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1905. 1 Pages, with Review of Books, i ONE CENT Jlg yVI. LOOMIS'S RESIGNATION FOLLOWS MUNROE CASE SaBsSBBBSBnna-BBBBBBnBB Says He Doesn't Wish to Embar- rass National City Bank. TAKES ALL RESPONSIBILITY rte Alone Acted on Loans, Vict Preel-' dent Says Still Believe In Montreal and Boston. Following the disclosures that he bad jtood personal sponsor for the.

Montreal and Boston stock-washing; deal, and par-ycalarly for the brokerage firm of Mun-jo Munroe, managers of the syndicate, lame the resignation late yesterday aft-. rrnoon of Archibald G. Loomis, Second Vtee President of the National City Bank. The Directors will "meet on Tuesday next, nd It la understood that they will accept the resignation. None of the officials of the bunk would discuss the matter yes terday.

A representative of President James Stlllman said that the letter spoke for itself. The letter was addressed to the Directors of the bank, and I bg to fender my resignation as Vies President and Director of this bank. After six years of active work in the bank, during period its business has largely increased and its honorable and commanding position bss been steadily maintained, it is with regret that I sever my relations with you. I am. however, led to do this because my continuance with the bank exposes it to criticism and attack, which should be personal to myself, as no officer or Individual connected with the bank except myself, had anything whatever to do with the credit which was extended to Mun roe Munroe.

The amounts that were advanced to them were loaned In the ordinary course of business, and at all times I bad ample collateral from them to secure their loans. I believed st the time and still believe that the property of the Montreal' and Doston Is a valuable one. and I had no personal interest of any kind in the loans made to them. I have been engaged In the' banking business for upward of forty years, during which time I think I may say that my record will speak for itself and not to my disparagement. If there has been any lack of Judgment In these matters It Is but proper that I alona should suffer the criticism.

My greatest satisfaction at the present tro-meat Is the confidence which has been shewn me by my re-election as a Director and Vice President of the bank. It would, however, te ungenerous on my part to take advantage of this signal proof of your appreciation of what I may have been sole to do for the bank in the past I earnestly request that you will take Immediate action upon my resignation. That the resignation of Mr. Loomis should come at this time is a' surprise to the financial community. The formal announcement was not sent out by the bank, whose officers some days ago stopped talking for publication about the Munroe case, until long after the clone of business yesterday.

The resignation, to be sure, was expected from the time when Mt became known that the bank bad made in eight consecutive days loans of SG0.OU0 on the unindorsed notes of Munroe Munroe. A witness In Uha bankruptcy case testified that "George Munroe described this proceeding as an arrangement for a dally overcertlflcatlon. But when the Directors, following the annual meeting of the bank. re-elected Mr. Ixxmis along with the rest of the officers.

It was believed that the Second Vice President would be let down easily. This impression was strengthened ry President Btlllman's admission that ho knew about the transactions with Munroe Munroe for at least J-e last two of the days o. which they were going on; by his excuse for Mr. Loomis that we are all likely to make mistakes at times," and by Vice President Whi -son's subsequent explanation that the bank knew that If the Munroes did not make the paper good somebody else would do so." More than this. It has been said definitely In quarters In touch with City Bank Interests during the past week, that the programme for Mr.

Loomis was to let him continue as Second Vice President for some weeks, and then retire On ac- in i v. Thla vu nunnlSment- muni ui i n-iK-cii w. I ma.iI 9 ma whW ea yesteraay vy -Is constantly doing business Willi the bank, that Feb. 1 was the date set for the'reslgnatlon. I Considering all thla.

It was the belief of financial men last night that something had happened pretty suddenly at the City Bank to bring the resignation at this time. The trip of Frank Vanderllp, also a Vice President, to Washington on Thursday was recalled, and also the fact that announcement was made yesterday of Individual suits against members of the syndicate, including Mr. Loomis, by brokers who allege- that the syndicate members were principals In the stock-washing operations that the Munroes managed, and therefore bound to make good to the brokers the $300,000 they lost In buying stock at Munroe's orders on Dec 7. In addition to this was the fact that the 33.000 shares of Montreal and Boston which were deposited with the City Batik as collateral for the series of 9 ,000 loans to the Munroes was sufficiently syndicate stock to be collected by Boese as Treasurer of The syndlcato after the Munroes went under and the last of the" loans had been taken up. When the letter of resignation of Mr.

Loomis was read to Samuel Untcrmyer, counsel for the creditors who are attacking Munroe Munroe In bankruptcy, Mr. Vntermyersaid that he very much regretted the outcome of the investigation so far as Mr. Loomis was concerned. lie added that the connection of the City, Bank with the transactions of Munroe Munroe had been misunderstood. It had never been charged, he said.

