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Qs^v '^▼^ f m *s^r^rl^^^^^^^^oJ^^f^^^^^^ /^ * YouV ou LXVI -N° 22.002. PEACE TREATY BROKEN. REPUBLICS NEARER WAR. Honduras and Nicaragua Seem on Verge of Hostilities. v T.a?run, Feb. 10. — Advices received here are >n ££ € rcct thai it was President Bonilla of U^oaursn who broke the Treaty of Corinto. rhirh provides for the arbitration of questions •r, <3isp-Jte 'bet -ween the Central American r<>- P-jbHcf. and that a? a result of this the tribunal T -Hrh *"•* si' l '" «■ at San Salvador in an en {'f.vT to settle thr difference? between Ntca r*fux rr — * Honduras was dissolved. City ,-.: Mexico, Feb. lO.— Government and £M*oinatlc officials wen- greatly agitated last jlijt fy- a dispatch indicating that arbitration Soceedlngs between Honduras and Nicaragua *•,*& ceased. Baltazar Estuplnlan. Minister to Mexico from San Salvador and Honduras, in a statement partly confirmed the r.ews when he said: •• ■ aty, pro -ion of di m governments, null and void be ".■ r. i , ied most probable to him. :al Ameri- Bltu • L eriti :•■ on a scale larger than .• . I f i : ' : ■■;■-• .i Herbi >sa, < 'hll v ■ 'entral Ami rica re] i T way-.. V;,i|> l ■ 'osta EU< a last ; i Tviees to arbitrate lispute between Honduras iriis • ■ Ban Salvador tril acceptable decision. Both Bonllla of Honduras and Presid< nt ; Lgua peu\ me such concil vine flrmli ■ ■ ■ iblics woul4 HOTBED OF INSURRECTOS. Xeic York Headquarters for Ene mies of President Castro. Net since the Cuban revolution has New York teen the rendezvous of fo many prominent In surrectionists as are row in this city awaiting c>v*-!opnient<: In Venezuela. Within two months there have gathered here a former Vice-Prr sMent. two fx-Cabinet Ministers mid two ex-Governors of states. Sevpral of these men are generals, and have seen much active ser vice. AH of them are exiles who will return to Venezuela only In £a?» President Castro dies, or ss revolutionary f.Mbustr-rrrs. as did General An tonio Paredes a few days ngo. There arc among t'.'.eso exiles a few who are awaitlr.g a favorable opportunity to invade V*< n rruela and take up inns in a common cause— that i«. BO far as the derjoj-ing of the < 'astro govern ment is concerned. As to who will b<» ceculed on as cetwraU*slm< of the movement apparently no body knows, but soon some of these "lnsurrectos" •aill disappear mysteriously from time to time, sr.d the next that wiU I°. heard from them they will b<; at the fore on the battlefield. (I ral Ramon >>T»la. Vice-President of Venez- Ucla in the first Castro a<lrr.snistration and former ly • member of Congress, la recognized as the leq<2»r r,t this colony of exiles. Genera] Ayala, so fir as i? known, has r>o mission here; he. too, czme to N>"" York because affairs at "Caracas dis rleßs»»<J him. Another of the croup is General Ayala's son-ln jiw. Sefior TeHeria, iex-Miiiister of -Industries and ex-Governor of the State of I>ara. Th*» latter, with Dr. Carlos I^on. who is here, served In the Cabl ii*t formed hy Vice-President Qomez when h<» was In power ring t!ir- brief inteiiin that the "reslKr ration" of President Castro was belr-r considered. T»r. ■ on. who had be/>n a member of tho Supremo Court bench, was Minister of PuJjUc Instruction in that Cabinet. Pedro Esequiel Rojas, who waj tli* cecretary- F<-n^n>-l of the Mates insurrertion; Ortega Mar tinez, who ls= sali to represent tho Mtttos interests, fnd Dr. J. fjl Andara. together with General Ayala, Dr. Let and Senor T<-ileria. constitute what might ' , eallf>d the pacific element of the Insurrection. The fighifng element of the rolony of exiles Ik r' presented in the perFon^ of General Kmilio Per nVndez and Genersl Zo»lo Vidal «E1 Carlbe). Gen eral Kernaniez. who was formerly Governor of Caracas and lAt»r administrnt' r of custom"? nr I-a Guayra. already has announced his intention Of rolnsr to th»» front. Up is v native of I>.^ Andrs. Tho Kine Ftate from which President < "astro rome.", aifl 1« known as a good fighter. General \'idnl. *hn also ha? never be<"-n known '■• dodge a battle, i* not averse to a fight at this time, but Is waiting until here appears a leader who meets his ideals. General Jos6 Manual Hernandez is on his way from Panama, and will in a few day* join his <"«mpatriots bare. To the foregoing might also be afid'-d Klcanor Bolet, representative of the Paredes Insurrection. Almost every day some of these enemies "f Cattro meet and confer. Most often thess eonfer raoM are held in the office of the paper '"La Pemana." Caesar Zumeta. editor of the weekly, 1" •n ex-Senator of Venezuela. ex-consul at Liverpool vice-consul in this city, and is also decidedly anti- Caf^ro. TRAINING SHIP PUTS BACK. The Frigate Saratoga Gets Worst of Battle with Elements — Man the Pumps. Philadelphia, Feb. It -Tbe Pennsylvania school rhlp Saratoga, which left Philadelphia on January 22 for a winter's cruise In the West Indies, was towed Into the Delaware Breakwater this afternoon In distress. TJ.e Saratoga's return was a surprise to President lAwrenc.