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tS VOLUME 134. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1894 TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. FIRE LOSS $2,000,000 TO A GKEATER FIELD. CHIDED EY A PAST0K.

LAST EDITION. PULLMAN EMPLOYES ABE OEITICISED WOMEN EXPECT MUCH PEOM MBS. HENBOTEN'S LEADEESHIP. Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle in BY THE EEV.

MB, OGGEL BULLETIN OP MONDAY, MAY 1. 1894. Weather for Chicago today: Fair, warmer southeast wind. I.NDEX OF TODAY'S IMPORTANT NEWS. F0RFREERTH01HT Brooklyn Destroyed.

simply an impossibility to make up time so as to earn even the 19 cents an hour after losing these four hours. The company makes us stand the loss in -such oase. The straw bosses being ambitious to advance themselves frequently try to improve on the speci-ifications by, making changes. Now, it takes time to do "work over again. and, while the.

bosses "do not pretend we are at fault, they simply compel us to do this extra work for nothing, because we get no pay until the job is com-pleted. If the change is an important one the boss will give us one hour for a job that requires three hours' work, and we have no redress. We have to haggle and beg to get any extra time allowed for making changes. This is streamBupon it, however, until far into the TV. JO? Smn nurne.1.

thT VW great fir'38 were aly the heart of the conflagration. On both Hides 7g1 avenue, from Washington avenuto avenue, on both sides ot Cverly avenue thrhGtTneaVeDUe to tho northern lTne of' the hotel property, there was not a house that was not on fire at r.r is a the afternoon. Apsn mental nSSSSffi t0 "lrt tho'uizent So he that in many cases developed into ugly top-story fires. It was UHed that a11 these WaTes started. They were all roof fires.

Of these 2 the at threatened the molt mxlu WBSOathe roof of tho Sum-merfield Methodist Church, at the corner of avenues- The wind drove the flamen nnA He Tells an Audience at the Green Stone" Church That Haifa loaf Is Better than No Bread, and That the Strikers Were BIG HOTEL ALSO BURNED. Getting Two-Thirds Sunday I'assed Ouietly at the Works Chairman Heath-cote States the Grievances of the Men Jenkin Lloyd Jones Leaves the Unitarian Faitlu Flames Spread from Church to Who Went Out. Absolute quiet reigned in Pullman and All Neighboring Buildings. Kensington yesterday both day and night. most annoying to have to beg for pay after its HIS PEOPLE GO.

WITH HDI. Not a striker was to be seen in Pullman. In Municipal Reform and Higher Literary Excellence Will -Be Objects for Early Endeavor Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson Talks or the Phases or the Work Done at the Federation Meeting In Philadelphia Points Diseussed and Effect of the Resolutions. Most of the Chicago delegates to the Federation of Women's Clubs returned yesterday from the Philadelphia meeting.

Among them were: Mrs. J. D. Harvey, Mrs. W.

J. Chalmers, Mrs. John Huddleston, Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, and Mrs. Sumner Ellia.

Mrs. Henrotin, the newly elected President of the federation, will remain East for a few days. The returning members are most pronounced in their enthusiasm over the success of the meeting, and predict, now that the federation is well organized, it will map out a policy of greater usefulness. In this connection a great deal is expected of Mrs. Henrotin, Kensington the doors of the strikers' head CAUSED BY ELECTRIC WIRE.

Vages. 1 Brooklyn Tabernacle Burned. Pullman St risers Criticised by a Pastor. Women Expec; to Make Greater Progress. Rev Jenkin Lloyd Jones Leaves Unitarians.

2 Randall Talks to Iadiana Popnlists. Coal Miners Confident of Success. Tubmen Conclude Xot to Strike. Helen Gould Spends Sunday in Chicago. 3 Bockford Preparing for the G.

A. R. Deep Chasm on the West Side. Talk of More Armor Plate Frauds. War on Cap and Gown at Ann Arbor.

4 G. A. R. Projrram at Canton. Association to Consolidate Small Churches.

quarters were tightly locked. Half a dozen men loitered around the entrance. The saloons were deserted and very few men were to be seen in the streets. Chairman Heath- Liberty of Thought in Letter and Spirit Is Sought. Had Jnst Left When the cote did not leave home until night, and then he only went to headquarters to see if any message had arrived from Howard.

Fire Was Discovered. PLANS FOR A NEW CHURCH. At night several hundred of the men attended divine service at the Green Stone Church and heard words of reproof and warn 5ARR0W ESCAPES IN THE HOTEL. i j- v. uva.

nuiu me j.aoer- nacle directly towards it. Its roof and steeples were on fire for more than an hour. John W. Read, the Rev. Herbert Walsh, pastor of the church, Charles Rushmore, and several others ot the congregation organized a fire brigade of their own, got an engine and hose from the workmen and worked like Trojans.

