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JANUARY 20, 191 3. TWENTY PAGES. flVr PrVT la OMtee Tfc Jersey Cttr. aaa Sswerk, CXXTS, i 0, 5 I Ei LA Olt ro S'! I 1 t- 3, trla AXj T.r! is: 4tr ei.1 SUFFRAGISTS ON WARPATH AGAIN Smash Windows of Government Offices in London and of West End and Suburban Shops. RAID ON HOUSE OF COMMONS Twenty-one Women, Including Mrs.

Drummond and Miss Pankhurst, Arrested There. CROWDS WANT TO DUCKTHEM Women Roughly Handled by Hooligans Three Sentenced In Dublin for Breaking Caatle Windows. i Mimai TraaMtlmatW- Wireless Telegraph I Tfc New Terk Times. LONDON. Wednesday, Jan.

29. London was In a fever of expectation fJ speculation all day yesterday aa to wot the militant suffragettes were about to do In execution of their threats of guerrilla warfare." Plans. 4 vii aaid, had already been prepared, but complete secrecy as to their nature wss maintained. bafttlng the police and the public. Those firms which suffered most in the previous windowing ash ir.i raids feared a repetition of them, and a rood many business' houses and shops took special precautions to guard theis premises.

Although Mrs. Pankhurst declared on Moudsy that human life would be held acred, her threat that as much property as possible would be destroyed spread consternation. Apprehension' was almost as wide-tpread, though lens in degree, as It was during the period of the Fenian reign ef terror. All London waa In a fever efnnrest as to what the day, or rather the night, would bring forth. In the evening the suffragettes' plans developed by attacks on windows In wfous districts, and a movement on the House of Commons, resulting In tte arrest of aome fifty women.

Includ-Itg Mrs. Drummond and Mies Sylvt. Pir.lthjnL The arrest of these two tadrrs arose out of an attempt on the prt of a deputation of suffragists to Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd-Oorre at the House of Commons. Earlier In the day Mrs. Drummond had vrltten to the Chancellor, saying: with other members of a deputation, intend to wait upon you In the House of Commons at o'clock this evening." In conformity with' this plan Mrs.

Drummond led a deputation from tho Horticultural Hall in Westminster, where a big meeting waa held. Follow cried Mrs. Drummond. Let take arms! no eur-rtoder! We want the vote and mean to r-t it." Tie deputation started for Bosses of Parliament despite the receipt of a telegram from Mr. Lloyd-George to the effect that he would re-edvs the deputation In private this "Xo private Interview for ns.

declared Mrs. Drummond amid loud cheers. If he wants a private Interview he will have to come to Hollo-y." To the strains of the Marseillaise." wg by a choir, and escorted by a lre force of police, the deputation de Us way in pouring rain to Farlla-ent Square. It was Just after 8 clock when the advance guard arrived. Jt was composed of two women, see dressed in a nurse's uniform.

They fviented themselves at the main entrance to the House of Commons In fr'ace Yard, and demanded admittance. The woman In the nurse's uniform, bn admission waa politely refused the police, persisted, and said to the fleers: -1 have a right to go in. and I going." To this an ofttcer re-t'-iA. -Pass along, please." "When fatly pushed away, the woman reamed several times, and finally was "rested. A few minutes later Mrs.

Drummond Miss Sylvia Pankhurst arrived at tl bead of a score of women. They re met at the entrance of the Houses Parliament by a Police' Inspctor. informed him that tbey had come the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Inspector took a message to Mr. Lord-George and delivered the Chan-'kf a reply, to the effect that he not see the women then, but waa JPred to see a deputation in the orning.

Ufa. Drummond intimated that this not satisfactory. It waa not J00 noh for them, ahe said aothiaa- less than tomfoolery." She Is dtern Intention to go cew th'r n1 tne 018 V- If they did not see him, she de- fJ- would be serious trouble. 8rggle with the Pllee. wh "ome refused to dUperse.

and tv sttempt Vaa made to remove ante "crlrnm" followed, the to break through the rWCWdcn--' Mrs- drummond. Miss ned 8n3 "veral others were ar-fter putting up a strenuous re- 1 O. Pare 8. WHisarrv. ta "rtini product 4v "liUlao.

i BURGESSDICKINSON ASUICIDE f'uaicfan Brother of Whitman Aaaiat- ant Leapa from Benedict Window. When Edmin and Howard Carter Dickinson, the latter an Assistant District Attorney returned to Edwin's apartment In the Benedict at 80 Washington Square Kant about 9 o'clock last night, after putting their stater, who had been visiting them, aboard a train for her home in Buffalo, they looked In at the apartment on the ground floor Occupied by Burgess Dickinson, their brother, a student of music and a composer of some note. They did not find him there, snd it wss suggested that he might have gone to Edwin's rooma. on the sixth floor. Edwin and Howard went upstairs.