« and the directors of the schoolshlp, as *)*r arrival at Martinique was momentarily ex r">^te<j. The old frig-ate was caught In a Btorm and •bt day* she was hove to. The seaa continued to batter her until she sprung- a leak, and the boy esllor* had to man the jsuuipa. TUEN IN AIARM— PvCB FDI^EOUSE. Burglars Send Hcok and Ladder Company on Fruitless Bun to Belle Burglars turned in a false alarm for fir» from ••*• "BaUerve Box." at First avenue and 26th etreet. at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, so that they mlgfct be free to rob the firehouse of Hook and tAiider Company 7. in tltb etrect. near Third arenae. Captain Graham of the boob and ladder con- S>*ny says that the company responded to the *l*rm, but after fifteen minutes* fruitless search •hs company returned to t!i« house. Loekors wore foaaa prit<3 open and some of th« captain's cloth es was missing. Lieutenant Andrew s's ''best cloth**" and gold watch had also been taken! After • while. hpwever. the*e were all found wrapped la a buniJle back of the nous*. A typewrite find come books were the only things stolen. ■ EX-GOVERNOR HIGGINS NOT SO WELL. O!ean. Feb. 10.— Ex-Governor Higgins spent a restful day. but Dr. Hit. hard said to-night that fci* condition was not bo good as It was yester day. During the day Dr. Hibbard was in i.-i. I-conic communication with Dr. Bchott at Lake- Wood. H. J., twice, but nothing was given out as the result of their conference. • SEABOARD FLORIDA LIMITED -DAILY. El«ctric lighted. I.v. N. V. 1353 noon. Air. St. Aug. *&,?'-?& Flnrtii* •?•* Carolina report*. Seaboard "«*•. J*»JB4wjr. or P. H. R. offlcea—Advt. To-day, fair nnil colder. To-morrow, fair; northwest wind*. CANNOT WITH DBA W SHIPS Danger of Trouble in Santo Do mingo Not Yet Ended. Washington, Feb. 10.— Reports received by the Navy Department from Dominican waters indi cate that it will not be justified in withdrawing the naval vessels there, os if had hoped to do now or a little later. While conditions are peaceful, It is evident There will have to be un ceasing vigilance in order that there may be no outbreak. Rebellion is still under the surface, and it would not take much, according to the observers on the ground, to create disturbance. The local government has the happy faculty of thrusting into Jail those who appear as lead ers In the obstruction to the present admin tion, and it has become necessary to warn one or two active and loquacious enemies of the government — one in particular, a Sefior Amlama. He is particularly offensive in what he lias said of President Roosevelt, and some of his state ments are anarchistic. He has been officially warned to desist from this type of agitation. Everything Is In readiness for any outbreak which may occur. It is not expected, but It Tould probably come if there were a relaxation of naval surveillance. II A YTI FEA US TBOI HLE. Ncxc Dispute tcith Ciermanii Over Fina tidal Transactions. Port au Prince, Haytl, Feb. 10.— The r. : a •' • ■" eroments of Hayti and Germany are strained, o-.vinc: to the refusal of the German bankers Hermann £- C> \<y direction of the court at Port au Prince, to return to the Hay ment l.irgo sums of money aJlegfd to have been obtained fraudulently. Among the : transactions of Hermann & Co. with tho Haytlan government was <>no which la said to have proved favorable to the government. This was concluded by the Hay(lan Minister and l [ermann & Co Tlie German Minister demanded thai ibis trans action, as well as others, l" 1 annulled, but the Haytian government, in terms which the Ger man Minister deemed offensive, refused to esce. The German Minister at the same til d the withdrawal of 'he- phn ■ tion was made. This also was refused. ■re • re of tr;r. c compllca- I "The Offi ' ■ tly i iblished m the < :' Mr. Mai ran citizen, but Mr. Furnlss, the American Min ister, believing the call for the man's expulsion unjustified, asked for the withdrawal of I ■I. r This, however, was refused, and Mansour ;i for New York. The f. in • ii placed on his shop. SIB R. HART TO RETIRE. Will Leave China This Month and Probably Not lie turn. LO. It )--■ announced that Sir Hart, l'i!.-i tor <J- • perial Customs, will leave China for England at the end of February on a. two y«ar.s' leave of to re turn. This is regarded as the outcoi ■ of the appoint •toms commission Sir Robert Hart m by binh. has been in the Chii Gel I of Chinese Inland as well as maritime — in 1901 The ■ " ; : for services rendered the < 'hinese governn • lion with the international Bettlen* the ! ; ■ les. He created th< and gave <'i>iiia a tariff whach was and con i to the 1 uslness men n:,\ [ng •■ ons with China I '<■■■ I < cry ■ ;;<1 trea ty whi( h EXPLOSION AT ARSENAL. Chemical Research Building at Woolwich Wrecked. on, Feb. 11 A tei rffl ■ • plo lon at 3:30 o'clock this morning wrecked I lea] re search department of the Woolwich Ai All the windows In the town were broki n. It Is i no lives were lost. WALKS ON WATER: WINS $5,000 Charles W. Oldrieve Completes 1.6C0 Mile Trip on Boat Shoes. Orleans, Feb. 10. Charles W. Oldrieve won the world's championship and .5.".