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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1896. 10 IN AND ABOUT TOWN. MAY LOSE EXEMPTION A PUBLIC DISASTER. What Business Men Say of the B. and O.

Receivership. edness, to carry which, it Is known, has been a hard struggle for the road. Tbeoompany had presumably exhausted every available asset at hand on which it could raise funds to meet pressing needs, the last and most important of which was tho Terminal mortgage floated about a year and a half ago, and which included, among other property, the lialtimore and Ohio Central Building in this city, which was looked upon as the home or residence of the corporation, and therefore the last thing they would mortgage. With the issuing of this mortgage Investors began to look askance at Baltimore and Ohio securities, and from that time its common stock went on a descending scale. THAT NEW YORK SYNDICATE.

CHURCH REDEDICATED. An Important Day for the Maryland Avenue Presbyterian Congregation. The rebuilt Maryland Avenue Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Maryland and Huntingdon avenues, was rededicated yesterday. The building was formerly the Huntingdon Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, but was purchased from the Hiss estate about seven years ago by tbe coseregation of Franklin Street Presbyterian Church. Worship was afterward held in building by members of Franklin Street Church who lived up town.

Last July plans were made for rebuilding the church, an 1 in place of the old brick structure a handsome modern building has been constructed, with a three-story parsonage adjoining, at a cost of S25.000, Tbe new building is thirty feet longer than the old, ten feet having been added to the front and twenty feet to the rear. It la handsomely furnished throughout, the furniture being a gift from ndividuals. Rev. Joseph A. Vance Is the pastor.

The dedicatory sermon in the morning was preached by Rev. Dr. Walter W. Moore, or Union Seminary, Va. Other ministers who were present and took part in tbe exercises were Revs.

W. H. Woods. J. H.

Lefevre and J. Kinsey Smith. At night the pastor. Rev. Joseph A.

Vance, preached. The music, which was unusually good, waf under the direction of Mr. Alfred D. Benard, and Miss Gertrude Woods was tbe organist. The congregation umbers 225 communicants and tbe Sunday-school has an average attendance of 200.

The trustees of the church are Messrs. A. Elnart, H. II. Faunt Le Roy, Win.

A. Hart. N. S. Pendleton, E.

S. AloUtt and J. J. Wade. points of management seemed to be the cutting down of salaries, already poorly paid, and the reduction of expenditures for can dles and such like.

The niggardly and ill- advised policy of the Baltimore and Ohio has long since passed into a proverb here, and contrasts mado daily and hourly with the radically opposite spirit displayed toward the public by the Pennsylvania Railroad. "It is the sentiment in railway ciroles that the events of yesterday are susceptible of being made the turning point in the career of the B. and O. A thorough reorganization is what is needed. If it can only be lifted completely out of and away from all the influences which have usurped Its destiny and clogsred Its working powers, it may be put straight in the path of progress which by right belongs to it.

But the future can be made bright only by meeting the requirements of the age, and to meet these requirements a vision sufficiently clear to comprehend them is needed." A FINANCIER'S CRITICISMS. The Tunnel Through Baltimore and the Purchase of the P.f W. and B. Road. 'Now that it is all over," yesterday said one of the most prominent of Baltimore finan ciers, "we can review some of the mistakes which, in my judgment, led up to the financial crisis of the 3.

and O. Of course, it may be ancient history, but it is interesting history. I was closely affili ated with Mr. John W. Garrett for many years and advised him to aid in the construc tion of the Union tunnel at a cost under $1,000,000.

He declined, and I told him the Baltimore aod Potomac and W. and B. Roads would construct it. They did so. The tunnel which the D.

and O. after many years has been forced to build has cost nearly $10,000,000. "I beseeched Mr. Garrett to buy the W. and B.

Road. I cot him in the notion to do so, but the opportunity of purchase was lost. He told me be could parallel the W. and B. for $8,000,000.

I told him he was wrong. The cost was in the neighborhood of $25,000,000, but Mr. Garrett was not an engineer and his estimate was only guesswork. "The B. and O.

has absorbed many other roads, and in doing so has assumed obliga tions far beyond the values of the roads. Notably was this the case with the Pittsburg and Western, which has been a burden upon the B. and O. ever since its purchase." TRACINGUP ROGUERIES. Two Men Arrested and Charged with Being Connected with Several Recent Thefts of Jewelry.

Detective Gault and Sergeant3 Slunt and Saunders, of the northwestern district, have captured two men who, they charge, have been robbing residences in the northwestern and southwestern sections of Baltimore. The men are: Percy Alto, alias Lew Glenn, aud Townsend Waters, alias James Nelson. Both were yesterday committed by Justice Anderson for a hearing today. Among the residences recently robbed are the following: A. S.

Guyton's, 815 North Fremont avenue, robbed February 9 of jewelry valued at S270 50. Mrs. Mary E. Hall's, 405 North Gilmor street, robbed February 19 of jewelry valued at $125. Wm.

H. Harding's, 1010 North Fulton avenue, robbed February 23 of jewelry valued at $75 and $12 15 in cash. Jesse P. Kirwin's. 123 West Mosher street, robbed of jewelry valued at $110 and an overcoat valued at $30.

The burglaries reported have been committed in a systematic way. In each case men have entered the vestibule of the house and rang the doorbell. If no answer was received the glass in the door was broken, the door opened and the bouse ransacked from top to bottom. The thieves hid their tracks so well that it was some time before a correct description of them could be obtained. A few days ago Captain Schultz got a clue and later a descrip tion of two men suspected of being the robbers He heard that their names were James Nelson and Lew Glenn.

Detective Gault and Sergeants Slunt and Saunders were detailed to work on the case. Saturday night a clue led them to the neighborhood of German and Pine streets. While standing at the corner Detective Gault said two men passed hurriedly down Pine street from Baltimore street to German street. "They appeared to be uneasy." he said, "and after looking them over we came to the conclusion that they were the men we were looking for." "Later," continued Detective Gault. "I recognized one of the men as Percy Alto, whom I arrested in Philadelphia some time ago for burglary in Baltimore.

The men parted nnd I followed Alto. I turned and saw the sergeants take hold of the other man and I at once made for Alto, who had gotten around the corner and was standing in a doorway. As I grabbed him he recognized me. I took him to where the other officers were and put the handcuffs on him. "We started with our prisoners for the northwestern station.

When Josephine street was reached the men began to grumble among themselves and I beard Sergeant Slunt cry out. Turning I saw Waters had knocked Sergeant Slunt down. 1 wheeled my man around and caught hold of Waters. We had a lively strugarle and Sergeant Saunders threatened to shoot the men before they could be subdued. In the scuffle Alto managed to get a diamond and 6appbire ring from his pocket and throw it into the street.