No sooner would a tongue of fire appear than they would pounce upon it and extinguish it. rhe church was damaged to the extent of Jo.OOO. It would have been totally destroyed had the saving of it depended on the firemen alone. To Appeal to the World. of the Board of Trustees of the Tabernacle met at tho residence of Dr.

Talmage tonight. The following letter was prepared, signed by the members of the board and presented to Dr. Talmage: With saddened hearts, hut i ing from the pulpit. They were told by their pastor that one-half a loaf was better than no bread and that they had been getting two-thirds. Taking the golden rule as his text the Stock Will Be Issued and a Fine Build ingr Erected.

New York, May 13. Special. Talmago's Kev. Mr. Oggel said in part: great Brooklyn labemaelo is gone.

It was swept away today, aa tne two preceding tabcr- HOW STRUCTURE WILL BE USED. Every man, no matter how humble the position he may fill, is entitled to tho application of tho golden rule. Yet capital and labor are drifting wider and wider apart instead of naelca had been swept away, by a tire of mysterious origin a tire so stirring and sensa A- Xfott VI tional in the time of its starting, in the light- coming closer together as they should, mug-like rapidity of its spread, in the uese of escapes of human life, in the ineffi- Strikes in nine cases out often injure the em -uwipiuujDu auu with faith in God unshaken and undisturbed, the cioncy of the Brooklyn Fire Department, and ploye far more than the employer. To Repent at Leisure. mouncB urooKiyn Tabernacle have unanimously resolved to rebuild the Tabernacle.

We find that after Da vino nrosnnt in the destruction which it 6pread through a fine presidential quarter for blocks around. I deplore the strike in our midst last week because there is a maxim that half a loaf is wiu be nothing left to begin with, but if we. that its parallel has never been known. The toial loss will be close to $2,000,000. better than no bread, and in my judgment the tu ibbi sure mat our dear pastor will continue to break the brand Hfo The Rev.

T. Do Witt Talmage in the morn- employes were getting two-thirds of a loaf. the great multitudes that are accustomed to is earned. If we do try to get wrongs ot tnis sort remedied we are sent from, one foreman to another, thus losing a great deal of time so that, even if we were to gain our point, which is not at all likely, we lose in the end. "Brown, the general manager, thinks 20 cents an hour is enough for any mechanic, and he has given orders if an expert man succeed in making more than 20 cent3 an hour to cut his pay down to that figure.

I know personally of cases where a gang of good men could not make more than four cents an hour in building the Lake street L' One gang succeeded in making 20 cents an hour." but they didn't do their work properly. We get $70 for a job worth $125. Will rrotect Company Property. But we are going to protect the property of the company with our lives, if necessary. We have 100 men patrolling the vicinity day and night.

If a stranger goes near he is followed until his business is found out. We are not afraid of our own men, but we are afraid of toughs from the city, ho may take advantage of the strike. We shall make no effort to prevent the company putting new men at work if it wishes to. "We are already confronted with the necessity of making immediate provision for the men out of work. Many have been earning such small pay for a long time that they are already In want.

Tomorrow the committee will consider means of relieving the distress. We expect wholesale evictions to come soon. This city may be fair to look at from the outside, but onco insido the case is different. The house I lived in before I moved into this was not painted for six years. I could not stand it so I moved.

This house is not so bad, for it was painted three years ago. They have calcimed two or three ceilings, but that is all. I had several bushels of dirt to remove from the cellar and quantities af rubbish to remove from the back yard. The plumbing was in bad condition and the woodwork around the kjfphen 6ink was rotten. They put in new woofl work and lainted it, but would not paint the old door.

Yet my house is much better than many others. You can begin to see something of the causes of dissatisfaction with the high rents. I pay $17.71 a month for my house of five rooms." HOWARD, LEADER OF THE STRIKE. According to the official statement the men ing preached his farewell sermon prior to his doiarturo for a tour around the world. It was were receiving on an average $1.87 a day, a sermon about his church.

Six thousand per and an averago of yearly earnings of $600 sons sat and listened to him, and he concluded I was standing in the arcade one day last week at noon. As he pronounced the benediction a when a workuian asked me: mrong me laDernacle, we are willing to undertake the work, firmly believing that we can safely count upon the blessing of Ood and the practical sympathy of all Christian people. Will you kindly give ns the encouragement of your promise to serve the Tabernacle as its pastor if we will dedicate a new building, free from debt, to the honor, glory, and service of God. Dr. Talmage sent this reply Having buried the dead, baptized the infants, and married the vimm? rwxmin lady in tho congregation noticed something Mr.

Oggel, what do you think of what we have done? I said It seems to me you have acted like a wave of heat rising above tho great organ and stirring tho ulms hich decorated its top. The preacher stepped down and held his reception, which lasted ten minutes. When it was nearly concluded someone noticed smoke coming from tho organ. Tho organ like people whd marry in haste to repent at If I have been correctly informed tho strike tion, my heart is, with them. I would rather was as big as an ordinary dwelling.

