V OL LXII .y° 20.240. ■WOOr>Bt'R.y L,AXGDON. KNOX AFTER BEEF TRUST ATTORNEY GENERAL ORDERS PROCEEDINGS TA KEN. OfjaSTOBCED BY INVESTIGATIONS THAT AN rNLAWFIT. COMBINATION OF BIG DEALERS EXISTS. "Washington, April -4— Attorney General Koox made the following: statement to-night regarding the so-called Beef Trust: On April * this department directed W. A. f,. ,- e«a-. fi ■Washington, in hi* capacity a* •pecia.l auiiitant to IBM Attorney General. U examine into. »■ far as practicable, the i»nl»- Jlo chance* to the effect that a combination pt ,»,.- Inrce meat denier* In «he United State had been effected contrary to the provision! Of the lax.* oT the I nited State*. Thin pre liminary examination resulted In instruc tions to Mr. Day an (iv;tv on meats. introduced slgiSl ferred l to tbe Conunlttee on Finance. TAMMANY SAYS IT HAS EVIDENCE. Albany. April 24 -Attorney General Da. ries received a dispatch to-day from Charles H. Knox. the chairman of the Tammany Hall conunlt £ now investigating the Beef Tru.t. «*-*£?£ ro™ of the members of the committee ****££ tlve Baeesnentt elsewhere to-morrow, and there fore suiting postponement of »^etln of '.he committee with the Attorney General in .\« York until next week. Th. Attorney G^ral. 1:. an ; rwer. said he «mM meet Mr. Knox at the. Hot* Manhattan to-morrow and arrange at that time for a roc 1,, c next week with the P^ni"*^ "J members of the committee Bay they have some dence. to submit to the Attorney General regarding the operations of the Beef Trust. BIBLE IS FOR J. P- MORGAN NEPHEW WHO OBTAINED IT FROM ITALIAN MONASTERY SAYS IT IS OF EXTRAORDINARY VALUE. Princeton, N. J- April M ,., uewol Of the rindinp of the volume • previous history, but that he could not MH thbl inlormation ur.til after be had should be .harped or. rmn om «t« sdmltted free of * u y^-]^Sed WfLSBLMfXA'S FEVER Hid HER. AX OFFICIAL BULLETIN RENEWS ANXIETY FOR HOLLAND'S QUEEN. The Hague. April 24.-A bulletin *—***** moving from Castle Loo said Queen W lhel rnlna had another quiet night. The patient s temperature was satisfactory, and she was tak ing pufficient nourishment. A bulletin Issued from Castle Loo at 3 o clocK this afternoon f.t!' 1 : A recurrence of high temperature this after noon makes it manifest that every care is fit"* requisite v The 3 o'clock bulletin regarding the Queen's condition occasioned some anxiety, but the fact that Prince Henry took hla customary ride and that th« queen mother went for a drive were regarded as favorable ttlgns. . .Dr. Roceslngs ■•■ II continue to remain at tne castle far the present. Th« WORST COLDS can be cured with JATN'EO EXPECTORANT.— AfIvt. MORRT9 K. .TKST T P. WILL BE JOHNSON'S MONEY TO PAY EXPENSES OF LIBERAL PARTI'S CAMPAIGN IN THE STATE THIS FALL —ANYTHING TO HEAT HILL. Tom L,. Johnson. Mayor of Cleveland, is in active sympathy with the newly organized Lib eral Democratic party, and it was asserted last night by those ho helped to organize the new party that Mr. Johnson'? money will pay the expenses of the Liberal party's campaign in this State next fall. It is said to be Mr. Johnsons plan to keep the Democrats from uniting under the leadership of ex-Senator Hill by building ur the new Liberal party in this State. To block Hill the Liberals will organise this summer in all the counties of the State, and on June 7 at 'cooper Union, in this city, they will meet in State convention to adopt a platform. The New- York Liberals are in favor of nominating either William B. Rann or M. Filmier.