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FLEET LEAVES SYDNEY
BOIXD FOR MELBOCBXE.
'Thousands of Persons Line Shore to
Bid Farewell.
Sydney. X. S. W. Aug. 27.— The fleet of
American battleships sailed from this port this
morning, bound for Melbourne. The sky was
cloudless, the sun was warm, and only a mod
erate sea was running! At Ba. m. the flagship
Connecticut weighed anchor and led the war
ships In single line out past the sloping shores
of the harbor, crowded with thousands who
gathered to bid the fleet farewell. The Conecti
rut cleared the heads at 8:40. and the last bat
tleship some twenty minutes later. Then fol
lowed the Glacier, the Panther and the Ajax. A
mile outside they turned to the south, and at a
speed often knots soon disappeared.
Sydney has given of her best to make the
stay of the Americans in this port a memorable
one. For six days the officers and men have
been entertained, and not one untoward Inci
dent occurred to mar this event In Sydney's
history. Speaking off the visit. "The Sydney
Herald" says
The American fleet's visit has enabled us to
realize th« meaning of a sea power. Now that
the bond has been formed and a wider outlook
obtained, with the same blood In our veins, the
result is bound to be helpful. It has been good
to get closer to America, and to know that
Australia has been rediscovered.
"The Telegraph" says:
The visit Is of historical significance and of
great lmportamv to the relations between the
two countries, based upon common political as
pirations and ties. The men's conduct has been
admirable. Sydney never had BMdl a week; the
high note of ~mhusiasm was sustained. The
British colonial fesls a fraternal pride in the
progress of the great Republic and a strong sym
pathy in every situation where American inter
ests are seriously concerned.
ADM I It . I L s F t HF I \ ' ELL.
Appreciation of Sydney's Hospital-
Dinner on Flagship.
Sydney. NT. S. TV.. Aug. Admiral Sperry.
I bidding farewell to the city of Sydney to-day,
expressed himself as follows:
I ant to voice my sincere appreciation of the
magnificent hospitality that has been extended
to as in Sydney. 'Never was there a heartier or
truer welcome. The visit ever will be remem
bered by th« men of the fleet and the people of
America as an epoch making International
event.
Apart from the promotion of more intimate
relations between the two great bodies of Eng
lish speaking- peoples, the educational Impor- [
tance of the visit cannot be overlooked. We i
havf been greatly enlightened regarding the
wonderful progress and development being made
by the island continent, and we must readjust
our former ideas of this prosperous young coun- ;
try, which is destined to play a. great role in
the commercial and Industrial development of
the Pacific. The knowledge gained by the men
of this fleet will Xyi disseminated throughout
America and lead to results beneficial to both
the Commonwealth and the United States.
The city of Sydney, of which any .country :
would be proud, and its harbor are of peerless |
beauty, and in the eyes of a sailor this is one of
the finest anchorages' mi the world.
Americans hope that the time is not distant
when the United States and Australia will be
brought Into closer contact through the devel
opment of their commerce, and I trust that the
completion of the Panama Canal will open a
new field of advantageous relations.
Admiral Sperry gave a dinner this evening on
board the flagship in honor of .Lord Korthoote
Sir Harry Rawson. the Lord Mayor of Sydney,
and the commonwealth and state ministers.
■ Th* fleet and the city were illuminated as usual
to-night, and on shore there were open air en
tertainments and fireworks in th» Domain.
Mr. Bent. Premier of Victoria, has sent a
telegram to Admiral Sperry, assuring him of j
the wholehearted welcome which will be given
to the American visitors at Melbourne, v.-here.
the fleet Is due on August 2i».
This was the last day of the entertainments
■which have kept the people of Sydney busy and
happy for a week. The public school demon
stration took up a part of the morning and the
afternoon, and in the afternoon Admiral Sir
Harry Kawson, the Governor of New South
Wales, gave a garden party for a larg.-? number
of guests, including Admiral Sperry and the
| senior officers of the fleet.
' At noon to-day the government gave a lunch
eon for the visiting and local Journalists, at
which Admiral Pperry also was a guest. The
admiral made a brief speech. Nothing could
have been more gracious or acceptable, he said,
than the welcome given his fleet by the people
of Sydney, and nothing could be more significant
of the continued good relations, based on com
mon political aspirations, between the American
people and the people of Australia. The ad
miral phophesied many generations of concord.
