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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907. SIXTEEN PAGES. ONE nr? VT 1 Greater 'rw Ywrtt, TUsw j. BRYCPS MESSAGE ONE Of SYMPATHY, HE SAYS London Pilgrims Give a Farewell Banquet tovHim. MANY EMINENT MEN ATTEND Reld Speaks cf th Impatience with Which the Two Countries Now Re-, gard Any Idea of LOKDON, Feb.

The farewell ban-quel given to-night by the London Pilgrim In honor of James Bryce. the new AmbuMdor of Great Britain to the United States, wae a notable Anglo-American event, the most prominent members of the Government and representative of aft branches of English official, social, tad literary Ufe taking- part In it. The banquet was given at the Savoy Hotel under the Presidency of Field Mar thai Earl Roberts. The dlntnr hall was superbly decorated with flowers, flags. and national emblems, the colors of Great Britain and the United States being- Inter twined.

Mr. Bryce occupied the post of honor at the right of Iord Am bassador Whltelaw Reid sat at Lord Roberta's left, while War Secretary Haldane and other members of the Cabinet. 'parliamentarians, and diplomats, Including Sir Mortimer Durand. the lata Ambassador at Washington, the Japanese Ambassador, and many others made tip an assemblage of exceptional brilliancy. Ambassador Raid, in proposing the health of Mr, Bryoe, referred to the pres ence of the Primate of All England, (Dr.

Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury,) and ot conspicuous representatives of the Government, Parliament, the great uni versities, English literature. Journalism, and business, all testifying to the pride with which his countrymen saw Mr. Bryce set forth on his new duties. Mr. Reld added: The good-will of the hour will not create any Illusions as to the nature of those duties.

He knows perfectly cone better that he Is sent, first, to look scrupulously after the Interests of his own untry. We should not give him half so hearty a welcome ourselves if we did not expect that of him. But, next, he knows Just as well that the interests of this country, as of sure, are best promoted by keeping the peace. Of ooursa any diplomatist who doe not steer his course by that North Star in these days la a mere anachronism. But duty Is nowhera else so clear, so overpowering, as with the diplomatist la any way intrusted with responsibility for the relations between the two great nations nearest to each other In the whole world, history, language, blood, belief, common Meals and aspirations.

That is ah honorable task to undertake promoting tarn-Inns', ot- these great m- ttcna to keep in friendly touch with each othir. The: is none more so in the whole round of public service." Circumstances make it alio for your guest an. easy task. "At the heads of the two Governments stand two statesmen with, unsurpassed records as peacemakers his Majesty King i Edward VII. and Theodore Roosevelt.

It is not too much to say that 'each has the confidence," not only of his own people but of the world alike in his desire for pence and his knowing how to secure It. How well are supported In their respective Foreign Offices Is known to all vrho have business with them. Tour Ambassador will find 'our Mr. Root very much the same man as your Sir Edward Crey. with tho same elevated views, the same calm lucidity of thought, and that habitual fairness of temper and habit hd looking a subject over on all its sides' before reaching a conclusion about It which may be permitted to call by the large name of Anglo-Saxon.

Under such rhWf discussions proceed with the Idea ef discovering Justice and conclusions are facilitated by absolute candor. There has never been a time when the two peoples were. so glad to be friends or when they looked with such Impatience on the Idea Of i permitting anything to prevent it. Incidents which a few years ego would have set both countries in a blase are now habitually brushed away or laughed out of sight. The two peoples cava better business than watching each other for causes of offense and they better read th destiny to which they ac soth In concluding Mr.

Reld aaid: "The selection of Mr. Bryce has been accepted as a compliment from the mother -country to her giant offspring in the West can assure him a welcome as cor- dial as ever fell to the lot of British representative, and I wish him in hignew aa I confidently anticipate, another distinguished and successful career." ilr. Bryce, In responding, confessed that he had not words to acknowledge the treat kindness shown him. He some-Umea wondered, he said, if whether In go-hig to the Western Hemisphere he was ot going to another and better world. He expressed himself as deeply sensible Of the warm welcome accorded to him.

tad thanked the American Ambassador the good -auguries With which he sheered him en la undertaking a new and responsible task. The difficulty would be, w. Bryce said, to lire up to it- Ot all the duties a roan- could undertake none was higher or more difficult of fulfillment than, thoso given to him, and If he had aw. ocvii rncourajjea oy to mevny rrienaeUt both aniinttHssi V.sm mtsrht htkwsa sT --wwmv -w exw ui5w Mtsv a-Sraa tated In underUking them. Mr.

