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ot 20,172. THE ULSTER LORD SALISBURY'S REFERENCE TO IRELAND EMPHASIZED. HARTIGAN'S DISMISSAL-TRANSATLANTIC PASSENGER RATES. fCppyriphr: By Tim Tribune Association.) Ir.T CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE) London. Feb.

7, 1 a. Lord Salisbury's significant reference to Ireland has been emphasized by the election in East Down, where the land purchase candidate, supported by T. W. iPSJSeIL takes the place of a popular Unionist in a district not ordinarily contested. Irish ir.Ftead of being allayed by the policy of mothering It with kindness and optimism, been increased, and loyalist Ulster is now (iivided afrninst itself, while the Nationalists, as tne Prime Minister has confessed, do not like England any better than they did before, and fcive never been more embittered against her durir.c any period of military operations.

The Nationalists In the Commons, who opposed Mr. Russell when it was for their interest to do fo, were exultant yesterday, and disposed to re- Fa rd the victory of the land purchase independent their own work, and George Wyndham was sharper end less amiable an usual in his plies, apparently forecasting trouble ln the near future. The essential facts are the conversion of Mr. O'Brien's United Irish League into a most Bwertul political organization. unity in the direction Imparted to the Nationalist party under Mr.

Redmond's leadership and divisions created among the loyalists by the land purchase projects. Foreign comments on the Dutch attempt to intervene In South African affairs offer no new features. The Dutch Government, by common consent of both parties here, has rendered the Salisbury Ministry an unpremeditated, but service. Mr. Brodrick's announcement that he has dismissed Captain Hartigan from temporary employment as civil veterinary surgeon at Alderfhot received with cheers in the House of Commor.s yesterday, but it does not satisfy those who wish the remount scandal to be probed to the bottom.

Great uncertainty prevails among the officers of the transatlantic steamship companies refpectlEg passenger rates during the coronation eeason. Rumors that an increase in passenger retes will follow the rise in freight charges' Jiave stimulated booking at existing rates. Travellers intending to cross the Atlantic this year are hastening to secure passage before the advance in rates. Well Informed agents, while admitting that the rates may be raised any day. assert that trie changes effected by combined action will probably relate to winter, rather than summer, traffic, and tend to equalize the two echedules.

One of the most active managers asserts that the summer rate is already high enough to yield a good return, but the winter rate is utterly unremunerative. Special accounts are published of Miss Hay's wedding. Miss Hay was much liked in Lonfiou, and the number and value of her presents are impressive, even when recent society weddings here have involved enormous lists with recori-bnakhig tendencies. The "The Heel of Achilles." by Louis Parker anfl Boyle Lawrence, started briskly nigfet at (fie Globe Theatre, continued to gain Interest steadily act by act and closed most theitriealJy. while the audience was breathless with astonishment.

It was a play of Russian intriijne, with the action centred upon a series of betrayals. The prologue was staged for London with an ambitious Russian intriguer as the betrayer of his friend's daughter, converting father into his own watchdog and follower. Keit came the betrayal of a state secret, involving Russian preparations for war with Engsmd, which had been skilfully concealed. An Engllihrr.ar. gained possession of the secret fainly attempted to warn the home government, Wfl was himself entrapped by his Russian rival the eve of his marriage with an English Woman.

bride sacrificed herself in order to save the bridegroom's life, and married a RuEsiar. prince. The final solution came through the treachery of the watchdog when the truth was learned that his master had been the of his daughtr-r. The prince was CTaoei by the Czar, but when the father lor private vengeance the intriguer was dead te his chair, having received poison from the land of hta former mi? tress. The play war act-rd with exceptional power briliiancy by Julia Neilson.

Fred and a strong company, and excited a outburst of approval and enthusiasm close. There was action enough for hslf inelorlramas. I. N. W.

