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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-13
An ELECTION DISTRICT Nv THE PIRk.
THERE WERE FOUR VOTERS IN THE TERRITORY
LAST YEAR.

THERE WE'RE FOUR VOTERS IN THE TERRITORY
LAST YEAR.
The Police Commissioners held an executive session
Yesterday afternoon and cut out new Election Dis
trict In the city. The district Is In the xXist
Assembly District. and was made necessary by the
Constitution. 1t covers "A part OF Central Park
and lies within the Park. The boundaries arc
Ninety sixth and One hundred and-tenth ss.. and
Fifth and Eighth Last year there were -FOUR
voters In this territory They persons employed
at Mctiowan's Pass Tavern. which s In the Park NJ
about One-hundred and sixth-s, In arranging the
schedule OF Election districts under the new APP
portionment the upper part OF Central Park north
OF Ninety-sIxth-st was made part OF the Thirty
second Election District OF the \XIst Assembly
District After the Commissioners had approved
the boundaries OF the new election districts II was
discovered that In including that portion OF Cen
trail Park referred to in the Thirty second Election
District, the boundary line on the west crossed
Eighth ave, which IL Congressional line. while un-
der the new apportonment the Congressional line
be crossed in cutting out an election dis
trict Therefore, the Commissioners decided to
create the additional Election District specified.
which will be the Forty eighth Election District. OF
the XXlst Assembly District. This will make the
total number OF election districts In the city l3so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-13
MR. HORR STARTS TO MEET HARVEY
THE UNIQUE DEBATE BETWEEN THE SOUND
MONEY ADVOCATE AND THE AUTHOR
or COINS FINANCIAL SCHOOL,

THE UNIQUE DEBATE BETWEEN THE SOUND
MONEY ADVOCATE AND THE AUTHOR
OF COINS FINANCIAL SCHOOL"
r. G. Horn Of The Weekly Tribune. left the city
Nv the New-York Central Railroad at 4:3o p. m.
Yesterday He goes TO Chicago. for the purpose
Of conducting his debate with W. II. Harvey au-
thor OF COINS Financial School," upon the free
coinage of silver" This debate is TO begin next
Tuesday July 16 and to continue from day 10 DAY
until finished Mr.. Horn is TO attack the doctrines
and statements contained in Mr. Harveys widely
known book and Mr. Harvey agrees to defend the
came The discussion will be In the presence OF a
ANAL selected audience Of about one hundred per-
sons and will probably last through eight slttngs
OF three hours each
II is intended to be a hand-to-hand contest be-
tween two men who differ widely upon this i'm
portant question. and is perhaps the first attempt
of the kind ever made in the world. Each dispuant
Is to ask and answer questions on the spot; the
questions and answers will be taken down by a
stenographer and then printed as uttered from day
TO day. 1t will differ entirely from public de-
hAt4 In the presence of large audience and from
IN magnary discussion, where writer asks MS
own questions and answers the same. as was done
tY Mr.. Harvey. in his notorious book. and has
also been done by a large number OF persons VINO
have written answers to Coins Financial School"
In this contest the questions will be asked by
each mans opponent. and must be answered In
his presence. This should give great interest and
vvacity to the debate. 1t Is a most novel under.
will be watched. doubt. with much solcitude by
the friends Of each disputant.
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No yEW DRINKING-PLACEIN AVENUE d.
A PROTEST FROM MINISTER SUSTAINED bf
THE EXCISE BOARD-A SCHOOL TRUSTEE

PROTEST FROM MINISTER SUSTAINED by
THE EXCISE BOARD-A SCHOOL TRUSTEE
EXPRESSES HIS OPINION OF A CHURCH.
Tho Excise Board listened yesterday to an appli-
alton for the transfer OF license from No. l%
Sscond-st 10 No q Avenue ID. The applicant. Mrs
Lolita Weisberg was represented by counsel and
had n petition signed by representatives OF several
poitical organizations in the Eleventh Ward. Her
witnesses included William A. Graham. school
,-,,stec who explained that ne the real estate
agent for the property. and Mr.. Moeller. gros-
shon keeper across the way. who favored the grant
ing OF the license, because. ne said, the more
opposition, the more business
The Rev. John b. Devins. OF Hope Chapel In East
rourtb-st entered protest against the transfer OF
the license on the grounds that 1t was practically
o,on,np a new drinking place. as the former one
had been in another police precinct: that the hus-
hand of the applicant had admitted that he broke
the Excise law every Sunday until three weeks ago.
,ho, he had offered the protestant money for his
church II he would consent TO have the license
,rart.d and that there a sufficient number OF
grogshops In the neighborhsod already. more than
two hundred in the precinct, according to the police
captain 10 OF them within 100 feet Of his chapel
and seven OF the number in Avenue In little
more than two blocks. The protest war sustained
and the application for the transfer ref sed Com
m!ssioners Murray and Woodman voting In the
affirmative and Commissioner Hamburger In inc
Mnndorff Of 10 8, Avenue B. the Tamlnany chair
Eleventh Ward. which has 1000 school children
enrolled After the decision had been given, he ex,
he turned to Sir. Devns in the presence OF q large
number OF people and said:
III had my way would TCp o s turn ooa IN the
Eleventh Ward a saloon than II does as a
church. 1t would serve the cause OF morality bet.
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THE POPULATION SHOWS An INCREASE

