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ONE CENT VMV M IAIN- ...V 23JL01 1 A FT SPEECH LIKED JT.MEFS IX BISIXESS Girr views. "Aito : .-hr Excellent;' Says Qaru—Cleva. Experts So Effect on Stocks. TTidcir^ad approval by well known ' _„-' ~«-ted the publication yesterday of j 2?«sneecli deHvered by President Taft : f : th ; Unco^ Pay dinner of the r.- ; t.".v^r an Chob last Saturday night. "",4- 'L^ir.frt in the busmen and *-' a r."=-,l world bailed it as a masterly • of oxist^= condition? and as pressing r.one of the "alarming- feat- | h-ralded by cpnain Interests. ; ** Yerre^tative of what the policy of, the'administr-Tion was to •' _ . Km believed by many thai FresJ- ; <j«it Ml was peculiarly felicitous Hi j .... of his address where be opened | ♦he doer to invitation to the business men of tie rountry to meet the govern- ; ment ha'.f way in soli-ing ■"-- problems ; r , jjjg time. It was pointed out the : Fr<?sicer.T had done co when he said \ T^.at although the administration of ; rourse woald uphold tne 23ws. he cenipled | ■»ith it the assurance that this -aould ,--,-.-,• best calculated to \ prevent a destruction cf public cons- \ denoe := b-sir.ets. EXCELLENT- SATS GAKT. Judge E. K. Gary, chairman of the heard cf directors the United States ST**! Corporaticn. did not overlook yes r*rcay ary word ia ••- speech. He as -,-ab:e to b* present at the dinner, but. in his £pErtrr:ents at th»* "Waldorf, with tin in. "upij reports before him. Judge <xarr told a reporter of Th«s Tribune resterday that the President"? address -*zs "•cor.cUlatcry in its tcne and alto ... exceDent-** He referr^ to it M being a presentation of the policy of the p-esect administration concerning the subjects referred to. "It !s plain, explicit cmnprehen sri-e." continued Judge ---- "Us tone - Though firm and vigorous, is neverttie ;«e celm sr.d entirely free from preiu nir:* er passion. Tfas utterances are those cf k Ftateimsn as contrasted with Kuch as mirht be expected frcrn a dema ror-je or even a mere politician. Th* .-peech was timely and will '- of great t«<aeSt the business interests °f the. c**TmtrvJ ' That r^rt of the address which re fers to the questions :n which 1 un T^rticularly interested should not be «b jecied to if I understand the position of -n- "---'-■■ althonsii it i? possible Fomething might properly be added as to retail or irethod. "I l:k-£ the ...... "that those en -j.- e^f ;n rn<><j?m business, especially of Ts£jrui£^ti»r~ u»mi__transportation, shall pursue the policy •".;>-. respect to their competitors of "live and I*»t liv«." ' Thin 't'ndition cannot b* realized *>itn*r by -.-ireasor.abic ''ombinat'ons nor by de : .... ■*> competition. "The Pro&id^rt states that the laws of the ooniirv must be enforced, is every Tie. sTom to execute th*» laws must m- FiEt, r.ut he removes the stine by further rtatins that this will be done in the way :»st calculated to prevent a destruction o: public cf>nf?d''nce in business ■I think this expression is of great s^s r.i^cance. for the administration will rln.l ail of the important interests "of the i ountry. -fh^ther they are in the courts r>r otrvrwi-*-. di^r^s^d to meet the <?ov err.wnt half way in reaching a Bota • K .n Tvhich shall protect property and rromote business success, and ye?, at •he ssTne time prevent injustice or op . -oseion to any. There will be. I be- M-t-.e. no csus* for court proceeding if sli of us will honorably and cheerfully tr.-ei the administration on a fair basis. FRIENDLY ADJUSTMENT. "Personally T think the government r--ht to ana will give due consideration tol-the fact that there ar» nkny condi tions in ownership and methods which bare been reached without any intention » • iolate the laws of the country and - ithout opposition on the part of th<^ administrators of the law, and should ret be attacked, to the prejudice «f •■ -* Pecuniarily interested, firhout ful! op rorronity to reach an adjustment which ■» ill h^rm r.o one. ..... - ■ • . - to a . .. . .-■ . • i.. - - - Henry Clews, ihe banker, said: The President's speech was about •nfcat vs_z expected of him. H*r simply reiterated -nhat he *aid in his speeches ca hi? swing around the- country. He •■how.- a f.rr.i attitude against the law breaker. Enforcement of the laws is t^e proper function of the Chi^f Execu tive. It la what be is there for. The ln*e must be enforced to preserve peace «r;d ord^r. If trusts .arid cCTporations • •r«;uk them v.-ith impunity, individuals •ivula sot be expected to dv differently. I do net believe the ■ed uill have •nj effect on sf^-urities, as tf.e Stock '^s airtsady discounted jt." 1 MACKAYTS VIEWS COINCIDE. Although nut intended as eotrment upon Mr Taft's speecii. Clarence H. Mscicay, on returnins from at? inspec tion trip :n thr- .South, said in comiseht •■? on business ebndlUontt: P~~ie Postal Telegraph Coui|uiny*s for r-i'tepsions, enlarse?nont>: and ■SlI expansion of facilities through 'rj\i* the So'jtij wflj be carried out as de mur.'is require in ail dire>uon.-. p^nd • :jC rtecjsions by the Saprerie Court may t*. and doub: !