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'V v. X. ,VJ THE WEA1 tin. londy to-day ;,$f wers; mode rat Derailed weather rMAfil he found on tags (7. - . x NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1913. Co,,V,luht, 1913, by th Nun PhnHnu and I'ublishlnil AMorlnffon, PRICE TWO CENTS. VOL LXXX.NO. 236. MADOO ASSAILS THE CITY BANK s Private Employee Acts for It in Comptroller's Office. m Ot'.STS GIRL CLERK Secretary Calls Arrangement Irregular. Improper and I'nfair. LVSTKI) It OR t() YKAHS yicfcTivsiHont. of Jtipn Punk Hired Miss Taylor to Got Information. Wasihvotox, April 23. Secretary of & Treasury McAiloo announced to night i ho dh-covery of what hp char arter1r.es euti ' Irtegular nnd-lmpropor' amngement in thp office of tho Cotup t.'il.cr of Hip Currency In favor of the A .oniil t'ltj Bank of New Yolk. Thtvitgh thl. arrangement Miss Lotta T ylor, an employee, of tin- Na t .-ul City Hank. It In charged, r s had desk room In tho Comp ti er's oflW'p for thp Iait eight c ten ears, and In thin way has ob t.u:id infornuiilon in advance of other ;i."-nal banks tegnrdltig ilotalU of tb r.'i'orw made In -response to the Comp tt 'ipr's culls 'o siiKgestlon Ik made that the In- rmatton obtained has been any other t in that which is pvcnttiully made' I ,pIh to nil banks, but Mr. McAdoo i ntends that tho favor granted to the I .. ttmniil City Hank constitutes a dla i tmniitton and h handicap to It u com- p. r'tors. 'Dip i rrolr'i Statement. llcrp Is the statement Issued from t otflcn of thp. Secretary of tho Tre.'io- A few weeks ngo suggestions were t nic to the Secretary that curtain banks i lndlonfcMnatntalned private employpps In t e Treasure neiinrtmeot for the nor-1 , ... nt rPTin'ritnir it, tiu-m on the trans, i .. lions anil business of the Treasury. "Aft a result of an investigation, which vd3 Drommly bemin. It developed that! ! o National Cltv Hank of New York. ".:ib through M. 13. Ailes, vlce-presl lent of thu Klgga National Hank of Washington, has employed a clerk out t.ic of the Department who has been . ,,.! in ih ,,rri,. ,,f the r,imn. ' ....w,.!,-,,,,, ,.,,,1 !,,, ftf tim vho has for the made regular t.'ity Hank on! lift eight or ten ycur teports to the National City the condition of each national bank In the country promptly following every co.1 of th Comptroller of the Currency. Thu is of courso Irregular and Im-'-iper and immediately upon Its ills i vor P wa stopped It is only fair .av that the bank claims that the . formation obtained Is only such as oio course s jnado -public by the In s fl-ial banks of the Department, but method employed of Installing '"a mployee wltn a oesK in tnel ', ... .n Deivirtment .fives tho hank ho i.. u 1 . , ks in the country. v ?hi- same time It tends to estab h Intimate relationships with the . 'iit-..- eeo of the Government and ti' Vad to the acquirement of In . -mat hi of a confidential nature that ' n..' to be given to prlvnto In 1 inU nr corporations nnd which If n at all should be published to the l' o emintrj . I'lTeet of the - rr UHelllellt, "' s needless to point out that If i ir.-n number of banks should "i ' - same privilege the Treasury - in. ni would be overrun with jury i'' .-nployees, to the serious Injury 1 ! I- input f.f the service "Mi' .,f thp transactions with the ' i Mr.imt are necessarily of a conn '" 'ni nature and no Government em r,' sr'iiild upon any Inducement or ler.io.rt supply Information to any if'T--. -merest beyond what Is given '." llielallv to nil. ' was with these reasons in mind m for the purpose of developing th" .hat the Secretary Issued the order . ff.i weeks ago against giving out In ' rmat'.nn bv the heads of the depart 'ns except through tho Secretary's ? To have fully explained at that to i ho purpose of. this order might - ''efpHtfri the end In view, -orne of the newspapers unhappily in"ed this as 'gag' rule and have . - hV greatly impaired the usefulness ' .'I - rder which was designed solely i- public good nnd to prevent the ""ii Department from being used ' --e benefit of any special Interest. T ' policy of thlH Administration Is ' "f publicity' The Secretnry Is In mpathy with that pollcv. but In ng it he is animated aolely by a ' to prevent the Improper giving ' InfotTintion concerning the busl--f the Department and to secure r i 'Mention only of such legitimate " tiientlc news as will conserve and the public Interest " Mr. Allea