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VOV OI ~ LXVII X° 22.061.
BUSINESS SKY CLEAR.
SO REAL DEPRESSION.
Country's Great Trade Centres Re
port Record Prosperity.
Special dispatches to The Tribune from three
©f tlir country"** £iv;it utaiWS of trade—Pitts
bur?. St. Louis and Chicago— show no appreci
able falling off ii' business. At opinions of
financiers manufacturers ami business men in
bbbjS*l st* uniformly optimistic, mid do not re
flect the pessimism expressed by James .1. Hill,
Mr. Frnf and Mr. Heluiont in recent interviews.
PfttxbaiS expects some slackening up. and
will welcome ii. but scouts uuy real business
depression. Men lii^h in Uto steel trade say
there can be no depression there this year or
next.
St. Louis is enjoying the greatest business
prosperity in its history, and prospects are for
more business this year than last. One of the
great railroad W|lllpiWt companies reports or
ders on Its books for nearly UMMMO cars.
Chicago is rejoicing over the Republican vic
tory la the recent municipal election, and re
ports business in every line booming and on the
increase.
HTTSBrRG- .\OT GLOOM
Would Welcome Some Let-Up — Xo
j Steel Trade Depression.
fFv T»Trs.[>n to Th» T-ib'in# 1
r--'sburs.r --'sburs. April 10— Pittsburgers believe there
will be a gradual slackening up in the present
industrial rush, nnd welcome the Idea. Leading
ir.sr.ufacturers, when asked for opinions, ap
peared to have frlven the subject attention, but
Ve«-e loath to go on record as against the finan
cial leaders, who are quoted as being pessimis
tic as to the future.
J^-hn H. Jones, president of the Pittsburg and
Bs£s2a Coal Company, which has just voted to
fp-.»r.d nearly ■ minion dollars in extending its
cos! mines, paid:
•'I believe there Is going to lie a slackening
down, especially among the railroads, because
of adverse legislation and criticism, but that will
not reduce the total of business mor<9 than live
to ten per cent of Its present ratio. We can
&JTor'* to decrease our national business without
er.y financial suffering. I look for a strong,
hrt>;thy growth of trade in all lines."
Jch:i Jackson, president of the Fidelity Title
z~Ji Trust Company, said:
"As Ear as the stock market is concerned. I
believe there will be somewhat of a depression.
•>.-. ich money has been turned into ppecula
t"v#^lines. A lowering market will turn more
me.-fy Into legitimate channels of trade and
*.h?t vill prove a brnefit to counteract the de-
Clll * of stock buying In New York."
"The railroads have been heavy buyers of
ir<>n and steel during the 3«st eighteen months."
said an official of the Carnegie Ste*»l Company.
'They will continue so throughout the year. If
thfv at down their requirements one-hnlf for
I!XK wr will still have the left-over business
from this ye?r to complete, which will make a
reypettable ■lasre fn itself. The rnilroaUs
hxvi crowded out the buying; of nearly all other
lire?, and many of these" have not expanded as
rapidly as they s/tshed. These will continue
?* buy, and we cannot pee where there is go.
?n? to he a falling off of more than 1O per cent
rf the present volume of trade. We are nver
crr-wded. and fo is everybody else, and a decline.
In order? will be welaoma. We do not look for
sny <-onsiderable falling off in tonnage. This our
own preparations for extensions prove."
The Carnegie Steel Company has always been
guided in Its policy for future requirements by
'.he crop rejK>rts. This practice has been closely
followed by the United State* Steel Corporation.
T!>e farmers will force the railroads into the
market for equipment, is the belief of the Car
nf-gie people.
-Business may slacken." said Willis I* Kin?.
financial head of the Jones A I*augh!ln Steel
Company, "but we believe the ushering in of
an nnnounoed decline in lrade will ♦• dis
counted. The railroads are said to be behind
from '£> to T/i zicr cent in handling the traffic
offered. The more talk of hard times, the less
probability there will be of a financial depres
sion. The warning Bounded by the men at the
head of the railroads is an excellent thing for
the country.
"There cannot be any depression during 1907,
nor far Into IJKtS, in th«- iron and steel industry.
By thai time everybody will have balanced ac
counts and prepared for the Flump. It is the
euddrn collapses which are feared and not the
much advertised ones.
"The country is growing too rapidly to stop
where it is. Judging from reports received, from
all <juait»rs, fully five million more men could
find employment in the country. We do not look
for lay decline in prices in iron and steel, ox
opjjt in a few commodities, and these only to a
normal ba*iF.
"We have not touched the export trade. The
nation could ship its surplus product to foreign
countries at as pood prices as are being realized
at home."
BOOMIXG IX CHICAGO.
All IJnrs of Trade Rushing
Signs of Falling Off.
I By T»>rraph to Th* Tribune.]
Chicago, April ]«.— Well known Chieagoans in
various lines of business activity refused to-day
to reflect the pessimism regarding business con
ditions attributed to New York financiers.