In the proceedings or In any testimony that the City Bank had been guilty of a violation of law. The only claim made against It arose from the fact that its debt of $00,000 had been repaid to It on the eve of the failure, and this would be alleged to be a preferred payment within the meaning of the bankrupt law. and recoverable as such. There was no hearing In the bankruptcy Proceedings yesterday. INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS.

Commercial "World. Page 13. Amusements. Page 9. Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers.

Page 13. Business Troubles. rage IS. Court Calendars. Page 13.

Marino Intelligence and Foreign Mails. Bags New Corporations. Page 12. Estate. Page 15.

0. tnited 12. leather Report. Page 0. eaterday's Fires.

Pate 2. WE THREATEN HAITI. Demand Annulment 1 of Sentence Passed on American Citizen. PORT-AU-PRINCE. Jan.

13. Mr. Pow-U. the American Minister, has Informed the Government of Haiti that the United States Government refuses to recognise the validity of the sentence In contumacy of fifteen years' Imprisonment at hard labor pronounced by the Haitian court on Jaeger Huber. an American citizen, for alleged! complicity In the bond frauds charged against the administration of ex-President Sam and officers of the Bank of Haiti.1 i' The United States demands the annulment of the sentence, under pain of energetic intervention.

The demand has caused much excitement fiere. 1 Dispatches from Port-au-Pylnce. dated Dec. 25, reported that in accordance with the verdict of the Jury In the trial of ex-President Sam and others, accused of the fraudulent issue of bonds of the Republic of Haiti In 1002. sentence had been, passed on several of the defendants In contumacy, these defendants having left the country.

The alleged frauds were In connection with a plan of the Sam administration for consolidating the debt of the Republic Before the refunding scheme was consummated the administration of Sam was overthrown, and President Nord caused the arrest of thirty-three persons, including members of the Sam Cabinet and officers of the Bank of Haiti, on charges of conspiracy and the fraudulent issue Of from IG00.000 to $850,000 of bonds. When the trial began last Nov. only thirteen of the defendants were present, the others, having fled the country. BRISTOW OUT; GETS NEW POST .1 Appointed Special Commissioner to Investigate Panama Commerce. iS fecial to Tk New Ygrk Timts.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. In resentment at the action of the Postmaster General in taking the 200 Inspectors of the Post Office Department away from i him. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to-day tendered his resignation, to take effect Jan.

20. Before night Mr. -Bristow received an appointment as Special Commissioner to deal with trans-Panama commerce. This announcement came at the conclusion of an extended conference late to-day between1 the President, Secretary Taft, Mr. Bristow, and Senator Long of Kansas.

The text of the order issued by the President follows: It Is ordered that Joseph Bristow of Kannaa be appointed a special Commissioner for the purpose of vlnlttng the ports of the Facifla Coast, the Isthmus of Panama, New York, and such other ports ss may, be necessary, to make an Investigation into the present trade conditions and fretebt rates between the Atlantic and Pacific CX-ant. armas the Isthmus of Panama, and between the west coast of Hotith America and the eaet coast of the United Htates. and Europe, tor the purpose of determining: the beet policy to be pursued In the management of the Panama Railroad Company. Be Is authorised to employ for this purpose a stenographer at not exceeding; 5 a day. and his actual and necessary expenses, and to take evidence of all persons whose knowledge of trade conditions or rates will assist In reaching the necessary conclusion.

The Secretary of War will furnlVi to the Special Commissioner a letter of ructions In detail aa. to the course and extent of his Investigation, and as to the time when he shall rtport his conclusions t'ntll his report Is the Com-mtufcloner will be allowed his actual exi-ense. and gift a day. The President will finally fix his entire compensation. As Mr.

Bristow will need until Jan. 2o, llKiS, to close up matters awaiting his disposition as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, this order will take effect on that date. The Isthmian Canal Ctm-m Inn ion Is directed to provide the funds needed in me execution or tnts oraer. i The; friction between the Postmaster General and the Fourth Assistant has been evident only within the last few days, but there has been suspicion that Mr. Bristow felt that had been wronged when I Mr.

Wynne was made Postmaster General. The Fourth Assistant had conducted the mOBt extensive departmental investigation known in the history of the executive departments, and he had given the Government years of faithful service. To him the arduous work ferreting out the rascals In the Cuban postal service was intrusted, and his thoroughness caught them all. He thought that whan Mr. Wynne, after a year and a half of service in the office of First Assistant, was made a Cabinet officer.

he (Bristow) had not "been dealt with fairly. In the last few days he has told the President precisely what he thought. Yesterday Bristow again went to the White House to talk with' the President about the matter. While he was at the White House the order transferring the Inspectors to the office of the Postmaster General was sent over to the Chief Inspector. Thereupon the Fourth Assistant wrote out his resignation, intending to return to Kansas, where he is generally looked upon as a candidate for the United States Senatorship to succeed Senator Burton, who is awaiting the action of the United States Supreme Court on his appeal for a new trial.

