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eith. - Mi. of the road s: r.-f.-U--* n'..-n«r for over
half a mile.
ROAD THROUGH GARBAGE}.
Part of thl* "road" had for months been ueed
as a public dumping place. Dead animals,
sjajSjssja rrom households and restaurants, and
all the cutoff riff-raff of a city was spread thick
-fender foot and to either side. Through this
women and chlldr.n had to struggle, their nos
trils assailed and their health threatened at
every p°h->t.
Kings Highway Ik where the conductors start
to collect the second fare on the. Culver line. A
few blocks, perhaps half a mile, away Is the
Keck Road, where passengers are dumped off
without ceremony If they do not pay. Beyond
this Is the causeway which leads over the marsh
to tbe island. The block began at Keck Road,
and the cars ran back without a break long past
Kensington. l»ng before the conductors, backed
by the huskiest of special patrolmen, appeared to
collect th* second fare more than three-quarters
of the passengers on each car Jumped out to
walk the remaining distance — anywhere from
two to five miles.
Th* guards and conductors Jeered at the pas
sengers as they passed.
'It's a of a long walk." sneered some.
"No stop between here and Coney!" yelled an
other.
"Tour a of a sport," sneered the third.
"Why don't youse put up yer nickel an' be a
man*"
."This Is a picnic." said one woman as she
climbed off a streetcar In disgust. "But they
don't charge as a sing!* c*nt to walk.' mid the
child with her.
Borough President Coler reached the Neck
Road some time before noon. With him was
Mrs. Colt-r. Indignant at the treatment Mrs.
Coler received from one of the inspectors of the
road, the Borough President spent much time
advising his fellow passengers to refuse to pay
tbe second fare, and then went on to Coney Isl
and in a carriage.
Different lines entering the Culver terminal
were affected at Kings Highway. Those who
went down to the. island on the trains arriving
at the West End station were held up. but as
they were already at Surf avenue, much less In
convenience was mused. At that station. In
stead of the conductor taking up the second fare.
the second half of the ticket Is dropped into an
ordinary ticket box presided over by a ticket
chopper. When the passenger arrived there he
found two roundsmen and a score of uniformed
patrolmen standing guard over the boxes and
forcing everybody to pay the second fare. If
any passenger, believing that the order would
be respited had bought only a single ticket
which had been deposited In the boxes at the
bridge, he. was forced to buy another ticket at
the booth Inside of the station before he waa
Allowed to depart on the cars. If he refused
and persisted in ridir^g. there were the police
ready to hurry him off to a Coney Island cell.
SUBMITTED TO" SHOW OF FORCE.
All through the day these passengers meekly
submitted to the show of force, and paid their
second fare almost without objection. Early in
the day three men refused to do this, and ob
structed ths way past the boxee until the police
threatened to arrest them. Finally they paid the
second fare and were allowed to leave the sta
tion.
The lines which use the read at King's Highw
ay are the Nostrand avenue, Ninth avenue,
Liorimer street, 15th street, Union street. Reid
avenue. Court street and the Culver terminal
elevated trains from the bridge. Many of the
surface lines enter Manhattan over the Will
lamsburg Bridge, draining the East Bide, each
car taking down between I<JU and l"»u passen
gers—some of them more.
Before 11.30 a. m. traffic, as usual, was light.
The few persons who objected to what most of
them called a "hold up" were disposed of quick
ly. Then Car No. 251. of the Nostrand avenue
line, came along, laden down with men with pro
jecting Jaws and big: hard fists. At King's High- !
way the conductor started to collect the second i
fare. When the Neck Road was reached he had I
collected none. The car was stopped there. The \
passengers stayed on and their money stayed
with them. There were fully 12-"» persons on the
car. of which not more than a score were
women.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit special policemen |
and the inspectors tried to force the passengers
to pay, but they were rolled back as the British
fell back on the first charge at Banker Hill.
Then they adopted a Fabian polity, nursing
their wounds meanwhile.