Burgess waa not In the apartment, but Edwin noticed that a window looking out on the courtyard, six stories belowr wss open. He had left It closed, and as he went to It to close it, wondering how It had been opened, he. glanced down into the courtyard. lie caught his breath as he saw a heap llxe a dark bundle lying on the flas-a-ing. 1 He and Howard hurried to the basement.

In the courtyard lay their brother dead. iUh almost every bone In his body broken. There was no need to call a doctor, for It was evident that Burgess had been dead for some time. He had fallen or Jumped from the window of his brother's apartment, They carried the body inside, and Howard Dickinson notified the Coroner's office. Coroner Wlnterbot-tom called at the Benedict and gave his consent for burial.

He pronounced the case one of suicide, and the brothers were forced to agree with him. Howard Dickinson said thst his brother Burgess had been subject to fits of melancholia, suffered much from overwork, since he devoted every minute of his time to his music, and frequently became discouraged when he felt that his work was not attaining tie degree of excellence which he had set for tiimself. Burgess Dickinson waa 28 years old and a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University In the class of 1307. Ills the Rev. Edv'n is psstor of the North Presbyterian Church in Buffalo.

He is advanced In and Howard Dickinson feared last night that the shock of Burgess'a death might affect his father seriously. Edwin Dickinson Is a student at the Art Students' League. His brother, the Assistant D'Kfrict Attomer. lives at 45 Fifth Avenue. The brothers had been entertaining their sister for the last few and all had -been unusually happy.

Burgess'a death was a terrible shock to the brothers. ANOTHER FIGHT WITH MOROS. Americana Lose One Killed and Six Wounded Natlvca Loaaea Heavy. MANILA, Jan. sharp fighting between the American troops and the Moroa is reported this morning, when, as a result of an engagement near the city of Jolo.

the American troops lost one man killed and six -wounded. A large force of bolomcri made a sudden onslaught a nd auceeed4 In rushing two troops of United. States, cavalry, and a detachment of Philippine Constabulary. After a severe fight the Moros were beaten off, it is believed, with heavy loc. but the number of their casualties has not yet been ascertained.

Speriatto TKt Sew York WASHINGTON, Jan. SR-The fiht near the town of Jolo, In which CapU Patrick McNallV and several enlisted men of the Philippine Constabulary lost their lives last Thursday wsa the result of a determined campaign to inarm the Moro outlaws and protect thoie who are disposed to Ilvei in peace. Brig. Gen. I'enthlng cabled to the War Department to-day a full report of the engagement and explained Its For the past two years there has been a Isw In' Jolo Province that Moros and non-Christians shall not carrv firearms or cutting weapons without license.

There has been much opposition to the prohibition in Jolo snd but the army and the constabulary have been gradually enforcing It effectively. The pursuit ot criminals bas been so prompt and vigorous that they have In almost every instance been caught and punished. I-ast year 131 outlaws were captured, and of this number 7tf were killed while resisting srrest. i In the flrht at Sahlpa'a Cotta last week the Moros' loss waa between 40 and killed. No mention of prisoners is made in the dispatch.

BARS MOURNING BY HIS WILL. Atlanta Physician Calls the Wearing of It a Barbarous Custom. p.Hal to The Sew York Time. ATLANTA. Jsn.

In his will, published at his; own suggestion. Dr. Francis IL OrtneJ a physician, who died to-day. made the request that his 'wife, children, and other relatives should not wear mourning. In some respects," Dr.

Orme says, It isa barbarous custom. .1 desire and especially enjoin that my wife and children shall not wear mourning because ot my death. To mourn at heart upon the loss of friends Is unavoidable; to wear the habiliments of mourning Is a form. While the practice may accord with the pomp of courts and the parade of wealth. It seems to me unfitting In a republican country.

Were it abolished It would leave much bread for hungry widows and orphans." Dr. Orme was born In Dauphin. In 1S34. and came to Georgia In He began hla practice in Savannah, and In lttux removed to Atlanta where he lived until nts death. In 1887 Dr.

Orme was elected President of the American Institute of Homeopathy. MR. AND PART Incompatibility Given as Cauae for Separation of Wealthy Pair. pedal to The York Time. PITTS FIELD.

Jan. 28. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W.

Paige have separated by mutual consent. An attorney from Minneapolis has been here arranging tha legal matters In connection with the separation, and the papers were signed this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paige were married in Minneapolis about seven years agl.

She was the widow ot Frederick Pills-bury, one of the wealthy millers' ot that city. M. Paige had been connected with one of the PUlsbury concerns. Boon after the wedding Mr. and Mra Qalge came to this city, where they bought a handsome place.

