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WILD EFFOKTS TO ESCAPE.
Continued from second pn«e.
->oken. tell* a story of having seen at leant
thirty people perish.
"I was standing: on the end of one of the
Hamburg- Line piers," he said, "and
«aw about thirty people crowded under Pier
No. 1 of the North German Lloyd. They were
calling to some of the passing tugboats, but
tbeir appeal? were In vain, and when the flames
got near them th«>y dived into the water. There
«as no assistance near them at the time, and I
believe every one was either drowned or perished
in the flames."
The saving of the great Kaiser Wllhelm der
<irosse was attended with exciting incidents.
It seemed as if it would never be possible to
fret her clear, and the fire was spreading so
rapidly that it threatened hi almost any mo
ment to break out on the big ship. The great
hawsers, in the confusion, could not be handled
well, and axes wore brought into use to chop
them, releasing the vessel. Shi- Was towed out
into midstream, mid then far up th*t river. Her
bow? were slightly burned.
WOMAN" AY!' WOULD-BE RESCUER
PBRIBH.
Five minutes •■•■••.■ out a woman
Jump- II ore of the ship? in a vain effort
to reach the •• .-•• Th- flam«*s drove hrr from
the ship, .in) sVir- plunged heedlessly in the di
recticn in v.Jiich it s»i»rrtd that safety lay. She
leaped into a burring light* alongside th.- ship.
and v. hen an oflSorr en beard he -hip who still
stood by the doosvd vessel pay her and realized
v. ha: would be hr fate he plunsrcd down aft
her. hoping to drag her out of the burning
lighter into the •••.-.• i" ■ followed her within
a couple of seconds, and both (rent down into
tho Tamos in ib* liter and perished.
The.Phrrriieu;. of the Hamburg-American Line,
vnp a. little dainajred. according to the employes
at \fce pier at midnight. It was reported one?
or twice duri;v; she- evening thai she was on
tire, hut whenever she rsuijrai from the living
embers the blaze was quickly extinguished. At
midnijrht sfc*" was Mil at her pier, close up to
the burned district, with M"am up and pre
pared f> r.-.r,\o >ut under h^r own steam if it
Fhouid be found necessary to do fo.
Bacrfrasiemaster Maeon. <• the Holland Line
pser. Just above the scene of the conflagration,
manned one of the rescue boats and succeeded
in making a great record for himself as a life
ssver. The fire was hardly under way before he
f-sav a man and a woman wearing life preservers
floating down toward the Holland pier. He
picked \\:-.i. up and took them ashore, and by
the time he got back to the end of the pier there
were others floating toward him. He and an
aps ! stant worked away till twenty people in fill
\v«»re 'ak?n out of the water and put ashore.
The purser of the Saale is confident that Cap
tain MJruw and Third Officer Auboern of the
Saale, perished. Last night at 12 o'clock, at
Naegili's Hotel, in Hoboken, he said:
"Mirow and Auboern were on the deck of the
Paaie as 1 was assisting in the lowering of one
of the lifeboats. It being Saturday, there were
a good many visitors on the boat, and when the
tire broke out and there seemed no chance to get
the people aehore by sending them to the pier. I
went to one of the lifeboat*, and with the
assistance of another man whose name I don't
know. I lowered one of the boats. About
twenty women and children sot into It. and it
v.as pretty near the water when a great wave
of flame swept over US, nearly choking and
Minding us with the ri^at. .and doubtless burn-
Ing the hands of the man who had hold of the
rope* on the other end.
"Any way, one end of the boat fell into the
wster, and the women and children were all
dumped out. Many of them sank while I was
hanging on the ropes. I slid down the rope
holding the front end of the boat, and held on
close to th^ vater till a tug came along and
picked me up. That sv«* between 4 and .">
o'clock, and as Mirow and Auboern have not
been hearu from since. I am inclined to think
that they were lopt."
THE ORIGIN UNKNOWN.
Tht- manager of the freight department of the
North German Lloyd Line, whpn seen at the
fire last night, said:
"Af far as we can make out, the fire started in
n cotton lighter of the Morgan Line discharging
a cargo alongside Pier No. B. No one knows ex
actly hoy: the fire originated, but it happened to
he almost exactly on the boundary line between
the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg
Line piers. The North German Lloyd Line was
loJned u.p<=-th.r with bulkheads. The high wind
:r carried the fir* acrripp these bulkheads
lik<= a flash of lightning almost, and the whole
cargo "f cotton was aV.laze before we knew It.
"We f-stimate that on the Saale, the Main and
lhe iiremr-n six hundred men belonging to the
if tbe vesFf-1? were at work. On the
Kaiser Wilhelin about five hundred laborers
I work Of these it iH not supposed that
many wr-re- injured, and few, if any, killed. On
th* pier? about live hundred men were at work.
and th^ larger part of these escaped. There Is
aw poswJbflits of getting a Uat of the employes
"•'■ani'-rp ami ih» laborers at work on the
•••-night. Borne are !n the hands of the
an consul and pome were horned.
shall be ai>W- to out a full
;h>- men employed, and thf-n by hunting
Tip th"s c - ".ho are alive we shall be able to find
10 the mining are In the mean time, we
ha\«- seat i" the newspapers a request to all
our men to report to the office of Meyer &
Steneck, Rlvw-St-, between Second and Third
els.. Iloboken. In this way we may be able to
get an approximately correct list of the men at
work here yesterday, and by comparison we
may be able to tell who perished."
Of Individual acts of heroism there was
l^pion. but in the rush and excitement there
<ou!d be no record of those* wiio did the deeds.
One man in the hospital, with burned hands and
face, ■aid he was rescued by another man more
severely burned than himself. He said he was
helpless in the water, when the other threw an
arm alx>ut him and buoyed him up. The other's
face was fearfully burned and the other arm
was useless, but he treaded the water and
floated so skilfully that they floated down the
river and a tug went to their rescue. The man
who told the story said he fainted after being
rescued and did not know if his rescuer had
a<so b^en taken out of the water.
A PURSER BADLY BURNED.
Purser Cliff, of the Kaiser Wilhelm, turned
up at Naegill's Hotel last night at 12 o'clock
for treatment. He was badly burned about the
hands. The captain's steward on the Kaiser
Wilhelm also went to the same place to have
his hands attended to. The latter jumped from
the deck of the big liner to the water when the
flames reached the side of the vessel, and swam
to the Hamburg Line pier, where he was assist
ed to a place of safety.