At I o'clock the passengers were still ■;-. re,
and the cars behind stretched hack for nearly
two miles, with hardly room enough between
them to pass a sheet of paper. Every man on
board the first car bad a plentiful supply of to
bacco, the wind blew i. >: acres? the marshes.
and all were content to wait as long as the road
demanded. Then th* railroad officials decided
that they would have to yield, and the car was
allowed to proceed to Coney [aland, the ouc vic
tory won by the jas.-. :.•:.-.< until Deputy Com
missioner O'Keetfe acted.
Fifteen minutes la:?r another car started
from the Neck R"-: I through to the Island. The
passenger* of this one were just as determined,
tat th« railroad off.rials bad been reinforced by
men with just as big jaws and just as big
and hard fiste. The objectors were quickly
pulled oft and rolled in the dust— the city
police gaining much amusement thereby. The
remaining passengers were properly impressed,
and paid tbeir fare, obeying the railroad in
spector'a behest to be "snorts."
One scene of ruffianism on the part of the spe
cial railroad police. in which the regular police
acquiesced, succeeded another with great regu
larity
GOT OFF AND WALKED.
Realizing the hopelessness of their position,
even if they were willing to pay the second fare,
passengers piled from the cars and trains the
moment they stopped and started on the weary
walk to Coney Island. At Infrequent intervals,
after the belligerents had been weeded out. a
ear would start down the line to Culver ter
minal In the mean time from five to seven
more cars would have been added to the line,
until it began to appear that in another hour
on* couM walk from the bridge to the island
without seeing * break ii th« line.
One of the few cam allowed to go on nearly
rsrused the death of th*- wife and baby of Isaac
FreJdbergr. of No. 7O Varet street. Brooklyn.
"With Mm. Freldberir and his two children, four
and five years old, Freldberg started for the
Island on a Nostrand avenue car. After th*
•top they walked alow? the railroad until they
reached the bridge over Coney Island Creek.
Fividbers carried one child across, reaching the.
other side Just as an elevated train approached
from th* Island and a trolley ccar reached the
bridge from Manhattan. His wife, with th*
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'other child, was caught^ in th*> mM<ll<\ of tho
lirld^e. fiho v.tts too dazed to move. Tho pas
so.nK'i'S of the approaching trolley car sew her
plight and yelled to the motorman to stop, but
he refused even to slow down. In the nick of
time, with the fender almost grazing the
woman, the passengers pulled the trolley from
the wire, stopping the car. Edward Clare, one
of the passengers, leaped from the car and
carried the woman and her child to safety.
Angered by the Indifference of the motorman
to the woman's safety, the Infuriated passengers
mobbed him and the conductor. With the as
sistance of an inspector the two fought off the
passengers until Coney Island was reached and
the police made It safe for them.
When Borough President Coler and Mr*. Coler
reached the Neck Road they refused to pay, a
second fare. Mr. Coler was ordered off the car.
He stepped off. but the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Inspector did not think that Mrs. Coler moved
fast enough. Roughly seizing her by the shoul
der he attempted to' hustle her to the street.
Mr. Coler saw him. "None of -that!" he cried,
menacingly stepping toward the ruffian, who
stepped back among the police.
The Borough President turned toward the
crowd.
"Anybody that Is a man will keep his seat and
refuse this extortionate fare," he said. "If you're
men you won't pay. Anybody that yields to this
extortion Is only half a man."
Then the Borough President hired a carriage
to take him to the Island.
Early In the day forty patrolmen, under
Sergeant Callahan. of the «9th (Coney Isl
and) Precinct, wera sent there. For a long time
they did nothing except seek whatever shade
there might be and laugh at fights between the
passengers and the private officers.
•ACTION OF POLICE A DISGRACE."
One man who stood and watched them for
more than an hour at that time said the action
of th*« police was a disgrace to the force.
"The raflroad inspectors and their hired thugs
had everything their own way." he said. "We
complained to the regular police; the only thing
we got was either a Jeer or a rough command
to get out of hero or get to the station.'