Mrs. Paige's daughters accompanied them. Since their residence here two daughters of Mrs. Paige have been married. One la Mra.

Robert D. Bardwell of this city and the other is Mrs. Stanley Fosman of Pasadena. Cal. I Mrs.

Paige la now in Pasadena, whither she went for the wedding of her daughter. She will return to Pittafield to live. The plans of Mr. Paige are Indefnite. The Paiges have been prominent socially.

Their friends rive Incompatibility of temperament the reaaon or the separaton. eeaaelaMar amlts AJUOOSTlnNjBlT. XESS la puacaes aad fancy drink; A v. POLITICS WRECKED $4,000,000 CONTRACT i i Ex-Gov. Odell's Receivership of Aqueduct Company Attacked by William E.

Paine. SLOW PROGRESS ON WORK Obscure Plttsburflher Who Got Contract Enjoyed Friendship of Big Tim Sullivan and W. B. Ellison. The story of how an obscure Pittsburgh contracting company came here in 1007 and got a 94.000.000 Aqueduct contract through political Influence is revealed In a fight to oust ex-Gov.

Odell as receiver for the company, which went to the wall. A- William E. Paine, head of a big lumber company. la making the fight against Mr. Odell.

The lumber man first loaned the contracting company $200,000 and then was named corecelver with Mr. Odell. Their Joint administration developed disagreement and Mr. Paine proposed that Mr. Odell retire.

This, he says. Mr. Odell agreed to do. but instesd had himself appointed aa sole receiver. Mr.

Paine and his counsel were out of town at the time Justice Tompkins granted Mr. Odell's application. When the building of the Aqueduct waa in full swing In the Spring of 1907. there csme to this city from Pittsburgh a general contrsctor named Thomas McNally. What he did here or how long he remained cobody know but the next heard of him was that the Thomas McNally Company had obtained the big contract, known as Contrsct No.

2. 5-eekBklll Division. It provided for the building ot about fifteen miles of waterways to bring water to this city and involved concrete work and Almost every other sort of engineering work that goes on Inquiries i resulted in discovering that the Thomas McNally Company consisted ot Mr. McNally, his wife, and a clerk; that the original home of the company wss in Pittsburgh; that It was capitalised at and that It had recently opened an office In Peek skill. Some doubt was expressed ss to the ability of the company to furnish good enough bonds to the tune of to satisfy the Controller.

But these doubts were dispelled when it wss learned that a aitrety company had supplied the bond in exchange for collateral comprising, in part it was said, the Savoy Theatre Building. Assurances that the Thomas. McNally Company would have plenty of money and other kinds of assistance in carrying tha contract came with the newa tbat Timothy I. SulU van wa Interested in McNally and that William B. Ellison, who, was then the Corporation Counsel, was' a warm personal and political friend Of Sullivan.

-Coatrart Date April The contrsct was dated April 10. 1007. snd provided that the work should begin within ten days thereafter and be completed within forty-five months. The work was begun on time, but soon it became known that the Thomss McNally Comrany was in trouble. Two extensions of time were given, but still the work lagged behind schedule.

In April. 1908. Mr. McNally got so deep in difficulties that It appeared that only the most substantial aid would save him from perishing. While he was groping around for lfght a ssleemsn for the Georgia Florida Lumber Company sought hi trade.

McNally bluntly told him that while he needed lumber, and yellow pine, he did not have money enough to pay for IC The ralewman advised him to call upon William Psin. the Presideat of the Georgia Florida Lumber Company, and explain hH difficulties. McNally did so, and a contract was made to the effect that the company would finance McNally to the extent of gLtWt.onO In cash in exchange for oil the Ktot-k. in the contracting concern, and half the ultimate profits. Between Aprrl and December.

1908, the lumber company turned over to the contracting company the 1200,000 nd 90.Oitj beeides. All this money went Into the tunnels of the mountains on the west shore of the Hudson, and the contracting company found Itself In pretty much tne same ponttlon as before the additional cash reached it. Mr. McNally clamored for more money, but Mr. Paine refused It.

McNally's desperate needs then drove him hack to Pittsburgh for aid. He got no money there, but somebody helped him lay out a plan by which he might save himself frotji becoming a' complete business wreck. necelverahlp Salt Started. He retained lawyers and pretty soon thereafter the Burton Towder Company began suit for the appointment of receivers for the McNally Company. There was no conetst.

One of the clerks clerks from the office of McNally's lawyers appeared In court and consented to the application. The pro- eeeoing nan au tne aspects or being a most friendly one. The court appointee j. x. Krny or nttsourgn ss receiver.

The next day, Dec. 1ft, 1908. a Pittsburgh lawyer called at the office, of William B. Ellison and got an assignment for $400, which covered part of the claim of the Burton Powder Company. It was said yesterday by Robert H.