J. H. A. Falkers. of San Francisco, was booked
to sail cm the Main this week. He waa at the
Broadway Central Hotel fsst filial, and. having
a little spare time, thought he would take a look
at the b<-ai OS] which he expected to spend sev
erel days*. He was wandering aimlessly around
the saloon of the Main yesterday when he heard
the cry of fire and saw th<- people running. He
tried to get on <i«-ck and was nearly choked with
the flame*. H" finally got on deck. Jumped
overboard, and v. as picked up by a tug.
About 11 o'clock last night Captain Smith of
the tugboat Mutual s;aw the bodies „f tw< men
floating in the water near the scene of the fire.
He pulled them on board and took them to the
Bellevue Morgue. The bodies were those of
men and were badly charred, it was thought
they were coal passers. It was impossihle to
identify the men.
TALKS WITH OFFICERS.
THEIR ACCOUNTS OF IHK TERRIBLE
CATASTROPHE.
Alter the three burning ships had drifted into
the stream a Tribune reporter went on board the
Kaiser Wilhe>m der Grosse. It was then seen
that the extent of th.- damage to the vessel was
limited to a ynall part of the starboard side.
Eight lifeboat^jvliieh hung along this side were
badly blistered *>' the beat, and the yellow,
flaring mouthed ventilators which are ranged
behind the line of lifeboats were also warped
by the heat. Captain H. Engelbart was on
the bridge of the ship, and with him were sev
eral officers from the others ships who had
taken refuge there. Among them were Second
Officer Block and Third Officer Scheidling, of
the Bremen, and First Officer H. Schaffer and
Second Officer E. Zander, of the Saale.
THE KAISER RESCUED.
Captain Engelbart, of the Kaiser Wilhelm. In
telling his experience with the fire, said:
The fire came down upon us with such sud
denness that at first escape appeared impossi
ble. I ordered that signals be made for the
help of tugs, and as soon as possible several
made fast to us and hauled us out. The tugs
which were on hand first were the Sarah E.
Kaston. the John Fuller, the President and the
Reggie Foster. The crew behaved bravely, and
none forsook their stations. As we were drawn
away the lire from the pier swept our deck like
a winter's sea. 1 wonder that the ship fared
as well as she did.
Beoond Oflsoer Block, of the Bremen, burned
Bia hands severely in •scaping from the vessel.
In teliing of how he leaped from the ship into
th ■ stream, lie said:
When the fire swept down upon us I was In
the aft part of the vessel. I looked, out to see
If there was any escape by the pier, and dis
covered that it was all aflame I then ran up
on the passenger deck and saw that the for
ward part was ablaze. At the order of Captain
Nierick, I cut away the ropes and closed the
bulkhead;. We then called to the tugboats
floating around in midstream to throw us a line,
but they did not appear to Fee us. The cap
lain ordered the lifeboat manned, but it broke
from the davits and fell to the river below. In
it were several women, who were visiting the
ship. which was to sail next Thursday. One
■woman was rendered unconscious and was
picked up by a lighter. Another woman climbed
down a rope. As for myself, I stripped and
jumped in. I had been swimming some time
when the tugboat Dalzell came by and picked
me up. I noticed that all the energy of the
company was bc-ing spent In savin? the Kaiser
Wilhelm. It atonfi was towed out.
I heard that Chief Officer Aubary was seen on
a lighter severely wounded. When I saw him
last he was cutting- loose the ropes.
Judging from the number of oeople whom I
saw jump into the water, I would say that as
many as thirty-five or forty were drowned from
our ship.
Third Officer Scheid'.ing said:
I leaped upon a eteam launch, and later was
taken off by the Dalzell and brought with Herr
Wock to the Wilhelm der Grosse. 1 was nearly
suffocated with the smoke, as I was in a lower
compartment of the vessel when the fire swept
down ut>on us.
The two officer? said that the crew of the
Bremen, including officers, numbered 206 men.
"I was down in the steerage of the Saale."
said Chief Officer Scheffer. 'When I heard the
cry of 'Fire!' I rushed up the steerage gang
way to the lower deck, and saw that I was
virtually surrounded by flames. To the south
the Italian dock was burning fiercely, and a
cotton bargr which lay in the slip between the
Italian wharf and our own was wrapped about
with flames. Fire also • stretched along the
chore. I ran up to the promenade deck and dis
ccvered that not only the pier to which we were
fast was aflame, but also the whole upper part
of the ship as well. I knew we were doomed.
The ship had been heavily freighted with cot
ton, and fore and aft were twelve barrels of
OIL Already the Bmell of oil began to pervade
the ship.
GROANS OF THE IMPRISONED.
"Efforts were being made to get the help of
tugboats, but none responded. 1 could hear
«tlfled groan* from several compartments, and
knew that some poor fellows were entrapped
by the fire.
"At last I jumped into the river and swain
for the pier of the Hamburg-American Line.
The current was so strong that I could not
avoid being carried toward the large cotton
barge, which was now swinging out into the
stream. When I had approached so near to It
that the heat burned my eyebrows and hair, I
dived under the water and swam as long below
the surface as I could hold my breath. I do not
believe I ever swam such a long distance under
water before in my life. When I came to the
surface I was on the other side of, the burning
barge, so that I must have enam under it. I
was on the windward side of it now, so that the
heat did not affect me.
"My strength was almost gone, however, and
it was all I could do to hold onto the Hamburg
pier after I had reached it. Having been hauled
a*ho/e, I rested a few minutes, changed my
< Jothes, and, on the tugboat Stevens, came out
to the Wilhelm der Grosse."
Second Officer Zander, of the Saale, said that
he was so taken by surprise that he had Jumped
into the water with all his clothes on. He
went on:
Ab soon as I came to the surface of the water
I thought some animal was dragging me down.
Then 1 thought it must be my clothes. The
weight was so gr^at that I was about to give up,
when a burning fagot came along. I splashed
some water on one end of it. and then took
hold. It burned my hands, but that was better
than drowning. I kept splashing water on the
titnber until t had put out the fire, and of a
sudden I felt it go down. Another swimmer had
taken refufev with r.ie. "We two drifted along
until hf said:
"What's the use of hanging on? All the ships
are burned up. My clothes and everything I've
got except a wife and baby over the water are
gone. 1 am going to let go. I don't feel like
trying to hold on any longer."
• Hold on," I said. "If you've still got a wife
and baby, for God's sake hold on!" and he did.
We were finally picked uj.> by a tug and brought
to the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
THE DESTROYED STEAMERS.
HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE BURNED SHIPS.
The Saale was built In 18S7 at Glasgow by the
Fairfleld Shipbuilding Company. She registered
About 5,000 tons, and was an expreßß steamer, car
rying a crew of about two hundred men, who were
chiefly Germans, as, In fact, were the crewn of the
other ships. Her captain was .1, Mirow. She was
to have failed for Boston to-day to carry an excur
sion party of about five hundred people to Europe
from that port.
The Main was the smallest of the ships de
stroyed. She was 500 feet long, and was rated at
thirteen knots. She carried a crew of about two
hundred men, under Captain Pctermann. The
Main was built by Blohm 4 Vosn, of Hamburg,
and was launched In January. 1900. This was her
second trip to New-York.
The Bremen was built In 1898 at Danzig, by the
Bebleban firm, the well known constructors of
the torpedo boats for the German Admiralty. She
was registered at 10.000 tons, and carried a crew
of 300 men. She wan one of the largest vessels
In the fleet, and had attained h speed of fourteen
knots. Her capacity was "JO first cabin and 128
second cabin and about seven hundred and fifty
steerage passengers. Her captain was R. Klerioh.
The Bremen was to have sailed on July 5.
The dimensions of the Kal«er Wilhelm der Grouse
are as follows: Length over all, 648 feet : beam. 66
feet; depth, 43 feet; tonnage. 14,000, and displace
ment. 20,000 tone. Bilge keels nr« attached to
the hull of the ship on both Bid>!«. by which the
rolling motion is reduced to a minimum. The ves
sel Is divided by sixteen strong transverse bulk
heads, all extending to the upper deck, and by one
longitudinal bulkhead in th« eo^lno room tutu
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, JULY 1. 1000.
eighteen watertight compartments, so that even
should three compartments fill, the vessel could not
sink. It is especially noteworthy that the four
groupß of boilers are each placed In a separate
watertight compartment entirely divided from the
others, so that In eaas of B collision the vassal
would not be without steam to work her main
engines or her pumps. The vessel possesses a
double bottom that is divided into twenty-two sub
divisions, extending over the entire length of the
ship, and providing a great protection agalnat In-
Jury to the ship's bottom. In addition to all these
safety appliances the steamer is provided with twen
ty-four large lifeboats, placed upon the awning deck.
It should he mentioned that the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse was built In accordance with the re
quirements of the Imperial German Navy Depart
ment, and is fitted in case of war to be equipped
with a largo number of guns and enter the German
naval service as a cruiser.
Th* steamer Ins developed a very high rate cf
speed. The motive power consists of two triple
expansion engines. The two engines are separated
by a Watertight longitudinal bulkhead. The two
three bladed propellers measure almost 23 feet in
diameter, and arc constructed of bronze. each
weighing twenty-six tons. The length of the shaft-
Ing is 19.8 feet. The two condensers have a cooling
surface of 85,681 square feet, and the tubes In the
condensers are 11,060 in number, comprising a
length of thirty-five miW.
There are 200 stateroom* for the use of first cabin
passenger?, offering accommodations for ISO per
sons. The second cabin passengers are accommo
dated in about 100 rooms, in which 370 persons can
find berths. The steerage quarters Nave room for
800 persons. The crew of the steamer consists of
.450 persons. The captain is H. Enpelbart.
HISTORY OF THE LINE.
FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OP THE
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD SERVICE.
The North German Lloyd Steamship Company
was formed by H. H. Meier, of Bremen, in 1857. It
first owned and operated only three steamers, be
tween Bremen and England. In 1858 the steamer
Bremen began the New-York service of the com
pany, and a year later the newly established trans
oceanic line was intrusted with the carrying of the
American mails.
In 1866 the company established a weekly service
of steamers to New-York, and so fast did the com
pany's fleet grow that In 18G7 It had fourteen steam
ers. Eight steamers composed the fleet in the
New-York service and six in the English. In 1867
the vessels of the company made forty-seven trips
to America and 127 trips to England. In 1868 the
company opened its Bremen and New-Orleans
line, and in the following year It opened a line to
the West Indies, and instituted a regular service to
Rotterdam and Antwerp.
In 1871 and in 1575 the South American service was
established. The South America Line was operated
to Brazil in the Plate River. This line was di
vided Into two distinct lines three years later, one
running to Bahla. Rio Janeiro and Santos, the
other to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. In ISBO,
when a new epoch in the history of steam naviga
tion opened with the express steamers tho directors
of the North German Lloyd recognized that the
future of the passenger traffic and mall service
lay witri those lines of express steamers offering
to passengers the greatest possible safety, com
! '• fd with special elegance and comfort during the
Voyage, and decided to build a whole fleet of ex
press steamers.
The first of Its new express steamers was the
Elbe. Her speed was sixteen miles an hour, and
on June 26, 1881. she left Bremen for New-York.
This vessel was followed two years later by the
Werra and the Fulda, both of which could make
sixteen to seventeen miles an hour. The Werra and
the Fulda were single screw vessels and were sold
in IS9B. In ISM two more vessels were added to this
new fleet of express steamers. They were the Ems
and the Elder, with a speed Of seventeen miles an
hour. In ISSC were added the Aller and the Trave
(speed, seventeen to eighteen miles); in 1887 the
Saale (speed, seventeen to eighteen miles) and the
Lahn (speed, nineteen mllefi); In 1889 the Kaiser Wil
helm II; In 1890 the Spr.v and the Havel (speed
nineteen to twenty miles). The engines of the Elbe
indicated 5,000 horsepower, and those of the Spree
and the Havel possessed 12.500 horsepower.
Another Important change in the construction of
steamers occurred about the time the new
fleet of express steamers was being built. Before
this the fittings of the saloon were kept within
the narrowest limits of necessity, bo that there
would be an economy of space in favor of cargo.
The, company saw that the times demanded that
ships for pirssengers should be more commodious
and tasteful, and It not only filled the cabins, din
ing and other rooms with every comfort, but pre
vlded them with masterpieces of art.
In ISSS the company secured a Government con
tract for the establishment of five new lines, reach
ing India, China, Japan and Australia, with branch
lines , In the Mediterranean and the Pacific Ocean.
These lines required the building of six new steam
ers. In June 1886, the first Imperial German maij
steamer, the Oder, left Bremen for Eastern Asia.
