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The evening world., 1894-09-19
.sH|RTMAKERs ARE AGITAT|MG.
5000 of Them Preparing for a
Movement Against Low Wages.
Mass Meetings Called to Discuss
Ways and Means.

Shirtmakers to the number OF 5000
against the present low wages and the
sweating system. The workers in three
shops. who struck yesterday for an in
crease OF four cents a dozen, sounded
the keynote in all the sweat shops on
the east side. and. coupled with the
success of the Coatmakers and the
cloakmakers. the shirtmakers-a far
more impoverished lot than the men
and women who have just won a signal
victory-feel sufficiently encouraged to
begin a general movement all along the
line.
They are organized fairly well in local
assemblies OF the Knights Of Labor and
in Independent unions, but there are
many shirtmakers who are so dependent
upon the sweaters that they are in alb
ject fear OF losing the scant wages they
are permitted to earn. These wages do
not average 81 week; the hours OF work
are many, and the sweat shops miser-
able, ill.ventilated rooms in crowded
neighborhoods
A mass-meeting Of the shirtmakers
will be held next Friday night In Wal
halla Hall, 81 Orchard street, and also
in Washington Hall a few doors above.
The subject Of general strike Will be
discussed. ana the aid OF the labor or
ganlzations will be asked in support
Of the movement.
AS result OF the threatened strike
ZONE OF the sweaters have become
alarmed and are prepared to make small
concessions In the way OF an increase
in prices. but the unions propose to fix
a uniform rate and will endeavor TO en-
force II.
AT a conference of all the trades unions
on the east side who are engaged in the
manufacture of dress OF any kind II
was decided that nothing should be CIV
en- to the public until next Friday night.
Tomorrow night a special meeting OF
the women working in the shirt manu-.
factories. sweaters included will be held
In Wallhalla Hall. for the purpose OF
organizing.
The strike in Smolenski & Goldberg
In still on.
Inside Contractor Engieson. who did
work for Levinson & Satterlee, notified
the Union to-day that he would not
accept any more contracts unless the
Union rates are observed. The men and
women working in Englesons shop left
for other shops.
One hundred members OF the Button
hole Makers Union are on strike. The,
were employed in eight shops and were
receiving onl.' 50 week each They de
mand 81.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
TO FIGHT THE TIGER.
Good Government Club X Will
Tackle Him in His Lair.

Good Government Club X, which was
organized only three weeks ago, and
which proposes to look after the interests
OF the downtown districts, including
the Second. Third. Fourth and Fifth. is
booming.
The membership has already reached
150, and is increasing every day. The
officers expect II to number 500 before
fore the campaign is fairly under way.
Headquarters have been engaged at /
Canal street, and Reception Commit
tee is on hand every evening at the
clubrooms from to II o'clock to re-
ceive visitors and give encouragement
to all those who are interested in the
movement to purify politics in New
York.
The intention is to concentrate the
energy of the movement in the coming
campaign in the Second and Fourth
Assembly Districts. where the Diver
power fiourishes and colonizing Is un-
checked every election. The leaders of
the club are watching the lodging
houses and tenements in these districts,
and propose to make a bitter warfare
against illegal voters throughout the
downtown precincts. 1t is stated that
Good Government Club X will work in
harmony With other Anti-Tammany
organizations in the lower districts. for
the purpose of driving out the Tiger.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
BROKER PHILLIPS BACK.
Promptly BaiIed in Philadelphia
on that Emhezxlement Charge.

Charles r. Phillips. the broker who.
as told in " The Evening World" yester-
day, was arrested at his office, 40 Wall
street, and taken to Philadelphia on n
charge Of embezzlement, is back again
in this city.
When seen at his Office to-day he said
there was no truth whatever in the ac-
cusations made against him. He had
never run away from Philadelphia, as
had been stated. On the contrary, he
has been carrying on business in this
city for years.
He denied the story told by Mr. Barse,
that he was clerk of Napoleon Ives,
and points out that he was a broker
before Mr.. Ives was born. Further, he
said that Barse owes him considerable
sums OF money, and that 1t was be
cause he brought suit for IT that the
criminal proceedings were taken against
him after lapse OF seven years.
He gave bail In Philadelphia yester-
day, and says he will gladly meet the
charges.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
ClAUSEN ANGRY AGAIN.
Bell Wanted Supervising Archi-
tect Recommended.


