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6 RIVE 6TO PASS ON DECISION SUB-CONTRACTORS WILL FIGHT TO STAY IN UNION MANY EXPECTED George Livingston, Commissioner of Public Works, yesterday asked Corporation Counsel Hives for explicit instructions with reference to his powers under the decision of the Court of Appeals, handed down on Tuesday, holding that the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Com' pany must not obstruct the with toolhouses, seeds or other buildings or not directly seeded in the work of excavation. Mr. Livingston said last night: TVs have a list of all the shed? power plants and structures belonging to the sub-contractors of the subway system, Solution Counsel says that the Court of Appeals ecJeion iwiic-tions removal of these structures shall prowd at onoe to them. On the other band, Re would not be justified in ham; Ins the company In the completion of the wort The people are Interested in bavins the rapid transit tunnel completed the possible day If we should unnecessarily hamper the work. Si would only prolong the embarrassment now existing We are in possession of th necessary information, and all that Deeded is to He assured of the power to act.

The decision rather broad. It would seem to a layman like myself that the court holds that It must be established in each particular case that the company is occupying an unnecessarily large amount of space with its equipment before the city can dispossess. In the case of Mr. Bates, proprietor of the Everett House, 11l which the decision was rendered on Tuesday, subway- contractor is oc- I cupying park property. Rapid Transit law allows the subcontractors at scope, and it is doubtful if we can budge them unless we are in a position to prove our case.

I can't do much till Rives instructs me with regard to my jurisdiction. When Corporation Counsel Hives was asked instructing Commissioner Livingston he "I neve had time to read the derision in can give no opinion on it at present." Winner Martin. Superintendent of Subsurface Btructures under President Cantor. The Everett House case sfems to indicate that 'perhaps the interests of the people would have been better off under the rules wirich govern railroad direction of the Kapid The city Permit tit Railway Company worsts, is in NM 4. contract, with black ar.d there ls lltl 'h 1 opportunity the epippany to overreach 'its nrivileeel.

Only construction we are far Immediate pse Permittea by the work, and these -materials imrS and neatly piled Song the route, to keep the passageways free and and swept clean Of dirt and mad. All matertato placed on either the roadway sidewalks of highway mubt be- placed on suitable planks to protect the pave- Jments. and the company is responsible for any damapes arising from careless handling. Mortar concrete must be mixed on boards. The put ters of highways must be kentj open and luno1 uno 'structed (or proper drainage.

No materials on sidewalks of highways crossing the line but 'they may be piled in the roadway of 'irtereecUng highways on each side for a distance of of the width cf the roadway and for total length of two hundred feet. The decision from the Court of Appeals, which eeems to indicate that the subway sub-contractors will be somewhat restricted in their operations hereafter, was the result of an action trought by Benjamin L. Bates, proprietor of th" Everett House, at Fourth-aye. and Seventeenth-st. Early in the subway work Holbrook, Cabot Daly, one of the sub-contracting firms 1 erected, under a permit from the Park Department, a large compressed air plant in front of The Everett House.

Then they made a of Union Square a dumping ground for materials of all descriptions. Mr. Bates fought the case all the way from the lower to the Stat- court, and on Tuesday there was down a decision that the company was in carrying out a private contract, and that it could not obstruct public streets with materials or structures that were not directly needed in the work of excavation. At the office of Holbrook, Cabot Daly it said that the firm had an expensive plant, and would resist to the umost any attempt to oust It from Union Square. A representative of the firm said that it was in a position to -demonstrate that ail its equipment at Union Square was absolutely necessary for the prosecution of its work.

It is expected that scores of suits for damages be brought against the sub-contractors as a result of decision in the Everett House case. RACES AWAY AFTER WRECK. INKNOWN AUTOMOBILE DEMOLISHES CARRIAGE AND INJURES Hi occur Joseph Klein, of Harrison, is trying to find out who owns a big red automobile which ran Into his carriage, demolishing it and seriously Injuring his wife. Mr. and Mrs.

Klein were driving In near Sound View Park, Rye. when the automobile came up behind them at breakneck speed. Before Mr. Klein could get out of the way the machine ran into his rig. the carriage and throwing Mr.

and Mrs. Klein to the roadway, and knocking the horse. In the excitement the automobile driver raced away, without giving any aid to the injured, and before Mr. Klein could get his It is said, however, that the machine belonged 10 a wealthy man, who is summering on the Sound, and if Mr. Klein secures his name he will bring suit for $23,400 damages.

Klein is suffering from Injuries to her head, spine and legs, and It is also feared that she has internal injuries. OWNER AXD DRIVER QVILTY. CORONER'S JURY HOLDS THEM RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF WHEELMAN IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. Paterson. N.

June 11 (Special). The coro- Bier's Jury which investigated the death of Charles W. "Whlteman, a bicyclist, who was killed at Pompton Plains on May 25 in a collision with an automobile owned by Robert B. Holmes, a New-York lawyer, living at Madison, returned a verdict to-day holding Mr. Holmes and his motorman.

