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Makes Board of Education
Promise Not to Ask for More
Money Next Year.
"WILL RECTIFY MISTAKES"
>
Civic and Social Workers Plead
at Hearing for Retention of
Items to Save Lives of
Babies and Children.
BteyOf Oayner yesterday afternoon dur
tOi his hearing on the cuts made by the
Board of Aldermen la the tfll budget
agrMd to raatara the |i2l.7??S4 taken
rrom tlie rtoard ?f IMm ation. if the he.idq
r.f that departraenl amaM he satisfied with
tbe mones origlnalty graaa to them by the
B.d of '? ""' proaalaa not to ask
for more funda ttooogk reveeae beaida m
th.> , mirse af ihe yenr
?'A,- will kaop wlthm the original
aaaount we must keep aithta it." a*>
clared Cltj fmparketaadenl Maxweii.
?We arlll R- t along with the money that
the Board Of I>tlm:ite fgf to us." aald
K I.. Wlnthrop, areoMknl of the Board
rf Bducatkm, "but we don't want to prom
ba thal w< will keep it aa aegregated bf
\ our board
y.,?; oagM not to aaaoy aa m that
woy," aald tbe afayor, referrlai lo the
Bttetapta Ihe board has made to keep the
funda aegregated Ir. aptte of Ihe opposi?
tion ol t. ?? Board of Eatlraate
Superintendenl Itaxwatl remarked thal
aagiregatioa v*a.- an taaua that arould be
settled b> th* Corporatlan Ooanael.
The Mayor, who has until Tueeday to
\e;o in arhOk 01 in P?'' Ihe |MS,l4f cut
,, / ,,< the budgaf by the aldermen, dW
not ladicate apeclfaalally arhal other rtenw
. | .M rcatorv. \if did sa>. howewr
??I shaii uphold the i ? l*?^?n,1
?.r Aldermen as ? co ordiiiate brat* h "f
the clty goveroment, aa I did lael rear, In
all the debatabte tbtnga, but i .'h;tii take
ectlfy all the mlatakea that
t:n y made "
promliM ai men and wonw a i I
tended the bearlna ln p"1-''' nambera to
plcgd with the Hi or I i reatore Itema m
whlch they were Intereeted, wofidered fual
wna1 ,.; . . would conaldei
been mlatakenly made There was not a
saul to appreve the cut.-. excepi Dr. a
Kom, who on behatf of the IJnfted Taa
payera' Aaaociatlon, conatantly proteata
against tbe expendlture of money by the
rtty; Alderman Frank L Dowllng and
john Walah.
Pteoldent JOhn Porroj afltchel, repra
aenting tha budgt t committee of the Board
. - Bsttmat* opened Ihe I ? arfng. arhleh
i isted for th ea fuM houra He dedarad
tbi reejueatj of tbe departmenti had been
I uned to the llmll ol aafety, and the fact
that thej Included an Item meani Ikey
betleved it to be nrgentli ae< * d
Cannot Expand Schools.
Of the emouirl i nl I om Ihe 1
Bducatton ?u I I ??? ,aK"n frnm
'und foi apeetal braaehea la day cie
mentary acl.I* Preaideal Wlnthrop of
,,.. Boai i >r Bducatlaa aald thal anhaa
. . a/aa reatorad it would be im
? . . apaad Ihe ayatem to meet the
...,,,, | of IB* cotnmunity. He
to the fact thal walle the Board
of Aldermen eut the speclal branches
down to l&OO.eOt last year. the board was
r.hle to get tb* additlnnal |Ste),t#i aeed
e.l by Iranoforflng it from another fund.
re would be no possibillty of si;< h a
tranafer thla yaar.
The Mayor went at Mr Wlnthrop rather
aharply. "1 want to know from what
fund that money was transfern ?1." he
eajked- "i w*H teli you platnly thal unleaa
y< u can teli me T will not listen to your
argament with much favor"
Mr Wlnthrop looked around to Mr.
Maxwell and Mr. Cook. the auditor. They
did not agrai at flrst. hut flnally decided
that moBt of it came from aalary ae>
crunls.
? The Board of Kstiniate and Apportlon
ment gave ua this year iust $1 MMH over
srfcat we had laat year." said Mr. Max?
well. "lf this BSklM ia not pot back we
will have the amalleat Increase we have
had Binc? 1W3. Then we were obllged tc
get an addltlonal $340,000 in revenu*
bonds.
"The daily attendance in the schools on
october 1 was only 14000 more this y*ar
than last." said the Buperlntendent. "A
emaller increase than usual. I attrlbute
that to the Balkan war. as many of the
Kuropean countrleB have Btopped emlgra
tlon aa much as posslble and famlllea
have moved hack from here. But the
war ia going to be aettled. and I thlnk
he ruah to th* achools next September
Mll more than make up for what we loat
:liia year "
Mr. Maxwell said that if the money wat
mt forthcomlng )ie would have to dia
?harge some of the speclal teachers. "1
)e||eve." he aald. that nothlng, not even
readlng and arithmetlc doea ao much
good as to teach the girls how to cook
and sew and the boys how to use their
feamda.
?lt la no wonder the Assistant District
Attorney ls aaying the city is infested
with gangs of young rufflans They will
hlame the schools for this condltion, and
a*jgg||i|y ^c are rcsp'onalble la a way."
Pfeada for Milk Stations.
Mrs. J. Borden Harrlman argued for the
relention of the item to pay for a super
visor for tbe flfty-tbre* publlc mllk sta?
tions
Controller Prendergast explalned that
the $10.t>X) for the Department of HeaJth
to enabl* U to maintaln a record of the
health and dletary for the dependent
children of the city kept in private in
BtTuitions waa th* result of an agreement
between him and the Instltutlons. I.ast
year the clty forced them to keep Buch
a record themaelves. They complalned
Of the expense. and were only too glad
to have the city take it up.
r?r. Tra B Wlle apoke on hehalf of the
inspectlon servic* of tho Board of Health.
whlch, he said, would be crippled lf the
cuts of the aldermen were permitted to
remaln His argument waa eupplemented
by a representative of th* committee on
prevention of tuberculosis and Dr. Miller,
of the New York Academy of Medlcine.
