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1 mva e-intt TffW YOIOC TIMES. latLDiVX AVWUfcX ZiU vuo. HAINS TELLS LAWYER HIS WIFE CONFESSED Declares In Jail That Mrs. Hains Admitted She Had Loved' Annis for Six Years. PRISONER GETS EXCITED Ghakea HI Flat In Major Halna'a Faea During a Confaranca In the Jail Plana for tho la the Warden's small sluing room at tha Queens.

County JU yesterday afternoon Capl I'eter Conover llalna, according to Joseph X. Bhay. on of tola lawyers, told how hi wife last May had confessed to him that ho had been Infatuated with William E. Annis In tha entire period of la of tha eight years of her married Ufa. MIIa we vulgar and depraved, but I loved him.

sn aaid, according to her husbands statement yesterday to -Attorney Shay. Ten minutes after he repeated thee r-nnfeulnna of his wife Capt Jlalna, according to hia lawyer, made a rush on Major John Powell Hams, ma own brother, with his flat clenched a. though he was about to assault him. All ttkls Mr Bhay regarded as proof positive mental state. An earlier development yesterday in the tragedy wa.

the giving out by Lawyer John Mclntrre of what ne SAia was the contents of the written confession signed by Mrs. Hains and admitting a number of Infidelities with Annis Other atatement. were made by Mra. llalna'a attorney, r. G.

Wild, attacking r.ports are without any foundation, the published reflection, on the legitimacy The man who is said to have been re-of her youngest chll and by friend, of; xf ihe Annla family protesting their con- M(llfmpnt- did so while under the tinned belief and Mrs. Annis connued influence of liquor, and that the report belief In the murdered mans marital fl- absolutely false I not know Htht-r Cspt. Mains or lila wire. nellty. The line or defense which will be Tn -lorlf, have even gon far ns offered for the two brothers Is still pretty say thnt the alleged Incident.

In i. tk. mr Af.r 1 wv.r Rhnv hlch It was suld Cant. Hains hoked outlined a tentative plan to the news- lAldlow by rol. l.udlow sent on paper men yesterday afternoon he ad-, to the War Department.

Col. Lud-inltted In reply to their questionings that low denied absolutely ycaterday that w. any sucli report had been mad to him. he had not yet had opportunity to study Jt wa- au.tat, at the headquarters the evidence sufficiently. the Department the East on Oov- fw ernora Island that If such a report had Wife.

Alleged Confession. mad, a would hav0 had to be for- Extracts or scrap, of information warded through the department, and the nnrilnr to bo iiraet from Mr ttalns a records phowed that no Fort Hamilton porting to be extracts-rrom Mrs. llainss bearing on the conduct of Capt. confession were given out by ex-As- Hains had paesoj through Governors slstant District Attorney Mclntyre to loland. various reporter, throughout the day.

In Sf'tK each interview Mr. Mclntyre make, pub- uiiaKed Incident that it wa. said Andruea lie some new detail, but to all reporters and a rWk named Rowan witnessed, was he refused a verbatim copy of the tull ch Rowjm conreaalon. Ki-tlve connection he ever hud with Fort According to Mr. Mclntyre, the confes- 1 Humllton was during the wek that the blon covers a couple of sheets of typewritten paper.

It was taktn down In uotoa by Oen. Hains, It was declared. In the presence of Capt. Hains and T. Jenkins Hatha, und a Wall Htrert lawyer, from Mrs.

Hains's statements on the night of June 1 lust. It v. a then dictated to and transcribed by a alenog-rapher, and was rinally signed by Mrs. Hains In the presence of Gen. Hains, Capt.

Halna, T. Jenklna Hains, and the lawyer, No coercion, according to Mr. Mclntyre. was used In obtaining Uj con- icaniun. uui irs.

uauis nnQ oeen a hysterlcal state previous to the signing The document, according to Mr. Mclntyre, admits eight or nine specific acta of Infidelity committed by Mrs. Halna and Annis during afternoon automobile trips between the day In October. 11M)7. hen Capt Halna started for Manila, and May a.

1U08, when the Captain returned to his home at Fort Hamilton, after receiving a telegram from hta brother, Thornton Jenkins Halna, These acts of Infidelity, according to Mr. Mclntyre. were committed at the apartment of a wealthy friend of Ahnls's in Manhattan, loiter, according to Lawyer Mrs. Hains left home for a week, between April lu and 17, without explaining where she was going. When Capt.

Huina returned home on May -1 he Immediately asked here where she hud been during that time. According to the story within the next two days Capt. Halna found tiiat his wife had not been at the place she aid she had been, and In renponse to his persistent questionings she broke down and made, according to Mr. Mclntyre yea-terday, the admissions which form the basts of the confession. The confession, according to Mr.

Mclntyre, was signed on the 1st of June. Next day, Mrs. Halna went home to her parents at Wlnthrop. and the three children were taken In by their grand- aarenta. Gen.

