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THREE MORE INDICTED
FOR GKAFI IN QUEENS
Former Chiefs o! Sewers and of
Public Works in Borough Ac
cused by Grand Jury.
FOR LARCENY AMD FORGERY
•
Gossip Hints That the End of
Gresser's Control as Pres
ident May Be
Near.
Matthew J. Goldner, a former Sheriff
of old Queens County; Cornelius J.
Burke, who resigned as Superintendent
of Sewers of the Borough of Queens
;ibout a month ago. and Robert
Kreuscher, a hotel keeper of Rockaway
BSSjcfc. were arrested and arraigned be
fore Justice Garretson, in Long Island
City, yesterday afternoon on indictments
charging- them with grand larceny,
forgery and attempting to collect false
claims.
Two indictments were returned against
Goldner, one charging him with grand
iarr-eny. in having appropriated to his
„K t i use a check for $250 given for per
mission to connect certain houses with
the sewers by the Mathews Realty Cr.ni
panv on September 28. 1906. when Gold
n. r was Superintendent of Sewers under
Joseph Cassidy. A second Indictment
for forgery charges him with having
railed to mention the $230 in his sworn
mill of the receipts of his office filed
v Mb the City Chamberlain weekly, as
reijalrei ly the charter.
KurKe if= indicted for forgery in the
third degree, in that, it is alleged, he
lnrg.'-d the name of Thomas Brown to
four alleged reports madfl of sewer in
spection work which the indictment
Hl pr? was never performed. Another
H:.h<-tment charges him with trying to
and collect from the city an al
p.-d faJsA claim made in the name of
Thomas Brown.
Three Indictments against Kreuscher
srrew out of the inspection of a private
sewer in Channel avenue, Rockaway
Beach- According to the indictment.
Kreuscher was appointed a sewer in
spector on this sewer, but never did any
■work.
Following in the wake of the charges
■>f grafting in postage stamps made by
« "ommissioner Fosdick against unknown
employes in the Borough Hall in Long
Island City, the arrest of the three men
named created a stir in Queens. News
th?it the grand jury would hand up in
dictments drew a crowd to the Supreme
Ossat yesterday morning.
Just. Ivfore court opened District At
innx y D< Witt and Henry T. Weeks,
inrmian of the grand jury, hf-ld a short
mofetesKn with Justice Garretson, after
stlskJi court was opened and the indict
• s were presented. The grand jury
th<-n took a recess until Monday and
i< nr-i, ■w.irr&nts were immediately issued
for the indicted men. It was not until
'.ho afternoon, however, that the pris
■nirn Kcai! to arrive.
For more than twenty years Goldner
ras been prominent in Democratic pol
itics and business affairs of Queens. He
is reported to be "north several hundred
thousand dollars and when in court
yesterday appeared to feel the situation
keenly. He showed the effects of a
year's illness, .and his anxiety added to
his wasted appearance. He was accom
panied by Edward Veimeister, his coun
*•'!. and on being arraigned was held in
£2.300 bail on each indictment. Former
Rorough President Joseph Bermel gave
the baiL
Burke was the Best to be arraigned.
Ms counsel. John Gehring, was with
him. lie also gave bail of $2,500 on each
Indictment. Peter Hauck becoming his
surety.
Kreuscher. the last of the trio to be
arraigned, was held in $1,500 bail on
each of the three indictments, and John
Kreuscher. of Rockaway Beach, was his
bondsman. All three pleaded not guilty,
• »i<i tho counsel for each gut ten days in
v filch to make motions.
I'm to the present nothing has so un
nerved Hie Gr<es=«=-r administration and
its friends us tho disclosures made
yesterday morning by Commissioner
Fosdick in regard to th,e graft in post
age stamps that has been carried on at
♦he Borough Hall in the last two years.
it seemed to be the general impression
that Mr. Grosser might have to go.
Efforts were made yesterday to see
Mr. Greaser, but he got away. Mag
istrate John M. Cragen, who was secre
tary to Gresser at the time the alleged
frauds in stamps were being committed
la the Borough Hall, could not be seen
yesterday. His friends, however, came
out stoutly in his defence, saying that
Cragen, although secretary to the presi
dent, was not in a position to know any
thing about the forged orders for post
age stamps.
W. W. ASTOR WARNED BY WALDO.
Ftrc Commissioner Waldo is after Will
iam Waldorf Astor. on account of the con
dition of & lodging house owned by Mr.
Artor. Commissioner Waldo wants Mr.
Astor to put In a. sprinkling system at the
Palma House, at Nos. 90 and 92 Bowery,
and use greater precautions against fire
than at present.
A letter embodying the order has been
tsent to th* office of the Astor estate. No.