Men were brutally treated, while women and
children were man-handled until one's blood
boiled to see it. There was no redress, however,
the r<-Hce taking it as a big joke
"If Commissioner Bingham or Acting Com
missioner Waldo does not make a rigorous in
vestigation of the whole affair and the part
played in it by the j.oliee. the entire department
will be disgraced. In few instances has the con
duct of the police In handling such a crowd been
otherwise than praiseworthy, but until Com«nls
missioner O'Keeffe jacked them up their con
duct yesterday was a scandal to the city."
Finally Captain Harklns, of the Coney Island
station, came up with more men, but aliout the
only good accomplished was that passengers
were dismayed sufficiently by the display of
force not to resist the railroad men, and so es
caped punishment.
One conductor, Morris Bert on. of No. 215 East
123 d titreet, early sickened of the trouble that
was coining to him. He managed to get his car
through to Coney Island, but at the Neck Road,
on his return trip, he jumped off, tore off his
badge and started for the engine house, close
by, cheered by the crowd. Chief Cooney of the
railroad police went after the conductor and ar
rested him. The crowd pressed about the chief
In a threatening manner, but did not seek ac
tively to molest him. The conductor was put into
an automobile labelled "Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
No. 2," and rushed to the Coney Island police
station, where he was locked up. charged with
obstructing traffic. Sergeant Maguire, who was
on the desk, placed him absolutely incommuni
cado, apparently at the request of Chief Cooney.
Deputy Commissioner O'Keeffe first appeared
actively in the afternoon, when he upset, the
plans of Acting Chief Inspector Donald Grant
and Captain Harking. Both of these officials
had been doing Just what the railroad employes
told them to do Any one that was objectionable
to the railroad was hurried out of the way.
Newspaper men were forbidden to approach the
stalled tars or to take photographs. The police,
acting under the orders of the railroad men.
made it as difficult as possible to speak to those
outside t«;e tiolU-c- lines.
Even the police cards admitting newspaper
men within police lines were ignored by the
Inspector and captain until Deputy Commis
sioner O'Keeffe road them a lecture on the value
of recognizing Commissioner Bingham's signa
ture. After that the police. Instead of aiding
the railroad detectives held aloof from the
trouble, until the deputy commissioner took
more drastic action in th«j evening.
Th<> must serious fight of the evening was at
Kensington, just before midnight, when two
Brooklyn Rapid Transit inspectors, thinking
that the police were not watching them, tried to
throw James Golden, of No. I<Sl> Gates avenue,
from a Lorimer street car. With Golden were
his wife and little daughter.
No police were in sight when a division super
intendent, named Wood, jumped on the car to
force Golden to pay the second fare. Golden re
fused, whereupon the superintendent and a
couple of inspectors tried to hustle them off the
car. Both Golden and his wife resisted to their
utmost, the inspectors getting decidedly the
worst of the fight. Other railroad men came
running up, but before they could get into the
fight Deputy Commissioner O'KeefTe got into the
fray with his billy. Inspector Grant, who had
become th«? Deputy Commissioner's shadow aft.-r
the Deputy Commissioner had asserted his au
thority, followed close behind him with his club.
In a few minutes the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
forces were routed and the Goldens kept on the
car.
PASSENGER BEATEN.
A passenger en Reid avenue car No. 3,745
was clubbed and beaten, with Captain Harkins
and Inspector Grant looking on. He received
neither protection nor assistance from the po
lice. The conductor of the car was No. 5,028.
The passenger was Charles Summers, of No.
I.SSA Sehaeffer street. Brooklyn. On hi.« refusal
to pay the second fare at the Neck Road, the
conductor and special officer No. 252 pummelled
him heartily and then threw him off the car,
continuing their punishment within five feet of
the police officials, who did nothing to stop it.
Summers appealed to Captain Harkins for the
arrest of the men. but the captain refused 10
hear any complaint.
