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proj.riations. Th«» bills which I have ap
rrovw! cover appropriations for the state
>,r,c ; .,tais for the insane, for charitable m-
BUtutions, for prisons ."ind for education.
including our eviptinp agricultural schools.
»n«l tb" appropriations for ihoee purposes
which 1 h<.\e disapproved could hot, •«"•>
iu»lrm«>r.t. he properly allowed st this iim*.
Tti* items and bills disapproved by Hie
ere as follow:
eurriy tin ji,2?5,943 n
«en'rai appropriation i
hill 77.fi I >> o<* tL n*-*u '
FWI r,Rtrb«rr. Bmm Point '?■££! **?
E'fuiNl to town of ny- ,Jwy&nS
AJfcanv Armory ?S%'2wim
• «2»2
G«*« Anwwy. land *%° g>
Mount \>mon Armory tn££inrt
Fnrty-Eevcntb R<?nment Armory... 1 - 10 -™£;
Mean Armory fl«2*B
Fire Island Tark ]--££m
X Tinnier land purchase I^JSSiS
FiwJonia Normal School S'S22S2
rwtfdsm Noncal School «M)OMtio
.* Nub Normal College i •£ IS
Agricultural Mcperinwni Flatten... SO.WJiJOO
R'lrabunun? Frederick SKetiP --iiliJX
w<cct Canada Creek, dredging '?'S2 °? '
Tonawanda Creek improvement .>.©"« 00
h .ks Lake outlet, dredging lSM*irtno
tViwt.ll Creek, dredging. - •.<»»» 00
Ml ; and Long Creek, •drcicing .il-SSJ? 22
Biack RJver Improvement 100. <VX; 00
TJPlaware River dyke?. Highland.... 10.000 00
Tviawa'-e River dykes, Port J<tv:.v. 35.000 00 j
Mnhswk River dyke 7,500 00
Cornell Vnlvereity School of S»nl- **JJL r JI
tary Science 10,00000
Syracuse I'niverslty <->!*£• of Fcr
*stry f»o.000 00
'■.ar,al *urv«>F 5.00000
rod Creek improvement . - 3,000 00 !
N*m agricultural school at Bain
bride*-. <'hrr.ar.fn <~ounty 60,000 00
K(* aRT-ieultural school at Cobles
kill. Kchnbari* 1 County fAOOOOO
. >>*"■ agricultural school. Long Isl
and 60.000 00
TvVn agricultural school at Pelhl.
Delaware County 60.000 00 j
?>w agricultural school at Middle
town. Orange County 50,000 00
vr " agricultural experiment sta
'kit. Niagara County 15.000 00
Special bill Tor state' prisors (total.
$123,361*. itenre deducted 5«.050 00
Special bill lor charitabl* Institu
tions <total. $913,000). items de
ducted 617.50000
Fl<eciii! bill for hospitals for the in
wane (total. $1.456.540». items de
ducted 6Z»,67000
l«Tch»ort!) Village ■ ami 1101.091
items deducted n.73* 00 ;
Agricultural school at Si Lawrenrw
""- er»lty 'total. $r»3,000>, Item
<3«ducted 26.000 00
T/n!. e Island State Hospital 300.000 oo
starch Factory Creek improvement. J*.«mnoo
Enforcing pure food law ■ 13.400 00
Additional bill for Training School
for Boys 504..-i«O OO
>!I!k production demonstration 10.000 00
Total Items disapproved $4,713,747 67
The increase in the appropriations of this
year, as approved over tnose of the year
2JKV3. is due to the increased cost of main
tenance. in the state hospitals for the in
.■-anc. in the charitable institutions and in
prisonF: to the increase in salaries of the
Supreme Court justices under the ~ recent
constitutional amendment: to the increased
r mount reouired for the support of common
schools and normal schools; to the in
creased appropriation for highway construc
tion and maintenance, apart from the
amount payable out of proceeds of bonds;
to Urn allowance for the abolition of grade
; to the additional amount needed
for land, construction of buildings and ,
equipment, and to the amounts appropri
ated for the Secretary of State (to enable
lilxn to carry out the new mo>tor vehicle
laivi. and for the Health Officer of the Port
nf New York, who now for the first time
lia« direct appropriations, his receipts be
in? covered into the treasury.
