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VOTING \MKKU A BK JOYING THE SNOW— COASTING IN IKXTK \T. PARK.
TACKLES THE SNOW
BIG BILL AT WORK.
Street Cleaning Commissioner j
Plans ■ Quick Removal.
Whenever anybody says "Merry Christ
mas" to "Bis Bill" Inwards after this
he'll think of yesterday and the day be
fore and th*rt prin.
Hif "Merry Christmas"' pot ■well art<Hj ;
!s.t* Christmas Day afternoon. r*n through
without a break until 1 o'clock yesterday j
morning, and th^n. a^ter a five-hour stiwlea j
of sleep on his part, it was -. BSN at 6 i
o'clock yesterday morning and kept jrotng; ■
f.U 5 o dock yesterday Lcrtioon
Tn hi* capacity of »"ommisbioner sCfltsssl ■.
deaslßS he kept a regular department
Tore* of S.TOii men and 3,o>"> fmerjrcncy la-
Vwir^rs g'oirg' from S o'clock in th* morn
inf until Z in the afternoon yesterday, and
t!:en tt&r:#d another emergency force, of
about S.OUS night •workers to cl^ajiinsr up
the sinew in downtown New York.
~lf it does not turn DM cold and harden
the enow." he 6aid iste yesterday, "well
V.aye it pretty well cleaned up in thre«r
days."
rvom the afternoon of Christmas Pay
■until 1 o'clock sassevsay morning Cernmis
*i"ner Edwards, with Inspector A. F\ Oun
ther. In charge of the si .v removal of
rice. maraged to prt in eonaeetion with
wv^raJ hundred i avatmif eontrs
»nd with fervent appeal to them and to
err. ploymcnt. agencies. land«d an extra
force of 3,700 men on the j"b of .«now re
moval v s-oon as it wm practicable to
nan it.
I
tied extra nsefca res
-inamissloner- •- prehnanary work, and
• •
.en.t_
Large team owners complained yester
day tiat the holiday, followed by Sunday,
TT.ade it extra difficult for them 10 get
their men on tae Job, and this morning
ComrndaEioner Edwards says lie will be
• ble to operate between five and cix theu
sand trucks.
Forty ploughs were bu in Manhattan
"*r!y [erday. and to these there were
added fourteen more for the use of the
'.:ght shift. The extra fourteen were
available by reason of a centre rush by
Deputy Commissioner Ja:r.o> J. Hogan.
v.-ho produced them last night after a
playful session Trith the ars of a lighter
somewhere around the foot of East TOth
street. t
Hogan »i»ii sayine; a- thins about
there, but at the tnow removal efl of
the department it was said that those
fourteen ploughs had been previously or
-lered from another city and. acording to
the advices received from the railroad
company, they were held in the lighter at
the foot of Emm SOtii street.
Tte forty ploughs used yesterday were
rf & new model, which was as much of an
emergency affair as the whole work of
Coir.rr.iaslcner Edwards'e department yes
terday. Road sweeping and grading raa
rhines were improved by the substitution
of a Eteel scraper for the ordinary broom
or ••mouldboard," and as the steel scraper
■» ££ set at a slant iai could be adjusted
• ither in er out, it served the purpose of
a plough and shoved the enow tc one side
or the other, where it could be piled op by
♦he laborers.
EXTRA PAY FOR SUNDAY WORK.
The emerzenev laborers used • -day,
together with the regular men of the de
jartment who ere called out, will get
tv.enty-five cents an hour for the Sunday
'•eric and to-day the pßfcU department
rnfer: wi!! get their regular pay. Ertra
•racks fcrourht their o-srners thirty eenti
i. cubic yard for all enow removed.
""We want all the men we - .- cct."_said
CbtmnlFStoaer Edward? yesterday, ■ and
soy one that applies a: : can handle a
fhove' will be hired on the spot."
The eorrsmiESionf-r and ' ■• puty "Jim" Ho
ran put i:i the enure day yesterday in their
automobile*, keeping in touch with the
■aork, and urgir.g every laborer to ilck
v-ork.
Tlie emergency ploughs, made-over s-.veep
ers. £.wi graders as they were, made possi
ble another innovation when it was eeen
that the streets that were scraped could
oe sanded at the tame time. Broadway,
rrcm Columbus Circle touth. Fifth avenue,
Park Row to the Brooklyn Bridge and al!
ferry and lirehouse strtets vert- treated
that way yesieniaj , and the night work in
the Oo.vnt'j 1 * n district alto nas sanded
after scraping.