In a few hours after his resignation was sent to the White House Mr. Bristow received a message announcing that the President had appointed him a Special Commissioner to investigate trade conditions and freight rates between the Allan tl a and Pacific Oceans. TALBOT INQUIRY DROPPED. i Board Discovers That Through an Er- ror It Lacks Authority. Jan.

IS. There will be no investigation for the present at least of the charges preferred by the Rev. Dr. I. N.i W.

Irvine against Bishop Kthelbert Talbot of the Central Pennsylvanian Diocese Of the Protestant Episcopal Church. A' lack of canonical authority Is the conclusion of the eleven members who attended to-day's meeting of the board of inquiry. The full membership consists of sixteen. The Rev. Dr.

Bodine. the' President, gave out a statement embodying the proceeding and conclusions of the' board. This statement says: i Mrj Stetson pointed out that at the last General Convention the clerical deputies from New York were the Rev. Drs. Dlx.

Huntington. Grosvenor, and Parks; that Ir. H- P. Nichols, provisional clerical dep uty. took the place of the Rev.

Dr. Dlx. who declined to attend; that undoubtedly In lg jo ranee of this, both D. Dlx and Dr. Nichols had been drawn sx members of the Board of Inquiry, and.

that the liar of clerical deputies from -New Tork. from which they were drawn, either faile-t to Include the names of the other three cle-teal deputies, who actually sat in the convention, or else included the names of five presbyters as clerical deputies, whereas under the constitution of. the t'nurch there could not be more than Tour clerical deputies from one diocese at any one time. I nn.vlv.nia Railroad Personally Oondncted ToSra? fanUSry 31. lbrnary 14 and SS.

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It i. r.mdy for UtUa folks' cokls. 25 v. THF PRRIIUNT WANTS Ks sV sW- iiiti i CANAL i BOARD REDUCED Also Wants More Power in Build- ng the Canal. BRISTOW PERSONAL AGENT? The President Seeks to Control Isthmian Rates and Hit at Trans- continental Railroads.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. President Roosevelt, in a brief message transmitting to Congress today the first annual report of the Panama Canal Commission, together with a letter from Secretary Taff relating to Panama affairs, recommends that he receive more power to carry on the work of constructing the canal. The Board of Canal- Commissioners, he gays, should be reduced to five, or preferably three, members, whose duties, powers; and salaries should be assigned by the President.

President's message is as follows: i I transmit herewith the report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, accompanied by a letter of the Secretary of War, under whose supervision I have by execu. tlve order placed the work of the commission. i I concur with the Secretary of War in the view that the present provision of law. by which the work of building the canal has to be done only through a body of seven members, Is inelastic and clumsy, and I earnestly recommend a change, so that the President, who is charged with the responsibility of building the canal, may exercise greater discretion In the organization of the personnel through whom he is to discharge this duty- Actual experience has convinced me that It will' be Impossible to obtain the best and most 'effective service under the limitations prescribed by law. The general plans for the work must agreed upon with the aid of the best engineers of the country, who should act as an advisory or consulting body.

The consulting engineers should not be put on the commission, which should be used only as an executive instrument for the executive and administrative work. The actual work of executing the general plans agreed upon by the commission, after receiving the conclusions of the advising engineers, must be done by an engineer. It Is, In my judgment, inadvisable, therefore, to restrict the Executive choice of Commissioners to representatives of the Engineer Corps of thermy or the navy. The commission should consist of five, or preferably of three, whose respective powers, and salaries should be assigned to them by the and who should be placed under the member the Cabinet whom the President desires. Of these men, the one appointed as administrator of the canal strip should also serve as Minister to Panama." APPOINTMENT OF BRISTOW.

In connection with the foregoing message, the action of the President to-day in appointing Mr. Bristow. who resigned his post as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, a special commissioner to investigate conditions of trans-Panama commerce, is significant. It is believed that, under the guise of a special task, Mr. Bristow will act lroadIy for the President in Panama Canal matters.

One of Mr. Hristow's important tasks will be to adjust the questions arising out of the connection of the Pacific Mail Company with the Panama Railroad Company. By the acquisition of the latter concern by the United States, the Government becomes a party to a monopoly. As Secretary Taft points out In his letter, which accompanied the President's message to-day, the existing contract between the Panama Railroad Comoany and the Pacific Mall Steamship Company gives the latter exclusive right to issue through bills of lading on business between San Francisco and New York. The Secretary says he thinks this contract Is invalid under the laws of Colombia and the laws of Panama, but, at any rate, he is clear that the United States Government cannot consistently make itself a party to such a contract, and he has directed the commission to serve notice on the Paclfio Mail Steamship Company of the Intention of the railroad company to withdraw I rum the contract at the end of six months.