72 East 26th street, and will be forwarded
10 England.
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ABANDONS SANATORIUM
Metropolitan Life Will Not Build
in Westchester.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany has withdrawn its application to the
State Commissioner of Health and the local
health officer of the town of Somers, in
Westchester County, for permission to build
a sanatorium for the treatment of its tu
bercular employes, in deference to the sen
timent expressed by the people of the city
of New York in opposition to the construc
tion of such a sanatorium within the water
shed of New York City.
The company takes the position that
■while there can be no objection to the
building of the sanatorium within the water
shed based on th» theory of pollution of
the city water supply, it recognizes a sen
timental objection on the part of many citi
zens to its erection, and it prefers t<~> .ro
elsewhere and avoid public criticism.
Dr. Ernst J. Lederle. with whom the. rep
resentatives of the Metropolitan have been
in frequent consultation, has taken the yv.
sition that there can be no scientific objec
tion to th» building of the sanatorium on
the proposed Bite.
The additional responsibility that would
be placed upon the Department of Water
Supply. Gas and Electricity bjr way of fre
quent inspection of the sanatorium to spc
tliat the sewage was properly disposed of
has also been considered, and it Is for those
reasons that the company has decided to
fo»ego Its desire to build Its hospital In
Westchester County.
HO! FOR PARKS TO-MORROW
Many Thousands of Children Will
Enjoy an All-Day Outing.
May Day will be celebrated In the parks
o! Manhattan m Saturday by about
55,000 children. It will be. Commissioner
Stover thinks, one eC the biggest May
Itstivnl celebrations In the history of the
parks.
In Central Park permits hive been
granted for maypolo parties, picnics.
walks and dances in five or six parts of
the park. The largest number will be on
the north meadows, between lOOtb. and
104 th streets and Central Park "West, where
the permits allow 6.000 children to romp
and play all day.
One of (be largest singl<» parties will be
that of the Cornell Methodist. Episcopal
Church on the East Green. T^d street, near
Fifth avenue, where 3,000 children will
make merry. About four thousand will
monopolize the ball grounds in the lower
part of the park.
Twelve permits have been granted for
such parties- in Mount Morris Park, where
between 2,500 and 3.C00 will hold their
games.
In Fort Washington Park five hundred
or more children will march.
One of the larger festivals will be held
in Corlears Hook Park, where the East
Side Festival Association of the Neigh
borhood Workers will look after a thou
sand youngsters out for fun.
NURSES IN CONVENTION
Their Heavy Top Hamper Didn't
Interfere with Speeches.
Trained nurses off duty are just like
other girls. Most of the five hundred dele
gates to the annual convention of the Na
tional Nurses' Associated Al'Jmna drifted
into M mill Insulin Hall yesterday wearing
enormous hats. Both doors had to be opened
fen admit them. When Miss Jane M. Pindell,
the mistress of ceremonies, saw the hate,
shr> stood agli«st. However, as she la su
perintendent of the training school for
turses in Metropolitan Hospital, on Blaok
well's Island, she. is a woman ready for
any emergency, and she rose to ln^et the
crisis yesterday.
■ "You certainly will have to take them
off," she .said firmly. "Nobody In the rear
of the hall can sec a thing." ft
The delegates, who represented fifteen
thousand graduate nurses of the country,
filed out and piled the hats carefully in an
anteroom, only those wearing small hats
and turbans keeping them on.
Hiss Jane A. Deland, president of the
nurses' alumna? and superintendent of the
army nurses* corps in Washington, presid
ed. She said she estimated the graduate
nurses in the United States at between fift^
thousand and seventy-five thousand. "I be
lieve the time will come," she said, "when
we will join In the preventive work for
checking disease. We have been too ready
to accept conditions as w^ found them. We
have even greater opportunities for obser
vation than the physician, for we are with
the patient constantly.""
When Dr. Marion A. Mead, registrar of
the H^nnepin County Graduate Nurses' As
sociation, of Minneapolis, explained the ad
vantage of a. central registering exchange
for nurses, one of the delegates asked her
what "No con." — — "Obt.," "O. C."
and "3 p. m." meant on the chart.
"It means," she answered, "that some
nurses are so independent that they will not
take contagion cases, tuberculosis cases,
calls out of the city or calls after 3 p. in."
FIREMAN TAKEN FROM MAYOR
Commissioner Transfers Dooley Back
to Regular Duty.
Foreman Joseph J. Dooley. of the Fire
Depart m <=nt, who for nearly two years
was Ftat'oned at the .City Hall as a part
of the staff of the Mayor, ■Ras transferred
back to regular duty in the department
yesterday. He will report to take com
mand of Truck No. 62 at Central avenue
and Madison street, Brooklyn, this morn
ing.
Taking Foreman Dooley away from the
City Hall is in line with the policy of Fire
Commissioner Waldo in abolishing many
of the Epecial details. He was detailed
there in accordance with the idea of Mayor
Hodellan to have members of the various
branches of the city's uniformed service
on his staff.