Halna and his wife. Mr, Mclntyre said yesterday that he had not yet learned where Cspt. Mains went to lite between June 1 and the time of the shootlna Mra. Hains's lawyer. Frank O.

WUd of S7S Broadway, denied emphatically yesterday that he knew of any confession on the part of hi. client. He Atld that. If one existed. Mrs.

Halna had not told him anything about It. Mr. Mclntyre yesterday modified considerably the atatement. which he made to the reporter, on Monday night. He aatd that the question of the legitimacy of the young child of the Halnae.

was merely started by the suspicions of the Hains family, and that Mrs. Hains'. answer to the bill of complaint In the divorce suit contains only general accusation, of cruelty against Capt. Halna. Shay Say.

Halna I. I'abalaneed. lawyer Joseph A. Shay, the defense's young legal expert on emotional Insanity, went over to the Queena County Jail yea. terday afternoon to consult with his clients and gain facta on which to build up some tine of defense.

After four houra of questioning, he returned to hla office and expressed hla conviction that Capt. Halna waa "positively unbalanced." and tnat Jt would l.e very easy to prove T. Jenkins Halna had not been guilty of any participation In the murder or Annis. Mr. Hhy said he had hard work to hold Cupt.

llalna'a attention. Mr. Shay says he got tired after a while and became silent. lHn't you understand what I am saying? suddenly bi rst out the Captain, according to Mr. Shay.

Mr. Shay sakx afterward tbat for several minutes previously no one In the room bad aaid a word. Another alienee, according to Mr. Shay, fell when the Interview In the Warden a aittina room had come to its conclusion. Air.

Shay and Major Halna. who. with the. exception of the two prisoners, were the only people In the room, had risen to go. Suddenly Capt.

Hains rushed forward toward the Major, shaking his fist. Don't you contradict he cried. Major Halna had been silent practically throughout the whole interview. -It la on 'these two Incidents, as well a. on the Captain's detective memory and Inability to rix hla attention, and constant Jealoua nuteriea concernlne? hta wife thai Hhav bases hi.

belief in the Captain insanity, llegurdlpg T. Jenkins llalna, he aaid: Jenkins Hatna la no mora guilty of abetting any murder than you or I. Indeed, he tried to prevent the Captain from going down to the- float. We can prove that he and the Captain went to Baystde to visit some friends, not yacht club member. They went down to the pier for a reason quite other than that of shooting Annla.

When Jenkins Hains saw Annis coming la to the float on the boat, he tried to get the Captain away. They carried revoivera, bees use they had been la the habit of carrying them all their live a Jenkins thought his brother's pistol was empty. The Captaln'a automatic revolver shot the whole nine ahota In a few seconds' time. Then, aa the men on the float crowded threateningly around the Captain. Jenklna drew him ewa weapon te hold them off.

He did not say This la ray affair." or anything of the sort. He merely ordered them to atand away." Mr. Shay accounted for the very different versions of what Jenkins Halna had Mid which are-given by members of the yacht club, and a number of other question. Mr. Shay finally explained that he had not aa yet found time to go down to the eoene of the shooting and miiiri lumseis wim tne detail.

District Attorney Darrln stated yeater- that he believed that the duU xneian- fHKvw. Mr. Damn aald ha had a dogen witnesses who could prove that Jenklna Hain draw his revolver before tha shoot-In, lie added that his office force so inadequate that he had not yet been able to apply to the Oovernor for the appointment of a special Supreme Court Judge and the drawing of a special Grand Jury He aaid that his office had not a cent on hand to conduct the trial with, and that be was going to apply for a special appropriation for tha trial. Frank O. WIM, the lawyer who represents Mrs.

P. C. Hains In New York City, slated that there was absolutely no truth In the statement that Mrs. Hains's youngest child is illuminate, or that Mr. Mc-Intyre had persuaded Mra.

Jlalna to Ua-tify for hr husband at the trial. Mrs. Hains has had no communication with Mr. Mclntyre." eald Mr. Neither ha either she nor Mr.

Llbbey. her fsther. given any statement to tha newspaper. Jler rharge In hr answer to C'apu Mains divorce papers are or a general nature, and contain absolutely no reflection on any other member of tna United Btate Army." Mr. Wild added that ha did not believe that Mrs.

11 Ins had ever made any con-fesaloti before witnesses and that, at any rale, she" hud never told him of making one. He will make a statement later as to whnt Mra llalna'a policy will be as to getting escsslon of the children. Tna divorce suit will. In all probability, come up In the Supreme Court In llrooklyn thla Autumn. At Mrs.

Annls'a home. 47 Claremont Avenue, yesterday, one of her friends sata that she had left the city temporarily and that In spite of all that has been aid about Mr. tlalns's confession. Mrs Annis Ueileve mat ner nui had'alwava been faithful to her In every ne.le. Hal C-oklngr Story An Investigation made by officers sta- tloned at Fort Hamilton, for the pur- uose of finding out the source of tha iti.

nn the -torle. rtnta social atmosphere irucuiti Ueut. Malcolm P. Andruaa, while on duty there, had on one occasion found Capt. Hains choking his wife with one hand while with the other he held a Jond-d A Wham I Al inllitliuiien were there this Bummer.

