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si THE WEATHER. Clear and colder; winds northeast to north. "All the News That's Fit to Print." I 1 1 Ml mm VOL. 16,590. GEN.EREENE AFTER CENTRAL OFFICE HEB Raids Were Made Through His Own Western Sleuths.

SajsHe VVfll Ascertain Whether Detective Bureau Can and Win Get Evidence Against Gambling Places Brooks Must Explaia PoUce Commluloner Oiwne last night put th raids on th alleged gambling houses of Lou Betts and Mike Maher at 74 West Thirty-fifth Street and 122 West Thirty-fourth Street, squarely up to the Detective Bureau, and announced mat was going to ascertain If possible the answer to the "interesting and vital question" whether that particular section of the Police Department can and will get evidence against gambling houses. There appeared In the mind of the Commissioner some doubt on the subject, although he, would not go beyond the limits of his can and wilL" He did say, however, that Inspector Brooks would receive a letter this morning asking for an explanation of the fact that two well-known houses had run unlnterfered with. The Commissioner said explicitly that while precinct commanders and district Inspectors could not, In his estimation, be expected to get evidence against Important gambling houses, the Detective Bureau ought to be able to get such evidence, ana ougni not to leave the matter to the office of the District Attorney. The Inspiring source of hla conversation was mention of the raids made by Acting Inspector "Walsh on Saturday night upon evidence collected by four Western detectives brought pn here by Gen. Greene and turned loose In the Tenderloin.

The story of the colleection of that evidence, as told by him, was. briefly, that bis men. by Jnaklng the acquaintance of hotel touts, had obtained, without material difficulty, cards of introduction to both the places raided, and In one instance within thlrty-elx hours after landing In New Tork. What mystified Gen. Greene waa why four Western men could get this Introduction and the resultant evidence, while 400 Central Office men could not.

The Commissioner commented upon the completeness of the raids, with the alleged proprietor of one of the places In custody. and told of the arrest of yesterday after noon In Betts'a place of Harry Ward, a tout who is said to have given cards of introduction to the Westerners. He turned at once to the subject when the reporters gathered for the usual Sunday night con ference. TfcPse two raids on-Betts and Maher" places," ho Said, "open up the Interesting and question whether the Central 6fncTcan "and will get eviden against gambling houses. Mr.

Jerome got the evidence against Canfleld's and I got the evidence against the places raided last night. I wanted to see whether evidence could be obtained against these two places and to test the question I employed men myself, bringing them on from the West. Frank McCabe and Henry Holland, got the evidence against the Betta place, am from Kansas City, and F. L- and A. V.

Adams, who got into the Maher place, 'gere from Indianapolis.f McCabe and Holland reached town on Feb. 14 and 'were ln-glde Betts' a house within thirty-six hours. The Adams brothers took from the 20th to the 27th In getting their, introduction." "How were these 'Introductions' obtained? the Commissioner was asked. In the usual way. My men huna around the hotels.

This man. Harry Ward, who was arrested, gave the introductions to Betts's place." 1)1 they see the proprietors around the places? "Indeed they did. In both of the places we raided. We have the proprietor of one of them, as you know, and he was held in ball In court to-day." My evidence was sufficient to satisfy the President of the Board 'of City Magistrates, at least, for after it had been collected I took It to Magistrate Deuel and asked him If It was exactly in the proper form. He said it was, and drew the war- ma uia muaaviis made by my secre tary.

Mr. Coursey. supported by the affidavits of the men who got the evidence." Gen. Greene thought a few moments and then said with some emphasis: I shall ask Inspector Brooks for an explanation. He will get a letter from me as eoon 1 Kt to my office to-morrow morning." Will this mean charges against the Inspector? was asked.

"Oh. no; I wnt now to have an explanation." 'rysrin yu Pt It up to Capt. O'Reilly and I Inspector Walsh? Tho same excuse covers both places. Their men are too well known. Minor gambling places and some poolrooms can be stopped by the precinct commanders and the but not the big places where there is lots of money to be spent on scouts and runners.

But with the Detective Bu-resu it is different. They have there about 400 men and are able to call upon any of the 7.000 men In the uniformed department, and it is inconceivable that they should not be able to get men to go Into houses who are not known there. I don't think we should have to wait for the District Attorney to get evidence. He is there to try cases and not to collect evidence. And I may say that th District Attorney's views and my own coincide perfectly on this subject I have talked the matter over with him very thoroughly and we are iuite In agreement." Did you tell hhn about the raids Saturday nlgh was asked.

io one anew or tnone raids until innday night, when Inspector Walsh was told of what waa coming. He carried them out with entire success, pot losing a man Who was found in either of the places i Grne was asked this question: urn mew piHi-rs are lounu to De run- wng openly enough so that a stranger can get into them to play after hanging around hotels for a few nights, and that In the Precinct to which more attention Is attract- INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS. Amusements. Page Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buy-, ers. Page 10.

TOMxes by Fire. Page 8. Marine Intelligence and Foreign rage la Real EstaU. Page IX Religious. Page 5.

society. Page AWathr Report Pnge 11. Tcaterdiy'a Fires. Pags 2. PewMvn: limited beeu it repre.

lT. lyl" ot America ieiUU. Adv. CU Hid II ail VlllCI lit ii V- vrv a show that tribute Is being collected somewhere? If so, who gets He answered in a serious tone: I am not prepared now to answer that question. There may be developments." Will you us McCabe and Holland against other houses?" waa asked.