HAsrD on THE NUMBER OF NAMES IN THE NEW
DIRECTORY 1T WILL REACH NEARLY 100000.
The Trow City Directory for 1885 contains S@l2S
names which shows an increase OF n.1l7 over the
previous year. 1t has been generally supposed that
in estimating the population the proportion
Of TO / was conservative estimate. and
II this the present population OF Ne"-f ork
would be estimated 1895 G40 which Is considerably
over the number shown by either the Federal or
police census With the idea OF getting the views
Of the Trow people the subject Inc tribune
reporter called yesterday on W. H. Bates. the Sec
retary OF the company mo" said Mr. Bates. when
asked II there were five times as many people In
this city as there names In the new directory
I'VE don't pretend to set UP against e'ther the
Federal or police census. With all their facihtes
they should be nearly right. II has been customary
to estimate the population OF city by multiplying
the number OF names in the directory by nve' Out
that won't always work. as In chicago io' III
stance. The Chicago directory Is about one-iour.h
larger than that OF New-York. and II you muitipiy
the number In It by five you would have city
much larger than New-York. which 1t Is not Inc
reason OF this is because the Chicago people take
the names OF a large part OF what may be caied
the floating or frequently moving population WINE
we do not With us. care is taken that inc ~ 10
sertion OF the names OF persons whose ao1 hm, q
migratory be kept minimum. as IL IL OUT a
waste Of labor and material TO gather and primii
the names OF people who will have moved sever n
the publication Of the directory According to the
police census the population Of this city Is nearly
our directory lire The Increase Of 7 names i
normal and natural one. and also solid one. Inc
s .ss isoi. In 1850 i. was zsss is and
1s n psrsons HsIeye tnat rs sroo.Sn a for
ssf e d In the are
more rapid. People do business here. but cheap
, and sns transportation facilities lead them 70
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Evidence IN POLICY CASES.
4 RULING By MAGISTRATE MoTT-DIscHARGE
AND REARREsT OF A DEFENDANT.

q RULING BY MAGISTRATE MOTT-DIsCHARGE
AND REARREsT OF DEFENDANT
Nearly all Of the well-known policy men In the
city were In and about Yorkville Court yesterday
afternoon They awaiting the ruling OF Magis-
trate Mott In against a notorious policy
operator. William Gunther. alias Murray, alias
Woods Acting Captain Chapman. Of the West
Sixty eighth-st. station. appeared the complain
ant Policeman Livingstone Hunt. OF the same pre-
cinct arrested Gunther just after he had delivered
slip to Mamie Keenan,. thirteen years old, OF NO.
20 West Sixty-fourth-st.
The child sad her mother had sent her out on
previous occasions on a similar errand and always
and that she had always gone to Gunther. who did
business In a vacant lot In Eleventh-ave. between
6ixty-third and Sixty-fourth SITS
Magistrate Mott asked her II she knew that the
numbers on the slip that she bought policy
numbers and she said she could not tell
There that's just 1t; can't hold such evil
dence" said the Magistrate. I'm governed by Re-
corder COTS decision that a complainant must see
the slips written and delivered and the money
passed II send such case down he would ask
what / meant. and imagine that thought knew
more law than he did" Acting Captain Chapman
said he thought that the girl having been sent for
policy slip to this man. and having asked for a
policy slip received a slip and pad for 1t as policy
slip the evidence was sufficient TO hold
1.-THE man is discharged said Magistrate Mott
Gunther did not get out OF the Courthouse how
ever, before he was rearrested by Policeman James
e. Burke Of the West S.xty-eighth-st. station.
Christian w Parker, of No. 3i4 West Sixty ninth
o.. had bought slip or Gunther. Wna{eVer eVi-
the reporters but the Magistrate he'd Gunther In
$50 to answer. Adolf Jansen bailed him out.
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THE MOUNTAINOUS TO BE REMOVED