The appropriations for a period of years
have been insufficient to provide for main
tenance in the hospitals for the insane, and
■there has been an accumulating deficiency.
row amounting- to $1,221,139 2S. -which has
bfen covered by a special bill this year.
There is also an increase in the amount
for advances to county treasurers.
These items aesTesrate about $s^oo.or»X and
tiiese alone are sufficient to account for the
increase in this year's appropriations over
those of last year.
The?* increases are as follows:
3nrrea*» in salaries «f justices of the Supreme
fourt. uudtr the recent constitutional amend
ment :
Supply 'bill from .lunu
• • 1. 3910. to Octo
ber I. 13»1« $2?fi
Appropriation bill. Oc
tober 1. TQ',f*. to
October i. ISII S1I,(N»(» .-««-'
s $340,600 00
r«aa«il appropriations for Fur
port of common schools and
normal schools 815,000 00
£ji»rl»l bill for accumulated de
ficiency in ■maintenance of IMB
pitals for th« insane ,1.281. 23
Incre*«« In appropriation for
maintenance of hospitals for th«»
Insane for the ersuing year . €99.. 54 00 i
Increase in appropriation for ,
maintenance of charitable to*U- _ j
tutirr.s for ensuing year 1 3 • , 1 67 •8 ,
Increase in appropriation for ;
maintenance of prisons and con
vict* In penitentiaries for ensu
ing year, together with compen
sation of sheriffs 103,500 00
Increase in appropriation for ad
vances in county treasurers on
e<~c«unt of taxes 45,000 00
Increase In appropriations for
highway construction and main
tenance (apart from proceeds of
bonds) b:6.21048
Amount allowed for grade cross
ings <no appropriation last
rear) - 600,000 00
Increase In appropriation for Sec
retary of State to enforce new
motor vehicle law:
Appropriation bill . . 5190.000
Supply bill 60.000
250.000 00
Increase to provide for appropria
tion, tor health officer. Fort of
N«w York (r.o appropriation last
>#»r> 175.320 00
Increase In construction it*m*.
Jaad. buildings and equipment.
(Included in the appropriations
. I'r.ie year is $1.*00,000 for the.
r««- state education building an<J
power plant) 9.">b."38 62
Tb«*e Items of Increase amount
to ...-. f 5.494.430 12
The Governor lias no authority to reduce
specific Items of appropriation, but Buat]
wither allow or reject them. In the exer- I
cisc of this power I have preserved the
Items required to dlFcharge. the obligations
of the state and to secure a proper con
duct of its enterprises, while rejecting those ;
which seemed to m*- unnecessary or un- ■
«4*e. CHARLES E. HUGHES.
In th« general appropriation bill Governor
Hughes disapproved the following items: ;
For expense? of th« Judges of th«» Court '
of Claim?. $M r *>: for compensation of ac- .
« .en, t«iits to examine book* and accounts i
of receivers, under the Attorney General.
Jl<«.(*iO; for expenses of the chief protector.
J; .•-•'•. for reforesting burned or denuded
lands in the forest preserve, for preparing
end diKtri outing pamphlets on forestry sub- ;
THE TEST OF A BANK
The test of a Bank's strength i& the
proportion of its resources to its
deposit obligations. This Company.
■ndud<ng stockholders' liability,
has behind its deposits more than
$19,000,000 of its own, besides the
securities and loans in which it has
invested the deposits.
There are but few large banks in
this country that have so large a ratio
of capital and surplus to deposits.
We shall be glad to receive as a de
positor any one who brings us a suit,
able introduction find a fair account.
TiTIE GUARANTEE
AND TRUST C?
Capital ana Surplus. - $14,000,000
a76 EVay, K. T. 1 75 Rrasen St. Bkiym.
450 Foltoa St.. Jamaica-
jects. for establishing additional nurseries
for the propagation of forest trees to be
furnished to the cit'zens of the state at cost.
$20,000; for salaries . and expenses in the
Bureau of Industries and Immigration of
the Labor Department as follows: Counsel,
$2,490; superintendent of branch office, $1.
800; eighth grade, one employe, Jl.SOO;
seventh grade, three employes, $4,500; fifth
grade, three employes. $2,700; travelling ex
penses. $6,000; office expenses, $4,500; print
ing. $1,200; for the establishment and main
tenance of schools in connection with labor
camps for instruction of aliens. $6,000,
Of these items the Governor 6ays: "In
view of the present demands upon the state
I cannot approve the establishment at this
time of a bureau as extensive as that pro
vided for in these items."
