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STEAMBOAT BURNED.
The oanonicus Caught Fire at q
Staten Island Dock.
Sent Adritt So that Other Property
Might Not Be in Peril.
'Carried by the Tide to Port Rich
mond, Where She Sank.

PORT RICHMOND, s. l., June 49,
The steamboat Canonicus was burned to
the waters edge this morning. The fire
was discovered about 9 o'clock, as she
lay at her dock in Starin's shpyard
Two engines, three hose car
riages and hook and ladder
truck arrived very quickly. but
there was no water in the yard, and
there was not sufficient hose to bring
water from the nearest hydrant, in
Bodine street.
The only way to save the shipyard
buildings and the other steamboats, and
vessels tied up near by was to cut the
Canonicus loose. This was done, and
the burning boat was taken out into the
middle of the Kill Won kun by the
Livingstone station, sending UP a mass
of smoke and roaring flames. Then she
drifted back to Port Richmond, where
<n1Pe> sank in twenty-five feet of water
after burning to the water line.
1.-THE origin of the fire Is not yet known.
Here were three men aboard of the Ca
onicus as shipkeepers. 1t Is suggested
at a Saturday nights spree Is the
est probable cause.
rhe Canonicus is owned by q Mr.. Bea-
hers, of Brooklyn. She was towed here
he has not had a fire under her boilers
Ior weeks.
The Canonicus is one of the old style,
efde-wheel, hog-frame, wooden steam
boats, and for years has been used for
excursion purposes.
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the meeting was forced to leave the hall. Next
Saturday permanent oficers are to be elected.
Delegates Archibald and Bell were appointed by
Central Labor Union yesterday to speak at a
benent entertainment to be given by the People 8
party at Ridgewood Park July 20 to raise money
for the Coxcyites At Washington.
Secretary Ernest Bohm was instructed by the
Central Labor Federation yesterday to request the
National Executive Committee OF the Socialist
Labor party to define It's policy relating to strikes
and boycotts ordered by trades unions as the
New York Section recently refused to indorse
several boycottB of the Walters Union. The next
regular meeting OF the Federation will take place
July 1.
heated discussion was had by the delegates
OF the Central Labor Union yesterday on the
uestion OF adopting n report submitted by Dele
gate brunswick. setting forth a new scheme TO
amaigaWate the various central bodies In this
city. The report belabored some OF the members
OF the Harmony Committee, especially Delegate
White, whom he called m arch secessionist %
The other members OF the Committee headed by
White, thereupon retorted with great emphasis A
motion TO adopt Deleg6e Brunswck's report was
voted down and the report tabled II was
decided to appoint a new committee on harmony
next Sunday to present a practicable scheme for
amalgamation.
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LAWYER PLATT'S FUNERAL.
The welI-Known Counsellor to He
hurled Wednesday Morning.

buried Wednesday morning.
The funeral of Lawyer James N.
Platt who died suddenly Saturday
night of heart failure at his residence,
81 West Twenty-first street, will be
held Wednesday morning at Calvary
Church, Twenty-first street and Fourth
Mr.. Platt was one of the Oldest and
best-known members of the New YORK
Bar. He was seventy-eight years old, a
native of Connecticut and graduate
of Williams College.
Soon after graduation he came to New
York and began studying law In James
W. Ses of tse Sf fs
Gerard & Buckley. This partnership
became, some years later, by the death
of MIR. Buckley, the retirement OF MI.
NJ. Bowers, the well-known firm of
Mir. Platt confined himself almost ex-
clusively to office practice and seldom
profound legal knowledge, and was con-
sidered an authority on probate, statute
and real-estate law. He was not be-
lever in litigation on general princi-
point to attempt bringing the parties
at issue to a reconciliation. His advice
was frequently sought by great cor
MIR. Piatt was a bachelor. His only
relative in this city is a sister. Mrs.
Justin A. Bliss, who resides at 301 Madi-
son avenue. He had a Summer house
In South Haven. l.. l.
He was q director in number of
asylums, including the Institute for the
Blind, and his name figures among the
list of directors of the Corn Exchange
Bank and Union Trust Company.
ropolitan, Union League, Downtown and
several out of town clubs.
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wisely. When am safe az Aunt Mary'ss :
there will be time to talk about the fu-
ture. Don't forget o,clock this evening.
doctor is at liberty" And at the fune-
real beck of the undertaken she vanished.
Sydney was left in the waiting room,
but his excitement and ecstasy We're
such that he could scarcely behave with
sobrie ". A golden future lay before
him, his pulses throbbed as If to music,
he dreamed rose-Colored dreams.