The Secretary strongly recommends the acquisition by the Government of the 1.59 per cent, of the stock of the Panama Railroad Company. i The President wants to get control of the freight rates across- the Isthmus, and consequently from New York to Sa.n Francisco und other Pacific terminals. This he considers the strategic key to the reduction of transcontinental freight rates over Jw-unk railways between the Atlantic and tiie Pacific and .1 Is In connection w.ih this matter that he has appointed Mr. Bristow. i The President has for six months, according to a statement made to-night by Secretary had Bristow in mind -for a prominent place connected with the Panama Canal.

He for a time considered him for a place on the Canal Commission. There is no doubt as to the power of the President under the Spooner act to appoint any one, either from the army or from civil life, to any position in connection with the acquisition or construction of the Panairfa Canal, but there is doubt as to his power to make such an appointment for the purpose of working out a problem! In transcontinental commerce. Discussing what the Canal Commission has done, Secretary Taft says much has been accomplished 4n the work or organisation, sanitation, and preparation to build the canal, although it will require several months yet to restore proper conditions for the work of canal building, i THE PANAMA TARIFF. The Secretary discusses the details Of the arrangement made by him personally with the Government of Panama governing the relations between the canal tone Government and Panama. He says it may be necessary to increase from ten to fifteen per cent the rate of duty that may be collected by Panama on goods destined for the canal sone, and points out that the monopoly now existing on tobacco will expire in 10OS and will not be renewed, so that that market will be open to the United States.

i The report of the Canal Commission recites that Its first visit to the canal sone was in April last, during which- time the only work in progress was the excavation of the Culebra cut. The French surveys were found to be of little value on account of the changes which have taken place not only in the six of vessels, but In the existing methods of construction. The development of the final plans for both the deep-water channel and the inner harbor, at either end of the canal, including about a mile of the canal line, will bo concluded within the next two or three months. Extreme measures have been adopted for the prevention and cure of diseases. 3 The report contains the first annual report of Major Gen.

Davis. Governor of the canal sone. dated Nov. 1. kH.

Gen. Davis comments on the high 'telegraph and railroad rajes on the Isthmus. He advises making the railroad telegraph line a Government line, and says that if the Government would go out of the steamboat business and would reduce rates across the Isthmus SO per cent, private competition would reduce steamship rates between New York and Colon, and San Francisco and Panama. i TIIE SEABOARD FLORIDA LIMITED Is the handsomest and quickest Florida train. Leave.

Kw York dally at 12 25 noon. Two, ether hurh-elass trains fnr Plneharst. Camden, aa'. Florida resorts. OfSce L1S3 Bwav.

Adv. A LITERARY SENSATION i On Sunday, Jan. 22, NEW YORK TIMES will print the first installment of a hitherto unpublished NOVEL by the late Earl of Beaconsfield Sec Page 25 of The. Saturday Review of Books accompanying this Issue of The Times ASTORS MAY TAKE OVER HOTEL KNICKERBOCKER Due to Get Possession Feb. 1 Un- der Forfeited Contract.

WOULD'PUSH WORK THROUGH Elaborate New Plans Have Been Made for Aator Estate A Year's Complications. For nearly one year since Feb. 1, 1004 the great Hotel Knickerbocker property. on the corner of Forty-second Street and Broadwav, has stood an empty shell. Many people have wondered that Idleness has reigned in the Immense structure, and an investigation into the causes has de veloped an extremely tangled state of affairs that will be straightened out.

in all probability within the next three weeks. CoL John Jacob Astor. who owns the ground upon which tue hotel stands, has been alsq the practical owner of the build ing itself since February of last year, when the International Realty and Con struction, Company was dispossessed. He is merely waiting for the year to expire in which the former tenants, the Interna tional Realty and Construction Company. may take possession by the payment of its obligations before Assuming the ownership and pushing the work to its completion.

Contrary to the usual habit of the two Astor estates. In handling hotel property here. CoL Astor In 1000 leased to the International Realty and Construction Company, a Philadelphia corporation, the ground upon which the old St. Cloud Hotel stood, and as much of the adjoining land as now comprises the site of the Knickerbocker. The i contract with the realty company called for the erection of a hotel to cost at least $2,000,000 when ready for decorations and furnishings, and Astor made! a building loan to the comoany of $1,600,000.