At the meeting Of the Park Board to-
day, Commissioner Bell offered resolu-
ton that Messrs. Chase, St Gaudens
and White submit the names OF persons
competent to fill the place OF landscape
architect to supervise the work on the
Harlem River Driveway.
Those three gentlemen wrote TO the
Mayor some time ago, protesting against
the failure of the Park Board TO appoint
such an architect
President Clausen objected to Mr..
IL don't wish to reopen the contro-
versy, and therefore will write no more
letters.
I'VE have already written to the
Mayor, stating that we would receive
suggestions as to whom we snail ap-
point" ,
that the Board had resolved to appoint
the man suggested by the three artists
named in his resolution.
NO, sir: we have done nothing OF the
I'VE will appoint whoever we please.
We don't know these people anyway
We refuse to invite either Mr.. st;
Gaudens or Mr.. Chase to run this Board
Neither will we coax them to tell us
MIR. Bell Withdrew his resolution when
he found he was in such hopeless
Lawyer Thomas w. Pitman appeared
to ask the Board TO act on the applica-
ton of the Park police doorkeepers for
more pay.
The last Legislature passed a law
making II mandatory upon the Board 10
increase the pay OF the doorkeepers
from $3.50 to $1,000 year.
President Clausen said that although
the Board did not favor the increase OF
salaries II would have TO be done. and
the Board will act on 1t at the next
meeting.
The Board decided to ask the Board OF
Estimate for an issue OF bonds for $64-
9s2 with which to complete the bridge
over the Harlem River at one Hundred
and Fifty-flfth street.
The Thorwaldsen Statue Committee
was granted permission to unveil the
statue In Central Park on Nov. IS at 2
o'clock In the afternoon.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
SUPT. TO CAPTAINS.
Byrnes Lectures Precinct Com
manders on Election Matters.
Tells Them to Be Perfectly Neutral
In Their Official Acts.
Excise Violations and Lexow Wit
nesses' Persecution Mentioned.

All the captains and acting captains
in command Of the various police pre-
cincts were summoned to Police Head
quarters this morning by Supt. Byrnes
and lectured for a half hour.
II was just o'clock when the Super
intendent began delivering his instruc-
tions. and it was precisely $50 when
the captains we're dismissed.
When seen subsequently in relation to
the matter, the Superintendent said:
My instructions were purely OF a
private nature. What said was
merely calculated to improve the dis
cipline Of the force. There was nothing
OF an extraordinary character said or
suggested. / have been in the habit Of
calling precinct commanders together
at stated periods for some advice. This
was one of those occasions"
The captains who were approached on
the subject refused to say what matter
or matters were discussed or what was
the gist OF the Superintendent remarks.
1t was learned from an unofficial source,
, however, that the Superintendent made
coming election, and that his instruc-
lions were confined principally to that
after. The captains, 1t was limited.
were. cautioned to ms intain neutral
upon the part of subordir ates to exercise
any considerable influence for the bene-
At Of one or the other party The in
structions, 1t was said. were explicit on
this point. and any attempt at intimida-
ton upon the part OF any police officer,
TIE Superintendent Is said to have in
sisted. should be reported to Hcadquar.
tiers forthwith, SO that the officer might
be summarily disciplined.
The enforcement of the excise laws
was also mentioned, and the result OF
! the Superintendent recent investiga-
tons was dwelt upon. The fact that
there have been sixty-odd thousand vio-
lations OF the law within a period OF
three months was evidence of neglect
upon the part of the precinct command
ers, the Superintendent declared. and
some effective measures should be used
, to check the illegal traffic.
Numbers of some places with the
names of the reputed proprietors. where
liquors are sold in violation OF the law
were furnished to the captains. 1t was
said. from the reports OF the detectives
who gathered the evidence.
Rumor had II also that the Superin-
tendent had a great deal to say about
the alleged persecution OF people who
had been before the Lexow Committee
as witnesses.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
The News at Washington.
tBy Associated Press. }


