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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
SUICIDE IN rAN CORTLAND PARK.
A Man Found Dead with q Bullet
Hole in His Hend-was HO r. 7. Hayness

A Man Found Dead with q Bullet
Hole In His HeRd-Was HO r. r. Hayness
The body of a young man was found yesterday
afternoon in Van Cortlandt Park. There was
a bullet hole in the right side of tho head. A
revolver with one empty chamber was near by.
There was nothing found to indicate the mans
identity.
Charles Hunstock of 416 East 124th street
stumbled across the body in a clump OF bushes
in the northern part OF the Park, 40Ofeet west
OF Jerom avenue. This part Of tho Park is
wild and but little frequented. Hunstock mott.
fed a policeman Of his discovery and the body
was sent TO the Harlem Morgue.
The suicide was apparently about % years old.
He had sandy hair and a light mustache. He
wore a black sack suit OF good material, a black
derby hat and black tie. In his pockets were
$23.OS. n costly gold watch and chain. gold eye
glasses. gold link cuff buttons. cigar case, a
briar pipe. six keys and a knife.
There were no letters or papers and no marks
on the underclothing. Discoloration had already
set in, and 1t Is presumed that the man killed
himself Two or three days ago.
On Oct. q Frank Ramey of II West Ninety
ninth street reported TO the police that Thomas
T. Haynes OF the same address had been missing
since Dot. 3: Haynes's description tallies almost
exactly with that of the Van Cortlandt Park
suicide. Haynes WAS u bookkeeper for A. II.
Whitney & Co. OF 90 Broadway.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
GAZE THE CTS 4 SCARE.
Rumors That vTnring Was to he Endorsed and
FairchIid Retired-A Denial.

Rumors That vvaring Was to he Endorsed and
Fairchiid Retired-A Denial.
The non-dealing Cts had another shock yes
terday and haven't recovered from 1t yet. 1t
was reported all about town that another deal
had been arranged between the Cts and the
George mon, or at least was being considered.
This was nothing less than the retirement of
Charles 8. Fairchild from the Cit ticket and the
substitution thereon of Col. George E. War.
ing, Jr.. this in return for the Endorsement of
the Cts county, borough, and Assembly tickets
by the George party. The rumor, SO far as 1t
could be traced, started from the Union Square
Hotel, the George headquarters. The rumor,
Once started. spread to all parts Of the city, and
soon reached the various district headquarters
of the Gifts. In those places it was treated as q
fact and connections were stirred up imme-
diately. Various odds and ends were put to-
gether. 1t was remembered that Fairchild re-
fused the nomination twice before he finally ac-
cepted 1t, and accepted il only when the boss Gifts
had convinced him that the fake Low petition
was all right and that he was sure of 1877, 900
Votes. 1t was also remembered that the George.
ates had not got anything openly in return for
their indorsement of the Cts county ticket.
As the district leaders don't take much stock
in the bosses avowal Of political purity, they
believed that the report was true, and one and
all fastened down to the headquarters In East
day because James W. Pryor and W. Harris
Roome had work to do. 1ney were tho only
Members Of the Executive Committee in tho
place. The first man got there about 3 o'clock.
He commanded Simon. the messenger, to take
him to Pryor. Pryor saw him.
Look here" cried he to Pryor, ~"are'you going
tosMsp Of Fairchild for WarinGl'
WHAT" asked Mr.. Pryor.
Say, Amt you committeeman ready to get
out and let some politicians take your placer
demanded the iratc man. "T thought You
yeren't going to give anything Tor that George
Endorsement"
"We're not responded poor Mr.. Pryor.
Eyes, you ure. Don't try to fool me. You're
going to swap Fairchild for Waring and com.
NIT suicide"
81 haven't heard OF IT. but I'll try to find out"
said Mr.. Pryor. and he went to the phone.
While he was there a half dozen more angry
men came In to find ont about 1t. Mr.. Pryor
came out after a while with a troubled face.
Chairman Reynolds is out OF town, and can't
be reached, but l have been in communicative
with tho others OF the committee and i feel
quite safe in saying that there is no truth in
Pie report; Yos; you may deny it. 1t is utter
With this assurance the Cts heelers went
away easier In mind. Later 1t was Officially
announced that the report was wholly untrue.
but 1t worried the Cts just tho same.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
TICKET AGENTS DIsCHARaED.
a Change OF System ON the staten Island Rapid
Transit Read.