- Brown, of Buffalo, for Governor. Both are young Democratic lawyers. The thin? which most Interests politicians is the fact that the new party seems to be well supplied with money. There are no particularly rich men in the list of those who signed the call that was published on Mcnday morning, and both Republicans and Democrats wondered where the money was coming from. It was ad mitted yesterday that most of it was coming from the friends of Tom L. Johnson. Another interesting feature of the local situ ation developed yesterday, when It was an nounced that the Liberals will organize a county committee atTeutonia Hall, Third-are, and Sixteenth-st., to-morrow night. Meivin G. Palliser. a lawyer, an ardent Bryan man. and one of the organizers of the new Liberal party, said yesterday: "When 'Dave' Hill came down to New-York and made a speech at the Democratic Club ho showed plainly enough that he wanted some thing pretty bad. He will force a. nomination of himself for Governor on the State convention if he thinks at the time that the Democratic ticket has any show of winning. The men in the nt-w Lib-: '< Democratic party are lisair^t Hill or Shf-purrt. or anything that they repre sent Our campalKn will be fought on the major issue of government ownership of public utili ties No Democratic party can be 'regular Without indorsing the last two national conven tion platforms. Hill and his friend* are not willing to do that, and we are. Not only sha we nominate a full State ticket, but we .hall nominate Congress candidates in all the New - York city districts. William A. Coakley. a labor leader, will probably be norn nfted_tOTUn against Perry Belmont in the Ml th District apd John J. Young. Citizens ITnlon leader ol V. " XXIXth District! will doubttesa run on the Corona ticket in the XVth District." •'Will you still regard yourselves as Demo cratVif you help to defeat the regularly nomi ,™ted Democratic candidate for Governor? prefer Benjamin H. Olell to David B. Hill. Better an open and honorabU antagonist than a Liberal Democratic party will be » ,-. .-, r. or tour States before the first das at Vue -t it stands for up to tote radical prtnei- Dies and will fight for them." ••Win you name a type of man who will till BYRAM WATER ONCE MORE. THE TUNNEL TO TOE RIVER OPENED ON WEDNESDAY. As a result of the recent opinion delivered In the United States Supreme Court In the Byram IMver water case, this city is again receiving water from that stream. On Wednesday Chief Engineer George W. Binlsall. of the Water De partment ordered the water turned on at the mouth of the tunnel to the Byram River, near the Connecticut State line. The tunnel empties into a branch of the Bronx River, and the water i« finally delivered into the Kensico reservoir. Th city has been without the use of this water since Tine and Miller. Connecticut farm er* whoU lands bordered on the Byram River. obtained Vom the United States Circuit Court an tniunct n n retraining this city from div-rt ?rg tn" flow of the river. This was more than id ,1 !r-t rammer. The city Bpent $125,000 , r, Minß the tunnel and storage reservoir , ? -he the riparian rlehtn. The farmer* al ,d in *JH» refKS to sell their water rights S'/n™ 1- x--d U, a( ,e,,t the damages which the court allows them. TELEGRAPHIC KOTES •Kin inril "4 — Th? business portion of f ar r xl -h,n^Ci -v,r ;l i residences were a> hi <•.-.! *r>ril M - One mnn killed and an &?£B£™& bU^Sed and several injured is the other ?< . . '■ . j f pas al the Bunny ride coal r " SI t'hr- ml--«>« > ifr-m here. was name of the "ITd'man is not known, as he was a Stranger m the camp. ..„, \i,ril "4 — J <* Cain, formerly Winn l.ep. Man \ . »n - rourthoufM , nt>n . | liIS $10,000. v, Hah April 24.— The State central com "■» of the' Democratic and Populist parties rl'r 1 ' 1 flxed the place and date for their State con v^fionsiorVand Island. June St. „„,„ Tex April 24.— The .State Encamp- Beaumont lex At r of th e Republic began mW „d-iv with a S3 attendance. it is the here «t meeting ever held in the State, many vet l&™£ of the "-.ion Army having recently come to this section to live. „ /-> l, ii n «i April 24.— Fire to-day burned an R£l hu-ine^ni..ck entailing a loss of $225,000. of which but one-third hi covered by insurance. .i -^ Mich April 24.— The bank belonging to Algonac. Ml '? nk fne Company was closed yester the Alponac Ba^ngcompanj j Kean were the da . y< m.i Stockholders, the former being manager. principal had about $52,000 In deposits, the greater T - h r"t of which, it is said. will be lost, a* the present JjS,°,.' the lnM'.tutlon are poor. THE TRAIN OF THE CENTURY M the Pennsylvania Limited, embodying all that ii bUt to nOlww axchl«ctur«.