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THE NEW TORK TIMES. KTTNDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1913. -VILLA DYNAMITES TWOFEDERALTRAINS Rebel Commander Says He Caused Enormous Loss of Life.

ENEMY NUMBERED 1,500 Wsrs Advancing to Attack Juarez, When Constitutionalist Went Out to Meet Them. KT T'APO, Teia, Nov. 22. Two Fert- mine, placed along the railroad track by the im wt rtvrn out to-nlicht by Jen. Francisco Villa, who rtiirnri to juarei irom that plce.

where his troopi are awaiting th Federals' approach. He said there were Federals on the train destroyed and that the loss of life was enormous The rebels assert that they raptured orve of the two trains. Villa returned to Juarez, fearing that toe Federal haJ dlnratohed a flanking column to Oniidalupe, a border town east of Juarei, with the Intention of senrfinc this forte to Juarez to attack the town Bfoutint? partlen went from Juarez this afternoon to watch for the arinroar-h ot the Federal troops. The mam tidv of Jn Villa's forces In reported to-nluht to be lout forty milra aouth the twrder: hut so far the ImpendlfiK t-Httie between the two armies has twi-n opened. At rebel headquariers In Juares It reported that a few hhols were ex-rhflnited hy the pdvanre guard of the to arrnu-s late thlr afternoon, hut both Hides retired, avaltlng the brlntflng up of the main bodies of troops.

ALLEGED "ELECTION ORDERS." Huerta Instructions to Nullify Balloting Thought Not Authentic. rpr'la! Tiir. NKW YORK TIME. MEXICO CITY. Nov.

22. A docu- merit purporting to be a copy of explicit Instructions sent out by the Huerta Government to election officers throughout the republic and aiming to Insure that the recent election xhould lie invalidated. Is In circulation here In political circles. One copy of these instructions which was sent to Gen. Joaquin Maass, Gov ernor of the State of Puebla, for transmission to the district officials, ordered that all municipal Presidents, known to he In sympathy with the revolution1, hhould be removed before election day; that all the election officers should be trustworthy; that at least two-thirds of the polling booths should be closed (thus making a legal .,.,.1 Kiunu i choice Impossible.) and that blank i trnoD train.

en route from Chi- i i.uahua to Juarcs. were Mown up at known that Corral called upon miles south of Ma to whom Instructions are afternoon dynamite l. lift Hots should be provided so that an American Government agent. Dr. Wlll-.

lam Hayard Hale, remained in Nogales. absolute majority of the votes cast ftmwa8 yuM the entire party planned to should be given to Huerta and Blan- i leave to-morrow for Hermosillo. and after a br'ef stay at the State capital I continue southward to engage In the Thk Timks correspondent haa had projected campaigning In Slnaloa. GARDEN DEMANDS OIL FIELD GUARDS Contlnned from rage 1. Ftates show that much Inaccurate new Is being circulated through thee press agents.

A conference between the acting Minister of the Interior and the editors of many newspapers yesterday resulted In th suppression of ncwa en tne watch against gun runners. Which was unfavorable to the Gov-1 The addition of this regiment to the force already employed along the bound- ernmcnt. Except In the Catholic or- ry flnd on'dutv with he Second Dlvi-rsns here the news of the capture of 1 sion at Texas City will bring the num-, I her up to twelve regiments of infantry. Juarez remains unpublished in the The total numDer of troops nw press. The Mexican Her- I tloned on the border and In Texas is and the additional regiment will iu.

Mii.ii-iifi in limn 1 (ccounts of It. The stories of the fall of Victoria and of the military activity of the rebels throughout the North huve also been generally suppressed. A persistent report has bean circulated recently that on account of the breaking off of the negotiations tctween Dr. Hale and Gen. Carrania the recognition of Huerta by Wtshlngton may result.

These reports are traced to official sources nd are propagated' through army of ficers, but no foundation for them has thus far been A high official of the War Department assorts that Information to this effect has been received by a prominent American here. This is denied, however, by the American who says that ks has merely received news that a revulsion of feeling against the rebels is being caused by the atrocities committed at Juarez by Gen. Villa. Other assertions of this sort have resulted in the publication by the Im-Mrclal of a story to the effect that to American officers have been executed by Villi. This afforded an opportunity for a scathing- editorial ta the newspaper controlled by the Huerta leader on tho floor of the Clumber of Deputies.

The reception of the Msderna on the Ithode Island after their Wfnse on ball Is severely commented Pen in official circles here. Critics that there is no objection to John Una giving refuge to persons whom thought in need of it when they ere not under the Jurisdiction of the Wurts. hut that It was unwarranta-w to use American warships as a feioge for Mexicans who were Jump-lC their ball. While the official pa- do not criticise this action openly. wf are surreptitiously creating ad-we opinion toward the United States on thin ground.