Investi- was precipitated by outsiders when everything possible was doing to adjust the grievances. The men, I am told, had no idea gat ion showed that the rear of tho interior of striking when they went to work in the whs blazing like a furnace. Instantly the warning was given and those who remained serve uiem uan any other people on the face of the earth. I will then accede to your request. Acting upon this promise Trustees Matthews and Dimon were appointed a committee to look for temporary accommodations for the congregation.

A secret conference was then held, after which it was announced a large sum of money was pledged toward tho erection of a new Tabernacle. Trustee T.onnarrl hurried from the building. The whole build- morning. Honorable means had not been exhausted for the settlement of the differences. Every one of the legitimate conditions to warrant a strike is wanting.

That ing was in ruins in three-quarters of an hour, PROBABLE KECEPTIOX OF THE OSTEW TARIFP BILL and Dr. Talmage was receiving his weeping 1T THE HOUSE. there are legitimate grievances against some R. Moody made the announcement that the congregation at his home, himself in tears. Fire Spreads Rapidly.

When the firemen, ioiice, and ambulances finally reached tho scene they found tho streets choked with people. Tho wildest excitement prevailed. The flames had burst through the of the foremen I presume to be true. But the point I make from an impartial standpoint is that there was nothing of sufficient force to warrant this strike at this particular time, and because of this I fear there is nothing to arouse public sympathy. I have been here during two pastorates and have as a laborer shared with you in the reduction of wages.

My salary has been reduced one-fifth, Tabernacle roof and the Hotel Regent adjoin and this through no lack of willingness on ing was then burning. Flames had reached up so high on the south wall that they had set fire to tho of tho hotel. They ate in through the windows in the central part of the hotel, and all the rooms there were tilled with fire. Tho hotel burned like a tinder box, although it is one of the your part to make it what it was before, but simply because of the hard times and yet I Schoonmaker's Museum at Kingston, N. Y.

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Frcdiets Success for the Nicaragua CanaL 12 attack on Liquor Evil Jlnst Be Coistint SAD SUICIDE OF MA BEN. F. W0KKELL. have labored cheerfully and willmgly, with no thought of striking. You should have paused to Consider.

The Savior has said that modern fireproof structures. Its burning was accompanied by the most thrilling scenes no man buildeth a house before he has considered the cost. One should not throw away and escapes. The fire escapes were on the north, and from the open lot there the fire was dirty water until he has secured some clean. Should Be a Reasonable Hope.

best witnessed and beBt fought, vv nen Clerk George R. Lansing realized that the hotel No strike for higher wages should be un must go he had the alarm sounded all through the house and told the guests to save what dertaken without reasonable hope of success, and I would now ask this practical question they could. lie and his fellow clerks got out Is there any reasonable hope of securing what is If so, I do not see on all the books and papers from the omce, locked the safes, and fled. The stairways were shut off by the fire be- peopie oi tne whole world would be appealed to for financial aid in carrying out the proposed plan of rebuilding the Tabernacle. Dr.

Talmage was in the heart of the fire and gives this statement "At the close of the church service I was standing at the foot of tho pulpit, shaking hands with hundreds of people from all lands. I was about through and walked toward the center of the church, where my wife stood, when she called my attention to fire springing out from the top of the organ. I saw at once that it was under full headway, and my first impulse was to look around and see how manyjpeople were then in the house, and, to my great joy, there were only about twenty, and with twenty-five doors to get out through I felt that they would all escape. I then went into my study, back of the platform, passing under the blazing piping, to get my hat and coat, and then I said to myself, Is it manly to run off? Talmage Tsearljr Left In tbe Flames. I walked up and down my study-room rejoicing that the fire had occurred when there was no chance of a fatality.

While in this sort of brown study a New York friend rushed into the room and taking my arm said, 'Get out of this room immediately or you'll not get out at We went out into the church. One-half of the organ was down and the fire hqd leaped to the roof. I saw that nothing could save the building and I came out." The tears were caursing down the doctor's check and his voice broke as he told the story, but in an instant he spoke with his old vigor. There is mercy on top of the disaster. If it bad occurred half an hour before it would have been the calamity of the century.

The church and all the rooms adjoining were packed with people and the panic would have left the whole scene one of indescribable horror. "Or if it had occurred two or three hours later when the Sunday-school was in session there would have been 1,000 households bereft in Brooklyn. Personally I feel not the least item of dis-heartment, nor less faith in God, nor less of hope for the future. Our church has been burned three times and it has always occurred fore more than twenty-five of the persons on He Is One of the Best Posted Railway Men in the Country, tieorge W. Howard, Vice-President of the American Railway Union, who has charge for-his organization of the strike of the 4,000 employes of the Pullman car works, has suddenly become of considerable interest to the people of Pulltnan and to hundreds in Chicago affected by tho strike.

