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«5 : :cr-r-jcrk Srilmnr Dmh Picture Coupon Six Coupons like this, together with one from THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE <rh*y =eea not be consecutive -dates> - if presented with g . . , 10 CENTS •t th« oiSoes of « The New- York Tribune Main Office, gSSSi rrroWX OFFICE— Broadway. WJ!I »ntit!« the bearer to on« e*alne^»na eoJoreC Phetosravure. on fin* platts paper. E'a'biects ready: .. •-■;.. BABY STUART THE STORM BREAKERS. MOTHER AND CHILD. ■*■« cannot «xprers any conclusive opinion ■CT-ith -«£-!!! to to-day's occurrence." EXPECTS PASSAGE TO-DAY Princeton Man Also Says Tail May Not Touch Earth. Princeton, X J.. May 19.— Professor ! Henry vorrts Russsll, of th^ astronomical j department of Princeton University, ■»■ clare! to-day that, basing his calculations en tie Trtdth If the comet's tail ear- tO; i?Br M compared -p-ith previous morning*. tte earth w£.« not near enougfc to pass ♦trough -the tail of the comet this morning. bat -very likely it will do so early to-morrow. "At 1 *. m. to-day the sky -was brilliantly clear, without trace of moonlight or da^rn." said Professor Puss-::! "The comet's tail : tvjls conspicuous in the east a? a band of j H(H about eight 'decrees •wide and quits . etraight. Its central line passed about ; Tnidirax between the stars Alpha and Gam- | ma 'P# gasi. and its end "was lost in the -Jilky Way : hi AQuila. No trace of the tail MM be det^sje* beyond the Milky Way, and no illumination could be seen In the Trestcrn sky in spite of careful search under T«rv favorable conditions The zodiacal light v~as visible in the southeast, separates from the comet's tail by a dark interval ibout ten degrees in breadth. "The tall *-a.s apparently between two and three time* as Tide as on the morning of Tuesday. May 17. If its real -width has not eSamfWl It must still have be*", fully one- ; third as far from m on the 19th a? it was j trro days before, vhlch would make the ; ttat d the earth's passage through it come en the morning Of the 20th." Professor Russell said to-night in refcr ■d to th- statement of Dr. Campbell that ♦he earth may Ml pass through the tail of ] the ceraet: "From the appearance at Prince- ; ton this morning it looked then as if it ••ere likely that we would pass through the southern edge ef the tail. Professor Campbell, however, observing three hours later, would be in a position to make a MOM accurate estimate, and It may be that t* wili pass, just outside of it." He de- ■ l ar?'? that It-4*MM be- impossible to note anything further about the comet until about S o'clock to-morrow morning, owing t<s the brightness of the moon to-night. Professor Russell declared that the spots on the- sun seen by Western astronomers " -rt a typical group and not extraordinary. H* added that the spots have nothing to do vtth th? ccmet. The largest of the spots, Professor Ryssell said, was 20.000 miles tn «siam»ter. and the entire gTOun covered a MM of about 120.000 miles. Professor Russell gave up his observa tions at 5 o'clock to-night, owing .. to tbe brightness of the moon. He declares that th? pass*g€ •of th*» <--prth through" "the comet's tail .will probablj- cause a much ?TeaT*r curve in the latter than already exists. The fact that the curve in the "tail Teas not noticed sooner is laid to the fact that it was • possible to see the tail only from the sidft." COMET CAUSES SUICIDE ATTEMPT. Stephen A. Connor, forty years old, of I<*o. 401 East 50tn street, tried to kill him self yesterday in the car barns at 50th etre*-» and Sixth avenue, while he was em ployed as a helper. Seventeen stitches were needed to se^ up a gash he made in hie throat. He uras locked up in the West 47th street station I artel es d<e baoaaae *he •rorM is com- Cammeyer Stamped on a Shoe means Standardised! STHAve.&2O™St5 TH Ave.&2o™St <_^ !>CAN=B=E=Z £ > (You Can Be Easy) / \ SHOE 1 for Men I 'uCANBEzi Wfco ant Comfort r^^-^/ High and Low Cut \ hjf Black and Russet I I ft f-.00 $r.50 S/C.03 If I H D */ V /-■— — I They are built along ■ ■ j : the natural lines of \ . / the foot, thereby in \a/ --unrig perfect ease. We carry Every Style of Men's Shoes at all prices. Every <vstorr.rr receive* th« Indi \vidvaL-attentiOn of a competent clerk. IQtb Annual Hosiery Sale • This Week. DENATURED ALCOHOL The perfect fiM for cooking — lighting — testing. £=cfceless, odor- ' less, tooriess. Pyro Lamps — Ackscwledged bj "'tiding c . T - specialists as predates tic ideal artificial light. . House and Marine Stoves — - Make cooking a pleasure. Clean — efcdwt-«conoinicei. -L'iia met for little needs— Big ones far big feeds CHAFING DISHES, PER. COLATORS, SAD IRONS, \ CAMPING OUTFITS. ETC Deily r<-inor»tr«tion» at Oar JTevr Sliowraoia* TEE ALCOHOL UTILITIES 00 40 East 21it Street, N. V., I bet Broadway & 4th Atccus i L. ■ & Ins to an end. The comet Is going- to strike us " he Aid. . WIRELESS HAD NO TROUBLE i Alleged Passage Through the Comet' Tail Left No