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11 HIE NEW YORK TIMES. SU-H) AY. SEPTEJBER 21. 1C WILL ASK SCHIFF" ABOUT EQUITABLE DEALS Committee Seeks Light on Sales by Kuhn, Locb 6 Co. MR.

PERKINS TO BE RECALLED 'Th Counsel Wish to Tract Hit Profits $38,000,000 Transaction with New York Life Jeeos H. Schiff will be celled to the Stand In the Insurance Inquiry this to explain to the Armstrong Investigate Com ml I tea about the securities that Ktiba. Loeb A Co. have sold which hsve found heir war ultimately Into Mm vaults of th Equitable Ufa Assurance Society, This decision was reached by counsel for tho rommlltM after tha testimony of Assistant Secretary Henry ftoerra tVln-throp of tha Equitable marie It apparent that thar ara a great many thing yot to ba clearad up about the aoclaty'e '-dlcata tranaactlona and other ptirrhum of securities. In connection with tha announcement that Mr.

Schiff would ba a witness. It was learned yeeterday that counael fir the Investigating committee ara determined to make a mora thorough Inquiry tnto Equitable affalra than waa made by either th Frlck committee or Supt. Hen-drtcka of tha Mate Insurance Depart ment. Tha cause of thla determination la tha lack of details In the schedules which Mr. Wlnthrop waa a tie to produre at tho request of the committee, allowing the Equitable syndicate Tho tnlnutea of the Equitable' Executive Committee, produced by Mr.

Wlnthrop at tho hearing on Friday contained up to tho praaent year little mora than a stereo-typed entry! The minute of the pre-vtnua meeting wer read and adopted and purchases and aalea of eerurtttes that time approved." Tha Information about the financial tranaactlona of the Equitable In paat year the Arm afro tig committee conaldera Inadequate, particu larly aa ao many ayndlcatee have come to light of tha "Jamea It. Hyde and Aeeoclatee character In which Directors and officers of the society have purchased securities snd aubaequently sold them at ao appreciated price to the Equitable and have pocketed the Intermediate profit. To 8ck Earlier Syndicate. Tha committee la particularly anxious to find out about the syndlciite of enrl'-T date than thoae covered In the Frlck and Mandrlcka Inveatlgatlnna In which Gen. Louis Flttgersld, who waa formerly President of tha Mercantile Truat Company and Oeorge II.

Squire, until lately the financial manager of the eoclety. have appeared aa managers. Other syndlcstes la which the Equitable has purchased securities through or from the Mercantile Truat Company will alao be the object of careful inquiry with a view to finding out whether offlcera and Dlrectora of tho edctety were members of them aa of tho Hyde, Fltsiereld, and S-juIre syndicates It waa said yesterday by a man who has long been In touch with Equitable affairs that Oen. Flttgerald, who waa a lifelong friend of tha lata Henry B. Hyde, wua the man who originated the aub-yndlcate Idea In the Equitable.

Consequently counsel for the Inveatlgntlng Committee are particularly anxious that he should go on the stand, but, unfortunately, they have been quite unable up to the present time rind out Just where Oen. Fltigerald la, and whether ha la within the limits of the committee's subpoena, Oeorge II. Rqutre la also under subpoena, but he I ao feeble that It la considered doubtful whether he will be able to take the stand. Alexander of the Equitable Is another man whom the committee would like to put under cross-examination, but It la dubious whether he will regain hta health sufficiently to admit of his testlfyng. These older men are the onea to whom counael believe that they will be obliged to look for an account of Equitable affairs prior to the yeara In which Jamea H.

llydo waa prominent In the society, and they are particularly anxious to get at the past because of their belief expressed openly yesterday that the operations of Which the Hyde and Asaoclatea syndicates are a type are but the continuation or at least the logical development of operations by Equitable inalders which have been going on for many yeara. Questions for Mr. Schiff. Two subjects have already come to light la regard to which counsel ror the committee want to aak Mr. Schiff aome quea- tlona.

One of these la the Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington-Long Island Railroad bond syndicate of luui, out of which Jamea H. Hyde and Asaoclatea took a participation of ap- Pa red from the teatlmony on Friday that r.ui'niii in January 01 iwim pur- 'SURE THERE IS GRAFT FOR POLICE IN POLICY And It Goes to Men High Up, Says Agent McClintocb i SUSPECTS HELD IN $5,000 Society Working to Get Evidence i Against the Real Backers of tho Lottery. various strike suits or the threat of such ttttgatkm. oliiicml contributions are la mrraat tar iboyl tLM.

of the ownry, leaving a balasce a little over JAMMJ. some. If not all of which, is believed to have found Its way through the ure Insurance chain to Albany. George W. Perkins is another witness whom the tnveaUgatlr.g committee will have on Its hands again.

Counael purpose to aak him for further explanations as to why his personal share of the profits accruln to tha Morun firm on the sale of some w.rtsi worth of securities to the New York ure should be out Counael want to know alao how It happened that Mr. Perkins In refunding this ilO.tsKi to the New York Life paid some tu.M.t by means of a voucher representing expenditures which he had made out of his own poo km tor tne company. inanea M. venner "i o. i who In a letter to the newspapers ae-maoded the resignation of President Mc- Call of the Kew lorn ure on riuy, i.l th.l if xfr MeCx.lt did not resign within a reasonable time he would apply, to the Attorney General to bring suit for Mr.

