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JOINT DIXXER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA LAST SIGHT
WBPHY BACKS BRIAN
DELEGATES XKCCHiXIZED.
B \ nd Peerless Leader to W ■
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Charles F. Murphy ha^i received what he ron
f.iers to -•-.-■■ a=?urances from Will
:sm J. Bryan that the jCew Fork State dele
gates. selectc arbitrarily at the state conven
tion in Carn-gie Hall last week, will be recog
nlzed as the "resrular"" d o '°gates from this
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Another feature of the under?:andin:r between.
Mr. Bryan and T. u .e Tammany men is that I-ev.is
Nixon, his personal friend. i«? to be the candi
date for May-r n<=xt year, with Bird 5.
Coler a? the candidate for Controller. Daniel
r Cohalan is likely to be the candidate for
Pr?=:d«nt of the Board of Aldermen, to be later
promoted to the Pupr^me Court bench, so as to
p;. c Little Tim" Sullivan the presidency of
'..-." hoard and a seal in the Board of Estimate
Er.d Apportion*nent with thre« vtes.
Another interesting feature of Mr. Bryan's
last visit East is that he is deeply .......
with the availability of Frank Katzenr^ch. of
New Jersey, as a running mate on the Presi
dential ticket. Mr. Bryan toid friends yester
day that Mr. Katzenbach seemed to be im
mensely popular with the people in Trenton.
Mr. Bryan denied that he had talked
politics with Lewis Nixon, who called on
him yesterday, but It was significant that Tam
many men who saw Mr. Xixon afterward were
positive that Bryan and Murphy were working
Ib harmony, and that the slaie next year would
l-t as already stated.
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will take action on Satui
Cndoubtedly Mr. Bryan, before leaving town
this forenoon for Harrisbure will vehemently
cer.y that there is any secret understanding be
*•*«:: htoself and the Tammany men. but the
fart remains that the Tammany people are eer
ta:n that they -■■.-■■ pp e erle.=3
Leader. Mr. Bryan Is not above ••practical
politics." He was accidentally dis«>vered in
trnaira R. Hearst's house, in Lexington ave
r.v*. last fall, and never Ims enlightened the
public about the nature of this conference with
Mr. Hearst.
L*»:? Nixon has been in high favor with
Charles F. Murphy ever since the Buffalo state
conTer.tior.. two years ago, when Mr. Nixon nm
terially assisted Murphy. Connors and Graiy
b throwing out The Hermel decades and bring
ing a^rut the nomination of William K. Heafst.
Coler is r-garded as -available" by Murphy :
b*raus* the Sullivans want him for Controller |
and b«-«use he h*.«= built u;> a following in i
Brooklyn. Mr. Cohalan has been the leader's j
Krong right hand man for the last two years, j
A? chairman of the Tammany law committee he j
*«--s the boss how far li« can go without run- j
Kir.g foul of the law.
PEERLESS LEADER IIAPPT.
Mr. BryiLn was in high pood humor yesterduy
**i^.-r.o<,n at the Hoffman Hou.se on account of .
the news from Pennsylvaiiia and Illinois.
The <le!»-gates from Illinois are practically ;
unanimous for me." said he. "and ex-Congress- |
*Jian Jam«-s Ken-, of Pennsylvania, who lias tlrt ;
Utest news from his state, says that two-thirds i
' ' the delegates fro;n the Keystone State are |
pledged for me. Mr. <»uff«-y. who has been op- j
I<o«ed to me rignt al'm?, lost his di.^tri' t. and ]
J'^ph Howley ar.d r;enrge a. the two j
men chose& from the 30th District (Guffey's) j
*r* isstrurted for me
"It is safe to say that Bryan will be f!"!u
ia«.l*t: on the first ballot." said Mr. Kerr. Mr.
C«atinu«d on third p«c«.
To. mnrr . w . *^»— &■ _, w , nd , NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1968.— TWELVE PAGES.— mSTB^-r^
TRAXSIT BILL TO HUGHES.
Senate Passes Robinson Measure to
Aid Subway Building.
[By T°ie|rrarb to Th- Trihun*. 1
Albany, April 22.— Th-. Senate passed lat« this
afternoon, by a vote of 35 to 5. the bill of As
semblyman B. R. Robinson, amending the Els
berg rapid transit law- to permit the construc
tion and operation of subways in New York City
by private capital for a term of fifty years. Th*
bill is designed to attract private capital to sub
way b'ji!ding by making the Term lorsg enough
to allow the contractor to reap a substantial re
ward on his investment.
