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uu THEISEW, YOBK SUNDAY. vrjlIL 16. AG BLAMES THE CONSUMER FOR MIS BIG GAS BILL Should Regulate Meter as Pressure Goes Up, Official Says. REMEDY AT THE BURNER, TOO A Pressure Is Changed Several Times Daily, Consumer Would Bo Kept Busy, Inquiry Counsel Suggests. Trn from bala-ic sheets, tax pnrts.

Irrigation of itorko and the like. wnre million were Involved In each question, the Stevens Oas Investigation Committee a while yesterday alter-nxin heard something about the mysterious prMi'r to ths Popular belief of the consumer, tbe iu rompanh-i turn on whenever It will do the most ood for tho gas companies. Brooklyn waa under the searchlight, and William N. Dykman, counwl for the Brooklyn union Um Company, declared that If the Consumers' bill went soaring on account of excessive pressors on hla meter. It waa not so much a question between the consumer and the gas company aa It was between "him and hla Intelligence, as the consumer could control the meter himself.

Arthur F. Stanlford. Assistant Treasurer of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, was testifying regarding the street light-ln- for the city. It developed that two types of street lamp were being used In IJrooklyn. one with jn open (lame, an-pther with a Welsbach burner.

The agreement with the city, witness said, called (or three cubic feet an hour for the open-flame type of lamp, but the company always supplied four cubic feet Instead, In order that Brooklyn might have good light In Its streets. Cross-examined by Mr. Dykman, the witness aald that this required higher pressure. With higher pressure went more leakage. As the street lighting was done on the basis of a lump sum for each lamp per annum, the company really lost by the transaction.

"What Is your minimum pressure?" asked Senator Stevens. Tiie witness said he hud left his tabu-ltd report In Brooklyn, and could not give the figures. Jourdaii. President of the company, who was present, said that It varied from one Inch to two and one-half Inches, which was the maximum. Consumers' meters are gauged for the minimum pressure, and thus rendered very sensitive.

What control cun consumers exercise over pressure at tho meter asked Mr. Dykman. IMUVATE CONSl'MERS REMEDY. They can regulate it. themselves and take what pressure Is required only, Then again it can be regulated at the burner.

It Is not necessary to turn the burner on full and have It blow." That would necessitate constant attendance at the burner?" 1 don't think so. The pressure does not chango every two or three minutes. It Is on two or thre hours at a time." Oh. well." Interjected Mr. Hughes, the consumer could employ an expert engineer to stand by and regulate the pressure both at meter and and thus control consumption.

It's all very simple." "It the higher pressure causes a foot an hour more consumption In each street lump, how much greater would the consumption be to the private consumer? Senator Page asked. "The consumption at a private residence or store can be regulated, where the street lump cannot be," replied Mr. Pykmitn. Nine-tenths of the people do not know anything ahout regulating, so is nothing In that." mud the Senator. Should the company be charged with the stupidity of the consumers?" asked Mr.

Dykman. by not? said Senator Page. Why don't you turn the gaa-cock at the proper r-Kure You are the ones who turn on the meter. Ih you expect a consumer to lush down In the cellar every time you ch'inge the pressure and regulate his me-tr?" "I wy." replied Mr. Dykman.

"that the Intelligent consumer will turn his meter cock to its maximum consumption so that when he wants to burn gas in his rsngn he cun lo so. and being an intelligent man he will turn down the key at the burner it will not blow." PRESSURE CHANGED OFTEN. Io you notify householdet3 when you make a change in the pressure? the Witness waa'asked. No; the pressure Is changed several times a day." How does the city fare with the street lamps when the pressure Is Increased There nobody to regulate them, and there must be times when they blow. as you call It." 'There are tlni- hn the city loses a little.

It does not amount to much," said the witness. Take a hoarding house keeper with a light going In every room. What do von think would happen If she ran through tho house every time the pressure changed and Into the rooms of the boarders to regulate the flow of gas at the burner. She would have to go into every room to see that the cock was turned, would she not? I don't have all the troubles you speak of in my own house." You probably do as the rest of us do-pay the bills?" suggested Mr. Hughes.

"Do you nay your bills. Mr. Hughes?" asked Mr. Dykman. I do.

and I never yet have run after export. I have never changed the gas cocks, and I am just learning why my tlll are ho high. 1 am om of thone consumer, at which you had jour fling." "It Is one way to fling at I he gas com-tMinien and a mighty cheap too," retorted Mr. Dykman. "Cheaier than the gas." suggested Mr.

Hughes. And of much the same quality." said Mr. Dykman. "That Is pretty good. Is It not?" asked Mr.

Hughes. TAX VALl'K TOO LOW. After a long klrmish. Mr. Stanlford was compelled to admit that the valuation of the company's street mains In a report to the Tax Commissioners last year which be had sworn to was too low by about Me had just admitted that had been added to the book value of the rompanW acqtiirvd at the lime of tho consolidation.

