New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 2

Tthlrh abwrt twelve -vent to the'eovrrument leparnneius. He agrecti to furnish the of the rteaijrs to whom the other coal -was sold, if principals wore willing A wholesale drnler t- had tons Reading The resumption of mining to small local i -i HU a ion. but that be had no AKrooroent ss to they were charpe. All the dealers testing that prices were from a ton ujt for anthracite, and all agreed that much more coal was com- hero than in previous MM EXPECT ANOTHER RISE IN PRICE. Several Conferences Here To-day on the Situation.

This is to be day for the coal In the morning Mayor will have a conference with the representatives of the coal carrying roads. Besides, the prominent interests in coal operating will confer to future action In regard la the shipments and sale of coal in New-York. A representative of one of the coal roads said yesterday that the action of the operators would be determined by what took place at the conference with Mayor Law in the morning. In the evening, it said, there is to be an in- i formal meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria of the represema tives of the coal roads. result of to- night's meeting will, accord- ing to information given by one of the men who has born in close touch with the recent developments in tho coal trade, be that $5 ton coal will become rarity in New-York.

This informant continued: It is probable that the quoted price of a ton will not bo advanced, but I do not expect that it ran be bought by the dealers. It v. ill be -old at $5 but it will W. sold to some one who ill haree us more. There now practically Ual bough- here at for the regular trade, though I understand that the ctantaWe institutions are still being supplied at that price.

It la still uncertain who will attend the conference to which Mayor Low last Saturday invited the presents of the coal carrying roads. It announced yesterday at the Mayors that the heads of the Erie. Pennsylvania Lacka wanna railroads had assured the Mayor That accredited representatives nrtl be present. Present Olyphant, of the Delaware and Hudson Company, said he might cold weather caused no rise in prices either for the dealer or for the Btm independent coal "as ton at tidewater. of me hip companies was quoted at to SS have i.vi.c to a ton.

subjert to further "Si. of the members of the firm said yesterday Jn'oxolanation of this course: book for what the coal costs us SSWiSffiSi heavy snows in the coal iiiiisl of anthracite. THE POOR PAY MORE. I There Is a Large Increase in Use of Oil as Fuel. prices lor coal ana wood, an ample supply of for h-i lare increase ofl for heating and cooking are reported by Edward T.

Dcvine. general secretary of the (ration Society. out Mr. if, a out ye-trrday Mr "Dexine prtid in part: Oil -K-hi'-h a few months ago -was selling for eight nadolneeenta gallon, and only two weeks ago for 11 rent- iT now retailing at prices ranging from eVntVW. tl.o lower East Side to 15 cents in some Ms In nnan bundles uSSenmX was three for five cents.

irocer- they are row paying froni tl to a hundred as apamst $1 20 a hundred a month ap-: also tbat thty havt- great difficulty in Joining it. Loose kindling wood now sells for i a barrel, instead of to cents a barrel as i and mostly sold by the small Ital- ian who retail it for from 12 to IS cents paiL according to size of pail and part of the Htv. and at to 45 cents a bushel. There are a few concerns selling coal directly to the. roor in small quantities, among which is Alfred Barber's Son.

No. 377 Water-sf-. who now sells it at 13 for a pail weighing about 30 to 33 The average pail sold by pedler? and small grocers If 16 to 18 pounds. The Salvation Army, at their emergency fuel depot, in Chatham Square, also coal, tor 10 cents a of about 26 pounds. Mr.

Devine said that gas stoves for cooking jjiigbt be purchased at from 60 cents to $123. and lor heating at about $125. Mr. calls attention to the successful experiments of the Salvation in using porous bricks and asbestos rolls foaliM with oil. in -ordinary stoves.

Attention called to the statement issued by VrotesEor Charier L. Norton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, giving the heat units of various kinds of fuel obtainable for one cent, as follows: ft; a Ma IVood. JlO a cord 12 a gallon tit a ton H'wl (1 a thousand feet 6.500 IN BED BECAUSE SHE HAD NO COAL. West Side "Men, Women and Children Suffer from Cold. Among the sufferers the West Side last night the family of Michael at No.

241 TVeSi Sisty-slxth-st. On the ground floor there ere Killarney. mho is paralyzed, and six children. la three small rooms. The wife -was out working.

Tfcere was no coal in the house, and only a few of -wood in a stove, which would soon burn out. "Well have to go to bed when they burn up." Killamey. Alice Brannigan. at No. 223 West Slxty- I vat found sitting in a fireless room, with a pick husband not out of bed in five weeks, and T.ith a dispossess notice in her pocket which is dated Thursday.