Then hlM work m-ver brought htm In contact wlih any of the officers. He says he iloa not know Capt. Hains, and that he has never Keen Mrs. Hains. In the.

story he was described as a spectator of the ulled choking of Mrs. Halna by her husband in tlictr home. Clerk lloniu'i Coufeaslon. Rowan's friends, when they learned what he was credited wltn raying, went to him and he denied the whole yarn. At onco he aat down and rent the fol lowing signed atatement to Col.

Ludlow, i whose possesion It now la, which will probably be muda the of an of- flclal report to Departs! mt of the East In a few days: In reference to a statement published In a morn ln newpap.r yesterday I wish to state that if I did make such a statement I did not know what I was sarins, as I was under tha Influence of liquor, and the statement Is not true, because I do not know anything about Capt. llalna or his wife. suppose the leporter asked me questions and 1 aniwered thc-m while under the influence of liquor. 1 am now sick la bed on account of the worry of thla statement, and also on ac-ount of Intoxication. Now I wish to humbly beg your pardon and any officer I nuty have mentioned.

According to the printed statement I only mentioned Ueut. Alulruns. Well, if I did I humbly his pardon and hope to be exonerated from any further blame. As tor being on tha reservation and the rt of thr statement, it la all rot, and I would like tn have you publish thr con-lltlon I was la whea I made this supposed state-In, nt to the rvpurtT. Now it you wish any proof you can or ma up to my house pii-anniklly, or SeAtl atim of your officers up, and ny mother will txpfaln the circuit.

Marcea. ThU repudiation of Rowan's, It waa said yesterday may have a serous bearing on the defense, should the plea of Insanity be entered, for it was said that the defence hiid counted on R'wan and Lieut. Andru.is as unusually good witnesses, the suppoMltloti that Rowan knew wliHt he wag talking Rlnrnt. The other officer JV, wapU Cravr! rtowan as Deing laminar choking oplsode were apt. Crtvroi and (V.pt.

Gilmer, two of tho artillery company commander at Fort Hamilton. Col. Ludlow, tn giving out 'he atatement of Rowan yesterday, was asked if t'npt. Hains had shown any signs of being Irrational while stationed at Fort Hamilton. He was ra'tonal while nere," answered Col.

Ludlow. SPEAKS ILL OF THE DEAD. Hacker's Father Impllea That Woman Who Died with Him Waa Not Wed. William Q. Hacker of AO Wlnthrop Avenue.

Newark. N. father of Edward Hacker, who committed suicide with a revolver with which ills wife had killed herself a short time previously Wednesday afternoon at their apartment at 400 West HHth Street, visited the Coroners' ofric yesterday to claim the property turned over to Property Clerk Casstdy when Coroner Dooley assumud Jurisdiction In the rase. When shown a gold watch, two gold chains, a pair of cuff buttons, and some other trinkets, Mr. Hacker said to Casstdy: I can't gtve you a receipt for all of thnt Jewelry.

Those chains belonged to the woman, and 1 don't want them. I will bury my son. but 1 will have noth ing to do with the body of the woman or wltn any or her eirecta. A. week ago I asked my son how he was situated in New lork and he told me he was living with gentlemen friends.

I asked him if he ever thought of marrying, and he said he had not married and did not think, he would. 1 never suspected that he was either married or even living with this woman until I read of the tragedy in the newspapers. I believe my son state ment to me that he waa not married. He waa a traveling salesman and used to visit roe alter eacn trip. DODGING CARE OF A LEPER.

Arizona Authorltiea Forcibly Returned Mrs. Wardwell to California. 1 .03 ANGELES. Aug. la some resentment here at the return from Arlsona of Mr.

Isabel Wardwell. the widow of Oen. David K. Wardwell. who la afftVted with leprosy.

When the train arrived Mr. Wardwell was found locked In a compartment. Two hospital attendants took her In charge and aha waa placed In the contagious ward of the hospital. Mrs. Wardwell ahowed evidences ot a disordered mind and appeared In poor health.

The authorltiea do not believe Mrs. Wardwell escaped from the custody of the Ariaona authorltiea, aa waa reported. They believe she wa aent away to relieve Arlsona. of her care. One county official says that the Cochla County authorities had done no more in sending Mrs.

Wardwell back to Loa An- freles than the authorities there had don sending her to Tombstone. The Loa Angeles authorities bought tickets for Hn Strut Mrs nlw.l 1 uvuxl wnlra ago and sent a nuree of the county hoe pltal with them a far aa Kaco. BULL POOL IN WHOM SMASHED BY BEARS Wall Street Interests In It Said to Have Been Hard Hit by Yesterday's Collapse. PRICE DOWN $5 PER BALE Theodore Price) Had Predicted tha Day Before That the Pool Could Not Be Dleturbed 1-lvermore 8llnt. Tha aotton market yesterday broke In some options aa much as $3 per bale below the high prlcee reached In tha upward movement of a week ago.