McCaii's removal. Mr. Ven ner has figured several times oeior liiinitmi In Wall Street, notably In a ault broiiarht to restrain the distribution of Northern Securities assets, and another Injunction suit Drougni at im time of the formation of the United SUtes Steel Corporation. The hearings this week begin en Wednesday. SAYS MONEY MUST BE REPAID.

Tennessee Commissioner to Insist on Restitution for Campaign Gifts. fatal is The S'rw York Timet. NASHVILLE. Sept Insur- snce Commissioner Folk left to-night for a 'meeting of Commissioners at Breton wood, N. H.

Before going; he said of recent developments In the New Tork In vestigation: "The contribution by the officers of life Insurance companies of moneys from the trust funds of the companies. for po litical purpoees la. In my Judgment, a gross misapplication of sucft funds and. without Justification from a legal or moral atandpnlnt. I do not undertake to pak for other but I believe that their vlewa coincide with mine.

Any company doing buslneea In this 8tate, whose officers have contributed anv monev from lt assets for political purposes for sny party; or have contributed morey from lis funds for any other purposes not consistent with proper Ufa on behalf of the policyholders must see to It that restitution la made of such funda to the assets of the company." SHIFTS CUSTOMS EXAMINERS. Secretary Shaw Orders a Shake-Up at the Tobacco Ports. Treasury Department has begun a csmpaign for a atricter compliance with the Dlngley tariff law by directing Oen. Burnett, Vnlted States District Attorney here, to bring proceedings for the confiscation of slxty-elx balee of wrapper tobacco entered by a New Tork firm at Tampa, and placed In warehouse In thla city. The tobacco Belted by the Government Is part of a conalgnment of 108 bales.

While the tobscco was nominally In the possession of 8elgas. Suares it Co. of a pretty good line on other men who are 128 Water Street, representatives of the i behind the policy game. There probably firm deny that It belongs to them, their will be new arresta within the next few days. These" men are divided Into two classes.

One class consists of those against whom we have enough legal evidence to act. the other of men of whose giiilt we ore assured, but sgainst whom we have Insufficient proof. The sltustion Is very difficult. Strictly speaking there are no policy shops either In Brooklyn or Manhattan. The runners have no established places of business.

They hang out In various saloons and formation which led him to direct an i make house-to-house visits after play, examination of the balca after they had I When they register a play they give no resched the wsrehouse In this city. The result was that sixty-six bales were found properly dutiable at the higher rate. These bales will be sold at public auction. Secretary Phsw has directed the temporary transfer of several tobscco examiners at a number of ports at which the product Is imported In large quantities. Seven ports are affected by tne Secretary a order.

The examlnera at New Tork no; New Orleans change places. The "The poller game Isn't run as It when Al Adams was operating. said Supt. McCUntock of the Society for the Prevention of Crime yesterday. The four policy managers arrested In Brooklyn at the Vesta Avenue house had been placed under bonds of $3,000 each.

The cases of the men arrested in Man hattan had gone over until Tuesday. Tho Superintendent was In his office In East Twenty-second Street, flushed with vic tory. "The system of graft Isn't the he continued. The police get their share. but It' doesn't begin at the bottom.

It fMI KtMl.ht Wa mui Vlhr tin I said yesterday that there was a police end to the raids, which was of the utmost importance, and at the same time expressed my conviction that the precinct police where the raid was made knew nothing of the existence of policy head quarters within their bailiwick. I repeat that statement to-day. 'The blow struck yesterday revealed the existence of a policy plant second In Importance only to the machine which had Adums at the throttle and which we were successful In destroying. That Smith and the three men caught with him are Inter ested In the proceeds of the present or ganlsa Hon I am fully convinced. They a-e principals, not employes.

There are others Interested with them, however. I will not undertake to say how manr but I believe there are fewer than a dosen. These men have been Identified with policy for years. They were In It when Adams was at Its head. The police officials who arc being paid for keeping handa ofr know these men.

They get their huah money for keeping handa off. It doea not at all follow that the precinct commanders are posted. At the Vesta Avenue headquarters which were broken up there was little to excite suspicion. What we shall do in the matter of polio connivance I am not prepared to say. We have as yet no legal evidence upon which we can act; but we expect to get it.

If we do we shall most certainly proceed against the guilty persons. I am Justified In saying that we have THE TIGER CAFE, BANKRUPTS. Creditors of the Mayor, of Avenue Not Fully Satisfied. Aaron Hanover. the Mayoa- of Ave nue who with his partner.

Oeorge Grata, ran the Tiger Cafe, in Centre Street, until they went Into bankruptcy In Juno, recently filed an application for a discharge. Just ss It seemed that the application would be granted. Engel. Engel Op penhelm. lawyers for the "creditors, have entered a protest.