Bryce then rapidly reviewed the re--ons of Great Britain and the United States for the 'past century, and referred to the steady growth of better feeling between the two countries since the time of his first visit to America In 1870. "The United States have grown so great that they no longer need, as they did a century ago, to be self-assertive," std Mr. Bryce.i Having became the 'arsest and the most wealthy among communities, they are respected everywhere and know lU During the hist forty or fifty years Great Britain and the United States have come to know and Understand each othor better and to read one another's writings With these guarantees there la a better chance that their friendship will be durable. Neither has ny caune to quarrel with the then Each vuunu-y uas as much territory as she can i.iw.' I rui.v ana eacn country Pud of n- u. tir i Pmk1 the other.

We in England are! Proud of havtns suh a ehild aa America, asd th the Americans are oraud that the arlier achievements of Great Britain, in which they shared, have Seen sustained ise the separation. "This Is the sentiment of pride and brotherhood that the English envoy is Quired to represent In the United. States, "ever has the spirit of peace been more -asjilsuoTMly the rullr.g spirit of both peoples. If a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean were suggested, no objection to it would he raised to this country." Continuing, Mr. Bryce said ho was encouraged by the thought that the message he had to deliver was a plain and simple one.

it wss a message, he said, of true sympathy in weal and woe; a message of friendship between Great Britain and America that, both countries trusted, would stand unbroken through all the ages. -Sir Mortimer -Durand, toasting "The Visitors." said that President Roosevelt's last words to him on America were of congratulation upon the relations of two countries. Jn the Presi dent's own words, "nothing could be more satisfactory." said Blr Mortimer War Secretary Haldane, Lord Roberts, ana outers baring spoken, a. cable aage from Joseph II. Choate.

on behalf of the Pilgrims of the United was read, and the proceedings came to an end. The- guests Included many of the most notable figures of the alovernmeht, the two houses Of Parliament, the Diplomat ic corps, the army and navy, the clennr. as Wen as representattves'ot the literary. Journalistic, and artlatio circles of London, and of the American colony, among ua oeing: air Alfred Arnold, Chancellor or the Diocese of Oxford i O. H.

P. Belmont. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Paymaster General ft. K. Canatoo, F.j Lord Carrlngtou.

Bit John Cockburo. Prof. -A. V. Dicey, Robert Donald, editor of Tne mronbsle; Lord DtacuDon, tho Kevl Robinson Duckworth, Ceton of Westminsters Bit Christopher Fsrnasa.

VL P. H. Rider Haggard. Henry Huxley, War Seoretary Haldane, Henry Arthur Jones, the Japanese Ambassador, lord Kinnalrd. Mr.

Justice Kennedy. Qen. Sir. Neville Lyttleton, the Earl kof Lathom, the Rev. Malcolm Maecoll.

Canon of NRtponi Sir Claude Mac Don aid, Oan. Blr WUl lam Nicholson, Blr Herbert Perrott, Sir Fred erick Pollock, C. Arthur Pearson, proprietor of The Standard: Major Gen. Blr Alfred Tur ner. Robert J.

Wynne, United Btstea Consul General. Mr. and Mrs. Bryce hare definitely sr ranged to sail for New Tork from Liverpool on the White Star liner Oceania on Feb, 13. GERMAN TREATY WITH US Report That tho Administration Hopes to Arrange Tor Reciprocity.

Lokdow Traxs Nbw Tork Timxs. Special Copyright. 190T, By The Niw Tork Timxs, LONDON, Feb-. 6. Tho Times' Washington correspondent says: Well authenticated Information reaches me that the Tariff Commission sent to Germany has reached a provisional agreement upon which the Administration hopes to base a reel procity treaty.

An attempt will bo made to ratify the treaty at a special session of the Senate after March 4, when tho Republicans will have tho necessary two- thirds majority." :2 Spteial Tkf Nrw Far TtWs WASHINGTON, Feb. has been known for some time that the' Tariff Commissioners have arrived at' an under standing with Germany concerning a provisional arrangement, which would be in force until Congress could take up the question. What the exact nature of this arrangement 1s will only be known after the- American Commissioners reach Washington. i A reciprocity treaty seems out of the question, for. even if the Senate should ratify it, which Is, unlikely, it would remain a dead letter until the House of Representatives had enacted a bill to give the treaty -force, as the time limit given by the Dingley law for the conclusion of reciprocity treaties long ago expired.

There has been some talk ot amending Section Three of the Dingley act, which provides for the conclusion of commercial arrangements by the Executive. A series of articles is enumerated in that section on which the President may lower the duties In exchange for certain advantages granted by foreign nations. This schedule of articles may be enlarged, it doing so means the possibility of coming to an understanding with Germany, WOMAN KILLED IN CARRIAGE. Two Men Injured, One Mortally, In Vehicle Hit by Freight Train. 1 Sptcial to Tit New Ytrt Tmis.

LONG BRANCH. N. Feb. crossing the LOng Branch Railroad tracks at Chelsea Avenue a carriage was struck early this morning by a northbound freight train and the occupants were tossed into the air. The train stopped, and the crew went to the aid ot the party in the carriage.

