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0 GET PROMOTERS IN RAID Five Banana Company Officials Arrested on Fraud Charge. A PREACHER AMONG THEM Postal Men Declare Honduras Plantation Was Nothing More than Swamp. Charged with using: the mails to defraud, several officers and directors of El Tro p-^so Banana Company and the Interna tional Rinar.ce Company were arrested yes terda^■ at the. office of the latter company. The capture was made by Postofilce In ppectors Elmer Kin-aid sad T. U. Reddy. who were assisted by Detective Lieutenants MiMmore. Arastitrag and Reich, who were specially detailed by the Police Department to help the fedesal officers. • Frank J Watrous, president of ■" Pro gresso Banana Company, reached New York early yesterday, after an absence of three '. or four months, during which he visited Honduras, where the company was said to have a large banana plantation. He was In the office, with H. L. Harvey, president of the finance company, when the officers came in. While they were there William I* Sanders, secretary of the finance company, arrived sjid greeted every one effusively, bat was gTeatly surprised when told he was under arrest. As the officers were out to start away ■with their Hoes prisoners they met O. W. Simmons, secretary-treasurer of the ba nana company, and he. too, was placed under arrest. After the detectives had gone to the Fed eral Building with the four men then under arrest the postofflce inspectors, who had remained behind to superintend the pack- Ing of papers Which they seized as evi dence, met the Rev. Claude M. Severance, a director of the banana company, just as he was entering the building; and he, too, was taken into custody. Held in Default of Bail. "When arraigned before Commissioner Shields. Watrous, the alleged promoter of tUe banana company, was held in default of $10,000 baiL The Rev. Claude M. Sev erance, who lives at Twelfth avenue and •42d street. Borough Park, Brooklyn, Called to obtain $3,000 bail, and O. W. Simmons could not produce a bondsman for $2,503. Sanders and Harvey were released In $2,500 ball. According to the postal authorities, Frank W. Wetrous, a native of Boston, went "broke" in Denver toward the close of 190S after being interested in some mining: deals. He is alleged to have gone then to Houston, Tex., where he was helped by some friends, and later raised money on his mother's home and furniture in Denver and organ ized El Progress^ Banana Company, which he capitalized at J1,60d,W0. in Arizona, in January, 1309. Coming Is New York, it is said by the ' postal authorities, Watrous got in touch i With Sanders and Harvey. Their concern, the International Finance Company, ar ranged to dispose of El Progresso stock at El cents on the dollar. Of this, it is alleged, 10 cents went to the banana company and the remainder to Sanders and Harvey, but the postal authorities say that the com mission was divided, with Watrous, who conducted a correspondence with H. L. Harvey, who lived at the Astor House, With the proceeds of the stock sold Wat rous opened an office at Chattanooga, Term.. and later went to Honduras. From La Oefba be wrote in February, ISO 9, that the company had secured seventy thousand acres of land and was ens. ■ in planting bananas. The postal authorities say that the company, under the laws of Honduras, could not own property in that country, but Watrous had got a few thou sand acres under what is known in Hon duras as "denouncement." Glowinc Circulars Written. The conditions under which he got the property was that a quarter should be im proved and planted during the first year. While no work was done, it is alleged. Watrous wrote glowing circulars, describ ing ••<■• splendid agricultural lands, and he lacked this up with a description by Dr. a diroctor of the company, who told of the fine banana plantation, cover ing 13,750 acres. With the proceeds of Etock sales, the postal authorities say, he enlarged th« Chattanooga office, put his trorher-in-law, O. W. Simmons, in charge, then came North and married Miss Alice Pernalc. of Rosbury, Mass., who now lives £t her old home. He took her to Hon duras shortly after their marriage, and as the "denouncement" conditions had not been fulfilled the land was forfeited to the government. Watrous then, with the assistance of a lawyer named Meiser, tried to get a con cession from tho Bonduran government. He xvaj tee-sawed by the officials, but finally succeeded in getting a concession of BBS thousand acres, for which he was to pay BMsl silver. He was also to survey the land and build a railroad to the coast. Isone of these conditions was fulfilled, but the eale of stock, it is charged,, went on merrily through the International Finance Company, the principal salesman being the Rev. Claude M. Severance, who had al ready acted as a stock salesman for other companies. A sample of the alleged letters sent out ty Severance to other clergymen is In the possession of the rostal authorities. It is addressed, to the Rev D. C. McXair, of "Wayne, Mich., and, among ether t!i!nc?, BSM: 'I am decidedly well pleased with Mr. Watrous. He is a clean gentleman; does not drink, does not use tobacco; he Ls in terested in Young Men's Christian Associ ation work. . . . There is no appearance of trickery in him. He has a magnificent presence, is winsome and Impress you with great reserve strength ... I urge you now to join us and to sell stock to your neighbors with the perfect assurance that you w.'ll all double your money in a year and secure an Investment which will mean a large annual income. . . . You are justified In working night and day to seen two thousand shares for yourselt for you would be self-supporting In three years' time v.