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MAGISTRATES.
Technical "Fooleries" 'Assailed
hi Naming M. J. Harris,
{ . Vice Furlong;.
D ON'TS FOB MAGISTRATES.
Do net ccr.vist any one unheard.
B< not elated with yoar powers.
Dent discharge persons who should
fc- r«id.
Never «!!ew yourself to be moved
by -lit. : c«l interference.
Dr.n't split haira on what is whiskey
J »d excise case*.
j L?t the case cf nor.-, however hum
1 1 •• ro without attention.
' "
,-,.<• ~c are a few <-.f the precepts laid
<«.,- 1 L-y Mayor Gaynor for '):■ gijid
w « cf city masistrates. He wrote
iixia yesterday to ">! leee .1. Harris, of
V. . T>Y,'. yj street, Brooklyn, in appoint
ir,p ''ir.i a city maststrate io succeed
IJ.niy J. !\j:iong, who has l>een con
liciej of bribery.
Mayor Gaynor declared the- city had
rouv of the finest as well as the worst
.ity :uaslstratrs and that it was high
::r,io the appointing power took note of
■•',-.• conduct of some of them.
'•i< declared he would nave instances
•■ !jerc • iglstrat**i treated lightly com
plsints of disorderly conduct againrt
viinifli and violations of the excise law
pc.-fnted to the Appellate Division In
. ii'see for the removal of the magistrate
• it- denounced such trifling as "fool
«; <• t."
lie tni.j Magistrate Harris to see to it
Th..: arrcFted persons were not dis
'::;!pcd whin they should be held. "It
1- very discouraging to the police," he
j-p'd. "to have magistrate? discharge
prisoner? against whom ample evidence
!f presented. And the same Is true in
minor offences."
In regard to excise rases he said that
vhfckey r'.id not have to be proved to
Ix whiskey, If it was sold as such, in
cider to secure a conviction. He wrote:
"H eeems to be a common thing to
discharge a liquor dealer against whom,
the evidence is that .1 person ordered
whiskey of him and that in response he
f'jrnished something; as whiskey. It is
*.'iid that this furnishes no evidence that
the tlrink was whisker, which entirely
r-vcrlooks that the production of it as
whiskey by the defendant is an admis
sion by him that it was whiskey. It is
n«jl necessary to have a whiskey expert
testify that It is- whiskey."
Some . "Fooleries" Illustrated.
K';r£r4ir.s- disorderly women, he wrote;
"If an officer se%s ■ woman In the
s:\rri r.gjjng man after man and sneak
li = 10 them, and arrests horn«r n« a dis
(•:fjt^]y person, it is deplorable to fee a
[Magistrate discharge her on the ground
:hat as the policeman did not hear what
vN «= a i •'] ••. the men there was no evi
dfnec that she solicited. Her actions
'ire evidence of it sufficient to put her
10 her ■ '--ration or defence. Words
sre, r.ft ii^cessary. I could multiply
?u> h fooleries, but these suffice for Illus
tration.
• ■ • ■ have all such cases r<~
:. i PoUce Commissioner, and
office, to be presented to
•■• Division vt the Supreme
tht r 1 - the bar association in
r< moval r 'f such m&gis-
Rcginning his letter to Mr. Harris,
'.ii' Mayor v.rote:
"1 ::m selecting you after much care
I*" 1 j-uf-f»>»<J ''T- J. Furlong as magi:
;>ate i s Bfooklyn Borough. Make ar. --
'■''ition st the time you are sworn in
n'Ver to allow \onrsejf 10 be moved by
l-.'iitical inflirence, or any improper In
tfrf-s-ence, ii> the discharge of the duties
"' ;our nfTk'v L/»t the cape of no one.
however bumble or unfortunate, go by
:*"i without careful attention. Be not
':■■"<] vitJ) your power?, which ai very
ct-wi *tri<i a;,! to turn one's head, but
1! 'if. hnd patient. Do not convict
■'■- :- -!!<■ unheard. Since I have been
Mi\r-r my attention has been called to
'*>-.-:; r.( offhand and ostentatious ron
''.'•r.- -f ljumtle persons by inagis-
• v s \vhi«li were stops wrongs. 1 sent
l! • cretary to copy the record in two of
" ••hsc'S and found tliat jio Id lice
■*•'-'. 'i" was taken."
"Be a Broad. Good Man."
