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TESTIFY TO RJOTIXG. Won- Union JPitnesses Tell of Lawless Ads of Strikers. Scranton, Dec. The Strike Commission listened to-day to further testimony on the lawlessness in the anthracite fields during the strike. About a score of witnesses were railed by the attorneys for the non-union men.

They tdli of serious boycotts, brutal attacks by crowds of men, omen and boys, and an attempt to burn the house of a non-union man In most instances the witnesses testified that the alleged offenders were members of the union. The lawyers for the miners objected frequently to the admission of testimony on and sometimes objected becum of the irrelevancy of statements. Chairman Gray said that the commission was not bound by strict rules of evln ree. but asked counsel in examining witnesses to confine themselves, as far as possible, to direct evidence. said that It was difficult, In trying to prove that boycotts existed, to get information on the subject.

The commission wanted to know Mi-heiher reign of terror existed in the anthracite regrion. and 9 could not get that information if the strict rules of evidence were applied. "The coward who will go to the storekeepers." he said, "and tell them not to sell the necessaries of life to a poor woman, usually seeks the ob- Bcurity that the law of evidence throws around him. If a girl is discharged from her position in a store because she rode in' a streetcar in Inclement weather while a streetcar strike was on, the coward who discharged her is coward to refuse to testify." He recognized, he said, why some merchants not come forward and tell who forced them to refuse to sell necessaries of life to certain boycotted persons, but if he (Chairman were a storekeeper, he thought he would his all in order to assist In breaking- up the cowardly business. When the morning hearing opened the Btatements of the Delaware.

Lackawanna and and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal end Iron companies were filed with the commission. The first witness called said that a member of the union threatened to kill him Jf he did not stop working, and finally did shoot hinv The offender was sent to prison. Mrs. Kate McNamara. of Parson, the mother rf four small children, whose husband was in the mines and could not come home for fear of harm.

testified that her house was de.Etroyed by fire at night and she and her children rescued with difficulty. I Counsel for the miners called the commission's 1 attention to the fact that the fire had not been connected with the strikers, and objected to the ether side bringing: in evidence of alleged by strikers when they could not prove it. Chairman Gray said that, while the evidence did not directly connect the strikers with the fire, the inference was that the fire was of origin. August Scheuch. of Hazleton.

who worked for the Lehigh Valley company through the suspension, testified that lie v.as attacked by a mob he and his son were going to work, and that he was severely injured by being- hit by rocks: that he was stabbed three times and had five ribs broken. He was a Coal and Iron policeman at the time, but did not use his revolver because he was afraid of hitting his son, who warn being beaten by the crowd at the same Time, and was badly need up. Many of the crowd, he said, were strikers. Among those beating him was Squire McKelvey, of Hazleton. son corroborated the testimony of his 'father.

John Dcran, manager of the Wllkesbarre lace irnills, testified that because he would not discharge two girls who had relatives working in the mines the 1,100 employes went on strike. and stayed out eight weeks until the trouble fixed up. Other witnesses testified that their wives were in6ulted on the streets and their children beaten by other children, and could not be safely sent to school. The union locals, they said, requested storekeepers not to sell to any one related to a mar working- in the mines. Their houses were stoned, they were stoned and shot at and hanged in effigy, and life was generally made miserable for them and their families.

Most of the witnesses connected strikers with the offences alleged. The commission will adjourn on Saturday to reconvene in Philadelphia on January 5. SHADING GIVES NO HOPE OF RELIEF. JTo Stock at Storage Points Cars Held in Western Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Dee.

of the Reading Railroad Company hold out no hope of relief from the present anthracite stringency this winter, deeplte the efforts on the part of the company to mine and ship to "its full capacity. "Under normal said one of the officials to-day, "the anthracite production is never equal to the demand during the winter mentis, and the Reading and all the other anthracite companies have been obliged to craw upon the stock at various storage points to help cut the demar.is of the trade. This year there not a poun3 of coal at any of these storage points, and consumers are dependent entirely em the dly output of the mines. The big dealers In Ksw- England, who usually have in stock at this season of the year from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand tons, are bare of coal and dependent entirely on what is being shipped to them by The various companies "Practically all the Reading company'e collieries ere la operation. The company shipped from the inines in the last two flays nearly nineteen hundred cars of coal.

This means a daily production Dearly sixty thousand tons." It is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has three thousand of the Reading company's asm on its tracks in the western part of the Etate. as well as fifteen hundred belonging to toe Central Railroad of New-Jersey. These are now needed in the anthracite trade. Their aoa-oeUvery, it is said. is causing much delay in the shipaieat of anthracite to points west of Harrisburs.