It la alleged that the Mayor and his partner concealed from the trustee In bankruptcy assets which they had. For Instance, the attorneys for Stradt-m aa creditors, declare that Hanover, four months before his bankruptcy, drew out 1.000 In diamonds Jewelry to the value of $1,000, and real estate and leaseholds to the value of $3,000. Orau. it la alleged, concealed from the trustee real estate valued at $10,000. not Including $7,000 worth at Amltyvllle, L.

which be transferred to his wife, and cash, cigars, and liquors said to bo worth 11.000. When the petition In bankruptcy was filed it waa set forth that the assets were $.303 and the liabilities $28,341. The examination was held before John J. Town-send, referee. It Is said that the specifications of the protest are drawn from tho testimony of the bankrupts at that examination.

Tho Tiger Caf. according to their testimony, earned $110 a day. which is $960 a week, the tiger being locked up tight In his lair on Sundays. The examination revealed a curious source of income. When trade began to fall off, Hanover put Into the business $2,100 cash which he had drawn from rentals of real estate leased from tho city.

This real estate was mainly building which had been condemned for bridge orchool construction. Hanover made a business of getting such leases. At one time he hsd as many as forty houses from which he collected rent. The houses were in Essex. Hester, and other east side streets.

The Mayor of Avenue when asked what he was doing these days for a living, replied: catching the air. When I'm through with this bankruptcy I'm going into the hotel business." He said thst the diamonds he wore were given to him on memorandum to sell when ke could. PHYSICAL AILMENTS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Many with Bad Eyes and Some with Crooked Shoulders. IS THE SYSTEM AT FAULT? explanation blng that It waa Imported In good faith for other firms. It appeara that the customs examiners at Tampa found only six bales out of the consignment of ION subject to duty as wrspper." at the rale of per pound, the re matnder of the shipment being returned as containing less than 13 per cent, of wrapper, and consequently dutiable aa filler at only 33 cents a pound.

Iter Collector. Ptranahan received In- ERIE TO ISSUE Treasury Bonds to be Applied to Dayton Purchase and Improvements. The Erie Railroad, it was definitely announced yesterday, will In all probability finance Ita purchaae of a controlling Interest In the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton by the Isaue of the convertible bonds now In the Erie treasury. A meeting of the Dlrectora of the road Is scheduled for next Wednesday, after which a statement probably will be issued, setting forth the details of the proposed financing. According to report, the Erie will Issue all of the of convertible bonds remaining unlnsued out of the of these bonds uuthortzed two years ago.

It la believed that the purchase of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton will re- 1 are anxious to reconcile the Equitable 4 mat, ir records with Mr. Schlff'a testimony he- entire mo bonds are sold at thl kided for many Erie manage- participations or the Equitable would be The first $1,0.0110,000 of these bonds were In the name of James If. Hyde and Anso- i rlatwa. Kiihn, Locb at Co. sold no seiurt-I n.m sioca Chicago man goea to Tampa and the Bos ton man to Key West.

The tobacco at Boston will be in charge of the examiner formerly stationed at Tampa. The Key West examiner la transferred to Philadelphia, while the Philadelphia man goea to Chicago. chased of theae securltlea direct from Kuhn. Locb A Mr, gchlffa firm Counael fur the Investigating Committee are anxious to reconcile the Equitable records with Mr. ft hiff'a iHiimom fore Hupt Hendricks that from the first tlmt.

funda will ulso be prov part of 1302, when Kuhn. Loeb aV Co. re- reived a letter from James H. Hyde to whlcn tn the effect that all subsequent syndicate i menl haa In contemplation. ties to tha aocletv direct Another subject on which he will be examined Is the 1'nlon Pacific preferred stockholding syndicate, as the result which the Equitable got shares of the stock on a participation In the name Jamea H.

Hyde, but paid l.O'.tl.nst direct to Kuhn. Loeb Co. This has been one of the most mysterious of all Euul-tahlo tranaactlona. The Investigating Committee Is by no means through with the New York Ufa Insurance Company. That part of the New York Life's actlvttlea which were carried on by meana of funda supplied by executive order of President McOali and deposited in "Judge" Andrew Hamilton's account at Albany will be taken up Just as aoon aa additional data have been gathered.

Mr. Hamilton's Activities. The Inveatigatora believe that the activities of Mr. Hamilton at Albany were a great deal more extensive than has been thus far brought out. and the purpose Is to discover what relations, It any.

existed between Hamilton, a man named Fields, Eugene Wood, the well-known lobbyist, and an Individual known as Dlnkelsplel of Albany Eugene Neod Is at preen In the Northwest, bat Other witnesses will be ocestliined tn the hope of obtslnlng an explanation of what became of the of New York Life money, concerning which Hamilton haa given no accounting. Tha committee will alao aeek to' lrn how he happened to deposit llll.OM In the eUate National Iiank of Albany tn June and have a balance of but $17tl to hla credit on the Lnh Of September. tame rtsurlng haa been done also with the, known factors relating to tho Joan in the Mercantile Truat Compsnv to lames W. Alexsnner snd Thomas D. Jordan, formerly of the Equitable, aa True-teea.

and It Is sakt that to this so-calld yellow dog fund waa added the remaining after tho Equitable Society raid ITiiai.HT) of an appropriation of to the Meroantlle Truat Company on account of the earlier yellow doer loan which PreeMent Morton told about tn hla letter to tue toard the other day. (200,000 Carried Over. It la understood that about 300.000 was carried over in the $3,000 loan' account, J. W. A.

