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PHILIP D. ARMOL'R DEAD.
TjEiD OF THE GREAT PACKING FIRM
OP ARMOUR & CO. PASSES
AWAY IX CHICAGO.
Chicago. Jan. 6.— Philip D. Armour died at his
residence in Prairie-aye.. In this city, at 5:45
o'clock this evening. The end came after two
years* illness, In the course of which Mr. Ar
j-oar visited German baths, passed the cold
jncsths la California, and devoted himself large
ly to an attempt to restore his health, which,
however, had been broken, never to be re
gained.
For several weeks he had been living at the
old family home, the usual trip to the south of
California not having been taken this winter.
He came down to the office in the Home Insur
ance building seldom, and as the cold increased
lie did not come at aIL It was understood In the
«IBce that he had an incipient attack of pneu
nonia, but it was given out no later than a
-peek ago that be was on the road to recovery.
It was noted, however, that the constant at
toßdance of Dr. Frank Billings, the family phy-
P. r>. APwIIOUH.
«tr*"«, at the bedside of the sick man did not
csuuborate the favorable reports at the down
tewn office.
For several days bis death had been feared
by his doss associates. When death came his
grandchildren, who had so close a place in his
heart, were at the family residence, as was J.
Ogden Armour, tbe surviving son.
Mr. Armour had lest strength steadily from
day to day since the beginning of the winter.
The pneumonia was checked, but strength was
¦ot regained. The firm grip he had so long
maintained upon the business of Armour & Co.,
whether at the office or thousands of miles
away, slowly relaxed. Reports no longer in
terested him as they were wont to In the first
¦Mnthf of his declining health. The sudden
•sath of his son and namesake, nearly a year
ago, hung heavily en him in the closing months
of his life. In fact, he never recovered from
-the shock he experienced from that event. It
stopped his progress toward recovery in his win
ter seme at Pasadena, and its sorrow remained
Ml until tbe end.
His treadmill of work and his firm grip on
affairs were maintained until the spring of 1809.
Then the machine began to show signs of break
lag. Mr. Armour was reported to be a sick
man, aad these reports were confirmed when he
sailed for Germany to take baths at Bad Nau
belm. He spent most of 'he summer at the
baths, and was sufficiently restored In health to
take a trip to Switzerland, where he remained a
month among the mountains. When he returned
to Chicago that fall he looked well, and his
friends hoped his recovery was complete. He
went to Danforth Lodge, the summer home of
his son, Philip D. Armour, jr., at Oconomowoc
Lake, Wis.. and remained there until nearly
winter. Then he Journeyed to Pasadena, Cal..
for the cold months. All the time he was at
Oconomowoc he made weekly trips to bis office
in the Home Insurance Building, and was re
ceiving constant reports of the general drift of
his business affairs. The death of his son.
Philip D. Armour, jr.. in California on January
29, 1900, was a great shock to the health broken
man. The son had gone on a visit to his father
aad was taken suddenly with pneumonia. His
death followed with scarcely a day's warning.
The son had largely inherited the business abil
ity of Armour, and was closely following tbe
footsteps of the head of the firm when he was
stricken down.
Mr. Armour was not able to accompany the
funeral party to Chicago. When he did return
here, he went direct to Oconomowoc and re
mained there until the chill weather in the fall
drove the summer cottagers to their city homes.
After the death of Philip D. Armour. Jr., the
»ast interests of Armour & Co., which had been
carried on as a copartnership, were incorporated
Under the old name of Armour & Co. This was
to provide greater stability in case of death,
and made no change in the practical ownership
•f the properties. Some years before, the grain
department had been incorporated under the title
ef the Armour Elevating Company. The death of
Simeon B. Armour, at Kansas City, In March,
1689, caused no particular change in the Armour
interest* there, as they were operated as a stock
company.
So carefully bad tbe plans for tbe future been
made that tbe death ct Mr. Armour will have
Uttle effect on the outward working of the
treat enterprise with which he had been so
closely Identified. It is believed that all the
Armour properties will be held intact until the
grandchildren come into their own.
MR. ARMOUR'S WEALTH.
Chicago. Jan. 6.— Referring to Mr. Armour's
¦Jrtune. The Chicago Chronicle" to-morrow will
•ay:
.Mr. Armour's wealth is a subject that may never
m accurately known. It in estimated to be not less
than 00,900.000 and by some to exceed $50,000,000. The
•embined wealth of the Chicago Armours Is fixed
ft MO.GOG.OGO. In one sense the total is the wealth of
*TiiUp D. Armour, but just how much has been
**rrled in his own name and how much in the
P*Be of his tone Is unknown. He has not been a
¦¦Rower. He has always been able to pay cash for
¦s purchases and he haa never asked a customer
*c discount a bill.
la his great wheat deals he haa always had ready
•ash. In times of panic he haa showed vast re
•sureea in spot each. In 1893, when a run was made
¦Pfß the banks of Chicago and the credit of the
*«y and tbe fate of the Exposition was hanging in
3f balance. Philip D. Armour bought $509,000 of
ftft In Europe and offered help to the big institu
*•••¦ of the city from his cash resources In Chicago.
tftth a business of $300,000,000 a year in the pack
>*g department aloue. a grain business of half that
****vat and practically the owner of a great rall
*¦*¦ system, the estimates of his wealth at the
**Bost figure appear modest instead of exagger-
MR. ARMOUR'S CAREER.