-Advt. NEW- YORK. FRIDAY. APRIL L\~>. 1902.-FOT RTEEN PAGES.—* n?%&sh22&»m. MEMBERS OF THE RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION. U Which yesterday ■de-ted The Tribune's suggestion that preliminary work on an East Side Sntnray begin at once. EDWARD M. GRDT'T. BIG CROWD SEES RAID. JEROME'S DETECTIVES MAKE DASH IN CHATHAM SQUARE. POLICY MEN JUMP OVEB FAMILY AT BUPPEB TO ESCAPE FROM EABT SIDE HEADQUARTERS. Detect of District Attorney Jerome's staff made a spectacular raid early last evening at No. 2.'i Chatham Square, and gathered in two men, said to be policy dealers, and a patrol wacon load of policy paraphernalia, before a thousand or rtmr" persons who gathered in the open spate where New Bowery, Chatham Square nnd th« Bowery converge. The prisoners are Richard Sampson, of No. 212 Farnham-ave., West New-York. N. J.. and James Wallace, of No. 2 Blcomfleld-st.. Hobo ken. They were locked up in the Oak Bt. police station, where Captain Vredenburgh lea? than three weeks ago offered $500 reward to any one who would discover a disorderly hous or a policy shop In his precinct. Sine- then Mr. Jerome and his detectives have made raids on three of the latter places. Five men they capt ured st No. ."! Rocsevelt-st. are now awaiting the pleasure of the grand Jury, and three caught at No. 212 Broadway have been held for trial In a magistrate's court. Captain Vredenbunrh bad nothing to say last n'pht. The raid was made without premeditation or warrants. Detectives Hammond. Reardon, Dil lon arid Mcdellan went for a stroll through the East Bide, looking for policy shops, each man ting in •• different direction. Each found a plriro he believed to be a poll" shop, and while looking over the ground saw a man he believed to be a runner for policy headquarters leave the place. Each followed his man, and, much to their surprise, they met outside the Chut bun Squure. place. into wUk-b their- quarry baa gone. ' They Raw the four men they bad followed leave the plnce and three more go In. Ham mond and Reardon went to the side door In Chatham Square and saw the last two men who entered go upstairs. Just at that moment some ! on« recognized the detectives, and Hammond heard a "buzzer" in the saloon on the ground i floor give a warning signal. With the others, he rushed upstairs to find himself confronted by three doors, all heavily barred. Dillon remained on the sidewalk long enough to blow a whistle for police assistance. Vehstedt and Hayes, of Captain Vredenburgh's command. on post near by, hurried around and gave assistance. CAUGHT AT KITCHEN STOVE. In the mean time Reardon and Hammond had kicked in one of the doors and found them selves in a long room, with half a dozen men in it. The men were near the windows, and a long table separated them from the detectives. The men made a dash for the lire escape, with the detectives after them, RlcClellan in the lead. McClollan caught one of the mci and received a blow on th." forehead, either with a ring or sonic other Instrument, thit made a cut an Inch long and raised a lump. II- was dazed and lei go his prisoner. On the Boor above lives Dennis Dunn, his wife and six young children. Hammond and Reardon ran up the stairs and caught the two locked up in the Oak-st. station. In Mrs. Dunn's kitchen. They had Jumped In through the open window, scrambled across the table at which the children were stated at supper and were stuffing papers In a stove! Mrs. Dunn was badly scared. All but these two made their way to the top story, and, opening the windows of the Hip Tong Song Association, got through to the rear, where they escaped over the roof of the adjoining tenement j houses. After searching the premises the detectives decided that the raid was one of the most im portani they hu^i evar made. Policy slii.s. a telephone, and bool a showing the returns from different policy "stations" nearly tilled the patrol wagon. A still more