MAYOR FOR OLDTIME FOURTH
Will Appoint a Committee to See to
Details, if It Is Wanted.
Mayor Gaynor In much in sympathy w'th
.the project to have an old fashioned
Fourth of July celebration, which would
f<ature the patriotic meaning of the day.
He has expressed his views in a letter to
the Merchants' Association as follows:
"1 have received many letters expressing
a wish to see a real, old-time celebration
of Independence Day in this city this year,
with a view to the revival of the spirit
of Americanism. I have an exceeding
strong wish to see such a celebration, and
write this to you to ascertain public
opinion on the subject. We shall find !t
running high, if many of us are not much
mistaken.
"We can have a grand parade made up
of our National Guard, contingents from
the United States Army and Navy, from
the Polite and Fire Departments, and also
of all civic, patriotic, historic, charitable
and industrial organizations arhtch will
Join in. It may be the school boy* and
girls of suitable age may also participate.
And at night they could. It may be. have
a grand dispkty of fireworks. The Mayor
will be glad to appoint a committee of
cltlz*ng to carry out the project If the
publ'r desire It."
SEIZE 50,000 BAD EGGS.
At the Kings County Storage Company's
■warehouses, in Brooklyn, food inspectors
seized yesterday &0/] C» frozen eggs in cans.
They will be destroyed. The eggs were
gripped from Chicago and traced to Brook
lyn by government official*.
V*'^*'^ ->3£- • ■ i ' ' .. '.:
TELLS OF USE OF SPRING
Ex-Checker. Whose Mortgage
Was Foreclosed, on Stand.
DEVICE USED SINCE 1903
Schwerdtfeger Swears That Two
Springs, One Light, One Heavy,
Were Used to Weigh Sugar.
For the first time in court in the sugar
fraud trials the government had a witness
yesterday who told of the use of the steel
spring discovered on November 20, 1907, by
Acting Deputy Surveyor Parr t and who had
used it himself. He was Frederick
Schwerdtfeger. a former checker employed
by the American Sugar Refining Company.
Mr. Schwerdtfeger said that he used two
springs, one light and one heavy, according
to whether or not the cargo was to be re
welghed by the city weighers. He said the
other checkers used the device, too.
Mr. Schwerdtfeger was the witness who
wss taken from his farm in Sullivan Coun
ty last winter by Secret Service men, as
tcld exclusively in The Tribune. On his ar*
rival here he made a confession before
United States Commissioner Shields at the
office of Henry Ij. Stimson, the government
prosecutor in the case, at No. 32 Nassau
street. Oliver Spitzer, the former superin
tendent of the riavemeyer & 131der docks,
in W r llliamsburg, where the frauds were
committed, who is serving a two years'
sentence at the federal prison in Atlanta,
had a mortgage on the former checker's
home. There was also a second mortgage.
Soon after Schwerdtfeger's visit to this city
the mortgages were foreclosed.
The witness figured in the case before,
Mr. Parr, soon after his raid, went to see
Schwerdtfeger on his farm, and on Novem
ber 30 came to this city with him. There
was a confession then, and in 1008 the wit
jkss appeared before grand juries here and
in Brooklyn. He was dismissed from the
company's employment in January of 1507.
Plan of Defence Revealed.
More of the plan of the defence, so far
as it concerned Charles R..Heike, the secre
tary ,of the company, was revealed
yesterday when Mr. Parr was on the stand.
It was In the course of the cross-examina
tion by John B. Stanchfield, of counsel for
the secretary. Mr. Parr had said that he
had investigated other sugar refineries. Mr.
Stanchfield asked him whether he had not
found differences between the weights re
corded by the city weighers and those of
the government weighers at refineries
other than that of Havcmeyer & Elder.
Mr. Stimson made strenuous objection,
but Mr. Parr was permitted to answer,
and said that he had found weight short
ages at the other refineries. Mr. Stanch
field wanted to get this in evidence, as
showing that the practice was common and
not necessarily within the knowledge of
the officers of the companies.
then Mr. Stimson caused a general laugh
by asking the witness whether his part in
the general investigation, while important,
was really small. Mr. Parr answered: "I
had an impression that my part in the In
vestigations was rather an important one."
Mr. Parr, under cross-examination by
Henry F. Cochrane, counsel for the defend
ants who were former checkers, said that
after the raid he went to see Ernest Ger
bracht, former superintendent of the Have
meyer & Elder refinery, a defendant, with
a letter from H. O. Havemeyer giving the
witness the right to see the books. As Mr.
Havemeyer had died since the letter was
written, Mr. Gerbracht had asked for other
authority, had obtained it, and then gave
Mr. Parr access to the books. The witness
said that no obstacle wat> put in his way
by the accused man.
Surprise for the Defence.