Thomas McGowan, responsible for the death. The testimony was last night at the courthouse in this city. jury could not agree without viewing the scene, and they were locked up all night, the first time that such a thing has occurred in this county. This morning they still insisted on looking over the scene of the accident, and agreed to pay the expenses of the trip themeelves. They hired a rig and drove to Pompton.

On their return they gave their verdict. 'They found that the automobile was on the wrong side of the road, and that "Whlteman had the right of way. Both the owner and driver of the automobile were guilty of gross negligence and carelessness, they said, and were primarily Xhe cause of the death of the bicyclist. Mr. Holmes testified last night that he went out in his Wanton touring machine with his wife and driver.

They were on their way to Pompton, and at a turn in the road saw a wheelman approaching at great speed, with his head down. Mr. Holmes directed his motorman to run into the crass on the side of the road to avoid the The latter apparently did not see them until within a dozen feet of them. Then he looked up, and gasped "Oh!" Just at that moment his wheel slipped from under him and he fell backward upon his head, while his wheel the rear wheel of the automobile. Mr.

Holmes said that the vehicle waa going at about six miles an hour at the time. Mrs. Holmes corroborated her husband, as did McGowan. There was only one other witness of the accident, George Miller, ten years old. whose home stands near the place of the accident.

He testified that he was standing in his front yard he saw Whlteman passing on his wheeL At the turn of the road the automobile came in sight, going at the rate of eight miles an hour. As the vehicle turned the corner the wheelman ran into it. and the boy ran into the house to tell bis father. Andrew Mi the father of the boy. testified that when he went out into the a road he found Whiteman lying unconscious on the road, with Holmes and McGowan bending over him.

The automobile flood on the far fide of the road, about thirty feet from where Whitei; man lay. It was shown that Whiteman's body badly cut and bruised on the right side. eeversi of his being broken and his right knee crushes out of place. CEXTBAL HAS NOT REPLIED. WAS INFORMED THAT IT MIGHT IMPBOVE TAItK-AVK.

Tl SKEL CNDEB AJfEXDED RAPID TBAXSIT ACT. Charles Stewart Smith, of the Rapid Transit Commission, said yesterday that the commisid not eived any reply to a vent to York Central Railroad Company the attention of that company to the fad that the improvement of its Park-aye. tunnel mighi be completed under the amended Rapid Transit law. Mr. Smith has made diligent Inquiry with reference to the possible substitution of electricity for steam, and apparently Is satisfied that steam in the Central's tunnel could be done away with in a comparatively short time In referring to the subject yesterday Mr.

Smith said: I regret to say that the New-Ycrk Central company failed to answer the letter of the Rapid Transit Board, excepting with a acknowleagmen( lam oi the daily sufferers who travel through the tunnel during the Bummer Cor the benefit of the New- York Central coxnpanj I desire to quote a statement made to me 1 resident A J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. Cassatt stated that his company it to build that it Is entirely Practicable a it to build electric motors that wi 11 a 600-ton train through its proposed tunne. from Jersey City to Queens Borouph.

throuph and under Manhattan Borouph. at the average rate of "Jijftytive miles an hour, and this fact further 1 Its whole scheme. Mr. Cassatt further tnai contemplates contracting for operation immediately, and that the construction of a power house will be begun at once. TERMS FOR R.

TUNNEL. THEY ARE COMPLETED BY THE SFHCOMMITTEE OF THE RAPID TRANSIT BOARD. The terms and plans by which the Pennsylvania Railroad Will enter the city by tunnel were practically completed at a meeting yesterday of the Kapid Transit Commission's sub-eommittoe ana President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania read.

The plans will he approved or rejected at a meetins of the commission Monday afternoon. They will not be irunie public till then. The terms agreed upon, it is understood, impose of 809 a year for the right to tunnel ttanside cf the North River. Ihe purpose ol charging this rental is to secure a recognition of the right of the coinmisslon to 'exercise Jurisdiction over routes under the river which lj be planned hereafter. For the tracks the Pennsylvania ompany will lay under streets of Manhattan.

it is understood, it will pay BO cents a foot a year for the first ten years ami $1 a foot a year for the ie leeding On this basis the cny will the 69.0» feet of track H.3M.000 In the full twenty-rive year term. TRACKS MUST BE USED Oil REMOVED. Borough President Cantor is determined that the Metropolitan Street Railway shall either operate cars in certain parts of the city where tracks are laid but are not used, or else remove them. He believes the company has forfeited its franchises in those thoroughfares by allowing the lines to fall Into disuse Mr. Cantor yesterday sent the following letter to one of the branch lines of the corporation: John Beaver, President Forty-second Street, ManbattanviUe i-ud St.

Nicholas Avenue lompany. Dear Sir: many complaints have reached me with reference to the outside, or unused, horsecar tracks on between Broadway and M.mhatlan-^t., and on Manhattan-St. between Amgterdam-iive. and the Hudson River, and their there of no service to the public, you are. therefore; hereby notiiirM that tin- said tracks must be removed without delay from the avenues po indicated, and upon your failure, within thirty from the receipt of this notice, to begin and diligently prosecute work, this department will undertake removal of said tracks, and will charge the expense of same to your company.