Philip Danforth Armour was born at Stockbridge.
fcsfron County. N. T.. on May IS. 1832. He was
Lrcm^ht op on hl« father's farm, -and was edu
***** in the district school and at Cazenovia Acad
**y. The news of the discovery of gold In Call-
K?JU led him to seek the Eldorado. Not having
•• means to go by shipboard, he went overland.
**»elling much of the way on foot. He was fairly
¦MmCbl la his enterprise there— that of develop
er ditches to supply water for placer mining. . In
JEW ¦- returned home, but soon decided that the
¦| was the place for him to make bis fortune.
¦p Uae be went to Milwaukee, where bis
¦M Frederick- S. Miles, was engaged In the
">-«> grocery and commission business. They
|J^ Oi< * partner* and were prosperous, but la 1563
.-:'¦*. ftria -,-.- _„.., and Mr. Armour associated
* th *" lf -* 1l » John Planktaton. The ksjsjsjssi .was
*br«''- * t; :ni .ram transportation. Mr Armour 1 !*
$tHQ* r *i Hirmin O had in 2V52 started a com
*¦¦•«' bucta«M «.t Chle«#o, : and " later the la
dustry of pork packing was added. In 1865 the
latter had removed to York, and Joseph F.
Armour had taken his place as head of the firm
of H. O. Armour & Co. In 1875 Joseph Armour's
health failed, and Philip D. Armour went to Chi
cago to take charge of the business there. The
branch at Kansas City had originally been estab
lished as a separate concern in 1870. It was headed
by the late Simeon B. Armour, the eldest brother.
All of his live brothers, except Charles E.. who
died in the Army In 1863. became oartners In the
business of which Philip was the head.
The pork packing, dressed meat and provision
business of Armour & Co. (as the firm has been
known since 1870) is the largest in the world. In a
single year the business often exceeds 1100,000,000,
while more than eleven thousand persons are em
ployed fry the company.
Mr. Armour's private charities were large, the
most notable being the Armour Mission, the Ar
mour Flats and the Armour Institute of Tech
nology, all in Chicago. The first was established
by a bequest of 5100.300, received under the will of
Joseph Armour. This was more than doubled by
Philip, his executor. The Armour Flats comprise
213 apartments, and are rented at moderate prices
to worklngmen and their families. . They adjoin the
mission, and their net proceeds go to the support
of the latter. The mission and flats are said to be
worth $3,000,000. The Armour Institute was estab
lished at an original cost of $1,500,000, to which sum
Mr. Armour added $750,000 in 1599. It offers business
and technological courses, and has a fine gym
nasium and library. It was opened in September,
1893, with six hundred pupils.
Philip D. Armour's capacity for work was
wonderful. He was accustomed to be at his desk
at 7 a. m., and not one of his employes worked
harder than he did. In 1862 he married Malvina
B. Ogden, of Cincinnati. They had several chil
dren, two of whom were sons Jonathan Ogden
and Philip, jr., who were both active partners with
their father. The latter died on January 27, 1900.
The death of Philip Armour leaves only one of
the six brothers still surviving— Herman Osslan
Armour, of this city. The others were Simeon
Brooks, born in IS2S, who died at Kansas City on
March 29, 1899, Andrew Watson, born in 1829, who
remained on the; farm in Madison County, this
State, until 1879. when he went to become the presi
dent of the Armour Brothers' Banking Company,
of Kansas City, dying there In May. 1892;
Charles Eugene, born in 1832, who died in a Union
hospital in 1863; Herman Osslan, who was born In
1837, achieved his first successes in Milwaukee and
later in Chicago, and since 1862 has had charge of
the Armour Interests in this city, and Joseph Fran
cis, who was born In 1842, and died in Chicago In
ISSL
7 0 REACH CORPORATIONS.
GIANT COMBINATIONS TO BE BROUGHT
WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE
TAX LAW.
Albany. Jan. 6. — Just what Governor-elect
Odell meant when he referred in "his message
to the need of amendments to the State laws
governing the taxation of corporations Is ex
plained by an Investigation of the taxes paid to
the Controller of the State.
Under Section No. 183 of the Corporation Tax
law, all manufacturing, laundry and other cor
porations which employ labor are exempted
from taxation on their capital stock. Under this
exemption the Standard Oil Company, tbe Amer
ican Sugar Refining Company and other large
industrial corporations are permitted to escape
the large tax payment which would be other
wise required of them. The purpose of exempt-
Ing this class of corporations from the State
tax was to induce manufacturing establish
ments which would employ large forces of work
men to locate in this State; but it is held that
the results have not Justified the exemption.
It Is estimated that the taxing of manufactur
ing corporations, thus reaching the Standard
Oil and other large corporations, would bring
Over $2,000,000 additional annually into the
State Treasury.
Another loophole In the law is that which per
mits corporations to go into New -Jersey, or
ganize by the payment of a small organization
fee. return to this State and conduct business.
thus escaping taxation by paying a small annual
tax to Xew-Jersey.
