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THEIR FAT Is IN TIE FIRE.
sURNIN0 OF sCHwARzcHILD 4 sUL3-
BERoKR,s SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

rnere Were SSs Head OF Cattle and Lot
er sheep In the Pens that the Drivers
rescued with Dimeuity-Loss $500 900.
cloud OF smoke still hangs over tho ruins
81 schwarzchild 4 sulzbereer's slaughter
houses and refrigerators. which covered the
block enclosed By Forty.fltth and Forty sixth
streets, First avenue and East River. The Are
has destroyed all the buildings except those
fronting on First avenue and the flreproof on
cine house. schwarzchild b sulzberRer have
not ret computed their losses. nor have they
given out any insurance lists. BUTT Is safe to
soy that the loss will not exceed S200. 700. and
that It is covered By the insurance.
Tho works which covered this block were
divided into twelve Observation-Disclosures. re-
frigerators. slaughter houses. and cattle pens
lying nearer to First avenue. with the manu-
factories for oil. fat. oleomargarins. and Kosh-
or meat nearer to and along the river front
The river front was lined with half dozen
separate low brick buildings. built some years
ogo and connected BY having common cell
lar. which was filled with barrels OF oil and
fat At the corner OF Forty-flfth street and
the East River WAS the two-story building In
which the fat was hashed and put into the
strain kettles. There was no FIRE about the
building. and access to the loft where the
hsshing was done was had only By mems OF
the elevator.
TWAS shortly before 3A. M.'according to the
best account that can be got, that blaze SUD.
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denly shot up and the men left their work and
rot down stairs BY the elevator. They cannot
toll where the fire started and they have no
idea how It could have started. At 2:2o an
alarm was sent In. and as the nearest engine
company left It's house. the sky was already
lit up and straight column OF flame and
smoke was ascending through tho MINDLESS
night.
Two alarms followed tho first and soon a
dozen engines were attacking the fire from
three sides. while the fireboats Mills and New
Yorker were at work on the river. The fire de.
scended into the cellar Of the house at Forty
nth street and the East River. and laid hold OF
tho barrels and casks OF fat. 1t spread from
cellar to cellar and upward through the differ
emit houses all soaked with oil and filled with
fat and oleomarearine The grease ioWed out
the sluggish surface for Atty feet from shore;
When the fire reached the last collar and the
house at the corner OF Forty sixth street and
the East River It seized upon tho old wharf
az sna
be set going at f1rst- The hremen we're busy
laying hose to plugs 1.OOO and even 1000 feet
It then occurred to somebody that 527 cattle
had now spread. Several of the droyers rushed
In and opened wide the gates. The cattle.
which had been believing and stamping e1-
sf, snd 81
men. and scattered the crowd Before them as
they rushed up Forty sixth street and sepa.
ss thes
heads, and the confusion became hopeless.
Riremen were shouting. nozZles wore being
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Fu.ur. OF the Long Island League,

The Long Island League held their annual meeting a
the Union Clubs homo. Brooklyn on Thursday night
Tho Prospect Hill Athletic Club admitted nom
bership. As the Kings County Wheelmen intend to do
vote the:, efforts hereafter to wheeling exclusively
they resigned and also the Arcadia Athletic Associs
ton. The resignation OF tho exchampion coun
try runners the Prospect arriers presented bu,
vote of thanks rendered to The retiring President
Augustus Pevereiy.
1t decided 10 postpone tho annual election until
tho project Of tho control of tho League
Board Of vas worssd %p ReorEap,a
Chrstofe!. yr: Company D A.: Eorty.seventh
rters: W. Back, WiIxusburgh 4. A.: Jean j. Tartter
Uu!on A. c.: Walter i0ngb SeaHanhaka Boat Clun:
Henry H. Ray, National A. G.. and Joseph C. Spaeth,
Acorn 4. A. This committee Will meet next wednes
day night May IL. at the rooms OF Company D. Forty
seventh Regiment Armory.
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TEE PRICE OF coal.
A Rroposstion to Advance the Retail Price
Temporarily Deferred.


