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-1 "AII the News That's THE WEATHER. 7 Fair, warmer to-day, fair tomorrow; wind souihwest I ii iu nit. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY' 16, 1906. EIGHTEEN PAGES. ONE CENT la Greater Xrw Yerk'.

1 f3 bee, Jereay Ctty end Xewar.lTWO CCXTS. AERONAUTS WERE DASHED AGAINST THE PALISADES Stevens and Tlsdell Fell Into the Hudson with Balloon; BOTH WERE RESCUED UNHURT Many 3aw Accident Opposite Yonkera Aeronauts Kept Balloon Too Low to Take Pictures. Tracy Tlsdell and Leo Stevens, the aer-asauts, took a. moving- picture machine up into the clouds yesterday Intending to take pictures showing what things looked Ilka In a balloon trip from Manhattan to Ccney Island. Instead of drifting Coney-ard they were carried toward the liud-tcn, and.

coming down suddenly, had a narrow escape from death by being dashed against the Palisades opposite Tonkem. i Starting from the Central Union Gas Works, at 138th Street and the i East River. Just after 2 o'clock, they made safe prcgrena for a while. Then their Sajloon, apparently overweighted, darted down, from an altitude of 300 feet, and striking the Palls Jes at the west bank of the river, carromed off Into the Hudso and collapsed In three feet of water. ell and Stsvens were bruised and got a ducking, but escaped serious injury.

They were rescued by a boatman, the rescue being witnessed by Dr. Julian P. Thomas, Mr. Stevens, and others who had bees following their course In an automobile from the starting point to where the jcoL lapse came. The accident smashed the photographic spparatos.

end the pictures taken were ruined. The aeronauts also lost two -valuable aeronautic Instruments for recording the height of a balloon and Indicating- whether it was ascending or descend-ing. i I The picture machine, which was ruined while the aeronauts were struggling amid ths shoals at the foot of the Palisades, lis aid to be the only one of its kind in existence. It is peculiarly adapted to the purpose of taking pictures of scenes witnessed from a great height and representing them as moving. I'M After their accident the two aeronauts agreed that bad they cut their -anchor loose entirely they would have been able to land gently.

As it was. when they approached the earth they cast the anchor la the that It would loJge and arrest their flight. Instead of doing so, however, it bore them down with great suddenness. Started Where Nocquet Did. The scent was made from the same gas works from which Paul Nocquet started on the trip which ended in bts death in ttaswape--nea '-AHyvUla.

Gathered there for the start yesterdai afternoon were Mr. IJagen. the promoter of the plan to add realism to Coney Island's Illusions by the pictures which were to be taken; Tracy Tlsdell. who hail charge of the moving picture machine; several friends of Mr. Stevens, together with Mr.

Stevens and Dr. Julian P. Thomas of the Aero Club. i It was 3 o'clock when Mr. Stevens climbed Into the basket.

The moving picture man told tbe reporters that he bad 4,000 feet of film in his big camera anil that he intended to use every Inch of l. Another young man. who was assisting the press agent, described the) plans in the style of a Coney Island barker. "There Is 4,000 feet of explained this young man; "4,000 feet, and when the balloon rises 1.000 feet into the ar this 4,000 feet cf film will absorb 40 miles of landscape. Just think of t.

gentle, men, forty miles, turning out fifteen pictures to each foot of film every two minutes, working two hours and thirteen f.vuww lCfcUCi Jtup velous! Nothing like it ever undertaken before. Special camera built fpr the occasion, devised and padded jwith ajr so that even an accident wQl not hurt the mass of moving pictures snapped la the air 1,000 feet libove toe city-" I Then the sand was cast erf, aj few bas at a time, while the moving -picture man, getting nervous over the delay, i' urged that the start be made Immediately, When the aeronauts cut loose the balloon rose steadily, and then started off las northerly direction Followed In an Auto. Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Stevens and an agent of the moving-picture ma had an automobile at the starting point, and as the balloon ascended they followed it north.

Durlna almmt tlui fr iUVJ were able to keep the aeronauts in sight, and their eyes were upon them when they fell Into the river. The aeronaut rose to a height of 1.500 feet and got their picture machine working at once, Tlsdell giving his attention to the photographic part of the trip. Observing tfie balloon from the automobile, which in pursuit crossed jthe i Harlem River and then followed up the Yonkers Road. Dr. Thomas aaw that) the trip was being made with entire success.

The balloon was traveling slowly, and It was hot found necessary to speed the automobile Jn order to keep up with it- Just as Tonkers was reached the balloon eatered a cloud and waa lost to sight for a few moments. When it reappeared it was seen to be descending. The descent at first was alow, bat the lower it came the faster It fell. Dr. Thomas stopped his automobile and, watching the aeronauts, saw them hastily dropping ballast.