Transit Read.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad
made Wholesale dismissals of employees yestcr-
day. Tho dismissed employees were ticket agents
and collectors. who number about forty.seven.
Among them Is the corps Of Eood.looking young
women. who have for several years sold tickets
and given away smiles daily to the commuters.
Their coming caused the railroad TO be dubbed
the " pctticoat" road. The opponent OF the new
woman cannot, however, use the dismissal Of
these women as q proof that they were inefl-
Client. for tho change was not made for that rea-
son. but for motives of economy.
Under the new system the station agents will
report for duty at q A. NJ. and sell tickets and
watch stations until 6 p. NJ. After that hour
tho conductors on tho trains will collect the
fares from passengers and the stations will look
after themselves, except for t Q attention given
them BY the fagnen at the crossings. The col
lectors have been abolished. with the women
agents. and the mechanical turnstile will here
after dc the work OF the eld-tlme chopper"
The change will lessen the expenses of the
railroad. At each station, Of which there are
sixteen, the road had night and day squads of
agents and collectors. consisting of two men or
a man and woman. Tho trAf1c on tho road has
fallen Oft because Of trolley competition, and on
a great many trips in the middle OF the day and
late at n ght tho services of the employees were
expensive, Inquiries. Tho chang hits the en-
ployees a hard blow. Tho men will probably be
provided for In other departments. but tho
women are hardly likely TO fare as well. The
announcement OF the change was q surprise.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
MRS. SHERMAN c. coRBIx HURT;
Thrown from Her bicycle While Out win o
Party Yesterday.

Party Yesterday.
Mrs. Susan A. Corbin. tho wife Of Sherman G..
Corbin. a commercial traveller. OF $40 Park
place. Brooklyn. is an enthusiastic wheelwoman
and belongs to the Prospect Heights Ladies'
Cycle Club. OF which Mrs. Charlotte l.. Bolton is
President. Mr.. Corbin is a member Of the Dean
Cyclic Club.
A party OF thirty men and women. including
Mr.. and Mrs. Corbin, started out on a ride yes.
ferday morning. They left the Bedford Rest at
$50 o'clock. and went to Rosedaie for dinner.
On their way back they took "A rest near SPRING
field. One OF the women started out for a ride.
Mrs. Corbin followed, and as she was crossing
tho Mcrrick road at Farmer avenue a bicy.
clist going in the opposite direction struck her
wheel. She WIS thrown violently to the ground,
where she lay unconscious. She was carried to
a farmhouse. where DR.. Smith pronounced her
taken TO a hospital at once.
A farm wagon was fixed up so that Mrs. Cor
bin would be as comfortable as possible, and NJ.
NJ. Schultz OF 81 Ashland place. The President OF
the Dean Cycle Club. started on his wheel for
Brooklyn to make arrangements for an ambu-
lance to meet the party when it arrived at the
city line. Later DIR. Lee OF st. Mary's Hospital
met the party and took Mrs. Corbin to the hos
pltal. where it was ascertained that she was
suffering from two compound fractures OF. the
skull. besides being injured internally. 1t Is
thought she cannot recover.
The namc OF the mar who cOllided with Mrs.
Corbin WAS not learned, but persons who wit
messed the accident said he was not to blame.
Mrs. Corbin, they said. was riding on the wrong
side of the road. Mrs. Corbin is an expert rider
and, 1t is said. has made several century runs.
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The westchester Bar ON Jastioe Bartlett.

FROM the Yonkers Herald.
The following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted at a meeting Of the Vest.
chester County Bar Association. held yesterday
at White Plains:
"Whereas. The term OF the Hon. Willard
Bartlett as a Justice Of the Supreme Court will
expire on the first day OF January next, and he
stands before the people as a candidate for re-
election; and
"Whereas. His present term Of fourteen years
has been ono of diligent and untiring labor.
scientious care. investigation. and study in 10
every controversy brouget before him, decisions
wise and just, commencing themselves to all
men,; performed with such patience, dignity md
courtesy that every one, whether or not the de-
cision was in his favor, was III ,de to feel and to
know that his rights were tried with fairness
and impartiality; and
Whereas. By his published opinions. at
Special Term, General Term. and in the Appel
late Division, and also by his work for years on
ly lawyer OF remarkable power Of analysis. clear
and convincing reasoning. an .unbendinR pur-
pose to bo fair and just; that he has ever treated
all men az equal before the law, and the rights
OF each sacred and inviolable; and
" Whereas, His career as Judge has been an
honor TO the bench of tho State, and particularly
of this judicial department, and he has won the
confidence and esteem Of the people and the ad'
miratiOn Of the bar: and the loss from the bench
OF such a man in the full vigor Of his life. with
such ripe experience. would be irreparable;
now, therefore,. IL is hereby
" RESOLVED, That the Bar Association OF West
chester county, without rejecting upon the in
territy or ability of any rival candidate. hereby
heartily commends AND approves OF the nomina.
tion Of the Hon. Willard Bartlett for a second
term
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
POLITICS D1srURBs THE O. L. o.
In . struEsie Between Factions the Tsuuaauy
nlnn aeen q scoro q VIntorx.