Traces. The passage of the earth through . the tall of Halley's comet, which some scien tists thought would affect the sending of wireless messages, had not the slightest eriect, as fir as reports made yesterday in dicated. .. John Bottomley,- manager of the Mar coni Wireless Telegraph Company. said that "speaking wlrelessljv we don't know that the comet has a tail. It has not af fected our system at all." Th» manager of the De Forest Radio Telegraph Com pany said that a test between .New York. Chicago and Washington on "Wednesday showed no extraordinary atmospheric con ditions that Interfered with wireless mes sages. Dr. De Forest ordered all operators of the company to watch XoV "celestial music,' 1 but none was reported. The operators of the Western Union Tele graph Company, the Postal Telegraph- Cable Company and the New York Tele phone Company were told to observe any thing out of the ordinary, as the influence of the comet was an unknown quantity and sun spots were expected. Appearance of sun spots and auroras and Interference with telegraph service are sometimes coincident, but Euch was not the case Wednesday night or yesterday morning. . SUSPECTS LAGGING TAIL Lick Professor Thinks Collision Ma/ Be Avoided. - San Jose, Cal.. May 19.— According to Dr. Campbell, of Lick Observatory, there is a possibility that the earth . may not pass through the comet's tail after all. In a statement issued to-day he said: "The tail was visible as soon as the moon sot. It is probable that W6 shall miss passing through the tail to-night because it is lagging by several million miles. The cornet's orbit is inclined to an angle with the earth's orbit, and It is probable we shall not pass through the tall at aIL "The diameter of the tail at the point In which we are especially interested— l4.ooo,ooo miles from the head— was about S degrees. If the tail at daylight had been almost in contact with the earth we should hava ex pected the angular diameter to be much greater than it was. The tan was therefore probably several million miles away, in which case the earth and the tail did not meet this morning. "If this meeting is delayed until to-night then there can be little doubt the earth will not pass through the tail at all, but will pass to the south of it. The reason for this is simple. The tail lags behind in the plane of the comet's orbit; the comet's orbital clans makes an angle of 18 degrees with the earth's orbital plane; the retardation of the tail, therefore, draws it away from the plane In which the earth is moving, and the earth will pass to the south of it. The observed position of the tail this morn ins was appreciably further north than that of yesterday morning. "This l&Eginjr of the tail produces an in teresting: situation. If we- could have ob served the entire comat this morning, we should have seen the head of the comet well below the sun and the tail extending far above the. sun. We have been so nearly In the riane of the comet's orbit during the last fortnight- that it has been, impos sible to observe directly the lagging of the tall, for the curvature has been away from us. If th- observer were situated out in space. far 10 the north cr the south of the ear and the comet, be would undoubtedly have been able to see the tail strongly curved backward with reference to the di rection or motion of the ccmet. "Our conclusions yesterday that the tail was Ugsing were based on the fact that the ansular- diameter of the tail did not increase so rapidly as It should have done had the tail -been pointing exactly away : from the sun." . - -. VIEWS AT WASHINGTON Error in Calculation Blamed for Delayed Syzygy. Washington, May 19.— The failure of the earth to pass through the tail of the comet as was expected last night is merely an error, in theoretical calculation, say the astronomers at the- United States Naval Observatory." .There is.no doubt, however, they say, that the. earth passed into a less dense -portion of the tail at 2 o'clock this morning. The error in calculation was un doubtedly due. they think, to the variance of the degree of the curve of the tail from what they had estimated it. Kane of the scientists here Is ready to agree that the earth will not pass through the tail at all, as has b*;en advanced by Professor Campbell, of Lick Observatory. They are Inclined to the opinion that the earth is passing through the tail, and base that view on their observations, which dis closed what they believed to be a less dense part of the tail early to-day. A large group of solar spots has formed on the sun's visible disk since yesterday Boon, as shown by the daily solar photo graph taken by George H. "Peters, of the observatory. They are in south latitude and in a position corresponding to a rota tional displacement of two day? from the sun's eastern limb. These, together with th» large groups observed at the. observa tory in the last week, which are also In the Southern Hemisphere, It is stated, form an unusual condition for this neriod in the sun spot cycle. "THE COMET GIRL" ARRIVES. i Chicago, May 19.