The published reports of the welcome to the
fleet and everything done to entertain visitors
were beyond praise, he said, and he was per
sonally indebted for the exact reproduction of
the sentiments expressed by himself. The healths
of the American journalists were drunk with
enthusiasm.
Forty thousand persons, Including" Lord North
cote. Governor General of Australia, and Lady
Northcote; Sir Harry Raw-on and Lady Raw
son, many officers and men from the fleet and
many citizens . f Sydney gathered at the cricket
grounds to see the evolutions of the school chil
dren. Eight thousand children in varicolored
dresses took part in the tableaux, which repre
sented, among oth«=r things, the words "Hail
Columbia" in living column's. The children. in
dresses giving the proper colors, formed a huge
shield of the flags of the United States and
Australia intertwined, and this evolution called
out storms of applause. The American national
anthem was sung by a large chorus, and there
were also maypole dancing, flag and club drills
and marches.
There v .-re two Jbaseball matches this after
noon, la which the Australian nine- were vic
tors ■ A home team defeated the team made
v;. from the fleet by 8 to 7. and the University
of Sydney defeated ;'. oitue from the battleship
Louisiana by •'■! to !_'.
A rifie match shot this afternoon resulted in a
victory for the American team. There were
twenty men on a side, seven shots each at three
ranges. The scores made by the American team
were as follows: At the 200-yard range, (527;
at — • r»<K». 0.40, and at the 000. (517, a total of
IHI The New South Wales team at the !'<«»
yards made »JIO. at the ."MX) yards 574 and at the
M yards 571, a total of 1,755. The following
men of the fleet made brilliant Individual scores:
Ptover. 102; VossUt. 101; Thompson, 100. and
Farghason, MO. The wind was tricky. The
members of the team from the fleet have been
camped on the range for the last five day*,
spending their time in practising-. The ammuni
tion of the Americans was greatly superior to
that of the home team.
In an lot hockey match at the Glacarium a
I: team from the fleet defeated an Australian team
si;; I to 1.
; At the Stadium this afternoon Bauer defeated
. " Fr^Jerick for th- featherweight championship
£ of the fleet. The stake won by "Tommy" Burns
In his fight with "Bill" Squires last Monday was
paid to-day. ' ''i* ,;" •
THE FUNERAL OF MISS PARSONS.
Paris, Aur. '-" — Funeral services over the body
Jtif Mire "Winifred Parsons were held at the Ameri
• irsn Church to-<tay. the Rev. Dr. Morgan officiat
ing. The building was crowded with French and
<aVciiU-i< « /j frim.jK of the .ir-iuj womut.
THOVSAXDS Ml 'BDEBED.
Foumg Turlc ??.' London Tclh of
Secret Po/iee'.s Work.
London, Aug. 2S.— Muhammed Dumoulin. one of
the founders of the Young Turkey movement, who
is now In Ixsndon, says that the organization has
nothing whatever to do with the fo-called Young
Turks of Paris, but was formed as a secret society
in October. 1904. as a last resort to free Turkey
from the thraldom of the secret police, by whose
machinations thousands of the best men in Turkey
disappeared. According to his estimate 40.000 men
have been killed. He relates one incident of his
own knowledße. to the effect that forty men were
brought from th« tower to the shores of the Bos
porus one evening. He heard them screaming at
night, and the n^xt .norning all had disappeared.
On another occasion a German steamer lying In
the Bosporus, on weighing her anchor drew up
several corpses. The captain of the steamer, he
said, received a large sum of money from the pol lc «
on his promise not to mention the matter. Ifu
hammfd Dumoulin added:
The Sultan has been wrongly blamed for this
condition of affairs. He Is surrounded by a cama
rilla and can trust nobody, and hafl he attempted
to reform the government alone he would undoubt
edly have been assassinated.
The first meeting: of the Young Turks society
was held at Bebek, on the Bosporus, on October
20 1904 at the residence of Abdul Kerim, the Sul
tan's private secretary. The society grew with
amazing rapidity, and within a year had spread
Itself over the whole empire. Our opportunity
came when Austria proposed to build the Novi
Bazar railway, which meant the dismemberment
of the empire. We immediately applied to™ 6
British government for help to put affairs in Mace
donia on a sound and workable footing. The Brit
ish government deserves the everlasting gratitude
of the Turkish nation for Its efforts to save it
from ruin.
Muhammed does not explain how the British gov
ernment rendered this assistance.
A dispatch from Constantinople represents the
Novi-Bazar project as having been shelved by the
present government on the surveying commission^
report against the building of the railway.
THE VIEWS OF M. BE h'EVS.