WASHINGTON. Sept. ls.-Secretary
Gresham to-day received three cable
grams from the seat OF war in the ORR
ent. One from Mr.. DENLY, Minister 10
China dated to-day. reads as follows:
NAVAL engagement OF North Corea,
the 18th. Five Chinese and three Jap
anese vessels reported destroyed. Fleet
at Port Arthur
Another. also from Minister DENLY.
bears date Of yesterday. and reads as
follows:
''Telegraphic communication between
Pekin and Chinese Army in Corea cut
on by Japanese"
The other despatch was from Minister
Dun. at Toxic. and was as follows:
TOXIC. Sept. s.-The following re.
ceived from the United States Minister
at Seoul: Please cable Department
Chinese Army totally annihilated al
Pliang-Yong.'
The Department supposes the place
named Is Ping Yang.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
POLICE BOARD SERVED.
Ex-Capt. Stephenson Springs His
Writ of CertiOrari.

Ex-Police Capt John T. Stephenson
dies hard. officially. Yesterday his at
torney. John Vincent, of 80 Nassau
street, obtained a writ Of certiorari from
Supreme Court Justice Lawrence, and
this morning a clerk from Mr. Vincent 5
Office served copies of the writ on the
members Of the Board OF Police Com
mssloners.
World" reporter that the action was the
first step In an appeal OF Stephenson S
case to the General Term Of the Su-
preme Court, He said the case. would
be pushed as rapidly as possible, and
that II would come to trial some time
early in November.
Stephenson bases his appeal upon a
violation OF his constitutional rights, in
being tried on a criminal charge by the
Commissioners. who did not constitute
a proper tribunal. He also claims the
proceedings of the Board were not in
conformity with the rules and regula-
tons OF the Police Department. and
urges a number of minor technical OBJ
ieCtionS,
The evening world., 1894-09-19
ANTI-TAMMANY PRIMARIES.
To BE Held Friday Evening and tho
Convention Next Tuesday.

Primaries of the Anti-Tammany Democ-
racy will be held Friday evening. The
polls will be open from 7 to 8 o'clock.
The County Convention is to be held in
the Lyceum opera-House, Thirty-fourth
street near Third avenue, Sept. %. Fol-
lowing is a list of headquarters in the
various Assembly districts:
First, "a Beach street: Second. so East Broad
way; Third 3l6 Broome street. Fifth. 50 Attor-
ney street; Sixth. SIS East Fifth street; Seventh
IA Broadway; Eighth, IS Grove street: Ninth
IS Eighth avenue; Tenth III First avenue: Elev-
enth. so West Thirty-eghth street; Twelfth. 2l3
East Twenty third street; Thirteenth, ISL Eighth
avenue; Fourteenth 4sS Third avenue; Fifteenth
533 Eighth avenue Sixteenth corner Forty ninth
street and Third avenue; Seventeenth. corner For
ty-third street and Eighth avenue Eighteenth.
1870 Eighth avenue; Nineteenth, l25 Amsterdam
avenue; Twentieth. 249 East sixty-second street
Twenty FIRST. IA West Forty second street; Twen-
ty-second, 1857 Second avenue: Twenty third 734
Amsterdam avenue; Twenty fourth. 406 East Eigh-
ty-fourth street; Twentyhtth 1886 Lexington ave-
nue.; Twenty-sSth southeast corner One Hun.
dred and Twelfth street and Lexington avenue
| Twenty seventh. l6l East One Hundred and TWEEN.
| ty-hfth street: Twenty ghth. One Hundred and
Thirtieth street and Eighth avenue: Twenty ninth
| $50 Third avenue: Thirtieth, One Hundred and
Eighty-nf street and Third avenue. Russell Hall
The evening world., 1894-09-19
King-Yuen Burned, Chao-Yung
and Yang Wei Partly Burned
and Beaohed.
JAPANESE Loss IS UNCERTAIN.
Chinese Transports Succeed in
Landing Troops Of the Sec
ond Corps.
OBJ Associated Press)