Mr. s^chwerdtfegef's testimony came as a
surprise to the defence. They sprang an
affidavit signed by him, but this proved
rather a boomerang when the witness de
nied that he had signed the paper as read.
The affidavit recited that the witness was
formerly in the employ of the American
Sugar Refining Company as a weigher or
checker and vTas familiar v/ith and at all
times used the scales at the Williamsburg
refinery; that he never saw or knew of any
appliance or device, whatever used in con
nection with the scales which would affect
the weight in any way. That part saying
that he never knew of any device or ap
pliance used to affect the weight, the wit
ness declared, was not in thY affidavit when
he signed it.
Mr. Stfmaon showed the witness a steel
spring. He asked whether the witness had
ever been one like It. The witness said
he had. that they, the checkers, all had
two of them, one light and one heavy. The
checkers who had them, he said, were
Kehoe, Boyle, Coyle, Hennessey, Stein,
Heffernan and Voelker.
Voelkfr is now on trial. Kehoe, Boyle,
Coyle and Hennessey are serving terms on
B!ackwell's Island, having been convict
ed in the trial which began on November
I». 1909.
Mr. Schwerdtfeger said that h« began
using the spring three months after James
Vail became Deputy Surveyor, in 1903. It
had been generally supposed that tfie
spring had not been used until several
years later. The witness said that he and
the other checkers had also used a small
bag containing shot, but that when the
mechanism of the scale was closed up the
spring was brought into play. He got h!s
springs from Harry Walker, the former as
sistant superintendent of the docks, now on
trial, he said.
The witness said that he received $12 a
week so far as the envelope was marked,
but that it contained $15. His wife, who
was called later, testified to having Been
the springs and to the difference between
the markings on the pay envelope and its
contents. The counsel for the defence did
not shake Mr. Schwerdtfeger's testimony
and did not cross-examine his wife.
Albert Lambert, a machinery expert em
ployed by the Postofflce Department, was
the next witness. A scale, the duplicate of
the one used on the docks, was trundled
into court, and he showed how the spring
was us jj. He was on the btand when court
adjourned until to-day.
MAYOR ANALYZES CONGESTION
Committee Then Hears His Hope That
It Will Do Its Work Well.
Jacob A. Cantor, former Borough Presi
dent, was elected chairman of the com
mittee on congestion appointed recently
by the Mayor, at a meeting held for or
ganization In the aldermanic chamber. A
-committee of five on plan and scope was
named and the committee will hold its
first hearing in The Bronx on Tuesday.
Following the organization the members
of the commission were sworn in by the
Mayor, who said:
Let's see; what is the population of the
whole world? If I am not mistaken, It is
in round numbers 1,500,000,000. It Is true,
however, that they could all be put in the
city of New York, each occupying two feet
square. Yes; and they could all be put in
the state of Texas six to the acre. And
yet here we are with the question of con
gestion of population. What a Btrange
world this is!
If the Interborough and the elevated com
panies would carry passengers in the morn
ing trains which run empty to The Bronx,
and then carry them back in the evening:
trains which run empty to the bridge at
two cents, say, they could carry all the
East Sid© and congested people up to The
Bronx any day and back and make money
out of it at two cents apiece. They would
be Just that much more in at the end of
the year. But what Js the use of talking.
about all these things? 1 hope you will do
your work well, and we v.iU talk about that
afterward.
WILLIAMS'S TRIAL AT END
Fight in Courtroom Enlivens
Lawyer's Summing Up,
CHARGE TO JURY TO-DAY
Last Daj Marked by Testimony
of Character Witnesses for
Tammany' Leader.
The effect of the testimony of several
Justices as character witnesses for Roswell
D. Williams, the indicted Tammany leader,
given at his trial yesterday in the Criminal
Branch of the Supreme Court, was somewhat
lessened a little later when the hallman of
No. 2 Wall street went on the stand. He.
contradicted the sworn testimony of Will
iams that he was in the real estate business
at that address. ■ The hallman, who has
been employed in the building for twenty
seven years, denied that Williams ever had
even desk room there.
The character witnesses were Surrogate
Cohalan, Justice Schmuck, of the City
Court; Justice Sheehan, of the Municipal
Court, and Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon.
Judge Swarm, of General Sessions, was to
testify but was unable to attend the trial.
The testimony given by these witnesses
was that Williams's reputation was of the
"very best for honesty, morality and deceat
living."
CLark I*. Jordan, counsel for the defend
ants, tried to prove by witnesses that the
conspiracy charged against Williams and*
his six associates on tr*al with him to in
validate the primary election laws was
really the work of Daniel A. Golden, who
was WillLams's opponent last ' fall for the
Tammany leadership of the 17th Assembly
District. Justice Wheeler frustrated this
plan by sustaining the objection of Ezra
Prentice, Deputy Attorney General.
The trial yesterday was enlivened by an
ejection and then a light in the courtroom.