Alderman Dowllng. the Tammany lead
. i. who was presept to defend the cuts
arklok were nade by him. declaied:
?Th* suggestion that any man would
gne up a place under the New York Clty
goverr-ment because his aalary was not
ralted la enough to mnke stnybody laugh.
Oh. no; this government ls the happy
haatapg ground. and we are all going to
stay here."
Vlenry Moacowitt argued for a veto of
all tbe cuts that affected social fervlce
work. Alderman Walah in an impas
aioned apeech declared that the poor did
not want to be pauperized by pateinalism
on the part of the government.
Oeorga i-. Blvea, mr the rfaw York
i'ubiic Ubrary. declared ihe "lutelttgent"
eata la lta budfet would crlpple tha ser
Vice.
Peter b Aitken. who waa drapaed as
head c;f the hureau of markets and city
rerenaa in the Itnancn Departaaent at
the begtaalng of Controller Prendergaat'a
term. on the pretext of favoilng the re
tentlon of the appiopriatton fOf more ex
atntarn In ihe Moaaetpal ChrO aarrlea
t'ommission. raked up the old diapute be
tween btmaelf and the Contreuer. He
deelared Mr. Prandergaet had deceived
tha eomntlaaloa and caoaai 11 to eerttfy
recently to the Water Department a man
who was Hti ainliaaahir from the city.
Mr. Aitken has failed to get his job back
through th< eoarta,
Th< Controller exptalned that tha ai
leged aaabeaetar had beea ta Mr, Altken'a
OWn department. hut had dlsappearcd
wbea tha abortaga araa dlecoYered. To
get his nanta off the booka ba had dropped
h.iii tor being absent wlthout leave. Slnce
then the man's sisters had paid back the
?:,<??' ahortage. _
MERCHANTS ENLIST 1,517
Association Membership Now
3,017 After Campaign.
The Merchants' ABSoelatlon succeeded
yesterday ln Its effort to doul)le ita mem?
bership. when its llst of new members
totaued 1.I1T. Tbeee, with tha Laad
others on the rolls. bring the rollcall up
to -.017. Enthusiasm waa shown at the
assonatlon's luncheon at Delmonlco's
.lowntown yesterday wnen these figures
wete announced. The working commit?
tee decMod to < ontlnue Its campaign for
new menihera without further meetings
till the second week in .lanuary. when
another luncheon, at whieh the results are
te ba announced, will be held.
Henry R. Towne, president of the nsso
tlation. announced a plan at the luncheon
for a "mewbera1 eouBeU," in whlch all
tiades in the city would he represented.
Boch a council. he said, would grenth in
- tha afheteocy of the organlaatlafl by
affordlnc it a broader rlew of the tlty's
requlrena nts
WlMam P. Praad. who prealdad ?1 tha
luruheon. spoke of the assorlation's duty
ta New York. "A reeotpted tax hill." be
said, 'VHn ROVer repar what New York
has done for you. I'ersonal rffort i.s th"
only '"in ln whlch you can pay the debt
>ou ow the city. When you hegnn your
work New York was branded aa a city In
whlch there was no pubUc n'lrit. Tha ro
sults of your work h'i.e prwvad this Is
noi so. A splrtt of pesaimi.Mn sri'lls dis
itter fei any baalneaa ei asunlelaal or?
ganlaatlon, <i;id jraar werh haa gona far
to dlaael that spirit Tha preea of New
york, tha aatural leadera of aay mn-.r
in, ii t to advance tha araifaii oi the <it>.
deetivai tha thanha af thla !"><i:' aad of
all the buetneea and oomroen lal latareeta
nf tha etty for tha aai aa l i ?
to your work "
ADMITS ONLY 3 MURDERS
Hickey Protests Against the
Charges of Other Crimes.
'Buffato, Dec. .v?J. Frank Hickey,
awaltlna "";ai oa the charga of having
?tranalad to deatb Mttla Joaepb Jeaaph.
Larkawaana, nada ? rehenaanl pre
Iteat to-daj aaatnal ih< charaaa thai he
ua> reaponatbla for rarloaa boy aaurdera
dlffereat parta of the country. Wbea
?i MBtlenad aa te tha death of ateaaader
Hoealg, la Claeelaad, In afay, tfgf, Htekoy
aald:
"i know a< thlng "f t'1^ aaaraet of the
bo) Hoealg. When the reeerta "f the
other boya > ara helng traced to ata I
waa aa dtaguatod ' deaeiwtaed te s-*v
?Ves. 1 hin gutlt) of them all ' I am not
guilty of any murdera azeept tha two
boya and that i??n atorej lit Uowell,
Mass.
"I worked In Clevelaad for a < onsiruc
ttoa ceaaaaay, but it was longer than flve
yeara ago i neeer haimaa1 anj "i,e ta
that city. That is the truth."
Kimors that Hickey wttl plead msanity
rocelvad addltloaal oaler tu->iav wnen, at
the request of bla nttorne>. JoatleC Brown
a,i)>ointed a prominent BMdtcal atpert to
aid in the picparation of the defOBCa
WIFE AGAIN AIDS SICKLES
Signs Check for $5,500, Saving
His Oivil War Relics.
Mr?. Deatal e. faeklea wife of the Chrll
War general. signed a check foi |S,IN
yaetarday naondngr, and onea nora aavad
the proparty of her huaband, from whom
she has been for years extranged She
Bottlal the etalaaa <>f the Baak of the
Metreeoha, Ne :>i Uatoa ?quare. against
the geneial
This is the second time Mrs. Sickles
has come forward wlth motn y and aaved
all that remains of the general's aaca
large estate. A ahort whlle ago ahe pald
off a mortgage on his home, nt No. 25
Flfth avenue, and yesterday she saved
the war and hlstorlcal relics whlch almost
fill that home. It is sald, however, the
couple will not be reconclled. Mrs. Sickles
Is livlng wlth Mauton. her son, In apart
ments ln the Hotel AJhart, in 11th street.