Not long ago James Simpson, vice president of
the MarslßßlJ Field Company, when asked for an
opinion on das deep gloom prevailing in New
York, said: "There is no recession anywhere and
*>o Btgn of it. We do not see a soft upot outside
of Wall Street, and this country is getting fur
ther away from Wall Street all the time."
Tbat is the attitude of the Chicago business
(Sarli to-day, although the men who voiced their
opinions wanted it understood that nothing they
■aid was to be considered "controversial." They
**»re not refuting the opinions of New Yorkers,
hat etating their own, they «wti«l.
Baaaar A. Stillwoll. manager of Butler Broth
ers, paper manufacturer's, said that Chicago
buelness proajirrity at th«* present time v. as
"extraordinary" and "unprecedented." "There's
•Kit a < loud in the »ky," lie said. "Things are
ixKiirilng in our own Hoe and everywhere else,
1 understand. i don't know where Has the Jus
tification for th-se reports of a Flump in busi
tt+m.'
W. W. Klmbull, president of the. W. W. Kim
ball Company, said: "We are entirely fattened
**i f li busine** conditions. Our own business is
keeping up fine— is considerably ahead of last
i'*«r. There Is no Indication of v slump, either.*'
Pobert Scott of Carson, Plrie, Scott & Co..
SS!«i: "Business everywhere •* a good deal
CesilsntZ *n eizbta prso, *
To-day, cloudy.
To-morrow, fair and warmer.
PEACE WILL SAVE CUBA.
POWERS TO BE RESTORED.
Mr. Taft. However, Sets No Date
for Resumption of Control.
Havana. April 1«» Secretary Taft gave out
the following statement to-night, it is ad
dressed to Governor Uagoon. and In it the
Secretary says:
After having conferred with committees of
the Liberals, Conservatives and Republican par
ties and leading men of the community, Includ
ing; lawyers, bankers and representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce and others, and after
full discussion of the situation with you, Gen
eral Harry and Consul General Steinhart, 1
make the following recommendations, having in
view ' the circumstances making Intervention
necessary:
The question now arises: When shall the
elections be held? The advisory commission
appointed to draft electoral, municipal, judi
ciary and civil service laws, composed or" three
Americans, four Liberals and four Conserva
tives, declared to me it was Impossible to hold
fair elections until a census had been taken, and
this view has been strengthened by assurances
from all political parties. All the parties
through their committees have expressed the
view that the wisest course will be to hold a
preliminary election to test the electoral law
and the tranquillity of the country.
The Liberals urge that this lie for municipal
and provincial officers, while the Conservatives
insist it ought to be limited to municipal offi
cers, but they agree in holding a preliminary
election. The Liberal party expresses the view
that a census can lie completed In four months,
and that provincial and municipal elections
may, therefore, be held In September.
The Conservative party expresses no opinion
as to the time required for the taking of a cen
sus, but it insists upon great care and that the
registration lists founded upon the census
should be subjected to a severe and impartial
judicial scrutiny, as proposed by the advisory
commission, and that the preliminary election
shall l~- held a reasonable time after the com
pletion of the census. The Liberal party, hold-
Ing that the preliminary election should take
place In September, recommends that the Presi
dential and Congressional elections be held the
Mist of next December and that the regular
consitutional period shall elapse thereafter be
fore the reassembling of the electoral college to
name Senators and the President The mem
bers of this college will be elected at the gen
eral elections. According to the constitution
these electoral colleges will not convene until
one hundred days after the general election.
The Liberal party suggests that th> new Con
gress shall meet to receive the vote of the elec
tion for President In time to permit of his
Inauguration on May IX*, IJM)8, the anniversary
of the Inauguration of the first Cuban President.
The Conservatives Insist that this preliminary
election is In the nature of an experiment, and
tha) three, months is not a sufficient Interval to
determine whether this experiment has been a
success, and they recommend that not less than
six months elapse between the preliminary and
the Presidential and Congress! elections.
PRESIDENT'S POLICY UNCHANGED.
First— It is hardly necessary to reiterate that
the position of President Roosevelt is exactly
what It was when the :'ii"-t proclamation was
issued establishing a provisional government
under the Piatt law In this Island, to wit, that
Cuba must be turned over to a Cuban govern
ment, fairly elected, so soon as the conditions
of tranquillity In the country permit, anil that
the stability of the government established be
assured.
Second- I do not think four months a suffi
cient time for the taking of a census necessary
for an election. It would I■* most unwise,
therefore, to llx a definite date for th«> holding
of a preliminary election. All that can be done,
and all that ought to be done, la to declare that
the census be taken in as short a time as pos
sible, malting Hi* census thorough, fall and
complete for electoral purposes, and an an
nouncement that the preliminary election shall
be held within such period thereafter as may
afford a reasonable time for complying with all
the requirements of the new- electoral law.