A gray bearded spectator figured in the
first. An attendant ordered him back to his
seat and was pushed asidft hy the old man,
who thon was grabbed by another court
official and «jected.
A little later a young man got up to
leave while Mr. Prentice was summing up.
"Sit down'" said Captain Lynch.
"I am a lawyer and have an important
engagement at 4:30," the man replied.
Captain Lynch repeated his order, but
the young lawyer tried to push his way
past the old chief of the court squad.
"I'll take you before the justice," said
the captain.
"I want you to do that." replied the law
yer, whereupon the two men soon bagan
to struggle with each other.
The court was immediately in an uproar
and the proceedings came to a standstill.
The justice, half rising from his chair,
pounded with lite gavel, and the court
clerk shouted again and again, "Every
body be seated!" The other court attend
ants and Patrolman Fitzpatrick hurried
after the two men, who were clinched in
neck and body holds, but the unequal
struggle was soon over. Captain Lynch
winning single handed. He pushed his ad
versary into a chair, and In chat chair he
remained.
Daniel R. Golden was called in rebuttal
by the prosecution, and he denied the Etory
of the defence that he had tried to sell his
political prestige to Williams for $250.
Mr. Jordan then summed up, in his ad
dress to the jury insisting that the whole
erase was the outgrowth of a conspiracy
by Golden to injure the reputation of
Williams. He declared that Golden hired
men from outside his district, "election ex
perts," he called them, to carry out his
conspiracy.
"Williams had no reason to steal bal
lots," said the attorney t'lf you believe
that ho stole them you had better have a
guardian appointed for him as an In
competent, instead of declaring him a crim
inal"
Mr. Prentice, in summing up, called at
tention to the contradiction of the testl
money given by Williams that he was in
th<» real estate business at No. 2 Wall
street to show how far a man, he said,
would go when his liberty was in jeopardy.
As to the contention of the defenco that)
much of the misdoings was chargeable to
the inspectors of election, the Deputy At
torney General declared that out of twenty
nine applications for inspectorships twon
ty-four were signed by Galligan, one of the
defendants.
Mr. Prentice also explained the erasures
in some of the poll registers. In one elec
tion district 232 names were entered as hav
ing voted. When the ballots were counted
there were only 201 ballots in the box, so
that it was necessary to erase the recorded
votes of twenty-eight to' tally with the
ballots in the box.
In another instance, he said, the full
Democratic vote was recorded. Presum
ably, therefore, not a man In the election
district was out of the city or had moved
away in eleven months.
Justice Wheeler will charge thr jury this
morning.
ROLLINS TRUNKS APPRAISED
Former Cfovernor and Family to Ap
pear for Examination To-day.
There was much reticence yesterday re
garding the appraisal of the goods in the
nine trunks brought over in the steamship
Lusitania by ex-Governor Krank W. Rol
lins, Mrs. Rollins and tlfeir son' Douglas,
who are under $2,000 bond each for appear
ance- before United States Commissioner
Shields, on charges- of smuggling, this after
noon. 1
Th© appraiser, George W. Wanmaker,
could not say positively whether the report
of his examiners had been sent to the Col
lector, William Loeb, jr. Mr. Wanmaker
said that up to the time he left his office
yesterday the official papers in the case
bad not been received from the Custom
House.
It was reported at the Cut-torn Moose
that goods of foreign manufacture and
domestic make had been found in the
trunks, and that the former were worth
over $1,000, but there was no one to say
whether the foreign goods were dutiable
or'not.
At the Federal Building it was said that
the examination before Mr. Shields would
have to be held before it would or could
be determined whether to take the ease to
the federal grand jury. Mr. and Mrs. Rol
lins and Douglas Rollins are in the city,
and It was said last night that all would
appear for the examination.
FIGHT FOR "PURE AIR" BILL.
Allan Robinson, president of the Allied
Real Estate Interests, has sent a letter to
the Senate Judiciary Committee and the
Assembly. Committee on Rules protesting
tl.at certain interests are trying to defeat
the "puie air" bill prepared by Mr. Will
iams. State Commissioner of Labor. Mr.
Robinson says that the engineering socie
ties opposing the bill, which requires a
standard purity of air in factory buildings,
really wish their o»vn patented appliances
t<. be used Sn the construction.
The ensineers ask that a certain qr*n
titv <>f air b*» introduced, and thi . Mr.
Robinson thinks, ts not sufficiently re
strictive, as the air could come from any-
V. !;<! (■-.
ARREST ANOTHER CUSTOMS MAN.
Gilbert P. Williams, a former assistant
customs weigher, was arrested yesterday
on un indictment charge's that he accepted
l-rihes fiom Philip Muslea and Henry Aeon
fore. Importers of cheese, and also that
li> mad* false entries. He was urrulgned
before Judge Murtin. In the United States
Circuit Court, whore he, pleaded no( guilty
and was placed under J2.UK) bail fur trial.