"i that a column Federals left Chihuahua City towruy Juare to rPture the Vuch comment Is caused by the per- reports that the rebels have rn nurnc considerable arm and ammunition across trenth Impression Is graining- fcui i In no mong officials. Washing diplomatic Corps. that Uc! this prac-Uken th mures ostensibly The Jhe neutrality law. od siyt their shoulders course, It cannot proved. a copy of this document for some time, but has been unable to establish Its authenticity.

The copy which la generally exhibited here, but secretly, comes from partisans of Gen. Felix Diaz, and In consequently regarded as not absolutely reliable. The American Embassy here has a copy, but It Is understood that Nelson O'fihaughneawy. the Charge, has Informed the State Department that he Is unable to guarantee that It Is authentic. A prominent politician here said that, while the alleged instructions tally Jn many respects with tlTe manner In which the elections were held.

It was highly Improbable that any such Instructions should have been put Into since It is known that Victor Manuel Corral made a tour of the States, giving- Instructions to the Governors similar to those contained in the alleged document. It tha(, two.tnlrd8 but one more than half of the polling places should remain eloped, and added that the voters were to be allowed to vote as they pleased, blank ballots being used to Insure that most of the votes were cast for Huerta and Blanquet- CARRANZA GIVES A BALL. Entertains Townspeople of Magdalen Disowns Lee Christmas. MAG DA LENA, Sonora. Nov.

22. With a hard campaign along the west coast awaiting him. Gen. Vemistlano Carrania, the Mexican Constitutionalist chief, to-day prolonged his stay in this town, the centre of an agricultural district, unconcerned with either military or diplomatic affairs. To-night he gave a hall for the townspeople and officers of his staff.

The train from liermosillo to-day brought the Sonora State Hand and a party of officers from the State Capital to participate in the hall and In other social affairs which will take place here tomorrow. Although Gen. Carranza announced before leaving Nogales that he would repay a social debt here, it was paid by members of his party that possibly his prolonged tay was due to other rea-oti. Me has been In close touch by telegraph with the situation both in the Interior of Mexico and In the United States From the south It was reported that I Gen. OJeda's Federals had again attempted a sortie from Guaymas.

Two Federal columns wnicn usaauitea the I rebel ronts at Maytorena and Cruz de I'ledra, north and south or the Gulf port, have ben driven back. It is said. Absolute aeniHi whh maae xo-aay at the temjKrary Conntltutionalist head- that the reported activity of Christmas, the American soldier of fortune. In recruiting Americans in Chl-cnro had any connection with the Con- stitutlonalist movement In Mexico. It was reiterated tnai neuner uar-tanza nor his advisers would permit any loielgners to Join the insurgent troops.

1 an attitude which has thus far charac terised the leaders or me present revolution. The arrival to-day of lirnaclo Fionlllas. Secretary of the Interior In Carranza's Provisional Government, completed, with one exception. the Constitutionalist i Cabinet present here. Francisco Eiscu- dero.

who. as Secretary of latlons. was Carranza's jnl tne rer.nt- nPKOtlatic Foreign rte-representatlve ions with the but the fact remains that the rebels hnve American arms and ammunition, and plenty of tnem." OUR BORDER FORCE INCREASED Addition of Regiment Raises the Total to 20,000 Men. pedal to The New Tor Time. WASHINGTON, Nov.

22. The War t-. tn aa n- other regiment to the force Patroling ciY i the Mexican frontier. Either the Six- teenth Infantry, now in California, or in i wtwv. 1 the Twentieth Infantry.

In Utah .11 I be sent to El Paso The regiment already at El Paso will be scattered along tne numtwr verv close to jn.tnn.. The total fixhtinc strength of the Un.ted States Army in the Cr.ited is, I 1 fMin Id nn-tul artillerv. Xtnro than wn-th r(19 OI tlie I monile army stationea in me uniwi States Is now on duty along the Mexican boundary. While no explanation is given, it is suggested that this increase In watchfulness mav be Intended In part to teach the Constitutionalists their error in listening with so little respect to the overtures made to them by the State Department through Dr. William Bayard Male.

To serve as a garrison and defend the citv of Kl Paso from any possible attack from the south of the line or to police the citv In case of rioting it was said that the Infantry organization would be as serviceable as the mounted soldiers. On the other hand, not being as mobile, the Infantry could scarcely fill the place of cavalry on the botdei patrol. That the services of the additional troops might be needed for keep'ng order along the border was asserted by members of the Texas Congressional delegation, and Secretary Garrison yielded to their appeals when he learned through press dispatches that the Federal leaders were again approaching Juarez, opposite Kl Paso, and that the rebel General. Villa, who only recently had captured that town, had gone forth to meet the Federals in battle. Reports of threatened disorders near Laredo, far to the east of Kl Paso, also reached the War Department, but Gen.

Bliss, who transmitted them, at the same time Informed the Washington officials that he had dispatched another squadron of the Third Cavalry from Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio, to reinforce the squadron already there Meanwhile, unofficial advices here indicate that the rebels are preparing to present more directly the suggestion they made to Dr. Hale, that they be recognized by the United States as de facto rulers or Northern Mexico, rrom Tuxpam. on the east coast, to Quaynias. on the west.