1 he Governor failed to approve b!Hs to
establish state schools of agriculture en
I,ong Island and ai Cobleskill. Schoharie
County ; state schools of agriculture and
domestic science and kindred subjects at
Delhi. Delaware County; Bainbridge. Che
nanga County ; Middletown, Orange Coun
ty ; a state Fchool of sanitary science and
public health at Cornell Vniversity ; a state
college of forestry at Syracuse University.
ard an agricultural experiment station in
Niagara County. The reason for this ac
tion is givon as follows:
"We have not the money to undertake
the establishment of these schools. The
wise policy, it seems to me, is to provide
for the suitable development and comple
tion of the schools that we have before we
establish new and separate foundations."
Waterway Measures Dead.
Waterway Improvement bills not approved
provided for dredging TVest Canada. Creek,
Herkimer. Herkimer County: Powell Creek,
in the county of Nassau, and Mill Creek
«nd the Narrow? to Long Creek in certain
portions of the town of Freeport. Nassau
County; the construction of a dike or dikes
for the protection of property adjacent to
the Delaware River In the city of Port Jer
vi.=, by the completion of th« work begun
under a chapter of the Laws of 1904, and
the acquisition of lands necessary for sticti
purpose; the completion of a dike or dikes
for the protection of property adjacent to
the Delaware River in the town of Highland,
Sullivan County; widening and deepening
the channel in th« outlet of Keuka Lake
from the lake to the steamboat docks in the
village of Perm Van, and deepening and
widening Tonawanda Creek in the towns of
Batavia and Alexander. Genesee County.
The Governor says in explanation of his
action ; "
These bills provide for various local im
provements which it i? desired should be
made at the expense, of the state.
It does not appear, however, that there
is any special state obligation in these
cases." And in any event w» have not the
money at this time to expend in these im
provements.
Apart from this. Improvements of this
sort should be made pursuant to a gen
eral system, so that all communities may
be dealt with impartially and according to
the same rule. Under the river improve
ment act provision is made, in cases with m
its purview, for an ascertainment of the
necessity for the improvement and for
the just apportionment of its cost, so that
the share which may properly be borne by
the localities benefited and by the state,
respectively, may be determined.
So far as the improvements contemplat
ed in these bills are within that statute,
proceedings should be taken thereunder,
and if there, are other classes of cases
which should be reached, there should be
a suitable amendment of the general law.
No. New Armories This Year.
Other measures not signed provided for
new state armories at Malone and Mount
Vernon, repairs, improvements and better
ments to the state armory In Brooklyn oc
cupied by the 47th Regiment: the erection
of a state armory and stable In Albany,
the erection of a new armory building in
New-burg, the rebuilding, alteration and
improvement of the. state armory in Olean
and the purchase of additional lands for
the armory of the 84th Separate Company
of the National Guard at Geneva.
"The funds in the treasury and our esti
mated income will not permit these ex
penditures," the Governor adds.
The bill to amend the state charities law
in relation to the regulation of state chari
table institutions is another one "not ap
proved.** "The purpose of this act is most
commendable, and were it not for the de
mands upon our resources at this time I
should be disposed to approve it," says Mr.
Hughes. "Among other things, it provides
for the appointment by the fiscal super
visor of a purchasing agent, who is to be
secretary of the purchasing committee; a
supervisor of farms and a supervisor of
foods.
"It we could have a suitable co-ordina
tion of the work of all our institutions,
such as hospitals for the insane, charitable
institutions apd prisons, through a repre
sentative board, which should exercise
supervision over matter? of common In
terest and through which arrangement
could be made for common inspection and
supervision of farms, foods, supplies, etc.,
it would result, I believe, in great benefit
to the state."
Education Bill Not Approved.
Another bill which fails to go on the
statute books is one to amend the educa
tion law relative to establishing a law
library in the 2d Judicial District. Of this
Governor Hughes says:
•It may to very desirable that there
e'iould be a library established in the 2d
Judicial District, and there Is no disposi
tion to criticise the intent of thoße 'who
are desirous to bring this about, but it is
clear that the disbursement of public
moneys should not be made mandatory
upon the requisition of trustees who are
not suitably accountable to public au
thority."