Pnb'ic lettins cf enow removal contracts
ha* been Leld us till December 3L but Com-
SssM' • Edwards figured yesterday that
•«-ith the three-day emergency contracts
*: lowed by the. --hart er h* can ,?et f rom
-o 1409 trucks and close to 10//*> laborers
on Hit; jo:> to-day, ar.d so naif a practical
i 'ear. -up ot the Etorm inside the three-day
Vrr.iu if the weather man will call it oft
UJ !'- stands now.
JUDGE LURTON RESIGNS.
I : -irr.ati. Vrr. 26.— Judge Horace H. Lur
•r. La: tendered to President Taft his for
mal r«-!-igi;;ition as judfe oi th>: TJniied
Rtatet Circuit Court. Thie step |j prelimi
nary t. asfcuming hit place a* associate
isUce of tb« Pjpretne Court of th»=- United
Slates, iTi ' suecestion to the Sat*" Ju«tiee
BifHi W. Pecknam.
NEW YEAR'S
AT
AilanticCity
SPECIAL TRAIN
Pennsylvania R.R.
rnday. December 31
L..v, N* w Yort •• . • • 12". P.M.
Arr:r» Aflan'lc City . . . ••33 !>M.
Eroilet BuCet Parlor Cars. Coach**
R^tnmtr* Train »!Il Imm Atlan-
Ue Olty «.fW f. 21. hunday. January 2.
Consult. Tisi.«t AC"-"-
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STORM GRIPS HARBOR.
Shipping Circles Fear Long
Congestion in Consequence.
The pulse of the waterfront and harbor
was subnormal *hen the storm hit It on
Saturday. To be correct, pulsation had
about ceased. A few stalled teams and an
occasional steward running across West
street from steamship to barroom for a
pint of liquid Christmas eer was the only
spasmodic throb to show that life had not
departed entirely
It was dlfffr. yesterday. The com
merce of New York cannot stand one holi
day hard upon the hrels of another, and
the waterfront took on a semblance of
feeble activity. Ships will come and go re
gardless of time and man. so the small fleet
that was held back by the great snow
whorl of Christmas steamed in silently yes
terdar and made the s!eepine waterfront
shake a l^g here, blink an eye there and
let the silent observer fr. ■■ the tall towrr
in Broadway &cc that It was not d-ad but
sleeping.
With the first streaks of dawn something
ir.ov*:d slowly over the white spread cover
ing Battery Park. It was Jimmy, the "Bat
tery Dolphin." stealing from the Barge
Office on a Sabbath missioa of chartty to
the sparrows of the park. About a week
ago a big pn..:kage of Battle Creek's "predi
gested," destined for the stomachs of Ellis
Island aliens, broke at the Barge Office
and the "Dolphin" gathered it In.
"This looks good for the rainy day," said
the "Dolphin," at the time. •'Maybe it'll
come in handy for the park chippies i^hen
there ain't nuthin' around to eat. Some
time when the snow covers Tip the real
food, cii?"
■^ c".. the "n*.rk chippies*' were t*
. and
the -"Dolphin" wat I
■omethtes '.-.appenei! orernlt
L-olphin" had not counted on. A great
_ the blizzard
In on the northeaster and f
haven In Battery Park.
Hundreds of them rested silently on the
■BOW hummocks at dawn waiting for the
wind to change, and the "Dolphin" unwit
tingly roused them. For a. moment he
pinched himself to see If he was not Little
Nemo, and, finding that he was al' there,
mentally and physically, he spread the Bat
tle Creek product on the snow ar.d awaited
the coming of the "chippies."
No bird would eat while he stood close
by, so he vandered over to the lunoh wagon
at th<» Barge Office, and then, according to
his report later in the day, tame pigeons,
wild grills and impudent sparrows feasted
in sßesee on the food from Michigan. Th«
"Dolphin," much pleased with himself,
drained a high one to t: ■ health of the
bird family.
This is the tir time in many year? wben
a blizzard has driven the gulls co far ln
land as the Hatterj-, and re'dom hav< the
wind and snow Lc^n so violent that steam
ships could net be moved from one pier to
another.
Tugs that BS contracts for shifting
steamers had to abandon the attempt and
work that should have been attended to
yesterday will cause more or less conges
tion i:: shipping circles for some weeks.
The Austrian steamship " utha Washing
ton, which was ready to leave Robin's
orydock. la Erie Basin, for Bush's docks, in
South Brooklyn, could not venture into the
wind. Oi c or Frederick B. Dalzell's tuss
v.ent to Cartcret, H 3 . BO Saturday ni^ht
to get I].- five-masted schooner Paul Palmer
ujid tow her beyond Sandy Hook, but the
stiff gait rampant yesterday forestalled the
rov.ing job. The. oil tank steamship Hud
son should have been shifted from 26th
street. Brooklyn, to Huntf-r's Point yester
day, but thtf tugs declined v. uike her out
in the wind.