The brvak followed ateady liquidation on Wednesday, and the decllnea ware accompanied by rumors of heavy loaaea among Wall Street Interests who have been credited with backing the bull pooL This ball Interest was credited with having thrown over 75-000 bales during tha first hour of trading, and during tha consequent break In prloea October cotton sold down to $8.61. which Is 87 points, or $1.85 per bale, below Tuesday's closing figure. The so-called bull pool, had stood persistently by Its position despite a continual hammering In receoit markets from the bear crowd, among whom are num bered the larger part of the Cotton Ex- wrra me larger part 01 mi teuton change trader, and the trade Interest, m.rk.t l.tt.r nt out on Theodore Price Included the following which waa taken as confirmation of the belief that he haa been identified with the bull pool: In my opinion. In audition to the control of the local stock, there Is at tpreaaat a comiiart and Individualised holding of say. era! hundred thousand bales of October contracts, (some estimates of this holding are as hlh as Boo.ouo bales.) which are not for sals, and In all probability will not be for sale until It la demuiistrabk either that cotton ian be brought here Qrom the boulh to fill them, or until, falling of auoh demonstration, those who are abort of these comrade shall elect to recover them oa the beet terms possible.

Neither of the contingencies referred to by Mr. occurred yesterday, but the liuuldatioi of new-crop contractu and the fright of t'e bulls waa attributed to the more favorable; weather reports from the cotton States. Newa of overnight rains discouraged the belief that the ci-op couid be further damaged by high temperatures and dry weather, and this bear ammunition was supplemented by news ltuei cotton-spinning centres telling of a possible shutdown unless wage cuts were accepted. Yesterday'r market opened from 4 to 10 points down for the new-crop months, with Octooer at 0.16. December at Kl, and Junua-y at 8.81.

There wa. no rally trum the opening until prices had declined from 10 to 14 points further. Re-fore noon there were further breaks, followed by trifling rallies, and In the after noon market October contract, declined to 8.5.4, equat to a bale below Wed Deadly 'a closing figures. J. L.

Uvermore, whose name haa been widely connected with the bull movement, refused yesterday to discus, his market position. Hi was told of the heavy losaca rumor credited him with on the decline. I keep my own books," said Mr. Liver-more, ''and I am not publishing them to the Street." BIDS ON LIBRARY APPROACH. Fifteen Received Ranging from S2Sr 000 to $780,000 No Award.

Fifteen bid. were opened by the Park Board at Its meeting yesterday, but no award was made of the contract to build the approaches to the new Public Library In Fifth Avenue. The board haa the authority to receive the (bids, but the power to select the bidder rests with the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which leave, the approval of their choice to the Park Board. The amount, of the bids ranged from to $780,000. The spoelflcations for thei contract have been drawn up by Carrere Hastings, the architects, of 223 Fifth Avenue.

In the work use will be made of several varieties of marble and stone. Among these are granite, blueetone, granite block, MUford granite, gray Knoxville marble, Danby marble, breche vlolette, white Italian marble, and Pentellkon marble. The work must be finished within two vears from the time permission Is given to begin, and the contractor muat deposit to bind the contract. THE SUNDA TIMES Art, politics, sports, society and the stage will be -represented in the Picture Section of The Sunday Times. It will be an artistic treat for every one, whether it reaches you by the seaside, in the mountains or in your city home.

How Mr. Bryan was notified for the third time) of his nomination for President of the United States was an event of national importance and as such has been fully described in dispatches. The first pictorial presentation of the exercises will appear in The Sunday Times. Every one who followed the progress of the automobiles in the New York to Paris race, and they numbered millions, will find in the photographs showing the arrival of the Thomas Car in New York, and the welcoming procession up Broadway, an interesting conclusion to the great contest. Thousands have daily crowded around the car, which has been on exhibition in The Times Building since its arrival.

Did you ever see dogs play football Few have. In England two teams of canines have been taught the game, and the enthusiasm and earnestness with which they follow the ball, shoot goals, and defend their goal lines is strikingly illustrated in a series of photographs which will be reproduced in The Sunday Times. Which is your favorite picture in the Aetropolitan Museum of Art A few gems from the magnificent collection, striking examples modern school, will be reproduced in The Sunday Times. A full page of well-known actresses who will be seen in the Autumn productions, recent photographs of women prominent in society, snapshots taken during, the races of the New York Yacht Club's cruise, Capt Baldwin and his dirigible balloon, Sydney Harbor, where the U. S.

Battleship Fleet is now receiving such a warm welcome, and' surf fishing at Long Beach, are other features of the Pictorial Section. The Sunday Aagazine, in addition to its diversified features of timely and interesting character, will contain a striking study of Thomas W. Lawson, made af short range. A picturesque personality, vividly presented and intimately described LICENSE TO WED GIRL OF 10. Minuter Takee Step te Make Child Hie Heiress.