1' was opposed, by Senator Grady. who de
clared that it was nothing more than a perpet
ual franchise bill, to which the people of New-
York were violently opposed "Under the guise
of providing a fifty-year contract, at the end of
which time, the city shall posses itself of the
franchise by doing certain thing? which it never
will d'\ it provide? in effect for franchise? j n
perpetuity," he said.
In supporting the bill. Senator White, chair
man ... Cities Committee, said:
"I believe it Is a small matter what the term?
of the contract ar whether it is for forty, fifty
or sixty years. Whar is needed i? subway de
velopment. I r.eed not point out the shocking
conditions that exist in New York City to-day.
What this generation needs and what the fut
ure generations need, is subway development
which will take, care of the needs of the public."
Senator McCarren asserted that he did not be
lieve private capita! would be attracted by the
bill, but would vote for it, nevertheless. "Half
a loaf is better than none." he paid, "so I gha.ll
support this bill."
Thos< - Senai
HARVARD MAX HURT.
11. II Aronson Suffers Fractured
Skull in Annapolis Baseball Game.
Annapolis. Md.. April •22.— X. H. ■ nson, a
meml>er of the Harvard baseball team, is at the
Naval Hospital with a fractured skull, sustained
during the game jjlay-d with the midshipmen
this afternoon! The injury was received while
sliding to a base. Dr. J. M. T. Finney. of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, has arrived here on a
special car.
The officials of the Washington, Baltimore &
Annapolis road ordered all cars from the track
during the run of the special.
Aronson was removed to Carvel Hall imme
diately after his injury.
GIVES AWAY - KOOO.
Pedro Alvarado Relieves Distressed
Mexicans.
[By T>l*craph to Th*> Tribune.)
Galveston. April 22.-A dispatch from Tarral.
Mexico, says that Pedro Alvarado, who from a
j,nor miner has become worth many millions in the
... through th« great richness of Pal
mlllo mine, has Just completed the distribution of
nearly J2.00 in charity anions the needy of ' :': '
own countrymen.
For several years It has been his habit to give
large sums of money to the poor on Christmas,
Easter and ...... Through many char
itable societies and th*> priests and civil author
ities in the poor settlements food, clothing and
medicines were dispensed with a lavish hand.
When ank-d how much money he gave away he
said he did not know, but he believed he had re
lieved three thousand or four thousand of his
countrymen.
GREATEST OCEAX LIXERS.
White Star Plan* for Vessels (h,r
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, minimum
P th < nd the Titai
DEWEYS PURE GRA = JUICE
i im ,r^H -liui Is very fCourl«hJiis
M T P i££s ±sJus CO.! US rulten St.. New vorst.v orst .
— Advt.
(Cer>rr!gh£, 1308; by the George R. Lawrence C<\, n«t* r^rk city.]
BIG BILL AGAB T STB.B.T.
tr.IXTS $: . ' '.
Commissioner Says Hood Oxccs It
for Street Paving.
Within the .-..- years upward of 5600,000
worth of estreat pay ng work has been done by
the . ••- instead of by the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, according 1 to .-,. statement
made yesterday by Commissioner Desmond
Dunn 0 , of the Public Works ■.•■•-•■ Brook
lyn. He al?o lid the city ha spent 520.000
which the i'on»y Island & Brooklyn Railroad
should have expended.
da Tuesday Mr.. Dunne s^t to-Xae Bri?oKJyn
Rapid Transit Company a bill for ?7 s .'J2»>o-"
and to the Coney Inland i Brooklyn Railroad
a bill for $3,421 S6. Th<*?° bills, be pays, rep
resent work which the companies shouldered off
on the city in 190<l and I£*">7. H» ny? they
have not been collected because commissioners
of public work? have not tried to get the money
from the companies.
