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NOW ' ONE CENT la City of New York. )rr*ry City and Hoboken. VolV o1 IAI\. .\° 23,084. ancfti!fe!! ORAMA OF THE SEINE FROM THE LOUVRE TO THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE rts lower floor" <iamage . has been lar S e - On the left bank ' at the left of the photograph, are the new Gare d'Orleans and the Hotel Palais d'Orsay. Both have been abandoned. Next is the Chancellerie of the Legpon of Honor; water haJ hen comes the Ouai d'Orsay, and then the Chamber of Deputies. The bridges seen are Pont Solferino, Pont de la Concorde and Pont Alexandre 111. On the right bank are seen the Gardens of the Ttiilenes and the Grand Palais. (Photog-ra ph copyright. 19uO. by Notman Photo Company, Boston.) .# LIBERALS ADVANCE MAJORITY IN COMr MOSS PROBABLY. i?o. Hopes of the Unionists Grad • ally Dissipated by Returns. BRITISH ELECTIONS TO DATE. The British Liberals are meeting with better fortune in the closing stages of the elections. The position of th* parties last night was: OmonisU 253 Liberals 253 Lafaorite* 40 Nationalists 76 The prospect now is that the coali tion majority — Liberals, Labc-ites and Nationalists — will eventually approach FBr Cabl» to The Tribune.! . London, Jan. 27.— coalition major ity was raised to 105 during the day and increased to 111 on the results declared by midnight. There was a net gain of tn-f. seats made during the day toward tip nine required for putting the Union ists ]• a majority over the Liberals tlone. and there was a lingering nope among partisans in the Conservative dubs that this could be accomplished before the remaining seats were tilled. 11l Liberal-Labor majority is secure. £n<J the only resource left for enabling the Unionist calculators to figure out an actual minority for the budget is to rep resent the Nationalists as tariff reform ers, and even rabid protectionists, and to ccd then* votes to the regular opposition. The tame leader writers who have bM taunting Mr. Asquith with serving under an Irish taskmaster aie now urg tT!g Messrs. O'Brien and Healy to put pressure Upon Mr. Redmond and cast the whole Nationalist vote against the budget, with its overwhelming levies on Irish whiskey. Lord Rosebery's younger son. Neil Primrose, pulled through with a narrow majority. Mr. Chamberlain's nephew ■M beaten in Cornwall by 2,500 votes, sharing the fate of Disraeli's nephew. Lord Durham's twin brother was de feated is. the North after carrying the f«?at without a contest the last time. The Irish Solicitor General, J. Barry, greatly to the delight of the ministerial ists arid the disappointment of the Unionists, succeeded in saving the only remaining Liberal seat in Ireland by a cr ajpara.tively good majority. Lawrence another rebel against Mr. Red monds authority, was chosen by West •jKffc, North. He has made a name for kirn**)' as the inventor of "cattle driv *•*" Th* independent Nationalists, who kr * opposed to an alliance with the Lib *n on the budget, now number eight, a 11v *ly fighting squad. Scotland is still voting strongly for U» budget and Free Trade. R. L. Hsrnißworth. a brother of Lord North diCe. easily held Caithnessshire tor Überal. party. Sutherlandshire. one <* the three snowed -up Scottish constit litot, delivered a belated verdict at * ,'*'* hour - and result* were also re t*rt rom two more divisions in La *™*»*™»"e. In each case the Liberal was rned vith a good majority. The oosworth division of Leicestershire also •upporte,! the government, so that the lotion of the parties is as follows: 258 > m «»ißte, 253 Liberals, 40 Laborites and J* .Nationalists, bringing the coalition j/'nty up to 111. Only ,f O rty-thre« ""*« now remain to be filled. IN. F. Af >QriTU IN LONDON. Will II c an Audience with the King Next Week. 2*** Jan. 27.-Mr. Aaquith, the Premier. qTJ 9 London to-day and conferred with cikf "7f actl!or ot •• '- Exchequer *.nd the v' . Liberal whip on the situation. Notn •Ue- v ly to be Welded, however, until ««-. Aaquith 6 audience with the King, -■^_fcntjn,.,. d on »^<> nd P**'« jFE * T BEAR SPRING WATER. w icit tair<s o{ 6 *"•*•■ ttoppered bottle*. JV^^^!^^Sjm^2C^^l.