Tho Central Labor Union meeting reekod with
politics yesterday, and lcft-handed compliments
between delegates Of opposing political faiths
were the order. Last Sunday the George men
appeared TO DO in the ascendant, but yesterday
the amman men ran the meeting.
The picture OF John +. Mahcr. the Tammany
candidate Tor Assembly for the Seventh dis
trict, confronted the delegates ns they came in.
1t was posted up Mt every point OF vantage in
the hall. The Chairman OF the meeting was
William J. ofBrien, President Of the Board of
Walking Delegates.
Jacob L. Bausch, Tammany candidate for
Coroner. sent in his resignation as Correspond.
ing Secretary. as did Jerome 0'Neil, the George
and Citizens Union candidate for President of
tho Council. Mr.. o'Neil was Financial Secre-
tary of the c. l. L. Neither OF the candidates
was present.
discussion over the credentials Off, J. Nc
Nulty as delegate Of the Holsters and Drivers
Protective Union started the political pot boil.
ing. 1t was charged that McNulty Keeps a sa-
loon, and that saloon keepers are Ineligible as
fossionaI politicians wore Also Ineligible.
II have no objection to professional poll
%tieisns." rotortsd Delegate Mahsr; meSe nj, e
ticians from getting something"
McNulty's credentials wore referred 70 the
arose in Anger. '%'ffi ~ move" said he, slancins at
Maher, whose picture hung in front OF the plat
form, that II Is tho sense OF this body that no
campaign literature or pictures advertising po-
litiual candidates be allowed on the walls hero
until after tho elections; also that the Sergeant
alarms be instructed to remove those that arc
up"
"You might as well move that no more meet
ings be held until after election" shouted Del
eRate Perrine.
III knew politics would be lugged in" said tho
Chairman. but / won't allow It,"
The Chairman was powerless, however. Dole
gate Armstrong declared that this was q cam
paign Of education. and he wanted to know
political huckstors from good men.
"1defy any man to point to a stain on my
character" began Maher.
mo political speeches" shouted the Chairman.
but his voice was drowned by those Of the dele.
gates. all of whom tried TO speak at once. The
Tammany mon. who wanted the motion to re-
move the placards voted down, outbellowed the
George men. and. as a result, they carried their
point.
Then Maher struck an attitude and began:
III / am elected may these two hands wit or IL
/ go back on the cause OF labor" The Chairman
cut him short, and the routine business of tho
c. l. U. was proceeded with.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
CUBAN PATRIOTS MEET.
An Enthusiastic Celebration Under the DIrec
tion or the Revolutionary Clubs.

An Euthusiauttc Celebration Under the Dlrec-
tion or the Revolutionary Clubs.
A meeting was held last night t. at Chickering
Hall under the direction Of the Cuban revolu-
tionary clubs in the United States to celebrate
the twenty-ninth anniversary of the declaration
of the independence of Cuba by Carlos Manuel
de Cespedes.
Senior Juan Froga. President of the Cuban
Clubs Council. presided. DR.. Henry Lincoln
de Zayas read congratulatory messages
from the clubs Of Boston. Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Washington. Brooklyn, Gin.
%cinnati. Chicago, New Orleans. Jacksonville.
Ocala. Tampa. Key West. City Of Mexico.
Puebla dc los Angeles, Merida. and other cities.
Unusual Importance was attached to last
nights meeting. The Spanish have of late been
spreading the report that in view Of the change
in the policy Of Spain with regard to
Cuban affairs many Of the Cuban resi-
dents of the United States would return to
the island. and thus. deprived of aid from abroad.
the men in the field would have to surrender.
That no such purpose is entertained was shown
by the presence at the meeting last night of
more than 1000 Crbans.
Some of the speakers were DR.. Luis A. Baralt,
DR.. Enrique jose de Narona. Sehor Enrique
Trujillo and Senior Antonio Bravo y Correoso. a
for the first time appeared before n revolu-
tionary audience in New York.
Among those present were Delegate Estrada
Palma, DR.. Joaqu in Castillo Duany, DR.. Aragon.
DR.. Menocal. DR.. Henna, Teodoro de Zaldo. DIR.
Gabriel Casuso, Raimundo Cabrera, Nicolas
Galvez, Count de Casa Bavona, and Emilio del
Jupco.
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o CAMPAIGN PLANS.
This week the CIT Candidate Will begin th,
Real Work or HustiinG for Votes.