Mr. Hughes was trying to scale down the various Items on the schedule of assets in order to arrive at real value. While so engaged, he kd Mr. Stanlford to give the value of the street mains. He said that on buals of reproduction they represented of the company's prop.

r. Hughes showed the witness his sworn statement to the State Board of Tax ommlKKioners last June In which he had pl.ioej the value on the same basis at -You swr to that report. I Woe making It ou consult with your ensln. ra to wbth-r th- vlu mm iiHTrrtt A I lll admit tt I not consult the rniinnr 1 was iwrfertly hnet about It. though I si.hTiltt.-d It to Mr Dykman as I was aci-us-tonvd Aa f.ir the value.

1 took, that fro a ialn.nt made in si lM you not rrcoanlxo that thai was a l-ma natur. Thai you wfit rvndnng undvr a which Intended to ba accented a the of i trial statement of your company. Yet did not consult with anybody who enuld on the aubjevt? A. I conatdelvd it t. He tn truth.

1 1 toa't a what you ronstderad. Was It true' A. As I look uioa conditions to-day think It waa too low. v. Theaj your atatrtutnt waa not true.

Why you amy A. I won't admit that 1 tl1 a II willfully. That Is rot the question whether yoai talj It willfully or a-. Was It or waa It not a true valuation 7 A. It should hare bees higher.

WltneHs ald the value ought to have been placed at Sl-OUUVOt or at least To-d-iv the members of the committee, as kuv" of the Manhattan lighting concerns, will make a tour -of inspection of the Astoria ga plant and tho Riverside station of the New York Edison Company. STOPPED MURPHY AUTO: Tammany Chief in Party Whtn Chauf-: feur Was Arrastsd- Although the police of the 'West Forty-teventh Street Station1 deny It. and Bt- ryele Policeman Robert England aaya he wouldn't know him If he saw Mm. it is said that Charles F. Murphy.

Ider of Tammany Hall, was one of a party of four In an auto the chauffeur of which waa arrested for speeding ewrly Thursday evening. i A large tonneau automobile was stopped by England at Broadway and Forty-fctrth Street at BiW o'clock In. the evening. Roderick Collin, who gave his address as Pel ham Manor, and who la a civil engineer connected with the New York Contracting and Trucking Company, was running the car. John J.

Murphy, brother of the Tammany leader, and Alderman James Gaffney run the contracting company. There wer three men with Collins. Ha was arrested, and with the party-was taken to the West Forty-seventh Street Station. Collins waa balled out In the West Side Court Friday he was discharged for lack of evidence, the Magistrate holding that England had not held a watch on the machine to time It. When It leaked out that C.

F. Murphy was a member of the party Policeman England waa asked If he knew him. Who. the leader of jTammany Hall? he replied. Of course I know him.

I krow him well." The Sergeant on duty at the station when the arrest was made was asked for the names of the three men In the automobile. He said he did not have them. England was again approached. Was Alderman Gaffney one of that party?" i No. he wasn't there." "Was Murphy in the party?" he was asked.

I lM I don't know. 1 wouldn't know him Ir I sawJilm." AXE RAID ON BOWERY. Hogan Smaahed Into Placa Which Had Bourke Restrained. Acting Inspector William Hogan and several' detectives attached to his office yesterday afternoon raided an alleged poolroom on the Bowery, near Bond Street. Two men were 1 arrested, and the names of fifty men who were found in a rear room on the second floor over a saloon, were tr.ken.

after which they were allowed to go. A telephone, racing charts, cards, and other paraphernalia were confiscated. The Inspector and his men surprised tho lookout on the stairs, and weilded their axes so rapidly that those above had no time to tacape. Two heavy doors were smashed. The place, some weeks ago.

obtained an injunction restraining Acting JJourke irora Keeping it unurr "ul lance, the Captain having stationed a man In front of the door. ROWER CAUGHT UNDER SHELL Allen Had Trouble Getting Out of Seat After Upset. A shell In which George Allen of the Nassau Boat Club was rowing was upset In the Harlem River late yesterday afternoon. The rower had considerable difficulty In extricating himself from the seat, but at last managed to crawl up on the upturned shell. He was taken off by members of the Hudson police squad.

Allen left the boathouse at One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Street and rowed up the river, practicing for the annual regatta on Decoration Day. When he reached One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street he started to turn the shell around, and in some way overturned the boat. His feet were strapped In the boat. BODY IN RIVER HOFFMER'S. Overworked Wall Street Clerk Disappeared Three Montha Ago.

The disappearance throe months ago of George C. Hoffmer, bank clerk employed by a Wall Street was explained yesterday when the body of a well-dressed man picked up in East River at the foot of South Second Street. Williamsburg, was identified as hla. Hoffmer lived at 1.252 Lexington Avenue with his wife. He had been married less than a year.

When he left home on the morning of Jan. VI he told his wife that he was worn out. and that every time he -saw the river the water seemed to call him to end the worry of overwork. He did not "return A reward was offered, but no trace of him could be bad. It is believed by the dead man's friends that he Jumped off a Fulton Street ferryboat.

An acquaintance read In a morning paper that the letters G. were engraved on the watch fob worn by the man whose body had been found, and he made the Identification. CHILD GETS $15,000 VERDICT. Jury Finds Against Both Car and Wagon In Collision. Five-year-old Annie Griffin of Beacon Avenue.