^^K ss^^^unfesißsH^^^^BSttftasflßa^Z^^lift^^^*^ To-day, fnlr. To-morrow, fair; wr«t winds. LATHAM'S LONG FALL. Drops 150 Feet with Aero plane, but Is Uninjured. Cairo, Egypt. Jan. 27. — Hubert Latham, the French aviator, fell a distance of 150 feet while making a flight at Hcliopolis this afternoon. The monoplane was wrecked, but Latham was nut injured. INDICTED MEN FLEE. Doer ing and Ahrenfeldt, Au thorities Sat/, Arc in Europe. It was reported from C ran ford. N. J.. ypsterday that Max O. Doering, of Charles Ahrenfeldt & Son, importers of Bohemian chinaware, of No. 52 Murray several weeks and that his home there was closed. Inquiry at the Appraiser's Department resulted in the discovery that Doering and Charles J. Ahrenfeldt -were Indicted last month on charges of conspiracy to defraud the customs and undervaluation of goods. The men have left the coun try. The government officials have placed the loss in customs duties at $70,- At the Custom House it was learned yesterday that the two indicted men had gone to Europe. JORN FREES WIFE. Gives Her Money That She May Wed Another. Karl Jorn, a German tenor at the Metropolitan Opera House, has settled $25,000 and a yearly income of $l.<"> 00 on his wife in order that she may wed a young physician of Berlin, with whom Bhe has fallen in love, according to a document which the singer made public yesterday. Frau Jorn went to Europe on Tuesday after a short stay in New York. No names are mentioned in the document, which is witnessed by the German Consul. The settlement of $1,000 a year on Mrs. Jorn is to hold only until she marries again, but the tenor has bound himself to give $1,000 a year to each of their three children for the rest of their lives. He said yesterday that he gave her all the money he had before she left New- York, and that he -would remit the rest of the settlement as soon a»s he had earned it. Jorn still loves his wife, he said yesterday, but he would not stand in the way of her happiness. GRAFT IN CHICAGO. Charge Contractor and Offi cials with $254,000 Fraud. Chicago, Jan. '2.1— Paul Redleske, re signed Deputy Commissioner of Public Works; Michael H. MoGovern, a wealthy contractor, who has had many big city contracts, and nine city officials and employes of McGovern were indicted by UM j?raml jury to-day. The men are charged with conspiracy to defraud the city of 1254.000. The in dictment came as a complete surprise, as it was believed the alleged frauds in volved only about $45,000 in the so called "f-hale rock" scandal. The men are specifically accused of conspiring to defraud /he city by laying only one sixth of the concrete, and brick work railed for i" the contract for the con- Mru'tion of Section N of the Lawrence avenue tunnel. CHECK FOR ENGINEERS WIDOW Sent by New York Woman Passenger on Twentieth Century Limited. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Syracuse, Jan. 27.-Mrs. John Scanlon. widow of the engineer who met death In I?? wreck of the Twentieth Century Lim ited at St. Johnsvile Tuesday morning, re cced a check for m to-day from a won,, nls^nger on the train. The giver re ari P a , that her name be withheld.' She is fSSeS o? New York City. With th . heck was a note as follows: '•Worn a trratefu! passenger who knows that this money cannot help your sorrow., but who knows of no other way of offering ':',;>, in your great affliction." ;,/ NEW- YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1010.— FOURTEEN PAGES. LONG SECRETLY WED FAMOI'S CONTRA UFO A DOCTOR'S BRIDE. Mile. Gerville-RcacJic Mania to Pasteur Institute Head in November. A marriage that has been kept a se cret c^er since November 11 came to light last night, when it was learned that upon that date Dr. George G. Ram baud, the director of New York Pasteur Institute, and -• Ml*©.— * Jeanne^Oervilio— Reache, the French contralto of the Man hattan Opera company, were married in New Jersey at the home of friends. Dr. Rambaud. when seen last night at the offices of the Pasteur Institute, in West 23d street, confirmed the report of the marriage. "We had intended to keep it secret to all but a few friends," said Dr. Ram baud. "but I suppose it Is useless to deny it longer. We intend for the pres ent to make New York our home, as Mrs. Rambaud is engaged to sing here and as I have been connected with the Pasteur Institute for the last eighteen years." Mile. Gerville-Reache is perhaps best known in the part of Delilah, in Saint- Saens's