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BBLK CBOWDS ABOUT TIIIMTV. £ower Broadxcay Thronged by Jostling, Noisy Merrymakers. th- East Side, the West Side. Harlem and rTO nx with a few thousand- from Brooklyn. nt fun makers fun Tl B-oadwav fairly echo and re-echo last fT it was the ancient tradition of seeing the ear out and the new year in.

with old Trinity Old the Mecca for all hands. iv expected to hear much of the fourteen 222 that the chlminc bells gave forth at the Albert Meislahn. but everybody wanted to Al wh en the first chimes began. Ji and subway trains, and surface oars, be- EIfVS and midnight, brought thousands. Into Broadway from the side Ikthe main stream coming down the I and the throngs gradually grew Into ftlde of human beings, which carried a evervthliur before it.

The police-and a cr hundreds of them-were swept along ther only at the crossings were they any semblance of order. seem possible that more fun could be 5 noise made than on previous years. din from half an hour before midnight bUt a fter the one great deafening outburst, when until was bom, seemed louder than ever. Something that only a New-York crowd Xt was a horn, a rattle or a uld JSta the hands of almost every man and Every one was good-natured and it a Mardl Gras celebration In many ways. Fern Lowers or confetti were used, and the that marked the Coney Island Mardl 2JSS brought into play by the youngsters and of the older fun makers.

ricial Watch Night services were held in last night, on account of the great outside The regular service was held at 8 the Alfred Qriffln preaching the taken from Psalm xc. 1: "Lord. Su h-t been our dwelling place In all our. from 1130 o'clock. Trinity's chimes Jved the following elections: "Duke StreeC' a Fllgrta Going Home." "Lead.

Kindly tlhf Land of Promise." "Grand Millennl" -Old Hundred." "Come, Welcome the New -Old Volunteer Firemen," "Old Doff Tray." SSci in "Bonnie Elolse." "Child of Regiment." "Auld Lang Syne" and "Home. o'clock this morning before the J- of pleasure seekers turned uptown, and It was hour later before Broadway had resumed its normal condition. For a time the cars were stopped Setter'- and when the crowd began to go home STsubwar. the aurfaoe and the CarS were ranked almost to suffocation. we- Watch Night services in churches all It the city.

In Grace Church this service folwed fie regular service, but in the Madiaon Aye- Melodist Episcopal Church It took the place of service. The chimes of St. Andrew's iTTth-st and played fourteen beginning at 11:45 p. m. The Rev Dr.

Sonppon conducted a Watch Night service at the Park wenue Methodist Episcopal Church. watch Nleht services were also held in the Scotch Church, in St. Andrew's Church, in -6th-sf the West End Presbyterian Church. X- Mark'; Protestant Episcopal Church, the Street Methodist Church. Broadway Calvary Church, the Washington Square MKhodist Episcopal Church and at the Hotel Bar- National Arts Club.

In West there was an entertainment, consisting of classical music, followed by supper and a dance. midnight watch The annual custom of keeping midnight watcn to welcome the new year was observed in the Old John Street Church. Early in the evening the Epworth League held a meeting in the basement of (be church, and services continued until after midabritf. The church was crowded at this hour, many hk'W been attracted to the historic old edifice from the Broadway crowd, glad to celebrate the dawn or another year in a more quiet manner. At St Patrick's Cathedral the organist, Mr.

Lnger Blared three numbers on the chimes, beginning at U-4S p. -Venl Creator Spiritus." the "Magniflcst" and blowing Light." and otherwise cele- Charged with blowing horns and otherwise celebrating the dying of the old year, thirty-two boys trdvLz lien were arrested at Broad and Market cu i Vewark. the centre of that city, last The- were among tha thousands who had our to take part in the New Year's Eve Aalhe had no advance le permitted. There was consternation when the WoftSais to raid the crowd. Owing to the 1 Start Thrice.

"ost of the paraders returned totbeir homes, and the year was permitted to die with scarcely a toot. Of the prisoners taken, were locked up and the balance paroled. the usual Watch Night services in many of tho Brooklyn chnrcbes last nig ht- In bU th a For ha an hour prior to the advent of the new year the chimes in other churches, includ- Teresa's Roman catholic and the Church of the Messiah, were plave.i. Tht fii nt reported last night came ftooklvn Tony Paulivi. twenty-seven years olrt, of No 27 Presldent-st loaded a cannon in the back yard of his house- There was a premature discharge and a -r'mn of the cannon struck mm.

fracturing bones in his right hand. rnree women who were standine were also bat none were seriously Injured. Paplivi was attended at his home by an ambulance surgeon. CROWDS HAIL NEW YEAR. Horn Blowing, Feather Wielding Throngs in Tenderloin Streets.

th- thai yesterday was Sunday. seen or listened to a 01 more exuberant welcome to a new year than 1905 received last night. As usual, the tin horn as king and the wooden rattle prime minister, nor was the distracting feather duster forgotten. The liter la a form of torment intro. last election night.