Jersey City, got an awurd of yesterday In a suit brought by her parents against the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Street Railway Company and Morris and William Helney. produce merchants at Griffith Street and New York Avenue. On Nov. 20 last a trolley car in which the child and her mother were passengers collided with a truck owned by the produce firm. A window of the car was broken and a piece of glass struck the child in the left eye.

destroying the sight. Kach defendmit tried to prove that the other was responsible for the accident. The verdict, according to the opinion of lawyers, will hold against either defendants unless they agree upon a compromise. It is probable that an appeal will be taken. TO ASK $450,000 INDEMNITY.

Claims Against Mexico for Murders and Outrages by Yaquis. CHICAGO. April 15. The Mexican Gov ernment will be asked to pay S4.iO.O(iO as in- demnlty for the murder of J. K.

Mo Ken- sie and Dr. Robert McCoy of Chicago, Walter Stuplnger of Kewaunee. 111.. An.1 M- A. Call of Toledo.

Ohio, and the suffering Inflicted on C. K. Torrington of Salem, Ohio, and H. E. Miller of Iami Angeles.

by Yaqul" Indians on Jan. 19 last. Torrington. on of the survivors of the massacre by Ypqiris In the State of Son-ora. Mexico, said that a claim of IIOU.UOQ wouli be made for each of the four victims slain and each would be demanded by Miller and himself because of the terrible experience through which they paysed.

Boy Charged with Forgery. NEWARK. April 1.. William Zwang-sheln. firteen years old.

of 407 Elizabeth Avenue, waa held in ball in the Sec-, ond Criminal Court to-day on a charge of forgery'- It waa alleged that the boy signed the name N. Steinfeld to a promissory note for Slut. The hole was produced In court, and the boy admitted having signed It. but alleged that he did so at the reqvest of a strange man who had gone Into his father's office. He denied that he had profited by signing Ua note or that he had bandied any of the money realised on It.

Quick Work on Oregon Exposition. PORTLAND. April 15. President H. Good of the Lewis Clark Exposition announced to-day that every de-l tall of the fair would he completed ati least three days before the date of open-1 Um.

June MISS JAMIN MARRIED' DESPITE HER PARENTS Slipped Out and Wed Third Cousin Frank C. Howland. TOOK FRENCH POODLE ALONG Mat Howland Far from Statsn Island Homo Family Objection Baaed on Relationship. The marriage of Miss Lily Janln of Grimes HilL Stapleton, S. and Frank- Clifford Howland of Brooklyn on Wednesday last waa announced yesterday.

They are third cousins, and they had to use some diplomacy to bo married. The new Mrs. Howland ta the daughter of Jacob R. Janln. an insurance broker, who died about three years ago, leaving a large estate.

Mr. Howland Is connected with the American Woolen Company, and related on his mother's side to the Vanderbllts. The Howland formerly lived on Staten Island. Some eight or ten months ago Howland's mother decided to go to Staten Island to renew old acquaintanceships. She and Mrs.

Janln had been intimate friends. Mr. Howland went with hla mother, and the two third cousins met. For a while after that a good deal of Mr. Howland's spare time was spent In Stapltonl somebody whispered that the third cousins were engaged.

At least Mr. Howland imagined after that a certain coldness on the part of the Janln family, except Mlsa Lily, of course. He was also informed about that time, as he explained last -evening, by his fiancee, that his suit would not be permitted by her family under any circumstances. Their objection to him was based solely upon the fact that the two were cousins. It Is declared.

The couple, however, still met in 8taten Island, but at the residence of a mutual friend. They had some narrow escapes from detection, as Mr. Howland smilingly confessed last evening. Recently her sister's engagement waa announced, and Miss Lily was asked to be maid of honor. She refused on the ground that her presence might cause embarrassment.

Her real reason for declining waa that she knew ahe would be a bride before her sister became one. On Wednesday Miss Janln slipped out of her home. She said that she was going to a girl friend's house to luncheon. At about the time that she should have returned to her Stapleton home, there appeared there a messenger boy with this telegram We were married at Christ Church, Tonkers, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. I.ILY AND CLIFFORD." Then it was found that Miss Lily had contrives to remove her wardrobe and belongings from the house.

Including even her French poodle. The weoding was formal enough. Every members of Mr. Howland's family who was well enough was present. The wedding party met at the' house of an aunt of Mr.

Howland on Warburton Avenue, Yonkers. and after the service bride and bridegroom went to the Howland residence, at Kit Union Street, Brooklyn, where a reception was held. Among the relatives present were K. L. Howland.

Miss Stella. Howland. Mrs. E. Atherton Lyons.

Mrs. Emma Bragg, and Mrs. Os-trom. MOURNS IN CORNET SOLOS. Park Slope, Therefore, Hopes for Restoration of Carl to His Girl Brlds.

Out on Brooklyn's Park Slope Cupid mopes around In tears these days, while an unhappy boy bridegroom sits dejectedly In his parents' bouse tooting away on a cornet and hoping against hope that bis girl bride's papa will sue out a writ of habeas corpus to restore him to her. Everybody on the Park Slope hopes that eighteen-year-old Carl P. Waters and his eighteen-year-old wife, who was Miss Annie V. Ptnckney, will be restored to. each other.