A ' ■ ' I ' -
■ "
Tliroughoiit the harbor the b!izzar<J
caused more or less damage. A piledrivr
<vas fcunk at Ellis Island, and a enull
steam hoist Tit to the bottom ■•■ the.
North River at 72d street. A piledriver
went adrift ofr City Island ar.d two tugs
were cent out to look for it.
The Incoming fleet arriving ytsterday
from th 4 east and the south was small.
The steamship Russia, from Libau, had a
hard time setting into her dock at South
Breoi A half dozen tugs had ail the y
could do to warp the big liner alongside
the pier The wind and tide swung her in
an adverse direction, and h«-r big tn&nlla
hawsers snapped several times. The cap
tain said he never came off the Hook in
such rough weather. The seas, he said,
vere a.-« high a-s li< ' had encountered in
mid-Atlantic.
\V!)ii the revenue cutter Hudson v.'ent
down the bay early yesterday moraine to
put th*. (Kiardinif oflli and customs Inspec
tors on board the n**w White Star liber
ijturentlc, from Liverpool, ehc on<-ountcr>'d
exceptionally heavy «ea». The cutter
pitched so heavily in a forty-mile ga!e that
it waj! found impossible to put any one on
Lcurd. The Hudson bad sens • thc'Lau
NEW-YORE DAILY Trr3sCl>E. MONDAY. DECEMBER 1~. 1903.
rentic on Saturday r.iplit. and had to pick
h*>r way slowly through the blizzard back
to the Ity
Abandoning the Laurentlc yesterday, she
came alongside the Fr^n^h liner La Tou
raine. from .Havre, and made fast, but the
seas were BO hleh it was impossible for a
man to mb the ladder safely, and La
Touraine also had to be abandoned. The
euttef then et^am^d for the White Star pier.
where the Inspectors and the deputy col
lector went aboard. The I.aurentic, which
under ordinary weather conditions couM
make the trip between Quarantine and her
pi r within an hour, took two hours and a
half to com« up yesterday. She left Quar
antine at 6 :05 a. m. and came up off Pier
4S at S :30 a. rr..
Only a handful of customs inspectors
vrerr on hand, the othrrs assigned to that
steamer bein? delayed In ttinff from
their homes to the Barge Office The im
migration Inspectors also were latf\ and it
was after 9 :30 a. m. when the examination
of a'kns and baggag-e began.
Th>- storm was unusually heavy or. Long
Island Sound, but the Sound steamers went
through it safely. .The City of Lowell,
which was duo at her pier Jn the North
River on Saturday night, did not swing
rourvi the Battery yesterday before 9:30
a. m. The Priscilla, also due here in tjhe
*ariy morning, did not get to her pier untii
1:30 p. m. The Fall River Line receii ed
a message from Fall River Faying that the
Plymouth, which left New York on Bator
day, arrived there safely lr. the morning.
An exceptionally high iidc washed up
over the Battery Trail in • .<■ morning, and
11ft* the revenue cutlers almost on ■ level
■with the piers. The fringe r>f steamships
and sailing \essels around Manhattan and
along the Brooklyn shore wpre lifted high
above their pten by the unusual flood, and
made oven the old boatmen remark that th»
waterfront seemed "kind of ated."
STORM-TOSSED MAN SUCCUMBS
Battlfi of Aged New Rochelle Resident
with Blizzard Fatal.
Th« blizzard ■w h'- - raged orer Om
abac towns In Westehester Comty for
•■■its cauprd one death, tied up
trolley roads and delayed trains on the
Harlem, New.- Haven and New York Cen
tral railroads
August W. Kohi, a retired wealthy resi
dent of New Rochelle, dropped dead upon
reaching his home after tramping through
the Dlinding storm from the railroad sta
tion to his house at No. 87 Huguenot street.
New Rochelle, on Chrtsmaa night. H< had
spent Christmas with his daughter in New
York, and arrived at New Rochelle on the
II p. m. train. The blizzard was ragins
then, and Mr. Kohl, who was Beventy
eight years old, could get neither a trolley
car nor a hack to take him home, and de
rided to face the storm. He had to plough
throush snowdrifts which were above his
knees. Moreover, the gale buffeted him
about, and when he reached his home he
was completely exhausted. He was tak
ing off his overcoat when he suddenly
gasped for breath and fell to the floor,
dead.
Tbi cars on the Tarrytown, White Plains
and Mount Vcrnon lines were bound
for hours, as great drifts had piled upon
the -a«ka in cuts ai. . several now ploughs
had to work all day. The Federal Espress,
the Owl and Boston Express trains on the
New Haven road were from four to live
hours late, a- the storm was more severe
on the Connecticut division than on the
New York branch.'