Howard is one of the best known railroad men in tho country. Aged about 48 he has spent the last thirty years in railway work, filling almost every position in the train service. He has been a clerk, shop man. yard master, brakeman, conductor, engineer, and division superintendent. He has been always an active union man.

He was the first Grand Chief of the Order of Bail way Conductors, which he organized at the suggestion of Grand Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of "Locomotive Engineers, and was long identified with it. He is one of the best posted men in the employes' 6ide of the railway world, has a marvelous memory for details, and is a rapid, magnetic talker. Because of his enthusiastic manner he is a successful organizer. Eugene V. Debs, President of the Union, will reach Chicago today to confer with Howard.

He will remain here only a short time, then go to St. Paul to complete the settlement of the Great Northern strike. MOB LYNCHES HURDEBEB GEORGE ROSE. the upper floor had made their escape. Ihey had to resort to the fire escapes, which were adequate, and the ladders which the fire men pat up to tho second and third stories.

Down these the men and women scrambled. i The firemen went up to aid tho women in getting down. Cheers for Brave Itegcues. It was supposed all were out of the upper floor, when four women were seen-on the fire escape on tho seventh story. They did not seem to know what to do.

While they were what it is founded. My sympathies are with you. No one would rejoice more than myself to see the scale of 1803 restored no one would rejoice more than I to see the Pullman Palace Car eompany reduce the rents. But this is not a matter of sentiment but of business. In view of the depression and in view of the statements of the officers of" the company any" hope for higher wages is doomed to disappointment.

Therefore I deplore this strike. There is no industrial community in the world where men can do better than here, particularly at this time. If a man thinks he can better himself by going elsewhere, there is no law to compel him to stay here. I regret this strike and I say it as a man in profoundest sympathy with the people of Pullman. I can only hope the outcome will be more satisfactory than I anticipate." St.

Paul, May 13. American Railway Union men in this city say they will handle no Pullman cars during the contin uance of the strike at Pullman, and that none of their men will run trains carrying Pullman cars. HEATH COTE TELLS THE GRIEVANCES. standing thero gazing wuaiy down tne crowd shouted to them to keep cool and climb down i tho escapes. Two firemen went up to direct them and there was loud cheering tho women made their way to the ground.

Then another woman was seen at a The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, pastor of All Souls' Unitarian Church. Oakwood boulevard and Ijangley avenue, announced to hia congregation yesterday morning that he was going to break away from denominational bonds and organize a church of free thought, without creed or doctrine. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the morning sermon. Mr.

Jones said that $7,000 had been subscribed by tho American Unitarian Association for All SouIm' Church on condition that the church should be identified with the Unitarian movement of America. Should hid people choose to lay aside that word aa a denominational badge -it would bo necessary to first discharge the debt of honor. As a result of this statement $3,600 was put into the collection box. It is the intention of Mr. Jones to build a new church to cost $200,000 in the vicinity of the present one as soon as the connection ia entirely severed.

This church is to be an eight-story building, with gymnasium, bath-. rooms, reading-rooms, etc For funds he depends to some extent, on the liberality of Chicago citizens who favcv religious worship on broad, unlimited grounds, and appeals to 6uch tor aid. It has been the desire of Mr. Jones for soma time past to accomplish this end, and feeling that the time is now ripe for such a movement be put the matter before his congregation. He said: Freedom in Letter and Spirit.

I want to see this church as free in letter as it now is in spirit. Its bylaws are as uu-trammeled as its members are. I begrudge even a shadow upon the openness of this church. I would like to see All Souls' Church as free in letter as its pastor feels he is. I have done all I can.

I can say no more. In my sermon on the Challenge of the Parlia-. ment to All Soul's given the first Sunday in this year, I ppoke as clearly as I could of my views and left it to your mat ore judgment. Your officers have had it under consideration, and today they ask me to hand back the problem to you and ask you What are ycu. going to do about it? When this church was in its weakness Unitarian friends, at the solicitation of your pastor, made it possible for it to be by donations in one way or another of about $7,000 which it was ours to use forever, as long as we maintain in this neighborhood a Unitarian Church.

This church has no debt to the past; no claim will ever come to us so long as wo maintain existing organic relations. But it ist for us to ask ourselves whether we have a debt to the future. I turn first to the old friends who know something of the price with which we have bought our liberty; nest, to the new friends, those who have come into this open, house ready made." Lastly, I appeal to those prosperous trustees of the unearned increment of Chicago, tha wealthy uieo and women outside of our organization, outside of all church organization, who rejoice in the luxury of free thought. If they will not and cannot work with their time and their lives let them give some of their money to us. With their help we will rear ou the corner yonder a church freer from theological and race, social and conventional trammel than has yet been realized in our prophetic v.