P. A. B. WIDEXER'S BTG GIFT. fORIAL TO HIS WIFE IN PHILADELPHIA TO COST $2,000,000.

(BY lELEGBAPH TO THE Philadelphia, Feb. the plans having completed, work on the buildings for the Memorial Training School for Crippled Children will be begun in a few weeks. The hidings will be at Old York Road and Thorp's kuie end in a tract of thirty-six acres. The kasrovemerits and endowment will represent an "Uay of aoout by Peter A. B.

in memory of his wife. At the institution helpless will be cared w. receiving medical and surgical attention their deformities, and not only a general Vacation, but instruction in such industrial as will assist them in supporting will be given. Plant will consist of a convalescent and Rational building, the industrial building and cottages. The central building will be a "Wtonial structure, three stories high, built of brick, with Indiana limestone trimmings, leet by 40 feet, with two wings, each 3'J by rr? wt At each end of the main building a Jfvered passageway will lead to the cottages wi rigs.

each to 65 feet. The main will provide for the medical and needs of the home, except in the third Mrai will contain departments for In- in music, drawing, stenography and Wrl In the adjoining building, en- to which will be through a beautiful urn with colonial columns, facilities are to taiiJt (i for instruction in dressmaking. the manufacture of surgical applito th fishln tackle and other trades adapted capacity of the inmates. For the girls 1 attention will be paid to instruction in -rework and laundering. ATTACK OX CENBUB OFFICIAL.

Mont Feb. The Pacific Northwest Presi," ers to -day. in a resolution addressed to ft Roosevelt and Congress, attacked S. N. atiEtlcian of the Department of i the ns Mr.

North In secretary ia il at -l? Association of Wool Manufacturers lira or. flght at Washington against th. ktkT L. The association also unanimously wioTwiT" 0 indorsing the Grosvenor Pure now pending before Congress. STEAMER GOIXG TO PIECES.

6 President A. L. Mower. his 01 Railway and Navigation Company. tie a tfl8 atch from Hong Kong saying hi l- Knight Companion, which Is ashore -O'isT of Japan, is fast golnK to ear-go are valued at JWOO.OOO.

MP JiSIS ln the bud with PLOT TO WEAKEN FERRIES. B. T. THOUGHT TO BE TRYING TO GET UNION COMPANY AT A LOW TO HURRY NEW BRIDGE. RELIEF IN MORE BRIDGES.

COMMISSIONER LINDEXTHAL WILL PUSH WORK ON THE NEW EAST RIVER STRUCTURE. Believing that the crush on the Brooklyn Bridge at the rush hours cannot be relieved until the New River Bridge is ready Ur use. Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal is determined to us" 8 owor and authority to hasten the work and prevent delays on the new bridge. There is reason to believe that the new bridge will divert so much of the travel to and from Brooklyn as to relieve the pressure on the Brooklyn Bridge for several during which. Mr.

Lindcnthnl declares, the third great span across the East River, possibly to be known as the Navy Yard Bridge, should be built, and the entire superstructure of the Brooklyn Bridge shouM be rebuilt on an enlarged plan. The New East River Bridge will have four tracks for trolley cars, two tracks for elevated trains and two roadways, in addition to the footwalks and cycle paths. The bridge should have been nearly completed by this time, but politic? caused delays of many months while work was being held back because of lack of appropriations. The having the contract the cables of the bridge, are several months behind time, and want an extension of six months' time for completing the cables. With the extention of time already granted, the contract calls for the completion of the cables by April 21.

Mr. Lindenthal has to grant another extension of time, and has said that he would exact the $1,000 a day forfeit for every day of delay in completing the cables after the contract time expires. "The Roeblings have not been pushing work on the cables in a satisfactory way," Mr. Lindenthal paid yesterday. "They spent months building the footbridges over the towers, and in the mean time made no preparation for drilling men in the work of stretching the cable strands.

The result was that they began with green men, who had to be broken in, first on one stranil. At present they are laying eight strands at the same time, two strands for each cable, but the men work only in one shift. The work is going ahead too slowly. There is no reason why the forfeit of $1,000 a day should not be imposed, particularly as one extension of time has been granted." Commissioner Lindenthal said yesterday that he thought the completion of the New East River Bridge would bring temporary relief to the Brooklyn Bridge, but for the future there must be plans to meet the growing traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn. "The third bridge, which I have said might be called the Navy Yard Bridge, should be pushed to completion as soon as possible," he said, "and then there should be the rebuilding of the superstructure of the Brooklyn Bridge.