— Halley Abrams ' is the name of a tiny little girl who arrived yes terday at the home of J. Y. Abrams. chief house detective at a downtown hotel. The physician who attended asked permission to name her. Permission b*!nr given, he said: "All right You will henceforth be known as Th*> Comet Girl,' and- I choose for you the name of Halley.** CATCH SHORT WEIGHT MEN Inspector Makes More Fraud Discoveries in Brooklyn. Complaints were made yesterday in Brooklyn against six storekeepers of that be-rough on the strength of a report made by Inspector Ell wood Hanson, of the Bu reau of Weights and Measures, who re ported that they had given short weight to their customers. Proceedings against them will be instituted by the bureau, which has made similar complaints, based on one of its sealers' reports against the Sheffield Parma Siawson-Decker Milk Company. Mr. Hanson found the worst conditions In sections where the poor lived. In a Co lumbia street grocery store, one . of many branches of a concern which handles large quantities of groceries. Mr. Hanson pur chased a pound of rice, which proved to t* one-quarter of an ounc* short, and a pound of sugar.* which was short half an ounce. The scoop on the scales in this store was coated with sugar, which when scraped off weighed one-quarter of an ounce. Four one-pound bags of powdered sugar were all short from one-quarter to half en ounce. Packages of oatmeal proved i" per cent short in weight." In a Third avenue store of the same con cern Mr. Hanson purchased a five-pound moke/5 shoulder. It was four and one quarter ounces short. A strip of bacon, wrapped up for delivery, was found to con tain five ounces I<m>s than the three pound* charged for. In another branch store Mr Hanson purchased one pcund seven ounces of bacon at 32 cents a pound. In the weight was included one and one-half ounces of paper. A Columbia' 'Heights store sold a cus tomer a pound of butter which was three cuarters of an ounce short. When caught the manager said a mistake must have been made. He was asked to weigh on his own eca!es twenty cne-pound packages of butter end thirteen weighed less than a pound, including the wrappings. "'" ' J XEW-t^>M€ TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1910. LUMINOUS IN LONDON Watching Crowds Saw Wonder ful Sunset, Followed by Storm. BRILLIANT BANDS OP LIGHT Thousands Convinced That They Identified the Comet's Tail, 1 [By Cab!* to The Tribune] London, May 19.— The eve of the royal pageant was marked by a wonderful sunset to-night, followed quickly by a thunderstorm. There were thousands of watchers in quest of the broad, luminous band which could be identified with the comet's tail. They -were rewarded by a vivid and glorious spectacle. Long streamers of light ran upward and out ward from the setting sun. In accordance with the forecasts, the head of the comet was invisible, but the bands were remarkably brilliant. Prob ably the spectacle would not have at tracted attention if the newspapers had not advertised it in advance. As it was, thousands were convinced that they had seen th« comefs tail, especially as there was a sudden elec trical disturbance and downpour of rain, as there had been in the early morning, when the earth was supposed to be passing- through the gaseous tract. The phenomenon was of short duration, as the ■western sky rapidly clouded over, but while it lasted it was a most brilliant display. COMET AS SEEN ABROAD West Indian Observers Say It Seemed Larger than Last Week. St. Thomas, D. XV. 1., May 19.— Halley's comet was visible in its usual eastern po sition this morning. Its enormous dimen sions appeared fourfold greater than a week ago, the tail stretching over two thirds of the firmament, although the head had not yet risen above the horizon. There were no unusual phenomena observed last night. Honolulu. May 19.— Professor F. EHerman. of the Carnegie Observatory, at Mount Wil son, Cal., and his party of American as tronomers, who crossed three thousand miles of the Pacific to see Halley's comet against the sun, reported last night that their efforts had been in rain, so far as seeing the actual transit was concerned. Frc-m their temporary observatory at Dia mond Head, near this city, they saw ths sun spots, but not the comet. Reports to the same effect were made by -Professor J. S. Dcnagho, .of the Hawaii College Ob servatory, on Kaimuki Hill. Al! observations were negative in Hawaii, the spot most favored by astronomers for viewing the great event. The weather was perfectly clear. Boih astronomers agree that the comet contains nothing solid large enough to be visible through a 6ii-inch tele scopa against the background of the sun. Great fear v.-as manifested among the Orientals on the islands as the time for the comet's approach drew near. The Japanese on two large plantations on the island of Hawaii abandoned their work' be cause of the strange visitor. Manila, May 19.