Carl's neighbors particularly desire this outcome. They think It might induce him to give up cornet playing for a while. The romance began at a New Year's party less than four months ago, where the two met for the first time. Carl looked into, the eyes of Anrfle over the ice cream and sponge cake and knew that his quest of an aflinlty was over. Annie felt about the same way.

Carl began calling upon Annie at her home, 08 Sterling Place, but her family suspected nothing until he started In to cultivate a mustache and take an Interest In the cost of living; On March 31 they were married at the Pinckley house. After the ceremony Carl returned to Ms home, 175 Seventh Avenue. A day or two later he broke the glad news to his mother and father. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Waters. Mr. Waters, who is a dentist, hustled around to the Pinckney house and received confirmation of the news. With his mother's eye upon him. Carl has since remained at his home, while his bride s'ts In tears a few blocks away, and will not be comforted.

All day the youthful bridegroom blows in a melancholy way Into a cornet, while the neighbors tear their hair and beat the innocent atmosphere with their clinched fists. The Plnckneys have consulted a lawyer about it all, and the air is full of talk about writs of habeas corpus and proceedings for the annulment of their marriage. Life Saver Gets Verdict Against City. John Conley, a member of the United States Life-Saving Corps, yesterday obtained a verdict In the Supreme Court for 75U damages for a broken leg be received by falling; into a hole in the roadway at East and Cherry Streets. The Jury found that the city was negligent in permitting the hole to remain in the atreet an unreasonable length of time.

Louis Steckler was Conley's counsel. Tulane's Alumni Dine. The annual dinner- of the alumni of Tulane University, Louisiana, who are living in this city, was held last evening at the Caf Martin. Wirt Howe acted as toastmaster. The speakers were Charles O.

Maas. Hugo Kohlmann. Eads Johnson, Ralph 8. 8chwars. Francis I Kohlmann.

William W. White, and Adolph Eastman. Archbishop Farley at St. Gabriel's. Archbishop Farley visited the scenes of his labors as a priest yesterday afternoon St.

Oabriel Church, In East Thirty-eeventh Street and received a warm welcome from his former parishioners. The visited 8t. Gabriel's to administer confirmation to 420 boys and girls of the parish. Wife Ran Away, Killed Himself. CHICAGO.

April that his wife, whom he left behind ll. Austria three years ago. had run away with another roan. John Shable. thirty years 'of age.

committed suicide to-day by drowning in the Chicago River. 8hable came to mertca to mage a home for his wire and child, and by strict economy had saved enough to buy a cottage. He was about to send for them when friends informed him of what had happened. Trains Fatal to This Family. SANDY HILL.

X. April B. Griffin, a farmer of this place, was probably fatally injured by being struck by a Delaware and Hudson passenger train here to-day. His skall was fractured. Griffin's father mas killed in a stmllar manner at a crossing two miles from the scene or to-aay accident eight years ago.

while an aunt met a like fate only- a few years ago. I rJHE DUTY Of! Standard OH Defense Is Confession That th Protection Is There. re Caller mf The Hew York Timet: In the answer of the Standard Oil Company by Mr. William H. LIbby In Thb Tim ks of March 28 to my letter on the arfleld Investigation and the tariff on oIL published In Tmk Scjtdat Tm of March 10.

it Is confessed that ws Impose a duty on oIL but new matters are urged to excuse this surprising legislation. The principal thing Is that by the Ding-ley Tsriff act the Standard Oil Company is favored not only with protection but with very high protection, by indirect language which professes to put petroleum, crude arid refined, on the free list, yet by a proviso takes It off the free list and In reality taxes It over 10U per cent, when coming from Russia, the only other country that exports oil at alL It seems to be the prevalent opinion that petroleum Is not protected by the Dingley Tariff act. and that the success of the Standard Oil Company and the monopoly that It enjoys are not based on tariff favors. Thefeaders of thought are not free from this error. For example, Collier on Trusts.

Page 257, erroneously says that the greatest of all American trusts, the Standard Oil Company, is not aided by the tariff. One -question for Mr. Garfield would properly be the method employed for obtaining extraordinary protection by. the unforeseen practical working- of obscure provisions upon outside fact with the result that this high protection is obtained without the knowledge of the American people and almost beyond their belief that It exists. This protection was not given to the oil Industry in Us Infancy to enable It to get on Its feet.

It did not appear In our tariff legislation earlier than the McKJnley bill of 1892, when the Industry was sufficiently prosperous to produce 47,000,000 barrels and export 17,000,000 barrels, snd had for many years before that exported much more than naif the product. But It appeared In the McKlnley bill In a disguised form with crude oil on the free list and a duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem on the refined. It then got Into the Wilson-Gorman bill, which President Cleveland refused to sign, under a proviso in the free list giving it 40 per cent, ad valorem protection. This was expanded In the Dingley Tariff act so as to gtva all oil imported Into this, country from Russia over a hundred per cent, ad valorem, or nearly 14 cents a gallon. Mr.

