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VOlV 01 22,701. I FRANCE FEARS A WAR SOFUIOUS OF VIENNA AND THE KAISER. i Alarm Over Balkans Situation Puts J't'tt Blanket on Bourse Despite Xcv- Russian Loan. rf by Frfprr. to Tribune ptrlt.

an 8. Although the poiUlcal situation la the Balkans is for the moment brighter, ow-re the apologies made to Austria by M. Mlloranovlcs under pressure of an ultimatum from Yiesna and also because of Baron yon AehrenthaTs willingness to accept on principle the it to Turkey of pecuniary Indemnity for tfcf annera-tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, genrral ur.caslness continues to prevail in the best political and financial circles here, and feared that hostilities can scarcely be prevented In the spring. Saron yon Aehren'ha! regarded here as the ttormy petrel of Farope. The feeling In Prance is that the policy nf the Archduke FVenz Ferdinand, the heir to throne, to whom the aged Emperor has now gtacn a free hand in Austrian foreign relations.

repetition of the hereditary reactionary traditions of Austria carried out by Fringe Metternich, but that Baron yon Aehrentfcal ur.fortur.ately for Austria, lacks the tact, finesse and. above all. the velvet glove of asjl by his crude and brusque methods hradW directly toward wsr in the Balkans nd internal dissensions In Hur.gar>' and Bofcnnla. There factcrs splra caution and anxiety In jpliticr check business sr.d act as a wet on the Bourse, in spite of the buoyant Wmpnt that follows in the wake of the new 4U cent Russian loan, which is to be knasnt out on January 23 at SP. and which has reused transactions on the .6 of 2 per cent item the issue price.

Ths financial outlook is depressed BSii dismal. factors of anxiety aie found here In the vtoSEBt emipathy that prevails at Vienna Kr.K'.and. and. against the Liberal of Europe and of Russia also in the blind adherence of the German Emperor to the reactionary policy of the Archduke Franz ar.d of Baron yon Aehrenthal. and In Kaisers Now Tear speech to his concerning which the drift of public ojdnkm I'-.

France is expressed as follows by M. Maxiine Vuillaume in "By out yon Schlietten's ar- Bnsjoror gave the impression that he Ffcared the opinions expressed therein. It was dangerous and not a clever step to take. Cer- tsirly Italy wll! cot be pleased at the generals Enlcla at fact that the Emperor thought jrood hi Indorse It. How docs Italy like to be an enemy by her In the Triple Alllinre? The German Emperor would have i beta -s-iser.

In his own Interests, to have con- ticued to maintain silence." C. 1- B. OFFERS TEX MILLIOXS. Isn't Sure Annexed Provinces Were Turkey's Vienna, Jar. dispatch from Constanti- cays that Marquis Pallavicinl.

the Austro.Esr.£arlii! to Turkey, under new Instructions, has informed the Grand Vizier that Austria-Hungary is ready to offer 2,500,000 Turkish (JlO.SOO.OCO). indemnity for the of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The asJhMsador. however, added that as It was not T-rfectiy clear whether the title Is vested in the Ottoooua state or in the two provinces themfh-es. Austria-Hungary made the offer on the Jurj.osiUon that this question would mutually by AUSTRIAN OFFICERS WARNED.

Switzerland. Jan. 9. Tha -Bund" thit it iearup oritalively Uiat all the Anstrla. rffidins: in Switzerland haws orders to join their regimer.ts on January 25.

TUO STREETS CAVE IX. Concrete Sexer Brooklyn Gives Traffic Blocked. the leaaM of the breakirg of a concrete below the surface, several ruriCrrt feet of roadbed along Prince and JViaoagfaby streets. Brooklyn. caved in last nlgTit, rwjlting in a block of the crosstown cars and the and water mains.