This, however, did not prove effective, and the balloon began to descend faster and faster. The life-pre servers were thrown over next, and then came the water bottle. Even this didn't check the balloon, and It fell i with in-j creased speed. The aeronauts were then aoout sou xeet from the earth and directly over tbe western shore of the Hudson. As Or.

Thomas and the others watched they saw the aeronauts release their, anchor, which swung to and fro at the end of its tether as the balloon continued to fall. Disaster was imminent. The party In the auto became pan lest rieken. "Cut the anchor rope; release jthe cried Dr. Thorn, Involuntarily.

annougn he was far away from the bal mi oa r. held Monista. Fell Like a 8tone. isueii ana Elevens nowever. beld on their anchor- and the balloon shot downward lika a atone.

When; It got witbin twenty-five feet of the earth It seemed to collapse entirely. From across the river. the horrified party la the auto i aaw the car hit tbe face of tbe Patlaadea and then; bound off and fall Into the Trtrer. Tlsdell and Stevens were atia In the basket and 'fell with it into thS wster. i The flight of the balloon over Tonkers had been observed and hundreds of per sons saw the aeronauts fall into the river, The gas which still remained in the bal loon kept tbe contrivance afloat, and the tide, which waa running In toward the shore.

Impelled It along at a lively pace. Stevens and Tlsdell hung to the basket end were dragged along for aoout a quarj ter of a mile. Half drowned and exhausted, they were rescued by Samuel Qulnn. a fisherman Of Alpine. N.

who had observed th4 distress of the balloon and. pulling out. In a launch, had followed its course along the river. i The- balloon end the smashed picture machine were bundled into boats and the two aeronauts were taken back to the eastern shore of the river. The halloo; was not much damaged.

It waa the anchor which drew down. aald Tlsdell. "We didn't appr elate It at the time, and I'll admit tha we felt a bit frightened when we starte, oewn at such a terrific cllp Perhaps 1 we had dropped tbe anchor we might hav arisen again or at least landed mo aentlv. "The great regret Is thai the movin pictures were destroyed. I was able take views of everything below us as went along, and from this point of vie the trip was highly successful up to th time we landed." Stevens attributed the trouble partly his having to remain so close to th earth, in order that the picture machine might work properly.

The result of get Una- the pictures over the river waa that the Palisades could not be cleared. The aeronauts made the return trip down the river In a motor boat. STILL WORRYING GERMANY. Pan-American Congress Anxiously Dis cussed by the Newspapers. Special Cable to Th New Tor Tims.

BERLIN. May 13. The German press Is still anxiously discussing the Pan-American- Congress. The Influential Magdeburger Zeltung says that the aim of the United States is to destroy tbe market for European goods In South America. It declares that it would be folly for the Latin- American countries to pay more for United States products than for those of Europe, and adds that these countries are dependent on Europe for a market for their own products.

STRIKE BROKEN AT BRIDGE. Non-Union Men Begin Work on the Blackwell'e laland 8pane. Work on the structure of the Black well's Island Bridge, which has been held up elnco last October, owing to the strike of the Housesmiths Union, was resumed yesterday by the Pennsylvania Steel Companyc with force of sixty non-union houseemttbs. About- twenty-five strike pickets were' at the 'bridge when work was begun, and the new men were guara-ed as th.eyjfPXkL 'Walter Drew, Commissioner of the National Association" of Erectors ef Structural Iron and Steel, with which the Pennsylvania Steel Company is affiliated, and which declared for the open shop about six months arc wai on hand when tht work began. He said last evening that about 100 men will be at work before the end of the week, and that the a Delation could get all the competent men It wants.

Mr. Drew added that all the wora or, the members of the association Is now on the open-shop plan. The local unions: of housesmiths had practically been abandoned throughout the country except in Chicago. Some of the new men at work were deserters from tbe locals in Cleveland and Pittsburg. I Under the rules of the National Association of Erectors of Structural Steel and the minimum pay of the housesmiths Is $4.50 for a day of eight hours.

The mem bers cannot pay less, oui 11107 mm 7 ij more to the better class of men. Double wages are also paid for overtime and for work done on Sundays and legal holidays. SAN FRANCISCO SKYSCRAPERS Proposed Ordinance Allows Unlimited Height on Wide Streets. Social Is The New York Time. SAN FRANCISCO.

