VOL. XXV.—NO. 54. EIGHTEEN DIE IN HOTEL FIRE BIG XEW YORK BLAZE ATTENDED BY SCENES OF PITIFUL HORROR BLAME IS NOT YET FIXED Large Armory Destroyed and \one Knows Whether Late Conflagra tion Across Street Was Doe to Sparks or Other Cause GUESTS LEAP FROM WINDOWS ~- NEW TORK, Feb. 22.—For the third lime since New Years day Park avenue, this city, was the scene of loss of human Kfe. First was the collision in the New York Central tunnel at Fifty-sixth street and Park avenue; second came the dyna mite explosion in the rapid transit sub way at Forty-first street, and the third today was a fire which started in the Seventy-first regiment armory at Thirty third street, and then spread to the Park Avenue, hotel, where eighteen persons were killed, and many injured. This was the worst hotel fire since the Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen at about 1:30 in the morning in the armory, and in re markably short time that building was aflame from end to end. After the fire men had been at work nearly an hour the discovery was made that the hotel was on fire. The^ hotel was crowded with guests who had come to attend the festivities in honor of Prince Henry. More than 500 persons were in the house. The fire was confined principally to the fifth and sixth floors near the elevator air shaft. About tly? time the hotel was found to be on fire' the lights went out and the corridors were filled with smoke. The guests, unable to find their way through the darkened hallway, jumped from windows, or ran directly into the flame-swept portions of the building. It Is this fact that accounts for the large loss of life, although the hotel was not destroyed. Explosion Adds to Terror. The fire in the armory started on the third floor, on the Thirty-third street side, where there was a tier of rooms oc cupied by different companies of the reg iment. Within five minutes the whole structure was beyond saving, and ten minutes later the roof fell in with a ter rific crash. There was no one in the armory at the time except a janitor and his family. They escaped by going through a scuttle hole in the roof, and thence along the battlements on the Thir ty-fourth street side to safety on the roofs of houses to the east. Several hundred pounds of ammunition ■tored in the tower of the armory detona ted in a series of minor explosions, par tially wrecking the portion of the walls near which it was stored. This added terror and caused fear of greater ex plosions to those who were fighting the flames It was not until 3 o'clock that the flames were discovered in the Park ave nue hotel, directly across from the ar mory. Various opinions were given as to the origin of the fire in the hotel. The man ager claims that it was of incendiary origin. Others hold that the fire orig inated from sparks from the burning armory building, swept by wind in the direction of the hotel, descending the alr dhaft, which was directly alongside the elevator. The idea of incendiary origin is scouted by guests of the hotel, and by Fire Chief Croker. Scores of guests were taken from the windows of the third, fourth and fifth Continued on Fourteenth Page. DISCRACE TO THE STATE SOUTH CAROLINIANS DEPLORE FIGHT BETWEEN SENATORS. Special to The Glohe. COLUMBIA, S. C, Feb. 22.—The fight In the senate between the South Carolina Eenators is regarded by both factions here as both shocking and disgraceful. Only the bitterest personal feeling against McLaurin could have made Sen ator Til!man lose control of himself and resent being called a liar in such a man ner. It Is the first time in his political career of fourteen years that he has no ticed such a charge. It has been charged by »me that JVlc- LY. FIND PROFIT IN BEGGING ODD INDUSTRY DISC VBRED BY THE POLICE OF CHICAGO. Special to The Globe. CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—Supt. E. P. Bick nell, of the Chicago bureau of charities, has discovered that a large number of professional beggars make a regular business of soliciting cast-off clothing and selling it to certain lodging house keep ers. They have a regular schedule of rates. The price paid for hats and caps is 5 cents, while an ordinary pair of second-hand shoes bring: 35 cents; over coats are worth 30 cents to $1.50. The lodging house keepers, it is said, have the articles repaired, and sell them to their patrons at a fair profit. EXTRA GUARD FOR POPE GARRISON" AT ROME DOUBLED BE FORE XEARIXG JUBILEE. Special to The Globe. , ROME. Feb. 22.