A jneasure to provide for the rebuilding
of a bridge across South Bay. in the coun
ty of Washington, was not approved. Tills
bill authorized the State Highway Commis
sion to rebuild the bridge and appropriated
for this purpose $75,000 out of the proceeds
of moneys realized from the sale of high
way improvement bonds.
"If it is to be the policy of the state,"
says Mr. Hughes, "to construct bridges at
state expense in connection with and out
of funds provide^ for highway improve
ment, this policy should be defined by suit
able amendment of the law go that it may
be impartially applicable to all cases of the
same class. This bill if Eipned would prob
ably have a numerous progeny of special
acts Involving inequality and injustice."
CHANGE IN RATES POSTPONED
Trunk Lines Suspend Action in State
Until August 1.
Albany, Tune. 19 -The various trunk line
railroad rompanlf-s operating in this state
i;a v <- informed the Public Service ('ommis
ision of ti;e suspension of increased rates
wh'ch they proposed to put in effect July
0 to August 1. This action on intrastate
rates follows the suspension of a general
increase- In interstate rates throughout the
country by the trunk lines.
PREDICTS CANNON'S RETURN
Sperry, Dean of House, Says Repub
licans Will Control Next Congress.
I By Tflfirrarh to Th? Tribune ]
New }Ja\en. June 19. —'I 'rifle Joe f'an
nnn will be re-elected to Congress If he
w'!l < onset t to run," said Nehemlah I>.
merry, iieprcsentative f>om the 2d Con-
MCtieot District, to-night. Mr. Sperry
! ;-tRi years old, and is the dean of
UM Hmm. iU is the man who inf-<*-i
<_ to riiiild the Monitor in the <'ivil
War. He said:
"Cannon is an lionest man. and his Illi
nois district will stand by him. Whether
he will be re-elected Speaker or not will
depend on the majority the Republicans
get in the fall elections. I think that the.
Republicans will control the next House
without a doubt."
aatni the insurgents would do he
ea;d Uiat uucou; on earth could tell.
\EW-irmK r^JLY TRTBT XE. MONDAY, JUNE 20. 1910.
IRKING FOR COBB BILL
Leaders Fear Assembly Again
Will Thwart Its Passage.
SPECIAL SESSION TO-NIGHT
Legislators Here for Roosevelt
Welcome Discuss Direct
Primary Plans.
Republican leaders and members of the
j Legislature who were in the city to at
| tend the welcome to Theodore Roosevelt
found time to talk among themselves and
with their city colleagues regarding the
special session of the Legislature, which
convenes to-night. There were widely dif
fering opinions, however, as to what the
session would accomplish in the way of
enacting some direct primary measure.
In a general way it was the opinion of
most of those seen that unless some ex
traordinary pressure is brought to bear
or the Cobb bill is made a party meas
ure by caucus in the Assembly, the latter
body will thwart any attempt to r pass it.
A movement Is under way to bring pome
sort of special pressure on the leaders,
hut how far it will succeed is problemati
cal. The views of Mr. Roosevelt will be
■sought, and the result is eae^rl* awaited.
It is understood that the opinion has
b^en expressed by samn of th» leaders in
Washington that the Republican party in
this state cannot afford to show the disre
gard for the Cnhb direct primary measure
with which it was treated by the Assem
bly at the regular session.
Working for a Caucus.
As for the effort? of Assemblyman Mur
ray, of the 19th District, in this county,
to have the Republican members of the
Assembly caucus on the Cobb bill, they
have not so far met with the success he
had hoped. Speakine of the letters sent
by him to his Republican colleagues, ask
ing them if they would be willing to sign
a call for such a caucus. Assemblyman
Murray paid yesterday:
"I have received only seventeen or eigh
teen replies, ai.d most of them are non
committal. Only five or six wrote that they
would be willing t& sign a caucus call.
The others beat around the bush, and say
they want to wait until they get to Albany
and see what the situation Is there.
"Some of them want to know how Presi
dent Griscom stands, but I have not talked
to him. When I get up to Albany to-mor
row night I shall open a campaign and see
If T can't pet the required signatures for a
caucus. I think that there is a good
chance of having the Cobb bill made a
party measure if we vote on it in caucus.
If it is made a party measure there seems
to be every chance that we can pass It.
"The Governor has approved the CobH
bili and the Senate baa passed it once, and
will undoubtedly do so again. So it would
seem to be entirely up to the Assembly.