*ss are. 'nirxjrtijnt, and proposed '.egifciation in Con'greHs may or JRay not be but what of it? "Propertk^s are not going to to con fiscated aiid the country is not going to f>n rlrc obntxiry. we have only to rid oursolvos of EOly a>»prehens-ions of v tiuon nlTjcsa! assaults lipon legitimai^ bu» ! ir«-ii; t . er^oy the s:eners! prosi-erity • •• - . -. . To-<la« and to-morro^. f*«r r:*in« trTjip""- - " upp FIX!) GIRLS BODY Washed Ashore Sear Atlantic lit — Warrant for a Man. Atlantic City. Feb. 13.— Frozen stiff. the body of Jsnc Adam*, who disap peared from this city on Friday evening: of last week, was washed ashore to-day ••• Ventnor. After . thawing out the body County Physician Bonder disco vered that death was due to a heavy blow over the left fve. which had caused a hemorrhage of the brain. When she left her sister and Arbis Slier on the pier last Friday evening Miss Adams was accompanied by Will iam Siler. the older brother of her sis ter's companion. The younger couple vent to a dance hall on the pier. 'Later. ■when they reached the .Adams home, on North Missouri avenue, they found that Jane had not returned. H»r mother was -worried and went to the Siler home, -where "STilliam said he did not know what had become of Jane. Mrs. Adam? had ■ warrant issued for his arrest, but h* .-c not been seen about hi? home t-ince the day following th disappear ance of the eirl. PERIL OF 38 PERSOXS. Sir Vessels Hastening to Wreck of the Lima. Valparaiso. Chili. Feb. 13.Immediate ly on -.-.-.- -- of ■•-■ --■■• that the Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Lima had been ■ recked on a reef in the Huambl'.r Passage, ■- the Strait of Magellan, and that *isrhty-eia>lK persons had been left, aboard, the Chilian government sent the protected cruiser Ifinlstro Zen* 0 -- to the rescue. Following quickly in the wake of the cruiser are five steamers, which the navigation company ordered to pro ceed at top speed to Magellan. Th fate of tin .: who were left behind by' the British steamer Katum^t. which rescued 2 5 of th° passengers and ere* win not be known antfl" the MiniPtro Zenteno, which carries • - >ct arrives there Xo further word was received to-day from Ancud. -.vher* th* Hatumet put in -with the survivors. According- to late dispatches received last night, there is POiTiP hope that the Binder of the passens-«=rs and crew on the Lima may be able to hold out if aid reaches them quickly. The Hatum<rt, after taking off 205 persons, was .-.,._.. to proceed o n account of the danger of being swept on the rocks by th* 3 storm. The persons left on th e Lima Include the captain, five .-»--• and two first class passenger?". charcots bad luck. Long Scries of Accidents to he Pourquoi Pas. POT a *- - - •- Chili. Feb. 13. — Further details" have been received here of the voyage of the Fourquoi Pa», whi<-h is now. returning with Dr. Jean M- Char cot's Antarctic expedition. The Pourquoi Pas, on reaching th*» region of i' 1 on her trip to the • rth, stranded.. on the coast of Graham Land, but was refloated after thnv> days. On th* resumption of the voyage the Liner had a long series of H<--.~idents. was ii collision with a number of icebergs and lost her rudder <~'T\ ing to the pressure of. the ire. Th* crew, hm* evor, managed to construct a jury rudder. Thor^- was considerable suffering among th*> men durins the many months in the Antarctic regions, scurvy and h«»art disease being the chief ailments. The s":]>nti}k- observations «re con ducted With th« pr^atest rare and thus the object of the .^xp^dition KM in part rpaliz^d. Numerous journeys were made ... ice, ■••... impossible to use automobiles on account of the bad condition <>f th>' Ice fields. The stranding of t!)*- Pourquoi Pas and the collisions with b^rgs caused a serious leak at the outset of the expe dition, which proved impossible to re pair. -■■>■.'.' flowed in it all times and th* 1 pumps were In constant os« until the end of the voyage. The steamer was ex posed to violent storms on the return trip as far as th« Strait of Magellan, and was compiled to put in at an ob scure harbor for two days to repair the engines. A scarcity •■: provisions and roal. the damage to the ship and the ex haustion of the crew mad*- necessary the return. ASQUITH WEAKESS. Humor of Concession to Irish Party— Hint of Election. London, Feb. l^.-Rumor is busy with the Prime Minister's visit to the King at Brighton on Saturday, but Mr. As o.uith wont immediately for the week end into the country, and neither the .lanv-s of the new ministers nor any thing authentic regarding the govern ment's policy has ••■ allowed to leak out It i-s believed that final decision will be made when the Premier com municWes the King's views to the Cab inet Council to-morrow. It is said, how ever that at the last moment Mr. As quith yielded to die Extr«n.l»t« and the P^dmondites. and. on the ground that a discussion of the address and the budget uould postpone the question of the veto of the House of Lord, until alter Easter ha< consented to introduce the veto bill before the .