The members OF the Retail Coal Dealers As
ISOLATION turned out seventy or eighty strong
at the regular meeting last night at 1873 East
Fifty-eighth street to consider the question OF
raising the price OF coal to conform with the
advance OF the wholesale men. Secretary Jere
Pangborn. Jr.. explained that the wholesale
price Of coal had been raised two or three
times since Jan. %. the total increase in the
price OF stove coal being 80 cents ton. and OF
nut coal 75 cents q ton. Mr.. Pangborn wanted
the Coal Exchange to bear the brunt OF the In
crease until June /. and give the public q
chance to lay In coal at the present prices up
to that time.
II dom see why We should humbly submit
to the advance Of the wholesale men," said
one dealer. land suffer accordingly. II the
advance is made now. the public Will put the
responsibility whore It belongs. but II We let
the price remain where 1t IS nov and raise t
people who are buying coal Mt this time OF the
Dealer Heffner said that the combination
would be tho only gamer II the price were ad-
or AZ shoue Sat an
amendment was proposed raising the price
one-half Of the Wholesale increase, One OF
the members ridiculed the idea that this ortce
could be maintained with the large number OF
outside dealers and Exchange members. too.
advance was lost. and then tho whole matter
was made Q special order for the next regular
Meeting two weeks hence. when the outside
coal dealers will be invited to join IN the dis.
i the b n a e. nsn
m eating
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tho cattle pom around which the flames had
been raging, and through which the densest
THE RUINED ABArToIR.

tho tho cattle, pom around which the flames had
volumes Of smoke had poured. In pen IL they
found big red steer lying down and chewing
as though no were deep in meadow grass. One
OF his launches was singed. but otherwise he
was unhutt In the afternoon. after several
hundred people had looked at him and had adj
thirsty" They Brought bucket Of water and
put 1t before his nose He arose and drank Il
to the last drop. Then he stretched himself
and Lag down own ar, and resumed his chewing just
Four hundred men will be out Of employ
ment because Of the fire for several weeks.
Tho buildings. being low. can soon be re-
placed. The firm has arranged for extending
damaged. SO that the business viii not suffer
About g o'clock yesterday morning sparks
from the fire caught the window curtains OF
the Of ts in the q the
One Of the Its babies had died the day before.
and the family were sitting up with the corpse
laid out in q cas- ket with candles at the head.
When the curtains blazed up all rushed from
the, room. The father remembered the baby
It. He carried 1t I'D and down the street until
nm Italian offered h I'm the use Of his rooms.
The Uts apartment was wrecked before the
fire was put out
The owners. officers and crew Of the steam
tug Champion Yesterday filed libel In the
s't NJ: and the ocssa
hatsfs se So
when the firs broke out. There was no one on
Rs hs 1fssfs sRS S fn Sd as as
about 800 tons O, coal. The iibeilants ask
that both barGes and cargo be condemned and
sold to nay the salvage.
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CLEARWATER 1SGkRsOLL SUED.
Mrs. Bucknam Says He has Got Her Illus
tband's Estate Away from Her.