Account No. from the administration of the elder Hyde, leaving approximately ftosOtO ran up on the loan account since that time. Of this amount $400,000 la understood to have been used la the purchase of 87 share of Equitable tock which bave been made the basis of at or 'JO shares of stock for l.rtw bnnd. The coming isaue of bonds it was reported yesterday, will be made exchnngeaMe for the common stock at or Hi 2-3 sharea of atock for each $1. bond.

When the first lot of bond a was issued. Erie common was selling In the thirties, but now the stock is above So. AN ERRAND BOY'S "ACE DEAL He Sella $125 Worth of Goods for $2 and Gets Arrested A. H. Pentreath shares a loft on ths rtfth floor of the building at West Twenty-second Street with the Gospel Publishing Company.

Mr. Pentreath sells laces; the Oospel Publishing Company sells hymn books and the like. Three weeks ago Mr. Pentreath went away. He left his stock In the loft.

When he came back several days ha thought some of his laces were missing, but he didn't want to suspect any one connected with the Gospel Publishing Company. Testerdsy, however, he made an Inventory of his stock, finding that at least $l'i3 worth of laces had been stolen. He suspected George Manning, fifteen years old, of 555 Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn, who wss aa errand boy for the publishing company. Upon being pat through a severe test.

Oeorge admitted that he had taken the lace, and told the name of the woman to whom he had sold it. Detective Barnes of the Tenderloin Station went to W1U-lamvhurar and arrested Theresa Pita of Ml iouth Fifth Street. Must of the mtsa'nz luce was found In her notion store. Tne noy was ch trtted with grand larrny; Mrs. pita with.

ton property. She said she had pvj for the lace, not knowing Its value. Protestant Episcopal Convention. The annual Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Tork will be held on next Wednesday. It will open with a celebration of the holy communion la the crypt of the Cathedral of St.

John the Divine at 10 o'clock In tho morning. The delegates will bo received by Bishop and Mrs. Potter and Bishop and Mrs. Oreer on Wednesday ereulng at receipt for It. as they did In fhe old days.

There Is no record except the sheets, or books, which they send to headquarters. 1 have heard a great deal about crooked drawings drawings dictated by the play on certain combinations. I am by no means prepared to say that the drawings of to-day are fraudulent. Indeed, from the best information I have been able to glean, they are not held In New York at all, but In some place In Kentucky, from which the numbers are telegraphed In to headquarters. There Isn't any reason for a crooked drawing.

Judging from the slip and sheets captured yesterday and my knowledge of the game, I should say that of the f5.0O or SB.UOO dally play not more than 20 per cent. Is returned to the players In the shape of winnings. Of course, there are expenses to be met which cut down the profits of the policy ring, but If the chances of the players were cut any further than they are at present there would be no play." When the policy cases were called, before Magistrate Furlong, in the Gates Avenue Court Brooklyn, yesterday morning, Supt. McClintock waa on hand. The accused gave their names aa Mark Smith, 448 West Forty-first Street; John Dolan.

Coney Island Avenue; Thomas White, 100 Bowery, and Samuel Kuttman, 1,523 Eastern Parkway. Policy is the meanest kind of swindle," said Magistrate Furlong, wtlen the men were arraigned. It feeds from the pockets of the poorest people, and the men who profit by It are the vlla types of criminals. I will do everything in my power to help stamp out this vice. It Is a shame to see poor people having their savings stolen.

1 will hold you "tinder bonds of each for When the men had been reman led to await the appearance of bondsmen Supt. McClintock showed by his sheeta spoils of Friday's raids, that the great majority of bets were under cents. I found one bet of S1.W he said. I don't know who the sucker was that made It." The Manhattan cases went over until Tuesday by consent. Before they are tailed the police expect other arrests.

FILL NIGHT HIGH SCHOOLS. Registration Indicates That They Will be Overcrowded To-morrow. With a registration of 5.000 students during the first week of admissions, the thirteen evening high schools are in a fair way to be overcrowded when they open to-morrow night. This registration is the largest ever known in advance of the term. Six of the schools have registered more than XW) each, and one on the east side of Manhattan reports 810.

Among the new features of this branch of education this year are the two evening trado schools, one in Brooklyn and other 1n Long Island City. These schools offer the same Instruction In secondary branches as the other regular schools, but In addition afford special training in the following trades: Carpentry and Joinery, cablnetma king, pattern-making, blacksmlthing and tlnsmlthlng, machine shop practice, mechanical drawing, electrical and steam engineering, industrial chemistry, applied physics, advanced dressmaking, millinery, and domestic science. Tho new Bronx Evening High School, 160th Street and Boston Road, offers 120 nights' Instruction in languages, science, English, and business subjects. A list of the other regular evening high schools, with their locations, follows: FOR MEN AND BOYS. Harlem Public School No.