It consists of a miniature thei ister, with which the facetiously inclined Th. faces cf helpless passers by. It was rv. in evidence night, and drove many mli old ntlemen into a condition rirp on apoplexy. Sme of them, indeed, seemed Wed to death." The la t0 gather about 8 o'clock, and by the Eidevraiks of Broadway and 6th-ave.

were crowded that many had to walk in the street. By that time. too. it was impossible to make one'sf-lf heard, even with the aid of a megaphone. "It's impoFsibie for them to keep this noise up said one nervous old gentleman.

"They'll be hoarse and tired out long before midnight." But. of course, was wrong. By 10 o'clock the crowd doubled la size and in volume of noise it was prrKiuclr.K Mi of the horn and rattle dealers fcad solrj out their wares early in the evening. The lemonlirn continued uninterruptedly until midnight. When that hour was reached words could describe the tumult.

Tbere was at least one man who did not like the That iran Captain Dooley of the station. Not only was Captain Dooley A DIMPLE MAKER. md a child with dimples and chubby arms and legs and you a healthy child. Find one with drawn face and poor, thin body and you see one that needs Scon's Emulsion- Your doctor will no doubt tell you the child is fat- starved its food is not nourishing it. Nothing helps these thin, pale children like Scott's Emulsion.

It contains the very element of fut they need. It supplies them with a perfect and quickly digested nourishment. Scott's Emulsion brings dimples and rounded limbs. iCOTT BOWNE, 40S Ftarl Yoric uverae to the uproar but he made up his mind 10 stop It. Undaunted by the ad example of the man who tried to dam the falls of Niagara, he sent out a force of two sergeants and fifty uniformed policemen, specially assigned, with orders to arrest every man, woman or child who dared to blow a horn in any person's face or to tickle the countenances of the helpless with the distracting feather duster.

Sergeant Hughes and Demusey were the leaders of this forlorn hope. After they had reached Broadway with their men they discovered that if they attempted to carry out the captain orders they would have to use Madison 6quare Garden as a prison. It Is sad to relate that not only were Captain Dooley's orders not carried out. but the faces of Sergeants Hughes and Dempsey and their fifty men were incessantly tickled with feather dusters and their ear drums Himost split by the toots of tinhorns in the Lands of the daring. Except for this diversion the crowds were lawabiding and orderly, save for the presence of the usual army of pickpockets.

These were rounded up in great numbers by Central Office detectives. Despite the Sunday laws, all the saloons did a flourishing business, and the gambling Jiouses were wide open. The better class of cafes and hotels were crowded. If one hnd not previously reserved a table at Shanley's, Sherry's, Delmon'ico's, Rector's, the Waldorf or the Astor there was no room for him in any of these places last night. The Cafe Martin was besieged by so large a crowd that the management was distracted.

There were many private New 'Year parties at all the hotels and clubs. As the hour of midnight drew near the restless. noisy crowds with one accord turned toward Herald Square. Cars were blocked, and the people Jammed themselves forward until the square was crowded. As the minute hand on the Herald Building clock drew toward the hour a hush fell over the square.

The tin horns ceased; the noise died down to a murmur. There was almost silence as the sledgehammer In the hands of tho bronze figures slowly rose. With the first peal there rang out a tremendous outcry from the waiting throng. It was the New Year. All the theatres were crowded to the doors, "eacred concerts" being the order of the night.

The audiences came prepared to make the house ring with loud cheers and toots from tin horns. In the middle of some of the performances the audiences rose to their feet, blew horns and threw confetti and paper balls till they got tired. This merriment was kept up when the houses poured out their crowds, who joined in the thousands on Broadway. There was a sacred concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, and when the people 'came pouring i'-A. they were pelted with confetti and tortured with the tooting of horns.

Even when people entered carriages, they were not free from tormentors, for the tooting horns were shoved through the carriage window. All seemed to take it good naturedly as a penalty for being outdoors on New Year's Eve. LEG CETJSHED BETWEEN CAES. Amputation May Be Necessary Accident on 2d-ave. John Lehr, an engineer, of No.