HELD FOR WIFE MURDER
Man Gave Himself Up, Police Al
lege, After Woman Was Shot.
Henry Homey Bhot his wife in Newark
yesterday morning, it if cliarged. and tben
walked around to the Ist Precinct station
house and told the police he didn't know
why he had done it. Homey, so the police
allege, is a shiftless younp man, and on
March 18 his wife swore out a warrant for
him, chargrlngr him with desertion. She said
he had left her and her twenty-months >i:
baby and gone to Bridgeport, Conn. Yes
terday morning about 7 o'clock he turned
up at the home of hia mother-in-law. Mrs.
Mary A. Sloan, No. 133 Borden street.
"I want to see Ida," was all he told Mrs.
Sloan, and sh© called her daughter. Mr-.
Sloan says she heard a shot just as her
daughter entered the parlor, and that three
others followed in rapid succession. The
young woman staggered out of the room
and fell at the foot of the stair?. Homey,
according to Mrs. Sloan, walked quietly
out of the house without a word, and she
was afraid to stop him. He evidently
walked to the station house, a mile aw&y,
for he appeared there not long afterward,
laid a .32-calibVe revolver on the desk, ac
cording to the sergeant, and said:
"I have just committed a crime, and I
want to give myself up."
"What crime have you committed V asked
Sergeant McGeehan.
'I have shot my wife," was the alleged
reply.
"Why did you do it?" persisted the ser
geant.
"You can search me," said Homey.
Three of the shots took effect, all having
been fired into the woman's back. The po
lice say that just as she was entering the
room where her husband was she turned
and tried to flee.
COAST LiMER TESTS OIL
Yale Makes Successful Run with
Her New Fuel Equipment.
The steamship Yale, of the Metropolitan
Line, made a trial spin around the Am
brose Channel Lightship yesterday with
only six men in the fire room, instead of
the regular crew of forty -eight. It was tha
first time th© turbine Boston flyer has been
propelled through the agency of oil, and,
accordine to Robert McGregor, the con
sulting engineer and general manager of
the company, who installed the equipment,
the test trip was a success.
Oil has been used as fuel on American
war vessels and on the steamships of the
American- Hawaiian Line, operating between
this port and Mexico, but the Yale and hfT
sister ship, the Harvard, are the first tur
bine coastwise vessels to use this clean and
economical combustion.
The oil burners were put in the Yale and
the Harvard at comparatively small cost
and with little change in the original fur
naces, and as fuel the oil showed that it
had many advantages over coal. It was said
on board the Yale that she could take into
her two large oil tanks 47,532 gallolfe of oil,
eauivalent to 157 tons weight, in one hour,
and that her oil capacity was sufficient to
take her from Now York to Boston and
return and half way back again to Boston
without refilling. The oil gives off little
smoke.
On the trip around the lightship yester
day the Yale was not let out to her top
speed of twenty-four knots, but averaged
about nineteen knots.
Among those on board were Calvin Aus
tin, president of the line; O. H. Taylor,
general passenger agent, Captain H. O.
Nickerson and Herbert L. Bridgman.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Sunrise, 4:42; sunset, 7:10; moon sets, 3:04;
moon's age, 11.
HIGH WATER
A.M. P.M.
Sandy Hook s:l* 6:32
Governor's Island „....„.... f>:ss 6JI
Hell Gate 7:45 8:01
- ■
INCOMING STEAMERS.
TO-DAY. ■'-■.:■ v
Veufl. From. Line.
•Alberta Oran, May * Aust-Am
•Za'-aca Colon. May 13. .. .United Fruit
•Cr"n of Granada. Trinidad, May 11 Trinidad
Matt wan Lisbon. May 3..
Bristol City* Swansea, May 4 Bristol
Barbarossa Genoa, May 5 N" G Lloyd
Rio Grande Galveston, May IS Mai lory
St Andrew Antwerp, May 6 Phoenix
Penna Hull, May 5
Kathlnka. . . . : Baracoa, May 14 — — —
El Cid New Orleans, May 15. ..So Fae
SATURDAY. MAY 21.
Touraine Havre. May 14.... French
•Campania Liverpool, May 14 Cunard
•St Paul ; Southampton. May 14. American
•Bsperanza Havana. May IS "Ward
•Tennyson Barbados. May 15. ..Lamp & H
Ban Giovanni Naples, May 8 Italian
Arapahoc Jacksonville. May 18 Clyde
SUNDAY. MAY 22.
•Columbia Glasgow, May 14 Anchor
•Cedrlc Liverpool, May 14... "Whit© Star
Birma Libau, May 10 Russian
Men's Suits At $30
We cut five different models m Men's Sack Suits,
each the best of its kind in the whole range of
Fashionable Designs.