' -nding his letter the Major F-a!d:
'■•' »h« administration of the cfin-.ir.nl
■'*■ ' '■'''■'■ natural conclusion from -1 given
'•' f -f facts Ik jum a« permissible -is
'■n any ..f tho ;,rfxir.-i >>f men! When mos
'•'•">"-«« Jose • •■ ■ of thip, ««r arc too
J'-to-.v min<l«<i to comprehend it, they
;i M:ejr office Into rld!ru!o and dist
''■**• I--'' ;i broad. >ioo<l man and you
v»,j jj C a great magistraf*. ;ni(j 1 shall
iv.ays |<. gJad that I appointed you. I
1 ?hi« for m«re than you. for 1 be
1 it is high \inw- that th" appointing
! " r take note of the conduct of some
"»r magistrates"
r- Hams was i»orn in Brooklyn iifty
'■ iLSQ. Ho was graduated from th«
; '' %'■ of the City of New York ami the
'/ ■'■;:i<b!3 Lav.- HchoofJ H<- hits practised
:n Brooklyn for iwenty-five w;,r.-,
. ..- orr.r-" being lately at No". 215 Mon
u-sue;nreet, Mr. Harris is secretary ol"
]' ' Kir.grs County H;,r A«fiociation and
1 : s.-.-,- of th« ; Hebrew Orphan Asylum:
><• \\^s 2 f. pointed t^. .-. rv" out th« term
V.t ' wliWi expire* on May 1,
• Tht.- fsalar>' is (€.004 ;< year.
AUTO EADLY INJURES BOY.
«<I Knocked Down and Run Over,
Then Car Hurries Away.
T,P an oo ' TT * rn -*> r ". ten years old, of Xr>.
V-'e^hineton fetreet. Jersey <ity, was
•^••i over uy «>n automobile in X'ork Etreet.
lv <.*r. Washington and U'srren streets,
jgerflay afternoon; and vas Injured In
■J^-y. perhsjrt fatally. The boy h;i.i just
' r '"•; !et out n; school and ran directly In
1 ■■' -jf thr automobile, which v. n ? moving
•p „' ' h * !i pit< -'" " r# lh * asjihalt'-.J hiioet.
' 'or knocked him down, ami the wheels
f£Q ov<r ">* waist.
./.^ Ujs, wh? he!,*-! err, lien ..
,V'."" * Z ' J (|l:it after tlie accident \h».
• -;r..t hurriwi urn York tXxHx an.J turned
;•'■' Htn.3er«on ?.; Ct f. Ur liauminw. who
g V -;■■•* i!.« Injured boy at his home; -
■>:, ■■ ' ■ '" :n " te ■•■"•■""•" '»'
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One Old Inmate Killed, De
spite Nurse* Work.
nn» early this morning destroyed the
comity poor house at HH on ,]. T.nnc
Island, th* flame; starting in the cellar.
One aged man is still in the ruins, utter
one of the nurses had made a heroic
attempt to .save him. Three other men
were ivscued by being carried down the
stairs. The loss\is estimated at $12,000.
Tho ■'.'• was firs, discovered by one of
the orderlies on his round?, and he rang
the alarm bell, sum aoning all the other
orderlies and attendants to their posts.
The names had made such headway that
it was almost impossible to clieck them.
Mis Carrie Sprague, one of the ma-
trons. Jumped from her bed on th<^ third
rtoor and found ar. »-ld man named
""Nick" groping: about (^n the floor. She
half carried him to thr etecond floor, ?.n«i
was Uien compelled to leave him. owing
lo t!:< dense smoke and flames.
T ••■ men. Robert Cranford, sixty
■ old: Patrick P#ky. sixty-five, and
I ECarrs, seventy, were carried from their
rooms.
By th. time the Hempstead Fire De
partment reached the scene the building
was almost demolished. Members of the
-Meadow Brook Club turned out to see
the sight
TO CONVERT COX.
Cincinnati Pastor Urges Con
certed Prayer .
| Ry Telegraph to Th«" Tribune ]
Cincinnati, March 9.— The Rev. George
R. Robbins, a leading Baptist pastor
l.i -c. formally called on the preacher? of
the city to-day to join with their con
gregations in prayer lor the, spiritual
welfare of George B. Cox, Cincinnati's
political leader.
Mr. Robbing cites numerous biblical
characters. Including Paul, -who were
converted in this way, and say? he be
llevea the Lord would instantly answer
concerted prayers by causing Cox to be
changed likewise.
LIT TIIE GAS LEAK.
Bad Explosion Follows In
vestigation niili Match.
A member of the Unity Democratic < "!üb.
in Glendale, Queens, went looking for a
gas leak in the clubhouse- with a lighted
match last night, and was sent Hying
into a corner by the explosion which
followed and which set the building on
lire. The firemen were aide to check
the flames before they did much damage.
The clubhouse contains bowling alleys
in the basement, and a hig auditorium
in another part of th<> building is used
in the daytime as a municipal eourt
i ..ion,.