opera "Samson et Delilah." She. sings this part for the first time this season at the Manhattan Opera House to-night. Mllr. Gerville-Reache comes of a distinguished family, her father having been at one time the French Governor of Guadeloupe, and her uncle Speaker of the French Chamber of Dep uties. Her first appearance here was as the blind mother in "La Gioconda," on the opening night of Mr. Harnmerstein's second season. She has sung the part of the mother of Louise, in Charpentier's opera, and took also the part of the mother of Pelleas and Golland in "Pel le.as et Melisande." She is to appear in "Klektra." Other parts have been Car men and La Navarraise. Dr. Rambaud is a graduate of the University of Paris and of the Columbia University Medical School. He is a well known member of the medical faculty of the city. LUNATIC IN CHURCH. Spread Terror hi f Antics at Paulist Jubilee. Several communicants of the Paulist Fathers' Church, at Columbus avenue and 60th street, were stricken with ter ror yesterday afternoon when an appar ently insa.no man appeared in their midst and began to run up and down the aisles of the church as fast as his legs could carry him In their fright they rushed into the street, where Father Daly was conversing with Detective Leonard, of the West 68th street station. The priest and the detective imme diately rushed into the church and tried to catch the man, but his endurance was so great that they were nearly exhausted by the. timo they had caught and over powered him. Leonard took him to Roosevelt Hospital, but he was not ad mitted. Dr. Brewster was summoned from the Flower Hospital to the West 68th street station. He examined the prisoner there and pronounced him insane. The man, who Haiti his name was Dennis Donohue and that he lived at No. 216 Monroe street, was then removed to Bellevue Hospital. MME. DORIA ASKS RELEASE. Singer Dissatisfied with Roles Assigned Her at Manhattan. It waa learned last night that Mme. Au gusta Doria, the contralto of the Manhat tan Opera Company, had requested Mr. Hammersteln to release her from her con tract at the end of the present season. Mine. Doria. it is known, has been dissatisfied with the roles In which sha has appeared this season. Mr. Hammersteln could not be found last night, and it Is not known what action he will take. Mm-, Doria'* contract has still two years to run. MORE FRAUD FOUND MOSQUITO NETS THE MEDIUM. Neic Orleans Investigation Points to Similar Operations Here, It Is Said. So pf-rious has bern the evidence given before the federal grand jury at New Orleans regarding customs frauds in the importation of mosquito netting that th*» Department of Justice has sent a special aid the United States Attorney, rharltori V. Beattie, in his investigations. Tt was reported also that while the loss to th»> government in the Southern city might aggregate $son.oon. an inquiry here would show irregularities up in the millions. A former special agent, who had been a witness before the grand jury at New Orleans, was quoted in The Tribune on Tuesday as saying that the facts which had been disclosed showed that gross frauds had been committed, frauds that had been reported by him while on duty there and reported to the department at Washington. He was dismissed from The service. According to the latest ac count?, the investigation has shown :i worse condition of affairs than was at first expected. OJeneral T. S. Castleman is the fore man of the federal grand jury and the other men on that body are said to be among the most representative business men in New Orleans. Rivals of the firms said to have benefited by the frauds have been called to testify regarding the im possibility of meeting the competition under the circumstances existing before an Appraisers examiner, H. P. Murray, discovered irregularities and raised the valuations to the correct amounts. Mur ray was removed from the service. The firms subpoenaed to tell of the dis crimination practised against them are: . Maison Blanche, I). H. Holmes & Co limited, B. Conn & Co.. the L. Fellman Company. Krauss -& Co., limited, and Swartz Brothers. They are In the dry goods business and are representative of the interests that are determined that there shall be a housecleaning at New Orleans similar to that made here last