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THE WEATHER Partly cloudy to-day; snow, some-what warmer to-morrow; mod-crate east winds. CTFor full weather report Pae ft, "All the News That's Fit to Print." i. VOL. fiXIIll 20,456. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1914.

SIXTEEN PAGES VTC fPVT Hew York, Ft sphere J1j tXil 1 Jereey City ud CENTS. i 1 DIGS IFOR, GRAFT IN ACCOUNTS -I Whitman's Search Extends Beyond Murphy and Gaffney to Ueading Politicians. OSBORNE PROMISES' AID Transactions of Sulzer, Bensel, Phil Donohue, and Peck i Among Those Scrutinized. FIVE STILL ARE UNNAMED O'Gormanj Did 1 Complain to Sulzer of Stewart Hold-Up Fear Iftvades Tammany. itto District" Attorney Whitman If going ever the baik accounts ot fourteen other men as wel aa those of Chaies F.

Murphy and Jmes E. Gaffney. The Dis-triift Attorney reeks evidence to prove the existence of a graft plot to loot the State Treaspjy ef hundred of thoujand ef dollar. The accounts have been placed la the hands of ij(r. Whitman Jn response to utpoenaji.

The search has not been confined to New York County, as at first was be'ieved, but baa extended to other cities ol the State. Before Whlt- man completes bis investigation a search will be made of the records ot every bank In the State, and trunncripts et the accounts of many more politicians will be bis hands. I SritrcilBf Manx Arreantn. It Is knowin that the District Attorney has a recoM of the financial, transaction, so far as they could be learned from deposits and withdrawals in State, national, aad savings banks, of these eleven men Charles Murphy, leader ol! Tammany Hail; James K.f Gaffney, Murphy's clonest friend, contractor, commission agent silent partner horseman, and- lase-bull ctuo owner. I'hlup Treasurer of Tim-tnanr Halljf who waa numed by John A tieonet-ty as silent partner? Jn.

a turpid contacting tiriu. Everett fowler of Kington, tor te State Democratic Committer; undV'r indulmc-nt lor exuort.ni; is from neca P. Hull, a wnuactor -of Cort.nt J. indicted for soliciting: a ta.ilipu.isn contribution from a corpora Uori Arthur At McLean, for th lat sixteen years Treasurer of th6 State Itra-ocratic CorSmittee; pleaded guilty Jiin, to accepting a campaign coutrlbu-. tio-1 from corporation.

Thomas jjtissett. ex-Secretary of the Eoard of Water Supply, former employe Id the office of State Enginwr Surveyor John A. under Indictment for attempted grand larceny in demanding from a prospec-tive aquedact contractor as priiie lor obtaining a valuable contract. Accused in testimony o9 accepting to expedite payment by the State High-way Department of a debt due a contractor. C.

Gordoq Reel. ex-Commlseioner of Highways, mow living Sn Albany. Duncan VI. Peck, State Commissioner of Public Works; witness in the High, Courf of Impeachment ajralnBt Sulzer. John A.

$cnaet State Engineer and Surveyor. Charles Ft Foley, ex-Deputy Coinmls-' ll.rriwys. who hid th ow-- to award road repair contracts without public advertising or contpti tmn. baa been mentioned In Attorney Whitman's rraft investigation as at ene time a 3 man of much influence in the State Highway Department. William deposed Governor of New York and now a leading witeem In the Whitman praft tnvestiantion.

The DUtrlt Attorney -has trancrlpta the bank jaxxounts of five other num. rrpvadi Tamaaaay. Tammany smen aaveknown for some time that "bltman bad transcripts of the bank accounts of many persona. They did nipt realize that j.he nurober was so Iaree, however, and there was much speculation yesterday over the Identity of the unnamed five. Fear, It la evident, baa Invaded Tammany IlalL There wasimnch surprise when It was learned tha Whitman had transcripts ef the aceotfnta of BenseU Reel, Feck, and Foley.

Benseh Reel, and lik. made op th Highway Commission prior to the reorxi nutation of the oonimiesion in lal3. Siilxer, who was. responsible for the rcorranlzation, made John N. Carlisle head of the department.

Foley was the Deputy Commissioner under Bensel, Reel, and Peck. He was in charge of tlie Bureau of Maintenance and Repalrs, The examination of the bank accounts ef the sixteen men mentioned baa kept Whitman's men busy for many days acd xiigbta. Accountants were called 1a to help. Banks' In Buffalo and Albany have been visited by Whitman's assistants, and trar-scripts of accounts In institutions these cities have been examined caref jlly. Whitman has Mason to believe tht much graft money went to Canada a4 well as to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and to Europe.

He will sot tell the lame of the person he suspects of patting1 his graft money In a Buffalo banlqi It Was asserted yesterday that Whitman had no, right to demand transcripts of bank accounts. It was argued that a bank account could not be used as evidence gainst a depositor on the ground that no man could be forced to produce evidence against himself. Whitman maintainji that he has the right to subpoena tranjtcript of accounts in New Ycrk County, and that a Supreme Court Grand Jury sux poena is vuia an iai ef the State. I The matter 'first came up In 1011 in the trial of William. J.