The Sailer followed in July to Australia. In advance
of these steamers a number of smaller vessels were
cent out for service on the branch lines to ply be
tween Hong Kong and Yokohama In connection
with the China line, and between Sydney and the
Samoan Islands in connection with the Australian
line.
For Its main ser%Mce in the Imperial mall lines
the company built the Preussen, the Bayern, the
Sachsen and the Kaiser WilhHm 11, and the Stet
tin, the Danzig and the LiUbeck for the branch
lines. These steamers were constructed by the
Vulcan Company, of Stettin. Germany, and their
speed averaged between fourteen and sixteen miles
an hour. All were built for service In the tropic?,
and In speed, dimensions and beauty of Interior
decorations they far exceeded the requirements of
th- 1 Imperial Government.
Later the company established a line between
Singapore and the east coast of Sumatra. It was
Intended as a feeder for the China line. In 1893
the- company Instituted a new line, between Singa
pore, Batavia and New-Guinea. Since 1890 the
comj>any has added many handsome, fast and Im
posing vessels to Its extensive fleet. Its most re
cent additions were the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
and the Main. It also h:id built for its service the
Kaiser Frederic by Schichau, the torpedo boat
builder, at Ebllng. Germany. This vessel was
launched In 1898. and her machinery wan con
structed on torpedo boat lines. She whs rejected
by the company, as she did not fulfil the condi
tions of the contract. She was guaranteed to make
half a knot iin hour more than lhe Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse.
The company built in the last ten years a number
of vessels, especially for carrying steerage pas
sengers and cargo. These vessels are capable of
accommodating twenty-four hundred steerage pas
sengers, besides eighty cabin passengers and about
three thousand tons of cargo. The steerage com
partments are so arranged that they can be easily
and quickly removed, so that some six thousand
cubic metres of space can be appropriated for
cargo. They are used In the New-York, Baltimore
and Plate River trade, and also in the season for
the wool traffic from Australia.
The company opened in 1891 the New-York-Genoa
Line, and In 1892 It established a regular service
betwee: Genoa, Naples and Alexandria, and later
a new line between Naples and New-York.
In 18. the total tonnage of the lino was 15.255
and in 1893 230,567. The amount of coal consumed
In 186» was 159.010 tons, and in 1892 760,066 tons.
In 1858 Its steamers made a tot.l mileage of 28,520
miles, and in 1892 a distance cf 2,840.824 miles.
The number of passengers carried In 18G8 was 1,870
and In 1892 203.493. It was announced some years
ago that the company's possessions hud become
so vast that it tiM not insure with underwriters,
but wrote off each year a sum equal to the pre
miums ii would have to pay. This sum it put,
it was said, In an Insurance fund of Its own, on
which it draw In an emergency.
Since 1875 Oelrlcbs & Co. BATS been the local
agents of the North German Lloyd. In 1899 Her
mann Oelrichs retired from the firm, leaving as
partners Hermann C. Yon Post, Gustav H. Schwab
and Benjamin W. Schwab.
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD DISASTERS.
THE LOSS OF THE E2L.BE AND THE DEOTEOCH
LAND.
The worst previous disaster which has happened
to the North German Lloyd Company was the loss
of the steamship Elbe, with about 360 persons on
board, on January 30, 1895. The Elbe was only a
few hours out from Bremen on her way to this
port, when, In darkness and mist, an unknown
steamer crashed Into her at full bpecd. About
twenty-two parsons were saved.
On December 5, Ufl, the company lost the.
Deutschland. The steamer was bound from Bremen
to Southampton, sad grounded on the Kentish
Knock Sands, In the Thames River, in a terrific
Miowsiorm. Of the passengers and crew, about
seventy-live perUhed. The vessel was wrecked.
The steamer Mosell, while bound from Bremen
for this port by way of Southampton, struck on
th« rocks at Llsard Point In a dense, fog on August
9, 1&82; and wan wrecked. 8h« had on board be
tween six hundred and seven hundred patiaengers,
who. with her crew, were rescued by the Falmouth
st+amtr Rosettrt. In 1873 the Kiil»<t Wilhelm went
ashore and broke up, and about IMS the Elder went
ashore on Attersneld L«dge. She was floated and
towed into Southampton, but abandoned there.
In 1892 the Trave ran Into th* shlw Kred B. Taylor
and cut her In two. mid In 1894 th« Em» was disabled
In mldocean by an accident to her shaft. She was
«ow«d Into the Azores Islands. .■ : -
THE INJURED.
FROM THE SAALE.
A l/1 MAN. Georire. burned: St. Mary's Hospital. HoboXen.
HKSMAN. Frederick, twenty-six years eld, fireman;
burned.
COLCINSA. fireman: burned.
CHEPIIIL.I* John, twenty-Hunt years old. tlnprle; Hudson
Street Hospital.
IXIRRERI. Joseph, twenty-four years old. burned; Belle
vue Hospital.
DEAMER. William, twenty years old. colored, coal
passer: burned Internally and also had his arms and
fret bunts': Hudson Street Hospital.
DRABICK, John, steward, head burned: Hudson Btre«t
Hospital.
DRESCA. Frederick, thirty- one years old. fireman, mar
ried, burned; Bellerue Hospital.
DRARICH, John, eighteen years old, fireman; overboard.
Hotel. Hoboken.
PRARRICH. John, thirty-four years old. fireman; over
board. Hotel. Hoboken.
DUBEDAN. Frederick, twenty-fir* years old. fireman,
single, burned- Hudson Street Hospital.
GUARDINO. Aurello, thirty yearn old", laborer.
HAG AN. <;üßt«v. steward: face and hands burned; St.
Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
HAIN, Albert, twenty-three years old. fireman; hand
burned. St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
HEIDMAN. Carl, twenty years old. butcher, both arms
burned; St. Mary's Hospital. Hoboken.
HARKEMIAIIX. Karl, nineteen veara old. fireman, aln
ele. burned: Hudson Street nospltat.
HAU, August, hands burned; St. Mary's Hospital, Ho
boken. . .-.
HARKKNHART. John, fireman: burned.
HI'DMAX. Carl, twenty rears old. butcher: both arms
burned. Hotel. Hoboken.
KATZMAN. Joseph, twenty-four years old, fireman sin
gle, burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
KLEIN. Ferdinand, twenty-nine years old. Unman, sin
f\e, burned; Bellevue Hospital.
KRAHN. Henry, thirty-two years old, fireman, single
burned: Hudson Street Hospital.
KRANTZ. Delderlck. sixteen years old. fac« and body
burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
KROPZMAN. Joseph, fireman- burned.