valuable find, the detec tives believe, were seven manifold books, which showed, or purported t« show, the business done at as many shops in the afternoon. Hammond said thai the place was the heal quarters .if the policy dealers <>f the lower East cijde that it is rim by the ••Al" Adams of the East Side, and "Billy" Kent and 'Jimmy Can non Sampson and Wallace. Hammond thinks are their head men. It was Sampson who was trying to burn the manifold books w hen Rear don collared him in Mrs. Dunn's kitchen. Wal lace had a number of slips in his pocket Detectives Allen and Reillv. of Captain \re denburxh'B staff, accompanied the county de- K,mes while they were making their search of Se building. Allen said that they had never suspected the plac '. THi: rr/'/riY MYSTIFIED. STILL IN THE DARK REGARDING THE UNITED STATES MISSION. Pome April 24. --There is considerable mysti fication at the Vatican regarding the reported (Jolted States mission to be appointed to dis caM the taking over of the lands of the religious orders in the Philippines. No one here seems to know when the mission may be expected. But it is understood that the Bishop of Sioux Falls, the Right Rev. Thomas OGurman. is pre paring the ground for it. There is some ques tion regarding the character of the reception to he accorded the mission. The Pope. It Is said. i« desirous of receiving the mission privately. The Pope received twenty thousand pilgrims «t St Peter's this morning. He seemed to be in perfect health, and thanked the pilgrims for their loyalty to the Papacy. Hiram Rlcker & Sons, proprietors of the cele brated Poland Water, guarantee it absolutely pure. For supply te'-phone Poland' Water Depot. 6050 CortlanSl V Park Place. N « w York Clty.-Advt. ALEXANDER E. ORR. LARGEST BANK IN THE U. S NATIONAL CITY TO INCREASE ITS CAPI TAL FROM $10,000,000 TO $25,000,000. -SUIirLUS, $i.-,,000.n00. The directors of the National City Bank, of New-York, yesterday unanimously recommended to its shareholders that the capital stock of the bank should be increased from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000 by the Issuance of 150,000 addi tional shares of stock. The present capital of the bank Is $10,000,000. and the present surplus about $7,500,000. The new stock will be offered to shareholders for subscription at 150 per cent. This will provide, in addition to the new capital of $15,000,000, an additional surplus of $7,500. 000, so that when the new stock Is paid for the capital and surplus of the bank will be respec tively $25,000,000 and $15,000,000. A special meeting of the shareholders to vote on the question of increase of the capital and surplus of the bank will be called for an early day in June. The date fixed for payment for the new stock will probably be about July 1. This increase of capital and surplus will make the National City Bank by far the largest bank in the United States. Under the "double liabil ity" Imposed by the National Banking act upon shareholders of national banks, the liability of the shareholders of the National City Bank will bo $50,000,000, which, added to the aug mented surplus of $15.000.0110, Will give the lit positors a security of $05,000,000. The deposits at the time of Issuance of last week's bank statement aggregated ? 123.097,000: The First National Bonk, the other $10,000,000 bank hay- Ing stockholders; double liability, has a surplus of 511.035.nU0, making its depositors 1 security loSSuit of the increase of the stock of the Nat&rtCm fmSZXS bT that the in-tH^ion ua^ng%n™"rectOH fn recommending so large '„,„,. „,.. with the rapid growth o' the to aUtStions foreign bMtoess than the PP - -Itepoj pole of extending materially Its domestic busl .iv-v :■ -- '.'■-■■-' ' ■■' '-'■'-• -'.'' ORDERS GIVEN TO SUSPEND OPERA TIONS IN MINDANAO. Manila April 24 .