The prime mover in the International Realty was the building firm of J. E. A. L. Pennock of Philadelphia, which has offices at 1,133 Broadway, and built the Hotel Knickerbocker.

CoL Astor reserved, to himself the right to name the tenant of the lessors the managing head of the hotel when It should be com pleted. For this post he selected James B. Regan, formerly manager of the Pabst Hotel, and how manager of the Wood-manston Inn, in Westchester. After Mr. Regan had filed a bond for $130,000 with the Astor estate, he formed the Knickerbocker Hotel Company, and besides Mr.

who was managing director and owned one-third of the capital stock, the others interested were Jesse Lewisohn and Godfrey S. Kroms, a copper man. Mr. Regan also had a twenty-year contract with the Knickerbocker Hotel Company, to act as manager of the completed hotel. Before long serious dissensions arose In the Knickerbocker Hotel Company.

As a result; Mr. Regan resigned a Director, but still retained bis Stock as well as his contract to run the hotfl. Meanwhile labor troubles had multlpl-d thick and fast in the path of the Inte.rstlonaL Not the least of the Impending Arublea was the row; going on In the Kn'ckerbocker Hotel Company, and the Inte-rational was confronted with the proposition that It might complete its building and sill have no tenant, or at least not hi nant that would be saisfactory to the Aa'or estate. Matters ran along In this way" until Feb. 1 last, when the growtd nt from the International to the AsUr estate became due.

The International Company defaulted in this payment, rMcoossess proceedings were at once begn. the construction company was ous vd, and all work on the building ceased. MeanwbUe, in anticipation of he International Companay failing to fulfill its contract, entirely new plars have been d.awn for the interior of the hcteL and it is according to these that it will be finished if this Trork falls the Astor estate, i The address of the International Realty and Construction Company is given as 31 Wall Street, b.ut nothing was known of the corporation there. J. E.

Pen node, at the Bt. James Building, refused to talk. Iwis Cass Ledyard. attorney for the Astor estate, said that he had not heard from the InternationaPCompany in a year and knew nothing about it, when the lease of the Knickerbocker Hotel Company witn me international expires, as it will if the latter does not make a payment by Feb. 1.

Messrs. Lewisohn and Hvams will make no further efforts toward getting control of the management of the hotel. As it is to-day; the Hotel Knickerbocker stands with only the structural steel and brick and masonry work completed. The floor beams are in place, but the fire-proofing has not been begun, nor has any Interior work been attempted. A single watchman, employed by the Astor estate, is on duty in the immense structure, which bas not beard the hum of Industry in a year.

i Dead-Lock In Delaware House Broken. DOVER. DeU Jan. 13. W.

Denny. Union Republican, was elected Speaker of the House late to-day. This breaks the dead-lock in the lower branch, and la the result of to-day's conference. Ant AdesjMte Passenger Service, 18 trains to Buffalo. 14 to Niagara Falls.

11 to Cleveland. 9 to Cincinnati. I to SL Louis. 13 to Detroit, and 15 to Chicago via New York Cwual and Wat Shore JLaiiroarta 4 rtv. 1 i BENJAMIN DISRAELI phipps gives Million for model tenements Former Associate of Carnegie Outlines His Plan.

CHOOSES BOARD OF TRUSTEES Will Probably Build on Upper East Side Playgrounds for Children fronts to Extend' Work. HenryjJPhlpps. the steel capitalist and former associate or Andrew Carnegie, has set a fund of $1,000,000 for the purpose of building tenement houses In the City of ifew York according to the most modern methods of construction, with pro vision for playgrounds for children. Announcement of this undertaking was made yesterday by Robert De with twelve other men. has been asked by Mr.

Phipps to act as trustee of the society which is to be organised to carry out the iplan. Those who were Invited to act as trustees are Mayor McClellan, Robert W. De Forest, Jsidor Straus. John W. 'Arbuckle, Alfred White.

Myles Tlerney. Charles S. Brown. Dr. E.

R. L. Gould. W. S.

Charles A. Moore, George E. Gordon, John 8, Phipps. and Charles Stewart Smith. lAt the wish of Mr.

Phipps, these men met' and listened to a letter in which Mr. "Phipps outlined his plan, and they at once, agreed to act as requested. In his letter Mr. Phipps said: I propose to 1 organise a society for the purpose of building tenement houses in the lty of New York, preferably In the Borough of Manhattan if it can be done advantageously, but If land be found too uigbj or If building conditions are such as to threaten Mindue cost of construction or unreasonable delay," then in the other boroughs of the city or elsewhere. "I propose to give $1,000,000 for this purpose; I expect the tenements to be so planped as to earn about 4 per cent, on thelf cost, after allowing a proper for maintenance and repairs.

