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V ot IA'I • N° 19,963. I( )IJMi:iA AGAIX VICTOR. Tor MA> °F THE INDEPENDENCE BREAKS EARLY IN THE RACE. *g£ BOSTON BOAT DRAGGED WTtECKAGE EIGHTEEN MINUTES. BUT MADE A GAME FIGHT. {HT TTI.EGBArH TO THE TRIBUNE. 1 irport. R. 1.. July 12.— The Independence, of Boston, not only claimed the sympathies of the —ectatorF in to-day's Newport racing through tjje nnfortunate carrying away of her topmast, tat also made a showing of the gamest kind trfcen. subsequently, and while in her crippled condition, she beat the Constitution and Colum t)li in the windward work of the race. She had net run for a whole minute after crossing before her who!*-" : "l' hamper went out of her, and it was a surprising Item for the annals of yacht <pg that the Constitution beat her by only six nlnutes to the first wiark in spite of the fact that the Independence dragged her wreckage ja the water for eighteen minutes. I "Hank" Haff looked to be in great spirits as jj e leaned on a back stay on the Independence ¦nd sniffed the northeast wind that was com laff at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour •cross the bay. The men were hoisting the largest club topsail, and when they hauled jjj 3 - went chock-a-block, for they were In the test of humor, and put their whole back into it. foe Constitution was also sending up her biggest kite and yachtsmen were wondering whether ibe rigging would stand these big sails. *The Columbia went. out first without setting a Mff topsail, but after she had gone the Consti tution set her biggest club topsail. The Inde pendence and Constitution left their moorings together at 10:17. the Herreshoff boat getting a Quarter of a mile start, but the Boston craft rushed after her and passed her as if she were "staging still. Mr. Lawson's tug Wrestler ti*efl Mr. Weld's big white schooner Hildegarde out cf the harbor, and the Constitution went cut in good company with Perry Belmont's Satanella. the steam yacht Tuscarora, Mr. . Drexel's Sultana. Me Walter's Narada, the schooner Marguerite and the steam yachts Han rJel, Josephine, Zara. Ibis and many others. At the lightship the yachts were trying the northeasterly wind and were getting all they wanted, being laid down to their decks without their foresails. The committee signalled: "D F B" (south). "D B Q" (northeast by east), "D GL" (northwest by west). This was a broad reach for the first leg. a beat on the second and another broad reach on the third leg. The preparation whistle was sounded at exactly 11 o'clock, and the big racers all headed westerly and then north so as to come down southerly to take the crossing line with a big gait on. As they went northerly the Constitution was in the lead with her jib as her only headsail and the Jib topsail m the stay in stops. The Columbia came next, running up the rolled Jib topsaiL The Independence came next with foresail and Jib topsail on the stays ready to break out. After the 11:05 signal was given the Columbia wheeled first and at 11:08 broke out teadsails and came for the line at a great pace. The Independence turned next and flung three big hesd?ails to the bellying wind. She was then about six lengths behind the Columbia. The Constitution turned last to make for the *ac, and while the Columbia and Independence — -mfe — gTJiaK*-acro?o~rri-il tip the -line-- Rhodes ¦awg the Constitution off to exhaust the full (si minutes. In doing this he lost a trifle, as the two minute signal sounded before he got to the leeward end of the line, and he thus lost an oreckoned twenty-one seconds. ACCIDENT TO THE INDEPENDENCE. From a position to leeward the Independence bore up to windward of the Columbia as soon at she was turned loose, and she closed the gap between them with extraordinary speed. She had already lapped the Columbia's boom with her bowsprit and was passing her hand over tot, when crack! went her topmast, and the Ug kite with the cloths running to the centre came down on her leeward side like a gull that sabot by a bullet. "Hank" Haff kept her going light along, but the Jibtopsall sank and dragged . water. The break came at 11:12:45. The crew tried their best to haul in the jibtopsail from the water, but were unable, owing to the boat be ing kept going. The Lawson tug Wrestler was *am sufficiently near the Independence to see that the port spreader had buckled. The reason fcr this, as given out on lK>ard the yacht, was tsit the preventer backstay on the port side chafed on the cleat and parted. This was the Sssila rope part that was spliced into the wire ngging of the preventer backstay. This may •r may not be the correct explanation, but the port spreader was seen after the race to be Wly buckled. This spreader is built of metal !a two portions which join at the outer end, and the peculiarity was that the after portion had i*nt In without perceptibly bending the forward Portion. It looked as if the affair had partly collapsed, but only enough to give the topmast *rond a slackening up of about four inches. "la, however, was enough to let the upper stick go over the side, and it snapped off as if It had been Fawn. The Columbia was now going off south at a rate that was just a foam and a flicker, and the Constitution was following on her more leeward "Erse. Both boats were continually yawing out ••windward of their course, the pressure being Great and the Columbia seemed to be trying to •*¦ •wildcat. This was the best -wind of