May 13. At a meeting of the Council on Building Laws and the various subcommittees to-day it was definitely decided to recommend tha following ordinance: "On Streets 100 feet wide or over the height jof buildings fscing thereon shall be unlimited. "On streets 80 feet wide or over the height of buildings snail be limited to 200 feet. On streets leas than eighty feet wide the height of buildings may be one and one-half times the width of the street tpon which the buildings face. Red Cross officials have completed the first work in connection with registering all persons at present In the city who are applying or likely to apply for relief.

The task has occupied the time of more than 800 volunteer workers for twelve days. No exact tabulation has yet been made of the number of registration cards filled out, but an approximate estimate is 200,000. An Investigation in the burned district shows that only a few thousand men are now at work. Many thousands are endeavoring to obtain work, and contractors express their desire for more men. but they are handicapped by lack of funds.

Many owiteis are postponing their re-mnstructloik clana until thev receive their insurance money. It is therefore explained by tbe Red cross tna many able-bodied men must continue for the present to be provided for. INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS. Amusements. Page 9.

-i Business Troubles. Page 10. Court Calendars. Page 10. Financial News.

Pages U. 12. and IS. Marine Intelligence and Foreign Malls. Page 11.

New -Corporations. Page 12. Real Katate-Paga 14. Society. Page 9.

United Service. Page 6. Weather Report. Paga yesterday's JTlres. rage 2.

ADVEBTISEMCrrS. Aoctloa Salsa Pass 14. ruralahed Rooma aad Boardera Pas Help aad Situations Waated Pace 10. Hotels aad Kasteuranta Pas U. Lost aad Fouad.

Page 18. 1 TOr TO WASHTXGTOX. FX C-. May IT. via Pennsylvania Railroad.

niree-. day trip. 1 Rate, covering neceiaary espensea, llX.ee or tlt.l from Nw TwV. according to hotel I ealocted. Coaeult ticket aarata.

Adv. After ail, raker's the 8ctea that made ths highball famoaa. Adv. GREAT RUSH TO QUIT THE MUTUAL IN LONDON Hundreds Apply in Person, Thousands by REINSURED AT FULL VALUE Tha Duchess of Marlborough Turns In Her $250,000 Policy to the North British Company. special Cable to Thi New York Tutsa.

CopyrlSh. 1800.1 May 13. The offices of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company were again crowded to-day with policy holders of the Mutual IJfe Insurance Company of New Tork who were bent on availing themselves of the arrangement for reinsurance made for them by Mr. llaldeman. No one who visited the North British offices to-day could doubt that the Mutual policy holders were transferring policies to the English company in great numbers or that ultimately practically all the business built up by the Mutual in this country would ba taken away from It.

It la Impossible to say what percentage of the $45,000,000 the Mutual has at risk in Great Britain la covered by the appil cations for transfers already filed at the North British offices. About 5,000 letters were received in to-day's mall from Mu tual policy holders, which had not been opened when the offices closed for the night. The clerka were so busy with personal applications that tbey were unable to give any attention to those applying by letter. I called Mr. Ilaldeman's attention to a dispatch from New Tork which represented the Mutual officers In the home office as possessed of the Idea that the North British offer does not mean rein surance for the full face value of the policy.

They are mistaken," aald Mr. Halde- man. For Instance, I have Just ex changed one of my own Mutual policies for a North British policy. It Is for the same amount, on the same plan, and with tbe same premium, with a number of liberal provisions added which did not at tach to the Mutual policy. Mine is a typical case.

Others are faring precisely the same as myself. We are all gainers by the change, not losers. My circular to the policy holders, which you say you cabled to New Tork yesterday, seta forth the transfer anybody who reads that can see that there is no scaling down of the policies the North British has agreed to accept. "Out of the whole 13.000.000 there Is less than 3,000,000 Which does not come under the arrangement for reinsurance at Xhe aee-raluar Preeiselp- what offer wiu oe nuws 10 uie pouoy noiaers concerned in this relatively small amount has not been determined, further than that the offer shall be a liberal one." LONDON, May 18. Harrison new London manager of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Tork, has promised to make a full statement of the affairs of the company in a circular to morrow.

Several large policy holders of the Mutual not connected with the Protection Committee are endeavoring to form a committee to offset the effect of the ef forts of Mr. Haldeman and his associates. The officers of the Mutual say that one-third is the maximum of the poucy hold ers to whom the North British Company could offer sufficient inducements to make them desert the American company. I DUCHESS OUT OF THE MUTUAL. Her Ore ce of Marlborough Transfers $250,000 Policy.

LONDON, Wednesday, May 18. The Daily Mail states that the following persons have transferred their policies from the Mutual life Insurance Company of New Tork to the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company: The Duchess of Marlborough. 1230,000 Walker, 100.000; Lord Warncliffe. $50,000. and W.