Plans of the Church. To a reporter for The TaiBrNE Mr. Jones said: Just as soon as we can relieve our church of its obligation to the American Unitarian Association we will draw up a new Bet of by-laws and start tne new organization. It is estimated that the lot across the street which is owned by the church, with such a building on it as we propose to erect, completely finished and furnished, including an electric light plant, would cost $200,000. This includes the lot at an esti.

mated price of $50,000. For raising the necessary money to carry out this plan it is proposed to issue $100,000 of preferred stock. The present church property is worth $25,000 and the lot $50,000, which would leave, including the $5,000 yet to be paid on the lot, a balance of $30,000 to be raised among the friends of tha church. This would give the church a property worth) $100,000 without incumbrance. Anestimato of the annual income to be derived from tha building, apart from the church proper, is $15,000.

The expenses necessary to run tha building, including repairs and vacancies, are estimated at leaving a net balance of $6,000 to be applied as interest upon the stock. We have already had an offer to furnish material for the building and take $25,000 in stock in pay therefor. Tho buildmg. will ba eight stories higli. The first floor will ba equipped with baths, gymnasium, etc The next two floors will contain a library, reading room, auditorium, and clasa rooms.

The next four floors will be given to the housing of congenial tenants on a commercial basis, rooms for post-graduate students, working women's guilds, teachers, phy-sicians, and lawyers. Tho eighth floor will contain a banquet and amu.ement hall and the parsonage. With such a building it is believed that the four commercial floors will yield revenue enough to pay the running ex. penses for the whole building." SIAitItS FKOM THIS WXItKS, Two men named Boivin and Lachance wera drowned in St. Charles River.

Canada, by tha overturning of their boat. The Cleveland bail team failed to play an exhibition gamo Sunday at Wheeling, W. the authorities having threatened to arrest the player. The report from Louisville, that Judgo Harlan had been stricken with apoplexy proves to be untrue. He was simply overcome by tno heat and fainted.

R. S. Williams and E. Cottrell, the colored Bishops recently elected, were installed Sunday in the Auditorium at Memphis. Senior Bishop Beebe conducting the ceremonies.

Count de Vilieneuve, extradited at the Instance of the French Government for extensive forgeries, left Sunday on the steamship Oceanio for France iu charge of CapU Aime Talbot of Quebec. Frank Blakemore, aged 16, shot his father dead at Wheeling, W. Va. The elder Blakemore had threatened to kill hi wife for kissing tor brother-in-law and the youth interfered. lh latter fired the shots when his father menaced him with a hatchet.

window on tho seventh floor, it was Mrs. Eean, tho assistant housekeeper of tho hotel. She had been ill for two weeks and was not strong enough to get down the fire escape. Tho firemen went to her, took her in their arms, and carried her down. She was sent to the Homeopathic Hospital, and it on a Sunday.

It is a mystery that I adjourn till the next world shall let us know." was said that she would not suffer seriously from her experience. The last of the rescues in the hotel was the most exciting of all. At a window on the and her selection as President is said to have been universally satisfactory. Mrs. Henrotin, it is understood, hopes to have the federation take up the work ot municipal reform and also to aim for high literary excellence.

Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson in reviewing the meeting said last night Ready for Special Work. The federation is now thoroughly organized and ready to take up some special lines of work. Up to this time it has hardly been in a position to pursue any definite policy, since tho federation was formed only four years ago. Beyond the feature of organization little of importance was done at the meeting.

As soon as the clubs perfect organizations in each State definite direction can bo given to their efforts and.at the general meetings there will then be matters of moment for discussion. Under Mrs. Henrotin we expect a successful management nnd have two years in which to think up what course should be pursued. Woman's Safl'rage and Mixed Clubs, What is tho feeling in the federation with reference to woman's suffrage?" no one dared mention that, though I believe 75 per cent of the members favor it." "As to mixed clubs?" That is coming. It was widely advocated at the meeting.

I presume the first step taken in that direction will be to have men at a portion of the club meetings." "Was the resolution with reference to a common standard of morality for men and women merely a perfunctory expression?" Not by any means. It was a fixed sentiment and it did not grow out of the Breckinridge case. It was the matured thought of the women as a general principle and I never saw a resolution adopted with such hearty unanimity." How did the Western clubs compare in number, culture, with the Eastern organizations?" Western Delegates Well Received. Very favorably indeed. The Woman's club of Chicago had a large representation, as did also the New Century of Philadelphia and the Sorosis of New York.

The members of the Century club are lovely women. We could have asked no greater courtesy or hospitality than 'as extended by the people, but the Metropole Hotel acted shabbily. It advertised all over the country that it would charge visiting delegates half rates. Instead of that they were double the ordinary charges. Even the typewriters caughf the infection and charged 30 cents for writing a page, and misspelled every other word at that.

The citizens all regretted the action of the hotel people and were in no wise responsible for the extortion." In a general way you regard the meeting as having been successful?" Yes quite so. At our next meeting the federation will have an international standing. Foreign clubs are joining. We shall cease to be a mutual admiration society." Mrs. W.J.

