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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
CHATELAIN,s AFRICAN COLONY.
Abrnm 8. Hewitt Fresides at n Meeting in the
Interests or the Plan.

Interests or the Plan.
The Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt presided last night
at a meeting in Chickering Hall. which was
called TO exploit tho work of an ex-
petition which Is about to set sail
for Africa to found n sort Of missionary
settlement there and to bid God speed to He'll
Chatelain, the leader, and his co-workers. There
were only about 100 persons present. Mr..
Hewitt said that aside from the fact that
he had been invited to preside his con-
science would not allow him to stay away from
a meeting called to further q cause which was
intended to rescue tho negroes from the abuses
OF slavery and the superstitions of witchcraft.
The Rev. L. 2. Chamberlain, President of the
Philafrican League, the organization which has
raised the money to send Mr.. Chatelain and
the others to Africa, said that he had
never known that $4,000, 900 Africans were
held In slavery, nor tho horrors Of
this condition until NJ. Chatelain came to this
country and told him about them. Mr.. Chate.
lain, he said. had suggested the method
which Is now to BIO employed to ameliorate the
condition of the Africans. and it was at Mr..
Chatelain's suggestion that the league was
formed.
It is proposed to establish a colony on the high
table lands in South Africa. about 500 miles
inland from Benguelln, on the west coast, where
vited to settle. and where polygamy. witchcraft,
rum. and mnprincipled white, men shall DO OK
sl%SG Sno R bhod nsgpSss a .Ss to .br be tRs!g s aad ag ShsSd:
tartan Christianity.
Those who are going out to assist Mr.. Chate-
lain in this work are Mr.. and Mrs. Frank p. Lea,
both graduates of Bethany College, Virginia; J.
+. Rodman, n graduate Of the New York Trade
School; William G. Bell. n graduate of the Col
Mrs. Bell.
Paul du Chaillu said:
"Where / was in AfricH I did not see the
worst OF African slavery. The greatest cause Of
slavery in Africa Ia witchcraft.
when n man dies 1t Is believed that he Is
bewitched, and somebody is either killed for this
or else sold into slavery"
The Rev. DR.. Baldwin OF the Methodist mission
airy service, Mr.. Chatelain, and MIR. Lea also
SPOKE.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
SUICIDE OF A MOTHER.
She Drank and lIl-Treated Her Family, an,
Took Poison In Her Remorse.

She Drank and nI-Treated Her Family, and
Took Poison In Her Rcmorse.
Mrs. Lena Sarfaty of 1904 Second avenue
died in the Presbyterian Hospital yesterday
after having taken a dose of Paris green. She
was the second wife of Bernard Sarfaty, a
cigarmaker. Her relatives say that she
drank constantly, and that in a drunken at OF
anger on Friday she beat her son Jacob, 8 years
old. There are six children in the family, in
Guiding the woman's step-children, and the lat
ter were highly indignant.
They left her alone with Jacob and her baby.
Jennie, with the understanding that later on all
the children except the baby were TO be taken
charge of by the father.
Yesterday Dora Sarfaty, 16 years old, called
on her stepmother to see. about taking lit,s
Jacob away. She found Mrs. Sarfaty Violently
green, she told Dora, and the young cir!
TO the hospital.
The baby, who had been in good health. was
found to be i'll and was believed to have swsl-
lowed some of the poison.
The stuff was spattered about on the mothers
clothing and the child probably swallowed soma
by accident, although it was at first feared that
the mother had tried to poison the little one.
Mother and child were taken TO the hospital,
but later on the baby. who was not seriously i'll,
recovered, and was taken charge of by the father.
The woman rallied for a time under treat
ment, but relapsed again and died in the after.
noon. She was SO years old.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
NEGRO MISSIONS TO AFRICA.
A Session OF bishops and Pastors or the African
N. X. Church to Promote Them.