It has been reported that Dr Hale's Inability to promise such recognition was one-of the reasons for the sudden termination of the conversations at Nogales. Hope that Gen. Huerta might indlrect-'v comi'ly with some of the American demands that he had publicly ridiculed came to the Administration to-day In unofficial dispatches from Mexico City They told how Col. Corral, presiding in the absence of Speaker Tamariz. declared a quorum lacking in the Chamber of Deputies, though the roll disclosed the presence of far more than a majority.

TTnder the Mexican Constitution. It is understood, the absence of a quorum on three successive days automatically dissolves Congress and makes a new election necessary. Mr. demanded the dissolution of the Congress, and his demand was Ignored There Is new a faint hope that dissolution will come about in another way before he objectionable concessions granted by Gen. Huerta are ratified.

The course of Col. Corral, however, who la understood to be a m'l'tary supporter of the Huerta regime, might mean only that" tho Provisional' President felt that his position had been regularized by his soeech to Congress, and that he was perfectly willing for Its dlssolut'on or adjournment to ensue. In a recess of Congress. Mexican emergency legislation is In the bands of an Executive Committee, and this committee would be a more convenient 'nstru-ment In the hands of the President than an unwieldy Congress of two houses. Deale Prteat to Cardes.

Reports from Mexico, published In certain quarters this morning, say Ins that Becretary Bryan had aharply protested HUERTA GAYE ORDER TO FIRE ON EL PASO Instructed Juarez Commander to Turn Guns on That City if Rebels Attacked Him. MILLS BUILDING A TARGET Dr. Thatcher Saya He Sought Thua to Force Intervention and Unite Mexico Behind Him. Dr. Frank Thatcher, formerly city chemist and bacteriologist of El Paso, Texas, and an officer in the Mexican revolutionary army under Francisco Madero.

arrived yesterday at the Imperial direct from the Mexican border. Dr. Thatcher says he saw as much of the taking of Juarez a week ago yesterday morning as anybody In El Paso, and the accounts of eye-witnesses he read on the way up put him in such a state of indignation that by the time he got here he thought people ought to know what there really was in the stories of wholesale executions there. People down our way, the thoughtful ones," Dr. Thatcher said yesterday, believe that intervention by this Government would have the effect of uniting all factions in Mexico against us.

There is good evidence In El Paso that Huerta had given instructions to his commander at Juarez that if he found himself attacked by the Insurrectos he should take a few shots at the Mills building in El Paso, on the supposition that this would bring about intervention. One thing is certain. If the United States ever intervenes In Mexico it will have to fight every man. woman, and child in the country. It would require three years to subdue and pacify the country, and we could count upon a loss of 100,000 men.

and I don't know how many million dollars." Dr. Thatcher was particularly incensed when he saw displayed on Broadway a photograph purporting to picture some of those executions. He said it was absolutely impossible for anybody to see from El Paso what was going on In Juarez, because not only were Gen. Villa's operations screened from residents of El Paso by a mile and a half of brick, stone, and adobe buildings, but that the place where the revolutionists' train stopped was fully two and a half miles from El Paso. For another thing, the battle began at 11:10 A.

and the main fighting was over by 5 o'clock. Dr. Thatcher himself was up during thai time trying to see what was going on. but though he found as good a post of observation as was to be had north of the river, he couldn't see anything but the flashes of the guns. But I was one of the few that managed to get across after the first fight, and was there when the second took place," said Dr.

Thatcher yesterday. "It was about 7:30 o'clock when I crossed the bridge. Villa was then about to move against the 120 Federal volunteers who had taken a position back of the concrete grand stand at the race track. I thought he might shell the place, and this would have ruined a lot of American propery. have killed a lot of the T4O0 horses stabled there, and un against sending a British cruiser squad- 1 ron to Vera Cruz, called forth an indig- 1 nant official denial from Mr.

Bryan this afternoon. Mr. Bryan has never en- courageu questions as 10 ine iruin 01 reports rrom Mexico ana elsewhere bearing upon the present tuatlon. and has frequently stated with manifestations of anger that he was not called howr1" against the publication of reports with out verification. Mis statement reads: Tlia nl.Kli.h.J .1.1.

v. "1 "t7.V..i Department has protested against the fiction of Great Britain in sending wo war vesaels Mexican waters i ls absolutely false; and, in denvlng i Ai jj i Rfntement. I desire, to nrtrf enn. demnatlon of the publication of state ments of that kind without taking time to inquire into their truth or falsity. A denial cannot reach all who may read the statement, nor can It prevent and editorial comments predicated on false statements.