Cummins. The Supreme Court sustained Whitman, and the Appellate jpivlsion. on the appeal of Cumroins's case, affirmed tne decision cf the Supreme Court. Lawyers said (festerday- that the Court of Appeals had ot passed on the course of procedure. If Indictments follow It Is expected that the question will be thrashed Osberae Supports Whitmao.

One attorney who upholds Whitman In Ms course of taction James Ost borne. Gov. Gjynn graft inve9tJKS.tor. 0ixrr.e said etterday that Whitman I I Contlaeed ea Face 2. STORM ON GOULD DECISION.

Many Catholics Protest Against Annulment of Castellane Marriage. Bper-ial Cahle ta TUB NEW YORK TlMBS. BERLIN, Jan. 25. A Papal Nuncio stationed at an Important European capital haa been asked to be the Interpreter of the gTeat number of pro-testa made by Influential Catholics against the proposed annulment of the Gould-Castellane marriage by the Vatican.

Amonr persons who rpgard the an nulment as a violation of sacred Cath olic tenota are both laymen and clergy. Prominent American Catholics resident on the Continent have associated themselves with Germans and others oppose the Pope's projected action. It Is asserted that the decision of the Rota Tribunal was bawd upon the moot absurd manufactured testimony produced on the part of Count Bonl de "Castellane two 1 years after the civil divorce was granted. Scores of Indignant protests are said to have arrived nt the Vatican. Thr NSW Yobk Times correspondent Is Informed that the final decision.

contrary to current report, had not yet been rendered, but that it will be shortly. CONFER ON TRUST BILLS. Congressional Committeemen Plan Means to Hasten Their Passage. BpreM to The Xne Tor Times. WASHINGTON.

Jan. 25. A confer ence was heid to-day at the home of. Senator Ncwlands of Nevada to out line a programme of procedure to expedite the nendina anti-trust bills. Those priisent.

In addition to Senator Newlands, who Is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, were Senators pomerena of Ohio. Myers of Montana, Robinson of Arkansas, Saulsbury of Delaware, and Thompson of Kansas, all members of the committee, and Representative Clayton of Alabama, Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Representatives Carlin of Virginia and Floyd of Arkansas, also members of that The conference did not give any consideration to steps for putting through the bill creating an Interstate Trade Commission, as that measure has been referred to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, none of whose members waa present. The other three Administration measures introduced last week defining the Sherman law, prohibiting Interlocking directorates and certain practices In trnde relations, were considered with a view ti hustenlnrf their passage. A suggestion of Senator Newlands that there' should be Joint hearings of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on the Judiciary In order that persona wishing to be. beard would not be obliged to appear twice, met with the approval of tbe House committeemen present.

They laid, however, that this was a they would have to bring up before the full committee. President Wilson has expreiwed himself heartily in favor of granting hearings to persons concerned In the pro- Fosed legiMlation. and the Senate and louse committeemen showed that they intended to. carry out the President's wishes. HOUSE DRIFTS TO SEA.

Ice Knocks Foundations from Under 5,000 Dwelling. Persons 'In the neighborhood of Jamaica Bay were startled yesterday afternoon to see a house two stories and a half high drifting out to sea. The building, which cost was the finest of the' two doicn Sumimr homes that are built over the water near where Goose Creek enters Jamaica Bay. John Conklin of Brooklyn, whoac Winter address the police were unable to ascertain yesterday, owned the drift ng house, said at a late hour last night he had not been Informed that his Sum mer home was floating out to' sea. Drifting tee which came down Goose Creek In large pieces undermined the piles on which the Conklin house was built.

Old liaymen said yesterday that not In years bad they seen Jamaica Bay so choked- with ice aa It was yes terday. The Conklin house withstood the pressure of the Ice for several hours before the piles began to give way. 1 Tbe building sank until only the attlo was above water, and then It began to drift slowly with the tide Into iiroud cnannel, and tnrougn tne tjnan nel to the oren sea. Hundreds of per sons watched tne house as tt drifted towurd the ocean. darkness came the house was well within Broad Channel and two and a half miles from Goose Creek.

At that time only a part of the roof and the chimneys were visible above tbe water. but they were unable to do anything, and they watched the bouse with others as it slowly proceeded In the direction of the Atlantic. The house was well furnished, but It had been unoccupied since last October. PRE BY PARCEL POST. Idaho Mail Contractor Confronted by a Heavy Task.

Special to The Xcto York Timet. liUTTE, Jan. 25. The maU carrier who holds the contract of trans portlni: the mail between Stltes and Elk City, Idaho, is confronted by the problem of how to haul three carloads of ore in a light wagon. He received a notice last week from three mines in the Elk River country informing him that the mines would ship three carloads of concentrates this month by parcel poat to tne smelter at Butte.

An inspector was sent from Spokane to look Into the matter. What In the wide world am I goln? to do?" walled the contractor. )t will take me a year to haul the ore." The inspector aesured him that a requisition would be obtained from the department authorizinK lra to employ wagons to haul the ore. The inspectors were informed that the mines In the Elk River country expected to shli all their concentrates by parcel post in the future. Instead of by freight.