Libby considers that the removal of the tariff on oil rests exclusively with the Cxar, and Is not traceable to the protectH-e policy of the United States. But here again there Is error, or it is by an act of our Congress that the Cxar of Russia is given power by a scratch of his pen to impose and to continue in the United States the protection of 1U per cent, on this necessity of life, or at his pleasure, without notice or request, to remove all protection and confer a boon on every American household. But I am not so much concerned with what the Csar may or may not do. The Congress of the United States that enacted this obscure and Improper legislation might now put petroleum, crude and refined, on the free list, where belongs, and where It Is generally supposed to be. and the Imposition of It is directly traceable to the protective policy of the United States.

Mr. LIbby. Justly considered the Standard OH Company's Ambassador to foreign countries, defends this high duty by citing the good that the Standard Oil Company does In employing labor. In constructing works, in supporting favorable foreign trade balances. But In 'America the return in the output so much surpasses the highest cost of labor by the day that the element of cost In the production Is much less here than In Russia or any other country.

There Is not much human labor In refining oil. It is mainly process work, and while wages on the average In the last census year sre $1.84 a day. the average labor in all petroleum products Is only 16 cents a barrel, or one-third of a sent a gallon. But the duty under this obscure and complex arrangement In the Dingley tariff act is S6.S6 barrel, nearly 14 cents- a gallon, or forty-three times all the wages expended In refining oil. a duty objectionable not only for its enormous amount and for the roundabout way In which it is levied, but because it Is levied by the pound Irrespective of the quality, thus bearing most heavily upon the cheaper grades.

Again; the Standard Oil Company sells oil abroad much cheaper than at home. but Mr. Libby says that the difference is not so great as I pointed out. and claims that I compared the retail price here with the wholesale price abroad. But this Is an error, for I have before me The New York Commercial, which gives the export price for petroleum refined in barrels by the cargo at 74 cents a gallon, standard white, and these were stated to be the prices fixed by tbe Standard Oil Company.

The domestic price for petroleum refined in barrels, jobbing price, the same day, was 13 cents a gallon, or over 60 per cent. more. The Standard Oil Company does not need this protection. As Mr. Libby says, it ships more than one-half its product abroad and Introduces it without the aid of foreign Governments, and sojnetlmes against Government opposition, into nearly every country in the world, and would introduce it Into Russia, as Prof.

Chandler aays. were it not for the Russian duty on oil. But why should we Increase the price of oil to our own cltlsens by an unjustifiable protective tariff, on the plea that Russia shuts out the Standard Oil Company from Russia by a protective tariff there, seeing that the Standard Oil 'Company musj; also meet this same Russian competition outside of Russia on neutral ground? We have then high protection not supposed to exist, enjoyed by our second greatest trust, enhancing the price at home of a necessary of life which is used bv every household In the land, first laid after the industry was firmly established and was exporting more than half Its product at much Tower prices than the other half was and Is now sold at home. We have the remedy In our own hands by the simple repeal of the unjust pro-Vision. Sandard Oil economies and business methods and division of labor an.

improved processes and pipe-line transportation and the valuable Inventions owned by tt have enabled It to beat tbe world both In refining and in delivering its prodnct wherever consutned. But the artificial advantages given it by the Dingley Tariff act enabled it to receive, lawfully It must be admitted, millions for Its product in this country by what is virtually tribute money paid by every householder In the land. When public opinion, crystallises about this question, it jnay appear that the Standard Oil Ckmlpany would be better off without this protection than with it. end that its greatest asset would be the genuine, well-founded, and intelligent re--spect and esteem of the American people. It would be gratifying to know that the retail price of oil here, quality for quality, was precisely the same as that of oil abroad, and I venture to think that the unfavorable differences in such prices are the complete condemnation of the protective tariff In many of its schedules, end will lead, and ought to lead, ultimately to Its repeal.

What would not tbe beneficial result be if gradually all artificial advantages created by law should be removed by the repeal of the laws which created them. advantages, and inequalities which are God given and are the natural endowment of some, are not to be mini- mised. but no inequalities created by law. no privileges to tne isvorea tew, especially no secret privileges, is a broad, liberal snd enlightened poil-y. without waste and without logical JOHN S.

SEYMOUR. Xew York. April 6. 1903. 'S: FURNITURE Tbe Standard in quality sod style.

i i i 1 1 Summer, Furniture requremsnts in all th; light woods and fashionable finishes, with unequalled choici and values in all lines. Bedroom Suites In natural oak. nat-. ural mahogany. curly birch, maple and white enamelled.

Brass Bedsteads exclusive de- signs, made from best materials to insure durability In- wear. White Enamelled Bedsteads, with brass trimmings, in large assortment. Dining; Room Furniture In golden oak. weathered oak. cathedral oak.

Flemish. Antwerp. Ac. Separate department devoted to Mission and Flemish Furniture. Special display of Mission Clocks and tho famed KUlot Hall Clocks.

R. J. HORNER CO Furniture Maksrs and Importers, 01,63 03 West 23 I Street. WING FITS AND CHUS CITE POLICE PICKETS v- GeJ an Order Restraining Capt. Kear and Hi Men, 200 COUSINS INTERESTED Pell and Doyers Street Places, They Art Quite Free from Taint of Alleging that the police are oppresxlnc thenembers of two Chinese literary organisations in Chins town.