Rtailng cfflcials decline to say whether the advance of 50 cents a ton made in October will hold good aM winter, but they admit that it will rule beyond January 1. the date fixed by President Baer for a reduction to the old rate. An operator who attended the meeting of the operators In New- York said that tic advance would be retained all re-xt year. The ajsthraelte output In normal years ranges 1 from 52 uOOiKVj to 55,000.000 tons. It is estimated that to meet the increased demand the companies will turn out In 1903 at least 56.000.000 tons, and probably fii.Mi.iM toes.

Half a dollar a ton increase, it is paid would more than recoup the operators for tt.e losses sustained by the strike. The Reading company has arranged to spend $3,000,000 In opening new mines and building breakers. President Baer has determined to develop the company's properties to their fullest capacity. ARBITRATION SCORES AGAIN. threatened Trouble Among General Electric Employes Averted.

Dec. threatened strike In the General Electric Works, in this city, It is now understood, has been averted through the action of the International officers of the allies metal mechanics and of the kindred unions. The proposition settled upon by the unions, a M. Knoedler Co. invhe attention to their carefuiiy selected collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Etchings, Engravings.

All suitably adapted for Holiday Presents. 355 FIFTH COR. 54TH N. Y. London, it, Bend St.

Paris, Rut Cluck Siberian Sqwrrel Jackets and Coats in stock or to order without charge. C'G SHAYNE, Manufacturer, 41st and 426 near 6th Ay. 41mt bet. B'way fti Ay. draft of which has been seen by officials of the company.

Is that an agreement be entered into between the General Electric Company and the unions providing that, if the company will not declare a lockout, the men will promise not to go out on strike. Hereafter all questions that may fall into dispute are to be submitted to a commission, consisting of the president of the company. A Coffin of New-York. John Mulholland. president of the International Association of Allied Metal Mechanics, and one other person to be chosen on each occasion in question The award of this commission is to be final.

I in the event of his being reinstated Edward Utting. whose discharge has Precipitated the present trouble, will not return to his but at he will become the Btate organizer of the Allied Metal Mechanics. MOB MAKES KAID ON COAL TRAIN. Men Women and Children Get Free Fuel. TELEGRAPH TO THE Derby, Dec.

of men, women and children from nearby tenement houses, broad daylight. to-day made a raid on a train of twenty cars of anthracite coal which had been sidetracked for Its two locomotives to take water. The protests of the conductor. Charles Hanson, and the crew for a time availed little, for as fast as the raiders were driven from one car they attacked another. They had baskets, pails and bags, and most of them escaped with as much coal as they could The raid was finally stopped by the engine drivers rushing their locomotives to the rescue and pulling the train away with its cargo between i nine and ten tons short.

The coal was consigned to Waterbury coal dealers. FORTY THOUSAND TONS HERE TO-DAY. To-day will be the best coal day for this city in a week. and. if local experts are correct, somethine like forty thousand tons will be released Two' factors operating against a speedy and full delivery have now been removed.

These were the snowstorm at mines and the rain at tidewater. For two days several collieries shut flown temporarily because the cars at tidewater could rot be unload and rushed back to the But these causes of delay are no more, because of the perfect weather cf yesterday. This city will receive from the New- York, Ontario and Western 1.4 cars alone 12.000 tons of anthracite. The chief problem Is not coal, but facilities for handling the coal already on hand. Barge rates to New-Haven are 11 50 a ton.

and In many cases il to this city. Trucking on Sunday was at the rate of $3 13 a ton. But in spite of these, temporary additional items of expense reputable retail dealers continue to sell at several dollars below $10 to their regular customers. One dealer showed Tribune reporter yesterday a -ram which had Just come in. which read: "One thousand tons.

Jll SO f. o. smaller varieties, S7 50." This is only a specimen of the offers With which the town is being flooded. Soft coal reached J7 at wholesale jesterdaj. It is coining to tidewater at the rate of from 40.0 to 73.000 tons a day.

ASKS CITY $12 75 FOR COAL. Commissioner Llrvdenthal yesterday opened bids for the delivery to his department of EM tons of coal. There was only one bidder, C. J. Wittenberg, who offered to deliver the coal at 512 75 a ton.

MILLS CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUEL. Danbury. Dec. factories here have suspended operations, pending the arrival of fuel Some of the factories are burning green wood brought in from the neighboring hills. South Kingstown.

R. 1.. Dec. Peacedale Manufacturing Company, employing more than seven hundred hands, was forced to suspend operations to-day because of shortage of fuel, mills manufacture a high grade of woolens. SCHENECTADY IN DIRE STRAITS.