The rate by parcel post Is 54 cents for the maxi-num fifty pounds, or $1.08 a hundred. The previous arrangement cost the mines much more than $1.08. The carrier will haul as many of the fiftr-pourd packages aa he can handle on his one trip a day until be is relieved by th freighters. Maysville Hotel Burned. Special tt The Ifete Tors Timet.

JAMESTOWN. N. Jan. 25. The Mayviile House at Mayvllle was burned at .1 o'clock this morning.

The guests on the upper floors got out by way of the fire escapes. Nothing was saved from the building. The lose was $25,000. NEW KING TO RISK TRIP FOR HIS CROWN Charters Harriman Yacht to Make an Impressive Entry Into Albania. ESSAD IS IN POSSESSION And Europe Wonders if He and Vis 15,000 Soldiers Will Give Their Allegiance.

By Marrnnl Transatlantln WlreWs Tele graph to The rw Vork rimes. LONDON, Jan. 25. Prince William of Wled has" now completed his ar rang-ements to leave Berlin for his new Kingdom of Albania, and In the course of the next month he wlU go to Trieste, there to board the yacht Mb hlcan, chartered from J. Borden Harrl man for the special purpose of en abling: the new monarch to make an Impressive entry Into his dominions.

Durazzo been selected as the port of disembarkation, but the Mohl can will make calls at other Albanian ports, such as San Giovanni dl Medua and Avlona, Some hesitation has been shown In making a definite announcement of Prince William's plans, and. in some quarters, Indeed, It IS suggested that their execution Is still a matter of doubt. Eased Pasha, who at one time was regarded as a Berlous candidate for the throne of the new Albanian kingdom, and Who, according to the most reliable reports, has a strong local hacking, professes allegiance to William of Wled, but some doubts are expressed of his sincerity, and they are not likely to be dispelled until the new King's arrival at Duraxzo. Essad is In virtual command of the country, with force estimated at men under his orders. Nominally, the new kingdom is at present under the control of an International commission, but the commission's authority Is more apparent than real, With Essad backing him.

Prince William's entry Into his new dominions would be auspicious; without It, he may find It advisable to. extend the cruise of the Mohican. The amount of the 'Prince's emolu ments is still, unsettled, and he has yet to make his arrangements for a bodyguard, auo for a system of national defense He must choose between a semHfonscrlpt army and a gendarmerie. German military experts have estimated ithat a trusted body of 6,000 or 7,000 men will meet the pres ent needs of the case, and. Indeed, would be preferable to a larger force, which might later be called upon to play an Important role In internal poli tics, to the detriment of the peace of he Balkans, If not to the safety of their sovereign.

Enough men for such a force could be found among William's prospective subjects, but It ts felt certain that any attempt at making general levies, which, after, all, would be the only possible method of procedure, would raise opposition, since the natives have vivid memories of Turkish press gangs. On the other hand, if he decides for a mercenary force, the extra cost will' be more than counterbalanced by an Increase In efficiency and security. There are plenty of sturdy Albanians who have served with the Turks to form half of the new force, and their services could be secured at the cost of some $12 or $15 a month. As for arms, the problem Is not difficult, Bince the Turks left behind them a greater quantity of Mausers and other magazine rifles than the Albanian force ccjuld require for many years to come, A great part of these arms are in th) jossession of Essad Pasha, which makes It all the more evident that Prince William's occupation of his brand-new throne Is largely dependent upon the good-will of the man who In many quarters Is suspected of high personal ambitions. Princess William Is said to share the doubts regarding her husband's prospects In Albania to such an ex tent that she tjas arranged to leave her best nousenoia gooes in roiouuuu Her drawing room there contains many valuable pieces and historical souvenirs." which will not be sent to Albania until he husband's tenure of the throne seems assured.

WEDDING PARTY KILLS BOY. Their Auto Strjuck Him as He Ran Across the Street. While running (ahead of his father In order to be the first to cross the street at Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street Nathan Levy, the four-year-old son of Samuel Levy of 015 KeUy Street, the Bronx, was struck down last night by a large touring ar taking four guests to a wedding at Laurel Gardens, 70 East 116th Street! and died half an hour later at Lebanon Hospital with a fractured skull. The car, which was owned by Mrs. Belle Gelsner of 727 East 158th Street and driven by parry Berman of the same address, according to the police of the Morrisanla SU-tlon, was going at a moderate speed, and stopped within ten feet after hitting the boy.

The driver of the car was held pending an gatlon by Coroner Flynn. The wedding toward which the guests were driving was that of Miss Frances. Herxfeld to Abraham Berger. The passengers in the car, who were allowed to proceed on their way after an examination, were Norman Karn of 1.0R7 Fox Street, Harry Cahn of 741 Washington Avenue, and Maurice Haas of IMS4 Tif fany Street. ATLANTIC! COAST I.rVK.

FLORf DA AL'QCSTA CBA SOUTH. All fttt. EledrlR Llstited Ptillmtni. 4 Trains Dl'y rla BlaaduU R. Ik.

at Bout. 1.111 B'say. Col. George Harvey on the Diplomats of The Editor of The North American Review writes of diplomatic and consular appointments and the responsibility for them. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S TIMES.