-lth such an investment." Say Plantation Was Swamp. The Rev. D. C. McXair bought two thou sand sharer at 50 ccim? n share, but later the stock went to " cen*s. The only ship ment made by the company, it is allaged, was a lot of fix hundred bunches of Laranap. which the posrtal authorities say "were purchased from ethers, as the com pany had not even an option on banana lands, t*;£t which they had being value lets swamj<. in July W. XV. ' ' pectoi ■ sad Red work « ■ • "The .\v« ( The Famous "DONKEY OIL" JOSBAI'S PERFECTION WAX OIL POLISH A Fluid Preparation Applied with Cloth Cleans, instantly polishes beautifully FLOORS that have been wai^i, varnished, shellacked or srained. Revives ;..-•!. On Fur r.ituie. Pianos and all hardwood and varnished ■ urfaces. Hides ficii>vhfts. removes ttaini-. brings out grain, destroys dim-a^o Ei-iras, is not tticky. leave* do o<1or; articles cleaned can be übeU Immediately alter. You can ke^p your house spick and *>j>an at hardly any cat cr labor. It dees fcr woodwork what metal pol lihes'do for brass and silver. >i pints. 2T,c. : pints, 4... . quarts. 75. : J i- trallorn. fi :■:, pallon coiib. $2.00. BoM by Department, Hou«erurnls!:irß. ilariiaarc Paint. Drue an. l Grocery stores. If your dealer doejn't keep urtd won't ■■!■'.■: tsend to F. JORDAN, Mfr., 31 Broadway, N.Y. LIBERAL TERMS TO DEALERS. Ticavune- .had been pounding the com ranv as a fraud, and this. Is said, caused Watrous to dose the office at Chattanooga. On his return from Hondtrrßs, a tew weeks ago be is said to have threatened to kill one' of the editors of -The Picayune." and the government detailed men to guard the newspaper men. Meantime, Watrous, while announcing his intention of going back to Honduras, was preparing to come to New York. He was shadowed by the govern ment detectives, and when he reached New York yesterday he was placed under arrest v.-ith the other men concerned in the dis posal of what the postal authorities re gard as worthless stock. W. L.. Sanders was president of the Gruger Gold : Mining Company in 1303 and of the Southern Petroleum- Company in 1904. Both companies, it is alleged, had short and none too profitable careers for the shareholders. FORTY THOUS_ANDSEEK HELP Bureau Tells of Its Work Here in Annual Report. Tho joint application bureau of the Char ity organization Society and the Associ ation for Improving the Condition of the Poor issued its annual report yesterday. It has charge of the homeless men and women who apply for help to the Charity Organization Society and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. It also receives the applications for help sent to either society. During the last year, according to the report, almost forty thousand people ap ■ r aid at the bureau. A new method of payment for railroad tickets or board and lodging given by the bureau was tried with much sueces& The new plan was to send the applicants into the woodyard of the • y I irganization Society, where they worked for three hours or more and re ceived their transportation home or food and lodging in exchange. The bureau succeeded In obtaining 1,021 places for men without work during the year. son:e of these going to farms, while others were placed in the city. The Police Department assisted in the work of the bureau by sending sixty thousand printed reference slips to needy persons. In this manner those who needed the aid of the bureau were made acquainted with its ex istence. The bureau recommends a law requiring compulsory care for the feeble minded, epi leptic and morally delinquent and com pulsory hospital treatment for homeless consumptives. CATLIN WANTS CHILDREN Alleges Former Wife Keeps Them in Defiance of Court's Order. The troubles of George I. Catttn and his wife, Mrs. Marian Bricgs Catlln, will be beard in the Supreme Court again to-mor row on a write of habeas corpus obtained by the husband, who seeks to get the custody of his children awarded to him by the court, but taken away from him by his wife, he says. Catlin, who is a member of the 7th Regi ment and formerly was a well known ath lete, and his wife have had previous litiga tion over the custody of the children. Mr?. Catlin obtained a divorce from her hus band in Reno, Key. On her return to New York she took her children to Greenpoint, Long Island. Catlin went there anri took them away. She then brought habeas corpus proceedings to get her children back, but Justice Whitney decided acainst her • M also that the Reno divorce was not good in this state, because the hus band had had no opportunity to enter an appearance. Catlin complains that Mrs Emma Van A'leek. an aunt of his former wife, took the children from the neighborhood of their home In Harlem to Brooklyn, where Mrs. Catlin is living at No. 99 rierkimer street, and where he says the children have been seen. TIGER WILL CROSS BRIDGE Not the Tammany Kind, but One with Aztec Ancestors. This time it is a Yucatan and not a Tam many tiger that will cross the Brooklyn Bii'lge. according to Park Commissioner Stover, who said yesterday that a ruiz^n > :.1 presented the Central Park menagerie with a Sfucatan tiger, whose ancestry, in a • line, goes back to the time of the ■ while the Yucatan animal will event ross the 1 ■ ■ re has been fnpio .ii the negotiations for his transfer from a steamer at one or the Brooklyn I the < ntral rark zoo. The citizen who made the eift, it is said, It known over the telephone. On calling for the tiger, officials of the line through which it cap-.p, a.