The woman's auxiliary of the club was
meeting- <<n the second floor at the time
<>f the explosion, xn-1 the men who were
waitiag to escort the women home were
either in the bowling alleys or th<- smok
ing room. The explosion could be heard
a block away, and it pent th« j men and
n out into the street in short order.
When i; was discovered that the in
vestigator of the leak was imt outride.
men ran into the cellar, where they
him dazed but not badly burned.
His name -.vas refused at tV club.
RKVHrnX OBJECTED.
Jail* L. M. Bullitt, Who Had
Sub pec na for Him.
Philadelphia, March 9.— Logan M.
Bullitt, son of the father of Philadel
phia.- charter. th<> Bullitt bill, and him
s< If prominent In < ivii reform inove
nonts, ivas locked in a cell In the City
Hall to-night bj order of Mayor Rey
burn ivjien, acting :<* a court officer, he
endeavored to serve th<~- Mayor with a
subpoena in an equity buII brought by a.
com mi*, tee of citizens against the city
officials. H^ refused t.> leave tll« corri
dor outside the Mayor's door svhen or
der..! t<> c>> away.
j'ulliti is th. hen. i of the committee
v hi, ha= been making an exhaustive
investigation of the city's financial af
fairs, and has threatened to tie up all
further expenditures by two bills In
equity filed .sonic time ago In the local
courts. Hearing on these bills was set
for next Saturday, and by order of the
court subpoenas were issued for the
heads of the various city departments to
bring In the records in thejr charge.
Mayor Rcyburn stated that he ac
cepted full responsibility for the arrest,
loiter in the evening Bullit was released
en an order tinned by Magistrate Gor
man.
WOMAN CHASES AITO.
Follow* and Takes Number of
Machine Thai Hit Man.
i?r«. Charles H. Kc-lby, wife of a
Brooklyn lawyer, yesterday afternoon
gave chase to an automobile which she
was ltd to believe was responsible for
Jeremiah O'Connor, of No. 302 Fifth ave
n.i<\ driver of a Street Cleaning Depart
ment cart, losing: an eye- O'Connor was
t:iken to Seuey Hospital, but _' left there
and w. Nt to the Eye and Ear Hospital,
in Livingston street.
O'Connor stepped from behind his cart
at Fourth and Fifth avenues, Brooklyn.
An automobile knocked him down and
one of Us hubs struck his right eye. The
automobile turned Into Degraw street
and Bped toward Fourth avenue.
Mr*. Kelb . who v.as driving In a run
about, saw the accident, and urged her
horse after the machine. Having noted
its number, she sent it to the Depart
ment of .Street Cleaning station to which
O'Connor is attache!. Acting on this in
formation, the polk* later arrested Louis
J v., ., i ... ., ii a chauffeur, 'of No. $11
Greenwood avenue; driver for Leo K.
Bennett, of No. 48 I3th street, Brook
lyn. , was ioolu'd up. charge! with
' lonious asseu^*-
IT'S AN EAGLE THIS TIME.
For. n.ow or otb«T ibe Impression has
got abroad in tM South that Mayor Gay.
nor Is .he ,,n,;; agent for the city
700 . yeitertay ... received a letter from
in i-iavii of N>w Augusta. -Mi--., which
aM I' ■ ': ' ' "' f, M ,r.-ad of wing. H«
' 1 a;,. it to sell him.
■■ inu< '•■ '. '"■■• ■:,,.- h it. 1 as re
. park ' •
NEW- YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH id 1010.-FOURTEEX PAGES. **• PRICE OXE CENT In "*» *J2J£h*?ZJl : .\\\ HMm
MAY BE AUTO TRUST
J. P. MORGAN $ co. TO
FINANCE IT, 'TIS SAID.
Humor linked bji Studebdk
ers Taking Over E. M. p. Co.
—Morgan Finn's Denials.
Rumors that have been in circulation
for some time in the financial district
of the coming formation by J. p. Mor
gan & Co. of a huge automobile trust,
with several hundred millions dollars
capital, were revived yesterday, follow
ing the announcement that the Morgan
firm had purchased control of the Ever-
Kt-Metzgrer-Flanders Company, of De
troit, commonly known as the "E. M. F."
Company.
A member of the Morgan firm said,
however, that they had acted merely a?
brokers or . the Studebaker Brothers
Manufacturing Company In the transac
tion and were not personally interested
in the purchase. He added that there
was no truth in the reports that a
gigantic merger of automobile companies
was being organized by J. P. Morgan *
Co.. and that go far a«? he knew no such
combination was contemplated.