I believe that the present towers, cables and anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge should be left undisturbed, but that the superstructure should he enlarged Into a double decker, with twice the present facilities for traffic. Home people seem to think that would be impossible, due regard to safety, on account of the enormous increase in weight to be imposeyl on the towers, but it would be entirely practicable. Of course, it would not do to hang more weight on the cables than that now supported by them, nor would it be wise to construct additional cables, because the tops of the towers and the anchorages might not safely bear the strain. "The building of a double decker superstructure, therefore, would mean the supporting of part of the weight, at least one-half, on those parts of the towers below the openings. That could be done by constructing the superstructure on the cantilever plan, thus distributing the weight between the cables and the lower portions of the towers.

This would make a combination bridge having about twice the facilities for traffic purposes." Mr. Lindenthal said yesterday that he had been making personal observations on the Brooklyn Bridge, and he could not devise any plan to increase the present facilities of the bridge and thus mitigate the crush at the rush hours. There was no room at the Manhattan terminal for more loops for trolley cars, he said, and the galleries now in the way, further back from the entrance to the bridge, could not be removed until some plan could be devised for running the bridge trains and elevated trains en an elevated branch emending in Centre-st or Park Row. The plans already devised, he said, did not meet with his entire approval He believed, however, that suitable plans might '-c devised, and that there might be an arrangement for running the elevated trains crossing the bridge to a terminal station either in Park Row, north of the bridge entrance, to be shared by the. Manhattan Railway Company or in Centre-st.

TO THIS SOUTHWEST VIA ATLANTA AND MONTGOMERY. One day in Atlanta, using Seaboard Air Line Ry's train 27, known as "Seaboard Fast Mail leaving W. 23d Street Kerry. P. R.

12:10 A. M. Sleeper 10 P. M. Office, 1,1 S3 Broadway MEW-yOBK.

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7 7. 1902. -SIXTEEN iCENE AT THE OPENING OFTHE NEW LABORATORY AT STEVENS INSTITUTE, FERRY PLAN APPROVED. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDORSES IT- BROOKLY.N RAPID TRANSIT AND UNION FERRY.

Suspicion that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has a plan to bankrupt and gobble up the Union Ferry Company was yesterday by men who have active in seeking means to relieve frightfully overcrowded condition of the Brooklyn Bridge at the rush hours. Why. they asked, had the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company been so prompt in declaring that it could not agreo to the arrangement proposed by Bridge Commissioner Lir by which s-nme of the travel by way of the bridge at rush hours could be diverted to the ferries? Why had the company that Ie could not furnish more cars at the ferries? The action of the company, it was said, was an indication of willingness to divert still travel from the ferries ami Increase the crush on the bridge until the company could control both the ferries and the bridge. Mr. Kindenthal's plan for temporary relief was to have the company controlling the Brooklyn trolley lines unite with the I'nlon Ferry Company in an arrangement whereby passengers could be transported over the ferrtea and transferred to the trolley cars for one fare of five cents, at the rush By the arrangement proposed, the ferry company would get only hair a cent a passenger at hours when the ferriage is reduced to one cent.

The ferry company declared that would he inius; the arrangement. It said, too. that all its boats were crowded at the rush noun, anyhow. It has admitted, however, that it could put on more boats at such hours if there sufficient travel to require them. The Brooklyn Knpid Transit Company (It clined to listen to the propoa '1 arrangement, because it would lo.se half a cent on each fare from the ferries and hetause, so it said, it was running as many as possible to the ferries.

So Mr. LJndenthai's plan fell through, he understood, because he could not compel the companies to come to an arrangement for a single fare transfer. It was suggested to Mr. Lindenthai yesterday that he had the power to bring the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com; any to terms if he chose, by giving notice that the contract by which the trolley cars are allowed to run over the bridge would lie abrogated. He saM he had no doubt that the crush would he relieved if the trolley cars were put off the but he felt sure there would be a great public outcry, and possibly a revolution in Brooklyn, if the trolley car contract was abrogated.