1M, In 116th St. East Bid Public School Nn. 20. RJvlnvrnn and Forsyth Btreets. West Side Public School No.

87. 120 West Forty-sixth Street. Brooklyn Boys' High School, Putnam and Marcy A vs. Eastern District Public School No. 122, Harrison Avenua and Hsyward Street.

FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS. Lower East Kids Public School No. 14T. Tfisst Broadway and Scammel Street. Harlem Wadlsish High 8chool, 114th Street, between Seventh and Elshth Avenues.

ITpper Kast Rld Public School No. T8, 900 East Forty-sixth Street. BroolclynUlrls- Hish School. Nostrand Ave nue and Halsey Street. Williamsburg; Public School No.

IS. South Second and Keap Streets. but HAZING AT COLUMBIA. Underclass Horseplay Barred, Cane Rushes Sanctioned. The Columbia students are beginning to arrive in town many new men, of course, among them and most of their talk Is about haslng.

This year the freshman Is to be exempt from the horseplay of under class rivalry. The university authorities say they will dal summarily with any such proceedings as characterised the Klngdon Gould affair last year, when ten or twelve sophomores attempted to capture one freshman. This Is abolished, but in its stead the Faculty, It Is said, lends Its sanction to cane and flag rushes. The students freely admit that the fights which are under sanction are more dangerous thtm the forms of haxlng which have been abolished. What some of the students regard as a further Inconsistency in the action of the Faculty Is the rule which requires the losers of one of the' fights to produce certain prominent men at the dinner of the other class.

This, the students say comes under the head of haslng. Man's Clothee Blown Off by Qaeollne. Oeorge P. Elliot, 1 years old. a plumber's assistant, while at work tn the basement of the house at 231 Bast Fifty-sixth Street yesterday afternoon, was severely Injured by the explosion of a gasoline lamp.

A policeman who ran In found Elliot lying on the floor badly burned. His clothes above his waist had been torn oft. He was taken to the Flower Hospital. All the basement wlnts. 1- ihe house were blown out by the force of Reception to W.

H. K. Redmond Tonight. Corporation Counsel John J. Delany will preside at a reception to bo tendered to William II.

K. Redmond. by the United Irish League of New Tork. at Carnegie Hall thla evening. Mr.

Redmond, accompanied" br hla wife. in.t returned from Australia, where he was mtaatonary work en behalf of the SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGY OPENS. Teacher Characterized as a Mixture of Parent, Priest, and Policeman. New York University began Its seventy-fifth year with the opening of the School of Pedagogy yesterday. The exercises were held in the Assembly rooms of the Washington Square Building.

Addresses were made by Chancellor MacCracken. Dean Balllet. Supt. Wilham E. Chancellor of Paterson, N.

and Dr. Luther H. Gulick. Chancellor MacCracken. In tho course of his address, said: "There are many people In the United States who ore not fit to be equal partners with the true citizen of the United States.

There are 66 per cent, of foreign born or of foreign parentage In this country. It is the duty of you teachers to lift up these 66 per as It Is only by education th-M they can be brougot up to the level of the real cltlxen." Supt. Chancellor, a new member of the Faculty, seaklng of the development of schools, said: The Church has not yet renounced all teaching activities. The Bute alms at tyrannical power In return for financial support, and the family maintains here and there the select school. The teacher is a curious mixture of parent, priest, and policeman.

A certain form of the school, the metropolitan university, seems, at times, like a shadow of the ancient temple thrown athwart the centuries." Women Principals'. Association Bends Out a List of Questions for Principals to Answer. "With the object of discovering and rectifying defects in the public, school system of this city, particularly thoae which tend toward the physclal detriment of children, the Women Principals' Association has sent a set of questions to the Principals of an the elementary schools In the several boroughs. The ansuers will be presented In the form of a report to the association, and resolutions will be adopted and presented to the Board of Education. There are so many children with defective eyesight, crooked shoulders, and other physical ailments In the public schools to-day that we are trying to find out just where the blame rests upon tho homes or schools." said Miss earns, the Chairman of the committee which framed the questions.

Some people think that the school furniture la badly adjusted and that that causes defective eyesight among the pupils. Others say that the children have to carry home too many hooks and have crooked shoulders as a result. "There are many other complaints, all of which we have incorporated In the questions sent out. It Is too early yet to say Just where the faults He." How about the answers already re ceived? Where do lhey place the blame?" There's a diversity of opinion." was the reply. Various Frtnclpels who were interviewed placed the blame for defective eyesight upon the schools.

Those opinions are chiefly from Principals of schools in old buildings, where the classrooms are poorly lighted and where the furniture Is badly adjusted. In the newer schools there are not many The idea of pupils having crooked shoulders from carrying home too many books Is scoffed at by teachers and Prin-cIjkiIs alike. No child has to carry home more than three or four books a night, at most," said a Principal. and surely that burden would not make the shoulders crooked. Of course there are children who carry all their books home Just for the sake of appearing but they are In tho minority.