It was learned that J. P. Morgan & Co..
acting for the Studebaker company, had
purchased 64 per cent of the "K. M. F."
Company's stock for $4,800,000. This was
substantially all of the stock not already
held by the Studebaker company.
It was stated in connection with the
purchase that a contract had been en
tered into with Walter E. Flanders to
continue as president and general man
ager of the "K. M. F." Company for three
years. It was also announced that th*»
litigation resulting from the cancellation
by President Flanders of the contract
under which the Studebaker company
had acted as selling agent for the "K.
M. F." Company had been brought to an
end.
A report from Detroit that th<^ capital
of the "E. M. F." Company ultimately
would he increased to between $30,000,000
and $50. "Km?, 000 was said in well informed
quarters here to be without foundation.
Autos Exempt as Yet.
The manufacture of automobiles has
grown within a few years to be one of
the most important of the country's In
dustries, and is one of the very few of
its class in which combination on a large
scale has not been effected. With the
trend so strongly toward combination in
the Industrial world, it is widely believed
that it is only a question of time before
a great consolidation in the automobile
field will be brought about, a consolida
tion of such magnitude as to suggest the
Morgan house a 6 the agency through
which it will br eventually arranged.
Already there have been several minor
mergers, embracing two or thrc*«? com
panies each, and it is thought that this
tendency may foreshadow the vast com
bination -which shall take in most of t'je
chief automobile manufacturing concerns
of the country through the merging of
these several groups or unit«.
This was the history of the evolution
of the United States Steel Corporation,
in only one of the constituents of which,
the Federal St«ej Company, J. P. Mor
gan & < o. were, interested at the out
set, and which they put together with
the National Steel Company, another
consolidation of comparatively small
plants, and various other concerns to
form tho steel Truft.
Morgan in Other Mergers.
As illustrating the steps that have
been taken toward the formation of
minor automobile companies into units,
each covering its own section of the.
country, the cases were cited of the
I'nited States Motor Company, which
vas formed in 1908 and took in practi
cally nil the big manufacturing corn
in the Kast. among them being
the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company, of
Tarrytown, and the Pope-Toledo Com
p; . .'i Hartford.
There v, as also the General Motors
Company, formed in 1008, which took in
all the u\z plants !n the Middle West,
Including the olds and Buick motor com
panies and the Rainier Automobile
Company and a number of smaller _<>n-
Members of the banking staff of J, P.
Morgan & Co. were interested in the
formation of the United Stales Com
pany, and. the law firm of Ward, Hay
den £- Sattorlee. of which Herbert 1,.
Satterlee. a son-in-law of J. Plerpont
Morgan, is ■> member, are attorneys for
•}-<■■ company The Morgan firm is also
said to be interested in the General Mo
tors Company. Yesterday's transaction
is believed to be another link in the
< h. in.
A n-.n:i closely identified with the au
tomobile industry said yesterday that
while nnd^r present conditions a com
bination of the lutomobilc companies of
the c-ountrj vas not necessary, he pre
dictr-d tiie formation of one purchasing
ag< m ;." and one selling agency for the
entire country, even it' tho combination
of t!'.<-' various automobile manufacturing
companies should fail of fulfilment.
in connection with iii« taking over
of the "E M- !•■" Company by the Stude.
bakers, attention was attracted to a dis
j»aiih from Albany j esterday announc
ing that the Studebaker Vehicle Com
j i., had been Incorporated under the
laws ol the state, with a capital of
J8.600.000, of which !*:;,:,00.000 is to be
first preferred 7 per cent cumulative,
si ,7ak t,<**> 7 per cent second preferred
si . .. 1.. and $3,<i00,000 common stock, This
directors of the company nrr Frederick
i. Delafleld and Frederick Longfellow,
.; New York; Clement Studebaker, Jr.,
Frederick S. Fish and Scott Brown, of
South Bend, Ind
Hartford, Conn., March Henry P.
Nuckolf, president of the Columbia Motor
Car Company, of this city, said t«-nlght
the report that an automobile merger was
being effected was rather belated newt and
that, the only new feature was that J. H.
Morgan was furnishing working- capital.
When asked If It was true that other big
automobile obneefni would coma into the
trust, Mi. Nuckols Mid he thought they
„,„,:,; From his statements it wa« gatli
ere that when the syndicate got Into full
swing ii would control more than one-half
■ r tin automobile concerns In this country,
PHILANDER C. KNOX, JR., WHO HAS BEEN CUT OFF BY HIS FAMILY, AND HIS BRIDE.
(Photograph, copyright, by C.!n«dlnst. Waabtastoa.l
XOONGKNOXGDTOFf
MOTH Eli 'ALLOWS HIM
$100 A MOXTfI.