ELLTCOTT CITY. A license was issued to-day for the marriage of the Rev. George 8. Fttahugn. aged 67 yeara.

to Emma E. Btaylet. lu years old. The proposed marriage has not taken place, however. Mr.

Fltxhugb having suffered ti severe attack of heart disease after obtaining the license, and he la now said to be critically 111 In South Baltimore. Anne Arundel County. Mr. Fltshugh Is understood to be an Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, of which State the little girl la also a native. the license waa secured a necessary letter of assent from the mother waa exhibited to the Clerk.

The explanation of the peculiar ease Is said to be that the Rev. Mr. Fltshugh desires to mike little Ml 8taylet hi heiress and that his object cannot be attained tn hi. satisfaction by the adoption of the child. TO TEST WIRELESSPHONE.

Lee Do Forest to Install Apparatue in Metropolitan Tower. Lea De Forest. Inventor of a wireless telegraph system, announced yesterday that he expeeted within a year to connect thla city with Parla by wlreleee telegraph, and hoped soon afterward to bring about communication between the two cities by wireless telephone. Acting for the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, he signed a contract with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company yesterday for the use of the lofty Metropolitan tower aa a wireless telegraph and telephone station, and aa soon aa the tower completed Mr. De Forest says hi eompanay will begin the erection of Its apparatus.

Mr. De Forest while In Paris last Spring applied to the French War Department, which controla the wireless station in the Eiffel Tower, for the privilege of carrying on experiments by mean of It between Paris and New York, and ho say. that Minister Picquart assured him of tha most cordial co-operation and that steps were at once undertaken to increase the power of the Eiffel Tower atatlon from ten to thirty kilowatts. According to Mr. Do Forest.

New York will be in wireless telephone communication with Philadelphia, Boston. Montreal. Chicago, and Havana as soon as the apparatus can be installed In the Metropolitan tower and receiving stations established In the cities named. It Is also the purpose of the Radio Telephone Company to connect a powerful gramaphone, playing band and operatic music, with the telephone transmitter, so that those several hundred miles at aea. can hear muslo from the tower.

ARREST GIRL AS PICKPOCKET. Caught it Coney Island Much Jew elry Found on Her. An attractive young woman, who gave her name as Matilda Nleman. a native of Russia, and whose present address Is OS West Fifty-fifth Street, Manhattan, waa arraigned In the Fifth Avenue Court. Brooklyn, yesterday morning, following her arrest at Coney Island on Wednesday night on the technical charge of vagrancy.

The police received many reports of late that a woman pickpocket has been busy among the crowds at Coney Island. On Wednesday evening- the Nleman srlrl wa pointed out to them by a woman in Surf Avenue, who said that she had seen her trying to open a woman handbag. The detectives arrested her. She was searched, and five gold purses were found on her, along with a large quantity of Jewelry. One of the nurses contained Su7 In cash.

and in the others were sums ranging from $11 to $2.1. Four finger rings, two diamond rings, five gold brooches, an amethyst necklace, and a woman's silver wero among tho other articles. The police made a search of Mlaa Nle man room in Manual tan ana rouna enouirh Jewelry there to start a good slsed jewelry business. There wa also a lot or clothing in tne room ana otner articles or value, i ne woman aiso nau bank books which showed that bad $uuu in the banK. BRIGHTON TRACK NOT SOLD.

Intimation Given, However, That Ne-. gotlatlona Are Now On. Revival yesterday of reports that the Brighton Beach race track property had been sold brought forth another dental from William A. Engeman that any auch deal had been closed. Mr.

Engeman rep resents the Engeman estate, which con trols the urooerty. and Is also largely in terested In the Brighton Beach Racing Association. Mr. Engeman also intimated that no definite decision to abandon the track and cut it up Into lots was likely to be reached until It Is absolutely certain that there Is no hope for a return of horse racing under former profitable condition LouIb Somervllle of 1U2 Montague Street, Rrookljn, one of the lawyers who are said to have negotiated with Mr. Engeman for the sain of the land, was quoted yesterday as intimating that nego tiations for inn sale were in progress.

EXPRESS CONTRACT FOLLOWS BIG LOAN Rock Island-Trisco Interests to Turn All Express Business Over to United States Express Co. WILL DROP WELLS-FARGO Latter Controlled by Harriman, Who la Not In Harmony with Rock Island Interests A New Alignment. Coincident with the announcement that the St. Louie Ban Francisco Railway had borroswed f2.0O0.OOU from the United State Expreaa Company came the authoritative announcement yesterday that the Rock Ialand-'Frlsoo system will tura over lu expreaa bualneea to the United State Expreaa Company aa fast as contracts with the Wene-Fargo Company expire. Thla meana an additional annual business of several million dollars a year for the United States Express Company.