Superintendent william Hcnkel. Of the Bureau OF
Encumbrances. acting under orders from Commits
sioner Brookfeld. will take force OF men this
morning to Fulton and Church SITS. and remove the
large wooden awning. bay windows and showcases
which have been used in the hat business Of A.
Smis for many years. Complaints that these en-
cumbrances were encroa chments upon the c!ty's
thoroughfare3 have often been made. Simis. who
died seven years ago. erected the awning in 1871.
His widow, Johanna Smis who succeeded to his
business. recently obtained temporary injunction
restraining the Commissioner of Public Works
from interfering with the awning. Commissioner
Brookheld yesterday received a letter from Cor
poration Counsel Scott Informing the Commissioner
officially that Judge McAdam had dissolved the In
junction granted 10 Mrs. Smis and that there
nothing to prevent the removal OF the encumbrances
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rgr RIO STATEN BLAND TRANSFER.

TIL. statement published In The Tribune yesterday
mat two parcels Of land known as Iron Mine. at
wa,v. nroo and Ebbtt Farm at Toadt HILL Staten
island. had just been transferred to J. Andrew
Harris OF Philadelphia. for the consideration OF ~
on 600 caused much interest among property-owners
there. The property is situated on what Is known
"a Toadt Ill., and covers a large area The whole
hill Is said to contain iron and outcroppings OF
II are to be seen all around
Erostus Wiman. who Is we'll informed about
realty In Staten Island. said yesterday: Iron ore
property Staten Island prior to the development
Of Lake Superior Of some considerable
value but OF recent years II has been entirely
abandoned: hence the purchase by Mr.. Harris for
81 100000 Of property that was not considered worm
over 500 an acre IL puzzle to ell Staten Islanders
Perhaps some new use may have been discovereo
for this class OF orc. but without some
for price 80 tremendously In excess OF surrouna-
excessive valuation as possibly the bssis Of The
capitalization OF big company which. perhaps re-
quires a capitalization upon which to issue bono:
FOR some other purpose elsewhere. There 70 not
the vestige OF an Iron ore enterprise on Staten
island that would employ the capital OF one-tentn
ha n MAINTAINED
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PART III.
PAGES II TO IA;
RITTELL'S ESCAPE WAS EASY
THE MARSHALS WE'RE CARELESS.
LEFT THE COUNTERFEITER IN A ROOM WITH A
SPRING LOCK-HE ONLY HAD TO PUSH
TILE LATCH AND WALK OFT.