Bridegroom Willing fo Buckle
Dotvn to Work and Sup-
port Wife. He Sai/r.
Washington. March !>. — Philander C.
Knox, jr.. has been cut off with an al
lowance of about SIOO a month, which
his mother will allow him. It was learned
here to-day on good authority, although
no member of the Knox family would
make any statement in regard to the
matter.
When young Knox arrived here yes
terday to seek his father's pardon for
his hasty marriage, his bride and her
mother remained at a local hotel, with
the expectation that they would be re
ceived with open arms by the young
man's parents. Such was not the ease,
however, so they returned to Providence.
Pro\idcnie, Marrh '.'.- Philander C.
Knox. jr.. son of tho Seen tar; of State,
and his bride, who waa May Koler, a
young department store girl, came back
from Washington to-day. They were
driven directly to Vrr-. Knox"? apart
ments. at Mo. 147 Benefit street.
In s statement made this afternoon
Knox said:
"It has been said that my father threw
me oui of the house when I saw him in
Washington. This is untrue. My father
and 1 had no Quarrel and we parted
friends, except for the fact that he does
not approve of my marriage. I went to
father and said, 'Father, I air. married.'
Father replied, "I am sorry that you arc.
I am sorry that you took thr step ><<■;
did. Xow that you ;i re married it will
be up to you to thift for yourself.'
'"Mrs. Knox j? my Ideal. She is fitted
for me In every way, and I know that
she would be accepted by my father
shoulti he ever sec her. as T hone he
will.
"Mrs. Knoj? is just a sweet prill, with
plenty of common sense, pretty, charm
ins, vivacious and entertaining, who
dresses well and enjoys life. I was
through with school when I was mar
ried and am ready to go out and fight
for a living."
Mr--. Knox also ga 1 c "'it a statement
in which snr said:
"I have married Mr Krox because 1
Icvd him and know that he loves me.
Of course. I regret that 'Tip's' father is
not willing to forgive us and accept us
into his good grace?, but that is some
thing which we cannot help, and Tip.' I
know, will go out and make the best
of it."
"Tip' i« the nickname by which young
Kn<v: nas called by his Intimates at
school
Mrs. Daniel Geary, mother of Mrs.
Philander C. Knox. jr.. is very Indig
nant over the attitude of Secretary Knox
In not receiving her daughter. She said
to-n ; .«ht :
"Secretary of State Knox is a snob In
turning my daughter down without *
hearing. May is the equal of any girl
In the iniUd States a- far as character
and reputation go, and even it she is a
poor girl that Ii no reason why Secre
tay Knox should refuse to receive her.
"1 am contemplating a trip to Wash
ington with my daughter and her hus
band to Bee what objections Secretary
Knox has to my daughter becoming tho
wife of Ma son. Secretary Knox, I
know, would do the same thing bis son
did if he were placed in the same place.
1 know that when I was a girl I eloped
with May's father. The elopement germ
seemi to have bold ol botn my ramuy
and that of Mr. Knox's.
"I think that it Secretary Knox could
only see my daughter he would receive
her with open arms. if I go to Wash
ington I will .-how Secretary Knox a few
things, even If he is a man In high
position. My daughter could not stand
to be separated from her husband. She
would die, I know, it they were parted,
ao it would bo futile and. moreover. a
tragedy, for Secretary Knox to attempt
to get his son to give the girl up."
Young X" 'X to-night confirmed a
Washington dispatch th it fee has been
cut of! from financial support of his
family. lie will now draw 5100 • month
income from his own property. Inherited
from his grandfather. Hi* mother, ha
•aid, la trustee of the fund.
Only one night out to Florida, rmr.4. &.
Atlantic. i •..*' t f.!n«' — th- - Standard Hull* ay
f the South < Ltd. train* .lull- :• .. "• A. M,
IjK. 3;:5.19:;.«3 " M. ml ir«ay.-A«vl.
XO GIFT TO ENGLAND.
Canadian House Refuses to
Present Dreadnoughts.
Ottawa, March 10. — Tht Canadian
House at 1 o'clock this morning reached
a decision on the naval measure, the
proposal of the Conservative leader to
prepfnt two Dreadnoughts to England
being defeated by a majority of fifty*
fi\p. Seven of Mr. Borden's followers
voted agnln^t him.
Thf vote on the main moticn of Si'
Wilfrid Laurler for a Canadian na\ y
was postponed until to-morrow night.
A CURE FOR CAXCER.
J. P. Morgan Said To Be In
terested in Italian Discovery.