426 East was thrown between two cars of a southbound train last night at the 14th-st. Ptation of the 2d-ave. line and so severely injured that his right leg may have to be amputated. Lehr was passing from one car to the other Just as the train drew up to the station. According to his own statement, he lost his footing by the sudden Jolting of the train and was thrown between the platforms.

The cars bumped together, pinning Lehr between them. Ho yelled pitifully when the cars struck- Several men tried to pull him out. but could not. He was still pinioned when a Belle ambulance arrived. Dr.

Benedict administered an opiate and ordered the train to be cut. When this was done Lehr was pulled out. The train was packed with gay crowds taking part in the New Year's celebration. HORSE RUNS TWO MILES. Narrowly Escapes Cars and Persons in Dash Through Sd-ave.

Frightened by an elevated train, a horse attached to a runabout ran through the Morrisania police precinct from to 147th-st. in 3dave. yesterday afternoon. Patrolman John Walsh, of the AJexander-ave. station, stopped the animal after being dragged a block.

He was scratched and bruised and his uniform was ruined. At the horse took to the northbound trolley track. A Fordham car waa going north at that point. Just as the motor-man was getting ready to jump, fearing a collision, and the passengers were hustling: to the back door, the horse swerved to the right to the southbound track. The left hind wheel of the runabout caught on the car's fender as It passed, and the hind wheels and body of the vehicle were torn off- The horse went on.

dragging the front wheels. Half a dozen blocks further south the horse caught up to a southbound car. The conductor realized the danger in time, and shouted to the motorman. who turned on all his power and sent the car leaping ahead. The motorman banged his gong, and the conductor shouted to warn every one of the runaway.

The horse swerved from the trolley track at 164th-st. and the wheels struck an elevated railroad pillar. The wheels Btopped there, but the horse kept on. Narrowly missing: elevated railroad pillars, trolley cars and other horses, the excited animal galloped all the way through the Morrisania precinct, the northern boundary of which Is at 17Oth-st into the 3oth precinct, at 149th-st. At an important subway, surface and elevated transfer point, the horse dashed through a crowd of people, but all managed to get out of way In time.

PUBLIC LECTURES TO RESUME. Many Courses Arranged for Second Series in "Workingmen's College." Sessions of the "Workingmen's College." as the public lecture courses arranged by the Board of Education have been termed, will be resumed on Wednesday evening. The first aeries ended two weeks ego. In answer to the growing demand for systematic adult education the Beard of Education has made provision for a large number of instructive courses. In October and November the attendance was 384.364.

an Increase of 5.604 over the same months last year The second series will cover January and February, and over one hundred courses by prominent lecturers have been arranged. Among the lecturers who have been engaged we a large number of college professors, who will repeat their college courses for the benefit the public. Arrangements have been completed w.th the public libraries whereby auditors at the lectures can draw out from the nearest branch libraries books on the subjects discussed. It is these facts which have led to the name of "Worklngmen Colleee" for the public lectures. The lecturer which are the only means of adult education for thousands of persons, are planned with a view to meeting the needs of the working classes.

A number of lectures Jiave been arranged in electricity biology, natural science and sociology. There will also be courses in practical subjects, such as first aid to the injured, the prevention of consumption the care of the teeth and eyes, and kindred subjects. Of more general interest are the illustrated lectures on general history and travel, all of which are Illustrated with stereopticon views. DrS Alfred Mitchell, of Columbia, will dellyer a Bourse of six lectures in astronomy 0.1 Monday evenings at St. Bartholomew's Lyceum, in East 42ri-st and Professor K.

W. Prentiss. of Rutgers College, will give five lectures on the same general subject Saturday evenings beginning January 2,. at the fol- nd Addison Baird will give lectures on the 'i Addlron Mrt will lecture, on the prevention ohn UI h. of Rutgers will Professor Jonn ectures on "Inserts and open his course a the Museum rags Evolution, Jien's Christian Association EdUcation.

have been arranged. given at Public Schoo Na IM ProttgOT be delivered at I uoiic the West SJdo C. L. Harrington. The 1 House will be the lecturer.

THE DEWEY TOWING NICELY, D-e 31 communlca- NEW-YORK DAJLY MONDAY. TATTATTT T. MB. KILBTJM'S DEFENCE REPORT AX ARGUMENT. He Says Xo Supervision Can Prevent Disaster Asks More Lazes.

Albany. Dec. Criticisms of the policy of the State Banking Department, especially In connection with the failure of certain banking institutions of the State, form the subject of a large part of the annual report of Frederick D. Kilburn, superintendent of banks, made public to-night and covering the State fiscal year ended September 30, 1905. Mr.