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George W. Ti!!=on, chief eneineer of t!i» Bu
reau of Hltrhways, Manhattan, who was the
chief engineer of Department of Public
"Work^ under Commmissinner William C. Red
field, said yesterday:
'•We had an undersfnndir.e. but not an ai;ree
ment. We. lik^ our predecessors in office, f.uind
tliat it was next to impossible to make the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company pave two feet
outside Its tracks. The company would not co
operate with us when we were pavinsf, and we
found that it took more money to go to law than
it did to pave ritrht up to the track? ourselves,
prides, after wp had payed from the sidewalks
within two or three feet of the tracks we cntild
n<it wait a couple of years to gro to law with the
company before filling in the breaches In the
pavements. ■••>:::•:.• been practi
cal. The result wbp that we simply determined
that It was cheaper in th» end and much better
for the people who wished to use the streets to
pave from the sidewalks to the tracks without
waiting to Isrht the company in each instance."
Commi? c ion°r Dunne has been Inconvenienced
in repairing the streets by the failure of the
Board of Aldermen to set aside the resrular al
lowance of $3,000,000 for the repair of pave
ments this year. The appropriation is usually
made in February, and Brooklyn gets $1,250,000
of it. He expects great difficulty in keeping the
streets in condition this year.
When President Winter of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company was asked yesterday about the
bill sent by the city to his company, he said: "I
do not think the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany owes the city a cent. I know nothing of
the specifications of the franchise In regard to
Fulton street, but 1 think that we have carried
out fully our obligation. I have not .«een this
bill, but 1 don't think it can be correct."
BOMB UNDER EX -SUPER VISOR'S HOUSE.
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The prince r^plPtered under nt: assumed name at
a hotel and then drove to th» stpam^hifp office,
where lie learnej that the PViedrlch der Grosse, on
which Mm- Gould la a passenger, was not r-x
pected to arrive here unit: lYSf^i' morning, owing
to i up norm
FINDS 200 OLD WILLS
XOXE OF THEM RECORDED
Documents Two Centuries Old Come
to Light.
Curious. forgotten byways of old New York's
history and quaint personal notes of the towns
folk have been discovered recently by William
P. Peiletr^au. a ember of the "■■-■• York His
torical Poci^ty, who has found two hundred un
recorded wills in the storerooms of the Surro
gates' Court. Th*> earliest of these is dated 1670,
and all bear date before L 730
As far as Mr. P»lletr«?au has learned in msk
ing .ab?"3- '? A * the** documents for the next
volume to be issued by the society, the wills do
not ... land titles. an«i the fact that they
were not recorded is in most cases eloquently
explained by the note added by a clerk: "F^s
not paid." Many of them were made by persona
who were not wealthy, and the fees were large.
Wills were supposed to be "proved" or probated
by the Governor, but in reality that official dele,
gated the work to his secretary. Nevertheless.
the Governor received 10 shilling? and the clerk
£2 105.. "York currency." In which a shil
ling was equal to I- 1-21 -2 cents and a pound to
$2 50.
But this does not explain the fact that no wills
were recorded during the year 1720, and that a
-■■■■ unrecorded wills were
drawn In '7. - Mr. Pelletreau thinks it «*
tremely unlikely that all the residents of the
province of New York banded together and for
an entire •boycott the royal Governor
and his fee harvesting secretary. Instead, he
thinks possibly the office of the secretary might
1 have been vacant or the secretary negligent.
Probably the mo«=t interesting among the un
recorded documents are several affidavits regard
ing the will of Cornelia de Poster, widow of
Abraham de Peyster. Her will was probated in
172."». The affidavits, however, v ere not put on
J record, so by digging them up from the yellow
and dusty recesses Mr. Felletreau has shown
how close old New York came to a will contest.
These affidavits were made by friend? and rela
tive who. perhaps, had not been as well -re
membered- as others in the will. They state
that to the knowledge of the deponents the
widow could not speak or read English. Al
though Dutch was her languag and wills at
the time were often drawn in French and Dutch.
her will was In English. A few faded notes
written on these affidavit? say that the heirs
agreed finally to abide by the terms of the will.
Inquiries have been made of Mr. Pelletreau
whether many wills were, unrecorded and lost
during- the Revolution. situation, however,
was just the reverse of what might have bt*n
expected There .-...• of books. The
British Governor and his secretary looked out
a* usual for the wills in the British territory of
New York City, southern Westchester County.
Long Island and Staten Island. The Revolu
tionary state government appointed Thomas
Tredwell judge of probate and Joseph Hazzard,
ele-k From their headquarters at Fishkill—
not Kingston, the capital-they covered the rest
of the territory. When Governor Tryon and the
British evacuated New York after the war Sam
uel B-yard. his secretary, delivered the British
records to Lewis A. Scott, the Colonial Secre
tary of State. There were seven hundred origi
nal wills, and almost all were recorded.