■What are you making all that fuss over five
cents for?" he asked. "If you have any com
plaint to make go to the court in the morning."
The railroad police and the inspectors were
not the only ones anxious to round up as many
passengers in the police stations as possible, but
Colonel T. H. Roberta, of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit law department, got hissed by the crowd
In trying to arrest a young girl who Inadvertent
ly rang the cash register instead of, the motor
man's signal. The young woman wanted to get
off the car at Neck Road, where Colonel Rob
erts got on. Thinking she was signalling the
motorman she rang the cash hell. The ear
Flowed up a* Colonel Roberts started toward
her. The young woman Jumped from the still
moving car. with Colonel Roberts in full chase.
She ran across th* bog to the apology of road,
where th« crowd eagerly hindered the colonel's
pursuit, and she got away safely.
Colonel Roberts was exceedingly angry at the
attempts of the passengers to evade paying a
second fart-.
"All this trouble Is up to Gaynor," he de
clared. "He and a couple of cheap politicians
are i>et>king to make a lot of capital out of this,
but they will not. I wish ire had Home of the
Kuldlers who fought In the Civil War here In
stead of the police. You ran bet that there
wouldn't be up> of thl« kicking then."
A big part of .{he' crowd congregated in front
of the house of JSnzlne No. 154, ut Neck itoa<i
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and Gravesend* avenue. Fearing that an alarm
might be sent In. Lieutenant J. M. Burbank
sent for the police to drive them away. They
were slow In doing so. and the firemen had two
lines of hose ready to play on the crowd when
the police dispersed the crowd for a little while.
By the time the crowd had been assembled
again an alarm of fire was sent In. The engine
and ladder truck dashed through them, upset
ting a' score or more, but without doing more
than soil their clothes.
THREE KNOCKED OFF BRIDGE.
The most serious accident of the day was the
flinging of three people Into Coney Island Creelr
by a Vawderbllt avenue car. One of them Is ex
pected to die. The car was In charge, of Bemos
Comanas, matnrman, and Benjimln Brlce. the
conductor. Among the passengers compelled to
walk to Coney Island were Miss Bertha Johnson,
of No. 139 Avenue A: Miss Minnie Walsh, of No.
290 Tenth avenue., and Alfred Fround. of the
Hotel Glrard, Manhattan. As they wore crossing
the bridge ever the creek they were flung into
about nine feet of water, which was running
strong. The motorman kept right on, and the
three would have been drowned had r.ot two
fishermen. Albert Fischel and Edward Jenkins,
gone to their rescue. All were taken to the
Coney Island Hospital, where Miss Wulsh waa
thought to be fataliy injured. Her left arm was
broken, siie had received internal injuries, and
cue rib was broken. The other two were more
painfully than seriously hurt.
The crowd that saw the accident held the car
up, swarming on board with menacing speech
and gestures. The conductor, armed with a
switch stick, and the motorman. with his con
troller, held off the mob until the arrival of
Patrolman Peterson, who carried thtm to th*
Coney Island station.
Two men who resented the way the conductor
tried to collect their second fare on a- Reid ave
nue car were among the prisoners taken. They
were Nathan Rubovitch, of No. 925 Bartlett
street. Brooklyn, and V. O. Mowslcowitz. of No.
191^2 Floyd street, Brooklyn. They punched the
conductor vigorously, but were caught at the
Culver station and locked up.
The first arrest of any consequence was that
of H. C. Davis, superintendent of that part of
the line, who is also in charge of the sSth street
station. It wav he that ordered the first car held
up at the Neck Road, and who kept the whole
line tied up to make sura the collection of the
extra nickel. By dusk. Deputy Commissioner
O'Keeffn's patience had become almost a negli
gible quality. Seeing Davis persist in his policy
e£ obstruction, he forced the arrest of Davis on a
charge of obstructing traffic. Davis was locked
up and bailed out Just in time to. be arrested
again In Kensington while trying, it is alleged,
to tie up the line again.