The trial o; the action Of Mrs. Ella II. Buck
nam to recover the interest OF her husband.
William II. buchanan. in the estate OF his
father Ezra. who died in 1869. was begun
yesterday before Justice Beach ofthe Supreme
Court. Tho estate Is valued at $4,000.
Bucknam was to have it after the death OF his
mother. who died last year. He had been In
tho furniture business. and furnished chairs
for the County Court House In Tweed times.
but failed in business In 1873. His wife, from
whom he is separated. says that prior to the
failure he assigned half interest in his
fathers estate to her. She charges that
James II. Ingersoll. the Tweed Ring chair
maker. with tho assistance Of William Paul
ding and Thomas P. Austin. conspired to Sc
cure this estate. and she sues all OF them. as
naming interest In his fathers estate 1t was
who transferred 1t to Austin. She says
that she i Kept away tRe sae 1nser
soils assurance TINT no would bid in the prop
Grty for her. Austin has now demanded from
estate entr fkat tbs
interest IN tho e estate. She aenands her s hali
Sand. and md ds@ands also thai the purehase Tor
$50 be declared to have been made for her
The above was the substance Of Mrs: Buck
sxaminstion she admitted Tneersoll had lent
her husband small sums Of money. She had
tod him not to- As her hHsband had bec9mS
signed some documents in 1875. the contents
Of which she does not know. ,..
Frances HardinE sister q I'll the pbentin
the property to save Buck nam and his wife.
The case was not concluded
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thrown down. hose kicked about and ,nen and
women were rushing TO and fro: yelling apd
falling over each other in trying to dodge the
The drovers had hardly got the cattle clear
Of the scene and herded together In vacant
lot further down tho avenue before some one
basement, o! the canning factory. Other dr rs
them en b., she sheep sedd dH in
f Sod ana o IS'qssa y long
sheep followed. The sheep. once started. kept
In. An enc losure adjoining the cattle
the flames we'll under control The buildings
%Ss ss sxsf sGni Ie
proof walls OF one OF the refrigerator nulldinRs
nd the WARE PS bse Hss
that the fire was under control ne sent away wa
shG engines s 81 shos up on
out. and the cans began TO- explode. each re.
port lik 10 the distant boom OF o cannon The
real ,s h had Nst ALARM
Fulton and Nassau streets. several months
Az hs ssa swo S
one engines. and seven hook and ladder COM
panies. besides the .areboats. were on the
hh had been Cunning underneath. The IRE had
reached one Of the refrigerator buildings. and
had caught the sawdust packing between the
Ing In a fre before Il reached through to the
For two hours the fire Burned without con.
within With HSG reach. subsidized leaving Tie boiler
nntoScS he'd. The hrsmen had been able to
h h
away somewhat some OF the aremen went Into
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MR. AND MRS. BELL SUSPENDED!
Pastor boyd Thinks " Such People Should
Not Remain In the Church."

Not Remain In the Church."
Tho Rev. DR.. W. W. Boyd Of the Pebble Me-
mortal Church has suspended Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Bell OF 238 North Seventh street
from communion In the church. This was tho
result Of q meeting held week ago Thursday
night, after the prayer meeting which Mr.. Boil
attended. At the close OF the meeting tho pas
tor announced that he had som ething to bring
before the church. He said 1t was OF consid-
cradle importance. and requested those who
chose to remain. Only few loft When all
was quiet DR.. Boyd referred to q story OF d.
vorce proceedings between Mr. Bell and his
wife. and said that he did not think that such
people should be permitted to remain in the
MI: Bell sprang, up and denied tho PASTORS
to q. hip He tr t to by
not BE- suspended. The only way persons
%Sniop IL he esaid. Wss 3 Death Then he de-
mater: III a length declared hit i Il -, yqald
that II he did not get out quietly he would call
IN policeman to take him out. Some OF MIR.
hince then MIR. Bell has secured . number OF
cradle division Of feeling in tho church about
When Mr. Bell was suspended Mrs. Bell
tshhaf S inc same! same fate She taught class IN
take charge Of it onlsunday last. and q number
and the Rev. Mr.. BOYD and demanded that she
be reinstated., They reasoned with the young
men and told them firmly that their teacher
would not be allowed to return.
.a george y; Bell was deacon OF the church
cause oftho way no spoke at a meeting OF the
Baptist CITY Mission. He has not lived hap
pay with MS vile for some time. and several
FURNITURE except mattress. Mrs. Bell insti-
t9ted Proceedings for divorce on the grounds
aesuelty' desertion. and incom patibiiity.
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A New Style OF Bicycle Racing.