COSTLY MOTOR CRAFT DESTROYED BY FIRE Ralph Pulitzer and Thos. Taylor Lose $40,000 Yachts in a $300,000 Blaze. Ralph Pulitzer's steam motor yacht Mystery and Thomas Taylor's speedy naphtha yacht Bullet, each built at a cost of $40,000, were burned yesterday in a fire that completely destroyed a large storage building of the Stationary Marine Motor Supply Company on Man-hasset Bay. Dozens of smaller and less expensive craft that were put away for the Winter In the building also were lost, while many motor boats and launches tied up In the anchorages of the Port Washington and Manhasset Bay Yacht Clubs, on cither side of the building, were saved by the vigorous efforts of the volunteer firemen and yachtsmen. The storage building was a one-and-a-half-story frame structure, about 50 feet wide, built out over the water seventy-five feet, Bomewhat on the plan of the adjacent yacht clubs.

A number of boats were In course of construction there, among them being four of the new one-design class, ordered by Dr. Peter Lewis, Commodore Walter Blalsdell, John Mitchell, and J. L. Dlmms of the Port Washington Yacht who were intending to enter the boats In the races for that particular class In the coming Summer. Members of the yacht clubs on the north Hhore of Long Island annually compete with certain types of boats, for the designs of which prizes are offered.

It was for the purpose of Inspecting the new one-design boats of the Port Washington Yacht Club members that several yachtsmen visited the storage house in the forenoon. While they were there the fire was discovered in the north side of the building by the watchman. He gave the alarm, and the yachtsmen and workmen in the, building made an effort to put out the flames with pails of watnr in the building. The fire Ruined such headway that they were forced to abandon their attempts. Meanwhile the alarm brought the three companies of volunteer firemen with all apparatus from Port Washington.

They were headed by Chief Timothy The firemen had great difficulty in getting water. The nearest hydrant was a little less than a half mile away, and he men did not have sufficient hose or bydYauTTo power to bring water from that distance. As a Inst resort, with their axes they cut holes In the Ice that had formed In the anchorage around the storage building, and through these holes they ran the feed hose of their pumps. By that time the fire had spread throughout the entire buildir? and the streams of water had no effect. The firemen decided then that the best thing for them to do was to save the boats tied up around the burning building.

AgsUted by Commodore Stephen Mason of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club and other members of the two clubs, the firemen succeeded in towing all the motor boats and launches away to a safe distance. In all they saved thirty-five boats outside the building that otherwise would have been destroyed. Among these were the 80-foot yacht of Commodore Mason and a fine high-power boat of Commodore Hlaixdcll. Anionic the motor boats that were de stroyed In the building were the Hcly, owned oy oinmodore U. C.

Oould; Panadore. owned by Arthur T. Vance: Target, owned by Frederick Creamer, and the Bulletin, owned by Russell Howland. All were high-power boats. Chief Bird estimated the loss.

Includ ing the two boats owned bv Mr. Pulitzer and Mr. Taylor, at "SAFETY" CALL BY ELLIOTT. Be Careful and Loyal, New Haven Chairman Urges 2,000 Men. Jan.

25. "Safety first" was the topic at a meeting to-day of over two thousand New England railroad men, who were by Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of Di rectors of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad; James H. Hustls. President of that road, and other offi cials. In the language of a railroad man who reported an accident to me," said Chairman Elliott, a battleship has hit us in the 'slats and we are busy pick ing up the pieces.

We have got to pull this 'safety first' thing through and we will. You have been accustomed to work- ins' with a list of and I "shall now a-ive vou a list of 'do's. Do be careful. Do be alert and effi cient, Keep always In good mental and physical health. Do be loyal, and stand up for the railroad in a manly fashion.

Be ready always to give courteous and direct answers to the public. Show the nuhllc that It has a duty toward us. You ought to have good working con ditions and good wages. The public wants good service, but we cannot give these things unless we get enough revenues. Revenues and expenditures are out of balance now and until the balance Is restored we cannot get the highest efficiency." WOMEN IGNORE HAT NOTICE.

Printed Request in Church Calendar Makes Little Difference. Women members of the Central Congregational Church, at Hancock Street and Spencer Place, Brooklyn, were requested yesterday to remove their hats at the church services. The request was printed among the notices on the back page of the church calendar, and was Inserted according to a resolution introduced by George W. Bally, one of the Deacons, at the annual meeting of the church last Monday evening. There was divided opinion yesterday when the action of the church meeting was scheduled to go into effect.

The church has the largest congregation of that denomination in the city. At yesterday morning's service only half a dozen women removed their hats, while the rest Ignored the request. The attitude of the large majority of the women In the congregation was taken as an indication that they did not approve the Innovation. The floor ot the cnurcn has a good slope, and there Isn't much need for the women to take off their hats," one of the older members of the church said last night. If any general steps are to be taken, however, to have the women take off their hats it should originate among the women themselves." The beat sanitary cut for omcei are "Lllr Cure, Bade by the Public Serrice Cup B'klja.