The ring was later found by Patrolman Spittle, of the western district. "Other jewelry found on the men connects them with the robberies recently reported." A visit was made to Alto's house, on Oakley street, near 'Monroe street. A lot of jewelry was found in the room occupied by Waters and Alto, which was identified by Mrs. Guyton as her property. Mrs.

Guyton also identified the ring thrown away by Alto as hers. At the station it was noticed that a finger on Waters's right hand had been cut and that he wore a glove. Tbe glove was later identified as the property of Mr. Kirwln and was in tbe pocket of an overcoat stolen from Mr. Kirwin's house.

A LONG VACATION. Rev. Dr. W. V.

Murklaud Will Take a Best for a Year from the Duties of His Pastorate. After tbe morning Bervice at Franklin Street Presbyterian Church yesterday the action taken by the elders of the church In giving a leave of absence for twelve month to their pastor, Rev. Dr. Wm. U.

Murkland. was officially announoed to the congregation by Mr. Thomas B. Gresham. Dr.

Murkland had been in falling health for some years, but the condition of his health in the past few months has been such as to make a complete cessation from bis work imperative. In view of this tbe elders of the cburoh on February 18 called on Dr. H. P. C.

Wilson, who is Dr. Murkland's physician, at Dr. Wilson's office, 814 Park avenue, to obtain his opinion as to the exact state of health of their pastor. Dr. Wilson, tho elders told the congregation yesterday, stated that he had been Dr.

Murkland's physician over twenty years, and had carefully watched his condition; that while for the past five years Dr. Murkland had been far from well, yet it was only in the past few months that his condition had becomo-grave. In his present state of health. Dr. Wilson said, Dr, Murkland was unable to perform the duties devolving upon him.

An absolute and long-continued rest was considered imperative in bis oase. Dr. Murkland has served as pastor longer than any other Presbyterian minister in Baltimore. He was called to the pastorate of Franklin Street Church before he was ordained and while studying at Charlottesville, Va. He began his work at Franklin street in January-.

1870, as assistant to Rev. Dr. Bullock. Three months afterward Dr. Bullock resigned and Dr.

Murkland took full charge or the work, and in June, 1870, was installed pastor. His twenty-fifth anniversary as pastor was celebrated last June. At the Maryland Day celebration at the Atlanta Exposition recently Dr. Murkland was chosen to deliver the oration of the day. He attributes his ill-health to a strain of the heart, which he received by being in a railroad collision in Virginia while on a vacation about, five years ago.

He bad been to see his mother, and was on his return to Baltimore when the train 'was in collision, and Dr. Murkland narrowly escaped death by holding to the train with his left hand and being dragged along. After this he was compelled to use crutches for six weeks. He thinks an attack of the grip, which he bbd last fall, helped to injure his health. Dr.

Murkland is hopeful of regaining his strength. Last night he preached for the last time before going away. As soon as possible he will go to Atlantic City, and later will go abroad. THE TWO RECEIVERS. John K.

Cowen. John K. Cowen, Congressman and railroad executive, has long been a prominent figure in Maryland. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio. Oc tober 24, 1644.

Until a few years before his birth his family had lived, at Rising Sun.Cecil county, Md. Mr. Cowen had intended to enter Jefferson College, but while he was preparing himself for matriculation he was taken sick, and when he recovered the term at Jefferson was so far advanced that he decided to go to Princeton instead. Entering Princeton in the middle of the sophomore year, he was graduated in 1866 at the head of his class, coming out, as he said in after years, "with a good education and a good constitutlon.but without much money." -After graduation he returned to his father's farm in Ohio and spent his leisure hours in the study of law, having borrowed a number of books from a barrister friend. At the end of two years he was admitted to the bar of Ohio and soon beoame State's attorney for Holmes county, practicing law in that couuty until 1872.

when, through the influence of Mr. Robert Garrett, whom he bad known at Princeton, be oame to Baltimore to take a position in the law department of the Balti more and Ohio Railroad, soon becoming the general counsel of the road. Mr. Cowen became active in Maryland poll-tics as an independent democrat, taking part in many campaigns. He has always been a devoted admirer of President Cleveland.

In 1694 he was elected to Congress from the fourth Maryland district by a majority of 1,000 over Robert H. Smith, his republican opponent. January 21, 1896, Mr. Cowen was eleoted president of the Baltimore and Ohio. Up to this time he has not resigned his seat in Congress, as be announoed at the time of his eleotion as president of the railroad he would ultimately do.

While for many years Mr. Cowen has re ceived a large salary he is not considered a wealthy man. He remarked some time ago: "I can make money for other people, but not for myself." His salary as general counsel or the railroad was SSO.OJO, and it is generally believed that his total income while acting in that capacity amounted to $50,000. As president or the road he received a salary of $40,000. As receiver he will get much more than this.

A gentleman familiar with railroad receiverships said yesterday that receivers are usually paid 8 per cent, upon the gross receipts of the roads in their charge. Should the B. and O. remain in the receivers' hands only a year or eighteen months, for instance, Mr. Cowen and Mr.

Murray, it is estimated, would receive about $200,000. if not more. Oscar O. Murray. Osoar G.

Murray succeeded Gen. Orland Smith as first vice-president, of the Baltimore and Ohio February 15, 1893. A few weeks before that time he had been elected second vice-president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in order to make him eligible as a representative of that system in the Joint Traffic Association, with headquarters at New York. He resigned his position with the Chesapeake and Ohio in order to accept that offered him by the Baltimore and Ohio. A native of Connecticut, his early railroad training was had in Texas, whore he began his career in 1872 when he was twenty-three years old.

His first position was as ticket agent at Galvestou, Texas, of the Gaives-tou, Houston and Henderson Railroad. He occupied various higher positions with that road, and in August, 1880, became general freight and passenger asrent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Road, continuing in that capacity until December 1, 1885, when he became traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific lines in Texas. While engaged there he was also for a greater part of the time traffio manager of tho Texas and Pacific Railroad. He became freight traffic manager of all the Missouri Pacific lines in September. 1886, with headquarters at St.

Louis. For the four years subsequent to November 18S8, he was the freight traffic manager of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway and of its successor, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, known as the "Big Four." When General Smith intimated his intention of retiring as first vice-president of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. Murray was among the first spoken ot as bis successor.

He was acceptable to the New York interests of the road and bis services were finally secured, he beinar offered an annual salary of $30,000. FIRST AMERICAN RAILROAD. The History of the B. and O. Has Been Closely Identified with, the Country's Progress.