new style Of bicycle team racing will be introduced
At Staten Island this afternoon Various bicycle clubs
have arranged a team contest between tho Staten
Island Athletic Club whselmsn aud the Harlem Wheel
men, to be held upon the formers groundA It will be
threeminute race. and three each will ride pro-
gressivsly Two mon will start at time. and
each team will ride against each man on tho op-
posing separate heata This nsceBsitates nine
laps or heats The distance Will be divided into four
oil each Lap scores one point
The finish q tho race is even more peculiar than the
tsns.i marks BY .Is and the rider score. az al
which he lead, his opponent At the finish. Appto is
to be fired at the start and also TO designate the hrst
man who nishes It In possible to score nine points
W HSh inning mt or P0ss6Is points IN 4!
fast 4 IL generally conceded that such Is
complicated to become popular. Champion Raymond
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CHASING an EASTWARD RECORD.
The Fuerst Bismarck Raciug Against Time
to Southampton.


to 8outhaapton.
Can't Albers OF the Hamburg-American
steamship Fuerst Bismarck evidently made
up his mind to create new record to South
ampton when he left here on Thursday after
noon. He had distinguished himself on April
20 by bringing his passengers inside OF Sandy
Hook in the unprecedented time OF days IL
hours aud A minutes. and his splendid ship
was going like the wind at TX O'Clock on
Thursday night when the oil-carrying steam.
ship. Brilliant passed her l0o miles east OK
AS the Fuerst Bismarck cleared Sandy Hook
bar at 2:45 on Thursday afternoon. or hours
and As minutes before the Brilliant spoke her
she was thus going at the rate OF 2l.O4 Knots
an hour. II she can maintain that speed unit!
0he reaches Southampton. she will beat Gil
records clean out OF sight. Tho best run to
Southampton. q days II hours and So minutes.
was made by the Fuerst Bismarck In June last.
on her last run hither she covered 31O3 knots.
and made two daily runs OF more than 5OO
The Hamburg American line, and all patri-
otto Germans are much interested in the per
formances ofthe Fuerst B arck. because she
is absolutely German ship. having been az.
signed by German marine architects and built
at StettIn BY the Vulcan Shipbuilding Com
pany. Her sister ship. the Eormannia. WHICH
was constructed by John Elder l. Co.. on the
Clyde. has not fulfilled the expectations OF her
h,i1
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SAREHD DEFECTIVE UOBx

0eas Here just In Time to Put Scot,nra
Yard Cato Badly Wanted Man,
william Charles Galloway an attorney at
law Of 80 Gresham street. London, T.. c.. nh.
seconded in September. 1891. taking with him
Sl25.OO0. raised by the sale and transfer q,
property In his care. to which he had no title
Inspector Mitchell OF Scotland Yard track cd
him to Brazil.
On April 20 William Lane Booker. Consul
General OF England at New York. wrote to
Superintendent Byrnes. telling him OF Gallo.
ways escape and asking him for aid In his
capture.
Sergeants Golden and Sheridan inquired at
the Bar Association to see II English attorneys
Pave Pave T. comply with any prescribed, forms bo:
Ssatsa They wore lucky enough to learn that
an Englishman. answering Galoway's de-
Scnbtion. had made inquiries about American
SSsn sS fa:t ana wss IT the Hotel Imperial when
that the Ensshman had resIstered there S'n as
thsyn hrazll. under the name OF Walter Camp
pell Craig. on Jan. %. 1852. The man had
S Sesn PVT out ON March IL for not paying his
fol- H s,s SsS YG Tx A,s 20 th
General Passenger Agent Gibson Of tho Gnion
iin t recalls him distinctly. and readily pick ed
ous Nalloway's picture from among dozen
''Ih nIr az the man who said he was VIC. Craig.
stnan specsor Steers cabled to Superintendent
sIIest galloway when the Alaska arrived.
t Hng wiz probably get to Queenstown at noon
HaaaaSH Consul-General Booker was also mo-
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DIXON. ILL.,. May 6.-George Ingraham. owner
OF the trotting stallion Delmarch. received a
telegram from NJ. L. N[cHenry. trainer and
driver Of Delmarch this season. asking IL Del
march would be permitted to trot against Aller-
ton at St Joseph Oh Sept Is next. The offer
comes from tho Secretary Of the St Joseph
Trotting Association. and was accepted
by Ingraham. and McHenry teecraphed to
that effect. Delmarch is sixty pounds heavier
than he was at this time last year. and there
fore much stronger. He Il in such good condi-
ton TINT it Is confidently expected he will
Last week Ingraham made arrangements to
lot his horse GO at Des Moines about tho mid
son. Arian. Axtel!. and StumbouL Tho purse
ut st. Joseph Is $4,000.
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za1x1rr,s A1nIEr1o SCHOLARS
Boys that Mia Fair to Make Their Marks
on Slnder Path ard Field