—1n order to prevent disturbances during the celebration of the pope's silver jubilee, tho Italian go ernment is taking ' the precaution to double the garrison at Etomjgg; The Vati can authorities appreciate very much this prudent measure. ; ' All . the |' Catholic countries will be represented at the jubi lee March 3 by special envoy. N. Nisard, the French ambassador, has informed Cardinal Secretary of State Rampolla that he has received special credentials to represent France at the' ceremony. ■llWllinni IHBiliiailnili, ,„.,„', .J,- iin—.T—TMirnniiMiiiM ■■ i.i iiiMiiai ■■■..■■■iimihiih^i nm W/Vl^ Br^ "|H|. ...... - ■. ■ HIS EOYAL ta&HNESS PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA. SPAIN A BIT QUIETER STRIKE SITUATION, HOWEVER, IS STILL, OF GRAVE CHARACTER. MADRID, Feb. 22.—The nearest ap proach to truth that it is possible to gleam from the mass of conflicting offi cial and private dispatches from Bar celona indicates that the situation is still of the gravest character, but without any important outbreak of fresh hostility be tween the troops and the strikers. Private dispatchesl received here from Barcelona deny that there is any prob ability of a settlement, and say the strikers are leaving the city in largo numbers According to messages received here from Barcelona the police of that city have captured important documents showing that Ixmdor anarchists furnish ed a considerable amount of funds to the strikers, and aided in organizing the out break there. The captain gpoeral at.Barcelona has allowed the rietera three'.4ays in which to deliver up all "their arms. After the expiration of that time any person found in possession of arms will be tried by drum-head court martial. mi SI AJLDEIRMAX HUNT, PRINCE HENRY IN NEW YORK STEAMER KRO\PRIXZ SIGHTED OFF SANDY HOOK EARLY THIS MORNING SHIP WAS LATE IN ARRIVING Programme Planned for His Recep tion Last Ms lit Had to Be ( Carried Otot With ont Him CANNOT LAND UNTIL TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—The Kron prinz Wilhelm, with Prince Henry of Germany on board, was sighte-1 at 1 o'clock this morning off Nan. tucket lightship. She will arrive off Sandy Hook at 1() «' clock this morning. NEW YORK, Feb. 22—At the Irving Place theater the programme as arranged for the entertainment of Prince Henry tonight was carried out as if he had been present. A crowded house liberally ap plauded the play, "A Blank Page." The German ambassador, Count yon Holleben, Admiral yon Baudissin, and fifteen members of his staff, and Consul General Buenz occupied boxes. The the ater was crowded with a representative and fashionable audience, the entire or chestra and balcony being occupied by men and women in full dress. The house was beautifully decorated with ever greens interspersed with American Beau, ty roses and smilax combined with the German and American colors. During the intermission between the second and third acts the orchestra rendered the German and American national anthems, the entire audience rising. NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Germany and America unite in the regret that adverse Atlantic gales have prevented the great ocean greyhound, the Kronprinz Wiihelm, from bearing Prince Henry to port in time to receive the splendid welcome ar ranged for him today. It was regarded as certain that the vessel would have bsen heard of today. The North German Lloyd managers de cided this evening that even if the Kron prinz Wilhelm should get into quaran- Continued on Sixth Page. fit. ■ "*■ AMBROSE TIGHB, ; SAY HOBSON WILL WED REPORTS BXGAGE HIM TO ADL.iI STEVENSON'S DAUGHTER. Special to The Globe. * CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—Dame rumor has picked another young woman to share the joys and sorrows of "Merrlmac" Hobson. This time the naval hero's name is*linked matrimonially with that of Miss I-etitia Stevenson, the charming daughter of former "Vice President Ad lai Stevenson. Interest in the reported engagement Is heightened by the fact that Capt. Hobson is visiting at the home of the Stevensons, in Blooming ton, having arrived there today. UP TO THE PRESIDENT ATTORNEY GEXBRAi KNOX SUB MITS REPORT ON JUDGE NOTES' CASE Decision Is Carefully Guarded, bnt It Is Regarded as Certain He Will Xot Return to, FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Attorney General Knox has submitted his report on the case of Arthur H. Noyes to the president and the cabinet at today's ses sion. It was announced that the recom