I By T<"!*Rraph to Th» Tribunal
Chicago, March ',».— A special cable to
"The News" from Rome says Professor
Rampoldi, of the University of Pa\ia.
asserts that he has discovered a cure for
cancer and other malignant skin dis
eases and growths. Hia remedy consists
of local applications with a special oint
ment mad': from tha juice of a pod bear
ing Indian plant, resembling licorice, the
nati\o name of which is jaquerry. In
had ca*e<--, when the ointment Is insuffi
cient, subcutaneous injections are used.
The discoverer says he has experi
mented successfully on hundreds of
patient?, but is unwilling to give the
cure wide publicity untii experiments on
a largro scale are completed. It is fcaid
that J. Pierpont Morgan, ho is here. Is
greatly interested in the discovery, and
may contribute financial aid toward the
continuation of thr experiments.
ADMITS FIE IS ROBBER.
Millionaire Soap Man Saj/s lie
Will Scatter His Wealth.
(B;- Te!p?raph to The Tribune ]
Chicago. .March 9. — "Carnegie, Roek*
feller, Morgan and othe- captains ol In
dustry are robber? and their millions are
ill pottrn gain?. W"e cannot get ri.-h fast
enough nowadays without robbing the
public. I .idiiii: th.T I, too, have robbed
the public and I am still doing it, but I
purpose to spend the accursed m«nf- in
wiping oui the system by which I
made it
.incoph Fels, millionaire manufacturef
of ;i oap bearing his tianr 1 , made this
statement to-nit?ht in talking to fellow
diners ;:t the University of Chicago Set
tlement.
"I do not believe in charities/ hr - on
tinued. "They are agents of pauperisa
tion Neither am I a philanthropist. I
have in mind no plan t<"> aid institutions
of mercy, however worthy they may bo
gen< rally esteem< d."
GAVE BAIUES tU IF.
New York Foundlings Find
Homes in New Orleans.
New Orleans, March o.— This was the
day they gave babies away in New Or
leans. A carload of little tots arrived
from New York foundling and orphan
asylums, with an eager crowd of claim
ants awaiting their arrival.
In addition to those who had previ
ously made applications for a baby,
many pressed about the car in the hope
that there might be some "left over."
Those who had applied In advance got
every baby in the car, however.
FIRE IN PLAYHOUSE SECTION.
Deputy Chief Martin's Greatest Con
cern Was to Avoid Panic.
Fire was discovered shortly aft*r 10
o'clock last nlj;ht in a barber shop at No.
lr!9 West 4&th street, directly opposite the
stage entrance of the New York Theatre
and within a stone's throw of several other
playhouses.
An alarm from a ho at Broadway and
Isth street brought Deputy Chief Martin in
a hurry, an.i as soon as he found that the
tire was « slight one he detailed tn.n from
the Brat company that arrived to turn tack
the other apparatus that was responding to
the alarm so that there might be no danger
of a panic In th» theatres.
Th- blase was easily bandied by those
member* of th« first company who re
mained on the scene. The loss to the bar
ber shop, which la familiarly known in the
theatrical district as" "John the Barber's
place." was about 12.000k Mi- Theresa
PartholdJ. proprietor of the BartboldJ Inn,
which is over the shop, said that .-he had
■uttered a small loaa by smoke and water.
OEWGY S AMERICAN WINE HOUSE.
Only nail Wor« east of Fulton st. Sub. stt«.
11. rw ■*•< ■ a Bom Co.. 138 Fulton St, n.y.
FELL -)iM:T.a\ Hi; A!)
AM) \<>T I SCR tTCIf
II II) MMS. REII I
Landed in Small Yard Upside
Doxlii and Kicked Her-
self Free.
After falling fifty feet from the real
of a buildinc: yesterday, and landing- on
her head In a small inclosure. Mary
Reiff, thirty-two year* old. wife of De
tective Reiff, of the Central Office, of
No. 120 Sumner avenue. Brooklyn, suf
fered no worse injury than a slight cut
on her head and an abrasion of th-> rls;ht
elbow. Furthermore. Mrs. Reiff. after
landing on her head and remaining in
that position for several minutes, calmly
proceeded to kick out the boards of the
fence . against which she was leaning,
and kicked herself to liberty.
Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon Mr? Rejfr was hancing clothes
from the roof of the house In which she
lives. As she leaned far out. supporting
herself on the slender rope, the line broke
and Mrr. R<-jff fell. She screamed, and
this attracted the attention, of persons
in. adjoining houses, who ran to the win
dow s.
"When half way from the roof to the.
yard the woman's body struck an exten
sion, causing her to fall into the yard of
No. JlS'j. next door. Th* space within
which Mrs. Reiff landed is not very
much larger than a good sized packing
case. She landed with great force, di
rectly on her head, and instead of top
pling over sh» remained in that position,
her feet leaning against one wall of the
fence.