Ksplnliis. ' Mil', vice-prcaident of the HJggs hi ' Hank of this city, whtch Is nf I with the National City, denied 'it that ho had any Improper in having a clerk obtain In- item from tho Comptroller's tally of the returns from national s following each bank call. He in never received any Information was not regarded by himself and -'inpt i oiler's olflce us perfectly '?' maie and such ns was meant to he mid could be obtained by any .mil '"I" t as absolutely the first I knew ""1 inch Investigation conducted by Secretary of the Treatiury," said Continued on Second rage. TWO CENTS FOR 'PUBLIC LEDGER.'' Price for Dull) Isaup TnUe - Mn- I. j Pjlll.Atifci.PiiiA, April 23. Tin- price of Hi' dally Issue of tin- I'uUUr l.vilurr on nncl uftcr May I will be two cents In- Klcild of one cf.ni. which ll.lM ll 1 III" price since August, idoi. ,(ins Itliimeil for Wreck of Coal This i tin. second radical move made 1 i'.v run ii k. ciutu nine., in. pur.' Workings Near Wall chased tlx- paper from the Celts In- 1 t-rc.-lf. tin,.,, months ago. The flist was 1 llltiloll. In. when he gave orders tlmt t he comic' supplement with the Smutjiy Issue! KllOltllt lip discontinued, In pvplanatlon for thp Inetcnse In prlcp an editorial w ljj uppcar to-morrow niornlni; ivillliu: uttpntioli to the fart that nt tin prpiptu prlfp of one rrnt thp ni'w.Mdpnlors do not mnkp n ipanon alilp jirotlt. The HnnoiuirptiuMit ii'.n prnmlsTn that iIip fiihllc l.nlurr will lie of llni-r Joui nallstli; quality and typo. Kraphlral aiipparani'p and larcor than It lias hepn lipretofore. Hlnrp Mr. ('urtlw puri'haxpd thn pnper ho has Ix'pii puhllHhlnK twenty-four papex nearly every day One day raeh week he publishes a larce farm .section and another day an nrehlteoturnl nee tlon. WILSON MAY FIGHT O'GORMAN. Will .t twiltl I'liiifllel If Mr .N'nnipa I'oll.. Witaiil.vmos, Apt II S3. It bppnnip known definitely to-nlclit that Senator O'Gorman of New York 1st prepared to oppose the nomination of Kratik I., l'olk na Collector of the Port If it If t- nt to the Si natp by President Wilson There Is every Indication that Mr Wilson will not seek to nvold the con lllct with Senator O'llorinan and that ther will bp a tdiowdown between the two over this nomination. While the President has not decided .Artnl..l. !.. I,. ,...,(. t. ..i ,.-iii.,vi. yj til', ...ill, ..ll I u Hi.-.' . . i I ,1 ., I tl... I, learned that Secretary McAdoo's c.ndl- "" v"t- ,,,,t 11 llelloV,'d ,l'"t " date Is reKarded by him more fa vorably ' tnun any other j SON-IN-LAW OF POET MILLER IS A SUICIDE Loudon Kills McCorniaok, Aetor. Himself at the Ho tel Km pi re. Loudon McCormack. formerly a well known actor and once u member of i"l,irn Morris's company, was found dead yesterday nfteruoon In his room at i the Hotel Kmplre, Broadway and Sixty-1 third street. Up was ill and out of work aml killed himself with laudanum. ",' registered at the hotel on Tuesday ' from .New i ork. The hotel manager found the body at 3 P. M, ypsterday. On n table was an emntv bottle that had contained laudanum. Pinned to a c"Blr U',,H " ""I' "' paper on which , McCormack had written- "Notify the , Actors' Fund of America or F. F. Mac- ! Actors' Ktlllil or America or ! . 1 . Mac- hay " Mr. Mackay has a school of net- I 1! UVf" I'orty fourth street. lo McCorm.iek's Dockets was fT So 1 far as known that was all the inonev h,. hud. I 'lr syalejii so that It was possible for iwilad, by Tostl. und ' Itldl P.igllaciT' McCormack was born In St Louis ' l'" rescue parties to work In short j isob song), from "I Pagllaccl," I.eon When he was a schoolbo, In lSfir., lie! shifts, the new volunteers constant! eavallo. was selected by pro-Confederate eltl- 1 relieving those who wvre exhdtisled, , The tenor, moved by his surround zens to enrry a plan of the ety to the 1 Tlmse in charge of the rescue woVk j inns, threw unusual pathos Into his Confederate (jenernl. Illndman. ene-lhad practically ghen up hope to-night noteH and when he concluded nearly compllshed the mission and on his re- ' "f saving any of the hundred men at , all the piUoners were sobbing. Carnmi turn was captured by a band of high- ' WaVtuell. . V ""I ' 'W "' were cnu sen I . ... . mv a rrowti nr .m mh(H runt a mi 1 iiy tne pursuers anil tney were niiont to hang him when, with the rope a! with the rope a 1- rp.nlc .'ir.innil his nwl: iin,le llip HmH of a tree, hp asserted his Innocence so strongly that they let him go. Soon lifter he became un actor he was chosen by Abbey to support Clara Morris, l-ater ho managed companies of his own and married his lending woman, Maud Miller, u daughter of the lute Joaquin Miller, the California poet. Joaquin Miller objected to the match and came to New York to take his daughter away, but she refused to go. Later she nod McCormack separated Ik-fore marrying him she had been the 'wife of Arthur Mackaye. a sou of Kle.