-•■■-■■ O l, r ^. endangers the budget anu may ».rir,g"aoout another general election m • few months. • <i-niricant stau-ment was mace lait right V one of the Liberal wWps, r M F Fuller, who. in ■ ">• ■ at Trovvbridge. admitted that within the ., three days diflicultie- had arisen wHch'made it quite possible- that the Hotiec of Commons would reject the h dP<-t They did nOt kn ° W What atU " V the Nationalists would assume, ho tU id and it was quite possible that they fSkht within a few months haw I? fight 1-er general election on an issue of important to the democracy f .„« country .-.•dins to the latest report; tVinaton Aceo Churchill will succeed Mr. rSoSon* al the Home Offloe> Ausus " "li'rr^n an d John Buna retaining tine x>i ' _ ut pest- .-us Chief Secretary )T\Xn,i and Pr^ldent Of the Loo*. G^rl'ment Board, restively. , NEW-YORK.' MONDAY. IKBRI WRY 14. IWIO.-TWELYE PAGES. »* FiXE.SAYS CARNEGIE PRAISES MAYOR IOR TAX VTTEBAXCES. 7/7 Characteristic Letter Say* Real Estate Should Be "Taxt Heiier." Andrew Carnegie has sent a letter to | Mayor Gaynor thanking him for calling attention to the "folly and injustice" of ! the personal property tax. Mr Car- ' negie's letter is full of approbation of tlie Mayor's suggestion that the tax be j "abolisht" — and of other examples of j condensed spelling. The Mayor, in h*S j r»-ply. confesses to feeling "compeid" to j compliment Mr. Carnegie on his spelling. Among the many communications re- I ceived by Mr. Gaynor bearing on the matter of abolishing the central persona! tax Mr. Carnesrie's is the only one that submits for consideration "tax? hevier. ' "welthy citizen?." "renewd." "assest." etc. Mr. Gaynor says in his reply that. like Mr. Carnegie, all correspondents on the subject are in favor of doinK away with it. If the "intelligent will of T he community" calls for Immediate ac tion looking to the repeal law the Mayor promises Mr. Carnegie to have it prepared and sent to Albany. MR. CARNEGIE? LETTER. Mr. Carnegie's letter follows: As a contributor to he personal tax, I venture to thank yon for calling attention to ••■■ folly and Injustice. An examination of the list of those who pay reveals th* fact mat these re comparative!:- tew and upon surprisingly small amounts. The ab sen of many names of rich citizens is eoually surprising, but these are not th* greatest evils of the tax. Every year communications appear in- tli« pr^s& denouncing rich citizens tor defraud ing the city by paying only upon a mere fraction of their personal property. Few understand that the law only require? indi viduals to pay upon what they are assest, and still i>^-»r know that if the tax were levied upon ''"= whbl° personal property ot millionaires they would be compeld to ac auirt residence outside the city and thus lawfully escape paying anything;, as many already do. There are" several other lawful modes of escape but none that seems to me satisfactory. Strictly legal means are sometimes not strictly right. HELD UP FOR REPROBATION Speakers in New York every now and then hold m<* up for reprobation before audiences because I only pay upon rive, millions personal property* seemingly igno rant of the, fact that this is all the law r<=-auires. It i- the assessment made by • '.- commission. In your speech last evening at the un veilins of the Jesup --•'■•- • ■■■'•: very prop erly rebuked "■"- slanderers of our city. who seem to exult in defaming her. bur I 2.m disposed to believe that no ■-•hare" made aaainst our a«- knowledged or imaginary *>viis tells so banefully upon her reputa tion, bo! at home and abroad, .is the charges made yearly that even some of her best known citizen? Ide city taxation. I have had t to ■•••;.-■ the matter in Europe by jrivin? my personal experience, and sev *>iai timee [ have intimated to my lecal ad riser here that I might have seriously to consider fixing my residence elsewhere, (as many do. (ho still residing beret, no' to esca.oe taxes but to dispel the seneral im prei-sicr that J was not obeying but evading th« persona! i«x law by paying upon only a sm.-rJI part of my fortune; but his repr. has always been: "Believe rue. Intelligent people undrrstxind perfectly you best serve Xew York by frivin? her yearly about SSS. 000 nersonal tax, insted of. nothing," and advised aeaingt a change. But it is important thai the' masses us derstand what millionaires do.' We must justify our existence. DOESN'T WANT delay. 1 earnestly hope. Mr. Mayor, you will not postpone action until next y^ar, as pro posed. You have pur your tineer upon one of the cr^atf^t sources of discredit to our city, and the sooner it it removed ihi> bet ter. By all means let our <~lty "• ■' estate be taxt hex'ier or ih«^ needed sum raised otherwise, and the personal tax be abolisht as incapable of just assessment or collecr lion Htid the inevitable source <^? grrave ?us pirion of many nf our welthy citizens, even of such as obey the law. keep title ot ail th^ir personal property, b->ld city residence and pa: tne. personal tax asses-t without muni . As for tli* 1 ■ see?, they cannot lie ex ported to understand or to remember the diffoyer,^*- between a tax covering only whut is assest and one which requires a statement of what a man owns: nor should they be lired to under stand ■->> foolish and' perhicioCs L tax aw the formei". It should noi exist. With renewd Thank.