W. Rutherford, M. for himself and others, 1300.000. A GREATER ASBURY PARK. 1 i Annexation Goes Through Does It Mean the End of Prohibition i Spial te TU Item York Times.

ASBURY PARK. N. May 15. Great er Asbury Park is now an assuer fact. This city and West Park, wbloh lies across the tracks of the New Tork i A Long Branch Railroad.

Voted by large majorities In favor of consolidation at a special election held here to-day. Asbury Park gave 1T2 for the merger. The estimated majority in West Park is 150. It will. It Is believed, put an end to Spring-wood Avenue, often referred to as the Tenderloin of Ocean Grove.

To-night, therefore, the good Methodists of tha twin city are celebrating the election as a triumph of righteousness. But conservative residents of Asbury Park believe that the election is a triumph of the liquor men. who almost killed prohibition at a snap special election last Summer. The hotel men have, significantly enough, backed the annexation project. 1 The Greater Asbury baa about 10.000 population.

I- HOOKER-WADSWORTH DEAL Assemblyman to 8ucceed Senator 8tsv ens Wsdsworth for Congress. Stal $9 Th Kew FsrftT ALB ANT, May 15. Assemblyman Hook er of Genesee is likely to succeed Senator Stevens in the Senate. The latest reports from th Counties of Genesee, Wyoming. and Livingston, which constitute tha sjew Forty-fourth -District, show that the Republicans of Livingston, under Congress man Wadsworth'a leadership, are solid for Hooker.

Genesee la, of course, for him. Stevens has only hie own County of Wyoming. Wadsworth advocates Hooker's election so! that In case Stevens seeks to defeat Wadsworth for the Republican Congressional nomination In the district compris-ina; Livingston, Oeneaee, Wyoming-. Orleans, Niagara Counties, Wadsworth will have Hooker's support. MADAMK X.WWCVJB mm-rm tbe mtANSKV WARS atMsila In my cooking schoel bought IS jnter age are suu la ase.

RUSSO-TURKISH WAR SCARE. Preparations by Both Countries on tho Frontier Reported. TIKLTS, May 15. There Is considerable excitement in Transcaucasia owing to the possibility of war with Turkey in the Summer. Turkey seems to be mobilising troops near the frontier.

She explains that they are simply engaged In manoeuvres, but the Viceroy of Transcaucasia appears to be preparing for poeaible eventualities. Gen. Ma la ma. the Chief of Staff, and other officers have made an extensive Inspection tour of the frontier, and the fortifications of Kara, the strongest fortress on the border, are being strengthened. Many prominent families of Tlflul.

dreading the outlook, are moving north. ST. PETERSBURG. May 15. No admission Is obtainable here that Russia Is engaging in warlike preparations In Transcaucasia.

It is possible that the military activity reported in the dispatch from Tlflls is demonstration dealgned to support Great Britain in her dispute with Turkey regarding the boundary of the Sinai Peninsula. ARMY AND NAVY DUMMIES. Shaw Says One Brsnch of Service Con- demns Men of Ideas. Special to The Kem York Timet. BALTIMORE.

May 1 5. Secretary Shaw talked In a 'rather discouraging strain in an address to-day to tbe graduates of the School of Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service here. He surprised his hearers by saying: In one branch of the Government ser viceI won't say which If a man has a good idea they ccurt-martial him. After he has suppressed ideas for two or three no more propose themselves and he becomes a figurehead. The army and navy have lots of men whose ideas have been suppressed, "There Is nothing that will take the native capacity out of a man as quickly employment In any branch of the army or navy.

If I wanted to make a fine preacher out of a young man, I would send him to Weat Point, for It Is the best school on earth. I want to sympathize with you young men on one point, and will congratulate jou also. Tou hava certainly succeeded in getting Into an easy place. There are not many opportunities in the Revenue Department for bright work, but you must be prepared to meet them when they ar rive." FAVOR SOME COAL CONCERNS. Discrimination on the Part of Rail roads Is Alleged.

PHILADELPHIA, May 15. Testimony tending to show favoritism on the part of railroad companies in tbe distribution of coal cars was to-day, when the Inter-State Commerce Commission resumed Its Investigation Into tha alleged railroad discrimination. George W. Clark, a car distributor employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona. that- he had received orders to make special assignments of cars to the Berwind-White Coal Company and that frequently these assignments were made previous to the regular percentage distribution.

Mr. Clark admitted that special allotments had at times to a certain extent Interfered with an equitable distribution of cars. Arthur Hale, Superintendent of Transportation of the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad, waa en the stand during; tbe greater part of the day. Through him it was Drought out that the Merchants' Coal Company and the Somerset Coal Company had frequently. received many cars in ex-cesa of their percentage allotment, while various smaller companies suffered a shortage.