Tha ecteads alonj: Prince street, and Wft feft north in Wuloughby street, the surface thWfrt ia from 4 to 7 Feet. Both cupaved. The pas and mains were shut off, and ir-cstitions taken to eliminate the of using: hUrh pressure water main in VSkrcgtsby Etr in of fire. The trolley were cut the crosstown cars sent by way nf Myrtle avenue. ITVD MARSH TO BLAME.

Senicnce of Yankee's Commander Commuted by Secretary. Jan. OaSMSpader C. C. Marsh.

who In charge of the cruiser Yankee when BJM grounded on Spindle Rock, in Buz-2ir'ie Ba; last September while trying to a collision with the steamer New and who charged with negligence, was CStttjr by the court martial which tried at Boston Navy Yard and sentenced UsSdf reprimanded and to lose forty In rank. poa of two members of the iot clemency and in view of the previous record cf Commander Marsh and his zeal ssssjwdoa with his duties vith the flotilla, the Secretary of the Navy MIJ the to the loss of only flftecn "vailitrf. 6e i did consider the atence of the court excessive, but in rtew of stated clemency. TO COSTA BICAN STORM. (top Ruined and People Reported Starving.

td The has own from LllnOil Costs. Rica, that floods in thet Chrifetma wetk caused a loss of SUMUjOO Cio prc y' and children were '-C, trains 4 eleven lallroaij away ai 1 communication was from the interior. Tljp i rop penult are reported to starving. 6EST ROUTE AND SERViCE TO FLORIDA cl and Atlantic Line Ukiat cor. AilvL now or rmia.

fresh tauth RESCUERS AND RESCUED AMID RUINS OF AN" EARTHQUAKE STRICKEN CITY, This picture probabi PAYS $1,500,000 FOR HOME. James B. Duke Buys House at 78th Street and Fifth Avenue. James Duke, president of the American Tobacco Company, has virtually bought for $1,000,000 a four story and basement dwelling house at the norih corner of 78th street and Fifth avenue, owned by the Henry H. Cook estate.

The contract is expected to be signed to-morrow. J. Phillips Co. are the brokers in the transaction. The house was erected for the late Mr.

Cook, end was occupied by Mm for some years. For a long time It has been considered "one of the places' of the Fifth avenue residential district. In the 80's Mr. Cook bought the entire block bounded by 78th and 79th streets. Fifth and Madison avenues, fcr About $500,000.

Its value now Is estimated to be between $15,000,000 and $18,000,000. The block became known In realty circles as the "bric-a-brac block," becaus 1 of its tremendous value. The property has a frontage of 100 feet on The avenue and 150 feet in the street. It adjoins No. P74 Fifth avenue, the home of Payne Whitney, and No.

3 East 78th street, the home of Henry H. Rogers. Mr. Duke Intends to alter house from plans by C. P.

H. Gilbert. Mr. Duke in July, 1907, Mrs. Nanaline Holt lnman.

of Atlanta. His first wife was IJUian W. Duke, from whom he obtained a divorce. B. X.

Duke, his brother, recently bought a plot at the southeast corner of S9th street and Fifth avenue, on which ha Is building a six house. This Is said to be the second largest sale a dwelling house in the district In May, 1904, the late James Henry Smith paid $1,600,000 for No. S7l Fifth avenue. MRS. HILL IX COLLISIOX.

Shock Only Injury to Wife of Ambassador to Germany. Berlin, Jan. Mrs. Hill, the wife American Ambassador, is suffering from shock as Xtic result of an automobile accident this evening. Bha spent the afternoon in making calls various- members -of- the American coloay, proceeding.

from place. to place in the ambassador's motor car. The machine wai travelling at ordinary speed along the streets, when it came into collision with a government mail wagon The front wheels Of the car were torn off and the -wagon was overturned. Mrs. Hill, who was thrown forward, was assisted to another vehicle by bygtaufleis.

who rushed to her assistance. Beyond suffering from shock, it was tound that she had not been Injured. XATURAL GAS FOR EAST. Reported Plan to Supply Washingtom, Baltimore and Other Cities. Telegraph to Tiie Tritur.e Baltimore.