An Easy Matter to Blockade the
Venezuelan Coast.
The Hague. Aug. 36.— M. de Revs, Minister of the
Netherlands to Venezuela, who was expelled from
that republic last month by President Castro and
arrived here from the West Indies yesterday, had a
long conference this morning regarding Venezuelan
affair* with M. Van Swinderen, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
M. de. Revs 'n an interview afterward said that
the assertion that Holland, with the support of th«
United States, had countenanced revolutionary
schemes in Venezuela was a pure invention. He
refused to discuss the purpose of the Netherlands,
but said that his expulsion from Venezuela must
not necessarily be considered an infraction of in
ternational law. There were precedents for pend
ing passports to ministers. He cited the case of
Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish Minister to America,
and that of the Portuguese Minister to Brazil, who
gave protection to insurgents of the Brazilian fleet.
The relations between Holland and Venezuela. M.
de Revs said, were strained before the indiscreet
publication of the letter which he wTOte to the
Hou' en Trouw Society In Amsterdam. This let
ter, he said, had been published without his knowl
edge: What he said In it was Intended purely for
th«» private Information of the, society, and his con
sent to its publication was not asked.
The minister added that no revolutionary party
existed in Venezuela. Everybody bowed before
president Castro. The undisciplined army of the
republic was worthless. The coast fortresses had
been improved in 15*02 by mounting guns originally
intended for the Boers, but sold to Venezuela. A
blockade of the coast of the republic offered no
difficulties. M. de Revs said, because tit was so
mountainous that there are only a few places from
which it was possible to communicate with the in
terior.
CROWDS BESIEGE BERLIN BANK.
Police Unable to Disperse Throng's —
tion Said To Be Solvent.
Berlin,^ Aug. 26.— There were exciting scenes
around the Friedrichsberg^r Bunk, in the eastern
district of Berlin, late this afternoon ana evening,
in consequence of rumors that the institution was
in difficulties. Thousands gathered before the
budding, demanding the return of their depoaitfl
The crowd became so dense that streetcars were
forced to stop, and a large force of police. which
was called out. was unable to control the exc!t<-<l
throngs. The chief of the pall OS personally directed
his forces.
The directors of the bank obtained permission to
keep the Institution open until 8 o'clock. More
than $250,000 was drawn out In small sump/ and the
bank was able to satisfy all demands for call
money, with the assistance of the Imperial and
Dresdner banks, but other customers received only
J259 each on account, owing to lack of ready cash.
ThG directors of the bank say that the institu
tion is perfectly sound. It is eald that the rumor
of the bank's difficulties was set on foot by a
school teacher, who advised his pupils to Inform
their parents that the bank was Insolvent. A war
rant for his arrest has been asked. An immense
crowd of depositors were still shouting for their
money at midnight.
FEARS OF ANAXCHY IN PERSIA.
Insurrection in Three Provinces — A Gov
ernor Assassinated. .
Teheran. Aug. 28.— Reports have been received at
the palace of Insurrection in the provinces of Kars,
Laristan and Herman. One of the local governors
has been assassinated, but further detail* cannot
be obtained.
The failure of the Shah to subdue th*» revolution
ists of Tabriz is having a bad effect on the people
generally, and is encouraging resistance to the au
thorities in other towns. Anarchy throughout the
country 1b regarded ac Imminent.
CONDITION OF PRESIDENT ALFARO.
Guayaquil, Aug. 26. -President Alfaro. M Is
rumored, is Buffering from a serious attack of hea.t
trouble, which may prove fatal at any moment.
Tlie President arrived here on Monday from Quito.
His physicians Jpsued a bulletin to-day saying that.
he had beer, benefited and that they believed
with a fortnight's rest he would be able to return
to tho capital and assume the duties of chief ex
ecutive.
NO CLEW IN THE LLARD MURDER.
Seven Oaks. England. Aug. 26.— The Inquest on
th" body of Major General Guard's wife, who was
murdered near her* 1 on Monday of this week, has
been opened, but the testimony has not helped to
unravel the mystery. The old general broke down
bf he relate! the discovery of his wife's body.
Scotland Yard has been called Into the case, but
the police are apparently without a clew.
JAPAN MAY POSTPONE EXPOSITION.
Tcklo. Aug. 26. — The postponement of the Tokio
in'frnational exposition planned for 1912 Is being
discussed in government circles on the ground
that the appropriation set a.«i<it for this purpose is
inadequate, and that the time intervening is in
sufficient for the preparatory work. Iso decision
lias been reached, however, pending the opinion
of Count Komura, the new Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, who returned from London to-night.