the *T, and Haff kept the Boston boat going while «*e dragged her wreckage. The Jibtopsall was BBaOj> got clear by hoisting away on its hal rards. but the big gafftopsail. with its huge Wo ana club, together with the topmast, were *3 swinging high in the air. For a long time crew tried to get hold of an end of the sail. The tack had been broken, so that there was no "board end to catch, except aloft, and the wire "sring held the whole mass swinging. After *time. while the big canvas was sailing around ¦ a kite, the crew eased off whatever was oMln up the mass, and it came down into the *ater. The yacht was still running on close to «c Constitution, and losing wonderfully little, i - fpite of the drag, but when the sail filled with j * a *-er it "** ' < l possible that the gafftopsall ( | ••tt would carry away the gaff, and the yacht' I **s badly held back. • *¦• thpn trled running up nearer the wind, in - ft*' that a grip could be got of the wreckage. .? Wg Ball and Its spars acted" queerly, at time being sunk below the surface and at *¦** rising in the air. It had to travel with i. n \ -aft. and moßt of the t!me j( !ooked llke - jg- * boat collapsing capsizing, rising up. sail -^Wng and falling out flat. At last Haff v rtSht up in the wind, and from the look .- • wreckage that was afterward hauled in __^^ (ontlnurd on m-ennd pa «-. &i&¥' -JERSEY CENTRAL SEA SHORE I Tin • EXPRESS. i*- * LTri r m« n m ** 1 * tn e wular demand, arriv- I t&w"™«?iVM£Svt. M ; ; Oc " an Grove " »'''*•»> v' !J ' YALB KUILDINGR. . XJX J ***b«w , end North College in the Old Brick THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE TO ¦-V--.--. A Q*u ¦..;-; -¦ . ¦ . ¦. .. MUTINY OF COLONISTS. THEY SAID THE BARK THAT WAS TO BEAR THEM TO HONDURAS WAS OVERCROWDED. "We have been making a mutiny on the bark Xineveh, what was going to take us to Hon duras next week, yet," said a big German yes terday morning as he led a party of eight others into the office of the Legal Aid Society, No. 3 South-si. "Yes, we been have big fight," added an other, "an' we want the ship arrested, quick, right away." Then the rest of the party began to jabber in Pennsylvania Dutch, and the tangle was com plete. Edward M. Stuothers. who is In charge of the office, finally got them back to first prin ciples, and the story came out. M. R. Hageter, of Easton. Perm., who says he is an expert cook, and who speaks good English when not excited, told their troubles. "We came here from Philadelphia a month ago," he said, "intending to go to Honduras as members of the second expedition of the Patuca Plantation Company. Each one of us paid $50 on a $300 purchase of stock in the company. The rest was to come out of our wages as plan tation laborers. We were to get $30 a month, half of which was to go to the company for stock. The company was to board us for noth ing. OBJECTED TO THE SHIP. "They sent us to Philadelphia, where they said the bark Maid of Patuca was waiting to take us to Honduras. We could not find her, and they sent us here. They paid our board for a while at the Pilgrim House. No. 8 State-st. Then they ordered us to go on the Nineveh and begin work. She was no sort of a vessel to carry fifty people, men, women and children, on a long voyage. They wanted us to live be tween decks, where the roof is about four feet from the floor. In rough weather there would be no ventilation, for they would have to nail down the hatches. If the ship went down we would all be drowned like rats in a trap. We are used to better things, so we left the bark, and after some trouble rescued our baggage." "What are you going to do about it?" asked the attorney. "We want to break up the expedition, be cause the Nineveh is waterlogged," said one. "We want our money back," insisted another. A third wanted revenge. The men then made out bills against the planta tion company for amounts ranging from ?U1 to $186. One item in each bill was for .S3O paid on stock account. They wanted to have the ship libelled. They gave their names as M. R. Hage ter. Carl Herlehei. Christ Ehmann, Herman Loerfler, Bruno Beyer. Hans Glanz, August Grate. Adolph Drews aad Paul Blndreiff, all from Pennsylvania. The Patuca Plantation Company Is capitalized under the laws of Maine at $2.2150.000. The main offices are in Cleveland. Ohio, where most of the officers live. W. A. Vliet is president. B. B. Avery vice-president. Dr. W. R. Gfllespic secretary and William M. Dillhoefer treasurer. The company Is said to have a concession of 7"i,000 acres of farming land from the Honduras Government. The bark Nineveh, from which the Germans deserted, lies at the bulkhead north of the Brooklyn slip of the Wall-Bt. ferry. She is nearly loaded with i general cargo of plantation Ftuff and will probably sail on Monday. E. A. Whiting, of Philadelphia, represents th« com pany, and Captain E. E. Walls, a Yankee skip per of the old type, is in command of the bark. "They are a lot of sea lawyers, those Ger mans,"" said the captain yesterday afternoon. "It's a good tr'ng for them that they -started this row before wo left port. If they had kicked up at sea I'd have put 'em in irons in no time." Mr. Whiting stated the company's side of the case as follows: "This whole trouble is (amply a question of nationality. The Pennsylvania Germans were told that it was to be a German colony. They were recruited by George Ruprecht. a German, who lives in Philadelphia, and who thought he was going to be in charge