THAYER QUITS EVERYBODY'S. Sells Out to Partners Doesnt Approve Starting New Publication. A disagreement among the managers of another of the Important monthly maga-slnes was made known yesterday through an announcement of. the retirement on June 1 of John Adams Thayer from Everybody's, Mr. Thayer has been Treasurer and General Manager of the Rldgway-Thayer Company everslnce he and his two partners, Erman J.

RIdgway and G. W. Wilder, purchased the' magaslne. His retirement, he said last night, is entirely for business reasons, and not because of any disagreement as to editorial policy. The announcement of Mr.

Thayer's retirement was maAe in this statement: John Adams Thayer, Treasurer and aeneral manager of the Ridgway-Thayer Company, publisher of Everybody's Mag aslne, retires on June 1 from active participation In the management of the company. It Is learned that while Mr. Thayer hss sold the larger part of his stock to bis original partners in the enterprise, he retains an interest which leaves him the third largest stockholder tn the company. Mr. Thayer's reasons for withdrawing are wholly of a business nature.

He is not In accord with his associates In their plan to start another publication jat this time, in which be would have less than a controlling Interest. Mr. Thayer's work has been chiefly directed to building up the advertising Income of Everybody's, as earlier that of Tbe Delineator and The Ladles Home Journal. The amount of money Involved in the la nnt stated, hut It km estl- ir.U.ai. wvri.

mated at over $250,000. The polic of the magaslne (will not be changed." The new. publication aiiuaeo to isyto oe weekly. Mr. Thayer said last night.

He could not tell any more about it, he said, because ha waa unfamiliar with jthe details of the plana As for hla ownj future purposes, he said, the first thing ahead of htm waa a long rest from the labor ef magazine making. re been building up tae advertising of tnagasines for the last fifteen years." be said. First Tha Ladies-; noma Journal, then The Delineator, then. Every body" a 1 have raised the advertising In come of Everybody's from $120,000 to over 1750.000, and I'm sufficiently tired of the work to fmd the Idea unattractive of starting In with this iew and. buildtng it up with only a one-third inter est to it," I i Thayer returned" to New Tork front an extended trip, through the West shout a month ago uuict nia return tnere have been rumors among tha periodical publishers that a change was coming iu (be-management of Everybody's.

Tha Dewsy Passes Perim. PERIM. Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. May 15. The dry.

dock Dewey, In tow of the United States colliers Caesar. Glacier, and Brutus, passed this point to-day. I 1 Grandma's youthful at at renewed by usisg Torte eyeglass. IS Maldea Tawsi ETiai Eewnwx Boataaa Eaataear SparkUsg Uthia Water Quenches Tliirrt. adv, CLOTHES GAVE WINNERS TO POOLROOM WATCHERS Sartorial Signal Corps Sup- at Belmont Park.

POSED ON GRAND STAND ROOF Plnkertons Arrest tha -White-Hatted, tha 8llk-Hatted, and the Gray Suited Signals, but Let Them Go. 1 Plnkerton detectives on duty at the Bel mont Park race track, and guarding against the' transmission of race track news to city poolrooms, worked out a sartorial puxxle yesterday that has been bothering them since the opening day of the races there. The solution of the mystery resulted In the arrest of three men, strikingly, arrayed, who posed on the highest part of tbe grand stand roof, as agenta of the poolrooms. The prisoners. Robert Pink erton said, were figures in an entirely new signal code, which his men had de tected after close watch for several days.

each man being a signal In himself. On the roof of the grand stand are a number of flagstaffs from which flutter various banners. These, as the Pinker- tons worked It out, were all numbered in a code book arranged by the poolroom agents outside the grounds. One of the human signals wore a gray suit. The other two were I In black, but one of them wore a white felt hat and the a black silk hat.

Through strong neia glasses the poolroom agents outside could see both the human algnala aad the nag-staffs on the grand stand roof. Suppose the time was Just after the starters for the Metropolitan Handicap had been hoisted. Then. If tbe silk-hatted man stood at flagstaff No. 1.

for ex ample. It meant that Dandelion was scratched. If the gray-suited man stood by flagstaff No. 4 It meant that Roseben would not start- But If It waa the white-hatted man under flagstaff No. 4 the poolroom men would know that Grapple waa out.

i A similar ode was In -vogue for the winners. The silk-hat ted man by Flagstaff No. 6, for example, would announce to tbe poolroom watchers that Grapple was the winner, and they would telephone the news to the poolrooms at once. This, at least, is how the Plnkertons figured it out. There were more than three members of the signal corps.