They have two rooms. Mrs. Urt.Jinigan said she been able to buy no coal Sor weeks. Mrs. Esther Bond, seventy-five years.

old. was -uiifl at No. 245 West in bed. because she could not keep warm in her room without coal. Her husband, eighty-one years old, died two weeks ago.

and she has no one with her. She son. in has nine children has hard time getting along and can't help and my two daughters are widows, and have a hard enough time getting aloga; themselves without helping me. My sot's been out of work six weeks." The woman Is old and weakened that she hardly weighs sixty pounds. John Welsh, who has been sick in bed since Janirarj" 1.

at home at No. Ml Weet with four children. Home chips some of the children baa found wen- burning in a stove. There no coal. The children were huddled aootit the Don't Travel- Telephone.

Traveling it slew gad uncertain. Telephoning is quick and efficient. LOW RATES. For full information, call the Contract Department, 6040 28th, 0020 HEW YORK O. St.

W. 1 Mtt: St. W. BI4C. ISOthSu stove.

The mother was out. and Welsh said she might he- able to find some con! and bring It in with her. "UNION RESTRICTS PRODUCTION. Witnesses Tell Strike Commission They Were Persecuted for Mining Too Much Coal. Philadelphia.

Jan. proceedings before the Strike Commission to-day consisted principally of the calling of witnesses by the Delaware and Hudson Company to -11 of the conditions in and about collieries and to refute testimony presented against the company when the minors' side was being heard. In the absence of Chairman Cray, General 'Wilson apaln presided. The Delaware and Hudson Company expects to end Its case to-morrow, when the Eric Company, which controls the Hillside Coal and Iron Company and the Pennsylvania Coal Company, will open. The first witness to-day was AM I.

Culver, of New-York, controller nt Delaware and Hudson Company. On by C. B. Harrow, counsel for the Mr. Culver that the Delaware and Hudson Company was soiling coal to middlemen at tidewater at SO a ton for prepared sizes.

He did not know what prices the middlemen were receiving: from the -public beyond what ho read in the dally papers His examination closed with the imigiKliia that tbe general sales agent of the company. Thomas F. Torrcy. of New-York, should tell the commission what he knew of this feature of the coal trade, and a dispatch was sent to Mr. Torrey, asking him to come here as soon convenient.

George Anderson, of ranton. a clerk in the coal department of. the company, presented numerous statistics. One of the statements showed that 2.388 of the company's 13.2T.8 employes have been worklnr in or about the mines from ton to sixty year? He produced data showing the workings of the company's relief fund, with which more than 3.000 of the employes are connected. The workers pay to th" fund one day's pay each year, the company contributing an equal amount.

Men who are injured receive $6 a week for three months, and in case of death their heirs receive for funeral expenses. The widows receive $3 a week for one year and a a week for one year for each child less than twelve years old. The company fixed $218 as the amount a contract miner should contribute as a day's pay. Another statement offered by the witness showed that since the strike ended in the latter part of October the twenty-eight collieries lout 110 days reducing the coal production of the company Thomas R. Thomas, an outside foreman for the company told of the difficulty he had in inducing the men to mine more coal.

Ho "produced a i.ai alleged to have been drawn up by Local union OS which said that any man loading more oars in headings than were loaded in the be expelled from the union. Two men, lie violated this alleged rule of the union, and their tools were destroyed and house of one was blown up with dynamite as a result of not restricting their daily output. The miners reterrea to Michael M-Hale and Harry Gilbert, orrobo; rated the testimony of Mr. Thomas. Wlluam H.

of Nurcmbure. the newly elected president of District No. 7 of the miners union, against whom it was testified last week that he said non-union men should have their throats cut or should receive a "good thumpir.c' was called by the miners. He denied the charges absolutely, and several witnesses corrobora his statements. Dettrey occasion to say while on the stand that his family was annoyed and hi? house stoned by enemies the union while whs away from home on business connected witn the union.

David Davis, the H. T. Hughes, fort-man of the Plymouth No. a Colliery, arid Frederick Kadman, foreman of Plymouth No. 3.

all testified that sine- me strike of the miners and laborers will not load as many cars is they did prior to that strike. The men were willing, but were afraid of expulsion from the union. Mr. Badmau told of the difficulties no had filling a place where a union man had been discharged. He said that it was the rule of the union that no union man should take another's place.

All the foremen said that the was able to furnish the men with enough cars to do a day 3 work. GAS COMPANY MAY SHUT DOWN. Topeka. Jan. The fuel situation grows more alarming in Topeka.