As to that I cannot say. either." "Have you an eye on the tout for the Maher place?" Yes, we are looking for him and may get him." "Where were these cards of obtained?" In weU-known hotels." "Which 1 I not think I'd better say." AFTERMATH OF THE RAIDS. Ten Out of Inspector Walsh's Seventy-five Prisoner Held Confusion at the Tenderloin Station. Prisoners taken In the raids Saturday night On the alleged gambling houses of "Lou" Belts, at 74 West, Thirty-fifth Street and 122 West Thirty-fourth Street, and earlier in the raid on the alleged poolroom at 106 West Twenty-ninth Street, were arraigned yesterday. la the Tombs Police Court.

Magistrate Barlow sitting, nine men arrested in the houses at 74 West Thirty-fifth Street and 122 West Thirty-fourth Street were called up. William J. Coursey, secretary "to Police Commissioner Greene, sat at the Magistrate's side and during the proceedings frequently conferred with him. Four men' arrested In the house at 74 West Thirty-fifth Street described themselves as Frank Bay, forty-three years old. of Fort Edwards, N.

Martin Mulroy, thirty-eight years old, of 340 West Forty-third Street, and Fred Williams and James Turner, the latter a negro. Mulroy waa charged with being the proprietor of the house and was held in S3, 000 balL Ray was held on an affidavit of Inspector Walsh's charging him with being a common gambler, his ball being fixed at Both will be examined to-morrow. Williams and Turner were discharged. Those taken in the raid at 122 West Thirty-fourth Street gave their names as Edward Harris, fifty years old. of 121 West Ninetieth Street: AVilUam Van.

colored, of 81 Cumberland Street. Brooklyn; Albert Martin, twenty-five years old, of 122 West Forty-fifth Street; Richard White, colored, thirty-six years old. of 223 West Fortieth Street, and James Liddy of 65 West Thirty-, sixth Street. All were held for examination to-morivw Liddy, Harris, and said to have been interested in the in S2.5O0 baU. and White and Van in 11.000, the charge against them being that of being common gamblers.

In the great confusion that resulted from the crowding of the Tenderloin Police Station by the sixty-five prisoners taken in' the two raids there were some mistakes in the handling of the men. and Commissioner Greene censured Capt. O'Reilly. The prisoners were brought up from the cell rooms three times and sifted, Mr. Coursey and the police picking out those they thought should be held.

In one or two instances men who had been ordered detained for arraignment were brought back for relrspection. Capt. O'Reilly said this was an accident. Com Trilasioner Greene noted them and spoke sharply to the Captain about it. saying that he did not have time to waste ail night examining the men.

It was also said that in the shuffle some of those who wera wanted," as being connected with the houses, in some way got into a line that was being recorded by a and permitted to go, it being believed by the man, who was not familiar with the places, that they were merely visitors there. Warrants are out for some of'thene mere. Of the ten men arrested In the alleged poolroom, seven were" dlscharred In th Jefferson Market Court despite the asser tions or Detective pneian mat ne had positive evidence against them. Those who were held -were William Leopold, thirty-eight years old. the alleged proprietor: John Clark, and Henry J.

Muldonn. alleged1 employes. They were held in SiOU each for trial. WATCH ON "SACRED" CONCERTS Policemen Stationed at Theatres to Enforce the Law Arrests Made at Several Places. Commissioner Greene's Sunday tour yesterday was to the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Inspection Districts, commanded by Inspectors Schmlttberger, Smith.

Walsh, and McLaughlin. Asked of the results of the trip he said: It may affect to some extent -the enforcement of the Sunday laws. Complaints have been received recently from the Sab bath Protective League and from, the Act-, ors' vnnrcn Alliance against the type of performances bing given in the theatres Sunday evening, and other evidence has reached me since my attention was called to the matter some weeks ago that the law relating to Sunday performances is not being carried out. I have consulted with the Corporation Counsel, for the laws in this respect are not so clearly defined as in some other things. I found from hint the limitations and on my trip to-day gave pretty definite instructions to the Inspectors." In pursuance of these instruction in.

spector Walsh gave orders to the Captains of his district last night to place two men in every house where a sacred concert was going cn, to iee to It that there was no change in scenery, no wearing of wigs or costume, and no dropping of the curtain. At the Circle Theatre, where a "sacred concert." which included Parlor A. a Skit." was billed," Harry Taft. who did a whistling act and dance, was arrested, together with the business manager of the house. Capt.

O'Reilly of the Tenderloin Station had men in the Metropolitan Opera HoirSe, Bon Ton Music Hall. In Twenty-third Street: Proctpr's. In Twenty-third Street, and Proctor's' Fifth Avenue Theatre. In all of theso places the managers were told of the law and no arrests were mnde. At the Circle Theatre, where a sacred concert which Included Parlor a Skit was billed.

Harry Taft. who did a whistling act and dance, was arrested, together with the business manager of the theatre. Frank Steinberg of 845 Eat Seventieth Street, who had Teased Helnrich Conrled'a Irving Place Theatre for a concert, was arrested because. It Is charged, the performers wore fancy costumes. Detective Winter of the East Thirty-fifth Ftreet Station arrested Hugo Morris, who Kuve a sacred concert in the Third Avenue Theatre, Third Avenue and Thirtieth Street, on a charge of allowing girls under ixteeii years, of age to perform.