Wilson and Thomaa Gilleran, counsel for Paine, that thla assign ment waa made over to John M. Moe. a broker. Thereupon Mr. Moe started another suit in this State for ancillary receivers and.

like the Pittsburgh proceeding, there wss no contest. A clerk from Mr. Ellison's office appeared and consented to the appointment. This brought the whole proceedings cosily Into this State and the next thst was heard of It waa when Justice Tompkina of the Supreme Court, sitting in Westchester County, was appealed to for the appointment of the Trust Company of America as the receiver of the Thomas McNally Company. wlUt Erny acting as an ancillary receiver.

All these movements took place without the lumber company's knowing anything about them. Suddenly the newa came to it and a hurry call was sent out for a meeting of the Directors of the McNally concerns. The lumber company waa in control and so It had no trouble in getting a unanimoua vote to repudiate the actions taken for the naming of receivers. An application was made in the Pitta-burgh courts to set aside the receivers in rnVe. lf tna motion, the tourt said of McNally.

He hart na legal power to act except by rerrtil1on the Bosrd of to sav nnthlrg of the moral pae of the caoe lit yiew of the life blood that 'has been Infused the wnpaBr by the loan msde by the Georgia-Florida. Company, and without which the otity graat enterprt of the eempanv, the butlrtlnr the aqueduct, as shown br the rt feund. wMld bv, bent exceedingly doubtful ef saoreea. Attack Receivership. After this "victory Mr.

Palne's counsel returned to this State and began a fight to, deprive Moe of his power over the Ceatlsjwea aa rage 2. QCICKF.ST ItOfTK TO MIAMI. NASSAU AND HAVANA BY 3 MOt R9. Atlantic Coast tine. -N.

nrM r. Vj" JI BVCB 4 ntmtMhf, JUI way. Av "In time tuberculosis will be merely one jof the ways of dying when We aure worn out through fair wear and tear." That's the belief of one of the most level-headed students of big medical problems in this country. It will encourage you to read his irticle jn NEXT SUNDAY'S TIMES ONE KILLS) IN RIOT; NO STRIKER-INJURED Sheriff and Mill Guards in Battle with Wire Mill Workers in Steel Plant at Rankin, Pa. SAY THAT WOMEN INCITED IT Stanley Committee' Asked to Investigate Conditions In Mills of the Monongahela Valley.

Special to The New York Time: PITTSBURGH. Jan. man was shot dead. one was mortally wounded, and twelve persons" were injured In rioting which broke out late this afternoon at Ra ikln, six miles south of this clt where 1.000 employes of the wire mill of the American Steel and Wire Company, a subsidiary of the United States Sttel Corporation, are on strike. George nasco, the man killed, was not a striker, but a bystander who wss watojilng the fighting.

Not a striker was injured so fSr as is known. Three of those wounded were guards employed by the American J. Steel and Wire Company. Two womeii and one child were severely- clubbed. Among the more seriously Injured were: Frits Beck, shot In head, dying: Mrs John Seblan.

shot In left arm; Richard parishshot In left leg; Annie Leba. shot In abdomen; Walter BarnetU Chief of Police of Rankin, head lacerated; Michael Miles, aged six months, in left ear, and Charles Benson, shot In abdomen. h'ots Fined at Sheriff. Sheriff Bruff wks shot at repeatedly during the A bullet knocked off his hat. and another pierced overcoat.

He took refuge In the wire waa there to-night with! fifty deputies. The) town waa ia an uproar to-night. Ouarda carrying rifles and automatic revolvers were patrolling the streets, Secretary Frank L. Morrison of the American Federation of ptbor telegraphed that he would arrive here to-morrow. The rioting started shortly before 6 o'clock this afternoon.

General Organiser Thomas H. Flynn of the Federation of Labor waa addressing 1,000 strikers in Public Han. in Fourth Street Near the wire mill a mob of strikers snd sympathisers sttacked Sheriff Bruff. Shooting began at once. With the Sheriff were eighty of his deputies, mill guards, who had Just come from the wire mill.

When they heard the sound of the shooting the men in the meeting poured Into the street, snd walked right into the hail of bullets fired 4iy Ithe mill guards. The crlea of Injured persons and the continued firing coon frightened the mob. which dispersed, lone man had been killed In the shootihg. He wss Kenasco. His body was sent St once to the morgue.

The Injured were Sent to the Braddock General Hospital. I In the thick of Ine fight In front of Public Hall Organizer Klynn ruehed tip to Sheriff Bruff said: "Call off these men and step their firing those Runs." Flynn says! Uruff replied: You get out of thla town st once or you it get the same thing. Says Wanti Sheriff Bruff and men incited the Incited Riots. h1 men say that wo- ots. Bruff was' st tacked several timek early in the after noon.

took a sack of red pepper from one woman who was running through the streets urging the ftrisers to use nre- arras. Guards and1 ceputtes were sub jected all day to the leers and taunts women who refused Ito go to their homes. Organiser Flynn. ho came to this caty. said to-night: came out of that meeting peaceably.