Two of the largest coal companies in the city report that they have not a pound of coal on hand, and do not know when they will be able to get any. Packing houses and other concerns will have to close in two days unless the situation Is relieved. The local gas company may have to close this week, as the cannot secure coal to make gas. The street railway company has only a small supply of coal on hand. Other Kansas towns report practically the same situation.

The weather Is clear and cold, and much suffering has resulted. THE CHICAGO INVESTIGATION. Chicago, Jan. The special grand jury called to investigate the conditions responsible for the coal famine continued to-day to hear evidence which the Attorney General and the State's Attor- I ney have secured against the coal operators and big dealers. Twenty-five coal men, some the beads of wholesale firms and others chiefs in the councils of corporations operating mines, presented themselves at the Criminal Court Building: in answer to summonses to tell -what they may know of the I "ring," which, the Illinois Associa; tion Is responsible for fuel conditions.

Under State's Attorney Dineen's direction, they are being asked to explain the alms and objects of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association and why coal cars stored on railroad tracks Just outside the city limits are not being ordered into the city and the coal marketed. It is said that the investigators have, discovered whole trains of coal cars and placarded with Instructions to freight crews to hold the consignments Indefinitely, and that hundreds of tons of coal have been taken from the cars' and heaped up along: the tracks. One of the first acts of the grand jury was to ask that subpoenas be Issued for Don R. Patterson and W. R.

Rhodes, of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. Subpoenas are also out for other railway officials. Evidence is to have been secured tending to prove that the operations of the alleged conspiring dealers are planned in secret quarters in a downtown office building, and that daily conferences were held until the present investigation began. The manager of the building is said to be a prospective witness, who. It is believed, will give the jurors information of great value.

STEEL MILLS OBLIGED TO CLOSE. Baltimore. Jan. The two rail mills of the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow's Point were dosed to-day on account of lack of cool, temporarily throwing several hundred hands out of work. COAL CARS SUFFER IN TRANSIT.

Hoosick Falls, X. Jan. The coal situation here has reached a serious stage, and there is much suffering In consequence. The only way to get coal Is to rob cars consigned to New-England points. Every night people equipped with bags, baskets and barrels board the slow moving freights and supply themselves.

One dealer gave out two tons of buck-wheat coal held for his personal use because of absolute necessity, and Is burning wood in his heater. COAL HERE FOR BROOKLYN POOR. The consignment of coal for the relief of the poor In Brooklyn from the Reading Railroad Company arrived yesterday. It was for Nelson Son. and comprised two hundred tons, to be distributed at 10 cents a pall of 25 pounds, or 40 cents a bushel of 100 pounds.

It will be put on sale this morning at the yards. No. 490 Degraw-st. DELIVERS COAL TO THE POOR. BY TET.EGHATH TO THE TRIE! Whltehouse.

N. Jan. Through the generosity of Hunterdon County's blind philanthropist. Ralph Voorhees. of Clinton, the poor and needy families of that town and its vicinity have received a ton of coal each, delivered at their homes free of expense.

Mr. Voorhees Is well known because of the munificent gifts he has made to different colleges, but he does not forget worthy charities in hie home town. LITTLE COAL AT NAVY YARD, There a scarcity of coal at the Navy Yard. If more fuel does not arrive this week some of the departments will have to suspend operations. The only coal In the yard is owned by the Equipment Department, which is dividing It In email lots among the other departments, but it will not last long.

STOLE COAL FOR CHILDREN'S SAKE. Joseph Soccet Michael Slcco were sentenced to the Whits Plains Jail for ten days, for stealing two bags of coal from a car belonging to the Pelnara Coal Company yesterday. When arrested by Policeman Mark the prisoners said they- 1 stole the coal to prevent their children from freezing. On aecmint of the large number of poor Italians who have been stealing coal from cars, on the Harlem Railroad at White Plains Junction, th" company pent detectives to White Plains to watch the ears. Chief of Police Carpenter had three coal before Judge StAff ord yesterday, and he forced to fine thorn each 15 for theft, because the corporation pressed the charge.

NEW- DAILY TKIBUNE. TUESDAY. JANUARY 13, 1903. DOWN GOES THEMERCUR Alt Over the Country the Cold Wave Is Felt. The cold weather that set in on Sunday increased in intensity yesterday all over the country, and this, combined with the almost universal lack of fuel, caused great suffering in many places.