-Lieutenant Colonel F. D, Baldwin, who Is operating against the >«,-... on the island of Mindanao, telegraphs that the capture of Sultan Pualo's fort has had a most salutary effect: The lottos are submitting White Rags are taking the places of the red battle Hags. The Sultan of Annudtbak urges that time be given him in which to give up th, assassins of the American soldiers, and says that the advance of the American, will mean -bristling cannon and impassable barriers, with Cod judging the right " Colonel Baldv In has received orders to sus pend operations against the Dattos. General George v 7. Davis, in command at Zamboanga. island of Mindanao, believes that the majority of the Dattos are friendly and that they have not had time to co-operate. He thinks their alarm .nay cease, and that practically a bloodless victory has been achieved. THE MANILA COIKT MARTIALS. Manila. April -M, The court martial which tried Major Waller and Lieutenant Day. of the marine corps, on charges Of executing natives Of the island of Samar without trial, recon vened this morning, on orders received from Washington to revise certain portions of the r< TOe "court martial appointed to try General Jacob H. Smith on the charge of conduct Prejudicial to good order and discipline will as semble to-morrow. GENERAL SMITHS ALLEGED ORDER. A SOLDIER SAYS MANY BOYS ARK FOJJND AMONG FILIPINO BANDITS Washington. April Adjutant General Corbln baa received ■ letter from Henry C. McCook, of Philadelphia; in regard to the reported orders of General Smith to destroy all Filipinos ten years of ape and upward found in arms. "Sergeant Brown. honorably discharged, after full service, from Company G. 2.1 Regiment, in which my son. First Lieutenant Paul MeCook. Is an officer.- says Mr. MeCook. 'visit.! me this week. His company was stationed In Tayabas Province; and he said he had never seen the water cure practise or any other methods of torture. 1 ask him what was the physical standing of a youth of ten years in the Philippines. His answer was that a ten-year-old lad wouW about rate with a Hfteen-year-old boy here He further Informed «ie that boys of thai age and up to twelve could bear arms greatly to the disadvantage of their opponents; that he had sera youths of mat age and two or three years older among the insurrectoa and ladronea captured, and be further said that some times there would be a conslderaDle proportion of such boys i-i the hostile ranks, as represented by those who surrendered and those taken prisoners. of course it is most shocking to our ideas of what ia allowable even under the extremes* exigencies of warfare, to think of children of ten or twelve years as being subject to the seventies adminis tered to their seniors. Yet it occurred to me th it he above facts, if they he as Stated may put a somewhat dlqerent color upon the reputed order of General Smith." JOHN CTiATUTK. THE PATTOB SUBMITTING. THE DAMBB TREATY. IT PABSEB THK LANDS-THING <>N IT? STBC OND kkadin.; Copenhagen, April 'J4.— The Landsthing (upper house) to-day passed the second reading of the majority report on the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West India Islands to the I'nlted States by ■ majority of thirty-two. Twenty-ei^ht members abstained from votinp. The trea\y will be discussed by the Folkething (lower house) on April 29. UPTOWN AND DOWNTOWN. 'The' triple terminals of the Pennsylvania Railroad are convenient to all sections of New-Yi>rW.-Advt, CHARLES S. SMITH. 6RTH LOW. EAST SIDE BRANCH AITHOR IZED RAPID TRAXSIT BOARD DIRECTS CHIEF EXGISEER TO PREPARE THE PLAN. MAYOR LOW'S RESOLUTION ADOPTED UNAMMOTOUK Re.oUc.l That it he r-rerred to the chief ensineer to investigate nnd repo-t tn ♦*• board at a. early a date .... possible a plan or plans for the e,.t. »*i.,n of the -. U h*ray »"t. of Forty -«econ«l-st.. on the F.n-t >i.le of the city, to th- en.l that all preliminary .teps ii < tl c • nutrni'tlnn anil operation of nurh an rvlrnilon. so soon as the Iknan cinl condition of the clt> «ill permit. ...ay he fallen «ifh.,,,t ...m-cessn ry lelay. MILE POSTS IN THE HISTORY OF RAI'Il" TRANSIT. ISMS. I Mayor Hewitt sent bill t.i the leisU lature providing for an underground road. IHHJi. si Ufa bill dereated. ISiW. Bill w«s passed by the leslslature and