All corporations which pay a tax directly to
the State are exempted, under Section 202 of
the Corporation Tax law, from taxation by local
assessors for State purposes. The object of
the section waa to prevent double taxation, but
tbe result has been the escape from taxation on
vast amounts of personal property. The direct
State tax reaches only a fraction of the per
sonal property of many corporations, and the
remainder escapes taxation for State purposes
through the exemption by this section.
Trust companies are cited as examples of a
class of corporations which escape taxation.
They are taxed directly by the State on their
capital stock, but their surplus and undivided
profits, which in the aggregate amount to a
sum of twice the value of the capital, go un
taxed. Last year the trust companies paid a tax
on a total capitalization of $45.2r>0.000. while
$74,506,400 of surplus and $15,319.5«7 of un
divided profits escaped taxation. It is estimated
that an application of the tax law to the cap
ital, the surplus and the undivided profits would
have increased last year the revenue derived
from that class of corporations from $450,000
to $3,000,000.
Bills to change the Corporation Tax law so as
to cover some of the objections raised are un
der course of preparation, and will be intro
duced In the Legislature within a few weeks.
The Collateral Inheritance Tax act has
brought into the State Treasury during the last
three months over ?700,000, which is above the
average for a period of that length. The bulk
of that sum has come from New-York City.
which has always contributed the major part of
the taxes collected under this statute. The
estate of Emma S. Schley, late of New-York
City, paid the largest amount of taxes during
the three months. Its contribution to the State
cash was $201,494. The second largest tax.
$73,908, was paid by the heirs of Wallace I.
Andrews, late of New-York City. The largest
sum paid from the estate of a non-resident and
the third largest received from any source came
from the estate of Lloyd Tevls, of California.
That estate contributed $50,027.
It is expected that tbe collections from New-
York City will be very large during the current
three months, as many of the old appraisers are
concluding their work on estates which went
into litigation over one year ago.
THE PROPOSED TOBACCO DEAL.
PDANB FOR THE ABSORPTION OF POWELL,
SMITH * CO. BY THE AMERICAN* COMPANY.
When asked about the proposed absorption of
Powell. Smith ft Co., the cigar manufacturers of
Second-aye.. by the American Tobacco Company
yesterday Harry Luce, one of the surviving mem
bers of the firm of Powell. Smith & Co.. said that
the negotiations between his firm and the Ameri
can Tobacco Company had not advanced far
enough yet for him to give any details of the
methods that will be used In maKing the com
bination. He said that the cost to the American
Tobacco Company would be about $10,000,000, and
that Powell, Smith 4 Co. would remain a separate
comoany. It is now a copartnership firm, and the
nrobablllty is that It will be changed to a stock
comDany and the controlling interest will be held
by those who direct the affairs of the American
Tobacco Company.
SEVEN MINERS KILLED BY GENDARMES.
London. Jan. 7.— According to a dispatch to
"The Daily Express" from Vienna, seven miners
were killed and forty wounded on Saturday in
an affray at Altgebirg. Hungary, between riot
ous miners and gendarmes.
VESSEL AND TEN PERSONS LOST.
Brussels. Jan. 6.— News has been received here
that the steamer Soudan, which left Antwerp
early to December to undertake river service in
the Congo State, foundered a week ago. ten of
her company being drowned.
rnr 9UWTAIA MAOM FOR MANILA.
< am.as Venezuela, Jan. «.-The United States
FTf-amer Buffalo, whlrh arrived at Ui c ;>]:>> r,» yes
terday, left to-day for Manila.
RAILWAY PROSPECTS FOR THK -KMTnY
methods and auparlor •qulproent-~Advi
NEW-YORK MONDAY. JANUARY 7. 1901.-TWELVE PAGES.- » n 3SS2h22^
THE LONDON AND GLOBE.
REORGANIZATION OF THE CORPORA
TION PROBABLE.
EFFECT OF THE SMASH ON ELECTRIC
UNDERGROUND ENTERPRISES
LORD LECONFIELD.
(Copyright: 1901: By The Xew-Tork Trlbun«.»
[BT CABLE TO THE TMBUXE.]
London, Jan. 7. 6 a. m. — The reconstruction of
the London find Globe Finance Corporation now
seems probable as a result of the recent flurry
in the mining market and the failure of sixteen
or twenty operators. A scheme of reorganiza
tion has been accepted in principle by thirty
nine creditors of the Corporation, and Lord
Dufferin.«when a meeting of the shareholders is
held this week, will probably be enabled to pre
sent a more favorable statement of liabilities
and resources than has been expected. Strong
interests are behind this movement, since the
West Australian market has been depressed and
other undertakings have been crippled by the
embarrassments of the company, which was pro
moting a group of overcapitalized enterprises.
If Lord Dufferin and his friends can convince
the shareholders that there has not been reck
less mismanagement, to say nothing of fraudu
lent misrepresentation, a legal inquiry may be
avoided and the company may be reorganized
with or without the voluntary winding up of the
business. The directors and shareholders, with
the help of the creditors, may save the situation,
and a new and highly speculative system of
stock promoting may escape close scrutiny.