in Honduras. CAUSE OP COMPLAINT DENIED. "When he found that he was to be under me he left the company. He wrote to these Ger mans and told them to break up the expedi tion. They did their best to breed dissatisfac tion among the members of the party, and with the help of a policeman I mad-- them leave the ship. Their baggage was delivered to them These men have broken their contract, and can recover nothing. The company will give bonds if they bring suit, for we sail for P'atuca early next week. "The Nineveh is in good condition, and the quarters furnished the party are dry and clean, If a little crowded. We have most of the women in the cabin. I gave up my berth there that they might be more comfortable. We have a promising plantation proposition in Honduras, and some day the Germans will be sorry they left us." Several of the colonists on the bark paid they were well satisfied with the treatment they were receiving, and would not think of quitting the bark. The n^e deserters have not yet made up their minds what action to take. They will probably go bark to their Pennsylvania farms. PLAN TO REFORM BRITISH NAVY. A SCHOOL FOR OFFICKRS LIKELY TO BE ESTABLISHED. London. July 12.— Lord Selborne, outlining In the House of Lords to-night the plans of the government for Improving the navy, said it was proposed to establish a school of naval strategy, such as existed in the United States. Lord Dudley. Parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, rather startled the peers by saying it was clear that Great Britain would have to look elsewhere than to her mercantile marine for naval reserve?, adding that the num ber of British seamen was now five thousand* fewer than it was thirty years ago. DOC TRACK B INSANE WOMAN. HER FRIENDS FIND HER STANDING IN A LAKE AT BABYLON, LONG ISLAND. Babylon, Long Island. July 12.— Mrs. William Adler, of Brooklyn, was yesterday examined by O. J. Wllsey and E. Forrest Preston. Com missioners in Lunacy, and adjudged to be of un sound mind. Mrs. Adler came to Babylon with her husband ten days ago in the hope that a change of air and the rest and quiet she would get would do her good, as she had been acting queerly for some time. She found a boarding place at the home of Assessor Treadwell H. Kellum. Her husband and mother-in-law were with her. On Monday evening she requested her mother-in law, who had previously occupied a room with her. to take another. About 2 a. m. the younger Mrs. Adler was missing. The entire household was organ ized into searching parties. Mrs. Chester Keteham. an old friend of Mrs. Adler, was aroused, and Joined the searching party. Mrs. Adler had for some days been In the habit sof walking through i::!ingham Park. Mrs. Keteham called her Irish setter Bobby, and put him on the trail. The dog started In the direction of the park, a mile distant, and the women fol lowed. On arriving at the bridge, which spans the lake, they saw Mrs. Adler in the water She was induced to come out. Mrs. Adler is twenty-five years old. She is wealthy.' She will be taken to the Long Island Home. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, drawing room sleeping cars, buffet library cars •with barber and dining cars offered by the "Over land Limited." Chicago to California, via Chicago & North-Western, union Pacific and Southern Pa cific By*. Address North-Western Line. 461 n'vvav —Advt. - ** To accommodate passengers for Childwold Sara nao Inn. Saranac Lake and Lake Placid there will be an extra (sleeping car on the New York Central Adirondack Exprew Monday night tut thoie points. —Advt. NEW- YORK. SATURDAY. JULY 13, 1901. -FOURTEEN PAGES.- by «.«£• £&«,«. ALT. TO MEET TX MEXICO. HOLDING OF PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS SEEMS NO LONGER IN DOUBT. SECRETARY HAT ASSURED THAT EVERT GOVERNMENT HAS ACCEPTED THE IN VITATION IN GOOD FAITH-THE TENTATIVE PROGRAMME. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.! Washington, July There is no longer any uneasiness in Washington official circles over the forthcoming Pan-American Congress, which is to meet in the City of Mexico next October, with a representation of all the American States, big and little. Whatever doubt may have ex isted because of the dispute between Chili and Peru on the question of arbitration was dis solved to-day by a statement made at the Bu reau of American Republics to the effect that Secretary Hay has received assurances that every government in the Western Hemisphere has accepted in good faith the cordial invitation of President Diaz of Mexico to take part in the congress. This assurance, it is further said, came to Secretary Hay in response to a tele graphic inquiry sent by him several weeks ago to the United States minister accredited to each I^atin-American country. REPRESENTATIVES SOON TO BE NAMED. The dispute started by Chili and Peru over the question as to whether the congress- should consider in its arbitration discussions issues of the past and present or merely content Itself with adopting a plan for the arbitration of future questions between the nations of the New World naturally caused considerable appre hension in the State Department aa to the suc cess of the congress, and Mr. Hay resorted to the means indicated to learn definitely the in tention of every government concerned with reference to its representation at the Mexican capital on October 22. Every reply received by him declared in the most positive terms that the invitation