The geneial lives In his house, two hlo< Its
below.
It was reported that Mrs Sirkle*. had
.ahled to a bank ln Madial. Spain, where
she once moved In the highest soclal
drclae, for the money, but that could not
be conflrmed. She appeared. howe\er, In
tha oflices of John Delehanty, attorney
for the bank. and there signed the check.
yherlff Harburger had intoe.sted hlmself
in*a\inK the property of the once weatthy
old soldier ile had obtained ll.eeJ from
the third panel of his Jury. He irturned
tha aheeh reaterday. W. B. chandier, of
Washlngton. former Cnlt'il Stateg Scna
tor freaa New Hampshlre. forwarded a
check for 1100 to the Sherlff, as did an?
other wealthy young man yesterday. Both
were returned with thanks.
a
PERIL PASSED, SAYS M ADOO
Costly Prccautions at Erie's Platform
Obviated Danger.
William <? McAdoo. president of the
Hudson * Manhatan Rallroad. aald yes?
terday that the work on the addltional
platform at the Erle Btatlon in Jersey
City. whieh waa tompleted two weeks
ago, had been done wlthout the least
danger to persons using the "tube."
Because the station was below the
tldewater mark, he said. precautions
that involved the expenditure of a large
amount of money had been taken. and at
no time were patrons of the road ln
perll.
Mr. McAdoo said that in hia statement
made Wedneatlay before the New Jeraey
State Board of Asatssors he had trled to
ahow that the iniprovement at the Krle
station was made whoily for the conve
nlence of passengera. and that hb it did
not yleld the road an additional cent ln
revenue lt ahouid not be the basls for an
additional assessment.
GOFF GETS WHARMBY TRIAL.
Waltcr Wharmby. the young man who
ahot and killed his aweetheart, Reglna
Steiner, atid then put a buliet Into his
own head on November 2. pleaded not
guilty to an Indlctment cbarging him
with uiurder yeaterday before Justiee
? lofl ln the Kxtraordlnnry Terni of the
Supreme Court Bartow 8 Weeks waa
aaalgned to defend hlra.
CITY WANTS LONG PBS
Estimate Board Passes Resolu
tions Announcing Its Policy.
25 YEARS FOR THE PLAN
Mayor Does Not Think Much
Money Should Be Spent for
Immediate Results.
ln line with the report of its teiminal
oommlftaa, the Board of Kstimate unani
mously passed rrsolutlons yesterday de
darlng it "to be the policy of th* city to
conatraet long afari between West 44th
street and West .">6th street from time to
time, as the commerce of the port shall
requlre such accommodatlons."
Fiirthermore, it approved the recom
mendation for the modifUatton of th*
pierhead line b*twe?n the Battery and
West 30th atreet. as shown in the plans
of tlie port commiBBlon.
In reply to questions from Borough
president SteerB of Brooklyn, the Mayor
aald that the action taken did not mean
tfeal a large amount of money would he
.-pent immediately?that it mlght take
twenty-flve >ears to carry out the plan.
Dock Commissioner Tomkins aald that
perhaps. lf the federal government per
mltted the e^tension of the pierhead line
south of 30th street. it might not be
neressnry to Bpend the money north of
44th street.
"I want it clearly understood." said
Tresident Mltchel, "that In adopting th!s
plan for long plers we are not slmply
trylag to biaff the federal anthurltUs into
eztendtel the pierhead line south of 30th
street ln adopting the plan for that sec
tion north of 44th street It must be under
stood that ?e are to rarry it out ultl
rnately "
'Ihe terminnl committee preaented a re?
port on the South Brooklyn plan of Com?
missioner Tomkins auggestlng thnf flnal
aetion on it he deferred for two weeks.
In the mean time the committee will OOaV
fer with the Bush Termlnal people. the
Ccnnsvhania nallroad. the New Tork
Dork Company and otier i.rnspectU * op
eratera of the proposed marglnal rallroad.
?1 ?. oommlttae will sucgest the ceding of
eaaementa \ iieaifaranca on the plan ariU
be keM in the alderaaaale chamber at it
o'eleek this momlng.
President Mltchel said last night that
- llcer hlll for the extensinn of th?
pierhead line south of 30th Mteet would
g|ve the 'i!' a llttle more than thev had
..i to aak for under the plans of
the port commisslon
MILK PRICE HITS CHARITY
United Hebrew Organization
Feels Advance.
The board of patronaaiei of the (jaited
1, . . < barltlea was fefonoed at ?
i.t Iielmonlcos vesterdav nfter
noon that the laereaeed eaoi af aaflk aad
eoal :i flde it necessar.v to have more
fui.ds t<> meet the higli rost of Uvhag
!,.,,, 1 Plaut, pres'dent of the Unlted
Hebrew Charlties. said the Mulual Mllk
and Cream Coaapaayi which nas the eaa
tracl 10 aappty tbe mllk dlspensed. had
xriven rotlce of an lne:ea*e on pasteur
ued mllk from 77? fents to *', Oeota
Durlng the last year vr.nnn qnarts hava
been dlspensed.
The Rcv. Dr. Samoel tchabaaa, ia an
addreaa, said the beai dafbsltloa of the
wuid ? lad\ * was that hy RaokfB, Iti
whlch she Was detirvd as the "lM*nd dl
vlder." I>r Hchulman said. while there
bad been a plethora of n-orker* un'ler
uiisi i. ntllle cliarltj thirty or more years
ago, at tha present day many of the r.m
trll lora to eaartty felt that the aaM
\\<ok'i oaald do a!l that. and felt no
other Obllgatloa than to make contrlbu
ttOM
"The paaehlaerj of ebarlty i? weak.'
said I>r. Schulman. "hecause It need? th*
peiaoaal Interaaf of the eeatrfbuteea."
Mr. Plaut told the patrone.?se? that out
of two thousand pert>ons IntereBted ln
chnritle? of all sorts In this clty ther*
were only two hUndTOd who were acti\ e
wotki I B.
GROUCH ON THE DECLINE
Health Department Gets Fewer
Complaints than in 1911.