I doubt If It injures them though, for they soon weary of It." Other questions asked by the association are for information as to the general knowledge and ability of teachers In cases of emergency. "What do you do with crippled children during fire drills? Is one of the questions. What ought a teacher to know In case of nose bleed, fainting, headache, anmla, is another. Here arc a few more: What Is the areraare number or lessons to be prepared al home each night? Departmental classes? Below departmental classes? With the statements required for frraduatlon and ths tests anked for Irom time to tlms can a pupil In MI succeed with only three home lessons per night? What Is accomplished In tha study periods? Does it lls-hten home preparation Is ths study period faithfully adhered to? In regard to the Independence of children, this question Is asked. There is a constant complaint that children are not fitted for business, when they lave school.

Furthermore Principals themselves feel that our children work automatically, but are limp when put upon their own resources, and do. not attempt any original work. Have you found this so? What do you think me re on vvnai is me remeay Tha Principals are also requosted to give their opinions on special classes for foreign children and to answer these: What should be considered ths normal age in sell year? What psreentass of your school, at present. Is beyond the normal ajtet How do you account for this? How remedy? If a school under rood reneral conditions shows a large percentage of ths children above the accepted age. does this prove that the ac ceptsd normal aca la wrong or tha present course of study or what? The association will consider the replies to these questions at its next meeting, about the middle of October.

GUN Ti L': GREYS In two tone plaids, plain, medium bnd wide wale. are usually popular. We have them In the best and Imported Suit or overcoat to measure 525. we show new weaves In drape lor Tuxedo Suites. fun Dress $40.

siik lined with choice or white walstcos: If desired. address. Samples and. book of fashion mailed free to any Broadway and Ninth Streets PAY KLONDIKE PRICES FOR FOOD IN PANAMA Milk Forty Cents a Quart and Eggs Ten Cents Each. NATIV- LABORERS SUFFER Find They Cant Live on $1 a Day In Da Lesteps's Time Living Waa Bettsr and Cheaper.

HUGGER ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE Caught by a Crowd, but Released Because His Victims Had Fled. The police of the West One Hundredth Street Station are looking for a man who. It Is charted, pursues a systematic plan of annoying; women In the vicinity of Ninety-fourth Street and Riverside Drive, C. H. Goddard of 810 West Ninety-fourth Street went to the station last night and told the Serreant that two women of his acquaintance, whose names he declined to give, had Just been approached by the man.

They screamed and he ran. After running- half a block, however, he returned. The alarm waa given with renewed vigor by the women and a crowd started after him. He was ca tight and brought back, bnt the women bad gone. Then be was released.

Other complaints of a similar character have been made to the police. The man is described as being or medium height, with dark hair and has a. scar on his right cheek. Judgment Against a Fire 8how Judgment for $L0 was obtained iq the City Court yesterday against the New York Fire Fighters, a corporation which managed a fire show on. the Bowery at Coney Island this Summer.

In favor of Pratt A mbert. SOLVING SUIT CASE MYSTERY. Boston Detectives Progress In Inquiry Into Woman's Death. BOSTON. Sept.

23. Detectives who are trying to solve the mystery of the death of a woman, the trunk of whose body was found In a suit case off Wlnthrop Beach, made some progress to-day. They took the olive green bag to the manufacturer from whom it was originally purchased, and he discovered that the handle had been repaired recently, apparently by a hamessmaker. As such a circumstance Is unusual the police base much hope on possible evidence from the harnessmaker. and are bending their energies upon a search for him.

Two East Boston men told the detectives to-day that a man acting strangely had been seen placing a dark green suit case Into a rowboat at Woods's Wharf, Kast Boston, on Thursday afternoon shortly before the body was discovered. The men are M. A. Drlscoll and James Moran. laborers In a machine shop.

According to their story, as they Vere looking from the windows of their shop, they saw a man putting a large suit caas Into a boat. The "man did not attract their attention especially, but the bag did. because of its strange color. The man aoted as if the suit case was heavy. From these witnesses the police have obtained some Idea of the description of the man and they hope to trace, his movements to the wharf.

NOTES OF INSURANCE INTERE8T8 Btshop Potter Going Abroad. It was announced yesterday that Bishop Potter would so abroad la October. 4o remain several months. F. M.

Butt of Atlanta has been chosen manager of the Cotton Insurance Association, and the following loal city com-mittees have been named: For New Tork E. H. A. Correa, A. O.

Mcllwalne, Hvnry E. Reed and A. H. Wray; for New Orleans Clarence F. Law.

James B. Roes and K. H. Addlngton; for Dallas, Tex. Samuel P.

Cochran, John B. Herer ford, aria E. B. Keeling. Alexander Gllmont of Louisville has resigned as Kentucky manager of the Aetna Indemnity Company.

Scruggs Smith of Dallas hsve been appointed general agents of the Alle-mannia Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg for the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and for Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The Arjnenla Insurance Company of Plttsbura haa been reorganised bv the election of Robert Dixon of New Tork. to succeed John Shaw as President. P. V.

Rovlanek to succeed A. p. Howard, as Vice President, and R. H. Marshall to succeed J.