NEWS PRINT PAPER AT AUCTION.
In furtherance of the programme udoptad in July
by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association
for periodical offerings of news print paper at pub
lic auction to ascertain the open market price for
paper, John Win I la, the chairman of the oomniittee
on paper, announces that a public auction of fifteen
car loads of newti print paper. 300 tons in all, will
be held in this city on September 2. Ten car loads
will he th»- paaftsel of the Cheboygan /Midi.) Paper
Mill, and five car loads will be made at J. H.
BSOtfc'S mill, Ottawa i ann/ia
; : •"-."• JEROME BACK. BUT SILENT.
For the first time since the report of Commis
sioner Hand was handed to Governor Hughes, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome appeared at his office yester
day. He was apparently in a happy frame of mind,
but refused to discuss the report of Commissioner
Hand, which wat all in his. favor. Since the report
has been in Governor Hugnes'ti hands, many con
gratulatory" telegrams and letters have been re
ceived at Mr. Jeroire's office.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THIRSDAY. VTGT ST 2T. 1908.
REPORT ON COLER DEAL
Continued from flr«t pan*.
a statement last night in reply to the report
made by the Commissioner of Accounts.
"The firm of Lutan & Co.. behind whom was
the Borough Bank, held several contracts for
the building of sewers in Brooklyn." said Mr.
Heffernan. "When Mr. Coler took office a
number of the sewers were in miserable condi
tion. The sewer in Knickerbocker avenue had
hardly been commenced. L.utan failed and as
signed his contract to Madsen. Coler compelled
Madsen to tear out the work which Rutan had
done and which was in very bad condition, and
to put in pood work before he got hJs money.
The Knickerbocker avenue 6e\ver was con
structed under the supervision of our engineers
and they reported that it was an excellent job.
It was very complicated work, and it took the
engineers two xnonths to compute the amount
one Madsen.
"In those two months Hurley came to the of
fice about twice a week. He complained bit
terly that the money for the contract was heid
up because he was a McOarren man. Coler al
ways referred him to Chief Engineer Fort of the
sewer bureau and Consulting Engineer Creuz
baur.
"Creuzbaur recommended, on October 4. in a
report that the final estimate due Madsen be
paid, the city retaining about $10,080 to cover
points. The engineers had approximated the
amount due Madsen. His voucher, minus the
$10,000. was made out and forwarded to Con
troller Metz on October 4. Hurley wan begging
Coler at this time to make terms with BCcCar
ren.
• 4 W. ML Co-ler & Co., of which the Borough
President is a member, were making prepara
tions to meet the financial difficulties that oc
curred a few weeks later. They were borrowing
money of various banks. Coler told Hurley that
he would borrow Sl'o.OOU from the Borough
Bank and would give proper securities. Hurley
said that he himself woiild lend Coler SKUKX)
and take his note. This wan done on October
10. Creuzbaur has reported that Coler never
lifted a finger to hurry Madsen's voucher. He
rather delayed it.
ATTACKS MITCHEL/S STATEMENT.
"At that time they were not paid in full. He
actually held up about $11,000, which was not
paid until late In December. If there was any
place where he could be accused of hurrying the
payment of the money It was in Metz's office.
and any commissioner of account* who would
make the statement that Coler's influence In
Hurley's behalf was worth anything In Metz's
office would expose himself to the ridicule of th.
people of New York. The matter was simply a
banking transaction between two bankers. The
securities were adequate to cover the loan and
$6,000 lias now been repaid In accordance with
the loan agreement.
"The securities were the same as those upon
which Goler borrowed money from the Kings
County Trust Company ami other banking In
stitutions. When this matter first came out,
while Mr. Coler was In Denver McClellan'a
policy is to attack him as soon us his back Is
turned — I went to Mr Bruere, the director of
Municipal Research, who is working with the
Commissioner of Accounts, and he told me that
he wanted m* to believe that they were work
ing: in Rood faith. I told him* that I wanted
him to Investigate the contracts <>* our office
and to report as to whether the slightest injury
had been done the city or Mr. Hurley, or if the
slightest Impropriety had t>e«-M committed by
the Borough President In connection with them
11. promised to let me have the report In a
week.