In the West this was especially true, many cities reporting: that they had no coal, and that none was obtained, in spite of determined efforts on the part of both the city officials and citizens' commissions. In Chicago the situation is such that a special grand Jury has been called to investigate an alleged conspiracy among: the coal dealers and railroad officials, it being charged that, to force up prices, trains loaded with coal are sidetracked without the city limits, the coal dumped beside the tracks and the care returned to the mines for more coal. In this State. ais in the West, the mercury dropped many degrees. Retting close to the zero mark in some places.

In the northern part of the State snow accompanied the cold wave. but in most localities there was no storm, only a biting wind. Trains were frequently delayed many hours. This was also true west of New- York, notably in the Middle Western States, where engineers, running into stations far behind their schedules, reported that because of the cold they had been unable to get, up steam to keep their engines up to the time set. The weather officials here predicted yesterday afternoon that last night would be the coldest experienced so far this winter, and those who hud to be out agreed that no mistake was made.

A sharp wind made the cold bite in, and hurried late persons behind closed doors and battened windows with all possible speed. INTENSE COLD IN THE WEST. Mercury Falls Below Zero in Many States- Lack of Fuel Causes Much Suffering. Detroit. Jan.

Following on the heels of the most severe snowstorm of the season yesterday came the coldest night of the winter in this city. This morning the mercury registered 5 degrees below zero. The zero temperature was general over the lower peninsula below Alpena, with the exception of a section close to the shore of Lake Michigan, near Grand Haven. Chicago. Jan.

The temperature in this and vicinity was 2 degrees below zero this morning, a rise of 4 degrees since last midnight. Much suffering among the poor is reported, and Mayor Harrison has taken steps to provide a fund for their relief. The coal famine renders the situation difficult. Interurban transportation was hampered by cold and snow. Milwaukee, WUI, Jan.

Five degrees below zero was the temperature record for Milwaukee to-day. The Weather Bureau predicts that it will be warmer to-morrow. According to reports from various parts of the State, zero weather is general. Omaha, Jan. Four degreeiTbelow zero was registered at the weather bureau this morning, with indications that there would be little relief before to-morrow.

The extreme cold covers Nebraska, Western lowa and South Dakota. At Valentine. the mercury went to 0 degrees below zero. Indianapolis, Jan. The record for the winter was broken last night, the mercury registering 2 degrees below zero.

There is much suffering from lack of fuel. Mayor Bookwalter announced last night that the finance committee of the council would take up at once the proposition to have the city buy coal and sell it in small quantities at wholesale rates. Coal will be given free to the poor. Columbus, Ohio. Jan.

The blizzard of Sunday was followed by intense cold to-day, the temperature here being 3 degrees below zero. The wind is blowing forty' to forty-six miles an hour all over the State, causing much suffering. GOES ASHORE NEAR ATLANTIC CITY. Three Masted Schooner in Banger of Breaking Up. lIUMtfl TO THK TRIBUNE.

1 Atlantic City. X. Jan. Driven before a heavy gale, the three masted schooner Harold B. Cousins, carying a cargo of lumber from Pensacola to Boston, struck on the bar Townsend's Inlet this morning and is likely to be wrecked by the heavy seas, which arc pounding her.

The rudder has been displaced by the pounding on the bar and she is leaking badly. The crew is sticking to the vessel, and. assisted by the life saving crew from Townsend's Inlet station, is trying to keep her clear of water until the next high tide. The New- York agents were at once informed of the predicament of the vessel, and wrecking tugs will be sent to her assistance. In the mean time, the lifeboats are lying oit near to the Cousens to take off the crew should her position become dangerous.

The Cousens is of 379 tons, 139 feet lons, and draw? IX feet of water. Her owners are Cousens Bratt. of Boston, where she. was built In 1882. The United States revenue cutter Onondaga, commanded by Captain Ross, arlved this evening, and will stand by the schooner to-night.

To-morrow morning the cutter will run a hawser to the Cousens and attempt to pull her off if the weather is favorable. PERISH IN THE BLIZZARD. Two Nova Scotia Children Lost in the Storm on Saturday. Halifax. N.

Jan. 12 Caught in the blizzard which swept over Nova, Scotia Saturday two children named King, of Port Felix, Guysboro County, died from exposure. They were brother and sister aged ten and twelve They had been visiting triends at Queensport, five miles distant. On Saturday morning they started to walk home, accompanied by a young man named Jameson. They hal reached the barrens, about midway between the two places, when the storm overtook them.

Jameson endeavored to persuade the children to return, but they were panic stricken and struggled home-ward. In a short time they lost their way ana cried piteously with fright and extreme cold jameson made an heroic effort to save them. He wraoped them in his overcoat and gave them his mittens. He walked through the snowdrifts carrying first one and then the other until all three were exhausted. Jameson then managed to kindle a fire, and tried to persuade the children to remain by it until he could secure, help from the nearest hcuwt, but they would not stay, and again they started to crawl through the drifts.

