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weather. TO-DAY. CLOUDY. MA v 1 A VOL. LSI., KO. 321. NEW HAVEN, CONN., TUESDAY DECEMBER 17, 1907. PRICE TWO CENTS. V MITCHELL HAS ; CHANGED MIND 'Miners' Leader Confesses to Civic Federation That Oper ators Are Not So Bad As Painted. ELIMINATE THE STRIKE General Grant Strongly Advocates Re Installation of Army Canteen George Y. Perkins Lauds Mr. Mitchell. ,New York, Dec. 16. Peaceful rela tions between labor and capital was the theme to-night at the eighth an nual banquet of tho National Chic fed eratlon, whose members, composed of widely known financiers, employers, labor leaders, publicists and other prominent citizens, gathered in confer ence here-. to-day to discuss remedies and legislation for various questions now affecting the body politic. Over 700 sat down to dinner. The session of the federation to-day was given over to the discussion of the currency ques tion, Andrew Carnegie, James Speyer, Horace White and Postmaster General h Von Meyer expressing their views. Andrew Carnegie declared that relief must come through asset currency, based on- trade1 bills. The federation, without committing itself to any defi nite plan of reform, adopted a resolu tion, that congress after careful con sideration should pass as speedily as possible, consistent with security and .safety, some measures which will im. part to our currency system greate elasticity, so urgently demand 3d throughout the country. The federation will be in session here two days. General Grant said that while he himself was a total abstainer, he re garded the canteen as the lesser of two evils and that until the civil authori ties closed vicious resorts near military reservations he would be an advocate 101 tne canteen in ine army. I John Mitchell, the labor leader and 'lone of the prominent members of the federation, was gjven a round of ap- iplause when he rose to speak. He said Ihe considered it the highest duty of ;every man with the welfare of the -ountry at .heart to work toward a de gree of peace and plenty.. Mr. Mitchell 'aid: ' ' "So far as I have been able to con trol the affairs of my organization it las been toward the pause of peace, 'lappy would be the 'day, if strikes, lockouts rind attendant evils were no jjnore. I am not sure that the time jiill come in our lives. But Is it not I letter that wa sit down and reason It :ut and S"e if reason eannbt take the Jilaee of force. , :; ,. do not know if the people of New jork realized that two years ago they I jight have had to again undergo the srrible times of the coal strike of 1992. Hit that is true. That would have feppened had not ten men got togeth-j- and talked, operators and workers, ( men to men. - "I found the operators when I came I meet them, very different men than had imagined from the newspapers fromwhat they said at the White ouse. For I had believed that the presentitives of capital were men ithout any sympathy, any regard for iose whom they employed. That was fore I met them. I have learned dif reiitly since. 1 George W. Perkins, before sneaklne the profit sharing1 plans, paid a trib-J j s to .vir. Mitcnen, saying that a great 1 al of the progress made in the rela- sns between capital and labor in the st five years had been due more to standards and work of Mr. Mitchell an to .any other man. Mr. Perkins Scribed the profit sharing system ot steel corporation. 'President Eliot, of Harvard unlver- ; who said that he represented in : executive committee neither capital jj- labor, but the public which had to ;lr the cost of all Industrial warfare, 1 glared that the individual states ifd not, but the federal government ist control the vast compiercial as- iatlons which seek monopoly. '; SOCIETY'S COMMITTEE i . ' tcr Church Ecclesiastical Society ! Elected it Last Night. I he annual meeting of the Center j irch Ecclesiastical society was heia J ! night at Center church chapel, Oli- "i S. White presiding. The following j n re-elected members of the soci i s committee for the ensuing year: ii Whitney, Henry L. Hotchklss,: udore H. Sheldon, Thomas Hooker, Tries W. Whittlesey, L. H. English. er S. White, and the following were red also members, being new mem 5: Samuel Hemingway, James ;sley Blake, Henry H. Townshend. three last named take the places I Justin S. Hotchklss, Arthur D. Os e and Hayes R. Trowbridge, who f -ned to serve longer. No other ex- routine business was transacted. COMMITTEES TO-DAY or Hale Will Announce Senate Distribution. ishlngton, Dec. ,,16. Senator Hale, irnan of the committee on com J es of the majority of tfte senate, (to-day that