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ONE CENT In CUT ft »* TerV. ,1.r.» City and , nohokrn. V- LXIX. ■■>" 23.095 VE.AR'S COLDEST DAY KKCOFD mF FEB. ; IS city s history. jferrunj Drop* Almott to Zero —Even ihc Polar Bears Seek Wanner Quarters. „ .. a cold lndecd lhat drIVCS! a *' » far in search of ■ steam pipe 5S \, may make believe he is hiber ', _ c =uch a one rarely comes to New '_*.... came yesterday, after a J°T... th^»t in advance, and the coldest ■« v «-- - in -v. annals of the local -tva'h"' Bureau was recorded The ' «,fld hoc ... good his promise that .... bUStS *•*&* follow Candlemas JS : arf the imense dry c^id of yester daVloncd the credulous who had -"o-ked - m to rr-CT-.-T their unseasonable iZ He *ffl *~ hc!d in niorr spec* hereafter. TU mercory got down to - degrees above «rro hen. In come places outside the city, where the thermometer was exposed to the northwest wind. It went Jrtfl3 lower. It was a dry cold, such as tie inhabitants of Canada and the .. ..u., <• spp3* of with condescendirp pride when referring to the humidity of yew York, but for all its drynesa it was ESBoyiag. Jt made the eyeballs hurt. &c checks tingle and the ears— well, the f6 r? were not annoying until they began ir> thaw indoors. But all this personal annoyance was ss nothing compared with other dis tressing effects of "the coldest February 7 ever." ._.•■, railroads, and •.viT£ oiJy little remnants of snow on the tracks whole systems were ed up and trains deJayed for two Scours, in some cases. Czz brakes wedged In ice packs «fu«*a to work. 5» Itches were hard to rpfrate and the general effect of the rsfiden and extreme ccJd threw the rail r*?.is a bit on in their normal (Jons. • ;>r THE BR< >NX It r en c°t so:tt» goats in The Bronx; Fnme or the Angora kind that blissfully ■ r.rv the rags and the theatre posters the blizzards usually blow their way. TWs rsoord cold snap even got the goat pf Ka.Tmcnd L.. Ditniars. curator of rep t)*« at the New York Zoological Gardens, in Th" Bronx. ■- ■ b goat is rd t Annie, plead }<■■? ig foi i ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ bling through thr I • ■ ■ • ■ ■■ ■ ■ •So much for The Bronx, li was an "tier story further south ,tih3 beyond •*■? Batterj-. where State'n Island was completely fr-'Zf-n tight. The only seni h:snc? «'f life sn tliat section was when :hr nranicipal ferrjboats took «-n and jarded thte courageous dared travel '■' tbe p .r;-. The quarters of Dr. Doty, "■' Krs ; ii; Ofllcer. showed activity, for incoming efcips hac* t* l be inspected and tat cctterß puffins in ar.d out of Quaran »ia« ifarongh the ice floes showed that Ifland v.as not literally d^ad. Tie men who patr<'i ihe l»<?at'p.cs in »mcr and suiranor a!ik«> at the various lifisavinig stations along the coast had -•■ hard Watch yesterday and the day be '"' The northerly gale which blew "swat ihr ■■ : ,i; -^^s worse along the Uadi, ard ihe men who look for the f-!iip«Tccked ha"l to shorten the time be t»Tta TratcheE. FREAKS OF THE MERCURY: " r temperature varief} in different I »mb in Iy«jn? Island, New Jersej- and Cpnaectjorjt. Those exposed to the wind mercaries registering from <> to 10 degrees' below zero, and cases of cx- J"Crure ano accidents <iuf lo ihr cold '"' reported in nearly ever>' village r ' rj oaaflet. Fo-^r men and one woman frr tii; r n to local hOFpitals. Mr. and Mrs. William WeWon, of Glen "'■<?, LL O u_ ] r ; ?r^ %»err pevercly in yirnQ by the bur?tinc of a stove boiler. tf pipe, v a(3 become trozen. snd when, * fr? " ? '^ s stajted th 3 boiler exploded and ''-■ At. v'.>io..n snd his wife severely **** the fceati and arms. Miches; Geary. Bivty-flv«> yeanj-old, of • ■* • J •• ''as found frozen 10 death r-rch of n )f Apavamis Club early y'V'^ 3 "' Anr '' hrh ' r victim was Ryer C. a rnin-^ school teacher. 1 • rron ' N*■ Hr ' wa? f*sund uncon ™»ib in iTark^t street, and died before aid rn:jj4 reach him. While a £W train of the Lackawanna ,■ d 8S runnins through PaWnion l>cfore -J.;?ht yesterday. *; w . r-ilgo r . a -•^man. v.as orerccme by the cold and encoascioua from the top ,jf a b«,x v-^ I*1 '* B ' Voun ?- c ' Hemnsteadj i^ong . **°» c no '-^ was ext^sed to zero r«1 ' Stlfl a ft 'ty-mile S aie. made a *Sr^* rffort to keep hiE hoTn " ttarln Jy . X^ V f lh " intents of his sreenhouaes 'h* /,,^ n^ 1T "° :n " n shovelling coal into '^rvVC 1 On "■ tiw T ««itJeth Cen .J-mited. which usually g,. t , in fl , Jin ior n Centra! were on time. ; . ;- '^ nish«t 20 degree, at 5 10 TUd for to-day. Th,- temperature o f 1 ""«»u«J n Mttond llac< * "■" ■^•^■"^cSPHafi^rfiMflSfihi'^^C^pßl [^^B^i(Hfl^^ixi^^%?'^3i^^S^*L^*^^^^3B^^iß3lHß^ffs^^^^^^^^^B^B^^Bp^HHl^^^ißP^S^^^^^^^^' ' :ilr and nnrmpr- BIG GIFT FOR SIIEFF. Tyco Yale Alumni Give ■>'.