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1 I I THE EVENING WORLD FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 1908 i NEW MANHATTAN I BRIDGE TEST FOR STRENGTH ORDERED II Mayor Accedes to Request of City Club for Rigid Examination I TO ALLAY PUBLIC FEAR Former Contends That Offi 1 1 i dais Know Duty and Have Already Done It i I I The City flub Is ant certain that the I Manhattan Bridge will carry the loads i If dr lgned far It and hay through Homer I Folks Phalinan of the Transit I IF Committee addressed a letter to the 5 Mayor requesting thai the plans be ii 4 carefully scrutinized before further work Is done Mayor Meridian conferred with I llrldie Corn mission Pleven in and Ills i II answering letter wa authorized by the I I I It Hoard of Estimate today I The letter reads In part as follows In relation to your request that an examination lie made of the plans of the A i Manhattan Bridge the Commissioner of IJt UrldRcs Informs tho Hoard of Kstlmnte and Apportionment that In order to allay I any uni cat he Intends to retain an Independent expert engineer to examine Into the design and tho method of construction 1 of the bridge I 1 Before any contracts for construction I 1 of any part of the bridge were let I i full and exhaustive determination of the stresses which would occur In i every individual member were made 7 Further every detail In the bridge i had been fully designed before the letting of any contract so that there never has existed any uncertainty as to what the dead load or the total i load to be supported by the bridge and the resulting stresses would be 1 The contractors have not been called rp upon as was the case with the Queens boro Bridge to design any portion of II the work In order to meet any speclllc ii requlromentB as to loads and stresses 1 1 Such designs were made and checked by expert bridge engineers in the employ I of the city before a pound of steel lor the bridge had been made This board Is not willing to assume I I that they are Incompetent to direct the construction of the Manhattan Bridge i I or that they have directed the construction i of a bridge Improperly planned If I I STOCKS DfGLlNE IN 1 i AN ACTIVE MARKET il ACTiVE Bull Opposition in the Coalers Halts Sag for a Time but Prices Later Fall i Storks wore strong In the early mill let dcallngM today A slight yielding i IIr priers was ovworae by hull operations In the coulers Ilallroad Mocks general stiffened in smypathy but the hiwjiriiod Muck wllJcoh him dKUrod 1 prominently In the recent market were i not so prominent tow York Clilcnco ii tU Louis gained jiolnts All is Chal ii incrs preferred i lb IntiTlmroughMcl lupaUtiu preferred l1 Julie uric und Vftern 1 I ud Heading and the lrs preferred Daltlmu1 mil Ohio Ucla I vnro and orison III loot Ientrnl and IVintral riilivnd of New IcTpeji 1 to 1 11 United llulhviiyh and Juvcst lent preiericl yeliled 1 11 null American let SlIKItr 1 Irlcit fell off In the afternoon mud tho manel ciosod with losses uf over DOlnt iadlnu vt aethi I The total snlea of moekt wiru lfftM chares and of hond II IWO 11 list Ihll 1rlces I Tdls hlMiit Iiuisi Cad lit Irk 0 wvKB iiinl I1 rVmciui aN rmnppriil WII i riirdivtf final Jlvurti art UN fullo a et Jllii I 1n 1 1111 up I7 kX 1 7 i Alin 1dl 1I 1Sa 1 Ale I 0 I I I rI 1 a Am tam 1 Ii 1r xrn Irti ii Ire rinR 1st u17 IIN7 Ala 1 nl II I II Anarorta IIIII rII l0 Ia 7n i 1 7d I I ttr ill t1 0 aryl Ia I 1 tf Hrcckl tt I rm 1nlfl 171 1 7 17 BAR ASSOCIATION I ASKS COURT TO REMOVE DROEGE i I Appellate Division Urged to I Ignore Report of Referee on Magistrate I I Counsel for the Bar Association np peared before the Appellate Division of the Supremo Court First Department today and asked for the removal of City Magistrate Otto 11 llroege notwithstanding the report of Referee Will lam Willis that Magistrate Proege had