KIIZJJIA. Valconia, twenty four years old, laborer. No.
II Elizabeth-st.. Hoboken: Hudson Street Ho^ltal.
LOSHMAN, Henry, fireman, arms and feet burned; Hud
son Street Hospital.
I^ORETTA, Savorls, forty years old. ma! passer, burned
Internally: Hudson Street Hospital.
MKUIKNB, Edward, twenty-four years old, fireman, sin
gle, burned: Hudson Street Hot-pit al.
MEOGA. Michael, twenty- years old. fireman, single.
burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
MEINHARDT, Richard, Thirty-two years old. fireman,
single, burned: Bellevue Hospital.
MKSTAL., Paul, twenty years old, coal passer. burned
internally; Hudson Street Hospital.
METER. A.inlph. twenty years old. fireman, single.
burned; Bellevue Hospital.
MUELLER. Henry, forty-six years old. fireman, burned;
Hudson Street Hospital.
OTTMANN. . eighteen years old. fireman: hand
burned. St. Mary's Hospital. Hoboken.
N'KIMAX. Frederick. t»eniy-nln years old. fireman.
married, burned; B«l!evue Hospital.
PKfSMKR. I*ne t. sixteen yearn old. sailor. face and
head burned; Trewuller'a Hotel, Hobcken.
Rl.'/KA. John. twenty-nine years old, fireman, married,
burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
RBIMER. Carl, forty Tears old. sailor, arm burned; St.
Mary's Hospital. Hoboken.
RUTHER. William, twenty-nine years old, fireman, mar
ried, burned: Hudson Street Hospital.
SCHEXMEYER. ■William, fireman; burned.
SCHMIDT. "■"■'istav, twenty-four years oM. fireman, single,
burned: Hudson Street Hospital.
SQHUTTE. Oorge. twenty-two yearn old. badly burned,
recovery doubtful; Christ Hospital. Jersey City.
BHEIMEISTBR. William, twenty-nine years old. fireman,
single, burned: Hudson Street Hospital.
RKOVINO. J3<teph, twenty-eight years old. painter. So.
201 Kli7,»beth-st.. burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
STAHL, Herman, twenty-six years old, electrician, Inter
.nal Injuries; Hudson Street Hospital.
SCHt'LTZ. Fr--vl, twenty ears old. a steward: Jumped
overboard and was rescued. St. Mary 1 * Hospital.
Hoboken.
TRY AX, Joseph. twent.v-three years old, coal passer, In
ternal injuries; Hudson Street Hospital.
VEN'NER, Ernest, thirty-seven years old, of the Saale.
recovery doubtful; taken to Christ Hospital. Jersey
City.
VANKA, Hans, nineteen years old. sailor.
VONDERLICH. Paul, fireman: burned.
AVALDER. Ehradt. eighteen years old. fireman, single,
burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
TVINDI3LI., Carl, thirty-eight years old. took; Injured
about head; St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
WARNKE. ErneFt, nineteen years old, fireman, single,
burned; Hudson Street Hospital.
WrPPAI.I,. Paul. cook, face burred; Hudson Street Hos
pital.
WBIOAXD. Karl, twenty-four years old. fireman, single.
burned: Hudson Street Hospital.
WUXDERLtCH, Paul, twenty-eight years old, fireman.
•Ingle, burned; Bellevu« Hospital.
ZIMMBRMAX. Otto, nineteen years old. fireman, single,
burned; Brllevue Hospital.
FROM THE BREMEN.
BT'SBA. John, twenty-six years old. fireman, burned
about face and body.
ELENE, Burnett, fifty-two years old. stewardess, steam
ship Bremen, side Injured; St. Mary's Hospital, Ho
boken. ._, a
DOUNDLANGER, .Michael, thirty-two years old. hand
burned; Trewuller's Hotel. Hoboken.
OARFIELDMANN, Georg«. twenty-two years old. hand
burned; Treweller's.
HILDEMAN*. Frits, thirty-one year* old. fireman, arm
burned; Trewuller's Hotel, Hoboken.
KEHI'E. August, twenty-nine' years old. chief cook, arm
fractured; St. Vincent's Hospital.
KAUBER. Bernard, twenty-nine, years old, fireman, hand
burned.
KI'HN, Gustave. chef, severe Injuries Caused* by Jump
ing from vessel to pier, fractured leg. contusions and
burns of the body; St. Vincent's Hospital.
LUST. Herman, of No. 312 Rlver-st., Hoboken. fracture
of ribs and contusion of legs.
NEILHARDT. John, thirty-seven years old. German,
first butcher, overcome by smoke and broken ankle;
sent to his home. No. 113 Washington-st., Hoboken.
NEWBACH. Peter, twenty-five years old, fireman, shoul
der hurt; Trewuller's Hotel. Hoboken.
OHLBEJNE, Adolph. chief officer, burned and badly
bruised: City Hospital. Jersey City.
PETERS, Emma, forty years old, stewardess, hand and
frot burned; hospital, Jersey City.
PREVIKCH. Gustav, steward, burned and bruised; City
Hospital. Jersey City.
RTJDAHT, Elm. of No. 211 North Stxth-«t.. Brooklyn,
burned about the head, face and neck: was visiting a
friend on the Bremen; City Hospital. Jersey City.
RTJDAHT. Ida, daughter of Elm Rudaht. sixteen years
old, sane injuries; taken to game place.
Rri>AHT. Lena, wife of Eltr Rudaht. Injured similarly;
City Hospital. Jersey City.
THORLER. Jacob, thirty-five years old. Jumped from
vessel to small boat and broke right leg; St. Mary's
Hospital. Hoboken.
UHLRICH. Otto, steward, burned, head and body.
UNDERHEIMER. Emile. thirty-one years old, fireman,
burned on head and body; St. Vincent's Hospital.
WIDENHUMEL. Emlle. twenty nine years old. fireman,
burns about body; St. Vincent's Hospital.
YOUNGER, Rudolph, fireman, head and body burned;
St. Mary's Hospital.
FROM THE MAIN.
AOUINER. Henry, burned: St. Mary's Hospital. Ho
boken.
BERG HM ANN. Christian, thirty-eight years old. recovery
doubtful; Christ Hospital. Jersey City.
CRAMER, E.. burned; St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
FISHER. "William, fireman, taken from water uncon
scious.
FOSTER, John, fireman, burned; St. Mary's Hospital,
Hoboken.