— Father Algue, an as tronomer, believes that the long cherished scientific theory of a solid composition forming the nucleus of comets is now dis proved. Exhaustive observations made from 3:30 to 11:30 a. m. to-day at the Jesuit observatories at Manila, Baguio and Anti polo failed to reveal a trace of solid mat ter. The weather conditions were perfect, and the observers were assisted by three natural sun spots, which facilitate the de tection of solids. Many of the natives were frightened last night by a magnetic storm, which disar ranged nic electric power service, extin guishing the lights and interrupting the streetcar service for a few moments. Aden, Arabia, May 19.— The tail of Hal ley's comet appeared as the rays of a gi gantic searchlight at 4:50 o'clock this morn ing. The head was invisible. Johannesburg. May 19.— According to the observations made at the Transvaal Ob servatory, of which R. T. A. Trsnes is the director, the earth had not traversed the tail of Halley's comet at dawn to-day. The tail was still north of the ecliptic, and at the observatory it was thought probable that the earth would pass considerably to the south of it Transvaal time is 6 hours and 58 minutes earlier than New York time GOT METEORIC DUST, MAYBE German Balloonists Bottled Air at Height of 11,385 Feet. Berlin, May 19.— The balloon Abercron was the only one among a large number making ascensions in Germany which succeeded in getting observations of the comet. The aeronauts report that they reached an altitude of 11,383 feet. They noted extraordinarily brilliant horizontal lights like meteors. They secured four bottles of air at that height, which will undergo expert ex amination for meteoric dust and other ingredients. They were compelled to depcend owing to an electrical storm. The Empress, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess and oth*r royal per sonages visited the Potsdam observatory to-night and watched the sky for a long time, but they failed to F»e the comet. CUBAN DISASTER. ACCIDENT Fatal Explosion Due to Carpen ter's Carelessness, It Is Said. Havana, Cuba. May 19. — fatal ex plosion at thousands of pounds of dyna mite, at the barracks at Pinar del Rio yes terday, It officially declared to have been due to the carelessness of a carpenter en gaged in repairing detective cases of dyna mite which were being loaded on a wagon for transport ' to the railway station. The carpenter was in ths act of nailing th lid on a broken case when the dyna mite exploded, detonating the rest of the dynamite on the wagon and Instantly kill ing all in the courtyard and blowing down the wall of an adjacent store room in which the remainder of the dynamite was depos ited. This precipitated a second explosion, completing the destruction of the buildings. The carpenter's head was found a quarter of a mile away from scene of the ex plision. Already twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the barracks. The lateet official returns received here in dicate that the total fatalities may not ex ceed thirty-flve. Th« injured number 145. of whom two have died in the hospital. The injuries of the great majority of the others are not considered serious. Captain Betancourt. of the rural guard, who was previously reported dead, escaped, the only officers killed being Captain Al fredo Ravena and Lieutenant Dihigo, who perished with their families quartered in the barracks. The dead include Charles 'Wella, an American surveyor in the Department ot Public Works: eeveral clerks "and four women stenographers in the same depart ment. The others were non-commissioned officers and privates c*. two troops of rural guards and a few civil employes. • * WHY COMET IS SHY Too Transparent To U Seen. Says Professor Jacoby. ALREADY PASSED BY US Think? Negative Views in Far East Throw Light on What Comet Really Is. Harold A. Jacoby, Rutherford profss^r of astronomy at Columbia University, when asked yesterday about the reported failure of astronomers stationed at Manila and Honolulu to see the actual transit of Hal ley's comet, said: "The fact that they did not see the head of the comet in transit dees no: prove that it did not occur. I think it merely means that even th 9 head of the comet is so trans parent that it could -not be seen when pro jected against the bright disk X the sun. "This would fit in with our theory about the 'constitution of comets. Tnis negative result is therefore of importaice, and not to be regarded as a failure. TOi hays never had such a chance before to \ertfy in this way our ideas as to the lack of density in the comets. I think that is quite a de sirable result. ' Referring to reports from th« West Indies and elsewhere that the comsfs tail was seen in the eastern sky on Thursday morn ing, Professor Jacoby said: 'If the tall of the comet or any -part of it was seen en Thursday morning early in a position simi lar to its former one, this observation sim ply means that the tail, or part of it, was really stil! in its old pesition. 