THE BROADWAY is single breasted, with three buttons, !^ns?
collar, low roll, form-fitting at the waist and coming close
together in front at the bottom. It is extremely modish.
THE STANDARD has a medium roll, not so closely form-fitting,
and withal a conservative model.
THE ROXFORD is cut on lines between these two.
THE HARVARD lias two buttons, with long roll, and i«s the best
coat of the kind we have ever made.
THE ATHLETIC is double breasted, with two buttons and
medium long roll.
THE FABRICS — Some forty different kinds and colors — include
imported and domestic cheviots, in Scotch and English effects,
unfinished worsteds and the finest of smooth-finished worsteds.
THE WORKMANSHIP could not be better, if instead of $30 you
paid $45 a suit, which is what you would pay elsewhere.
THE SAVING which we, as Manufacturing Retailers, give you is
about one-third.
Browning, King & CQ
\B ft X/ Btcackwr. * Tlislj i«ufi Soe*
\ \ %ff Coop. Sqw* .pp.*. Fifck SIM
»\V// BatoU)*: Fdfem 3asst m DdCab
FUR STORAGE
Dry Cold Air.
t IMPROVED METHOD.
G. 6. Gunther's Sons
Ertabliriied IS3O. . *
30! FIFTH AVENUE.
Eight j-nhip years' experience in the
care of furs.
Telephone 7260 Madison.
j 1
Moncenislo...... -Lisbon. Mar »V.-V i^«SS
T)\ Sud Gasve»ton. May IS "•> -"" i
•Brings malt. '•"_ <
OUTGOING STEAMERS
TfWDAT.
Tt>-l>A Mail Vessel
via" e 'south"Braxi!, L 4*H. £*>t m K^m""
sags IV. Haytl, R l>*-"soni iHs
Ml FUN* Rio Janeiro. Mn«2:»^ £«> p m
Seguranca. Nassau. Ward- -•• »2* w ' MWpm
Apache. Jacksonville. C!jrd«.. - i.wi»«"
SATURDAY. MAY 21.
New York. Southampton. Am. *»•" ft*. m
X A Victoria. Hamburs . H-A ǥ*>ȣ i-.^m
Caracas. Curacao. Red V *;**" t-OOpm
Sara toga, Havana. Ward . . . - 10. Warn I.w p m
P Joachim. Jamaica, H-A ... . I J •» '» m i:Ji>nm
Horatius. M'tevideo. Houston. 12:00 m o.£> P m
Minneapolis. London. Atl Tt.. % .f.-f;* „
P Irene. Naples. N G L . . •- - - " 30am
Celtic. Liverpool, White Star. -— S:^*^
rurnessla, Glasgow. Anchor. . »■%> P £
Lapland. Antwerp. Red Star.. 31. Warn
Volturr.o, Rotterdam. Ur S«C» — -to-an m
Antilles. New Orleans, So Pac - J-.J£ m m
Nueces, Galveston. Mallory... l-ooSS
Iroquois. Jacksonville, Clyde.. -—- •.£;££
C of Macon. Savannah. bay.. ■ S.OOpm
T MONDAY, MAY 23. \
Surlname. Demerara^DJVJ.ll:*) a m 1:00 pm
TRANSPACIFIC MAILS.
Close In N. T.
T* M
Destination and steamer r-"^r -"^
Japan, Corea, China. Philippine Isl
ands (via Vancouver >-f ff.. o . < Jay. 6:30
HaYa 0 !* *( v^'*San*"FraßCl^>-Lur- <ia^ 6:30
Sainoan'isiandsV'New* Zealand. Au»
tralla (via ian Francisco)— rentury.May 22. 6.30
SHIPPING NEWS
Port of New York, Thursday, May 19,
1910.
AKRIVED.
Steamer Matteawan (Br). Barcelona April
2 Seville 80 and Lisbon May 3. to the «ans
Ss Line, with mdse. Arrived at the Bar at
"steamer" Oregon (Nor,. Port Antonio May
1* to the Cuneo Importing Company, with,
fruit. Arrived at the Bar at 1 a in.
Steamer PaJoma (Cuban). Matanzas May 2.
Cardenas 5. Saeua 6 and Galbarien 14. to the
Muneon Ss Line, with sujar. Arrived at tn«
'steamer Chesapeake, Baltimore, to the New
York, and Baltimore Transportation Line, with,
cidso. Left Quarantine at 0:42 a m.