Kilburn says: There seems to be a tendency, in some quarters at least, to require that bank examiners and supervision shall be of that infallible nature which would utterly prevent failures or dishonesty. It seems to me that, while every officer should be held to a strict accountability in the performance of his duty, and that every examiner should be held responsible for thorough work in his lleld. it is beyond the power of any official supervision or examination which can be "devised wholly to prevent disaster or dishonesty. The law regulates the manner In which examiners shall be chosen. A supervising jfficer cannot choose them in any other way.

Upon these examiners he must rely, and I have yet to learn of any other method of choosing examiners or system of examinations which will Improve upon those now in operation under both federal and State supervision. Mr. Kilburn quotes in support of his position a recent comment of the United States Controller of the Currency on the same subject, including the following paragraph: After a bank falls and disclosures of dishonesty are made, it is wondered why such things could go on undiscovered so long. The examiner Is blamed and abused with or without reason. In some cases he is very much to blame, bat In those which I have had occasion to investigate this has not very frequently been found to be true.

It must be remembered that these frauds and deceptions are in most instances being carried on by men of unusual men who stand very high among their neighbors, not only in business, but also in social, religious and political matters. Almost invariably they deceive the whole community, their business associates, their friends and even their families. It Is frequently an astonishing revelation to all of these that the banker, who has failed, defaulted, and perhaps absconded, or killed himself Is not a man of wealth, as well as the Ideal of honor and business integrity. A SUPERVISOR'S DUTIES. The Superintendent's report continues: A supervising officer must of necessity depend upon the reports of his examiners, and even when these reports show a bank to be in a somewhat dubious condition it does not necessarily follow that it is best to take precipitate action, because the Controller of the Currency can cite you to many cases, as I can.

where Institutions have been saved whose solvency seemed questionable, and the condition of which was somewhat precarious. I believe it to be one of the highest duties of a supervising officer to try to save an institution if It be reasonably possible to do so. To do otherwise would be to resolve himself from a conservative supervising officer into a wrecker. During my term of office, which began in January, 1896, up to the close of the last fiscal year, the whole number of State banks which have closed otherwise than by voluntary liquidation Is eleven, and one trust the Merchants New- York. This trust company has paid its depositors in full, and of the eleven banks, two paid their depositors In full: one, the Elmlra City Bank owed no depositors, and was put into the hands of a receiver simply for the purpose of dissolving the corporation and paying back the stockholders, which I understand was done In full.

Two of the banks did not go into the hands of receivers, but were taken over by other Institutions for liquidation, to wit: The Niagara Bank, of Buffalo, and the New-York State Banking Company, of Syra- The Murray Kill Bank, of the city of New- York, The Murray Kill Bank, of the city of New- York, which was closed in August, 1896, paid its depositors per cent, and the Bank of Commerce, In Buffalo. Dald 79 per cent. Five banks closed by me are still in or liquidation, Including the German Bank of Buffalo. I am informed by the receivers of two of these that they will pay about 80 per cent each, and I am told by those supposed to be in a position to know that the German Bank of Buffalo will pay about 75 per cent. During the same period of nearly ten years, several banks have been Induced by me to go into voluntary liquidation, for the reason that tneir condition was precarious, or that through competition or lack of good management they had lost their ability to make money.

I would certainly welcome any amendment to Banking law which would insure or make possible better methods of supervision or examination, 1 believe the law which was passed last winter requiring semi-annual examinations by direct pis will go far toward improving the banks and trust companies of our State. It has too often been the complaint that "directors do not direct." and certainly ft is too often the fact that directors know too little about the business of the Institutions with which they are connected. This law, which compels an examination by the directors or by a committee of not less than three of their number to be made In the months of April and October of each year, and a report thereof to be made to the board of directors and filed In the Banking Department, should go far. as I think it will, toward acquainting directors with the true, condition of their respective Institutions. CANNOT KNOW EVERYTHING.

In another part of report Superintendent Kilburn says: It is pertinent. I think, to observe that it is a 6trange and wholly unwarrantable theory of supervisory responsibilities and obligations that some modern critics assert as to the Banking Department. Unregardful of fact that an institution may be found and left by an examiner clean and strong, and that It may nevertheless be wrecked or looted by its management almost in a day. and unheedful, "also, that the Superintendent of Banks has no voice in choosing officers, or authority to compel directors to be attentive to their trusts, they would yet charge him with the requirement that he be Informed constantly of every bank and trust company's exact condition, possess the prescience to Jtnow with certainty what loans and investments will prove good or bad, and decide instantly with infallibility of Judgment whether the interests of creditors and of the public will be best served by closing at once an institution that is in difficulties, or by permitting it to continue business under surveillance, and undertaking to save it. Indeed some deny to the Superintendent the right to the exercise of any discretion whatever in such a case and insist that he ought to proceed immediately to take possession of any institution whose affairs he may tlnd to be so involved as to make doubtful its ability to meet fully all of Its obligations at the moment.

