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21,167. TO ACT ON SrRIXKLING. S. P. C.

A. JOINS THE FIGHT, So Relief from Slippery Streets by Officiate. Says Mr. Haines. 4 I find a city official who has the power or the will to put a etoo to sprinkling the asphalted streets of this city.

I will take action against the street sprinkling corporation en behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cru-'ty to Animals." nent was made to a Tribune reafternoon by John P. Haines. the society, after he had told how against the endangering of the life man and beast bad been shunted -c department to another. He has about he says, that no city uthority in the case, and that and drastic action is necessary. and utterly uncalled for a and an outrage." con- President Haines.

"I don't know of another American city that would turn Buch an work over to the absolute control of He took the reporter to a window looking out en A sprinkling cart had passed that way several hours before, but the street was sloppy and slippery, the water in places eiar.dir.g in puddles. He declared: That etreet is unsafe for you or me to cross in that condition. It Is positively dangerous to horses ur.iers tbtf re driven with the utmost caution. I am glad that The Tribune has taken up (Ms outrage, and hope that it will continue the fight against it. for it promises to be a hard one.

Ten year? tea, when asphalt was first Introduced. i warned the city of the danger to horses if it was permitted to pet in a slippery condition. I argued that It was incumbent on the city to take proper care of it; in freezing weather to have it cleaned and sanded; in warm weather to wash and flush it thoroughly. When moistened by a sudden shower or by sprinkling it hpcorr.es dangerous not only to animals, but to human being? as well. It becomes a positive rr.er.ace to pedestrim.s compelled to walk across It.

especially to women with long skirts. TThen asphalt is sprinkled it becomes so slippesT tfcH DO boras, however surefooted, is cafe. in walking over it. In trotting the horse Is Ukctf to slip at moment, and in turning a the danger hi ewgfl greater. Yet the of Is not the only Ganger of arphalt.

The horse appreciates that danger much more I ividly than his master, and the continual 6traln avoidlnsr a fall wearies nba and :r.akc« him nervous, so that a gentle tr.irr.il may often become restive. Rubber shoe. covering be frog of a borf-e's foot, make or.c safeguard ag-ainst falling, but the streets Of a city like New- York PiioUid not be in a necessitating the use of a mechanical Bmoe the rractice of sprinkling asphalt streets waj instituted the- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ar.lmals has killed several thousand banes on account of injuries received in clipping on Many of them were fine blooded ar.irr.sls or. gin to well known people. Broker, iimbs are not the only accidents that recalt from sprinkling.

Drivers are often unable to check the momentum of vehicles and horses £re by colliding with other wagons tr.i by beir.g pierced with the points tt shafts. There are many ignorant and youthful drivers know nothing cf taking precautions. This Should be aU the mars for keeping the Streets to the beat possible condition. "Wiser the slipping injuring of horses, on became ir.ore prorouncei ms die weather grew colder this fall, Mr. Haines took up Che matter with the city authorities.

He first wrote President Ahearn asking the Ef. tinklers be called off and the UdMMt abatfd He was referred to Commissioner John T. Oakley, of the Department of Water Sufily. Gas tad Electricity, to whom the Board of Aldermen recently gave the power Of i -ling a sireet spr inkling license. Mr.

Oakley wrote that the Commissioner of Street nrgntng had the power to abate "he nuisance If ore existed. Commissioner Woodbury was OMB appealed to. and replied as I car nil your attention to the fact Chat the Department of Street Cleaning has no cognizance or control over the crinkling or sanding of the streets. All the sprinkling done IB the city is done by a corporation formed in Vast Virginia, railed the Street Sprinkling Association, over whom the Department of Street Ownrns; has rot tee slightest command. The tctfea of the Board of itrmen has given over the surface of the streets to this corporation is euch a way that it permits them to slop the Btn a i lag them dasgerous to the life and l.ir.b not only of horses but of sens.