Surely In International affairs there ought to be a desire to promote friendly relations, and these cannot be promoted by reckless publications of false statements in re- r. official intentions here. There were plain intimations to-day that persons high In the Administration felt that efforts were being made in Interested quarters to force an issue in Mexico or to bring pressure upon the Ad- I ministration for a more aggresive policy. Similar intimations have been made from time to time. The situation at Tampico and Tuxpam.

where large American and British interests were Imperilled by the rebels, hfas greatly Improved as a result of Gen. Aguilar's promise yesterday to act with international propriety toward the large oil holdings in the vicinity. As a result of this promise, the battleship New Hampshire to-day left Tuxpam and returned to Vera Cruz. The fact that on of the British cruisers is now at Tampico, a few miles up the coast from Tuxpam. indicates that there is enough co-operation between the war vessels of the United States and Great Britain to make unnecessary their simultaneous presence at a threatened point.

Constitutionalists in Washington are not inclined to take at their face value the remarks of Lord Cowdray that the American Waters-Pierce Oil Company was responsible for the Maaero revoiu- tlon. and that concessions to ixira cow- dray under the Administration of Gen. Porfiro Diaz had been approved by President Madero. In this connection thev issued to-day a letter from the late President Madero to one of his Investigators, in which he said that he had merely promised Ird Cowdray to support concessions shown to be lawful. The outcome of his investigation Into I-ord Cowdray's title to his concessions Is not disclosed.

The letter says: Mexico. Oct. 13, 1911. Mr. Jose Vaaconceloa.

Present: My Ksteemed Friend: Replying to your letter relative to the petroleum Interests of our country, I have to atate that my recent rteclarrt'ionrt to Ijnrd f'owrtrav concerning tne attitude which my Government would assume toward the oil concensiona granted to him un.ler the administration of Gen. Dla were limited to an assurance that. If said roni esalons had been granted In conformity with the law, and If the concessions Ire complied with all the conditions thereof, the Government would respect them. I made no declaration In respect lo what would be my attitude in case the said con- E. M.

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Comparison of Values Invited. FIFTH AVENUE AT 38th STREET doubtedly would hare been pretty serious for the Americana who were looking after them. 1 sent a friend to interview Villa, and the latter said that the only way to get the out was to shell the grandstand. When it was pointed out what might be the other results, he decided to enrilade both sides of the track with machine guns. In the fight that ensued.

Villa lost fourteen men. Had he shelled the place, as he originally intended, he would have got off without the loss of a man. As for the executions that took place, there were only four men shot. One, Padilla. a Colonel of volunteers, was executed as a traitor.

He had been a Captain in the Madero revolution, and when Orozco turned upon Madero he joined with Villa and then deserted to the Federals. Another, a Lieutenant of artillery, had been captured by Villa In the fight at Parral. He turned insur-recto, and then went back to the Federals. I know positively that only two other men were executed by VIMa. Anyhow, the Federals started by killing everybody.

I have witnessed Federal executions, and they don't carry them out with a squad of men. They simply stand the condemned up In a row, one behind another, and one man stands near the foremost and shoots through the lot with a Mauser rifle. The one American killed in Juarez during the fight was the driver of a public automobile. He was waiting for a load of late fares. The rebels cam up one end of the street where his car was standing, and the Federals approached from the other end.

Both forces had machine guns, and Sesrgerson was caught between the two fires. I don't think he was seen bv either side There was no electric liirht on at the time. Villa sent nin to th widow and gave his guarantee hat when the Constitutionalists got in she would get damages." DEPUTIES NAME COMMITTEES. Organization of Mexican House Completed Rebels in Oil Fields. MEXICO CITY.

Nov. 22. The Chamber of Deput'es completed the details of organization to-day, appointing House committees. In the lobbies and at the National Palace the idea prevailed that President Huerta was fixed in his determination to permit the new Congress to continue and was planning to carry out the programme of the Government for the pacification of the country. The officers of the little garrison of Ixtapalapa, a suburb of the Federal capital, were arrested to-day and are to be tried by court-martial for alleged complicity in a plot to start a military uprising.

Government officials say that a search of the houses in the suburb brought forth evidence connecting some prominent Mexican army officers with the conspiracy. Rebels now control a district in which are located some of the camps of the Pearson syndicate in the Tuxpan district of the State of Vera Cruz, including the island of I'otreros. of which Thomas Coleman, nn American, is alleged to have been dispossessed, and rtgarding which Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the American Charge d'Affaires, Is treating with the Mexican Foreign Office. The rebels are not interfering with the work in the oil camps, but are contenting themselves with collecting tribute from the camps. VERA CRUZ, Nov.

22. Consul Clarence A. Miller of Tampico reports in a wireless dispatch from the United States battleship Nebraska that be has sent a special messenger to Gen. Candido Agu-ilar, the rebel commander, with a letter from Capt. Spencer S.