Fward Qulnn. manager of Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street Pleasure Palace, was arrested, on the ground that he was giving a vaudeville performance, with costume ecenery. and changes. All the prisoners were released on ball The total number of arrests for violations of the exctse law amounted to sixty-two in all boroughs. On the previous Sunday the total waa seventy-eighL LOAN COMPANY CLOsIsDOORS.

Baptist Church One of the Victims of a McKeesport (Penn.) Home De- velopment Concern. SttcM to Tkt Nrm Yrk Timts. PTTTSBURO. March 8. About 800 of McKeesport' a citizens assembled last to grt payments on the investments they bad made with the Home Development Company or that place, but the office waa closed.

The company started about a month ago occupying only one room. Later the business Increased so rapidly that an adjoining room was secured. The -business was managed by Charles Hodge, and hutidreds of people signed contracts. The Bethlehem Baptist Church had arranged with the company for a loan of JS.ooo to pay a church debt. They had paid the company 44 on the loan, but bad not secured any money.

Eleetrle Cab Servloe. The N. T. Traniiportatloa Co. la now.

prepared, cjr terse addition to Its equipment of Elwtrto Broughams, Henaoma, Victorias, and Burrera. tc fill CALL OftDEHS which, until now. It has been unable to accept. Telephone, 2.384 Cut urn-bus. Air.

NEW YpRK, MONDAY. MARCH 9, MORE EYIDEHCE THAT WOIIAN SLEW BDRDICK Watchman Reid Corroborates Po- y. licemaa Mey er's Story; Tellt of Meeting a Lone Woman Near the Burdick Hem at 1:15 Was Not a Resident of the Elmwoodr District. BUFFALO, March tant development in mystery to-day waa police of evidence to told by 'Policeman p. The most Impor ting Burdick murder the discovery by the rorroborate the story Meyer of meeting a lone woman on Ashland Avenue about.

1 o'clock on the night bf the murder. It was learned late night that the name of the new witness 1st Gabriel Held. lie Is a night watchman it ployed by residents of the Elmwood district. Reid has been patrolling the same of years and he is territory for a number familiar with the appearance of net rly every woman In the neighborhood. aha woman seen by him waa a stranger.

He and Patrolman Meyer have compared notes. The two men are satisfied that thefcr saw the same wo- man. The three unknown tvomen, who have fig- ured in the case so far as known up to this the lone woman," time are described aa the woman. atufr the woman taken to a corner of Ashlaid Avenue and Sum- mer Street by a cab driver. The generak description given to tile police by thoso who saw a woman in the dick house on the vicinity of the Bur- ight of the murder tallies in many detal is.

The- three were seen at different tlrads and under unusual circumstances. The woman of given information whlm the cabman haa wata taken to a corner of Ashland Avenue nd Summer' Street on the night of the shortly after mldnlgh murder. She walked rapidly up Ashland Avenue, in the dlrectlcn of Burdick house, met by Patrolman Bryant Avenues at me lone woman wa Meyer at Ashland ani 1 A. M. on the same a man was met at abi tight.

The lost wo- ut 1:30 A. il. within four blocks of the Bu dick home. It la the opinion of the doctor- who examined Bur- cuck a body on the Ic be had been killed bet following morning that een 12 and 1 clock. 1 A well-known business man directed the lost woman to a ckr.

She told him she wanted to go to thq corner of Franklin and Tupper Streets, cited and nervous. (Her manner was ex- The lost woman took a car down town about 1:30. The bust- nt as man saw her board the car. That would bring her down town about 2 clock. The cab driver was lower Main Street at that hour, and as surprised to see there-the fare wrt om he had taken to Ashland and Summeft Streets two hours previously.

He is po.ftlve it waa she. NEW WITNESS'S STORY. Are these three womjen one and the samef That is the queation or to answer. As a along this line they the police will endeav- Msult of to-day's work nave been able to get one more witness to confirm their belief witness was on his that they are. The n4w way, home in the Elaiwood district about I M.

on the niglt of the murder. He hurrying The iiace where met a woman unak along Ashland Aveniie. ne met per was one a woman had been tiock north of where een by Meyer. Hla recognition of the that given by. the hiilnet man.

wdman is the- same- caaar.an,' policeman, end Here is a brief out ne of the facts that that one woman atrengthenn the theok-y was seen by all four Witnesses and that she entered tn turoick Mouse; 12 midnight, left cab. 1 A. seen by Ueytk. a. M.

in by the new witness. 1 A. boa riled Streets, escorted by a ar at Perry and Main bpalneaa A. again seen two town by cab driver. i Superintendent Bull stands firm in the Is guilty.

I stlU a woman committed en seen to-night. oelter that that worn believe as I did, that the crime, he said Have you change! your opinion as to the sane aa before. who waa the suspect No. Any suspect My opinion is unchani chase, or it may no hone." ed. It riay be a long We certainly have District Attorney Ciatsworth waa at hla office.

When asked whether there were in the Burdick case i nothing new to re any new development he replied: There port. Along what lines Ivm thenvestlgatlon continue, or Is It finished No; It is not flnlsled. said Mr. Coats-' We have not wortn. empnaucauy ceasea wonting nor oping for a solution or tne mystery, i cj cankiot say that we have any detinue plans busy, the police are head.