The Baltimore and Ohio was the first railroad built in America, Its corner-stone having been laid by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, July 4. 1828. Among its earliest promoters were Philip E. Thomas and George Brown, both wealthy and influential citizens of Baltimore, who were convinced that oanals, then the chief highways of commerce, could not bo carried over mountain chains except at a cost making their construction Impracticable. On the evening of February 12, 1827, a meeting of about tweDty-five prominent citizens of Baltimore was hold at the home of Mr.

Brown and a oommlttee was appointed to consider the feasibility of the railroad project. This committee reported a week later and it was decided to build the Baltimore and Ohio. Mr. Thomas lived to see the system far ou the way across the Mississippi Valley. Tha act of Incorporation was passed by the General Assembly February 27,1827, the capital stock being fixed at $3,000,000, consisting of 30,000 shares each of the value of $100, which the president and direotors were em powered to increase.

In the eleven days during which the stock books were kept open in Baltimore the subscriptions amounted to 4,178,000. The first board of directors was elected April 23, 1827, and consisted of Charles Carroll of Carroilton, William Patterson, Robert Oliver, Alexander Brown. Isaac MoKlm.Wll-llara Lorman. George Hoffman, Philip E. Thomas, John B.

Morris, Thomas Elllcott. Talbot Jones and William Stewart. Mr, Thomas was made president and Mr. George Brown treasurer. May 22.

1830, the road was open as far as Elllcott City. Locomotives were then in a problematic infancy, and the oars were drawn by horses. The first steam locomotive was put upon the Baltimore and Ohio by Peter Cooper, of New York. The first trip of this machine was mado to the Helay House August 25, 1830. Previous to this cars propleled by sails and by a horse working upon an endless belt had been experimented with.

December 1, 1831, the road was opened as far aFrederick, and November 5, 1842, as far as Cumberland. Mr. Thomas had resigned the presidency, June 80, 1836, and was succeeded by Louis McLane, who remained as presideut until September 13, 1848, when ho, too, resigned. October 30, 1848, Thomas 8wann was chosen president. The road was opened to Wheeling.

W. January 1, 1853. Mr. Swann resigned April 13, 1853, and was suoceeded by William G. Harrison.

Mr. Harrison served four years and was in turn sucoeeded by Chauncy Brooks, who retired at the end of two years. John W. Garrett was elected president of the road November 17, 1858. He was president during the civil war, when contending armies wero continually fighting for tha property's possession.

During his regime the road undertook the operation of a telegraph compauy in opposition to tho Western Union. Us telegraph system being afterward sold to the Western Union for $5,000,000. Express and sleeplug-car departments were also organized, and they, too, were afterward sold. Under the elder Mr. Garrett the road attained the height of its prosperity.

Robert Garrett sucoeeded to the presidency at the death of his father and was followed in turn by Samuel Spencer. Mr. Soenoer withdrew at the end of bis term, in November, 1889. and was succeeded by Charles F. Mayer, who was president until a few weeks ago, when he was succeeded by John K.

Cowen. RELIEF DEPARTMENT. Every Obligation of the Company to Employes, It is Said. Will Be Fulfilled. Under the court's orders the Baltimore and Ohio relief department is continued.

On this point Receiver Cowen said: "Every obligation of the company to its employes will be, under the order of the court, fulfilled to tho letter. All deposits made in the savings fund are' absolutely protected. "All obligations to employes under the relief feature are to be carried out and all payments made precisely as if no receivership had taken place." CRISIS OF THE B. 0. PRESIDENT COWEN AND MR.

MURRAY AT TUB HELM AS RECEIVERS OF THE COMPANY. CM MAX OP FINANCIAL STRAITS Committees of the American and English Stockholders to Begin a Reorganization. LOOKING TO J. P. MORGAN CO.

Five Years May Be Required to Restore the Property to a Solid Basis. A PROCESS OF BUILDING UP. Large Sums to Bo Spent in Futtinsr the Equipment in First-Class Order. The Usefulness the John Hopkins Vol verity. It Is Stated.

Will Not We Impaired by the Chance, which Will, of Course, Affect the University'-Holding of Stuck Repeated Kfforts Wero Dlmle to Avert the Final Crash, hut the Nreile'l Money Could Only He Obtained on Term that Were Not Regarded As Acceptable Lines that Are Not Involved In the ReceivershipFurther Proceedings to lie Taken In Court. Messrs. John K. C'owoti and Oscar O. Murray wero in coufultutiou yesterday at tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Building in this city deciding uoon a I'lan of action for reorganizing the affairs of the company.

TUey were unpointed receivers of the company Saturday 1J' Judges Goff and Morris, In tho Uulted States District Court, as the culmination of tho road's lltianolal dif-flotiltle. Lust tiljiht Mr. Cowon went to New York to confer as to the IlEtices of the reorganization. The first effect of the receivership will be to enable tho company to withhold payment of its pressing obligations now due or soou to become due. It Is wild that tho receivership will probably cover a period or about live yours.

The only uuuncien In tuls country who are considered ab: to undertake a reorganization of no extensive a property arc J. V. Morgan of Now York, and tho projects of that llrmareso numerous that, railroad won say It will bo about live years beioro they can reorganize tho It. uud.O. Prompt action lias been taken to file supplementary proceedings, uskiug for a receivership in tho District of Columbia, the States or New York.

Pennsylvania, Delaware. Vlrirlulu, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. A special train has been started "West, currying Mr. John D. McCubbin.

and assistants, beatluir tho documents for this. Messrs. Levi C. Bird, of Wilmington, H. Addicts, of Philadelphia, and George K.

Hamilton, of Washington. D. attorneys of tho company, wero also In Baltimore on the same iiiieslou. The receivers will control the following parts of tho 11. aud O.

system, which also Include branches operated: Lines from lialtlmore to Pittsburg-, Wheel-Jnir, Porkersburir. Harrisonburg and from Pittsburg to Wheeling. Lines west of the Ohio ltlver. Including that Trom liellalre to Chicago, the Columbus and Clncinniiti Midland and the Akron and Chicago Junction. Fairmont, Morgantown and The roads identltled with tho system and over whioli the control of tho receivers does uot extend are: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway, extending from Parkersburg to St.

Louis and LouWville. This company is and has been earning interest upon all of its obligations and Is cousldesrol to be absolutely solvent, having several hundred thousand dollars In bunk. It control Is held by tho llaltlmoro and Ohio Company through tho ownership of Its common stocks. Pittsburg und Western Hailroad. Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Railway.