"It was then the middle of July. !!•■ Ban!
over his man. Mi Weldon, :<::■! the engineers
of the Cotamtesioaei of Accounts, and the) ci
amin^d th" contracts and Mr. Creuxbaur. Mr
Creuzbaur toid them In my j>r'-seric> that no
notion had been taken by the Borough Presi
dent In regard to the payment of Madsen and
• ■tliprf. ex. -»'pt upon his raoommendat
untarlly made.
"Last Saturday Mr. Bruere Bent over a short
leport. in which h<- said that at our request ha
had made an investigation and had learned that
the payment of vouchers before the completion
of the contracts was unusual. We replied to
him that he had not answered the question
which we had put to him. Mr. Coler and Mr
Creuzbaur are now out of town, and Mr. ilc-
Clellan has again attacked the Borough Presi
dent after his usual method. They arc simply
pursuing a plan of defamation— the course of
Tweed .
"To strengthen his cause and to suppress
those who are dangerous to him. Mr. Tweed fol
lowed the same tactics, made the same use of
grand Juries against all who lifted thrlr voices
against the corruption in New York City. They
are blmply trying to make political capital out
of this matter Just before primary day. An to
that picture by Bruce Crane, Mr. Coler had it
appraised the other day by Silo. He «aid it was
worth $70. and not $500. Mr. Coler gave Hurley
in trade for that picture three '/roller Club
books", valued at about Sf><> or $60."
STILL SEEKING BETHUNE.
Pinkertons Unable Vet to Find
Strangely Missing Lawyer.
Fearing for his safety, th«« family of F. D S.
Bethune, Junior member of the law firm of Wet
mor» & Jenner, No. 34 I'lriP street, who was last
heard of in Buffalo on Sunday afternoon, are
using every means to find him. Mr. Bethune, who
la thirty-four years old. left his wife at Sterling
ton. N. T.. last Friday, to come to the city. Soon
after he reached here ho telephoned to her at Ster
lington that he would not be back until Monday.
Mrs. Bethune, who is the daughter of William
A. Jenner. became worried about her husband and
came to New York the next day, only to find him
gone. It Is paid he had been on the verge of a
nervous breakdown, attributed to overwork, for
some time, ami hip friends had been much worried
about bis health. Sunday afternoon at 6:20 o'clock
the missing man called up his city home, at No. 17
West X;th street, from Buffalo, and talked for
some time in a very disconnected way, saying: he
would be gone for a Ions: time
The Pinkerton detective office was immediately
communicated with, and Mrs. Bethurift and her
father started for Buffalo at once in the hope of
finding 1 him there. While he was telephoning on
Sunday afternoon, it is said, an, unsuccessful at
tempt was made to bold him on the wire and
have- the Pinkerton bureau gal one of their Buf
falo men to locate him. He talked, however, only
a few minutes, mentioning Canada In his wander-
Ing conversation. »
According to George S. Dougherty, superintend
ent of the Pinkerton office here, nothing has been
learned about Mr. Bethune'B whereabouts since
then. Mrs. Bethune and her father went on to
Chicago from Buffalo, in the hope of finding him
there. No trace of the missing man was discov
ered, however, and Mrs. Bethune Is said to be
prostrated with anxiety and fear at the Auditorium
Annex there.
Mo reason can be assigned by his family and
friends for Mr. Uethunc'ti disappearance other than
a complete collapse* of his health. He is said by
members of his firm to have been a. brilliant law
yer, and all of his business and personal rela
tions are said to have been perfect. At the time
of his disappearance he had with him $700 in cash
and a diamond ring valued at $500. Mr. Bethune is
6 feet 7 Inches tall and weighed about 145 pounds.
CHARON JOBLESS: BRIDGE OVER STYX.
■ Montr-lair, N. J., Aug. 26 (Special).— Charon Is to
lose his job, according to the announcement of the
Board of Freeholders of Sussex County. They met
last evening and awarded a contract to the Canton
Bridge Company, of Albany, to build a bridge over
the River Styx, in Bryan Township. x Thecoat of
the bridge will be 110.284.
STOWAWAY AND A STORY.
Appears as Passenger and Is Aof
Discovered UntU Botd Docks.
A stowaway with plausible yarns, ready expla
nations and unlimited nerve was taken to Ellis
Island yesterday from the Hamburg-American liner
Prinz Joachim and put under special guard. He
said his name was BOehaei Davis and that lie was
an American citizen and lived in Philadelphia. He
had a wife, he said, who had deserted him. having
fled to the Isthmus of Panama with another man,
and he owed his present plight to his efforts to
find her at Colon.