n SA8hO ol h4thDopb hhu AbtoEu u INC htTtNAu
N. X. Church to Promote Them.
Tho Board of Directors Of the Home and For
eign Missionary Department OF the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, with n council OF
Bishops, met In tho Bible House yesterday.
Bishop II. NJ. Turner. the senior Bishop and the
President Of tho missionary department, pre-
sided. Tho Bishops present were H. NJ. Turner.
]. G.. Embry. William B. Derrick, and Abraham
Grant.
Tho object of the meeting was to discuss the
spread Of tho missionary work in Africa, the
West Indies. and Hayt, and the annual appro-
priation for the maintenance Of tho mission
In speaking Of tho work In Liberia, Secretary
Parks s @sh in r1 his ,TSTPSr xr,, sT ,Sot hi iSS o .ms Of the
r neEro im mnt rrTEns%a'Eia lis M name 'a and t dsm ansSr1tSi
his undying lovo for the land OF his ancestors
by erecting In the capital city Of that republic
u Memorial African Methodist Episcopal
The. Secretary. according to his report. has
Africa, signed by nine Kings OF different tribes
appealing for membership in tho A. NJ. +.
Church or asking for preachers and teachers TO
With exemplary patience a large congrcRa,,
ton waitod, for an hour and q half ut the Bethel
Of the visiting Bishops, who were to conduct a
missionary meeting there. Many Of the crowd
went to the platform and announced that the
Bishops were delayed by reason OF being at sup
pcr, but would arrive soon, About twenty
minutes later sovcn OF tho Bishops and u mum.
took their places on the platform. Bishop Grant
introduced Bishop Turner AZ Chairman. The
Chairman made n speech about missionary
work in Africa. Ono OF his most striking SEN
fences was ~ follows:
persecution In tho past, tho ungodly decision
OF tho supreme Court, and tho trcachery Of both
parties has opened our eyes, and wc soo that we
must run on our own schedule, and now we
bishops Leo, Turner. Derrick, Handy, saiter.
and Enibry also spoke upon tho subject of mis-
siuns.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
VETERANS WITH GRIETANCEs.
Discharged Employees OF tho PHILADELPHIA
Mint Appeal to Assistant Secretary VANDERBILT.

Discharged Employees OF the Philndelphia
Mint Appeal to Assistant Secretary vnnderiip.
PHILADELPHIA, June 22.-Asslstant Secretary
Vanderlip Of the United States Treasury gave o
hearing to the mmit representing the SOL
dior veterans discharged from the Mint, at Q
o'clock this afternoon in the Hotel Walton. Tho
complaint OF the veterans Is that they were dis
charged without cause, while DIR. Eugene Town
send was Superintendent Of the Mint. They
contend that Major Kretz, the superintendent,
should reinstate them, and when they applied
to him he declined to mako vacancies for them,
and. furthermore. he declined to consider any
applicant who was not physically able to per-
form the services required Of him. In this
action he has been thus far sustained by the
Treasury Department.
After the conference with the committee Mr..
vanderlip said:
THE old soldiers may expect the greatest con-
sidcration for their claims and absolutely fair
hearing. Tho department is certainly taking
the most scrupulous pains to get to the right in
all these cases, wherever they occur, but be-
cause we want to see justice done is no warrant
that those men are. going to get back their posi-
tions. The places have been filled. and the pres
ent incumbents are working well. The law does
not allow US. even when 1t Is to right q wrong,
TO remove a man who Is doing his work ~satisfac-
torily. and while we may decide that some of
these veterans had been treated unjustly, they
cannot, expect to DO restored at once to their old
places"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
TRIED TO WRECK AN Ess TRAIN
Railroad Ties Piled Up ON the Track or the
Consolidated Byntsm.

PHovIDENcE. II. l., juno 22.-About 1:3O
o'clock this morning an attempt was made to
wreck tho postal cXprcss on tho Consolidated
line, half Il mile north OF Slocumyille station.
Tho express, which leaves here shortly after /
A. NJ, was drawn by engine $3.50 and carried
no passengers. being exclusively devoted TO
tho transportation OF valuable mall and OK.
press matter. IL had passed WEXFORD juno
station, when tho engineer, noticed obstrtic.
lions IN tho form Of ties on both tho east and
west bound tracks. lilo at once reversed his
prevent "a collision, and tho locomotive struck
tho obstruction. The engine was not deruiled,
nor was any OF the train hands injured. Tho
locomotive was disabled, but after an hours
repairs ~ wont on to Now London. Tho nj.
tempt 70. wreck tho truln,it Is thought. was tho
work Of trimpH.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
NO aLAssWoRKs, SHUTDOWN.
PittsburG Union Men Cooperate with Employ
cra In FiGhtInE Non.Inion FactorIcs.