The undertaken coming TO summon
the dreamer TO the Doctors presence
had TO touch him on the shoulder be-
fore he took any notice, and even then
Ing and smiling to himself in a quasi
idiOtic way.
"Well. sir; what can do for you?"
A grave. clean-shaven. keen-looking
man sitting at u desk was eying mm
with the closest observation. ana IL
dawned upon him that ne was Ia for Il
serious ,consultation-he who had never
had a days Illness in his life! He had
intended to give the undortaker half
crown and 10 depart as he had come:
but he had put it OFF til! too late,
rbn MerG GocIG was ,p preposterons eoSi dilemma
great hurry. felt his pulse, looked at
stethoscope before he had in any way
What, excuse shall ] make" sydney
asked himself meanwhile. What eX-
cuse shall I mahe when he finds there
Is nothing the matter with me?"
To his surprise the doctor, having
finished his examination, sat down at
his desk to write a prescription. looking
very grave indeed. and trying not 10
meet his patients eye.
your heart Is all wrong" he said
gloomily. you must be Very careful.
No excitement mind. no violent exer-
ton! Light diet. chop, fish, weak
brandy and water; no wine. no beer, no
smoke Take this three times day
ana come 10 see me again in a week
I'm afraid it's all over with you. Good
morning. Good morning"
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HELD UP THE cHInAMAh.
Quang Wah Garroted and Robbed
by Two Footpads
The Thieves Captured After Being
Shot At Several Times.

Quang wah, young Chinamsn, who
keeps a tea store at III East Fifty-first
street, was assaulted and robbed at 3
o'clock this morning at Fifty-second
street and Third avenue. James Sheri-
dan, nineteen years old, OF 212 East
Thirteenth street. and Augustin Baurin,
of 113 East Fifty-third street, are under
arrest as a result
Wah was in Chinatown last night.
transacting business that occupied him
the greater part of the night. 1t was
o'clock when he left the IL" road sta
tion at Fifty-third street, and he started
down the avenue on his way home. He
had reached Fifty-second street, when
Sheridan approached. him and said
Shake hands. Chink.'
mo, no." said the chinaman. and he
tried to go on his way.
why, you are not at all friendly"
said Sheridan. and he grasped both of
Wahs hands. At the same time an arm
and he felt himself held firmly from be-
his pocket, Wah tried to cry out. but
ing him. The Chinaman was in bad
way when Policeman Gilhooley hap
pened to walk around the corner
At sight of the bluecoat the two men
the pavement.
Gilhooley gave chase to the men, but
seeing that they were fast gaining on
him. he fired his pistol In the air as he
ran. The men did not stop. but the
shot had the effect of attracting the at
tention of Policemen Phillips and Lang
try, who hurried up Fifty-third street
from the direction of Second avenue
The two men were thus between the
police, and. finding that they could not
pass them in either direction, they
dashed into a hallway just In the middle
OF the block on Fifty-third street, be-
tween Second and Third avenues.
From the hallway they got into a rear
yard and were climbing over fence
when the policemen came upon them.
Four more shots were fired, and the
men surrendered
At the East Fifty-first street station,
where the prisoners were taken, Quang
Wah Identified them positively Two OF
the Chtnaman's pockets were ripped
from his trousers and the money that
had been In them was gone.
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/. WILLIAM HART'S DEATH.
Pom n Coach Painter He Rose to
Become q Celebrated Artist.

Art lost one of its most devoted fol-
lowers by the demise of William Hart,
the noted landscape painter, yesterday
afternoon at Mount Vernon, N. Y. Born
in Paisley, Scotland, March 81, 1923, he
came to America when a child, and his
subsequent career is full of incentive
to all young Sen whose only capital in
life is talent.
Apprenticed to coach-maker, he
learned to pgint, first, as laborer on
the panels of the vehicles, then as art
opened her storehouse before him he
painted for love of his chosen mistress
True, he sold his pictures, and at high
prices, but 1t was only to carry him
higher in the field of culture and ex-
rpression.
a His whole life was one of devotion to
trt, though he by no means neglected
fhs natural side Of life. His love Of
family was the one passion that equalled
pis love for art. He was ever kind in
t4peech, noble in every impulse of his
nature and generous in the extreme. He
sS honored in his profession, respected
nd loved in society.
q unsought honors were showered on
T tS worthy man during his life, and
work will long live after him. His
er works were exhibited at the
orid's Fair In Chicago.
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Milk Pans.