= vvll as govern ment offv-ers, displayed a "show me" atti tude toward the department driver. Everything is to come out all right, for tbe dim who made the gift has s^-nt a written order to that effect to the Pa7-k Department, and it will only be a short time now before thia Yucatan tiger will be Installed in the bovse with the Si berian tiger, th>- one other animal of that species :n the menagerie "FIVE YEARS WITHOUT LABOR" Penitentiary for South Carolina Official in Dispensary Case. S. C, Nov. 12. — Five years in the penitentiary at Columbia "without labor"' was the sentence passed to-day by Special Ju^se. Moore on John Bln< k. former mem* ber f the State Dispensary Board, charged [racy to defraud the ftat~. The court overruled a motion for a new trial ar.<l notice of an appeal t'> the Supreme • v, ..... given. Black gave- (&608 bail. ALASKAN COASTER ASHORE Passengers Landed — Steamer Beached — Fears for Her Salving. Cordova, Alaska, Nov. 32— The Alaska coast steamship Portland struck a sub merged rock off Kaiallak to-day, tc-arimj a hole in her bottom. She was beached at the mounth of the Katalla River, and the passengers were landed safely. If a storm arises the Portland will be a total loss. TWO DINNERS FOR DIX. The Merchants' Democratic Association, which was formed during the campaign fur t'ne purpose of helping to elect the Democratic candidates, particularly John A. Dix, prill give a dinner for the Governor elect on Thanksgiving Eve, November 23, at the Hotel Astor. Mr. Dix will also be the guest of honor at the fifteenth annual din ner of the Heal Estate Board of Brokers on Wednesday night, February 8, at the Waldorf. HEAVY PENNSYLVANIA SNOWFALL Bradford, Perm., Noi I v.ri more than . here to-nigl I traffic Is In : •■■] <m the trolley and steam roads. ■ . o Falling Sharon, de . ■ •• generally. W. \v. Servir-e. old ■!; o] ;•■ d :■ ad n bile ■ ■ ..... off a walk. M-W-YORK DAILY TRIBtXE. S t>^ AY - NOVEMBER 13. 1010. ASTOR'S CHAUFFEUR FREE Lawyer Gets Parole to Have Him Go to Trial in Jersey. Christian Frlcke, chauffeur for John Jacob AStor, was arraigned before Magis trate Herbert In tho Tnmhs police court yesterday, charged with being a fugitive from justice. He was arrested yesterday by pptertives Loughman and Reich, of the Central Office, as he was emerging from the Federal Building, where he was a witness in the case of a woman who sued Astor for 110,000 for injuries she received when As tor's automobile ran up on the sidewalk in Hudson County, X. J., in May. 1907. Fricke. Who was driving the machine, \ a? arrested at the time on a charge of assault and battery, and was released in |50fl bail. He was indicted by the gTand jury of Hudson County. Magistrate Her bert committed him to the Tomb? without bail. Louis J. Yorhaus, the chauffeur's counsel, then went before Judge Malone, sitting In General Sessions, and had him j.arole the prisoner. The lawyer said that he would immediately take Fricke to Hud son County to stand trial. SAYS POLYGAMY EXISTS Methodists Hear Mormonism Is as Bad as Ever. Mormon missionaries and polygamy were the topics for discussion at yesterday's ppcslon of the General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension, at Grace M. E. Church. Bishop J. M. Walden presided, and the subject was brought up by Bishop Luther B. Wilson, who declared that the Church must wake up to the necessity of combat ing the inroad? of Mormonism. The Rev. Dr. W. D. Phifer, of Denver, who repre sents the district that includes Utah, made a stirring appeal. "Don't minimize the Mormon devil," said Dr Phifer. "The Mormons believe in polygamy just as strongly as ever. Why. there was a convention of sixty Mormon missionaries in Denver the day I left. Mor monism is Just what it always was. "Let me illustrate," continued the doctor. "Coming to New York I fell in conversa tion with a man who paid he was from Utah. It soon developed that he was a Mormon missionary, and in short order he was trying to convert me. He introduced three companions, all of them Mormon missionaries, and they tried to work on me. "I asked them about polygamy, and the answer was that -when a people became spiritualized sufficiently they could safely practise polygamy. The reason the Mor mon Church dropped tie practice, they ex plained, was because the people had not developed sufficiently along the spiritual lines. ROCK KILLSJVIAN AND BOY Knocks Stonecutter Off Plat form, Then Hits School Lad. As William Gourley, a stonecutter, was working on a building at