D. Bremer as Secretary. The United States Fire Insarancw Com. pany has discontinued fire underwriting I operations in the State of Tennessee. The yellow fever epidemic In New Or-' leans has cansed a postponement of the plans for organising a me insurance company In that city.

4 The Insurance Press- says that mrrine losses have been unusually heavy on the Great Lakes during the past taw weeks, especially in the great storm which swept Lake Superior early tn September. There have been eleven total losses, causing, with hulls and cargoes, a loss of $9UUoooi. tn 4d Uoa to a large number of smaller losses. Each steamer arriving In New Tork from Colon brings back a number of disgruntled employes Irom the Panama Canal, who complain that the cost of Uvlng Is so great on the Isthmus that, the Americans are worse off than they would be if they were working at their ordinary occupations In the United States. According to their statements tho Panama and Colon merchants have been charging Klondike prices for the ordinary foodstuffs, and making from 100 to 150 per cent, profit on their goods.

Milk wae forty cents a litre, a little less than a quart, eggs ten to fifteen cents each, plantains, which are used as vegetables, ten cents a piece, fresh meat twenty-five cents a pound, and chickens at the same price. An ordinary dollar straw hat cost Bhoes, which sold at $3 In the United SUtes cost 18 on the Isthmus. Canned goods, clothing and other necessary articles were charged for at similar high rates. Mr. Mendoza.

the Colombian Minister to the United States, attributes the high prices to the tariff established by the American Government tn the Canal Zone. In the old days of the French company, Panama and Colon were practically tree ports, and although there was plenty of money floating about, the cost of living was very cheap and the native laborers could live well on their wages of 1 a day, which was paid In Colombian silver. Now, owing to the increased cost of the absolute necessities of life. It Is said that the Colombian laborers cannot work on the canal, their earnings are not sufficient for thorn to buy enough food to keep up their strength. The majority of them have left and the labor Is being carried on principally by the Jamaican negroes.

The French company looked after Its employes and made them jts comfortable as the circumstances would permit. White men were loJged In wooden houses which had been Imported from France all ready to be fitted up. Negro servants were hired by the canal company to wait on the white officials, and the quarters were furnished with canvas cot beds, chairs, tables. Uncn, mirrors, and iron washstands. The company paid for the washing of the bed linen and towels and provided soap and candles free.

The employes generally paid one dollar silver per day for their board, which Included a plnVof good Bordeaux win? with break fast at 11 A. and another pint with dinner at 6.30 In the evening. The higher grade officials on the canal sections paid $1.25 a day mesa money, which Included an extra dish at their meals and a glass of French cognac with their cup of black coffee. Mules or horses were provided for the men who had to go any long distance to their work, and the overseers of the sections were provided with animals which were stabled, saddled, and fed at the company's expense. Employes wishing to travel on the railroad to see friends or on their own private business were provided with free passes.

In order that Its people should have the best of preserved foods and wines the canal company Imported them from France direct In chartered steamers at a nominal freight rate. With his previous experience In excavating the Sues Canal the late M. de Lesseps knew the Importance of having the best medical advice and drugs for his men. Each section had a competent French surgeon who had previously served In the. tropics, and advice and medicines were free to every one In the company's employ.

Fish, fruit, lewis, and eggs were within reach of the poorest laborers. The company provided lodgings free in large roomy barracks, and the men could live on 2j cents a day, silver. Clothes could be obtained In Colon or Panama from 13 a suit upward. Straw hats and caps cost 23 cents, and shoes could be had from $1 a pair. Other goods were proportionately cheap, and the majority of the laborers saved money.

At that time there were many natives in the company's service who were used to clear tha land, lay down light railways, tec The Jamaican negroes got $1 a day with lodgings while their contracts lasted, and free passage from Jamaica to Colon and return. The contracts were made out for one year. The sanitation on the canal proper, outside of Panama and Colon, was much better than the employes say it is now, and there was very little yellow fever. Men had attacks of Chagrea fever at regular Intervals, and took the quinine treatment until they recovered. If it was a serious attack the patient was sent to oner of the French hospitals, and his paw went on until he.returned to work.

The dwellings of the officials were situated generally on elevations and set on piles about five feet from the ground. In order that the miasma which arose after sunset would pass underneath and not enter the rooms. During revolutions, which were frequent in the '80s, all operations on the canal were auspended and the oav of all labor ers suspended, but the white officials got their money Just the same. Goods In the section canteens were sold at ten to fifteen per cent, above Colon prices. Generally speaking.

the French con pany treated its employes exceedingly welL The head officials were all men selected for their knowledge of the tropics and the organisation waa very good. The grafting was done In France and not on the canal. It was not the fault of the French engineers that machinery was dumped so fast In Colon that they could not get one ship load away before another arrived. They spent a lot of money, but there was some work to show for It. even in the first two years.

It Is said that the commissaries about to be established along the canal will supply American employes with the necessaries of life at a moderate advance over retail prices In the United States. Taking Into consideration the cost of living In New Tork to-day. the returning emploves say. this will not bring very much comfort to the white men on the Isthmus. Frenchmen enjoyed better health on the Isthmus than tho Americans do.

because they adapted themselves to the country. It Is Impossible to live down there in a tropical climate the same as one does In New Tork. The natives have their early morning rolls and coffee, and take breakfast at 11 or 12 o'clock. The breakfast consists of soup, meat stews with vegetables, bread, fruit, and wine. Dinner is served in the evening, after the heat of the day Is over, and the menu is the same aa at breakfast, wtta the addition of sweets and salad.