If we only get some men with backbone, I
think we shall be able to have a caucus.
Would Accept Cobb Bill.
"Of course, I am still in favor of the
Hinman-Green bill, but there seems to be
little chance of passing that. But the Cobb
bill is a long step in the right direction.
Tf we get that on the statute books once,
and elect a good Legislature under it, it
ought to be comparatively easy to broaden
its provisions at succeeding sessions."
Senator Hendrick S. Holden. of Syracuse,
who took Lieutenant Governor White's
Place in the Senate, has been in the city
as a member of the legislative committee
to welcome Mr. Roosevelt. He does not
think there Is any chance of passing a
direct primary measure. He was one of
the Senators who voted against the Cobb
bill, and has not changed his mind.
"As a matter of fact," he said, "I think
what sentiment for direct primaries there
was in Onondaga County has died out. It
is as dead as a smelt.
"Of course, the Senate will probably pass
the </obb bill again. It could not stultify
itself by turning it down after having
passed It once. But I don't think it has
any chance in the Assembly. So far as I
have been able to learn, the members of
the legislature will take the same in
dividual stand on the bill as they did be
fore."
Senator Holden seemed extremely opti
mistic about conditions upstate.
"We are all united in Onondaga," he said,
"and will give the Republican ticket the
usual plurality this fall. A'e gave Gov
ernor Hughes one of the biggest plurali
ties in the state and would do t-o again.
We shall do the same for any candidate
who may be named."
The Appropriation Bill.
One of the most important things that
will be submitted to the special session by
the Governor, according to Senator Holden.
will be a reconsideration of the appropri
ation and supply bill.
'•We appropriated more money than iue
income of the state will cover by about
$6,000,000," he eaid. "That, of course, is
something that must be rectified."
So far as could be learned, there have
been no formal conferences in reglrd to
the extra session in this city in the last
few days, althouKh toe subject has been
an important topic of conversation when
ever one or two leaders have been to
gether.
Senator (irady. the Democratic leader, who
did his best to kill direct primaries in the
Senate, spent considerable time, at the Mur
ray Hill Hotel, where many members of
the Legislature wnere on Saturday. There
were suspicions that his activity boded no
good for fuch a measure when the special
cession convenes.
Assemblyman Bennett, who is oiie of the
most ardent advocates of direct primaries,
is out in Montana, and will not be in Al
bany before the 27th. Tie belieies, how
ever, that nothing important w*ll come to
a vote before that time.
SESSION MAY BE BRIEF
Conjectures Vary from Ten Days
to Month— Speaker on Hand.
Albany. June 19.— The extraordinary ses
sion of the Legislature, called by Governor
Hughes to take up again the vexed ques
tion of primary reform, will convene, at
S:3O o'clock to-morrow night. After a three
weeks' respite the legislators are coming
back to wrestle with a problem which lie
Governor thinks should be settled this year
—that of enacting a satisfactory direct
nominations bill.
Governor Hughes still believes that the
Hinman-Green bill should become the law
of the state, but in view of the difference
of opinion as to the advisability of apply
ing the plan to state officers, he lias an
nounced his willingness to accept the Cobb
bill, which provides for the direct nomina
tion of Congressmen, Senators, members of
Assembly and county officers. The Cobb
bill passed the Senate by a vote of U to
13 and was killed In the Assembly on the
eve of adjournment.
Monday night's session promises to be
brief, just long enough to listen to the
Governor's message. The programme
thereafter has 1 yet to be arranged. Pre
dictions as to the outcome are at variance,
but a lively fight is certain. The thief
weeks' intermission has Riven the legis
lators time to sound the sentiment in their
home district;, but whether there will be
a shift of tho thirty votes necessary to pass
a direct primary measure is one of the
uncertainties of the situation.
There have been all eorts of guesses as
to what will happen Reports credit Presi
dent Taft with having expressed the wish
that a direct primary measure be enacted,
and the possibility of Theodeur» Roosevelt
taking a hand in the situation has excited
lively speculation. Assemblyman Murray,
of New York, has been sounding his Re
publican colleagues as to the wisdom of
holding .a caucus with a view to making
the Cobb bill a party measure, as was
done in the Senate at the regular session.
Conjectures as to the length of the ses
sion vary from ten days to a month.