First avenue and 4Mb. street, yesterday morning, a huge stone, weighing more than UMO pounds, slipped over on to the platform on which he was standing on the ninth floor and crashed to the street below. Gourley, after being knocked off the platform was thrown to the roof of a three*story build ing next door. When workman ran to him it was found that he had be»n instantly killed. The gr°at rock, after striking the plat form, plunged on in its course to the street. Over the sidewalk there was a covering of heavy rafters to protect people in the street from falling stones and tools from the buil-iins. Just as the rock broke through this covering, Frank Neubert. a schoolboy, of No. 31S East 47th street, was passing beneath. The stone struck him on the left leg, cutting it off and severely crushing his body Hf- i\as also dead be fore the arrival of an ambulance from the Flower Hospital. No arrests were made, as it was an accident that could not have been averted. Another man was instantly killed at 172 d j street and Seabury place. The Bronx, by ! a falling rock from a building. The man killed was Charles Cheers, a stonecutter, of No. 10 South Terrace avfnue. Mount Vernon. Cheers had been working on the sixth floor of a building in course of construc tion, when the rock on which he was stand ing suddenly fell out and hurled him to the street. An ambulance ?urcpon fro ni the Fordham Hospital p-ii.i i heers had died instantly The fourth victim t0 meet r ] e ath while working on a building was Ivan Jepson, of No. 427 Stan' ope street, Brooklyn. He fell from the twelfth floor of a loft build ing at No. 114 East lfitli street. He was dead picked up. YOUNG HUNGARIAN HELD Writer of Threatening Letter to Rockefeller To Be Examined. Peter Lilljon, the young Hungarian, of No. 637 East 13th street who was arrested on Friday night on a charge of writing threatening letters to John D. Rockefeller was arraigned before Magistrate Kerno Man.' in the Morrlsanla police court, yesterday morning. He was held in $1,000 bail for examination to-day on a charge of violat ing Section 553 of the Penal Laws. Lil-j'-n on Friday night took the letters to a Hungarian steamship agency at No. "74 Alexander avenue, The Bronx, to have them translated, there handing a note to the manappr, Hugo Kurd us. of No. 334 East 140 th street, threatening his life if he re- I ■ I his plot. He was arrested on the complaint of Kardus. who notified the police between the time Lilijon left tho letters addressed to Rockefeller to be translated from Hun garian into English and th.- time when he was to call for them. ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS. [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, November I°. OKUERS ISSUKD.-The following orders have been issued: ARMY. Captain NATHANIEL F. M'CLUBE, 6th Cav alry, to report to commending general "De partment of California, for duty 'pending thl f :: !\f 1,1, transport trom San Francisco for the Philippines, on December .', First Lieutenant WILLIAM C TREMAIXE. loth ' avalry. to the Walter Reed Oenerai Hospital. District of Columbia First Lieutenant WILLIAM P. MOFFETT 13th SnSJS-H^a, HotSpriß^ Arlnj: * nd ' N »" Second Lieutenant WILLIAM P. CJ.ARK Phll ipplna Scouts, honorably discharged from the ■ervlee of the United Slates by reason of physical disability Chaplain TIMOTHY P. O'KEEFE. 13th Cavalry from the General Hospital. PresHlo of Sari Francisco, to the Pacific Branch of th- Mili tary Prison, Alcatraz Leaves of absence Captain ROBERT C FOT lit Cavalry, ■•'■•'■- camp, four months upon relief from duty In Philippine*; Dental Bur" «°" OHAHI ! B J. LONG, twenty days; iVi'v'i-i 1 ' 1 ' '''' ■' "' •' BENJAMIN B. WARI hi.m-.k medical reserve corps, three months : i on I.I '. ■ •••:.i <•;■ i, NAVY. Commander R. H. JACKSON detached us In spector In ctiarK<; naval proving ground. Indian Head; to Asiatic station. Lieutenant H. H. MICHAEL, to naval proving Kruund. Indian Head Ensign. C. A. SCHIPFBR. detached from the Chester; granted lejiva of one in. .nth. Enalsn M F. -MANLY. i,. the Cheater. Midshipman S. M LA BOUNTY, detached from the North Carolina: to the Octopus. Midshipman W. R MI.'NHOB. detaitu-d from the Octopus, to the North i^arollna. Midshipman L. P. JOHNSON, to the North Caro lina. Carpenter J. K. GALLALEE, to the navy yard. Norfolk. Pa ... '■.■ i Clerk F. C i-OLVILLE. appointed to duty as e>ik with the Asiatic Fleet MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS.— The fol lowing movements of vessels have neon re ported '" '■■■•■ Navy Department: ARRIVED^ Nov. 11 — The Supply at Yokohama; the Pauld ir -■ at Newport; '•"' Castlne. the Severn, the Grayling, the llonlta, the Narwhal, the Salmon, the Stingray, and the Tarpon at i. II Dili SAILED. Nov. 11— Tho Etrlnittatn from Annapolis f,->r a cruise in Chesapeake ISav: the Halley from Norfolk for a cruise In Ches-apealte Bay; Uie i-»e Ivan- Inm Charleston for fcuvoniiiU^ HONOR COLUMBIA MAN Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman the Guest at Dinner. PRAISE 25 YEARS' SERVICE Colleagues and Students Pay Tribute — Justice Hughes Sends Message. Edwin R. A. Seligman, professor of po litical economy at Columbia university, was the guest of honor at a dinner given last night at the Hotel Astor by his colleagues, students and associates to commemorate his twenty-fi%-e years of service as scholar, teacher and citizen. As not— Of Felix Adler, one of the speakers, remarked, n was an attempt to write an ante-mort?m eulogy instead of a post-mortem. Th 3 at tempt met with marked success. R. Fulton Cutting acted as toastmaster and among the guests were Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni versity: Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois; Jacob H. Schlff. Dr. A. Jacobi, Professor John W. Burgess, dean of the faculty of political science at Co lumbia; George McAneny. Borouph Presi dent of Manhattan; David R. Dewey, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Henry C. Emory, Gaylord S. White, Henry Clews, Frederic R. Coudert. Paul D. Cra vath, James Duane Livingston, Brander Matthews, Victor Morawetz, George Haven Putnam, V/illiam Z. Ripley. George L. Rives. Edward M. Shepard, F. A. Vander lip and many others prominent in the edu cational, financial and professional life of the city. An appreciative message from Charles E. Hughes, justice of the United States Supreme Court, was received with marked approval, as was the remark of the toast master that in this critical age a man who exhibited any sympathy with the plain people was in danger of being accused of demagogy. President Nicholas Murray Butler referred to Professor Seligman as the ideal univer sity professor, who combined scholarship with public service. He prophesied that th..< jubilee of their guest as a professor would find Professor Seligman still more firmly enthroned in public favor and his services more widely recognized. Dean Burgess took credit for having dis covered Professor Seligman, while Presi dent James of the University of Illinois and Professor Dewey dwelt on th° services or Professor Seligman in the American Eco nomic Association," of which he is one of the founders. President James referred to the services which their guest's work on taxation was rendering throughout the country. Professor Felix Adler decried the ten dency of publishing posters announcing that "Jones is dead,"' and never putting forth a postal card stating that "Jones is still alive." He said that the evening's gather ing was destined to send forth a postal on rd which he prophesied would be en larged into a great letter before they met again to honor the scholar, economist and public servant. Borough President McAneny, on behalf of the city, testified to the services of Pro fessor Seligman on tiie Tax Commission, where, he said, h» had brought about an amendment to the system of bond issues which had made possible the building of further subways by the city. Henry C. Emery testified to the benefits derived by students and Gaylord S. White told of the professor's services in social work. PROTEST AGAINST EXECUTION Emma Goldman and Others Disturbed Over Fate of 26 Japanese. Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and others have filed objection with the various newspapers against the sentencing to death in Japan of Dr. Denjiro Kotoku, his wife and twenty-four others, all Socialist;; or anarchists, who have been adjudged guilty of plotting against the royal family of Japan. The protest is in the form of a letter, which lauds th^ convicted persons and th°ir work. "Kotoku's condemnation." the let ter reads, "marks the climax of the reac tion against liberal ideas which has taken place in Japan during thr> last f«w years. Shall the Japanese government Imitate the barbarous methods of Spain and Russia and do to death their scholars and think ers 0 We must act vigorously in the cause of humanity and civilization." the letter says, "and we hope that an urcent protest will be pent to the Japanese Ambassador at Washington." REFEREE IN RINGLER CASE Justice Davis Acts on Application to Dissolve Brewing Conipariy. Justice Davis appointed William A. ?.Tc- Quade yesterday'as referee on th» applira t:On for the voluntary dissolution of George Ringl^r & Co., brewers, made by George Ehret, jr., and Georg»- F. Trommer, as ex ecutors of George RingW. Ringler died <>n January 23 Inst. The executors control one-half of the capital stock of $600,000, while the oth«r h;ilf is controlled by J. Edward Jetter, another brew ' . and Hannah rlochmeister, as ad ministrators of the latter's husband. it wns explained in the petition that the mr poratlon was solvent, with assets of $2.?5^,. 906, but that there were differences among the holders of the stork. Ehret and Trom mer said that it was prejudicial to the In terests of the concern to have the control equally divided, and tli^ it would he more prejudicial to have Jetter in control. NOTABLE OFFERINGS AT 1 STORES For Further Details Consult the Advertisements in To-day's Tribune. HEARN, West 14th street, directs atten tion to a sale of lace curtains. portWes, t.i! 1a anil couch covers, goods by the yard and table linens, which will he offered at Special values. A number of extraordinary pperials have been arranged for to-morrow morning. BLOOMINGDALE'S, Third avenue, be tween 53th and 60th streets, has r.rranged frr this week a sale of robes, Mack silks, women's stockings, rugs and carpeta and groceries. AUHAHAM ft STHAUS. Brooklyn, an nounce