-, and wishing: you- a public career which ends as well as it has begun. QUOTES NEWSPAPERS. -■ S.— l cull the following from this rriorn ingV pres:;. which proves that it i-an be relied on to rise above p^m' when the rityj merest.- are involved. Surely no Mayor over obtained more .-ordial .-lippon than here accorded in an effort to abolish an unjust and unenforceable law which discredits the city: The Sun: "The present system is wholly indefensible!" The World "The system i* wrong from beginning to end. It is grossly unequal in Its application. It leads to wholesale per sThe Time>: "Fo! mor«* • an three decades the' principles of tliat N'e^ York Tax ■ oln missioner, David A. Wells have been ac < eute<l an.l advocated by the soundest writ ers -T; • Mayor's letter' to Mr. Purdy in di^atf"; that hi> honor has given enlight ened study to the subject. It is time that the fare*- of the personal -.!> «a ; ended." The Tribune- "The Mayor has gotn- about it in "the. proper way to show the desirabf! itv of ahoiishm? persona! taxes. They con tribute a mere driblet to the stream of municipal revenue The administration of the -ax on personalty is grotesque. as the- Mayor' <=ays. It has been tested fo ■ many years and' Its results have been everywhere unsatisfactory- The bulk of persona! prop erty escapes taxation, In Its application the tax is grossly unju<t." MAYOR'S BEPL.T. cordia Your ... is one of t , c man: coming to me about tlie matter of abolishing the ... persona' tax. They are all in favor of doing it. But yours Is the only one expressed in the new simplified spell j-ifr I feel '•compeld" to compliment you Intthat respect. But what about the fate of Roosevelt when he tried it— . rather, ifi.d" to makti other people try it, yea or J: I J iiute your expression of earnest hope that 1 do not postpone applying •" the Legislature until next year. Or" course, I have no wish to advocate anything • <«» tr^rv to the intelligent will of the com munity. If it calls for the repeal la\r now l •ihaii 1-ave it prepared and .sent to A -" la-iv Or n.aylT a law giving us 10--al op tion" ii the matter would be more ! ' r ' ; " jp n , i not.^ th<* newspaper editorial ap nrorals which you quote. It is a sr-iat thing to have intelligent able, and fair newspapers, which most of ours are. Tne lc"J s«id about the other fciv the better. SCHUMANN-HEINE'S RANCH. Singer Buys Land in California for ' Her Boys. | By T>k-srapii to The Tribune.] S.*r. r'!«so. Cal. Feb! r..— .Mine. Schn mann-Heink. the singer, has iiurchae^d SCO acres or" land in San Diego County for fft.OOO. The property la In the beautiful El" <-'a;on v aliey, and include iiv.r. lemon \ and orange plantation?, and is kno^vn as J 'the Villa Caro ' Ranch. Tho property was j Ix.'usiu fron: Colon"! X- '' Fletcher an.i j jr. B. Gio.s--. of This city. : The Btngei v ill erect v home for her i < hikl** n on the ranch. She does not in- j I Mid to retire from the concert stage, but ♦ xppc ts l " 'Pend as much of her time as j «he can spare- supeii" l^ ll * l '' l " improvements on hei" newly . •jiare.! property, wherf. she tavs kh« n-lil ' tea<:b her b<*r» ■. be rrcat ranekers. SOCIALIST RIOTS POLICE WOUND MANY IX GERMAN CITIES. Sharp Affrays at Berlin, Halle i and Essen— One Men Fatally Hurt. ! BerUn. Feb. 1-".— Demonstration* by | the Socialists throughout- the empire. | after ma ?B meetings held to-day to pro- J test against the'suffrage bill, resulted in : serious affrays between the demonstra. | tors and the police at many places. In , Berlin several policemen were severely , wounded by stones thrown -by rioters, j and scores of Socialist supporters were ■ injured by th» sabres of the police r>^.- ) ports from placet outside of Berlin give j a number of casualties. The most se- j rious fight occurred at Neumunster, in j Holstein. where a workin«maii was mor tally wounded by a knife thrust through the lungs: another's hand was cut off and a third lost an car. i At Hall*, after the close of the meet- ■ in??, about two thousand Socialists at- j tacked the police, who drew their sabres ■ and wounded many persons. At KSnigS- t bore, where the Socialists returned in a : body' from the suburban meetings, the ; police, in attempting to divert the j crowds into the side streets, used their j side arms. They also made a number j of arrests. j At Duisburg. on the Rhine, the Social- ; ists in a series of street demonstrations after the meeting?, came into collision with the police The latter used their sabres, and several of the paraders were cut and bruised: At Cologne huge J crowds assembled in Cathedra! Square, intending to march in order to the meet ing places in the suburbs, but strong cordons of police held the chief thor oughfares and forced the crowds to take th c