'That may sound almost too foolishly simple a proposition to state In other words, at that hour we had nst yet passed through or by the tail. I tr.lnk that the next time we see the comet we shall find that the tail, If still visible, has gone around us, as predicted. Thit is to say, when the comet becomes visible in the western sky after sunset we shall see the tail pointing away from the sun, as usual " Asked, on what night we should probably get th& best view of the comet, Mr. Jacoby said that, assuming a cloudless sky,' the excellence of our view ef the puzzling traveller would depend on three factors first, the intrinsic brightness of the comet; second, the absence of twilight in the sky, and, third, the absence cf moonlight. The brightness of the comet is diminish ing, he said, so that this factor is becom ing less favorable as the comet moves fur ther from th 6 earth Eight after night. But, he added, the other two factors will become more favorable because the comet will set later each evening, giving an opportunity to await the disappearance of twilight and because the moonlight will also diminish after the full moon on May 23. '"It follows that as these factors are act ing in opposite directions wa cannot fore tell." said Mr. Jacob}-, 'the exact dat 6 when the sum of their effects will be most favorable. It would not surprise me if we have a better view on Saturday week than we shall have this Saturday-. "There is eoing to be a tot^.l eclipse of the moon on the 23d," continued Mr. Jac oby. "Those who have noticed how badly the moonlierht interferes with observations of the comet may have been looking for ward to this eclipse as an opportunity to view the comet without moonlight. In fact, statements to this effect hav6 appeared in some of the newspapers. Unfortunately, at New York the eclipse will not begin until lust about the time when the comet wfll set. so we shall probably get little help from the eclipse." UP TO WHITRIDGE'S MEN Many or* Their Statements Dis proved by P. S. 0. While the Public Service Commission has sent no formal reply to the 'stter of Frederick W. Whitridge, receiver for the Third Avenue Railroad system, an in vestigation made by the officers of the commission yesterday disproved some of the charges made by Mr. Whitridge against Public Service inspectors. "While the reports forwarded by Mr. Whitridge gave no _ names, the details given by the sleuths allowed the identifi cation of the men referred to and other portions df the report fixed the dates of the sleuthing. It developed that two of the inspectors referred to were off duty on the days when they were followed by Mr. Whitridge's ThiM avenue detectives, so that their movements wer6 of no in terest to the commission. George P. Hammond, formerly of Dis trict Attorney Jeromes investigating staff, turned up bright and early at the office of the commission yesterday and explained that he was the man who called at a saloon and left a letter with the bartender while Mr. Whitridge s detectives were watching. Hammond was not working as an in spector of service, however, but was secur ing consents for property on Whitlock avenue for the Broadway- Lexington ave nue subway rdute in The Bronx. The saloonkeeper had been away on tha oc casion of two previous calls, and Ham mond therefore took along with him a blank consent paper which he left for the saloonkeeper to sigc. MISSING MAN IN JAIL Cleveland Manufacturer Said to Have Many Wives. Cleveland, May 19— Walter C. Lytle. a manufacturer, who has been missing from here for a year, has been found in a Mis sissippi penitentiary, where he Is serving v ten-year sentence for bigamy. v Simulta neously comes the discovery that Lytle's bigamous wives number at least four and probably many more. He is said to possess considerable means. Lytle was convicted in February at Tu pelo. Miss., on the complaint of M ; ss Mamie Burke, whom bo married in Decem ber. According to the Tupelo sheri.f he has information that Lyt'e has at. least .<->>: ' wives scattered through the Un^tei tes. At Camden a warrant is held lor L,> tie charging bigamy, on the evidence of Estella Shinr.. who claims to have mariied Lytl6 twenty-six years ago, and abo on the charge of Hattle L. Lamont, who say 3 sh<> became Mrs. i.ytle on June 9, 190?. On Saturday, in Montrose. Col., Mrs. Anna D. Brown Lytle obtained a divorce on the giounds of bigamy. She was the woman whom Lytl» left behind him in Cleveland when he disappeared. » MARSHALL GETS A PLUM Report That He Will Succeed Eidman as Internal Revenue Collector. , It was said on good authority last night that President Taf t had decided to appoint Dr. Frederick L. Marshall, the new Re publican leafier of the 10th Assembly Dis trict, as deputy collector of internal reve nue for the 3d District. He will succeed in that office the late Ferdinand Eidman as . he has in the leadership of the 10th district. The office rays 14,000 a yaar. Lloyd