Wood, the commander of the Nebraska, giving a warning against the destruction of foreign property. He also advised the oil companies to remain neutral and not pay war taxes. Five hundred Mexican troops left this city by train last for Orizaba, seventy miles southwest of Vera Cruz, where the insurgents are reported to be becomine active. The Mexican gunboats Zaragoza and Vert Cruz and the transport Progreso left this port during the night witn troops and supplies for Tuxpam and Tamnico. There are now no Mexican war vessels here.

cessions she tion of the cessions should have been granted in vlola provisions of the tonstltutlon as Is your opinion. I only added that I kouI'1 opiuse the formation in Mexico of all kinclH or monopolies or comDinationa tending- to limit competition In trade. Your artectlonate friend. 1 FRANCISCO I. MADERO President Wilson has received a pro test from Minority Leader Mann of the oe gainst lifting the embargo on 1 arms in favor of the rebels.

The protes was based upon a letter Mr. Mann re I ceived from a friend, described as hav ing a wiae Knowieaire or Mexican ar fairs. This fr end said that the free hi 'if'" VI V'Va I' new weapon arms would mean only that bad man in Mexico would and that he would put his "eW weapon lO tne Worst pOSSlDie U3C BLAMES US FOR MEXICO. Prince Poniatowski Says Our Policy Has Been Destructive, Prince Andre Poniatowski, who ar rived yesterday on the steamship France from Paris, said that the opinion abroad on the attitude of the L'nited Slates toward Mexico was that Presi dent llson must hold some cards jp nis sleeve or be holding back some in side information. If this is not the said the French financier, then, as surface conditions go.

his attitude is unsatls factory. People think that if he hasn' anything to go upon President Wilson is putting the United States In a bad light abroad as well as in South America. The opinion in Europe is that since he has gone so far in the Mexican matter the President ought to be givel a tree nana to see what he can do. The United States." Prince Ponla towsky went on to say, has a mis taken idea of dollar diplomacy In think ing tt consists or protecting the big tn terests and not the individual. In most cases the reverse is true in Europe, and monev is a secondary consideration.

Wittingly or unwittingly, the United States has given streneth to the rebellion ir. Mexico. The United States should maintain its self-respect. AH the Preside it has done up to the present has ber. to plant the American flag down under the noses or the Mexicans and tell them that there is no fear of a pro 'ectorate.

and all he has done for Ameri cans In that country is to tell them to run away. Americans in Mexico now rina it nara to get employment, as an American staff means trouble because of the stand of the United States Gov- eminent. I have Interests in South America, and cannot emplov American engineers because the natives dislike them There has been no mention of a suc cessor to Huerta In all the dictatorial mandates sent out from Washington. Al that has been done has tended to puil oown and destroy Mexican institutions. and this has been the attitude of Presi dents of the United States for the last ten vears Three months ago Huerta.

or any other man wno was strong enough should have been left alone in the sad die to establish a policy of peace, and pressure should have been brought to bear to show what the United States wanted done In Mexico, instead or letting everything be torn down and destroyed. The policy of the United States Is destructive. Roosevelt had luck, but Taft did not have any. Perhaps Wilson may have luck. If so.

It may pull him out of the hole he has got into over the Mexican situation. READS PENROSE OUT OF THE SENATE RACE J. D. 0'Neil, Former Adherent. Says It Will Be Futile to Seek Renomination.

CURTIS BOOMED FOR PLACE Philadelphia Publisher Picked as the Most Likely Candidate Can Have Organization Indorsement. Bperial to The Kew Tork Timet. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 22. "Determined and outspoken opposition to his candidacy within the ranks of the Republican Party In the Ptate has at last forced United States Senator Boles Penrose to realise the futility of his seeking a renomination at the 1914 pri mary," eaid County Commissioner J.

Denny to-night. Mr. O'Neil, formerly a strong Oliver-Penrose adherent and a political power In Western Pennsylvania politics, had Just returned from Philadelphia, where he spent several days in conference with the leading Republican and Progressive Party politicians, when he made the foregoing statement this evening. The choice has narrowed down to one of three prominent Eastern men," said Mr. O'Neil, and the most likely candidate appears to be Cyrus K.

Curtis, publisher of The Saturday Evening Post and The Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Curtis will undoubtedly have the backing of the best clement in the Republican Party, and if he stands for the nomination be will poll a large vote. The other most likely candidates are former Gov. Edwin S.

Stuart and Senator William Sproul of Delaware County. There is no doubt that Mr. Curtis can have the indorsement of the State Republican machine if he wants it. and, as it now stands, he is the most likely man to head the Republican ticket for United States Senator at the primary next year. If Senator Penrose attempts to come back he will be buried under a deluge.

PUPILS REFUSE TO SING. Objection to Hymns Follows Strike Against Vaccination. The school authorities who preside over the destinies of Public School 72. at Schenck Avenue and New Lots Road, East New York, are puzzled as to Just what they ought to do about a combative spirit showing itself among the pupils. It has shown itself in many ways of late, particularly in the matter of vaccination and in the matter of morning devotional exercises.