year. • Up to the present about sixteen em ployes and officers of the customs ser vice at the Southern Ity have been called before the grand jury. The col lector down there is Henry A. McCall and the appraiser William P. Luck. Mr. Luck was in this city last autumn at th© annual meeting of appraisers from all the ports In this country. He was the toastmaster at the dinner given by George W. Wanmaker, the appraiser here. The valuation of the i q: . netting, "ft per cent of the Importation of which is received at New Orleans, is made, according to the number of holes in Ul9 square inch. These goods come from Nottingham. England. The method of valuing was a trade secret jealously guarded, but Murray found It out and equalized it. Soon after he went to the Booth there was talk about irregular ities, and it was believed that he was re sponsible for it. This talk caused the investigation by the grand jury. The duty en nettings is 60 per cent ad valorum. While the bulk of the eOMTM or mosquito netting is shipped from abroad to New Orleans, the fine nettings, figured and plain, of the highest grades, such as are used for curtains and in gowns, are mainly sent to this port. The duties on these amount to millions of dollars a year. j It was said yesterday that the federal authorities here would be asked to have ah Investigation made as soon as the N-ew'Orleuns grand jury had completed its labors. The latter, it was said, was expected to find v.-nd Indictments, which would be of merchants and gov ernment officials in that city. In Wash ington and in New ork City. Should it not indict, however, the matter may be appealed on ■ presentment to Wash ington for action, NO CHARTER SLIGHT CHANGES ARE RECOMMENDED. Report Against Radical Cen tralization of Anthoritij as Favored bjf Ivins Board. fßv Tf-l»grapl> to Th« Tribune. I Albany, Jan. 27.— The report of the l^giplativp committee appointed to re port on a new charter for Mew York City will be presented tn-morrow. No charter will be put in with the report, and the report itself will recommend only comparatively slight changes from the existing conditions. The committee •will declare against any radical central ization of authority as was recom mended in the draft charter presented last year by the Ivins commission. This report will recommend that no changes be made in the powers and duties of the members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment until the expiration of the terms of the present members. Then there should be a separation of the ex f cutlve duties of the borough presidents from their power of appropriation as members of the Board of Estimate, the legislators believe. But they are not prepared at present to say whether the new members of the Board of Estimate who should replace the borough presi dents in that body should be elected by the city at large or one from each bor ough. A new department will be reconi mended by the committee — a department of hospitals, with a commissioner ap pointed by a board of trustees, appointed In turn by the Mayor. This department is to have charge of all hospitals sup ported by public funds except those used for contagious or pestilential diseases, which are to he under the jurisdiction of the Board of Health. A commissioner of , accounts and salaries appointed by the J Mayor also will be recommended, to give to the Mayor opportunity for the ! fullest Investigation of all department I matters. FISCAL SUPERVISOR FAVORED. The committee will not favor a cen tral purchasing bureau, substituting therefor a fiscal supervisor, who shall purchase supplies in the open market. The Board of Estimate will decide what supplies shall be bought by contract, delegating to this fiscal supervisor the duty of purchasing J these supplies on competitive bidding and distributing them to the different departments. As has been indicated in The Tribune, the radical difference In this treatment of the charter question from that of the Ivins commission is due quite as much to the fact that a fusion Board of Esti mate now is in office as to the fact that the legislative committee was entirely open to the influence of those politicians •w ho- last year opposed the abolition of the borough form of government. The committee's report Is based chiefly on the notion that the people