Adr. LEAPS TO DEATH ON THIRD ATTEMPT Widow of R. F. Amend Said She Heard His Voice Calling Her. Grown melancholy since tbe death of her husband less than three weeks ago, Mrs.

Josephine B. Amend tried three times yesterday to fling herself from a window of hr apartment at 285 Central Park West The third time she succeeded, and, falling twelve stories, she struck the roadway of Eighty-ninth Street a few feet off the avenue. She was instantly killed. Her body was found by those who hurried out of the apartment house at the startled cries of a passer by who had narrowly escaped being struck by her falling body. When Robert F.

Amend, a manufacturing druggist, died on Jan. 6, it was after a long Illness, and his death left Mrs. Amend exhausted from the long nursing she had given him. Her nervousness took tho form of despondency, and repeateddy she told those about her that she heard her huhband calling, and that she must obey his A physician was called to try what could be done for her with hypnotic treatment, but the voice she heard kept calling her, and yesterday It was obvious that she was no better. She was watched constantly.

Besides her housekeeper, Mrs. Hilda Kuehner; her aunt a Mrs. Stoerzer, came to live with her, and to their vigilance yesterday was added that of Otto P. Amend, her brother-in-law. Twice during his morning visit she became hysterical and tried to leap through the window, but each time Mr, Amend was able to restrain ber.

and she -seemed perfectly composed when he finally left the apartment. Early last evening J. It. Tolch, executor of the Amend estate, called and spoke witn her for a few moments, but by o'clock he, too, had gone, and she was alone witn her housekeeper ana ner aunt. Mrs.

Stoerzer went Into an adjoining room to do some sewuur and Mrs. Amend directed that the lights be put out while she reclined upon a couch In her bedroom. Then ohe asked Mrs. Kuehner to make her souie coffee, and. after much pressing, the housekeeper left to prepare this for her.

She had hardly gone from the room when she heard the window open, and as 1'he hurried back she saw at a glance that Mrs. Amend was gone. She went to the window and could see the woman's body lying in the street, twelve floors below. Mr. Amend was a member of the firm of Elmer manufacturing druggists with headquarters at Third Avenue.

Airs. Amend was years old. TO FLY LANGLEY MACHINE. Smithsonian Official Accepts Bea chey's Offer to Vindicate Pioneer. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

25. The Smithsonian Institution at Washington to-day accepted an offer of Lin coln Beachey to demonstrate the possibility of flight in the Hying machine Invented and built by Prof. Samuel P. Derision that was excited when Prof. Langley's machine fell Into the Potomac River was said to have broken his heart.

Beachey will try to show that the, machine was and only needed a better motor. A telegram received to-day from Charles D. Walcott, Director of the Smithsonian Institution, said that while It would be Inadvisable to take ou the wrecked machine from its place in the museum, every facility would be afforded to make a perfect reproduction. In order that, Langley's real success might be shown. You can fly a kitchen table if your motor is strong enough," said Beachey.

This Is what I want to show." Beachey loojied his sixty-seventh loop in sixty days in a high wind here today. "GHOST" IN THIRD DEGREE. Police Produce One to Draw Confession from Alleged Wife Slayer. LOS ANGELES. Jan.

25. The third degre with a ghost as the central figure, was applied by the police in a lutilo attempt to obtain from John H. Grondin, a young druggist, a confefsion that he killed his wife, Zola, according to a statement made public to-day by one ot his attorneys. Urondln'a counsel said that shortly after he was arrested last night he was taken by detoctives into a darkened room, where the ghost appeared and demanded In gloomy tones: Why did you murder me!" His attorneys said they considered such methods outrageous, but at the same time they saw positive proof of their client's lnnnocence in the shadowy form and tbe question alike falling to cause him to make any display ot emotion. Grondin Is charged with having poisoned his wife and with having attempted to establish that she had killed herself by Inhaling gas in Portland, Maine.

When Mrs. Grondin was found dead on Oct. 30 iaet Grondin made public a note which, he. said, had been written by his wife, and left as an explanation of her alleged suicide. It contained an admission of Infidelity, and the hope that he would be happy with the woman who truly loved him." Handwriting experts said the note was a forger', and their assertion, coupled with the arrival here from Maine of a widow in whom Grondin was said to be interested, caused the exhumation of Mrs.

Grondin's body, although the Coroner's jury had declared her a suicide. Pathologists reported yesterday that they had found poison in Mrs. Grondin's vital organs. PASTOR SUES FOR DIVORCE. The Rev.

John Erler Files His Ac tion in York, Courts. Special to The Hew York Time. YORK. Jan. 23.

The Rev. John Erler, a Lutheran minister, is seeking divorce in the courts here. The allegations of the petition have not been made public. llr. Erler Is now preaching In New York City.

He accepted a call with the Seven Valleys Lutheran Church more than a year ago, but the call was revoked by the West Pennsylvania Synod. V. AGAIN FLOOD MILLS WITH STEEL ORDERS Pittsburgh Enters 100,000 Tons and Full Time Witfrn 90 Days Is Predicled. COL. H.