done only what other city masls I I ttates had done I Wallace Macfnrlane for the Hal As pcclatlon did not approve of the report I of the referee In summing up he 1 nskcd for the removal of Droege on these grounds That Droege knew that some of his I discharges were Illegal That he paid money to the reporters I to suppress their criticisms of these Illegal legal acts I i That a Judge who offers money to hush publicity of Illegal acts committed by him as a Judge Is unworthy lore jmaln on the bench I Counsel for the Bar Association told II of the charges co cernlng Magistrate Droege explaining that the socalled supplementary charges were made to the 1 Bar Association by Mayor McClellan after the first charges had ben sub I mlttcd to the Appellate Court Hrlelly reviewing the case he said that accordIng to the first charges Magistrate Droege had offered to pay reporters and I did pay a reporter through Max Alter I a lawyer 100 to Induce him to refrain from publishing criticisms of the Magis itrat I Now said the lawyer the refero finds every charge Is true that the I whole sixteen discharges were unlawful and further finds that Magistrate Droege i fell into the prevailing practice of the other city Magistrates and thinks he should not he removed The whole system of dealing with this class of offenders has been nullified by the Magistrate appointed to carry It out Howard Sans for the defense asked i for a dismissal of the case I The evidence lie said established conclusively that the practice of dls charging prisoners after commitment to the workhouse was well established I long betore Dmege took ofllce and that It was adopted by him In entirely I good faith Do you mean to say Mr dam asked Justice Ingraham that any intelligent lawyer reading the charter could get any other interpretation out of It than that the magistrate had only power to discharge after twenty I dnyYour Your Honor said Mr Guns I dont know how intelligent 3 am but that is the Interpietatlon I tool of It I and I have report of the Corporation I Counsel who oas the provision In the charter Is a doubtful one and should I he passed on by a higher court And I I always gave the Corporation Counsel credit for Intelligence I Arguments were concluded today but I the Cpurt reserved Its decision I RUEF TO APPEAL SAN FRANCISCO Dec 11 Abraham Huef who was convicted yesterday on a charge of bribery after a trial lasting thie months and a hnlf will be arraigned for sentence tomorrow before Judge Lawler It is ceitain from statements of Henry Aeh liuefs chief counsel that the case will be appealed to a higher court hee Uhlo r7 4 7 I ct tbct 11 I 1314 1I9n I 1 I hit Aiton a i Sax Iy 4 St ell I Inn li i I 1 IU tu 7 Cot 5outhrrn tip ad 11 onpol Iae Inds 11 Put I a 1 011 r1 III Ui Itj hurl 11 Lxr 71 i IIM Fc 011 t1 ht a 7 Irlo 11 la aIn liiectric Ii4 Inv lr 1a 111 Nr IL IIr II91 1111 Il1leL Slot Illy Ill lux Ix II eutral Ili N7 Intf UIII I Inutx 7tush 17ita 1n I ii Iunttun tlU II7t 1 181 SSl II 111 1ilr tin li A Tis tlu Icllll Cth n3 01 Nat lrtd viii NI iw JI 1Iii 22 21f1 Ili North Ale 11 Iii I 1 innate WI f9 tl Iniral IIi 1171 117ty North paalll HUI 1114 11 4 I blln run A Se 1 47 41 I liiii tr panbylruna pal tau a lrlsrel Fuel IJ rift l4 Ihudhlg 1ii tell 11 III IJ Itep 1 I 4 aq i lien tO ei Ir hat a Sit Ii Iii a YI I Ita Ruck nu 11 ef ar Ulh So fill I I I t11 a i4 1 1 Hal Ir twi AIL It TIIIJ A ii ce a 11T I 1n I itl 14F4 I i 1 Pia I I 8 eei 1 li ii Stei pf Itti 11 111 Ptah JI 4r Ili 4T 11 II 41 Vit UI n1 alit 1 Robert 11 17 lly Wltlon if 111 rii 411 I tlur Ie Iir ilr IT 1 I 1 Al UII 1rUn 30 1Cl OS So I oaaweyy Btc Sts SALE OF NEW FRAMED PCTUES I Tl1u Iud I dIlly ttt lu 6liuttt 1 in nUl jl 1J tsi4 II moot us pu llIwdd ur jUIlj 1 FRAMED COLOHEIJ FACaJMJLES 25 to 1000 FRAMED ETCHINGS 4S to 2000 FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRINTS 39 tO 2500 CARBON PHOTOGRAPHS 25 to 1800 CO lEUE1 ANP DEN PICTURES tOS to 500 CHRISTY AND IHSON PICTURUS US to 200 WATER COLOF RfcPHQOUCTJONS 25 to 300 FR MVJ Oil PAINTINGS 3 75 to 150 00 IICTURES CORRECTLY FRAMED ATON2 THIfH IESh THAN OTHKRa CHARGE ANU WORK Is lONP tY EXPfJiTS One Million Christmas Cards and Calendars from Ic to 1000 Each AISSING WFE OF MilliONAIRE TRACED HER I I 0 I I I I Detectives Scour City for Mrs I I Stone and Watch All I Steamship Piers I DtNIIeR who are said to have traced i Mrs llertha May Slone wife of A i Stone millionaire coal operator of I Unlontown Pa through PlttsburK and Philadelphia to New YorU are search i ins the city for her today with a hope of earning the J2VXI reward offered by I her husband for her capture It Is fald the detectives also haven clew to the whereabouts of Kmery Martin twentyseven years old a grocer and butcher of llnpwood a small place near Vnlontown who loft Dec 2 the day Mrs Stone disappeared ostensibly for iTeorgla on business One of the main ohlects of the large reward offered and the desire of Mr Stone to find his wife Is said to be to let her know that her mother Mrs Lottie i Ingall killed herself on Tuesday after learning of her daughters disappear once Martin railed occasionally nt our house but 1 never thought he ii my wifn were particularly fri ndly Mr I Stone said today I have learned that three weeks ago he sold his business for JilOO Martin did not tell his wife he intended to leave Ilopwood He served In the SpanishAmerican war nnd became I Interested In the Philippines where he afterwards was assigned to duly Ills wife said she believed he would KO to the 1lillluplnes If he could and It has been learned that Mrs Stono had evinced great interest lately in the Ulinds and had made frequent Inquiry of life there Mrs Stone was a leader In social affairs and church and charitable work In Unlontown The search here today Is confined largely tu piers from which Mrs Stone might have taken passage abroad and Mr Stone has given orders that every steamship dock in thin United State whence his wife might have sailed bo visited I P1TTSHUIU5 Pa Dec llSiipt Perkins of till Pel kins Detective Agency I bald today that he had traced Mrs I A Stone wife of the millionaire coal operator of tniontuwn who i eloped with Kmery Martin ot 1101 i wood to New York City and that her arrest was probable within twenty i four hour Pel kins and Stone were i i closeted all morning and at noon Stone said he did not believe his wife was now with Martin The couple he be I lleved had separate In some Kutrteinl city and Martin was keeping undercover Stone bellecs his wife Is mentally affected I I Thousands of circulars with photographs of the couple scene sent the police of American and Canadian cities tills morning Sone expresses II willingness to increase his reward for the appiohenMi of his wife to JjOyj RAWHIDE STOCK SIZES ON CURB KoAvhldc 1iinlltloii stock lilih was the sensational feature of yesterdays I curb market where it made a maxi i muni decline of HI points held fairly steady during todays early session and the tradhiK wts only nominal The opening prlo1 was Jl an advance of 2 cents over yesterdays closing IlKure Front mils Itauhlde His told down tn 75 rents on sales esllmatd at fiimi shares After a lull it was bid up to aJ i ents This was fill wed by a detllne tInts Us in tie nilein un on vales about 1Mq shares I LEAGUE BAZAAR AT THE JALOORF GREAT SUCCESS Professional omcn Gather In Slieckels With Choice Lot of Holiday Gifts In the large and elaborate display of articles at the annual bazaar of the Professional Womans league In the Hyrtle and East looms of tho Waldorf Astoria are dolls pincushions aprons candy lowers books penwipers sofa cushions and almost everything else usually seen at the bazaar which promises to be a great success this