We axe still till digging. We are seeking additional evidence. ve are after any additional evidence that will help us." the District Attor- A few days ago whin ney and the police supposed clues, the Had an abundance of 14 vestigatlon of which Coatn worth. In reply was not finished. Mr.

to a question as to wllen tne inquest would be held, said: Not until we -havl falling that, until wd made an arrest, or. have exhnuatxt all possible means to sol re th mystery." still have some re-Ly Mr. Coatsworth's That the authorities sources is indicated reply to-day to the sa question in del 1-- fCnn will tw i ,11 nlte date has been fixed I have a conference th the police on. that hMIl B4t tnw anK a subject. No time haa conference.

There is no pressinr haafa in hold the inquest, are ready for it' Thkt can wait until we CLERGYMAN DISCUSSES CASE. The Burdick case' the pulpits of some waa referred to from fcf the churchea here to-day. At the Lafat etter. Baptist Church the Rev. George Whit Iman delivered a ser- man on ciud uve Recent events in Whitman.

have rev Home ure." i our city," said Mr. aled the aav. irrellr- revea ious life which trany kf our more prosper- otis people There is a growing god well-to-do permn. imnnr mrnnna it. leflane, among mant.

The tjpe of depravity tn- nigner circles is thA slums of the clt way of living often often worse than in I ma gay, godless nlfeots itself in what is often spoken of a club life. I admit that duns differ In th lr alms, but I believe that that which ta mL- hanicaily called club llfe is opposed to th intereets or the ln-and the Nation. Oiviuuai. tne cnurcn, "in its essential neither social, liti purpose club life is literlry rv. nor beneficiary, often grow evil atli.

Oat of this club life nnces. The purpose iiiirest. but -almost li bt many mav be thu Inevitably there will be a black sheep: who ui improve the oppor- tunlty to work wrong, a. murocr is com-lid two dlvorra u-a mltttd in our city, a are revealed. These Lave some relation to the club life.

America is fast following In the steps of the old Roman Empire s. The home Is de- si-ised: children are a lncumbrance; a poo-value than a baby. die dog is of mora Wealth and pride of th Nation, and cotisume the life blood aristocratic weakness ar4 our democratic rigor." The Rev, Byron St should be careful at the crime! and whose uffer said the police whose door tbev lav name they drag Into It. Continuing, he This tragedy ia a mo a lesson aa to th el circles. Wa are apt wickedness in all socia to say that the i wicked ones and the potrer classes are th ra-her classes are rood: that the cultured ha fe all the virtue and the uncultured none.

are wrong, for at all extremes, from thb nignest to the very good and the bail iJowest. there are the How nurrteo was tne to tear up photoarai rush of a certain clams PI When thla trarr.lv rb was announced. Hi fv well they showed their unwillingness that class that has De associated with tecome the object of every man's revllemeht. I $105,000 FOR A HOSPITAL Gift of Frederick Ayer of New York to a Lowell as.) Institution. LOWELL.

Mass. Iarch 8. Frederick F. Ayer' of New Tork (haa mad a gift of ttno nrm to th Lawii General Hospital. and will give Additional towar th Burnett's Cocoelne prr iMtes the rrowth ef th Hair, aad render 4i and glossy.

Adv. floating with the dt-bt be Immediately rained. Mr. Ayer on many previous occaaons has contributed very generously to charitable institutions her. SAYS MINERS WERE SHOT IN THEIR BEDS.

Charge Made In Official Report to Mine Workers' Union. INDIANAPOLIS, March offlcUl report of Chris who was sent to the West Virginia coal fields to investigate th killing of colored miners at Atkins-vllle, has been received at the headquarters of the United MIneWorkers. Th report say that Gen. St. Clair, th attorney for the coat companies, created an agitation to have the men arrested and taken to Charleston, and that immediately afterward arrangements were, made with the United States Marshal the mine workers' officials to give bond for all who were arrested, but that later, on account of th agitation created -by Deputy Marshal Cunningham, the agreement with the Marshal was broken, and Cunningham waa sent to arrest the men.

to the report there was great feeling against Cunningham. men decided not to allow him to arrest them and, he was driven away. Mr. Evans aaya that he sent a telegram to th men to submit quietly, but that th coal companies who own all th telegraph and. telephone line Into th town refused to deliver It.

and before he could get any, message to th men, Cunningham and his deputies, who, says. were the worst characters he could collect, went to the town a second time and killed the miners In their beds at night' .4 Mr. Evans aaya that he went to the scene of the trouble the next morning. Forty-eight men bad been arrested for conspiracy to kill Cunningham. He found in a house occupied by a colored man called "Stonewall Jackson th dead bodies of William Dodaon.

William Clark, and Richard Clayton, all negroes. The report continues: "We found that th wife of Jackson and her four children with eight negroes were In the house, and that about daybreak aft were awakened by shots fired Into th house from th outside, 'This shooting took place without warning, and the thre colored men were found dead on the floor. Two were In thetr nlgat clothes and th other one was nrtl ira.i .1.1.1 another house where Joseph Hlxer lay in bed mortally wounded, having been shot as he was dressing. Hiier lived with his sister, ajid she mad the statement at th Inquest that she pleaded with those shooting not to kill her children, and In reply Cunningham said: Women and -children must Uke care of In no instance could find where these people had been asked to surrender, until after the deputies had commenced shooting at the occupants of the houses. next went to the house of Luclen who waa considered mortally wounded.