DRIFTS HEM IN MRS. BROKAW.
Plaintiff in Separation Suit May Be
Unable to Reach Court.
Hempstead, Long I:. 't!tii. Dec. There
is a possibility that Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw
will be unable to attend court to-morrow
when her suit against her husband for *,ep-
Hration and $&>/>•» a • ear alimony is con
tinued. "The Oasis." the country place of
Mrs. Emily Ladenburg, and which J. A.
Kiair. the father of Mrs. Brokaw, has
leased, is situated in the centre of the
plains, and about two miles from West
bury. Snow has drifted on all sides of the
property to a depth of from seven to ten
feet. fJnless cuts of some kind are made
through the highways, it will be impossible.
for Mrs. Brokaw to cet through, except on
horseback, as no wa| could be hauled
through the snow.
From indications h^r^ •■ 7 o'clock to
night there ia little likelihood of any court
b^inc held at all to-morrow, as Justice Put
nam, who lives in Br< okiyn will not be
able to get to Mineola, unless the road
niun.ijrt.-s to clear the cuts.
FIRE FROM CIGARETTE FATAL.
1- rom burns received through a <:lg:irett'
lipLting tire to the bedclothes as she lay
:isUep in a room in the Irvington Hotel,
Irving Place and 14 tb street, yesterday.
Bella Morris, twenty-three years old, died
latpr in BelleriM Hospital. When the
flames awuke her the ■ amed, and
Thomas Pitman, of No. SM West 41st
street, broke into th«* room and inanazetl
to extinguish the fiames.
MAY NAME MRINNY :
i
Brooklyn Man Urged for ■
Tenement House Commissioner \
Alexander M.-Kinny. a Brooklyn lawyer, j
who at one time was an Assistant Cor- |
poration Counsel, is being strongly urged :
upon Judge Gaynor for appointment as
Tenement House Conmusslpi to succeed
Kdmond J. Butler. Judge Gaynor hai in- j
dicated that he will appotnl ■ lawyer to i
this position, on account of the great nuni- j
ber of complaints received by him that i
the law is not being construed aceordhii to \
its spirit, but fnllOW^.l SO closely to the j
letter as to be a great hardship to many ■
Interests. Among thos* who are baching •
Mr. ifeKmny for appointment is Edward
M. She par d.
It was learned last nicht that Judge Gay- j
nor had not entirely decided to appoint t
Dr. Joseph O'Connell to m ceed Dr. Dar- I
linston as Health Commissioner, although i
the latter's chances for that place were
still excel ent But prominent men are •
backing Dr. Traverse H. Maxtield for the •
position, Dr. Maxneld has served in the ,
department tor several years. At one time ;
he was assistant sanitary superintendent in j
charge of the office in Brooklyn. It was j
bis removal from there to Manhattax that j
-.i sed much criticism on the part of I
Brooklyn doctors of the administration of j
the Health Department by Commisa
Darlington.
Tammany Hall is so insistent upon the i
reappointment of Fire Commissioner Hayes ,
that it is understood that Mayor-elect Gay- j
nor will let him hold over m January, j
along with Commissioner Edwards of the h
Department of Street Cleaning and Police '■
Commissioner Baker, In order that be may*i
have a chance to study their work at |
closer range.
William B. Ellison may be the neu Cor- ;
poration Counsel, although Judge Guynor j
would like to have appointed him as head i
of the Water Department. Mr. Ellison did j
not care to go back to that office, which ■
he held under the first Iministratton of j
Mayor McClellan. Judcce Gaynor wai not j
able to persuade .1 Edward Swanstrom to j
accept an appointment as Corporation j
Counsel.
Judge Gaynor la having more trouble ir> i
finding just the man he wants at the head !
of the Water Department than in : .ilini; !
any other office at his disposal.
TAMMANY'S MAKE-UP.]
General and Executive Com- j
mittces to Reorganize. j
There wM be a meeting of the Tammanr r
Hall general and executive committees for j
organization for the coming year on |
Wednesday night. It Is expected that the j
present officers will b.- re-elected. J. Ser- |
geant Cram, who was referred to as "Tan- ■
kee Doodle" in a letter published recently j
as having been sent to Charles F. Murphy j
by James E. Gaffney, is president, ol the |
general committee, P. F. Donohue hi treas- j
urer «md Thomas F. Smith secretary, j
Thomas F. McAvoy is chairman of the ex
ecutive committee.
A successor to "Little Tim" Sullivan as j
representative of the 3d Asseml ! District :
in the executive committee will be elected |
Ex-Senator John C. Fitzgerald will prob
ably be the man named. "Johnny" White,
who for years was a confidant of "Little |
Tim. Is also a candidate for the place. I
I ■:- "Big Tim" is said to favor Fitzgerald. j
The retirement of several dis-tr leaders
had been scheduled for this meeting in
ease Tammany won at the recent election, :
but Charles F. Murphy ha asked them
to reconsider their determination to lay I
active politici aside, as he need.- them to
keep th<> organization intact 'a the -four j
lean years to come.