Valley Hallway of Ohio. Staten Island Hapld Transit Itallroad Company, oporatlng a stxtoen-milo railroad between TottcnvtUe, N. and Clifton, N. Y. The West Virginia and Pittsburg itallroad one hundred and llfty-ulne miles, leased by the and O.

REORGANIZATION COMMITTEES One In This Country and Another la Will Work In Co-operation. Conferences wero hold yesterday with a' view to the naming of additional members of the II. and O. eouiittee on reorganization. This committee, as so far made up, is composed or Messrs.

Louis Fitzgerald. Eugene Delano, Edward it. Hacon and William A. Koad.wbo uro the New York members of the board of directors. Power has beou given to these members to organize as a committee for the protection of the Interests of all tho security and shareholders, with a view to the reorganisation of the company.

It Is proposed to add to this committee representatives of large interests In the securities of the 11. and O. Tho committee will also have associated with it another body of the same kind to be formed by the English Interest in tho road. Alroady steps have been taken to arrange for the appointment of the English committee. A report on tho proporty will ba prepared by the receivers and submitted to the courts.

This report will show the financial status of the company and give the details of Its obligations, including tho floating debt. SHOPS IN FULL BLAST. The Company's Cars aod Locomotives Will at Once lie 1'ut In First Class Condition, An order was Issued yesterday by Second Vice-President Klug nccordiog to which all employes of the anil O. bocome the employes of the receivers, continuing la the same positions whioli they occupied with the company. At present It Is said that no changes In the working force of auy department are proposed.

The first move of tho receivers will bo to carry out tho policy whioli President Cowen was about to start the general overhauling of the rolling stock. This will bo doue in a thorough manner und will extend to every Jocoiuotlvo und car that Is not at tho maximum staudard or cttlcloucy. In carrying out this plan tho various shops of the company will bu put In full operation. It Is generally understood that the rundown condition of the road's equipment baa greatly Impaired lis eurnlng capacity. The work thus to bo done will call for con.

Idorablo expenditures and tho current receipts of tho company will bo used for this purpose. II EG INNING OP Til TROUBLE. Available Asset Is Supposed to Have Been Oradually Put to Use. Local financial concerns have been all agog over the action which put the Baltimore and Ohio in the bands of rooelvers. This course was not entirely unexpected.

Well-founded rumors to tho effect that a receivership would be asked havebeon current for some time. These rumors were based In part on the Inadequacy of the company's equipment, which has been InsnfBclont to liuudle all the business offered it. and on the further fact that the force at work In the repair shops was not sufficient to keep up with the necessities of the property la locomotive capacity. Another potent factor was the rapid accumulation of the company's floating indebt ALMANAC FOR BALTIMORE THIS DAT. Sun 6.37 A.

M. Sun set3 8.01 P. M- Moon rises. 10.10 P. M.

Street lights lit Monday 6.00 P. M. Street lights out Tuesday 5.35 A. M. High water 8.47 A.

8.53 P. M. 'calculations are expressed in Eastern standard time. A SUBWAY BILL. City Council Committee Will Begin to Act This Week No More Time Should Be Lost.

The City Council committee appointed under a resolution offered by Mr. John H. Windfelder to secure an enabling act from the Legislature authorizing the city to issue $1,000,000 of bonds for the construction of a system of conduits for underground wires consists of Messrs. Windfelder, Stone and Rittenhouse, of the Second Branch, and Messrs. Steffens, McMabon and New, of the First Branch.

Mr. Windfelder said yesterday that he would call a meeting of the committee not later than eTuesday to consider the matter and decide upon the bill to be laid before the Legislature. Tbe committee will confar with the Mayor in reference to the subject and will ask the assistance of the city solicitor in preparlnar the bill. "This bill will require much care," said Mr. Windfelder.

"It will have to be framed so as not to conflict with any existinsr ordinance or statute, or with the national post law, under which the telegraph companies operate. The measure will have to be framed so that the companies can be required to lay their wires in the conduits as certain sections of them are completed. If the wires aro allowed to remain out until the entire sys tem is completed, it will be years before they can be removed. When the bill has been framed the committee will no to Annap olis and give It either to the chairman of the city delegation or to Speaker Mudd. The city Delegates will then be urged to see that it is quickly passed." Mr.

Windfelder says he appreciates the necessity of prompt action iu the matter, as but a month remains to the Legislature, and its last days will be crowded with so much business that the fate of auy measure will bo uncertain. Grand Opera Singers Coming Here. The special train on which the chorus, ballet and orchestra of Abbey, Schoeffel Grau's Metropolitan Opera organization travels from city to city is expected to arrive at Union Station this morning from Boston, where the company has been sinking for the last two weeks. The famous singers will come on the regu-tar trains at various hours, and have engaged rooms at the Rennert. Stafford and Mt.

Vernon hotels. Mme. Frances Saville has arrived already with her husband. M. Max Rown.

and is at tho Stafford. One or two others followed, but most of them are not expected until this afternoon, and some not until tomorrow. These last are those who do not sing until tomorrow or Wednesday. Tho opening opera of the season tonight at the Academy wili pe Bizet's "Carmen." with Mme. Calve in her famous character.

Fined for Sunday Gaming. Albert Hinson. Edward Montgomery. Edward Winder and Robert Cooper, all colored, were each fined $1 and costs by Justice San-ner yesterday for sraming on Sunday. They were arrested early in the morning in a raid made on South Spring street by Sergeant Potter, Patrolmen Miller, Edwards and E.

J. Kelly. Tbe same magistrate also fined James L. and costs for gaming on Sunday. Toodle was caught by Patrolman Gray shoot-iog crap on tbe street.

Richard Bennett, colored, of 920 Duncan street, was fined by Justice Hamilton $1 and costs for gaming on Suuday and $3 for carrying a "billy." Patrolman McNulty arrested Charles Simon and Jobn Thomas, colored. Justice Hamilton fined them $1 and costs each. Confirmed by Bishop Paret. Bishop Paret yesterday visited the Church of St. John the Baptist, Barre street, near Greene street, and confirmed a class of thirty persons, most of whom were adults.

This is tbe lamest class presented for confirmation at the church in the last twenty-five years and 6hows the development of the work under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Walter Baker 6ince its acceptance as a mission by old St. Paul's Church in the past year. It is ex pected that another class will be presented to the Bishop in June from the various societies meeting at St.

Paul's Guild House, Columoia avenue, near Greene street, with which the work at the chapel is affiliated. The Bishop also confirmed a large class at St. Peter's Church. Chnrch of Our Savior. Large congregations attended the services yesterday at the Church of Our Savior, Broadway and McElderry street, in honor of the third anniversary of the rector.