Finally the boy managed to reach the Port Felix Road and gave the alarm. A searching party went over the barrens and found the little girl dead in a snowdrift with Jameson clasping: her in his arms The latter was unconscious, and would soon have beer dead. The boy died of exhaustion the game evening. Alexander McMaster. aged fifty, of Queensville River, perished in the same storm within half a mile of hla house.

SNOW AND COLD IN THE STATE. Saratoga. N. Jan. Sunday's heavy rnowstorm was followed last night and to-day by a driving wind, causing drifts, which have delayed northbound trains.

Port Henry. N. Jan. a result of yesterday's fall of snow and last night's rule In the Adiroudacks, all trains are running behind time. Schenectady.

N. Jan. High winds, approaching gale, prevail to-day, and traffic on interurban trolley lines has been impeded somewhat. Farmer. N.

Jan. A heavy wind, following the snowstorm of yesterday through the lake country formed immense drifts. The thermometer today registers 10 above. zero. Buffalo.

Jan. The rnawstorni which began early yesterday morning continued last night, and to-day la accompanied by a brisk westerly wind. All mail trains are reported from two to threo hours late. Fonda, N. Jan.

A terrific blizzard raged in tin Mohawk Valley yesterday and last night. Mm Central Railroad is badly happed. The section crews were working all night. Michael Smith, of this village, foreman of the at Johnsville. was killed to-day at that place.

In gettlne out of the way of an castbound train ho stepped in front or the Pa JOc Express, westbound, and his body was thrown forty feet. He leaves a wife and ten children. MINISTER'S SON FROZEN TO DEATH. wiMrn TUB Flrinington. N.

Jan. Gilbert Decker, son of the Rev. S. D. Decker, pastor of the Quakertown Methodist Kpiscopal Church, was frozen to death while walking from Clinton to Quakertown.

a distance of eight miles. He left Clinton on Saturday evening, and was found in an unconscious condition by a churchgoer one mile from rtown yesterday morning. He was removed to his home. where he died a few minutes afterward. He was about forty-five years old and unmarried.

FOREIGN STEAMER FOR RICHMOND. itr TKi.K<;n.\pu to -run Newport News, Jnn. The Norwegian steamship Radttn. Car-tain Chrtstenscn. passed here for Richmond, with scrap iron from Cuba Thl-i is the first foreign steamer to pass here for Richmond in at least twenty years.

THE SOUTH ALSO FEELS THE DROP. T.ouis\;'U<>. Jan. The coldest weather of the winter prevailed in many parts of th' South, but little suffering has been reported as the supply of fuel is generally sufficient to meet the demands. Reports show the following minimum temperatures: Atlanta.

21; Birmingham. 21; Montgomery. 26; Vicksburg. 24; Memphis. 18; Nashville, 16- Chattanooga.

20: Knoxville. 13; Little Rock. lfi. Three degrees above zero was the lowest temperature here to-dai'. FIVE MASTED SCHOONER ASHORE.

In the northwest gale that blew at Staten Island on Sunday, the big Bye mastea schooner Helen W. Martin, which was lying la the Sound, off Perth Amboy. dragged her anchor and went ashore just above Wards Point, which is at the extreme lower end of Staten Island. The wind at the time was blowing about sixty miles an hour, coming in squalls and kicking ud a high sea in tht- Bay. The Martin hails from Bath, Me.

bhe was WiiitinK to load a cargo of coal. She is high and dry. and it will probably be a difficult matter to float her. ABENDROTH EMPLOYES ON STRIKE. Three hundred men employed at tiie "VV.

B. Abcndroth foundry, in Mount Vernon. wont on a strike yesterday. The firm wanted the men to make a special pattern for $3. but they demanded When they went in yesterday and found the pattern on thr floor four of the moulders refused to work for the price offered by the firm, and the others Joined them.

The strike thrown a large number of men not com erned in the strike out uf work. NEW'YORK CENTRAL TRAINS LATE. Owing to the storm raging throughout the Middle East, many of the New- York Central train? were late last night. Officials said they were "frtormbcund." The Southwestern limited at 10 o'clock was hours and twenty nsinutes behind her schedule; the Chicago Limited, at the sami- hour, was reported to be six and one-half hours late, and the Boston Express, due here at 11 o'clock, was fcrty-flve ratnutea back of schedule ttme. PREDICTED COLDEST NIGHT OF YEAR.