This promlses to he far lesa of a gra ?< h
year than 1911. Cp to the present tlnie
the Ltepartment of Health has received
fewer than ei^hteen thousand "klcks"
Ironi resldenta of thla city, as against
fully twenty-two thous-and at the same
time a year ago Kigurlng on the present
average of daily tale* of woe, there
should be fully flve thousand f?wer com?
plaints registered with the department
this year, compared with 1911.
They have been. as In former years, of
every klnd Imaglnahle. Barklng doga ln
flats plgeons and clilckena on the roof,
wakea, dinner ptrtlea. blrthday festivltleB
and patilotism item to have qulte promi
nent places
At Uast two complaiiitB. moie or }***
akln, attraetod koine Intctesl. A woman
ln aa apartment house *n Harlem com
plalned of the pouading on the noor
ahove her head. To try to put a atop to
H she pounded on the ceillng. The wom?
an ahove her complalned of the nolse
emanatlng below, and both explalned
they were after a mouse between the
floora.
PLAY CENTRES KEPT OPEN
Attendance This Year Expected
to Reach 4,500.000.
The playgrounda of th Park Depart?
ment will show an attendance of 4,500 000,
according to William J. t,ee. supervtsor
of recreatlon. Through an appropriatlon
of $5,000 ln N'ovember the department will
he abks to i;eep op?n twenty-two of the
forty-two play centres untll th* first of
the year. as against slxteen for the laat
two months of 1111.
lUginnlng with .lanuary 1 the twenty
two puy oeatiea now apaa will reanaln
so and as spring comes on more will be
added. I'ark I oininlssloner Stover ox
pects to have flfty playgrounda in opera
tk n next year. Induding the tectnt
$i,o00 bond Issue the total amount appio
j.riated for park playgrounds in 1913 was
164.000. as compared with $40,000 ln 1911
and only $18,000 ln I?10. For 1913 the play?
grounds appioprlatlon will be $62,000
The alm of the recreatlon bureau of the
department in the last year, according to
the auptrvlror. haa been to substltut*
open games for the old atyl* callsthuilcs
and gymnastlc programmea of other y< are.
It Bl the opinlon of Mr I.ee rhat what is
aaadad ls the supervision of play, and
playground children should be |>*rmltted
to play any wholesome and helpful iiam?
they llke. Gymnaatics, he contenda, are
for lndoor work only where there can
be proper sup*rvl8lon and wpere it can
be seen what children can do auch work.
"We are not trylng to develop athletea
with stralned facea and holln^r eyes."
said Mr I>ee. "What we want to do is
to bulld up the children In a natural way.
and that can best be done hy incouiaglng
their own games and Just suptrvlslng
Dapper Youth Also Collects
Coupons at Banker's Office.
POSES AS BANK RUNNER
Detective HSjlts Career of an
Ingenious Swindler as He
Tries to Oash Paper.
A dapper young man walked into the
offlces of J. P. Morgati * ?'o. on Wedne.a
day. represented hlmaelf to be connected
wlth a bank, collected a check and flve
railrnad coupona and walked out. He
took the coupona to the offlces of the
Chesapeake & Ohlo Rallroad, handed
them In and recelved a check for J112W).
He waa arrested yeaterday and held ln
$3,000 hall In the Harlem court.
On Wednesday mornlng a runner for
the I'nlon Kxchange Natlonal Bank. No.
lftn Flfth avenue, left flve coupons wlth a
< lerk. teiiing him, as ls customary, that
he would return for them. Latcr, when
Rlchard Dole was behlnd the clerk's
desk, Thomaa Fltsgerald, of No. 1090
Thlrd avenue. walked In and nonchalantly
remarked he had left aome coupons thara
by mistake. He was from the I'nlon
Exchange Natlonal Bank. he asserted.
and wlshed a check. Mr. Dole handed
him a check for $#> for other coupons
helonglng to the bank, and then gave
him the flve rallroad coupona. addlng
that he would have to take them to the
rallroad offlcea for collectlon.
Iri the rallroad companv's offlces sn t
Frank Dollman. another ch-rk, behlnd nn
other desk. The dapper young Mr. flta
gerald handed him the coupona and re
quested the money for them. Holltnan
handed him a check for $112 .V\ and Fitz
gerald walked calmly hwh>. When the
fraud waa diacovered Detective I.vman,
of the Burna agrncy. had payment on tha
rallroad check stopped.
The detective diacovered that Fitsget
ald had preaented the che< ks for payment
to hrg frl-nds. one of whom was in a
store at fdj stie. t and Thlrd avenue. It
waa outalde that estaolishnv-nt that l-'lu
geraltl was arrested.
ln the pollce court. hefore Magtetraja
O'Conner, the aaafe cierk and the raaV
read Olerh deelared they never for a mo
nwnt Iniagtned the d<ibonalr yonng man
was an ItnpOBtOf. His procedure. they
added. was perfectly regular and ortli
Rgry and did not cxrite tlicir lUaplclOtia
Detective Lymaa ahowad the naartatrata
tiie ehecka ntagerak] was held in tgotd
on a charge of grand ktfl env and thi otigh
his founsel walved examlnatlnn.
Nobod) m the offlces of I. IV Morgan i
in. No. fj Broad stteet. raetordey after?
noon would have anythlng to sav ghoat
the nccurience.
What ia parttcularly puxzllng the hank
and rallroad clerks. the detective and the
rnurt Is how PttageraM knOW what cou?
pons the hank runner l?ft with the rkrk
In the Morgan offlces when he left them
there, and iuM how little he had to do or
aay te haea then torned oeer to hlnv
They helieve F1tzg< ra!d must have been
a runner for a Wall Htreet flrm at one
slmt.
.... ?