Jan. Negotiations are pending between the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company and owners of gas fields in West Virginia looking thr piping of natural gas to Baltimore and the distribution of the product in this city by the Consolidated company. It is said that Standard Oil interests are back of the proposition and are ready to spend upward of $10,000,000 to bring their product to Baltimore, Washington and OtbOT cities. The Western Maryland Gas Company, which now Boppllea natural gas to Cumberland, is believed to be interested la the scheme. Officials of the Consolidated Gas Company are reticent the matter.

HARRY C. MINERS GIFT TO WIFE. Transfers Title to Three Story Dwelling House at No. 323 West 90th Street. Harry Cl -Miner, eldest worn Hi" Kitf Harry Miner, aetw ana theatre tIM three M.ir> and basemen! ai NO.

MlWoat yttHstrcf-t Itis as a transfer title wan recorded jester.iay. -S. S. "CITY OF SAVANNAH. Ui-j new of Savannah Une.

Service a tv ths Couth. Oflice, 317 NEW-YORK. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1909. -FIVE SIXTY PAGES. ly taken at some point In the northern limits WON'T REVEAL CABINET SECRET TILL MARCH -U Mr.

Taft Will Not Make Further At Barbecue. Augusta, Jan. Beyond the reiteration of the announcement that Philander C. Knox will of State and Frank H. Hitchcock Poiima-ter General in his Cabinet, President-elect Taft has determined that no othe- Cabinet appointments shall be known until March 4.

To make this determination effective, he will deny all Cabinet rumors, predictions ot announcements from any source or qoarter whatsoever. In the statement of this policy, attention waa directed to the announcement of the Knox appointment, made on the day Mr. Taft arrived In Augusta, and to the authoritative announcement from Hot Springs, of the selection of Mr. Hitchcock as Postmaster General, both of which are pronounced correct by Mr. Taft.

It is predicted that Mr. Hitchcock will retire as chairman of the Republican National Committee at some convenient time to be determined on after he has assumed the duties of his official position. In this event he will designate a vicechairman from among the membe-s of the committee, who will head the committee until its meeting in December preceding the next na tional election, at which time the formal election of a chairman will be in order. It is Mated that no controversy has existed over this matter; that it never has been and is not now an lssuo In any quarter. Mr.

Hitchcock, who is here, declined to discups any plans he may have in this connection, and would make no prediction as to what member of the committee he would designate as vice-chairman. The ambition of James Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture, to serve longer as a Cabinet officer than has any other occupant of a similar position in this country has developed an interesting discussion as to whether Wilson does not at the present time hold the record of the longest Cabinet service. His tenure of office on March 4 next will be twelve years and three according to information here. His competitors in this line are said to William Wirt, who was Attorney General for eleven years and six or eight months, and Postmaster Qesjen 1 who was at the head of the postal service for thirteen years, but during none tnat time was he a member of the Cabinet.

The office of Postmaster General was not then a Cabinet place. Should it develop authoritatively that Wilson will have achieved his ambition on March 4. it is regarded as highly probable here that he will wish to relinquish his official duties, in which case Mr. Taft will have the additional task before him of selecting a Secretary of Agriculture for his Cabinet. Otherwise Mr.

Wilson will doubtless be a member of the Taft official family, at leaat for a few months. Aside from this place, it is regarded as a fa assertion that Mr Taft has fixed in his mind and ha? had approved by Messrs. Knox and Hitchcock the men Whom he Is to invite to nea's around his council board. Thhf is believed to be the extent of his progress at the present time, as it is understood that no offer of places the two determined on has been made to any one. That the proffer of places is the next step in order is a matter of course.