Rumor mongers Interested in helping on this
adjustment have been disposing of the Waterloo
and Baker Street Underground Line to various
purchasers. The Yerkes syndicate was the first
credited with buying th« contracts of that enter
prise held by the London and Globe, and. sec
ondly, the London and Southwestern Railway,
which had virtually supplied the capital for the
Waterloo and City Line, was reported to have
purchased them. These rumors not having been
confirmed, a second syndicate of American cap
italists has been invented and armed with re
sources for finishing this electric enterprise.
The London and Globe holdings In preference
and ordinary shares of this unfinished line ex
ceed $3,000,000, and the total share capital is
something like $13,000,000. The transfer of
these construction Interests is clearly too com
plex a matter to be worked out abruptly. The
processes of financing the electric lines urgently
needed by the metropolis have become a most
serious problem. Ordinary investors are fright
ened by the cost of the work, and cannot be
baited by 4 per cent preference shares.
The projectors of these railways are hoping
that good, will come from the scientific Inquiry
ordered by the Board of Trade respecting the
vibrations at Bayswater. They are convinced
that Lord Rayleish and his associates cannot
saddle upon the Central London Line responsi
bility for damages to property In the West End
from deep level vibrations, and they are assum
ing that the methods of construction required by
law will be condemned. One of these Is the iron
lining, which largely increases the cost of con
struction of the tubes. A modification of this
requirement and the lessening of tbe depth ¦¦*
the tunnels would tend to cheapen electric rail
ways below the surface. Engineers cannot un
derstand how either electric power or gravelly
strata can be held accountable for the Bays
water vibrations.
It seems impossible to expect authentic in
formation concerning the movements of Boer
raiders in Cape Colony. The telegrams from
Cape Town to-day are as contradictory as ever,
but their general tenor Is distinctly pessimistic.
"The Standard" hints that a special announce
ment will be made by the Cape Cabinet remind
ing colonial burghers that if they should now
Join the Boer forces they need expect no mercy.
A well known European statistician, contrib
utes an interesting article to "The Mail" on
the question of European birth rates during the
last quarter of a century. He conclusively
proves that England is steadily falling behind
her great trade rival, Germany, in the all im
portant matter of reproduction of the race, and
Is gradually following In the dangerous track of
France.
Lord Leeonffeld. who has died at seventy,
was a popular Guardsman In his prime and a
famous horseman and sportsman, being Master
of the Fox Hounds. He has left an estate of over
one hundred thousand acres to his son. Charles
H. Wyndham, now under thirty. I. N. F.
RAMAPO MEN IN IT, HE SAYS:
COLER DECLARES THEY ARE TRYING TO
CONTROL A REFORM COMMITTEE
CALLS THE LATE JAMES
M'CARTNEY A HERO.
"Public Office and the People" was the sub
ject of an address by Controller Coler last even-
Ing in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, in State
st., ¦ Brooklyn. He said that one of the great
evils of this country to-day was that people
often Imputed a bad motive to a public man
who did a good act, or excused a bad act by
imputing a good motive to It. The Controller
went on to say:
A commissioner came into office when I did. suc
ceeding the late George K. Waring, Jr.. who re
sisted the pressure of a great organization to re
move the men under him. notwithstanding the
fact that the press and the public were against
him. People said the streets of New-York were
not so clean as before, although they were being
cleaned by the same men. He resisted all the pres
sure brought to bear upon him. and went to his
grave a hero. 1 refer to James McCartney, Street
Cleaning Commissioner.
That man Is great who can stand up against
everything. With me it has not been difficult, be
cause I have had the press and the public with
me at almost all times, but McCartney did not.
and the only encouragement he had was when he
came to my office, or when I called on him.
The Church should get down among the people
and teach them how to be decent citizens and
honest men. The worst citizen, to my mind. Is
not the poor man, nor the uneducated man. I am
not an extremist against corporations or capital,
but the time is coming when men in the financial
world must stop maKing the earth their play
thing. The worst citizen is the man who uses
great knowledge and great wealth to take away
the rights of the people for personal ends. I
think the time is coming when the great fran
chises must come back into the hands of the
people.
On the various committees formed recently In
New- York you see few new names. On one reform
committee are the names of two of the largest
Ramapo stockholders, who are evidently on the
committee to capture it for their own purposes.
We cannot have any better government than the
average intelligence of our citizens. You may put
one boss out and another in, but you will not get
a better government until you develop the indi
vidual citizen.
I do not think there is a cosmopolitan city in
the world which is in so good a state socially as
New- York. The wonder is not that it is so bad,
but that it Is not worse. The great problem of
modern civilization Is to be fought out in this city.
State and Nation, and you should give a public
officer credit for doing a good thing, even If you
disagree with him In politics. In New-York we
have many things which are a blot on civilization.
but when we advertise, them we should do It in
a way that shall not bring them before the young.
The great problem of the country Is In the city,
and New-York is the greatest city of tbe greatest
State of the greatest Nation on earth.
John I Crosby followed with an address on
"Civic Righteousness."
The best of Cough' medicines is
JAVXB'S EXPECTORANT.— Advt.
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LOPPING OFF FXPFXSKS.
GOVERNOR ODELL'S POLICY AS TO STATE
COMMISSIONS.
IN ONE DEPARTMENT A SAVING OP $790,000 POS
SIBLE WITHOUT HARM TO THE SERVICE.