1 wcjld sanMStly have you puati with all possible activity the Board of Health, or whomsoever you can. toward the of this Misante, as it greatly Interferes with the proper rttaning ttaa Uany people in this that this work is dor.c by the Department of Btrett Cleaning. It is not, and I wish I could stop it. Mr. Halr.es then made further complaint to QnastaSoner OgJdejr.

and tha acting chief enttacr of the Water Supply Department was MfIWJ to report on it. H.s report seems to favor tbs tpnr.klir-s corporation and reads In part as Mope cf the pertinents have any appropriatJOa aw washing the pavements in thU city, espea that of asphalt. I do net SSS Urn trouble complained of Is to be Obviated. It is Mbsoluteiy necessary, especially the dry and warm weather, that the pavementa, especially that of asphalt, be sprinkled. From my experience as a citizen ttfl property owner in the city of New- York, I recommend that under 'he present circurr.Etar.ces tba parties who are engaged in ir.g the streets ose a sprinkler which trs a small quantity of water through trr.tt!! holes, thus decreasing the amount of water nsed.

and in a very few minutes the trouble of slippery paseiueuta would be obviated in warm and dry Breather. If parties in a block in the city should compialn the sprinkling of the same could be stopped, ieav- Ing to then 'he privilege of harlng a large I got on their walks and in their houses. This report seems to lees sight of the fact dttt BM Street Cleaning Department actually flushes and the streets in the early morntag hours imtfer present appropriations. Or. i hand SMflerday horsemen, drivers of automobiles, cabs and other vehicles, and bs had words of praise.

Car The Tribune's iO taking Dp tbs Bgbt against the eprinkling, wnich. unlefs the co: oratioti is called off, Bdjl be operated until late in November. A well who owns several blooded made come BOB) emphatic statements Jay when he was compelled to leave at beeaues of the 6llppery cor dif.ort of the Btpjif't and drive on Madito: bera there was Jefs -de. "1 wouiu rather iide in a cavalry charge i modem army than drive my trotter Sosrn after one cf those sprinkling carts bad he dedarsd. "I would as much chance of retting cut alive.

The newspaper frets New-York from this treasendoue nuisance will have performed a cre-t pnhUc of the Street Spririklingr Association In levying its contri: utlons for the sprfakUng senries an totereattnff. At the Kctsalng of the Bfeaacn their agents go around btaak contracts and endeavor to secure of ijroperty owners and tenants. When sragoafl ttart oat they turn off the Crout of the tiouses of those who ha. JJBt paid. After a sreek or two the agent rttorns again srlth that the neighbor CBCaplalning the urusprinkled -t front of his building, and that they won- Otr Ms meanness in using- a sprinkling Usually this works, for a BRsj not like to be held up before his r.s being close, when the sum involved bat i'J a weele.

To-day, fair warmer. To-morrow, fair; Creah westerly winds. CORTELYOU 10 SPEAK. TO REPLY TO CRITICS. He Will Addrets Meeting Odell To Be at Tuesday Gathering.

George B. Cortelyou. cnairman of the Republican National Committee; Elihu Root, Ex-Secretary of War; George A. Knight, of California; Lieutenant Governor Higgins and Walter M. Chandler wilt be the speakers at the Durland Riding Academy mass meeting on Friday night of next week.

The rally is under the auspices of the West Side Republican Club. Charles A. Bostwick, president of the club, will preside. The announcement that Mr. Cortelyou would be one of the speakers created a great deal of comment lafe night, as it was generally interpreted jet foreshadowing President Roosevelt's and Cortelyou's answer to the charge that Mr.

Cortelyou is coercing corporations to contribute to the Republican campaign fund. Chairman Cortelyou went to Washington on Thursday and conferred with the President. He returned to the city last night, and to-day will go to Chicago, where he will have a final consultation with the Western leaders concerning the management of the campaign. Over and over again the Parker papers, without producing any semblance of proof, have charged that Chairman Cortelyou was taking advantage of his knowledge of the affairs of the trubts. gained while head of the Department of Commerce and Labor, to compel the corporations to contribute to the Republican campaign fund.

This particular line of attack was not taken up until the Parker people had abandoned nearly all the issues with which they started the campaign. To the surprise of fair minded voters Mr. Parker and Herrick. probably after receiving information from their campaign managers that they were sure of defeat, joined in the calumny, Mr. Herrick going so far as to liken President Roosevelt to Devery.