-le I . .. . .. . M.ickayc, the drumatlsl. Coroner HelletiKtein said that McCor mack was unquestionably a suicide. He notified the Actor' Fund and the body was sent to an undertaker's rooms by officers of the fund. WOMAN SHOT IN STRIKE RIOT. Sheriff's nepntlea Vr ('mis on Mob r I'erlh Amliny. Pkjitii A.MnoT, N. J April 23 - Deputy sheriffs guarding the plant of the L. H. McHoso Company nt Keasby, on the outskirts of this city, engaged In com bat this afternoon with a moh of strik ing clay miners and several shots wer fired. One of them struck a woman In the leg, wounding her slightly John Hllke, a foreman at tho plant, re fused to join the strlkprs and they gathered about the place this afternoon looking for I rouble. Hilka came out and was Immediately set upon. Ho was punched and kicked and belabored with stick and finally sought safety within Hie company's buildings, Deputy Sheriff Edward K. Haiightnn and twenty-five special deputies rushed to the scene and tried to dlsnerse the striker. When a number of deputies 'fired re volvers for the purposu of scaring the striker, the latter broke ground and run. Mary Vlckta of 612 Charles r-trcet wan tho woman shot She wns tnken to the City Hospital, Tile deputies succeeded In getting their hands on three prisoners. They were takon to the county Jail In New Hrunswlck. WORKMEN KILLED BY BLAST. I'rrmnlnre I'lptnalnn In Cement I'lniit .Near HlTeralile, Cel. rtivKtisinE, Cal April S3. From six to a dozen men were killed to-night by a premature blast at the plant of tho Hlverslde Portland Cement Company, three mllps from here. Three men working on top of thu hill where the explosion occurred wore blown lo pieces and at least four more were, burled under tho debris. Two teamyajtritbcLr drivers were buried. A OA DEDADWUTi 1YDAT IN MINE EXPLOSION VICTIMS' TA IMMXtiS IIKAKI) Parties Seareli for Survivors as Helatives Weep at Pit Month. Wahiiinutos. Pa , April 2.1 An ex plosion in tin Cincinnati mine" of the Plttflburtt Coal Company, on the Motion, unhela Itlver near lipre. this afternoon probibly caused the death of nt least 100 men. Scores of rescue parties arc tryltiK to reach any. miners who may have escaped. Twenty men escaped at the Mlno en trance. elKht at the Klnleyvllle entrance mid elKht at the Coin tney entrance. They came throiiKh (lame and mnoke and debris and are sutTerliiK from eliock and frlKht. Supt. William Carter. In charno of the rescue wink, estimated at 10;30 o'clock to-nUMit that iilH.iit iZO miners had lost theln lives. Of about 200 men In thp mine to-day TO have turned up or been iiccntitited for. The cause of thu explosion is not resulted from sas. Thu. explosion occutivd shortly after 1 o'elix'k. Windows were broken In houses a considerable distance from the Courtney enttance. Almost an coon 04 the reverberations hud died away ,a pun lest rick en iroces.slon was hurry- IriK to the mine. Ah thene friends and relatives of the men underground reached the en trance, a fmoke Krlmed driver with his strlnn of coal cars came tumbling out into the d.iyllKht. Me said ho wus well within the mine with his cars when lie heard the cploion, which ho esti mated was u ml! and half from the surface. In his rush to safety he passed two dead bodies, one of which he rcsconlr.ed as that of it Frenchman, limllo l.eroy. The alarm wan hounded up unu down iliu river valley n nil within a short time 'on fo!, In special trains, by wagon and automobile came scores of workers from . other mines, volunteering for v''es on the rescue partlw which were organ ized. On their first entrance Into the work- Ings ilm teseit-rs were driven back by tn siiioKp ami runics. ine lon-o oi wir epl -.tou had damaged the fans at the Minsn entrance, thus Interfering with .M;ngo euiriinie. ions ininin. the mine's lr cutreuts a ml adding the menace of asphyxiation to the dangers! of exiilosloll and lulling Ciul anil sllile ! Tempotary repairs were made to the me ien ewe u un- nnue. no w I ...k - I ...... n ...1.1. In , l, tit,in ni-ii im- u'-i.