<)00 to day by walking <>v water from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a distance of I.WiO miles, in .';'.< days, 23 hours and 15 minutes. n< walked only in daylight, using cedar shoes 4 inches lonp, "» Inches broad and 7 Inches deep. His wife rowed beside him all the way. In a gasolene boat preceding Oldrieve wire Captain J. W. Weatherington, of T>.ii!nn, Tex., who backed the water walker, and Arthur Jones, representing Edward Williams, of Boston, who made the wager. FIGHTS IN TIDE FOR FRIEND'S LIFE. Barge Captain's Brave Efforts Are in Vain — Nearly Drowns Himself. Battered by a swiftly running tide and great rakes of ice. Captain George Heather of the barge F. A. Baxter fought for the life of his old school mate, Tom Donahue, off the Bechtel docks at Sta pletcn yesterday, He was pulled fropi the water unconscious, -while the body of his friend was car ried out through the Narrows. The Baxter was tied up at one of the F.<vhtf»i piers, a tingle, slippery plank being laid from deck to pier. Donahue, who lives In Warren street, Btapleton, started to cross the wet plank to board the barf?*, when he slipped and went down be tween bulkhead and barge. His head struck on a chunk of Ice and be was carried under the barge by the swirling tide. Cnp taln Heather saw his plunge, and went in after him. He saw his friend's body carried under the barge and dived under for ft. When he caught it his fingera were too numb to retain their grip. Finally he got a scarf worn by Donahue twisted around his wrist and tried to swim back. He had gained a few yards against the tide, when the scarf slipped and Donahue rank again. Captain Heather made another attempt to seise the mas, but could not hold on to him. Two mem of his crew cam* to his rescue then. Heather, while they were getting a. boat Into the water, ha-i managed to cling :o a big cake of i... Battered by the other floes, he was being carried swiftly out Into the tideway, when be was picked up by his men, practically uncon solous. . There is ilttle chance of Donahue's body being • coven ENTIRE FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH. - ■■■.• ■ i- - ■ - - i ■- Berne, F«»b. If*.— An entire family of - ■■ en persons P'rishM to-day In .■> conflagration /it the Morgen thal Brewery, at Bteltibachl Lake Constance. Eight other, families narrowly escaped a similar fat*. SEW- YORK. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1907 -TWELVE PAGES.-* ■?*. 'xT^a^...*. PRICE THREE CENTS. CARFALLS— EIGHT HURT TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED. Elevator Drops Five Stories in lihinelmider Building. Eight persons were injured, two seriously, when an elevator fell last night in the new Rhinelander Building, at No. 238 William street. Tho operator says that as the car descended from the eighth floor the brakes refused to work. It slipped slowly to the fifth floor, and then. gaining momentum, plunged to the basement. . The car landed on tha bumpers with a crash which was beard for several blocks. The build ing- was soon filled with persons anxious to learn if any one had been killed. All the passengers, who were chiefly printers, were dashed against the side of the car. Had the roof of the shaft fallen it is believed that all the men would have been killed. Th© list of injured follows: BRAni^ET, Harry, Printer, thirty-four years old or No i.->_ v eat !«th rtre*t; contusion of rtcht le* and pos- Bt>:« Internal Injuries; Hudson Street Hospital. I'AI.V, Meyer, messenger boy, fourteen yean old, of No. 11 Pitt street, contusions: taken home. HOAGLAKD Thomas, printer, forty-nine yearn "id of No. _ Hanson Place. Brooklyn; contusions of the left kr.no an.! ,. l b, e Internnl Injuries; H««.on OBX/RICH, Thaodore, printer, thlrtr^nlne years ola. of No. 71..7 Jefferson avenue, .le-y«v City; contusion of left knee; taken home. EIASj. Herbert, printer, Ihirtj -t»!.t yr.-im old, of No. '•''.' Halsey street, Brooklyn: ■:■■.. sprained; taken home. SNOVER, Kusene. Inter, forty-seven v. > old, of Xfv 618 Pulton street Brooklyn: contusion of back: taken home. BTAVB, Alfred, fifty yearn old, of No 1124 William street, Hoboken; sprained ankle; taken home. BUMMERS, William, printer, of Richmond Hill; contu sions; taken home Hoagland nnd Bradley, who were removed to tho Hudson Street Hospital, were the most seri ously injured. Frank Kverson. of No. 