I We heard the cries of women' and children and sounds of firing. On the steps lef the hall Kenasco fell dead at my feetl Bruff. at the head of those thugs, refused to call them off. He said that I'd geti the same if I didn't clear out I women and little children clubbed on the heads by these hired thugs of the Steel Corporation. If this condition of hostility! shown by Bruff pre-vaila it will end in ne ot the most desperate struggles ever seen In America." Sheriff Bruff said to-night that Flynn's story was too biased.

He and his men took abuse and were stoned all day, he said. When Police Chief Walter Barnett was knocked insensible by a brick hurled by a striker the riotlhg began, he said. After receiving a telegram from Secretary Morrison to-night. Flynn said the wire men would go on strike at Donora, Cleveland. Ohio.

and Jollet, 111. Flynn sent a statement to-night to the Stanley 6teel Investigation Committee setting forth the conditions prevailing in the United States Steel I Corporation mills In the Monongsheia Valley and asking that the committee Icome and make an Investigation. Flynn said that the company's guards werel clubbing strikers, putUng flreama in their pockets while they were unconscious and then hustling them off to Jail. Flynn also telegraphed Samuel Gompers. President of the American Federation of Labor.

Gompers will! be here Sunday, he said. Mm hundred men in the wire mill at Braddock went on strike to-nignt i It U-Srd tht there will be trouble there. The strike at Rankin started less than a week ago. The strikers are foreigners employed -as laborers, in the galvanising, shipping, and fence I wire departments. They receive pay at the rate 19 cents an hour, or a of ten.

hours. They are demanding- 30 cents an hour. Burgess J. Knox Mllliaan of Rnvin i. sued a proclamation to-day declaring the borough in a state of riot establishing a dead line" of 3tt wiL Plant, warning atl cnlldren from the yarns around the street, and ordering closed.

all saloons to be PHIPPS PARTNER IN CAFE. Jury Finda Stsel Man Was Interested In On Sued bV Creditors. PrrrSBrRGH. a verdict returned late to-day a Jury found Henry Phlpps. the steel man.

jhad been Interested In a local cafe, the license of which wss revoked some time sgi by the court. The suit waa brought against rhipps and Paul N. Decrett as partners, by creditors of the saloon. Phlpps denied hla interest In affidavits, and the case waa bitterly contested; WHIX TOr WANT DRrVKINO rriM revmd. rigid, asaiury gad eccaoaicil cup.

ARIZONA TURNS BACK THE ELECTORAL CLOCK 4 i Time Made to Stand Still While the New State's Tardy Messenger Brings Presidential Yote. MR. WEBB'S LEISURELY TOUR Interrupted by Bad 'Newa at Breakfast Rushes to Washington to Find Himself, Like Phlleaa Foga, a Day Ahead of the Calendar. Special to The A'ew York Time. WASlUNGTON.

Jan. 28. Seated in front of a bountiful breakfast in New York this morning exact time and place unrevealed was one Wilfrid T. Webb, species ranchman," habitat Arizona. New York had extended Its hospitality theretofore to Mr.

Webb, and now as then, the best in the house was none too good. Quantity as well as quality figured In this feaat for before the day waa done he had various activities to accomplish In then metropolis. Also, although the suns of Arizona hsd tinted his face almost to a sunset hue. he, was a cosmopolite, and I had the morning papers served with his meal. It wss this combination, however, that suddenly took away the appetite of Mr.

Webb. He was lifting a forkful of potato to his mouth and, mind you, well-cooked potato is the delicacy to an Arisona ranchman when bis eye lighted upon his own name In the paper. That potato never i reached deglutition. Mr. Webb's mind was suddenly shifted to this chain of events: When the Electors ef Arisona met to cast their votes for the first time for President and ao proudly added three to the aggregate of Gov.

Wilson, the Elect ors ot the new Bute looked around for some one who would appreciate a Journey to the National Capital. Their eyes fell upon Mr. Webb. Had he not worked and contributed toward Democratic success? He had. So, although be did not need the money Involved, he was told that he could bo the messenger who would deliver the State's first Electoral returns to Washington.

Now, not being versed In all the things that go with such an errand. Mr. Webb went to the highest authority In sight, the Chief Justice of Arisona. He received from this fountalnhead the information that It was his duty to be in Washington by Feb. 1 and deliver hia precious papers and not to let them get lost Get lost! Trust Mr.