Like a trip into the "good old days of the past" was the novel experience of the Presdent-elect to-day in being the guest of the Beech Island Farmers' Club, of South Carolina, at a repetition of a barbecue the club has held once a month without missing a month for nearly seventy yiars. The old negro, John Hays, the 'cue" just exactly the same he has been doing every month Blnce "long bef de war." The plain board clubhouse, with Its holes in the roof and walls, has been the meeting place for the discussion of all as well as for the feasts served In one of its mo rooms for more than fifty years. It, stands alone in a beech forest about seven miles from Augusta, nnd In and around It to-day were Contlnurd on puce. EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. Thi "Ovr Sfa from York tost Palm Miami nnd- a Kev'tarries through I'ullinau.

Reservations tuaiV secured 243 he earthquake zone, gome distance from the scene of the greatest havoc. HOUSE TO INVESTIGATE A SECRET SERVICE ACT. Fear That Committee May Dratc Fire from Presiden t. The Tribune Jan. The House adopted today, without cebate.

by Representative Tawney which provides for tha appointment of a committee of five members to investigate the uses to have been devoted the funds appropriated for apprehending and prosecuting violations of the federal statutes. The Speaker will name Mr. Tawney as chairman of this committee. what purpose Mr. Tawney has in causing the creation of this committee is not known, but there is in many quarters a disposition to deplore the fact that he was not satisfied to permit the Secret Service matter to drop with the disposal of the executive messages.

It Is known to a few. at least, that the President has damaging evidence regarding certain members of the House, but that he has thus far refrained from using it, and that he would have ignored the action taken with regard to his messages had the lower house gone no further. It is feared, however, that the Tawney committee may so far the President as to lead him to make public the information he has acquired, and that the results may prove disastrous to the political future of mort than one member of the House. After providing that; the committee shall ascertain the nmount of money appropriated for the present fiscal year that could be used to prevent frauds upon the several branches of the public service. 'with particular reference to the public lands, the Tawney resolution Instructs the committee to ascertain "what branches of the public service, paid for.

ln whole or in part out of the United States Treasury, are authorized or are 'in existence and supported by appropriations made by. Congress, principal duties are to detect and prevent frauds, or to, and bring to trial and punishment persons charged with violating the laws of the United States; whether such branches of the public service or any persons employed therein have been or are engaged in any duty not contomplatM by the law or appropriation estabnshtna or providing for such Berries; the names of the persons employed, for any period, in each branch of "ouch service, during the current and last -the rates of compensation- and allowance paid or paid to each of them: by whom they were appointed and on whose recommendation. and a statement- of the specific duty performed or engaged in by each of such employes caen day since the beginning of the fiscal yeaf 1908." I' The resolution authorizes tae committee to employ stenographers and clerks, to Send" persons and papers' and to administer oaths. The sum of $5,000 was appropriated to cover theexpenses involved. BELLEVUE STARTLED: Fire Hose Throughout Building Found Ruined hy Thief.

Detectives from Police' Headquarters are at work trying to find the person or persons who cut all the hose at Hospital and stole all of the brass connections between the hose and the standpipes. The hose throughout the building had rendered useless, it was discovered yesterday, and hed a firo occurred the patients would have been at mercy of the flames. The theft was brought to light by one of the officials of the hospital, and all of the connections were replaced as soon as psaaJMo. All of the hose is in CO rldors, and is much speculation as to how the thieves could have worked unhindered. There have been a number ot at the hospital within the last few months, but the police have unable, to find any trace of the guilty ones, although they say.

thero will an arrest in the near future DEWEY'S "BRUT CUVEE" CHAMPAGNE. Sparkle and Dry ness. Superb. -Dewey Fultca lork. AdvL THROUGH POLAR SEAS? Buoy Set Adrift in British Xorth America Reaches Finmark.

Christiania, Norway, Jan. The Meteorological Institute has received a letter from Soeroe, stating that a buoy which was driven ashore on November 3 last contained a notice that the buoy was set adrift on July 24. 1900, Cspe Bathurst and about four hundred kilometres miles) northeast of the Mackenzie River. Cape Bathurst is in British America, on the Arctic Ocean, lying in latitude north. longitude 127:30 west.