They found Bertha Goo-theil dead. Stewart Sherman with a broken back, and George Morris! the driver, with a broken leg. The train took the injured men to the Monmouth Memorial Hospital, which Is near the tracks. Sherman will die. Miss Goothell and Mr.

Sherman were returning from the charity ball ot the Mon month Memorial Hospital In the Lyceum, fhe crossing was dark, and Morris did not see the approaching train until It was upon him. In the daytime there la watchman at the crossing, but at night it is left unguarded. Miss Goothell was 27 years old and the daughter of Emll Goothell. who lives on Broadway in this place. Mr.

Sherman is a contractor and is about 28 years old. He is the son of Hiram Sherman, a well-known resident of Long Branch. NO FIGHT, SAYS C. G. GATES.

Laughingly Denlea Story of a Set-To i with Hit Valet. Sptcial Tht Nrw Fsr Time. I CINCINNATI. Ohio. Feb.

Charles O. Gates, son of John VT. Gates, the financier, arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel this forenoon, and promptly denied a telegraphed story, from Columbus that he and his valet had engaged In a fight as the result of a mistake of the valet as to trains for Cincinnati. i Mr.

Gates took, an easy position in a big chair. Albert, tho valet fat question, began lathering tho broker's face preparatory to applying the raaor. Mr. Gates smiled through the soap at a group of reporters, Come here looking for tho winner the fight, eh? said he. Say, do I look as If I could get the decision over Albert? Tw vn.i notice in skin off sav knuckles 1 ifi; v0 reullv dot look Tike i V.J? 1 1 Si miiq Wi7 UfVCl Up A 111- tie dining car? Well I should say noli Kothlng of tb kind ctra pit.

By the way. I dlifer from my dear old Sd in some way, and cne of them i Seiyy'SSd 1 is said that know is not true ought to deny It, and so 1 do." Bnroett's F.xtr-t ef TiisH Is Cae eat, by Vfst. St, EXHAUSTED HORSES DIE IN STREETS BY DOZENS Sriowfall Causes Suffering S. P. C.

A. Tries to Check. FOOR KILLED IN 3 BLOCKS Many Driver Found to Have Failed to Provide Blanketaw-Two of Them Arrested. The number of horses shot yesterday as a result of Injuries sustained from slip ping on snow-covered pavements and ice- coated rails of the surface lines In this dty exceeded the record on a single day for many years. A partial list received at the office of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals accounted for nine horses shot.

Those killed outright by falls or shot by policemen and private persons without the knowledge of the so ciety probably numbered many more. Innumerable calls kept the two huge ambulances of the 8. P. C. A.

hurrying all day from one part of the' city to another, Most of these calls were In behalf of horses so seriously-Injured that shooting wae the only remedy possible. Seven horses, however, were taken in the am bulances to veterinary hospitals. Some of these were suffering from falls, but most Of them had contracted spinal meningitis from standing unblanketed while over heated from hard driving. Forty horses were unharnessed and sent back to their stables by officers of the a P. C.

either because the horses were completely exhausted or because their shoes were not provided with snow nails. The number of horses killed yesterday "was more than three times the number of fatalities on the first day of the snow. The snow fell in fine dry flakes, and after attaining a depth of several inches at forded as good, a foothold to horses ai does a sandy road. The trouble began yes. terday when the snow had become partly packed by travel and frozen solid, or had been cleaned away no closely that the snow nails pierced through the thin layer remaining and blunted their points on the asphalt.

The Ice-coats on the rails of the surface tracks retarded the advance of horse vehicles almost aa much as it did the speed of the cars. On cross town lines, where the travel was heaviest and where only the space between the tracks was free of snow, long lines of drays would be seen creeping along, the wide feet of the draught horses slipping on the rails in a vain reach for a foot hold. Here and there were cars, creeping aa slowly as the teams and unable to go faster, even if the way had been clear. The grades in Harlem caused many -accidents. In Eighth Avenue, between 112th and 110th Streets, four horses were lying aeaa at one time yesterday afternoon.

Buireruag horses could be found in al most any block in the busier sections of Manhattan. oiciub osnea were scattered on manv of the sloping streets by the Society for tne prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets, east of Fifth Avenue, the streets around Madison Square, and others down town were so treated. Many private persons tried to improve the streets in front of their houses by scattering ordinary ashes and sand, but these materials were quick ly pressed Into the snow, and freeatng. left the street aa slippery as before.

