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LAWNS ARE OPEN.
KEEP n THE GRASS sIGEs DOWN
THE SUMNER.

Menceforth YeunG New York May Gambol
where II wills In Central Pnrk-NIayer
Orders the FiuahipG or the Hot Asphalt
Pavcments In the Tenement QUARTERS
At Yesterdays meeting OF the Mayors A
visory ommitte on Small Parks, President
Mcmillan Of the Park Board, who is q momber.
was asked to provide q play ground for children
on the east side Of Central Park.
'"The order was given yesterday TO the Park
police to allow children to play In the Park
wherever they pleased. during the hot
weather." said Mr.. Mcmillan. 1--WE did not
want to give too much publicity to the order for
foar the children would swamp u.s."
"a wide publicity of such an order is Just
what is needed said ex-Mayor Hewitt.
~ don't know but you are right" said Mr..
Mcmillan. Tho police will interfere. with no
ono who behaves himself" he added. THE
parks are for the children as well as the grown
people, and I would rather SEQ the grass worn
of by their feet than by o lawn mower. The
difficulty In setting inside any largo part OF
Central Park for q playground 10 tho prevail
ing idea that the people Of the city prefer the
ornamental to tho useful"
Now that the order has beon given the hated
signs bearing the time-worn warning Keep of
tho grass will be removed, and the children
viii be allowed to romp on the grass to their
feet square would be set aside in the East River
Park. He said ho would bring the matter up at
Mondays meeting of the Park Commissioners
and that he had no doubt his colleagues would
William Rhinolander Stewart, who Is Presi-
dent OF the State Board Of Charities as well as
a member OF the Small Parks Committee, sng-
gosted that that part Of Randal's Island now
occupied b., tho House of Refuge should d, he
I SIss, : R gSlPes e asrs, 1 e ,d S,Sst 's Sfs%! niSst d%lli lam,
Mr.. Downs, and Mr.. Hlgginson were appointed
o committee to look into the matter.
There Ia o triangular plot OF ground at the
Jurisdiction OF the Department Of Public Works.
II 10 covered with broken stone, neyertheless
great crowds of people who 1.-Two In the neigh
borhood use II "a a breathing spot 1t was sug,,
gested that the triangle be made Into q small
park, and tho Rev. Mr.. Devtns was selected to
stones removed and the ground sodded.
1t was agreed that there should DO o small
park in the Fourteenth ward, In whicn the
death rate Is very high, and one In the twenty
second ward along the North River ew W.,
no plans were at hand action was deferred until
tho next meeting.
Cen. Coils received q letter from Mayor
Strong yesterday requesting. him to start at
once tho flushing Of the asphalt ~payements In
hot spell last summer. In his lctter the Mayor
said:
would assume the responsibility and flush the
streets these hot days in the tenement house
ttsis as let. Tho poor people who yfSr 90 tn not Io6 g on Sits Of
and those. are the streets to be flushed thor.
oughly. Notify Col. warips of what you are
going to do, ard he will take care Of the debris
Tho work will be begun at once.
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Navy Ward Notes

The torpedo boat Porter. m command OF Capt,
j. C.. Fremont, Will leave the navy yard to-day.
She will stop at Oyster Bay tomorrow TO taxi
on board Assistant Secretary OF the Navy Thso
dore Roosevelt, who Is at his summer homo
there. Tho Porter will then proceed to Nara
Gnnsett Bay and will assist at tho trial OF the
torpedo boat Dupont.
The gunboat Helena received her supplies at
the navy yard Yesterday. 1t is not known when
She vii! leave the yard.
It was snid at tho navy. yard yesterday that
owing to the low tides, the cruiser New York
Capt, Sirout and Joseph W. Kay OF the War
Veterans were witnesses yesterday before Com
mender {. H.. Davis. who is investigating the
charges made against Naval Constructor Bowler
Of unfBirness in making apr"int monts and dis
charges. Commander DAVIS will finish his IN
vestiEation to-day.
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JERSEYS CAMP OPENS TO-DAY.
The First Regiment ana tho First Cavnlr,
Troop viii Take Possession.