The promised cold wave reached the city yesterday, and as early aa 6 o'clock in the morning began to drop. By 11 o'clock last night the thermometer had gone down thirteen and the officials of the local Weather Bureau said it would probably be the coldest night of the yenr. The City LoOginjf House was filled early last night, and the cheaper lodging houses along Park Row dtri the Bowery soon had all their occupied. At 'i a. m.

the temperature Stood at 21 uegrees; threo hours later it had dropped to 20: at noon it. remained at but at 4 o'clock In the afternoon had gone down one decree. Five clock another drop of one degree, another at 6 clock, two more by seven, still two more by 8 o'clock, and at 11 last "night the mercury registered 11 This record was given out al the Weathvr Bureau. Many of the street thermometers, however, registered much lower than that. One in Broadway, near Fulton-st, registered 3 Oeereep fit 11 oVlock.

The forecast is for continued cold to-day, with a slowly rising temperature ton The' high winds drove the water out of Pelham Bay to such an extent that the low tide watermark was some 200 feet further out than customary condition made City Island practlcally a peninsula last night. In the later afternoon and evening the mud between Pelham Bay Park and City Island froze so mat persons could walk across where usually there is a shallow depth of This made Uw City Island bridge unnecessary, and marry walked across the frozen mud. SAY CHURCH GIRL IS SHAMMING. She Admits Knowing Police, and Doctors Declare She Is Feigning Amnesia. Since her admission to th" New-York Infirmary Psychopathic Hospital" on Friday suspicions have been steadily paining ground that the.

case of Madeline Church, as she style? herself, Is not one of true amnesia. These suspicions reached a head last night when under the influence of a stimulant Madeline acknowledged an acquaintance with and deep aversion for the Scranton (Perm.) police, especially Scranton Chief of Police, also admitted her remembrance of certain names addresses in Scranton. adding: "But I don want to tell you who they are. I don want to go back. I don't want to go back.

she said re- There 5 'seems mall room. for doubt the doctors say that Madeline Church or Clark is a 'fake "You played a good game." Dr. Boris Lldis one of the three psvehopathtsts attending her, observed last night. '-Yes. didn't was the naive rejoinder.

As to the girl's motive for her simulated amnesia there is as yet little hut speculation. -'it fs possible" said Dr. Lldis last night to a Tribune reporter, "that when found wandering by the policeman at 3 o'clock in the morning the girl was actually suffering from amnesia, caused possibly by 'knockout She merely simulated a continuance of her temporary amnesia either from motives of innate deceit, from the wish to secure a. home gratis, or with a view to fleeing ce mm oo a 3 Jersey City. called at the City Lodging House several days ago and said she positively identified the girl as Lulu Schneider a servant who had been in her employ up to three months ago.

when she disappeared. LUMBER YARDS IN YONKERS AFIRE. Firemen Work Hard to Save the Otis Elevator Works. A fire started early this mornins in the lumber district of Yonkers, and within an hour one of the most spectacular firee in the history of the city was burning fiercely. At last reports the.

fire was burning thq big yards of E. N. Yerkes Co. and of E. L-.

Thomas in Bashford-st. The. yards cover many acres and are piled high with stacks of reasoned lumber. These burned brightly, sending great tongues of flame high into the air and lighting up the entire city. There were few dwellings anywhere near.

What ther- arc are mostly tenantless. as the occupants were required to move from them some time ago. They arc little more than shanties. The firemen did what they could to stop the flames and reduce the. danger of the fire taking hold of the Otis Elevator Works, which lie to tne leeward of the tire a considerable distance beyond.

The Otis works were carefully guarded by the tiremen and by the company's own force of men with hose. TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW TOMBS. The men prisoners in the old Tombu were yesterday transferred to the new building. One man. William Trainor, seventy-four years old.

who is accused of munierinj? his wife and occupied a ceil in "Murderers' Row." was too ill to be transferred. Ho will be moved aa soon as his health will permit it. There were twenty-eight prisoners in the cells of "Murderers' Row." Among them were William Hooper Young and Harry J. Rose. Warden Van Da Carr personally superintended the work of transferring the men.

He wan short a deputy and one or two keepers, owing to sickness, but the. work was soon done. The prisoners were taken to their new cells in small groups, Voting: and Rose going out In one squad. "Murderers Row" In the now Tombs is In the second tier, or Just above the offices of the prison. Sixty-four women prisoners were not transferred.