Albany, Jan. 6 (Special).— The news that the
"supplementary list" of employes of the Legis
lature is to be cut off owing to Governor Odell's
policy of economy has been heard with consid
erable dismay by members of the Legislature,
for they paid a good many political debts by
getting the names of friends upon this list. A
reduction of $60,000 in the grand total of the
Legislature's expenses is something that a po
litical party can mention with pride, and there
fore the reduction will probably be made.
George W. Dunn, the new chairman of the
Republican State Committee, has had to bear
some of the burdens of the new policy of econ
omy. The abolition of the supplementary list is
said especially to have caused him trouble.
There were many applications for places, and
he had to deny them to all. Finally Mr. Dunn
mentioned his experience to Governor Odell, and
it is said in a business way reminded Mr. Odell
that when he was chairman of the Republican
State Committee he took part in the filling up
of the "supplemental list" with the names of
various patriots. Mr. Odell Is reported to have
laughed, and replied: .
"Well, now that I am Governor I look upon
the list from a different point of view."
If the Legislature reduces its own payroll,
nevertheless, it will be more .in a mood to reduce
those of the State departments and State com
missions, and support Mr. Odell more loyally in
his policy of abolishing various commissions
and consolidating others. Mr. Odell since he be
came Governor has been having talks with the
head of one State department after another to
learn all about the cost of maintaining these
departments. An officer of the State Commis
sion in Lunacy said yesterday that Mr. Odell
already had almost a perfect knowledge of the
opera >n of the State Care act. There have
been rumors that Mr. Odell meditates a thor
ough reorganization of the State Commission in
Lunacy. He expressed the opinion in his mes
sage that with no harm to the institutions
under the care of the State Commission in
Lunacy a saving of at least $750,000 could be
effected in this department, and he frankly said
he would not favor the proposed enlargement
of the State hospitals at Rochester and at
Gowanda.
The cost of State commissions in 1900 is given
below:
Board of Health ~.. $41.462 83
Bureau of Labor Statistics 35.10550
Civil Service Commission 40.95S fe»
Public bulldtnM 261.644 41
Niagara Reservation 49.50« 05
Railroad Commission , 73.216 81
Agricultural Experiment Station 65.009 T>fi
Court of Claims ~ 52.8M08
Department of Agriculture • . 190,885 74
Board of Mediation and Arbitration 17.749 41
Factory Inspectors 114.66223
Board of Port Wardens 4.493 42
State care of the Insane 4,761.043 25
Farmers' institutes 17.0*02*
Commission of Statutory Revision 25.430 !<;
Miscellaneous r ports »,WM 01
State Historian 12.764 12
Commiwion of Fore»t. Game- and Fish 184.790 15
State L*nd Survey 1.650 33
Appellate Division of Supreme Court 79.501
State Veterinary College at Cornell University. :s.uO*> 00
Commission of Prisons 12..V.'5 76
Agricultural Experiment Station of oCrnell
University 10.0000*
Da««rtmer.t of ExcWe.. 280.886 M
Adirondack Park 423.61$ 2*
:it. l*wren<-e Reservation 8,450 39
Inspectors of Steam Vessels 7.63S S7
Metropolitan Election liureau 133. 78
Forest Preserve to Caukllla 37.688*2
College of Forestry. Cornell University 17.210 S2
Plate Architect 83,6.17 !V»
University at Buffalo 14.051 93
Total , , »7.004.03» 71
The total cost of these Commissions for the
year ISM was $C,5G2.976 20. Between ISO 9 and
1900. therefore, the cost of these Commissions
Increased $441.06331. and It Is not surpris
ing therefore that Mr. Odell thought that the time
had arrived when the Governor of the State
should manifest opposition to any further ex
penditures in this direction. The Civil Service
Commission Increased its outgo from $30,56840
in 1888 to §40.988 87 in 1900. The cost of main
taining the public buildings was reduced from
$373,97267 to $261.64441. The Niagara Reser
vation had expended upon it $38,35$ 48 in 1599
and $49.96606 in 1900. The Railroad Commis
sion expended $G9.4»J6 29 In 1899 and $73,216 SI
in 1900. an expense borne by the railroads. The
Court of Claims cost $29,491 59 in 1599 and $32.-
S9<»os in 1900. The Department of Agriculture
expended $181.85949 In 1599 and $190.86574 in
19<)0. To the factory Inspectors was paid $84,
818 12 In 1599 and $114,662 29 In 1900. The State
care of the Insane cost $ 1.400.765 53 In 1899 and
$4,701.043 25 In 1900. The Commission of Fish.
Forest and Game cost $151.113 60 in 1599 and
$154.790 15 in 1900. The Adirondack Park, un
der the care of the Forest Preserve Board, cost
$309,393 99 In 1899 and $423,618 28 in 1900. The
Forest Preserve in the Catskills cost $3170 in
1899 and $37.65S 52 in 1900.
The magnitude of the State's building opera
tions, which Governor Odell means to curtail.
is made obvious by the sum that the State
Architect expended in his department—sss.
057 53, It is probable that the Capitol Commis
sioner, who acted as State Architect up to 1599.
expended about this amount yearly.
THE TRIER DISABLED AT SEA.