I intend to have the earnings accumulate and to be used from time to in erecting more tenements. My Wish is that the rooms should not be rented at a price below the market rate. 1 do net wish to discourage individual Investors- from building tenements on a purely business basis. To -do this might fheck building operations, raise rents, and in the end prove injurious to the working people, whom I wish to aid. If there Is a period of high cost and great Inflation, then the work should go very slowly or be stopped.

On the other hand, if there Is a period of great and lack of employment it may be well to go fast and perhaps have more than one building under way at the same time. I would certainly be an advantage to have-one building finished and rented, and see; how it rents and suits tenants, before Starting to erect a second. My object is to make this money do as much good as possible. I should like the buildings to have all the light and air possible; to have them fire-probf and thoroughly sanitary, and, so far as possible, to have spaces around them la: which the children could play. It may -je well to erect buildings for per haps two or three classes of wage or it may possibly be better to confine ourselves to one class, hoping to thus relieve the market and incidentally benefit another I shjall look with great interest to the progress! of the work, and.

perhaps may see much of It finished while I am here to enjoy It. I Intend to have the gentlemen whom I have Invited to the meeting constitute the Trustees of the society, with full power to fill vacancies. To Insure th(t parrying out of the gift. I will deposit in a trust company, or with a committee bt this board; sufficient cash from time to time to Insure the performance of my parti" The society will probably be known cs The Phipps Houses, although the name has not yet been definitely decided upon. It is understood that Mr.

Phipps will himself be President of this society, that Isi-dor Straus will be its Vice President, and Robert W. de Forest Chairman of Us. Executive Committee. Mr. Phipps has called in as advisers some of those who are best Informed on the tenement-house problem.

Four of the men najned Robert W. de Forest. Alfred T. Whil. Myles Tlerney, and Charles S.

Brown-ijrwere members of the 'ew York State Tenement House Commission of 1900 which framed the present tenement- house law. Mr. de Forest was Tenement House Commissioner under Mayor Low, and DrE. R. I Gould Is President of the City and Suburban Homes Company.

In making announcement of this undertaking yesterday Mr. de Forest said: Mr.S'rPhipps has only recently made New" York City his home. His name is well known in connection with many philanthropic enterprises In his native State of Pennsylvania, among which may be mentioned the Playground for Chlldi-en and the Free Gjfc-nnasium at Allegheny City, and the Henry Phipps Institute ior the Study. Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis, at Philadelphia." Asked where the tenements would be located, Mr. De Forest said that the location had not yet been decided upon, but It would probably be In upper Manhattan, this side of the Harlem River's He added that the intention was to preclude the idea that by living In these houses tenants became-.

Objects of charity. Mr. De Forest would not say if other wealthy men would be permitted to contribute to the fund, although he expressed the hope that the example set by Mr. Phipps might be followed by others so that living conditions the poorer classes in this city might be made more bearable. FOURTH MINUS" FIREWORKS.

Chief broker Wanta Everything Prohibited That Day Except Firecrackers. In a tetter which r.e sent to Fire Commissioner Nicholas J. Hayes yesterday. Chief Edward F. Croker recommended that steps be taken without delay to prohibit the use of all fireworks except firecrackers on and around July 4 next.

He makes an exception of firecrackers because, he writes, he finds that there are great itocks of them on hand In the shops of the dealers and aboard shins In process of Importation and to prohibit their use' on such short notice would work a great- hardship. He recommends, however A that at the end of another year the prohibition be extended to firecrackers as well. Commissioner Hayes said he had given the subject no thought whatever. He had sent tn timers letter to tne Municinsi Explosives Commission, which has Jurisdiction jn the case. The Board of Underwriters Is said to be quite in accord with Chief uxoxer plans in tnts matter.

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VANDERBILT AT FIRE. Police Allow Hla Car Inaldo Line at Tenth Avenue Blaze. i Four alarms were turned in at 11 o'clock last night for a fire which started In the rear of a tea store at 796 Tenths Avenue. The flames spread rapidly to an adjoining building occupied by a whole sale liquor dealer, and to No. 794.

on the other the hardware store of A. J. Short- At 12.13 the flreboats were called. One of the first of several parties to ar rive In automobiles was that of Alfred G. Vanderbllt, who had several friends with him.

They had seen the glare across town and decided to run over. The police allowed his oar wifhln the fire lines. Tae fire quickly burned through to the floor above the three stores and destroyed the plant of the Nicholas Gas Tubing Company, which occupied all of that floor. Then flames got through the -celling of the Tubing Company. As the second alarm was turned la Chief Croker arrived.