Webb for that He could sleep with one eye. open, and his hand wan quick with the gun. And. starting out two weeks ago, he wandered on a crooked trail leading to Washington and enjoyed himself at every turn. Coming bark to the bountiful breakfast, Mr.

Webb was thus confronted in black and white with the Information that he should have been In Washington last night, for that was the last day. for the delivery of records of Klectorel votes. His Senators had been raking the West and Middle. Wet with a fine comb or telegrams, and had not been able to find Mm. And because he had been lost the electoral vote of could not be csst this year at all.

Not only that, but he was to lose that odd and waa subject to a fine of $1,000 for his tardiness. Suffering snakes or words to that effect! Mr. Webb leaped from the table. It was only by splendid diplomacy thst he waa recalled to the little formality of paying hla bill. He dashed for the nearest telegraph office and put a hot message on the wire telling Senators Ashurst and Smith thst he was on the way.

On the way he went as fast as a limited train could carry him. At the Union Station when he arrived here his face outrivaled the best sunset the Arisona mesa could afford. A large delegation of newspaper men and a crowd had gathered to meet him. It was the first time he had been interviewed in force, and he felt worse than sn Engllsn nobleman under the same circumstances. However, he had faced hostile guns in his time, and knew that the best thing to do was to keep his teeth together, and he did It This gave time for the Arisona Senstors to come up and rescue him and tell him mat it was all right.

You see, are used to turning back the clock every once In a while when they want to do something, and thla time the clock had been turned back for Arizona. Officially. Mr. Webb found ho had arrived yesterday, and the bland Senate functionaries accepted hla precious package and gave him his $642.75 for mileage under' date of Jan. 27.

Mr. Webb's explanations were brief. "I didn't know anything about the law," he said, "so I got a lawyer friend to draw me up a set of Instructions. He told me I had to be here by Feb. 1.

and I took my time. I went around by way of Kansas City. St Louis. Chicago. Detroit, and Buffalo to New York, and I wasn't going to leave there to-day.

But it spoiled my appetite when I aw how badly I waa wanted." All the Electoral votes are now in the hsnds of Senate officers ready for the official canvass In the Joint session of the two houses on Feb. 12. Mr. Wilson wfsl probably be found to have, been elected President HAD BUTCHER ARRESTED. Woman Says She Paid for Trimmings That Were Sold to Another.

Special to The Neto York Time. CHICAGO, Jan, 28. Housewives in Evanston to-day listened to- testimony against P. J. Rapp.

a butcher, who was accused by Mrs. George P. Jackson, wife of a professor in the Northwestern University, of selling her four pounds of meat, and removing two pounds of after the weighing, and of selling the two pounds of waste to another customer. The meat was cut and sold by one of Rapp's employes, Frank Wieyl. Mrs.

Jackson caused the srrest of the oierk. snd the case was thrashed out before Justice Boyer. Arguments were presented by butchers present to prove that the clrcumstsnces of which Mrs. Jackson complained were customary. Justice Boyer refused to agree with the butchers, but discharged Wieyl, and told Mrs.

Jackson that she should have Rapp arrested. i TWO ON BICYCLE HURT. Big Bo Carrying a Little One Runs into, a Wagon. John Labondskl of 231 Drlggs Avenue, Brooklyn, was driving a wagon through Wick Street. Richmond Hill.

Just before dark yesterday when a boy; riding a bicycle and holding a youngster on the handle bar crashed into the wagon. Boy and child were flung oft and knocked unoonaHona. Labondskl picked them up and someone called an ambulance which took tho pair to St Mary's Hospitsl In Jamaica. There the elder bov regained consciousness and said he was Sabino Vita. 17 years old of Wick Street.

The boy he had been carrying wss five-year-old Vincent Ver-velno. Vita's condition is serious snd the smaller boy is likely to die. said the doc-tora His skull was "fractured. M. a IV RIFE TOMATO CATSTp lie.

Pore, spier, ptlatable. All stores Aektr, atarraa Coiiit COLLEGE BOY BOOTBLACKS. I Three of Them Open a Shop at Prince- ton with Consent of Trustees. Specint to The New Vork Time. PRINCETON.

N. Jan. 28. The latest venture of Princeton students who are assisting themselves financially during their college course is a 'student bootblack parlor, which opened for business to-day In one of the university office buildings. The enterprise Is being managed by three students, who will collect snd deliver the college boys' footwear.

Greeks have been hired to do the actual shining at the shop, but each of the young men In the new project says thst he is ready to do this work himself on a busy day. O. A. Bartholomew. 14; N.