Davis Is a -mail man, with an English dialect,
and the immigration official!? believe he la travel
ling by his wits and using th"m f> enter this coun
try.
When the Joachim was a few hours out of Colon
Davis appeared on deck amonff the first caj>in pas
sengers. The purser thought he had not collected
a ticket from him and asked Davis if he was a
first cabin passenser. Davis replied that he was,
and the purser asked for his ticket.
"Why. you have my ticket." said Davis.
"No; I have not coll-ctci a ticket from you,"
"insisted the purser.
"Ah. but you have," said Davis. "T>ook in that
pile of tickets and see, before you make such an
assertion. My name la John Rawlins."
The purser found Mr. Rawlins's ticket and apolo
gized to Davis. Davis took his meals early and
retired when all had gone to bed. thereby avoid
ing the real Mr. Rawlins and diverting further in
vestigation of his own identity.
That the purser did not discover that Davis was
an impostor before the steamer docked yesterday
was dv«. to the cunning evasion of the stowaway.
Davis, however, was trapped when the real Mr.
Rawlins answered to .'ils "name as the immigration
officials called it off from the manifest. There
could not be two John Rawlinses on the steamer.
and the count showed that there was one more
passenger on board than the manifest called for.
Davis was nabbed at once and locked up In a state
room. He tried to get away, and the captain had
him handcuffed.
At noon a steward who took the prisoner some
food unfastened the handcuffs. Uivis told the
steward he would liko more food, a nil when the
steward left the mom D; ( \is stripped off his cloth
ing and s<jue.ezed himself throußh a porthole, drop
ping twelve feet over tha ships- Bide into the dock
:it Pier A. He swam to the police boat I*attol and
was taken Into custody.
Davis was returned to t!i» steamer :m<i Inter
transferred to Kliis Island. The ImmigratioD i>lH
ctals doubt bis stories ol having l«ft Philadelphia
for Colon to find his wife. They think be arrived
there as a stowaway. Although he declared ha
was a citizen ami lived In Philadelphia, Davis was
onahle to ten anything about the str.'«ts t,; public
places of that city.
FOR BLACKWELL'S BRIDGE OPENING.
The Long Island Real Estate Exchange ! .•;•.,!
quarters in this borough, at Fifth avenue and ?,4th
street, was the scene yesterday afternoon of a
gathering of Manhattan and Queens buainesa men
who had met to discuss arrangements preliminary
to the formal opening of •he new Blackweli'a Isl
and Bridge, in December oi January. These men
were all members of th* temporary executive com
mittee appointed, to consider the matter, by iV:!i
ium H. Williams. Jr. chairman of the Queens Bor
ough BriJg>? Celebration Committee of the Long
Inland City Business Men'a Aseoclatinn
Yesterday's meeting wao the first of a series
which will culminate in a convention In September
of delegates from all social, financial, business.
fraternal and other Org&nlsatlonti In Manhattan
and Queens which may ■■■•• interested. At this con
vention arrangements for the britlg*- opening will
be completed. John D. Crimmina was added to th«
committee having for I(a object th« change of tiM
bridge's name from Blackwell's Island HrUlge to
borough Bridge.
ANOTHER OCEAN RECORD BROKEN.
It Is the fa.l now for transatlantic steamers to
make quick runs from Europe to New Fork over
the short court;e. T!i<- Kronprinzfsaln Cecllie, which
arrived here on {•■ • day, made a record for Ger
man steamers over th€ short course from Cher
bourg Breakwater. The Lusltanla arrived on Fri
day afU-r a record run from Da ml i Rock, and the
President Grant surprised her owners and pass*>n
♦.'♦•r.s by docking Tuesday afternoon. Th.- Teutonic,
which was expected here to-day, arrived ywterday
afternoon, making a fast run over the short course
In 6 days, 5 hours and 45 minutes. The Cunard
liner Carmanla, which left Liverpool on the same
(lay the Teutonic left Southampton. was overhauled
by the While Star vesw on Sunday nißht.
3oDn ffancocft;
UPON the Declaration of Independence his name may be read [without spec
tacles. It stands out the strongest, boldest, finest signature.
In the most realistic sense John Hancock pledged life and fortune to
finance the Revolution in its earlier stages.
