proceedings all of the grossest abuses possible to the fee system are retained. The pub.:) treasury receives no benefit from tha a mom i * - leu ted. The feea are not only excessive In ih.'rn selvee. but they are In very larg» part lelt at '*>• discretion of the persons who benefit by them, fho are thereby enabled to strip taxpayers and 1 is public alike of Immense sums of monoy t'er the swelling of their private pockets. TWe enormity tt such a system Is obvious. The obvious remedy la to abolish the- opportunities for excessive exactions which flow from the abuse'! discretion now :r trusted to condemnation commissioners by abolish ing all Independent commissions and creating: * condemnation court, whose expenses shall be pa.t, from the public treasury and which shall pay i:.:> the public treasury all fees received by it. ENTERTAINMENTS AT LAKEWOOD. The Country Club of Lakewood will give eis^t entertainments at its clubhouse this winter. Th» first will be the Illustrated lecture on "Parsifa!. * with musical accompaniment by Mrs. Helea Rhodes, and will be riven on December 29 at 3:o<>. The second will be on January -. and wl!i be v reading by F. Hopiinson Smith from his own works. A club dinner Is to be served Immediately before the evening entertainments, and a feature of the afternoon affairs will be the- sen.-'.:'.? of afternoon tea by three women of the club. Th-> hostess** for December 29 will be Mrs. Henry A. James. Mrs. W. A. Hamilton and Mr*. Irving T. Bush. At the second afternoon entertainmer.:. which will be given on January 12. Mrs. Georg* Jay Gould. Mrs. Charles D. Kingdon and Mrs. Shepard K. D* Forest will serve. STEREOTYPERS' UNION WINS CASE- Justice Leventritt, In the Supreme Court, yt-stsi 1 * day denied the applications of Louis Quanchl »°* Charles Balles, respectively foreman and ass.-staat foreman of the stereotyping department of 'Tl* New-York Herald." for permanent Injunction* re straining the New-York Stereotypers* Union X<v 1 from Interfering m any way with their employment on The Herald" or for obtaining their «schatt»«» preventing the members of the organization fro* working for that new- ,»aper. The plalntita p asked the court to Issue an order restoring ta*<& to membership In tha defendant union. They t*A discharged a Htereotyr^r. He made charges to t^.» union, and. as a result, the two were d'unlJf; from It The stereotypors* onrr'.niratton th^n toll th* paper. according to the plairstiffsi. that uc'es* the two were discharsre.l the union wouM wtthdl** its men from "Th Herald." The newi?a?«r coa ■ented to suspend them ttttdev salary until tj» courts h.nd passed on the case. Justice l.ev«ntr»ta holds that th« action taken by trio union wi vx accordance with Its constitution, and ha say* lie •*■ unable to interfere. LOCAL BUSINESS TROUBLES. The schedule* m the assignment of John T. Scot* dealer In cutlery and silver plated ware »t N * at Warr*n-st.. show liabilities. 13..:. nominal *•* sets. a.*B. and actual assets, fX.iCS. The schedule* in the assignment of the Con sumers' Coffee Company, wholesale dealers in •»*" fee. at No. 1€» Reade-«V. show UabtllUe* J».»°: nominal assets, $3,353: actual assets. C*». The Sheriff received an «tt»chment for ** against property of the Ybrfb!*. Typewriter Cor^ pany, ;t New-Jersey corporation, in Tivor o*s~^ Underwood Typewrtft-r Cosspany. for merchant"* The Sheriff *Uo received an execution for J 3 -^ against property oi Abraham Bornsteln. of . f, Btuyvesant-»t.. In favor of the Nat: But-cn*' and Drovers' Bank, on a note aud au >*■'<— I sn»*^ tx luexciiandlso.