A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. IN WHICH
HER STEERING GEAR WAS CARRIED
AWAY AND SHE WAS FORCED
TO MAKE TORT.
The steamer Trier, of the North German Lloyd
Line, arrived In port yesterday from Bremen,
after a lons and stormy voyage of thirty-five
days. The Trier met gale after gale; she was
beaten back by extraordinary heavy seas, and,
worst of all, her starboard engines became un
manageable just when they were most needed.
Up to December 6 the Trier had gloomy but
decent weather. After. that it began to blow,
the wind sometimes attaining a velocity of
eighty miles an hour. It was difficult to make
headway, especially as the wind shifted sud
denly and violently. A crisis was reached on
December 12. On that day the steam gearing
apparatus, which had held, withstanding the
frightful strain put upon it, was carried away.
An effort was made to steer by the use of the
twin screws, but the gale was so strong that
this was impossible.
The furnaces of the engines were consuming
an enormous amount of coal. On this day,
however, in spite of every effort that was made,
the Trier was beaten back for a distance of
forty-four miles. Captain Meyerheine deter
mined to put Into the Azores in order to make
repairs. The best he could do was to make 71
miles on December 13. 29 on December 14 and
85 on December 15. After that the miles again
went Into the hundreds, and on December 19
the Trier, made Punta Delgado. where she re
mained until Christmas Day. When she reached
Punta Delgado she had only 133 tons of coal
left. -.
She then resumed her voyage to New-York,
¦till meeting tempestuous weather. The star
board engines gave out twice, but at no time was
the steamer in as great distress as she had been
in the first part of her trip. She finally reached
New-York. At her pier, at Congress-st. and
North River, she was unable to reverse, and the
help of an extra tug was required.
The passengers were x'.n>i to reach their desti
nation. There were 22 cabin passengers and
007 In the steerage. Those In the steerage were
badly scared during the trip, find prayed. •.:..•
greater part of the time, believing that they
would never reach'ahcre. Their health remained
good throughout the trip. On December 31 a
two-months-old son of Sara Swartz died in the
steerage.
The Trier will be taken to drydock. She will
be thoroughly examined and repaired.
GAMBLERS PAY MILLIONS.
TAMMANT COMMITTEE AFTER PROTEC
TION COMMISSION.
THE FIVE HEAR THAT $1,700,000 IS CONTRIB
UTED YEARLY AND PROMISE
PROSECTJTION.
Several rumors were current yesterday as to
the future plan of the Tammany Committee of
Five. One was that the committee had learned
that the gambling houses contributed about
$1,700,000 a year for "protection." and that this
stupendous sum for shielding the gambling dens
from interference was turned over to the mem
bers of the "Gambling Commission." It was
further said that owing to this alleged discovery
the Committee of Five intended to confine its
efforts mainly to lessening the evils existing in
this city by learning, if possible, who are the
members of the "Gambling Commission," who
are their hirelings, how the money for protect
ing gambling places is collected and who share
in the division. It was declared that the com
mittee would not be contented until it had
learned the full facts of the matter, and that
it would not try to have punished the lesser
members of the •"Gambling Commission," but
the members of the Commission who were really
responsible for nurturing all forma of gambling,
especially the poolrooms. EfTorts were made
yesterday to see the members of the Committee
of Five, but they were mostly unsuccessful. M.
Warley Platzek was found, and when asked
about the reports said: "I am surprised. This
is the first I have heard about such reports."
NIXON SAYS HE DIDN'T APPROACH
BISHOP.
Lewis Nixon, chairman of the Committee of
Five, said yesterday that he would like to hear
what Richard Croker had to say about the ad
dress made by Bishop Potter at the City Club
on Friday night last, in which the Bishop said
that he had been asked by a man representing
himself to be speaking for Mr. Croker if he
would be satisfied with the head of Inspector
Cross or Captain Herlihy. Mr. Nixon made this
declaration in denying a rumor current yester
day that he was the emissary referred to by
Bishop Potter. Mr. Nixon was confined to his
home with a slight attack of the grip, and a
message was sent to his room. He was asked
If there were any new developments in the in
vestigations of the Committee of Five, whether
!t was true that he had sent a list of gambling
and disorderly houses found open by the com
mittee to Chief Devery. He was further asked
about the report that legal steps would be taken
to punish Chief Devery if he did not close up
the places named in the list.
Mr. Nixon wrote a reply to these questions
asked by The Tribune reporter, and said:
There are no new developments in the vice
situation, but lesa complaints. I have nothing
to say about the Chief of Police. I was not
the man to whom Bishop Potter referred, but I
am particularly anxious to hear Mr. Croker's
version of the story.
The reporter ask*d the servant if she would
ask Mr. Nixon if he would say why he was par
ticularly anxious to hear Mr. Croker's version
of the story about the emissary. The servant
said that she could net take another message
to Mr. Nixon, as he did not want to be disturbed
again.
GRAND JURY READY TO ACT.