Schenectady. N. Dec The coal office of the Citizens' Association was closed this afternoon en receipt of a telegram from the sales agent of the Delaware and Hudson Company, stating that no further supplies would bf forthcoming. This action was the result of a visit to Albany by ramber of coal dealers who protested against the company furnishing coal to the association, as it hurt their trade. The association has furnished coal to all needing it at cost Coal dealers say there Is no hope of the coil famine being relieved this season.

Merchants have pleaded hard for even a small supply, insisting that if they cannot get coal they will hnve to close their stores. The station opened by the Citizens' Association was egaln thronged to-day, well-to-do persons touching elbows with the most abject poor In the quest for fuel MR. CARNEGIE'S REALTY DEALS. It was reported yesterday that the offer made by I. Townsend Burden for the property at the south corner of Ninety-Becond-st.

and Flfth-ave. was $100,000 a lot. Andrew Carnegie paid about J.V'.O''"' a lot for the parcel. of the leading real estate men of this city have for some days firmly believed that the report that the house which Andrew Carnegie built for his own occupancy in between Ninetieth and Ninety-first and in which he and his family now live, was to be given by Mr. Carnegie to his little daughter as a Christmas gift was a fact.

"The Evening Post." in referring to this report, last night, in an article regarding the recent Fifth-aye. sale in which Mr. Carnegie and I. Townsend Eurden figured, raid: "We now learn that it has no foundation whatever, and that nothing could be less in harmony with the ideas of Mr. and Mrs.

Carnegie than that their daughter should now. or ever, be burdened with great Least of all is she to be taught while in youth that ens has "great expectations, or any expectations at all beyond a moderate competence. Neither of her parents deems great wealth a desirable possession for the morning of life, or for any part of life, except as it may be employed for the advancement of the human race. MAYOR DIVIDES THE FUND. The $2,500 appropriated by Democratic Club for the purchase of coal for the destitute was apportioned -s follows by Mayor Low yesterday: Society of St.

Vincent At Paul United Hebrew Chanties 750 Association lor Improving Condition of Poor 100 Salvation Army 300 Total 2 800 Judge Hascall. ex-Chairties Commissioner Keller and Joh.i Fox. president of the Democratic Club, called on Mayor Low yesterday ar-d tendered him tte club's subscription The Mayor thanked the committee, and after consultation divided up the money as stated. FOR RELIEF OF BROOKLYN POOR. There will be a meeting of the retail coal dealers of Brooklyn in the Borough Hall to-morrow morn- Ing at 10 o'clock.

It has been called by Borough President Swanstrom. who desires a conference with the dealers on the best ways and means for relieving the poor in the borough. In a letter to President Swanstrom yesterday President Baldwin, cf the Long Island Railroad, spoke of the difficulty his railroad had experienced In getting coal. "We have not received a carload of hard coal for our railroad or our stations in three weeks," writes President Baldwin. "For five months past we have not bad more than twenty-four hours' supply of soft coal for our locomotives at any one time.

Many days we have had absolutely no coal In our bins at noon, with hundreds of trains to operate in the afternoon However. President Baldwin assures President Swanstrom that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which leases the Long Island, will strain every point to meet the lattcr's desire that 5.000 tons, or some such amount, of coal for distribution at cost among the poor, be delivered in Brooklyn every day. FORDHAM ATHLETES HONORED. The following men have received the Kordham at Fordham College in recognition of their cervices on the various 'varsity teams: Baseball, Keane. Mitchell.

Robertson. Hartman, Doscher, Crossin and O'Brien; football. Fogarty, McGee Adams. Fallon. Plunkett Robertson, Curten.

Mc- Lane, Reihiig, Glennon; track, Fallen Keane Clark. O'Toole. CANADIAN MINISTER COMING HERE. Ottawa, Dec. Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Militia and Defence, left Ottawa for New-York to-night.

He will respond to the toast at a banquet to be given by the Canadian Club la the metropolis to-morrow night. HOCKEY GAME TO-MORROW. next important hockey match of the season will take place at the St. Nicholas Rink to-morrow evening, between teams- representing Princeton University and St. Nicholas Skating Club.

The news from Princeton Is that its team this year is unusually strong- Princetonlans do not hesitate to say that they expect to win the Intercollegiate championship. The team has been in strict train- a nS teim 2TS Sn Ca select riP to Pittsburg Christmas week. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1902.