This week tho CIT Candidate Will begin the
Real work or HustiinG for Votes.
Seth Low will take of his coat this week and
60 to work. He will DO at the Cit headquarters
at 8 o'clock this afternoon. and receive his
friends from then until 8. He will repeat this
every afternoon until further notice. Besides,
he is going to do a lot Of campaign speaking.
Tomorrow night he will make three speeches
at Golden Star Hall, 81 Columbia street: at
Manhattan Hall. lis Lewis street, and AT New
Prospect Hall, AZ Orchard street. On Wednes-
day evening he will speak at Now Irving Hall,
2ls Broomc street; Webster Hall, 119 East
Eleventh street, and the Blaine Club, 213 East
Broadway. On Friday he will speak in the
GrBmerC Lyceum. l15 West Twenty-third
street. and in Majestic Hall, l19 East 125th
street. On Oct. IA, 1s, % and % he will speak
in Brooklyn. on Oct. 10 and 25 in the Bronx. on
Oct. 70 in Queens and Oct. % in Richmond.
Mr.. Low has secured u new political secre-
tary. who d~isplaces w. H. II. Beebe in that
work. He Is J. w. Sutphen OF Brooklyn. Under
the present arrangement Mr.. Beebe is TO run
Columbia University until election day and Mr..
Sutphen is 70 run Mr.. Low.
The Cts report that in the three nominating
days I" they secured 1854 names for their Ave
sets Of petitions, which means that about one
fifth of that number Of men signed their names
five times each. Some OF the Aldermanic and
many of the Assembly nominations still lack
the necessary 500 signatures.
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SooIALIsTs CHEER FOR GEoRoE.
Orator Jonas Has TO Remind Them That They
Have Their Own Candidate for Mayor.

Orator Jonas Has TO Remind Them That They
Have Their Own Candidate for Mayor.
Alexander Jonas, editor OF the FOLKS Zeftuno.
WHIT has been the candidate OF the Socialist
Labor party for Governor. Mayor, and about
every other place to lie filled by election, said
yesterday that he is greatly surprised at tho
popularity OF Henry Georges candidacy for tho
Aayoralty. Wherever he goes among tho
workinRmen. Mr.. Jonas said. he finds enthusi.
asm among the poorer people for George.
He addressed n Socialist meeting yesterday at
the Germania Assembly Rooms in the Bowery.
There were 300 persons present. In the course
Of his remarks Mr.. Jonas had occasion to refer
to tho municipal campaign and tho sew
Sral oandidetes for Mayor. When he men
toned the name Of Henry George II was
greeted with wild applause. Mr.. Jonas
protested against this exhibition md reminded
his hearers that they had a candidate OF their
own for Mayor, IL the person OF Lncien saniai.
the enthusiasm for George, This incident and
others which have come under his observation
have led Mr.. Jonas to believe that Henry George
II Q very strong candidate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
WOMAN CAUG IT. DUMB WAITER.
Mrs. Remey Tried to Remove the Evidences OF
Her Husbands Excise Violation.

Mrs. Rsmey Tried to Remove the Evidences or
Her Husbands Excise Violation.
Detectives Sweet and Chandler OF the West
Forty-seventh street station went to the Central
Park Dancing Academy, at 9l9 Eighth avenue,
shortly before IL o'clock Saturday night. TO sec
II the Excise law was being violated, as the
place had no liquor tax license. A ball was in
progress on the third floor, and there was a
large crowd Of young men and young women
The detectives paid tho usual 25 cents ad.
mission and, after INDUCING IN a waltz; went to
brought to them: After paying for it, Sweet
bis license, saying that be was a detective.
Remey ran into an anteroom and on coming
tho 4%s ' iiHhtS Vent emit QUO" out. 'H The dc" doteot iiSSS"S er tSssi
about the room. and. after a time. succeeded In
The proprietor then admitted he had no
license, but said he didn't need any. as all tho
drinks sold on the premises came from tho
the anteroom. whore he suspected a bar was
kept. but found the door locked. Remey said
While they were talking, cries for help in a
woman's voice came from tho room. Tho detec-
tives burst the door and found a Rood-looking
dumb waiter and unable to get out. while some
one below was tugging at the rope to pull down
waiter were bottles OF whiskcy and wine. while
a keg of beer was half way In and had pinned
down the woman's clothing. making her q pris-
oner.
She was the wife OF Remey, and the detectives
discovered that when they had made themselves
with the intention OF removing tho evidences of
excise violation and had got nearly all tho
liquors on the d, mmy to DO taken downstairs
her. She was III Grated from her position with
her costume pr, tty well mussed and torn. and
the detectives crested Remey and Rufus Hast
ings, professor Of dancing. who had acted az .
bartender.
They were arraiRned In the Yorkville Court
yesterday and held In $1,000 bail each for exam
nation to-day.
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LIKENED NEW YORK TO BABYLON.
President stryker OF Hamilton College in Dr.
Pnrkhurut's Pulpit.