He held investments in banks, breweries, distilleries, stores, hotels, and owned
a fleet of ships engaged in the rum, wine and oil trade. The seizure of one of them
(for evading the revenue laws) precipitated the Boston Massacre. He was strong
hearted, full of enterprise, patriotic and bold of spirit. Over many a foaming
glass of Boston Ale and hot punch he often declared, "I glory in publicly avowing
my eternal enmity to tyranny. "
REFERENCES: UubbnnTs "Little Journeys." p. 160-100. Proceedings Am. Antiquarian Boc^ 15. 326. 327 John Ha«
cock, Uis Buck, pass 129.
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DEATHINDRimTrRAL\
A CIIILLIXG AUGUST DAY.
Damage to Propertii Considerable
Throughout the Citii.
Several deaths and considerable damage to prop
erty in the city were the direct results of tl»e cold
rainstorm, driven by a howling northeaster, that
began late on Tuesday night, continuing with al
most unabated force for twenty-four hours, making
travelling afoot a misery and by the various sur
face lines in the rush hours both uncomfortable
and dangerous.
It was not what the weather man would call an
equinoctial gale, for the date of that Is fixed as of
September 22. hut it was. in fact, the first taste of
autumn, and the almost unprecedented drop In the
temperature — eight decrees in seven hours and sev
enteen degrees in ten hours — made New Yorkers
sit up and take notice. The maximum temperature
was f» and the minimum 56 degrees. Th» sensible
ones Kf>t out their overcoats after breakfast and
wore them downtown to business.
The weather sharps say it was the coldest August
26 In many years. According to the figures of the
men who keep the records. It was 19.10 degrees
colder than on the corresponding day in 19rt> and
14.05 degrees colder than on the same day In 190 T.
This may be regarded as remarkable from the fact
that the warmest day in thirty-eight years was on
September 7. ISSI, when the thermometer registered
101 In the shade in this city.
As compared with that of May 7 and 8 of this
year, when the figures show a rainfall of 4.17 inches,
yesterday's fall of 2.68 Is far from a record, but the
coldness of It when driven in one's face by the
gale, which reached a maximum velocity of twen
ty-six miles an hour, made it particularly disagree
able as well as dangerous. The danger of It •Is
shbwn In the case of little Lizzie "Warren, of No. 329
East Mth street, who, while struggling with an
umbrella in both hands and a loaf of bread in her
arms, was run over and killed by a trolley car
at Third avenue and SCth street. Her mother had
sent her to get the bread at a nearby grocery. i
There were many accidents as a direct result of ■
the storm, the most pathetic of which perhaps was
the death by drowning in a trunk sewer at East
81st street of John Lynch, of No. 2162 Eighth ave
nue, while he and two companions were attempting
to free the cellars In that neighborhood of water.
Lynch was drowned before their eyes, in spite of ,
their united efforts to save him.
Thousands of homeless men and women were
driven from the benches in the parks, to the muni
cipal at:.! other lodging Booses, crowding them to
their capacity and still leaving many unfortunates
on the streets. An unidentified cripple waa found
dead in the hallway of No. W Henry street, where
he bad crept to escape the .storm. He had covered
himself with newspapers, but they had not been
sufficient to keep him warm. There was no money
in bis pockets. Mrs. May Gililgan. wife of a coal
heaver, after wandering around all nltfht in tho
rain, drifted Into the East 13Jth street station and
implored Lieutenant Loonan to give her some food
and warm drink. She said she was homeless and
that her husband had deserted her while she was
In a hospital recently.
Many of. the sewers were too small to carry off
tl- deluge of water poured Into them from the
streets, one. at 4Mb street and Sixth avenue
Brooklyn burst, making a sort of canal of 49th
street A saloonkeeper awoke yesterday morning
to nrid a geyser hi front of his door »I»»«n«
ten feel high. Another sewer pips sagged at 42d
street between Second and Third avenues. Brook
ivn and the water main burst. The street caved In
for' a space of fifty feet, and there was danger of
the undermining of houses and the elevated rail
road foundations until the water whs shut off.
At limn street and RlvrsW Drive the street
caved in because of a bursted water main, " nd an
electric cab containing two passengers sank four
'....• into th* bole. Hotel at Fir* Island collapsed
" of the Surf Hotel at Fir* Island collapsed
during the storm, and Miss Claire Oakley, daughter
S 2 proprietor, who was U. a room directs ov.r
the dining room, was tak»n unconscious from the
wreckage.
An old tree blown down by the stt>rm at U«
avenue and Hewea str^t. Willlamsburg. fell across
the trolley wire* of the Nostrand avenue line.
ruuslns loud explosions and alarming the passsa-
K ers and residents. The charged wires struck a
coach hat was passing. The driver's rubber coat
saved his life when a wire struck him on th«
Nhoul.Vr The police reserves had to be summoned
t.. k.^f p the throngs back from the danger zone.