I understand that after the shooting referred to this man, with others, returned the fir of th posse, and this Is the only instance where any attempt at resistance wa made by the miner. During the shooting In many Instances th men and women pleaded with the men outside to have mercy on them, but their cries were met with derision and curses. Our layejtlgatlon Proves conclusively that no effot was made to shoot or resist, except th.eon cae mentioned, but that all would have been glad to surrender If they had been allowed the opportunity Mr. Evan tays that the Coroner's Jury bas returned a verdict of felonious kllllni wilSTm' Dns5ham NEW' TRANSATLANTIC LINE. i w'vi- Dominion Government Invites Proposals for British-Canadian Steamship Service.

Special TU Ntw 1'era Ttsw OTTAWA March Dominion Government has invited proposals for an Improved steamship service for the transportation of passengers, malls, and freight between Great Britain and Canada for a period of ten years, beginning on May 1, 1903. The service is to be aa follows: A fortnightly service by steamer of not less than 21 knota effective speed at sea In moderate weather. A fortnightly service by steamers of not less than 16 knots effective speed at sea In moderate weather. All the staamers must be In every respect equal to th best passenger vessels of similar speed now engaged in th Atlantic trad and be built to the requirements of the Admiralty for auxiliary naval purposes. JheTTOUte" re: Summer from Liverpool by, an Irish port to Quebec calling at Sydney.

Cape Breton: returning by the same route. In Winter from Liverpool by an Irish port to Halifax, returning by the same route. If the parties proposing to tender prefer different route from these they can do so. The essential condition Is that the service ahall be a British-Canadian one. The ships, after complying with the terms of th contract, are to be free to load or discharge cargo at any port In Great Britain or Canada, but not to proceed to anv foreign port.

The contract will contain the usual provision with reference to the carriage of emigrants to Canada. Those tendering will be required to state the amount of subsidy desired. Tenders will be received up to noon on June X. SEARCHING FOR Heirs, of a Sea Captain Who Died at New Haven Looking for Cash and Gems The House Guarded. Special 10 Tkt Ntw Yh Timts.

NEW HAVEN, March a -The curious spectacle has been seen for the last two days of an old house In Perklna Street, in this city, guarded by police while th heirs of an eccentric old sea Captain have conducted a thorough search of the place for $17,000 In cash and many rich gems which the Captain Is believed to have hidden Just previous to his death. Capt. James M. Woodhous died last Monday, at the age of eighty-two. About a year ago he partially distributed hlt estate of $100,000 among his nearest relatives giving his daughter.

Mrs. Frank H. Wheeler of this city, th deeds to th bulk of his real estate holdings. Formerly most of his wealth was invested in ship stock, but, believing that vessel properties were dropping off in value, sold out all of his marine Interests and converted all but about cash into aecurttlee and real estate The $20,000 in cash he deposited in the Mechanics' Bank of thin citybut about ix month ago drew it out and secreted it in hla own house. His death cam before he advised his administrator to th whereabouts of this money, and the most careful search for th last week has failed to locate it.

The news spread that the house of the old Captain- wa being searched for $17,000. and police protection became' necessary. Since then th search has been prosecuted under guard. Dr. Wheeler, son-in-law and administrator of-the estate of the Captain.

Is President of the New Haven Police Board. Capt. Woodhouae was typical New England skipper. He spent most of his life on th sea. amassing a considerable competence from trading, and then turned shipbuilder, purchsslng part ownerships also In other concerns.

In 1819 he was In th pineapple trad between New York end Cuba, and Innocently carried Into port a number of carbines for the Cuban Insurgents. was arrested, but managed to scape th authorities, get out of th har-bor of Baracola under full aall. and escape north, though pursued by a Spanish man-of-war. He waa pardoned by Queen Is, bella. of Spain In lsoa on the occasion of a general amnesty du to th birth of a son at Madrid.

Rural BI.Tur to Wasnlaartem. Only SIS from New York. All etpeueea. In. eluding rail -and hotel for three days.

March ia ana 20, ADrtl 9 and 27, and May T. Inquire Iialutuore A Ohio Ticket OfOcea. Adv. PAGES. PQLIGEfalAN MURDERED ON A VJATERBUHY Noa-Union Motorman and 'Con- ductor, Badly Beaten.

Eight Masked Men, Armed Re-. vers, Board Car at Lonely Spot and Fire on Defenseless Occupants. WATERBUKT. March 8. Vlolenc haa broken out anew In Waterbury in connection with the strike of the motonnen and conductors ef the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Policeman Paul Mendelsohn was killed and John W.

Cham-bers a non-union motorman, and hla conductor. George Weberndorfer, were beaten, the latter almost into insensibility. Th murder occurred at 9:52 to-night. Th scene of th crime waa at Forest Park, th terminus of th North Main Street line. Th spot is an Isolated one.

Th car had reached the end of th line and th crew bad made preparations for the return trip. Immediately after the conductor had turned the trolley and the motorman reversed his levers, eight masked and armed men sprang from the bushes by the roadside, entered, the car, and discharged their revolvers. Officer Mendelsohn, who was guarding the car, fell at the first report, ahot through the heart. The motorman, who waa hit with a revolver's butt, leaped from hi car with a cry of pain. Some of the men followed him while the remainder turned their attention to th conductor.

waa thrown to the floor of the car and pounded and kicked until he was almost unconscious. The men then left him and Joined their companions outside. The conductor regained his feet with difficulty and went to the side of Officer Mendlesohn to render whatever assistance might be necessary. A brief examination showed him that the officer was dead. Weberndorfer.

though suffering from the sever beating had received and hardly able to atand. then went to the controller and atarted the car back toward the city with th dead officer. On the way he met another car, the crew of which relieved him, and he, hurried to the city for assistance. The body of th dead officer was carried into Police Headquarters, and Weberndorfer wa also taken Dr. Graves attended the unfortunate conductor, and found him badly used up.