Just before Davis's arrest B. R. T. Inspector
No. l,Oi."» threw Henry Ti>dd, of No. 13 Clinton
street, off a car. Then he grabbed Todd's two
year-old baby, which had been sitting bealda
him, and yanked him off into the dust of the
road. Seeing several newspaper men watching
him, the inspector took off his badge and kept it
concealed until he thought he could repeat his
performance again without being seen.
This act worked the crowd to a high pitch of
excitement. Captain Harkins then ordered the
mounted police to clear the road between
Ryder avenue and Neck Road. The police
charged the crowd, knocking them out of tho
way, even driving some. Including a small boy
and a cripple, from a shed where they had
taken temporary refuge. Among the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit men who did much work was
James Tlghe. captain of the railroad detectives,
and a son of Magistrate Tighe.
Ignatius Zaleskl. of No. 183 19th street, Brook
lyn, started to the island on a Reid avenue
car, but was thrown off when he reached Ken
sington. Henry E. Bridegroom, a railroad In
spector, arrested him at. once and sent him to
the Parkville station.
At first many started to return by the Smith
street line, the chief line or the Coney Island &
Brooklyn road. The dlporJer there had begun
later in the day than on the Culver line, but
when people heard how passengers had been
treated on that line as well as on the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit they turned again to the boats
for relief.
From Car No. 797. of the Franklin avenue
line, six men were thrown out bodily. Among
them were Joseph and Benjamin Wal'ach.
brothers, jewellers, of No. 17 Maiden Lane. From
Oar No. 4»*»7. of the came line. Edward Rostand,
of No. 2o Ridge street, and Miss Lena Steinberg,
of No. 23 Suffolk street, his companion, were
forcibly ejected. Rostand told the roundsman at
Avenue U that he had paid the second fare, but
the roundsman merely laughed at him. He re
fused to entertain any complaint against em
ployes of the company, saying that he had been
ordered to make no arrests, but when Rostand
started to get on the car again threatened to
arrest him.
There was a fight when two men were put off
a Smith street car at Avenue I", the police enjoy
ing the flpht, considerately refraining from spoil
ing the fun.
The greatest exhibition of brutality occurred
on the Franklin avenue car. No. 71 S. of the
Coney Island and Brooklyn line. Daniel Rek
ker. old and blind, was on his way to the island
with a young man. the son of a neighbor. At
Avenue V two Inspectors seized the old man and
threw him off the car, despite the fact that both
he and his companion declared they had paid
the second fare. The old man landed in a heap
In the middle of the street. When he arose his
clothes were torn and soiled and tears were run
ning down his cheeks.
The police laughed at the old man and pro
tected his assailants from the ablpbodled pas
sengers who were moving toward the inspectors
in a most menacing fashion. While the pas
sengers were trying: to er.-r .it those who hid
acted so brutally toward a helpless man. two
other inspectors took advantage of the confusion
to throw Charles Cutter, of No. 330 Metropolitan
avenue. Into the street.
The In«o*ctors who attacked Michael Singer,
of No. 312 Forsyth street, on a Franklin pvenue
car a f>'.v minutes Inter had a much different
time. Singer had ppid his second fnre. he said,
and he had no Idea of leaving the car. The con
ductor and Inspector attacked him nr«t. ll<*
shook them off in no gentle fashion. Then two
more inspectors took a hand. Fifteen minut<"<
later, much dishevelled. Singer landed In the
street, but his opponents were much more th*
worse for wear: He tried to get on the car
npnin. but the police, not wishing to see their
friends damasod further, forced him hack
When the car cot beyond the police lines Sln*f-r
ehp.sed, caught It and climbed on board. No
second attempt was made to eject him. ami he
rod* In triumph to the Inland.