-u ntuim ......... .11,. o ,l,.!.,lf. ..f ll... ... r.1,.wlnn Hill,. ..t.,,.. i..i i, , i....,..,i i...v.....i .1... .ale- : - ' ... .' ' .1 tnt-v." "' " v .,r i i, it u tfiiinu s. n i ii.' i on inriui inn n ' I oe savvu. i II..-II I.IU9, uuinvis nuu i juijineii uru UInoll'r tlw wl awaiting word a,t moiitli leady to do what ' '" ' " t oreii oioukiii lout, the rescuers contlnliu ull thrlr ef- I forts to the attempt to reach the men j who may still be alive. The survivors who got out tell start ling stories of thu scenes within the mine und relate how are broke out In ' places. j S. T Holmes, a negro, r..". years old, who with his two sons was working not j ' '. ' " . ' Z. I, is ' u- "V.iUI.l Vl , ,o', h n w '',n eMHlgillHieil. All ulioiit ilm was b ed Male and coal. Hp started to crawl on hands and knees. Painfully and slowly tho man literally tore his way out through small nifen'ngs In the debris, at times work ing his body through holes so hmull hu could scarcely ptogress, He travelled for a mile and a half In this manner, finally reaching the Flnloyvllle entrance of the mine, where he found one of his sons, who had pro ceded him. The other son had Nieen killed. Muuy Hngllsh speaking miners were employed In the mine, and among the missing are men well known. Among the first men rescued nt the Courtney entrance were Joseph Green and Joseph Carter, the latter the t wvnty-twn-yoar-old son of William Carter, superintendent of the mine, who Is In charge of the rescue work. As ho made his way out Green passed the body of his brother, John Green, who had been killed. Carter on reaching the entrance ran to his father and told him that another sou, Thomus Carter, was among the dead below. The elder Carter turned to nsk a physlclnn to attend to the in juries of his surviving son nnd then went back to his work of directing res uuo parties, Soon after the word of the explo sion had got abroad ofllclals of the Pittsburg Coal Company were on tho scene, coming from Pittsburg by ape clal trains and bringing with them phy sicians, undertakers and hospital equip ment, Ah soon ns the rescue work was well started these officials began an In quiry to determlno If possible the causo of tho disaster. The Cincinnati mine has long been luiown as gaseous, Thu miners working In it nlvvays have been equipped with safety lumps, and ll w-ns believed thnt every precaution had been , taken to prevent Just such a disaster. Men, women nnd children, relatives and friends of the Imprisoned or dead miners, crowded about the mine mouth to-night weeping, demanding word of those within nnd making varloua other demonstration. FEAR LINER WITH 85 LOST. I miner from llrnilllnii Part Mini) Ib. Overdue In llnimn. i .!"''' ''Me IH'Wlvh to Tin Sli IIaasm.. April 2S. - Several (ileamer.i arrlvlni! here to-day report huvInK ex perienced heavy weather. The Ward liner Monterey from New York arrived .after a live days voyage. Blip hroke her rudder off thp Florida coast on April -i , She will be repaired here. It Is feared that the steamer Hlojaro of the Arotettal Company of Haitian, Spain, has been lost. She tins been out twenty-five days. The reK"lr time for the trip Is slitpen days. She had elKlity-llve p.issenKers iiboJl'd. The Sianlsh meamer Itlojano orii In.illy tlew the Hrltlsh Hiik and was known then as the Horderer. Slip Is owned by M. M. de ArotcRiil of llllbao. the manai-er of a line Is-nrlni; his- name, ii lid has been recently plyltiK between Hrazllliin ports and Cuba. Sho has been occasionally In American harbors, Sin Is a steel, schooner ringed, single screw of a.r.r.rt tons. Is 400 feet long and wan built In Harrow, l-'ngland, In 1KS4. COPPER MERGER INCREASE. Cnpllnlltnlloii of .' liiiKsrlilirliu Coneern ! -ft III.OIIO.OOO. Dovb'i. Del. April 23. The Chile Cop per Compan, an organization designed lo merge all the copper Interests In Chile under the control of the tSuggen- helms, which was chartered here lust wvelt with a capitalisation of IH5.000, 000. Increased tliut cnpltalliitlon to-day lo tl 10,000,000. This increase Is for the purpose of providing for $I5,000,000 worth of 7 per cent, convertible bonds which the new company propiu-es to Issue. The stock Is not to be offered for public sole, but will lie held by the ('ilggenheims. The new company l the largest ever churteted In this State and one of tho