Third — The municipal and provincial elections,
which in a sense are local, should he held at t he
same time, i have alr«':tdy expressed the opin
ion that the elections by which the present pro
vincial authorities were brought Into power
were attended with such Irregularity thai the
resignations of these officials should be at the
service of the government, although the present
conditions ] unify the maintenance of the de
facto status of these officials so long as they
conduct themselves properly rather than an
Indiscriminate removal of them, with the pos
sible excitement and controversy likely to at
tend the election of their successors. BUM, the
question of the proper policy to pursue in re
gard to the present provincial officers la a mat
ter which is In your hands for decision, but It
is certain that *„ soon as; the present condi
tions as to provincial officials can be cured by
election that election should be held, and
therefore both municipal and provincial elec
tions should be held as preliminary elections.
It Is true that at the provincial election pro
vincials will Vie elected consttutlng one-third of
the electoral college to vote for Senators: but at
the national elections there will be. elected two-
Ihirds of the members of thia same college, and
therefore the selection of a provincial council
will have comparatively little bearing on the
national election.
Fourth— months may not be sufficient
time in which to test the questions of tran
quillity and the success of the experimental
perlimlnary election; therefore, our declaration
should not be morn limited than that the na
tional election shall U' held within six mouths
after the preliminary election.
Fifth It is. of course, proper to comply with
the constitutional requirement regarding an in
terv;U of one hundred days between the Con
gressional and Presidential elections and the
voting by the electoral college, the assembling
<-f Congress and the inauguration of the new
President. The. government will then devolve
upon the newly elected President and Congress.
Sixth— The carrying out of this plan, of course.
i.-- strictly dependent on the tranquillity of the
country, which must continue through two elec
tions and Which must give assurance, of the sta
bility of the new government, because without
this the United States would not be discharging
the obligation devolving upon it by reason of
the intervention.
Seventh— It la in the interest of the business
prosperity of the island that tills plan be mad«
public I have submitted the substance of this
letter to President Roosevelt He approves it,
and he has instructed me to direct this!com
munication to you. WILLIAM H. TAI-T.
Immediately after the giving out of this com
munication Mr. Taft went on board the May
flower, accompanied by Governor Magoon. Min
ister Morgan and Consul General Stelnhart. As
soon as the Governor and his party left the
Mayflower that vessel steamed out of the har
bor bound for Porto RiCO.
MR. TAFT'S BUST DAY.
The Secretary had another busy morning
receiving committees. Among the. callers were
■ number of merchants of Pinar del Rio. who
asked the Secretary to order the payment of
money and provisions which they had ad
vanced to the Cuban government troops in the
lust rebellion.
General Rodriguez, chief of the Cuban forces,
discussed with Mr. Taft for an hour the ad
visability Of an increase of the strength of the
rural guard to 10,000 men.
s. P. McUivnoy, a contractor of New Jersey,
who for several years lias had a $13,000,000
contract for sewering and paving In Havana,
was received by Mr. Taft this morning and
asked that the matter be settled. Mr. McGlv
ney refused to make any statement to the press,
but those who accompanied him said Mr. Taft
took the ground that the matter was one for the
future Cuban government to settle. Mr. Mc-
Givney. it is asserted, lias had 1900.000 de
posited In the Havana city treasury for over
four years as a guarantee to carry out his con-
CnnJlniiril on Mf-ond pace.
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NEW-YORK. THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1907. -SIXTEEN PAGES.-
FORAKEE TAKES STUMP.
TALKS OF HIS RECORD.
Has Differed with President on Only
Three Points, He Says.
[Bj Telegraph to The Tribune ]
Canton. Ohio, April 10.— Senator Joseph R.
Poraker opened his campaign against the friends
of Been tary Taft for control of the state here to
night when he delivered a speech ;it the Board
of Trade dinner.
His- topic was "Our Civic Life," but he dis
cussed his career In Congress, explained his
attitude toward President Roosevelt's policies,
declared that he would accept no criticism
except from hi< constituents, :n-,d held himself
accountable to no one else. He said he bad
only thrice opposed legislation favored by Presi
dent Roosevelt, and that he would abide by the
judgment of th>> people of Ohio as to whether
he had (]on,» ri^hr. Hi,- reference* to the Pres
ident w.rc received without demonstration.
The dinner was served In Memorial Hall.
Among the pucst.s were the Senator's lieutenants
ii":, i many ..r ih«> largo cities tn the suite.
They made his visit here a purely political
affair l>y billing the, city with his portraits.
Tilts.- portraits were printed by ;i non-union
establishment In Cincinnati and stirred up the
organized laboring men of Canton.
Mr. Foraker's reception upon his arrival nnd
during the afternoon was perhaps not so warm
as usual. Many prominent Republicans who are
strong Taft ny n refused to pay their respects
to him. He- reached the city In the early morn-
Ing, visited the McKinley monument and called
on Mrs. McKinley.
SENATOR FORAKER'S SPEECH.
The Senator's speech follows:
Gentlemen: First, let me thank those having
this occasion In charge for the Invitation that
has brought me here.
Ii is always a pleasure to visit your city. It
is growing so rapidly and Is In every way bo
prosperous that it Is in the highest sense of the
word typical of all that Is beat in Ohio.
You are distinguished in other respect* Tour
city is familiar to all the world as the home and
last resting place of William McKlnley. His
memory la cherished by every man in the land.