and pals. and cans, and bottles
(even baby's)-or anything
that you want particularly
clean, ought to he washed with
Pearline. You'll save work
in doing it. and it's a great deal
more thoroughly done Dali
ries and dealers use Pearline
extensively. Just try it once.
on your milk-ware or butter
ware-and then say if it isn't
the most satisfactory way of
cleaning. Pearlineis the most
economical thing you can
use. too. You get so much
more out of it. ss5 JAMES PYLE, MY.
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IT am afraid you will have to wait
some time. sir; there are already a good
many here"
TT doesn't matter; / am in no hurry"
replied Sydney, incoherently. He was
shown into the waiting-room, where a
dozen or so of fellow-creatures We're col
lected Most of them were young ladies.
for DIR. Keith-Jeiferies was a favorlte
with the sex. and they had all that air
OF dreary self-absorption peculiar to the
Sclf-centred invalid. They turned cold.
listless glanCes upon The newcomer and
then resumed their reflections upon
their own real or fancied ailments,
masked by an unread Punch" or
Nineteenth Century" held before their
faces.
Presently sylvia g,iied in, looking the
picture of health and spirits. She was
very young, almost too young to be a
martyr to the sorrows she described TO
sydney. as they took possession of re-
mote window embrasure. She told him
resolution was unshalSen. She had writ
ten TO her Aunt Mary to expect her that
night. sydney must have a carriage al
the garden gate at 8 o'clock in the even
Ing when she and her maid would be wait
ms. her stern parent woul1 by this
wisely. but too well," and would be in
no condition 10 detect their flight They
were then to drive to Raddington, and
catch the last train for Exeter, where
Aunt Mary lived.
So far. Sylvia. who was 4 clear-h headed,
managing young lady. had arranged, and
her plan OF campaign seemed to sydney
quite excellent He promised readily 10
fulhl his share OF the business, and then
took occasion to urge that as he was
both able ana anxious to prepare a home
for her, the sotourn at her aunt's need
be only q temporary one
Sylvia listened. reflected and shook her
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be in the doctors waiting-room at a
little before II, and then we can have
three-quarters of an hours quiet con-
versation My maid, who is very good
girl, and who will accompany me to
Aunt Marys, is to post this Yours
ever, SYLVIA BULPETT,
'P. S.-Keith-Jefferles's address is No
- Harley street. Don't be late"
This was Sydhey's first glimpse OF the
tragedy of life in the shape OF parental
barbarism. 1t overcame him for a mo-
ment. MY poor Sylvia" he murmured
Then he pulled out his watch. Nine
twenty-seven! He swallowed a cup of
scalding coffee, without milk or sugar
and looking at his watch again. Nine
twenty eight! THE old brute!" he NUT
tered, walking up and down the no. rn
II always said 1t would come to this. l
should like to- Out came the watch
once more. Nine twenty-nine! He seized
his hat and rusaed from the room.
At half past ten he hastened to
the great doctors and rang the bell A
man servant. presenting the usual COM
bination OF butler and undertaken,
opened the door.
Have you an appointment. sir?"
mo. must take my chance"
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SENTENCED TO DIE.
t1he Lucky ailments Which Won Syduey
HIS Bride.

Dearest Sydney: I must see you at
fonce, had another frightful scene
with father this morning. He got into
v terrible passion simply because / hap
Pened to mention your name in the
most innocent way He actually wanted
20 make me promise never to see you
hgain. When l refused his rage was
fealiy awful. I am sure he is going
mad. have not been allowed to leave
my bedroom all day. Isn't II too alb
,asurd? But cannot endure this tyranny
Eany longer. l have quite made up my
mind to leave him. i shall go and live
with Aunt Mary, who has often promised
me home. l must see you first, how
ever, and this is my plan. All the fear
ful strain and worry about you with
father has made me so irritable and un-
certain tempered lately that he is sure
these is something wrong with me, and
am to go tomorrow morning at II
ko'clock TO see DIR. Kelth-Jefferies, the
fgreat nerve doctor. Father says he
Rshall drive me there himself and call for
tme again In an hour. This is to make
sure that hold no communicati ton with
Pou. Did you ever hear anything co
'ehildishr II serves him right to hoist
PIN with his own petard. 30 you must
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Suddenly the door opened, and the
merchant came forward.
Very sorry, sgd" he remarked THE
fact Is I've got three or four men In my
ROOM arguing over some syndicate bust
ness, and they may he ever SO long"
1t doesn't matter in the least" ex-
claimed sydney, much relieved. II had
really nothing to say. only called, as
| was going by TO ask how you were"
The merchant stared. He was not
used to these little attentions.
II may b. going for "A journey. a long
ish Journey, before long. / don't know
Father andden, eh?" replied his
brother, Where. are you gotnE?"