Wall Street men any there may be some significance In the fact that the Well' Fargo Expreaa Company refused a 000 loan to tne 'Frisco about three months aco. They say they see tne hand of E. H. Harriman In this refusal by the Wells-Fargo, for Mr. Harriman controls that company, and be ha no love ior tne nocji island-' risco interests, it is aectarea.

The Wells-Fargo Company lent the Erie several million dollars about a year and half ago. It is now doing tne express business for the Erie. When the 'Frisco road, which is controlled by the Rock Island, wanted S2.uuu,0UU recently, the Wells-Fargo Company, which haa been operating over the 'Frisco line for many years, wa approached on the subject. For a while the 'Frisco management be lieved It would get the money rrom tne Wells-Fargo Company, but all of a sudden the negotlatlona were called off. The version of the 'Frisco Koao oiriciaia la somewhat different.

They said yester day. In confirming the story In Tug times, tnat tne loan nau oeen maae, ana that the bualneaa would be gradually taken away from the Wells-Fargo and turned over to the United States Express Company; that not long ago, when the Wens- argo contracts wun tn. trrisco were expiring, they made Inquiries of the united states express company, tna American Express Company, and the Wells-Fargo Company regarding possible arrangement. The result was the deci sion to turn tne roads business over to tha United Statea Ex Dress Comnany aa fast as the Wells-Fargo contracts expired. several 01 tnem are just aoout expiring now, the Rock Island-' Frlaco official ay.

Most of the contracts held: by the Wells-Fargo Company are with the underlying roads which make up the 'Frisco system. These contracts are for various periods. The United Stales Express Company ha been operating over tne hock island syi tern for some time. An official of that road said yesterday that the arrangement by which one express company wieknow handle practically the entire business on the Rock Island-' Frisco system will greatly simplify matters, and that the express business can now be conducted without any conflict between rival companies. The Wells-Fargo management In thla city refused to make any statement yesterday, but from a man who la In close touch with the managers came the newa that the Wells-Fargo people believe that the turning over or all the itock Island 'Frisco business to the United States Ex rress Company will prove more expensive han the arrangement which has prevailed up to now.

The Rock Island and the 'Frisco system lnterlap at many points, they say, and with one company having a monopoly of the business it would be competing with Itself to a cer tain extent. There are between 6.000 and 6.000 miles In the 'Frisco system, which will now be turned over to tne united states Express Company. In the Rock Island system the express company has about 7.000 miles. Tbere is a small part or tbe Frisco system on which the American Express Com- pany operates. What disposition is to be made of that haa not yet been announced.

In confirming the story published In Ths Timk yesterday of the $2,000,000 loan officials of the 'Frisco aaid that the loan la a per cent, one. Instead of tt per aa at first stated, and can be redeemed at any time up to three years. It Is protected by bonds. Just what bonds the officials of neither the 'Frisco nor' the United Statea Express Company haa made public. WELLS-FARGO COS REPORT Earnings During First Half of 1908 Show a Falling Off.

The report for the year ended July 81 of Wells, Fargo A Co. was made public yesterday, confirming the figures of earn lngs and disbursements made public at the annual meeting last week. As already reported the net earnings were 14.078,818. a falling off of from the previous i year. The general balance sheets shows an Increase of S4.25fl.002.

which Is chiefly attributable to an Increase of $2,314,500 In the Item of loana. which at the close of the year totaled $16,630,004. Stocks and bonds owned decreased during the year by $41.1,004, and the only other considerable falling off was In the item or ruis receivame, wnicn la now a drop or $25:2.412. The company', reserve I. now placed at $10,701,575, an ln-creaHe of $3.47.218.

President Dudley Evans's report shows an increase of in tne company agencies in the United States and Mexico, which now total B.W. The railroad, steamboat, and stage mileage is increased by 2.01U miles during the year, and the company now covers r8.u29 miles, counting all classes of transportation. President Evans calls attention to the fact that earnings during the first half of 1U0H are considerably less, both In gross and net. than In the previous year, and predicts that aome time will elapse before the volume of business Is back to what it was In the latter half of 1007. lie also comments on the low ratea now commanded by money, and which he points out will materially affect the company's Income from loana.

YESTERDAY'S FIRES. A. M. Ixa. 3 Sd Av.

Martin 2 aoT-aU Front til. Eastern Coopers co. I ooo W. Mtn Mornlngald Van I O. Trifling 4:10100 Chryetl J.

Oalilffan fiS 4:10 1WU Sd Av. Richard Oreenbaum. 2d Av. O. Foleskv Trifling tt S3 253 Tth Adoloa FuchshaJa W.

70th unknown. Blight E. lOBth A. gtelnflnal $75 2n W. 4th Bt.