JERSEYBURGLAR CAPTURED
Had Addresses of Rockefeller
and Others in Notebook.
uiif of the twn burg'.ars who have ber:i
operatlng In tne nihurhan settlrments
aleag tl ih<r on the New Jeraey slde ls
m COatody. It niav be asaumed that the
aaatnie prevente a vlsit of the mldnlght
marauders to the honie? of John l>. Roafe
efeller ln the Focantho Hllla. Cetmtaaa
Annle I?eary. at No IttC Kifth avenue
and ' Dlamond Jlm" Brady, at No 7 West
Mth atreet. berauae of the fa< t that the
names and addre*ae* of these persona
were In | memorandum book found on
thn ptdaaaer.
The two ihtovea traeoUed lee oftea, one
rtth the bundle. on the Mntt traln. the
before-dawn local on the Northern Hall*
road. whlch rum from and to the Erla
station. Jeraev City. Nlcholaa Youngtr
mar.. the eondm tor, ohser\ed that the
fellowa were on hia traln every nlght
there wa* I pill'Tv alotig the llne of his
road They poarded. the traln. one *lth
bia awdk ai Tenatj yaaterday, and when
tUf trjln lolled Into the Joroej City ata
tion I'atrolman I.enihan wa? waltlng on
the platform te greet the fel'.ow wlth the
loot. The other sllpped gway The prla
oner, whh ga\e his name as Mlchael 8Hk,
confesaed and sald he drlfted to New
York two weeks ago where he met a
man named ' Abc'1 l*vy. who taught him
to steal
The housea robbed early yesterday were
tl.ose o? E. A. Wardbrook. at Englewood,
and Mrs. Davld de M?tt, at Tcnafly.
The New York pollce ware asked to look
for Lgey.
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DREAMS OF RICHES VANISH
Philolexian Society's Bank Bal?
ance $32, Not Thousands.
Ylslons of wealth pourlng Into the
treasury cf the l'hllolexlan Soclety, one
of the campuB llterary clubs at t'olumbla
liiiversity. indulged !n for a few hours
by the ir.embe;s, vanWhed yeaterday
Huwever, the organlzatlon Is rlcher by
$12 thaa lt was supposed. The news of
sudden wealth came :n B letter on
W< dn< sday night from the L'nlon Square
Savlnga Bank, whlch lnformod the ao
clety that tnere was a balance on the
bank's booka due the club on whlch In
tereat had ba?n compoiinding for some
time.
The treasurer of the aociety immedl
ately went throjgh the booka for several
years back, but could flnd no traca of an
account at the bank. But there was the
letter from the bank, and the imaglna
tlons of some of the members ran riot
wlth vlslons of thousands of dollara
pourlng In where in the paat balancea
hava beep reckoned in the tana. Cold
fi*(ta dlssipated theee roaeate vlBlona yea?
terday when it was diacovered that 'he
balance waa only $32 and a faw cents, in
cludlng Interest, on the account that had
been compounded slnce 1*02.
It waa dlacloaed that the account waa
flrst opened on February 2?, 1872, and had
been actlve untll 1902, when It waa ap
parentlv forgotten The soclety ls one of
the oldest student organlsatlons ln tho
country, having been founded In 1802.
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"SHEFF" MEN DI8MI83ED.
(By Ttlairaph ta Tha Trlbuna. 1
New Haven, Conn.. Dec. IV-Wllliam
Ernat, Charlea Forman and Joaeph Zlm
inernian. the three members of the junlor
claas at "Sheff who wrecked a trolley
car and nerformed other objactlonable
??atunta'' In Norwalk Sunday nlght, have
been notlfled of their dlsmlsaal from col
l?ge by Dlrector Ruaaell H Chittenden
of the Sclentlflc School. Forman. whoae
home la in New York, and Ernst. who
comes from Covlngton. Ky.. were hoth
members of the Clolster Sociaty. Zlm
merman la the son of the prealdent of th#
AU*u.? Exjprees Company.
Leave Pillowcase Full of Jew
elry When They Escape.
HEROINE PROMPTLY FAINTS
Men Obtained Entrance to
White Plains House Following
'Phone Call for Plumbers.
Two husky men who, ln the gulse cf
plumbera. attempted to carry off nearly
11,000 worth of Mrs. Martha Beverldge's
Jewels were put to rout by Bllzabeth
Kelfer, a maid ln the Beverldge home at
White Plains, yesterday. Mlss Kelfer,
who Is only twenty years old, slammed
chaira at the men. grabbed them and
yeljeu for help. but they got away?not.
however. with the pillowcase full of Jew
elry. Mias Kelfer had that tattered and
torn but valuahle package
There was something wrong with a
hath tub ln the Beverldge house, at No.
123 Overlook street, yesterday mornlnu.
and hefore she went out the mistress of
the household telephoned for the plumb?
era. Two or three hours later a couple
of blg fellowa In overalls sauntered up
to the back door. They took their time,
and Mlss Kelfer was certaln then they
were plumbers.
She let them go up into the bathroom
and went on about her own dutles. But
when she heard the cllnk of the sllver
thlng.s on Mrs. Beverldge's dresglng table
she ran Into the bedroom ano .found the
men shovelllng rlngs. biooches, breast
pitiB and u pearl necklace Into one of the
ernbroldered pillow cases they had
dragged from the bed.
Tlie maii pkked up one of those famii
iar. thln. small BJOtd chalrs, and flung lt
at the men hefore they saw her. It caught
one of them on the slde of the head, and
he fell. but hoth lcaped tor the top of the
?Malrs and went down, three or fOaff
Iraadl at a time, tlie pillow case with
tl.eni. Miss Kelfer had another chalr by
the time they reached the bottom, and
she |et them have lt, fnllowing lt up her
aalf.
In the lower hall stie caught the nien
and aeraaaaed at the top of her lunga
and tought the two "plumbers" for the
pillow Qaaa. There waa a atruggle in the
hull and (he inen ran o :t of the front
door. MIhh Kelfer slammed it ahut be
hlnd them. and-well. sue didn't remeinber
anything etOT, ahe told Mr.-. Heverldge
>esterda> afiemoon. when her employer
,'<')t home
And no wo.ider, for ?i.en Mrs. Bever
Idge let baraaif in with bar latchkoj Ihe
niail was iying in a swoon on the fluor,
her curly red halr all out of its pjgf and
bar white cap in a eorner. leattafad
a: a .t on the Poor was the lewelry. A pyO
pearl necklac- stretched along the carpet.