An alarm was Immediately sent out by the police, and in a few moments the entlr detective department, accompanied by thirteen policemen, went to the seen of th murder. A thorough search was made for Chambers, and shortly after midnight the officers came upon him. Chambers lit a young fellow not over twenty years of agi. His head was covered with blood, as the result of the hammering. he had received with a revolver.

Th VOUIie mn told ilnn r.1 I his experience. He said that a soon as rVsre li-st e1 rnm ear fAii, mw .1 i him, firing their revolvers. "He veui at top speed for the iwamtn heae in.l k' I he discovered that his pursuer gained upon miu lay uuwn. mo muraerers ruxbeu by, but aid not go near, tha highway. They soon gave up th Search, whereupon young Chambers hurried his hiding place and started for th city to give the alarm.

He fill In with a policeman, who conducted him to the car barns, where Chambers hau hi injuries attended to. -1 The car. when It reached the city, showed that there had been a perfect volley of shots fired at the three defenseless men. At the time of the shooting the streets were practically deserted because of the aownpour of rain which had been falling all evening, but the news spread like wildfire, and half an hour after the car carrying it unfortunate victim had reached the centre of the city, there were hundreds of people in the vicinity of Police Head- wherf th- body had been taken. Public feeling is running high.

Inside the station was a sad scene. Th.i father of the dead officer and his brother had been summoned. When they saw the son and brother lying dead, the of a fnit) assassin, they were so overcome that the spectacle wa heartrending. Maor Kilduft and Chief of Police Kgan hurried to Headquarters, and wer soon buiy directing policemen to different parts of the city in an effort to capture the murderers. Both officials In an interview said that they felt positive that the murder was the work of Waterbury.

men. NF.W "March a-Shcriff Dunham listened with great Interest to an account of the murder in Waterbury. He a.iid that he had not been informed officially that any disturbance had taken place, and therefore would not go to tho scene of the trouble to-night. He will hold himself in readiness, however, to go to Waterbury art 'a moment's notice, and if necessary to send a posse there. BITTER SALMON WAR.

Independent Cannera Decide to Cut Down the Pack aa a Means of Fighting tha Trust. Special it Tkt Ntw York Timts. TACOMA. Washington, March a Th salmon war In progress fpr the past two months has resulted In an understanding being reached yesterday among owner of independent canneries in Alaska that about half of the canneries ther shall not be operated this year. These are chiefly the smaller The effect wilt be to cut down the pack of cheaper grades of fish about one-third.

The owners will retain their properties and hope to operate them another year. The profit of th Alaska pack will be divided among the owners who cloa their canneries. The cause of this action Is the present demoralised condition of the salmon market and th fact that th Alaska Packers' Association of San Francisco is taking futures at low prices in an effort to drive other Alaska canners out of business. Having secured control of a large supply of th cheaper grades, the Alaska Packer Association cut prices to 40 and cents, which is less than they can be canned for. A heavy run of humpbacks and sockeyes Is expected this year In Sound wafers, with the possible result that an' Increased pack on Fuget Sound may make up for th lessened output in Alaska, ACTRESS'S TEERIBLE ORDEAL.

Leara of Hasbaad's Death nasi Falat Five) Tlaaes, bat Coatlaae Playlag. Special tt Tkt Srw Ytrk Turn. CUMBERLAND. Md March a-Mra. James Fansom, known on the stage aa May Ethel Courtney, leading lady In A Bunch of Keys." fainted five times at th Academy of Music here last night.

She collapsed between appearances on the stage, but always managed to recover In ttan to assume her part, and th audienc waa none th wiser. Th condition of Mr. Fansom was caused by a message that her husband had died and was already burled at Jacksonville, 111, Ho was stricken two weeks ago with typhoid fever at Jacksonville while playing vlth Murray and Mack In "Pickings from Puck." Fruitless efforts were mad for over a week to locate Mrs. Fansom. Sh waa carried to her hotel very ill.

1 1 Th StOtti Ceatary Limited. fin of elirlit dally trains between New Tork and Chicago via the New Tork Central Unas, A oum-prahenaivs service. Adv. GAR ONE CENT FEARS AMERICAN ECONOMIC CRISIS. London Times Says This Country Will Hava to Own It Haa Bitten Off Mora Than It Can Chaw." LONCOM TlKXS NW TOMC Tlltgt Cablegram.

LONDON, March 9.t-Referrin to the diminution of the strength of th New York associated banks, "'The Times, in its city article to-day, ays that the mysteriously larjje reductions of net deposit effected in the laat quarter of 1905 have usually bee, the result, not of tha real liquidation of excessive commitments, but of transfers of indebtedness to European capitalists who were ready, for handsome consideration, to take over for a time "these attempts to put off the evil day when the United States busifieaej world win have to own that It ha bitten off more than it can chew." 1 The Times says that during the last three or four years the United States baa had moresuccess than would have been possible in' the case of any other country, adding: No country can show contempt for sound business rules with impunity, and the impunity apparently enjoyed by the United States for the disregard of the laws of economics which Is a consequence of that' country's comparative youth merely amounts to delay In the day of reckoning for each occasion of economic debauch. I PHONOGRAPH RECORD OF THE POPE'S BENEDICTION. Parla Paper Announces That Hia Holiness Has Authorized It to Sell CyW Inders to the Faithful. London Ti-xs-Nrw Torn: Times Special Cablegram. LONDON, March 9.