'M Bergen Street, Brooklyn, a night watchman, who w;is in charge of th© elevator, was tnken to the unk street police stntior., but ris no blame could be attached to him he was allowed to ro. Nearly nil the printers are employed o:i "The Evening Journal" and "Tha American." TEN HURT IN TROLLEY CAR CRASH. Collision at 42d Street and Third Avenue Due to Mistake in Signals. Ten persona were Injured, six. somewhat seri ously, yesterday morning about 1 o'clock by a collision of surface cars at 42d street and Third avenue. Signals to Indicate which ccr had the right of way were misunderstood. Such was the force of the Impact an a west bound 42d street car crashed Into the middle of a Third .• .-. .■• car that both were turned around. The crosstown car «..., 1 eaded up Third avenue, while tho Third avenue car faced west In 42d stret-t. The crash was heard for blocks. Both cars were so ashed that the lines wore blocked for an hour and a half. Tbe most seriously Injured, who were attended ' v Dr. I.utten. of Flower Hospital and th»n went home, were: M'GA-RTHT. I>anic!. No. 840 Kaat SOth nireet. motorman ..' •!: • TiIM avtnue car; rut ly Kla*» ntrjut the fuce Vid handx. DOHraRTV, Patrick. No. 433 West 80th street, motorman fij! the. 42d itriet ear; cut about th.- fa.-» and hand*. MINUTT. John F. No. 85^ J^ist :i2J str««t; Ucerate.l ■Itln on 3 shock. KINGSTON. .'......,. /> policeman, ata. 1 tn the. Kant 126tl utre.^t i«tHtlon: inj'jre.l about t^e bach by leaf, !r.B from the rur rETEIVS. Mm. George. J.. No. i«m Tiilr.l ••. .-rue. nicked out of tin car unconscious, muttering tr>ja shuck. Jvn-1 bruises. OIfDMOND, John D . a i '':k of tbe Court of Bn»c'al S>-»rslon*. refused t,> rlvo adilrrss; bruised about the right Ug »n<l kne«. No arrests were made, n.s the police decided the collision was the result of tho sllpery ralln. TO FIGHT (OIL TRUST. Ohio O iterators Join Forces- Have $20,000,000 Capital for Mine Merger !By Tclecrapb to ■; - Plttsburg, Feb. Im. -Independent coal opera tors iire forming a S'Jo.immmmmi merger In opposl ■ the Plttsburg Coal Company More than a dosen inrt;.- Ohio producers have Joined I rtnd !t Is said that the full ni-iomiC of the t :.- iri x In Pittsburg and Cleveland banks The Ohio operators iiiie^e that the Pittsburg < "o;il Company has been underselling them when and at other times from iv to han the operators becau ■•■ of its superior organization. They sny that the Plttsbuix ( ""''ii Company is throttling .-ill lnde i ■• ndents. The district In which the merger Is being formed produces annually five million tons of coal, and more than twenty thousand miners are employed in the operations. Thomas w. Latham, of No. 418 Euclid avenue, land, who appears aa the promoter of th« new merger, has sent a circular to all Inde pendent operators In the Northern Plttsburg dis trict iiskiiiff them to set a prlee on their hold- Ings, assuring them that the purchase money will be forthcoming quickly. Lawrence Barnum & <'0., of New York, are s.-ild to be financing the deal. VALUED LOST SHOES AT $140. Thomas F. Ryan's Chauffeur Gave Police Sergeant Brady a Shock. \ man In a fur coat walked up to Sergeant Brady, in the West 17th street police station last r.ight and said: "I run Mr. Ryan's chauffeur. Mr. Thomas F. Ryan's." "Well?" said Sergeant Brady. "I lost my shoes," said tho chauffeur. "An extra, pair," Queried th<) sergeant, seeing tha.l Mr. Ryan's chauffer's fort wero comfort ably shod. "Yes; they wero strapped on tho sid*> of the machine." "How did you come to lose, them? ' "They were stolen while I was flxins the ma chine ;it Eigtith avenun and 4Xth street." "How much wero they worth," asked the ser geant. "•?140." answered tho chauffeur. "What." gasped the sergeant. "They were automobile chocs," explained tl'o chauffeur. "( >h, I see," said Brady "Will you put your detectives on the enso?" "Sure," said the sergeant. "What's your name ildress?" "t'arl Lumberg, No. S West 12th .street," re plied Mr. Ryan's chauffeur. "All ri^ht. Mr. lumbers, we'll do what wo can." , "Thank you, sergeant. Good night." "Good flight." CHARLES M. SCHWAB BUYS MINES. Pottatown, Perm , Feb. 10. — Charles M. Schwab, representing the Bethlehem Steel Com pany, has purchased the mines of th« Boyertown Ore Company for a consideration said to be be tween $400,000 and $500,000. The rights ob tained by the Bethlehem company cover min eral privileges on three hundred acres of land.' The mine*, which are near Boyertown, are said to be the largest of their kind in Pennsylvania, the deposits being of Bessemer magnetic ore. o •'_ ' " 7"* ' . AFTER ALL, USHER'S THE SCOTCH that made highball faraoua.— AflyW^ 11 " ****" »— — — JSi. a _ GOOD WHISKEY AGED. BLEXDS BAXK POISOXS. So Dr. Wiley Says ßectifiers Can Only Imitate Nature. [From The Tribune Bureau. 1 "Washington, Feb. 10.