I.ast night tWO BWO Were trailed. from
a deacrlptlon furalahed by ? nelghhaff
arbO had seen them diive awa> t'roni th
Beverldge bouaa la a mjraterlaiai blaek
iarrlage at 4 o'otOck ln the afternoon.
Tbej Wtre BO! held on chargeB, as they
proved to be chlef .1 C. Fol.-y and I.ieu
t'nant kflCkael SllveiMein. vho had been
called ln hy Mra, Beverldge
INFORMER IS REWARDED
Suspended Sentence for Thief
Who Convicted "Fence."
William Clark, who had pleaded guilty
t?. grand Imcenv and aagfd in the prose
eatkaa of Morrls Nmerllng. aald to hav*
been on- af the most notorlous of Kast
Slde ??ti-nrrr." wbb relea/ed upon a sua
pended sentence yestardav by Judge
?> S11111? .in, la Oncral Semlons Acting
Captain t'harles McKenny. of th* Dgged*
t:... Buraaa, told Judge o'SulIlvan that
not only had Clark beoa Instnimental ln
romrk tlac smeriing af raealalBg atoien
gooda. but that h* had helped th* police
to recover nearlv $40,000 worth of atoien
good* whlch smerllng had Wddaa away.
"Kor once ln your life, at leaat," aald
Judge O'SulIlvan to the prlsmier, "you did
the rlght thlng. I im told that the man
against whom vou testlfled wns one of
the most notorlous reeelvers of atoien
Bjeeda ln this -it\. They . onstltute a
rlOH of the m?\?t desplcable crlminnls
with whom we have to deal. There would
be ii" Ihlerea were there no 'fen<e*' vll
?feaeea* are I'aglna procurers and <re
ators of thleves "
WILL DEDICATE NEW 8HRINE
Monsignor Edwarda to Conduet Ser
vice at Immaculate Conception.
An unuaual and speclal servlce will take
placa Bunday evenlng, en the feaat of
th* Immaculate Conception. at th*
Church of the Immaculate Conception, In
Kast Hth street, of whlch Monsignor
Murphy ls paator. The new shrln* of
Our Ijidy of l^ourdes will be solemnly
hleshed hy the Rlght Kev. John Kdwarda.
the formt r pastor, and the sermon will
be by the Itev. Joseph H MeMahon, pa*
tor af the Churoh of Our l.ady of
Ixnirdes. The servlce will hegin at 7 30
o'clock.
Kverything connected with the shrlne
is of a hlgh order of artlstlc tnerit, and
lt ls the gift of a devout Catholic. Tht:
Btatue and pedestal are of the tlnesf Car
rara niarbl*, and the grotto work, can
delahra. ahrlne lamp. raillng, bronze
and electrlcal effects fully Juatlfy the
time ?pent ln the completion and adds to
the beaaty of this faaaooa old church.
INTER8TATE PARK CHANGES
Two New Members of Coramission
Appointod by Wilson.
Ilackensack, D*c. 6?Following Ihe ap
polntment by Oovernor Wilson yeaterday
of County cierk charles F. Thompson,
of Rldgefleld Park, as a inemher of th?
Pallsades Interstate Park Commisslon, to
take the place of Abram De Itnnde, of
Knglewood. comes th* news to-day that
Wllllarp A. I.lnn. president of the People's
National Bank of Mackensack, had ten
dered hts reBlgnatlon as a member of
that commlaalon.
Ctovernor Dlx, of New York, wrote to
Mr. I.lnn that the resignation was ac
.epted with ke*n regreta, but ao far no
word haa h*?n rec*lv*d from Oov?
ernor Wilson. Frederlck Sutro, of Bound
Brook. waa appolnted a member of this
commisslon yesterday, whlch leads to the
concluslon that Oovernor Wilson had re
celved Mr. Llnn's reslgnatlon, though h*
had not yet replled to th* comrnunlcation.
CONTRACTOR HELD FOR PIRJURY
Dadd Jacobs. a contractor, of No. 2?34
Elghtb avenue. was arraignad before
Judge O'SulIlvan In General S*salons yes?
terday. charg*d with perjury. and releaaed
in $3,000 bail. lt la allaged that teatlmony
be gav* In a ault he brought against
Cornmiasioner Kdwarda of ?he Str*ct
Cleanlrg Department waa at variance with
teatlmony glven by him later before
Magiatrate Krotel. Hia suit was to re?
cover $810, which he said waa du? him cn
-*?Lraxta for anow removal.
PLANS GRAND TRUNK PROBE
House Committee Sets Tuesday
for New England Hearing.
Washlngton. Dec. 3.?DetallB of an ln
vestlgatlon Into aileged violatlona of the
Shernaan antl-trust law by the New York.
New Haven & Hartford and Grand Trunk
rallroada ln connectlon wlth the proposed
Grand Trunk llne through Southern New
England were planned to-day at a con
ference between Representative Henry,
of the ? House Rules Committee, and
Representative (TShaunessy. of Rhode
Island, author of a resolutlon authorlzlng
an Investlgation.
Chairman Henry announced that the
Rules Committee would take up the reso?
lutlon next Tuesday if the wltnesses could
be on hand. He sald that he belleved the
hearlngs would be brlef.
8. S. Perry. representing the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Rallroad, who
conferred wlth Mr. Henry, said that the
rallroad would be represented at the hear?
ing. Representative O Shauneaay sent
telegrams to-night to Governor Fothler
of Rhode laland and Governor Foaa of
Massachusetts, asklng them to See that
witnesses in behalf of the people of their
states were at the hearing.
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COAL CHEAP TO R. R. MEN
Philadelphia Company Sells to
Them at Reduoed Rate.
Philadelphia, Dec. o -Further testlmony
was heard here to-day by the State Rall?
road commlsslon, whlch ls ln\estlgatlng
charges made by local huslneas assocla
tlons that the coal carrylng raliroads ex
act excesshe frelght rates on anthraclte
coal from the mlntng reglons of Penn?
sylvania to Philadelphia. The comrnla
slon hopes to conclude the hearlngs next
Monday.