SPRING LoCK-HE ONLY HAD TO PUSH
THE LATCH AND WALK OUT.
The escape Of John f. Bittell a convicted counter
letter from the custody OF United States Marshais
Mix and Merrick at the Cosmopolitan Hote. on
Thursday night, may prove TO be a serious matter
for the marshals because OF the evident careless
ness OF which they were guilty 1t was ascertalheu
Yesterday that the escape was almost as amusing
as the recent delivery from the Ludlow street
Jail The marshas had brought Bittell in irons
all the way from Guthrie Okla. but when they ar
rived In this city they took off the IRONS because
Mrs Mix With them
When they reached the hotel they did not tell
ANYBODY there that Bttell was a prisoner. They
took him upstairs in such a way as not 10 at
tract attention TO him. and left him IN room
which Merrick intended to occupy with him. There
&c a spring lock on the door OF the room, opened
from the outside with a key and on the inside
nv simply pushing a button The marshals locked
the door by turning the key on the outside. ana
then went downstairs. Bit,ell DID not have to ex-
b,bt a pistol in order to escape. He only had to
push back the spring latch and be ree to go where
he pleased once in the hall he went directly to
che elevator and walked out of the hotel just like
any other guest. No except the marshas knew
B,ttell was prisoner until the Western men began
40 rush wildly about the hotel lobby, asking every
one II they had seen a man go out who had buiiet
hole In his black derby hat He vas their prisoner.
they said and had gone down the fre-escape while
sbey were downstairs but a few minutes.
T. b. Hines a commercial traveller from Phila-
delphia, saw the man come down the elevator
Rttel walked leisurely toward the front door on
Chambers-st., asking bystander the direction TO
Fulton-st. Late yesterday after, the police had
found no trace OF the escaped .risoner. Deputy
Marshal Merrick made this statement about the
man.
When we get back they'll give awful jolly
,ng. that's sure. But we'll get him and land him
In the boarding house across the river al, rign,.
Whv he was fool TO run away The Government
contract with the Kings County Penitentiary mas
Almost run out, and he was to have been sent 10
the military prison at Fort Leavenworth Kan. lie
Tould have had TO be taken back to Guthrie and re,
sentenced at that time. Bitte,l was simple Knd
~ q fellow He was member of a gang OF coun-
Serfeiters about half of whom have been arrested
There were eighteen members OF the gang. Bitteii
ras captured before they mad fairly gotten at work
/ wouldn't be surprised If he went right over 10 TIE
Kings County Penitentiary and gave himsen up
Well get him. anyhow, before we go back
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ty-fourth Ward and has had the benefit OF the
supervision OF the school trustees OF that ward
These trustees Elmer A. Aleu- John f. Eus'ls'
Joseph H. Goodwin. Joseph J. MorrIn and T. H.
Thomson. Mr. Alien. who IS LAWYER having MS
Offices at No ~ Broadway. has been especially
active In promoting the interests OF the schools
in his ward. He has been a school inspector OF
trustee about ten years. and has given much OF
his time to the work
Primary School No Is is situated in one OF the
most attractive sections OF New-York city IL
would be difficult 20 ind metropolitan site with
more beautiful scenery than the site OF this schoo'
II is on the crest Of a ridge OF hills between the
Bronx and Hudson rivers. and rom IL s"pc'o
view OF the surrounding country can Do op'a"e''
This part OF the city Is being rapidly filled win the
most desirable class OF people nearly All OF ""o',
are OF old American families. who nave removed
from the downtown wards. Attracted by the na'"-
raj beauty Of this spot. many have settled there
in the last decade, and the prospects are that the
increase In population will be greater In the next
Foresceing this. the school trustees OF the twenty
fourth Ward have made preparations Tor erecting
n larger schoolhouse The new site Is In Anthony
ave. taking In the entire block between one nun
Neutrality-suspicious. and One-hundred-anh-
sover,v-six,h sis /, was only by The most per-
s,sen, efforts that the trustees secured this mag
nincent site. The first steps toward securing "
were secured when Tammany Han WAS IN iu'' con-
troll OF the city. and every obstacle was thrown IN
the way o. the trustees. The site was hna'y We
cured and now Mr. Snyder. the superintendent OF
school Uuild,ngs "a preparing plans for tho new
structure which promises 10 be one OF The hana-
somcst public buildings In the city. " men tnIs
r.c schoolhouse Is completed people IN TINS part
~ Tho city will have one OF the best schools IN t.e
system for the present corps OF teacheTs II iuiy
W to the standard. a. ,,.,,,o v
'rhe principal Of this school Is MISS Aneia'e ~
sheak The other teachers are Mss MARY, =, LAT
hox Miss Margaret A. Regain. Miss mary u baiiey.
Miss Martha T. Wooial.. Miss Saran kdrkut' si,ss
LATHE 4 Van Tassell. Miss Tesse +; Wari, MISS
iwl,e,,e Hanson and Miss Clarence 7. Steele.
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JOSEPH l.. HARRIS MISSING.
n,s,prr.prD SUDDENLY MONTH AGo-fIis
FRIENDS SAY HE ~ TRAVELLING FOR HIS
uEAITIi-IIIs ALLEGED coNNEc-
rION WITH SUSPICIOUS Fires.