big concerns Incorporated In Delawn.ro since the enactment of the "seven sis ters" bills In New Jersey. CARUSO SINGS IN TEARS FOR ATLANTA CONVICTS Prisoners Weep anil Hawthorne Writes Poem Kxtolliii"; Tenor's Voire. Atlanta, lla , April 23 After Knrlco Caruso had aung for the POO convicts In the Federal penitentiary this after noon ,t poem dedicated to him by Julian Hawthorne wa.s read It extols Ca ruso's voice and says of Its effect on the priMiiiPtf: UV wri- hit. on atln In un1lt day. tn nrt trl,t sn,t piinNiiinnu hr i0, t ,hM umn trumpet call. ll.. then, it uch , n.u.lo'i. .pen e... ' """ ' "rNt '"" ronl'"-" CariikO sung u Paradise. from I.'Afilc.ilne." Meverbeer. "Idealle," a iinnseii orowe uown nnu crieu I ,.f 1...... I." I... I t liiu I iieiii it. mi fliu "when 1 . l,,nl.. ,1,..UA Qn.l ....... ......... iif.. i ......i.i r...i,.., i I ' V r' " ment's pleasure than sing before kings Julian Hawthorne, who sat near the stage, wept all dining Caruso's pro gramme, but Lupo the Wolf and his Hlack Hand comrades were not much affected, Caruso shook hands with Hawthorn'; and expressed hope, that he would soon be frpe, Ty Cobb, who accompanied Caruso to the penitentiary, madu a brief und sym pathetic talk to the prisoners. NO CRIME TO PLAY IN DIRT. Mimlstrntr lllsphnrae '!" nnd -lnlli-r anil Neures I'ollcpniiili, MMraU " '.t Side ",,rl '-''y hhI.1 that ll Is no crime 1 f.m t. r...i,i ,.i. ,i i,.,.n i.. v.. for a four-year-old child born In New York to play with dirt. Little David Hussell was playing with dirt on Itlverslde Drive on Saturday. His mother, Mrs, Winter Hussell of 203 West ISIghty-seventh street, was sum moned to court by Policeman Cornelius McKcnmt of the West H'Oth street sta tlon. David's father Is a lawyer and he np. peared for Mrs. fluseell and David. It developed that David was Incorrigible enough to fill a cart measuring two by three inches with dirt nnd dump It "Why, as far ns my knowledge runs," said Magistrate Freschl, "children thrive on playing with dirt. Would you warn them In the drawing room learning the piano nr would you want them reading Emerson? This case Is ridiculous. Mrp. Hussell, you are rtls charged, and honorably" DOUGHERTY'S "BANDITS" FREED. Court Flnda No Kvlririier AaralnH :iar Sli.rra "Oauir." Notwithstanding Deputy Police Com - sloner Dougherty s statement that In the nrrest of four men last week he had cleaned up the Fnlted Cigar Storrs bandit gang Magistrate Freschl In the West Hldo court yesterday discharged one of the prisoners. James J, Duval, Jr., and dismissal the case ngalnst Charles Truax, tho former employee of the United Cigar Stores Company, Lawyer Kdward Carpell, who ap peared for Duval, told the court that four days uftcr the robbery of the United Clgnr store at l2 Klghth ave nue August Jarobson, the clerk, Identi fied two other men. Judge Ilosalsky throw tho ensp out when It came be loro him. Jacobson admitted this fact yesterday. Marfstrato Freschl said Jacobson was unworthy of belief and dismissed the charge, Traux. however, had al ! ready been held In $5,000 hall for the Grand Jury on anothpr charge. GREAT BEAR HPRINO WATF.lt, m Uc. per eats et iImi itoppered bottle. Alt, BRYAN ORDERED TO CALIFORNIA TO STOP ALIEN LAND LAW CRISIS RAILROAD FIREMEN GET BEST OF AWARD Arbitrators (irant Wae creases Kiiinl to .S.l.oOII. 000 a Year. NOT TO ItK HKTHOACTI VK Hilling Kstalilishes Precedent tt.v Hasintr Pay on Weiirht on Priver... Th" aw.uil of the aibltratlon board 1 appolnKd under the Kidman act, to' hear the demands of the lltemeii on the Kastprn railroads, was miide public last e oiling. It Is considered a Mctory for flu employees, who will get wage ad vances aggregating between f.1QQ.nU0 and 14,000.000 a year. The tlretuen do not get their demand for an extta man on engines weighing I 200,000 pounds and hot, and the re quest that the a waul be made lettu- active wa.s not conceded. The wage advances average fioni 10 to 12 per cent, on present wages. The increase gtanted In the arbitration of the engineers' demands on the same roads was only aboTtt i per cent. Un the other hand, the award In the case of the engineers was made retro active from November to May of lust year. In the case of the firemen, the award goes Into effect in ten days from Un filing of the award In thp Fnlted States Court yesterday. The firemen also won their conten tion that tho rates of wages should bp base.d on