The trinity School Athletic Association held Its ssc-
ond annual field games at the Berkeley Oval yesterday
afternoon and a decided success was scored very
ugh. sprnklng during the last event being the only
circumstance that did not bring pleasure to the large
gathering. There 10 some excellent material in the
Trinity schooboys that promisss to bud forth into the
Nun champions are made of. The looyard run for
boys under Is years was won in IL a5 seconds. no
mean running. and the regular dash was made in u
seconds nat All the performances fairly good.
and In the one.miie Arthur Green delicate un-
ders,sed lad Of IL years ran race that not only
the crowd wild but had the experienced athletic club
making Garrison nnish In the lat len yards won
During The Afternoon class of twenty.thrse rang.
e. s$S
e.. ,nm%.sy Q, events ssI.,on n,c.-r-,
Charles S. Bissei, ". Van zandt second. Time Il
soa :eo ssS'1s heat Sss
ans s:: s sd .a a%
hsss won y e. y Hnafsw. James lot sstoSd, rims.
~ freq s GSnf .s p
By W e. Psson s. TASK eli second Time is seconds.
hti third Time IL So s.oonds eausilins tue school
TSohppdrsd,n st!y yard H:nd,c.n Run.won
onda. virtually better than the record of 2s s-6
bicycle Rsss b. rs.ns
Sack Race. u yArds-won BY a. .. UndsrhiiI
scratch; A II. shoup. 6yards. second. Time ~ 26
seconds
private schools-Won by b. Elliott Berkeley School; D.
Lesperance. Jr. Barnard SCHOOL SECOND; Arthur p
Two.hundred. and: twen,y.yard Hurdle Race, H.ndl
cap-won by W. 8 Langiord Jr. scratch: W. Z. 6houp
scratch. second; Time. SO 20 seso a , r...-,,r
and Il. Jones' yards; Murdoch Brown and 4. Del No
lin. yards: second: e; Hayes and A. Il. shoup Is
ass H. sssss
scratch. second with 15 feet inehe;.
". c. sheup. scratch. with 20 feet 10 inches: A. NJ
LanRford. scratch, second; Win 70 fcet inchea
Throwing the Baseball dicsp-won By John rilley,
Jr.. feet. with throw Of 281 feet inches; W.
Langford. Jr. yards. second. with PSI feet: A. NJ
Lanyford. scratch. third With 24s feet.
scratch; Arthur r. Gecen. 100 yards. second; w
Langford. Jr scratch. third. Time. minutes so IL
seconds.
W. c. shoup won the gold championship medal for
the most points scored.
wiliismJ. swan va: referee; Harry Pike. starter;
G. c. Hughes c. A. Reed and z. uIertberg timoru; @.
=. Bostwick, clerk OF the course.
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Spring sports OF the q. of Pa.