As the years pass we appreciate more and more
keenly his gentle, modest, unassuming, courteous
manners, and his steadfast »nd loyal devotion to
the great principles of Republicanism as repre
sented by Lincoln, and Blalne, and Sherman, and
all the other great leaders of our heroic days.
I congratulate you thai you are still repre
sented in the. public service by m> distinguished
and so beloved a hod as Justice Day. He
adorns the bench of the greatest judicial tribunal
ii: the world. You may Justly be proud of him.
I do not know the details of your Industrial
growth and development, nor do I know, except
in v general way, what your plans are fur the
future, but inspired by what you have accom
plished, and what you are to-day, I know there
Is ahead of you greater successes than any you
have yet achieved.
My Invitation for this evening generously gave
me permission to select my own subject.
in the exercise of this privilege 1 deem it my
duty to first address myself to some nn tters that
may seem somewhat personal.
In a Washington dispatch published in • - Th<»
Cincinnati Times-Star" I find the following:
President Roosevelt has drawn a "dead line"* f^r
Senator For.iker. "Tims fnr. but no f.-irther." in
the warning, it applies to th»> Senator's for'h
coming speeches In oiiin. if he K"es beyond tlio
lln* drawn, if b«» attacks President Roosevelt.
rre«sid/-nt Roosevelt will be beard from in no un
rerlaln tones.
<AN l»nAV\ M' • i l>J- < .Al> '..iXY^.
"The wicked flee when no man puraueth." I
have not forecast the character «>f any speeches
I am ltiteii'litig to inak'-, and if I had; It would
= '><--Ml Incredible to the average mind that s-uch a
story could be anything more than a mischief
making pipe dream ol an over ambitious corre
spondent.
Tlmt the President of the United States should
become personally engaged In a political contest
to determine his successor In without precedent,
unless 11 be the bad precedent set by Andrew
Jackson as to Martin Van Buren.
That he would enter upon such a struggle
with a declaration that he Is to set limitations
upon the freedom of BDeech of those who may
differ from him, anil that they are to disregard
those limitations at their peril, la without
precedent even In the r.ise of Jackson, and Is so
inconsistent with the dignity of his hlnh office and
the proprieties always to be observed, that I feel
it a duty toward the President himself to enter
for him, on my own motion, a disclaimer of all
responsibility for such a publication.
The time has not yet come, and nobody knows
that better than the President himself, when
"dead lines" nan be drawn In debate for any
body to observe; nor has the time me when
any real man would respect them if they were
drawn.
So far as I am personally concerned, 1 shall
always speak with malice; toward none, but ac
cording to "my convictions whenever and wher
ever I may have occasion to speak at all.
Here's another— a. sort of companion piece.
From the ScrlPps-Mcßae papers 1 take the fol
lowing:
The President to hii frienda haa mem
.,ii'-
■ iward Wall Street R H Hin i n, J. B.
D Rockefeller
KNOWS <.i' NO "PLOT."
In view of this publication r trust i may with
out Impropriety say that until It was given nut
at Washington a few days ago I never heard
tell of any combination or trust <>,■ conspiracy
to opi 'resident In anything; much less
did 1 ever hear of the so called Bye million dol
lar consplracj of whl h we have heard s<> much
duriiiK the la^t v, . - 1:
i trust I may be pardoned for going further
and saying I never saw John I> Rockefeller but
on.-c In my life, and that was twenty years ac ( >
<t more, while I was Gove rnor of Ohio.
I t}><Mi had the pleasure of meeting him In
connection with the ceremonies connected with
the laying of the cornerstone of the Young Men's
Christian Association building at Cleveland,
ohio. With that single exception I never saw
him, never spoke to him, and never communi
cated with him In any way, directly or indi
rect!-.-.
Mr. Harrlman 1 have seen oftener. I have
seen him three times t .vie. at the White House;
the last time as an honored guest at the wed
ding ceremonies of the President's daughter.
On neither of these occasions did I have any
conversation with him.
The only other time I ever saw him was ro
meet him at a dinner party given by Senator
and Mrs. Depew. where Speaker Cannon and lii*
daughter, Senator Spooner and hia wife, Sen
ator Klkins and his wife and many others were
present.
Except only the i.rief conversation of the
evening in the presence of all this company, i
never communicated with him directly or in
directly on any aubject whatever.
l call attention to ail thla with particularity,
s.. that at the outset auch wild, reckless, crazy
stories may be put Into the class of campaign
literature where they properly belong.
Hut these .stories are but samples o! many
others, nil ol which, taken together, seem to
have for their object the dissemination of th<>
idea that I am at wai with the policies of Presi
dent Roosev< It.
No man ever occupied the White House who
has been identified with so many legislative
measures aa President Roosevelt. He is a tire
less worker. He is constantly doing, or causing
to be done, something of preat importance.
This Is true not only as to domestic but also :.*
to foreign affairs. He has been President since
September, 1901, almost six years.
OPPOSED ONLY THREE MEASURES.
During ail thai time I have supported all
measures that have come before the Senate of.
the United states for consideration with which
be was in any way Identified, except only three.