■"".- 000 for Laboratory. »w Haven, Feb. 7.— professor Russell H. Chitendeh, director of the scientific school of Tale University, announced to day a sift from George G. Mason, of New York City, and William S. Mason, of Evaristori. 111., both of the das? or *SS in th.- 'scientific school, of $250.<K< for a laboratory of mechanical engineer^ inc. The gift is made to the board of trustees of the Sheffield Scientific School. who will provide a suitable Bite for the laboratory. The building will be devoted solely to an experimental laboratory of me chanical engineering. li v. iii be known as the Mason Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering. and the architect of the building will be Charles C. Haight. of Now York City. Tt is hoped that con struction of the building v ill be begun by July 1. Thr> sum given. £250.000, •' 111 include initial equipment. Except the sifts of Frederick W. Vanderbilt, of the class of '76. this Is larger than any gift ever made to the school by a graduate. MET DEATH SMILING. Girl Who Went Over Niagara Asked Forgiveness. Niagara Falls, N. V.. Feb. 7. — A young woman, thought to be Miss Beatrice R. Snyder. of Buffalo, committed suicide this afternoon by wading into the river just above Prospect Point and going over the American Fall?. As her body was swept over the brink of the cataract she turned her face toward her would be rescuers . .nd smiled a farewell to them. John Spalding. park patrolman, was talking to Milton A. Parker, of White Haven, Perm., when the young woman lirsi appeared on the path leading to the river bank. They paid little attention to her until she began to run toward the river. It was too late to intercept her. "Without a moment's hesitation she ■waded into the stream. She turned once bad smiled on the men who were calling un her to stop, but continued to move rapidly into deep water. In an instant she «a« off her feet and went careening toward the brink of the falls. As she passed out of sight she was still smil ing. i 'ii the bank v.as found a handbag, and in it was this note: "Mamma and papa — May you both give me for bringing thi? awful disgrace upon you in these \ears of your life. Also may our Heavenly Father forgive all my sins. But 1 have been very good, thank God. You will find a slip for the money under your dresser scarf. With my heart full of love for all your kindness and tender love, good by. Lovingly, Beatrice." There was a card in ..he purse bearing the name Beatrice R. Enyder. With the lower river jammed with ice and the jam increasing hourly, there is iittle hope that the body ever will be re covered. Miss Snydcr was chief clerk in a Buf falo tea store. Sb€ had been dejected MP<e the death "of her fiance, George V. Meyers. They were to have been mar ried in a few months. She worked this morninc. COMET'S CYANOGEN. Photograph of alley's Said to Shore Bands of Poison. I Dy TclPsraph to The Triburr-.] Boston. Feb. 7.— Although the astron omers at the Harvard Observatory have not yet made a photographic spectrum of Halley's comet, which is rapidly ap proaching the etirth. a telegram received there to-day from the Yerkes Observ atory states that spectra of the comet obtained by the director and his assist - ant show very prominent cyanogen Lands. perhapi th< d ; . ■ of its potassium .. • • . •• .-.] to the tongue being suffi - .... ■ . i death. In tiv un bluish par. very sim ilar in its cl behavior to chlorine ; : -r; . -•■ • poisonous. It Is chaxac - to that of al ls ■ Th« ■ anogen is pr< t has beei immunicated to , •■ distinguished French =ci«?nti L and niany other as n< r .. h ,<r\ , msii B i great deal . • probabl< " n • ■ - through th« rail ./ /, SULLIVAN WEDS. Will Sail To-day for Abroad with Bride. [Xv T'ITT-aTh to Tn- Trlbun-.] Boston. Feb. 7.— When rh«» CunaT liner Iveraia ,=ails down Boston Harbor to-mor r ,.w morning among other cabin passen gers aboard will be John L.. Sullivan, for iiier heavyweight champion ■■■ the world. mA his bride, who until 5 o'-lock this aftT rioon wa? Miss Catherine Harkins. of Ro:t 1,-uy v . a o'clock they were married in the^paxlor of ih«~ Parker Houio by Judge Ingall?. To-night the former idol of the ring and his brid* occupy the bridal suite ■ »rd th« Hn«r .Sullivan refused to be seei', but it CMI , be -aid that lie is somewhat chagrined that his plans for a quiet marriage and a auiet getaway have fallen through 'LMtes^HarklnS and John '■ Sullivan *ero ... in Boston and early became .■■••■•■■ but when Sulllvkn tooh UP a pu« »H,tic career against h , T Kish«i the friendship was broken. , A £w years ago. when the former champion "™Watened with Mind,™, the „,- .