side streets. The meetings were bo largely attended that the authorities closed the halls after they were filled in order to prevent over ; crowding. The speakers urged the So j cialists not to offer resistance to the |. police. Sharply worded resolutions of ! protest were adopted. In the suburbs of Berlin about forty ; meetings were held in crowded halls. ] The majority of them were peaceably I conducted. but in Rixdorf, a southern suburb. ' the population of which num bers nearly one hundred thousand, an immense - crowd gathered in the public square and listened to speeches by sev eral of the leaders. A police lieutenant called on the people to disperse, but they refused to obey. Th* police thereupon | tried to break up the meeting, and some ' of the crowd responded * with a shower i of stones, slightly wounding the lieu i tenant and policemen. .After the meetings large. ."piWpjssioh* ■ •paraded through the principal suburban I streets singing the workingmen's ' Mar seillaise." Some of them tried to reach th central sections about the SchTess- Platz. but the police held all the ap proaches, .and dispersed the crowd with ,out serious difficulty. Later in the afternoon the police ordered a crowd, composed largely of half -grown youths, at the Kronprinzen Bridge, to disperse, but were greeted with shouts of "Blood hounds!'* an.l a shower of stones. An officer ordered the men to charge with drawn arms, and several of the rioters were wounded. At Essen also several ' Socialists or their supporters were .^ cut by the sabres of the police, but no one was dangerously injured. TROOPS CALLED OCT. Over Fortu Persons Hurt at Hatte— Frankfort's Riot. Halle, Saxony. Feb. 13. — Serious dis turban ea rr this afternoon at ihc close oi several - '■ mass meetings .•*--■ - ' iuffrage bill. A . . • crowd gathered in the - lar ■ theatre shouting. "£> ' runken Away with Bethraann- Holwegr' groups of th- i singing workingmens "Marseillaise The polio r <ed military as?is'>_ a; .-.. : a.'iil h company of infantn soon arrived at double quick The crowd, • er. had meanwhile disp« t . police with drawc sabres Many ens , . were wounded and about forty ■ em w rr-f treated at the university hospitaL There were many arrests. According to the official report the crowd first attacked the police with stones, but eyewitnesses deny this. Frankfort-cn-Mai ".. Feb. 13.— EU I demonstrations led to a collision with the police this afternoon After a num • : of Socialist Indignation meetings th^ crowds tried to form procesatona an : march to the centre of the city. The police were stationed at> various points and refused T <> allow the paraders to 1. Fifty wrrest^ were made, the . . ..line the & ilist ed Herr Wendel, who, while pu.'Sins the ; - irek monumeni ah ted, "Hun-itl! forjiniversa] secrei suffrage!" BLACKJACKS IN THEATRE. Gang Invades Moving Picture House- Revolver Ends Trouble. Twenty-five men, said by the police 10 be members of an Baal Side Ran?, entered the balcony of a moving picture and vaude ville house at No. t>o West 116 th street at about I o'clock last evening and threatened 10 m^ke trouble. They created much ex citement and annoyed the audience seated lor.- by throwing: things at them. When the manager and owner tried to remonstrate with them they pulled black jacks from their pockets and wen quieted only when Jam.-.-- Knfriand. the doorman, drew a revolver and ordered them ' oat. The police of the East 104 th street station wore informed of ill" trouble, but the men had disappeared when the patrolmen ar rived. , . j '; j : . ; ' J f. *i.. ; HERMANN JURY STILL OUT. > Portland. Or Feb. I J.— Alter thirty mx hour* spent in consideration of the ctu-e ot Rinser Hermann, tried for alleged . ons pfnrcy 10 defraud the government In ,i,, »..., % i !<in with the Blue Mountain forest reserve in this State! the jury at^ 11 o'clock to-night was. still unable to reach a ver tilct JudSO Charles E. Wolverton at that hour ordered the Jui V tocked up for the nlsht. RAID ON POLICE BIGIIER DESCEXDS OX A STATION. Take* Ten Men To Be Iden- tified hjf Prisoners Who Charge Clubbing. The investigation of clubbing charges ; against policemen assumed the propor tion of a raid on the East M)4tb street , station yesterday, when Acting Police I Commissioner Bugher visited the station in his automobile and ordered four po licemen to accompany him to Pol Headquarters. The men were not aware of the charges against them until they j wore identified by three prisoners in the; Tombs, who had complained of alleged cruelties at their hands when they were arrested on January 22. District Attorney Whitman forwarded the charges after the three men had bees sentenced to terms in Jail for 'he rob bery of a small quantity of candy from a Harlem store. According to their state ments, the prisoners were taken to the East 104 th street Ftation. and while awaiting the usual police examination were clubbed and otherwise mistreated. Commissioner Bugher refused to com ment en the examination after the pris- • oners had picked the policemen from a line of