TON WITH SUSPICIOUS FIRES.
Acting Disirict-Attorn"y Da'is Yesterday con-
or,nod report tina; Joseph l.. Harris. formerly an
insurance aljuster and furrlcr In this CITY hau
Mso,noared mya,cr.ously when an investigation
was being made concerning his connection win
some Suspicious fires Harris lived with his family
T., . handsome house Mt Ma. SO Presidcnt-st. Brook
lyn which he Is said 10 own. and the family h"a
attracted attention In the neighborhood By taking
freouout drives in costly carriages drawn by spirited
horses The family left the house about the m'uH'e
NJ limo and the neichbors understood mat the
HAIRLESS were TO spend the summer IN cottage NJ
Raw Shore Long Island. The family d!d not go 10
Ray Shore TO remain. however. ana Harris mas "o'
heen seen lately In that place. brooklyn or '"'S
city Persons at his fuT store In Sxth-ave nave
declared that he Is travelling In the country 'or
his health
Abou, eight years ago Harris kept small FUR
store AT broadway and Canal-st. The contents
OF the store were ruined by fire. and there WAS
some delay before ne was able TO collect tho III
surance Later he became an adJuser OF nre losses
for two three insurance companies anu ; M
office at No. +5 Broadway Then ne start"a :.
store in Ffth-ave.. Brooklyn, ana hat s, or, .he
burned out when he collected more money on 49,.
Insurance companies He had an interest WIZ.
Henry Siede In the fur establishment, az 40. =
West Fourteenth-st which was WRECKED , py q =, nd
msiine the losses BY the fire. The insurance com
1anies paid over $3.50 TO settle the losses .
or,r,ayed as a secret agent by the Russian Coy
eminent and holds lieutenants COMMISSION s ,he
I,v On secret Journeys several times IL is safe 10
bet that ne will come back soon ana rciute lhe - -,
ports which are being circulated CONCERNING hmsi
ness and his wife inherited fortune MS IrcnuS
do not believe that he was connected win me hre
bugs who have been indicted and arrested lately
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printed ar. erroneous. The people who do come
and put up shanties pleasure parties VINO
think they can make n summer resort of the SANDY
Hook beach, and another class are those who
wander about the bay and its adjoining rivers and
inlct- In hous.boats. These are the people VINO
geek to make temporary summer nome on tne
Sandy Hook shores and are In danger and Impede
us In our work OF testing our guns. Win regard
10 the fishermen. they. FOR the major part nave
thor home. on the other side OF the Shrewsbury
River. The outcry against the fishermen, most
emphaiicilly say, Il perfectly UNJUST
Were one OF these summer houses struck by
re>ochetting shot evcn there would be an awful
rumpus. and should anybody BE- Killed the trouble
would be much greater. Please state II emphatic
ally In your paper that the poor fishermen are not
the sruatters , -,
"Gahe' Hedges. an oil fisherman who Is down
the Bay nearly every day. was seen on me ,I hat-
tory Yesterday and said positively that the Usher
men we're not squatters IN Government land.
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EX-KEEPER SCHUEN AGAIN EXAMINED.
THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY CONTINUES ITS IN
vEsTIGATION OF THE ESCAPE FROM


vEsTIGATION OF THE ESCAPE FRoM
LUDLOW STREET JAIL.
The Federal Grand Jury net yesterday at 10
o'clock and continued the investigation into the
escape from Ludlow Street jail OF the postoflce
thieves Kil.oran, Allen and RUSSELL.
II is said that the Grand Jury al the conclusion
OF their investigation will look over the Ludlow
Street JAIL and may also inspect other jails In the
district where United States prisoners are detained
Inspector Holden. of ;he Philadelphia division
who arrested the thieves. the first witness be
fore the jury to-day. He remained in the room
some time.
The Grand Jury adjourned at O'clock. after hav-
ing again examined ex-Keeper Schoen They Will
meet again on Monday morning al 10 oc.ock to
continue the investigation. when ex-Warden Raabe
and some OF the keepers will be examined.
Hartford Conn., July J2.-Further investigation
to-day by Postoficc Inspector Jacobs. OF New-York.
on,v confirms his conviction that Miller and Hart.
the prisoners in jail here are cheap crooks He
knows the men as such. they are neither killoran.
Russell nor Allen. who escaped from Ludlow street
Jail nor are they pals OF Carson and Yenne. the
s,,nnosed confederates OF the escaped criminals.
Inapector Jacobs says Miller and Hart belong 10 the
a1,hcrry Hill Gang" New-York The United States
authorities do not want the two men now, and
they will probably be discharged tomorrow.
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HENRY GEORGE As A BEHEFTCIA RT.

Application has been made to Surrogate Arnold
for ancl:ary letters OF administration upon the
estate OF Silas Manvi.le Burroughs. OF London.
England, who died at Monte Carlo February G.
The value OF the estate OF Mr.. Burroughs Is about
f12s00o. There about $4,000 OF personal property
belonging to the estate In his State.
By the provisions OF the will Mr.. Burroughs LEFT
to the First Presbyterian Church. Of Medina n. ~
st.. Medina. to that town for common or play
ground. He directs that his interest In the nrm OF
residue OF his estate, be divided into twenty
Presbyterian Church at Medina, n. Y; the Gene
terry Fund at Medina. and Henry George, the
earnest advocate Of single tax. The value OF these
shares Ii not stated