P. B0PE OPTIMISTIC Country Entering Upon Era of Great prosperity, Carnegie ylce Presi- dent and Sales Manager Says. Special to The Xeto Tot TiriK. PITTSBURGH, Jan. orders aggregating upward of lOO.BOO tons have Men received by the mills of the Pltts- htirgh district within the list lew aays.

Cpl. H. P. Bope, Vice President and Genera! Sales Manager ofllhe Carneirle sieel Comparty, declared to-day that wsthln ninety days the mills should be operating to full cipaclt. Sustained prosperity, it la asserted a'Q'ng captains oi industry gencrally.wlll be a fact by tljat time.

I fThe principal concerns affected by the ubward Jump in industrial conditions ate the Carnegie, Jones Laughlln, MyClintic-Marshall. Riter-t'onley. Clark Cir, Epplng-Carpenter Punfp, Harbison- Walker Refractories, Sping-Chalfant. Vfest Penn Steel, and National Roll aid Foul dry Companies. It Is esti-mjated that about 15,000 Workmen will immediately affected bV the latest favorable turn in steel njill developments.

We are entering upon one of the biggest buying movements! In the hls-tojry of steel-making In ithe United States, and a long spell of normal, sojur.d prosperity for the Stvhole country." said Col. Bope. Within sixty orj ninety days the steel rails of all the Pittsburgh district will berunnlng almost and possibly quite to their full cajpacity. The psychological moment tof the complete resumption of full activity In all lines seems have arrived. Big orders are already given, orj In contemplation, In almost every trpneh of tre steel businej." i'ol.

Bope added to his ipcclllc prediction bear.ng on FlttbuWh'B dominant Industry an optimistic forecast on Industries in general. Ginuini good times are coming, he belieesj The steel business Is dependent on hundreds of allied interest, and the fajct that a great volume of trade In st-el Is scheduled carries aa a corollary tlO'lvIttK conditions In imui other lines. Tlie farmers of the country have Increased their acreage for lfl4 arid as a direct consequence It expected the wjre mills will have all they can handle. There will bela large demand for tin cans to pi away the pnoducts, and the tin and sheet plate mills will have to keep full quotas of men at work. There Is mich bulldina on) the year's programing -ani reinforced steel 18 wanted quantities.

The oil business promises almost a record season, and Immense orders for plbe already have been With all these contributing factors the railroads will find It necessitry to meet the demand on their carrytpg capacity, arid big orders for steel cars and steel car equipment are expected. Manufacturing plants, wnlehouses and railroad yards are now praitlcally without stock. Buying stopped some time agio, to await the outcome if the tariff anjd, currency legislation. Money Is now" easier. As proof of the latter fact.

Col. Hdpe cited the reduction jbf rates by the Bank of Enzland and. the Banks of Germany and France, and the fact that the bonds recently sold by New iorK state were live unes oversuD- scribed. OPERATE ON JOS. JOHNSON.

Eif-Fire Commissioner In Serious Condition from Appendicitis. Jtx-Firc Commissioner John- sod was operated on for appendicitis at 6:30 o'clock last night, and Is now In a serious condition at Miss A Ls ton's private sanitarium at 25 Wen Sixty-first Street Mr. Johnson was firtcken very suddenly. Mr. Johnson had complainfd of illness foij some months, but he aeglected to consult a physician.

He spent the after-nobn of yesterday with hi wife and tlujir three daughters. Sarah, Harriet and Josephine, at their apartment in Buckingham Place, 547 JVest 147th Street. He was stricken fi 4 o'clock In Ithe afternoon, and Ir. Jifhn F. ICrd- me(nn was summoned.

Mr. Jiohnson was taken at once to the sanitarium. Mrs. Jobnson accompanied her hiiuhand and remained with him throughout the nleht. 1 1 i i tri Eiiuuiaiiii rix IIIMl Willie Johnson's condition was serpius, he expected that he would recover.

The opratlon was imperative, tt siiid. Few of Mr. Johnson's frfenda knew thftt he was 111. Mr. Johnsobi managed the; campaign of the late Major G.tynor for) re-election and upon tl of thd Mayor managed the campaign of Kd.vard K.

McCall, the Tanimanv can didate, who was defeated by Mayor Mltcnci. WESTllHOUSE LABOR MOVE Federation Organizing 12,000 Employes for Strike Purposes. Special to Thr Xrv YorkTtme. PITTSBURGH, jfan. campaign planned by President Samuel Gonpers and other leaders the America Federation of Labor, financed with labpr funds, was launched a mass-meitinff thla afternoon In Pitts burgh to organize the 12.00(1 of thei Westinghouse Electric and Manu facturing Company for strike purposes.

English and foreign epejiWne oreaii- tzeijs have been active amornt the West-Inehouse employes for several weeks. Two or three preliminary meltings have been held. Reports by Johifj L. Lewis, In Gjharge, of the Federtlon'smovement, states that the Westinghous men are reafly for organizing. The Westinghouse cfimpalca, he Bald, wad mapped out months agd, but waj precipitated when the compapy recently reoucea wonting nours irom rune and a half hours to eight, with a correspondinK decrease In pay.