ten uniformed men. The inquisition was made more im pressive by the quiet at Police Head quarters yesterday. The offices were de serted, and only a few sergeants were on duty when the Acting Commissioner and Inspector Schmittberger arrived with the four policemen, whose names were given as Matthew Hoiran. James 0 Sui livan, George . Rowley and William Hauser. After a short preliminary examination the four policemen were ordered to the Tombs, where they were met by six men : from the Mulberry street station. Then j the ten men were ordered to hold their hands over the precinct numbers on I their coats and stand in line. A lieu 1 tenant was stationed on either side of ■ the policemen. i When the line had been formed. George ! Levy of No. 200 East 10l3t street, who 1 was sentenced to imprisonment for two : and one-half years as the result of the j robber: . was taken into the room. He ! identified the four men from the East ; 104 th street station. Frederick Veill ■ mann, of No. 1907 Third avenue, and i Joseph Monahan, of No. 194S Second \ avenue, who received sentences of six ; months and three months, respectively. I then were called to look at the police . man. They also picked cut the same I men. Although .Mr. Eugher and Inspector Schmittberger carried out the examine lion with rigid secrecy, the circum stances which, led to the charges were mad? ''public in police channels last [tight According to the report, the prisoners first complained of the alleged clubbing to the Tombs warden. Then they were taken before an. Assistant District Attorney, whose report to Dis trict Attorney Whitman was finally given to the Acting Police Commissioner. The men were arraigned in the Har lem police court on January 22, charged with being suspicious persons, after they had been arrested at • ■■' street nd Second avenue at 2:30 o'clock that morninz. They had several pounds of randy which later was claimed by I?aac Pearlman, of No- 109 East 110 th street. who said that his store had been robbed on the night of the arrest. Then the charge .... changed to burglary, and last week Judge Rosalsky sentenced the three men. While yesterdas bpi ■ P it fir^t at the. t>: : ■ - and at Headquarters, the uniformed po fficials ia- " regarded the diarges lo prevent the . . fro c being sent to jail. The . m en who were identified . -ci • ispei ted after the in to <n'X"-.r for trial It was night : Police Headqu « th« lnve! tiga i pr tically ended AMATEUR BANDITS IN TROUBLE Youngster's New Air Rifle Goes Off and Wounds Newsboy in Hand. Sauntering forth with his new air rifle yesterday, eleven-year-old Isaac Platt, of No 283 State street. Brooklyn, met a news boy at _.. .- street, and ordered him to hoid up his hands. The newsboy- was Morris Baker twelve years old of No -** Atlantic avenue. Smil ir.giy he complied with toe amateur bandit's orders, but the next instant his laughter cave way to a different emotion, for he grabbed his left hand and howled that he was phot. Isaac was so frightened by wnat he said afterward was the accidental discharge of the rifle, that he stood still, and a poiice man on his way to Police Headquarters, a few doors away, arrested him. Ar. ambulance was calieci for .Morris, who •went home with his wounded hand in ban dacer, and Isaac was taken to the Children's Society to be arraigned in the Children's Court this morning as a juvenile delinquent. OIL FUEL FOR BRITISH NAVY. Fifty Thousand Tons Reported Ordered for Warships. London. Feb! .4. -'Th? Daily Express" asserts that the British Admiralty has de cided to adopt the principle of oij fuel as a substitute for coal in the navy, and has ordered 50,000 tons <•. liquid fuel for the current year. HERO OF 26 BATTLES A SUICIDE. Wobnrn, M;is.- . Feb. —Major Ambrose Bancroft, ii veteran who (■■ .- in twenty six battles of the Civil War, committed sui cide ,iv hanging .if ids home h;-re last niglit. His body was tound to-day by a member of his household, who went to his room to awaken him. For several years .Major Ban croft had been failing, both mentally and physically. lie was Kventy-fllTht >ears old. He leaves a win who is now visitins ihrtir ion. Dr. I; boa R. Bancroft, m Los Angeles, and a daughter. KING GUSTAF'S RECOVERY. Stockholm. Feb. 13.— The condition of King Oustaf wa* so satlafacti rj» to-day that no official bulletin was iffcued. price one /~'T-V-T In Cit* of York. J«--^r f itr H->l"k» TAFT FAVORS BIGIIER Deputy Police- Commissioner Man Be Surveyor of Port. From one of the numerous visitor? to the city to attend the Republican Club dinner it mm learned yesterday that Frederick H. Bu?her. Deputy Police Commissioner, «m the' choice of Presi dent Taft tor Surveyor of the Fort, to b " appointed to succeed Surveyor Clarkson on April IS. when the latter's term ex pires. Collector Leak said, when asked about the report, that he knew Mr. Bugher had been considered for the place last year, but thai he had heard nothing about a renewal of the intention to appoint him. Surveyor Clark^on also ?poke of the. fact that the Deputy Police Commissioner had ?