Midnight saw conditions never before equalled
at Coney Island. The crowd generally begins
to turn homewnrd by St o'clock, particularly the
family parties burdened with children Th? sole
substantial hope thr*e hnd of reaching home
without belnc: manhandled or arrested was to
uw th* boats. Every available boat was placed
in service and run on r fifteen-minute headway
A boat would tie up at its pier, and within five
!nITL:! nIT L : aft r dropping the ganunlank would
be filled to the legal limit, some said beyond
Scores of others, more hardy, and with no
pressing n<-ed to return last night, slept on the
beach or In the nnrVs. some even having th?
hardihood to go to a Coney Island hotel
EMPLOYES GET NEW BADGE AND $2.
Several hundred persons gathered in front of No.
*."> Clinton street, Brooklyn, yesterday, the result
of An order sent out by the superintendent of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company saying Hint the
old employes' badg*a wr-re to bo channt-d. The old
badge, which Is a large sized piece of tin, weighs
nearly a pound, while the new on.- Is a small piece
of sun metal arid weighs only a few ounces. In the
order mm out to the employe! it also was men
tioned that they would receive two of the three
dollar* deposited as security for the old badge, the
remaining dollar b«-inK k«"Pt for the new badge.
"Just think," said a woman who said she had
been in the employ of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company for ten years, "I can't really account for
such generosity There are about ten thousand
employes of th«« 1! 11. T.. and each had to put tip
I- before being assigned to a Job. For them to re
turn the money, although iimnil In their estimation,
tneiina much 10 us."
Men ami women ranging from Hghteen to seventy
bad£ and the $2.""" • crumblln « l 0 « et th * ne "
GRAND DUKE'S REFUSAL
SOT EAGER TO LEAD ARMY
Linevitch May Get Post—Czaro
ditch's Birthday— Assassinations.
St. Petersburg. Aug. 12.— Grand Duke. Nicholas
Nlcholaievitch. according to a member of his
household, has declined to accept the post of
commander In chief of all the troops of the em
pire "where martial law exists." which was ten
dered to him on August 4. Whether this was
decided before or after the attempt on the life
of the grand duke at Krasn'oye-Sclo on August
10 Is not known, but the ostensible reason la that
Grand Duke Nicholas believes such a post should
be given to a purely military man. He advocates
the appointment of General Lmevltch. formerly
commander In chief of the Manchurton army,
but the Emperor has not finally decided the mat-,
tcr.
To-day, the second birthday of th« Czaro
witch, was observed with the usual display of
flags ana Illuminations, but there was no en
thusiasm In the celebration. Few persona
seemed even to know the cause of the decora
tions.
The day was quiet In the capital. The work
of th« terrorists In the province included. In ad
dition to the usual harvest of assassinations In
Warsaw, an attempt on the life of General
Karatcieff. chief of the gendarmerie of Bamara
Province, and the wounding of Police Captain
IvanhofT, of Libau. by a' youth who fired thrice
at him in the street. The assailant of General
Karateiaff mounted the stairs of the general's
office and threw a bomb at random. The mUsl!e
failed to exclode. The miscreant escaped in
spite of hot pursuit. , ,
General Btrijoff, Acting Governor General or
Warsaw City and Province, has been relieved,
and will be succeeded by General yon Larsky.
The police to-day surprised thieves as they
were entering a priest's house in Dolsoroul:
offsky street, a fight ensued, and the thieve*
escaped after k.'lllng two policemen and mor
tally wounding a passerby.
SEVEN EXECUTIONS AT SVEABORG.
Helsingfors. Aug. 12— The trial by court mar
tial of the Bveaborg mutineers began on Satur
day. Lieutenants Kochanovsky and Emillanoff.
aged, respectively, twenty and twenty-one years.
avul five soldiers were at the first sitting found
gTTTIty and condemned to death. AH were shot
nnd buried in a common grave without cere
mony. Kochanovsky's father is a colonel of
the guards at St. Petersburg. Emllianoffs
mother appealed by telegraph to the Emperor
for a reprieve, but unsuccessfully, the arrest of
Emilianoff's fiancee compromising hla case.