Mr. Kilburn especially defends his action in the case of the Merchants' Trust Company, of New-York, whose failure, he says, is the only one of a trust company in this State in more than ten years, and the second In the history of the system in this State. He says: Wretchedly poor Judgment and mismanagement had loaded up this company In 1903 with guarantees and poor loans and Investments to an aggregate exceeding $6,000,000. The condition thus created left to the Superintendent of Banks only the alternative of reporting the company at once to the Attorney- General for institution of proceedings In insolvency, or of trying to work It out of Its difficulties. It clear that to pursue the former course would surely impose a loss of at least half upon the depositors, while negotiations which were at once opened by me encouraged the hope that the Institution might be saved, or at least that depositors might be saved from loss.

As to a single transaction these efforts brought release to the company from one obligation of $750,000. and collected a debt of over on account of an enterprise which afterward became bankrupt. Provision for taking out the other slow and insufficiently collateraled loans, though continually promised by the trust company officers, could not be made, and in May last the doors of the institution were closed. It hns since paid every depositor 100 cents on the dollar, and If matters pending in the. courts be decided in its favor there Is promised a substantial dividend to the stockholders.

Certainly between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 more were realized by the creditors and stockholders of the "Trust Company by the course pursued with regard to it than could have been realized if it had been reported to Attorney-General at once upon my discovery of the blundering and of Its officers. In a considerable number of other cases, banks are to-day prosperous and strong which could not posslhlv have paid out in full had they born closed summarily when conditions in them occasioning apprehension and anxiety wore ascertained by this department. THE GERMAN BANK CASE. The failure of the German Bank of Buffalo, another instance in connection with which Superintendent Kilburn's course has met with adverse comment, is discussed. He says: It took place in circumstances out of the ordinary and affected something like eight thousand depositors The disaster that came to It may be traced primarily to an excessive payment of interest on deposits, a practice which I regar.J ua the greatest menace of the day to safe banking, and which I have done my utmost to discourage and diminish; to large loans to each of three or four interests on Inadequate security, and to careless manage- A change of ownership of the German Bank occurred in March.

1904. control having passed from Buffalo interests to parties who were strangers to the and unidentified with Its people and affairs. Between examinations they borrowed largely from it. Distrust of the new management developed, and caused a run upon the bank. Its directors to support the institution with their personal mjwuis and credit, and under these conditions the Clearing House refused assistance and relief In consequence I was compelled to close the bank, and tnke possession of Its business and affairs.

It was In due time referred by me to the Attoorney General and a receiver was appointed. These two Instances, with the State Bank of Ovid and the State Bank of Forest make total of three State banks and one trust company failed during the year. Of the general condition of the banks of the State, the Uiat growth in VI EH ICELESTINSI THE GENUINE Avoid Imitations Analysis made by-Fraaer sth Aye, N.Y., Syphon Vichy tobeorly Croton water charged with eas. Tht gtnning is nevtr sold in syphons Natural Alkaline Water Imported only in bottles thi; tW A certain cure for all disorders arising from Impaired Digestion Dyspeps a Gout Rheumatism Ask Your Physician volume of business and improvement in condition have been considerable and practically continuous. The increase for the year In aggregate resources has been $64,000,000.

and for two years $140,000,000, representing "a total never before equalled." NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Plans Now Under Way Will Furnish 57J.10 Sittings. Superintendent C. B. J.

Snyder, of the Building Bureau of the Department of Education, has Just compiled a report showing that there are now slxty- Beven new school buildings and additions under construction. These will furnish sittings for 87.410 children. Between January 1, 1905, and December 16, 1905, contracts for twenty-one new schools and thirty-one additkns. with accommodations for 50,060 children, were let by the bureau. In the next few weeks contracts will be let for fourteen new buildings and additions, with 15,150 sittings.

For this work $15,000,000 has been appropriated in the last year, and $23,000,000 in the last tWo years. In the school year ending July 31. 1905. the average school attendance in all the schools was dally 487,005, an increase of 20,434 for the year. In the elementary schools the attendance was an Increase of 19,159: and in the high schools the attendance was 18,015.

an increase of 1.150. In the training schools the attendance wad SSI, an Increase of 125. The registration was for all schools, an Increase for the year of 15.050. In the elementary schools the registration was 610.359. an increase Of 13,533.