>een prorr.inently mentioned for the suryeyorship last year, bat of the recent report h» knew nothing. When Mr. Bugher was first said to ha the choice of the President for thai office there v.as opposition from several :nf!u pntiai sources. It ha? been thought lately that Mr. Bugher v.ould succeed Mr. Baker a? Police Commissioner. The salary is S7.So<">. The surveyorship car ries with it a salary of $*. c ** } AIR TRIP OVER SEA. fucker's Plan to Cross At lantic to Porto Rico. ' Madrid, "Feb. 13.— A dispatch from Teneriffe says that in his attempt to cross the Atlantic in a dirigible balloon Joseph Brucker. the aeronaut, -will be accompanied by Colonel Shack and A. Mesner. The dirigible Orotavia will be used and the aeronauts -cnl! strive to reach !f«w York by way of Porto Rico and Cuba and up through the South. MELVILLE OX PEART. Rear Admiral Says Explorer Is Victim of X'a-cal Jealousy. [By Tel«*raph'to The TrttNHN " Philadelphia. Feb. 13.— Declaring that the United States navy is controlled by a class of men whose petty jealousies and selfishness are slowly but surely disruptin? the whole service. Rear Ad miral' George W. Melville (retired) to day expressed ill concealed disgust at the latest turn in the North Pole affair. He charged that Commander Robert E- Peary is a victim of jealousy, and so Ion? as the navy holds such men. as balked Peary's promotion to the rank of rear admiral, the discoverer of the North Pole will receive no --.iirabie re muneration nor honor beyond a medal proposed to be given to him by Congress. Admiral Melville declared that there is no law that can bar Peary's promotion to the highest ofHce in his corps, with the relative ran:-; of rear admiraL re tired, carrying with it Hi pay of an active officer. .- DR. F A. COOK IX CHILI Reported Sailing Northward— An Interview Refused. Valdivia. Chili, Feb. 15. — Dr. Frederick A, Cook, the explorer, and his wire ar rived here on board the German steamer Osiris, having taken a cabin at Monte video. Dr. Cook travelled under the name of T- Craig. He and his wife sailed north to-day. He declined to gtre an interview. The steamer Osiris jailed tram Hamburg on January 5 and from Antwerp on «'■'"" ary S for Cailao. Presumably she touched at Montevideo, where the Cooks are saM to have boarded her. but her call ere has not been reported. ». Dr. Frederic* a .• ■ . bHi FEARED LAW. LET MAN DIE. Foreigner Was Afraid to Gut. Father in-Law Down. Cleveland. Feb. —a misconception of American law on th»» an of Otto Pich John Zahour. h:s father-in-law, who was trying to commit suicide, a char.cc to die. Pieh found Zahour han;ms in the par-try of his home, at No. SS2 1 ) Crotcn avenue. and keeping himself away from the wall by pushing against a shelf. He was still alive Pich had heard that it was illegal fur any one but the coroner to interfere tinder the circumstances, and he •■• at once in ■=earch of somebody who could summon that official. Meeting a policeman, he ex plained the ease to him. The policeman made a. quick run to the Zahour home and succeeded In cutting the father-in-law down before life was extinct. Zahour died in an ambulance, however, on tie way to a hospital. A LOYAL CORNELL HEN. She Lays Eggs Marked with the Col lege Colors After Taking a Course. Ithaca. N. V.. Feb. 12.— 50 cor.tagioua Is th» Cornell spirit that a whit* Ithaca hen of the most unblemished character has be»n persuaded, after a course in dLitetics with professors of .... Slate College of Agriculture, to lay eajsa bright Wth the Cornei! colors. The yolks are red and the ■ \ harmless djo was -- ran to the hen with her feed, and when it was as« that her plumage began to turn a delicate pink her egs* were examined and found to be more deeply colored nilL Other admixtures of dye turn the yolk oi the - ... pink and the hen's feet pink. MAN AND BABY OVEE3OARD. Barge Captain Drowned Under Iee — Baby Rescued Unconscious. Benkhardt Hewker.ard. captain •' the Jay Street Terminal Company's Barge 1, was drowned in the East River under several h«*avy cakes of ice off the foot of Market street last night. His body had not been recovered up to midnight. Taptain Hewkemtrd, with his wife- and baby daughter, returned to the barge ar »3Q o'clock last nigl-t from a visit to friends.. He assisted hi* wife to climb a ladder from the dtck to the roof of the barge and then with the baby in his arms, started up the ladderi Hewkenard had .half as c»-ndt«d the ladder when he slipped on the ice coaling the rungs and fell into the river. His body disappeared from the view ot his wife while the baby landed on ;i heavy cake of ice. unconscious. Trie baby was "rescued Tki'h a boat book and taken to Gouverneur Hospital. ONE CENT I Ib Cltx •* *•• To **-j J«TM>7 Cttf »Bd ji GENERAL PROBE SEEMS LIKELY WILL BE HELD AT 'AL- BAXV IF XEEDED. Speaker IVadsxcorth Sax.* De velopment* So Far On X Warrant It. p.- T-I-fnph to T!i« Trl>UTi»; Albany. Feb. 13.