This so overstepped the limits of decency that Mr. Herrick tried this week to repudiate it. but as his words were recorded by several stenographers when he made the remark at Plattsburg he has not been abla to get the mud off his hands. While it is not known what Mr. Cortelyou will say.

the expectation is that he will make an effective reply to his critics. The meeting at Durland's on Friday night next will be the final large rally of the in this city. Another surprise was sprung last night by the rumor that Governor Odell would be on the platform at the meeting of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night. If the Governor goes to the meeting he will have to exercise a good deal of firmness in refusing to respond to calls for a speech. MAY CALL OFF MEETING.

Parker Declines to Results. Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for President, has flatly refused to speak at Carnegie HaJl meeting on Wednesday night of next week, at which William Travers Jerome has promised to preside. Mr. Parker says he never promise-i to speak at the meeting, although DeLancey Xicoll, vicechairman of the Democratic National Committee, thinks he did.

It was on the authority of Mr. Nlcoll that the Parker Independent Democratic Business Men's Association advertised Judge Parker as the leading attraction. It seems that in the effort of the national committee to gallop Mr. Parker around the country the last week of the campaign things have been done too hurriedly, and there is a great deal of confusion. Judge Parker did not cancel the date for speaking at Carnegie Hall until yesterday forenoon, and then he did it by saying that he never promised to apeak there.

With Mr. Parker's refusal to speak, District Attorney Jerome probablj' may reconsider his determination to preside, and the meeting is likely to be called off. Judge Parker last week made an engagement with the Democratic Club, which planned a reception in his honor at the clubhouse in Fifthave. on Wednesday night next. The club's committee went ahead and had invitations engraved, and yesterday morning they were all ready to be mailed, when they saw the announcement in The Tribune and other papers that Judge Parker was to speak on Wednesday night at a meeting where Mr.

Jerome would preside. President Fox. of the club, called up Judge Parker at Esopua and asked him if it was true that he was going to speak at Carr.egie Hall on Wednesday night, and if if would interfere with the club reception. Mr. Parker said that he had not promised to speak at Carr.egie Hal! on Wednesday night.

added that Mr. Nieoll had urged him to speak there, but he had not agreed to do so. He had consented to speak a' German-Americar. Parker Union Meeting ir. Cooper Union on Wednesday night, and would not be able to keep more than the two engagements on that evening.

He will go early to the Cooper Union meeting, and after making a short speech proceed to the club, whTc- the reception begins at o'clock. The sudden overturning of the plans for the Carnegie Hall meeting sent a chill around Democratic circles last night, and the prediction was heard on all sides that the meeting would be abandoned. Coming as it did on the of the news that Cleveland would attend the Cooper Union meeting, it gave strong proof of the confusion prevailing in Democratic councils. The calling off of the Cleveland eddrc-ss at Cooper Union was interpreted as a case of panic over the demand by William R. Hearst in "The American" on Wednesday that Cleveland and Olnev be retired, and that only Democrats be allowed to speak for Democracy in the rest of the campaign.

DENIES SELLING OUT. F. A. Heinze Makes Counter Proposition to Lawson, of Boston. TELEGRAPH TO THE nutte, Oct.

F. Augustus Hemzo to-day denied bs his turned over his Butte properties to Amalgamated Copper. In reply to Thomas W. Uwjon'i statement that he will distribute tI.uOO.WO among the miners of Butte if Heinze can disprove tba "eaU-OOt" charge, the Puttr magnate declares his willingness to SSMM with the Boston broker that he can shew a controlling interest in 'iornas Lawson to-night telegraphed a reloinVr to Mr Heinse declining to be a party to 1 bet on the proposition, Lawson declares If owners ol the United Copper Company could cauFf him any loss through placing temporarily in the bands of enough stock to give him control, they would do SO. although mcb an act would not affect the final transfer of the properties to the Amalgamated.

Lawson asserts li would be In line with dealings of HetaM and Amalgamated to seesaw the stock to enable to win and fool voters of Montana. Heinse he calls a "cheap chap. AMHER6T FACULTY FOR ROOSEVELT. ro Tlltni Oct. recent pell of Ooilcge faculty shows twenty-four fur Boose-5St sevenfof parkc-r and three undecided.

ONLY A FEW WEEKS MORE To visit the World's Pennsylvania coach Wednesdays. November 9 W. and 2J. round NEW- YORK. SATURDAY.