the membership of '' iarlous committees of the senate jl be announced to-morrow. The rrats completed their assign- i 1 to-day, VERDICT FOR MB. POLL J jthe superior court in Waterbury ;day.in the case of Thomas Burns .t S. Z. Poll, an action to .recover gee for injuries received by fall 4 fvn the gallery stairs of Poll's .r. a verdict in favor of -the de l ,it was given. . , i ' '.':;-! . . PLATOONJDISBANDED Many Men Will Re-Enlist to Secure Service Medals. The second platoon of the machine gun battery passed out of existence as an organization last evening when pursuant to the orders from Hartford last week it wa3 voted to disband. "With the passing of the second platoon one of the oldest organizations in the Connecticut National Guard ceases to be, that is, as a military organiza tion. It is expected, however, that the men who were members of the platoon at the time of Its disbandment will form some sort of a social organi zation to keep up the friendships formed In the service, A good many of the men in the platoon will Join the Infantry, If for no other reason than to obtain their service medal. At least two of the men have less than a year to serve to obtain twenty year medals, three have about the same time before fifteen years of continuous service will ex pire, while several men are nearlng the ten year service mark. "PAUPER" LEAVES $40,000 Death of Man Living on Community Reveals Big Sum on Deposit. Essex, Dec. 16. The death of Charles Chittenden from heart disease about a month ago reveals the fact that he left about $40,000. He was sup posed to have been In needy circum stances and others had received help. Mr. Chittenden's wife, who survives him, has been an invalid for 'many years and her husband took entire cafe of her. People sympathized with him, thinking that he was unable to leave her to earn much of anything, and often' times gave him a substan tia! lift. . The family washwoman felt sorry for him and only charged the family half price for her labor. Other people ex tended similar favors. It Is lnot known that. Mrs. Chlttendon ;went without necessary comforts, but her husband underwent constant self-denial. PACKAGES ASTRAY Those Who Do Not Add Return Addresses Will be the Losers. TROUBLES AT P0ST0FFICE Now Advertisements, But Later Will Come Presents and Then the Bills. j This will be a weary week for a great many clerks' In New Haven. The thought of overworked clerks at Christmas time always suggests to most minds the people of the depart ment stores. But that Is simply be cause they are seen. Others who bear the brunt of the Christmas rush and the Christmas shopping none the less are the clerks at the postoffice, whose work is less spectacular but every whit as exacting and tedious. Not only are there the Christmas packages to attend to but there are also the hoards of advertising matter sent out by nearly every store just be fore Christmas to attraoti prospective customers. Already 150,000 pieces of such matter have gone through the postoffice, and. the trouble has not yet begun. 1 .December Is the time of year when freak things happen at the postoffice. Perhaps In no wv Is the thoughtless ness of those who use the mails to send their Christmas packages shown better than in the number of people who fail to write their own addresses on their packages as well as the ad dresses of those to whom they are sending them. Already there Is a high pile of such packages at the postoffice which cannot be returned to their senders simply because the latter did not put on their own addresses. Another illustration of the ignor ance of the postoffice regulations that the public displays was shown at the local' office yesterday when a full grown lemon was rescued from the mail. The lemon had been tagged with an address. Of course It comes under the head of things that are apt to decompose or to Injure other mail and hence it could not be delivered. But it all makes more work for the postoffice men. After Christmas there will come a rush of calendars for the new year, and after the first of January will come the bills demanding payment for all that has preceded. FOR GAS METER ROBBERY Three More Lads Arrested by Grand Avenue Police. Three more boys were arrested last evening by police of the Grand avenue station on the charge of robbing gas meters. Officer Walsh captured a. lad by the name of Ernest Slack who lives at 307 Grand avenue, and he is held under the charge of defrauding the gas company. He is accused of entering the Carleton club, a house at Grand avenue'and Blatchley avenue and two others on 'State street near Willow, In all aboufe $5 was collected. Thomas R. Mooney, of 464 Blatchley avenue, and Michael Manclno, of 25 Castle street, are arrested and held on the same charge. They were arrested and held by Patrolmen Rellly and Doc companions of Slack in his depreda tions. Mooney was arrested before and ordered sent to the reform school. An appeal from the order is now pending in the common pleas court. SUPREME COURT RESTS. Washingon, Dec. 16. Chief Justice Fuller to-day announced that on next Monday the United States supreme court would take a recess of two weeks for the Christmas holiJys. SIXTY DEAD IN FRESH DISASTER Explosion in Alabama Coal Mine Entombs Ninety Men, Only Fourteen of Whom Escape. BODIES OF 35 RECOVERED Air from Mouth of Mine So Hot That No Rescue Work Could be At- tempted for Hours After the Explosion. ' Birmingham, Ala., (Dec. 16.-Between sixty and seventy-six men are burled in No. 1 mine, of the Tolande Coal and Coke company at Tolande. sixtv- flve miles from Birmingham, in Tusca loosa county, by an explosion to-day. Ninety men were checked In for work. Within an hour after the explosion fourteen men had crawled out of the mine, all burned. Reports from the scene vary as to the number of men in the mine and whether they will be found dead. Two dead bodies had been recovered before 1 o'clock. While officials of the company were noping for, the best, the rescue party was forcing its way into the mine. Women and children and men stood despairingly outside the mines. It is feared that few of those tlll en tombed will escape death. Little houses just outside the mines were de stroyed by the immense i amount of dust and timber blown out of the mines. U. relief train went to the scene this afternoon. Mine Inspectors are en route to the scene. At the local office of the Yo lande company the; statement is made that few will be found dead, the first work of the rescue party giving en couragement. At 2 o'clock forty coffins were being prepared to be sent to Yolande. The rescue party was rapidly getting out dead and injured men. The number of coffins ordered is taken to Indicate the number of dead. Birmingham, Ala., ' Dec. 16. Ad vices to-night from Yolande indicate that about sixty men met death In an explosion In the mines at that place early to-day. The work of recovery Is slow and while hundreds of miners from adjacent mining camps are pres ent to assist, it Bs thought that all of th dead cannot be taken out before to-morrow. Only twelve bodies had foeen recovered up to dark. Fewer than 100 men were In the mine, . The cause of the explosion has not been offcially determined. The mine has 'been pronounced free from gas by state Inspectors, and 1t is supposed that the explosion was caused by dust. For two hours after the explosion It was Impossible to venture even near the mouth of the mine, so hot was the alr'ithat rushed out. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 16. A meg- sage from Yolande at hiidnight says thirty-five bodies have been taken from the mines and that the rescuers be lieve between thirty-five and forty are still In the lower entrance. HAS SON AT YALE Death of Theophllns Hyde, Jr., f of Waterbury, After Operation. Waterbury. Dec. 16. Theophllus iR. Hyde, Jr., assistant secretary of the Scovill Manufacturing , company and for several years , president of the Young Men's Christian association, died on Saturday in Rochester, Minn., where he went nine weeks ago to un dergo an operation for stomach trouble He leaves a! widow, who was Miss Jennie Belton Burdon of Brooklyn, N. Y., and whom lie married on M4rch 11, 18S0; and four children, 1 o- phllus, a. salesman for the Scovill M V ufacturing company; Burdon, a stu dent at Yale; Elsie, a student at St. Margaret's school; and Hazel. An other son died last spring at the age of 12. Mr. Hyde's father died a little over a year ago. WILL IMPORT PHYSIQIANS , Waterbury Foresters Take This Action to Get Fraternal Rule. Waterbury, Dec. 16. At a meeting of seventy delegates from the twenty- courts of Foresters of America In this city to-night, action on the Waterbury Medical association vote to increase the rates to the fraternal societies of the city, it was voted to Import four physicians here from other cities In the state, and give them the contract of attending to the medical needs of t'.ie 2,700 Foresters In this city at the yearly rate of $1.50 per capital. It is expected that various organizations will take similar action. TROLLEY JUMPS TRACK Five Seriously Injured In Stalcn Mund Accident. New York, Dec. 16. Five persons were Injured, one perhaps fatally, In a trolley car accident near Concord, Sta. ten Island, to-day. Car No. 23, of the Richmond Light & Powei' company, Jumped the track on a sharp curve be tween Concord and Garretsiin, and crashed Into two telegraph poles, Wil liam Durkln, of Stapleion, was danger ously injured and taken In an uncon scious condition to a hospital where his recovery Is pronounced doubtful. Four others received 'broken bonos and minor hurts, The motosiian escaped by jumping from hi? cab, which was demolished, POLICE BOARD TO-NIGHT, The board of police commissioners will hold their regular bi-monthly meeting this evening. There Is no business of especial importance to come before the board so far as is forecasted. 