Chalmers said of the meeting: It was a great success, and I was surprised and pleased at the showing of Western clubs. I found that the clubs of New York, Boston, and Chicago were doing practically the same work. The Western clubs made a good impression, and the entire feeling was that the Presidency should go to the West. We are all looking for a new line of policy under Mrs. Henrotin.

As to the people of Philadelphia I have nothing but good words." "BATH-HOUSE" JOHN AS A BEFOEMEE. He Says Opium Joints Must Quit the First Ward Churches Needed. Aid. Coughlin made a tour of opium dens in the First Ward last night and brought up at the Harrison Street Station, where lie declared the dens would have to go." He said the present ordinance, which provides a fine of $3 for the keeper and prohibits the confiscation of his smoking utensils, was inadequate, and that he would introduce an ordinance fixing the fine at $100 and confiscating the pipes and opium- He also.said what the First Ward needed was more churches and a weeding out in general of bad places. He had made up his mind to see that the matter was attended to.

HOTEL MEN SEE LEADVILLE SIGHTS. Visit Mines and Sm.lter. and View the Exhibit of Nngsets and Bricks. Leadvillb. May The 650 members of the National Hotel Association who spent the afternoon Lead-ville were given a royal welcome.

Committees consisting of the leading citizens of the camp at the depot with 100 fifth floor appeared Mrs. Arthur Loom is, a wealthy lady of Savannah, who has been stopping at the hotel for three weeks with her husband. She had been con fa ned to her bed for three weeks. When she came to her win dow she leanod far out and screamed for her child and her husbafid. Her husband was in New York.

Her child had been taken from Caused by Electric Lights. When asked for his on opinion as to the cause of the fire he said emphatically "Electric lights electricity caused this fire, as it did in the last tabernacle on Schermerhorn street." Continuing, Dr. Talmage said: "The fire may change my entire program, and I don't think I will start on trip around the world, as I intended tomorrow night. I do not know, however, what I shall do." Mrs. Talmage tells the following story of the fire The doctor was still on the pulpit, shaking hands with the people, of whom there were nearly a hundred, probably, left.

His back was to the organ. I was standing up at the end of the pew, talking with Mr. Martin of Chicago, who wanted to see the doctor, with messages from friends in' that city. I looked up towards the ceiling and saw a tongue of flame burst out between the He Says He Doesn't Believe the Company Cnderatands the Situation. Thomas W.

Heathcote, Chairman of the Strike committee of the Pullman employes, gave for the first time yesterday a lucid statement of the grievances of the workmen. I do not believe tho Pullman company wants things run as they are," said he, and I believe if tne company had understood it would not have permitted the practices of which we complain. The matter resolves itself into a question of pay, but the bosses, strange to say, are in a laige degree responsible for the low wages paid. That you may understand more clearly let me first tell how a car is built. In the first place a gang of men set up the bottom.

That is one job. Second, the bodybuilders put up the studding and inclose the car except the roof. Third, the roof planking is put on. Fourth, the inside finishers fit the doors and window sash and put up all partitions. Fifth, the trimmers hang the doors, put springs on the the burning building by its nurse, but the woman did not know this.

Before the fire Taken from Jail at Cottonwood Falls, and Hanged to a Bridge. Stbong City, May 13. Special. George Rose was lynched at midnight last night for the murder of Karl Kuhl Friday. Euhl was Assistant Postmaster at Cottonwood Falls, twenty-two miles west of Emporia.

Rose was employed in the Courant office, in the same buildmg as the postoffice, whose owner and editor, W. E. Timmone, is Postmaster. The murder is supposed to have been caused by jealousy. Rose having expected to receive the position given to Kuhl.

The murderer gave himself up to the Sheriff. At 1 1 o'clock at night Sheriff Hodge Mur-dock was called to the door by a rap. He was suddenly grabbed and pulled outside his door. Several pistols were presented at his head by masked men and he was conducted to the door of the cell, which he was ordered to unlock. This he was forced to do, the lynchers assuring him they would have their man if they had to tear the court-house and jail down.

12 very approach to the courthouse had been carefully guarded by armed men. All was done in a quiet and orderly manner, every man seeming to know just what ho was to do. securing the prisoner the masked men, about fifty in number, surrounded him and proceeded to a railroad bridge. In the meantime the news was spread and a crowd of 500 people surrounded the place, and as the lynchers started made a rush toward the prisoner. The masked men fired a few shots in the air and ordered the crowd fall back.

Their orders were complied with, and they proceeded to the railroad bridge about a quarter of a mile away, where he was hanged. The lynchers then quietly dispersed, leaving the body dangling between the bridge and the waters of the Cottonwood River, where it remained until 9 o'clock this morning. The body was buried by the men got to Mrs. Loornis she disappeared from the window. She had swooned and fell backwards.