GARDINER, Frederick, nineteen years old, face and hands
burned: Trewuller's Hotel. Hoboken.
GOUNTMAXN. Paul, twenty years old. fireman, over
board and exhausted: Trewuller's Hotel. Hoboken.
HAU'i'MANN. Carl, twenty-three years old. badly burned!
Christ Hospital. Jersey City.
HALZFELDT. Julius, arms and legs badly burned.
HELLMAN, John, twenty-one years old, Jumped over
board anil rescued by a passing steamer: Bellevue
Hospital.
JUNKER Fritz, twenty-six years old. hand burned. St.
Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
MULVBB, Carl, burned about face and neck.
MADDUX. Ernest, seaman, burned head and shoulders.
MABAL'M, Ernest, twenty-six years old. a steward
Jumped overboard: hotel. Hoboken.
MEISTER. I^ouls. twenty-seven years old, jumped over
bonrd. rescued by passing steamer; Bellevue Hospital.
scilll.i:. Henry, twenty-six years old. fireman, hands
burned.
BCHtItiTZ, Otto, thirty-seven years old, overboard and
exhausted; TrewulUr's Hotel. Hoboken.
SMITH. Otto, body and feet burned.
TOMBBBI, — - — . twenty-su year* old, hand burned, St.
Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
ULKICH. Otto, slfhtSM years old, cook, hands burn»d-
Trewuller's Hotel. Hoboken.
URHANACK. Alphonso. body and arms burned.
WILHE, Chris, burned, St. Mary's Hospital. Hoboken.
FROM THE KAISER WILHELM " DER
OROSSE.
HTJDORF. August, twenty yearn "Id. fireman, overboard
sent to lift*-!. Hoboken. -• '
1/HVK.WVAI.DT Martin, twenty three years old fire
man. overboard: sent to hotel. Hoboken.
NEISH, Paul, twenty-one yean old. fireman, overboard
hotel. Ili>hi«k.n.
TIMPER ,, AulfU ,V'. twenty-three Tear » old. overboard
Trewullors Hotel. Hoboken.
WORK OF THE FIREBOAT VAN WYCK.
HER CREW RESCUE PEOPLE! FROM THE
SAALE, BUT CANNOT GET MANY.
An effort was made to get a talk from Cap
tain Thomas F. Conley. who commanded the
flreboat Van Wyck. but after he took her to
her Oranrt-st.. East River, pier, he at once- be
gan to prepare his report and said he had noth
ing to say. A member of the Van Wyck's crew
told the following; story of what the boat had
done:
We got th* rail at 6:07 p. m. > mode
a record trip across the river. We first turned
our attention to a burning barga, but when we
found the Saal* on fire went to her aid We cot
on the upper deck and opened the standpip* cool
ing the deck off. We fought the fire down Into the
engine room, where we found a lot of men on the
pump* The water was already so deep that
some of the men were awlmmtnK around. Others
had been drowned. It was an awful sight. We
took out thirty of them with ropes and ladders.
and there seemed to be twenty or thirty dead
bodies.
We next turned to the steerage, but the (Ire made
It Impossible to set to it. We tried next to get the
people out through the porthole*. There seemed
to be forty or fifty of them. There were men,
women and children. One woman In particular
attracted our attention. She kept calling to the
others not to give up hope— that we would save
them. Her face was torn and bruised. She had
been trying to get out of the small porthole.
Finding It Impossible to get the poor people out
we handed cups of water to some of them who
cried for a drink. Just before the ship went down
1 tug drew alongside with a Roman Catholic
priest aboard. He called to the ;>eople who seemed
to be mostly of his faith, and with uplifted hands
imparted absolution to them Just as the ship sank,
and the water rushing in at the portholes drowned
them like rats. The cries of the people as the
water poured In were Indescribable. Some of «•»
have had trying experiences at fires, but nothing
like that. We den t want another caw like It.
MR. SCHWAB 'AN TELL LITTLE
HE SAYS ALL INFORMATION ABOUT
THE VALUE OF THE SHIPS IS
KEPT IN BREMEN.
Gustav 11. Schwab, the agent of the North
German Lloyd company, was seen by a Tribune
reporter last night at his office. No. 5 Broadway.
He said:
I have Just returned from the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse, which is lying in the North River
Just off FlftWh-st. The steamer In entirely un
injured, with the exception that her starboard
boats are scorched and that some of her port
hole glasses are cracked. Otherwise she is un
harmed. Through the kindness of Vernon H.
Brown, of the Canard Line, the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse will dock at the Cunard pier. No. ."i:i.
North River, on Sunday morning. She will sail
from this pier on Tuesday. July 3, at 10 a. m.. as
scheduled. She was saved by her own men. with
the assistance of four tugs whose names I have
not yet learned. Her men also rescued several
members of other crew* who had jumped into
the water.
I cannot say at present how many lives were
lost. There were no passengers on any of the
steamers, although there may have been visitors.
As for the crews, I have no Information In re
gard to them. The muster rolls are kept at the
German Consul's office and are not available.
When the crews land in this country they re
ceive tickets for lodgings In Hoboken. Some
estimate of the loss among: the crews might be
made by a count of the men who were in or re
turned to their lodjrlngs after the fire broke out.
In regard to the value of the ships and matters of
Insurance. I may say that all such facts are
kept on the oth»r side, and I am not. therefore.
in a position to make any statement about them.
There was a great amount of freight on the
steamers — they are primarily freight steamers
with passenger accommodations — hut as to its
precise value I can say nothing.
Mr. Schwab left the offices of the North Ger
man Lloyd Company at 1:30 o'clock this morn
ing. He said that he had not yet received any
answer to his dispatch to the headquarters of
the company, but that he expected one In the
course of the day. He also said that it could
positively be stated that at least three hundred
or four hundred men of the crews were safe.
He added: "The charterers of the Saale are
Crawford & Floyd, of Boston, with offices in the
St. Paul Building in this city. There were no
passengers on any of the ships."
CROWDS LINGER ALL NIGHT
SESMINOLT rXWILLTNG TO LOSE A
MOMKNT OF THE SPECTACLE.
From midnight and through the early hours
of this morning the crowds around the fire and
along the river front numbered thousands, and
among them were hundreds of relatives and
friends of those who were employed about th*
piers and on the vessels, and were at work when
the fire broke out. There were many pathetic
scenes, and policemen were kept busy answer-
Ing the questions of the anxious ones. The
station house* and hospitals were also be
sieged.