■ i.ie u\ friend was aroused, ami Stti to have 'nun*. I him back to , uh * a'vorce from his firirt I; S,U „.. „,,„,, culminated I. wi,,, S2 Harkins. whh* c^inatcd in ti|eir "^^So^SS^. owing ... the ;b.; b . J " fl ' . - Catholic ChunD. Of which C '"ulUvau is a member, to functioning iJW of a divorced person were I'" rT^Se by the coup* ,!,.. in the brushed aside ft^ ,„„,., fed ,, y abf-T-nce of a. hi«i -* 1 ' a justic oi '"' ' • FRANCIS AFTER WARNERS TOGA. I.VO 7.-l-»avi.l it. Francis, for gt. J> JlJ '-- , jc Qo'verhor •>( Missouri, and i Iv'w '.'.'.'".Ttioiicd to national conventions a« ■ ,1 ,iiHl possibility, formally an . ... p^sidenU^^^ fo, -i,, part; non( | nounced »'t^ . il|o , atei Berialor iu^n/u-nc. i:o,,ub.i,an, i.-w.U, NEW-YORK. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY S. l»10.- FOURTEEN PAGES. ** PRICE ONE CENT - "•' - E^iSi?So ei CONTENT IN SUBWAY .STRAP HANGERS JVTLL NOT SIT DOWN. Interborough Manager Give Figures to Prove If if P. S. C. Hearing. Hanging to a sirap must be taken out of the list of necessities and put into a category of luxuries— luxuries, which th*» average New Yorker, particularly he who travels in the non-rush hours on the subway, will not deny himself. According to the testimony of Frank Hed'ley. vice president and general manager of the Jnterborough Rapid Transit Company, at the continuance of the hearing before the Public Service Commission yester day. Mr. Hedioy took the figures made by the commission's inspectors, he said. from which they testified last week tha.t g0 per cent of the express trains leaving the Grand Central Station in the non-rush hour? southbound on January 23 had staJiding passengers aboard, and testified that in the period of that inspection, which \>as a joint one made by the com mission's Inspectors and the company's engineers, there had been 94,000 seats on express trains southbound from Grand Central and only ti9.!><3o passen gers. No comment wa? rnado by the operat ing head of the subway, but there stood the 24.040 seats which those passengers absolutely refused to use, and he testi fied further that, upon a similar joint inspection of local trains southbound at the 28th street station, there had been 60 per cent more scats than passengers In the cars. The Inquiry into subway service, which was hepun shortly after the trying ex perience of President Shonts in a sub way train became known, ran through yesterday afternoon, enlivened by numer ous sharp passages between Mr. Hed ley and J. L. Quackenbush, counsel to the Interborough, hhJ Chairman Willcox and Commissioner Eustis, of the Public Service Commission. The inquiry will be resumed at •" o'clock on Friday. Chairman Willcox was particularly anxious to learn from Mr. Hedley whether the speed control system in stalled at ',t<ith street had really Increased the carrying capacity of the subway to the extent promised by Mr. Hedley when the company applied for permission to put in that improvement. Also, th« chairman was interested in the question of car equipment as related to the possi bility of the company getting the ex press service- below 00th street down to the basis of a ninety-second headway, as ordered by the commission and accepted by the company last May. MR. HEDUBT CONFUSES FIGURES. .\t one point in the hearing yesterday M' Hedley said that a ninety-second headway was impossible, at l^ast impos s ible on the basis of the commission's order, but when it was pointed out to him that he had testified previously that th<- installation of the speed control sys tem at 96th street would increase the capacity oii per cent, he conceded that, with side door enr? and leng-thencd plat form the ninety-second headway might ; ,. . , !■>■><-■ possible. "But you'll be lucky if you get a ninety second headway;* it'll be.a de.vil of a job," he added. ■Ivt us forget the side doors and the lengthened platforms," said the chair man, "for a time, and t^ll us what per centage of increased carrying capacity 1 1 ir- speed control gave. We hadn't or dered Bide door? when you said the speed control would increase the capacity 33 ).<-r cent. You were fighting side doors." "Bui I had the ?' ( !r doors in my mind. even before this commission ■was cre ated I i Legislature," r' tortcd Mr. H< die: • Chairman Willtox looked up in sur prise "You kept it remarkably well hidden, then," he commented slowly. Finally Mr. Hedley admitted that if station stops and side doors were cut out. the speed control system would yield 33 per cent Increase in capacity. "That Is, it would if It wouldn't." said Chairman Willcox, angrily. "1 want to know what benefit the speed control sys tem i" or was." The Interborough general manager finally put it at from four to five trains an hour Increase, and added that with out the .