of President Diaz had been accepted, and that preparations for representation at the congress were well advanced. It Is expected that within two or three weeks the names of all the representatives designated by the proper au thorities of the various nations will be on file here In the Bureau of American Republics. This indicates that even Chili never really intended to hold aloof from this congress, as she did when the first one was held in Washington ten years ago, and also that Peru and her ally, Bo livia, in the Tacna and Arica affair were only "bluffing" when they threatened to reject the invitation unless the congress was pledged In advance to take up International disputes of long standing. In the light of these statements little Im portance is now attached In Washington to the recent hurried departure from this capital to Caracas of the Bolivian Minister. Although It was explained at the time that this* function-, ary is acccredited by his government both to the United States and Venezuela, and th.it his visit to the latter country, therefore, was lv the line of his official duties, the allegation was made from various parti of South America that be had gone to Caracas to engender dissatis faction with the forthcoming Pan-American Congress and to persuade Venezuela to Join Peru. Bolivia and Ecuador in a stout demand that the old Tacna and Arlca dispute be sub mitted to arbitration on the penalty of th*» four countries named declining to send representa tives., to the C.pnjgress, While no denial, of thl« rumor has" yet 'come from the Bolivian 51*n-, l««ter. It is strongly l*»llever" in well Informed circles here, nevertheless, that th«» replies re ceived by Secretary Hay In response to his telegraphic inquiry stamp, the story as un worthy of credence. ARBITRATION FIRST ON PROGRAMME. The official tentative programme for the congress that has finally been agreed upon by the executive committee of th.- Bureau of American Republics was made public for the first time to-day. It shows that only four gen eral subjects will be especially urged on the congress for consideration. They are: First— Arbitration. Second — International court of claims. Third — Measures for the protection of in dustry, agriculture and commerce. Develop ment of the means of communication between the countries composing the union. Consular, port and customs regulations. Statistics. Fourth— Reorganization of the International urth— Reorganization of the International Bureau of American Republics. . By the terms of the foregoing programme It is left optional with the congress as to whether its action on the subject of arbitration shall be retroactive, as demanded by Peru and Bo livia, cr shall be confined strictly to future dis putes, as contended for by Chill. SHIPWRECKED CREW RESCUED. DROWNING, SHARKS AND HUNQKR THRBATBNED TIIK.M WITH DEATH. Captain Mason, of the Morgan Line steam ship Xl Rio, which arrived yesterday from New (irl< ;u:s, reported the rescue on July oof Cap tain C A. Watt and seven men of the brig L. F. Munson, bound for Bagma from Mobile. Tin men had narrowly escaped death from three sources — drowning', sharks and hunger, Their wrecked brig floated in a waterlogged condition, and as they clung to the small part that remained above water they were surround ed by sharks in large numbers. One of the men barely escaped death at one time, when he fell Into the water. By last Sunday morning the men hnd no refuge left but the top of one of the deckhouses. Here they placed the small quantity of provisions that they had secured from the ship's* stores, and with the fins hoisted upside down <>n one of the masts, as a signal of distress, they watted until Monday at 4 p. m., when they were rescued by Xl Klo. Captain Watt and three of the sailors desired to return to Mobile at once, and they were then-fore transferred at Key West. Charles Krickson, the steward, was badly cut in the legs and feet by drifting objects which were dashed against the deckhouse. Th.- L. F. Munson was built at Knst Machlas in IS7I, and is of :WV7 net tonnage. She balled from this city. Her cargo, when leaving Mobile, was lumber. HEART DISEASE NO TIM!. SIR. POWDERLY, WHO HAS HAD IT. ALLOWS A SIMILARLY AFFLICTED IMMIGRANT TO LAND. Carl Krueger. whom the immigration ofTlclal had preventqd from lnndln? Nt this port on the ground that he has heart disease, was permitted to land yesterday. Krueger was for eleven years a baker in Chicago. lie went to Germany recently to bring back Ernestlna Villlg, an orphan, whom he had loved before leaving Germany. They reached New- York on July 4, on the Deutschland, but permission to land was refused. An appeal from this prohibition was taken on the suggestion of the. CommlHsloner-Oen eral.of Immigration. Mr. Powderlv who whh .nt Ellis [aland on an oflicta] visit. Mr.l'owderly who himself Kuffered from an attack of heart disci ne in UK approved the appeal when it ?S*cned"hlnV a" Washington and notice of the, decision was sent to Mr. Ritchie, the local Commissioner of Immi gration. Krueger and his Rweetheart started yes terday for Chicago, where their marriage, will take JAYNE'B XVII ¦¦¦!