of the city indicated at the election that they w» re. satisfied with borough government, but wanted to have it clean and well con ducted. The result will be that any new char ter adopted this year will be a change only in detail from the present schema of government in New York ('ity. One Important change, however, will be made if the Legislature acts on the commit tee's report. That will be the abolition of sinking funds to which specific rwe nues of the city are pledged and the adoption of a policy requiring running fx].MiBCS of the city to be paid from the annual tax levy. Thus, the bu,lcr<>t each year would be an accurate Index to the city's expenditures, and the possibility of a sharp rise In the tax rate would he an effective deterrent u£ municipal ex travagance. The committee disapproves of the transfer of the bureaus for co|]e, tlon of • ontinued on f««.rth pa ,». TOURS TO FLORIDA. , Or T> ni tly tripe to Jackson^ by mm cial Pullman trains; Fchruarv | ami •:. Pcnna: HR. Only $60 round trip from ww I. A., 143 nrth Avenue. New Vork.-AUvt T>T)ir i V /Ayr r >f l?Ar r r In City of New York. Jer«*T City and lloboK^m. X ltlA - UJN Hi i. Hi A I ELSEWHERE TWO CENTS.. AMERICANS SAFE. No Reason for Anxiety About Visitors in Paris. [By Cabl» to The Tribune.] Pans, Jan. 27. — Many cable messages from the United States have reached Paris to-day from relatives or friends of Americans here, urging them to leave the city at once. Those messages indi cate that reports exaggerating the dan ger to residents of and tourists to Paris have been published abroad. To reassure Americans who may have members of their families in Paris it may be stated with absolute confidence that there is not- the slightest cause for ' alarm or anxiety in regard to the safety or comfort of visitors here. Of course, there is great inconvenience in certain parts of the city, owing to the break .d<vvf'ii_of -the electric lights, telephones, .tram cars and the metropolitan under ground, but there is nor the slightest danger to life, limb or health. A few grocers are engaged in piratical practices, cabmen and chauffeurs of the taxi-auto cabs try to exploit the situa tion, but the food supply is little below the normal, and the prices of meat; veg etables, poultry and bread have ad vanced only slightly. Life here goes on very much the same. Of course, the suffering among the poor people living on the river sides and in the flooded districts is very great. The worst has not yet been reached. Friday and Saturday will, according to the calculations of the Fluvial Com mission, mark the top of the disaster record. Rut there is no cause for anxiety among Americans who have relatives and friends in Paris, pitru»r in regard to personal danger or in regard to epi demics owing to the lack of wholesome food or drinking water or even fr>«m thp flushing of the sewers, which affects houses only in the inundated districts of the city C. I. B. HORRIBLE PROSPEi T. Ballingcr-Pinchot Inquiry to Last Nineteen Years? Washington, Jan. 27. — The Ballinger- Pinchot inquiry will be resumed at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning, with Louis R. Olavis again on the stand. No one connected with the investiga tion is willing to hazard a guess as to the length of time the inquiry will last. Already it has appeared that witnesses must- be called from Seattle and other points; in the West, and that office rec ords .may have to be obtained from Juneau. Alaska. . One eommitteeman declared to-day that at the rate of progress set at the first session it will take nineteen years to complete the inquiry GUN PLAY IN STREET, Police Charge Man zvith Shoot ing Three Others. ' Because a man interfered when George McVotty, of No. 354 Tenth avenue, was beating a small boy at Eighth .avenue and 31st street last night. McVetty.