I differed from him as t.. Joint statehood f<>v
New Mexico and Arizona. Insisting that they
should not be forced Into the Union as one *tni»
unless a majority of the citizens of each terri
tory might so vote.
The proposition -1 favored was adopted by
Congress, and the people of the territories voted
against Joint statehood.
That was a proposition about which men
might well differ. There was no occasion for
Continued on tUXrd l»*u.
LOXGII'ORTH FOR TAFT.
Thinks Secretary Typifies the Pres
ent Administration.
Cincinnati, April I©.— Congressman Nicholas
Longworth returned ftom Washington to-day.
In an Interview he declared himself in favor of
Hie nomination of Secretary Tuft as the Repub
lican candidate try President. He said that his
opinion was personal and that he spoke only for
himself, but that he believed that Mr. Taft in
th.- eyes of the people typified the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
"Since it has been announced that Secretary
Taft lias been a candidate," Mr. Longworth
said, "it seema to me that the sole queHion in
volved is whether >r not the Republicans of
ohio will indorse him for the Presidency. Sec
retary Taft beiriK a candidate for President, an.!
f*>r no other office. 1 cannot see how any other
offices are herein Involved. Personally— and
speaking only for myself— l am for Taft for
President, The groat question before the peo
ple in the next Presidential election will be, in
my opinion, the approval or disapproval of Re
publican policies as registered by the legislative
and executive branches or this government for
the rnst eight years under the administration
of President Roosevelt.
"It seems to me. that after the President him
self there is no livirip man who so thoroughly
typifies In the eyes of the people* the spirit of
the Roosevelt administration as William H.
Taft, There Is no one who can l>e better trusted
to carry out many of the great reforms which
will he necessarily incomplete upon the retire
ment of President Roosevelt, March 4, 10** I .'.
as can William H. Taft. His whole life since h«»
became of aijf has been devoted to the public,
service. His record has been without a speck,
his character without n flaw, his abilities as a
jurist and aa an administrative officer have iir":i
fn distinguished as to ha\«« placed him in the
ranks of the very great men In *h« history of
this country.
"Ohio, more than any other state. Is known
as the mother of Presidents. 1 believe that the
tlni" is at hand when she may become the,
mother of another President, for I firmly believe
that If the Republicans of Ohio stand by William
H. Taft he can be nominated and elected."
ANNOUNCED HIS SUICIDE.
Friend of Thaw Shoots Himself in
Pittsburg Theatre.
[By T>ysrraph to The TrWwin* ] ••
Pittsburg, April 10.— Robert M. Crow, twenty
two years old, mpted suicide by shooting
himself in the abdomen in a box at the Grand
Opera House during the performance this after
noon. He is nt the Homoeopathic Hospital, and
th«re is little chance for his recovery.
Crow, who Is ;\ nephew of IT. C. McEldowney,
president of tho I'nlon Trust Company, h-is
been mentally unbalanced for some time nrid
has spent all his tlmn studying works on Insan
ity since the beginning of the trial of his friend.
Harry K. Thaw, In New York. W. C McKl
downey. another uncle, declared that "Pittsburg
paranoia, an insane impulse to do something
sensational." caused Crow to attempt his life
under such spectacular circumstances.
t'.ettxf !.o>i£);.' a l -»*: re»t ft* "io tlte«iire and
sent letters to his uncles telling them of his
Intended suicide. Miss Ethel Levy was pinging
"Unrequited Love" when he arose, In the full
Bight of the audience, and fired a shot into his
body. Miss Levy r:m from the stage, while
women In the audience reamed and fninted.
Both uncles of the young man had received his
letters and were on the way to th- theatre.
( A RNEGIE A IDED GROW.
Gave Him a Pension- Hit Namf
Perfectly Clear, Friends Soy.
Washington, Apm 1" SYienda of Galusha A.
Cmw. c-x-Bpeaker of the House, who .;
in Greenwood, Perm., on March .'il
la.M. and whose fortune has disappeared, blama
: laid on blackmailers, who. with the aid
of a woman, an- alleged to have swindled him.
have proof which clears his name of every Im
putation. luirinvf lils lifetime, however, Mr.
Grow preferred to spend his fortune to i
such reports rather than attempt, at his ad
vanced a^.\ to prosecute those who wronged
him. This proof is in the hands of James T.
Dubots, formerly consul general of the. United
States to Bt. Gall, Switzerland, and executor of
Mr. • Srow 'a t state.
When asked about the report that Mr. •Iron
had been swindled out of bis fortune, Mr. Dubola
practically confirmed It. He said, however, that
nothing In Mr. Grow's life could In any way
reflect upon his Integrity and uprightness.
"Mr <;•■>•/ s. Nt for me In September, 10»\V '
Mr. Duboia said, "to come to Glenwood, ivnn.,
hia home, to sco him. He ti>ld me that owing to
unfortunate railroad and other Investments, and
the Ingratitude and deception of people whom he
had befriended, h<> had lost practically all of his
fortune, and that he was without means of sup
port.