signed by Governor Hill, entitled ••An act to provide for rapid transit railways In cities of over one million Inhabitants." Knpiil Transit Commission appointed. »w commission appointed the same year. . ISO 2. Franchise offered for sale, but failed to find suitable bidder. The proposition for an East Side subway, i which has been urged so vigorously by The \ Tribune, was officially Indorsed yeste- by ( the Rapid Transit Commission at its i- o u!ar | meeting. On the motion of Mayor Low, second- ; ,ed by Alexander; E. Orr. president of the board, j the foregoing resolution, providing for prelimi- j nary work for an East Side branch of the rapid j transit system, was unanimously adopted. The j full membership of the board, consisting of Mayor Low. Controller Grout. Alexander E. Orr. Morris K. Jesup. Woodbury Langdon. j Charles Stewart Smith. John H. Starin and ! John CtaJttn. was present. Chief Engineer Will- : lam Barclay Parsons, and Albert B. Boardman. •counsel for the board, were also at the meeting. | That the resolution, which mark- the official beginning of rapid transit for the East Side, was introduced by Mayor Low is regarded as of special Importance. As a member of th" Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the Mayor will be able to see that this improvement shall be undertaken by the city as soon as the debt margin will permit. From a study of the reports of the tax oiHce it Is ascertained that the Increase in the assessed valuations of real estate is about $7r..< xX M M " > a year. This make* an increase in the debt limit of 57.ri00.000 a year. The cost of the East Side subway is roughly estimated at $15,000,000. Thus it is seen that with the natural increase in the debt limit the city will be able to build the subway j in two years. As long as Mayor Low is at the ' head Of the city government, in favor, M he is. of meeting the needs of the East Side for rapid transit, the construction of the branch can be regarded as practically assure.!. BOARD LONG FAVORED THE BRANCH. The unanimity with which the Rapid Transit Commission adopted the Mayor's resolution may be considered another proof of the great neces sity for this branch of the rapid transit system end as indicating the board's desire to brin« about its construction and operation in con nection with the present subway without delay. The board, according to statements by Mr. Orr and Mr. Smith yesterday, has been in favor of an Basi Side subway, and has realize. l th- necessity for such a branch of the underground railroad system of the city, but up to the pres ent time it had not formally committed itself to such an improvement, for the reason that it believed the city unable financially to under take the work. With the assurance si Mayor Low and of Controller Growl th*t the city should build an East Side subway as soon as it could within its debt limit, the board took the initit! step in adopting the resolution printed above. By the action of the Rapid Transit Commis sion, in thus authorizing Its chief engineer to make a survey, the people east of Central Park. of the eastern part of Harlem and of the great outlying eastern district of The Bronx are mm- Sured rapid transit facilities within four or five jears The preliminary work, which was for mally begun yesterday, will take, if it consumes as much tune as has that for the Brooklyn « tension, about two years. By that time the city ii v will be financially able, experts say. to under i take the work, which, if pushed with the cx i pedltion which has attended the work on the i present tunnel, will take three years more. Had ; ,he commission waited until the city was able ! vithin Its debt limit to build the road and begun . the preliminary work then the completion of such a subway would have been unnecessarily delaj cd two years, dtlajed > ARGUMENTS OF MAYOR LOW. The reasons put forward by the Mayor in offering his resolution to the Rapid Transit Commission, were similar to the arguments. which have been advanced from day to day in The Tribune, ever since