THE GOOD MARCHING. PRAISE FROM GENERAL. 69TH GOES TO THE LAKE. State Camp. Peekskill, N.

June 11 True to their reputation as rainmakers, the 47th Regiment brought another storm when they returned to the State Camp. It was not a heavy storm, and it did not come until the regiment was established in the State tents on the grounds, but it continued all the afternoon and evening. The 47th made an early start this morainp. Reveille Bounded at 4:4 breakfast mesa call at 5, and "the peneral" at 5:30. At the sound of the last named call every tent dropped and the loading of the army wagons began.

At the regiment started on the march in. Companies I and under the command of Captain Henry A. F. Young, of the former company, formed the advance guard. The rear guard was Company under Captain Ernest E.

Janlcky. Only two short halts were made on the march, and State Camp was reached at 11 o'clock. Not a man dropped out on the way. Brigadier General George Moore Smith rode out and met the regiment and Inspected them as they marched. He said.

"From my observation I think the march in was exceptionally well done. The men kept a soldierly appearance and the distances between companies and between divisions were correct. I was especially Impressed by the condition of the wagon train. The wagons were so evenly loaded that one might have thought that one was loaded iirst and the others took it for a model. One point that the general emphasised was the total lack of undue haste.

The 6Sth Regiment left State Camp at 1:30 this afternoon. The rain had begun then, but the men did not mind it. Their wagon train of fourteen army wagons took a shorter route than the regular one, but the men marched by the old route. The advance guard was Company under Captain John E. Duffy, and the rear guard was Company I.

under Captain Sullivan. They were with the regiment, the wagon train bring unguarded. It was 5 o'clock when the regiment reached Camp Roe. at Mohegan. The wagon train was there about half an hour ahead of them.

Not a man took to the ambulance, but every one of them marched the entire distance. General Smith, accompanied by Captain John H. Townsend. Major Elmore F. Austin and Captain William B.

Scott, started out about half an hour after the regiment and rode out through the rain, but by the short route, and met and passed the marching regiment, getting back to camp late in the evening. To-morrow they will visit Camp Roe. The detail of the 47th Regiment for to-morrowis: Officer Of the day. Captain William H. Doremus.

of Company officer of the guard. Lieutenant C- A. Eustaphieve, of Company and junior officer of the guard, Thomas Burns, of Company K. Owing to the rum to-night's parade was an undress parade, being little more than a rollcall by companies, the men not leaving the company streets. HIGH LITTXn LED TO DISCOVERT.

CASHIER WHO BOUGHT CHAMPAGNE FOP. FRIENDS CHARGED WITH STEAXXNG. James W. Alexander, the cashier and bookkeper of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, of No. 38 was held in $0,000 bail for examination to-morrow in the Tombs Police Court yesterday.

He is charged with stealing JI.OGO. He was arrested In St. Louis on last Friday. Louis Schmltt. treasurer of the company, told the magistrate that Alexander had grown up in the company, and had been with it for ten years.

It was learned, he said, that Alexander was president of a yacht club in Harlem, and that when he travelled he took a compartment and bought champagne for ail his friends. As his salary did not seem to warrant his living in this manner, the various stories that came to the coupled with Alexander's refusal to take a vacation, determined them to look over his books. On October IS, 1901, a warrant was Issued for Alexander'fl arrest, eh wring him with stealing on December 2. 1900. In some, way Alexander got wind of the warrant and disappeared.

As the examination of the books showed losses of from $15,000 to they asked Captain Titus to find him. Alexander was traced to Texas. San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis. HOLDS COURT IX A TROLLEY CAR.

JUSTICE PITNET WANTS TO GET HIS TRAIN FOR HOME. Trenton. June Justice Mahlon Pitney yesterday converted a Trenton trolley car into a chamber of Justice. He had been sitting in the main branch of the Supreme Court at the State House in the afternoon. That body finished its labors at 4 o'clock.

The case of William F. McGovern the city of Trenton and Lawman Brothers. involving the Lafayptte-st. sewer, was down for argument. If Justice Pitney waited to hear it at the State House he would miss his train for home He pupgestod to Judge McPherson and William Jamison, the lawyers in the case that they pretent their arguments on the trolley car.

he was. on bis way to the Clinton-st. station. This was agreed to, and the case was so heard. NBWYOBK DAILY TRIBUNE.

JMB 12. 1902. GENERAL SYNOD AT, END REFORMED CHUBCH WILL RAISE (125,000 FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS THIS YEAR. Asbury Park, N. June 11 With prayers of thanksgiving and hymns of rejoicing for God's bounty during the fiscal year just dosed, the ninety-sixth General Synod of the Reformed Church in America was declared adjourned without day by President Abbott Kittredge just before noon to-day.

The committee oi five to confer with other organizations holding to the Presbyterian form of government and faith as to the advisability of forming a federation of all the Presbyterian Church bodies is made up as The Rev. Dr. J. Preston Searle, of New-Brunswick; the Rev. Drs.

Henry K. Cobh and Joachim Elmendorf, of New- York; and the Rev. Drs. John H. Karsten and J.