weight of locomotives on drivers. This was opposed by the rail roads ns an Inequitable method of es timating thu wages and value of the services of firemen. first AtTard of the Kind. It Is also the llrst time as far ns known In an award of this kind under the Krdmuu act in which the wages awn t ded were based on weight of loco motives on drivers. Hefore both sides agreed to arbitra tion under the F.rdman act the Mremeu had twlre mndtllci! their demands. The demands as last modified, would If gtunted, the railroads say, have in creased their i mining expenses about 1 1 1.00O.00O, or an Inciease of 3.i per cent. The demands of the Mremeu were submitted first to the Eastern rallio.uls about the middle of lyt2. In July of that year n meeting was held by the general adjustment committee of the firemen on the Kastern rnllroids nnd the manager?' committee of these roads over the demands, the firemen being represented by W. S. Carter, president of the Hrotherhood of Locomotive Fire men und Knglnemeti. PJIsha Leu. us chairman of the manugprs' committee, was spokesman for the railroads. The demands were refused and u strike vote was tnken, ninety-six and tlve-tenths of the firemen voting In fuvor of ii strike. At the request of both sides Martin A. Knauti. presiding Judge of the United States Commerce I Court, and G. W. W. Hanger, acting ,, .. , L.. . ... I tilted States Commissioner of Labor tried as mediators to bring about a settlement. Astrvr to Arbitrate. They fulled, but an -agreement was ( ,.,, k Into the windows of Mrs. Bar- teeman Theodore Hell of California and reached with the consent of both sides rett's home. When the wall Is finished Secretary Hryan. He immediately rte to arbitrate the demands as last iiiimII-I ,,v,.n persons on the roof of the apart- elded that stringent measures were de fied under the Krdmnn act. William I wnt house cannot see the roof of her I mantled. lie addressed telegrams to W. Atterbur. vice-president of the Penuslvanla Kallroad. was appointed as arbitrator on behalf of the rail roads, und Albert Phillips, vice-president of the Firemen's Hroiherhood, was appointed as arbitrator for the 111 etneti. Judge William L. Chambers of Wash - lngton, I), C. was appointed the third arbitrator by Messrs. Kuupp and Hanger after the other two arbitrators had failed to agree on u third man. This bonrd began Its hearings In the Wnlilnrf. Ulni-ln U..1..I .,n l,,rwln.- f,.v. .n .... .i. ....i.ii.. i i' 11UIV.I v, NIWi lilt- ,iiuni: in-., I 1(1 t,n.- held dally up lo April f. of this year, Judge Chambers acting as ihalrinau. They then met In executive session, con - tinning their meetings until they reached an award. During the open hearings expert statisticians were called by both sides, who tiled a large number of statistics anil tallies as exilllilts to be taken up by tho board. The railroads Involved In the arbitra tion proceedings take In practically all the rosds In the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. They cover about "o.- ' 000' n11-" lf rnP- or nne-fmirth. ap proximately, of Ilm entire trackage of the United States. They carry about '7 per cent, of the tonnage and about 13 per cent, of the passenger freight of the railroads In the United Slates, The firemen employed on these roads numbered about 31,000 In 1 i 1 2 and their wages for that year were approximately $211,000,000, According to the repre aetitatlvpH of the railroads, If the wage demands of the llremen Which were arbitrated had been grnnted they would have Increased this amount to $10,000,. 000. Don't Have In Clean IviiKliiea. In the award the present rules as to Initial or terminal delay are unchanged. One of the points which the firemen dwelt on at tho hearings was tho extra work they had In rleanlng the engines. This they are relieved of, The award given out yesterday Is the first award under the Krdman act In the case of Conflmitd on Fifth Page. GRADUATES ALL JAPANESE. o inert PirYis In 't'lieiiloulrnl ('Inn In llerUele), mI. San Fkam'Imii, April 23. Tluee ,laia. nefo students will compose the grad uating class nt the annual commence tnent PNcrcim-H of the P.icitli' Theological Seminar to-tnotrow In Herkeley. Thu seminary Is Congregational. The three Japanese are graduates of Wasetla I'nKerslty In Japan and the Slate I'nlverslty here, It Is the first time In th.