speclaJ values this week in French china dinner ware and Thanksgiving utili ties and Btenstla. STERN BROTHERS, West 23d street, have prepared for to-morrow a large col lection of lingerie, nitwit robes, corset covers and combinations, which will be offered at reasonable prices. Other bargains may be had in lace curtains and hangings. Oriental carpets and rugs, afternoon and street dresses, fur garments and furs, colored dress goods and hand embroidered linens. LORD & TAYLOR, Broadway and 20th street. Fifth avenue and mh street, will have a special pale of women's and misses' fruits and dresses, 'women's tailored suits and coats and wraps at exceptional values. They also call attention to a sale of silks and dress goods. C G. GUNTHEH'S BONE, No. 301 Fifth avenue, will have a sale this week of long and medium coats, muffs and neckplecea in all the desirable Curs. 11 AC VS. Sixth avenue, between 3-ith and YOUNG SAXON'S CHECK TRAIL Detectives Say It Can Be Traced to Amount of $25,000. Carl Alfred Corner, twenty years old and born in Chemnitz. Baxony, was arrested in Brooklyn lan night. His stepfather, Oscar Minkoa, a manufacturer of hosiery in Chemnitz, ssete n t him to this country with the promise that it he would stay here he would tend him $10 weekly through the tanking housa of Knauth, Naehod & Kuhne, Xo. U William street, Manhattan. Carl arrived here in August, 1909. Until early this month he was satisfied to live on his weekly allowance. He boarded at No. 254 Dean street, Brooklyn. There last evening he was arrested by Detectives yon Wagner and Murphy, of the District At torney's staff of Kings County. The charge was petty larceny. Behind the charge, the detectives said, there was a record of the making out of more than $25.(»0 of worthless checks upon the banking firm named, but none of the checks was cashed. Carl appeared at the garage of Joseph D. Rourk, In Dean street, on Monday afternoon, and Mr. Rourk sold him an automobile for $2,200. Carl hadn't his checkbook with him. but the obliging Mr. Rourk gnve him a blank check, which Carl filled in. the detectives said. The following morning Carl called at the garage and going to "his machine" picked up a fur lined overcoat, which belonged to Mr. Rourk. He was passing out with the coat when an employe intercepted him, but It is alleged the young man said he had bought the coat with the machine. Mr. Rourk set detectives on the trail of Carl. The detectives said they discov ered that he had made out checks to the amount of nearly $2-j.OOO. His plan seemed to be to get into the good graces of real estate dealers and garage owners and then to "collect" little things that were lying around loose. Apart from the checks never honored by the banking firm, Detective yon Wagner has gathered in from real estate men and automobile dealers checks to the amount of $5,20), which never were presented. SICK WOMAN HOLDS LINER Fear of Contagious Disease De lays La Lorraine Five Hours. The fainting of a woman In the steerage of La Lorraine held up the vessel for near ly five hours at Quarantine yesterday morn ing, while a bacteriological examination was made to learn if the woman had a con tagious disease. She was not carried on the sick list of the ship, but when the pas sengers were lined up before the quaran tine officers she fell over on the deck. Dr. Lene, the ship's surgeon, said that she had caught cold by walking the deck when the vessel was breasting a westerly gale, but Dr. Doty decided that it would be safer to have a blood test, as she had some fever. A blood culture was taken, and the vessel waited at Quarantine while the test was made at the laboratory. The re sult of the test was negative, Dr. Doty said, and the ship was allowed to proceed to her dock, five hours late, but the woman was transferred to the Quarantine boat, after some difficulty in the choppy sea, and taken to Hoffman Island for observation. . Among the passengers on the Lorraine was John Pierre Laurens, a son of the artist, who brought over four wall panels by his father, illustrating the surrender of Cornwallis at Yqrktown, for the Baltimore Courthouse. Two of the singers for the Metropolitan Opera Company also came on th« Lorraine —Carl Burrlan. a German tenor, and Maurice Renaud. Burrian has been singing in Dresden, Budapest and Prague. Renaud was with Hammerstein last year. This year he will sing in Chicago. Boston. Phila delphia and this city with the Metropoli tan forces, and will appear in concert, which is a new field for him. Among the other passengers were George F. Barker and A. A. Southwick, painters, and Julian Leroy White, a brother of ex ; Ambassador White. BUILDING STRIKE THREATENED Controversy Between Metal Workers and Carpenters May Cause Lockout. A general strike in the building trades is now threatened over the old controversy between the Brotherhood of Carpenters and the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers as to which union should have the right to set hollow metal door? and windows. Sev eral years ago the question was referred to' an arbitration committee representing both union? and the employers, with Mayor Gaynor, then Justice Gaynor, a? umpire. Mr. Gaynor decided in favor of the car penters, but recently