W. Beardslee, of Holland, Mich. The committee en Sabbath observance reported strong resolutions denouncing the tendency to desecrate the Sabbath, protesting against the publication and encouragement of Sunday newspapers, deprecating Sunday travel and visiting, arraigning those who Indulge in golf, baseball and other games on the Lord's Day, and disapproving all political conferences on that day. The report was unanimously adopted, as was another resolution directing the chunhes of the General Synod to Btand nnn for the enforcement of the laws against the desecration of the Sabbath. The report of the committee on domestic missions was put in yesterday afternoon by the Rev.

Dr. Alfred H. Demarest. of Catskill, N- and the synod resolved that $125,000, including whatever might be received for the church building fund, bt- the amount which the Reformed Church would endeavor to provide in the coming year for domestic missions. The Rev.

Messrs. Peter H. Milliken, Alfred H. Brush, William H. Vroom, David J.

Burr 111, Edgar Tilton, G. J. Hekhuis and W. H. S.

Demarest. and Elders Hamilton V. Meeks, Benson Van Vliet and James A. Benny were named as members of the board of domestic missions. Strong addresses, advocating the raising of more money for missionary work among the Indians and the Kentucky mountaineers, were made by Secretary Charles H.

Pool, Field Secretary William Walton and Dr. Klttredge, "of the General Synod. ESCAPE FROM RAYMOXDST. JAIL. PRIVATE DETKCTIVES LOOKING FOR MAN' WHO GOT AWAY ON JUNE 1-POLICB NOT INFORMED.

Andrew Ehring. twenty-four years old, a rrisoner in the Raymond Street Jail. Brooklyn, on a six months' sentence for assault, escaped from there on the morning of June 1. How be got away Sheriff Dike and his subordinates will not tell, and the police have not been informed. Ehring was charged with entering a WiUiamsburg saloon with several other young men, and beating the proprietor and his wife.

On April L'l he was committed to jail by the Court of Special Sessions. The cases against the other men arf still pending. Sheriff Dike said yesterday that he was Borry the knowledge of the escape had become public. and though happened ten daya ago he would not give out any facts about it. The prisoner escaped when the Shpriff was out of town.

Private detectives were after him, and it was thought that he would be recaptured. Late terday afternoon Warden suspended William Haubert. a keeper. This action was approved by Sheriff Dike. Then Haubert resigned.

THIXKS MOTIVE WAS REVEXGE. WOMAN knocked down AND BEATEN by SAVES HER PURSE. HOWEVER. Mrs. Jeremiah Collins, the wife of a postortlce employe in Manhattan, of near Brooklyn, was held up anil beaten on Tuesday right by a highwayman.

She returning home from a rent collecting tour of several houses in the neighborhood owned by her husband, when in between First and Second she heard footsteps behind her. As she turned around a man jumped at her from behind a tree and threw a cloth over her head. Mrs. Collins, who is a muscular woman, got the cloth off her head and reamed loudly. Her assailant, a powerfully built man.

knocked her down, and when she fought back struck her in the face. The highwayman, being unable to get the woman's pocketbook, and apparently alarmed by her outcry, ran toward closely pursued by Mrs. Collins, screaming. Policeman John Brennan several blocks away heard her screams and gave chase, but the man disappeared in the woods. Mrs.

Collins yesterday was confined to her home, suffering from severe contusions on the face and Mr. Collins suggested yesterday that his wife's assailant was possibly a friend of two Italian boys who were recently arrested on a charge of stealing a bicycle belonging to a member of the family. The boys were convicted and sentenced. An Italian In court threatened Mr. Collins that the boys would be avenged.

ARRESTS MYSTERIOUS DEATH CASE, THREE MEN' ACCUSED OF KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT W. K. HUTCHINSON'S END. Three men were arraigned In Jefferson Market court yesterday as auspicious persons, in connection with the death of Walter E. Hutchlnson, the clerk in the auditor's department of the New- York Central Railroad, who was found, 011 the night of June 1.

lying in a lumber yard in West with his skull fractured. He died last Monday In Roosevelt Hospital without regaining- consciousness. The men arraigned were Thomas Kane, a laborer, of No. 456 West John O'Leiiry, a pedler. of No.

111 West and Peter Hawkins, a pedler, of No. 537 West Flfty- Beventh-st. The detectives told the magistrate the prisoners were suspected of knowing something of Hutchinson's death, and Magistrate Mayo held them without bail for examination to-morrow. INSTRUCTIONS FOR MISSIONARIES. anmai, conference of tkk presbyterian doard of foreign missions.

fifth annual conference of Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Dnited States, with newly appointed missionaries, which will last a week, wan begun yesterday at No. 156 There are sixty-two missionaries. and women, receiving final instructions before departing for stations In Africa, china, India, Japan, Persia, Slam and Philippines. The conference was lieKun with devotional services by the Rev. Dr.

F. P. Ellinwood. Papers describing missionary as others see him wire by the Rev. (l.

B. Mathews, gave a traveller's opinion of missionaries. The v. Dr. Arthur Brown, who has just returned from a lifteen months' tour through Asia, told the missionary at work.