The firemen found her on the floor and carried her out to tho escape. The thousands who had watched this rescue He Shoots Himself on the Steps of the Treasury Department. Washington, D. C. May 13.7rSpecial.

Maj. Benjamin F. Worrell, who wasdisi, missed from the Treasury Department last January after seventeen years of faithful service, committed suicide on the west steps of the Treasury Building last night by shoot-ins himself. It was fate that caused the dying man to be found by his old friend, Maj. W.

G. Moore, Chief of Police. Worrell had gone to the west steps of the buildmg, which was like home to him, to get away from the crowds which surged up and down Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street on either side of the building. Maj. Moore was on a tour among his subordinates and had dropped into the grounds about the Executive Mansion to speak to Sergt.

Cross in charge of tho police force. Suddenly a pistol shot rang out in the direction of the Treasury Department. Maj. Moore ran toward the building, followed by the Sergeant. A brilliant arc light hangs over the west steps of the massive buildmg.

By its rays they could see the form of a man lying upon tne steps, his head upon his arm. The dying man looked up, smiled faintly, and tried to raise his arm. "It's all over, Billy," he said. "Good-by." "Ben, my boy, good-by." Worrell smiled again and tried to speak, but lapsed into unconsciousness. A revolver, still smoking, lay on the bottom step.

There was a hole through the man's vest, into his chest, near the heart, and blood was pouring out in a tiny. stream. Maj. Moore, assisted by Sergt. Cross, lifted the body of his friend into a cab and hurried with him to the Emereency Hospital.

An effort was made to save him, but nothing could be done. A few long gasps and he was dead. The bullet had plowed its way into the vital organs. DAM BEEAKS AND EANCHEES SUFFER. The Water Sweeps Away Everything Within Several Miles.

Lima, May 13, The Lima dam broke this morning and its body, of water is surging down Red Rock River at a terrific rate, sweeping everything before it. As soon as this was discovered men on horseback hastened downjthe river toward the ranches, but almost every ram-her along the bottoms lost everything. Houses, barns, fences. hay stacks, and all kinds of stock are being carried away. The railroad companies sent a special train to warn the people between Lima and Dillon and have sent out a large force of men to the scene of the flood.

The track is washed out between here and Dillon in many places and the damage will figure high. The water after leaving the dam has a clean sweep through a well settled country for over sixty miles and many families will be without shelter or food. SAYS HE WILL ATTEND TO THEM LATER. Gov. Altpeld Denies He Is Ready for West rark Changei Denpite Charges.

Spkingfield, 111., May 13. Special. Gov. Altgeld was seen this evening at the Executive Mansion in regard to the announcement in The Tbibcse that he contemplated a complete reorganization of the Chicago West Park Board. He said: lam not considering the matter now.

My time is occupied with the labor trouble in the State, and I have not considered the West Park problem. There have been numerous complaints against the Commissioners, yet I have not investigated them. I cannot say when I shall take up the matter. I have nothing more to say about it. Sweeping statements are constantly being made in the papers about my policy and I do not attempt to answer them." Death of a Scottish Poet.

Brooklyn, X. Y-, May C. Latto. a well-known Scottish iet, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Saturday.

He was born in Scotland in 1818. and published his hrst volume of poems hi 1817. He came to this country in appeared to bo simply crazed with delight hen they saw Mrs. Loomis Bafe. A carriage robe was thrown over her and she was taken pipes of tho organ.

I at once called aloud Doctor, the chu-ch is on He turned to the Homeopathic Hospital. Her child was there. Tho physicians expressed fear for the and told all the people tp retire, while he went into the study to get a few things. I waited for him at the door. The flames spread very recovery of tho mother.

Ihe baby had euf- fered seriously also from exposure. Hotels Soon in llulns. rapidly, so quickly that some of the trustees were overcome and had to be helped out. The The fire swept back to the Waverly avenue front of tho hotel with fearful rapidity. It oiado its way against the wind to the Clinton enue front more slowly, but with just as doctor joined me soon afterward and we went down to Lafayette avenue to a friend's, where wo remained until we could hear that friends in the Regent were out of danger and what prosiect there was of saving any of the overwhelming force.

The streams of the fire men upon it seemed to have no effect, al The loss on the church is about though much better work was being done at this time. The streama from two improvised water towers were being thrown as high as tho eixth story. The walls o' the left wing began to fall at 1 :10. Great The furniture in the hotel, which cost from county at 6 o'clock this evening. $200,000 to $250,000, is entirely destroyed, the total loss on tho building and its contents DEFAULTING TREASURER BURKE SEEN.

wiions went until little was left standing ex footing up in tho neighborhood of $850,000. cept the Clinton avenue front, to a depth of The loss falls upon the Brooklyn Hotel com ss than twenty-five feet, the bare and totter- Louisiana Official Said to Have Gone from Honduras to Florida. Jacksonville, May 13. Special. 1 pany.