OCTOBER 29. 1904 -FOUNT KKN yT SUBWAY STATIONS JAMMED BY RUSH HOUR TIE-UPTHREE HUNDRED THOUSAND SHRINKAGE OF TRAFFIC ON SURFACE LINES 75 PER CENT. A tie-up ill the subway in the rush hours last evening caused much annoyance to the thousands who were using the new service. The crush was so great at some stations that ticket selling was stopped for a while. Three hundred thousand passengers were carried on the first full day of operation.

Vigorous complaints were made about the use of the city's tunnel for adtertising purposes. SUBWAY EXPRESS CRUSH. Almost Deserted Metropolitan Cars in Rush Hours. Passenger traffic both on the elevated and surface lines throughout the city fell off to a large extent yesterday as the result of the first full day's regular operation of the subway. Downtown, on the surface lines especially, there was a decrease at the "rush" hours of at least of 75 per cent.

Veteran conductors were astounded as they walked back and forth in virtually deserted cars. On the West Side elevated, so Frank Hedley, genera! manager of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company estimated roughly, there was a falling off of 75,000 passengers in the course of the day. Many observers of the general conditions were disposed to think his estimate conservative in the extreme. As for subway, its "rush" hour was a continuous performance day and night. "I should say that from midnight to midnight," Mr.

Hedley told a Tribune reporter, "we carried all of three hundred thousand pasengers." H. H. VREELAXD REFUSES FIGURES. While H. H.

Vreeland. president of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, refused all flguies of the days receipts, contenting himself with the observation that there might be a decrease, but that matters would doubtless adjust themselves within the next few days, the falling off in surface traffic was reflected In remote lines to an almost incredible extent. On the Ninth-aye. surface line the decrease was noticeable, while in Broadway, Columbus, Lexington, Madison, Second, Third and Fourth north and south bound, at all hours the change in traffic was little shoit of startling. From several conductors on southbound Amsterdam and Columbus aye.

cars in the morning "rush hours" the reporter learned that, whereas they had formerly collected from SS to $10 on a trip yesterday the proceeds of a single journey amounted in several cases to no more than $2. Inspectors and conductors on southbound cars at the former evening rush hours told the same story, and the indications of the late forenoon and early evening trips were all of a piece. THE EAST SIDE ELEVATED HIT. While according tc Mr. Hedley there was no material decrease on the elevated on the East Side, two reporters who stood on the Third- aye.

Brooklyn Bridge platform between 5:45 and 6:15 p. saw three express trains teays the station carrying no more than enough for their seating capacity, some fifty-six persons to a car. Except for the conductors, the platforms were vacant, and while three or four passengers in rear cars had been compelled to stand, there were seats to spare in certain of the foremost cars. Remembering the habitual frantic crush on these particular trains, the transformation was startling, and guards and gatemen seemed to agree that there had not been such a slump in passengers half a dozen times In the last six years. But if the rush performance in the subway was of the "continuous" variety, it was confined, so far as the actual car crowding was concerned, almost entirely to the express trains.

If the subway yesterday demonstrated any one thins it was that passengers, whether it was their first trip or not. had not come to ride on the 'local" trains. Of all the local trains that came into or out of the City Hall Park yesterday, it is doubtful whether half a score carried more than their seating capacity. It Is certain that dozens of local trains made their journey from terminal to terminal half empty. If there was another thing that yestcday demonstrated it was that the day was not a fair test of the subway's possible relief and diversion of traffic from the two other general modes of transportation.

As on Thursday, thousands rode in the subway yesterday plainly, palpably for the sake of the novelty, lightly forsaking the old love for the new. Thousands more were making an experiment. to wit, as to the advantage in comfort, speed and personal availability of the new means of locomotion. From the very nature of these things, the real test will not occur at the earliest before well into the middle of next week. By then, the rival merits of the systems may be adjusted and the public's choices be apparent.