One cf them wore a white sweater, ar other merely carried his hat in his hand, another wore a red cap. But only three of the lot were captured. The prisoners were found to be ordinary regulars of the race track, who had accepted poolroom employment as furnishing admission to the track and a little easy money for the short time. that they' posed, and they were detained only until the races were over for the day. Efforts to signal by means of big sum bers written on tha backs of programmes were frustrated by, the police with ease, sod the Plnkertons said that they were convinced -that they bad the poolroom correspondents beaten badly at Belmont Park.

They look for renewed trouble when the scene of racing changes to Gravesend next Monday, as the smaller space covered by tha arounds of the Brooklyn Jockey Club track will make signaling 1 easy, while the proximity of several fairly tall buildings will give watchers on the outside a chance to see much for themselves. The Plnkerton men have kept a lookout at Gravesend, end are fully Informed as to the activity of the poolroom men at that point, where the agents and correspondents have rented quarters in all the accessible buildings, and Installed com plete systems for telephone; service. PIECE OF GLASS KILLS 1 Flew Up from the 8ldewalk and Cut His Jugular Vein. Seven-year-old Charles Mendal of 28 Norfolk Street was almost instantly killed near his home last night. He and several other boys of about his own age had got a siphon of seltser and a heavy glass tumbler.

After drinking the seltzer they put the siphon down on the stoop in front of 81 Norfolk Street. Then one of tbe boys suddenly dashed the heavy glass to the stone sidewalk. It broke into a dosen pieces, the heaviest' of them ricocheting in such a man ner that it struck the Mendal boy In the neck, cutting tbe jugular vein. The boy fell to the sidewalk, and soon died. Harry Welsberg of 143 East Broadway and Taador Knac-D of 34 Norfolk Street were arrested.

Young Welsberg. who threw the glass to me pavement, was held on the charge of homicide, and Knapp on the charge ef having stolen the seltser pottia. STOCKADES FOR OHIO MINERS. Armed Guards Also Hired to Protect Non-Union Laborers. SUM to The New York Time.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, May 15. Stock ades, probably the first In the history of Ohio mining, have built about the mines at which operations are to be resumed this week with non-union laborers. These mines are located In the vicinity of Steuben vine, aad are controlled by Cleveland members of the Aasectatioa of Ohio Operators of the Pittsburg coal vein. Armed men will be Quartered at tne stockade to protect the miners.

Theea guards are being recruited in Cleveland. Advertisements for "watchmen weighing 160 pounds or more" appear In various newspapers. Persons -responding- are asked to call at Boom 10, Kelly Building, 158 Superior Avenue. The first company of guards waa sent to Steuben vlUe to-day. "a JEROME HAS A DOUBLE And He Uses tha District Attorney's Name on Checks.

-i. Thmt District Attorney Jerome baa a -ma tn lia-ht veeterdav when Assistant District 'Attorney Murphy ap- nrad in the Tombs court ana got a war rant from Magistrate Wahle for the man's i i Mr. Murphy told Magistrate wahle that urr. Jerome's double has been going about the ctty lately cashing checks on Colonial Bank In Jerome's name. One check for S50 was cashed only a few days ago in Jack's restaurant.

Several of the TMstrict Attorneys detec tives are looking for the mas. Monte mrm ta a knrrr aad yet want Central offers sneaualed faculties. Adv. VESUVIUS'S FURY INCREASES. Mattsuccl Says: a Great Quantity of Sand Is Being Discharged.

NAPLES. May Prof. Matteucci. Director of the Royal Observatory, telegraphs to-day that th volcanic activity of Mount Vesuvius Is increasing, and that the main crater 1 la discharging a great quantity of The professor adds that ft is Impossible, on account of rain, to explore the Volcano. BICYCLE POLICEMAN FELLED.

8telnert Found Near Death In the Park Matea Think Auto Hit Him. Bicycle Policeman Charles Pj Stelnert was found at midnight last night lying unconscious and bleeding on the East Drive near Sixty-fourth 8treet. In Central Policeman Dooley reported that he was called to the spot by two cltiaena. who explained that they had accidentally stumbled across Stelnert. They had found hla bicycle, with the front forks smashed, lying near him.

His revolver lay ten feet away. An ambulance called and Stelnert was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital. -The surgeona said that they believed; be bad a compound fracture of tbe skull and would probably die. The Arsenal police said it was likely that Stelnert had been chasing one automobile and been' struck by a second going tbe other way JAMES J. HILL IN PERIL Section Man Discovers Wash-Out Just In Tlma to Flag His Special.

SpecLJ to Tko Hew York Time. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, May 13. There was a 'very heavy storm In Northwestern Minnesota last night. In Otter Tall County there waa a cloudburst at IO o'clock. At the Village of Aahby a section foreman got out of bed and began an inspection of hla track.