The efforts of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals were not confined to horses Injured by falls. More than a hundred hack drivers were forced to blanket their horses. If, as was often the case, the driver was out of sight In a saloon, the horse was blanketed bv an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Several times when horses were found standing with their heads hanging down, In complete distress, they were simply driven by officers to the stables of the society and left there, to be found by their drivers to-dar. Fiftv suffering cats and dogs were also taken up by the wagons of the society.

umy wo men were arrested on charges entered by officers of the 8. P. a. A. These men were Michael Springer, a truck unver, ana jona caauon.

an express driver of Newark. Commenting on this small number one of the officers of the a. P. C. A.

deplored the lack of citizen members to report cases of cruelty. We haVe fourteen men cftvorlnor Man. hattan regularly," be said, but they can't see everything." bupt. Charles M. Hankinson of the S.

P. C. A. said last night that the only way to prevent accidents was to sprinkle all the streets with steam ashes. He advocated this plan Instead of the hopeless one of titatiltnav Vt snvar nrn ua us su? una.

Commissioner Craven of the Department of Street Cleaning received a communication yesterday from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, requesting; tmt. In view of the slippery condition of the streets and the great number of horses that were falllna all over tho city, the society be authorised to appoint a number oi inspectors, who woukl be empowered to stoD department ash carts and have their contents scat tered over had stretches of pavements. The Commissioner renlled that he would have to refuse) to grant the request, though he was -in entire' sympathy with the motive that prompted It. In most of the side streets, the Commissioner said, the snow was left untouched by the department, and only the coming of warmer weather removed It. If ashes were rread over this snow they would remain undisturbed until the white-wing brigade again begins to swep the streets.

The result ot this would be an unsichtrr and perhaps unsanitary condition of the street, for an Indeterminate period. When the streets are so badly snow-blocked. ash-removal service la verv much crippled, barrels of ashes and of garbage rapidly accumulate in flat houses and even in private residences. If any permission was given to spread ashes In the streets, the Commissioner feared that it would lead to the indiscriminate use of the highways as a dumping ground for overloaded ash and ararbag-e barrels. Commissioner Craven, however, took a note of the particularly bad grades mentioned in the society's communication and issued orders that they be sprinkled with sand.

MANY POOR PEOPLE SUFFER." Storm Brings Heavy Demands on the City's Charitable Institutions. Exceptional demands have been made upon the New Tork Association' for Improving the Condition of the Poor, at 103 East Twenty-second Street, and upon the other charitable Institutions of the city since the commencement of the recent snowstorm. In ao tar as has been possible, these demands have been met, and an appeal for haa been made by the New Tork Association for Improving the Condition Oi tne roor to prevent a aericii in i bt. a c.nequeni cessation us service- among ine poor. That reports of the suf ferine; amona tl That reports of the suf ferine; amona the poor are not exaggerated is evidenced by the following note which was forwarted to the association by the Principal of a publio echool who had received PUJ dear af why IsadoVa'werT absrfrom wether and she haven bin use too autcsh hard winter and her dose ant quite thick enuft for the cold whedther and her mother haven bin heair long enuft to by close to etan tne com mat wny see assent so often.

ONCE SHOT AT ROOSEVELT. Spanish Veteran, Here, to 8te Presi dent, Fired at Him In Battle, He Says. On the Ward Line steamer Mexico, which arrived yesterday from Havana, was Emanuel Gonsales. 40 years old, who served a Corporal under Weyler In the Spanish-American war. Aa he was In the fight at Kettle Hill It fa the desire of the veteran to go to Washington and aee President Roosevelt before he sails for his homo In Madrid, as he believes he shot at the President in that battle.

After the war Gonsales went to Port-au-Prince, where he opened a store. The loss of an arm In bailie Impaired his activities, and under that handicap he had to give up business. He sold his belongings and sailed hence so that he could satisfy the ambition or his last years- see the President, whom he is convinced he once tried to kilL He saya he is sure of a welcome at the White House from his old enemy, whom he so much ad mires. DEAGL ENGINEER ON FLIER. Congressional Limited Rushed Through Philadelphia at Unusual 8peed.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. Con gresslonal Limited train on the Pennsylva nia Railroad, which leaves Washington for New Tork at 4 o'clock, ran through this city to-night at terrtfld with the engineer, Joseph, Toms, dead at the throttle. The train, which was made up of seven buffet, dining, and parlor cars, makes two stops in this city, one at West Philadelphia, and the other at North Phlla-delphisf. Shortly after tho train left West Philadelphia the fireman, Harry Mlchner, noticed that the speed of the train was When it rushed through Falrmount Park and neared North Philadelphia, the fireman called to Toms and receiving no answer climbed over the big bolter Into the engineer's cab to find Toms dead with his hand on the throttle.

His head was hanging out of tho cab window and had been crushed by striking some object along the road. Mlchner supported the dead engineer on his arm and brought the train to a stop at North Philadelphia, where a new en gineer was secured and the train proceeded to New York. Toms was 48 years of age and lived at 117 Miller Street, Newark. CROWDED TRAIN ABLAZE, But Engineer Rushed It to 8Ution Ahead Before Any One Waa Burned. When a crowded passenger train on the Newark branch of the New Jersey Central Railroad was leaving the Arlington Avenue Station In Jersey City yesterday afternoon a woman In one of the four cars discovered a small blase underneath the seat in front of her.