■=p- r< "d control system a ninety second headway would never be pop sib!°- He stated then that th«» subway's pres ent equipment was 823 cars, and that lact May, in compliance with the com iniseion's order, he had given orders for additional car?. Altogether, 250 new side Cn.ir cars were " '■ "d at that time, Mr. Hedlev paid, or shortly thereafter, though th" commission's order called for only sixty-four additional cars That, However, was based on Mr. H«»d ley'n previous testimony that sixty-four npf cars together with the addM side door e<iuipmeh't by changing present cars, woulo enable th€ company to give a ninety second headway service south of 96th sir. of mi th<- express tracks. Commissioner Eustis had been doing r ..me quiet figuring during this part of the hearing, and lie wanted the witness i.. toll then about the distribution of the equipment, present and prospective, un d"r the ninety second headway system i he commissioner had figured out that with the present equipment, plus sixty fou'r cars, Mr. Ilcdlcy, according to his r v.:i statement of the necesary number of cars for the ninety second headway yste;.->. could no-, operate at that speed. Mr. Hedley looked over Commissioner Eustis's liguresi ••pigures don'l lie.*" said the conimis ••Yours do.' retorted Mi Ifcdlpy, sharply. "Prove it,' returned Commissioner Enstis, sharply- Mr. lied ley lost ° u{: '" the subsequent •-vi imir.K ■':•• v '"' "he had to ' il " it that n U estimate of 7*\S cars necessary on ci press service on the basil of a ninety sfcund Headway took no account of the .. Bary withdrawals to the shops to repair ca ra and th« cars which would !,., !,, be held in reserve on such a headway tysteini uh ■-•■''' trains, to nil ii» ii. mi ••! ''■■• >■■■ or uwridenta. «^ . WADE II- ELLIS. T^Tio resigns from the Department of Jus tice to manage the Republican cam paign in Ohio. WADE ELLIS RESIGNS TO TAKE CHARGE OF OH TO CAMPAIGN. WUI Continue Prosecution of Beef Packers. However. Washington, Feb. 7.— After several conferences at the White House to-dqy ■\Vade H. Ellis, of Ohio, resigned his place, as assistant to th<> Attorney Gen era] in the Department of Justice to ac cept the chairmanship of the Repub lican executive committee of Ohio and to assume charge of the Ohio campaign this fall. Regarding the resignation of Mr. Ellis. the following statement was given out at the White House late to-day: "Mr. Vorys, the member of the national committee from Ohio; Mr. Walter Brown, the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, and Mr. Henry A. Williams, chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, have been canvassing among the Republicans of Ohio, to determine who should succeed Mr. Williams upon the resignation which he is obliged to tender. "After a visit to Washington and full conference with the Senators, the con clusion was reached that the- man best qualified to assume the' cares of the of fice as chairman of the executive com mittee at this time was Mr. Ellis, and therefore the President was applied to to consent to Mr. Ellis's resignation. from his position as assistant to the Attorney General, to take the duties of the chair manship of the committee. '•The. President was very .oath to lose the services of Mr. Ellis irom th© Department of Justice, where he is en gaged in important work, but as Mr. El lis was willing to make the sacrifice the President did not feel that he could in hist on retaining him." The Ohio political situation has been giving the President much concern and has been the subject of a number of conferences at the White House during: the last few weeks. With the expected renomination of Governor Harmon, the Republican party faces a hard tight this fall, and the President has been anxious that factional trouble should be elimin ated as much as possible. He believes that Mr. Ellis will be able to do more along that line than any one else who could have been designated to take charge of the coming campaign. Mr. Ellis has been known as one of the famous "trust busters" of the admin istration, and at the present time was engaged* in much important work. Mr. Williams, whom he succeeds ay chairman of the Republican state executive com mittee, recently -was appointed a national bank examiner of the Pittsburg-Cleve land district, and is compelled to give up his* political activities. It was stated in the White House to night that Mr. Ellis, despite his resigna tion, will continue to represent the gov ernment in its prosecution of the so called Beef Trust. Mr Ellis has had this matter in hand and ie so