the inception of the present agitation for an East Side subway. Mr. Low emphasised the needs of rapid transit in | the great congested districts east of Central ; Park, and showed furthermore that such a road "' would offer a direct route to the undeveloped parts of The Bronx. Mr. Low's arguments met the hearty approval of the board, and when his resolution was read. Mr. Orr seconded it. and it was passed without a dissenting voice. The PRICE THEEE CENTa JOHM H. STARIX. MM Bill t.» hair city build the road on the original Hewitt plan panned by legislature. Another Hoar. l of Maui.l Transit Com inis«ionfr< nameil. I'JtHK .l:inuiirv lti — Contract awarded ta> .1. It. .McDonald for .Manhattan-Bronx subway, no iv nnder construction. J-'ebruarjr 24 — Contract signed. l!H»i. May — Municipal Annemhly approves Brooklyn extension of system. June t— Mayor Van W'yck jcives his approval to Brooklyn extension. UMKi. April :M — Itapld i'ranalt Commission authorizes survey for Ka»t Side nahvs-ay. Mayor declined afterward to talk about 'the subject further than to say: "I believe that the East Side should have rapid transit as scon as it can be afforded to this section of the city. Preliminary . steps," taVen by the board at this time win avoir! delay. ■ and enable the city to construct the subway as soon as it Is financially able." The subject of an East Side subway was first brought before the Rapid Transit Commission yesterday by H. A Gumbleton. secretary of Lou!? F. Haffer.. President of the Borough of Th : Bronx. Mr. QsosriMet«Bl said that, In the ab sence of.M- Haffen. he desired to bring- before the board the urgent needs of The Bronx for k direct East Side subway. PRESENT ROUTE CIRCUITOUS 1 The present rout • is so circuitous." said Mr. Gumbleton. "that it will not afford true rapid 1 trarslt to II • Borough of The Bronx. There will be re express service for us north of One-hur. dre:■!• had hardly finished speaking- when Mr. Smith said: "I believe that it is the desire of every member of this commission that there should be an East Side subway. One newspaper has thrashed this subject out at considerable length, and I think that we are all agreed that this branch of the rapid transit system should be built just a" soon M the city is able finan c.-.'.ly to undertake the work." ALL THE MEMBERS in FAVOR. Mr. Smith looked' at the other member." seat*! around the table and aided: "Every member of this board Is in favor of an East Side subway, the same as I am. All that has hin>ler*d our taking formal action commit ting nurselver to this improvement has been th« lack of funds." The committee then went into executive ses s'on. in which, it is understood. Mayor Low assured th« toir.mission that if the pr-iimlnar''* v.ork was be^un norv j;i*» city would build th* road as soon us ir was financially able. To thi* • "onrrollT Grout is said tr> have sriven Ma as sent am? the promise of hi;s o-operatftMiL Resolutions in favor of an East Side subway bare been adr.pted by the following bodies and orcnniz.«tions: The Board of Me i men. The Harlem Board of Commerc?. ' Th- Harl»m riub. The North Side Board cf Trade. The East Tremont Taxpayers' Association. The RepuMican Club of rrw XXIXth Assembly District The Algonquin Club. The Tammany Hall Club of the XXXIId As sembly District. WOULD SAVE OLD HALL OF RECORDS?. MAYOR LOW ADMINISTERS REBUKE WHEN m HEARS THAT IT WAS INTENDED to PULL IT DOWN. Talk about tearing down the old Hall of Reo ords in the City Hall Park caused Mayor Low to administer a rebuke at the meeting of the Rapid Transit Commission yesterday. The com mission received a communication from Alder man Elias Goodman, asking if the old building could not • - saved from destruction. It was , his understanding that the city authorities In tended to have the building pulled down as soon as the new Hall of Records was ready for use. William Barclay Parson?, the chief engineer N. . "KTTER \V.\\ TO BCFF\:.O than the Lacltawanna Railroad. Dining car aervtc* 'a la carte. Tickets. 425. 1.153 Broad waj.—AdvC