cra in Fighting Non-Union Factories.
P~ITTsBURG, Pa, June 22.-The American Flint
Glass Workers Union of the United States and
Canada have abolished an old custom. BY vir-
tue of the now arrangement agreed upon with
the Manufacturers Union, factories will be
placed on an even footing with the non-union
factories.
The glasshouses will not be shut down. ex-
cept for a short time this summer, and thou
sands of employees will work longer than they
have worked in any one of the last twenty
years.
w. J. Smith, President Of the union. an.
nounced tonight that the Executive Board had
consented to abolish the summer shutdown
In all departments of the trade except tho
lamp chimney section. The pressed ware and
the bottle prescription ware departments will
not cease operations at the usual time, but will
continue at work all over the country. thus
giving at least four weeks extra work to 2S, 900
members of the union.
has been a principle with the union"
non-union glass houses came into vogue
and operated through our idle period,
tobbers learned that they did not need big ware
houses to stock up before the shutdown, but
that they could purchase glassware. as they
needed 1t In. the summer from the non-union
factories. The new move will place the union
houses on the same advantageous plane occupied
by the non-union factories, and will give our
men lots OF work"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
TRAIN STRIKES Il HAY CART.
Two Men and Five Children I'm . G~rade-Cros,
Ing Accident In Connecticut.

Two Men and Five Children I'm = Grade-Cross-
ing Accident In Connecticut.
WALLINGFoRp. Conn.,, June 22.-An extra
freight south bound on the New York. New
Haven and Hartford Railroad struck a hay cart
containing two men and five children on the
Ward street crossing here this evening. Frank
Russell, the owner Of the turnout. was hurled
twenty feet in the air and struck upon his head,
his skull was fractured. John Hoffman. aged
81. was carried 500 feet on the pilot of tho
engine. his hip was crushed, ribs broken, and he
sustained internal injuries.
Annie Hoffman, aged 9. fell partly on tho
track. the train passing oyer her leg; and Joseph
Hoffman, aged ., Frank Henry and Edward No.
vack, aged o and 1 respectively. were thrown
along the track and received severe bruises. Tho
cart was smashed into splinters.
The driver failed to hear the train. and when
he drove upon the crossing the engine was with
In twenty-five feet OF them. The horse was
frightened by the noise OF the approaching train
and bolted across the track.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
COL. GRUBER,s EXCURSION.
1000 or His Adherents Visit Cold Spring Hnr.
Dor on Three Steamers.

The regular Republicans OF the Twenty first
Assembly district, OF which Col. Gruber, tho
liliputian G.. o. y. %stalwart. Is the recognized
leader, gave their second outing for the women
and children Of the west side Republican strong
hold yesterday, and more than 1000 persons
awaited themselves OF the opportunity.
Two Iron steamboats, and the Myndert Starin
took tho excursionists aboard at tho foot of
West Ninoty-sixth street. The little Colonel
tho steamers with banners flying and brass
bands playing. started for Laurelton Grove In
Cold Spring Harbor. forty miles away.
The Colonel turned poet for the occasion, and
he composed a song that the boys on the excur-
sion sang to the tune of Tho Band Played On"
The Colonells well:known civil service prcju.
dices were injected into the following verses that
his udherents sent booming over the waters Of
the Sound:
The q. @. p. Is sailing
As she never sailed before,
Away up high in all the peoples favor,
But n the Chinese system
Keeps %aRuidlng her Captains
No human hand upon this earth can save her.
When all the thirty thousand
Whom Cleveland gave the bounce
Are back again In harness and in place,
Tho civil service won't he hurt,
But tho Goddess OF Reform
May once again unblushing show her face.
There was u chorus that was laden with com.
Olcott. and Assemblymcn Ford and Austin, with
II sort Of fanfare for Senator Plat at tho close.
Col, Grubcr noted with pride that thcro wero
twcnty.four carriage loads Of babies on the
excursion.
There was donkey riding. bathing, and boat
ing. and feasting galore. and tho Republican
voters started n baseball game that came TO an
untiluely end. because one player caught. the
ball In his head instead OF In his hands. At the
banquet Col. Grubor was nominated for Mayor
OF Greater New York, but declined on tho plea
that no IL going to Europe noxt week and
wouldn't have timo to work up the canvass
properly.
H., ,i.. ,un.o ,.al. l.. -.
Senator Ford. Assomblymcn Austin and Suili.
van, Aldermen Wines. GootZ. and Goodman, and
Clerk Ton Eyck OF tho Aldcrmanic board. The
party got home Mt . o'clock and voted the picnic
u rOusing SUCCESS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
LEoNARD,s WOMEN FRIENDS FIGHT
Tho Correspondent In TITS Divorce suit Didn't
Like Hls Attentions 10 y Dancer.