The Committee of Five will meet to-day. It
was thought yesterday that it would have som?
evidence to turn over to District Attorney Phil
bin for presentation to the Tammany Grand
Jury, which wiM he sworn in to-day before
Judge Cowing. Fifty talesmen have been sum
moned to appear in court, and of that number
twenty-three will be selected to act as Grand
Jurors. Just what matter will bt^ laid before
the Grand Jury' ft» their consideration by Dis
trict Attorney Philbin could not be learned yes
terday. When a Tribune reporter called at the
hoirw- of Mr. Philbin, ;it No. IM'^i West Seventy
oeveatb-st., yesterday afternoon. Mr. Philbin
was out, and he could not be found. It is said
that the Grand Jury will surely be called upon
to investigate tbe charges that have been made
against Bellevue Hospital, and to inquire about
the oxisten" 11 ' 1 of vice in this city. It was said
also that t!i>> Grand Jury would be asked to
consider charges that had not been aired in a
magistrate's court. This will not be following
the precedent established by Colonel Gardiner.
If this proposed plan is carried out. the Grand
Jury will be able to obtain many facts about
cases that it could not learn if the cases were
previously heard in a police court.
According 1 t.i a report, Messrs. Nixon and
Platzek have already presented, through Depu
ty Chief Cortrierht. lists of alleged violators of
the law to Captains Thomas, Albertson. Dia
mond and Price.
William H. Baldwin, jr.. chairman of the Com
mittee of Fifteen, announced last night that his
committee was not yet ready to make its re
port about Its investigations.
RIDES WITH DEAD MAN IN A HACK.
THE VEHICLE HAD BEEX CALLED TO CARRY
AN INVALID WHO HAD FALLEN
ON THE SIDEW r ALK.
George Johnson. :i haekman. of Mount Ver
non. was hailed at Fourth and Prospect ayes..
in that city, late Saturday night, by a well
dressed young man, who said that he wanted
to go to Bronxville. With the stranger was an
older man who was lying on the sidewalk, ap
parently unconscious.
"llo's a friend of mine, and he's been taken
suddenly sick." explained the young man. "I
guess we'll have to lift him in."
The two men, with the assistance of bystand
ers, placed the unconscious man in the hack.
On arriving in Bronxville the haekman was sur
prised to find that his older passenger was dead.
The young man said that his friead was only
asleep, but after shaking him vigorously and
not being able to arouse him became convinced
that something was wrong. He ordered the
haekman to drive to the office of Dr. Alfred S.
Dana, who pronounced the man dead and in
formed Coroner Banning
The Coroner and police of Mount Vernon at
first suspected that there might have been foul
play and made a thorough investigation. They
learned that the dead man was Solomon Brown,
fifty-one years old. a brother of J. Romaine
Brown, a real estate broker, of No. 59 West
Thirty-third-st.. this city. Mr. Brown, who was
single, had been In poor health, and had been
boarding at a large farmhouse in Bronxville. On
Saturday night, accompanied by William Dool-
Ing a f.'llow boarder, he went to Mount Vernon
to do some shopping. They were about to start
fcr home when Brown was taken ill and fell un
conscious on the sidewalk. It is not known
whetr*r the man was dead when he was put in
the hack or whether he expired on the trip to
Bronxville.
Thief Fo'.ey. It 13 said, will prefer charges
against the policeman on duty in Fourth-aye. at
the time. The policeman made no report of the
occurrence
JOHN P. O'DONNELL SAYS:
"Talking of the railroads In all parts of the
world. Great Britain not excepted. the New York
Central Is the best signalled, and consequently the
beat protected, line In the world."— Extract from
an addresa delivered by Mr. John P. O/DmumU.
member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
— Advt.
Vlliri: THREE CENTS.
MORGAN HAS THK LEHIGH.
IT FOLLOW 3 JERSET CENTRAL INTO
GREAT CONSOLIDATION.
J. F. MORGAN AND HIS FRIENDS SOW OOMPLZTT-
M DOMINATE THE ANTHRACITE COAL
CARRTING SITUATION.
Just at the close of the market on Saturday;
as announced In The Tribune yesterday. Wall
Street received the startling news that J. Pier
pont Morgan had bought the Central Railroad
of New-Jersey and sold it to the Reading Rail
road. When the market reopens this morning
it will be confronted with the additional news
that Mr. Morgan has secured the controlling In
terest in the Lehigh Valley also, and this Inter
est will probably be offered to the Reading at
the meeting of its directors, which has been
called for to-day, to complete officially the pur
chase and arrange for the formal transfer et
the Jersey Central stock to its new owners.
Thus the two long strides which bring the
Morgan following into practically complete con
trol of the coal carrying railway situation in
the East have been made in quick succession.
Naturally the question asked by many Wai!
Street men yesterday was. "What next?" An 1 ;
by way of answer some pointed to the ap
parently awkward situation in which Baltimore
and Ohio has been placed by Mr. Morgan's lat
est deals. That road is now cut off from all
entry into Jersey City except over lines con
trolled by Mr. Morgan and his friends. Some
of the closest observers say there is net the)
least fear of Mr. Morgan putting pressure upon
the Baltimore and Ohio because he has attained
the better strategic position. They say that Is
not his way, and. moreover, they point to the
fact that J. J. Hill's interests in the Baltimore
and Ohio are well known, and the relations re
cently established between Mr. Hill and Mr.
Morgan through the St. Paul deal are close and
friendly.