HOTEL BELLECLAIRE OPENED. Milton RobjM. the proprietor of the new Hotel Bellcclaire, Seventy-seventh-st. and Broadway, gave a formal opening at bis hotel last evening which was attended by a largo number of especially invited guest? The hotel was handsomely decorated. The Hotel Bellealatrc is the latest addition to the constantly swelling list of West Hide apartment hotels.

Ii Is a structure of ten stories, luxuriously furnished, with striking and original decorative effects in several of the public cafe, the Moorish room and the palm garden are decorated with nvich originality. Although primarily as a place of permanent residence, tho will also accommodate transient The apartments are arranged In suites of from onito Jive rooms, each with a private bath, which may be had furnished or unfurnished. ant among those present lant evening were Surrogate Fttafferald. John J. Scannell, Alderman David William O.

Inland. George H. Sweeny. 11. P.

Whlttaker. Simeon Ford. James H. Breslin. Senator Henry J.

Williams, of Virginia: Colonel Theodoro A. Hamilton, Colonel Smith, of Old Guard, and Dr. George H. Cassidy. SWOOPS ON TENDERLOIN.

WALSH ON WARPATH. Five Places Alleged Proprietors Arrested. Acting Inspector Walsh made his first organized move last night against certain disorderly dance and music halls in the Tenderloin, and arrested alleged managers, proprietors and waiters in five notorious places. The arrests were made on warrants issued by Justice Mayer in the Court of Special in the afternoon on evidence gained last December by Detectives K. Hlbbard, Ward and Conley of Inspector Brooks's staff.

The places visited included the Haymarket. the Bohemia, the Cairo, the Alhambra and Kofter Bial's. The visits were made simultaneously. In each case the music or dance hall was surrounded by plain clothes men, and then the warrants were served by Acting Inspector "Walsh and Captain OReilly, who went from place to place until all of the. warrants were served.

greatest excitement prevailed In all of the places but the inmates were assured that raids were not being made, and that after certain warrants had been served they could go as they pleased, or stay if they preferred. All disorderly houses were closed down altogether or "kept dark." The prisoners were taken the "West Thirtieth-st. station and locked up in cells. Inspector Walsh said that he would not accept bail, and that the prisoners would have to be batled out by a magistrate. Soon after 10 o'clock Acting Inspector Walsh, who had been closeted with Captain O'Reilly and a number of plain clothes men.

walked out of the captain's to the drillroom. The men followed, him. He announced to the newspaper men that he was going to take the detectives to Madison Square Garden, where the French ball v.as on, to see that the law was not violated. He spoke to Roundsman who was in plain clothes, and that officer left the station with five detectives. They were followed by Sergeant Sweeney, of the "West Thirtieth-st.

station; Sergeants Cohen and Boyle, of Walsh's staff, and Sergeant Mott. of the West Thirtieth-st. station, each with five detectives. Oillespie and his squad marched to Koster Bial's, at the southwest corner of Twenty-fourth-st. and and surrounded the place.

Sweeney went to the Alhambra, Ko. West Sergeant Cohen to the Cairo, No. 81 West Sergeant Boyle to the. Bohemia, No. fl West and Sergeant Mott to the Haymarket.

Thirtleth-st. and Slxth-ave. The schedule was arranged so that the five squads should reach the rive places simultaneously. In each instance as soon as they arrived the places wre immediately surrounded and every exit closed. Acting Inspector Walsh and Captain O'Reilly, who had the followed closely on the heels of Sergeant Jlott.

Sergeant Mott. on reaching the Haymarket, immediately placed his men so that every was guarded. Then, with one of the men. ha entered the doorway in Sixth-aye. The doortender attempted to stop him.

but he brushed right by and walked into the dance ball. The police! The police! A raid!" came from all partg of the hall. The wildest confusion reigned. Between three hundred and four hundred people were in the place, dancing, sitting al taWes drinking and standing around the room. There was a rush for the doorg, but no one was allowed to escape.

Sergeant Mott jumped up on a table. "I want to announce that we are not making a raid here. Wo havo warrants for the arrest of certain persons, and we are going to serve them. If those persons do not come forward we will search the house. When the warrants have been served you can do as you please, i.ut I would advise you to go home" Order was partially restored, anfi then Acting Inspector Walsh and Captain O'Reilly entered tho hall.

Edward Corey stepped up to Sergeant. Mott and said: ''Do you want me?" Inspector Walsh stepped up and took hold of Corey. "I have a warrant here for your arrest. hargmg you with maintaining a disorderly house." William Graham, the alleged manager, and Stephen Clapper, a waiter, were also arrested. Graham was charged with keeping and maintaining a disorderly house and violating the liquor tax law.