There was a' panic In the car, but the engineer put on extra steam, and rushed the train into the Communlpaw Station before anybody waa injured. The lire was trie result or an overheated steam pipe. The car was damaged about $300 worth. ATLANTIC CITY FIRE SCARE. 1 Building Ablaze, with Fire Plug Fro zen, Threatens Whole Block.

Special to The Nrw York Timet. ATLANTIC CITT, N. Feb. 6. Fire.

started. It is supposed, by an explosion of gasoline in the rear of a tailor shop in the Flaherty Building at Atlantio and New York Avenues, just before 11 o'clock to-night, gave the business section, of the city a scare before it was under control by the firemen at midnight. A dosen scantily clad families fled from the upper stories Into snow-covered streets. Three women, overcome by smoke and fear, were rescued from a balcony by firemen. Operators at the Western Union Telegraph office at the.

Atlantio Avenue end of the building refused to leave their Instruments, although', smoke almost suffocated them, The exact damage cannot be estimated. but owing to the dilapidated character of the structure it will probably not exceed $3,000. The building his been afire five times In two years. WOULDN'T CUSS FOR A BISHOP But a Damn Slipped Out When Dr. Potter Miased Hla Train.

Among the speakers at a dinner of the New York Credit Men's Association at the Hotel St. Denis last night were C. L. Chester and the Rev, Dr. Francis M.

S. Taylor of the Church of the Ascension, ML Dr. told several stories. One was about Bishop Potter. It ran: One night Bishop oter had finished confirming a class in Fiahklll Landing.

He missed the last train to New York. A preacher, knowing the Bishop's predicament, told him a 'certain man, named Peter, would ferry him over to Newburg In a rowboat, where he could take a train to Jersey City. The Bishop waa told that Peter swore most profahely. but never touched Intoxicants or tobacco. The Bishop hired Peter.

When they reached the other side, they learned that the last train for Jersey city had Just left. Blsnon fouer asaea Peter to say a few words appropriate to the occasion. replied Petw, I'll damned if I'll swear for a- roan who takes the view of the temperance question ymi do." HAUSER WANTS MORE PAY. State Treasurer 8aye He Considers $5,000 le Small Pickings. Special TU Hew York Tims.

ALBANY, Feb. flL State Treasurer Ju lius Haoser. who was a baker In Suffolk County before his election, told the Ways and Means Committee to-day that he eon sidersd his 13.000 salary small pickings." He appeared to orgs legislative action for the increase of salaries of some of his subordinates, and also launched a request for an allowance of $1,000 for expenses. The Treasurer formerly had this allowance," he aaid. "but it was cut out for some reason last year.

Wallenmeier waa told lost year that the extra IUU would be made up some time or other by an increase of salary, but the salary Is stilt the same. When I think what the salary is as compared to the responsibility, I thftrk g.V Is small pickings, You- know that the coat of iivinjr has greatly increased. Down in Congress omethlna; has already been done about this inoTvaaea cost ox living. LteeUre Birthday A Clti It. Via N.w Jersey ey CwtraL W.

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P. M. All S-bour vesUbuled boflt ears I Adv. 1 MORSEBUYSSOUND LINES FROM THE NEW HAVEN Pays $10,000,000 for New England Navigation Company. COASTWISE TRADE MONOPOLY Latest Acquisition, 'Obtained Through J.

P. Morgan, Givea Him Absolute Mastery. Negotiations have been closed here between Charles V. Morse, as bead of the Morse steamship interests, and J. Pier pont Morgan on behalf of the New York.

New Haven Hartford Railroad, for the sale of the entire Sound steamboat ser vice controlled by the railroad to Mr. Morse and his associates. The. sale will probably come formally before the Di rectors of the New Haven Road for their approval when they meet here on Satur day. It was learned yesterday that the deal was completed, so far as the principal parties at interest are concerned, at a conference held in this dty last Monday night.

Thomas F. Ryan is reported to have been present at this conference. but what Mr. Ryan's interest in the mat ter, if any, may be could not be learned yesterday. It was suggested, however, that he might have a hand in the financ ing of the purchase, which la understood to involve upward of $10,000,000, although the New England Navigation Company, into which the New Haven Road's Sound liners have been merged, is capitalised at only an.ooaooo.