Pnrkhurst's Pulpit.
The Rev. NJ. Woolsey Stryker, President Of
Hamilton College, preached at DR.. Parkhurst's
church yesterday morning. He took for his
text Isaiah viii. At: Thou saidst l shall be q
lady forever; SO that thou didst not lay these
things to thy heart, neither didst remember tho
latter end thereof" DR.. Stryker compared New
York TO Babylon. saying:
Babylon boosted her place, Importance. rec
o~gnition at large. her success,
power-and stupid. and blind, fastened to her
shame. She became tho especial type of that
world spirit. that pride of substance. against
which tho woes OF the Apocalyps caro- distilling,
and which the Almighty shall dash in pots
herds. L am a lady forever saith Babylon.
Mother of harlots. saith God.
~ leave that text and its vindication where
they stand In revelation and event. and l ask
you to bring homo to yourselves, to this city.
and to the present time the perennial
lesson that the pride Of q city is its
| need to biazon her e1ceilencies. 60 there is a self
proclamation which amounts to accusation.
Virtue does not need advertising. The braggart
8 irit disEraces q corporation or community
just as it does an individual. Let another
praise thee and not thine own mouth A real
arpraisement must always be made by parties
THAT American city which shall first heal
methods that are as immoral as they are un.
| businesslike will make the grandest possible
contribution to the sanitation of national ad-
ministration and to the honor of a people prov
ing itself capable of rational self-government
Moral laZiness Is the arch enemy of municipal
reform. All decent men agree that a given city
should be run upon business methods and that
rings and rabbles are it's ruin; but few are will.
ing to give the valuable time and disagrceabie
toll required to cleanse the cesspool reeking
with political typhoid. 1t seems cheaper to be a
pessimist, TO censure and sit still. than to dis.
turb and arouse the tiger lair.
Unless the second city in population Of all
the world is to make an international exhibition
OF it's moral nakedness and municipalimbecility,
there must arise a fearless and uncompromising
public sentiment here renouncing the dry and
funny rattles Of outside questions and answer
ing with a stupendous affirmative that Greater
New York ought not to be strangled in its
cradle, and that its possibilities shall rejoice
rather than rot.
done so much to flush the political sewers, will
the men Of Manhattan consent to have them
congested again with the old lo~athsomeness !
Having cleansed your streets, will you permit
them to repeat the past as the Klondike of dirty
men !"
New York could not BE- "a lady forever" and
go with draggled skirts and paste diamonds.
He appealed 10 his hearers Ito put n crowbar
under the monstrous fallacy that a pure local
administration must stand aside because the
revenues OF n subservient municipality are
needed TO lu Intricate the machinery of national
craftsmanship"
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KILLED HERsELH At 10.
Mary MILLER Drank Carboiio Acid on Beinl
ecoIded for Keeping Late Hour.


scoided for Keeping Late Hours.
Mary Miller. the 16-year-old daughter of a
railroad man named John Miller. committed
suicide with carbolic acid at her homo In Kin.
sella avenue, near Bronxdale avenue, West
Chester, yesterday morning.
The girl was quito Ill about a year ago and
the family physician. DR.. Pound. advised her
not to expose herself to the night air any more
than necessary. She had boon receiving the at.
~tcntions OF James Green. the son of an express.
man in West Chester. and tho young people
went to social gatherings very frequently. This
kept the girl out late and her stepmother OBJ
jected. fearing her health would be endangered.
She attended a dance with Mr.. Green on Fri.
day. and did not get home until midnight. Her
stepmother chided her for being out SO late. Mr..
Green called to take her out again Saturday
night, and Mrs. Miller told him that Miss Mil.
ler's health was endangered by her late hours,
and advised them to return early. The girl
hadn't liked being scolded, and felt still worse
at Green being spoken to.
Shortly after, breakfast yesterday she got a
bottle OF carbolic acid. used for cleasing pur-
poses. from the Kitchen, and drank a quantity
where she died about II o'clock, Mr., Miller is
foreman, IN the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad yards at Van Nest.