year Miss Amelia Hlngham president of the Irague received among other things yesterday a cup and saucer for her tea table from Tom Wise the gentleman from Mississippi whose contribution Is embellished with a thousand wise men Miss nirgham opened the bazaar which Is to have a matlneo and evening performance each day Mrs Edna Wallace Hopper presides over a racing wheel assisted byGeoigia Calre and there was a crowd con singly about her Mrs Annie Yeamans who Is called the youngest member of the league sold the first cup of tea and Grace Cameron wrsnt a bit sorry although she had tried to do It herself Today Miss Lillian Pussell will drop Ui to cut cake at St a slice and Mrs Etta Recd Payton Is on tho Job with a corps of assistants persuading all corners to drop a line Into the fish pond and catch anything you want In the fish line Miss lilllle Burke Is In charge of the art booth while the fortune department Is ably dispensed by Miss Maida Cralgen And there are hosts of others all pretty beaming and obliging If you dont believe It ask Tom Wise who dropped In long enough to leave all the money he had with him Miss Hingham last evening pinned on Dr Ida Nahm chairman of the bazaar the Jewelled league badge a gold affair set with six large and three small diamonds an acknowledgment of her work Simon Nahm presides over fie Friars booth and Mrs Mortimer frown of Philadelphia has charge of the booth furnished by the Cusnman Club of that city Tea cup luve been contributed by John Drew Emma lames Geraldine rarrar Mis Hum Bryan Leavltt and others 4 TIGER SKIN FURS AND SILKS GIFTS TO MRS ROOSEVELT Sent by the Ute Dowager Empress of China by a Special i Ambassador WA3II1NUTON Dec 11Mrs Roosevelt I today received the gifts from the late Dowager Empress of China wfilch I were brought by Special Chinese Ambassador Tans Shao Yl They consist of I a handsome tiger skin lined with yellow bilk and said to be one cif the laigest In existence bolts uf beautiful silk sables and silver The gluts were In six large packages i and were taken to the White House by Yung Kwal one of the Secretaries of the special embassy sent by the late Emperor of China to thank President i Roosevelt and tlie American Government I for tin remission 01 a large portion of the lloxer indemnity I MELBA TO SING MONDAY I I Oscar Hammersteln received yesterday II wirfless mKfiiKi from Slate Melba who Is due uii the JUMtanla tomorroW saying tl at she would 11 read to sing at the Manhattan Opera Ituust on Monday in a lloheine na an I nnunctvi I ro JILTED WOMAN TRIED TO KilL HIM MAN SAYS Mabel Gardner Sought Vengeance When He Tired of Her Lohman Charges I Miss Mabelle Gardner a handsome young woman who says she Is a saleswoman wns ariiUgned today In the Jefferson Market Police Court on charges of attempted murder ant carrying a pistol Appearing against her was Max A Loman who says she has Ixitheied him for months that she I has tried on several occasion to kill him and typo admits laying a trap I which resulted In her arrest last night Miss Gardner who Is thirtytwo I yet rs old nnd left her home In Arizona about six years USD says she used to love Lehman but that he borrowed money from her that she pro vlded the means for him to lake a trip to Europe and tnit In return he deM rted her When she asked him lorI money she says he laughed it her 1 Iohman made nn appointment to meet Miss Gardner last night at 10 oclock at Washington place and Macdougal street Policeman MclCeever went with him and hid behind tree As Iohman walked out under the cletrli light the I woman rushed at him and the policeman I seized her He said In court that I she struggled and tried to open her I handbag and when he Investigated found shit had a pistol In It Lohman is twentyfour years old and says he Is a clerk He lives nt No 120 East Tnenq seventh street Miss I Gardner live