Many will share with Police Commissioner McAdoo the belief that, great as ha? been the subway crush so far, to-day and to-morrow, with their influx of out of town sightseers, as well as of citizens who have so far held aloof, will make strong bids for the traffic record. NO TRANSFERS TO THE Contract with the City Said to Prevent Them The Interborough Rapid Transit Company's contract to pay a certain percentage of its tunnel receipts to the city threatens indefinitely to postpone the plan for the interchange of subway and elevated tickets. The representative of a high railroad official told a Tribune reporter yesterday that, although the Interborough company had agreed to pay the city a percentage of its subway receipts, there was no agreement extant between its elevated branch and the city. Thus, were elevated tickets honored on the underground, the subway receipts would be proportionately less, he eaid. and the city might feel itself defrauded.

Such a plan might interfere with the treasur. er's bookkeeping. He added that the entire subject was at present in suspense. email boy stood on the sidewalk at Broadway and Houston-et. yesterday afternoon soliciting signatures to a petition nddrefac-d to city authorities, or the Kapid Transit Commission, praying for the Issuance of subway transfers for the surface lines, and an extension of the subway system.

The boy said he was employed by the "friend of a friend," and couM otherwise furnish no Information as to the source of the petition, nor did the Instrument lend any hint. None the less, petitioners subscribed their names in great numbers throughoat the auernoon. THE FIRST EARNINGS TO HOSPITALS. August president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, announced yesterday that the company would give to the hospitals of the city ail the money collected for tickets in the subway oq Thursday, the opening day, from p. in.

to midnight. the benefit of who werv suffering yesterday while the of us wer? lie said, u.urborough company will tho operations the subway yesterday to the city The amount of cash to divided among the hospitals, it was ascertained in tfce day. vaa in That meaoa that in. person! bought tickets ii to midnight on Thursday evening subway was opened central public. of city were pleased wlu-ti they rf Mr.

Belniont's announcement. President Fumes, of the Board of Aldermen was particularly pleased aald. "splendid, and every way worthy of the imputation of Mr. BelmonU" ADVERTISEMENTS MAR IT. Municipal Art Society Will, if Possible, Prevent Misuse of Subway.

Public surprise and indignation over the advertising signe in the subway stations Increased yesterday. Incidently. the number of signs Increased alarmingly, and increase of numbers was accompanied in many cases by increase in the size of the signs. The beauty of several of the emaller stations was marred seriously by the flaming announcements, which were crowded together so as to conceal entirely the lower partj of the walls, gome of the larger advertising signs were thrust into suoli prominent view aa to bewilder sti angers who were looking for the legitimate signs designating the stations. The general verdict of the pubii.

1 as indicated by the expressions heard on the trains and at the stations, was that it was a scandal to have the stations of a road owned by the city used in euch vulgar and offensive fashion for advertising purposes. The question was asked repeatedly if the city authorities had authorized the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to affront the travelling public for the sake of some additional revenue. It was ascertained by Inquiry thru the lease by which the Interborough company has the contro! of the subway contains a provision which was inserted for the ostensible purpose of checking the advertising nuisance, but Is so worded that it has been twisted into an authorization of the nuisance. This provision declares that "the contractor shall not permit advertisements in the stations or cars which shall interfere with easy identification of stations or otherwise interfere with efficient operation." "That provision." said a prominent lawyer of the city, "doe 6 not give a legal right to the company to place a single sign in the subway to advertise a patent medicine or a theatre. Because you tell a man that he must not eat of the fruit of a particular tree in your garden, that not give him the right to take apples off all the other trees.

The Almighty, you may remember, was particular to tell Adam that he might eat of the fruit of all but one tree in Eden. So the city could not authorize the placarding of the subway stations by forbidding the operating company in the lease from overdoing it. It looks, though, as if the company is likely to overdo It and the express terms of the provision." Calrtn president of the Municipal Art Society, said yesterday that the society would take advice as to the right of the company to use city property for advertising purposes. At present, he said, he did not know what reserved rights the city might have In the subway. "You may be sure." he added, "that if the Municipal Art Society can prevent the subway stations being used for advertising purposes in such a disgraceful manner we will do it." An official of the Interborough said that the contract for the display of advertising signs and the sale of newspapers in the subway stations was madfi between the company and Ward Oow about a year ago.

The firm had the advertising and newspaper privileges on the eleated roads, and when the Interborough took over the elevated roads the contract was renewed and made to apply to the subway as well. The revenue to the Interborough from the advertising on the elevated roads and in the subway will amount to about $500,000 a year, it is believed. FIRST SUBWAY TIE UP. Many in Disgust Go from Tunnel to Other Lines. New-York tried to lay aside the subway as a toy last night and put it to practical use in homeward rush hours between 5 and 7 o'clock.