1 GENERAL. Sixty Dead in Fresh Disaster. Fleet Sails for Pacific. $2,500,000 More Gold Coming. Death of Queen Carola. Eccentric Millionaire Dead. Tillman Speaks yp for Roosevelt. American Dreadnought to be Built. Saloon Men Becoming Frightened. Mitchell Has Changed His Mind. STATE. Foresters Will Import Physicians. Wrecks Along the Sound. Horse Thief Captured In Willimantic. Juror Called for Contempt of Court. Pauper Leaves $40,000. CITY. Major Weed President Union League. No Eligible List for Captains Yet Dwight Place Society Elects. Man Stricken on State Street. Coe to Inquire Bonnett Fountain Vso. Cheshire Academy Trustees to Meet Machine Gun Battery Disbanded. Dr. Hart Scores Country Schools. Prof. Phelps to Speak on Whlttler. Sleigh Struck by Trolley Car. . Troubles at the Postoffice. Clever 'Imposter Coming Here. Held for Robbing Gas Meters. Caught Coming Out of Cellarway. SPORTS. Hermann There With the Wad. New Britain Pololsts To-night. Yale Defeats Trinity. . Outlaw Baseball League. Favorites Win at New Orleans. ' Hart Still Leads Polo League. Union B. B. League Formed. Leaders Lose to Hartford. Bridgeport and Waterbury Win. ' EVENTS TO-DAY. Police Commissioners Meet. Blanche Walsh at the Hyperion, Big Vaudeville Hit at Poll's. , "Turned Up" at the Eju. "The Scout's Revenge" at New Haven. NO ELIGIBLES YET Sergeants Only Took Physical Tests Last Night, Delay ing the Report.; NEXT MEETING ON FRIDAY Civil Service Board Will Not Make X'p the Complete List Until That Evening;. The date for the announcement of the successful candidates for the civil service certificate of eligibility as po lice captains has again been advanced, and now it is Friday evening that is set as the time for the complete re turns from the examinations taken about a month ago. "TM ieason the civil service board wad tumble to make up the list last night is that the phy sical examinations, ivhich must be In cluded before the candidates are eli gible to appointment, had not been taken by some of the candidates. The board held a very short session last night, found out that nothing could be done, as the returns of the doctor had not and could not arrive, and de cided that Friday night would be soon enough to try It again. Several of the candidates took their physical examination last night, hav ing made their appointments with Dr. Seaver for that time. It is stated that the physical test was a vt ry thorough one, although it had been thought by some that it would not be iry Bevere. A few recertificatlons that had been asked for were made for persons who had taken examinations for general clerkships and whose year hod run out. ACADEMY TRUSTEES Those of Cheshire Military School to Meet in This City. The trustees of the Episcopal acad emy of Connecticut will meet for a special meeting at Judge Robertson's office, room 218 Exchange building, 865 Chapel street, New Haven, to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The trus tees will meet to approve the leases and mortgages of tha Cheshire school. One of these leases is dated July 6 and another July 13, 1903, There Is a mortgage dated July 13, 1803, which was given to the Cheshire school to secure the payment of certain bonds mm uuiea oi ma trustees amounting to $100,000 and bearing the date July l, jU3, peing ruiiy described In the mortgage deed, There are certain bonds dated July 1, 1903, and amount ing to $100,000 and another mortgage dated May 4, 1905, and given to tha Cheshire schools, One indenture of lease is dated May 4, 1905, In which the Cheshire school is lessee. Another mortgage is dated July 2, 1906, and other bonds are dated July 2, 1908, amounting In the whole to the sum of $150,000, payable to the Cheshire school, There Is a mortgage deed to the school dated November 10, 1 807 J an indenture of a lease dated November 16, 1907, In which the Cheshire school is lessee. The trustees will approve certain re pairs, alterations and Improvements