¦«» i: \nt cures Korlou« Cold., BEAUTIES "OF i.aki. GEORGE This delightful spot, and Its many attractive ho tels with something about: the visitors there In a handsomely Illustrated, article . |n TIIP si'vniv TRIBUNE TO-MORROW -A.lvl. E bLM»Ai LIEUT. K. BRUCE ARRESTED OFFICER FLEECED BY GAMBLERS ON THE CAMPANIA CHARGED WITH PASSING WORTHLESS CHECKS. Richard Bruce, who signed his name on the register of the Hotel Netherland last Saturday as Lieutenant Hon. R. Bruce, R. N., H. M. S. Imperleuse, was arrested last night and locked up at Police Headquarters on a charge of swin dling and of passing worthless checks. The ar rest of the prisoner brought out the fact that he was the same Richard Bruce who on landing from the steamship Campania last Saturday was said to have got mixed up In a game of cards at sea and to have lost £40 to gamblers. From what could be learned last night at the Hotel Netherland, Richard Bruce reached there on Saturday evening after leaving the Cam pania. He was assigned to room 364. which was as 6 a day room. At the time he said he was a lieutenant of the royal navy, and so signified his title by placing the initials "R. N." after his name on the register. The newcomer did not run up any extra bills, but two days ago said lie would like to pay something on his room account. He gave the cashier a check for $200. The check came back shortly as worthless from the bank on which It was drawn. The hotel management then in formed Captain Titus, of the Detective Bureau, and Detectives Herlihy and O'Connel were put on the trail of Mr. Bruce. After a search of the Tenderloin they found him last night at Slxth ave. and Twenty-third-st. They took him to Police Headquarters, where cards were found on him with the signature of "The Hon. Richard Bruce, R. N." The police say, however, that the man's name Is Richard Bridges, that he is well known In England. The first complainant against Bruce Is the Ho tel Netherland management, who complain of a $200 check he gave them. Maurice- Rosen baum. a jeweller, at No. 60 Nassau-st., Is also a complainant upon a $1,100 draft on the bank ing house of J. P. Morgan & Co., and signed "Richard Bruce. R. H." A tailor at Fifth-aye. and Twenty-sixth-st. has a check for $200 on J. P. Morgan & Co.. with the same signature, which he says was offered in payment for thcee suits of clothes. The police say Bruce Is wanted also In England for passing bad checks. Passengers on the Campania told this story of Bruce's experiences on the Campania: Lieutenant Bruce got Into a game of cards with gamblers and lost some money. The amount, according to the statements of the lieu tenant, was £30* ). He complained to people all over the vessel, and finally went to Captain Walker and asked him to recover the money. It was found afterward that the lieutenant, who was a poor loser, had overstated the amount of his loss. For this reason, but more particularly because he was not man enough to stand his loss— as one passenger put It, 'because he was a squealer"— he was socially ostracised by the re mainder of the passengers. The lieutenant was down for a recitation— Tennyson's 'Revenge'— at th" Fourth of July entertainment given on board the vessel, but he had been made to feel ! that he was an unwelcome person, and so did not attend. Ills place was taken by Professor ; Frederick Bell -^Ciiptajn. Walker told a Tribune reporter this story <.r how he had regained the lost 'money: ' The alleged gamblers were O. Hollander and J. B. Mackay. Captain Walker dealt with Hol lander. He threatened him with having his pict ure placed In every Cunard office in the World, nnd thus preventing him from ever again sail- Ing on one of the Cunard vessels. More than that, he threatened to put him an! his fellow j gambler In Irons and hand them over to the authorities on reaching New-York. They re turned the money to the captain in person. On Sunday Lieutenant Bruce issued a state ment in which he denied that he had suffered ostracism from the rest of th»» passengers. He said. also, that he had l"st £.'«.'{. all his ready cash, and that the men with horn he had played the game of "banker" refused to accept i his personal check for a portion of his losses, ! and thereby ¦tamped themselves as not in the grade of gentlemen. He said, also, that the. passengers had made a very natural mistake in mentioning the amount iof his loss. Fifty-throe pounds equal nearly : !?.'s»ki. and they had spoken of the dollars, which in some way had been confused with pounds. Thus it was that the passengers, and not Bruce, had magnified the amount. Forty pounds. Bruce paid, was all that Hollander and Mai-key had remaining of the money they had won from him. and he accepted this amount upon the advice of the captain only because they had spent the rest. Speaking of his future, Bruce said he was on his way to Victoria, B. c. to Join the Imperleuse, the flagship of the British Pacific squadron. He will stay for ten days at the Hotel Netherland in this city. MORE JAPANESE PRISONERS: ForiTY-RKVKN NOW MAROONED ON THK LBI.A ND-STRI K KRS A RR F.STI •". I V Vancouver. B. C. July l'J- There are now forty-seven Japanese prisoner! guarded by the salmon strikers and marooned on n small Island in th>- Gulf of Oeorgla. according to the»state ment of the union fishermen this evening The pr« vincial police an- trying t<> ascertain the location of this Island. The cuptHv Japanese an- being fed regularly and will be kept pris oners as long as possible. Others will \«' put on this Island as captured, provided the present plan of the striking union m»n is maintained. Frank RogSTS, v prominent member of the fishermen's executive COmmittS* and formerly secretary of the fishermen's union, and another union leader, were arrested on a charge