- history of the seminary that no Ameilciin has bien Included In the graduating class. YALE MAN WILL GO TO JAIL. i.liKpfili 7. tin me nil ii ii, .lr.. Who Mil . t'tiniliii-lor, A'ont Vny lliininuea. Soi th XoiiwAi.K. onn. April 23 - Joseph Zimmerman. Jr. a Yale student who punched Mnrr rhilllpson. a ron diictor of this town, last November and who was expelled from college for the asmult, i.o resents the action of the con 'ductor in prosi'fuilng him thai in- will go to Jail rather than pay the Judgment whirl' was .wjarcYd I 'lillllp-on in a civil action. Z.iiunci'm.111 will spend at least two weeks In J.nl mid iu i be i. 'eased then 'n taking toe p en ii,-h ot oatli. Ills father of th ii.ims l'-.pns Com- I p.iny will not pui ii,. Pie in. uny t pay! the damages nvvardwl j It Is possible that V.iiiiiiiennnti will I serve two Weeks mo;,, when the in Hon ' "f the molornian whom he also assaulted Is brought against him. TR0TTIN6 GOES AFTER 1 A. M. iiper I Inli Iiim.I.piI I. Mi nlM 1'nllpp Keep A Mil), Turning after 1 o'clock went on In the Supper Club at 22S West .Forty seventh strict this morning for tho first time since .Mayor tiaynor Issued his 1 A. M ultimatum Murray's restaurant was only closed downstairs by Cnpt John (Overs of the West Thirty-seventh street station, who heretnfoie has proceeded upstairs to the Peacock and Kgyptlan room nnd bun dled the 32,". members out This dispensation follows lejal action 'against the Mayor and Police Commix , stoner on the tinrt of the rliib's ntinr. j neys. MRS. BELMONT TO TOIL IN PARIS. Mn Help Chrlatahrl I'ankhurat Pnrm NiirTrngr Rrnneb. A wireless trom Mrs. O H. V. Hel-! of ,wo houses of the State Legls wnt. on lKiar.1 the Mnuretanla off Slas- 8, to-day, Is to counsel with the eonsei, was received yesterdav at the legislature and cooperate with the Political Kqunlltv Association The 'nembers In the framing of a law which message said that she Is verv well and 1 wl" mecl th'" vlew" nt favple of the ts enloylng the voyage I s,n,' nn(1 J'' lPnv'' untouched the In- After .spending some weeks with her trnntlnnal obligations of the United daughter, the Duchess of Marlborough. ' s,ates- II. London Mrs. n-lmont will go to W, rnfira Wllh Bryan. Paris, where she will aid Chrlstabel ' . , , . Jankhurt In founding a branch of thei i Social nnd Pollttcnl I nlon If It seems i advisable From June til to June 20 she will Ik- a delegate at the Interna tional Suffrage Congress nt Budapest, spending the rest of the summer nt Denuvllle. France, with the Duchess of Marlborough nnd her children. TO BUILD 90 FOOT BACK FENCE. Mrs, nnrrett Menu lo Keep Neluli- bora From Sp Inn- Mrs Thomas Harrett. whose dwelling Is at tint northwest corner of Park nve- line and Ii"ast Seventy-fifth street, i ll-oieo nil1 ntircHll in uiiiiuillKS j'-siei- , v,,i ., ,..,,, ninety feet high on the north end of her lot. On the southwest corner of Park nve- j existing In California. Soon nfter reach nue und Fast Seventy-sixth street la lug his office he conferred with Hepre an noaitnient house, and the tenants sentntlve Kettner nnd National Commit- dwelling. The wall will hnve seven win- dowllke openings to admit light and air, but thev will be so placed that dwellers In the Hats will be able to see onlv the blank walls of Mrs. Barrett's house through them. I .Mr, Barrett says the wall will not he j pitp fence" Tjj TWO MRS PECKS MEET. I . 1 ., . ,.,., other' , ' Preaenee at I'rnfpsaor'a Reilalne. Ithaca. April 23. -The present wife ami the divorced wife of Prof Harry . Thurston Peck, who Is seriously 111 at i the city Hospital, met to-day nt his ' bedside. Aeoordlng to persons who witnessed the incident It was not a cordial meeting. Raeh woman Is said . io nave iguoren me omri e prrseiire, Airs, i orneua u, reen, tne ui - vorced wife of the former Colum - bU University professor has been In the city several days and has been con- slantly at the bedside of the sick man waiting for the lime when he m ght be- come sufficiently rational to transact some business affairs in which she has a Joint Interest. TO SHOO PROCESS SERVERS. sole lluO. Wtni-upy Sna. nf One nf Mra. I.iiwrence'a llntlrra, Mrs. Julia Watts Morris Curtis l.w rence, who Inherited one-third of the $8,000,000 estate of her aunt. Miss Mary L. Plnkney, keeps an extra butler whose sole duly Is to shoo away process servers. This statement waa made to Su preme Court Justice Pago yesterday hy Mrs, Itawrence's attorney, Frederick II, Sanborn, In asking to hove