Unfortunately for those who had planned to test it as a method of rapid transit from their work to their homes, an accident to one of the motor cars caueed a tie-up of the southbound trains. The crowds last night were double those of any time on the opening night. Both local and express trains bound for the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall stations were packed, with numbers of people standing. The travel in both directions was so heavy that every train in the rush hours was crowded. Scores had to clutch the straps.

The accident that caused the suspension of traffic on the southbound local track occurred at the One-hundred-and-third-st. station. A forward car was disabled by an accident to the motor. The car was detached from the train and sent to the One-hundred-and-thirty-soventhst. underground yards.

This meant a delay of thirty minutes to thy local southbound trains. The accident occurred shortly before 0 o'clock, when the local downtown traffic was at its height. The express service was also delayed about lifteen minutes. At the Twemy-thira-st. station this tie-ap causeo an Immense jam.

The company was forced to suspend selling tickets. At 0 o'clock the ticket offices at the bridge were closed for over ten minutes. For hall an hour no trains leached the City Hall station, as only southbound local trains run Into this station. A large number of people, when they found that the subway trains were not running smoothly, left the stations and took either the elevated or surface tars to their destinations. The tie-up caused i discomfiture, and the people generally were Inclined to complain.

The narrow sliding doors considerably delayed the ling of passengers and delayed itu- trains to a great extent at all the a common spectacle all over the subway was of two persona attempting to crowd into a car dooi ai the same time, to become wedged together. neither able move in or out. The pressure of the people crowding behind only wedged tighter, it became the common duty of the policemen detailed at the stations to drive tack (he crowd and extricate the two passengers Before and after the lie-up the service of the local was good, there being three trains to every express train. Delays there were bowever, at the Brooklyn Bridge station, owlns slowness In emptying the trains. At nearly all stations the of platform men and guards was far too small to handle the crowds and the men were forced to rely mainly on the police In the late afternoon rush of northbound passengers, motors and other appliances on severiil trains became deranged or broke down, and it was necessary to discharge the passengers of those trains at and shu-'t out Individual cars or entire trains to the tracks that eventually will lead to the northeastern Bronx region.

The hit Harlem bard. A Tribune who boarded a northbound local ir.i.n i Fiftieth- St. at 8 o'clock reached One-hundrf-i-and- Continued iiernl page. COA! MINE A VuLCANO. MANY MEN ARE KILLKD Terrific Explosion Sets Fire to Colorado Mine and Cuts Off Escape.

Trinidad. Oct. Between thirty and sixty men lost their lives a terrific explosion which occurred at Mine No. 3 of the Rocky Mountain Fuel and Iron Company at Terclo. forty miles west of Trinidad, this afternoon.

The exact number of dead may never be known, as the mine is burning, and in all likelihood the bodies will be consumed. A large nun. ber of mine officials left here as soon as word of the accident was received. Company doctors were picked up all along the line, as well as all other available physicians, and everything possible is being done to put out the fire and reach the imprisoned miners. F.

J. Foreman, a government stock inspector, was at Tercio when the explosion occurred. He returned here to-night, and gave the following account of the affai; I was standing rot more than hundred yards, from the mouth of the tunnel when the explosion occurred. The explosion was preceded by a low. rumbling sound, resembling an earthquake, which made the earth tremble and startled whole camp.

1 looked toward the mine, and out of the mouth of the tunnel and two came a great volume of smoke and dust, which continued for nearly a minute. Out of the other shafts, each of whi-h is seven in diameter, timbers that fully two or three feet in diameter were shot into the air and broken into splinters. Rocks were thrown over the ramp for a of a quarter of a mile. In fact, it rained rocks, broken timbers and all kinds of and many persons were injured by being struck with these missiles. The explosion, which a volrani? eruption, caused the wildest excitement.

Men. women and childien to the moatk of the tunnel, and won'en whose husbands were in the mire hai to be brought away by miners to prevent their beinjy killed by deadly fumes coming from the mouth of the tunnel. The mine in which the accident occurred employs eighty men. and it is believed that at least sixty were in the mine at the time. News of th? explosion brought assistance from the adjacent camps, and to-night hundreds of men were trying: to enter the mine.