C. Culollas, '15. and T. H. Boland.

'16, comprise the trio who wilt manage the shoe-shining parlor. Culollas was a bootblack before entering Princeton. The shoe-shining parlor has the sanction ef the university authorities, who provided the room. YALE MAN SECRETLY WEDS. Hcward C.

jSykes Sends Word, from Paris Will Not Return to College. Special to TJie Kexo York Time. NEW HAVEN. Jan. romantic Christmas marriage cair.e to.

light tonight when Howard C. Sykes of the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School ot Tale sent word from Paris that he and Miss Jesnette Mcllwayne of Wheeling. West were married in New York City during the holidays, snd that heH would not return to Tale. Thj couple met In a New Jersey town. and, after a brief courtship, were married and went abroad.

The bride Is a granddaughter of Gen. the Indian fighter, and a niece of Gen. Kelly. Sykes lives at 846 IWest Seventy-first Street. New York City.

He waa a leading scholarship member of his class: and belonged to the aecret society York Hall. ELEVATOR TO BATHING BEACH H. F. McCormlck, Rockefeller's Son- In-Law, Builds One Costing $50,000. Special ro The New York Time.

CHICAGO, Jan. 28. HaroJtf F. McCor mlck. son-in-law of John D.

Rockefeller, has at a cost of $50,000 or more sunk a shaft at his Lake Forest estate which will give his guests easy access to a lethlng beach on Lake Michigan. Hereafter the McCormlcks'. guests will have to walk only from tneir apartments to the elevator of the mansion, descend some thirty feet and walk thence through a tunnel Inlaid with Italian marble to the bathing beach, BILL AIMED AT CITY. VICE. Authorizes Societies to Drive Evil Persons from Tenements.

Epeoiol to The Nov York ALBANY. Jan. 29. A measure in the Interest of the suppression of lea' In, New York City was Introduced to-day fcy Senator Wagner. It waa drafted by Louis Marshall after conference with persons Interested.

In the The measure provides for procedure for dispossessing occupants of tenements or apartment houses who conduct disorderly places. Corporations organised for the suppression of vice, and which era sub-, ject to the visitation of tho State Board of Charities, are permitted to serve notice on the owner of such premises to make an application tor trie removal ot tne person using or occupying the place for disorderly purposes The State Board ot Charities Is enabled to assure Itself of the character ot organisations taking such proceedings, thus preventing blackmail. The owner first must Ive notice to the disorderly house, keeper, no action Is taken in five days, the corporation making the complaint may apply for such removal. The bill also provides for a rule of presumptive evidence to make proceedings more effective than those undertaken under the present law. FAMOUS MANSION SOLD.

Zach Chandler's House In Detroit to Give Way to Business. Special to The New York Time. DETROIT. Jan. 28, Mra.

Mary Chand ler Hale, daughter of the late Senator Zach Chandler, and wife of ex-Senator Hale of Maine, has sold tha tilstorio Chandler mansion on Fort Street to F. C. Shlpman. who will rase It and build a ten-story wholesale store. The mansion was built In the late fif ties, and during the civil war period and vp to the time that Senator Chandler died Just after making a speech In Chicago in lHH.

waa the handsomest residence In Detroit In the early days of the Republican Party It was the scene of many an Important conference ot national leaders. Mrs. Hale's legal residence Is In Ellsworth. but she la at present living with her son in Washington. MRS.

SIDENBERG. ROBBED. Thief Gets $5,000 In GemsEmploys Also Vanished. Mrs. Gustavus Sldenberg reported to the East Fifty-first Street station last night that she had been robbed yesterday morning of Jewelry valued at between $5,000 and $5,000.

The gems were stolen from her home at 48 West Fifty-sixth Street She also said that an employe, a for eigner, who had, been In her employ for the last two years, disappeared at the tame time. The police sent out a general alarm for the man. but they fear he took a boat for Europe before the robbery was reported. Mrs. sidenoerg rerusea to give any information to reporters, but It was learned that the man was one who did odd Jobs round the house, and yesterday morning he was engaged in window-cleaning.

Mra Sldenberg waa engaged In other matters in the basement and when ahe went tc her boudoir some time later she found the Jewelry he.d vanished. The: man had gone as well. The police would say nothing about the robbery, but detectives were assigned to the case. FIREMEN IN FIFTH AVENUE Interest Hotels and Houses at Fifty. fifth Street but Find No Firs.

A fire alarm from Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street caused a stir last night at the St Regis and Gotham Hotels and In the homes of John D- Rockefeller. snd II. McK. Twombly. Cornelius Vanderbllt, and other well-known people.

The alarm was sent In by a chauffeur at the behest of a man who saw flames on the nlntn floor of hl Fifth Avenue, next to Cornelius Vanderbilfs home. The firemen came and fouud the door gnui nnu construction. The firemen could not make anv one In the building hear, so they smashed the! door. William Smith, the watchman, ran down and told the firemen he knew nothing of a fire. The firemen lugged hose lines after them up floor after floor till they reached the ninth, where they found workmen osing torches for light.