In the high schools the registration was 23.125. an increase of 1.447. The teaching staff waa made up of 11,801 teachers, an increase of 325 for the year. In 1905 the Board of examined 8.470 candidates for graduation from the high At present the board is conducting 82 evening lo hlph and 72 with a total registration of 89.598. Of this number, 37,829 pupils do not know how to speak English.

Twenty-nine recreation centres are now In operation. In the last year 9157 class libraries have been in use in the schools, an increase of 1,194 for the year Last summer 33 vacation schools were in operation, with an average attendance of 13.432. In 1904 39 were in operation, and the attendance was 17.446. In 1900 570 teachers were emjjjoyed In the vacation schools, a decrease of 31. Last summer 78 playgrounds were In use a decrease of 10, and the attendance was 70 714 an increase of more than a thousand.

The teachers employed in the playgrounds last summer numbered 395, an increase of 9. DR. TYNDALL FREED. Women Weep as Pastor Is Exonerated of Building Collapse Charge. With men and women of his congregation, the latter weeping, surrounding him, the Rev.

Dr. Henry M. Tyndall, pastor of the People's Tabernacle, in East was yesterday arraigned and honorably discharged in the Harlem court, where he was accused of criminal negligence as tho result of the collapse on Saturday of a part of a working girls' home, the construction of which he lias personally superintended and on which he has labored with his own hands. The collapse was due to a workman's mistake ln removing one of the concrete mould supports before the cement had properly set. A part of the fourth floor fell, striking the third floor, and carrying down a part of that.

A bit of one of the side walls was also torn down. Two Italian laborers were ln the collapse, and firemen, ladders and axes were necessary to release them from the debris. Dr Tyndall when called on to Bwear to the charge was co affected that he could not speak for some minutes. Then he explained that the accident was due to the mistake of the workman. "This Is an unfortunate accident, said the magistrate, "and I cannot see any indications of anything to support a charge of criminal r.sgligence.

I will discharge you. Dr. Tyndall. and I want to say that I hope your work will go on successfully from this time on. I wish you a happy New Tear.

If anything should come of this matter in the future I wish that you would let me know of It personally." The pastor's women friends broke out weeping anew as he walked out of the courtroom. Dr Tyndall went at once to his church. He took a seat ln the rear of the church, being too much affected to conduct the service. The Rev. Albert Stewart preached the sermon.

CATTSE OF MRS. STANFORD'S DEATH. Doctors at Honolulu Angry Over Alleged Statement by Dr. Jordan. Honolulu.

Dec. Local officials and physicians who were concerned in the investigation Into the death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford in th! 9 city express Indignation over a report, sent by cable, to the effect that Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Loland Stanford. University, had said In Denver that the report that Airs.

Stanford had died from poison had been made the basis of a not by the Honolulu officials to extort large fees. Humphreys declared to-day that the report was amia mi fere tt CC tbe alleged statement by Dr. Jordan that all the facts in the case would soon vw. made public it Is said that a statement. signed by the amending physician and all the autopsy nhvslcian" backed by the chemist's post mortem will be issued, showing that all the doctors awfre that death was due to strychnine poisoning.

BLACKWEIL'S ISLAND BRIDGE WORK. Steel Work of One Span Nearly The Committee of Forty's Hopes. The steel span of the Blackwell's Island section of the bridge of that name has reached within about five feet of the pier on the east shore of the island. It is expected that the end of the first week in the New Year will see that, section of the cb Th sre eV rk fl rr ess 8 ts upon false work put up between the two piers, and when the section is finished the false work will be taken down and half of it put UP on the Manhattan shore between the pier at the waters the Inside pier. That part of the bridge will be started Just as soon as the fllse work can be taken there.

Commissioners to condemn the land for the approach at th. Man Lait.tn end have already begun work, and it ed that before end of January the work of removing buildings will be started. The commissioners to condemn the Long island City approach have not appointed The builders say there is no haste about it as the Long Island City approach will be the last to be put up. and cannot be undertaken for nearly a ler Committee of Forty of the Borough of Queens was organized Just nine years ago and in that time the committee has met once a month to advocate the bridge and push the enterprise The officers of the committee are Ellas Saw. president; James McDonald, secretary and John Andrews, corresponding secretary, ana Peter A.