When wbmen ir. the other houses saw
Mrs. Reiffs fall and heard the Round of
her body striking the yard below th«>v
believed that she had been killed, and
began to .-all for help.
While her neighbors ran this way and
that. < ryinsr out to one another and shed
ding tears over the fate of Mrs. Reiff.
that young woman was not Idle. She
called for help In no uncertain voice.
Because of the narrowness of the space.
she was unable to regain her feet, which
were kicking violently and intermittent
ly in the surrounding air. and the best
she could do was to kick strenuously
against the board fence on either side,
raising a spirited tattoo.
Telephone calls for doctor*, firemen,
policemen and ambulances continued to
hum over th« wires. A crowd gathered
on adjacent roofs. Offers and sugges
tions were tossed from roof to roof, yet
Mrs. Reiff continued to balance on her
head— and to kick. Anxious neighbors
found It Impossible to reach the yard
quickly.
Although she felt her strength fast
waning, Mrs. Reiff did not abandon hope,
but continued her assault on the fence.
Finally, with a supreme effort, she man
aged to smash the boards and send them
clattering to the ground. The rest was
easy, and soon Mrs. Reiff had gained her
feet and climbed back into her own yard.
A hasty survey served to show her that
she »a» uninjured and unbroken, and
she went calmly into the kitchen of her
home and Fat down.
When the neighbors rushed in they
saw Mrs. Mary R'-iff. mother of four
children, sitting on a. chair replacing
pins in her hair and dusting oil her
clothes. When medical aid, in the shape
of Dr. Lewis, of Bush wick Hospital, was
offered, *>he resented the intrusion, and
started upstairs, where her four chihlren
were awaiting their mother's return.
The injuries suffered by Mrs. Reiff
were so slight that her own physi
cian attended them and left her at home,
When Detective Keiff got home he found
his wife in cheerful spirits.
EAGEF TO HEAR DX WILSON.
Western Trinceton Alumni to Enter
tain Him and W. C Procter.
Princeton nun are looking forward with
much interest to the dinner of the Western
Association of Princeton Clubs, to bo held
.it St. I^ouis on March 21. Wilson Farrand.
a trustee and head master of New*!--
Academy; William Cooper Procter and Dr.
Woodrow Wilson will be among the speak
ers, it is reported.
The Western alumni are expressing hopes
that Dr. Wilson and Mr. Procter will throw
more light on the recent controversy at
Princeton and the immediate future or the
graduate college there.
BROWN s BRONCHIAL TROCHES
Rcliev* Cough*, RruncUitls and Asthma. -
Advt.
ONE CENT
'. In Cl*7, •» >'•» T— *«''
ITnb«kea. '
any 0x1: i;.\rEPT
SE.NA'IOi; IIINMAX
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\JFOODI?UFF AT ALBA:
1
! XV TO U-:. ! D FIGHT
j ■ ■
Old Guard Lined Up Again**
Roof in Senate Leader? 1 *
ship ( unit
Albany, March o.— Th Woodru.T-
Barnrc old guard combination of *.Re
publican leaders detidi^l • -«•;»> to dcf,."
the ■maiiaHralla expressed advi«'e of
Senator Elihu P.->ot and the kno" /1
wishes of President Taft aud 1 : m aiaat
Hughes regarding ih*- election of &cru~
tor Harvey r». Hfnman as ii sags) 1
rresid-nt of th- f-enat-?. Senators con
\ trolled by th»:m an-] Senators In any hay*
i to he Influenced by their advice *«!:ijj
j vote for Senator Uenr*e H..Cobb. of Ij
: Watertown. Brat if it shotjld be lmi>3i- 1
to elect him in th* caucus to-nie-r- j
row nij;ht they Mil vote, in accordant* j
. with the advice of the Woodruff- Barn; r
leaders, tor .in; h*vly rather than Hln- 1
I man. " ,
Ostensibly the reason of "XVoodn:^.
Farn»>? and company for f-pr^sing S«n*«
tor Ilinmun at this time v that b<* r*
! fused to rnt*r th»; caucus which ehos»s
; Jotham P. Aild?. now on trial ror brib- 1
! • ry. for !cad<r. Actually their r«ason I
j is that the election of Senator Hinman
i would ?er\o notio on th*» state that )
■ the Republican »>rjcin:zation stood for
i progress, and was In line with th« aatl- I
| c?*-s of President T»ft and Governor I
! ;?i:«rir«i They would |o.»«» by Hlnnan*.-*
■ election practically all chance of killing
; the direct primary legislation and other ||
i Hughes measure*, almost all possibility
jof stopping a grn-ral investigation off Q
I legislative corruption and virtually all;
i chance of naming a stat- ticket this fall
' headed by some reactionary under tlelr
control, like speaker Wadsworth.