Tho Correspondent In Hts Divorce Suit DidnV
Like HIs Attentions 70 n Dancer.
John +. Leonard. an actor, and one OF the va
riety team OF Gilmore and Leonard, entered the
restaurant OF the Madison Square Hotel, mt
Twenty.seventh street, at 0 o'clock last evening
with MaiLie King, a dancer. Lottie whalen,
who was mentioned as q correspondent In the
suit of Mrs. Leonard for divorce last winter. was
sitting at ono OF the tables. As Leonard and his
companion entered the Whalen woman jumped
up, and there was q scene, Tho women ciinched.
There the woman fought for some moments,
and when Leonard finally started OF toward
Whalen chased after them and there was an.
other orawl. Bicycle Policemen Whitman and
woman and took them to the West Thirtieth
street station. Thoro tho whalen woman said
she was Leonard's wife, Sergeant rims re-
leased tho prisoners with a warning 10 behave.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
TO nEIP EMPLOYING pIAsrEREns.
Building Trade Associations Pledge support
Against the Operatives' Demands.

Tho union Of workmen known as the Plain and
Ornamental Operative Plasterors' Society Of
New York has recently demanded that en-
ploycrs appoint as forcinen only such men as
arc acceptable to the union, which shall have
the power Of confirming or rejecting the appoint
monts. Tho employers say that this would
mako tho foreman the agent of tho union and
not NJ tho employer, and that tho present laws
relating to the protection Of life and limb are so
e~xacting and employers aro held 70 strictly &C.
countable in case OF accident, that 1t is abso-
lutely necessary for any employer. especially one
In the building industry. to exercise the greatest
care In the selection OF his foreman.
The plaBterers presented their demand 30 sud
meet tho situation, but they have been busy in
tho last few days, and the matter was laid before
tho. Maaons and Builders Association and the
United Bnilding Trades. which INCLUDE the EN-
ploying Plasterers' Association. Yesterday tho
masons and builders adopted q resolution extend.
Ing "sympathy and support to the employ
H., their , own sns,n In their shd sftSTt no no n %s%ssS
Of this association shall request n p~lastorer to
fulfil his contract with him to do any plastering
with union men where n strike has been inaugu-
rated because Of the unjust demands OF the
elsctine a foreman for their employers"
as Sihh nj ar resolutions .D,,ts rs, Mere also ADOPTED EesEte ter
ployers and Builders League.
The Employing Plastcrers' Association de-
OF tSe y sisisers,y ! %, Rqs nS GrniT Of ,b msP Pi y place ays.
nue., Secretary Of the Employing Plastercrs' As
ISOLATION. said yesterday: I'VE gave the plas.
terers time to reconsider their absurd demand.
and II general strikes follow they will be re-
sponsiblc."
THE Hoard Of Walking Delegates will meet
this afternoon. and. according to the resolution
1t passed ut it's last meeting, 1t will order sym
pathetic strikes on tho buildings where non.
union men are employed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
SHE LOVED IN VAIN.
Mlss schuldt Drowned Herself Because q Young
Man Did Not Propose Marriage.

Miles schuldt Drowned Herself Because q Young
Man Did Not Propose Marriage.
READING, Pa. June 22.-The body Of Agnes L
Schuldt was found in the canal near the Schuyl-
kill avenue bridge yesterday afternoon. close to
the feeder of the locks. She was tho grand.
daughter of the late Fred Schuldt and fell heir
to a large part Of his fortune. She was in love
with a young man from Washington. She told
a friend recently that If he did not propose
marriage to her she would emo her life by com.
hitting suicide. On last Thursday afternoon
Miss Schuldt disappeared from the home OF her
aunt at 23l Clymer street. The police were
notified and had hunted for her.
Miss Schuldt was in her 10th year. When 81
she would have come into possession OF about
S3T 900, now in the hands OF the Reading Trust
Company: She made her homo at Mr.. Woomer's
the past thirteen years. Besides inheriting the
above from tho personal estate of her grand.
father. his will also bequeathed to her the prop
critics, $40 and s4s Penn. 907 Franklin. and SIS,
S45. and SAT Cherry streets.
Frederick Schuldt, the father of the dead Cir.
ing, in 1883.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
Nv J41L FOR HIS SONS cRIME.
Murphy Accepted Disgrace in silence Rathel
Than Havo the boy Exposed.