Legislating on hot summer days in the
stuffy' Senate and Assembly chambers is
not conducive to personal comfort, and re
quests from legislators for excuses from
attendance until such time as their votes
are needed are likely to be numerous.
Whether th« Governor will recommend
legislation other than that having to do
with primary reform is problematical.
Various suggestions have been made, but
the Governor has given no intimation as to
what his message will contain. Only such
legislation as is recommended by the Gov
ernor can be considered by the Legislature
at an extraordinary session.
Speaker Wadsworth arrived to-day and
to-night conferred with several of the As
sembly leaders relative to the direct nomi
natiens situation.
URGES DIRECT SENATORS
Frisbie Asks Governor to Sug
gest Action, in Message To-day.
Albany. June 19.— 1n a letter to Governor
Hughes. Daniel r». Frists, minority leader
of the Assembly, requests that he inclu.le
in his message to the Legislature at its
extraordinary session, which convenes to
morrow night, a recommendation looking to
action by New York favorable to the elec
tion of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people.
"r am enrouras:°d in making this re
quest." the letter reads, "by the fact that
in your last campaign for the governorship
yon declared yourself in favor of the direct
election of United States Senators by the
people."
The procedure suggested by Mr. Frisbie
Is the adoption of a joint legislative resolu
tion petitioning rongress for the calling of
a constitutional convention for the con
sideration of this matter. Tho letter points
out that alreAly twenty-nine states have
adopted such resolutions, and that only one
more in addition to New York would be
necessary to accomplish this purpose. Such
a resolution was introduced by Mr. Frisbie
at the regular session, but failed.
"The direct election of United States Sen
ators," the letter recites, "is of as great,
if not greater, importance to the people in
their control of the election of their repre
sentatives as is the direct nomination of
candidates. The one logically supplements
the other."
FLOODS STOP A RAILROAD
Cumberland Mining Section in
Maryland Crippled.
Cumberland, Md., June IS.— Following
recent flooding rains, the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad is crippled between Cumberland
and Connellsville, on the Pittsburg division.
The Cumberland & Pennsylvania Kail
road, which runs through the mining region
between Cumberland and Piedmont, has
abandoned trains to-day, while the P*omney
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is
completely tied up, and it may be several
days before trains can be run over it.
All the wires are 'down between Salisburg
Junction and Garrett. The Berlin branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio is completely tied
up by a dozen or more slides and washouts.
One bridge has been washed out on the.
branch. On the Somerset and Cambria
branch trains were caught between slides
and washouts.
GREAT LOSS BY STORM
Damage Placed at Hundreds of
-Thousands in Pennsylvania.
Washington, Pen'n.. June I?.— Following
last night's severe storms that raged over
the western part of the state, another
broke over this section early to-day that
was even more severe, and caused losses
that are estimated at hundreds of thou
sands.
Nearly all o^ Greene County, except
"Wayncsburg, and the southeastern part of
Washington County are cut off from com
munication, and the only reports obtain
able are from farmers who are arriving
here hourly.
At Marianna a two story store and
dwelling house was washed from its foun
dation by a swollen stream and a cook
stove set fire to it. Two families m the
building escaped a few minutes before it
floated like a blazing torch downstream.
Scores of barns and other dwelling houses
were washed away, while several of them
burned in a like manner. The Monongahela
& Washington Railroad, has been blocked
by landslides.
In West Bethlehem Township several
large bridges have been washed away. The
family of James Gallagher was driven from
floor to floor by the rising water until
forced to cut a hole through the roof and
climb into a tree, from which Jhey were
rescued by a farmer in a skiff.
Around California and Daisytown, in
"Washington County, twelve houses were
tarried from their foundations and floated
off to the Monongahela with their con
tents. None of them has been found. The
Mesta Coal Company estimates its damage
to be about $10,000, and states that it will
take two months to make repairs.
At Smallwood Jotiu tsargosky escaped
from his home with his wife, wading in
water up to their necks and holding their
children above their heads. Their home,
too, was carried out to the. river.
At Myersdale. in Fayette County, the
wind wrecked three large barns and tore
the roof from a brewery, trees were torn
from their roots and carried hundreds of
feet, while lightning added further dam
age. Crops in all .these counties were
ruined.
SEARCH IN VAIN FOR FIRE
Smoke in Brooklyn Municipal
Building, but That's All.