Tho list of the losses, apart from the Tabernacle and the Hotel Regent, is about as ng walls on the Waverly avenue front and the Partition wall between the hotel and the Tab It is reported in Tampa that Burke, the de ernacle. The hotel was an absolute ruin. windows, put up hatracks, bell-cord hangers, brass finishings, and weather strips on the windows. Sixth, the tin or cloth roof is put on. Seventh, sheet-iron workers put in the sheet iron around the stoves.

Eiahth, the steamfitters put in steam pipes. Uinti, the platform men build the platforms. Tenth, the truck builders build the trucks. Eleventh, another gang jack up the cars and put the trucks under. Twelfth, a gang bores all holes for the steam titters.

Thirteenth, tho furring (putting extra thicknesses of wood where needed in the wall or roof for fastening stoves, is done by another gang. Fourteenth, a gang of painters calicd coalers on the color ready for the stripers. Fifteenth, the stripers and orna-menters put on the finishing touches outside. Sixteenth, the inside finishers varnish the inside. Each of these jobs is let to a gang of four men or more at a price fixed for each car.

The men have their own foreman, who keeps a time-book. They apportion the pay among themselves, according to the skill of each man, or in any way satisfactory to themselves. Before they can leave a job it must be accepted by an inspector. New the Trouble Begins. Now here i is" where the trouble begins.

You may notify an inspector you are ready, but he will not come until he gets a good ready, which may not be for a half day, so the whole gang is idle for a half day for which the men get no pay. Then when you get ready for a new job the straw boss may keep you. Indeed it is a common practice to keep men waiting for an hour or two hours. Now, an hour for a gar.g of four men is four hours' work. As the price is figured at 19 or 20 cents an hour for expert men, and aa all are not expert it is follows: No.

355 Clinton avenue, occupied by Louis Hersh, No. 218 Greene avenue, Dr.W. H. Monmonnies, 6.000; No. 130 Greene avenue.

S. W. Reeve, corner Greene and Waver- Around in Waverly avenue two hose and engine companies wero working. Tho bose- ly avenues, J. Ji.

i'cpor, ipi.ouu, os. in a position that was recklessly dangerous, and many warnings were shouted theni from tho onlookers. They heeded faulting Treasurer of Louisiana, passed through there last night, having arrived at Port Tampa Friday night on the Honduras Lottery company's steamer Clearwater, from Puerto Cortez. He was accompanied by two prominent New Orleans men. One of the steamship's officers pointed him out to Deputy-Sheriff Money, but the deputy had 141 and uroeue mybuud, iuis.

rine trawioru wn'B "'em by moving a little farther away. were still within the danger 000" No. 140 ureene uuo, $5o6; No. 147 Greene avenue, Mrs. Margaret Crawford.

$1.300 No. 149 Greene avenue. Dr. Atwood, No. 404 Washington avenue.

no authority to arrest him. mey were still playing on swaying walla there at 2:15 o'clock. It George 11. Harvey, iu.uuu; Washington avenue, ur. ivrenumaio, FULTON HAS NOT HEARD OF THE TRIAL.

I Trying to Secure Col. Breckinridge to 000" No. 4UO nssuuigtuu mthuuo, nwnnd bv George E. Harvey, Speak There Jnly 4. Fclton, I1L, May 13.

rSpecial.1 An ef $4 000; No. 395 Washington avenue, Freeborn (I Smith, Summerfield Methodipt Church, No. 381 Waverly avenue, G- W. No. 399 Waverly avenue, nnoc UJCI) urc 11 carnages, and a drive over the city to thelead- fort is being made to secure Col.

W. C. P. Breckinridge to deliver the oration at the 4th men that the spectators, who had been "pecting the fall of the great rear wall every foment, saw it bulge out in tho center. The too, dropped their hose, and There were about twenty of them.

It eomed a wonder they all were quick enough eIe an avalanche of bricks and beams u'y med to make tho ground tremble fi Uha roar it fell. Tho hose that tho boea UsinS was buried many feet Thl ash practically marked tho last Itel 80 far as tha Tabernacle and the ho- were concerned. The firemen kept their ing mines and down to tnesmeiiers was wicu. thon taken to the Carbonate ciu.ied corner by Mrs. Allsbury.

$500; No. 365 Waverly avenue, stable of W. 1L Chiids, $500; of July celebration here. The sum of $500 a- LIV; iciiw National Bank and shown the $250,000 gold has been appropriated fcr this purpose and the Committee on Arrangements is now in other buildings slignuy aamagea. The Brooklyn Tabernacle, which was burned today, is the fourth church which has exhibit of nuggets and gold bricks.

ueiore leavine at 6 p. m. they were tendered a recep correspondence with the Kentucky Congress tion at the Hotel Vendome, man, Continued on second page..