It waa aUU raining hard as he trudged along tha right of way toward a spot three miles from town, Where rain last year swept away a part of tha roadbed. Ha found that the tracks had bean washed into the ditch and the Winnipeg Flier was due in five minutes. The man hurried down the tracks, and a quarter of a mile away saw the headlight of the approaching train. Waving hla signal lantern ha stopped the train and also a special bearing James J. H01 and his party bound for Winnipeg.

Which was following a few miles behind, i FIRE NEAR HAMBURGTlNERS. Tha Bluechsr and Belgravla In Peril In Pier Flra at 1 A. M. i Fire started in the storeroom on the bulkhead of Pier 1 of tha Hamburg American Steamship Line, tn Hoboken, Just after 1 o'clock this morning. and threatened two steamers of the line, the Bluecher and tha BelgTa which were docked there.

It started among same- eid ropes and oil stored in the room. I and gained, much, headway before ft was dis covered by a The firemen got the flames under con trol before they damaged the pier Itself. The damage was only about $500. At tha very start of the tire two alarms were sent In. These brought Assistant Chief Michael Dunn with several engines.

Soon after the arrival of the engines the fire tugs Bernardsville, Washington, i Uti- ca. Moatclair. aad Orange steamed up to the pier. They bad "nothing to do. how ever, for the flra was soon under control.

CAR OVERTURNS CAB. Two Women Thrown OutOne of Them Seriously Hurt. A cab. driven by Grant Scott and occu pied by Mrs. William Humphreys and her sister.

Miss Bessie Hart, both of 28 West 138th Street, collided with a north-bound Sixth Avenue car at Sixth Avenue and Forty-Seventh Street about midnight last night fn was overturned. Mrs. i Humnhreys eacaoed with com Da atlvely slight bruises, but her stater was Sicked up unconscious. An automobile riven by Irving H. Manning of tbe Long Acre Hotel, came up and took the Injured woman to Roosevelt Hospital.

Miss Hart, it waa said, probably had concus sion or tne CUNARD PASSENGER SUES. i- 8ays He Was Hurt Becauae the Cam pania Too Fast. An action has been commenced In the United States! Circuit Court to-day by Frederick L. Larenburg of New Tork against the Cpnard Steamship Company, The sum of fJO.000 is asked for damages alleged to have been received by Laren burg while a passenger on tne ijampania on nh 23. The plaintiff says that he was thrown from his chair and severely injured because tne snip was anven at a dangerous and unnecessary rate of speed during atorrn.

i The Campania, the complainant allegws, Waa proceeding on her course in tbe midst of a snowstorm, and was encoun- t.rinr waves of such size and force that her speed should have been moderated, i LEO DIETR CHSTEIN ARRESTED The Actor-Playwright Hadn't Met Our Automobile Laws Before. For falling to have a license, or number on his automobile, a man who aald he was Leo Dletrichsteln. the actor and play wright, was arrested last night by Bicycle Policeman O'Brien, on the Boulevard Lafayette. In the machine at the time were Dletrichsteln'a! wife, two children, and a vouna- woman who said she was Miae Jeanne Neweqmbe. At the oollce station Dietrichsteln said that he lived sx Hartford.

and was Ignorant of the automobile law here. He had lust purchased the machine, he aald. and was trying it out. Miss Newcombe furnished $10Q cash bail for the actor-playwright, NEGRO SOLDIERS FIGHT MOB. i Kill Two of the Man Bent on Lynch ing One 'of Their Special i TU Now York Timet.

CRAWFORD, May 13. In a fljrht which occurred here last night between a mob bent oa lynching Sergt. Reed, the negro soldier Who Sunday shot Marshal Moss through the heart, and negro soldiers who were guarding the jail In which Reed waa Imprisoned. Philip Murphy, alleged leader of the mob. and an unidentified man were killed by tha soldiers.

Feeling is very mttar against tne negro soldiers and serious trouble may break out at any tlrae. The soldiers are from Fort Robinson, three miles away. Already four men have been killed tn tne irouoies since uniay afternoon. After the mob last night wa dispersed by tbe soldier. Reed was taken to unaaron on a i)xwu wcvnwuvt tor safekeeping, fmrtmrt prta a eutlaas tbe Hudson.

Ta Us ieamer running. Music 6e8tbt.Colama. AdV. 1 RAVNER TO TELL ALL IFPRESIDENTASSENTS I -V Ml Sustain Tillman Anyhow In -White House Fight ROOSEVELT AGAIN ASSAILED RepalUcans Silent Under Tlfl-man's Arraignment of Chid Executive's Honor Special to Tho Kew York Time. WASHINGTON, May Ray ner.wtll go to the White House to-morrow and ask tha President tor permission to reveal to the Senate the facts con-earning the conference they had when Mr.