Glvea Him Coastwise Trade Control This recent merger comes as the completion of the ambitious plans for tho control of the steamship lines in the coastwise trade which Mr. Morse is known to have cherished for, several years. It places him and his associates in the position of dominating almost abso lutely this trade. With the exception of the Morgan Line of steamers plying be tween New York and New Orleans, which the Southern Paciflo Company owns, and the Old Dominion Line, between New York and Norfolk, and the Joy Line and two smaller Independent lines, between this dty and Boston, he now will have the control of every steamboat con cern of importance in the traffio situation between Portland and other Maine ports and the Gulf. The' way for it has been paved by the Incorporation, the first of this year, of the Consolidated Steamship Company.

This Is a Maine corporation with a capital of $60,000,000. which was understood at the time of its formation to- be intended for a holding company for the lines that Mr. Morse already controlled. At that time nothing waa said, and nothing was known, so far as the publio was con cerned. about the scheme of acquiring the New Haven Road'a Sound service, and.

It waa not; until the acquisition of the Maine Steamship Company, on which Mr. Morse waa understood to be bidding, by the New Haven interests, that there was talk of further developments In this direction. Warm Rivalry Was Threatened. It was generally believed yesterday that the merger waa the outcome of a prospect of warn! competition between the new boats of the Metropolitan Steamship Com pany, a Morse line, and the fast steamers building for the New England Navigation Company's proposed outside service between New York and Boston. The Morse interests took the first step in this matter by contracting last year for the construction Of two fine turbine steamers to ply between New York and Boston direct, and there was considerable specu lation as to what this departure would do to the Fall River end Providence Lines.

vhich have formed the principal water connections in the New England Steamship Company's service. Eventually it became known that the latter line would build also two fast steamers for the out side route. It is considered likely that the sale carries with it an agreement for an exchange ot traffic between the Morso steamship combination and the New Haven Hoad, for the marine department of that company has been earning in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 net a year, and it had pretty well eliminated competition between Sound ports and New York in the matter of freight transportation. Merges Vast Interests. The New England Navigation Com pany.

tne latest addition to the Morse system of coastwise steamships, controls nearly all the Sound traffio. It has lines to' BridsTeportT New Haven. New London, Norwich, Newport, Providence, and Fail River. The lines to these several "points were acquired by the New Haven road from time to time and were eventually merged In the New England Navigation Company, which is capitalised at It owns all told twenty steamers apart from those recently ordered to run rtne outsias route to Boston. -onie the lines were acaulred in connection with other railroads that were taken over by the New Haven, tms being true in particular of the Fall, River line, which came to the New Hat en when the latter acquired the Old Colony road.

The Eastern Steamship. Company, In which Mr. Morse has been dominant since its orranisa'lon. was incorporated under the laws oi maine in iwi. it nas of stocK ouisianaingr ana oi twinda The com Dan represents a meraer of several Boston and Portland lines.1 The more recent acquisitions or ir.

Morse include the Clyde Steamship Company, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, and the Mallory Steamship Company. The Clyde Steamship Company waa Incorporated about a year ago to take over the company of the same name previously Incorporated under the laws of Delaware. This company owns twenty-tw ahlna. including the new freighter Delaware, on which Mr. Morse has planned to take a raonin inp oi inspection or the reveral ports served by the Clyde and Mallory steamships.

Mr. Morse Is to be accompanied on this trip by a number ot his associate more or ira. airecur interested in the building up of the Morse steamship system. 1.. The Clyde Steamship Company has stock and of bonds.

The present Metropolitan Steamship Company, which was organised tn May, XiKjfj, as the successor of a Massachusetts corporation, controls the outside line from York to 'Boeton. It now has under construction two turbine steamers for this service. Its capitaliiation consists of 000,011 Stock and $1,000,000 bonds. The Mallory Bteamsnip company, ino otner Southern coastwise Una recently acquired hr Ur Unm. like the Clyde Steamahin Company, has $14,000,000 of stock.

All to Co Into Big Company. Ail of these companies. Including the New England Navigation Company, It la thought, will be merged in the $00,000,000 Consolidated Steamship Company incorporated by' the Morse Interests early in January this year. It haa not yet been announced, however, on what terms the several companies are likely to be taken over by the Consolidated Company. Besides these coastwise lines, Mr.

Morse and hla associate control the Hudson Navigation Company, which owns the people's Line from New aork to Albany. It haa been said that this company would not be included In the consolidation of Mr. unna'i nther ateamahln intereeta. Official I information on this point, however, is stW For re Threat end Cold ta Chest Omasa Oil. Trtai botu Uo.

ASV. ACCIDENT TO KING LEOPOLD. Carriage In a Collision (ting's Departure for France Postponed BRUSSELS, Feb. ft-A royal carriage in which King Leopold was tiding to-day had a collision with an eltctrk stroet car, The King was thrown violently to the floor of the Vehicle. He sustained no la Jury, but the shock was severe.

He was subsequently conducted to the palace. The accident has resulted in King. Leopold postponing his departure for the South of France. SWETTENHAM TIRED HIM. Kingston Incident Leads ari Englishman to Seek Citizenship Here.