Amonsr those who had expected to retire 1
were Bherifll Thomas F. Foley, leader of j
the 2d District, and "Battery Dan" Finn. !
of the Ist. The atter is rapidly failing in ;
, health. an<l Sheriff Foley is now in a sana- j
, torium.
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MATHEWSON TO GET OFFICE. j
Controller-Elect Prendergast Will Ap- j
point Him Second Deputy.
Douglas Mathewson, of the 35th.Assem- j
bly District, in The Bror.x. has been se- |
lected a^ second Deputy Controller, to sue- j
ceed X. Taylor Phillips. Controller-elect •
Prendergast has not made the formal an- j
nouncement, but it was learned last night
that the appointmen was as good aa '
made. It la understood that certain linan- j
cial interests vrieU to have Mr. Phillips re- j
tcJned.
Mr. Mathewsoa who was the choice of !
the Republicans of The Bronx as the fu- j
£lon candidate for Borough President there
in the lani campaign atul wa.-: an unsue- '
cessful candidate for justice of th« City j
Court two years ago, has lou^- been active I
! in Republican affairs. He is a member of
1 the New York County Republican Com
j mi' t<
Mr. Prendergai started yesterday for '
Lakewood, and ia not expected to return !
': until Friday. H - ■■"•' " . polntnv n1 will j
I probably be announced before that *ime, i
however, as it is understood the list is j
complr-t<\ Mr. Prendergasi has almost en
■ tirely rocow-ered from his recent illness, |
but he wanted to get a complete rest b<s
iore starting on his official duties.
The bond of $200,000. which the Con
troller b is to furnish, was prepared before j
: Mr. Prendergasi left the city. It is j
writt< by the People's Surety Company.
m
i TO REVISE CONCORDAT OF 1851.
Spanish Government Says Move Is j
Free from Anti-Clericalism.
: Madrid. Dec. Z(> — Recently it was an- (
| r.ounced that the nrnmnnl intended to !
j reopen negotiations with the Vatican for !
• the reform of the Concordat of 1301. and j
! that th»> modifications nought principally i
, nftecteil tho clauses relatteg to liberty of j
| conscience and education and ml tat of |
' religious orders
Sefi'ir Cabullero. the Minister of For
eign Affairs, now announce* thai the gov- j
ernmeni wll umWtake th« revision of !
the Bocorda to brmg It in harmony with. ;
, ti,* Spanish constitution. The question I
| will bf treated in .1 liberal spirit, he says, j
Xr«« from auu-cJtrlcalum.
KAHLER
R. & L <Ri«rbt nnd IWt, STOCKING
Ordinary shaped stockinsrs oft*n
tim<»s ar? Injurious to th* feet. Th»
R. & L. (Rijchr and L"ft Stockinsr)
made to conform to each foot are
much more comfortable and -will
outwear two pairs of Om narrow r...->
Men's an<l women's 40c. per pair
and np-
TMSX-- ***n<l f"r 60 pasre Linen >
Bound. Stiff Covered Book OB th»» .
"Dress and Car of the Feet, by ;
Dr. P. Katiler. ;
DR. P. XAHIER & SONS '"..:.
Maker* of the "Kahlrr" Comfort >ho*».
1160 BROADWAY, near 27th S».
WHISKEY ISDEFINED
ontinur.l from llni« [»«•.
ihinirs. that Canadian Club whiskey and j
whiskey made from a mixture of ,
"straight" whiskey and "neutral spir- ,
Its" may be called a blend.
The definition of "blends" is not made |
broad enough to include neutral spir- j
its made from molasses and reduced \
to potable strength. This' article, the j
President says, cannot be labelled as j
whiskey; it Is rum.
TAKES WILKY TO TASK.
The President takes Dr. ffUej and ;
other chemists to task for a '•funda- j
mental • rro-" as to what the Mine ;
"whiskey has included during the last i
on« hundred years, and he also ex- J
prcaeos the opinion that Mr. Bowera ;
makes "too nice a distinction" in his de- j
ductions. "IC." he says, speaking of tIM ;
<->;ii,ai«)n of Mr. Bowers, '"high wines j
at from 140 degrees to IrJO degrees wissn ,;
reduced to potable strength and con
talning a very 6mall quantity el fuse! ,
oil and flavored by burnt sugar are
whiskey, as he has found, then the mere
improvement in the process by continu- !
ons distillation so as to give a product '
of from lt» degrees to ISB degrees proof i
and still further to reduce its fusel oil.