"1 assured him that as long ns I lived lie
should ii"t \\ant for the necessaries of life, and
that there was no reason for his fear that he
would be hurled in tho potter's Held. Upon re
turning to Washington l wrote to Andrew Car
negie, Informing him that Mr. Crow had lost 1;1*
fortune and was in financial distress. Mr. Cjir
nt k'\'- •■!< once replied that he was very sorry t>>
hear of Mr. Crow's misfortune, and after con
sulting with me he put him on his pension list
f(,-- $1,000 a year.
"In t! arly part of thin year Mr. Carnegie
desired to know how Mr. Crow was getting
alonp, and if he was comfortable nnd happy.
[Tpon learning thai be had nothing but the pen
sion Of $1,000 be at once doubled It. saying that
be was \ < ry glad to make arrangements for Mr.
Crow for the r--.st of his days, because he had
rendered such distinguished services to his
country and his fellow men. especially in con
nection with Ihe Homestead act."
A PLACE FOR TYLER.
President Appoints Ohio Negro
Auditor for Navy Department.
[From Tho Tribune Bureau.
Washington, April 10.— Announcement was mad«
nt the White House this afternoon that the Presi
dent had appointed Ralph W. Tyler, of Columbus,
Ohio, auditor fat the Navy Department to suc
ceed W. W. Brown, of Pennsylvania, who has re
ceived a better place In the Department of Justice.
The appointment of Tyler, who is a negro, ends
a long controversy in Ohio. Both the Ohio Senators
Indorsed him for a federal office on account of his
prominence among his people, and It was at first
proposed to make him either surveyor of the port
at Cincinnati or collector of customs m Toledo
Both plans -were opposed, however, and the ap
pointment ha& been in abeyance for some time.
AFTER ALL, USHER'S THE SCOTCH
that made the highball famous.— A <3vt. rr
CopyrijcV.t. 19Wi.
by The Tribune Association
THAW'S FATE WITH JURY.
Locked Up Until 1 0:30 This Morning — Rumor They
Stand )0 to 2 for Acquittal.
JEROME MAKES SCATHING ADDRESS.
Says Young Wife Lied— Declares Thaw Was Sane — Court's Chugs
Thought To Be Against Prisoner.
WHAT JTJEY HAS TO DECIDE.
Verdict. Maximum Penalty.
Murder in first degree — Death.
Murder ia? second degree — Life imprisonment^
Manslaughter in first degree — 20 years.
Manslaughter in second degree — 15 years.
Not guilty because insane.
Not guilty.
Short after ."» o'clock last night th* fat© of
Harry K. Thaw was commuted into the hands
Of the Jury by Justice FitzGerald. At It o'clock
they were locked up until 10:oO this morning,
not baring reached a verdict.
A rumor bad it that the lury stood 1O to II for
acquittal. the two men standing out for con
vli ti'tn for nmnslaußhter.
Events quickly succeeded one another yester
day. It seemed to be in the air that the end of
the long trial, which had been l»-£run as far back
us January 29 would be reached. District At
torney Jermoe began his summing up at Il:3t>.
Ry H:4O In the afternoon he had finished, and at
5:11 Justice FltzGeral* hnd completed his In
structions to the twelve men who are to say
whether Thaw shall po forth a free man or !*»
Imprisoned or <!!»•. More rapid progress had
been made than at any other period of the trial.
Justice FitzGerald's charge was much briefer
than had been expected. He spoke less than an
hour, but In that time covered the points of law
Involved thoroughly. It was generally thought
that he bad ruled somewhat adversely to the de
fendant. "The law does not recognise a. per
sonal avenger," he had paid. "A person is not
excused from criminal liability unless he does
not know that his net Is wrong. The law pre
sumes sanity and a delusion In a defendant's
mind does not excuse a homicide unless the de
lusion. If true, would have constituted a proper
excuse.*" These were a few of the rulings, which
seemed to those who heard them to be adverse
to Thaw.
H'Hh skies professed t > be satisfied with the
i h.trße. and th.c defendant's counsel, who
I never wanted confidence, were still more
c»>!-t.iin of acquittal.
After th» jury had been In consultation they
were taken out to dinner at the Broadway Cen
tral Hotel. They returned shortly before D
o'clock. Meanwhile Justice FttsGerald had gone
up to the Manhattan Club, where he had din
ner. Three of the Jurors took satchels with
them into the jury room, and this immediately
gave rise to the report of a disagreement, as II
was figured that those three men, at least. e.\
pecttfl a lengtJ»cne*3 "session.
Thaw waited upstairs on the mezzanine floor
with his wife. The rest of the family went up
town to the Hotel Lorraine, Intending to f stay
there until a verdict was reached.
District Attorney Jerome and all the counsel
for th« defence went across the street and hot»
nobbed together. When news came shortly
after 11 o'clock thai the Jury could not agree
they Bled away to their homes. The principal
topic of conversation bad been Mr. Jerome's ad
dress.
<
•COMMON' TENDERLOIN MURDER."