That's Just what isn't settled yet,
Nothing is decided. nut YOU ncedn't I
be surprised II you hrar-Im gone
nay have to 50 all In minute a, last
There's sovereign I've been going 10
give to l.ttle sydney for the last two
m,onihs-do you mind taking it? Good
He rushed away. feeling he had made
an ass % himself. Bu; soon they would
know the reason II his altered denieanor,
ana make allowances FOR him, lie re-
turned . his chambers, His" cham
heT He had just taken them ON for
another year, \ month would probably
have been quite long enough.
lie heaysd sigh, ana looked mechani-
callS In the boy 'or letters. There was
the brown envelope OF telegram, and
his heart beat Wildly. dangerously, omin-
ously. He must really cultivate calm
ness,
Everything changed. Cancel all ar
rangements, Come at once TO sylvia"
The room swan round him, and the
windows waltzel madly for a few see
onds. Then, instead Of dying. as he ex-
pected. he found himself pretty we'll
What had happened to change every
thing? Was Sylvia's father dead? Had
he relented? Had she met with an ac-
cldent. The thought OF this last pos
sibility had made his heart beat dan
gerously again. In half a minute, quite
forgetful OF heart disease. he was driv-
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sydney was in the sunlit street again
and the tide Of London life roared
around as before. But to hin every
| thing was changed. He,stooa stranger
Heart disease-I've got heart dis
ease" he repeated to himself stupiGly:
IT'S all over with me He needn't
have put 1t in that brutal way. Oh,
hosh! there must be some mistake; the
mans an Internal chnrlatan. III take
no notice of him" But a moment ar
memory every word of the interview,
every tone every look and weighing
them with anxious elaboration. He
could see nothing but the greatest con-
tors demoanor-nO trillng, no nonsense;
he evidently knew what he was talking
about and he had condemned a man
10 death PEI hRrs II Was only the mis-
taken brusqueness Of extreme sym
In the midst of life we are in death" +"
muttcrl sydney, ms he srolled through
Lincoln's Inn Fiel2s' with the carefully
regulated step OF an invalid. He wished
the sun would not shine 90 brightly and
II" children scream 80 loud, 1t affected
his nerves; sydney had nerves now! He
wanted only TO hide away and die in
peace. Was there anything left to do?
STAY lie thought II would be the
proper thing 10 go or say good-by TO his
elder brother. whom he theoretically
hated. but who was the only near rcla-
ton he possessed. To this brothers grim
offices in East India avenue sydney now
slowly betook himself.
I'm fey" he thought with a wan
smile: Hell think I've come TO beg OF
him."
The prosperous merchant was engaged
but would be at liberty in a few min
utes: sydney sat in the outer Office
watching the half dozen busy clerks.
Not seldom he had blessed his stars
that he was not a clerk: at this mo-
ment he would have changed places
gladly with the very junior, who was
copying letters. and solaclng himself
meantime with surreptitlous acid
drop. He had at least future.
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GUESTS ASSIST POLICEMEN.
Twenty-Five Break Into On In
sane Mans Room.
Bind Him in Bandages and Send
Him to Hospital.

Alfred d. Budgley, forty years old, a
guest at the ST. Clare House, 120 Park
Row, became insane this morning, and
twenty other guests and five policemen
united in an effort to control him until
he could be taken to a Place of safe
keeping.
The man Is known to have about IS 900
in the bank, and is not engaged in any
business. A month ago he was arrested
and fined So in the Tombs Court.
Badgley claims it was because he had a
fit in Park Row. Ever since then he has
acted strangely.
At 10 o. clock last night he left his room
and going to the hotel Office, said to
Clerk Peter Nelson: Peter. have those
rested"
The clerk asked for an explanation.
"Oh, that's not necessary" said Budg-
ley. You're in with them, and l am
being slowly poisoned" After some fur
ther talk the man returned to his room.
The clerk had occasion to pass Budg..
ley's room at 4 o'clock this morning, and
was estonished 20 find the door open and
Budgley sitting in the centre, Of the
room with a revolver In 1is hanu. ;,
cried the man, "and I'll blow the top CT
your head Off"
The clerk ran down the stairs end
got Policeman Brady. When 'he Police
man arrived there were about. twenty
people in the hall near Budgley's room.
Brady went into the room and took
the pistol out of Budgley's hand. In
another minute the two men were rolling
over and over on the floor. The police
man soon found that he could not over
come the man. So he left him. and going
into a room that faces the street blew
his whistle. Four other officers came up.
then they and the guests crowded into
the insane mans room ana held him un
iii an ambulance arrived from Chambers
Street Hospital There was no strait,
i'm with about twenty-five yards Of band
ages and strapped to a stretcher.