mendations and the findings would be made public Monday. Unless the president sees fit to overrule the findings of the attorney general, it is said that Judge Noyes will sever his con nection with the federal judiciary. Cer tain it is that he will not return to Nome. Mr. Knox holds that if he was the victim of a conspiracy, the conspiracy was so well laid that it has succeeded. Popular feeling at Nome is such that the interests of justice would not be subserved t>y taking Judge Wickersham from the bench and returning Judge Noyes to that dis trict. The administration has been placed in a predicament by the findings of the San Francisco.court of appeals. If Noyes is not removed the reflection on the court of appeals will be so grave as to require the removal of one or more of its judges, even at the expense of impeachment pro ceedings. Naturally the department of justice hesitates to precipitate such a re sult. The understanding among those who claim to have information is that reasons of public policy will be urged for Noyes' removal by the president. The attorney general has been in grave doubt as to what to recommend. He has felt that he should not go against the findings of the California court with out ample proof that Noyes is the vic tim of conspiracy. The evidence before the attorney general is conflicting, and whatever determination he has reached is based on the broad ground of public policy. Great efforts have been made to keep the findings from becoming public as the^e is constant possibility that Roosevelt may follow his own judgment and brush aside the decision of Knox. PLAN A GREAT DEPOT UISION STATION IS CHICAGO IS TO COST $15,000,000. CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—A new union sta tion which, with .adequate terminal fa cilities, will cost $10,000,000 to $15,0tv,000, is proposed for Chicago by the Pennsylvania management. The plans contemplate a magnificent ornamental building and ter minals which will rival, if not excel, any in the United States. It is propose! to erect on the river bank mammoth lake inter-change ter minals to extend the entire length of the property. Such a terminal, it is esti mated, would result in making the reads using the terminals the greatest medium of exchange between rail and ifresh water in the world. It is further contemplated to erect a great mail transfer station which it is estimated would give the lines running into the stattion an advantage on through mails of at least five hours. FORGED TO EAT POISON GIRL FOUND UNCONSCIOUS—TEL.I.S STRANGE STORY. I BRODHEAD, Wis., Feb. 22.—Luella Francis, who makes her home with the Rev. Mr. Murray, the Methodist min ister here, is in a critical condition from poison., which she 'asserts was forced down her throat by a man whom she de tected robbing —r. Murray's house Tues day night. Miss Francis claims she saw the man running down the stairs of the house after the burglary*. Thursday night, when passing a corner of the street away from the general trav el the same man, she says, seized her and after kicking her and pounding her forced her to swallow poison. Late in tne even ing the girl was found by a passerby un conscious. Deur Outrides McEachern. BUFFALO, N. V., Feb. 22.—Ray Deuir, of Buffalo, defeated Archie McEachern, of Toronto, Ont., in a special pursuit race at the Severity-fourth regiment games tonight. Deur passed McEachern when they had ric"den 3 miles, 7 laps and 110 yards. The time was 9:53 4-5. ■^R ■:■: ■ " ■; ..... . .%5He v ""r " £U X». BEARDSLEY, PRICE FIVE CENTS. HALL SPRINGS SENSATION VETERAN EDITOR SPEAKS HIS MIND AT COMMERCIAL CLUB BANQUET WHAT PATRIOTISM REALLY IS Party Ties So Strong That Honesty of Speech Is Stifled—Political In dependence Is Political Ostracism DUTY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS In a speech scarce half an hour in length, H. P. Hall furnished a sensation at the annual dinner of the Minnesota society, Sons of the American Revolution, held at the Commercial club last night, that waa only equaled by the surprise which it created. "Washington and His Memory" was the theme, and Mr. Hall was among those called upon to pay tribute to the immortal commander. His address waa short, yet so pregnant with surprises, that it found the little band of patriots so convulsed with undisguised astonish ment that the witty remarks of a speak er who followed were unequal to the task of relieving the painful tension that existed. In plain words Mr. Hall told his hear ers that