"A mere, vulgar, everyday, common Tender
loin murder." Thus District Attorney Jerome
stripped the crime of all the false glamour that
baa environed it since the night It was com
mitted. Thus he put it on its trne piano and
thus he removed the last vestige of romance
that Mr. Delmaa bad so assiduously worked to
cast about Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit.
In a summing up that was as forceful as it
was brief Mr. Jerome spared not the lash of
sarcasm. The defence, by its very nature, lent
itself to such an attack as the District Attorney
made. The whole fabric practically rested on
the word of one young woman whose mode of
lit".- and whose overwhelming interests In the
success of the defendant seemed to lend doubt
to her credibility. And in addition to the natu
ral openings presented to the prosecutor Mr.
Delmaa had made others.
While Mr. Dehnaa had with many rhetorical
flourishes asseverated that the "unwritten law*
should have no place in his plea for Justice for
his client, he had. In fact, placed more, depend
ence on that appeal to the sympathies of the
jurors than on the whole mass of evidence, ex
pert and otherwise, that he had offered. And in
doing so he had named the species of insanity
from which Thaw was asserted to have been
suffering when he killed White "dementia
Americana." "It is that species of insanity
which leads a man to protect his home, his wife
and his daughter." he had said.
"DEMENTIA AMERICANA" A TARGET.
This "dementia Americana" furnished the tar
get for Mr. Jerome's keenest darts of satire.
"We. have heard much of 'dementia Ameri
cana.' " he said, "but this 'dementia Americana'
doesn't wait three years before It strikes down
a seducer and then, only after waiting until It
had a pood dinner. 'Dementia Americana'
doesn't flaunt an unfortunate girl for two years
as Its mistress. "Dementia Americana* doesn't
take refuge In the- terrible confession of a poor
girl forced to tell her shame upon the stand.
No gentlemen." he cried, "the 'dementia Ameri
cana* that moves men to strike for their homes
and their women Is not that kind."
In those words the prosecutor practically pre
sented his answer to> the contention of the de
fence that Thaw was Insane at the time of the
killing. He argued that It was premeditated
murder, puro and simple; the result of a com
petition between two men for the possession of
a girl, who played one man off against the
other. Thaw had been told of the wrong done
to Evelyn Ne*blt by White— lf he had ever been
told and If any such wrong had ever been done
—in Paris in the summer of 1903. Subsequently
Thaw had seen White several times and had
only glared at him. "Why did he wait three
long years?" was the prosecutor's question.
••Why. If he was insane all that time, did he
wait so long before killing White? He killed
White because he feared White would again
take the girl from him," Mr. Jerome declared.
In a lucid, convincing way the District At
torney described the events of the night of
June 25 last and Insisted that none of them
suggested that Thaw was insane. Thaw's long,
sensible aonversation with JL Clinch Smith.
Stanford White's brother-in-law, was ci»*d as
show ing he was absolutely calm and col. tcted.
His deliberation in watching for his victim and
in approaching and shooting him. and his self
contained manner as he lifted his arms above his
head and showed the .pistol butt upward, wer*
1 .
PRICE THREE CENTS.
also described as the acts of a man who well
knew what he was about. His demeanor am
the way to the police station and when ar
raigned all showed the perfectly possessed,
normal man. Mr. Jerome argued .
"It was not until my thirsty friend. Dr.
Evans, had an opportunity to talk to Thaw
that these brainstorms were thought of," said]
the District Attorney sarcastically.
DEFENDS WHITE'S MEMORY.
At no time was Mr. Jerome more earnest than
■when he lamented that the rules of evidence
had not permitted him to defend Stanford,
White's memory by competent evidence. "Oh.
If the whole truth could only be told." he said
with an eloquent gesture. Then he told how
Mr. Delmas had prevented him from showing
that Evelyn Nesbit could not have been with
Stanford White the night she says he drugged
her.
"And then the defence ostentatiously put In
evidence a big hunch of letters from Stanford!
White to the girl." Mr. Jerome said. -Wefa
they read? Only one of them. Do you think
that If there had been the least suggestion off
anything evil in any of those letters they would
not have been read? And wouldn't a mar. if ho
bad the character the defence ascribes to him
have written something evil? They were not
read because there was not a word in them that
was not proper and kindly."
Then the District Attorney told of th«
•"extraordinary tribute" young Mrs. Thaw had,
paid White when she described him as "a grand
man: one of the finest men I ever knew."
"It seems to me." Mr. fosse said, with much ,
emotion, "as if the spirit of Stanford Whtt* I
must have entered and whimpered in her ear: j
'Evelyn, my lips are sealed hi death. I have no i
protectors. Won't you say one good word for|
me?' "
Telling us-* was made by the prosecutor of
Evelyn Nesbit's diary. Her cynical views of
life, her sneers at "good girls who would n.«vasj
amount to anything;" "who might become wives
and mothers, but nothing else." were read anal
used to show that the "angel child" was much?
of a woman of the world even at seventeen*
Nor did Mr. Jerome fail to point out to thi
Jury that her .innocent, childish manner and
dress hen she gave testimony were assumed td
gain their sympathy.
"But you have sworn to lay sympathy aslda^i
he told the twelve men. "and you must abtdag
by your oaths."