LONDON, Sept. 19.-Despatches re-
ceived here from Shanghai confirm the
report of a severe battle fought on the
Yalu River. between the fleets OF China
and japan.
The Chinese ships were escorting
troops bound for Corea The troops were
the Second Army Corps. composed en-
tirely OF Huanese.
there was no thought OF surrender on
either side. The ships of both nations,
II is admitted, were terribly damaged.
The Japanese had the advantage of the
weather berth.
mnnoeuvering.
The Chen-Yuen. these dispatches say.
after fighting her guns to the last. was
sunk by torpedoes, and a smaller Chi
nese vessel. which was unarmed. was
blown UP.
The steel cruiser Chao-Yung, II is
added. was so damaged that she had to
be beached to escape capture. while the
cruiser Yang-Wei was driven ashore,
and has become a hopeless wreck. Both
these ships are said to have been on
fire.
The Chinese claim that three Japa-
nese warships were sunk, but their
names are not given.
Further dispatches state that in the
battle, the entire Pie-Yeng or northern
feet Of China was engaged, reinforced
by some ships OF the Foo-Chow squad
ron. The Chen-Yuen was the flagship OF
the northern feet. and was commanded
by Admiral Ting.
The number OF Japanese warships en-
gagged is not stated. but as many of their
vessels were stationed of PingYang In
let, at the mouth OF the Ta-Tong River.
their number must have been small.
From Chinese admissions II Is gath
cred that the losses on both sides in the
naval engagement will total up several
thousand.
A Times despatch says that the
Japanese fleet commenced the attack at
noon. and the battle lasted until =. NJ.
The Chinese lost four ships. The Chen
Yuen was sunk the King-Yuen was
burned and the Chao- Yung and the
Yang-Wei were stranded and partly
burned.
The Chi-Yuen, the Chinese vessel
which was engaged in the fight OF July
81. escaped. and II is presumed that she
Is safe.
The despatch to The Times also
eSrees in saying that the Japanese are
supposed to have lost three ships, and 1t
sdds that many Chinese were killed and
wounded. among the injured being Ad-
nairal Ting. Col. Won Hannekin and Capt.
Tyler. the two latter being foreign vol.
unteers.
The Times correspondent confirms the
statement that the Chinese were success
full in landing the troops, which was the
object Of the fleets presence at the
mouth OF the Yalu River.
A despatch from Shanghai. dated T4O
p. NJ. to-day. says that later dispatches
received there say that twelve Chinese
warships arrived at Port Arthur for
repairs yesterday.
This despatch also states that the at
tack on the Chinese at Yalu was made
by a feet Of nineteen japanese war
ships. accompanied by a hotilla OF
torpedo boats.
Then followed a terrific contest, last
ing six hours. during which the great
guns, rapid fire guns and machine guns
Of all sorts were used with fearell
effect on both sides Both fleets also
used torpedoes repeatedly.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
SLASHED IN SELF-DEFENSE.
Mcfarland Says He Used His knife
After Being Robbed.

Peter McCaffery and owen McFar-
land, fremen recently employed on the
Ward line steamship Orizaba, quar-
relied in boarding house on Dry Dock
street, last Monday. During the scrim-
mage Mcfarland slashed McCaffery
across the left cheek with a jack-knife.
Mcfarland fed, but last evening the
two again met. and McFarland's arrest
followed.
In the Tombs Police Court this morn
had robbed him of his months pay.
This provoked the quarrel and, to de-
fend himself, he used his knife.
Justice Ryan held him In 81 900 bail to
answer McCaffery was committed to
the House of Detention.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
SILVER AND BILL SPURIOUS.
An Alleged Counterfeiter Accused
of Passing bad Money.