thoroughly Identified with it that, the Attorney General feels he should carry it through. Mr. Ellis has consented to do this. Senators Burton and Dick, of Ohio, had a long conference with the President this morning. Later in the day Senator Pick returned to the White House accom panied by Mr. Ellis and Walter Brown. It was following their visit that Mr. El lis announced his resignation and the statement above was given out. In a statement Issued to-night Mr. Ellis says he wants it clearly under stood that his resignation does not mean that he "desires or expects to be a can didate for any office whatever, either row or late; nor. he adds, "will any in fluence I may have be used for or against any candidate for a Republican nomina tion In Ohio, and I have no doubt such nomination* will express the fair, free choice of the Republicans of the state." He declares that he hopes to have the aid and co-operation of ali Republicans in the state Senators Dick and Burton also issued statements. [By Telepriph to The Tribune.] Cleveland, Feb. 7.— That President Taft has decided to force harmony in the Re publican party in Ohio is the meaning Ohio tans se« In the announcement from Wash ington to-night that Wade Ellis has re signed as Assistant to the Attorney Gen eral an*' will be elected chairman of the Republican state executive committee next Saturday at Dayton The announcement followed conferences In the White House since last Thursday, in which Walter Brown, chairman of the State Central Committee, Arthur I. Vorys. Presi dent Taft's personal representative In the last campaign; Henry Williams, present state chairman, and Senators Burton and Pick took part. President Taft is to be the Issue In Ohio next fall, when a Governor a nd an Assembly, are to be elected, the lat ter to elect Senator Dick'e successor. Gov ernor Harmon's defeat la tin; aim of the effort" toward harmony. It i » conceded il.al ho will I""- the Democratic Presiden t ' cAndidale ii lie wins Ohio .--sain RECORD BOOK .FOUND SOT PURLOISED. SAYS CLERK SMITH. Had Been Put Away hjf Tall?/ Clerk — < i lids Ingu try on To-dajf. I B:- Tfi-c-a;.u to The Tribune ] Albany, Feb. 7.— The record book of the Assembly Internal Affair? Commit tee for 1901, which could not be fcxmd ■when counsel for Senator Benn Conger, In the Allds bribery case, desired to ob tain data from it, has be<=n found It reposes to-night in thr saf^ ol Ray B. Smith, Clerk of the Assembly, who sa>s he \m!l produce it whenever it is wanted. This is the bo<->i< which would contain detailed records of the history of the Stevens and Bialby highway bills, which are commonly believed to be the legisla tion meant by Senator Conger in his charges against Senator Allds. It was found to-day lying Just where it ha? been for a long time, according tr. tlr 1 - Assembly clerk. "A peculiar tiling- happened in con nection with tli^ rinding of this book." naid Mr. Smith. "After the stir was started <-ver Us disappearance the night watchman camp to me and said that the night before he noticed lights in the As sembly library. F never found out who was in there at the time, but it was not surprising, as many people about the Capitol probably have keys to thr- room. Any way. T directed that the room after that be watched and that a search be made for the book. The night watch man was unable to find it in its proper place, but to-day Dwight Goew?y, tally clerk, unearthed it from a closet where he himself had placed it several years ago. merely as a backing for some later books. I immediately had it placed in my safe so as to have ii in case 1 am subpoenaed to produce it at the Allds in vestigation. NOT PUBLIC RECORDS. "These committee books are not pub lic record?, and although we have made n practice of keeping them it is not necessary for us to do so. The only thing that can be found in the book which would be of any use in the In vestigation which could not be found in the Journal, which is- a public record, is the way each member of the committee voted on bill? while fn executive ses sion. This, of course, is not supposed to be made public. 