-While mentioning this." said Mr. Pelletrean.
"I wi°h The Tribune would «at« that John
Morin Scott and his son. Lewis Alan Scott, are,
buried in the southwest corner of the. plot on the
north side of Trinity Church. The stones are in
.' row that are flat on the ground. Ihe in
scriptions are nearly illegible, and I have often
hoped somebody or some society might recut
the letters for the benefit of the present gener
ation."
Scattered through the wills are names that
are a part of state and national history. Peeps
at local customs are afforded by bequests of
-4 negroe slaves," or of "a negroe wench to my
beloved daughtrr when the wench Is of age."
Among the longest and most carefully drawn
w s were those of the ancestors of • President
Roosevelt. An echo of the legal status of
woman before the age of suffragettes h, given
ti me and again, as In the will of Daniel SuW
van. innkeeper, who died in 1772. and wrote: "I
leave to my wife, Nancey. all her wearing ap
parell."
PILEDRIVEP RUNS INTO SEA: TWO DEAD.
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PRESTDEXTS SOX IX SKY.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. Takes : "-
Mile Trip in Balloon.
Washington. April 22.— Theodore Roosevelt.
Jr.. the President's son. had his first experlencs
as an aeronaut to-day, a-cending from the navy
yard | n this city at 1:40 o'clock this afrernor.fi
ar.d landing four miles from Delaware City, Deli
at 6:30 o'clock, havine travelled 13S miles in 3
... 3^ minutes Accompanied by h\*
fellow sky traveller?, raptain « 'handler, pilot,
and iptafi Fitzhugh I.cc. the President's aM,
young Roosevelt returned to Washington shortly
after midnight.
After the bail^on lan'i'd the ra^tv proceeded
to Wilminston before pending news of their
safety. This reached Washington in the fr.rm "f
a telegram from Captain ChandTer, put on the
wire at "Wilmington. Ir follow? :
Signs corps balloon landed safely four milea
no-th of Pejfl-.va.re City. Del.; 5:1". p. m. Th"o.
fin~ Roosevelt, jr.. and Captain L"c. passengers.
The ■.•-.,.. which up to this time was
without advices, wa? communicated with and
whatever of anxiety the long wait had
caused the Roosevelt family was thereby re
lieved.
Many friends of the two passers^rs were
p r p ? p n t at the place from which the balloon was
sent up. including Mrs. Longworth. Mrs. Wads
worth. Mrs. Beveridge. Professor and Mrs. Alex
ander Graham Bell and Generals Alnsworth,
Allen and Aleshire.
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CYCLISTS IX SMASH-UP.
Two Prisoner* Are Treated bp
Ambulance S'-, _
Two men were an
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ll'ith street an>! : i
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According to the police, two motor cyclists
were riding westward in 110 th street last even-
Ing:. Three bicyclists, two of whom were the
prisoners, were riding northward in Broadway
at the same time, and the. t-s-r» parties smashed
into each other. All the machines wer» dam
aged. Scaffers was badly cut about the head
and so was the second prisoner. They -were
treated by an ambulance surgeon from the J.
Hood Wright Hospital. Magistrate Walsh fined
them each $10.
HOSPITAL DOCTORS WIT.
Six Leave Long Island Institution
Because of the Food.
Pix of the eight doctors attached to the Lnnij
Island College Hospital left their Jobs after the
noon hour yesterday because they saM they
could not stand the menu of the hospital any
lunger. They are r>r?. Arthur L. Carrol!. Frani
E. Salier. Grover C. Elder. Francis L. Guarino,
Francis J. McNimanl and George 8. WlOces.
The two doctors who remained art; Robert
Rogers ar.d Fr^-d Mcßae. They refused to go
out with the others because they said they had
performed operations on patients whose condi
tion was considered critical, and they dij not
want to leave the cases. Th^y declared they
were in sympathy with the striking doctors and
would join them later.
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PUKE THRKE CENTS.
ASSO. PRESS MES AND
PUBLISHERS DINE
LJSTEX TO SPEECHES BT>
BETAS AXD KXOX.
H Would Hare K-' ; Rt«
publicans arid Democrats Work on !
Bi-portisa n Km* papers.