at No 91 West Fourteenth street The woman was held In S1r41 ball on tin charge of carrying a ecu eahd weapon and she will be examined later cm the charge of attempted murder ILUSITANA NEARS PORT 121IIJJRS lATE i Distinguished List of Notables Passejigers on the Cunard Liner The Cunard liner Iusitania reached Sandy Hook at 121 oclock this afternoon twelve hours late Everything was cleared for quick work at Quarantine to allow her to reach her duck In the North River before dark Heavy winds and seas delayed the vessel In the early part of her voyage A wireless message States that since Wednesday morning she has been averaging aided by favorable weather close to twentyfour knots an hour A long anti distinguished list of par sensors Comm in on the Luirltanii Miie Melba the pit na donna waR probably the star notable She li coming to New York for the tll1 time In two years and will open her seuoon at HamviMelirs Manhattan operaHouse Monday niht Charles Frohmnn Is coming over to prepaie the llrst performance of Maud Adamss new play and will sail again for London when that work Is out of the way If his plans dn not miscarry Otlir passengers ere nlgii NYthersole the tutifbh Mrs luinex Henry Smith aId cif Sllii1 Smith Achiun Iselm 11 ant Mr iiio Mis Cuinellua VanJei MH and twj children 7ln I I I I 11 tI If eQ 1 00 00 0 0 ri I 1 I 4 1 6300 Importer of Diamonds and Manufacturing Jeweller 9Q 1 d0 ors oo Rich Solid Gold Holiday Presents 0 Where quality workmanship and value are guaranteed the very best at FACTORY PRICES Finest Genuine Diamond and 1 0 i Solid Gold Jewelry fiY td Manufactured in our factory on the premisei prove the moil satisfactory cl 4 of all gilt the gieateit value is obned at the lowest cost 5300 I I 1 I Srcc nlrOLlD GOLD SIGNET RINGS of every fit ceicnpion from the Inexpensive to the mast cotty Examine the rr jJ a odds and cojv nee tu ou facorv prcri ere the lowe Your choice of monogiajn engraved free on any ring 1 h0 rn 11 ci codaJ Prftnti ulected roi ull It rnmil until ran a he UPT VS STORE 7 51y Sixth Ave Car 17th St I i a7tso 1 Fedmy on Dolh nnim Open Even IIi n1 lot Ct1olllf 4 DOWNTOWN STORE I 290 Grand St Cor Jdrldgc a CONGRESS NAMES MEN TO PlAN WAR ON ROOSEVELT Perkins of New York Presents I Bill in House Which Is Immediately Passed WASHINGTON Dee llImmrdlMe ly after the convening of the House today Representative Perking of New York Introduced a resolution which hail heretofore been agreed upon providing for the appointment of a special committee of live members to consider the proper means of dealing with that portion of the Presidents message which criticises the course of Congress In prohibiting the detail of secret service men to duty outside of their own bureaus The resolution Is preceded by a preamble reciting some expressions of the message No effort Is made to give voice to the feeling of tho House In presenting the resolution Mr Perkins made brief statement saying that he was satisfied that the House would not hesitate to take each action as the dignity of that body required He said that some of the Presidents expressions were unfortunate The resolution was adopted and Messrs Perkins New York Pen Michigan Weeks of Massachusetts Williams of Mississippi and Lloyd of Missouri wore appointed on the committee in submitting the resolution Mr Perkins said tin it the statements by the Piisdent could not be lightly diMe Kardoti as they might Impair he lIe tulnes of tle Congress that undue obtuseness might argue a lack of proper sellrepect A resolution similar to that passed by the Jlotiau prliaoly will be adopted by the Senate early next week It will provide for the appointment of a om mltttf to recommend course of action relatue too tin Presidents utterance Mr Perkins has called a inciting of the cool nute4 for tomorrow afternoon He said that he expects to be able to