The Bey. Huie Kin described city mission work among the Chinese. The conference will meet to-day m. MRS. RIKER GETS $7,000.

The Jury in the suit of Mrs. Minnie T. Kiker against Mrs. Josephine Clopton, for damages for ulltged slander, reached a verdict on Tuesday evening, and yesterday handed in a sealed verdict to Justice Greenbuum. awarding $7,000 to the plaintiff.

MRS. POILLOX GETS A DIVORCE. Justice Stickler, in the Supreme Court, yesterday decided that Mrs. Frederlca Poillon was entitled to a divorce from John James Herring Pclllon, the president of Liberty Realty Company. Mrs, J.

E. PotUon. the wife of a cousin of the defendant, was named as co-respondent. RELEASED TO TESTIFY IX PA IS. Joseph J.

O'Toole, who was arrested on Monday night at No. 10 West N2neteenth-st. on the complaint of Charles E. Mackey, of No. 17 West at the request of the Paris police was discharged by Magistrate Mayo in Jefferson Market court yesterday on hi 3 consent to go to Paris to testify against Andre Veyaett of the Banque Francaise ct In connection with an alleged swindle over mythical mining property at Cripple Creek.

PRIEST BIDES WITH DYING GIRL. DOCTORS KELIEVE POISON KILLED HEKFRIENDS LAY DEATH TO BUTTERMILK. Emma Blundon, twenty-one years old, of No. 52 Brooklyn, died in Bellevue Hospital an hour after being admitted last evening, under circumstances which led the doctors to believe she might have been poisoned. Miss Blundon and her sister Sarah were among the hundred employed in John Hitter's bcokbendery, at No.

141 Kast Twenty-iirsu-st. Emma appeared to he in sood health and spirits until about o'clock, when she threw up h-r hands and sank to tlu floor with an exclamation of pain. From that moment she never recovered consciousness. Two of the girls ran to St. Stephens Church.

in between Third and Lexington ayes. They got Father O'Connor, and he hurried back with them. Other girls informed Policeman Kahn. of the Kast ond-st station, and he sent a call for an ambulance to Bellevue Hospital. The priest raid the ambulance surgeon arrived at the side of the unconscious girl the same time.

Father O'Connor rode to the hospital in the ambulance, and. after Mis? Blundon had been placed in a ward, administered to her the last rites of the church. The doctors were puzzled as to what had caused her death, but they said they believed she had either taken an overdose of medicine or poison by mistake. Her friends said that at noontime she had drunk a large quantity of cold buttermilk, and they thought that it might have caused her death. If IS XAME FIRST BOTH LISTS.

BISHOP FARLEY EXPECTED TO SUCCEED ARCHBISHOP MASS FOR DEAD ritELATKS SOIL. A solemn requiem ni.isß or months mind was celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday for the repose of the soul of Archbishop Corrlgan. The celebrant was Bishop Farley. He was as- Bisted by Vicar General Mooney.

Father Lavelle, the rector ol the cathedral, and Fathers McGean, Myhan, Connolly and Daly. The eulogy was pronounced by Bishop McQuaid. of Rochester. Many priesta of the diocese and members of re- Ugioua orders and associations attended the mass. The bishops who attended the mass took luncheon with F.uh<r Lavelle.

After the luncheon Father Lavelle said: There was no meeting. There Is not to be any meeting. The choice of the bishops for a successor to Archbishop Corrigan waa made when the bishops met in Albany on June 3." "Did the. bishops agree with the choice of Clergy, who named Farley, Vicar General Mooney and McSweeneyr Father Lavelle was ask. d.

do not know how the bishops he replied, "and I have no official knowledge that the Clergy named the men mentioned. 1 do not understand that the bishops have any intention or making public the result of their meeting. They have undoubtedly sent a report of their meeting of the action taker. there to the proper Church authorities." A prominent priest of the city said yesterday: The names have been pretty "'ell no one knows the three names sent lo Home the clergy nor the three names selected the bishops. The.

guessing, however, has been and it may bo stated that Bishop rartey-a najnae hits the first place on both Hats While this dots not mean .1 certain since the Pope may choose any other name on lists. it gives Bishop Farley 'a very strong position, and is us high a compliment as has ever beer pal! to cleric anywhere. There is not th" slightest reason to think thai the Pope will bo outside the.recommendation of the New-York clergy and the bishops Tl has busy with the name oi Bishop McDonnell of Brooklyn, and home Rotsip talked of Bishop Bpaldlng and other Western prelates Their names are not en lists Rent to Rome, It is unlikely that the Pops will for a candidate wlu.se i.amp In not on the lists If he nhoiiM be moved to do so by reason of Mate, he would be apt to select the greatest name among American churchmen to ornament church In this cltv. Th- decision will be very soon. and by the beginning of August we shall hear the In that case the consecration ceremony would take place on the Feist of St Bartholomew, August 24 or not later than September Feast of the Virgin's Nativity.