It is the first attempt to organize the Westinghous employes on a large scale for over a decade. GETS PNEUMONIA AT SEA. S. Whyte, in Delirium, Runs About Campania's Deck. Biyce S.

Whyte. a Philadelphia business man who arrived on the Campania lastl night from Liverpool, was stricken witlj pcnumonla on Thursday! He be- came delirious, and, escaplngS rom his, attendant on Friday morning he ran Hbotlt the deck until Dr. I5j-uce, the I shipfs surgeon, caught him. He was met! at tne pier ny irienus anng to a private nospitai in an amouttince. Tl rWe Campania brought 2.2if0 bags of mail.

The spray that came gover the of the ship on Thursdays froxe on bow the rigging. two ot tne fstewaras slipped on the deck and were injured. TRAIN COLLISION KILLS FIVE Possibly Twenty Others Injured In Michigan Central Wreck. JACKSON, Jan. 25.

Five persons were killed, and possibly a score were injured to-night when Michigan Central passenger Train 70 from Saginaw; due here at 10:10 P. collided head-on with a freight train about three miles outside the city. Tlie baggage car and one coach ef the passenger were telescoped and every passenger In the coach was killed or Injured. All available physicians were hurried to the scene of the wreck from this city. Owing, to the darkness the work of rescue was slow and difficult Two hours ifter the collision Several passengers were still in the wreckage and It was believed some of these also were dead.

KING TO VISIT ARGENTINA. Alfonso to Sail in June for a Two-Months Stay. PARIS. Jan. 26.

A special dispatch from Madrid says that King Alfonso will pay a visit to the Argentine Republic In June. It Is added that the King will the accompanied by the Premier and the Minister of Marine. He will make the voyage on a Spanish transatlantic liner, and the viait will occupy two months. MADRID, Monday. Jan.

2 An nouncement is made In several of the Madrid newspapers of King Aironso's projected trip to Argentina. Premier Dato is given as authority for the announcement. The Minister of the Interior, Jose Guerra, said to-night that the trip was planned bv the. nrecedlnr Ministry, but that the present Cabinet nna made no definite arrangements for It as yet. TO DISINCORPORATE TOWN.

Governor's Latest Move Against Cop- perfield, SALEM, Jan. 25. Dislncoroora- tlon of the town of Copperfleld. because It Is In the hands of a lawless ele ment, has been ordered undertaken by the Attorney General. Gov.

Oswald West announced to-day. Proceedings to this end may be halted, he said, If the whole administration of the town resigns. Copperfleld was nut under martial law three weeks ago after the closing of saloons there by State troops under direction of Miss Fern Hobbs. the Governor's secretary. The Governor's letter to the Attorney General says the element con trolling the town is using the "charter as a shield for vice and as a protection against criminal prosecutions." CURTrsTb SEEK SENATE.

Lively Contest with Bristow In Kan sas Primaries Is Likely. (Special to The Xew York Timet. TOPEKA. Jan. 23.

Ex-Scnator Charles Curtis, will be a Republican candidate for re-election to the United States Sen ate. His announcement is expected early thla week. Along wtth It will come the assertion. It Is said, that 8enatof Bris tow and Arthur Capper have wiade a Senatorial-Gubernatorial deal designed to keep Curtis out of the primary con test. Senator Bristow ts between two fires.

and Curtis says he can easily defeat him in the August primaries. The stand- pat Republicans have given Bristow a cold reception on his return to that party, and the Progressives are nounclng him aa a traitor. Bristow is guilty of a political felony," said William Allen White, national Committeeman of the Prosresslvee. and the phrase Is spreading over the State. REFITTING ASTOR'S YACHT.

The Noma Is Being Prepared for Owner's Honeymoon. The steam yacht Noma, owned by Vincent Astor, Is undergoing a thor ough overhauling at the yards of the Staten Islnnd Shipbuilding Company at Port Richmond. S. and, according to those In charge of the work, the craft Is to be finished about the time of Mr. Astor's marriage.

It Is thought on Staten Island that Mr. Astor Is having his yacht fitted up so that he will be able to spend his honeymoon on her. New boilers are being Installed, and the engines are being overhauled. She will be painted Inside and out, and her cabins will be refur nished. HAIR TONIC KILLS CONVICTS.

Two Pennsylvania Prisoners Die from Drinking Poisonous Mixture. BprHal to The Keie York Timet. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25. Two prisoners In the Eastern Penitentiary are dead as the result of drinking hair tonic.

That other men In the big prison are not seriously ill la due to the fact that a trusty reported to tbe Warden, and the supply of tonic was cut off. The dead men are Charles Harris and Charles Rich, both of whom were serving long sentences, and were trusties, On Friday afternoon they stole a bottle of hair tonic from the prison barber "hop, and Immediately proceeded to drink the fluid. Harris died on Saturday morning, and Rich, after intense suffering, died tonight. WAR VETERANS FIGHlF FIRE. Confine Blaze at Bath Soldiers' Home to the New Barracks.

Special to The Veto York Time. BATH. N. Jan. 25.