that he had lie»-n implicated In the marooning of the Japanese at Bowen Inland on Wednesday night. Six other strikers, who wore arrested yesterday for Intimidation and conspiracy against the Japanese, were to-day held. It is reported that a Japanese was drowned to-day in a fight on the river with a boat of the strikers' patrol. The police believe the report. RIVAL BTBML TRUST W MORBD. IT IS SAID THAT $30,000,000 HAS ALRBAPV I.Ki:\ UNDERWRITTEN FOR THE COMBINATION. A Wall Street news agency yesterday made the statement that t30.000.000 has already been under written for a new steel combination which will compete with the United States Steel Corporation in the manufacture of armor plate and other heavy work. It is declared that strong Interests are bae* of the reported venture, but no names are men tioned, although It is said tnat an international banking house, has a power of attorney from the Krupps. of BSaeea, Germany. It Is further declared that now works will lie built and that no existing companion will he taken into the new corporation. Intimations thai Kuhn, Loeb & Co. might be in terested In tin new company were denied by a member of that firm. One of Mr. Morgan's partners expressed the opinion that then mi little In the report, and President Schwnli of the United States Steel Corporation, who was In Mr. Morgan's otnce, said lie new nothing about the proposed company. $1.50 sr\i.,\>, EXCURSION TO MAUCH CHUNK Th- X. w .|.[-.\ (¦.¦i.lral will nm v J. ."-> ,-\ urslun to Maueh chunk. Glen Onoka and tIM Switchback op Sunday, July Uth; children under IL'. 7f> cent* Bpecial train leavea Libert] Btreel al t:80 « m , S«. uth Kerry. s:l". ;i. in. Switchback BO Ceatl a.1,11 tional.—Advt. No use to own a yacht when • the Hudson Ulver hDay I. in.- off ts. service bo natty, »wlft, refined, and 1 -¦¦¦I £Uiroforta.hl«». Miuln.— Arivl. CEXTRA L COXGRA TULA TED. PUBLIC c.RATiriKT' I'.Y PtOfOflD IN STALLATION OF ELECTRICITY IN THK TrNNF.I.. Mary letters of congratulation were received yesterday by officials of the N"e\v-York Oa*M Railroad as a result of the announcement that electricity is to bo substituted for steam as s n as posrible In the Park-aye. tunnel Th- MS*. pany has been flooded with tunrvM esneapea dence for more than a month, but until faattr day all th°so letters only complained and im plored the Central to grant some relief, or of fered schemes and suatrestions for tunne! im provement. The plan proposed to clear the tunnel of the steam, smoke and cinders which have been the cause of so much complaint, ns told in The Trib une yesterday exclusively, is to run trains be tween the Grand Central Station and som,:- point not further south than Yonkers, by means of motors. Electricity is to be supplied these mo tors through a third rail, which remains un charged by the fluid until a car passes over it. Such a system Is now in operation in the Bal timore tunnel. President Newman said yesterday that the engineering force of the road was now working with particular attention on the details of the proposed improvement, and that the question of expense was not to be considered. The installation of an electric third rail sys tem, however, as one of the Central engineers said yesterday, could not be accomplished so as to bring Immediate relief. The undertaking con templated such an outlay of capital for the building of a power house, the equipment of the system with motors and properly insulated con ductors, and the arrangement of switches in rhe yard of the Grand Central Station, that the new scheme could not be put into effect In much less than a year. Few people, he said, realized the greatness of the Central's traffic or the cramped conditions of the Grand Central Station for the proper hand ling of trains during rush hours. It was also learned that, contrary to the opin ion of many who complain of travelling through the tunnel, the men at the head of the New- York Central desire a change as much as any of Its passengers. They well know that under Im proved conditions the traffic of the road would be increased to much more than enough to meet the expense of the proposed electrical equipment. A leading official of the road said yesterday that he expected the substitution of electricity for steam would be made before the beginning of the hot season of 1902. K11.1.F.n COMING rV.'oy [ FUNERAL. DRIVER'S NECK BROKEN IN A COLLISION BETWEEN COACHES— POLICE SAT THEY WERE RACING. James Collins, of No. l.ifclß Avenue A. was killed yesterday afternoon in Calvary Cemetery in a collision between the coach he was driving and another. ColTns was employed by N. Lavin, of No. 14.1 East Fortieth-st. The other coach was driven by James McCabe. of No. ."»26 Th'rd ave.. and was owned by Boylston. of No. 142 East Forty-second-st. The accident occurred In what is known as Boundary-aye.. which skUrts the old cemetery and forms the main route to the new part. The men had driven their coaches at a funeral to the new part. After the burial the> sta-t-d out by -wery of Rouidary-ave. There were four persons In each at the coaches. The police aa sert that It !n a common practice for coach drivers to race along the avenue to reach ths (treenpolnt-ave. entrance, and say that two drivers were defng this yesterday. Near the entrance the coaches came Into col lision. When the crash came the coarh driven by McCabe upset. The one driven by Collins remained upright. Collins was thrown off the box and struck upon his head. His