— "Beware of blended whiskeys, for they coagulate the protoplasms In the human cells and bring on old age at a pal lop. Stick to straight whiskey, for there Is noth ing harmful in the real article; but be certain that you get what you pay for, and not some mixture of raw alcoholic spirits fresh from the still which will poison your system and madden your brain." This, in brief, is th* advice of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricultural Depart ment, who has probably devoted more study to the subject of liquors and their adulterations than any other r.ir.n now before the public. Dr. Wiley was summoned to appear before the House Com mittee on Agriculture the other day. and after discussing the provisions of the Pure Food law and its enforcement at some length he gave tho members a few pointers about the great Ameri can distilled beverago. One of the most startling statements made by Dr. Wiley was that he. does not believe any of the whiskey sold over the bars of saloons is pure. "liven the famous 'bottled In bond' whiskey Is adulterated," said Dr. Wiley, "for the saloon keeper buys one cas« of It and then contin fill up the bottles from his demijohn in the . el lar. Most of the whtakey got over the bars :3 simply neutral alcohol." When asked by Rspresentath ■ Cocks, Long Island tX. V.) district, for an ao urate and scientific description of whiskey, Dr. Wiley save the following definition: "Whiskey Is a distillate ( mash of malt, and it contains all the congeneric products formed with ethyl alcohol during the fermentation that are volatile at the ordinary temperatures of distillation ' "Most of the whiskey fbld at retail." l I "should not even be called 'blended' whiskey, for it is the antithe-i« of straight 1 whiskey. l p should, therefore, be called 'crooked 1 whiskey, for it Is an imitation it is nothing whatever except neutral spirits, colored ami flavored. I think that a drink like this la a poison, pure and [t '".initiates the protoplasms In the cells and brings on old age. "As lon* as man ra» koep his cells limpid ar.d keep in* protoplasms limpid, he will never grow old. Alcohol absolutely coagulates the I !.•> moment It 1 I. 1 ut the alcohol that Is In whiskey or brandy or ruin, is t>o mingled by nature's operations thai It is an entirely different proposition For Instance, you take ordinary r.- and put sugar in it, more than sweet corn hits, and ir dot like sv It i«« not a • •■• • corn has a waj --'iK the elements In foods which man cannot imitate, ar.d therefore, when produces twenty dtffei • • v time a whsskej Is I and "il twenty ot th«:n come over In ti alcohol among them, then you put tii' ■ ths <i!.;ii:;<.T says), which takes years to ac- Lsh It t.i ■ lf'nj; drawn out ceremony— you make v. ) • ■ ■ ie which Is tonic and whole pot*e and healthful sntf* fum-putetrmi ua. There ■ •••■n a. drink of si .ik of ■ am. "I t: than I I • ftlve- Ich and ■ it, iiTui I put ii itill and distilled half of n over, and l was can I ing, a;. ; I poured n back In the bottle, h ally the same thing : . : whiskey was not tit to drink. a divorce hud taken another twel sr marriage. " l.'l W wl 't tO drink. Th< not 'married. 1 lr takes them at l< ist ' years i In 1 hlle leak;.. rage Incn and at the end of eight key 1m worth many times over what it u.i* when It was iirst distilled. <>n r hand, • made. The minute you i irly ail tli key is y....i ;i-- soon aa 11 Is made It Id t.> th« people v. in. handle it, the Jobbers. The distiller very seldom owns bis whiskey. The rectifiers ap- the ones who adulterate th< key. The law imt.s a premium upon adultera tion. It is under tli<> law that all the adultera tion is d<>n<\ it j tsts '.x> cents a barrel t.« b'lttio the straight whiskey in bond Ii co tiller, the adulterator, nothing to do the same thing under the sum.' supervision. Thi old law governing the distilling business .-. ..< passed when the amount •>.' mixing and i d..n» whs very small Indeed. Then everything was whiskey. Rut now it i« all rectification and ii. w blakey." Dr. Wiley told the Congressmen that the manufacture of K<>"d and bad, straight and crooked whiskey differed from the start, in tii.< first placo the spirit makers use the i grade "f corn that they can find <>n the market Tho whiskey manufacturer buys th.< besi corn and the highest grade »>f rye that money will brhitf. I>r. Wiley said that alcohol hears ai»'iii the same relation to whiskey that stan-h does t<i flour and thai distilled water does to mineral water. No amouni of chemical skill can con vert starch Into flour nor neutral sDlrlta Into whiskey. The result is bound to be nothing but an Imitation, dangerous to health. "Doctor," asked one of the Congressmen, "when you see a man drunk, tun you tell what kind of whiskey ho *.>t drunk <>n?" "My experience with drunken men is very lim ited," replied I>r Wiley with a smile, "bui 1 have tho evidence of experts which show i»" yond question that when a man gets drunk n " spirits be \» crazy drunk, and wh< r> he gets drunk on whiskey is Is a Jolly good fellow. I think we have Indisputable evidence of that." "Does that !!