William -:'-- urg-4 *'""• publica
tion of bipartisan n«w»r>ap-rs th* Joint din
ner of The Associated r«w and Uw American
Newspaper Publisher'" Association -• th* "Wal
dorf-Astoria last night. Th« gathering thaS
heard Mr. Bryan's advic* was probably one of
the most representative of its kind »v«r '3*! -
There w*r- rr~^nr six hundred editors and
publishers, representing the principal — m
papers of th- United States and Canada, for yes
terday the American Newspaper Publishers' As
sociation beean Its twenty-second annual =e#t
inz in New York and th» board of directors of
The Associated Press had Just finished its niata
annual me-tlnsr.
Senator Knox arrK-°d at a la?- hour, bavin?
previously addressed th- Crrtc Forum, and told
the newspaper men whax a bis: responsibility
they b»>re to th« country.
applause prated Mr. Bryan both before and
Immediately preceding his speech, ar.d it waa
equalled only by the shouting and wa-rin* of
napkins Whence entered the hall earlier in th«
evening Whether or not any one present pub
lished a bipartisan paper, the gathering
was evidently bipartisan, for there was a
great demonstration wh^n PresWeat Roosevelt's
! name was mentioned incidentally tn a speech.
Governor Hushes* had been invited to •-— .
but a» the Ust moment sent his regreU. be
cause the Legislature is in session at Albany.
Before Mr. Bryan was call-d on. the Rev. Dr.
p S Wise told the publishers papers should
lead and not follow political parties. HU topic
was -The Morality of the Press." and hi *aid.
among other things: "It is the duty of tb*.
pre-s to free Itself from the view that a ma
jority la divine, for it la no more di*tae than
a kirg is divine in America.- H- iihator ex
claimed: "I hope, you will throw back and SU3
pr^ special privilege in every form; the — — '
Paper that prints sorn- of the news and sup
presses other news does so by orders, not froc»
above, but from below. The Yelivar journal 13,
ruled by gold ar.d by gold alone."
This speech led. Mr. Bryan to say. wn-n his
turn to talk came: 'Dr. Wise has been so radi
cal I'm afraid ITI arjvear conservative. Ha ha»
been so ar.xlous to see that the money power
gets what is coming to It. I think it hii minis
terial duties do r.ot take al! his tins* -wm zza.T
h~ abl* to u?e him. He. beL-.g a minister, can
say it better than I without beir.s miiruider
stood."
This raised a lauffh. and there was * rear of
merriment when ■.: - Bryan said that even It
Dr. Wise did gr> into politics it would not -*.ec«»»
earllr interfere with hi 3 present duties, b«caoa*
"a man can be in poetics without j»tttn« la
office."
MR. BRIANS SPEECH.
Mr. Cr>an was tn a harr>" mwd arid took: hi*
audience into his confidence as ti> how he tried
to keep his various brands of speeches true to
th* tents as on th- label, dividing them
through all th» grades from Tounic Men's Chris
■ .-•. Association addresses to straight political
talks. He lamented the fact that folks wera
prone to confuse them and read politics into all
of them. He advanced this plan for aa inde
pendent newspaper:
I appreciate the compliment which is paid m-»
by those v ho have had the arrangement of tnu
banquet The Associated Press Is a Terj impor
tant fiotor in the sprt-a^l of tha.t informatioa
which is necessary for the formation or opinion;
and in ca^tint; about for a subject nothing tnor*
ujiproprlate hits occurred t^» m«r thaa the lUbi*
pilSSiifcjel
-Know the truth, and the truth shall mak*
you free.™
It tboold be the purpose of The Associated
Press to convt-y to its numerous subscribers th«
unbiassed, uncolored truth. 1 recopnize that thi.^
Is extremely difficult and that with even tha
best of Intentions those who report tnterview*.
conventions and events will unintentionally in
ject their own opinions, and yet absolute impar
tiality must be the ideal at which The Asso
ciat"fl Press aims. Y"U furnish n?ws to Re
pub! Iran papery. Democratic papers, paper*
identified with other parties and t» independent
papers; and th«> readers of th^se Associated
Press reports represent every phas» •' opinion.
Your association is not a parry creart It
does not d<> editorial work: tt is* not the cham-
X>\r>r\ of any cmus<» or th<* advocate of any man.
It expected tr> tell th» truth about ng'-»»
•ional doinji. legislative session*, municipal mat*