Yachts and other craft were <lrl\>-ii ashore by
th»- i:"!'" :it gome points in Long Island Sound and
In the Lower Bay, but no serious accidents on the
water were reported, and the outgoing liners mHm§
on time.
A report from Newark, N. J., states -;-,. th»
storm killed thousands ct sparrows in that city.;
mostly fledßlinßs that were blown "cut of ■ -.»« neap
the M.'sonic Hall.
Thousands of dollars worth of ■!>■-.■;:<• has been
done by the surf to the pound nets— forty-eijrht -.{
them— that were set between Seabright and g. % j
Side Park. X. .1.
HOLD-IP IX SIXTH ATE.
Three Negroes Attack Hat Dealer,
in Store- — One Caught.
In broad daylight and with thousands of per
sons passing:, a bold attempt at robbery octmrrail
yesterday in the hat store of Paul Sachs, at
No. 522 Sixth avenue. After a chase of sev
eral blocks one of three negroes who held Sachs
up and robbed him of about $5 was finally
caught, and. hud it not been for the "police, would
have got a -rough deal." When arraigned lat»r
before Magistrate Barlow, in Jefferson Market
court, the prisoner said he was Edward Jones, of.
No. 352 East, 23d street. He was heM In $3,000 bail
for further examination.
Early yesterday morning three negroes entered
the hat store owned by Sachs tp get a Derby hat
that one of them had left to be blocked. On th«lr
way out one of them seized Sachs, shoved a re
volver in his face and held him while th» third
rifled Sachs's pocket. Peter Deringer, who was
In the rear of the store, rushed to his employer's
assistance, and was met with a revolver shot. Th»
bullet, however, missed him and crashed through •>
mirror.
After striking Sachs with the butt end of ths
pistol the three men fled. Sachs, on recovering a
few seconds later, shouted for help. Almost im
mediately there were over a thousand persons
chasing the negroes. Jones was finally caught la
a stable !n West 23.1 street. The two others disap
peared.
CONDEMNS PRACTICE OF SPEEDim
Auto Club of America Adopts Resolutions at
Special Meeting
The board of governors of the Automobile Club
of America, at a special meeting yesterday, adopt
ed resolutions condemning: the practice of speed
ing. The resolution will be made public as soon as
they have been pwt in proper form.
Henry Sanderson presided at the roeetinsr, which
was held at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. It
was understood that the board would take action
on the driving of E. R. Thomas, a member of th«
club, which caused Injury to himself and others,
but the speeding question occupied nearly all of the
time of the meeting-, and the punishing of Mr.
Thomas was not considered.
DRYGOODS MEN COMPLAIN OF STHEZT.
Say Condition of Sixth. Avenue Is Working
Injury to Their Business.
Merchants of the Retail Drygoods' Association
passed resolutions yesterday complaining about
the torn up condition of Sixth avenue from 14th to
23d streets, and will send copies to the Mayor and
other city officials with a petition asking that th»
work be completed rapidly.
In the resolutions, the merchants, among -whom
are B. J. Greenhut. " Slmpeon. Crawford Company.
Siege!. Cooper & Co.. a>id Sachs Brothers, and
other large houses along th<» street, charge that
the street has been -unnecessarily obstructed to th«
detriment of their business since March. 19«. ow
ing to the construction of the Hudson River tun
nels, that the work Is not being- diligently pros
ecuted and that If an adequate force was employed
the difficulty could soon be overcome.
Mr. Greenhut said yesterday to a Tribucs re
porter:
"We ara going to unite to mat's the city t»k<»
action against the Hudson Company. I think w»
can succeed. We shall go to the limit to do so.
The condition of the street Is unwarranted and an
outrage. It will greatly damage our fall business
as It Is, now."
CHILD BAND TO PLAY.
Much interest centres in the band •'■--»-» to b»
Kiven by the Hebrew Saelteriiuc Guardian Oraaaai
Military Band, composed, of sixty Juvenile musi
clan», at the Manhattan Beach Hotel, on the piazza,
from 2 to 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. ■"" v «
band has attained a reputation for Its playing of
difficult instruments. Master David Bentor. seven
years old, will be the musical director. v -» -.•«•
clans will be the guests of Henry Mayer, -who his
had freQuent requests to hare, this band jr>* a
concert.
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NEW YORK CITY.
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