Deadly fumes overcame the rescuers frequently, but their immediately were tiken by others ready to risk their lives. It was not thought possible that any one in the mine could escape death. FRENCH CABINETS PERIL. Escapes Defeat by Four Votes- War Minister May Resign. Oct an excedlngly stormy debate in the Chamber of Deputies, the government to-night escaped defeat by only four votes, and rumor, are already current that the Minister of War.

whose administration was the subject of the discussion, contemplates resignation. For some time General Andre has been object of violent attacks in the press confined to Opposition papers, the Palpal charges against him being favoring officers whose politics coincided with the government a stopping the promote of those suspected of Clerical or Conservative tendencies, organizing an elaborate system of spying on the private lives of officers, and encouraging officers to act as informers. These charges were made subject of an interpellation by Lieutenant- Colonel Rousset. who went into great detail, reading correspondence alleged to have passed between a confidential subordinate of the minister and the heads of Masonic lodges in regard to the promotion or disgrace of various officers. General Andre, who was frequently noisily interrupted by the Opposition, gave explanations of certain specific allegations and repudiated all knowledge of the correspondence read by Rousset.

The general expressed strong disapproval of the methods charged against him, and declared that if it should be shown that such conditions really existed he would take severe measures to end them. The Chamber carried by acclamation a motion condemning espionage, and by a vote of to 274 expressed its conviction that the members cf the government would take whatever steps were necessary. A $15,000,000 MORTGAGE. Part of the Money Is for New- Haven's Harlem Branch. What is said to be the largest mortgage ever filed in the County Register's office, at White Plains, was placed there yesterday by the New- York.

New-Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. It is for The mortgage is given Jointly by the New- Haven Railroad ar.d the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad Company to the United States Trust Company of New- York. The instrument is dated May IG. 1904. and sets forth that the property which is mortgaged is in New-York City.

Mount Verr.on. Pelham and New-Rochelle. and that the New-Haven corporation is the sole owner of the Harlem River Chester Railroad Company. The money derived from the mortgage Is to be making the Harlem River branch from New-Rochelle to One-hundred-and-twentyrinth-st a four track electric rapid transit system, and also for building the proposed new third rail line from Woodlswn through West Farms, and the southern section of The Bronx, to the Harlem River. It is proposed to establish connections with the Interborough system at West Farms that will eventually give a through service from the Battery to New-RocheUe and Mount Yemen.

The contemplated Improvements to the Sew- RocneUe road make it practically a new lino. Tho route of the existing line is to be 1 In the main, slight divergencies being made to avoid the present curves. It will be practically without grades and and entirely free from erosstngSjL Traits will be run on a headway. The estimated cost of the irrr'" tt 1 to the line is f7.T01.881. but this sum probably will be exceeded.

EAID ON CHEVY CHASE CLUB. Maryland Sheriff Seizes Several Hundred Worth of lipor. Washington. Oct. A raid was made on the Chase Club, devoted to countrjfsports.

In Montgomery County, across the District line, where local option Is in force, by the Sheriff of Montgomery County to-day. Several hundred dollars' worth of liquor was seized and the bartender was arrested. The bartender was promptly released, but the liquor was confiscated. The club Is largely made up of peopte well known in Washington society, of the diplomatic corps, the Court and Coagi IKICE THREE CENTS ALL FEAKS OF WAR ANGLO-RUSSIAN TERMS. Baltic Fleet's Responsibility To Be Fixed Under Hague Convention.

Russia and Great Britain have agreed to submit the Dogger Bank affair to an international commission organized under the terms of The Hague convention. The vessels which took part in the attack on the trawlers will be detained it Vtgo by the government. Mr. Balfour. sacking at Southampton, warmly praised the attitude Russia, but refused credence to the report of Admiral Rojestvensky.

Admiral Rojestvenstky's story is explicitly denied by the crews of the trawlers nt Hull. No torpedo boats, they say, werr sighted, and the last Russian vessel on the scene if alleged to have fired on the fishing vessel Krnnett at 7 a. in. The admiral is quoted in a dispatch from Vigo as saying that six shots hit Russian vessels. Port Arthur, according to advices from Tokio, Che-Foo and Shanghai, is in desperate straits.