to the buildings and property, und the erecting of buildings besides authoris ing the treasurer to make changes in the investment of the funds and elect ing Rev. John B, flkUton, the head master of the Cheshire school, princi pal of the Episcopal academy of Con necticut, for a t6rm co-extensive with his term of office as head master of the Cheshire 6chool, O'ROURKE CALLS MEETING, Bridgeport, Dec. 16. Secretary James H. O'Rourka issued to-night a call for a special meeting of tho Connecticut Baseball league, to be held at the Hotel Garde, New Haven, Friday evening, December 20, to decide upon dates for opening and closing the playing sea son next yean TWO BILLIONS OF EXPORTS IN YEAR Report of New York Chamber of Commerce Show? Extent ( of America's Foreign Trade. MARKED INCREASE SHOWN Goods Exported $350,000,000 In Ex cess of Imports Interchange of Gold and Silver Equalizes. New York, Dec. 16. The chamber of commerce Issued to-day a forecast of its annual report, containing a recap itulation of the merchandise imported and exported through the port of New York during the fiscal year ending June 20, 1907, a3 compared with the ag gregate of all other ports of the United States for the same period. The total value of foreign Imports through the port of New York was $914,918,529, of which $61,221,577 wa3 in gold and silver coin and bul lion. The total imports for all the other ports of the country were $676,- 959,769, of which gold and silver coin and bullion constituted . $96,235,296. For the entire country, the port of New York included, the Imports were $1,591,878,293, of which gold and sil ver coin and bullion made up $157,- 456,873. During the same period the exports from the port of New York were $678,- 730, 861, of which amount gold and sil ver coin and bullion made $62,460,187. All other ports of the country during that period exported $1,287,261,803. $29, 814,443 of which was in gold and sil ver coin and bullion, making a total of gold and silver exports for all ports, New York Included, $92,274,630, and a grand total of goods of all kinds ex ported from all ports of $1,945,992,664. These figures show an increase of foreign commerce over the ' previous year of $152,298,028 at New 'York and $363,335,755 at all ports of the United States. LOYAL COUNCIL ELECTS William R. Carroll Chosen for Grand Knight of K. of C. Lodge. , At a meeting of Loyal council, "iio. 30, Knlgiits of Columbus, last evening the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: . i ! Grand Knight William R, Carroll. Deputy Grand Knights Robert L. McLaughlin. Chancellor William J. McKenna. Advocate James Hart. Lecturer Michael F. Campbell. Warden James Fitzgerald. Chaplain Rev. D. J. O'Connor. Recorder William T. Gibbons. Financial Sjcretary James E. Mc Loughlln. Inside Guard Daniel J. Carroll. ' Outside Guard Michael F. Brown. Trustee for Three Years-Philip Hus sey, Sr. Delegates to New Haven Chapter John G. McGowan and James Hart. TOOK IN "SEVERAL Mulatto FratuhUcntly Soliciting Funds for Mt. Meig's School. Waterbury people have been ap proached within the past few days by a young mulatto, about twenty years old, who purported to be from Mt. Meigs school for the colored people, In Alabama, and while In the Brass City he received several contributions for the school work. He gave his name as Charles Mc Quald and had with him a paper au thorizing him to collect money for the school. The paper has been since found to me a forgery, and notices from the principal of the school say that no agents are employed. Other inquiries disclose the fact that McQuald spent some years in the re form school. He has a grandmother living In New Haven and is believed to bo coming here. NARROWLY ESCAPES WRECK Went Shore Pas-senger Express Loco motive is Derailed by Boulder. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 16. The Chicago and St. Louis express, west bound, on the West Shore railroad, narrowly escaped being wrecked and thrown into the Hudson river to-night. A miles north of Highland, opposite hero, the engineer discovered a boulder weighing nearly 1,500 pounds on the tracks, He put on his airbrakes, but the locomotive ran into the rock. The speed of the train had been greatly Blackened, but the pilot of the locomo tive was wrecked, and the pony trucks drailed, The train was delayed two hours while another engine was sent down from Kingston to draw the ex press to Albany, No one was Injured. APPOINTMENTS VOID Priests Transferred by Vlear-Gencral Must Return to Charges, New Bedford, Mass., Dec, 16, The appointments made by Rt, Rev, Hugh J, Smyth, vicar general of the