-it Is alleged by the police, drew, a revolver and shot three men before he was capt ured. None of the men was fatally hurt, yet McVetty was rescued with diffi culty from a crowd of several- hundred persons, who chased him through the streets and cried for vengeance. According to the police.. McVetty was walking through .".Ist , street last night, and as he neared Eighth avenue a crowd of boys yelled at him. and this seemed to put the man in a rage. He singled out John McGinnls. thirteen years old, of No. 447 : West 37th street, and struck him a violent blow, knocking, him downl Harry McLean, of Hackensack. N. J., who interfered, .was shot in the jaw. the police say. McVetty fled, but was inter cepted by Joseph Lynch, of No. 106 West 83d street, who, the police say. was shot in the right leg... As he ran on McVetty flred a third shot, which went.through the door of a saloon and struck Clyde McKay, of No. 10S West S3d street, in the" left heel. At this moment Patrolman Murphy ran up and arrested McVett> on a charge of felonious assault. McVetty denied the shooting. NOW ONE CENT [■ City nt X«w T«rk. Jersey Clt7 *■«• • i Haboken. PARIS UNDERMINED STREETS CAVE IX WATER STILL RISING EARLY TO DAY. Falling of the Flood Expected Hnurlji. and Meantime ( 'iti i . \rt Smfe. Paris. Jan. 28.— conditions had be come considerably worse at 3 o'clock this morning, particularly in the south ern and eastern sections. In the *»th Arrendlssemenr; the old Latin Quarter, the situation was critical. At 2:30 a. m. the water forced its way up through the subway workings in th»? Rue St. Lazare. which is inundated th i whole of its length. In several placet* the sidewalk fell in. The subway under the Place de I'Opera has collapsed, an-l the sidewalk in front of the New York Kquitable Society's building, in the Plac-s de rOpera. has sunk in. The sidewalk of the Quai dcs Grands- Augustins collapsed and fell into th« Orleans Company's tunnel beneath. i urther extending the flood through- the an<-ieni streets, particularly the Ru» Jacob and around the Institute d« France. Another l>ad cave-in occurred in the Rue de Tournon. Many sewers burst in the 12th Arron dissement. one of the biggest in ran*. the whole of which is now submerged and has been plunged into darkn---* BJ breaking of the <a» p.iains. The half buried lie St. Louis, ■wMeh Is connected with the He de la Ck* by means of the Pont St. Louis, is likely to be totally submerged within a few hours, as the wat is now only a few inches from the parapet. Masons were hastily summoned at a late hour and are working desperately tf> erect a wall to save the historic Hotel Lambert, erected in the seventeenth century, and now the residence of Prince Czartoryski. and the equally famous Hotel Lauzin adjoining, which was pur chased by the city in 1000. to be used as a museum of art. It was also built In the seventeenth century. At midnight the water at the Pont Royal was si ill rising, but only a small fraction of an inch ■an hour. It wu expected that the high mark would b« reached between 1 and "10 o'clock this morning; when it would be within a few inches of the highest flood recorded, in, ltJl."». A -gradual fall is 'looked' for after that, unless there is -a change in th* temperature." Reports from .Came and Yenno, up the Seine, say that the water •is lowering in these sect - • Bluejackets have succeeded in remov ing the wreckage that had gathered at all .'the bridges, removing in a measure the danger of various villages belnsr flooded as the result of the* damming. •At Alforlville pillaging reached such, proportions 'as to necessitate the sending out of extra patrols ti "night, with ex plicit instructions to shoot at sight \ The King of Belgium has sent <•_ ••• to the flood victims, through the Belgian Minister here. . . ,".;*. Paris. Jan 27.'— Another day has passed, but the inexorable yellow tiita still creeps slowly higher, each inch of water widely extending the Hrea of d* struction, desolation and ruin. Although the barometer is rising rapidly and bright sunshine : to-day succeeded th* raging storms, a feeling of consternation, bordering on panic prevailed to-night when the authorities, who yesterday promised the maximum of. the flood for to-day, announced that this would not b» reached until to-morrow morning. Official figures* of the stage Wk th* water are difficult to obtain, and th» <■!'>• Council. ..at a stormy session to night.' charged M Leplne. Prefect ,-t Paris, with withholding the true grant/ of the situation. The Prefect defended his attitude by saying that he was gov erned by the necessity of not unduly alarming the people. In the mean time, what is happening i* enough to strike terror to the hearts of all. The very crust of the city . Wfm , ready to sink into the Hooded .übt^r.