CALLS HUMMEL. "SCOUNDREI*.* .\
Mr. Jerome didn'r spare Hummel. "For year*
1 have tiled* to get him where I have got hgsaji
I regard him as a blackmailing scoundrel ci
twenty years*, standing, and I intend to put
him In Jail as soon as I can and keep him them
as long as I can," he said. Nevertheless, he ar-«
gued, there was internal evidence in the afR-*:
davit itself that Evelyn Nesbit made that
proved Its truth, and he pointed out that the>
testimony of Snydecker. the notary public who
witnessed her signature, and had remained un«
contradicted.
In concluding his summing un Mr. Jerome
quoted from the Bible, following his opponent's
example. With much earnestness he intoned.
" 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I shall
repay.**" And again, as was thundered fortl»*
from Mount Sinai: ""Thou shall not kill.'"
RIDKCLES U'IFES STORY.
Jerome Gibes at "AwgH Child" and
ai Thaic as Avenger.
The Dastrlci Attorney !)ear;m his address a*
sooa as the late art rials in the courtroom had
taken th.eir seats and order had been obtained.
Ha said:
If ii please your hone- and gentlemen of the
jury, it. seems, as f;ir as I am able lo judge, tna»
we have boen wandering through a field of ro- i
manec for a. couple of day.-*. But on these flowery l
st-ntences and or. all of the high flown rhetorto'
are we to decide this case? It Is with a plain .
'■•■<« i proposition upholding the law and providing I
for your safety ■i.l mine that we now have to'
«1t?al. Tli*> Usue? here cannot be determined by
a few statextM nt>. We have heen under a great
strain. You have been separated from your fanr* i
lilts, and your burden lias been a heavy one. The) ■
task has r.nt bfen an easy one for ihe learned ',
Judge. Hfher. lie has had complex questions to>'
rule on. presented to htm by counsel, which hat* \
required Instant determination. It hr»s not been,'
an easy time for counsel. I have had no Incon- i
ssii!"r:ih!.» burden. If i have gone to an extreme*
and trHn?sr^s.seil Ihe r>i!«»s of courtesy in my con—:
duct to ju. 1 ; jury or co«n.««!. I have done so be-.
cause I have tried to do my duty.
Keep clearly In mind thai iMa» i.* no private ■;
litigation. Keep in mind the fact that the people's!
stile has the Interest of the community In min<t. I
This Is no fight between the executors of Stanford, i
Whito and Thaw. No effort i.« betnß made hero]
tn blacken anybody's, name. It Is an issue* betweerv
th« people »I N-w York ami Harry Thaw, and th« j
Issue Is to determine whether what this defendant;
<ll>l was Justifiable or excusable.
T hard triad as honestly as I know how to study.
anil reflect upon the evidence before you. Not tho 1
hypothesis or counsel, hut the farts In th!» es\am\
must Kulde you. I believe I can convlnc* you j
■with these fart* that Harry Kendall Thaw's act)
was not Justifiable or excusable. With a word «♦
pardon for my somewhat unreliable temper, the}
outbursts of which I know have been alt too tr+~ t
aneat, let ma endeavor to state in my argmneaal
as clearly and logically an I can. step by ■***,
the succeedtrg stages of this ca;«e.
TETJ^ POSSIBLE VERDICT. ;
Tn the first place, an indictment was found by%
the grand Jury. Where there is a killing with pre
meditation, under our statutes, a man is guilty
of murder tn th-> first degree. The dictionary
clearly defines murder. There is no mistaking?
■what It means. You may have some difficulty as*
to the weeds "deliberation" and "premeditation."
but the «*ourt will Instruct you. The possibility off
murder in the second decree must also be consid
ered. And If without premeditation It is murder
In the second degree, and if a killing is done In
the heat of passion. It may be manslaughter In tho
first decree. A fourth verdict that you might ren
der could be based on the fact that the defendant
■was Insane: or you might return a verdict of not
guilty, without any question of sanity, which
would me. in that in your opinion the killing was
Justifiable. I do not believe that you can find that
the slaying of Stanford White was JustiSabie.
When a man Is sitting quietly at a table with
Ms ad resting on his elbow and his other arm
extended over an empty chair, looking at a play,
and he is shot dead with a weapon pointed at him
deliberately, and held so close to his fac* that thai
very features of his face are distorted so that hit
brother-in-law cannot recognize him. it is not. ea*L
of the Mississippi River, to be regarded as an un
premeditated murder. Nor can this bo called
"dementia Americana."
DELMAS-S SMILE FADES.
Mr. Jerome drawled out the words "dementi*
Americana" with greatest unction. Mr. Deunaa)
sir. i led. but as he observed the telling use th*
District Attorney made of hia characterization
of Thaw's alleged insanity his smite vanished.
After once more telling the Jury of the various)
verdicts they might return he continued:
There are elements of sympathy in this *«•*.
Mr. Delmas said you were human. That te tree,
of course, and you must have a certain amount of
sympathy, but it should not Influence you. MSB)*
tion has been maoo here of a mother an-: & v. i;«.