PLENTY OF COAL TO POOR Operators Appoint a Supervising Committee. GIFT RESOLUTION CALLED IMMORAL. It was learned yesterday that with a view to reducir.g to a system the distribution of coal by the pail to the residents of the tenements, a committee has been appointed representing the coal carrying companies which will try to have the distribution equalized. This committee was appointed at a meeting of presidents of the various coal roads, general sales agents and representatives of charitable societies, held within the last few days. The members of the committee are E.

G. Loomis. vice-president of the Delaware. 4-ackawanna and Western Railroad; W. EL Sayre, vice-president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and R.

H. Williams, of Williams Peters, sales agents for the Erie Railroad. The committee has met once or twice since It was appointed, and will probably meet again In a day two. President W. H.

Truesdale, of the Lackawanna. said yesterday that the committee represented all the coal carrying companies. "Besides the depots established through our arrangements with the dealers." he added, "depots had been established by the Salvation Army and other charitable and quasi-charitable organizations. A good deal confusion was likely to ensue, and it was thoueht better to try to systematize matters, and have the distribution of coal as thorough as possible. The price will always be fixed at such a rate as will not cut below the prices of fair dealer.

0 Re-Carding the prcspects for supply of coal this winter, he said: "There will be no roal famine, although coal will be so scarce that people will have to be economical In Its use. At the same time, there will be enough to go around. If fi opl do not try to fill their cellars, and are content with a ton or half a ton at a time. All possible means Will be used to rush as much coal as possible here." Representatives of other roads said that coal would have the preference over any other kind of freight except perishable freight. The price of a pail of coal was raised yesterday at the yard of Alfred Barber's Son, No.

377 Water- from 10 cents to IS cents. Two paila w'M sold for a quarter, and any one who buys pail for 13 cents will get the next for 12 cents. The reason given for thia advance In price is the additional co6t of carrying. The president of one of the great coal roads, a "man who knows." eaid yesterday to a Tribune reporter: This bill of the aldermen to raise $250,000 to supply the poor of the city with coal is an immoral, ineffective, outrageous act. The Controller of the city should be restrained by law from paying.

If I had time, I would get out an Injunction myself. Here the poor are being supplied with coal at practically the normal price. If they are suffering, why, vote $1,000,000 for alleviation, if it will, avail. But you can't burn money, and the coal is going to them. It Is the greenhouse and the church that have to hustle to get coal.

The man living in Riverside Drive would have to pay $3 a ton to get it carted. That's where the scarcity is trucks something to cart the coal with. If you came, in here and laid down $1,000 on this desk you "couldn't get a ton of coal, because It is going to the poor direct. If there could be corr.plate silence on the coal question for a month there would be no coal question. People are keeping it an open sore.

The act of the Aldermen is absolutely Ineffective because It will not obtain more coal than Is already going to the poor. Then what is the plan for finding who are the poor? Today it is the well to do man who might have to take his place in line to obtain coal. But these aldermen might as well vote $250,000 to buy the poor of the city flowers. It Ik alleged that the charter permits an appropriation for all charitable purposes in a year of only $1,000,000. and that th" coal appropriation of $250,000 would make this year's appropriation exceed the legal amount.

It is said that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment will consider this point to-day and win suggest bringing the appropriation within the proper limit. APPLE PRODUCTION OF THE COUNTRY. Figures Which Show That New- York State Is in the Lead. Fayetteville. N.

Dee. is (Special). York State is declared to be Empire Commonwealth of the apple-growing world. In order to put at rest speculation on this point. F.

E. Dawley. of this village, secretary of the New-York Fruit Growers' Association, has compiled statistics which prove this statement and put a new feature upon the ideas which have been prevailing for several years concerning the apple growing qualities of the United States. Mr. Dawley finds that in productive capacity New-York equals the combined figures of Missouri.

Illinois, Arkansas and Kansas. The average output to a tree in New- York is found to be three and a half bushels, while in the Mississippi Valley States the average only cne bushel to a tree. The great apple counties of the Niagara, Wayne. Monroe and are estimated by Mr. Dawley to contain 3.770,789 fruitful trees, with a.

rapacity of 13.137,762 bushels In an average year. Mr. figures as to the number of trees, total number of bushels harvested and productive capacity of fifteen leading apple growing States, are as follows: Bushels. Productive Trees. crop capacity.

15.054.832 24.111. 62.416.T00 Ohio 12.052,625 20.617.4*0 IVr.nyflvar.la 11.774.211 24.0«0.851 Stfi.3«B.SoO Michigan 10.027.5JK> 5.031.MJ9 21,874,800 Virginia 8.190.025 8.8T.'.,082 20,927.600 Missouri fi.496,<3« 18.3C1.200 Illinois U. 480.00* ft. 150 17.C50,3110 Kentucky 16,822.800 Indiana K624.5!»3 8.820.278 West Virginia. Ji.441.112 7.405.743 14.