Later he was taken to the insane pa
yilion at Bellevue Hospital.
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IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Branch No. Of the Independent Bakers
Union gained fifteen new members last week,
Ale and Porters Union No. / has decided to
parade on Labor Day and members staying at
home will be fined s5 each.
Annual picnic Of Cabinet Makers Union
No. and Machine Woodworkers Union No. 3s
is in progress at Brommers Union Park to-day.
Bartonders' Union No. 10 has suspended one
of its members who was seen at a boycotted
saloon. Last week seven new members were
enrolled.
Tomorrow evening the Reliance Labor Club
is to elect q Walking Delegate. II is expected
that the vote will be close. The candidates are
Messrs. Cronan, Farley. Stevenson and Ed
wards.
Rudolph Hensei, Of the oldest union
cigar makers and member OF Cisar-Makors
Union No l4i, was buried by his feilow-workers
from the Unions Office at 332 East Eighth
street, yesterday.
eight new members last week, and resolved TO
have the organization incorporated unoer tho
laws OF this State.
Painters and Paperhangers' Local Assembly
has been organized at S5 Broome street, Jersey
City. Application for admission will be made to
District Assembly 40, X. Of l..
officers are to be elected by Local Assembly
Of M raTts[ BY ;h, the yennH whe
nominations will be made tomorrow evening by
the Elevator Conductors benevolent Association
Central Labor Union received letter yester-
day from Elhu Root, Of the Constitutional Con-
yentiOn, stating that attempt would he made
to unseat Mr. Trapper. delegate from Buffalo
Mr.. Trapper is the only labor delegate In the
Convention.
The Brooklyn Central Labor Union authorized
it's Executive Committee yesterday to send a
representative to Albany to attend a meeting OF
the Committee Labor appointed by the State
Constitutional Convention. Delegates TO the spe-
cial Convention OF the Workingmen's State Trade
Assembly are to be elected at the next meeting.
A committee composed OF Delegates Archibald.
Bell, Brunswick, Brutschln and Smith was ap-
pointed by Central Labor Union yesterday TO re-
port hether or not the Union Record and Cult
nary Worker should be indorsed as the o'fcial
organ Of the body.
Upon request of Walking Delegate II. James
the Williamsburg Framers' Union yesterday fined
two members IS each for working on strike
lob All members were enjoned from working
with men who cannot show clear union cards.
Next Sunday nominations for new officers are to
Se made.
Delegates Of Empire City Lodge No. 357, OF the
International Association of MaChinists, told the
Central Labor Federation yesterday that they are
In favor of striking from their constitution the
clause prohibiting the admission to membership
Of colored men, and thereupon II was resolved
To permit these machinists to affiliate with the
Federation.
large number OF memsrs was enrolled
last night by the Italian Section OF the SOCIALIST
Labor party at ca East Fourth street The total
number OF members Is now over 4oO. An An
archst who attempted to create disturbance at
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agoin-to be with her. If only for .
May I-can Twill she?" he began.
confusedly. but he was interrupted by
imPerbI9us bH pe9 os the cPed Pe. the aron
lied father II sent for our little local
doctor-Dr. Elio.- directly we got home.
but he was out. have been expecting
Your message was urgent" he said
to Mr., Bulpett ". am sorry have been
delayed so long. Int was called away
to most extraordinary case. My dis
tinruished confrere, Or. Keith-Jefferies,
was brought home from Harley street
couple of hours ago, having at
tempted to commit suicide in sudden
access OF mania. He has been very odd
tor some time: II appears that he has
been sentencing all his patients to
death for days"
petit to the Doctors boundless astonish-
ment, why, that's the very mani Mad?
Why, that explains everything! Doctor,
that fellow has nearly, frightened us all
out of our wits. Look at me. doctor;
do look like n man in the last stages
of disease? l shall live to-
Plague every one yet" subjoined the
little local doctor, who knew him OF old.
as he was led TO see Sylvia upstairs.
where she was sitting crying, her pretty
head buried in her knees. rocking her
self to and fro. ~
sydney had taken a piece Of paper
from his pocket and was tearing II into
nitrate pieces. 1t was the prescription
which had cost him a couple OF gulneas
a few hours before.
There was a brief interval, and then
the door slowly opened, and Sylvia stole
into the room. half laughing, half cry-
Ing. have come 10 tell you darling.
that DIR. Eliot says there Is nothing
whatever the matter with either me-or
papa" she cried. and then. starting
back; why, Sydney, you look ten years
older than when l saw you this morning
and l declare your hair has turned
gray And all on my accountl My poor
darllng"-H. Il. Clark. IN Black and