the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers began ordering strikes, and other trades struck In sym pathy The Employing Roofers and Sheet Metal Worker?' Association took up the matter yesterday, and laid off every union sheet metal worker on every building in the city. The emergency committee of the Building Trades Employers' Association will meet to-morrow at the Builders' Exchange, in West 32d street, and a .General lockout may follow if the other trades strike in sym pathy wiTh the sheet metal workers. The carpenters maintain that as wooden plugs are used in setting the hollow metal doors and windows the work vas plainly that of carpenters. FOR $280,000 MORTGAGE. Justice Bischoff granted permission yes terday to the Chapin Home for the Aged at Lexington avenue and 68th street, to mortgage Its property for $280,000. The trus tees of the home said that the present quarters had come inadequate and that the money to be raised by the mortgage was to be used to build a new home at Jamaica, L.. 1., where land has been bought for the purpose. 35th streets, offers special values thi? \ve*"k in costumes, evening wraps ami millinery. Special values for Monday and Tuesday wffl be Offered in women's tailored suits. F. A O. SCHWARZ. Fifth revenue and 3J?t street, announce tho opening of their forty-first Christmas exhibition of toys, dolls, games and novelties. A. JAECKKL & CO.. Nn. 384 Fifth ave nue, ■will offer this week rare furs worked into garments and small pieces, at reason able prices. SAKS & CO., Broadway ami 34th street, invite attention to a sale of furs, vests, horse show gloves for women, shopping bags, handkerchiefs for women and infants' wear at unprecedented prices. GREENHUT & <_'0.. Sixth avenue, be tween IMb and 19th streets, will offer to morrow tut- thousand yards of colored broadcloth at unusual prices. There will also be a special sale of Russian ponyskln coats. THE WHITCOMB METALLIC BED STEAD COMPANY, Madison avenue, cor ner "-lib street, advertises a sale of bedding and lace spreads at exceptional values. HIGGIXS & SEITBR, West Bit and 22d streets. Just east of Sixth avenue, will hold a special sale of about one hundred dozen imported plates ARNOLD. CONSTABLE & CO.i Broad way and Wth street, are offenng this week special values In mkljeason «■*••* allks and furs. O'NEILL-ADAMS COMPANY. Sixth ave nue, between 30th and I2d streets, adver tise v sale of. aew fall sown* lor women. F. A. 0. SCHWARZ Fifth Aye. and Thirty-first Street TOYS Announce the OPENING of their 41 st CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION OF Toys, Dolls, Games and Novelties at their new premises Fifth Aye. and Thirty-first Street The new, spacious and light store permits the display of greatly enlarged assortments in all lines. illustrated Catalogue mailed upon application. GOOOS SELECTED HCW CAN BE RESERVED FBR LATER DELIVERY G. G. Gunther's Sons Established 1520. FUR HATS. An attractive stock of Women's Fur and Fur Trimmed Hats are now on exhibition. 391 Fifth Avenue, Hew York. SPECIAL FOR TO-MORROW 50 pieces of fine moule, fancy cheviots, meltons and kerseys, overcoats to measure satin lined $25. 40 pieces of fine imported English striped unfinished worsteds and brown and gray cheviots, suit to meas ure $25. Our combination Full Dress Suit with Tuxedo coat $62, silk lined, made of imported drape. Values and style cannot be equalled anywhere. Samples and Portfolio of Fashion forwarded to any address. A TrVTXY TUT TC? IT JAM Broadway & Air^» ix V lnl JQ IT 1 V i 9 Ninth St. RNHEIIM 9 Nina. It. NO FRAUD, SAYS MURRAY Republican Assemblyman - Elect j Calls Rival "Sore Loser." To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In The Tribune of November 12 a statement of Harold A. Content mv Demo cratic opponent for Assembly, is published. Your publication- staets that Mr. Content has decided to contest the election, claiming fraud and numerous Irregularities. It is immaterial to me whether he contests the election or not. but I do not propose to premit the charge of fraud to pass without denial. Mr. Content, after a most expensive and extravagant campaign, was beaten on the face of the returns by 216 votes. This is easily accounted for. Mr. Content is a young man, twenty-three years of age. tem porarily living in Columbia College dormi tory, in the district, while he is attending law school. His parents live in th" Hotel St. Regis, In another district, which is hi 3 actual home. ; He was unknown in the 19th Assembly District, where he ran, while on the other hand I have had a continuous residence in the district for seven years and have been twice elected to the Assembly, and made a record that was bound to with stand even the Democratic sweep that car i ried the district for Dix. My opponent and his friends have gone to the greatest extremes to brin? about my defeat, hut have not r' p en successful. 