Letntnger. treasurer. The committee has been for some time urging of the Bridge Department to authorize north and south approaches to the main approach of the new structure in Long Island It la said that unless such approaches are put up the largi manufacturing Interests In UnR Island receive no benefit from the as the entrance to the main aoroach is so far from the rfwr front tint will unable to cross It without contractors for the 1 work of the island and two river spans of the bridge say that they will have their par' work finished by a tram March. A. Jaeckel Co FURRIERS and IMPORTERS Russian Sables Exquisitely fashioned into a great variety of Stoles.

Scarfs and Neckpieces, with Muffs to match and Separate Skins for Selection Showing among these one set of 15 superbly matched skins of the Imperial Grade $10,000 Furs for Street, Carnage and Motor Wear UNION SQUARE, (West) 18. Altaian (La. ANNOUNCE FOR TO-MORROW JANUARY 24 A NUMBER OF SALES. INCLUDING WOMEN'S CLOAKS. ORIENTAL RUGS.

PLAIN AND DECORATIVE HOUSEHOLD LINENS. BLANKETS. BEDSPREADS AND SUMMER DRESS FABRICS. LABOR LAW NEEDS. Report Urges Changes-Provisions for Children Better Enforced.

Albany. Dec. 3L-Amendments to the Labor law to make less theoretical and more enforceable the provisions governing the employment of vromen and children; the redrafting of certain actions so as to facilitate clear interpretation, and the abolition of the StAte'B free employment ln New- York City are among the recommendations in the fifth annual report of the State Commissioner of Labor made public to-night. Commissioner P. Tecumseh Sherman calls attention to the fact that he has been in office only since last May.

His report therefore covers observations extending over only a part of the fiscal year. Taking up the subject of child labor, the report says: The provisions of the law which prohibit the employment of children under fourteen and of children under sixteen without Board of Health certificates, in or In connection with a factory 01 late received particular attention, and it that the department will soon be able to boast that they are thoroughly enforced The failure to effect this result in the past was largely due tothf in adequate number of Inspections. But already the plarf of frequently relnspecting where ti 1 ns tn this statute have been found has resulted in tne detection of several flagrant repetitions, and in the exemplary of some of the offenders. One of the greatest difficulties in enforcing the Child Labor law heretofore was removed, Mr. Sherman says, by the amendment of 1905.

which provides that where a child is apparently under sixteen, but is alleged to be over that age, the employer must, on demarfd of the Commissioner of Labor, produce certain specified documentary proof of Its age or discharge it. It has already resulted In the discharge of hundreds of young children. The commissioner recommends that the lam amended so as to prohibit euch evasion. The report states that the provision of the law prohibiting night work Is openly violated, especially in the employment of women over twentyone, but the department has feared to test this particular prohibition because It Is so closely Joined with the prohibition of night work by male and female minors, that. In case of an adverse decision, both prohibitions might be held to fall together.

commissioner recommends that this portion of the law be redrawn and amended so as to contain separate provisions applying to all minors and to females of whatever age respectively. Considering the work along the tenement house line. Commissioner Sherman says: 1 cannot complete my review of the law without a criticism of one other of Its details. It provide, that none of those articles which it specifies shall manufactured, In any room or apartment or a tenement house by any person other than the members of the family, living therein which include a husband and wife and their children or the children of either. If this denn.tion of a family Is meant to be exclusive, it is in my opinion both too difficult of enforcement and too arbitrary.

The subject of factory inspection receives considerable space In the report. Mr. Sherman calls attention to the fact that neither for merit nor for long service has a single deputy factory inspector been promoted or advanced In salary. This has had a tendency, he says, to drive the most efficient and ambitious out of the service. Commissioner Sherman, speaking of the inadequate number of factory inspectors at his command, says: There are at present thirty-seven deputy factory Inspectors (exclusive of ore temporarily employed.) of Whom one is assigned to mines and quarries and two necessarily to office work This leaves thirty-four Inspectors to inspect and enforce the aw in over thirty-five thousand factories, Includne and approximately 15.000 tenements befides investigating and the complicated provisions of Article 1 or tne Labor law.

It is capable of mathematical demonstration that these thirty-four cannot possibly do The work laid out for them. Five years ago there wro fifty which number was then deliberately reduced, while their work has since been multiplied. Referring to that part of the labor law limiting a day's work In bakeries to ten hours, which has been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, on the assumption by the court that baking Is "not necessarily an injurious or unhealthy occupation," Commissioner Sherman says While that may be true. it is nevertheless a. fact that the bakeries In New- York City, in which the hours are longest and to which therefore the beneficial effect of this section, if not Invalid, would principally apply are generally unclean and unsanitary.