C. Griscom. president of the Re publican County .Commttiee. recommended the appointment of Dr. Marshall after going over the situation carefully and consider ing the many applicants for the place. The 3d in an East Fide district, th« head quarters b(»lng In Third avenu*. and it was deemed advisable to select a. man from the East Bide to fill it. The. other appli cants were from other sections of the city. Dr. Marshall is a dentist* at No. {S3 Sec ond avenue, and has been active in Re publican politics for twenty yearn. «H had been the virtual leader of the 10th district for several years prior to the death of Mr. Eidman. GRAFT PROBE IN DANCER Continued from first pas-. assertion as untrue. He review*"} I** history of the investigation resolution from the time of the AUds trial and th-i fire insurance investigation begun by- Superintendent Hotchkiss. "Corrupt and improper practices were seen to exist," said Senator Hinman, "from the disclosures of that investi gation. I said to three leaders of th« Senate at that time it was up to us to meet this just demand from the people for an investigation and to go to the bottom of all the charges. But things went on and on in spite of this de mand, and we sat here quietly as men with no backbones , until the Governor had to communicate to the Legislature what the demand of the people cf the state really was." Senator Hinman then read some of the stinging phrases of the Governor's special message recommending a graft probe. 'Acting on this recommendation of the Governor. v:ho voices the will of the people." said Senator Hinman. "the Sen ate prepared a resolution which met the situation. I complimented then, and I desire to compliment now, the men who drew that resolution and to express my full appreciation of their -work. It pro vided for just tha kind of a thorough and sweeping investigation the Gov ernor had in mind. That resolution was transmitted to the Assembly, and some of us who remembered a speech made on the floor of the Assembly by its leader on another resolution wondered what would happen to it." Quoted from Wadsv/orth's Speech, Senator Hinman quoted extracts from the speech of Speaker Wadsworth op posing the Chanler resolution. He said that a gTeat hue and cry had been made there about political expediency. 'And so some of us wondered just, what would happen In the other house," he continued. "Well, the resolution came back amended. I weigh my words when I say that a fraud was attempted to be foisted on the people of the state. I weighed that resolution as it came back and analyzed it. I wonder if* the sneered at spirit of reform had reached the Assembly or if the resolution was loaded with Jokers. I made my. view known then to men in this body. I told them that If that resolution in that form was brought before the Senate I should ha^'e to express my opinion of it pub licly. At that time it contained nothing about industrial insurance, but it was reported in this house with the clause about industrial insurance added to it. Then I requested that it should lie over until ws could get a chance to study it thoroughly, although I realized that the exigencies of the situation demanded prompt action on our part. "I want to say that we can't sit here like weaklings or act liks crooks with out the people knowing about what we do, and forming their opinion on it. and if the newspapers report what we do rather than what we think we do they ought not to be called muck-rakers. "I am the general counsel for the. Security Mutual of Binghamton. It is not and never was an industrial insur ance company. So far as the old line companies are concerned the longer and deeper investigation of industrial In surance we have the better they. will, like it. So you ace this accusation falls to the ground on that score. I have fre quently told members of the Senate that industrial" insurance companies should be investigated and legislated against Their back door methods ought to be stopped. Sometimes they are next door to stealing."' So far as the charges that Governor Hughes and Mr. Hotchkiss were protect ing the Metropolitan are concerned. Sen ator Hinman pointed out that Mr. Hotch kiss had had his experts making an in vestigation or* the Metropolitan for sev eral months. Governor Hugbes, in writ ing the report of the Armstrong com mittee, devoted much space to a criticism of industrial insurance methods and the Metropolitan company in particular. As a result of this and the committee's work officials of the Metropolitan were in dicted, Mr. Hinman said. "And yet this article is sent out with a nasty elur against the Governor," said the Senator, and the Governor and the Superintendent of Insurance and myself were charged with juggling with this resolution because we do not dare to touch this company."' Clause of Resolution Criticised. Then Senator Hinman took up the phraseology of the Investigation resolu tion. He criticised the clause which de manded the filing of charges, "verified upon