•>' depend upon the tempers of the Individual?" risked another one <>r the Representatives, "it tuny be, because, l suppose, a real gentle man would not drink spirits." replied the chemist. Dr. Wiley closed bis testimony upon the sub ject of whiskey by telling I :.:■.! ln vestlgators thai th only way to avoid the risk of poisonous drinks .sold over ths bars was to keep out of the saloon.;, "or live in ■ prohibition Htate." LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BLOWS TJP. Engineer Not Expected to Live — Windows Quarter of a Mile Away Broken. Chester, Mass., Feb. 10.— Three* tminni"n were Injured, one probably fatally, by the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive dragging a heavy freight train on the Boston t < Albany near hers to-day. J. Murphy, of Albany, engineer of the train, was injured internally and fearfully scalded, and is not expected to live The <ause of th*> explosion ins not yet been determined, it is supposed t.> be due either »•> low water In the boiler or to defective cona tion. While the train was proceeding up a heavy grade a quarter of a n^le cast of the Chester station early to-day there was a tremendous sudden shock, and the great boiler was rent asunder. Windows In houses within a quarter of a mile were broken by the concussion, while pieces of steel weighing five hundred found* .were thrown as many. feet. ADVICE FROM PRESIDEXT. i ■ Defines Places of Father and Mother in Home. Syracuse, Feb. 10.— Mrs. E. IT. Merrell. of this city, president of the New York State Mothers' Assembly, is In receipt of a letter from Presi dent Roosevelt in which ho defines the places of the father and mother In th« home. The letter was written in response to one asking sugges tions for the council of mothers recently held at Newburg and the state convention to be held in the fall. The President says: For one of your topics how would It do to speak of the place of the father in the hqpie? Now and then people forget that exactly as the mother must help the breadwinner by being a pood housewife, bo th? father. In his turn. If he Is worth his salt, must in every way back up the mother in helping bring up the children. After all, the prime duties are elemental, and no amount of cultivation, no amount of business force and sagacity, will make the average man a good citizen unless that average man Is a good husband and father, and unless he is a suc cessfu] breadwinner, is tender and considerate with his wife and both loving and wise (for to be loving and weak arid foolish Is utterly ruinous) In dealing with the children. I think It a crime for a woman to shirk her primary duties — shrink from being a good wife and mother. Of course, the woman should have the same right as the man to train her mmd — to better herself — occasionally & woman can, and ought to, follow some special vocation In addition to « never In substitution for) her home work. But just as the highest work for the normal man Is work for his wife and children, so the highest work for the normal woman Is the work of the home, where, heaven knows, the work Is ample enough. Hut I also feel she can do the best work in her home If she has healthy outside Interests and oc cupations in addition, and I most (Irmly believe that she cannot do her full duty by her hus band if she occupies a merely servile attitude toward him or submits to ill treatment, and that she is quite as had a mother if weak and foolish as if hard and unloving. FIFE RESCUES AT FIBE. Sunday Promenaders See Exciting Scenes — Fireman Overcome. Promenaders on Lexington avenue yesterday afternoon shortly before 5 o'clock saw several exciting rescues from a fire at No. 645. a five story business and furnished room house. The fire was confined to the second floor, oc cupied by Breskln & Roswell, tailors, and the damage was estimated at $10,000. There was some delay In getting: water on the fire, as the hydrant at r>4ih street was frozen and had to be thawed out. .in Long, of Engine '■'■'■*. found John N\ Lambert unconscious "ii tha second floor, with Ills clothing In flames. He • arrie 1 the uncon scious ma:; to the street. He was sent to Flower Hospital, where It was sail late last night that he was not dangerously burned, • r men were taken down from the ■ windows by the men of Honk and _ H. fore the flre had been extlnKruished Chrlsto 9on, of Hook and Ladder \>'>. \\.ii found unconscious in the second floor by the He was taken to Flower Hospital, • • ! and went back to .juartera. i he bad been caught in a back draft. GASOLENE BURXS SEVEX. Explosion ai Western Electric Works Starts }\'ihl Humors. Seven men w> ■ Bvs sa -• •;ikei to St Vincent's Hospital, late lay afternoon by au explosion of a i an of . !\ta floor <-i the building ■ the Western Eteetrk Company, which Alls th»- block bounded hv Washington, West, i Hank stn BROWS, Michael. No 201 Bleecker street. CRONIKf, Rtchari. No. 7i>« Columbus avenue. HUNT, Patrick. No. IST. Kast l"«sth street. LEONARD Daniel. Nn. 401 Weal 3uh streer. Ml iNAII W. Patrick, No MB KlKhth avenue. PASQUAL.B. I^al*. N.