Fall River diocese, while he was serving as administrator after the death of Bish op Btang, have been declared illegal by Bishop Feehan, The priests in volve will return to their foi-ier charges on Thursday, COURTS SUPPORT HUGHES Uphold Legality of Governor's He moval of Ahearn. New York, Dec. 16. A special meet ing of the board of aldermen of Man hattan borough to be held next Thurs day to elect a successor to John F. Ahearn, who was removed from the office of president of the borough of 'Manhattan by Governor Hughes, was issutd by tho mayor after Justice Greenbaum of the supreme court had vacated the injunction restraining County Clerk Dooling from notifying Mayor Mc-Clellan that Governor Hughes had removed President Ahearn and an Injunction prohibiting the may or from calling a session of the board of aldermen to'elect a successor to Mr. Ahearn. Justice Greenbaum, in vacat ing the injunctions, decided that Ahearn had been removed by the proper administration of the law. Jus tice Greenbaum decided that the court had no power to review the findings of the governor. ' DWIGHT PLACE MEETING Eccleslnstical Society Holds Annual , Session With Election. The annual meeting of the Dwight Place Ecclesiastical society was held last evening. Reports of the society for the year were read, the financial report being an . excellent one and showing that the association was in a very flourishing condition. Three new members were chosen to the society's committee, they being E. H. Barnum, James Wray and Dr. Frank Diamond. Thece members succeed John B. Ken nedy, E. E. Field and Lawrence Blakeslee who retire from the commit tee this year. '-.' H. D. Hennig was elected clerk of the society and Frederick C. Lum was chosen auditor. Frederick Campbell was elected collector and treasurer. The following were appointed tithing men: Arthur Beebe, Fred Mead and H. D. Hennig. KILLED BY TROLLEY Fatal Accident at Southington New Haven Turnpike '.Crossing. SLEIGH STRUCK BY A CAR Henry Dooliftle, of Cheshire, Dies as tho Result of a Frnc- turcd Skull. Crossing the tracks of the Connecti cut company at the Southington-New Haven - turnpike " yesterday noon, a sleigh in which Henry Doolittie, t Cheshire Center, was riding jvas struck by a passing car and almost instantly killed. j The sleigh was completely demolish ed, but the horse was uninjured and was caught after running a short dis tance from ' the crossing. , People aboard the car sent for Medical Ex aminer Charles N. Dennlson, who stated to the Journal-Courier last night that, while ho had not yet given a formal opinion on 'the matter, the death was plainly due to accident. The conductor and motorman gave their , names William Ferguson and W'illlam iCongdon, and the car pro ceeded. , , -1 The crossing where Ihe accident oc curred is about a mile from Cheshire Center and is well protected. The sleigh made no noise coming along the road, and evidently Mr. Doolittie tried to cross in front of the car, perhaps before he saw it. The remains were taken to George Keeler's undertaking rooms at Chesh ire. There it was found that Mr. Doolittle's fatal injury was a fractured skull. His son, A. S. Doolittie, of this city, was notified and went immedi-1 ately to Cheshire. The funeral ar rangements have not been made. BACK ON DUTY AGAIN Sergeant Scranton Once More Patrols West Haven Shore. Sergeant Walter Scranton of the West Haven borough police went back on duty last night. Some weeks ago he was laid off because of an injunc tion brought by David platt restrain ing the borough from making provi sion for him. In ' the meantime a great section of West Haven was left without protection. The sergeant lost no time in finding something to do after going back on duty. Shortly before midnight last night he found a horse and carriage on Grove street. The horse had evi dently run away as the carriage was wrecked. The animal, Is now at O'Con nell's stable, 1 BOY CAUSES i COLLISION Teii-Ycar-Old Switches Passenger Train Into Switch' Engine. Woonsocket, Dec. 16. A ten-year-old boy Is believed to have been responsi ble for a collision between a passen ger train and a shunting engine on the Woonsoeket-Franklin-Boston line of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford railroad here to-day, A misplaced switch, at the Prospect street crossing sent a Boston bound passenger ' train unto a siding and It crashed Into a switching engine, No one was injured and comparatively little damage was done. A ten-year-old boy was seen tampering with the switch just before the accident. SIR. HARRIJLVN IMPROVED. New York, Dec. 16. It was said to night