For an hour yesterday evening a
<ouple of fire companies, the salvage
corps and a squad of policemen searched
the Municipal Building in Brooklyn for
a fire.
At 5: SO o'clock the rooms of the Street
Cleaning Department, at the rear of the
third floor, were seen to be filled with
smoke. An alarm was sent in. The
firemen broke in the door, but no flames
appeared Then the firemen smashed
their way into the rooms of the Water
Department above, but in vain.
"There's the tire^ — 'way back in the cel
lar!" some one shouted.
The crowd, armed with axes, patent
fire extinguishers and hose, rushed be
low. They came back looking much
chagrined. The smolffe was only the ex
hauFt of the steam boiler. After more
searching all withdrew. The opinion was
lhat |be smoke had tome up from the
engine room through the steam pipes.
ATTACKS WIFE; KILLS HIMSELF.
Atlantic City. June 19.— A. W. Strause, of
Pottstown, Perm., kille.l himself after at
tempting tr« murder his wife in the ser
vants' quarters of the Hotel Dennis to-day.
The man. who had been separated from
his wife, hid In her rooms, and first at
tempted to slash her with a razor. The
woman took the razor from him, but fled
when the husband drew a pair of Bharp
pointed shears and tried to stab her.
Btrause then swallowed the contents of a
vial of carbolic arid, and die J a few min
utes after being taken to the City. Hos
pital. : -; ; -^';
STORM'S FATALITIES
MOUNT TO SEVENTEEN
Woman Hit by Broken Pole in
Circus Tent During Gale
Dies from Injury.
THREE DROWN YESTERDAY
Terrific Gale Followed on Sun
day by Hottest Weather of
Year — Thermometer
Touches 87.
The aftermath of Saturday's wind and
| rain storm, which was one of the most
violent New York has known In years,
showed that the total number of deaths
caused by the cyclone had risen to
seventeen, or three more than were re
ported yesterday.
'it is believed that several more per
sons, in addition to those of whom a
record has been obtained, either were
drowned or carried out to sea in the
gale. Many' small f boats have been
found all along the beach front, from
Sea Gate to th« Rockaways, either to
tally wrecked or so badly damaged that
| they must have been abandoned by their
I occupants before they were cast up on
the beach.
% Brilliant weather yesterday succeeded
the violent atmospheric disturbance that
was responsible for so much damage
both to life and property on Saturday.
Indeed, the temperature, climbing up
to 87 degrees, the highest yet of the year,
j made the day even more remarkable af
ter the storm.
Three Drownings Yesterday.
Many people thus were tempted to go
in bathing at the ocean resorts and In
the rivers, and, as a result, the water
claimed three victims.
One of these deaths occurred in West
Orange, one at Coney Island and a third
at Clinton street. Brooklyn. Many res
cues from drowning were reported from
all over the city and suburbs, and the
lifesavers had a hard time at the opening
of the summer bathing season.
One of the victims of the storm, who
was reported badly injured when a
pole at the circus, at Manhattan Field]
fractured her skull, died yesterday in the
J. Hood Wright Hospital, where she was
removed immediately after the accident.
Her name was Mrs. Florence Pratt, of
No. 824 St. Nicholas avenue, and she was
at the circus with her husband when she
met with the accident.
Fata! Fishing Trip.
It was learned last night that another
man was drowned in Jamaica Bay in
Saturday's storm. The man, whose body
has not yet been recovered, was James
H. Barber, an insurance broker head of
the Jatnes W. Barber Insurance Com
pany, of No. 1 Liberty street, Manhat
tan. Mr. Barber lived in a summer cot
tage at No. 1081 East 17th street. Flat
bush, with his mother.
On Saturday afternoon ' Barber, with
Warren Conk, of No. 693 Franklin ave
nue, Brooklyn; George Seidel, of No. 151
West 101 st street, Manhattan; John
[ Ryan, of No. 221 Spencer street, Brook
lyn, and Morgan T. Brewster, a negro
chauffeur in the employ, of Barber, set
| out from Sheepshead Bay for a fishing
excursion. As they were about to start
they met Lewis Tangruza, oTj No. 171
Wallabout street, Brooklyn, who" joined
the party.
The five men sailed in the direction
of Rockaway Point, and when they had
reached a point midway between Bar
ren Island and Rockaway Point they
dropped their anchor. It was a little
after 3 o'clock, according to Tangruza,
when they noticed the approach of the
storm. The surface of the water took
on a yellowish tinge and was frequently
rippled by little white capped waves.