Other probabilities of the not distant future
are an alliance between the Ontario and West
ern and the Delaware and Hudson. The Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western is also re
garded by some as game for Mr. Morgan's bas
ket. It is controlled by Vanderbilt and First
National Bank interests, which are both favor
able to him.
Those who profess to see in these consolida
tions, both completed and projected, one definite.
farseeing purpose, say that purpose is rather
National than local in its scope, and looks to
nothing less than joint control of all the rail
roads of the United States. Persons who take
this view say that not only does the Morgan
following already control the avenues approach
ing New-York, but commands practically every
means of access to Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia
and most Southern points. Nor, they declare. is
the movement toward consolidation confined to
the East alone. The next step in the syndicate
plan is alleged to . be the acquirement of the
Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg system, oper
ated largely in Central and Western New- York.
and providing a direct connection between the
Reading and all the great trunk lines In the
West.
The recent sensational absorption of St. Paul
is taken as only a preliminary advance upon
the Far West, the Middle West being already
pretty well occupied by Mr. Morgan's friends.
who already control, it is said, all the overland
highways of commerce to Chicago and St. Louis
with two exceptions.
Coming back to what Mr. Morgan has really
accomplished, it is seen that by the purchase
of Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley he and
his associates now dominate the anthracite coal
trade; for they are absolute masters of rail
roads that mine and carry about 33,000,000
tons of anthracite out of an annual production
of something less than 50,000,000 tons. This
total is approximated thus:.
Tods.
WWB ISSJSJ Central, about .. .^5&95£
Reading, aboui 1 2-** ) -}* <>
Lehigh, about 8.000.C00
Erie and the Perm Coal Company, about 10.0©0.000>
Total ." 83.00*000
It may fairly be presumed, therefore, that if
Mr. Morgan ever seriously entertained the
proposition attributed to him of establishing
joint selling agencies and doing away with cuts
in coal prices as well as cuts in freight rates.
he would now put it in operation. A prominent
railroad man told a Tribune reporter yesterday
that Mr. Morgan was not at all likely to estab
lish joint agencies, simply because there was
now no need for them, the regulation of the
price of coal and freight rates as well being
practically now in the same hands.
A number of New-Jersey Central directors
who were seen by a Tribune reporter yesterday
declined to reveal anything concerning the terms
on which their stock was sold to Mr. Morgan.
Estimates range all the way from $150 to $200.
Indications point to $175 as probably the cor
rect figure, and it is said that payment will be
made by the Reading company by means of
low rate interest bearing collateral trust bonds.
J Rogers Maxwell, president of the New-Jersey
Central said he did not know whether he would
remain president or not. nor did he know
whether President Harris of the Reading would
remain in his position or not. All that Mr. Max
well would say was that he had not resigned.
EXTENT OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY.
The Lehlgh Valley Railroad's main line extends
from Jersey City 442 miles to Buffalo. Its branches
and subsidiary lines bring the total mileage up to
2 178. It owns 3.61:) acres of coal land, and all the
stock of the Lekaga Valley Coal Company, which
holds in fee or under leases about 33.000 acres of
coal lands, and collieries with a total dally.ca
pacity of 30.000 tons. Here is a table compiled Iron
its annual report for «•*-•», which shows a de
flcit of JSS.IM for I>?9 that is explained by large
expenditures for additions and betterments,
amounting to J1.529.5M:
Year ending November 30— **»• • «,J^.
Earnings from cal $ 2>£3-^?2 > £3-^? *f sHs£
Miscellaneous freight S"^ 00 ? I'SJi-JS
Passemrers - 2.7C0.-101 2.715.fci3
S3. express, etc i.ins».ft*& 1.015.310
Total cr,.ss 521.37d.502 $19,742,538
Operating exp.. including rentals. 16,«**.52» 14.158.8S
Nei earnings $4.821. 53.534.510
Other income 1,117.73.; 1.a*4.»4»
Total'net income 58.ttJ3.401 53.789.235
State taxes *650.63» 5360.0C0
Balance of interest account 20.393 19.533
Loss Morris Canal, etc 239, • 230.073
•merest and rentals 4.5W.270 4.&M.16S
Interest Lehigh Valley Coal 5C7.304 £31.035
Total charges $*.5«2.3» X 323.144
Balanc* •fJBSJDM .-$.171.10 >
•Deficit. .Surplus.
GO THROUGH THE ICE WHILE SKATING.
TWO MEN IN NEW-ROCHEI-LE SINK TO THBtft
NECK 3IN ICT WATER.
While skating yesterday afternoon on the mill
pond in Xew-Rochelle. Sands K. Gorham. 'as
artiat. and J. F. L. Drumm. a wealthy resident of
Davenport's Neck, went through tbe ice. Mr.
Gorham's little daughter, who was skating near
him. escaped going down. The men, who were
skating toward each other, reached at tbe same
time a place where the tee was thin. They went
Into the pond up to their necks, but managed to
get out without the assistance of friends. About
fifty other skaters saw the accident. Wh?:. Mr
Gorham and Mr. Drumm reached the shore they
hurried home to put on dry clothing.
EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA
The Pennsylvania United between • ¦- M mi
Chicago artorSa excellent '•ramies for transconti
nental travellers.— Advr. '-,:•