Declaring that the Swettenham incident waa responsible in a measure for bis act, Noah Edward Barnes, an Englishman, took hla first step toward becoming an American cltisen yesterday before United States Commissioner Shields. Mr. Barnes-said that-he was Interested in mining, and gave his address as Barnes, Fremont CoL He la in New York to attend the annual meeting ot the Directors of one of his mining companies. He added that although the Swettenham incident was the direct cause of bis action, ha had contemplated becoming cltlaea for several years. TWO SHOT ON CRUISER.

The Tennessee's Master at Arms tit a Serious Condition. Special It The New at Time. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 0.

The Infraction of a rule forbidding smoking on the gun deck led to a double shooting on the cruiser Tennessee at League Island today. James Burke, a sailor under arrest for 'smoking, disarmed his jailer. Master at Arms Douglas, and wounded him and M. C. Carroll, the Assistant Master at Arms, with Douglas's revolver.

Douglas la in a serious condition at the naval hospital. One of the bullets struck Douglas In the cheek and another entered hla 'left side. A third bullet, which "went wild, struck Carroll Jn the head, but inflicted only a flesh wound. EXPELLED BY STATE SENATE. Morgan Found Guilty by Colorado Legislators of Accepting a Bribe.

DENVER, Feb. W. Morgan of Boulder County, a Republican, waa expelled from the State Senate this af ternon by a vote of 29 to 1 after a special committee had found him guilty of accepting a bribe. The finding was based on a statement made, to the Senate la 1005, by Morgan himself, who handed to the Secretary of the Senate $700, which he declared had been given him by Jamea M. Herbert and Daniel Sullivan la consideration of his promising to vote for Alva Adams, Democrat, for Governor in the Pea body-Adams contest.

Morgan voted for Peabody. DIAMONDS RISeTaGAIN. The De Beers Syndicate Makes a Price Advance of 5 Per Cent. The first general advance in the price of diamonds in more than a year was announced yesterday in cable messages received by importers who buy the De Beers stones in the rough from the London selling syndicate. All grades of stones are raised in price afcout per cent.

I Diamonds are now selling at the mines in South Africa for three times the prices which prevailed In 1889 when the De Beers Consolidated Mines. Limited, was formed. and the entire output of these mines goes to tne ionaon selling syndicate which sells to the diamond manufacturers of the world. CITIZENS SEIZE A COAL CAR. Cloverport's Town Marshal, with a Re volver, Holds Up Engineer.

Special to The New Yerh Time. CLOVERPORT, Feb. 8. The coal famine here became so acute to-day that the town Marshal and committee of citi zens stopped a train on the L. H.

As St. Lv Road and demanded that the conductor leave at least ohe car for the suffering citizens. He refused, and officials at LoulsvilV ordered him to go on with his train, but the Marshal, revolver in hand, compelled him to submit, and the citizens uncoupled one car. SLOOPS HEMMED IN BY Capt Jeffries and Crew of In Peril Near Atlantio City. Special to The New For Timet.

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. eXTapt. George Jeffries and a crew of alx men, the latter all 'Swedes, are froaen up on the stoop yacht Pittsburg In Grassy Bay. ten miles from here. Besides being packed in by the ice.

the boat is hard aground. There are only provisions enough for two days on board. The Pittsburg left this place Sunday afternoon for the Fishing Banks. They were caught, in the northeaster of Mon day and made a run for Little Egg Harbor and found safety. On Tuesday Jeffries tried to work down through the in side Tohorouf hfare and went aground.

Before she could be got off the yacht was packed in by the Ice floes. Kftorfs will be trade to-morrow by fishermen to take the Imperiled men off. BROWN ESTATE SURPRISE. Turfman's Property1 Appraised at 000,000 Inatead of $15,000,000. 5isl The New Far Tmti PITTSBURG, Feb.

ft. Many surprises are contained in the first and partial accounting of the executors of the lafe CapC S. 8. Brown, the well-known turf, man. filed to-day.

Instead of the estate being worth $15,000,000 aa supposed, the executors. W. Harry Brown end the Union Trust Company, appraise it at r. The famous Astoria Cup won by CapL Brown's racing stable is appraised at only $30. The libraries at hia eouatry house at Brownsville and his town house at Brown Station, which were estimated as beinr worth $30,000 by the.