Michael Kierne, a saloon-keeper, OF 1877
Third avenue. caused the arrest last
night Of Robert Morrison. twenty-eight
years old. who gave his residence as POP
East seventeenth street, on charges OF
having passed a counterfeit silver dollar
and spurious 81 bill on his barkeeper,
James Spellman. A counterfeit 81 bill was
found In his possession when arrested
Kierne, in the United States District
positive that Morrison passed the bogus
dollar on him. Bartender Spellman said
he refused to take the spurious 81 bill
from Morrison, who took 1t back. and
paid ten cents for the drink he had or
dered. Oficer Dolan found a counterfeit
81 bill on Morrison when he arrested him.
The prisoner was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Alexander
this afternoon and held in $1,000 for
examination next Friday.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
FOUR POLICEMEN ACCUSED
A Striker Says They Didn't Arrest
His AssaiIant.

Lawyer Francs l.. Corrao tnhis morn
ing preferred charges against four
Brooklyn policemen for failing to ar
rest william Lane, who is charged with
assaulting one OF the strikers In Lanes
shoe factory. Fifth avenue and Sterling
place, yesterday. The policemen are
Luke Byrnes. Joseph Murray, F. C.
Lynch and d. F. Culhone. all Of the
Bergen street station.
For the past week a number OF lasters
In Lanes shoe factory have been out on
n strike Yesterday. as Vincent Pecor-
ello OF 40 President street, was walking
up Fifth avenue, near Butler street. he
says he met William Lane. son OF his
employer. and that Lane hit him with a
club. He claims the four policemen wit
messed the assault
Lawyer Corrao has also commencend
civil proceedings against Lane.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
BYRNES SEES PHILLIPS.
Denial that Civil Service Paper
Oh, rges Were Discussed.

Superintendent Of Police Byrnes called
this morning on Secretary Lee Phillips,
Of the Civil-Service Board, in the Crimi-
nal Court Building, supposedly in refer
ence to the investigation which he had
been ordered to make concerning the
charges made public by the Civil-Ser-
vice Board that examination papers Of
lice force had been tempered with at
Police Headquarters.
MIR. Phillips said that the Superintend-
ent came to talk with him on another
matter entirely. What that was he
declined to say. He said the subject of
the tampering with papers was not
mentioned Until the Superintendent
makes his report to the Police Board,
and that body sends II to the Civil
Service Board, the latter cannot take
any action in the matter.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
-WRECKER FOILED.
He Meant to Rob an Engineer O,
the Lchigh Valley Road.
lby Assoclated Press.

Vby HssOCIdttI FTess.1
BUFFALO, Sept l9.-As Lehigh VAL
ley passenger train liS. Engineer Con-
merton, was nearing Upton. four miles
east Of Batavia. last night. 1t Jolted
against some obstruction which nearly
lifted the engine off the track.
Quickly stopping, the engineer ran
back to find that some miscreant had
rolled a huge boulder on the track.
Not far away an understood man could
be seen scampering up the track. and
Engineer Connerton gave chase and
overhauled him.
The captive proved to be an Italian,
who gave the name OF Tony Ross. He
and after he engineer had finished his
run he brought him back to Buffalo
and turned him over to the police.
This morning he was held for trial.
road and he wanted TO rob the en-
The evening world., 1894-09-19
Named for Congress.