la not to ehango its whole nature or j
to make what was genuine 'whiskey* j
•imitation whiskey* because of a slightly i
rfdui"«»d trace of one ingredient. The !
distinction *|j< too impracticable, in my ;
judgment, for the execution of the law." j
Continuing, the President says:
Those who make whiskey of "recti- .
fied." "redistilled" or "•neutral** spirits
cannot complain if, in order to prevent
further frauds, they are required to use j
a brand which shall show exactly the t
kind of whiskey they are selling. For |
that reason it seems to me fair to re- >
quire th^m to brand their product as r
"whiskey made from rectified spirits" or ■
"whiskey made from redistilled spirits"
or "whiskey made from neutral spirits,"
as the case may be. and If aer^d in the
wood. a.« sometimes is th« case with this j
class of whiskeys, they may add this j
fact. ' " ;
The public wi'l be made to know ex- |
actly the kind of whiskey they buy and j
• irink. If they desire straight wbJa !
they can secure it by purchasing what
Is branded "straight whiskey." If they
are willing to drink whiskey made of
neutral spirits, then they can buy it un
der a brand showing it. and if they are .
content with a blend of flavors made hv j
the mixture of straight whiskey and
whiskey made of neutral spirits, -.he ,
brand of the blend upon the package
•vill enable them to buy and drink that
which they desire. This was the intent
of the act. It injures no man's lawful |
business, because it only insists upon the j
statement of the truth in the label. If
those who manufacture whiskey made j
of neutral spirits and wish to call it J
"whiskey" without explanatory phrast .
ccmplain because the addition of "neu- ■
tral pirits*' in the labeJ takes away j
some of their trade, they are without a
Just ground, because they lose their !
trade merely from a statement of the i
fact. The straight whiskey men are re- j
li-n-ed from all future attempt to pass j
off neutral spirits whiskey as straight I
whiskey. More than this, if straight
whiskey or any other kind of. wbia
la aged in the wood, the fact may be
branded on the package, and this claim j
to public ■ ivor may truthfully be put i
forth. Thus the purpose of the pure '
food law is fully accomplished in re- I
spect of misbranciing and truthful brand- I
ing.
REVERSES ROOSEVELT VERDICT. |
The decision follows the lines of the
conclusions reached by the Royal Com
mission of Great Britain and reverses I
the verdict of ex-President Roosevelt, i
ex-Attorney General Bonaparte, Solicitor
General Bowers and Dr. Wiley, chief of
tht Bureau of Chemistry. The Roose
vflt-Bonaparte-Wiley order denied the
use of the word "whiskey" in branding
tc all liquor except "straight whiskey."
the whiskey which is aged in charred oak
casks. Mr. Bowers extended the use cf
th- word to Uqnora made of "rectified"
and "distilled" spirits. President Taft
goes a step further and includes blend.*
and hiskey mailt from "neutral spirits."
Elaborating his conclusions, the Presi
dent says:
After an examination of all the evi
dence it seems to me overwhelmingly
established that for a hundred years the
term "whiskey" in the trail- and among
the customers has included all potable
liquor r'istillHd from grain; that the
straight whiskey is, as compared with
the whiskey made by tincatloa or re
distillation and flavoring and coloring
matter, a subsequent improvement, and
that therefore it is a perversion of the
pure food act to attempt now to limit
the meaninsj of the term "whiskey" to
that which modern mannfs I an«l
taste iiav>- made the most desirable va
riety.
IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN PRIZES?
Mr. Bishop Talks on Aero Meet at Los
Angeles — Here Thursday.
[By Telecraph to The Tribune.]
Lenoi Mass., I>er. 26.— At a meeting of
the Aero Club of America in New York on
next Thursday the decision of the club on
the application of the Los Angeles Aero
Club for sanction for the meet Jaass I<>
to 3ft will be mad*. Cortlandt Field Bishop,
president of the Aero Club of America, be
lleyea that the matrer can be se adjust"!
that the meeting may be held. Regarding
th*' prize list qf the Los Angeles club, he
paid that there was JJD.OOO offers which
Tie did not believe could be earned by com
petitors. One offer l- Ji" •• for a dirigiW*
flight from Los Angeiea to gan Francisco,
and the other is $!•'.•■' for a balloon flijrht
to the Atlantic seaboard.
Mr. Bishop mM that there had l>*en a
$lO.o»x> otter Btandlns for about a year for a
tiighf from New York to Albany. 150 mile*,
which had not been earned, ast the pro
posed route of the dirigible flight in Cali
fornia wa^ more than four hundred miles.