1 have not looked over the 1901 Internal Affairs book, but do not believe that it could have been tampered with, as Goewey say? that he found it where he had put it himself. The only purpose in tampering with it prob ably would have been to change the vote of a certain member of thr- committee on a. certain bill." The Senate to-morrow will begin its inquiry into the truth or falsity of Sena tor Conger's allegation of bribery. Strong efforts will be made to confine thu-^ in vestigaticn to this one specific question, but already both sides to the controversy ha-r- begun to bring in collateral issues, and it is hard to see where lines will be drawn. The Conger lawyers have been ransacking the records of the For est. Fish and Game Commission for ma terial which they expect to use against Senator All'is. The Allds lawyers have dug up much information about indict ments against various bridge companies In which Senator Conger war interested. The Senate, by a -vote, may limit tin testimony as it choose*. Many of its members to-night express the hope that it w ill confine this investigation to the Bpecific question of whether or not Senator Allds demanded and took a jl,ono bribe, but will take up in further investigation? any 'luestion which may seem necessary because of testimony in this inquiry. LAWYERS SPARRING MATCH. The session to-morrow probably will be a sparring match between the law yers for the two Senators. The Allds de mand for a bill of particulars has not been complied with yet. Senator Allds's counsel probably will request the Senate to order this bill of particulars filed, which will mean a considerable delay. The Conger lawyers are ready to go ahead with their case. Senator Conger i? understood to be ready to take the stand. Under cross-examination he could be asked to furnish all the mate rial which the Allds lawyers asked in that demand for a b>" of particulars, and there then would be no delay. The proceeding bids fair to be a spectacular one. Already politicians and former legislators are coming here to watch the affair. Not for years has the Senate met to try one of it.'- members, as it will do to morrow. In some respects this Allds- Conger case Is unique in the state's his tory, for never before has there been * charge of bribery brought against a member of either house of the Legislat ure by a fellow member of that house. Also both men were colleagues in th* Assembly when the alleged bribe is said to have been demanded and given. The Senate, sitting as a committee of the whole, virtually will be a court and its members judges. Lieutenant Gov ernor White will designate a Senator to be chairman of the committee, and Sena tor Davis:, the senior Republican, un questionably will be chosen. Before this tribunal Janes W. Osborne, Augustus Van Wyck and David W. Van Hoeeen. counsel for Senator Conger, will en deavor to sustain his charge, that Sena tor Allds received the $1,000 bribe for failing to pTe?s to passage certain legis lation. Martin W. Littleton. Lewis E. Carr. Lewi? E. Griffith and Danforth {•;. Ainsworth will take tip the Allds end of the controversy. CONGER'S COUNSEL DEMOCRAT? H is somewhat peculiar that in this affair, which Is bound to become im portant in Republican politic*, <<!i of Conger's counsel and one of AlUta'a should be prominent Democrats. Messrs. « t.rr, Ainaworth and Griffith are Repub lican*, Ains\%<>rth being one of the wheel horses of thr Barnes Albany County or . uni.'iitioii. Be was counsel for Otto Kelsey in the removal proceedings. probably this Inquiry will t : ik •_ from louiiuiii'it <>v fount) IMS*- PEAS TO SELL CRETE. Reported Move to Give Island to Greece. London. Feb. 7.— A dispatch fro Con stantinople to i London newg agency says that the powers will propose that Turkey sell Crete to Greece, a.«« the best solution of the difficulty. WON IN THREE DATS. American Weds Niece of Eng land's Lord Justice. St. Louis. Feb..7.— Dora Eugenia Moulton. of London. England, a niece of Sir John Fletcher Moulton. Lord Justice of England, was married to David A Blanton. a St Louis commission mer chant, in St. Peter's Episcopal Church this afternoon. Mr?. Blanton mci her husband here three months ago. while making a tour of the country with a brother. Mr. Blan ton proposed the first day be met her and was accepted the third day. OPERATION ON KIXG. Appcndiv of Swedish Ruler Successfully Removed. Stockholm, Feb. 7. —Kin? Gostsve was operated on to-night for appendicitis, and it wa? officially reported that the opera tion was a success. Th" King had been suffering from con tinual internal pains since early Siin day evening, but it was not until tlr= os-ening that the physicians diagnosed the case as one of appendicitis. 1 .