patriotism lay not in recounting the deeds of those that had gone before, but in their application to the material things of today. His address, which waa the sensation of the evening, was a3 iol lo'ws: Mr. Hall's Address. I shall say very little about George Washington. His name and fame are so indelibly written upon the pages of tha 'history of our country that every Ameri can school child knows it before it has reached sufficient years to distinctly pro nounce his name, 1 prefer to leave that to others and to speak to the living, rather than of the dead. The history of this country has been one of progress. To my mind it has no better illustration than the lives of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Slav, cry in Washington's day was not, at least popularly regarded a moral crime, and George Washington, great as he was, was a slaveholder. He wrested our free dom from a foreign tyrant and we honor him. Lincoln preserved, and emancipated the slaves as well. I do not know that there can be a bet ter illustration of the fact of the progress of events than the lives of these two men. Such men as Wendell Phillips and Wil liam Lloyd Garrison raised the standard of political independence when it was a. disgrace and social ostracism to stand. up and denounce the crime of slavery,, The work grew until it finally won; but a little handful of men, so small that they were less in numbers than thosa seated around this board, were the real men who abolished slavery in the United States. Other circumstances led up, and, as has already been stated, the man for me.time appeared in the person of Abra ham Lincoln. But we are not through with progress^ The Democratic party live 3 largely upoa the traditions of the past, and mistake*, real or hoped for by the Republican party. They have had a better opportu-. nity than the Republicans of following the teachings of Washington's farewell letter, when he announced at the early age of sixty-four that he never would hold office again, and I wish there wera more in the Republican party who did not feel that they must, of necessity, be so imbued with patriotism that they should overlook that portion of Washing ton's letter. The Race Question. There is one tremendous question in the South at this very moment. The negroes are in a worse condition in the South today than they were before they were emancipated. The white population has been elevated and advanced by the obliterating of the political crime at slavery. But to all practical intents and purposes the negro in the South is still a slave.. He is disfranchised in many; states, and allowed no opportunity to rise, and there is a problem that it will take some man, wiser than myself, to attempt to elucidate. The difficulty about political independ ence is the binding character of party ties, atld the feeling that if a man dares to speak what he thinks and differs with h)p liarty he is at once politcally ostra cised. One of the speakers at this table to night dared to differ, a short time ago. with his party, and he is today lashed, scourged and politically ostracised and held up as a shining light and warning to others in his party as a sample of their fate if they dare assert political independence. We want to cultivate such a sentiment that men will dare to be In dependent of the political party to which they belong, and I say this not as a poll* tician, but m the spirit of patriotism. As I said, the Republican party is more progressive than the Democratic party. This is, perhaps, because so many of the progressive- Democrats left their party and joined the Republican ranks Hurfng the Civil war and have dominated thafc party ever since. ■ The McKinley bill of IS9O was a coura geous thing, and very few political par. ties would have taken the chance of en acting it at that time, but it was passed by the Republican party, and it caused ita defeat, Cleveland being elected la 1892. • Now look at McKinley's last speech In Buffalo. That speech would hav<; an swered for the Democratic platform ln» 1892 upon which Cleveland was elected president But it has been accepted by his party, and all Republicans now say Amen. If four or five y-?ars ago any ofhr er prominent Republican had raised the standard of political independence whlchl McKinley raised^ at Buffalo he would ha.v« been ostracised and turnod out of his party. Take the case of the Spanish war. Wftjf Continued on Sixth Page. 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