>. 209 Johnson avenue. riM Bronx. PIRTOT. ElKln. No, 3 •". Tbompaoa street.' The report of he explosion was heard for some uistar.ee, an. l the rumor spread that several por sons had been killed. A large crowd gathered about the streets and increased so rapid that it became necessary to call out the reserves. Just what caused the explosion could not ba learned. There were at work at the time about a score of men on the sixth floor, at Bethune and West streets. So far as can be learned, ten men were employed In entailing machinery with Kasolone. and in some unaccountable manner the can. containing about a gallon of the Quid, e\ liloded. AUTO OVERTURNS SLEIGH. Sir Tossed Intf) Snowbank Car l'nh< >rsi \v Mi > v n t ed Pi >lii e m a n . Aftrr running Into a sleigh contatnhng four men nini two women, the police s.iy. the chauf feur of an automobile In the \\e«t Drive !"i Cen tral Park late yesterday afternoon bumped mr > a mounted policeman, knocking down his horse, and th. i ii' on full power and escaped, although the policeman Jumped Into another machine and ■ 'i;!--'-.! the car r'.n nearly a mile. Every effort is being made to And the i he machine. \- irdlns !■■ the police, L. J. Henes, of No. r.if.t p a iras driving north In the Drive l;i the sleigh, and had reached T^'.h street, whi n an automobile swerving from pid»» ti s-..i.-> (Ta shed into them, overturning the slelKh and throwing everybody Into a snowbank. Mounted Patrolman Markey was within one hun dred feel of thr- accident, and as he spurred his animal to the scene, he says, the chauffeur steered the machine toward him. Before he could swerve his horse, the machine, he says. struck th»» horse and knocked It to 'he ground. No <>n<- way injure,!. MANY VALE WITH FLOOR. Severn! Hurl at Entertainment at Woonsockei School. Woonsocket, R. L, Peh. 19, By the coUapee of ■, Boor on the second stotrj of i school huii.l- U,x where an entertainment was being hjeM to nlght, two hundred persons wore thrown to tho floor below, but with the exception of three all escaped severe injuries. Twenty-live other* what bruised and scratched hut none required the attention of physicians The severely Injured are Miss Ida Paradls. aged fourteen, coneasatoa of brain and other in- Jjuries, condi. ion critical; Mrs. LoteUSO Buchaud. I ghi leg spratMA and Mrs. David Morse, rbght nd ankle sprained and other injuries, .vi i (:•• Injured were removed to their home. THE MAYOR OF KINGSTON DEAD. Kingston. Jama;, a, Feb. 10. — Charles Tait, 1 Mayor of this city, died this afternoon at the I public hospital as a result of injuries sustained i at the time of the earthquake. He was presld ■ Ing at ■ meeting- of the council when the bulld j Ing collapsed. Mayor Tat' was sixty-eight years • old. Ha was of Bcotch descent. CALIFORtfIANS UMTED. CONFER AT WASHIXGTOSJ Position Xot Announced — Mr. Roov at White House. Washington. Feb. 10.— Mayor Schmlti and th* members of the San Francisco School Board wer« In conference twice to-day, and formally agreedi on the policy they will pursue in connection* with the question of the Japanese and the San> Francisco schools. The Mayor and the member* of the board have refused to make any state ment as to what position they will take wh#a they call at the White House to-morrow to con fer with President Roosevelt and Secretary Root,. In the telegram, however, to the California Ki-» elusion League to-night Mayor Sehmitz declare*! the delegation has "not made any arrangement* up to date of any kind." More than three hundred telegrams were re ceived by Mayor Schmitz and the members o0 the board to-day, urging them to stand firm fo*i the exclusion of the Japanese coolies from tha I'nited States. A telegram r«*celvi?d to-day by Mayor Sohmit* from th« President of the California Exclusion League in part reads I Morning: papers announce In big headlines' that Bchmlti deserts labor for Japanese — Mayor? and bool board make complete surrender. "We' cannot «nd will not believe it. lusion League demands exclusion by act or' Cuimililll.il— Ij will not exclude. Sovereign rights must not he bar tered away by promises and should not be basis for compromise. We will not yield one iota si our rights as a sovereign people, regardless of cost or consequences. Mayor Schxnttz's reply to this telegram In part/ follows: gran received. Announcement of morning papers absolutely false. Have ma Is no arrange-: ment up to date of any kind. Story false, likati all other statements made about me. Have re- fused to give any statement to reporters. Presl- ; dent has refused also until conference com pleted. and is showing friendly spirit. I am a; Californian, trying to do my duty to my state.