Anthony Joseph. delegate to Congress from New
Mexico, was renomin mated yesterday in the Terri
torial Democratic Convention.
Populists Of the Second Massachusetts, Con-
gressional District nominated for Congress George
NJ Stearns.
Republicans of the Third Maryland Congress
sional District nominated Dr. William s. Booze
The Democratic Congressional conferrees of the
Twenty FIRST Pennsylvania District nominated W.
NJ. Fairman OF PunIsutawney.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
WAITING FOR PARKHURST.
The Thirty-ninth Street Crusade
Checked Until He Is Ready.

The further progress Of the West
Thirty-ninth street crusade is waiting
upon the cooperation of DR.. Parkhurst.
He was expected to be at the meeting
OF the property owners to be held in the
Thirty ninth Street Methodist Church
last Monday night, and because he did
not come the meeting was postponed.
sade, said to-day
I'VE are waiting upon DR.. Parkhurst.
He has given us his help heretofore,
and we do not feel like proceeding
without II now. The meeting will be
held at the first moment he is ready to
attend It,"
The evening world., 1894-09-19
MERCHANT TAllORS UNITE.
Combine Forming Against Delin.
auent brooklyn Customers.

Merchant Tailors Henry Gissel. r. II.
Raphael. Joseph Levy. J. L. Arneberg
and L. Krepps OF Brooklyn. are busy to-
day perfecting arrangements to establish
a branch OF the National Tailors' Ex-
change of America in Brooklyn,
The preliminary meeting was held last
night In the new Johnston Building.
Charles +. Teale presided.
The Brooklyn tailors say they have
been forced TO band together for mutual
protection. They claim that the practice
OF buying clothes and falling TO pay for
them is growing too rapidly in the city.
The members OF the new association will
exchange points as to the habits OF men
who like to wear fine clothes without
paving for them.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
GOT RETURNS ON BICYCLES.
Louisville Newspaper Employed
Bikes" at Mondays Primaries.

IBy AssOcIAted PTess,D
LOUISVILLE. KY, Sept ls-The bicy-
Gle played a prominent part in Mondays
primaries. For the first time in his
tory, the complete returns. city and
county. were in by 10 o'clock. the polls
having closed at 4 o'clock. The Courier
Journal used bicycle messenger SER
vice in gathering the election returns
with complete success.
The precincts of the city, ia in num-
Der, were covered by thirteen riders
while the twenty-seven county precincts
were looked after by several picked road
riders. Some OF the county riders COW
cred a hundred miles over dirt roads
and mud roads as well.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
BRYAN FIGHTS MORTON.
Two Nebraska Conventions Split
on the silver Question.
CBy Associated Pre-

CBy Associated Press)
SCHUYLER. Neb., Sept. ls-The
County Democratic Convention. in which
Secretary Morton was being fought in
his home county by Congressman Bryan,
resulted in a victory for Bryan. the
Convention dividing. The Bryan men in
dorsed free silver and Bryan for Sena-
tor.
BEATRICE. Neb.. Sept. l9.-The Dem
ocratic Congressional Convention OF the
Fourth District met here and split on
silver. the straight element nominating
dorsing Stark. the Populist candidate.
The evening world., 1894-09-19
VIII FORM q Tin-PIate Company

(By Associated PrsaGJ
LONDON. Sept 1.-THE Daily News
says that one OF the Wealthiest OF Amer
The evening world., 1894-09-19
senator German VIII Not Talk.

Senator Arthur p. German. Of Maryland. arrived
with his sOA. Arthur p. German. ir. At the Fifth
The evening world., 1894-09-19
RUPERT ON TRIAL.
Mcclure Accuses the Policeman of
breaking His Jaw.

Policeman Henry A. Rupert, OF the
West Sixty-eighth street station. was
placed on trial before Commissioner
Sheehan this afternoon. charged with
assaulting and arresting without cause
Austin Mcclure. the night of Aug.
last.
Mcclure is sewer contractor, re-
siding at l63 West Sixty-sixth street
on the night in question he alleges that
Rupert struck him on the jaw with
some instrument. fracturing the bone
and incapacitating him for work for
one month,
Commissioner Sheehan heard both
sides and reserved decision.