at the home of E. H. Harrlman that the condition of Mr. Harriman, who Is suffering from an attack of the grip, was very much improved, and that he would be able to go to his of- flee in a few . Cays, SMITH G, WEED THE PRESIDENT ' Chosen Head of Union League by Unanimous Vote at tho ; Club's Annual Meeting. OTHER POSITIONS FILLED Three Men Reported as Seeking OarencB Tlioumson's PInrn - Omlttrvl 111 flitt Co- lection. .. i Though three candidates were re ported to bo making a lively campaign for the presidency of the Union League club, which held its election of officers last evening, there was not even a second name placed in nomination when thS call came to name candi dates for the ballot. Major Smith G. Weed, the recently resigned head of the Foot Guard, was placed before the meeting lant evening and the thres candidates whos'a friends have heen pushing them to fil', the place withheld tnemseives entirely, allowing a unani mous selection of Major Weed. He succeeds Clarence E. Thompson who nas been at the head of the club for the past three years. ' Considerable interest in the election had centered in the fact that Dr. Stet son, Frank H. Curtiss and Frank A. Corbin were each strtvln.tr for th honor. Tn nrrlpr tiV malra nta. unanimous and avoid a possible dead-' lock and several ballots for the office, a fourth candidate was introduced and the election went to him as a unani mous choice, The other officers elected are: Vice-Presidents George E. Hodeson' and O. M. Shepard. Trustees General ; . E. S. Greeley,' ; Samuel Lloyd' and Leslie Moulthrop. Auditors William P. Tuttle and, George W. Lewis. Board of Governors George C. Ross, Dr. F. W. Browri, F. S, Cornwell, Les lie P. Smith and Dr. W. P. Bradley. Secretary Ward Bailey. Treasurer C. C. Barlow. 1 TAKEN- WITH FAINTNESS Man NamVd Bachr Thought Seriously ' - ; Hurt at First. ' , ' Overcome with an attack of faint ness in State street, between Bradley and Osborn, about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a middle-aged ina-rfc said to be the brother of Edward Baein1.- barer of 453 State street, and living wltlf him at, 24 Orchard street, was carried unconscious into the barber shop of Frederick Vegliante, at 731 State street A doctor was at once summoned and while he was on his way some bystander sent in a tele phone call for the police ambulance, which arrived shortly after the doctor had examined the man. ' He found that the case was not serious, so tha ambulance was ordered back. After being revived Baehr went home in a trolley -car without leaving hla full name. ; . BETTER USE FOR MONEY Reason United Church Did Not Go Into Chapman Revival. , The reason that the United church did "not go Into the Chapman revival with the other Congregational churches of the city, according to the statement of a member last night, was that tha members of the church ur .nimously- tnougnt that tho money which would be used in the revival services and which would go to Dr. Chapman and his friends could be better used in home missionary work,, a work- which has had to be curtailed of late because of lack of finances. -This isalso said to be the reason, why the Rev. Stewart Means and tha St. John's Episcopal church did not go Into the Episcopal mission work to be carried on at tho same time as the re' vtval. . DENIES SUICIDE Louis Lombard, Musieiiui, Says ThaS He Was Never Livelier. New York,' Dec. 16. Louis Lom bard, the American musician who was reported by special cable dispatches from Geneva to have attempted sui cide at Lugano, Switzerland, where several years ago he built the Chateau dl Trevano, has sent the following de nial from that place to the Associated Press: "The reports of my losses and sui cide are monumental lies. I never was richer or livelier than I am to day," MRS. ELLA LANCRAFT DEAD. Many will learn with sorrow of tho death of Mrs. Ella Lancraft, wife of George E. Lancraft, of the firm of Lancraft Bros., the well known oyster growers of Fair Haven. She dljd last evening at about 11 o'clock at her home on Fairmont avenue. She was much esteemed by all who knew her. She leaves three sisters, Mrs. Samuel H. Klrby, Mrs, Benedict and Mrs. Sperry. She was a native of Fair Ha ven, and had resided there all her life, Her father was Sereno Armstrong. She had been ailing for several years and during the last few weeks had failed rapidly. Her age was fifty. WEATHER RECORD. Washington, Dee. 16. Forecast: New England: Cloudy Tuesday; Wednesday, fair; fresh east winds. Eastern New York: Fair Tuesday, except snow in north portion; Wed nesday increasing cloudiness, dimin ishing west winds l s.