PHILADELPHIA. May 6.-The annual spring games Of
the Athletic Association of the University Of Penusy
vania were held this afternoon before large crowd
Eleven events were contested. rain preventing ths
Others which will be decided Tuesday next Tho 70
suits were:
one.hundred.yard pash-Final heat. won BY z. n.
Church. Time, 10 rs seconds
Putting the Shot-Won by I. F. schuck. scratch. 50
feet 81 inches: Z. J. Mosber1 second
One mile Run-Won by J. b. Large. 49, L. scratch; W.
c. Reeder. second. Time. minutes % seconds.
RSSnnng hlz9 SnmR-wSm bAesfh9isssr
inches
One-hundred.and.twentyy yard Hurdle Race-wou by
E. NJ Church. scratch: Walter Roberts, scratch econd
Time, II SO seconds.
Hali.miIo Run-Won by g. W. Kelsey. 10 yards: ". II.
Hansel. scratch second Time. minutes Is SIS SEQ
onds.
Two-mie Bicycl. Race-Won by G. n. Coates scratch;
J. l.. KsndrIck, 200 yards, second. Time minutes,
6IS seconds
fwchundred sndtwenty:ya.d Hurdle Race.won By
H. g. Rebenack. scratch: A. Fleckenstein, 10 yards,
second. Time % 3-5 seconds
Pole Vault-Walkover for E. c. Boutwell, 49,
Forty.fouryard dash-Won by W. q Thompson, l6
yards time. 81 l5 seconds F. II. Lee scratch. second
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Harold 3d. John, who once served her majesty Queen
Victoria as member OF the First Life Guards. but
who has sven up soldering since he this
try and has served Durland riding master and the
Lakewood Hotel master Of ceremonies OF sports 10
after the scaps Of riding instructors in this city
who entertain an idsa they know something about
riding and swordsm anshtp; He says there thirty
hve INSTRUCTOR in New York. graduates from the Brit
ish. German, French. and Danish cavalry. and he
hopes to goad at least one Into match.
Mr.. st. John who 10 = trim built sixfooter, with
small sandy moustaehe sent word to Tue Sun lnst
Lund riding instr1s.os :. Of peksr. Academy; at the
fof hour, after the appointed time fondliny large
kin who profess to he anxious e back Mr. Lund. DID
onds ". Mcdiyen and w. g. Elliott. wi,ied away tho
time swapping riding stories and drinking German dis
turbance.
The ex. Life Guardsman has given mp Mr.. Lund, and
issues = challenge to any riding Instructor in
America to aliaround sword competition. the pro-
gramme to be:
i. Broadswords; 2 huat rapiers; 8. fo!ls; 4 broad
swords, mounted; 6. broadsword versus lance. mount
cd: q. broatsword versus bayonet, mounted ( head
ing over four.root hurdle
The stakes to b $3.50 to $500 SIDE the sporting Cd
itor OF The Sur to Be stakeholder.
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HA1s7ED wATRoUs 4 SUICIDE
He Had Tried to 0uIt DriAksng. but the
Habit Was Too strong.

Halsted Waltrous. expert in railway secure
tics at so Broadway. killed himself some time
between GA. NJ. and o A. NJ yesterday In his
lodgings at "a East Twenty-second street.
He loft letter dated at the flrst-named hour.
and was found at 8 o'clock dead on tho floor
with his throat cut He had evidently stood
before the mirror OF his bureau to cut his
throat. Ho had just written some business
letters. but In none did he touch on his inten-
ton to commit suicide. 1t is supposed that he
was not mentally responsible. His nervous
system Ind been shattered GH gef'ne to 70
give up alcoholic drinks. After u period OF
sohrety no had had q relapse.
He was born In this city 53 years ago. For
nineteen years no was In the leather business
with his brother. De witt Watrons, He was
travelled abroad extensively. was a fno plan
list and organist. and knew French and Ger
man well. He was unmarried.