The caKs and beer gardens which abound tn
Hoboken were full far into the morning, and
the crowd patronizing them behaved as such
crowds usually do. And so It was with the
people on the streets. Now and then the gatee.
■would swing open and an ambulance or police
patrol wagon carrying its dreadful freight
would pass through the lines of people.
The fire brightened about 2 o'clock and made
a brilliant hole In the night. From the land
the river looked like & gigantic red hot grid
iron.
Late last night the brightly burning wreck
of the Main was pulled out from her pier and
towed up the river to burn herself out.
The tows of the ferryboats to Hoboken. and
the sterns of those from that place, were
crowded all night with their passengers, who
were fearful of losing any portion of the brill
iant night spectacle.
Fifteen canal boats, wh eh were lying in the
slip between the Thlngvalla Pier and Pier No.
1, of the North-German Lloyd line, were all
burned.
Toward daylight the flames leaped up afresh.
and it was rumored that the fire was ragin?
fiercely again. This proved untrue, as the blaze
quickly died down.
LOSS ON CAMPBELL STORES.
THE MANAGER ESTIMATES IT AT nNK
MILLION DOLLARS.
Palmer Campbell, manager of the Campbell
stores, in River-st., Hoboken. which were com
pletely destroyed, said last night that the total
losses on the building and contents would ap
proximate $1,000,000. The stores were three In
number, and adjoined one another. They were
of brick. One was five stories in height, the
second four stories and the third three stories.
The buildings had a frontage of one hundred
feet, and originally cost $40,000. The contents
of the buildings comprised a miscellaneous as
sortment of goods In bon .1.
FIRK THREATENS MAiiAZINK.
BOLDIERS AT GOVERNOR'S ISLAND FIGHT
BLAZE ON FLOATING LIGHTERS.
General Brooke, commanding the Department
of the East, and stationed on Governor's Inland,
fearing that the burning lighters and debris
might set fire to vessels, directed Captain Pax
ton, of the 15th Infantry, who is the fire chief,
to assume charge of the steamer Hancock, and
with his men fight the flames.
Several of the men vraded into the water, and
for two hours were kept busy extinguishing the
fire on the lighters. At one time one of the
lighters was washed near a small magazine
containing cartridges, and It was feared that
an explosion might occur. Fortunately, how
ever, the lighter was pushed into the stream,
and passed down the Bay.
CENTRAL HAY SHEDS ABLAZE.
LIVE SPARK FROM SWIT«'H BNOIMB CAUSBfI
LOSS OP I 2&.000.
The Nrw-York Central Hay Exchange, which oc
cupies almost the entire northerly side of Thirty
thlrd-*it.. from Eleventh to Twelfth ayes., with
many carloads of hay. was heavily damaged by a
fire which broke out about 11 o'clock last night.
The Inflammable nature of the building's con
tents and the danger of spreading* caused tbe first
firemen to send in a second and almost Imme.V
ately a third alarm. The flreboat New-Torker
was Just tying up at the Battery and waa ordered
to the fire.
The flrevren had much difficulty owing to the
dense amoke cr.used by the burning hay. The wind
from the west carried this smoke across town, and
the Streets of "The Tenderloin" as far over as
Flfth-ave. were filled with smoke
Before they could get streams on the fire, the
firemen had to break open the Iron shutters which
Inclosed the large windows of the hu.ldlng. In
opening one of these it fell, carrying a ladder with
sevsial firemen down, but all escaped Injury.
The contents of the sheds were said to be worth
about V..001. A live spark from one of the switch
engines is thought to nave caused the fire.
corSTF.s* cwotirs \nr title.
Vienna June vt The Kmperor has conferred
upon the- Qssflstass Ckjatali the title ul Prlncea*
Hohenberier.
ROOSEVELT AT CHICAGO.
OX HIS WAY TO THE ROUGH RIDERS'
REUNION IN OKLAHOMA-COULD NOT
AVOID A RECEPTION IX INDIANA.
[dt TKLn<;i»Ai-n to the tribink |
Chicago, June JO.— Governor Roosevelt arrived In
Chicago on tre I^lce Shor* Railroad at 4.30 this
afternoon. Ht.< trip from New-York was unevent
ful. The Governor SSV»i that there be no demon
strations ar.ywh»rc .tlong the line, and discoun
tenanced »li efforts to turn the trip Into a cara
rnlgnlng four ..n the way out. although he has
consented to make several speeches after the Ok
lahoma reunion.
The Governor was ar<*ompan!*d on the trip by
Arthur P. Cosby. Deputy Attorney-General In
charge of the Gardiner case: J. Lartmore Worien
and 11. C. Pollock. »tl! members of 'he Rou?h
Riders and on the way to the reunion. No ors<»
would have known they r.-ere Rou?h Riders. %s
they wor» no.i* of the Insignia of that famous regi
ment, and nothin? was aatd ahcit their mlJltary
i«tand!ng. The Governor would not ta!k politic*.
He spent a part of the time on the trip •writln?.
*nd also wont over the papers In th» Gardiner cas»
*-ith Mr. Cosby, but would not discuss the matter
«r Intimate what would be dune-.
r> Th Governor declared that the report that tfc*
RR f >ugh R!.*er» would be use-1 for campaign pur
poses was ir.tr- and unfair. He said that over
a year ago he promised to ait-nd thU reunion a:
Oklahoma and that h» was held strictly to .-., that
as soon as the reunicu was end-d he would hurry
home, and there would be no more Hough Rider
talk until the campaign was over, and he would
stand entirely on Ms record as Governor.
The only Incident of the Governor's trip Wes:
was the reception he received at Elkhart. Ind. He
passed through Cleveland so early in the day
there were only a f«»- ■trajglera there, ar.d at
Toledo, when he got oil to walk up and down t ...
platform, a few persons snook him by the hand
and spokr to him.
At Elkhart, however, he wr.s caught. When he
came West in ISO*, just after the close of the war.
Kikhart gave him a gr€at reception. Th! 3 tlra*
there were not so many on hand, hut what they
lacked in numbers they made up In enthusiasm.
The Governor was F*a:ed on the observation plat
form on the rear car wh«n the train Mopped. The
crowd surged around the train. recpj^iiz.-d hlni and
called for a <-.-.. The Governor said that h*
could not talk politic? then, but that he hoped to
be back again before election and h» would show
his coo.l will by shaking hinds. A pretty girl
sprang up on the pla'form and said:
"Let me be first?" After she hnd shaken hand
with the Governor, others came forward. In th»
crowd was a veteran, wearing a Grand .-my of
the Republic suit. The Governor said. "I see you
are a veteran. "Yes," replied th» man. "of th»
four years' war."