Clapper was charged with violating the liquor tax law. All three were taken to the West Thirtieth-st. station. The same procedure and general excitement prevailed at the other places. Leaving the Haymarket.

Acting Inspector Walsh and Captain O'Reilly visited the Bohemia, in arresting a man who said he was Stephen Joanides, a cashier, of No. 71 East on a warrant charging him with maintaining a disorderly house. At the Cairo they served warrants on Matthew Shea, of No. 34 West charging him with maintaining a disorderly house, and "Jack" Smith, a waiter, of No. 27 chargtU with violating the liquor tax law.

At the Alhambra they served a warrant on James Rocopulos. a cook, of No. 37 West charging him with keeping a disorderly house. The last place visited was Koster Biars, where they served a warrant on George G. Campbell, of No.

l'3O West arid Henry Bittner. a waiter, of No. 329 West whom they charged with keeping a disorderly house. Acting Inspector Walsh said the descent was planned by Inspector Brooks, and if any credit was duo it should be given to him. When Captain O'Reilly took command of the precinct he knew that the evidence had been obtained.

It was said that about an hour before the arrests were made fact leaked out that there was to be "something doing," and that in several of the places they were expecting a visit from Captain O'Reilly. GREEXEA FRENi II HALL Commissioner in Box iviih Brooks and O'Reilly. The Cerclo Frangais de I'llarmonlc made exceptional preparations for its annual ball the Madison Square Garden last night. This ball, known to every cabman, Boubrctte. bartender, prizefighter, man around town and gambler an the "French ball." is an Important incident in the Tenderloin life of New-York.

It has a peculiar flavor that appeals to the regulars and Irregulars of the sporting world. It is heralded as piquant, racy, spectacular, sparkling and vivacious. It la sakl ha peopled with beautiful women, men of wealth and folk of artistic and buoyant spirits. The fact is, it Is frequented by broken down sports and gamblers, women with painted cheeks, bold eyes and bizarre costumes, and by very young men who have not yet been disillusioned. Last night was no exception.

The committee took particular pains to decorate the big Garden with bunting, flowers and flags. Two bands played heroically, alternating through the evening. It was night before the people began to arrive. By 1 a. the big hall was filled, and dancing wan in full swing.

As night wore on tobacco smoke thickened, as did inn speech of present; the air became fetid with the nmell of stale champagne. All efforts at unusual or ribald revelry were aupprtaaad by the police. It was tame affair. Many imagined they were havnw a time. They may that opinion to-day.

The champagne companies, however, profited greatly, and there were the usual toward morning. Police Commissioner Greene. Inspector Brooks Art Galleries OF EDWARD BRANDUS Important Paintings BY Corot, Daubicny, Duprc, Diaz, Jacqur, Ml Rousseau, Trovon AND Portraits of Beautiful Women by the Old Masters nf the Eariv French, English and Dutch Schools 391 Fifth Avenue Between and Sr NEW YORK Paris Galleries: 16 Rue de la Faiv "A Tale of Two Cities' And we're telling it in all our stores. Continued sale of Men's Suits $15 Handsome mixed and plain Cutaways and Sacks, formerly selling 3to Fine goods; best styles. Men's Overcoats.

$15 $20 Reduced from $5 to 10 on each coat Fine Long Stylish garments, including some paddocks. Some satin lined. Furnishings, Hats and Shoes. Smith, Gray Co- Broadway at 31st St. Broadway at Bedford Avc Brooklyn Fulton t.

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FIREPROOF. EXCLUSIVE AND QUIET. Superior appointments and perfect Itestsarant carte and tabto d'hota. Apartments one. two.

or more rooms, with bath, unfurnished, by the year or for short terra. onces Inspection Book and FRANK MEEHAN. Manager. 4.0P« 2Sth. Washington.

P. C. THE JOHN T. DETVIXE WASHINGTON. D.

C. THB snORBHAJi la now open after mom decorations and Uuoucbout JtODKRM IN EVERT DETAIL. and Captain occupied a box at the ball. The Commissioner said he expected on trouble. was there only to see that police did their duty.

L. AND N. INQUIRY TO BEGIN. The Inquiry ordered at the request of the Kmtucky State Railroad Commission into the circum-stances of the acquisition of the Nashville by the Atlantic Coaat Line Railroad Comparry will be begun Thursday In thU city by the Interstate Commission, sitting In the Building. Among those who.

It expected, will testimony in th. course of Inquiry are J- Plerpont Morgan. John W. Auzun Helmont. Baker.

Spencer. I. Waterbury aud arren C. Elliott..