neck wa# broken McCabe was also thrown, but did not sustain any serious Injury. The four persons In McCabe'S coach were thrown into a heap on one side of the coach, but beyond slight bruises suffered no Injury. Colllns's team ran away, but was caught near the cemetery chapel, a <H»arter of a mile from the scone of the collision. The police arrested McCabe and sent Colllns's body to the morgue. niiflT SQI EEZES IX THK Si liWAY. CHIEF ENGINEER PARSONS TELLS OF DIF FICULTIES SURMOUNTED. "The most significant thing up to date about the construction of the tunnel," said Chief En gineer William Barclay Parsons >esterday to a Tribune reporter, in answer to a question. "Is that the unexpected has not happened. We have been through several tight squeezes, and will have to encounter a lot more, no doubt; but so far as engineering problems are concerned we can see pretty clear daylight ahead. Our orig inal determination to build the tunnel as near the surface as practical provoked many criti cisms from competent engineers, who prophesied that while our plans were all right on paper there would be serious embarrassments when we came to work them out. We are all right as yet. al though, as 1 said before, we have had a num ber of tight squeezes. "At Lenox-ave. and One-hundred-and-thlrty aecond-st., for instance, we encountered a 30 lnch gas main, which did not leave us 'head room' for the tunnel. We will cut this main, and convey the gas across th" roof of the tunnel In a rectangular box a few Inches In thickness. It makes a queer looking gas main, but It answers the purpose all right and allows room for the tunnel. At Seventy-rlrst-st. and Broadway and at One-hundred-and-tenth-st. and Lenox-ave.. where we have encountered a 4S-lnch water main, we shall be compelled to carry the water across the roof of the tunnel in three small pipes instead of the single big one. In the Boulevard, in the neighborhood of Sixtleth-st.. we arc so close to the yokes under the tracks of the Metropolitan Street Railway that In one Instance we have had to chip off three Inches of iron." A WARNING TO KICKERS. SKULL AND CUOSSBONES OVER THE DOOR WAY OF W. B. TARSONSS OFFICE. A skull and crossbones. unearthed by the work men in the employ of the Degnon-McLean Com pany, sub-contractors for the rapid- transit sub way under Elm-st., has been put to use over the doorway of the office of William Barclay Par sons chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Com pany, in the Central Bank Building. Under the skull is a placard reading as follows: « ? WARN I NO! j TO those with complaints: : } This Is the result! : ? • ? ••That ts not wholly a Joke." said Mr. Parsons yesterday. "A good many of my callers who come Inhere loaded with grievances catch a glimpse of that severe looking, but strictly qulK. old person dug up in Klm-st.. and fay nothing. EX-GOYEKXOIt /?. H.liniHMlD DEAD. Dallas. Tex.. July 12.— Richard B. Hubbard. for merly Governor of Texas, and in President Cleve land's administration United States Minister to Japan, dlrd at his home. In Tyler. Tex., to-day. IT!. 1- MAN VESTIBULE; COMPARTMENT CAR "From New York to Plttsburg on Pennsylvania Rail r ,,r.,l train leaving West 23rd Street Station at 8:25 P. M. Daily.— Advt. Ninety Suhurban Towns described In No. ¦ 23. "Four-Track Scries." Copy sent on receipt of a two cent stampby General Passenger Agent. New York Central —k.iv PRICE THREE CENTS. NO RELIEF FROM DROUTH CHIC AG 0 G J?A IX MA RKET SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. FEAR THAT HEAT IN CORN BELT WlLl* EXTEND TO SPRINT. WHEAT REC.IOX. [BT TELEGItArn TO THE TUBUXZ-l Chicago. July 12.— Under the pressure of con-. tinued alarming reports of drouth .-. the corn belt of Kansas and Missouri, and the probability that instead of abating- in the very near future the burning winds will extend northward and make their force felt on the spring wheat crop, prices of all grains on the Board of Trade to day continued to soar skyward. In nearly all Instances the high points recorded were almost record breakers for prices which have resulted from natural conditions. September corn sold up to 54% cents, which shows an advance of about three cents since yesterday, and a gain of about 11^ cents since a month ago. when the hot spell was beginning to have a pro nounced effect on the price. Wheat sold at •;v% cents, which Is the best It has done for a month, and oats were up I 7I 7 cents. Conditions in the drouth stricken regions of the country are assuming a serious nature. Advices from all part? of the Southwest and Middle West, where the crops have been already badly damaged by the excessive heat and the dryness. to-day state that there is absolutely no change to be reported, unless it be that the situation is worse. There Is absolutely no re lief in sight. It is the Impression that, outside of Kansas and Missouri, the corn crop has not suffered to a disastrous extent as yet. It 13 still capable of making a fair crop in these places, should rain appear within the next few days. r ;;*• But in the event of another ten days of dry weather, accompanied by fierce heat, such as has been experienced in the last two weeks, it is probable that the country will suffer greatly. Fortunately, an Immense winter wheat crop has already been secured. While corn probably took the leading place In the grain which is being* affected, wheat showed the greatest strength, to-day. No serious damage has resulted to the