Programme Ratified at Funeral.
j This programme of opposition to tlaa
; highest Republicans In the federal and
1 state administration a* drawn up ami
ratified at the tuneral of ex-Senator 1
1 Platt to-day, and on the train return- >
I ing from Owejo. Woodruff and Barnes |
: talked with many* organization men ■
' there. They had dinner to-night at Mr. g
Barnes's home here and conferred .lone fl
on the proposition. Mr. Barnes discussed I
freely his position. State Chairman \
Woodruff, on whom n:o.«t of the criticism S
of all parties to the existing controversy f
,has fallen, kept hlnwlf out of <»»sht.
"I am opposed to Senator HlnniH *
being -'•••1 teirpora.., president or f
the Senate.' 1 declared Mr. Barney. "H»- 1
rifused to 50 into 1 Republican eaucuVi
at the beginning of th** jrar. It's a t
common sense proposition. I*-t him take f
Ms medicine now. ! consider that at j
that tin h* forfeited hH right to par- j
tiefpate in any qdvamacep of the or- j
Xc nizati ■• an>j that h; never should h« 1
elected leader st ;» caucus or th» Repti'->- j
Ucans with ••:■■!" ht* refused Is be nun- j
bered on January 1
Asked his opinion regarding Senator
Root's telegram -•-■•»: the election I
of Senator Hi::r.ian. Mr P»arne« replied:
"flu— lK Root i-» an American citizen,
with th» sam* right to #«xpre?s his opTn- J
lons we fill have. I wnnd?r if he'd:*x- >
l>e<"t to be elected lea«I?r of tho United I
States Senate if he boll a caucus I
there?" j
Cry of Federal Intcrferencs. j
The Senators who are fighting ,txx« 1
Woodruff- Fun battle in supporting
Senator Cobb appear more bitter toward
Senator Root than they were last n?sht
when his telegram was read. Their
comments on "federal interference** I \
the most part ar*» couched in language •*
distinctly unparliamentary, and unless I
they are whistling to keep up their cour- ♦
age they am prepared to fight to t .-• I
end. At the same time tliey appear t& %
realize the desperateness of their aMs {
lion when they appear before the stat« j
aligned against President Tuft. Senator I
Root. Governor Hughes. Tlce-Pream f
Sherman and many of the Republican |
delegation to Congress. Their argument 1
is that "interference" from Washington f
is unjustified, that Senator Cobb Is t.i t
tirely fit for the place. and that he Is .• f
progressive a Republican and as good.'* V
Hughes man as Davis or even Hinrna- 1
the Root-Hueh-s choice.
Thus the situation to-nlsht seems to *
he that the old guard v. ill die fighting I
but refuses absolutely to surrender. li\ i
this general attitude it is taken for
granted here that Speaker Wadswortli |
concur?, and will do whatever he can. to
prevent the ultimate death by bitter re
sistance to the progressive movement' ln
the lower house of the Legislature.
Cobb Men Claim Seventeen Votes."-
Kittle cheese has been made durfnc I
Ibe day in the alignment of Senator* c-»
the choice for temporary president.
Some shift of position there have beea,
but the totals remain aJjout the sam*.
The Cobb men maintain that they ha.ro
seventeen Senators, enough to cna' !
them- to control to-morroWa caucus if
they still have them at that time. Dur- ]
ing the day Senators White. Hewitt 'anil |
Griffith, counted as Cobb men. shifted 1
from that camp to Senator Hiiuii.. . I
following. McKenale, who cornea fruia $
the Wadsworth bailiwick, on tho other I
hand, was delivered from Senator Davis j
to Cobb. so at least the Cobb men say. '.
The Davis men who will vote to-rhor- ;
row night for Ilinman if Hinman th«ii J
Is a candidate say that McKenzie would ]
vote for Davis, but refuses to vote s for 1
Hinman on any cantT'ion. The Co \
men also say they have Senator SchlOs- I
ser, who i- Lou Payn's Senator, and'CtiW ]
other whose name they refuse to men-^
tion. thus making up for all defection.
Whether theae statements are entirely
accurate is open to serious doubt. 3
Senator Cobb announced himself in *
formal statement as still in the rlshY.' '
"I am In this evntest ami will remain
until the end," he said. "Of course. * tie
cause of Senator Root's telegram I sjaa
lose a few votes. a:.-.> I shall gain otl'ers.
There is nc» doubt that I had the votes
last night to elect me to the temporary i
presidency, and 1 believe i have th* f