He also said thai hn believed it wu^a
physical impossibility to fly a bollooti fr!?m
1-o.s Anpeles to the Atlantic. The A^ru
Club will carefully wawms the conditions
ol the Los Angeles prixe list before pa.-aing
on the meet.
DOUMA REFUSES NEW WARSHIPS.
St. Petersburg. Dec. — The National
DefesjM Committee of the Douma haa re
jected by a lart« majority th» credit for
new battle.nlp«.
•Thri«. armed ts he who go** »nr»> the fray pr*par*l. '
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In the selection of evening garments one may
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pleasure as to delivery.
Buy them of a clothes shop which sells evening
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Select them here— and get ready-for-service gar
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and perfection of finish, are unequalled— no
matter how much more than our prices you may
be willing to pay. •
Evening Apparel of our creating bears only such rrM»m
blanee to tfaar a| other makers aa conventionality insists .
upon — conventionality only ot general form. Outside of
that, in every detail of design said firt!>h. our products have
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Evening Apparel for Men
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DIXN"ER JACKETS. Sl7 to $32
TROUSERS. S7 to $11.50
BLACK EVENING WAISTCOATS, to bssbb, $4 to $6.50
OTHER EVENING WAISTCOATS, $3.50 to $10
of silk or washable material*, in plain white or fancy effects.
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ARREST OF ZFLAY W -
Madriz Accuses Predecessor's
Son-in-Laxc and Others.
Managua. Nicaragua, Dec. 26.— The
new President of Rlearat Jose Ma
driz. is taking hold of affairs with a
strong hand. Zelaya Isfl him the lepacy
of an empty treasury, and soon after
President Madriz had publicly aaBVM
in effect that the country was practi
cally on the ver&e of bankruptcy, the
arrest of Joarjuin Passos, Zelaya' s son
in-law, and Ernesto Martinez, Zclaya's
laat Finance Minister, was ordered.
They are now in the hands of the au
thorities. charged' with misappropriation
of public funds, failure to pesjsssst gov
ernment bonds and the circulation of un
signed paper money.
Francisco Baca, wh« has replaced Pr.
Julian Irias as Minister General, id pre
paring a decree estabUshini? a eesasas*
sion for the purpose of revoking the
franchises under which a score of mo
nopolies, siven to individuals by Zelaya,
have been operated. These monopolies
poured into Zelaya's Pbtm vast sums of
money, for. while they were ostensibly
in the hands of others, it was to the for
mer President that (ha greater psrOssl
of the returns was transferred. Passos
is looked on as the creator of these
monopolies and the dummy utilized by
Zelaya to cover hi? large stock interest
therein. Hi 3 arrest has met srttt general
approval.
Santos Ramirez. Zelaya's chief of tele
graphs, has also been arrested. He is
char-- with having sent a dispatch
in the name of President Madriz order
ins th«» «roTernment troops to abandon
what are said to have been ""tie po?i
riona. Generals Anaataslo Ortiz. Benito
Chavarria amd Paulino Oodey. who were
banished by Zelaya in Mti have •••■
recalled by Ifadriz.
ZELAYA MAY GO TO BELGIUM.
Mexico City. Dec. M.— That former Presi
dent Zelaya cf Nicaragua intends event
uaßy to go to BelJrurm was the belief ex
pressed to-night by Minister Castro of
Nicaragua. He said the former FrasHsai
would probably come direct to Ussiea City,
where he would doubtless be the BOW* of
President Diaz for a Time, after which he
would proceed to Belgium. n:s wife's native
land.
XO AIM OF (OX QUEST.
Central Americans T>>i<l \"t to
Fear United States.
Dr. Juan J. UUoa. Costa Jtican Consul
General in this city, who is now in Sail
Jose. Costa PJca, as president of the In
ternational Sanitary Conference, which
opened last Saturday, presents in "La
Informaeion" of December 10 his views on
the turmoil in Nicaragua and thf at:itud»«
of the United Stat*>?. Of especial interest
at this time are the observations of Dr.
X'lloa on the latter subject, beoaus^ of. his
many years' stay in this country and the
excellent facilities that he had as an offi
cial for studying the situation at close
range.
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"There has been a mass of misinforma
tion," *ays Dr. UUoa in "La Information."
'•regarding the attitude and intention of
the American government toward th«* Cen-i
tral American country. We hay« abso
lutely nothing to fear from th«* Americans,
for I can a?»ure JWI that the »oj«» purpose
of the United States U to guarantee the
!iff» and property of American citizens
They esteem us b^-aus» *>» arc a hi-v
abiding people.
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ZIONISTS IN CONVENTION
Max Nordau Warns Them Against As
similation with Turks.