Captain himself, are appraised at only $123. The libraries and the Astoria Cup were bequeathed to Miss Martha Lewis along with thirty, bonds ot the Pittsburg Brewing Company, valued at $23, POO. After an, CSrreR9 fa SeeteH that aoaae the kiasa Xaaoonaaas, j' SAYS VIIITE SI'fll HE WOULD KILL THM Witness Opens Way for the Plea of Self-Defense. SjSBBBSSBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBSBBBBBaeaS RIVALRY OVER EVELYN NESBIT Stage Doorkeeper's Story Deism Row Leads the Defense vTWs Wife or Hother First Witness To-da In the midst ot the testimony Intended to prove Harrv Thaw a tnti. emotional insanity when he killed Stanford White and' therefore trrespoaal.

ble for his murder, there waa introdueedl by the defense In the trial yesterday witness whose story wae evidently brought out to Indicate that Thaw had an additional reason-for killing White fear for hla own life. Benjamin Bomaa, at one time etaere-doo keeper of the Madison Square Oayden, swore that en Christmas Eve, 1908. Thaw went to the theatre a few minutes before Mr. White and took away Evelyn Neeblt. who waa then performing there, whereupon, said the former, doorkeeper, when Stan ford White found that he was foreetaUed, he came out of the theatre" with a revolv er tn hi hand, and declared Til shoot that before daylight!" i It was the first plain Indication afnosi the rambling speech of Mr.

Oleaaon In opening for the defense that the Thaw- lawyers depend ret only the Insanity plea, but are taking advantage ot every other possible bit of testimony which may awakea an impulse in a juryman's to save tneir client. This was furthei emphasised by the significant declaration by Mr. Delmaa, the' new leading counsel, that his side, according to Its opening speech, would avail lUelf of every plea. -within the laws of this State to build up. its defense.

1 It came out also In the coarse of th days session that the District Attorney he in his possession the note which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw wrote to her husband during dinner at the Cafe Martin on the nig ht of the shooting, and Mr; Jerome re-i fused yesterday to hand it aver to counsel for the defense. It was. the defense d. clares, one of the causes of Thaw's rage against Stanford White. The architect came into the cafe after the Thaw party had sat down.

Mrs. Thaw saw him and wrote a few. lines to her husband to tell him of It. Thomas Mo-Caleb, one of Thaw's guests at the dinner, testified to having seen his hostess write the note, Mr. Delmas then announced that he be-' Ueved It was In the keeping of the District Attorney, and formally requested if be handed over to ThaWa counsel, ur Jerome and Mr.

Garvan sat with th! backs toward him without moving a mus cle. Two or three times he repeated the request, but the oounsel for the People took no notice. "I take the alienee of the learn tm. trlot Attorney." said Mr. Delmas.

due not to dUcaurteay but to a proper" conception of hia dutiealn this matter. I must prove this note la some ether Most of the other witnesses yesterday were called to assist in showing that Thaw waa Irrational on the night of June 25 and to-day his mother, Mrs. William Thaw, is expected to take the atand to tell of the Incidents of -hie whish show that he waa always of a peculiar temperament. It is also possible that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will be called before the court adjourns to-night, ao-cording to the definite announcement of the defendant's counsel, but If TbaWe mother la questioned first there will be very little time to begin her examination. Delmas Takes Full Charge.

A complete revolution had been made in the conduct of the case for the defense when the court assembled yesterday. John B. Oleaaon, who had been. Thaw's choice for his principal trial lawyer and whose first witness had gone le niece under cross-examination by the District Attorney, ceased' to take any active part in the proceedings. He occupied the place at the head of the table formerly given to Mr.

Hertridge but he had not one word to say In the calling and examination of witnesses, Everything was left to Dolphin M. Del- mas, the California, lawyer. Practically the defense began all ever again. When the court adjourned on Tuesday Justice Fttagerald had allowed two witnesses and one question to be withdrawn an til counsel for the defense were ready to cite authorities to Justify admitting the evidence. As soon as the court convened, Mr.

Jerome began to argue the disputed points. Mr. Delmas did not oppose him in the least, but declared that he wae prepared to withdraw th testimony and the line of examination objected to without argument. Then he abandoned for the time evidence of Thaw's predisposition to In--sanity, and. calling Roman, dsyeloped the theory of self -defense.

la one or two matters It wae dear that -Mr. Delmas was not perfectly familiar-, with the procedure of the courts of the State of New York, and Jn the afternoon -he gave Mr. Jerome an opening by aug geattng the admission ot a letter in evl- dene before it had hen formally proved. But he conducted the proceedings with vigor and skill which visibly raised the spirits of bis client. Thaw Guest Tell of Shooting.

In th afternoon eeesloo Thomae Mo Caleb, on Whoa arm Mrs. Thaw was leaning at the moment her husband shot Stanford White, gave his account of the tragedy. He described how he and Trux. ton Beal had been entertained by the Thaws at dinner and taken to the the.tr afterward; be told now the defendant left them Just before they had decided to g) away; he pictured the seen when the three shots rang-out, My God! Ilea shot! cried Mr a. Thaw as she heard th reports! Then.

when her husband cam op, ahe ran him and exclaimed: Oh. Harry, whv did you Co that? as4 fca reilledi i have saved your Cf.H A JtlcCale tcJJ ftTTT..