It is believed here that the buoy, which thus drifted more than eight years, was carried through the polar between Greenland and Spitzbergen. If this is so it would eeera to support the on which Captain Roald Amundsen has based his future expedition on the Fram. Captain Amundsen's expedition on Fram will start from San Francisco early in 1910. He plans a drifting voyage, Bimilar to that undertaken by Nansen. He intends to fasten his ship in tha ice to the northwest of Point Barrow.

Alaska, and hopes to drift near the pole. DR. STAXLEY ASKS $150 JWO. Breach of Promise Suit Against Mrg. Deere Chapman.

rhicago, Jan. 9. A breach of promise suit In which Dr. Klrke Stanley, of New York, seeks from Mrs. Jeannette Deere Chapman, one of the heirs to the millions of the late- John Deere, of Moline, 111., came to light to-day In the office of the clerk of the Superior Court.

The bill was filed last October, but carefully suppressed until service could be had on Mrs. Chapman. Not untl! last Monday were the process servers able to find the defendant. Even then story was kept from the public until to-day, when Henry Roth, attorney for Dr. Stanley, admitted the existence of the suit.

Mrs Chapman, whom the plaintiff alleges to be fifty-eight years old, lias long been prominent socially both in the I'nlted States and in where she spends considerable time. Dr. Stanley's bill sets forth that Mrs. Chapman promised to marry him some years ago. the date being pet for February 13, 1906.

This promise was not kept, although the pialnflff declares that he was at that time, and is still, ready to carry out his part of the agreement. He asserts that the opposition of Mrs. daughters broke off the match. M-Mine. 111..

Jan. R. S. Hosford, snn-in-law of Mrs. Jeannette Deere fhapmajv with whom she makes her home, declared to-night that Mrs! i'hanman is out of the city, but declined to say where she is.

Mrs. I'hapman, who. according to Hosford. is seventy-eight years old, 'sister of the late Oharles H. Deere, the plough manufacturer.

URGE MERCY FOR GAME. School Children Petition President Spare 'African Animals. fEy TVlegrmph to The Tribunal Austin, Jan. Thousands of Texas school, children already signed petition? that are being circulated to be presented to President Roosevelt, asking him not to kill any wild animals on his African trip. H.

Travis, of Waco, President of the Texas Division of the National Audubon Society, ts causing these -petitions to be circulated. He asserts that they will signed by more than five hundred thousand school children of Texas. NEW AND IMPROVED SERV QUICKER TIME BETWEEN NEW AUGUSTA 4 FLORIDA. EFFECTIVE Southern Railway will Inaugurate a train with throusb and dlrtttiK oir service between New VorU the Bourh. leaving Stm York.

I A dally. CarrylnjCt tlHWHtta I'iillhiaii stateroom HleepinK vhtu: Nrw-York Alken. York tv New York to car i York to Jarksonvlile nnd time will Im shorteatnl North nnd Southbound. N- V. OtSce, UN Advt.

FIVE VESTS. ACTION OF SENATE NOT DUE 10 ANGER WILL PROBABLY IX DORSE PRESIDEXTS STAXD. Expect Committee Advise vision by Congress of Secret Senivc Expenditures. IFrnsa Tribune Washington, Jan. The Senate leaders pect that the sub-committee of the Appropriations Committee, which Senator Hale appointed to-day, will be able to establish the fact that Congress has at all times been liberal hs Its appropriations for the detection and pnwecution of violations of the federal statutes; that extent to which secret agents of the government have been used has developed to ing proportions, and that closer supervision should bo -exercised by Congress over the expenditure of such funds.

It is believed that tho committee will indorse the Presidents suggestion, already fully outlined in these dispatches, that the Secret Service be reorganized transferred from the Treasury Department the Department of Justice. Contrary to a somewhat widesp: Impression, the sensational reports freely circulated regarding the attitude and the purpose of the Senate leaders In providing lor this Investigation have no foundation in fact. There is no intense antagonism toward the President, no purpose to effect reprisals, no expectation of disclosing any seriously Improper of these funds. Because the resolution confining the investigation to the Appropriations Committee waa adopted immediately after the receipt of President's message, and at a time when certain Senators, notably the Democrats, were indignant at the President's strictures, the superficial view has been entertained that the Senate purposed to "get with the President, but nothing has been further from the thoughts oC "the men who do things" In the upper house. They do maintain that, despite the restrictions placed on the operations of the Secret which restrictions the Senate fought in conference as long a3 practicable.