The walis of the adjoining buildings were dangerously hot. and Chief Croker told the police to rout out the fiftoen families in the tenement at No. 782. which Is on the northeast cor ner of Fifty-fourth Street, and a few minutes later eighteen other'' families from the adjoining Fifty-fourth Street house were warned to get Women and children in both houses were panic-stricken, The fire appeared to ba under control at 12:55 o'clock. It was then estimated that the building and contents were almost entirely destroyed.

The damage was estimated at $73,000. NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER. President Appointa Congressman Vee-i paslan Warner. WASHINGTON. Jan.

13. The President has appointed Vespasian Warner to be Commissioner of Pensions. Mr. Warner is Congressman from the Nineteenth District of Illinois, and was re-elected last November for the fifth term. He was strongly indorsed for the Pensions Bureau by the State delegaUon and by prominent members of the Grand Army of the Republic and other organizations of ex-soldiers.

The appointment will go to the Senate to-morrow, i DEPOSED FOR KILLING COON. Rozier Meiga No Longer President of 8t. Louie Humane Society. Sptciaf -Jo TWt Krai York Timts. ST.

LOUIS. Jan. 13. Rosier Meigs Is no longer President of the St. Louis Humane Society.

He has been deposed for killing a 'coon. Mary Waldo Calkins and other women of the society were shocked when they learned that their President had Joined a party of 'coon hunters, and. hav ing found a 'coon, had hunted the animal to Its death, They started a fight against Mr. Meigs and elected John F. Ryan President in his stead.

RAID ON THE -1- Police Arrest Thirty-eix Women In Tenderloin Resort. i Armed with a warrant from Magistrate Ommen. who Is sitting in the Jefferson Market Court. Inspector McLaughlin and six detectives, aided by Capt- Cottrell and four of his men. raided the Cairo, a concert hall on I West Twenty-ninth Street, near Broadway, shortly before midnight last night.

In the place were thirty-six women and about forty men. The men were allowed to go. but the women were arrested and taken to the Tenderloin Station. Jacob Schmidt, the alleged proprietor, was also' arrested. While the raid was being made hundreds of persons gathered In the street In front on the place and booted and howled at the women.

1 WEDDING NEWS A SURPRISE. i Jersey Wedding of Last. November Just Announced. SrtiM Is Tk New York Timts. ORANGE.

N. Jan. 13. A belated marriage announcement was made to-day with the publication of the wedding of Charles A. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Benjamin Dcaring, of Wyoming, N. and Miss Clara Sterling Barker, daughter, of Abram Barker, connected with the Metropolitan Street Railway of New York. The ceremony took place In the Presbyterian Church, Jersey City, Nov. 14 last, and it was the intention of the young folks to keep the news quiet until the end of next June, i The secret leaked out.

and the young couple decided to make a formal announcement. Mr. Dearlng Is a member of the Maplewood Field Club and the Wyoming Lawn Tennis Club, RINK RACER BADLYHURT. Harold See. and Three Other Skaters In a Spill.

In the racing competitions, held under the auspices of the Brooklyn Skating Club, at the Clermont Avenue Rink. last night, Harold See, one of the competitors, was badly hurt and three other skaters slightly Injured. It was in the second race on the programme, the Class A one-mile handicap, that See was hurt. He was preparing to swing Into the turn at the easterly end of the rink when he fell, i See was going a swift pace, and slid over the i Ice, landing with great force against the wooden partition, striking against a projection and rolling over on bis fsce. For a moment See lay stunned and several men rushed to his side to render assistance.

He was taken to his room unconscious, where an examination showed that he was badly bruised about the back. He was finally brought round so that he was able to be taken home by his father, Samuel See, who acted as starter for the races. The other skaters who were injured were E. B. Cnderhm of the Wlnthron Athletic Club, who was cut about the legs by the skates of a competitor, and Mortimer Loew! and Herbert EarL who fell when near the line.

Hetty Green Settles Suit; te BOSTON. Jan. IX By agreement of all parties the action of Hetty Green of New York, charging the Trustees of her father's estate with mismanagement, which has been pending In the United States Circuit Court for the past five years, bas been privately settled. It Is aid that by the settlement Mrs. Green will receive $75.000.

TyROtCIl SLEEPER LAD TO CLEVK- via Pennsylvania Railroad. Leaves West 23rd Street Station dally at 4:66 P. at, arrives Cleveland 7:15 A. M. limited train; no extra tar to Cleveland.

Adv. Qalekesf Un ce CI eve la Lear New York 6:32 P. arrive Cleve land 7:16 next mornlDC, Cincinnati 1-TO P. Indiana polls P. St.

Louis P. by New York Central. Fine service- Ne as- PRISONER SUSPECTED OF THE UMBRIA PLOT Rosscau, Caught in Philadelphia, Had Infernal Machine. ADMITS DESIGNS ON SHIPS Comes from Chicago as the Man Wio. Sent Dynamite io the I Canard Uner.