"Well." saM th<> Governor. "I was In the short
war, but we dM not disgrace yon." The veteran
walked off. and said, after feeling the muscular
grip of the Governor. "If he can't talk he can
shake hands all right."
Governor Roosevelt had his hitr '•'it nn the train.
The barber on th* car carefully saved a lock of
the Governor's hair, which h* wrapped up In a
piece of paper and said proudly he would not sell
for $1,400.
When the train rolled Into the Chicago station
the Governor was joined by Pan! Morton, vice
president of th- Santa Fe Railroad, and D. W. Mul
vane. the m p mbf>r of th<» Republican National Com
mittee from Kan*a*. A crowd had collected to se*»
the Governor. r»n<l hf- was cheered anrl applauded
as he made his way to a carr!ap». The Governor
was ilrivfn directly to the Auditorium Annes.
where they were Joined hy Oracmc Stewart, th»
member of th«» Republican National Committee
from Illinois. There wpr» several other callers on
the Governor, includes the pr^sWont of the Hamil
ton Club.
The Governor dined this evening at the Chicago
Club with Mr. Morton and Mr. Mulvane. and did
not return to the hotel t ; ll late in tYf evenins.
The dinner was entirely Informal, and there wer«»
no other guests. Th« "Governor Intends to sperni
to-morrow quietly, peflnjr a few friends and per
haps taking a drive. He wil! start from here at *
o'clock to-morrow eveniny. and arrive at Kan
sas City on the moroinp tit July ? at S:2O. and re
main tr-f-,- one hour. His car will then be de
tached from the res"!?ir Oklahoma express of th»»
Santa Fe and become a special, leaving Kansas
City at 9 a. m. On board wfd Governor Stan
ley of Kansas, who win take charge of M Gov
ernor: National Co mm It tee man D. W. Mulvan»r
General .Metcalf. of the 20th Kansas: Senator Baker
and other distinguished guestsi ..' I
The special will make short, toss at Lawrence,
Topeka. Osage City. Emp^r.H. Peabody. Xewton.
■Wichita. Wlnfleld and Arkansas City. The latter
place will be reached ahnm 8 o'clock on the evening
of July 2, Oklahoma City w!!l be reached at mid
night, and there Governor Roosevelt -becomes th«
guest if the Rousrh Rider?. H» will remain ar
Oklahoma City all of July 3. leaving there at mid
night of that "day. His special train is then to b*
diverted to th«» Rock Island system, making its
first stop on the morningr of July 4 at Hutchinson.
Stops will also be made at Harrington. McPherson.
Alma and other pcints. St. Joseph. Mo., will be
reached between 7 and 8 en the evening of July 4, and
a stop of an -hour will be made there. The specta!
will then be diverted t>> the Burlington road, an i
will reach Quincy at noon on July 5: Oalesburs; a'
2:45. Mendota at 5. Aurora at 5:20 and Chicago a:
7:20. The Governor will then return directly to
New-York without stop.
ROOSEVELT HALF A SOUTHERNER.
HIS MOTHER A GEORGIAN— "WHAT HE mOTE
TO GENERAL ROSSER.
Richmond. Va.. June 30. — General Thomas L.
Rosser. of Charlottesville. recently wrote to Gov
ernor Roosevelt announcing himself a Republican.
Governor Roosevelt in hi? reply, just received, after
expressing pleasure at General Roster's letter. Bays:
By the way. i don't know that It ha;- ever cotee to
your knowledge thai 1 am half Southerner myself.
My mother was a Georgian, and of my two uncles
one was an admiia! In the Confederate service and
the other was .1 midshipman, who fired 'he last gun
from the Alabama before she went down.
Probably over half my regiment was composed of
the sons of Confedorates. and I have never been
able to see where our Interasts diverged. I cha!
lenge the right of b"ing treated as a stanch friend
of the South, as I mi o( the Nor'h. of the East.
and as I am of ihe Went, and I believe In the Re
publican party. because I am sure it is really th*
National party.
CONGRESS NOMINATIONS.
A. STEWART WALSH LIKELY TO BE NAMED
IN THE XVITH. AND FREDERICK C.
LAWYER IN THE XXXIST.
A. Stewart Walsh, of the XVlth Assembly Dis
trict. Kings County. Is regarded as the winning
candidate for the Republican nomination for Con
gressman in the IV: District. Brooklyn. T!ie
district Is made up of a part of the old Twenty
third, all of the Twenty-fourth. Twenty-fifth.
Twenty-sixth and Eighth wards. Israel F. Fischer
carried It twice., but was defeated two years ago
by Colonel Clayton, who returned from the Span
ish-American War in time to enter the race. Mr.
Walsh was formerly a minister. He served
throughout the ftvil War In the Union Army, and
for yea-s has been an active campaigner for the
Republican party. One of the other candidates Is
Harry A. Hanbury. of the Eighth Ward. Mr.
Walsh, however, seems to have a compact and large
( Mowing. H« is backed by State CommKteemaa
John D. Post. Arthur 9ewa*i and Naval OO
cer Robert A. ***** «i it Is also believed that
William J. Taylor, the darkey leader of tb.
XVlth Assembly District. m In favor of hl^
Frederick C Lawyer, of the lan firm of Bitch.
regarded as «h£ «£ f Assembly District, now that
-
va ': s nd and they are pushing him for the nom&atloa
SS&S AU^aT Ellas J. Goodman ar*
.TrMinLTuS • N«>m for I aoml
£F vJt the XXXHt Assembly District, ta
ffi^SSSasffla ass
this time, however, as the cv .| W tr,-t has
A bl.l for It. anrumg t> \ , ♦S^ssl
toitM nomination oftener than any other dlstrtct
SPEAKERS AT LEAGUE CONVENTION.
President Frederick P. ■ss*s« of the State Ra
£££ of in a letter to the dele «£*«
the convention of the National Republican Lew™
at St Paul Minn., on July IT. IS and 19. wye that
the speaker at the mating wtlMnclude Governor
QUIET AT HEADQUARTERS.
Senator Platt had no callers el prominence ys*
terday at the Oriental Hotel, where he Is *p«d-
Ing the greater part el his ««*»• these days. .
Chairman Benjamin B. OissV Jr of the IUM
Committee, attended the racw at Poug *£*?%:
Commute*.