Roosevelt summoned Mr. Rayner to the White House. iThls decision reached at the close; of an exciting si on in the Settate. in the course of which Mr. Tillman arraigned the President laya-plylna to Mr.

Roosevelt's statement at last night. 'j It Is known that Mr. Roosevelt, durtn his conference with Mr. Rayner. told! tha Utter Just what he told Mr.

Chandler and that If he gives 'the Senator pertrds- alon to tell, what occurred It will prove ta be a strong- confirmation of tha Chandler-Tillman story. It Is known also that at that time Mr. Roosevelt gave Mr. Rayner permisston to tell tha Senate tha Prast-' dent's position on the court review amendment if it became If tha President withholds this perm's-. elon Mr.

Rayner win make a speech. tha Senate in which, whila respecting tha President's desire to hava their conference kept quiet, he will presumably, express his opinion of tha whole parfornv Senator Tillman tn the. Senate waited a long time for Senator Allison, to whom the President's letter was addressed, to produce it, and as he did not do so Tillman finally presented his answer. Hla hand thus forced, Allison promptly rose and put the President's letter In Tha Record, explaining that ha had only bean awaiting a favorable) opportunity. i Allison did not accompany this belated production of the letter with a word tn defense of the President, though Tillman's arraignment of him was so blister- -lng that a while ago It would have called forth Instant indignant repudiation by the Republicans.

All the other Republican Senators aat tranquilly in their Seats and listened with unmoved faces to a speech which said almost in so many words that the defense put forth by the President was false 'and that it was of such ja nature aa te indicate that Mr. Roosevelt was not bound by a sense of honor. I Republicans Not to Answer, Thej-e will be no answer. The Republicans; will not answer, nil! not defend. The Democrats are satisfied to go to tha Jury.

as Senator' Bailey expresses it, on the case as made up. Mr. Tillman began' his -speech by referring to tbe fact tltat an honored ex-member of the Senate had been branded as the author of a deliberate and unqualified falsehood by a telephonic mes-saga from the He felt it his duty to the whose good name had been thus attacked to put in The Record a statement made by Mr. ChandUr. Mr.

Chandler's statement, which was printed in Ths New Tork Trxics on Monday, set forth that the President had expressed the desire to get into communication with; Mr. Tillman. Mr. and other Democratic Senators through him; (Mr. Chandler.) i i "I do not deem it necessary to read the rest of this letter now." resumed Tillman at the end ef the i reading.

I noted in the papers this morning a letter. addressed by the President to the Senator from Iowa. had expected that possibly something would ba said about the ques- tlon of veracity between the President and Mr. Chandler. I had also expected that the Senator from Iowa, or soma other friend of the President's, would put In The Record the letter from' th White House.

Bot as that hss not been done, I feel myself called upon to make some comment on this letter. There are only two points in it which I deem worthy of notice. The President's attempted explanation is Ingenious, but not ingenuous. lie calls in question a second time the Integrity of purpose and utterance of-Mr. Chandler by declaring he was asked to see Mr, Chandler as rep resenting Mr.

Tillman and that Mr. Chan dler stated to ma the views of Mr. Tinman with seaming authority. Mr. Chandler has declared most posi tively in his statement that tha President sent for him, and he has produced a letter from Mr.

Loeb to prove It. I have seen the original of that letter myself. I And I now and here declare most em phatlcally that to no human being have ever given authority or even expressed a wish to have any conferences with Theodore Roosevelt on the bill under consider ation. On the contrary, have expressed tbe opinion in more than one publlo Inter- view that he had nothing more to do with It; that it was the business of the Senate. Walla I did.

at hla request, enter into negotiations with the; Attorney General, it is well known to every Senator what my attitude and feelings bare been, and it is most remarkable, while tha President sent for Democrat after Democrat to confer about this measure, that he should under- take to assert that sent an agent to him to begin The statement is absurd on its face. A Thrust at Moody Also. A sensation rah around ths galleries, but the Senate was not moved in tbe least. "The other point. continued Mr.

Tin man, is ina cava ner way in which Mr. Moody discusses the idea of the Presi dent not being While Contradicting In no instance, however slight, my statement of what occurred, tbe Attorney aen-eral seems to think the code of honor smong gentlemen Is not binding upon the Executive and his Cabinet. Tha President asked him to see Mr. Bailey and myself. We met by appoint- ment, made by Senator Chandler, and talked over the vital questions.

He wrot and sent to Mr. Bailey his understanding of our view, and when we met subsequently we reached absolute agreement, both as to tha form and substance of the proposed to which -h said.