414. 5C0 Tennessee 7.714,0.13 5.367.77.1 14.175.300 North Carolina 4,682.731 lowa 3.12U.562 fc.942.500 Kansas 11.845.070 5. 214. 407 Arkansas 7.480.145 2.5U.182 7.607,700 Total 201.704. 175.397.C28 800,000.300 crops of the fifteen leading States, in order of productivity, for last three years, have been tabulated as follows from the reports submitted to the United States Department of Agriculture on August 1 of each year: 1000.

1001. 1002. New-York 45,077,502 lS.tias.oS2 53. 166.633 Ohio 22.458.300 16.035.774 14.7-J<i,7t,O Pennsylvania 26.m.808 14.507.153 Michigan 15.4««.553 8.080.191 10.iX>1.754 Virginia 12.7tS5.tvM 7,638,836 Missouri 11.322.322 6.125.106 10.023.04S Illinois 5.8 M.050 Kentucky 9.155.157 8.22G.819 S.M)S 474 Indiana 8.465.047 7.5tn.650 West Virginia 6.774,053 7,351,543 6.333.47(1 Tennessee 8.257.678 7.0M),150 6,520 537 North Carolina. 10,207.620 8,065.280 7,561200 lowa fi.832.850 8.120.875 ft.724 850 Kansas 8.6-19.422 5.4«U,024 Arkansas 4.7^6.551 8.795.830 6.318.3D0 Total 207.402.004 126,752,108 161.789.575 Barrels (59,134,001 42.2U),732 03.929,058 Per cent, of full crop.

66 42 H. L. HOTCHKISS TO RETIRE. Broker Transfers Seat After Forty-five Years in Wall Street. Horace Hotchidss, aftsr forty-five years of life in Wall has transferred his membership in the Stock Exchange and is to retire from business.

Mr. Hotchkisa entered the American Exchange Bank as a clerk in 1867. Ten years later he joined E. A. Calahan.

the Inventor of the stock quotation system, in organizing the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, of which ha himself was elected treasurer. Mr. Hotchkis3 became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1874, and then formed, with J. W. Burnham, the brokerage firm of Hotchklss Burnham.

the first firm to open an uptown branch for Its customers with a private wire to the downtown office. The first such uptown office was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and later other branches were opened at the Windsor Hotel, the New-York Hotel and the Morton House. The firm also had a private telegraph line to the home of Jay Gould at Forty-6eventh-st. and Fifth-aye With Admiral H. C.

Taylor, U. S. and tho late Francis A. Stout. Mr.

Hotchkiss assisted in the organisation, in 1886. of the Nicaragua. Canal Association, which was Influential in securing the concession for the building of an Isthmian canal. Mr. Hotclikiss was with Farragut's fleet at Mobile Bay in the Civil War.

and he is a member of the Lafayette Post. G. A. It- LABOR LEADER GUILTY OF RIOTING. Glens Falls, N.

Dec. Henry L. Ramsey was convicted of rioting in the Warren County Court to-day. The specific act for which Ramsey was found guilty was an attempted assault on a National Guardsman during the Glens Falls riot on October 4. Ramsey is secretary of the Glens Falls and Labor Assembly.

CROKEE. STAY VACATED, Expected That Fire Chief Will Be Ousted by To-vwrrow. Justice Leventritt. In the Supreme Court, yesterday gave a decision vacating the stay granted by Justice Fitzgerald to prevent the removal from office of Fire Chief Croker pending an appeal from the action of Fire Commissioner Sturgis. This decJEion permits the Fire Commissioner to remove Chief Croker as soon as the order vacating the stay is entered, and it is expected that Croker will be out of office on Saturday.

In his opinion Justice Leventritt does not pass on the merits of the certlorari proceedings which are to be carried to the Appellate Division. He confines himself to the question as to whether a stay proper pending the result of those proceedings. He refers to an affidavit by the chief clerk in the Corporation Counsel' office that such a stay had rot been granted in forty-five years, and says there is no question that the Commissioner had the power to remove the Fire Chief from office. As to the contention of Chief Croker that his removal was illegal because of bias and prejudice, the facts can be determined only by a complete review of the evidence taken at the trial, and must be decided by the appellate tribunal. Justice Leventritt's opinion ends with the following: The Interests of the public, the efficiency within the department itself, the respect for authority and superiority which is the condition precedent to effective work, and.

especially in this case, the harmony of relationship and the indispensable cooperation that should exist between the head of the department and Its so that the best results may be all require that there shall at this intermediate stage be no Interference with the course events have taken. Upon a reinstatement by the Appellate Division, should that tribunal so decide, the relator will be restored to duty and receive the pay for the time he was ou3ted. But until that decision lam compelled to assume that the dismissal was regular and supported by evidence. At the game time. I wish again to reiterate that my conclusion in no wise involves the merits of this proceeding, and Is in no sense intended to affirm the proceedings at the trial of the relator.