Congress has been liberal In furnishing the sinews of war to those charged with compelling the observance of tha law, but beyond that the Senate la not even. actuated by motives of -Justification. Confronted by a situation which deciandeil action, the leaders framed a resolution which placated the excited Democrats and a few dignant Republicans, and caused its adoption. That resolution calis the Appropriations Committee to report action. if any." should be taken with regard to that portion of the President's message which deal 3 with Secret Service, but this was inserted on the sistence of Senator Culberson, and was intend-- 1 to muzzle debate, but not to promote anything in the nature of a rebuke of the President.

T- probable result will be an indorsement Of very policy advocated by the President for thai reorganization and the consolidation of tni Secret Service. A COMMITTEE OF ABLE MEN. The sub-committee appointed by Chairman Hale to-day consists of Senators Hemenway and Clay. Mr. Gallinger, while not wholly in sympathy with the President, is a conservative and careful legislator, not be influenced by hysterical indignation or political resentment.

Senator Hemenway Is especially qualified for the work by his long experience on the Appropriations Committee of the House, ot which he served as chairman. He was responsible for the appropriation of $500,000 for tho use of the Attorney General in prosecuting violations of. the Sherman law. He is a legislator of high character, and is on the friendliest terms with the President. Senator Clay Is one of the least radical of the a legislator of even temper and a reputation for careful methods and quiet effectiveness.

It is true that various reports have reached the Senate regarding minor extravagances in the use of the funds appropriated to detect violations of the statutes and to prosecute them. These will be investigated, and no favor will shown in exposing any instances which may bo found, but even these are not regarded as reflecting on the President, as it is fully appreciated that no chief executive tan supervise expenditure of such extensive funds, nor can al-; ways escape being Imposed upon when a considerable number of assistant attorneys and in-; vestigators must be retained. The gravest question which confronts the Senate leaders is how far it Is consistent with tha' principles of American government to employ secret agents to probe private or even private business enterprises. Many Senators believe that the system has carried far under the present administration. They appreciate that In the main the results have been good and that a higher tone of business morals prevails as a result of the administration sj Theodore Roosevelt.

On the other hand, they maintain that the system in Itself Is repuenant to the American conception of. government, and that In the hands of a'less scrupulous it might be utilized for ulterior and even dangerous ends. They believe that tha system of blanket appropriations the systosj will Inevitably grow faster than even the Congress realizes. If Interstate commerce law and I other comparatively, recent enactments necessitate a more extensive survelllanc? of sjrtvsjhi and public utility corporations than has h'rherto been required, deemed by- the leaders at least that. In so far.

as possible, such necessity should be made a matter of public knowledge and that the Congress should knowingly, and with full appreciation of cost and of its responsibility, provide for such surveillance in the same minn-r as it provides for tha other needs of the government. IMPRESSED BY PRESIDENT'S WORM The argument which the President has in support of his contention that greater effectiveness and economy can be attained by conflr.lnic the detective work of the government to a single bureau and putting that bureau under the Jurisdiction of the Attorney Ueoeral. has appealed strongly to the Senate leaders, even in advance of the Investigation, especially aa such a policy would Involve explicit appropriations for work of this type, would place all responsibility for the character of the work done on single and known head, would for mora administration and would probably minimize the objectionable features of such The who bear the responsibility of tha work of the Senate regret exceedingly that uttwarranted reports should be circulated regareV ing purposes, and that a work which. they have undertaken Ir. earnestness and with fuU elation of should bo sssjde th- i-aai of sensational reports of SEABOARD'S FINE FLORIDA SERVICE.

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