the court set aside service of papers in ti stilt brought by George HIcp to recover pay for oysters delivered to Mrs. Lawrence. The lawyer told the court that the anti-process server butler Is a vigilant man and for this reason the papers couldn't have been served on Mrs. Law rence ns set forth, The court reserved decision. Sacramento Legislature. Ac cepts Visit of Secretary of Stnte. MIT RETAINS RIGHTS Wilson Directs Knvoy to Leave Capital for West To-day. 0 K AVE TR OK BLE FEARED Washington Thinks Serious Developments Have, Not Reen Made Public. CHIXliA ISSCKS STATEMENT .liipnncse Amliassailor Deniei Hnth War anil I'eace Ru- . mors Current in Capital. Washington, April 23. Some Idea of the grave concern with which the Presi dent Is now regarding the anti-Japanese agitation In California may be gathered from the fact that to-night ho directed Secretary of State Hryan to hurry to Sncramcnto. Mr. Hryan will leave Washington to morrow nnd will reach Sacramento on Monday. He hus been Instructed by the President to represent the national Government In the drafting of an alien land bill by the California Legislature. The President Issued this direction after he had ascertained from a resolu tion passed by tho California Legisla ture this afternoon thai the visit of the Secretary, as proposed by him, would be agreeable to that body. Gov. Hiram Johnson also telegraphed that the suggested visit would be entirely pleasing to htm. The exact purpose of the Iresldent In having Mr. Bryan visit Sacramento, ns outlined hy him In telegrams to Gov. lohnson and to the presiding officers .in . vt iison necision to senct tne Secretary of State to California was reached after a conference with Mr. Hryan to-night The Secretary had listened In the course of the afternoon to the Japanese Ambassador, Viscount Chlnda. voice the grave concern of his Government over the situation, It Is regarded . certain here that there have been serious developments within the Inst few days, as yet not made public, whloh have caused the situation to ussitme" a much graver aspect than that In which It at first presented Itself to the President and his advisers. President Wilson remained In hla niiu. iiiiiii tin i-.iiiv iiiiui ini innrjlinK Mnntvim- n. infrm.i,. i hi. JT slon regarding the International aspects i of the situation and the exact conditions Gov. Johnson, the Speaker of the House ' and the President of the Senate of the ; California Legislature Inquiring If it ' would be agreeable to them to have Mr. Hryan come to Sacramento to '"counsel" and "cooperate" with them j In the framing of a land law. The two telegrams were In practically the same I words. ov- .lohnson telegraphed in reply: "J shnll ut all times be pleased to consult with the Secretary of State and It will be entirely agreeable to me to have the Secretary visit Sacramento as suggested by you In your telegram." Mtate Intlata nn Its Rlarht. The reply of the State Sennte carried a positive reminder to the President that . tn g.flp maintained that It had th rgtit to legislate on the subject of land ownership within Its border. It as- , ntffn hn,VBV . fn , pns.t f()r a vMt from lh() Secretary of , s,Hte, The Senate passed the following rPli0uton, P(,py of wnlch VRn te, . Krnpn(1 t0 Whlte House: 1 ..whPre(lB th rrMld,nt nf th, s,na ,of .,. s.Hte . rraitmi,, h, thi. ,.,Ved from the President of the United States the following telegram: 'Th Whits House, " WAilllNOTON, April 28. 19H, " 'Hie rretiJtnt of (se Brnal', Snora nirnto, Onl : , " 'We find It so difficult from this dis tance to understand fully the situation w ith regard to the sentiments and circum stances lying back of the pending prop osition concerning the ownership of land In the- State, that I venture to Inquire whether It witcld. be agreeable to the Legislature to have trr Stmtary of State visit Sacramento for Ilm purri'M of counselling with the merolwrs of the Lf lalature and cooperating with them In the framing of a law whtch would meet the views nf the people of the State and yet leave untouched the International obliga tions of the United States " 'Woopaow Wilioh.' "Now, therefore, be It resolved by th Senate of the State of California, that while this Senate respectfully maintain tho right of the Legislature of the Btate of California to legislate on the subject nf land ownership within the State, tt will be entirely agreeable to this Senate PI 4