The fact that the crush on the bridge was the result of diverting travel from the ferries, to a large extent, was mentioned yesterday In connection with a charge that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was helping to divert mure travel from the by offering poor facilities for travel to and from the ferries on the Brooklyn side. The company, it was asserted, ran too lew through cars to the ferries. The consequence was that thousands of r.p.ipi^ who crossed the ferries at the rush hours got into crowded cars that ran only a little way. Then the people were forced to get out and go into cars already crowded. That was enough to dls- gust and discourage many people and lead them to join In the crush on the bridge, it was said.

Some of the men who had been studying the situation said yesterday that they believed the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was working deliberately to crush the ferry company as a preliminary step to getting control of the ferries. The Chamber of Commerce at its meeting yesterday passed a resolution urging the adoption at Commissioner Lindenthal's plan for relieving the bridge crush. It was presented in a communication by Ahram S. Hewitt. John Clafiin and Charles A.

Schieren. the committee appointed some time ago to devise a plan for relieving the crush on the bridge. Some of the men at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce seemed to think that a wgsnosj in or-- powerful than a resolution would be required to bring the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to terms. If people continued to have bones broken in the bridge crush, it was said, If the crush resulted In the killing of people, the city authorities be driven to revoke the contract by which the trolley cars are al- lowed to run over the bridge. In such case, it was said, the coir.pany controlling the trolley lines might have to construct tunnels for the cars.

HEAVY BLASTSHAKES PARK-AYE FLYING STOKES INJURE ANOTHER DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO SUBWAY EXPLOSION. THOUGHT DISASTER NEAR. RESIDENTS AND PEDESTRIANS IN PARK-AYE. RUN TO COVERTHREE MEN HURT. Park-aye.

had another explosion scare yesterday, when an unusually large blast of dynamite was set off near the site for the new hotel at Park-aye. and adjoining which 1b to be a station of the rapid transit tunnel road. Thiee men were slightly hurt. They were Albert Biorkley. of No.

HO East Karl Norlander. of No. 13 West and William Cousin, of No. 610 Second -aye. Brockley was struck In the loft ankle by a rock.

Xorlander was thrown to the sidewalk and sustained a severe shock and Cousin was struck over the left eye by a rock. Norlander was taken to Bellevue Hospital. The foreman. Thomas Byron, of No. 400 Bast was arrested.

He is employed by the Degnon-Mc- Lean Contracting Company, which is building the hotel. Residents of thai section and pedestrians, including those in the Grand Union and Murray Hill hotels and the Grand Central Station, were startled about 11:30 a. m. by a loud report. All minds reverted to the terrific explosion of Monday week, and it was thought that something like it had occurred.

when innumerable pieces of rock came down on the sidewalks and pavements and struck the Grand Union Hotel. Horses attached to vehicles reared, and thjir drivers had trouble in quieting them. It was found that the blast had come from the new hotel site. The diggers had reached solid rock, and blasting was needed to clear the way. Brockley was walking past the Grand Union Hotel when the blast was Bred.

The piece of rock, weighing a pound, which struck him on the left ankle after smashing a large sidelight in front of the hotel, fell into the entrance. Another large piece of rock, weighing fifty pounds, wont through a window space of the Grand Union Hotel, but Injured no one in the room. The window was broken by the explosion of January -7. and has not yet been repaired. Norlander was in the street, and was thrown down by the shock.

Cousin was walking when hi was struck. He had his injury dressed in a drug store near by. and went home. Norlander and Brockley were carried into the Grand Union Hotel, and an ambulance called from Bellevue Hospital, In which Norlander was taken away. There was a general rush in the street a minute after the blast to get under cover and escape shower of rock.

The business men and residents around Parkas are indignant about the blasting that has been going on in the neighborhood. They derlnre that it is not safe to be there. Byron was arraigned in Jefferson Market police court in the afternoon. J. Brockley, who carried a shoe In one hand and was limping, wan in court.