This decision therefore, makes It all the more important that this department should be provided with the force anJ the remedy to compel such establishments to be kept clean and sanitary. In discussing the "sweatshops." which, he says, exist in New- York City and In some other places In the State. Commissioner Sherman suggests that the department should be armed with the right to stop work until requirements of the law as regards cleanliness are lived up to. It Is recommended that no attempt be made at present to revise the labor laws generally, as they are probably still In their; formative stages and liable to many annual After receiving the report of a committee which investigated the Free Employment Bureau in New- York City. Commissioner Sherman says: "I have no faith that any material Improvement can be made In the bureau, and.

therefore, for the reasons set forth in the foregoing report I recommeM that it be abolished and that Its force, together with the appropriation for It. be diverted to aid the other bureaus, and more particularly the Bureau of Factory Inspection. BIRD. PET STOCK AND CAT SHOW. The seventeenth annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons and pet stock by the New- York Poultry.

Pigeon and Pet Stock Association will open in Madison Square Garden to-morrow at 9 .1 m. The number of birds In this years exhibition, according to Secretary Crawford figures, will be more than seventy-live hundred. In the pet stock department, which takes in the and cavies "when used to be known as guinea pigs), there will be a varied showing In breed and in color, and thY and cage birds exhibited under the au-8D res of the New-York Ornithological Society will be as usual, an additional attraction showing of fancy birds in exhibition cages will be in the centre alula, and the other birds. In their conveniently arranged for the work of the Judges, which win begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. As usual, the Atlantic Cat Club will rive its exhibition "Wednesday, Thursday la oLiaoert haU.

The One Opportunity of the Year Great January Sale Wash Waists $2 00 each Regular Price $3.50 Begins Tuesday Jan. Sd. 12.000 Madras 9.ooo all white; 3,000 colored. Made np especially for this sale and fresh from our laundry. Sizes 32 to 44.

John Forsythe THE WAIST HOUSE 865 Broadway, 17th and 18th Streets MORE OK PAfiT TIME. Decrease in Manhattan School Attendance, However. The part time classes ln the public schools are still on the Increase. The last monthly report of the principals of the elementary schools to the Board of Education shows that ln November 78,092 children were ln such classes, against the 70.734 on part time ln November. 1904.

The registration In all schools for November reached 572.921. an Increase of 16,628. The average attendance ln all schools was 1.3% an Increase of 13.249. The decrease in the attendance in the schools of Manhattan Is growing. In the other boroughs of the city, on the other hand, the attendance In both classes of schools Is Increasing This condition, heretofore unknown ln the history of the city Is attributed by Superintendent C.

B. J. Snyder. of the building bureau of the Department of Education, to the Increased transportation facilities ln the outlying; boroughs, maklnff It possible for the breadwinners to get qulcWy to the industrial centres. The subway is the chief cause of the shift of population.

It la thought, while the TVllllamsburg Bridge Is almost equally Influential. The decrease 1b chiefly noticeable ln hlga school attendance in Manhattan. In November. 1905 ln the city as a whole. 18,636 pupils attended the high schools of the city daily.

Thla was an Increase over. the attendance of November 1904. of 788. In Manhattan, the attendance ln the high schools fell, however, from In November. to 6.877 ln November.

1905. In The Bronx the attendance ln the high schools increased from 1.925 in November. 1904. to 1.977 In November, 1905. In Brooklyn the high school attendance has Increased in the year from 6,976 to 7.738.

In Queens the Increase has been from 1337 to 1.531: In Richmond, from 501 to 533. In November. 1905. in the city as a whole. pupils were registered in the high In November.

1904. the flgure was 19.195. Manhattan has now taken a second place In its high school registration and attendance to Brooklyn. In November. the high schools In Manhattan registered 7.H75 pupils, and the high schools of Brooklyn 7.404 In November.

1905 the registratlon was 7.047 in Manhattan and 8,321 in Brooklyn The falltng off in the registration and attendance in the high schools of Manhattan Is arousing considerable opposition In the Board of Education to the erection of any more high schools ln the borough at present. A movement has been started to build a new Technical High School in but the records that are now coming in from the schoolr may defeat the project. THE VADEELAND Iff COLLISION. Red Star and Euckaall Line Steamers Slightly Damaged. Dover.

Dec. The arrival of Red Star Line steamer Vaderlnnd. from Antwerp for New- York, was delayed. a collision vviih. the Bucknall Lhtc steamer from Hamburg for the Far East.

The Rarotse was iininmf! above the waterllne, anil the VaderlaTi.i's bu'v-fi-Us 4 re smashed. latter took timber on board here foi temporary repairs. ANnnUNS. MANTELS TILES i TO Jackson company Uqior Sej.AfortJi*.