Recently a whole block of the children held out against the administering of vaccine, and a majority of the school is silently on record against the singing of such music as The Battle Hymn of the Republic and St. George's Chapel." The objection to these nonius was made known by a silence overhanging the morning assemblies. It was understood at once that these children, fully U5 per cent, of them from Jewish homes, were objecting on matters of faith, and Principal Murphy favored leaving the debatable hymns from the programmes. But interviews with the children has brought to light the fact that in many cases objection was not to the religion of the hymns, but to their lack of scientific basis. There is a sturdy movement of adolescent agnosticism in the ranks of the children at Public School 72.

Many of the children, however, devout in the Jewish faith, object to the hymns from a religious viewpoint, and they, too, have helped maintain the silence. District Supt. Lyon and Principal Murphy are both strongly minded to let the children have their way in these things and very strongly disinclined to set any example of intolerance. PISTOL BARKS IN CHASE. Detective Takes One Suspect from Under Couch in Apartment.

In pursuit of one of four men whom the police found loitering suspiciously at 11 o'clock last night in front of a building In West Twenty-sixth Street, Oetective Dennison ran down Seventh Avenue as far as Twenty-first Street, punctuating his chase by frequent shots Irom his revolver. He wheeled into Twenty-first Street in time to see tils man vanish into the entrance of the Huntington apartments at 234. There was uproar in the lobby of the building when the flourishing revolver of the detectives appeared in the door- i way and demanded loudly the where- about of the man who had Just come in. The stranger had taken the ele- vator to the third floor. The elevator returned and Dennison went up in it.

At the third floor Mrs. Margaret Murphy was shrieking that a burglar had come in to her rooms. There was a search and under the couch Dennison found a breathless stranger whom he arrested. In the West Seventeenth Street Sta- tion. the prisoner said he was Martin Pfelfer of 410 Ninth Avenue.

He was locked up as a suspicious person, to- gether with two other prisoners, arrest- ed by other detectives. The police had been warned that somethinsr was to be nulled off in i a loft at 135 West Twenty-sixth Street I and were watching from the shadow or a doorway when four men came to the; doorwav At the approach of a policeman rrom the corner thev took to fliffht. and in the chase three were captured, while one made good his escape. The two, besides Pfelfer, were charged: as suspicious persons, and are accused of having burglars' tools in their pos session. They said they were Joiin Rourdett of 31 West Forty-fourth Street, and Edward Spahr of 451 West I' trty-eigntn street.

me oiaest was only 24 years of age. To Attend Conference on Rumanian I Jews. Samuel Friedman of 434 Broadway, who has been identified with many civic I movements, accepted yesterday his elec tion as a delegate to the International Congress on the Rumanian Jewish situation to be held in Berlin from Jan. 'Zi to 31. Mr.

Friedman was amonj the delegates selected at the Cooper Union meeting of protest which fol lowed the action of Rumania in refusing to fulfill the promise of citizenship made to SO.irno Jews who had been en listed in the Balkan war. OPENING CRAFTSMAN Gustav Stickley Announces the Opening of the New CRAFTS3IAN BUILDING East 3Sth and 39th Streets (Just off Fifth ATenue.) with a Foil Display of FURNITURE! FURNISHINGS! DRAPERIES! A Large Variety of Unusual Holiday Gifts CRAFTSMAN RESTAURANT a east ssth bt. For Luncheon and Tea kast nth st. MEMORIAL TO FREMONT. Win.

Rockefeller Erects a Fountain Near Pathfinder's Old' Home. perat to The Sew Tork Timet. TARRYTOWN. N. Nov.

22. Will iam Rockefeller has Just completed a rountaln in North Broadway In memory of Major Gen. John C. Fremont, and has turned It over to the village authorities. It Is altuated a few hundred feet south of the old Fremont home, and at a spring where the Pathfinder often stopped to quench his thirst.

Mr. Rockefeller conceived the Idea of preserving the spring, and at the same time honoring a former distinguished resident. He obtained permission from the village to tear down the old trough and in Its place he haa erected a fine fountain from native stone. It is built on a semi -circle on the cast side of the road, with a stone pillar at each end. In the centre la the trough cut out of a massive rock, and above it Is a bronse tablet Inscribed: Cold Spring.

Erected In memory of Gen. John C. Fremont, the Pathfinder, a former resident. A. D.

1013." Gen. Fremont lived here Just sfter the wur. air. Kocaereuer esxaie aa- Joins his old home. This is the second memorial Mr.

Rockefeller has erected recently. Last vear he rebuilt the Head less Horseman bridge in honor of Washington Irving. MAY TELL ABOUT COCAINE. Bourden, Now Under Arrest, Expected to Implicate Others. A confession implicating some of the biggest cocaine dealers in New Tork Is expected by Assistant District Attorney Wilmot from William Bourden, 33 years old, of 105 East 114th Street, who was arrested on Friday night by Detective Edwin Leigh of the District Attorney's office, on a charge of having cocaine in his possession.