bring In report betore the holiday recess of Congress ItcpuMlcin Senators today considered what action should be tutee ly the eKUe conrcrnlng tie message uf the President and it practically was decided to permit the lesolutlon to he brought In by some lemurratic Sena 01 Tie resolution will provide for an investigation of the whole subject by tie Senate Committee on Appropriations 4 Milehle on Steamer1 leek SAX FRANCISCO 1ii 11Within sight of home and native land Carl Uerbster a private In the hospital corps ended his life yesterday on the deck the trinsjiort Tnumaa by slashing his throa with a razor as the Thomas neared the Golden Gate I HIS 13 CHilDREN SAVE VIOLA FROM TERM IN PRISON Prisoner Paroled After Judge Foster Gazes at Group Photograph i i There ares fourteen good reasons why i John Viola was discharged by Judge Foster In Part lIt of Gcnonl Sessions today ao follows i Otto wife Thirteen children I President Hoosevelt pease write I Vloln If a longshoreman fiftythroe years old and his home Is over In Jersey at the town of Silver Luke On Nov i 10 he got Into a quarrel on West tnt with a fellow lougshorcnuu7 John Clva of No MO Sacliett street liruoklyn and In the tight that followed he gouged tilvn so Jiunl with a sharp cotton honk that Glva wont to the hospital with along gash In his back Tin Grand Jury Indicted Viola for assault In the third degree and he pleaded Rillty This morning he was brought over from the Tombs fur sentence Your Honor Mild Ma lawyer this man has been hard worhlns Industrious peaceful citIzen ever since he came hero from Italy nnd he has done I Ills duty to his adopted country by rearing I a family of thirteen children all of i whom are alive and healthy and very 1 much In need of a fathers can Here the lawyer handed up a Photograph showing S1 and Mrs Viola nnd the thirteen little Violas In a group He offered a statement also by a charities organization to show that the Viola household would ho dependent upon the community If the breadwinner went to prison and followed this up ly Introducing Otva the complainant who admitted he had called la hard name before lie first blow fell Looking at the picture Judge Foster said iiiif If I were the President of the Itilled States I would no doubt free this min and give him an Immediate place In the Temple of Fame lielng merely a Judge I cannot do that The prisoner has admitted the assault It Is true iut he did not attempt to gain the sympathy of the court by bringing his fnm lly here during the trial and crowding this room with them There Is aim thence that he was not without provocation I will therefore parole him in the tustody of the lawyer Nola you man back to your family and I hope you will be worth of them Noia went I GAS OVfRGOMfS 1 ILDREAT PLAY Members of Ian Families Stricken Down Within Half Hour in Williamslnirg I Within the space of hal an hour this afternoon members of two families residing within half a lock of each other lt in WIlllimMuirK were overcome by Kas The 1111 pnilritlon orcnrted at No 211 Moore street where Mrs Sarah ituhliti left her throe children playing In the kitchen while she went on an errand The children ill imrierteil a nib her tube from a gas stove and when tits mother returned she found her litho family opener overcome i Hr McMahon of St Citherlnen ling pltal had Just revived the Ooldcn chil area when a hurry mil time fruni thor I Mi Its Vri himilli at So 209 Ten Kyck street The tin i air found Mrs Vorthmuller and her tv Ivo year old nteie Kamile Ingiie IIIICIIM Mns Tho little girl Is 111 and Mrs UVrthmullor laid Iwn nn a bed beside her Thu gas went nut while tuy WI asleep anti ISCIIH kind tcigha druppid twentyIlvo cents Inti a pas meter in the rellar renewing the fI or gas In JUMnhon I ref vd the Vorthtnulletis in a few minutes I i 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