CALLS ITALIAN COURTS UNJUST. JUDOE I.ACOMBE PATS JUDGMENT AGAINST AMERICANS IS AND WONDERFULLY MADE." Judge Lacombe, in tho United States Circuit Court, yesterday confirmed a judgment of the Italian courts, but called the Italian decision "rankly unjuat" and "fearfully and wonderfully made." He was compelled to admit, however, that the decision must be confirmed by the federal courts of this country under international treaty. Salvatore Gloe, of Palermo, Italy, Carl P. Braum and Otto G. Westervelt.

Individually and as surviving partners of the firm of W. 11. Westervelt to recover a judgment of $70,01382, found against the arm in Italy. Judge excused Braum from the Judgment, as ho was not a member of the firm at the tl: the transactions on which the action wr based took place. In his decision.

Judge Laconibe says: To one who goes carefully through the documents thai make record of proceedings In the Italian courts it seenu lamentable that sense comity ever Induced our courts to accept Judicatse the Judgments of courts In forelsn countries. wh( se system of lurlsprudence is so totally different from our own. Truly the judgment in this case la fearfully and wonderfully made, and, so far one can make out from the documents, rankly unjust. GIFTS TO NEW-TORE LIBRARY. A THOUSAND VOLUMES ON AMERICAN WARS AND A HIBTORI OF Till: PANAMA UAH-WAY.

Owing to lack of a quorum the meeting of the New-York Public Library trustees was not ht yesterday, but tWO valuable gifts were announced. The first gift was that of the Baldwin library. given by Henry Baldwin, of New-Haven. Conn. The collection deals American wars, for the most part, and is called a patriotic collection.

It consists of thousand volumes, flve thousand pamphlets and a liirjje number of magazines and periodicals. The data contained the collection regarding Spanish-American War and thu.t concerning the Chilian-Peruvian War are snid to be especially well selected. Mr. Baldwin styled it the "Library-American," and much of it has been colle since a meeting of American patriotic socleties was held in Chlcapo In 1801. second gift was.

from Mrs. Penfield, widow of Edward Z. Penfield, who was an officer of the Hallway Company In the eighties, in which time Mrs. Penfield and her husband lived in Pent ml America. The collection relates largely to the Panama Railway, it contains four hundred volumes and about eight thousand newspapers most of the latter helm? printed iii Spanish, and dealing with the project of a railroad across isthmus.

RIVES AFTER BOARD OF ESTIMATE. HE WILL RECOMMEND THAT THE EXPENSES OF COMMISSIONERS m-) CUT DOWN. Corporation Counsel Rives has decided to recommend to the courts that the expenses of the Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment be cut down in the future, and that the commissioners be paid only for such meetings as the stenographic reports show to have been held. The commissioners are appointed by the Supreme Court on the recommendation of the Corporation Counsel. Usually there are three, and often their expenses have been a large percentage of the cost of the entire proceeding.

The carrying out of this recommendation will do away with the holding- of executive sessions and charging lor them at the rate of $10 for each commissioner. Mr. Rives yesterday referred to a case of a proceeding instituted in 1897 to acquire seventy parcels of land, and the commission began operations on January of the following year, and up to December, 1501. were employed 1.201 days, and their amounted to $12,010 for each commissioner, or a total of $36,030. In four years and live months they reported on sixty-two parcels, or a little over one a month, whose aggregate value was $213,063 50.

They now ask for costs, counsel and commissioners' fees amounting to which is about 20 per cent of the value. A DEGREE FOR JOHN W. ALEXANDER. The degree of master of arts was conferred yesterday on John W. Alexander, th" artist, by Princeton University.

The presentation was made by Professor Andrew F. West, who referred to Mr. Alexander in high terms of. praise. SHUT UP FOR O'REILLY.

NEW CAPTAIN HAS PARK ROW POOLROOMS SCARED-HE WILL WATCH DE LACEY ESPECIALLY. Police Captain OReiily said at the police station in Oak-st. yesterday that he wanted to thank the newspapers for aiding him in closing up the poolrooms and dens of vice in hl3 precinct. "The newspapers have got everybody scared," said, "and most of the places I have to look after have closed up. This is not any spasmodic reform wave, and I mean to see that the poolrooms, policy shops and disorderly houses are not allowed to open up.

I went throuKh Cherry. Roosevelt, James. Oliver and ether streets last night, but 1 found tables piled up and chairs turned toward the wall Occupants of th- places were very scarce, and I suppose that those in charge have gone on vacations and discharged the women in their employ. Perhaps they are taking their vacations a month earlier than they had anticipated. Wherever we found anything wrong it was only necessary to ask the proprietors to close up and they cheerfully complied with the request.

I don't know how many places of this there are in my district, but I do know that there are at the present time very few violations of the law." Captain O'Reilly askerl a policeman whose post was on Park Row if ho knew Peter De Lacey. "No, I never saw him." was the reply. The captain called Roundsman Ahearn and said: "Roundsman, take this officer and introduce him to De Lacey, and you tell De Lacey to ko and earn an honest living. He won't do business while I am here." De Lacey paid yesterday that he had quit poolselling in Park Row, nut because he was afraid of Captain O'Reiliy. but because he had dt-cided to go out wf the business anyhow.