knowledge." A member of the Senate not long ago verified a charge against another on kno^ ledge, he said, and as a result was forced to resign from -the Senate. That, he averred, would not be likely to prove an incentive to others to follow his example. Circum stantial evidence might establish an absolutely unbreakable chain," and yet the lid be put on because for a man *o verify charges on knowledge would mean that he must have taken part in the corrupt act. Senator Hinman criti cised also the provision forbidding the investigation of charges against anybody who might be a candidate for office after September 1, 1910. Who is there," he asked, "who thinks he may be a candidate for office and is afraid to have his record opened? I have no patience with* a man who at tempts "by innuendo- to blacken the char acter of an3*body, but on the other hand there is no reason why we should lumber up the work of this committes by forcing It to investigate industrial and casualty insurance until September, and then say 'the lid is on; we can't Investigate any graft.' Let this Legislature appoint a committee for Investigating' industrial insurance if you think you can't trust the Superintendent of Insurance because he Is In cohoots with these companies, and I will vote for it. But you know that that kind of an investigation, if properly conducted, would take this committee all the time between now and January 1. • "A lot of stuff has b«en thrown in here as a subterfuge to blind the eyes of the people. There is not one thins here which had not been monkeyed with. The whole thing bears the earmarks of fradulent transactions. When I am charged \*if.h conspiring with th*» Gov ernor and Superintendent Hotehkis* to protttct an insurance company I cannot permit these things to go unanswered. An injustice has been done and I have to etate there facts as I see them." Senator Cobb retorted hotly: "I regret that, smarting under criti cism in ths newspapers. Senator Hin man has so far forgotten himself and his obligations to his brother Senator as to indulge in thi3 unjust criticism." ha said. "There is no excusft for it. ■* know Governor Hughes did not asK him to do it. It is one of those cheap methods of advertising which are re sorted to here entirely. too much. I re sent ft as an insult and every honest man. hers does wHen he says we sit here as crooks weak-kneed and pass no resolution." ■ . Turning to Senator Hlnman and.shak ing his fists at him. Senator Cobb i shouted: "I will not allow any man to criticise me in that war, and if you are a man you will arise from your chair and apol ogize. You know how I acted, and every Senator here acted in good faith on that j resolution. We did. everything possible j to have a good one. and passed it unan imously. | The Assembly for some reason changed it, probably so that they could ; have the credit for passing: a. resolution ! they drafted. The resolution came back ; here and was approved by the press of j the state. It could ha»» been passed j then without criticism. At some later time Senator Hinman began to criticise ! it. I told him it could be taken up later. | "The matter of industrial Insurance j \ was called first to my attention by mem- | bers of the Assembly who said they in tended to include it in the resolution and asked if in my opinion the resolution was, broad enough to include industrial In surance as it stood. Whether cr not it i was included is more or less immaterial. I want to say now that every moment of delay on this resolution, except that oc casioned by meetings of the committee, j has been due to Senator Hinman, and i now he comes here and calls us crooks : and weaklings." ", v Senator Cobb said Senator I-linmanj ] has submitted proposed amendments to j the resolution to him. There would be \ a meeting of the committee to-night to i consider them and any others proposed. j "But he could not wait for this oppor- j tunity to come here and criticise hi 3 brother Senators. He wanted it to go broadcast through the state that he was j the only saintly one, the 'holier than 1 thou,' and so this tirade is thrown into j the Senate." Senator Cobb said that he had a mem- ' , orandum in Senator Hinman's own writ- j ing urging tha£ the clause referring: to j industrial insurance be cut out of -the j : investigation resolution. 'If there is anything •?