THE SULTAS BETTER.
Officials Deny the Reports of a
Serious Illness.
Constantinople, Aug. 11.— The officials inform
callers at the palace that the Sultan was suffer
ing from thtt effects of a chill, but that he has
now completely recovered. His physicians,
however, advised his majesty not to risk expos
ure to the open air, and hence the abandonment
of the selamlik on Friday. To-day his majesty's
condition was improved sufficiently to enable
him to attend to various affairs. The local
press is forbidden to publish anything concern
ing the state of the Sultan's health or of the
abandonment of the selamlik.
Sensational stories of the Sultan's illness are
in circulation here, but in best informed circles
credence is given to the statement that there
is a slight improvement In his condition and
that he is in no immediate danger.
Paris, Aug. 12. — The "Tempi's" Constantinople
c€ respondent reports that the Sultan is suffer
ing fium hemorrhages. Government affairs, he
adds, ;ire at a complete standstill, and the am
bassadors are inquiring at the palace daily re
fmrdins his majesty's condition.
HUNGAKYS OFFEE TO CUNASD LINE
Reported Terms of Proposal to Buy Fiume-
New York Emigrant Trade.
London. Aug. 13.— "The Standard" this morn
ing says that the diiectors of the Cunard Line
on Saturday received a deputation from the
Hungarian government offering terms to the
company for the acquisition of the emigrant
trade between Flume and New York. The pro
posals involve the purchase of the Cunard
steamships Slavonia, Ultonla and Carpathia for
over $2,£iOl>,Oi)o and the payment of an indem
nity for the annulment of the contract between
the Cunard Line and the Hungarian govern
ment, which still has seven years to run.
The directors of the Cunard Line, "The Stand
ard" adds, did not close with this offer, hut
agreed to negotiate, and will probably offer al
ternative tetms embodying the acceptance of
shares in the new company which Hungary Is
aiding the Hungarian syndicate to form and
with which two German lines are connected.
ABYSSINIAX TRLATY SIGNED.
King Menelek Accepts the F:ar.co -Italian-
British Convention.
Rome, Aug. 11'. — Abyssinian dispatches re
ceived hcr>- say that King Jhtsnelek has signed
the Franco-Itallan-Urltlsh convention relative to
railways to be constructed there, and that the
convent ton will be communicated to the put'lia
m< nts of inti Interested states as soon as they
Pieot.
The- main features of the treuty referred to
above are a guaiuntee of the integrity of the
Abyssinian Empire, the op»-n door and commer
cial equality for all countries, and the continua
tion by the French of the construction of the
railway connecting Addis Abaoca, the cupital of
Abyssinia, with th«- «-oust. Grout Britain und
Italy naming representatives on the railway di
r< ctorate.
ASKED TO RACE AT BP-> Msk REGATTA
Eastern Yacht Club Invited to Compete Off
San Sebastian Next Summer.
[By Telegraph to Th» Trlt.ir.e. 1
Boston, Aug. 12.— An invitation has been re
ceived by the Eastern Yacht Club to take part
in a series of national and International races off
San Sebastian. Spain, under the auspice* of tho
Club Nautlco. of San Sebastian, n«?xt July.
The club was especially Invited on account of
the deep Interest in Spain in the special rlasse*,
The International races include a handicap for
Kins Alfonso's Cup and v special class for Queen
Christina's plaque.
POACHING INCIDENT NOT GRAVE.
Japan Not likely to Take Any Action Which
Would Cause Friction.
London, Aug. 13.— "The Dally Telegraphs"
Tokio correspondent says that, despite sensa
tional rumors, there 1* no danger of the killing
of Japanese se;il poachers on St. Paul Island.
Alaska, assuming International gravity. The
American Amr>ansador at Toklo. th« correspond
ent udds. assured Japan that his government
will investigate carefully and equitably into the
niiitter, and said he hoped that Japan would n«>t
allow the cordial relations existing between the
two countries to be Interfered with by so trivial
an affray.