^uiring an immediate operation. The physicians Brst diagnosed the King? Illness as catarrh of the stomach, and the matter was taken with sneh lit tle seriousness that several members <_f the royal family attended a concert t'.iirf evening. At \n o'clock they were all summoned to return to the palace, w here they were apprised of the physician?' in tention to operate on hi? majesty THEATRE IS PANIC. Tooting Fire Engines Frighten Brooklyn Audience. A panic markeu the op^ninc; of Brook- Ij n "? newest theatre, the Liberty, at East New York and Stone avenues, tost night, when a fire broke out in an ice manu facturing 1 plant owned by the American Ice Company, directly acros? the street The house was crowded, and as the Ore apparatus drew up ir. front of t^e theatre to the accompaniment of whittles and the shout? of the firemen, the audience r<^e as one portion and Started for thr exits. Many prominent politicians had accept ed thu invitation of the manager. AI. H. Woods, to be present at the ouening. and cne Of them, Alderman Alexander S. Drescher, rushed to the .stage, interrupt ed an act that was in progress and shouted to the panicstrkken audience that ther<* was no danger. Those near est him then returned to their :*eat>. and thrir example was generally followed, with the result that there wen no se rious injuries. Through the foresight of Patrolman Ralph Hallweli. who discoverer! the tin. the work of the riremen was made easy and the blaze was soon under control. After turning in an alarm Hallweli rushed into the burning building and turned off the ammonia values, so that lhe firemen were not hampered in their work by the danger of caseous fumes. The origin of the fire is a. mystery. TENOR MUST PAY. Dalmores Held to $20jDOO Pen alty in Conricd Contract. Charles Dalmores, Oscar Hammer st-?in"s leading French tenor at the Man hattan Opera House, will have to pay the Conried Metropolitan Opera Com pany $2fXOOO because h» didn"t go over io Broad v. ay from o4th street in 1907, according to a contract with Heinrich Conried. The contract was signed, it wa? alleged, soon after Bonci deserted Mr. Hammerstein. Justice Bischoff, in the Supreme <"ourt. yesterday held that Dalmores's contract with Conried was a good one. and e:i foreeabt- as to the penalty clause of $20,000 r contained. The defence '*a? th^t Dalmore? had previously signed a contract with Mr. Hammerstein. Deipbin M. D^lmas, counsel for Harr^ Thaw in his first trial. acted lor the tenor. ELEPHANT EXECUTED Death Penalty Follows Ram page of Circus Beast. [By T< > ;«Kr ! to Th^ Tribune.) Evansville, Ind.. Feb. 7. — Mor© than four thousand persons to-day saw the execution of Fargo, a big female ele phant belonging to the Xorris & Rowe circus, now wintering here. The ele phant went mad yesterday, and the management of the circus decided to execute her at 10 o'clock to-day. The animal got loose from her keeper Ht 7 o'clock, however, and, running through the Fair Grounds, attacked horses and other animals and badly in jured several attendants. A panic en rued. The attendants finally got Fargo under control, and no time was lost in putting the death sentence into effect. MRS. SAGE GIVES $1,500. "Tagged" Three Times by New Or , leans Charity Workers. JRy T f i,.i;r<p v ' t.i The Tribune.) New Orleans, Feb. 7.— "Tag: your* it. ' cried a New Orleans girl to Mrs. Russell Sago in Canal street to-day. Mr» Sage sub mitted to having a tag tied to her muff, and gave, her card to the girl, with instructions to call at the St. Charles Hotel. This opera tion was repeated three times, and then Mrs.* Base took '" rover. When the three charity workers sought her out later in the day they wen each enriched by a check for SCO. Tug da] collections went to three chari ties—public playgrounds, the Travellers' Aid Society and Rest-Awhile, the summer home, for working «i"!.-. Ml Sage will leave New Orleans to-morrow for CaaV lorsii ONE CENT | In Cttj of y<rm Ti»r*, Jersey City ■■'I Hobokea. U. S. STEEL WILL FAVOR THE LAW WILLING TO SUBMIT TO Y./770V Garif Says Federal ( hmrter I» AH Right if Practicable— Perkins Welcomes It. The United .-'i l '*.* Steel Corporation, like Barkis, "is willin'." At least it \n in a receptive attitude toward federal in corporation. Ex-Judge Elbert 11. Gary. chairman of its board of directors. wa» asked yesterday to comment on th« Wick«?rsham bill, and replied: "I have not carefully read the pro posed federal Incorporation bill and am not qualified to discuss It. I have no ob jection to stating that If and when th* Concress of the United States passes » law on the subject we shall cheerfully and promptly accept it and incorporate under its provisions, provided the sam« is practicable." George W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan * Co.. said last night that he had not read the bill, but that he believed absolutely in national incorporation and super ■vision. He called attention to an ad dress he delivered at Columbia Univer sity on February 7. ItMi Just two years ago. He said h- had not changed his cpinton as there expressed. His subject at the time was "Corporations hi Mod err. Business." In that address he said: There is scareeS a corporation man ager of to-day who is