Hamburg. Dec. 25.— Th<* International
Zl"nist «'on«:rei<w. the first held in Otrr
mar.y. opened here to-day with ■ largf at
tendance. David Wolffsolin. of «'olosne,
preaui of the executive committee,
greeted the delegate*. He outlined the
ptss»nt .status and outWx'>k of Zionist proj
ectS, making particular reference t"> the
tact that Palestine Is now under a i-onsti
tutional government.
Professor Max Nordau, of Parts, a lead
ei saaesHj /■■■'■■• - took the chair and d«
ltvered a speech, which was received with
great enthusiasm. Zionists, Ue said, must
not bslvWl tt their duty to follow th«
Young Turks wifliout dsMilllliliu they
were uiereli a political p^rty uf tr Os
':?:fi/^i«yjpTl
Batwaaa Naw Ysrk and RtlfciaJgMl
\ two-hour train <rvery hour on tii» 1
hoar from 7 X M. to *» P. M.. «n vidl- I
tlon to other trains. T>n minute* be- ■
fore th«s hoar from West S3d St. O» ■
th* hour from Üb«rty St. _ 1
Parlor cars on all tralaa. fTntß*
cars m^rnsnif. uo'jn.aocT Tt'iht. SHwep«r»
on m:rinizht train. Ibrd Cmll ?••
Umiilo? Comfort?
f'HIRIS
'OLIVE. OIL
Thirls lg a pTir* oaM*TJ<S*4
o!!y» oij i-r.r""»d trors. France.
Irs mrc-meiy palatable fiai«»r
makes It iavaluaßle for rn»«t!'-:
rsal purpose*. send n» rour
d»al« > r'9 ram** ami mm will w^n-i
Y*tf a sample bottle ami th«
"Cntrlsßookof Salads" t!)roos*h
him. Fr»e. Wh»ri» Chir'a is
rot *a«i> obta!n<»<! throusi
dea:»rs. w* supply — et.
C. C TXCFTK. C. 5. AK-nt.
D»pt. C. liPlattSt..X»TrT<sT«
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mun Empire, and it -would be> tactless an<i
unwise for the Zionists tr> taix hi the tß>
ternal political affairs or Turkey by cots
mittinsj their cause to any political party.
He said that the Jews would never accept
privileges in Turkey tf they wer«» com
pelled ti> assimilate wita th^ Turks andl
be SBjetasM *-"rr Pales ine. but tiie^
would become good 1 Osrnan citizens if al
lowed ss BStUs in the land of their ssss>
fathers arid there establish in rhs ptr*
a Jewish nation like an individual stata
or other federation. He »a:d they dirl
not intend to establish ar. independents
state.
Ussse* Nordau farther advised ■»'•■•
h^rins to the prosrra'rrime of the f.rst Zior
ist Congress at Basle. At the ctos^ a* fcia
address Professor -ordau was etssessl
president of the conjress.
FEAR ALBERTS ACTS.
.iccession Said to Cause Cath
olic Apprehensions.
Pana. Dec. 26.— The "Petit R«pnhllq:«*
prirsta a resume of an allesred cipher dl>»
patch sent br Cardinal Merry I>«1 Val*
Papal Secretary- to the oanclo at Brr:s
sel?. savins that khe assjSßßssa of Kins
Albert has created tsquietuda in Roras,
where he is "lered a lukewarm Catho-*
iic. with ar.ti-elerica!. even socialistic,
sympathies. The Cardinal therefore •ifJIUI
the Papal Nuncio to seek to surroucdt the
King with a Catholic • "irage, hi order
to complete the work b*yna wien th*
Catholics assumed power, ia 1354. Tiiia
would be menaced ii '<■- Albert -it »
hope to liberalism and socialism.
According to the -im*» authority. Car-*
dtnal Merry Del Va! Instructed the n«SMss»
to contirm the raarriase of Kins Leopold
to Baroness -Vauslian !n order to tr&amM**
Q» tae Catholic conscience.
DICKINSON PARTY IN SAN JUAIC.
San Juan. P. R.. Dec. 2S. Jhast M.
Dickinson, the American tscsassry sf TTar,
accompanied by Brigadier General CTarenc*
It. Edwards, chief of the Bureau, of Insular
Affairs, and party, arrived here to-day or»
the converted yacht Mayflower. Governor
Cotton received the Secretary and parr^
arul conducted them to the palace. Man.*
person* gathered at the wharf to witness
tho '.amlirts. and the visit of the Secretary
of TYur has br-en made the occasion for th.»
display of elaborate decorations.
Secretary Dickinson baa been on art in—
sp«»eu"->n of Santo Domingo, srvins special
attention to thf revolutionurj- condition* in
th;i: (stand. He will make an inspection
also of PorTo Uico. Governor Cotton sav<»
a dinner this t>vfnirtK i» honor of the dto
tirisr,;is!i' -.1 visirors.
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