For the reasons stated, I am of the opinion that the stay should be vacated. Fire Commissioner Sturgis was at the office of Corporation Counsel Rives after the decision was announced, but Mr. Rives was absent. Mr. Sturgis he would take no action to enforce the order of removal against Chief Croker until he had the advice of Mr.

Rives. Mayor Low declined to discuss the case. Under the law it was said, Chief Croker is entitled to two days' notice before the decision vacating the stay is entered. J. J.

Delany, Oroker's counsel, said the appeal had been left just as if no application for a stay had been made. He expected, he said, that the appeal would he heard in February, and that Croker would be restored to office. "They have put Chief Croker to great expense," paid, "as the cost of printing the case for the Appellate Division will be J3.000." KEPT HIS WAGER UNTIL DEATH. Man Had Not Left House in Day Time in Thirty Years. Red Bank.

N. Dec. 18 There died at Oceanic, a small near this afternoon, an old resident by the name of Owen McCarton. He was seventy years old, and although he had been In good health up to a few days ago. he- had not i been out of the house in the daytime In the last thirty years.

This was the result of an election bet. In the Presidential campaign of 1572 between Grant and Greeley, McCarton, then a young man of forty, was one of Greeley's most enthusiastic supporters in this neighborhood. Crampton. of McCarton's friends, was as ardent a supporter of Grant. As the election drew near, the two men made a wager on the result.

This was that if Grant was elected. McCarton should not leave his house except in the night as long as he lived, and if Oreeley was elected Crampton should pay wager the way. the result was known and Greeley had been defeated. McCarton immediately began to live up to his wafer. When Crampton saw that he was In earnest he tried to dissuade him and agreed to let him off but Carton.

who had a great deal of Scotch Mood in his veins, would not hear of it. and never left his in daytime, from that day up to the time of his death. A tov'i Sht he B0 out and was in the habit of taking long walks about the country. Crampton died several airo, and up to the time aL, Si and were- fast friends. About flvo years ago house caught fire and for a time It looked as if would have to tak hl but the flame, wore put out before they had mude BufTJclont headway to compel him to move out.

He as a shoemaker, and worked at hi. trade until about two weeks when he retired. His death was caused by blood poison com from an Ingrowing toenall which did not receive proper attention until too late WANTS DOCTOR ON CANAL BOARD. New-York Academy of Medicine Urges It for Sake of Sanitation on Isthmus. At a meeting of New-York Academy of Medicine last night In Hosock Hall.

No. 17 West Fortythird-nt the following officers for 1903 were elected: President. Dr. Andrew H. Smith; president, Dr.

M. Alien Starr; treasurer. Dr. Herman L. Collyer; trustee.

Dr. Arthur M. Jacobus: member of the committee on admissions. Dr. J.

Milton Mabbott; member of the committee on library. Dr. Joseph Collins. The- following resolutions were also adopted: Whereas. It is well known that the previous excavations for an Isthmian canal have been attended with a large amount of illness and a heavy mortality, due mainly to malaria and to yellow fever; and.

Whereas. Recent discoveries as to the causes of these diseases have enabled medical officers to control their ravages to a marked degree; and Whereas. The success which has crowned medical efforts In Cuba In apparently abolishing yellow fever is another evidence for the belief that If proper hygienic nrecautions are taken at Panama and at other situations along the route of the canal, the death rate of the past can be much decreased or made to disappear. It Is Resolved, by the New- York Academy of Mcdl- i Th ln Its -lament, the amplest powers should be given to the medical officers in charge of the sanitation of the canal, and that to attain this end a medical officer should a member of the commission which the President of the United States is authorized to appoint to conduct the affairs of the proposed canal. Papers on the following subjects were read: Practical Points in the Anatomy of the Gall Bladder Region." by Dr George E.

Brewer; "The Causes of Gall Stones." by Dr. A. J. Lartlgau; "The Diagnosis of Gall Stones," by Dr Murphy, of Chicago, and "The Status of Surgery of the Gall Bladder and Bile Passages by Dr. W.

E. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn Th.) discussion which followed was opened by Dr. Keen, of Philadelphia, who was followed by Dr. Munro, of Boston, and others. Mention was also made of the aid needed by the widow and children of the late Major Charles Reed, whose services In combating fever and unsanitary conditions In Cuba had been of great value to the United States, saving it many thousand dollars.

Mrs Reed receives only a email pension from the government. Dr. Andrew H. Smith, the new president of the academy, was graduated from the College of Phv slcians and Surgeons in ISSB. He Is a member of the Association of American Physicians and the New-York Count Medical Society.

Dr Smith is the visiting physician at the Presbyterian Hospital 1 at le Hospltal MURDERER HAS RARE DISEASE. Rose's Toes and Fingers Have Grown to Equal Length. The special commissioner appointed by Justice Lambert, of the Supreme Court, to report on the mental condition of Harry Rose, stage manager of the Carrick Theatre, who on November 27 shot and killed his wife, held a session yesterday. Rose was present, but seemed oblivious of his surroundings. Dr.

Robert S. Newton, of No. 19 East Fortyfourth-st. testified that he had examined Rose six times 6ince his arrest, and found him to be suffering from an exceedingly rare disease, not discovered until This ailment so affected Rose mentally and physically, the specialist said, that he was not in a fit condition to advise counsel as to his defence on the murder charge. was also exceedingly depressed; and since his arrest had lost about forty pounds.

The disease Dr. Newton said, as a rule affected only giants, and began at the base of ihe brain The fingers and toes grew to an equal length. Dr. Walter H. Conley.

of No. 110 West another specialist, who examined Rose confirmed what Dr. Newton Bald, and declared that Rose imagined that he had fabulous millions made In stock market, and that his wife and a man named Adams had conspired to rob him of his money, and were planning to poison him. Dr Conle-y admitted that some of the symptoms he described were simulated, but the man's condition was clearly indicated by the abnormal growth of his fingers and toes, cheek bones and 6houlder blade. GYPdNASTIC CONTESTS AT N.

Y. U. annual exhibition and dance of th? Gymnastic Team of New York University takes plats in the gymnasium at University Heights this even- THEBIGSTOBE AOTYifirTSELF SIXTH AYE. 13 5 Naturally we are very proud of our Christmas stocks. Thoroughly representative; from all quarters of the world.

Cold weather goods slighted or overlooked. The charm of newness and novelty everywhere. A radiant store. One that pleases the eye, the senses and the purse. Littleness of price just as captivating.

OPEN EVENINGS. Established and continued under same management for almost half a century. Men's Youths' Overcoats. The label that always stands for txclusiveness. I Refined Styles.

Superior Make. High Art Consistent Prices. Tailoring. the highest quality in clothing. Boys' and Children's Overcoats in great Variety.

AVAnnA Astir Plate a Hill 111 AYCIIuC imuttKact lipF What Men and Boys Want If you're at loss- what to give the Men or Boys of the house, look through our store. It's a Bazar of Clothes and Furnishings. Purchases for Gifts delivered at your pleasure. Everything from Ulsters to Pajamas. COOPER SQUARE WEST (NEARLY OPPOSITE COOPER UNION).

Brooklyn Street and Di Kalb Aw Open evenings till Christinas. irg. Besides the regular gymnastic contests, the kitrh jumD and shot out wil! included. For the benefit of the alumni who wPI attend, In addition to the regular trains stoppii: al University Heights the following will also stop: Frr-n Grand Central Station. Putnam Railroad.

7:25 and p. m. HAD $340,000 LIFE INSURANCE. Man Found Dead with Gun Near By Suicide Suspected. Louisville, Dec.

IS. It developed to-day that R. C. Whayne, a Louisville business man who was found dead last night near Jacob Park, with a gunshot wound in his carried life insurance to the amount of $340,000, and had applications pending for $50,000 more. The policies were distributed as follows: Epultable Life Assurance' Society of New-York, Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New- York.

Union Central Life. New- York Life. $3,000. and Northwestern Mutual Life, 55.000. Mr.

Whayne had applied for a policy of $25n00 with the Manhattan Company which was to be Issued December 22. Another application had been made to the Mutual of Vermont for an equal amount. This policy was to be dated December 24. The theory of suicide Is based on the large life Insurance Mr. Whayne carried and the fact that be was said to be suffering from rheumatism Coroner Kelly went to the scene of the death this morning.