1 was indorsed by tho Independence League in the district. Two Democratic distri- t leaders and Mr. Content shortly thereafter were in Tammany Hall and planned to contest the Independence L,e ig-:*- Indorse ments on the ground of fraud and irreg ularities. It was proposed that Mr. Con tent himself make an affidavit as to these frauds and irregularities, although he was not at the convention. A friend of his. active in Democratic politics in the '1: trict. told him not to do it. whereupon an other swore t : > the affidivtt. although he ■wns not present at the Independence League Convention. The hearing on these objections was fixed before the Board of Elections on October 30, 1910. I met the Democrat*! leader of the district the day before and pointed out to him that the affidavit wag false. The result was that when the ob jections were called before the Board of Elections no one appeared to prove them. Mr. Content's charge of fraud is not specific, but it criminally involves the elec tion inspectors. Republican and Demo cratic, wherever these alleged frauds oc curred. I have always advocated and worked lor honest elections, and if the evidence 13 furnished me by Mr. Content or any of his friends showing th*> election districts where the allseed frauds took place. I will insist upon criminal prosecutions. Person ally. I deny that there was any fraud or any irregularity. The returns show that i was elected by a majority of 216 votes. There are only forty-two defective ballots in the whole district and my Investigation shows that if these ballots had been count ed, most of them betas Republican, my ma jority* would be increased. As I have said. I do not care whether the election is con tested or not. but I do resent and deny this charire of fraud. Mr. Content has the distinction of being the only defeated candidate in the state who attributes his defeat to fraud. it sounds to me like the wall of a sere loser. *NT>RICW F. MURRAY. New York, Nov. 12. WO. CANADIAN CLUB DINNER PLANS. Proposals to commemorate in 1912 the one hundredth anniversary of the pea rela tions between Great Britain and the I'nlted States will be made at the annual dinner Of the Canadian Club at the Hotel Astor on Tuesday evening. Among the speakers will be ex- Vice- lent Fairbanks. ex- Governor Curtis Guild, jr. of Massa chusetts: General Stewart L. Wociford. William Lyon Mackenzie King. Dr. J. a. Mac Donald. editor of The Toronto Globe": William Peterson, president of McGUI University, of Montreal, and A. C. Bell. PICTURES OF FIRE HEROES SAFE. Fire Commissioner Waldo denied yester day that there was any truth in the re port that the pictures of dead firemen who had distinguished themselves by heroism had been destroyed. Since the Fire De- ART EXHIBITIONS AND SALES. Opening Sale of the Season 1910-191 1 'TiciSC'S KM SCHIH |l||l§ NEW YORK. CITY "To visit the Galleries and see thia Collection is to hate an hour or mar a of unalloyed delight." — THE PRESS. FREE VIEW ■ A. M. TO 6 P. M. < Sunday Excepted). The Important and Interesting: Collection of i Art anil Literary Property Collected by the late Mr. and Mrs. John 1. L Pmjn. OF ALBANY. N. T. consisting of old Oriental Porce lain-. European Ceramics and Glassware, a large -•---•'%- of exceedingly rare and beautiful old English. Dutch. French and Amer ican Silver, including a pair of Candle-tick^ from the Duke of Buckingham's collection. 1543; a pair of Cups once owned by Lora Darnley. Coffee Pot from the col lection'of Lord Lyndhurst, Lon don. 1365; a small Paten from which Mary. Queen of Scots, is said to have taken the Sacrament, and an elaborate Silver Vase, pre sented by citizen? of Philadelphia to Commodore Decatur. ■■ A rare "Cincinnati Plate." one of the set of celebrated "Cincinnati Ch:na" which was presented to General Washington; I Cane which wa3 presented by Lord Byron to the actor who • --• played the char acter of Mazeppa; a set of Chairs which once belonged to Victor Hugo; the Prayer Book (Henres de Xostre Dame. Paris, 1383 of Catharine de Medici?, and objects from the collection of the King of Holland which was sold in 1549; Watches. Ivories, Oil Paintings, Scarce Prints. Autograph Letters, rare and valuable Book?, includ ■me all of the most important publications of William Lor-.r^ Andrews and the Bibliophile Society, two Old-School "Gran gerized" Books with valuable old copper plate engravings by Faithorne. Hollar and others; unique Copic? of the "Strawberry Hill Catalogue' and : Selden's | Table Talks, a portion of De Bxi * Grand Voyages, rare editions of the Bible and the Book of Com mon Prayer, and notable item* in Americana, supplemented ■ by many reference books pertaining to the various works of art in this collection. TOGETHER WITH Antique Furniture and Many Other Objects of Va!u« and Artistic Interest. I nmtrirtrtl Fablic Sate. On Wednesday next (Hoy. IB) and tea FOLLOWING DAYS. at 2:30 and 8 o'clock P. M. Catalogue Issued In two par?* vrt!l tie mailed on receipt of titty cents. t»i». ..i. iii be ronductfd J>T >£f THOMAS E- KIRBY. of th« AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION Manager* _^^^^ — * ,-__ 5 partment was or*anU«i. in •• elghty-WJ of its member, have b«n killed while m duty A portrait of Deputy Chief Kr-J#er. who met Mi death at a fire on February 14 1 1908. hangs Just outside of the ConuniMioo er's offlc*. • QOLDFOQLE TO LEAVE HOSPITAL Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle. tM was operated on in Mount Slnal Hospitw some time ago for appendicitis, was •» much improved yesterday that th» ■£• geons will permit him to leave the bo»pi.* I on Monday.