The Figaro, says the Paris correspondent of The Times, make the Interesting announcement that' the benediction delivered by the Pope on March 3 in SL Peter's haa been phono-graphed. The pape says it will shortly be able to furnish to its readers cylinders for reproducing the Pope's voice, a it has been authorized by his Holiness to give to all the faithful an opportunity of bearing the benediction. The Figaro haa secured a partial monopoly of the sale of the cylinders, and Intends to devote 23 per cenL of the receipts to charitable purposes. DOUBLE COLLISION ON FOG-VEILED EAST RIVER. 8ound Steamboat Rhode Island Hits a Ferryboat Express Sends It Crash- Ing Into a CartalboaL Which Founder, On of the results of th heavy fog whtch hung- ovef tha bay and tb East and North Rivers' the steamboat Rhode Island 6f the Ston-ington Lin and a ferryboat express of the New York.

New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which caused the ferryboat to ram and sink th canatboat Lyman Willie, whose Captain. S. I' Artlep, and his Mrs. Rose Artlep, had a harrow escape from drowning. Tha Rhode Island, which is a big slde-wheeler.

was feeling ber way down the East River in. the fog. She was hours late, having been delayed in taking on freight. Th ferryboat express waa also going south-bound for Jersey City with freight cars. Her voyage began at Mot Haven.

At 8:30 o'clock, owing to the fog, an attempt waa mad to tie up At th foot of Forty-second Street, but a strong' ebb tide prevented this, and th craft swept down below th south end of Blackwell's Island. Suddenly the canalboat loomed tip tied to a bulkhead, on thej Manhattan aid of the river. Capt. Edward Van Gelder discerned it, and the order was given to back away. As it did so the bow of the big Stonlngton Line boat rammed th ferryboat express, and It in turn crashed into the canalboat, The canalboat waa doomed on the Instant, and its occupants cried out for The Captain and bis wife succeeded in clambering on to the express just as their own craft went down.

Th ferryboat immediately dropped down the stream and tied up at a pier. It waa not damaged. Few of the hundred passengers on th Rhode Island knew at the Urn that th collision had occurred, only a small group of them being on deck. Immediately following it. the big boat anchored, and an investigation was made of the damage suffered.

It was found that the force of the shock had splintered the vessel's stem both above and below the water line, causing a slight Capt. E. li. McDonald In telling of the accident said: The fog was very thick, and the Rhode Island was feeling her way. The express ferry appeared very suddenly.

She wa turned slightly across stream, her stem and a slight part of ber starboard quarter being in view. We struck her so suddenly that we could not tell whether she was moving. Of course, we now know that she was and very fast. too. The boats came together with such force that tn Rhode Island's stem was cut completely off two feet above the water line, and the woodwork below the water line under th copper sheathing waa splintered considerably." i Some time after the collision th Rhode island rounded the Battery and proceeded slowly up th North River.

She put into her dock and after discharging cargo will go to Hoboken fr repairs. The majority of her passengers wer greatly surprised to learn of the accident. Despite the Jarring th craft must hav received. It would seem that those tn the cabin wer not sufficiently shaken to realise that anything unusual had occurred. A MICHIGAN RIVER OVERFLOWS.

GRAND RAPIDS. March H-Grand River ia out of Ita banks, and at 7 o'clock to-night was within a foot of th high mark record. Xate last night th temporary superstructure of the nw steel bridge of th street railway company at North Park wa carried away. This afternoon thre sections of th North Park wagon bridge gav way and were carried down in the rushing Low lands on the weet side tn the sooth part of tb city are under water and a number of house sr isolated. Basements of business houses along the river are flooded by water backing up In the sewers.

Reports from points up the river are of flooded lands- and basements and partly submerged A number of dam have been carried out, including the Wagar Dam, which furnished the power for eleetrle Renting In Ionia. Dynamite has ben resorted to In some Instances to break up dangerous lc It la thought th worst la over to-night. Fr PlB)vf Interest. Cleveland. Chtcaao, -tit.

tls. and Cincinnati are reached by th Penn.rlvania Railroad. Through train service fruin New Tork every day. Adv. Plao'a Care Is aa effectual remedy for Cold a the gold by all run lata.

3. Adv. I tlrmtmr Jt Yrtr. 1 Plinrki Jersey City, 4 XtwttlcjTWu CiSTS. on it nrrniirn nrrnnn Al Dttbntli LltUlllb The Ex-President's Tribute to Plymouth Church's Founder.

Justice Brewer, Miyor Low, Dr. Gun- siulus of Chicago and Dr. SpeatOver $18,000 Subscribed. Ex-President Grover Cleveland received an ovaUon that seemed almost to dwarf th enthusiasm over Henry Ward Beeeher'a rhemory in the Brooklyn Academy of Music last nlghtr The vast crowd, packed Into the building until hundreds of overflow visitors had to be turned away by a guard or police, had responded to a summons to give th Beecher memorial a public start. Incidentally, it bad been announced wldiy that Mr.

Cleveland was to talk. th ex-President entered to ball; when he began to speak, and whenever th various speakers referred to him. ther was a lasting atom of applause. had' to begin hla speech twice, and even then the clapping audience could not hear him on account of their own noise. He waa well Into hla opening before ther waa quiet.