He said that the circumstances were such that the case would require exhaustive Investigation. The inquest will ba held on Saturday. Near the body, but on the opposite side of a wire fence, was a shotgun with one barrel empty and the other loaded. Mr. Whayne's friends and family declare that his death was accidental, the gun being discharged while he was climbing through the fence.

BIGGAR WITNESS TRIES SUICIDE. Freehold. N. Dec. Edward Reynolds, who testified at the Blggar conspiracy trial yesterday, attempted suicide at the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station this afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and Joseph Goldye were waiting at the station for a train to take them to Avon, where they live. The two men after a time were seen to speak angrily to each other, and Reynolds was heard accusing Goldye of being too intimate with the former's wife. Suddenly Reynolds asked Goldye for his knife.

Goldye took a bis Jack 1 out of his pocket and handed it to who quickly opened It. and before either Goldye or Mrs Reynolds could Interfere, slashed himself across the left wrist. Reynolds tried to cut himself a second time, but the knife was taken from him by his wife. THE IRON TRADE. Cleveland.

Dec. "The Iron Trade Review, in its l36uu this week, says: Current developments lr the Iron market are of little significance. The official announcement of the absorption of the new Union Steal Company. with Its ard Sharon plants, by the United States Steel Corporation is the most Important piece of consolidation news since the corporation itself was formed. Their acquirement strengthens the steel corporation In its hold upon the lighter lines of production, and in the wire and wire nail field gives it a apart from the Alabama and Colorado concerns, which are largely sectional in their domestic competition, while both look to the export trade for a partial outlet Five blast furnaces, of which four are under construction, are thus added to the corporation's seventyseven, the five capable of producing 800.000 tons a year.

The corporation also adds to its outfit twenty-four open hearth furnaces, with a capacity of 750.000 tons a year. With the quiet that has come upon the iron trade In this closing month of the year, there Is a declining tendency in pig iron, which encourages buyers to hold over their new contracts until January at least. The inability of railroads to haul the iron from furnaces accounts largely for the increase in pig iron stocks shown by the statistics for December 1. the gain being about 25,000 tons over the 71.000 tons on November 1. Producing capacity advanced from 337,559 tops a week on November I to tons a week on December 1.

but the snows of the last ten days have given fresh trouble to the blast furnaces in short coke supply. A number of Central Western furnaces have again been banked. Pig iron for early delivery shows a further decline, and is now close to the basis for the first half of 1903, which is also somewhat lower. Some Southern sellers ask J2O for No. 2 foundry at furnace for spot Iron, while others quote $19 for delivery or within the next three months.

$13 50 for the second quarter of and $18 for the second half. The increasing amount of iron ordered for early delivery leads consumers to hold off on later needs. While the Central West and the West are not likely to require much If any more foreign Iron, unless serious railroad troubles should cut down the domestic supply in a way not now probable, there is still a demand In the East for British and German irons for foundry purposes, and in the IMttsburg district considerable Import iron was bought in the last week tor prompt delivery, prices ranging from $21 to $1150. Forge Iron is weaker, and a lot of 5.000 tons of Alabama forge was sold in the last week to a large buyer at $14 at furnace. January and February deliveries.

It is reported that No. 3 foundry, has been offered at $16 Birmingham for the first quarter of next year. There evidence here and there of some overbuying by consumers of foundry iron, occasional offerings from such sources being The steel market shows more firmness, $27 at seaboard being now the minimum on Imports, while domestic Bessemer steel is quoted $23 50 to $30 Ptttsburg. An opportune moment to make a car.Jsamt gift. Silk Rugs.

Just received a bale of Turkish Silk Rugs, assorted sizes. from 4x4.6 ft. to 5x6 ft, choice at $65.00 each. Also a small invoice of White Polar Bear Skin Rugs, Mounted with heads and claws, well furred, Large sizes, from $125 to $300. A- Vantine Co.

Broadway and 18th St. QUIET ELEGANCE. A feature of ail of Our Stores, makes it both pleasant and comfortable to shop here during the Holiday Timevery different from the crowded Department Stores. Here we have everything you for Hoi. day Wear.

Dressing Gowns, Jackets, Neckwear in rich dressy silks, and Mufflers, making beautiful Holiday Presents and all arranged, so that you can quickly and comfortably choose them. Overcoat and Suit Stock as complete as heretofore. Everything exchangeable or money refunded if you wish it. Smith, Gray Co. Broadway at 3 1st Street, N.

V. American Art Galleries, MADISON SQUARE SOUTH- For Christmas Gifts Beautiful Butterflies AND Japanese Water Colors dmisaion Free. 9 A. M. to 5 P-.