Steamer Advance, Cristobal May 12. to th»
Panama Railroad Ss Line, with 88 passenger*,
malls and mdse. Arrived at the Bar at 1.-J
* Steamer Crown of Granada (Br), -Trinidad
May U and Grenada 12. to the Trinidad
Shipping & Trading Company, with 14 pas
sengers, malls and mdse. Arrived at the Bar
at Steamer *E1 Mar, - Galveston May 13. to the
Southern Pacific Company." with mdse. Left
Quarantine 11 a m. Jacksonville May 1G and
Steamer Iroquois, Jacksonville May 16 and
Charleston IT. to the Clyde Steamship Co. with
passengers and mdse. Passed in Sandy Hook
at Stea^r Wlnd.ermers (Br), Cardenas MavJ,
Porto Padre 8 and Nuevttaa 13. to the Munson
Ba Line, with sugar. Arrived at the Bar at
noon. »-
Steamer Jefferson, Newport News and Nor
folk, to the Old Dominion ft Co, with passen
gers and mdse. Left Quarantine at 2:30 p m-
Steamer Ossabaw, Brunswick May 10. to th»»
Brunswick Ss Co. with lun!D«r. Left Quarantine
Son dy H~k. N J. May 19. 9:30 » m— Wind
calm; clear; smooth sea.
SAILED.
Steamers La Provence (Fr). Havre; Grosser
Kur/irrst (Ger). Bremen; Ethelwold <Br>.
Porto Cortez; Buffalo (Ger). Flushing; Korona
(Br) Demerara; Nordbeen (Dan). Sydney;
Simon Dumols (Nor). Porto Plata: J H.
Devereux Boston for Philadelphia: El Paso,
Galveston;; Jamestown. Norfolk and Newport
News; Carpathia (Br). Genoa; Lombardia
fltal> Naples; Strathclyde {Br). Melbourne;
Matapan (Br), Kingston; Alleghany (Br>.
Inagua; M-rtda. Havana; Seneca. Havana;
Herman Frasch. Sabine: Osmulgree^ B™n»
wick; City of Savannah. Savannah; Hamilton,
Norfolk and Newport News; Winyah. Phila
delphia: Kirby Bank (Br). Norfolk and New
port News; Chesapeake, Baltimore.
STEAMERS AT FOREIGN PORTS.
ARRIVED.
Rotterdam. May 19, 6 p m— Nieuw Amsterdam
(Dutch). New York via Boulogne.
Naples. May 19. 8 P m— Neckar (Ger>. New
York for Genoa (and proceeded).
Valparaiso May 19 — Graster Hall (Br). New
York via Bahia. Blanca and Ptuita Arenas.
Singapore. May 19— Shlmosa (Br). New York via
Aden for Japan.
London, May 19- Tamarac (Br). New York
Gibraltar. May 19— Hamburg (Ger). New York
for Naples and Genoa (and proceeded).
Southampton, May 19^ — Teutonic t'Br), New York
via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
Boulogne. May 19, 6 a m— Nieuw Amsterdam
(Dutch). New York for Rotterdam (and pro-
Havre? May 19, 7 a xa— La Savol* <Fr>. New
Rotterdam. May IS— KxcelsioT (Ger>. New York.
Stettin May 16 — G*pßtemund«> (Ger>. New York.
Cadiz.' Maj- 19 — Manuel Calvo (Span). New
Naples. May II — San Giorgio (Ital). New
York; 17th. Roma (Fr>. New York.
Marseille?. May 17— Aral (Br), New York.
SAILED.
Southampton, May 19 — Kroonland fßelg)
(from Antwerp). New York.
Bafcia, May 17 — Crown Prince (Br) (from
Santos and Rio Janeirot. New York.
'Kingston. May 17. 5 p m — Prinz Sigisxnnnd
(Ger), New York.
Palermo. May 1H — Europa (Ital) (from
Genoa), New York.
Montevideo. May 14 — Manchester Miller ( Br).
New York.
River Plate, May 17 — St Irene (Br>. N>w
Queonstown. May 19. 1:40 p m — Adriatic <Br>
i from. Southampton and Cherbourg), New
York. '
PASSED.
Gibraltar. May 19 — Oceania (Ital), New York
for Naples and Genoa.
Malta. May 18 — Albenga tGer). New York for
Hang Kong.
Bcilly. May 19 — New York (Dutch tank). New
York for Rotterdam.
Sagres, May 18 — Regina d'ltalla (Ttal). N«w
York for Naples.
"Un occasion" the Frl|4|
would call such a sale.
; 1850 shirts with Y*wms m
colored French pique, maA
the close - plaited, semKVii*
French style. •»? r 2
Turned back French cuffs
$3.00 shirts, with a sp^V \
ling of $3.50 and $4.00 sh^
$2.35. ' :5y
Warmer, says Mr. WeatW
Cooler suits, say we. .V2!^*
'Batistes, homespuns, -woof
crashes and flannels, including
imported English grays. W*\
Novelties, too, such as si
homespun suits, cravenettail
mohair suits, and Norfolk jack.
ets of white serge and of hea^i
Shantung silk. ; f^ f t
'Pas*
Rogers Feet & Compasy} 1 -
Three Broadway Stores ~ : \
at at r^
Warren st. • 13th st. 34$ a
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