Daniel O'Reilly and Maurice Meyer, counsel for the China men, yesterday obtained from Justice Blanchard an order directing Police Captain Kear to show cause Monday in' the Supreme Court why an injunction should not issue restraining the Captain and his men from interfering with the Chinamen's club rooms. One petition to the court was signed by Chong Bock. President of the Wing Fut Club, and the other by Chu Wing Kin, President of the Clan of Chu. The plaintiffs also ask for damsges from the Police Captain for picketing the Wing Fut premises at 'JO and Zi Pell Street and the Chu Clubhouse at 10 and 12 Doyers Street. Mr.

O'Reilly told the court that the Clan of Chu consisted of two hundred cousins, who met frequently to keep up the family friendship and for educational, literary, and business purposes. Whenever they played Chinese dominoes the police raided them Then the police had a habit of stopping one cousin from going in to see his other hundred and ninety-nine, telling him: "Thissl a gambling house; If you go in there you'll be arrested and carted away In the patrol wagon." Sometimes the police smashed innocent tables and wooden chairs that had never done ai.y wrong or violated any moral precept. On one occasion a policeman grabbed one ot the cousins Chu by the neck and shouted: i suDDoae von re unu -roDacco. dux ir you go up there I'll make you Chu Hay." Although lie admitted that a 1'ollce Magistrate fined the cousins each. President Chu Wing Kin said that his twenty-six relatives did not understand the charge sgainst them and bad no counsel In the court to defend them when tbey were flnad.

Chu Love, the Secretary of the Chu Clan, who resides at -1 Pell Street, submitted an affidavit to the court 'n which he declared that the club was purely literary and social and knew nothing about gambling. President Chong Bock of the Wing Puts submitted an affidavit in which be declared that the suspicions of the police that the Wing Kuts were gamblers were founded on the fart that the members of the club met frequently to read Chiueae classics and discuss pictures from the Chineoe magazines. One of Capt. Kear's policemen said that Wing Fut was the Chinese for Wing foot. He added that the members of the Wing Fut Society were Chinese liercurys or messengers of ihe Chinese God Fsn Tsn." snd that the police yf the Elisabeth Street Station believed they had wings attached to their feet.

Judging from the manner In which they flew over flre-eacape balconies at the sound of the trol wagon gong. MURPHY-McCARREN TRUCE? So Asserted Dinner Coffey Calls Upon the 8enator. It was asserted last night, after a beef steak dinner of the Kings County Derrio- I era tic Club, which is the organisation club of Brooklyn, that negotiations for peace between Charles F. Murphy and Senator McCarren had practically been completed. It was declared that Mayor McClellan had negotiated in the matter of peace.

These negotiations, it' was said, have been in progress since Mayor McClellan was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the' Hamilton Club a week to two ago, and it was declared that he had offered bimself as an arbitrator. It is also 'positively declared that the call of Senutor McCarren on Friday at the City Hall was not for the sole purpose ot admiring the pictures of former Mayors of the city, but to discuss terms of peace, and that the terms were very Advantageous both to the Mayor and to the Senator. Yesterday Isaac M. Kapper, who is known to be the legal represehta-tive of Senator Michael J. Coffey, Tammany's representative In Brooklyn, called upon the Senator and had a long conference with him.

The Willoughby Street forces were represented In the person of Registrar Matthew K. Oooley. DON'T LIKE THE PARK WALL. Its Removal Asked For by Fifth Avenue Residents. In regard to the proposition for the removal of the wall of Central Park from Fifty-ninth to One Hundred and Tenth Street, the Net York City Improvement Commission announces that a public hearing will be held on May 1 at 3:30 P.

M. at the offices of commission, in the Park Row Building. This wall is an eyesore," says a petition signed by many names, "and has long since outliretl Its usefulness, having been originally erected to keep out the cows, goats. Ac. of the neighborhood, and.

second, the creating of a new Park Drive and brid le path along the westerly-side of the present promenade on Fifth Avenue." The petition purports to be signed by the following property owners along the avenue: Henry Pbipps. John 8. Phipps. J. Henry Smith, Lloyd 8.

Brice. Henry H. Cook. W. A.

Clark. Isaac V. Brokaw. Mortimer 1 Schiff. F.

W. -Wool worth. Joseph F. Cullman. Joseplf Hammer- rcniag.

uun mern. aj mrmtn, o. H. Kann. is.

j. a. nan. A. Halt.

Oeonre Eh ret. Charles A. Gould. Frank Tllford. Henrv Morgenthau.

estate of Gersen Siegel, es- tate of Bernard Arnold, estate of James Hooker Hamersley. Bryan I Winters, Helen G. Bostwick. Solomon Sulzberger, and A. H.

Bliss. Plans have been drawn up by Lrfuls A. Rime, formerly Chief Topographical Engineer for the city. HORNER Millinery for Easter Wear. Distinctive new models in elaborately or SIMPLY TRIMMED HATS- A most- complete line of clever Ideas, marked with originality in colors to match any costume.