Important defences north of the fortress have been taken by the Japanese, the garrison is greatly reduced and almost entirely without ammunition, and the warships have been badly damaged by shells. PREMIER CALMS BRITAIN. Russia's Attitude Praised War' ships Held at Vigo. London, Oct. AD danger of war between Russia and Great Britain has been averted, and the settlement of the only points in dispute regarding the attack by the Russian Baltic squadron on British trawlers, October 21.

has been referred to an international commission under The Hague convention. Premier Balfour. speaking at a meeting of the National Union of Conservative Clubs at Southampton broke that silence which nad been so long preserved, which had brought the people of the United Kingdom to a condition of aimost desperate irritation, and which had given rise to misconceptions which Mr. Balfour to-night himself exposed. "The Russian Ambassador." said Mr.

Balfour. "lias authorized a statement to the following The Russian government, on hearing- of the Xcrth Sea incident, at once expressed its profcund regret and also promised most compensation. The government has ordered tba detention at Vigo of that pare of the fl -er was concerned in the incident, in crier that the rava! authorities might ascertain what officers were responsible for it; that those office- and any material witnesses would not proce -d on the voyage to the Far East, and that Inquiry would be instituted into the facts by an international commission, as provided by The Convention. That. Mr Balfour interpolated, had nothing to do with arbitration, it was the constitution of ar.

international commission, in crder ro find OQi the facts, and any person found guilty would be tried and punished adequately. The Russian government undertook that precautions would be taken to guard against re currency of such incidents. Special isstrnctfcmsj on this subject would be issued. Preliminary to this court, Mr. Ealfo-jr.

there would be the coroner? inquest ar 1 over the dead fishermen, 1 Board of inquiry, and an inquiry by Rqssian officials at Vigo. The Beard of Trade tnejoferj woujd specially couJtltUted by the British government to include representative The Rossiaa Embassy has be-n asked to a reprfsontalive and give assistance. Apology and compensation having "Uready been offered nothing now remained bvt tc detervtnc wfejcb account correct, or the trawlers' Mr BaU'our plainly sail that Thursday Russia and Great Britain seemed to hr- on brink cf war. ar.d jtt arm the frankest ptaise to rh? gttttude preserved throughout by the and ernrr.er.t. While th- Premier was unable to praise the pacific attitude ol the goitsiiasent too highly, he bitterly Rpjestvcnslp's report, declaring that it an insult to Great Britain as 3.

nsuiial nation, and rtdlcalsd probability. The immense audience received Mr. Balfour's announcement of the settlement of the affair with unbounded enthusiasm, which was echoed through the kingdom when the extras came out and set suspense at resr. The day was an eventful one In the metropolis. The population, stirred by rlartng headlines ia the morning newspapers, convinced that war was Inevitable.

Cabinet meeting. which was held at noon, served to kjKfVaaa rather than allay ar.x!ety. Through the country there had spread a deep rooted, though perfectly erroneous, idea that Great Britain had. given Russia a time limit in which to reply, and BwiesfOfd, England's naval was on the spot. Many, indeed thought it was only a question of hours when demeltsiling Russian ships.

The Marquis of Wtnchcstci presided over Immense meeting at Artillery Ball Southampton. where Mr. gpoke The Premier's! was the tot toad ami S3QSJ cheers. He said in part: If this meeting nad been heia yostertfaj vreaing 1 not bans dared to preface my remarks In a hopeful tone. Everybody Wt that if the trawler Incide could be repeated a belligerent fleet was indeed a pest against write i all neutral powers would be bound to comb ne The only version we had on Monday of tha lamentable of the previous Friday the version supplied us by the trawlers.

Thursday morning the situation changed, because for the first time we hud the counter story, supplied! by the Russian admiral. In the story of our fishermen there was much tragedy, but no romance: in the story of the Russian admiral there is no tragedy, but I am driven to the be let that there is much romance. It impossible to doubt which is the correct story. I should not have approached but tor the fact that the admiral's story Is really an attack upon oar national honor, and implies that we net doing our duty as neutrals. In aa Island kingdom Great Britain.