He declared that he would knock Captain O'Reilly down If the captain dared to tell him to his fact- that he had ever made a dishonest ilollar. De place and nrar Park Row were closed yesterday. Captain O'Reilly said. "De Lacey is worked up over the disagreeable notoriety that he has obtained by the frequent allusions to his place. A close watch will be kept od him, Patrolman Hollman having received special instructions to tab on his operations.

Park Row seems to be the of operations of this class af vice, and every patrolman along the thoroughfare has been instructed to keep the places closed and allow no flavors to any one. These instructions are not mere formalities. It is not my idea to raid any of these Joints. I merely intend to sve that they are kept closed. I have outlined my policy.

and it will be carried out to the letter aa long as I am in command." PARTRIDGE SAYS HE DID IT ALL. DENIES THAT MAYOR HAD A HAND IN THOMPSONS LAMENT. Police Commissioner Partridge said yesterday that there had been no friction between Mayor Low and himself regarding the "shake up" of Inspectors and captains. "I made all the transfers," he "without any The Commissioner yesterday transferred Captain O'Reilly's wardmen from Brooklyn to station in Oak-st. Ho said he had every confidence in Captain O'Reilly.

Inspector Thompson, who was transferred to Queens, continued to lament because he had been classed as Devery man. "I enn't get over ii." he said, "their linking my name with Devery's. It makes me sore. Pay, I was a policeman before Devery was. and I am a policeman yet and he is not.

Thn force was well rid of him. lie was my SBjSMy while he Was on top, and he and I worked at cross purposes lots of times." Discussing politics politicians, the inspector emitted this statement: "I don't Kive a v. whether a man is a Democrat or a Republican. You always know where he if he is either, but you can never tell when a fuslonist stands." Inspector Murphy, who was transferred from Queens to Inspector Thompson's former district, in Manhattan. Fathered his captains around him yesterday morning and told them what he expected from them.

He said: "I don't want any poolrooms, policy shops or nrr other ilives In this district. Keep the in such a way that I won't be rc-eivine complaints from citizens. 1 shall Judge a deal of character of your work by the complaints that reach me over your SAYS POLICEMAN TOLD HER TO ROR. HE IS INDICTED AND ARRESTED-COLORED WOMAN HIS ACCUSER. George F.

Cam, patrolman attached to the Mercer-st. station, was arrested at his home while in bed yesterday on a bench warrant, charging him with larceny In the first degree. He was arraigned before Justice Foster, in Part 11. General Sessions, and held in $1,500 bail. Ills lawyer wanted him paroled, but District Attorney Jerome opposed such action A colored woman, Ixjuise.

Gibson, charges that night she met Cain, who told her to rob a man In the Knickerbocker Hotel, Third and Macdougal sts. In an affidavit the woman says she robbed the man. who was a colored sailor, of $tU. sailor discovered the robbery and asked Cain to arrest the woman. This, the affidavit says, Can refused to do.

Then the sailor went to the police station and told his story, and a roundsman returned With him to the hotel and told Cain to make the arrest, which iv- then did. The woman was tried before Justice Newburfrer. found guilty and sentenced to one years' imprisonment. In her affidavit the woman charges that between the time the sailor left the hotel to go to the station and his return Cain made her give him the $63. The case came to the attention of District Attorney Jerome, who persuaded Judge Nowburger to revoke the sentence.

Then she was placed In the Tombs, where she has since remained. The rase was laid before the grand jury yesterday and the policeman was Indicted. Cain denies woman's charge, ami says he doesn't know her. except that she has been on his post once or twice and he had driven her away. He says that it is a spite charge.

LEHIGII VALLEY ROAD'S QUICK SERVICE. Tho Lehigh Valley Railroad will materially quicken the time i the New-York-Wilkesbarre Express on June 15. Westbound train will leave New-York at 4:10 p. arriving in Wllkesbarre at p. connecting with train for Bcranton.

Eastbound train will leave Wllkesbarre at a. with connection from Scran ton, arriving in New-York at 1:13 p. m. These trains, in addition to the other regular service operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, will afford unusual facilities for passengers between New-York and ilkesbarre und Intermediate points. jjfikmfa (ffvrz.

Store Closes Daily at 5 P. Superb Collection of Foulard VIENNA DRESSES AT $50 SIXTY-OXE exquisite Imported Summer dresses, of beautiful Foulard Silks, made in Vienna, and copied from model dresses made by such famous Paris as Flavet, Come. Armand, and others. The patterns and colorings of the Foulards are most original and the styles are exclusive, with no two alike. They include some of the most charmina: Summer gowns shown in York this season.

Prices were $60 to Today chOOSe for 550. All of the remaining Paris Model Presses brought over in March are now marked at just former prices. Second floor, Broadwaj. JOHN WANAMAKER, Formerly A. T.

Stewart Broadway. Fourth Oth an 1 10th Sta NEW- JERSEY NEWS, BANK ORGANIZA TIOX BEGIXS DIRECTORS OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL. OF NEWARK. RETIRE. Preliminary steps in the organization the new Union National Bank.

of. Newark, which a consolidation of the German National and Second National banks and taken yesterday, when eight of the thirteen' directors of the German Bank retired at a meeting of the stockholders, and eight new men. who will be directors in the Union National Bank, were elected. The new directors are John F. Dryden, Forrest F.