Rev. Carroll S. Harding. In his sermon Mr. Harding stated that during his rectorship he had presented seventy-five persons for confirmation, baptized seventy-four, officiated at twenty-four weddings and buried forty-two persons.

The church debt has been reduced $2,000 aud the church now has 200 communicants. Well El chen green. Miss Nettie Hichengreen and. Mr. Henry Weil were married last night by Rev.

Dr. Henry Scbneebersrer, of the McCulloh Street Synagogue. The ceremony was performed at the borne of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ifaao Eichengreen, 308 South Bond street.

The bride wore a brown broadcloth dress trimmed with spangled net and Duchess lace. She carried a bouquet of Marechai Niel roses. The wedding was witnessed by relatives only. Mr. and Mrs.

Weil will live at 2018 Walbrook avenue. Personal. Mrs. George A. Ahrens, Mr.

and Mrs. Robertson Taylor, Mrs. Henrietta P. Ward and, Miss Mary Wilson Ward, of Balttmoro, sailed Saturday from New York on the North German Lloyd steamer Werra, which goes to Gibraltar, Genoa aod Eypt. Mr.

J. Crawford Lyon, ot Lyon Bros. will sail from Vancouver today on tbe steamer Empress of India for Japan on bus! ness. Opinion on the Bruce Bill. An opinion statlmr that tbe Bruce civil- service bill as recently passed by the House of Delegates is unconstitutional has been prepared by Messrs.

Charles Marshall, William A. Fisher. T. W. Hall.

William Reynolds. Charles J. Bonaparte and Skipwith Wilmer. The opinion is published in full in another column. Resignation of a Rev.

J. T. Grob, pastor of the Second German Methodist Episcopal Church, McElderry and Short streets, has offered his resignation to bis congregation, to take effect in five weeks. Mr. Grob has been connected with the chuch two years.

He will ko to Chicago early in April, to accept a call to the German Congregational church in that city. Evangelist H. H. Wells. Rev.

Dr. H. H. Wells, the evangelist, preached last night at Reld Memorial Presbyterian Church, East Madison street, on Unpardonable Sin." Dr. Weils will lecture tonight at the mission.

Thursday be will leave for Leavenworth. Kan where he will conduct services at the First Presbyterian Church. Fined for Defacing Clifton Buildings. For some time boys visiting Clifton Park have been amusing themselves by writing on the walls and otherwise defacing tbe outbuildings. Yesterday Millard Pindle.

431 East Lafayette avenue, was arrested by Park Patrolman Hulse, and Justice Hamilton fined him $10 and costs for this offense. Lieutenant League Hurt. Lieut. George League, of the eastern police district, is confined to his home, 1934 McEl-dery street, with a broken collar bone and a sprained ankle. He was injured yesterday by falling- at the corner of Broadway and Baltimore street while running to catch a car.

Talks to Young Men. The first of a series of practical talks to men was given yesterday at the Young Men's Christian Association Buildinir, corner of Charles and Saratoga streets, by Rev. Curtis Lee Laws. The talk was on "Gambling." A large audience was present. Rev.

M. Tuegel. Rev. M. Fluegel lectured to students of the Baltimore Medical College last night at the rooms of the Y.

M. C. Charles and Saratoga streets. His subject was "Mohammed and the Koran." Dr. Haroourt ou tho' A.

P. A. At Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Rev. Dr. Richard Harcourt last night preached a third sermon on "The American Protective Association." From Taxes If the Road Passes Into Other Hands.

A TALK WITtt MR. HAYES. Privileges Granted by the Charter Passed in 1827. A. Pertinent Decision of the Court of Appeals Given in 1876 Against the Northern Central Company The Exemption Covers Only the Main IAne of the Road Status of the Branches.

Whether or not the transfer of the B. an O. to receivers will put a stop to the exemption from State and local taxation which the company has enjoyed since it was chartered in 1827 was one phase of the case which was discussed yesterday. Mr. Thomas Q.

Hayes, who made a study of State taxation in framing his reassess ment bill two years ago, said last ninht that he was not of the opinion that the appoint ment of receivers would cause the company's immunity from taxation to expire. 'The charter granted by the Legislature of 1827," he said, "made an irrevocable contract with the company for the immunity of its stock from taxation. Subsequent decisions of the Maryland Court of Appeals have striven to give the broadest kind of interpre tation to this provision. The railroad was looked upon in 1827 as an undertaking of great aid and value to the general public, and the intention of the Legislature of that year was to encourage public subscriptions to what was then a novel and rather hazard ous undertaking. "It is an irrevocable contract with a corpo- pate body, and the temporary custody of a court does not, it seems to me, terminate the corporate existence of this body.

"Should the railroad ultimately pass into the possession of a new corporation, that would be a different matter. When the charter of 1827 was granted irrevocable con tracts could be entered into, but the State constitution of 1850 and subsequent consti tutions have contained a clause prohibiting the Legislature from entering into any con tract or agreement that cannot be repealed or recalled. So, if the railroad were sold, if a new company were organized to take it, or if there were a consolidation with some other corporation under a new corporate existence. the legislation or legal proceedings which would bo neoessary to give a corporate existence to this new company could not transfer to the new company the immunity from taxation now enjoyed by the old company. "My opinion on this point is based entirely upon the decision which the Court of Appeals gave in March, 1876, against the Northern Ceutral Railway Company.

I have not read over carefully the provisions of the Baltimore and Ohio charter, but I believe that in a general way it is similar to the charter granted in the same year to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad. The latter corporation built and operated the line in Maryland now owned by the Northern Central Railway, and, like the Baltimore and Ohio, was exempt from taxation. In 1853 this road was consolidated with several connecting lines in Pennsylvania, and the Legislature of 1854 gave a charter to the new consolidated company under the name of the Northern Central Railway. The court decided that as this new act was oussed by the Legislature under the provisions of the constitution of 1850 it did not give the new company perpetual immunity Irom taxation. Under that decision the Northern Central is now taxed.

"The B. and exemption from taxation covers only the main line of its road, built under the original charter. Special charters gave it tho right to build other lines in the State and in each case a tax was iroposed. "A decision of the Court of Appeals in 1877 declared that the clause in the original charter exempting stook from taxation, although broad, unambiguous and universal, did not apply to the Metropolitan Branch nor to any of the company's property in the State not used in the operation of its lines. This decision exempted wharves, docks and similar terminals, but taxed elevators U3ed as storehouses, exempted hotels maintained only for passengers on the road, as at the Relay and Cumberland, but taxed hotels such as the company owns at Deer Park and Oakland, kept for the general publtc.