I Social to Jko Kom York -Timtt. i PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 13. Geaalef Rosseau, whose antecedents are a mystery and who is suspected of being the man who In May, 1003, sent an Infernal machine to the Cunard Line pier In New York where the UmbrU then was berthed, was arrested In this city ths An Infernal machine with all wires connected was discovered by the detectives in a telescope carried "by the prisoner.

He admits that his purpose was to blow up English ships, And says be is an of an Irish society. Incidentally, he is suspected of being the man who recently attempted to destroy the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington. lie was taken into custody by City Hall Detectives Joseph Miller and Tall In the home of Patrick Kelly, 2,33 North Second Street, a cousin of Owen Kelly, the. wealthy Irishman who mysteriously disappeared from this city several months: ago. Detective Miller, who entered the house in the guise of a relative of the missing man, heard Rosseau offer for SoOO to take Patrick Kelly to where h- claimed the missing man was held a captive In New York City.

Realising that they were dealing with a desperate man the detect Ives Induced Rosseau to go with thef to the City Hall, where he was qutckb overpowered. Captain of Detectives Donaghy sayt Rosseau is not insane, bnt Is a dangerous criminal. lie is a skilled machinist and intelligent. He will tell nothing about himself beyond the admissions above referred to and the assertion that he comes from Chicago. The Irish leaders Of this city declare him to be an impostor.

Descriptions of the mysterious prisoner have been sent to the police of all cities in hopes of being able to identify him. Detectives from. New York and Washington are expected to-morrow morning. With the Washington detectives will come a negro- workman who saw the man who trie destroy ths statne: In ton with a bontb. When searched the prisoner had little money and two bats.

The soft one, which he wore, bore the mark of Tenver, although it was made in this city. In hla pocket was a black skull cap and papers relating to the recent riots 4n Denvr. Physician Pronounces Him He was. taken before Magistrate Koch-ersperger. who held him without ball for another hearing next Friday A physician saw the prisoner after the bearing and pronounced him sane.

Ills. Infernal machine was carefully dissected by the police and la preserved in a remote corner of the City Hall, i At Intervals to-night Captain Vf Detectives Donaghy sweated the prisoner In hopes of securing a full confession, but his efforts were; of no avail. i The prisoner Is forty years of age, of medium stocklly built, with a smooth, broad fsce, florid complexion, thick lips, small blue eyes, and prominent ears. Detectives traced his movements In this city to-day and learned that he was here Wednesday night- It was Thursday night that he visited the boms of Patrick Kelly In North Second Street and declared that he knew where the missing Owen Kelly wss. For 300 Til take you to him In New York." he said.

ucan only see him, howfever. He is now a physical wreck. -He knows too many secrets of the An. clent Order of Hibernians to be The stranger added that he belonged to an organisation formed for the purpose ot blowing up English Kelly told his visitor to call again this morning, and when he had departed informed the police. Early this morning the stranger returned and the detectives were present, He carried bis infernal machine with him.

Before them he repeated the story of his mission of destruction and told of the alleged whereabouts of the missing man in New York. The detectives announced their willingness to go to New York with him and induced him to accompany them to the City Hall, where his arrest took place. When tow policemen grappled with him Rosseau made no struggle, but became very indignant. Telescope Infernal Machine. The detectives knew that' the telescope contained something deadly, because the man told them of Its contents on his way to the City Hall.

They promptly ripped off the top of the Inside was a box. which fit snugly in the case, and was neatly It was divided Into two parts. The works, which were those taken from a clock, were simple. The box was about 8 Inches deep and 12 by 18 Inches long- v. The works occupied one side, while a dry cell battery was on the other with two wires coupled to it.

A dial revested mechanism by which the explosion could be timed. When the hour for- ignition was reached a little steel arm was automatically moved and. connecting with another, formed a circuit. On. one of the wires was attached a i fulminating cap ready to be applied to a dynamite cartridge.

A Washington newspaper of Deo. 30 contained a halt dozen coils of wire and other percussion cape. Word of the man's arrest was sent to Michael Ryan and A. 8. I.

Shields and J. Washington Logue, all of whom attended the bearing In the interests of the Kelly family. The prisoner took his arrest coolly only complained when the detectives took both his hats away. Rosseau baa been In this city frequently, the police believe, because of the statements of a hotel clerk In a Vine 8treet lodging bouse, where be Is known to have spent Thursday night. The clerk said he had seen the man frequently.

1 Another important due to the magi's Identity, according to the police. Is skullcap. Such a headgear Is said to have kv lh iM Tarm mtmm.