Nicholas $20 Qreene St. 8. Olnsber None fl-no ani Morris Antonio slarlco None i sz nreenwich Bt. t. otokea.

asV-4 11th J. Wolf Trifung 8:20151 St. and St. Nicholas New Posting company $10 unknown $25 5th Morris Amass. $100 81S R.

ftOk U. rfc inA Forsyth St. T. Mali. -u Each Season We Close Out the Broken Lines Great Savings.

4.q8 Russets Now 2.97 3.49 Oxfords Now 2.29. Large sizes 1.65, were 3.50 White Canvas. 1.60 and 1.93 With leather or rubber soles. Combination straight lasL Relief for bunion and flmt feet. 3.98 Pair, Elsewhere 6.00.

KNICKERBOCKER PAYS AHEAD. Trust Company Anticipates Two Installments Under Plan of Resumption. The Knickerbocker Trust Company an-Ueipated two more ot Ita Installment payments of deposit yesterday, and made available for distribution 10 per cent, more of the total funds standing credited to the depositors when the Institution opened its doors several months ago. As matters stand now about 21 per cent, of the total deposit have been paid, or 80 per cent, of the TO per cent, of the deposits that were to be paid en the Installment basis under the resumption plan. There waa.

however, nothing In the ran of bualneaa at the Knickerbocker yesterday, either at It down town office or at the Thirty-fourth Street office, to Indicate a disposition on the part of depositor to withdraw their money. A a matter of fact, however, the two Installments mad payable yesterday carried the payments under the resumption plan along te Feb. 24, 1600. so that the Knickerbocker 1 already six months ahead of the time aet in the plan. Officials of the company would not undertake to make any predictions yesterday a to what rat of paymenta would be kept up In the future, but If business continues aa It haa been running there Is every probability that the company will keep on anticipating tta Installment payments, so that by the end of 1IMM It will be a whole year ahead.

Under the plan the other M0 per cent, of the deposits are to be paid back out of aurplus earnings, but this will not be until after the installment paymenta have been completed. Lion Cub Born In Park Zoo. A fussy little animal, with unopened eyes and lega too weak to sustain Ita weight, threw the lion house of the Central Park menagerie Into an uproar early yesterday afternoon The arrival of tr i CUD nas Deen awaitea tne (nmi rvent since list Winter, when Caleb tn f.econd the hlnna calf, succeeded to thl tank and cage of his dead but illustrious father. Caliph, namea in. newcomer rn uinx.

tt looked Ilka cne. because, he said. Wallach Bros, i The Home of Hart, Schaffner 6c Marx Clothes, Third Avenue, I95 Broadway, Cor. xaad St Just below 29th St. All Hart, Schaffner Marx Summer Suits now $14 50 This means HETHER $4o $35 Every suit still bears the original price mark.

You can see the advantage of coming in to-day. FINAL of all remnants of this spring and summer and last fall and winter materials at a uniform priceSuit, to measure, $18; Coat and Trousers, $16; separate Trousers, $5. Store closes Saturday 1 P. M. A RN I SSL Dorothy IHt I Kvenlng Jenrnal saysi "EVERY WOMAN SHOULD SEE THIS PLAY" GARDEN THEATRE Madlann Av.

and 37th Bt. Henry W. Savage of era the only authori sed version of the aenaallonally successful drama, THE DEVIL (Der TeufeL) By FRANZ MOLNAR Adapted by OLIVER HERFORD Twenty-one Curtain Calls after second act." American. One of tha stronsest plays in a decade." Press. I'rlces LADIES MATINEE WEDNESDAY JARD1M DE P1RIS Always cool.

Smoking permitted. Kvs. 13 F. Z1EGFELD, REVUE FOLLIES OF 1908 3 EN BRA 1. ADMISSION TABLE SBATB $1 Aerial 6ardens Theatre) Wed.

Bat. AtopNKW AMtTTEHnAMTheatre. W.42 Hi HKNKY HAVAOK'B operatic sensation THEJEftRY WIDOW iPwArjr rTRFDTV THEATltK. Weal fi 81. LIDtlVI I "a Mat.

Pat .1:15. THE TRAVELING SALESMAN. By Jsa. Forbes. Author "The Chorus Lady." U'wiietiK nt II lUnrt Last? Slants.

Last Mat. Bat. tOll AN MA tUt IS' MINftTKKLM. with Oeerge Kvaaa 100 HON KT UUT8. Next Monday.

Beat Bale Now. Bll'HARIt AULK In Mary's Lamp. KMlkKKBOCkEH. Broadway it sT Week. SMrhta.I:l.

Mat.Sat.l:lJ GEO. M. COHAN ACADEMY Or Ml' SIC 14th BL Irving PL LAMT WEEK. Last times la city. CROSMAN NEXT WEEK Miss Croeman In IVII Shakespeare's comedy As Von LJka It.

PrlceittUUs. Mia. aat- A IUI :13. SEEING NEW Y0RKtSoW YACHT il.U0 tkif. I Huni Tel.