MEETING OF PRELATES AT HOME
Rome. Auk. 12.— Congregation of Extraordi
nary Ecclesiastical AfTulrs assembled to-day at the
palace of Cardinal Merry del Vul. tho Papal Secre
tary of S»ti?<'. The French situation was discussed
by the prelates, but details of the dlscuastun have
net been made puhtsli
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ESTERTAISISG MR. ROOT.
Many Receptions, a Dinner and a
Hall at Montevideo.
Montevideo, Aug. 12.— With a general desire
to make the entertainments in honor of Secre
tary Root as many and as varied as possible
during his brief visit here, there was an inces
sant round of receptions to-day, at each of which
cordial speeches were exchanged. The enter
tainments were brought to a close to-night by a
dinner given by Mr. O'Brien, the American Min
ister, and a ball at the Uruguay Club. The
guests at the dtnner, which was on a magniH
cent scale. Included President Ordonez, all the
Cabinet ministers and their wives, the leading
citizens of Montevideo and officials.
Mr. Root's speeches here have won the sympa
thies of the people, and the principal newspa
pers express their gratification at the Secre
tary's eloquent and frank declaration of the true
policy of the United States toward the Latin-
American republics.
PREPARING PERSIAN REFORMS
Shah's Ministers Busy with Changes Inci
dent to the Popular immMj.
Tehrran, Aug. 12— The Shah'a advisers are
busily engaged in working out the reforms inci
dent to the creation of an elective council, which
in the final draft of the ukase is called the popu
lar assembly.
KEYS SAVE MAN HIT BY LIGHTNING
Lessen Force of Shock to Man Found Un
conscious in Boat.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Atlantic OUy. Aug. Physicians declare that
the Ufa of Will!am W, Truex, of this city, was
saved by a bunch of keys this aft#rn»»n when
lightning hit the launch in which he was sailing
alone. He was found, horribly burned, lying un
conuclous and half nude in the bottom of the boat
The keys, which wcro in a hip pocket, were melt
•d by the current, hut absorbed a portion of it. to
which fact Trut-xs escape from death i* ascribed
Trueac *;iy6 he felt no [>*Ui wn«>n th. holt hit him"
but to-night he feels us if ptercfd by n million nee
dl«-s. The bolt hit trues In the head, burning three
holes through his »iuip to the b.irw skull
TWO NEW YORKERS DROWN
Haven, Conn.. Aur. 12.— John Cull, employed
in a Now York restaurant, and Andrew Inn, alas
of New York, were drowned while bathing to-day.
the former at Roten Point, South Xorwalk. and
the latter off Jack a Island, in the Stamford Harbor.
Cull's drowntnß wn» reported by his ten-year-old
son. who had pore Into the water with him. The
body hns not been found. Re<;o. with companions,
»a« juet completing a half mile swim, when he
sunk and d!<l not reappear His body was re
covered.
CHAUFFEURS PAY AMITYViLLE 935.
my Telegraph to Tke Tribune.)
Amity Lous Island, Aug. Captain £tr.<t
ton. acting under instructions from the Village
Council, took four of his best men to the county
road this afternoon and maintained a strict watch
011 chauffeurs. The presence of the officers had a
good effect, the hi* cars nil slowing down to seven
teen mile? an hour or lens, with two exception*.
(i M.rge E. Ferris wan fined CO and Edmund Wal
lace. 115. lioth were arraigned before Justice Wells.
Their addresses are not known.
HEALYS NEW SWIMMING RECORD
Hamburg. Aug. IS.— Cecil Healy. the amateur
champion swimmer of Australasia, to-dny w n th«
100-metre swimming championship und the Emit-
ror'» Cup. creating a new Oerman rrcord for the
dimunce of »-.>ven Bse*nga>
Healy nam second to C M- Itoniels. of the New
York Athle.i Club. In the 100-yard world's ama
teur chamotonshlp at Nottingham. England. July IX
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