The firemen went baca home and so did the gasing people. Tr ArfarXoa's Botanic CoagO Balaam tor eeuc'ti, coici or grippe. At e4 A4. WILLGOX SCORES HIS SUBWAY FOES Characterizes Attack on the Dual System as Dirty, Slimy Politics." McANENY BACKS HIM UP Both Speak at Dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of Queens at the Waldorf. ENEMIES AT WORK, TOO Maltble and Mltchel Stars at Cooper Union Meeting, Where Municipal Ownership Is Cheer Chairman Wllleox of the Publlo Ssrrioe Commission denounced last night at the dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens st the Waldorf ths attempt to wreck the dual subway system at the eleventh hour as the "slimiest, dirtiest, most contemptible political move ever foisted on this city.

He asserted that tnere never has bees a municipal bargain so wisely and safely made aa that with the Interboroogh and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, and he declared thst If a few mora hours of political life were left to him he would see that the operating contracts were signed. Borough President Connolly at the same dinner expressed the opinion that any failure In the completion of the subway agreement would be disastrous to Queens, as real estate assessments had already been raised to the utmost In preparation for the rapid transit development. Meanwhile, at Cooper Union Commissioner Maltble and President Mltohet were 'leading an attack on the same agreement They assailed the preferential payment to the Interborough, and alleged -that the $8,833,000 i assumed to be the average earnings of the company waa swollen by from $300,000 to by reason of the lack ef proper ex penditure on depreciation account They assaulted the contracts on a number of other, and ware able to rai a cheer-at -every allusion te the possibii.v'w-- of municipal operation. During tho day the ooatracta, sa re vised by the commission's lawyers after the negotiations: with tne officials of the companies, were sent out for final approval by city and company officials. This morning the Publlo Service Commis sion will go over these oontraeta.

elsuse by clause, la oommlttee ot the whole. Commissioner Maltble served notice yesterday on. Chairman Willoox that he expected the rights of tha minority to be reoognlxed. and a reasonable time permitted to htm to go over the contracts to see tf any of the changes he had advocated had been made. Mayor Gaynor waa in consultation yesterday with Corporation Counsel Watson.

Morgan J. O'Brien, counsel for the Pennsylvania, and Deputy Controller Douglas Methewson. No announcement waa made as to the purport of these eonf erenoea. Controller Prendergast Issued a statement to the Board ot Aldermen yesterday showing that the present borrowing ca-, paclty ot the city Is $88,814,903. ef which, $18,140,033 baa been set aside for rapid transit purposes.

WILLCOX ANSWERS ATTACK. I Tells Queens Chamber of Commerce It Is Contemptible Politics. In the course of a bitter attAck upon the opponents of the pending dual system subway contracts delivered last night before the members and guests of the Chamber ot Commerce of the Borough ot Queens at the second annus! dinner of that organisation In the Aster. Gallery ot the Waldorf-Astoria, William R. Will-cox.

Chairman of the Public Service Commission ot.the First District, said: "It Is he same old story revamped, and the criticism Is not honest nor Intended to be honest It Is a deliberate attempt to wreck the dual system which we have labored for two years to make1 the fixed transit policy of the city. It is the most contemptible political move ever foisted upon rfcts city. There has never been a municipal bargain so wisely or so safely made aa thla one with the Interborough and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companies. "I have scanned vain the criticism of the i contracts and failed to And anything new that has not been already passed upon by the Public Service Com mission, by the Board of Estimate, the Legislature, and the highest courts ot the State- jWhen last Spring we sought certain legislative amendments to the city Charter to permit the adoption of these contracts we were largely aided by this and simlntr bodies which appeared before the legislative committee at Albany la our behalf, but the great popular clamor, the individual citizens who urged on the Legislature the necessity for Immediate Increased traction facilities was what really compelled that body' to give us the legislation sought almost without a dissenting voice. Then a suit was brought to prevent the consummation of this dual system, but the Appellate Division unanimously sustained our contentions and approve 1 these contracts without a dissentln.c voice.

The matter was brought before the Court of Appeals, and this highest court after carefully reviewing the case, upheld the decision of. the Appeilatt Division. Now st the eleventh hour we are facing a crisis a crisis brought about br the moet absurd misrepresentation and. calumny. Is it true can it true drv you think that the man who for fiv years has been the Chairman ot the Publio Service Commission, and bs labored zealously to be a faithful publio servant and who is now about to retire from -office, wants to take the city away in his t- Mr.

WUicox then reviewed briefly the history of the subway problem, aod ss-serted that the Interest of the entire city had been carefully guarded by the In the berlnnlng." be eaid. the Interborough Company came forward i a rropof Con to famlah cfr' t) t- i.