Beside th greeting of the 'chief guest, the speakers were Justice David J. Brewer cf the United States Supreme Court, Mayor Low." the Rev. Dr. Frank VT. Cunsaulu of Chicago, and the Rev.

Dr. Nwetl Dwlght Hlllls. pastor and present feucces- -sor of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth' Church, Brooklyn. After th exercltt there was a money-raising, presided over by ex-Park Commissioner Elijah R. Kennedy of Brooklyn, and Frederick W.

Hln-rlcho. and large gifts alone were an-' nounced as aggregating more than lis.un. not counting the numerous signed promisee of smaller amount coUeeted among th audience by tb ushers. Tha crowd reached Ita highest pitch of enthusiasm when Justice Brewer, leaving his carefully written manuscript unheeded on th desk in front of him. mad a reference to Mr.

Cleveland. had been talking about Mr. Beecher OVATION FOR MR. CLEVELAND. "TOU da Tint hatra tn mn fea to- find me of unorthodox rellgiouaopin-lon who nevertheless are th sourc cZ comfort to an who knew them.

And if I may be permitted to ctep aside from theology for a moment and enter th field of public affair you do not hav to go far to find a man who Ideas, on political economy may be faulty, but whose stanch support of public honesty and of National financial responsibility hav glorified th history of this Republic" The Justice waved hl hand In the direction of President Cleveland, and Edward M. Shepard. who rat among those on th stage, seemed to k-ad th violent applause that followed. There was another time when Justice Brewer aroused hla hearers without warning. that part of-hls prepared speech wherein deplored unjust anti-Chines law be walked away from th manuscript and said: Rather than sending missionaries to aedfXew Congress! If hey should happen to reach 'Washington en Sunday they night change somewhat tUa order or exercises!" With thla interruption the Justice returned again to his manuscript, which ha read through without break.

Tb last ovation In honor of Mr. Cleveland was an Interruption tn the speech of th Rev. Dr. Gunsaulua who. after telling how fthe West revered Beechers memory, proceeded to say that the late preacher not only was great himself, but that waa close to other great men.

There was a time, recalled the speaker, when anarchy and secret influence at Washington wer unavailing to rnak wrong triumphant In Illinois. At Washington, while riots raged In Chicago, ther were voice that tried to persuade th Government not to Interfere with th Governor who would not act. Every effort was exerted to prevent the Western State from receiving the helping hand It needed. Then It was." continued Dr. tiun-saulus.

that Henry Ward Beecher' friend said to Illinois and Chicago: will settle the question of law and jurisprudence later. Now there must order in And there was order." At this point the crowd applauded until it was tired, while Mr. Cleveland looked straight ahead through his big eye-glasses. The ex-President, who had come to th Kiilltlmr with Fj1v.nl XT Si.n.M having gone from New Tork to Brooklyn to pay a short dinner visit, read his speech from manuscript, making few gestures, MR. CLEVELAND'S SPEECH.

Ex-President Cleveland spoke as follows: I claim the right to Join In th xer- her In obedience to an Impulse that will not be denied; and I am accredited to this assemblage by a condition of heart, and by an Influence which hav been strong within is for many years. "It Is now more than forty-nln years ago that I heard tn Plymouth Church a sermon whose impresstveness has remained fresh and bright in my mind during all the tlm that ha sine passed. In days of trial and troublous perplexity its rerneatbranc baa ben an unfailing comfort; and In every time of depression and discouragement the lesson It taught ha brought restoration of hop and confidence. I remember a if It wer but yesterday th fervid eloquene of the great preacher a captivated my youthful understanding and pictured to my arotu-ed imagination the entrance of two young sien upon the work' Joolllng- activities on lda Ilk a b-ast of burden with avaricious plans snd sordid expectations, and th ether with a light step and cheerful determination, steklrg th way of duty and as, fulness and striving for th reward pro noised to those who love and serve God and labor for humanity. "I have never for a moment lost the am- mad upon by th vivid, con-rast thrllllngly painted In words that burned, between the two career, nor hav I ever failed to re Us tb meaning of the truth taught by the description given of the happy compensations in life and th peace and solace In death, of the on, and th racking disappointment tn life and th despair in death of the other.

What this sermon has been to me in all these years I a Ion know. I present its recollection to- .1 mm 1 1 .0 i v. 11. especially entitling me to representation among those who meet to recall and memorialise th fats and usefulness of Henry Ward Beecher. I am not her, however, for th purpose) of only giving vole to a rrateful recollee-tion, nor solely to acknowledge the personal benefit and service I hav received front the teaching of th illustrious dead.

I hav com to Join tn the kind ot hero worship which Is but another nam for a reverent recognition of that greatness which manifests Itself, when humble faith and trust In God Inspire sincere and brav service In th cause of humanity's elevation and betterment. It haa been wisely said that hero worship will endure while man endure. Let us accept this as a pleasant truth upon tb condition that th man or qualities worshipped and th of their worship are of the very essence of the matter. am believe that there Is no sadder svmp-tom of a generation's bad moral healtb'than Its lack of faith In Its great men and ita loss of reverence for its heroes, but let thla belief be coupled With the reservation that tho called great shall be truly great, and that the heroes challenging our reverence shall be truly heroic, measured by standards adjusted to th highest moral conditions of man's ctvillaatloo- cannot have the least mtsg'rlng concerning th completenea of th her a whna nam la on our Up to-nifrht and who memory our hearts. Ehould a hero's alms and purposes be high and noble? Our hero derated hi Uf to teaching th lev ot.