It taxed also the steamships then operated by the company. "The taxation or the Washington Branch was the subject of special legislation. The first oharter given for that line made a special State tax ot one-fifth of all the receipts from passenger traffic on the branch. "For a number of years tho company did not pay thla tax. In consequence of the litigation which ensued it applied to the Legislature of 1878 and secured the passage of a special measure, in which the State agreed to abandon this tax and the collection of the largo amount owing from the past years if the railroad company would agree to waive so much of its immunity from taxation as would give the State the ritrht to tax the road one-half ot 1 per cent, of the erross receipts of its lines in Maryland.

"This contract was entered into and has since been followed. It could not be an irrevocable contract, and I have always believed that It could and ought to be repealed. The State loses thousands of dollars by the exchange, for one-half of 1 per cent, on the receipts in Maryland Is certainly far less than ono-tifth of the fares over the Washington Branch." LONG DELAY PROBABLE. Morgan Company Have on Hand Other Important Projects that Will Consume Much Time. Baltimore financiers say that J.

P. Morgan Co. will necessarily be brought in to aid in reorganizing the B. and O. They say no other American bankers have tho means or facilities for undertaking so vast a work, and that whatever oommlttee is formed must of necessity look to that firm for aid.

Therefore, it is urged, fully five years must elapse before the property can be reorgan ized. Morgan Co. have now in band the defunct Erie Road, Philadelphia and Reading, the Union Pacific and the Northern Pacific. These properties will be taken up In time and will consume muoh time in putting them "on their feet." Then, too, if the firm is asked to take up tho Baltimore and Ohio, as Is expected, much time will be required to as certain the basis on which an equitable reorganization can be effected. A WASHINGTON YIEYT.

Comment Upon the Management and Policy of the Company in the Past. A special dispatch to The Snw from Wash ington says: "Baltimore and Ohio affairs have been muoh discussed here. The de velopments of the last few days, culminat ing at Baltimore in the appointment of receivers, have caused but little, if any. surprise. AU railway experts in Congress and in active management of railway affairs have said for many years past that only one result, sooner or later, must follow from the character of the management which held the control of the road.

For thirty years despotic authority, practically a single will, ran everything, brooked no counsel, saw but one Bide of any Question, and that the personal side. In more recent years, for one or two brief Hitting periods, there may have been more or less of partial deparcure from this policy, but the usages and the traditions have remained. "It was a policy dictated solely by per sonal objeots and ambitions and ignoring all the methods by which liberal, broad- minded enterprise builds up and enhances the advantages of great corporate functions. It was a policy which brought riches to Individuals, but woful embarrassment to vested trust. It was a policy which made the communities upon which it depended its bitter enemies, when naturally they should have been Its friends.

It was a policy which unnecessarily and disastrously forced the building of parallel roads batweeu Bali- more and Washington and between Balti more and Philadelphia. "With the magnificent future opened before it at the end of the war, capable man agement and management actuated ouly by regard for its interests and tho interests of Baltimore could easily have made it by this time one of the most splendid and profitable railway properties in the world. The oppor tunities which were thrown away were such as were never beforo or never again will be presented in the history of railroads. Valu able connections were surrendered simply to promote private objects, and, outside of the consideration of the latter, the cardinal EFFECT IN FOREIGN MARKETS. Heavy Withdrawals of Gold May Result from It.

The Road Being; So Closely Identified In Many Ways with. Baltimore, It Is a Matter of General Regret that It Has Been Reduced to Such Straits Losses Will Fall Heaviest on Small Holders of the Stook and Bonds. Mr. Enoch Pratf, president of the National Farmers and Planters Bank, said yesterday: "The passing of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company into the hands of receivers is a shock to me. I am sure that the movement will bo unfortunate, although it may have been neoessary.

The best thing to do is to wait and hope for the best. It Is valuable property, has beoi of great service to Haiti-more, and I trust the reorganization will take plaoe as early as possible. As far as I am aware, none of the Baltimore banks carried the company's paper to any great extent. The losses will fall most heavily upon the small holders of the common stock." Mr. John B.

Ramsay, one of the Baltimore finance commissioners and president of the National Mechanics' Bank, said: "One of the most consplouous effects of the B. and O. receivership will be that upon the London, Amsterdam and other European markets, which dealt heavily in B. and O. and other American railroad securities, and in which confidence in these securities was some time ago impaired for reasons too recent to repeat.

Happily, this confidence was being restored. I do not say so positively, but there is a prospeot that because the B. and a large proportion of whose bonds and stock is held in London and other money centres of Europe, has passed into the hands ot receivers, American railroad securities in general may be affected. In other words, London, Amsterdam and Berlin may rush to sell their American securities, and as the total amount of such sucurities abroad is about $500,000,000, and as they are parable in gold, it can at once be seen that there will be an enormous drain upon the United States gold reserve. "I believe the effect of the receivership in financial circles has been discounted by the many rumors at different times that the crisis was near at hand.

Still it is unfortunate and will have a far-reaching effect, which will be intensified should the receivers default in the payment of interest upon bonds. In that some respects, injury might be wrought in other communites to tho hia-h standing and integrity of the business men of Baltimore, of which city the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is the largest corporatioo. "Of course, the receivers can withhold these payments until after the reorganization, but I trust that they will not do so. Such action, as well as disturbing our general credit elsewhere, will considerably reduce the incomes of many persons in all walks of life in this city who have invested in these bonds. Still, the fact must be considered that money must be had to rehabilitate the road, to Improve its equipment and its roadbed, and in carrying out these improvements it will be the bondholders and the stockholders who will suffer.

"Of course, there are several ways of reorganizing a ro.vi, by scaling down the bonds and the interest they Dear, and by assessing the common stock. In case an assessment is made, upon B. and O. common stock, the amount would be about 810 a share. But this is guesswork." Mr.

John M. Littig, president of the National Marine Bank, said: "It seems that the Johns Hopkins University was fortunate in exchanging its common stook for preferred stock, as the city and State were also fortunate in disposing of their common stock to a syndicate interested in the B. and O.Company, I have not bad much time to examine into the financial questions involved in the passing of the B. and O. into the hands of receivers, but 1 am sure that the effect will be unfortunate even if the receivership is necessary.

"This action had been anticipated for some time by those best acquainted with the financial condition of the company. They realized that the inevitaole had to come. "The loss which must neoessarily accom-pauy the receivership will not only fall upon those holdlnir larse blocks of common stock, but also upon individuals less prepared to stand it. I am told that la years gonelby, when this common 6tock was a 'gilt edged' security, many trust estates were invested in them. For example, I know of two ladles who have held a small number of shares and who have had their investment swept away, for the present at least.