spring wheat crop up to date as a result of the drouth. The indications are that not only will the hot, dry spell, continue, but that it will move northward and do damage to that grain. Another item, which probably is the principal cause for the remarkable strength shown In, wheat now, is that there is so little for sale.: This is caused by the probability that, owing ; to the losses of corn, oats and hay, much wheat will be used for feeding cattle. From Kens as City to-day came the report that hay was selling at $19 a ton there and corn at 56% cents a bushel. Even with wheat cor respondingly high, the message said, farmers would not sell that grain at present prices, and only contracts that were made previously were being filled. Reports to-day were that in Kansas, Mis souri and portions of Illinois and Kentucky, the drouth was unbroken, and that the damage to the corn crop was a grave matter. One man who has travelled over Kansas and Missouri in. the last ten days expressed his opinion that th© crops in those States were practically gone. Corn; he said, had been so badly stunted that much of It will not ear under any conditions from now on In the burned districts!. Only rain wlth!n the next few days, he thought, would help matters. Belated showers will be of no avail In saving any of the grain. S Conservative estimates are that in Kansas the corn crcp will not amount to more than fifty million bushels at the best, and probably not to that much if the dry spell is protracted. Last year that State had l(vs.o<X>.<Y>o bushels, and the year before 237.00<>.00«> bushels. The loss on hay ard potatoes, It is said, is only second in m rlousn»«ip. There is still no rain in prospect. Lincoln. Neb., telegraphed to-day that this was the fifth day of abnormal heat. The effect on the corn crop In that vicinity, it was said, was problematical. According to advices from. Dcs Molne9. there has been no serious harm to corn as yet. but It Is added that a few more days of the intense heat will mean had losses for both corn and oats. Weather forecasts in all parts of the burned section are unanimous in th«» opinion that It will be several days before? any relief Is experienced. They also agree o^i the possibility of the hot winds going northward and menacing the spring wheat crop. Even to day grain men In St. Paul, according to reports received from that city, are beginning to fear for the wheat in the Red River Valley, where fields recently flooded are experiencing intense I heat. MISSOURI DROUTH UNBROKEN. GRAIN SHRIVELLING ON THE STALK— FRUIT COOKING ON THE TREES. tBT TEI.EGRAPn TO THE TRIBUNE. 1 St. Louis, July — The lons continued drouth remains unbroken, and the sun is getting In its work in 'he Central West, with the result that grain Is shriveling on the stalk, and meadows are so badly scorched that little, if any. hay can, be cut. Apples, i«eaches and cherries are bak ing on the trees or shrivelling up. while berries are tasteless, all their Juices having been dried out. Ponds, creeks and springs throughout Missouri and Kansas are reported drying up, and farmers are hauling water long distances with a view to saving the little live stock they have not already marketed, although they wer* in poor condition to stand the long transit to stock yards in this city and Chicago. In Cen tral Missouri no rain has fallen for nearly three weeks, and for this time the temperature has ranged from 0«> to 100 degrees an! above, whlla some points report 1 10, but this is unofficial. Many wheat fields in Kansas and Missouri have been completely burned over. Sparks from locomotives are responsible for most of these* tires, though one case is reported where a wagon, ran Into a stone and sent a spark into the chaff In a thresher, starting a fire which consumed one hundred acres Of strain in the shock, as well as the thresher. In Kansas early corn is re ported practically destroyed by the drouth. In the central part of the State there is still a chance for a fair crop, as the corn was planted late It has not yet tasselled. and with rain an average yield will result. But there must ba rain speedily to insure this. Owing to the in tense heat, farm work has been practically sue pended in the Sunflower State, the attention of agriculturists being spent on saving their live stock The local weather observer holds out no hope for a cessation of the hot spell; in fact, he predicts an indefinite continuance of present conditions. Farmers throughout Missouri and Kansas ar« In the depths of despair. KANSAS CROrS RUINED. RAINMAKERS DO NO GOOD—PEOPLE RESORT! TO PRATER. tnT TELECRAPII TO TIIE TRIBO^I-1 Wichita, Kan., July 12.— The crop, of Kansas so far as corn and fruit are concerned are a complete failure. Drouths, which have been prevailing 1 over the State for the last few weeks, have ruined them. Wheat was barely ripened and ready for cutting when the hot winds began to blow, and for eighteen or twenty days th* temperature has registered from 100 to 110 de grees. In •!.• harvest field It has reached 110 degrees, and hun In of harvest han.!.< have been prostrated. There has been no rain sava light sprinkles for three weeks; all the streams All day Sunday on beautiful Long Island Sound. Ne»' steamer Chester W. Chapln. bee adv.— Advt. .... .-, QUARTS A DAY. , Not quarts of beer, but quarts of MILK, con sumed m this city every day. How it Is brought here and handled In the hot weather. 9E£ TiiM BUN DAY TIUBUNE TO-MORROW.— Advt.