Bourden was held in bail yesterday by Magistrate Breen in the Tombs Court. Bourden wns arrested through District Attorney Whitman's crusade against cocaine distributors. For some time past Mr. Wilmot. who has been in charge of the investigation, has been questioning prisoners in the Tombs and a number of them named Bourden as the man who furnished them with the drug.

On Friday Samuel Dcane, a process server in the District Attorney's office, went to Bourden's place and bought a small box of cocaine. The detectives then raided the place and arrested Bourden. If his confession Is obtained a number of Important arrests will follow, according to Mr. Wilmot. RESCUE IN THE SUBWAY.

One Man Leaps to the Tracks, Another Flags Incoming Train. When John Llnehan of 377 Brook Avenue, The Bronx, fell to the uptown express tracks from the platform of the Brooklyn Bridge subway at 11 o'clock last night, two witnesses of his tall acted so quickly that his life was saved. Gus Whiting of 143 Wadsworth Avenue raced to the end of the platform to flag the Incoming train, while Gerald Galway of 252 West Twelfth Street Jumped to the track bed and drew Mr. Linehan from the dangerous proximity ff the third rail. The motorman of the approaching train, who had sighted the warning from the platform, was able to bring his wheels to a stop within a few feet of the man on the tracks and his rescuer.

Mr. Llnehan, who Is 60 years old, was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital suffering from bruises on the face. NEWYORKERDIES IN STREET John E. Qulntance Found Unconscious by Boston Police. BOSTON.

Nov. 22. John E. Qulntance. said to be a retired merchant of New York, was found unconscious on pinckney Street to-night by the police, who sent him to the Relief Hospital, where he died a few minutes later.

During the last month Mr. Qulntace had been visiting his son. Gray Qulntace, who resided at Reservoir Court. Brookline. and so far as could be learned had enjoyed excellent health while here, although it was known that he had been bothered much of late years with a heart ailment.

Mr. Qulntace'8 name Is not In the city directory. DIRECTORS DEMAND PASSES Railroad Officials Ask Federal Supreme Court to Restore Privileges. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.

Seven railroad officials of New Hampshire asked the Supreme Court to-day to restore their annual passes. The officials are Henry A. Cutter. Gilnian C. Shattuck, Ben F.

Burns, Lester F. Thurber of Nashua, and Thomas B. Katon of Worcester, all Directors of the Peterborough Railroad Company, and Charles E. Congdon and Arthur G. Shattuck of Nashua.

Secretary and TrfBHiirpr. v1v at th mart They say that In leasing their road to the Boston Lowell, which assigned the lease to the Boston Maine, they became entitled, according to the terms cj the lease, to free annual passes over the roads operated by the Boston Maine. On Jan. 1. 1913, the Boston Maine refused to give them passes for interstate journeys, but offered them passes good within New Hampshire only.

lower court sustained the railroad. I A Dfl VPftTT fill rr vHluHUU DUIUUI I UN LUUO. clA rink I iia ci.k Clean Food Club Leads the Fight Asalnst Hlah Prices. CHICAGO, Nov. 22.

In an effort to rejUCe the price of eggs, members riMn t. day began a two weeks' boycott of The crusade aealnst egg oeaiers. the high price of eggs was ordered yesterday by a vote or the club. Representatives of the club have been appointed to attend meetings of whist clubs, afternoon teas, suf fragette clubs and bridge parties to enlist the aid of housewives. Last year when the prices of eggs soared we held an egg sale." said Mrs.

Caroline A. Bley. President of the club. "This year we cannot do it because the wholesaler is at fault, and not the retailer." Deg Wne Walking with Wife. While walking with his wife In Amsterdam Avenue last night.

Walter W. Crawford, 57 years old. a lithographer, of 107 West Eighty-eighth Street, complained of feeling ill and as he neared Ninety-second btreet sank to the pavement. Dr. De Passe of the Polyclinic Hospital was called and said the man was dead.

OF THE BUILDING I THREE FEDERAL JOBS FOR WILSON TO FILL Two Already Exist in the Interstate Commerce Commission, One to Corra. MAY RETAIN CLEMENTS Gov. Glenn of North Carolina a Candidate Two New Yorkers Also In the Field. Special to The Sew Tork Time. WASHINGTON.

Nov. 22. The death or John H. Marble gives President Wilson three vacancies to fill on the Interstate Commerce Commission. The term of Judson C.

Clements is about to expire, while Commissioner Charles A. Prouty's resignation, so that he may devote himself exclusively to the commission's work on the physical valuation of railroads, will be accepted aa soon as the President can fill his place-Mr. Marble was from California. It is certain that the West will expect to supply Mr. Marble's- successor, though so far no candidates for hia place are known In Washington.

Mr. Clements has strong support for reappointment, and such an outcome would not be surprising. But the friends of Senator Overman of Vnrth Carolina are working diligently to ob tain tne place tor Hot. K. B.

Glenn of that State. Unless the Governor is ap pointed they fear he may run against Mr. Overman for the Senate In next summer campaign. D. O.