A short affidavit was sworn to by Policeman Baxter, charging Byron with assault on Brockley and Norlander. Then an attorney from the law firm of Whalen Dunn asked that Byron be paroled in the custody of his counsel until the 'late of the hearing in court. This request was granted by Magistrate Deuel. and the examination will be held to-morrow morning. GRAXD JI'RY TAKER IT IP.

JOHN B. M'PONALD ONE OF THR WITNESSES BEFORE IT Although District Attorney Jerome would not admit it. it was learned that the grand Jury was bearing witnesses yesterday regarding the explosion of dynamite in the subway at Park-aye. and and that Assistant District Attorney Rand was representing the District Attorney's office. When the coroner's inquest was resumed yesterday the tir.st two witnesses called failed to respond to ir names, and it was then announced that they were in the grand jury room.

Although Mr. Jerome would not admit that the grand Jury was considering the explosion yet he appeared surprised that the witnesses' had not given testimony before the coroner, because "they had been summoned to appear before the grand jury." he eaid. Out of nine witnesses summoned seven were examined, among them John B. McDonald. There is a possibility that the case may go over into next week.

Nothing could be harried at the District Attorney's office as to the nature of testimony given by the witnesses. The grand jury adjourned until 11 o'clock to-day. Lovers of brandy invariably order Otard's the standard of Advt. EXPLOSION'S SIXTH VICTIM. SICK MAN WnO WAS IN MURRAY HILL HOTEL DIES-THE INQUEST CONTINUES.

The coroner's office was yesterday informed of the death, by shock, of Edward C. Fiedler, fifty-six years old, at the Murray Hill Hotel. The death was reported by Dr. E. P.

Fowier, of No. 3S Fortieth-st. Mr. Fiedler died at 6 a. m.

on Wednesday. Dr. Fowler said that Mr. Fiedler occupied a fuite on the third floor, at the northeast corner of the Murray Hill Hotel, at the time of the subway explosion, a week ago last Monday. He was convalescing from a long illness and after the explosion suffered considerably from shock.

His 'ieath was unexpected. Mr. Fiedler leaves a widow, two daughters and pnf son. In the summer lived at Little Silver. N.

The explosion inquest was resumed yesterday before Coroner CJnldenkranz and a jury. Hamilton Jones, colored, a blaster, the first Witness, K'stifVd that Andrew Murray handled Ins He said that by going into the powder could touch the magazines Where dynamite was stored. He said he had seen dynamite put in and taken out of powder house. Coroner Goldenkranz looked rather flushed and uncomfortable when he was asked whether thf action of District Attorney Jerome in presenting the case to the grand jury would delay tho inquest or Inconvenience him. "It will not the inquest, but will cause some inconvenience." waa the reply.

CASKET GIVEN TO ANDREW CARNEGIE. By Alumni Association of the Stevens Institute of Technology, in commemoration of his gill to the institute of the building for the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering. Jones declared that he had seen a candle on a in the powder house near to where quantities of dynamite were kept. After contradicting himself several times, he said that he had seen dynamite taken from the powder house in the morning before the dynamite wagon arrived. On the day of the explosion he had prepared four blastings.

"You don't remain after you have made the connections for a blast?" asked Mr. Greenberg innocently. "I should say not." witness replied, laughing outright. Everybody in the courtroom joined In the mirth. Keegan, a laborer in the section where the explosion occurred, and one of the men examined by Coroner Goldenkranz when he went with his jury to the scene of the disaster, who on that occasion swore that he had seen a light iiutlniieil on inr.nil BSJSJSS riUCE THREE CENTS.

A GIFT TO MR. CARNEGIE. PART OF THE FIRST RAIL IN A SILVER CASKET. GIVEN TO HIM AT THE FORMAL PRESENTATION OF THE LABORATORY AT STEVENS. The formal presentation of the new Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering to Stevens Institute of Technology place last night at Hoboken in the building.

Mr. Carnegie receiving the keys from the architects. Messrs. Ackerman ami Ross, and then in turn presenting them to S. Bayard Dod.

president of the board of trustees. In making the presentation Mr. said. In part: Usually when I have been brought out of my cage to perform my keeper presents me with time table telling me just when to mar and perrorm the other necessary feats. I therefore knfw Just what to do at the- right time, but I lika th spontaneous an.l unknown occasions like rhis tugbt much hetter than those that have to run on scnedule.