Much of this stock was held iD the counties and was bought, not only as a good security, but also on acoount of the enormous credit of the company and of the high standing of the Garretts, who directed it. "I do not anticipate any financial disturbance In Baltimore on account of the receivership." 0YNERSOF THE STOCK. It Is Said that the Johns Hopkins University's Work Will Not Be Impaired. The capital stock of the B. and O.

Company consists of 83,000,000 of first preferred stock, 2.000,000 of second preferred stock and of commou stock. Dividend? on the preferred stock have been regularly paid. The direotors at the October meeting last year passed the dividend upon the common stock. Prior to that dividends had been paid pretty regularly for several years, Including a 20 percent, stock dividend. Baltimore investors have large holdings in the preferred stock of the company.

The act of the Legislature of 1S35 authorizing the first preferred and that of 1838 authorizing the second preferred stock are construed by the attorneys of some Investors to make these securities prior liens on the property. The chief holdings of the common stock are owned by Miss Mary Garrett, Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett and Robert Garrett and amount to about 60,000 shares. The par value of the stock is $100.

The Grelgg interests hold about 8,000 shares, and Mr. Wm. F. Burns's holdings are said to be about 4,000 shares. A large nnmber of individuals have smaller holdings.

A member of the finance committee of the JohDS Hopkins University trustees said: "The university holds 1,000 shares of first preferred stock of the Baltimore and Ohio, tho par value of which is 81,000,000, and which has paid 0 per ceot. annual Interest. The university also holds 850 shares of the road's oommon stock. "In 1691 th6 university exchanged most of Its holdings ot common stock for the preferred stock to the value of $1,000,000. which, as I have said, has yieldod annual dividends of 6 per cent.

This stook Is a Hon upon the property, and as such has priority over not only the commou stock, but also mortgage bonds issued after the preferred stock was Issued. It must be remembered that the preferred stock is of a very old issue. "The work of the university will in no way be Impaired by the Baltimore and Ohio being in the hands of a receiver." The city of Baltimore owned at one time 82,500 shares of the common stock. Its interests were sold In 1891 at par, netting the. city 83.2.50.000.

This slock is now held by interests affiliated with the London and New York holdings. Rumors that the company was In a critical condition were prevalent last week; as a result, unprecedented selling of the common stock on the New York Exchange took place. The transactions for the week Involved 32.800 shares. The lowest figure reached in the sales was 1 on Saturday. A net decliDe or 13 per cent, for the week was shown.

The bonds of the company were also influenced. Fives of 1925 closed with a loss of 14 for the week and consol fives of 1988 were offered down to 87 as ajrainat 107 on the last previous According to the last annual report of tho company, covering the year ended June 30, 1895, Its total funded debt is 90,672,224. The total annual Interest payments on this amount is $4,637,735 63. A statement of the sinking funds shows that securities representing $10,249,224 are to the credit of this account, which deducted from the total funded debt would indioato that the net bonded indebtedness is $80,423,000. Cash received from the Main Line sinking funds amounted during the last fiscal year to $275,078 90.

Deducting this amount from the total Interest payments would make the net cash outlay for interest on the funded debt for the year ended June 30. 1SU3. $4,362,650 63. Its Intervention Did Not Brine All of the Results That Had Iteen Expected. It was supposed that the company bad reached the end of its violssltudes when arrangements were presumably made with a New York syndloate last January to take care oflts floating indebtedness.

But Just here is where the bitch arose, and the apparent failure of this syndicate to do what was expected of it has, it is said, precipitated the present crisis. It will be remembered that la January, when the oompany was in distress, a syndicate composed largely of New York Institutions and banking-houses represented In the directory of tho oompany was said to have come to Its rescue. This syndicate was to raise a sufficient sura, said to bo about Sl.300,000, to meet the road's pressing needs and wa3 to provide for the remainder of Its floating debt, said to be between $11,000,000 and $13,000,000, by taking care of a collateral trust mortgage, for which the syndicate was to Had a market. Through this syndicate, it is said, the oompany did raise the $1,530,000 so urgently needed. But.

this money, it Is now stated, was raised on collateral securities largely put up by the Garrett interests in the Baltimore and Ohio property, and none of it was advanced by the syndicate or any member without abundant security. With this urgency removed the syndloate then set about finding a market for the collateral trust mortgage, the proceeds of which wero to be used In lifting the remainder of the heavy floating obligations from the corporation. This proved no easy task, nnd it Is tho opinion of some of tho shrewdest financiers that the failure to find a market either at homo or abroad for such a mortgage at this time precipitated the catastrophe of a receivership Tor tho company At the time of its formation this syndicate is understood to have consisted in part of tho Mercantile Trust Company, the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, Brown Bros. Vormllye Co. and Blake.

Bolssovain all or New York, and most of them having London and other foreiirn connections. APPLYING TO MORGAN CO. The Receivership Is Said to nave Hinged on a Message that Came as a Finale. When the B. and O.

found that no relief was to bo expeoted from the syndicate it is understood to have entored into negotiations with J. Plerpont Morgau Co. for sufficient capital to tide over Its immediate necessities. These' negotiations bad been pending for some weeks, and it is said to have been the expectation that tbey would be satisfactorily coucluded in the end which led the friends of the road to claim that no receivership was in prospeot almost up tothe hourwbenthe application was made. Mr.

Cowen spent nearly the whole of last week in New York, and during most of that time he was iu consultation with J. P. Morgau Co. in an effort to negotiate tho loan for which his company stood so much in need. Morgan It Is said, were willing to advance the sum needed, but in return demanded concessions which local Interests in the company wero not willing to grant absolutely.

This was the rock on which the negotiations split. The New York banking firm made It a condition of the loan that It was to have either absolute control of the B. and O. property, such control to be secured to it through a pooling of a majority of the stook into a voting trust, to be placed in the firm's hands for a term of years, or it was to direct the policy of the oompany through the board of directors. To this end it demanded the retirement of certaiu members of the present board, their places to be taken by directors suggested by the firm, and no director unsatisfactory to tho firm to be admitted.

In this latter proposition the banking firm is understood to have been willing toco-operate with the B. and O. local interests. This was tho status of affairs when Mr. Cowen returned from New York and it was laid before somo of the largest holders of its stock.