*-'on§: with this resolution it vriU be amended." said he. "I do not . believe Speaker Wadsworth entered into any deal to shield anybody who is corrupt. lam not defending the resolution, but I am defending the repu tation of the men against Thorn Senator Hinman has no right to make these charges. He. should not come hers and cast slurs on the entir9 Legislature, and I trust he will have the decency to have his words expunged from the record." Senator Hinman said that he did not intend his words to be regarded as charging that the members of the Senate crooks. Neither did ha intend to insult Senator Cobb or any other Sen ator. • I -rould not remain in this body for a minute if T believed its members were all crooks," said he, 'and if any member be lieves I meant that I apologize to hire." H? said that he was on record -with m»ny members of the Senate before the industrial insurance clause was put into the resolution as saying that he fouid oppose it until it was amended to make possible a genuine graft hunt. LACKAWANNA WAGE INCREASE. Scranton, Perm... May 19— The r>e!aware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad has ad vanced the wages of its firemen an aver age of 12 per cent. The increase dates from May i. BOATS FOR WEST 129 TH STREET. Beginning to-day, the steamers of the Peoples Line for Albany will stop regu larly at West 129 th street at S :30 p. m. The Charm of an 1 i English Dining Room | 0 ■^yiTH agreeable effect the stately^ ritual of Eighteenth Century)) hospitality influenced the plenishmentsf of the Georgian Dining Room. I The bountiful Sideboard with its] old-world grace of curving front and I tapering supports,— the Cupboard* through whose trellised lattice gleams a hint of shining silver or of fine-col oured porcelains, — the Table with its ample surface of rich-hued and polished] mahogany,— each one has its necessary! part to play. : £j Such an underlying sentiment, too, is preserved in our faithful Reproduc* tions of the work of Sheraton, Heppeli . white, and the brothers Adam. I Fwniitiire .Company : j 34 and 36 West 32d Street- j , Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway . " : , New York POLICE GUARD OFFICIAL He Was in Car That Ran Do* a Boy, but They Hide His aJJ Edward Hooks, eight years eld, of v * 4&i Bergen avenue, vraa run do*^ i a touring: car at liSth street aa.i 7 ' | avenue. The Bronx, last night Brf*! cut about the head and body. The m was said by the police to bar- ' one of four passengers a city of**? whose name they -would not sfr- 6 ~J* " This man. th* police safd, gave me *, a nicks! before he "went home. : Eddie, with his sister Margaret 'aaj boy living in the neighborhood *4 playing on the sidewalk. Eddie raa to [the street Just as the auto pass?! a struck him and threw him about* ten feet. The accident was seen by rn Mil hundred persons who were on th-fr I to a nearby theatre. » • :.£• In the car trere three rn«r, aaf' § ', lonian. One of the men and th# Wsfjg get out and talked away. xHe (T,( T , other men and the chauffeur of tie tar stood by. Th« police, said that tity had been instructed not to give outage name of the city official nrho iraj.-^ th* car. _ . • SOCIALISM AND SUFFRAGE » — — — — — — Speaker Attacks Mrs. Belaoai and Anne Morgan. : c v [By TeZegr&vh «» Tha JO*! Chicago. May 19.— The angry 4einsfc!_ ation of "soap boxers trying to na » important convention" coming frem gas of the leading members, amid cheers, a* approval from many other Tea^r; brought an abrupt end to to-days «s sion of th<? National Socialist Congrea) and contributed to making the day tte stormiest of a stormy weak. A feature of a detete on the safft*a» question was a series of wafafcy against following Mrs. O. H. P. Betaeat and Miss Anna Morgan in seeking eqial suffrage. Both ware denounced M "notoriety seekers" and "representatives of capital seeking centre! of -rcaez'j votes as capital noT attempts to held men's votes." "We don't want to enlist the synjets of Mrs. Belmorit nor have Anna Korgaa tell us how to carry on the canpaifß.' shouted Joseph D. Cannon, of Oklaheua, The poor striking shirtwaist mate* helped our cause five hundred tl~zt* « much as these notoriety seekers. So bon ton suffrage for socialism.** "They're backed by capitalists,- »«h* Mrs. Mary Marguerite Prevy, of Olio, "and that's enough to keep them oat -'l* we let them dominate now they vffl dominate when we get the vote." The committee report inserting a arf frage plank was rushed to a vots tsd was declared passed by the chainatc. Shouts for a recount and ballot veto from a large minority were drowwd to a tumult from the victors. DR. HYDE FILES APPEAL Woman in Black from New York Brings Him Roses. Kansas City, j40.. May 13.— Attorneys fcr; Dr. B. C. Hyfi» filed a motion for ft om trial for their client to-day. Arsuassti-e the motion will be heard by Judge Laotair on June 4. The attorney* set forth tie tit lowing to prove there was error in thsflrtll court: That Judge Latshaw showed prejud^* against th« defendant and t*zt *• aeM improperly toward Hyda's counsel. That evidence other than that totxehirj directly upon the death of Colons n«B«i H. Swope should cot have been aicicsi into the record.- 7 "■ c * That the jurors -were rrT^»> •<» uauiM the physician more by pa3's!or* arh! ?*#> dice than by reflection on testimony. ;• "• " "A woman In black." who says sh» !s Mrs. D. H. Adkins, c* New York, called at the Jail to-day with a large tex of rasa and desired to be permitted to take £9 flowers to the physician. Dr. HycU sail la did not know her. She was cot allcrxid enter the jail. When she departed ;h« took the roses with her.