Ives of Hoston has been men tioned as a candidate for the vacancy usually filled by a New Knglander. Two New Yorkera have been mentioned prominently for one of the com-mlssionershlps Mlla Maltbie and Martin Decker both of the New York Public Service Commission. Patrick Farrell. solicitor for the commission, has also been suggested. Unrestricted At the American Art Galleries Madison Square South, New York Under the Management of the American Art Association Tomorrow Tues.

Wednesday Afternoons at 2:30 CONCLUDING SESSIONS OF The Cottier Collection Stained and Leaded Glass in Great Variety, 'Very Fine Antique Flemish Tapestries, Beautiful Laces, and Distinctive Fabrics. In quantities to suit private buyers snd the upholstery trade. ON FREE VIEW BEGINNING SATURDAY. NOV. 29 AND CONTINUING UNTIL DATE OF SALE Fine Old English Furniture and other Antique Productions Old English China, Wedgwood, Lustre, Sheffield Plate, Silver, Pewter, Brass, Glass, Oil Paintings, Old Engravings.

Important Flemish Tapestry and other Choice and Interesting Objects forming The Extensive and Valuable Stock of the English firm of Cooper and Griffith Recently of No. 4 Eut Forty-fourth Street. New Tork TO BE SOLD at Unrestricted Public Sale on account of the dissolution of partnership On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Afternoons, December 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th at 2:30 o'clock. Catalog ae nailed on receipt of rents. ON FREE VIEW BEGINNING THANKSGIVING DAY AND CONTINUING UNTIL DATES OF SALE The Valuable Library of W.

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Complete Set of Ihe Tract of Bsr-tolome de 1st Seville. 1552-1553; Champlain' Voyage. 1620; Sander Hitlory of the Lid an Wars. 1812. and many other Rare and Important Item of AMERICANA; First Edition, of Hewlett.

Moore. Swinburne, Gardiner snd other esteemed Author; Dibdin Bibliographical Decameron and Bibliographical Tour, limited editions, snd other of interest snd importance. TO BE SOLD ON MONDAY, Dec 1st, st 2:30 ess 8:15 P. 1L AL80 A Geaeral Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS The property ef MISS HELEN M. FERRIE, including-Fine United Stales, from the First up to the 1898 Isiue.

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THOMAS slated "by Mr. OTTO BERNET of THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, filaaacers Ksef tU Street. Madia Sure Best. New York FINGER-PRINT TEST UPHELDTu Prisoner Admits He Had Missing Digit Cut Off. i.

When four men charged with burglary were, taken to Police Headquarters ye-' terday morning, the police felt sure they- had captured four professionals, and their confidence was supported by the finger-print records, save in the case Joeeph Snlple of 145 Madison Street. The prints of the thumb and four finger-5- of the left hand were the same as thoee of a man who had served a terra for i burglary In Elmira. but this previous of. fender had an extra finger and the man arrested yesterday had not. Still iur- of the Infallibility of their system, the police examined that left hand closely, with the result that they came upon a small scar, and finally extracted their prisoner the confession that he had had his tell-tale finger cut off since his KImira days.

The four arrests were made' at three different times at the entrance to the: cellar of the house at 170 Kast 8treet. where, the police had been they would find a cache of stolen goods. -Detectives watched the place, and when two men were seen unlocking the pad-. lock on the door they were arrested. Returned from headquarters, the had not been watching long before Snlple appeared with a key to that padlock.

They had no sooner taken him in custody when the fourth man -well dressed and Innocent looking, cams up to the marked door. The other three prisoners said they were Nathan Goldman of tVIO Washington Avenue, Inldor Goldstein of Lewis Street, and Samuel Cohen of 15 Henry-- Street. The police say all three have been convicted of burglary, ajid that Goldman and Goldstein had done long terms in Sing Stng for the offense. It Is the police theory that the lalUx two represented one gang and Snlple and Cohen a rival gang, and that the scram- ble for possession of the hidden goods-- was war or these gangs. The goods In oust Ion were some fAuuo worth of- bristles for brushes.

CHRISTMAS Nt'MRER OF" THE TIMES. The remarkahla edition on Sunday, Dee. -T, will be Mold out far ahead of time. Order It In advance, or you will be unable to get Hargcnt'a Prophets." reproduced tn th original eolora. and The Girl of To-day Section, Hluatrated by the sew rotogravura proceaa.

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An Extensire Collection ef VALUABLE BOOKS Tie Preserty of GERHARDT COMPANY ef New York City. CoBusb'sf ef Fine Art and Illustrated Boob. Early English Literature. SeU of esteemed Authors. Americana, including a complete set of Valentine's Manuals.

A Fifteenth Century Manu script on Vellum and other rare volumes, many of which are in Handsome Bindings. And from the Borden sad other tm- portsat sales, together with a portion of The Library of a Member of The New York Bar (indexed in the fataloou rf' a separate Alphabet TO BE SOLD TUESDAY, Dec 2nd. st 2:38 aad 8:15 P. M. conducted by E.

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