The treasurer of a local retall coal com?
pany said that his <oncern sold coal at a
reductlon of 2.'. cents a ton to railroad em
ployes. The rallroad lawyers deelared
this statement was ?outrageous" and ln
slsted on knowing Ju?f who got the hene
flt of the reductlon, to whieh the witness
replled:
"Any rallroad man; lt doean't make
nny dlff>ren<-e to us whether he is higher
up or lowcr feWB. It's all Just a ques
tton of courtesy. It started long a?o.
when we sold coal at a reductlon to the
tralnmen who hrought it to our yards.
The Information spread, and other rall?
road men asked the same tiilng and got
it. All that is neeeasary is that they be
IdentlAad as rallroad employes. Thev
generally ha\e cards or passes or some
thlnp to idcntlfy them."
VALUATION BILL PASSED
House Unanimous for Aid to
Railroad Rate Making.
Wa'hinpton. Der. s. Amended to au
thorlze a complete investlgation Into the
ijuestion of interstate carrier corpora
tlons' stoek and bond Issues, the blll in
troduced by Representatlvo Adanvon
empow^rlng the interstate Commerce
OoinnilBBJon to make a physical valuation
of the property of raliroads and other
common carrlers was pa.ssed L>y the
House to-day wlthout * dlasenting vote.
The measure would provlde for an ln
qutry wlth a vlew of having railroad ratea
hxed on the lasls of Ineome on actual In
vestment. The Inves'tlgatora would as
certaln the IIIIgllail coat for rallway pur
poses of idch plece of property, the cost
and value to the present own?r and what
Int reaee ln valu? ls due to Improveinents.
All qtiestions relatlng to exlstlng Btoek
and hond Issues of auch carrlers alao
would be Inquirt-d Into.
KepresentatU" Mann. of llllnois, of
frr^d the amendment dlrecting the ex
atnfnatlon into the stock and hond isaue
questlon after a polnt of order had been
austained against his amendment author
latag tha interstate Commerce Commls?
slon to regulate and restnet the issuance
of securlth-B by carrlers.
Tha amendment adopted providea that
the proposed Investlgation by the com?
mlsslon a experts shall alao cover ques
tlons pertalning to the issuance of stocks
and bonds by common carrier corpora
tlons subject to t.'ie provtaions of this
oft a:id the power of congress to regu?
late or affect the aame, and, parth ularly.
methols to pravent the Issuance of stocks
and bonda by aueh eerporationa wlthout
fufj value belng recelved therefor.
ROW IN DIVORCE CASE
Contractor Oalls Wife's Lawyer
Liar in Oourtroom.
If the jury ln the dlvorca auit of Angelo
Ruzzono, a wealthy building contractor,
agalnat hia wife, Mrs. Joaephlne Bazzono.
had known es much about tha relations
of the couple as did Justiee Dugro the
memhers nv.ght not have reaehed a ver
di'-t in favor of the wife. Juatice Dugro
made this statement to tha jury after
It had given Its verdlct.
The justiee then informed the jury that
tha caso of Bazzono against hia wife had
been trled onc? before, but before another
justiee and not wlth a Jury, and that
while thla trlal Justiee had upheld the
charges made hy Bazzono, no decree had
been glvcn for the plalntlff.
Justiee Dugro told the jurv he had
< harged it not to be Influenced by any
symputhy it might feel toward the
wife. Ile addfd he did not thlnk lt a wlse
|gw that permitted a defeudant in a di
voice sult to testlfy while wlthholdlng
the s-amo permisaion to the plaliitiff, aJfflg
oaa only teatify as to tha marriage.
When Justiee Dugro left the bench,
lia?aono went up to DouIb Steckler, at?
torney for Mn. Bazzono, and loudly de
manded of him hia sourcj of information
as to Bazzono'i lntenUon to marry Cath
erlne Bertazaoil, who was a witness In
tha case for the plaintiff. Thla was the
reason he wanted to get rld of his wife,
lt is alles ?<).
The contractor Is a much larger man
than the lawyer, and when Bazzono
ralard his hand as though to atrike Hteck
ler, the lawyer called for the court of
flcers. Basono sald the lawyer'a atate
ment was a' "He." and the lawyer told
Bazzono not to dare ralse his hand to
him. But reaeemakera Induced the angrj
husband to leave the courtroom berore
there was any damage done.
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MIDLAND BEAOH SOLD
SUten laland Retort Under Hamraer
to Satisfy Lien.
Mldland Heach, a pleasure resort on
Staten Island. was sold at publlc auctlon
yeaterday afternoon to Charlea 3. Ba*a
ratt. of Orango, *T. J., for $103,000. to tml
lafy a JuiV^uent llen of John Hinchllffe,
hia brothers. Willlam H. and Jaiues C . all
of Pateraon. who held u mortgage of
$2&0,0Q0 on the property.
The property conaists of an electric
plant, a nower houne, plers, boardwalk,
hathjng housea and aeveral amull hotels.
The park waa established about twelve
yeara ago and ls one of the b<st kuown
resorts in greater New York.
m KEIS is SPREAD
Homework in Tenement Houses
Most Potent Means.
"UPPER CLASSES" CROCHET
Factory Investigation Commis
sion Hears Cigarette Makers
Are Worst Offenders.
The horrors of home work ln the tene?
ment house: ns a destroyer of ch!Td
hood. as well as a means of spreading
dlsease, was the subject tiiken up by
the State Factory Investlgation fcmnn.s.
slon yesterday. What was deelared to
be one of the most potent means of
spreading disease waa the practlce among
cigarette makers of taklng home the
paper wrappers and licking them wlth
their tongues in aeder to molsten the
glue when lt had heeomc dry.
Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, of the Post
Graduate Hosplta), appeared befate the
commltte? anrt nald this typf of BWMi*
shop work was largely respwisihle for
tho hlgh rate of sickness and death ln
large citles. He deelared long hours,
overwork, poor ventilation and under
feeding were productive of tuberculosis
among the toflers, and that this dlseasa
was spread broadrast through the articles
they turned out. He sald there were up
warrl of s.OOO deaths a yar in New York
City alone from pulmonary tuberculosls,
whlle 64.000 persons were affllcted wlth lt!
fiamuel Borchardt. a erochet sllpper
manufacturer. told of the condltlons under
whlch this eort of work waa let out to
tenement house dwellers. He sald the
worHers got flfty cents a dozen palr for
thla sort of work, addlng that many of
tha "upper olasses" were engaged ln lt
to earn pln money.
Three cigarette manufaeturers were ax
amlned. and eaeh admittwl that aome of
his men were in the habit of taking the
wrappers home in order to sti-k them
In the fnrm of tubes. They sald they
did not know anythlng about the sanftary
eondltlonB under whieh thls was done.
nnd had aevat made any effort to flnd
out. The cigarettes. they said, were the
highest class of the monogrammed type
made for clubs, hotels and private use.
"Do floclety women reallze that tha
cigarettes thev smeke are llcked hy the
mouths of these low class workerB?"
asked Mr. Elkus. Wllliam T. Taylor.
president ot tho Anglo-Egyptlan Ciga?
rette Company, ref.lled that he dtd not
suppose these falr smokers cver gave
the matter any thought. He was fo|
lowed on the atand by Wllliam Plnku,
whose huslness ls at No. 67 Cedar street.
"Although you say you don't know what
condltlons the work ls done under," Mr.
Elkus sald to him, "la lt not true aoma
of your workers are low class Syriant*
and the work ls done ln dlrty, tilthy
tenements?"
"I suppose that may he so." he re.
phed "but I ?m anxlous to have my
cigarettes of the very highest gmde,
made under the most sanitarv conditlons
I belleve home work ahouid be prohlbited
altogether."
Mles Ellzabeth Watson, an InvestlKa
tor for the commlsslon, told of the con?
dltlons she had found, especially ln r< ?
gard to the extractlon of the meat of
nuts at home for the use of eottfec
tlonere. She sald thls work was d^
by dlse.ised persons often, and under tha
rnoat tilthy condltlons. The nuts an i
plcked, flhe sald, sometlnifts by nelfl
Thls industry, Bhe said. waa rest
to pecan nuts.
The most pathetlc atory was told by Dr
Annle Danlels, of a New York Infarmary.
?tM sald her practlce led her alm.fst n
clusfvely among the poorer tenement
house dwellers. ,
"I saw one woman." s-he said, ' WBOM
husband was a gambler. She waa a
flnisher working on trouserB. Her baby.
less than two years old, was dying from
lrfantlle paralvsls. The mother woraed
eighteen houra a day. The mother could
rot even qult her work to attend to tne
baby as lt lay dying. It dled while she
labored on." . . . .? .
The hearing of the commlsslon Wttl M
ccntlnued thls mornlng at 10:30 ln the
County Courthouse. _
POINT FOlR JJAWTHORNE
Mining Engineer Furnished the
Basis for Olowing Promises.
The trlal of Albert Freeman, Joslah
Qulncy, Jullan Hawthorne and Dr. Wlll?
iam J. Morton waa contlnued yeaterday
befora Judge Hough and a Jury ln the
Unlted Statea District Court wlth tha
cTOBs-examinatlon of Joseph T. Mandy, a
Canadlan mining engineer.
The report of the propertiea promotad
by the accused men. whlch had been pre?
pared by Mr. Mandy ln 1904 at tha ln
atance of Mr. Freeman, was raad ln ovl
dence. Thomas W. Proctor then croaa
examlned tha witness and ln a serlea of
questlona trled to ahow that tho glowlng
accountB of the progpecta as wrltten br
Mr. Hawthorne wera the mining engl
neer'a technlcal terms tranalated Into
easlly understood Benteme*. To all thaaa
questlons Mr Mandy anawercd that U
waa qulte lilcely.
Mr. Proctor later took up an arucia on
the Temagaml-Cohalt Mlr.ea Company,
Llmlted. wrltten by Mr. Mundy for "Tha
liondon Mining Journal." and the report
ln whlch the engineer had apoken of a
sarnple that carrted conslderable f ree gold.
"Waa tho report eorrcct, or were you
trylng to mlalead wme one?" asked M;
Proctor.
Thla reference in the report was n"t
tnade upon hia own ktiowledge, Mr.
Mandy sald. He did not see the free fpM
hlmself, he cxplalned. but Dr. Morton
told ln.. it he had found thls or- cerry
Ing freo gold and ehowed him auch a
speclmon. Mr. Mandy sald he believed
Dr. Morton and mentioned the flnd of
gold ta his report. The assaya made bjT
him and shown ln the report, he aald.
Indlcated tbat there was M gold ln BfJB
plea taken from tha spot whert; Dr. Moi ?
ton had found the free gold.
CONGRATULATES WILSON
Princeton Paculty Takes For
mal Action on Election,
Princeton. N. J.. Dec. 5.-The faeeftf of
Trinceton L'nlveratty to-day adopted the
followlng resolutlon eongratulatlng Presl
dent-elect Woodrow Wilson, their former
rhlef:
We, the faculty of Princeton I'nlversity.
take pleasure ln eongratulatlng >ou on
your election to the Presldency of tne
Unlted Statea and ta uxpresalng ow
senae of the nonor reflected on thls ""'?
versitv by the elevatlon of one of l"
graduatea, an long and promlnently aaae
clated with Its llfe. to the hlgheat offlee
within the glft of the Amerlcan peof**
We deaire to assuro you of our conttntiea
ir.terest and aympathy in the dlfncuit
and responslble work to whlch you hav?
been called. and to extend to you our
best wlshes for a dlstlngulsh"d and auc
ceasful admlnlstratlon of the affalra or
the natlon.
The committee, whieh waa appolnteu
by Presldent Hlbben to draft tha reso?
lutlon. waa composed of Professor* A. T.
Ornvmd and 43. M. Harper and Daaa
W. F. MagiA