- Cannot succeed If hampered by hostile press, off San Francisco. At to-morrow's conference the Californian* will present their views to President Roosevelt In writing, and a final, definite agreement prob ably will not be reached until Tuesday. Secre tary Root spent two hours at the White Hous» t to-night discussing the school question with tha , President, and it may be authoritatively stated that the President to-morrow will assure Mayor Schmitz and the school board that if the; will agree to end the agitaiion by abolishing tha Oriental schools the President will In turn v.-« his Influence to secure a treaty with Japan that will exclude the coolie labor from this country. | At midnight Mayor Schmitz said: It can be stated positively that President Roosevelt has made no definite proposition to us. We discussed the matter with Mr. Roose velt yesterday, and he understands our position. There has been no change In the situation sine» then and cannot be until after to-morrow's con ference. Woodburn. Ore.. Feb. 10.— Following the replacing by the Southern Pacific of ten white section men with Japanese laborers, fifty Americans called a" the section house last night and warned the Jap anese to leave town. Ther« was no violence, but 1 , the Japanese departed this morning for Portland, j A Schwabeur. the section foreman, refused to wort . •with th« Japanese and resigned yesterday. "War.) rants will be tworn out to-morrow for the arrest of «he ringleaders of the crowd that drove the Jay anese away. WANTS SCHMITZ TO STAND PAT. President of Japanese and Corean Exclusion^ League Fears Labor Invasion. • [ By Telegraph to The Tribur.-. 1 San Francisco, Feb. V\— O. A. Tveitmoe. presi dent of the Japanese and Corean Exclusion Leagu<% and one of th-" most persistent ciiti-Japanese asi t a tors, sent a telegram to Mayor Schmitz. '• Wash ington to-day, urging him to make n%> concessions^ The telegram includes the following: Exclusion League demands exclusion net of Con gress. Treat; will not exclude. Sovereign rights must nut he .bartered away for promises, and should not be basis of compromise. We will not jrleld *>ne iota of our rights as soTerelsn people. r« gardlesa of cost or consequences. If President wants to humiliate American Hag let him tell Cali fornia's Governor to repeal the fcvw. bat h«» can't coerce free Californiins to bow in submission t<* the will of the Mikado. President Roosevelt's power will not make one whit-* m:m out of a!! it:<* Japs in Nippon. California :s the w bite man's country, and not the Cauc:isi:tn graveyard. The Pacific, Mall liner Siberia brought 21S J;ip» - aiieee contract coolies to-day from Honolulu, withj thirteen women and five children. The passports 1 were all iss'ieii by the Japanese government. Th'i: ITY tt/< HITS . i SKED. Japane.se Paper's VirtC of San Fran- cisco Question. Toklo, Feb. 10.— The ■.i ; .'i" in a leading edito rial on the San Francisco incident, expresses disbelief in the possibility of the adoption of a new treaty mutually restricting labor Immigra tion as a solution of the controversy^ Th» "Jljl" says that it Is aware thai a large number of Japanese are going to San Francisco from Tawaii. and that 'his Immigration Is causing jealousy* on the part of the white labor, but it contends thru this is due to the imperfect provision of tha existing law. which may be remedied by an agreement on the part of both governments, but should constitute an entirely separate subject off discussion and rot affect the present San Fran cisco question. In regard to the latter subject. Japan, the article says, stands on her treaty rights. The "Jiji." Judging by statements attributed to officials of both governments, draws the con clusion that if a satisfactory adjustment of th» difficulty is reached, the credit will be solely due! to the admirable efforts put forth by Prudent Roosevelt. LAWYER COMMITS SUICIDE. Fall River. Mass.. Fob. I«>.— Milton Druce. an attorney, who had been suffering for acme months from mental illness, was found dead in his room in a boarding house to-n!sht with two bullet wounds in his head and a revolver grasped in his right hand. Despondency over his 111 health, which he ascribed to overwork. Is thought to have led to his suicide. Bank books showing deposits of about $S,OOO in various sav ings institutions were found in the pockets of the dead man. Mr. Druce Is said to have com* from a wealthy family In England. m JAMES G. BLAINE'S PARTNER DEAD. [ By Telegraph to The Tribssa. ] Canon City, Col., Feb. George X. Lawrence, receiver and general manager of the Canon City Gas Company, of which he was the principal stock holder, died at the horns of usa daughter. In Pueblo, this morning. He was a native bf New England, and was at one time engaged In business with James «J. Hlaine. at Augusta. M*. As a mem ber of one of the bis ice arms of New York City Mr. Lawrence amassed a fortune. He leaves a wife and daughter. Th« body will b* sent to Au-; gusta. Me., for burial. AUGUSTA. CHARLESTON. SUMMERVILLE, 2:10 P. M.3-> Aii ar.d MB .P M. Vn-v-!W »•£. vie-* via Perm. & Atlantic Coast tine R...R. Floriia Information Bureau. B"way. cor. «otfi bt— Ad-rt, j