4044 Oamerey Foot West 12d North River. A. M. and I SO P. every day and Sunday.

Alt paints of Interest explained ot lecturer. 8EEINO K1W TORK AtTOMOBILK start hourly from Flatiroe Building. seeing Chinatown and the Bowery rrery night ana Sunday at 8:30 p. JI. Ticket office and wait tag room la building, ground floor.

8th Av. side, I I TrVT A II a KiiiL LUNA Live Mermaid PARK TEEPTE I Coney Island's CHASE runny Plsos A LAfriH IH BDeThV spot. FREE TO-DAY. TtleiroiiSteimboats mm I WOBLD Is WAX. Gyney Mass.

LUlII CINEMA fOOKAFH EaraTiIeeu-. tlaJFrmtnat People. Past and preaeat. ft II fl! THTS WEEK AND NEXT uiiMiiu wn I line e. tun rrn Boa FIGHT FOR $2,000,000 ESTATE, Daughter of Deceassd Mill Owner AU legee Undue Influence by Second Wlfa, Through her counsel, Alexander itn.

eon of Jersey City, Eugenie Vllaia if Lyons. France, yesterday filed a petitb. with Surrogate John P. Egan la the eon County Orphan a Court aahi." that the will of the late Elienne naud. the owner of ailk milla in KJ Bergen, be aet aside.

The petltloaeivl the daughter of Ulvernaud by hiiOrjJ Mr. Gtvernaud died at his horn i North Bergen on July 12 last, leaving tv? bulk of an eatate valued at nearly OOO to his second wife, who was forti, Barbara- lUen. a pretty mill handtJ forewoman In on of Glvernaud rr mill. The petitioner waa cut off vi will wltb She assert that father waa of unsound mind at the tul he made hla will; that had bee paralytic and a sufferer from locomoo. ataxia for twenty year previous la death, and that undue influence was ----on him In the making of bis will ftu further charged that Ulvernaud had are! been divorced from hla first wife.

WISCONSIN CENTRAL LOAN. 12,400,000 to be Paid Off Te-dsy yndicate Agreement Extended. Loans aggregating 2. nio. made the United Statea Mortgage and Trust Company to members ot the WiaroMta Central syndicate, which holds ths ton.

trolling Interest In the road, will be pata off to-day, a representative of the iyndi. cate said yesterday. It Is not the purpose to dissolve the syndicate at this time ajH it Is to be kept intact by an extension af the syndicate agreement. In reference to the report that new hv. teresta are to be taken Into the syndicate which control this road, a metntier of the syndicate said yesterday that so fr at luast.

nothing in this direction had been don. The controlling interest tn the syndicate are represented by Wlltlant A. Hradford. President of ths road' L. Chadborune, and by Femald a Ce! of Boston.

a clean sweep. the price was $45, or less they're all $14.50 now. SALE AND NOWHERE ELSE Evss. at 8:15. Mats.

Wed. at Rt OKtllUTRA $1.0. 1ST HALT. 75. SI BALCONY see.

Mata nU I II Wed Sat. S-IS 'am POPULAR oor. to Ut VM. HODGE -rnE RrfCKhrt or thk teNrrRr "THE MAf! FROM HOME' fttDCD'C U'way. tht.

K. 35 nCDCn Net Mat. Ket. 2 80. PAID in FULL Seats Belling IIMeasrs.

Wm. A. Brady Wed.stfiat.MataMJo It Orlamer announce QUUELAX alnHlNIv PRITFRIfll II war. 44lh Bt. Ni.htlr VIUlLAlVil LIMITED ENUAUKMENT Her triumph complete carrte 11 ths hou.s by storm." Heraid.

CUAHI.R FnOHMA.N Cffe-nU ISADORA DUNCAN In HER FAMOUS CLASSICAL DAXCB. HUDSON Theatre. 44th K. of Il eal. NEXT MONDAY.

ROBERT EDES0N BEATS NOW SELLIXQ. la Tn Call the Newest Salome out-Salomee all 8a- Inmers Aehlou Steven E. Journal. MIMIC WORLD CASiXO rrww.ed3TwinsF: hehaldso. Moot a.

Matinee Tomorrow DALY1 KM IKIaO R-wayASnthSt. Kv.8 MAT I TO-MORROW IIACUETT 41 W. If way Eve. I II. Jaata.Thars.at JirUas.aU THE W1TCHIXS KOUI OELASCO KVOTJT.itA Sole dlro-V ot TAV1D RELABCU.

MARItlSDV CRKT riKKE rr.eecU I GEORGE ARLISST I THE DEVIL HAMUERSTEin ROOF iJeliy Mata. I Ger-svo Hoffraesa te -In Theatre Vlibi. blent. "7 MeOdelsaoha'S "gtortn flows- RorS A Ftilto" ALHAMBRA MAT IAIL.3e EVA WflMt In her own ellneJ vereV. -Two Vi.tM of SALO sad ttwee pis WALLAH'S VZl Iwir 0 'H nine nnrnTiniisH.n UltIL UUIIUNIm lb ti'-riy ai Up.

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