At the same time they noticed that dense
clouds were rolling in from the ocean,
obscuring the sun and throwing every
thing into almost total darkness.
The five men immediately started in
to pull up their anchor, hoping to be
able to run before the gale. Even as
they tugged on the anchor rope with all
their strength the gale struck them.
The bay was whipped into a furiou3
sea in a minute, and the boat was in
imminent danger of being swamped. The
anchor was finally pulled in, and all lay
fiat on the deck, with one man holding
the tiller and trying to guide the frail
craft , through the blinding rain to a
point of safety.
The waves continually leaped over the
boat, and suddenly she gave a great
lurch downward in the trough of the sea
and. then turned completely over. Every
man. on board was thrown- into the wa
ter, but Brewster. the negro- chauffeur,
managed to twine his legs about the
mast and then grabbed Ryan and Sei
del. preventing them from being swept
away by the rollers. Barber and Tan
gruza were swept clear of the boat, and
the latter managed to grasp a life pre
server which floated on the water and
thus saved himself from drowning.
Barber, who was wearing a heavy oil
skin suit, was practically helpless and
was carried away. He cried for help,
and Brewster yelled to him to hold out
until he could reach his side. Barber,
however, never had a chance, handi
capped as he was, and disappeared be
neath the surface.
Tangruza was rescued by John Morri
son, of Rockaway Point, after he had
drifted oft*. Point Breeze. Ryan, Seidel
and Brewster still < lung to the mast of
the capsized boat, and were finally res
cued by the Volunteer Life Saving Corps
on Plum Island. All the men were ex
hausted by their experience and were
taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, in Far
Rockaway.
Drowns in the Bay.
In direct contrast to the storm of Sat
urday, when the temperature fell 20 de
gress within as many minutes, yes- j
terday was a "sweltering day, the dense
humidity and high temperature causing
much misery and suffering.
Starting in soon after midnight, when I
the thermometer registered 03 degrees,
the mercury soon reached 70 degrees, at
8 o'clock. From then on the heat and
humidity continued to increase, until at
4 o'clock' in the afternoon the top point
of 87 degrees was registered. At the
same time the humidity registered 65 |
degrees, the combination proving a most
disagreeable one for those who were j
forced to I.e. on the move throughout j
the day.
A large crowd at Timer Park wit
nessed the drowning of Robert Carlson, |
a clerk, of No. 123 East 73d street. j
Carlson and Miss Helen Huppe, of No.
500 Park avenue, went in swimming at j
the foot of Bay 39th street yesterday
afternoon, and had been swimming j
Only once a year is this opportunity
offered to secure practically new
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These pianos have graced the drawing and music rooms of rep
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$575. Now only -. **!** _.
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shopworn. Was «1.000 fgJQ Marshall ft WendeU .
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about in the shallow water near the
shore, together with other bathers
when he started out toward deeper
water. At a point about 200 feet from
shore he -s^as seized with a cramp. Hq
threw up his hands and cried for help
Miss Huppe, although not an expert
swimmer, tried to g,> to his assistance,
but the swift current soon carried Carl
son out of reach.
Miss Huppe screamed for help and
some men put out in a boat. After div
ing: repeatedly they found the body of
Carlson. Dr. Lewis, of the Coney Island
Reception Hospital. was aummoncd but
the young man was beyond help
Mountains y ; s tL^° v t0 ? of the Orans«,
Pien. of No ISI lt^' Jose Ph S. Hal
«/(li hi PUCC Btreet ' Newark,
people ™hS lined [£° ,, Sf!Vßral hundred
itrlkeSSTor'JhJS? Vu^ h t^ tO
but a few yards h» »h nhe had s °" c
aours search succeeded in bringing
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it to the surface. The body w— *
to the Orange morgue. tk*dV
The heat that beat down "£**
like a furnace all day sent nutw Oii
hii.ls into the parks, and every v ss $ vjj>
boasted sufficient size to c»w • ■ &1
was eagerly sought out by *?- " &*
wt» Central Park ".** -I^eUS**:
densely crowded of the public l* 9 t ffj&
but many thousands va ° de^ oai ?s'J
the mazes of the woods injrow j
and the other recreation spo»- t»*
The ■'
gre*t promiaa : : . - tot tJ-"*