These stockholders. It is said, took tho position that us between a control of tho property by Morgan Co. and a reoeiver-shlp, which might ultimately wind up in a retention ot the road's control in local hands, the Baltimore Interests preferred a receivership. Further communication with Morgan Ss Co. was suggested, and on Saturday a message was sent to the firm asking if it could uot modify its demands in giving assistance to the road.

Soon after this messaare was forwarded word came from Now York that there was danger of a receivership. This was before 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and Inquiry at that time was made at the United States Court as to whether or not such application had been made. The roply was In the negative, but it was at the same time said that an application could be made up to 3 o'clock, or that If requested the court could continue longer in session to grant the aopllcattou. This was regarded as stirnificant. It was taken to mean that the court had some intimation that an application for a receiver-Ship would be made, and it is now believed that the oourso was contingent on the reply of Morgan 3c Co.

This reply did oome later. The firm refused to recede from its former position, and, with no other recourse left In which to ratao funds for current and pressing: needs, the company was forced to the wall. THEN CAME THE CRASH. Cat Off from Aid, Eitremo Measures Had to He Resorted to Without Delay. Having received the ultimatum of Morgan St the road's affairs were in a desperate condition, for the floating debt was unprovided for.

The amount of this debt is varlousl estimated. It Is known that the company's own and assumed obligations, consisting of bills payable and indorsed notes contribute 810,800,000 to the amount and the balance is represented bj vououors not In the shape of notes. In tho straits to which the company was reduced a default in the March payment of fixed charges was considered unavoidable. Today there Is due interest and rental obligations amounting to $390,251. Therefore it became necessary for the railroad company and tho Mercantile Trust Company of Now York, representing the syndicate which had been aiding the company, to begin a friendly suit for tho appointment of receivers, who should hold tho property and operate it pending tho consummation ot a plan tor its reorganization.

The application for the receivers was made by Mr. Charles C. Deming, of the Arm of Alexander Green, counsel for the Mercantile Trust Company, beforo Judges GotT and Morris in tha United States Circuit Court. It was stated to tho court that the application was baed upon the theory of solvency, und not insolvency, and also that by keeping tho property intact protection would bo secured from a soramble of creditors. Reasonable tlmo.

It was also said, would be secured not ouly to pay off all unsecured claims, but to realize from the earnings sufficient sums to pay all fixed charges. An allegation In the bill shows that the unsecured claim amount to about 81,500,000, representing supplies bought by the company. A rocolvershio was deemed advisable to prevent interference with the operation of the property from attachments and suits which would likely be entered todav. Mr. E.

J. D. Cross, of tho counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio, admitted the allegations made and coisentod to the proceedings. Mr. Hugh L.

Bond, general' counsel of the Baltimore and Ohio; Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, president of tho Mercautiio Tiust Company, of New York; Secretary Adee, of the same corapanr: Second Vice-President Thomas M. King, Direotors Howiand Davis, of New York, who is the representative of the banking firm of Blake, BoUsevaln of London, and K. It. Bacou, who is president of the B.

and O. Southwestern, were also present. Prior to the commencement of the suit the whole matter was laid before the B. and O. directors, and they unanimously passod a resolution authorizing tho company's ofJioers to confess a Judgment in favor of the Mercantile Trust Company for the amount of the debt due that "Prof." Jules Brought to Baltimore.

"Prof." M. Jules, who is charged with swiudlino- a number of Haltimoreans out of about $2,000 by false representations of his ability to cure them of diseases, was brought to Baltimore Saturday night. He had a pre liminary hearing yesterday and was committed for tbe action of tbe sheriff. Jules was arrested in Indianapolis and was brought to Baltimore by Detective Kratz. Baltimore Shipping Company.

On the complaint of Thomas Leisbear, George T. Gambrill and John H. Barron, a majority of the stockholders. Judge Dennis has passed an order in Circuit Court No, 2 dissolving the Baltimore Shipping Company. The order will be effective unless cause to the contrary is shown before April 2.

The company was incorporated June 23. 1592, with a capital of SSS.OJO, for packing fruits and vegetables. Suit About Heating Apparatus. Wallace Stebbins. by Gans Ham an.

at torneys, has filed a bill in Circuit Court No. against Ella Culbreth for the sale of the steam-heating apparatus in tbe Albion Hotel. The application 6tates that Mr. Steb bins furnished George F. Slmousoa with material valued at 39 for the installation of the plant, which sum has not been paid.

Reward Offered for Mr. Manuel's Vest." An advertisement in The Sun offers a reward for the recovery of a vest and its contents, lost in the fire at the Armiger residence, 1806 North Charles street. February 23. The vest belonged to Mr. Horace Manuel, of New York, who was one of the victims of the fire, and is supposed to have contained valuable papers.

He Asks $2,000 Damages. Rev. George W. West has brought suit la the Court of Common Pleas against King David Lodge. No.

5, United Order of Brothers and Sisters of Good Hope, claiming $2,003 damages for alleged injury to bis character, by which, he says, he was deprived of the benefits of the order. Fruit Company Formed. The Baltimore and Boca del Toro Iruit and Transportation Company has been Incorporated by Edward L. Palmer. Henry J.

McGratb, Alexander B. Bulack. George Fit-gerald, L. H. Baldwin.

George J. Klingel-hofer and Samuel Tregellas. The capital 6tock is $50,000. Twenty-eighth Wedding Anniversary. Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Neuman were given a pound surprise party at their home, 1001 Bast Baltimore street, by their children and friends in celebration of the twenty-eighth anniversary of their marriage. Warden Bailey in Charge of the I. Mr. John U.

Bailey, the newly elected warden of the city jail, took charge Saturday night. He visited the Jail sborly before midnight and was received by Captain Coo-stamine, tbe retiring- warden. Accused of Stealing Carpet. Thomas Jones, colored, charged with stealing four rolls of Brussels carpet from tbe store of William 0. Callahan, 327 North Calvert street, was committed for court by Justice Calvert yesterday.

Charged with Picking Pockets. Andrew Kraus and Jobn Rupp, charged with picking the pockets of unknown persons, were arrested Saturday night by Detectives Pohler and Hogan. Both were committed for court by Justice Calvert. Veneer and Basket Company. On the complaint of the Maryland Veneer and Basket Company Judse Dennis baa appointed Wm.

F. Porter receiver of the J. G. Wehrmann Co. The bill was filed February 13 on a claim for 84 53.

Colored Y. W. C. A. The Colored Younjr Women's Christian Association has been incorporated by Sarah A.

Charity, Mary E. Bright, William H. Weaver, William H. Thompson aud Malachl Gibsou. Building Association Incorporated.

The First National Building Association has been incorporated by oeorge W. B. Bart-lett, Elisha 8. Heath. Henry W.

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