Dryden, Lesli. D. "Ward, Edgar B. Ward, William. Scheerer! Gottfried Krueger, Ebenezer C.

Hay amd Chris' tian W. Stengel. The five old directors ara Franklin Conklin, Uzal H. McCarter. Julius x.

Lebkuecher. Bernard Strauss and Herbert Gleason. The stockholders voted to increase capital from $200,000 to which will be the capital of the Union National Bank, the name of which the German will take this week. John F. Dryden is United States Senator from New-Jersey, and president of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Leslie Ward is vice-president.

Edgar B. Ward counsel and Forrest F. Dryden secretary of the sane company. Uzal H. McCarter is president of the Fidelity Trust Company, Franklin Conklin is president of the Germen Bank.

Gottfried Krueger is president of the State Banking Company. William Scheerer. vice-president of that institution, will be president of the Union National Bank. The stockholders of the Second National Bank voted yesterday to go into liquidation, and to move the bank to the German Bank Building next Saturday. The State Banking Company will soon go into liquidation also.

The German Savings Bank, of which Gottfried Kruejer is president, has bought the building of the Eecon.l National Bank, and will move to it next week. The German-American Insurance Company v.i.i move to the building also to do its New-Jersey business. President Knauae or the National Bank denied yesterday that the institution was included in the reported combination of banks and trust concerns said to be organising in New-York. FALLIXG WALL CATCHES TWO. ONE WAS PROBABLY FATALLY HURT-PAR? OF PATER3ON FIRE RUINS.

Paterson, June One man was probably fatally injured and another badly hurt this morning by the falling of a wall in the district that was swept by the great fire. The accident happened at the site of the James A. Ball building, at No. IMS which was almost entirely destroyed by fire, only a part of the walls remaining. One of the walls fell this rr.onun* while a gang of Italians was Ting to pull out an iron girder from it.

Frank Joy. an Italian laborer, forty years old. of had legs broken and also received internal injuries He win probably die. Frank Tuttschie. seventeen years old, of No.

Passaic-st wa3 hurt about the head and body. He will recover. Both are in the General Hospital. There was a rumor that four men wen caught by the wall. There was some excitement for a time, but a search of the ruins failed to reveal any bodies, and the foreman of the laborers said that all his men were accounted for The foreman said that the Empire Hotel Company, of New-York, was taking away all the eld iron about the ruins of the building, and that his men were engaged by company pull out the The attached a rope to a girder and wen trying to loosen it when the wall suddenly down with a crash, burying under it Joy and Tuttschie.

The latter was a water boy, and was looking at the men working when caught. Their companions lost no time in din men out of the and they were taken in ambulances to the General Hospital. STOP STIT TO SAVE EXPENSE. "LKISCHMANN KST.VTE WILL NOW BE DIVIDED BY COURTS OF THIS STATE. The division of Flelschmann estate and business, valued at KO.OOO.'XX).

will now be made by courts of this State, the suit, in the New-J-rser Chancery Court at Newark having beer, withdrawn yesterday. The suit was brought by Julius Fltischmar.n. Mayor of Cincinnati, son of "hartal bmann, who. with Maximilian Fletschraarn. founded the yeast business which bears their name.

The defendants were M. eldest son and heir of Maximilian; his mother, his brother Charles and three sisters. The sul: involved property at Trenton and Paterson. originally worth poo.tiOO. but now valued at rer.ts and values having increased during eleven years litigation.

Allan Strong, counsel lor defendants. told Vice-Chancellor Pitney yesterday that the withdrawn to avoid expensive litigation. his clients practically let the complainant win the suit by default. r.tv EXFORrr BARMAID ORDINANCE. lIOI3OKEN AUTHORITIES HAVH SALOONKEEPER 3 LICENSE KKVOsVKR, The Hoboken authorities were in high glee yesterday over the outcome of the application for reyoking of the license of Henry Ritter.

a of No. 55 that city For the authorities it meant that the barmaid ordinance could te enforced This evil has flourished for yean in Hoboken and last year an effort was to breaK it up Ritter was twice convicted, and th revoking of "his license was sought. Since then the has not been strictly enforced, as the police wisaea to see whether it was worth while. it they coma not obtain the revocation of a man's license Ii waa useless to convict him of a petty offer Yesterday in the county court the license was recalled. THE CHEDDAR CAVES.

From The London Chronicle. R. Gough, cf Cheddar. In Somerset, death has been announced, was the cf many of Cheddars moat famous caves. In ISS a large cave was found, and the discovery whs soon followed by several others, Mr.

Gough opened up some placed doors at the entrances, lit then up oy means of gas and afterward by electricity, advertised them widely, ami soon made them a source interest to the and himself. The caves noted for the fine stalactites and stalagmites, resembling folds of drapery. This district, noted for Its caves and dens, has been a happy hunting ground for paleontologists, for it has plentiful remains of the cave lion, the mamrpotX woolly rhinoceros, cave bear, wolf and Irish els..