TRENTON. June 22.-The Rev. Alfred W.
Wishart Of this city to-day called upon Gov.
Griggs in the interest of John w. Murphy, who
was recently sentenced to three years in State
prison for ombezzlcment. Murphy was a town.
ship clerk in Burlington county and was a clerk
in John Wanamaker's Philadelphia store. He
left the township business to his son. A def
cheney OF 81 200 was found in the accounts, and
Murphy was tried and convicted. He made no
defence.
MIR. Wishart told tho Governor to-day that
young Murphy. who Ia about 20 years old, had
confessed that he cmbcZZled and spent the
money. and that his father preferred TO 90 to
prison rather than reveal his sons guilt A
petition reciting the facts and containing many
signatures was presented TO the Governor, who
Wanamaker has such faith In Murphy's inno-
cence that he has promised to re-employ him II
give himself up and suffer for his crime.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
STRIKE OF oA1ssoN WORKERS.
Say There 10 Discrimination Against Their
Union and want ls Recognized.

Say There 10 Discrimiaatien Against Their
Union and want le Recognized.
A humble Of caisson workers belonging to the
Compressed Air Workers. Union. employed by
Sooysmith & Co., general contractors at Is
Broad street. went on strike yesterday for recog.
milton of their union. They were part of n largo
force OF mon who are employed on the founda-
lions OF n big building on Liberty street. Tho
union 10 which they belong Is affiliated with tho
Knights OF Labor as Local Assembly ]. $40.
The strikers say that tho foreman or superin.
tcndcnt, whose name IL Murphy, will not give
q job to any man who IL known to be a Knight OF
which the firm has formed and In which 1t wants
the men to enroll.
A representative of tho firm said that only n
few out Of 300 mon had gone on strike. Tho only
union tho firm know OF. he said. was the Founda-
tion Workers OF North America. No discriminn.
ton was made against the mon by the foreman,
whether they belonged to this union or not.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
GROWTH OF DIR. scUDDER's CHURCH.
Two Church Edinces In Jersey City New ana
Three Pastors.

Two Church Edinces In Jersey City New ana
Three Pastors
Tho United First Congregational and South
Bergen Reformed churches of Jersey City have
extended q call to the Rev. Sydney II. Cox of
this city to be second assistant pastor. Tho
united congregations have adopted the name
Of the First Congregational Church Society.
Rev. j.. Lester Wells is first assistant. Scryi-
cos are held in both churches. Pastor Scudder
Cox will make them on the hill. Mr.. Wells
will have exclusive charge OF the Peoples Pal
ace, the annex to tho Tabernacle.
DIR. Scudder will preach in the hill church
Sunday mornings and Mr.. Cox in the Taber-
naCle. The programme for Sunday evening
services will be arranged from week to week to
suit the convenience Of the three ministers.
ground at Bergen avenue and Forrest us strset'
opposite the South Bergen Church, and will
erect Q building there for the use OF the church
tain . gymnasium.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
CARL zERRAHN, DIRECTOR.
Chosen 20 lead lIoston's Handel ana Haydn
society-spiit In tho Society.

BOSTON, Mass, Juno 22.-Carl Zerrahn was
chosen director OF tho Handel and Haydn SO.
oloty. Bostons celebrated musical organization,
tonight at tho meeting Of tho new board OF hi.
roctors. Nine votes were cast for Mr.. Zerrahn
and four for Mr.. Il. J. Lang. tho wcll.known
o%rgNnist. who has welded tho baton Mt tho
Handel and Haydn Orchestra concerts In
Music Hall for two years.
The election was tho elimination OF tho row
which has well nigh split the organization. No
sooner was the result announced than President
Eugene Is. lligRr, Nice.Pr,sidOnt George +.
noMnced that they would resign.
The board viii proceed at once TO MI the va
%eancies, and the Hcrrahn faction will be pre-
dominant In the society.
Mr.. Zcrrahn 10 ~ years old. and no was In
Vited 10 resign two years ago because OF his ad-
yanced yeart. His friends took II as an affront,
and have been quietly working ever since 10
effect his restoration.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23

They VIII Wait TIL the Buay Season begins
Next Month.

Next Month.
A general mass meeting Of the Cloakmakers'
Union. known as the United Brotherhood OF
Cloakmakers. was held last night in Irving Hall
to consider the action Of the manufacturers In
ignoring the ultimatum of the union. There APP
peared to DO a general idea that a strike was to
be ordered. About 5000 people squeezed them.
outside. s. Roscnthal presided, and speeches
were made by Louis Miller. A. Katz, and others.
Tho cloakmakers were told that they must Or
ganize thoroughly, SO as to be prepared in case u
When 1t was found that they were not there To
vote on a strike about u third Of the audience
left. The crowds on the sidewalk also sep
erated, some Of the people apparently greatly
be declared in July. The busy season begins
early In that month. About z 1000 out Of 10000
the union.