You notice my free manner to-nigh: and must excuse in belns so pay ami happy Jn everything I say. because I have broken loose and have no keeper. My trifling gift to Institute was not a thing of chance, not a whim, but was conscientiously bestowed, because of my experiences of what is doing all the time I have been engaged in manufacturing I remember that our firm was the first to employ a chemist He drew the enormous salary of 11.3<j0 a year That's what I got, as superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Pl and when I Kl my months check for US I didn't know what to do with so much wealth. A chemist was an unnecessary expense in iro-i working in those days but they are all past now. and technical school nave given this country a class of iren the like which no country on earth has.

President Henry Morton presented to Mr. Carnegie a of the first T-rail ever made. It was made under the personal supervision of Robert L. Stevens, in the works of Sir John Guest, in Wales, in He told of the difficulty in manufacturing the first ones which were used in laying: the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The piece of the original rail was flve-lneires long and was put in a solid silver casket manufactured by Tiffany Co.

On the top were figures of workmen drawing rails though the mill. On the- sides were pictures of the first' train run on the Camden and Amboy road, and on the ends medallions el Robert L. Stevens and Mr. Carnegie. In speaking of the gift Mr.

Carnegie said: To think that my name should figure on the same casket with Robert L. Stevens is an honor beyond all expectation, for among men none was of more value than he. In the list of geniuses that you can count on the fingers or' two hands, no list si complete without the name of Robert L. Stevens. I had no inventive mind, simply a mind to use inventions of others.

I think a fit epitaph for me would be. "Here lies a man who knew how to get around men much cleverer than himself." Mr. Carnegie was shown through the shops on the first floor of the building. The sixty-five horse power cross compound engine, given by the Stevens family, was running under foil steam, as was also the boiler house, given by President Henry Morton. A number of students were in charge of the plant, giving the philanthropist an opportunity of seeing the students in working clothes.

After the ceremonies a dinner was served, the tables representing a workship. Punch flowed from a miniature blast furnace. oonfections made in the shape of spikes were taken. Ice cream was served in the shape of rails, and oysters were taken from a Bessemer converter. Many other unique things attracted the attention of Mr.

Carnegie. Mrs. Carnegie attended the exercises, as did also Colonel and rs. E. A.

Stevens. Mr and Mrs. Richard Stevens. Mrs. C.

B. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. E. A.

B. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Campbell, and other members of ths Stevens family.

The Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering was completed a few months ago, at a cost of $5,060. It is situated in adjoining the institute building. PLAN TO BE MADE PUBLIC. ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF SECURITIES COMPANY WHICH WILL LEASE METROPOLITAN AND OTHER LINES. The plan for tormina: a securities company which will lease the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and in time also probably all the other transportation lines of the city.

Including the rapid transit tunnel road, will be officially made public in a very few days. It was learned yesterday. Leading Metropolitan interests declined yesterday to discuss the matter, but it may be said on competent authority that the project as already described is correct In general outline. With the Metropolitan stockholders permitted to subscribe at par for the $30,000,000 stock of the holding company to the extent of per cent of their present holdings, $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 of the new stock would remain unaccounted for. This, it is reported from Philadelphia, is to be alloted to new and important New-York interests who will co-operate in the management or the new company with the interests now controlling the Metropolitan.

It Is figured that rights accruing to the Metropolitan shareholderwill be unusually valuable. Although the electrical equipment of the ninety-seven miles of Metropolitan lines not yet operated by underground trolley will call for the expenditure of probably more than it has been estimated that these lines when thus be able to earn as much as 15 per cent on the investment. Reports that control of the Consolidated Gas Company nay be included in the proposed securities company are again heard, the point belnjf made that important economies could be effected by the virtual amalgamation of the two corporations, as the power generated by the electric light plants of Consolidated Gas Company la distributed almost entirely at night while the Metropolitan's power requirements are heaviest during the daytime. DRY MONOPOLE CHAMPAGNE, officially by the Emperor of.