— 1f from further !s vesti^ation of the better* €■•*■■■ against Senator Jotham P. Allds any thin? tending to throw discredit on «h« Legislature or any particular member cf legislators 13 brought cut, the P.epnbli can leaders of both houses '11! »•*• steps to br -- about a general "boodl* invest! pal mi by a joint commitiee of the Senate and Assembly. Thia state ment can be made definitely. This attitude is very largely the rssnlt of the conference of President Taft, l-~'"r *ri:or Hughes, Speaker 'Wady*orth. Sen ator Depew. State Chairman "Wo«Jra«l. Otto T. Barnard and Lloyd C Or - M at Mr. Griacom > home in New Yorfe yesterday. The full and frank discussion of the situation by those men showed that however they mizht have been di vided over party policies at various times they were united in determination to clear the name of the Republican. p*rtr from suspicion of covering corruption. The Senate's investigation of the AHaja- Conger charges probably will be com pleted as a specific case. isolated from other matters. But if anything amplify; ing the statements about the '.'■*■ cor ruption fund is placed on the record, and this material shows the- debauching of legislators, the fullest investigation wil» result. LEADER? WATCH DEVELOPMENTS. Speaker TVadsworth to-night e*pres?»d his views frankly on this question to the Tribune correspondent. "The legislative leaders a-« wart 1 ~ ■ developments in the Allds bribery in ■.--_-■ -.------ interest," said ri '•to see if evidence is produced M neces sitate a general legislative investigation of the situation. No such material seema to have been produced yet." It was reported here to-night that resolutions calling for a general investi gation would be presented to-morrow night in bO houses of the Legislature, possibly by --. Democratic leaders. This, however, could not be verified, and it is not likely that in the present mam of affairs the Republican leaders will let their Democratic adversaries --' th» start of them in that fashion to creat campaign material. The political effect of this affair Ii realized thoroughly. Senator Pi" ( -' on ' e»r'« story may or may not ha.v- been true, but Republican leaders are actisz as if every word of it war, sospeL- AT the banning of die Senate^ inquiry there were skeptics who professed to discern a large whitewash barrel and * • capable operator in »he immediate fore ground, but no longer is there any thought of a thai investigation. Neither is then any notion that th !esrislat!ve leaders will shirk responsi bility for whatever other mvestizatiorm .... necessary to restore and retain public confidence. OLE> POLITICIANS SCAKE3X In other word?. tb« nmrt ca?" hardened politicians, hitherto almost impervloxx." to public sentiment, are . about ««nr«"1 nut of their wits, while clean m«>n of thr younger type, like - Wadnwortli are willinsr to take the l*art in lesnslative artion to rehabilitate their party. 6otw of these .... were expressed by th*r Speaker to-night in commenting on th~ Gri?com conference. Said be: *"At the informal ■ -•-•■■ held at Mr. Griscom's house on Saturday tb> principal subject of conversation was th* serious effect which it was feared th- Allf'<* case is havins on the party. No person present souzht to minimize th« seriousneKJ of this situation. No person attempted to lay down any definite pro gramme which the party is to take or make any definite proposal whatsoever. No suggestion or comment which S**« rise to a difference of opinion anionz those present was made. It was the earnest hope of all that the Senate should so conduct the present investiga tion as to free it from any suspicion of attempting to apply whitewash or beins innuenced in the slightest degree by any political pressure. The intimation con tained in some — paper accounts of what went on at the conference that there existed a division in sentiment in the conference is absolutely false." GOVERNOR WON'T TALK. Governor Hushes declined to make any comment en the conference other than la say. "I had a very pleasant trip. ' ". • Mready. however, the aW has sone out here that President raft mad- plain his views that in the critical situation , I II lag it would be folly for Repub lican leaders to continue to oppose the Governors general legislative policies. -..-■■•• he and Governor Hushes were in complete accord, ap parently, and the hint, was too broad to be lost. Therefore, it has become evident that when the investigators get through in vestigating they will turn to and as legislators enact a direct primary law which la pretty certain to be aatisfactory to the Governor, though it may not be the Identical bill introduced by Senator Htnrnan and Assemblyman Green. Real stat* Kxpervlsfon of telegraph and tele phone companies also seems assured, to gether with ■M amount of ballot' re form. The necessary reorganization of the party machinery thus probably -will come about under the direct primary system. .1//?. 3/OK DEFEXDED Pastor Takes His Part from Pulpit — Conger Talks. (By TVlesraph to Th«t Trtbun^.} Auburn. N. V., Feb. 12. — Senator Conjsr and Deacon Hiram G. Mo*, with half » oo»*n other residents of Gr^ton. returoeiX to th»»ir home villas^ last night* i-.i t>-