Shapes Include Toques, Turbans, Polos, Walk-Inn Hats, Plateaux effects and Lingerie Hats TRIMMED JET POLO TURBANS, S8.0O and SiO.OO values, for $5.75 and UNTRIMMED HATS. In Chip, Hemp. Milan and all the new fancy silk braids, in the latest colors and smartest shapes, Flower Specials. NEW PASTEL COLORS IN GARDENIAS. 45c.

value, for FINEST LILACS, large bunches, Sl.lO values, for CLUSTERS OF ROSES, with hanging buds, 95c value for CLUSTERS OF BLUETS, 50c. value, for Easter TAFFETA SILK, tucked and hemstitched in all the desirable shades, $3.75 value TAFFETA SILK, hemstitched, $2.50 values for PONGEE PARASOLS, with colored Taffeta silk borders, 52. 50 values for. Ribbons for Easter. SATIN TAFFETA, 4 inches, and MESSALINE TAFFETA, 5 Inches, In the new tones of RESEDA.

BLUET, VIOLET, MARINE and CHAMPAGNE, at, per FAILLETINE WEAVE, the new RIBBON for MIL-, LINERY and GIRDLES, 47 shadings, 6 inches wide, 35c value, per Women's Belts. I PEAU DE CYGNE SILK BELTS, in all the leading 1 FLEXIBLE LEATHER BELTS, with gilt or black Buckles, 76c values for THE NEW SILKSUSPENDER Easter Cards Orders by Mail filled the day received. BR.OAD WAY. 8TH AND 9TH STREETS. DELUSIONS Or; WITNESSES.

Expert Attacks Voracity of Insane Men Who Appeared in Murder Trial. NEWARK. N. April 13. Dr.

Albert B. Nasa was the only witness called today at the trial of the four, attendants of the 8tate Insane Asylum who are accused of causing the death of Patrick Corriaan, an inmate of that Institution. He spent the morning In explaining the difference! between mental, physical, and delayed shock resulting from Injuries, lie said that Corrigan bad suffered from delayed shock, and gave that as the reason for the man's having collapsed suddenly a couple of hours after the alleged assault. Tbe conclusion drawn from Dr. Nash's testimony was that the insane witnesses who testified so strongly for the State and said they heard Herder and Redden, two of the accused attendants.

hammer Corrlgan with a bat, might have becomt victims Scdelusions. because of the great excitement in the ward. These delusions, Or. Kash held, would be strengthened by repeated interviews with the patients as to tbe cause of the excitement. Such patients, he Insisted.

i nigni untrue siory. reauy oenev- I In. it In tma Whn Tir N.lh taatlfleH When Dr. Nssh testified to the injuries received by Corrtgaa and said they 'might have been received during the struggle, the Chief Justice remarked somewhat sharply: I believe it to be the duty of this Jury to say how the Injuries were inflicted. I lint's Perseus." A large number of re-will impose that duty on them, and they water colors made in Venice, full of are under oath and that duty cannot be shifted to any one else.

They cannot base their decision on what the experts say in the matter, but make their own conclusions." Do you think that an Insane person." asked tbe Prosecutor of the physician. could be coached to tell a story which had been prepared for and drilled into bimt" I do not think so," was the doctor's response. LETTERS IN ROGERS SUIT. H. C.

Deming Directed to Produce Bay State Gas Correspondence. Judge La combe In the United 8tte Circuit Court yesterday signed an order for the Issuance of subpoenas to Henry C. Deming, President of the Mercantile Trust Company, and William Baldwin, a lawyer, of 11 Broadway, requiring them to appear as witnesses before C. Austen Browne, Special Examiner, and there produce certain correspondence and data in their possession which, according to Oeorge Wharton Pepper, receiver of the Bay State Gas Company, have an Import ant bearing In an action commenced in the Federal Courts of Massachusetts by I iL i No date has been set for the examina- tlon. lot louioune.

wno won sgMinm i to sn application msde by iards a German and sn there is in the Grn Prl 1IWJ' According Receiver Pepper sion oi mr. i ming 01 tne Trust Company certain corespondence be- Henry H. Rogers, Albert C. Burrage. rederick W.

Whitrldge, Kate I. Harrison. Frederick P. Harrison, J. Edward Addicks.

and the Bay State Gas Company. President Deming also has In his possession, it Is asserted, correspondence between his company and the New EnKtand Oai and Coke Company. Including Henry M. Whitney, and also certain letters received by the Mercantile Trust Company from Emerson McMillin. or Emerson Mc-Millln and Stephen Pen body.

This latter correspondence. It is stated, ensued beween 1W and Mr. Baldwin, the petition aUeges. has tn his possession a certain prospectus or circular entilet Memorandum In Rela- Companies, tasued ne Fall oflj7 in lUlllirvlKfll Willi vitam unuci a-. agreement for the sale of the stocks and bonds of the New England Gas and Coke Company." FURNESS LINER OVERDUE.

Left at. John's, N. F- for Halifax a Week Ago. -HALIFAX. N.

April FuT- ess Line steamer Jupiter, which left St. N. F-. for this city seven day ago, has not oeen signteo. ana thought some accident baa befallen her.