Civil war vet erans fought fire at the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home here to-day when a :W.0O0 blaze, which caught from a cigar stub in the smoking room, destroyed the double barracks of Companies II and I. the largest and newest barracks of the home, and threatened the dining hall. The only fire department at the home Is a volunteer one, and the veterans, under the direction of J. E. Ewell.

the commandant fought the blaze until the Bath Volunteer Department came to their aid. The building destroyed was a two-story brick structure housing 125 of the 1.2O0 veterans at the home. The veterans whose quarters were ourned were cared for to-night in the other barracks and In the reading room. A few of them lost their personal effects in the flames. rilE A LLTTKi ETII EH POl'CH HoMa pipe and tobacco.

MX Scholia's Stores, v. CITY NOT TO GET ART COLLECTION LEFT BY MORGAN Son May Give Some Objects, but for the Present Will Retain the Rest, MAY ULTIMATELY BE SOLD Exhibition of Whole Collection for About a Year Is, However, Assured." NOW IN THE METROPOLITAN Some 4,100 Objects Almost Ready for Public View Will Left Disposal to Son' Discretion. Unless the present Intentions of X. r. Morgan, son and heir of the late 3.

Plerpont Morgan, are altered, the City of New York will not recelvej as permanent possession the fSO.OOO.ooo collection of paintings, miniatures, porcelains, and other works of art which J. Plerpont Morgan had Intended, aa he stated In his will, so to dispose of as to "render them permanently available for the Instruction and pleasure of "the American people." "Although expressing this desire. Mr. Mor-gan left the collection to his son, to le disposed of as tne latter mlgnt see fit. The younger Mr.

Morgan. Th Tmas now learns, has even considered selling the mora Important objects of the collsc lion, although some minor articles may be given to museums. Mr. Morgan, during hia recent trip abroad, it Is under-stood, broached the matter to art dealers, and several of these In London. Paris, and New York are said to have made tentative arrangements to undertake the disposition of the principal objects at private" sale.

probably Morgan pose of early In litis, should Mr. finally determine to dis-the collection. "Until that time, at least lite collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in this city will remain there, In order that' the public may seeaa much.aa possible et It All the objects, have now. been set out in the museum, and the whole collection will be cpen. to the publio In three weeks.

ease Objects rerbapa to Msieaa. A well-knows are connoisseur, who was frequently consulted by the late J. P. Morgan regarding his famous cob lection, and since his death by the present owner, told a reporter of Th New York Tikes yesterday that Mr. Morgan would place the collection on exhibition at tbe Metropolitan Museum of Art but would not give it to tbe city.

It la probable that Mr. Morgan." he went on to say. will give a part of It to the Museum, including several statues aad fragments of statues from ancient Greece and Rome and ether countries, but he will keep the greater and most valuable portion ot the collection. The collection has all been arranged, I understand, at the Metropolitan Museum, and a portion will be on view, I think, In about three weeks." i The Information that Mr. Morgan does not now Intend to give the collection to the city was confirmed by Tri Ttmxs from other equally well-informed sourcea.

i Nethtaar te fee Said Rew-Morcaa. The only expression that has been obtained from Mr. Morgan on the subject la the following: i' There la nothing sold, or to be now. I am going to get advice as to the placing of the various collections, and I havo no statement to make at the present time. There may be some things that I will eventually dispose of, but there Is nothing te be done now.

When I make up my mind just what to do, I shall go ahead and do it Of course, the art dealers are anxious to get hold of a lot of things." i Why art dealers should have Shown anxiety to obtain a lot of things" In the Morgan collection. In view of the accepted belief that the collection as a whole was to go to the Metropolitan Museum, was not explained by Mr, Morgan, and it would be difficult to ur.ior-stand that anxiety except upon th basis of knowledge that Mr. Morgan mU'ht be willing to sell. Mr. Morgan, it will also be noted, says that there Is nothUg to be sold now." This, of fits in with Tks Trass's Information that previous to the contemplated sale the collection Is to be exhibited for perhaps year to the publio in New York, and possibly, a part of It, in Hartford, the birthplace and burial place of J.

Plerpont Morgan. City's Lose Dae te Ita Delay. Delay In making ready for tbe reception and exhibition of the collection is perhaps in some measure responsible (or its loss aa a permanent possession Of the Metropolitan Museum, On account of the large death duties In England Mr. Morgan had removed all his objects of art from London to New York, and toward the end of 1912 they were still stored In their packing cases at the Museum. although some of them had then "been In New York for many months.

At this time, a few weeks before his trip abroad which ended wtth his death at Rome on March 31. 1913, Mr. Morgan In conversation with the writer: ex pressed In plain terms his impatience at the delay in the public exhibition of the collection and bis anxiety lest provision for Ita permanent housing, which be thought would requiro the erection ot an additional wing of tbe museum, be not made. Unless the matter could be satisfactorily settled. Mr.

Morgan inti mated, he might bestow the entire collection upon the City of Hartford. where tt would be established In the memorial building which Mr, Morgan had erected in honor, of his father. Junius S. Morgan. Tbe city officials did not make the necessary appropriations until April 1.

1K13. and Mr. Morgan died before he could carry out his ntention to make the collection a gift to tbe public- By bis will he left it la the discretion of -1.