The French doctors considered It was HORNER'S FURNITURE TTs Staadarel tax Utjr a4 sty CURN1TURE for the modest home and Furniture for the home of luxury his equal repre-sentation in our vast stock, dis. tributed over eight spacious floors. Embodies the litest prodttctlons of the best exponents of i woodcraft, inrtudinf designs node exclusively for os. Everything priced at lowest possible cost for 1 Furniture combining quality sod tone with durability. ItnporUd ffoDtlti Exclusive novelties in Fur.

niture from Paris of our own importation. Maj-ifi. cent display of Aubusson Parlor and other Suites for ths Drawint; Room, in fold i-. 2 .4 R. J.

HORNER Furniture Makers and Importers, 61.63. 65 West 23d Street. Jniftf Vina Cigars, bsttsr thaa most U1B1 I BIBS imported. 7lChanib Sl.upst absolutely necessary for the white tne to drink wine with their meals, to bulla their constitutions up to withstand ths attacks of fever. They also advised tha drinking of a glass of French cognas the first thing Tn the morning, to take off the effect of malarial vapors arising from the ground at sunrise.

GAS PRESSURE REGULATION Need for a Law to Forct Adoption cf New 8ytam. To EMor of The UTew Tor TdMsr Tour editorial to-day referring; to the law as to gas pressures makes very Interesting reading to one with some knowV edge of the engineering questions involved. It Is evident that the. writer of this editorial is conversant with his sub ject as far as expressed, but why not go further and suggest ths form ths la should hare taken and ehould stiU takt to beat serve the people of thla city. The remedy is an expensive one, but then we of New Tork have a light to expect and to receive only the beet.

As rot state, the question of air in tbs gas may be dismissed as irelevant. Air in gas is popular prejudice without any foundation in fact. The gas engineer may, and cu-ally does, put sbout 1 per cent of air la his dirty gas when it is on Its way from the relief holder to the purifying boxes. This is done to aid the process of purification by partly revivifying the oxide in tbt box and thus keeping down the cost of purification labor. No more air is put in than will be taken up by the oxide, and the amount that may ever reach th mains Is negligible.

But there Is another side to le questioa of pressures. Undoubtedly high pressures mean higher bills for the consumer, If hs lets his burners blow and does not regulate them with changing pressures Is the mains. More important still to tbs housewife is the adjustment of her gas stove, for practically every apartment la New Tork depends on the gas stove for the cooking. If the stove be adjusted for one pressure and the pressure bo allowtd to vary between such wide limits as wt have tn New Tork. the proper mixture of air and gas is not sustained In the mixers on the stove, and the result is either too much air, producing Uttle heat, or toe little air, producing a yellow flame, wtta little more heat than the common opts flame burner and also producing soot sad smoke In" the oven.

This latter is ths usual case, and tho result Is a large consumption of gas for little result. The writer sent for the gas man to ad- Just his stove within the week, and after long work on his part and some unnecessary tightening of ths cocks be left tka earns old yellow flame. For several years we have heard that many of the mains of the city are overworked, producing drops In pressure at the hours of maximum consumption. Th plea Is plausible and valid for a company bent on doing Its best to pull some rundown system up lit shape, but when It fc cried at us year after year It loess ft The remedy is this: Beplaoo the old mains with larger ones and district tbt city each district should be controlled from automatic pressure gavernore wfetel should be fed from pressure mains. AD? pressure may then be maintained oa th pressure mains and this would be est down by the pressure governors.

As th consumption increased In the district tfi governor would open up and allow the pressure to Increase Just enough to feoli the pressure constant tn the central portion of the district. The variations therefore would bo local and within reasonable limits, and hot as now, where those consumers near the holders are subjected to a rise of several Inches of pressure In order to supply, at a pressure somewoai less than normal, the consumers at tM extreme end of the system. This is a comparatively easy probieta for a competent gas engineer and ta needed law should call for continuous pressure readings by means of automsuc pressure gaugesthe pressure not to vary more than about one and cne-half Inches from maximum to minimum. This Is as far as the consumer worry about the pressure question, ana the operation of such a law Is feasible If one or two years be gin tM gas companies to perfect the system. The candle-power question Is another but a very Important matter, which needes attention, but we will leave thst for SB-other time.

ENGIXKER- Kew Tork. Sept. 18. WRONG NEGRO LYNCHED. Mob Takaa Prlaoner from and Sheriff Gete Another.

COSWAT. Sept 23 a was taken from Jan last nigM and hanged by a Vie negro was for an attack on llrs. Lawrence, for Kl ing her six -year-old son, and stabblnf baby daughter. Be wss hanged In front of the occupied by Mrs. Lawrence.

Sheriff Barrel! believes thst the wrong msn lynched, and that a man he arreted' the lynching was Mrs. IawTenca asl ant..