The passage usually Is made in forty eight hours. Tbe Jupiter left Uverpool on March 8 for this port, but she encountered heavy gales, and waa disabled. Tbe accident so delayed her that she was out more than three weeks before the coast of Newfoundland was sighted. She put Into St. John's Harbor April 4.

and after repairing sailed four days later for Halifax. It is thought possible that she encountered heavy ice, and. is either damaged or Imprtaoned Dy Heavy ll Flft)fceighth Brockton Victim Dead, Tirv-v rvu- ituinm Atm tt 4 (ci IB uicu a. vvi A 1 uoJ i.4 night a. the result of Injuries received In the explosion and firs at ths shoe factory of R.

B. Orover tk On March 'M. Pierce's death brings the death list up 10 fUty-rlht. 11 aV, 7.50 95c 20 75c 65c 35c Parasols.4 $2.05 $2.10 51.05 19c 25c 50c 48c 95c and Novelties. Drorad's Detective Aieocj'n i No.

1 ANN ST. WE DO NOT TAKE DIVORCE WORK. TeteaibeM CertlsJMlt. ART NEWS HERE AND THERE. A near ro ll.rv In Sr Jamaa'a Tuulnii called the Carfax has been opened with a collection of water colors by John 8.

Sargent, ho Is thus a rival single-handed to the American water rolortsts who are for the first time trying their luck over there. Ha nhnwi the twirtralt nf Xfm. Gautereuu of Paris, catalogued as Mad-sme which created so much talk that th paii-ter Is said to have lost all pleas- tiM. In made himself a resident of London. It Is the' picture with low corsage, chains over the fair shoulders, and a style of portraiture like that of Piero delta Franceses, the lady being painted In profile with a dangeroui mediaeval look.

Others are the "Japanese Dancer," painted at the Uni versal of x-HSt; the nude young Kgyptinn girl, the copy In water. colors of a Van Dyck nt Panshanger. "Rachel de Countess of Southampton." and thope of Donatello Gattameluta and Cel- light and vigor, but without the Old World charm, form a contrast to these earlier aquarelles. Apropos of the Claude Monet exhibition: by the Copley 8oclety in Boston, an Indig- Monet's pictures aren't popular. The Copley Society has made a mistake What Bps ton 1a ns want is another collection of VAI which is fair, or bids fair to draw a crowd.

The man in the street likes figares and: taction. He wants to see something doing." But the Whistler show did not offer ac tion, least of all tn the figures and the paintings and bronzes of Frvi-erir Hpmlnrtnn. although In tremtn-- dous movement look at the cowboy snd trapper bronzes at Knoedlcr's do not seem to draw the crowd. The likelihood la that paintings like those by Ckiurie Monet should not be exhibited in numbers because they are too strenuous in color: they-sre always trumpeting either loudly or low, and th eye wearies like the ear. The failure of the Monet exhibition to interest the public may be said to prove once more that pictures designed for dark-' Ish interiors, having their notes forced, so to speak, through the ahadows.

ought not to be subjected to the try inn top- light of big exhibition galleries. Two years ago Barcelona advertised a prise of fT.OOO for the best scheme for embellishment of the city. This prize has won Djr a Frenchman. M. Jaosselr 1of Toulouse, who won against two Span- He took 0, I7w Mr.

Hermann painted by Herr rttt von ffrumhaar of Vienna and Berlin. are on exhibition until the IMh st the Sc'hauss Galleries. 204 Fifth Avenue. Paintings and sketches by WUl. Howe Foote.

Instructor at the Summer School of ths Art Students Leaarue In Lym. sre shown at the American Pi" Arts. 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, until. April 15, Inclusive. That lofty obelisk to be erected on the tip top of Cspe Cod is very nesr beconilisg sn actuality.

Only 12,500 is how needed to complete the required. As soon as thst Is paid in the State will double it. and S5K.OOU will be available for the monument It Is to called the pilgrim Compact Monument, and will stand near provlncetown. a a The Camera Club has been electing officers for the coming year. In place of Mr.

Frederic E. Ives, the new President Is Mr. F. Benedict Herxog; In place of vf. K.

Lee Ferguson the new Vice Presldest Is Mr. Malcolm Stuart, and Mr. Ferguson takes the Secretaryship vice Mr. John B. Kerfool.

The new Treasurer is Mr. H. T. Ieonard. Other members of the Board are Messrs.

Kduard J. Stelrhen. ''j Frj a. Kneer. and Jatnos T.

Vredi- iseaman. a. i iniirj, burgh. The Committee on Admission con sists of Messrs. H.

B. Held. Kdwari Heim. and It- J. hcowi-y.

me rimr Club has quarters at West Thirty-f irt Street. The venerable Dr. Edward Everett Hale has been modeled In bas-relief by Mr. Wilt La. Favor of Washington.

D. C. The portrait Is a half-length seated, nearly. In profile, with hands before him. holding a rr.anuscr1pt Of "The Man Without a Country." from which be appears to be read- Three prises have been awarded by the 1 Corcoran uauery.

vtasiungTon, i- 1 th best pictures at the annual exhibition. 4 "cln. months ago In Ths Ti-m; second tm Ieonard Oohtman's "Kail I-andw-ape. snd the third to The Green Cala-h. oy iilss J-Uera Iay Ilaic..