alive to hf3 re sponsibilities who would not welcom supervision could he but feel that it would come from the national govern ment, acting through an intelligent and fair-minded official: but to b*» faced with the requirement to report to and be su pervised and regulated by forty or f.Tty governments, with varyine Idea and laws, of course suggests difficulties that are almost insurmountable obstacles. Mr. Perkins, in referring to the "forty or fifty government?." meant state su pervision. He continued: The criticism is often made that thai (national supervision; would amount to bringing business into politics. That de pends. If we had at Washington a ra'l road board of control, and that board were composed of practical railroad men. would not membership in such a board come gradually to be the goal of railroad men? And does any one for a moment think that if such a board wet com _ posed of practical railroad men it would be especially partial to the railroad in terests? Certainly not. WOULD BE IMPARTIAL. • Once on such a board a man could nc^ fail to recognize the great responsibility and honor of the office and administer v for the best Interests' of the pub and of the railroads at one and the SB m time. Thus the business man would merge into the public official, no lonsre" controlled by the mere business vie.v. and would act the part of a statesman, to the improvement of governmental ad ministration and not to the lowering si its level. This kind of expert, high-minded su pervision would not be opposed by th» business interests of the country. What they dread hi unintelligent. Inexperienced administration. To such rational su pervision may we not look forward to as a result of the sober second thought Of the people and our legislators — of their calming down from the bitter de nunciation of corporations which ha» been the prevailing outcry for sony: years? The spirit of co-operation Is upon v* it must of necessity be the next, great form of business development and pros res«. There was a hesitancy on the part of corporation lawyers to discuss the bin in detaail before Its submission to Con gress and before they had had moT« mi to study it. This was Edward M Shepard's reason for limiting his re marks on the subject to the observa tion: "If th« federal government would at tend to it 3 own business and allow th« states to attend to theirs, we should be better off. I don't believe in the fed eral government's incorporating com panies for general business." WANTS a STRICTER LAW. Another prominent corporation lawyer, who did not care to be quoted, was will ing to discuss the measure at greater length. He is strongly in favor of ■••■ eral incorporation, but wants the pro visions of any law on the subject stricter in some respects than in the Wickersharri bill, so that, as he expressed it, "the ■•> curities of a corporation with a national stamp on it shall be as honest in their way as a national bank not<? is in it-. He thought the large corporation? would welcome federal incorporation to protect them from the contradictory and conflicting regulations imposed by the different states, but he saw in the Wick ersham bill, as drawn, loophole? for th? inclusion of dishonest concerns. ' Th* greatest of these loopholes, he considered. was the failure of the billto demand th filing of statements by the corporations in a public office where they could b* scrutinized by any one in the mood for It. He did "not think the supervision of the Bureau of Coroprations sufficient safeguard against manipulation tr> th« detriment of the stockholders Another detail he objected to was th provision compelling the appointment of appraisers to determine the value of property being bought by an issue of stock. . "Too great a temptation to bribery* and graft." he commented. •;\Vhat they ought to insure is that! in case any property hi exchanged for etocU at par and is found to fall short in value those receiving the stock ?ha'l make >■. the difference in cash. There would b« mighty little water with such a clause operative. But. as proposed, the say so of the appraisers, no matter how venal they might be. would be the last word in the case, and the stockholders would have M redress." The clause in the bill forbidding any corporation under Its provisions to hold stock in another corporation would work hardship, this lawyer said, and should be changed to forbid any corporation or officer from voting any stock fc^ld In the treasury of the corporation. He would have violation of this made a misdemeanor, punishable* by a j«tii sen- WHERE TO TAKE LUNCH And drink the hi>;h.- typ« of America" ■wines. H. T. Dew« & Sons Co.. US Ful*cvt St.. N. Y. - Advt