The First Regiment ana the First Cavalry
Troop Will Take Possession.
Tho New Jersey State camp at Sea Girt will DO
opened to-day, and will be occupied by soldiers
Of tho First Brigade for three weeks. Brig.-Gen.
Wanser will be in command. Last year the
camp was kept open only ono week. Tho First
Regiment OF Newark and tho First Cavalry
Troop OF Essex county will DO tho first organiza-
tions In camp. When the militiamen reach
Camp Grlggs, as the camp has been designated,
Gov. Griggs, with other State disnitaries. mem
bers Of his family and guests, will review them
from the porch Of the "White House cottage
on the reservation.
Gov. Griggs will occupy the Governors cot
tago at intervals during the encampment.
Every Thursday he will hold q ceremonial re-
view during dress parade. Brighten Bird
". Spencer. state InspectorGeneral of Rifle
Practice, will have ready on Tuesday next
the programme for the tournaments OF
the Interstate Rifle Practice Association
and the New Jersey State Rifle Asso-
States will BEND representative teams to com.
pete In the principal matches. Regular troops
from Forts Columbus, Hamilton, and Wads-
worth will utilize the rife range this summer
for practice. The Ia rgets have been rebuilt to
conform to tho standard Of the United States
army.
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WARRINGTON FORECAST YoR SATURDAY.
For NetD England and eastern SsD York, generally
fair; continued high Temperature, probably Jolloiosd
BY cooler peaiher Sunday morning; southsriv to south
westerly trfndS.
For the District OF Columbia, eastern PennsylvAnia,
New Jersey. Delaware. Maryland, and Virginia. fair
continued higher temperature. with prospects OF
thunder storms and cooler weather Saturday after
noon or night; s~outherly winds. becoming north.
westerly.
For Alabama and western Florida, thunder storms
Saturday afternoon; eAsterly TO southeasterly winds.
For Mississippi and louisiana, generally fair. eI.
cept showers Saturday afternoon in northern por.
lions; slightly cooler; variable winds.
For eastern Texas. showers and cooler weather are
probable Saturday afternoon; southeaStGrly winds.
becoming northweSteriy.
For Tennessee and Kentucky. thunder storms
cooler; variable winds.
For western Pennsylvania, western New York, and
Ohio. fair; continued high temperature. with pros'
poet OF relief by thunder storms Saturday afternoon
or night; variable winds.
For Indiana and Illinois. thunder stormSi much
cooler; northwesterly winds.
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ADVISED TEE NEGROES TO SHOOT.


Preacher Clinton Says Negroes Should Go
Around with bibles, Rcvolvers, and Rines.
PrrTsBURG, July 9.-The third days session Of
the Ohio and Pennsylvania conferences Of tho
A. N. E. Zion Church to-day was enlivened BY
some strong talk from prominent colored proach-
ers. The subject of the discussion was Tho
Condition Of the Country" Among other things
the Rev. W. u. Clinton Of Pittsburg said:
This country Is no friend Of the negro. It
never was, and at present the negro Is looked
upon as nothing and treated worse than a dog.
Look at the way mobs Of white men with painted
faces and masks. with knives, rcvolvers, and
rifles. 60 to a Jail in which q poor negro is con-
hned. Tho poor black man has not even q pom
knife with which to protect himself. They drag
him forth, pull him through the streets. string
him up. and shoot him full Of holes, The only
way to stop " Is to take arms and kill the white
Until the preachers Of this church Of ours,
the A; n. Z; Zion, preach that the negro should
the other, and a rifle slung across his shoulder
and shoot his way through the country. we will
be forced to suffer these outrnges."
Great applause followed tho address. DR.. X.
Z. Wilson OF Cincinnati said:
The negro TO the white man Ia nothing. Ho
y, man Rn ahinH Ss e TsFs t i5eP recent ,ma saso in t fas Mhi g.
l say that l know that the negro In this instance
We. n%njpstiy lynchcd; condemn Coy. Bushnell
Of tho negro. The negro is more a slave now
than he WAS in the days OF slavery. / am not In
favor or taking arms against the white man. l
advocate the plan OF education and good citizen
The Rov. C. W. Kincaid advised the negro not
to take up the pistol. =.
classes," he said. But because we become
friends It is no necessity for us to amelgamate.
and he meant them to DO such. Brethren. obey
the laws and all will be we'll"
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TROLLEY ACCIDENTS IN BRooKIYN.
A hey KILLED. . Driver 1nJured. ana Three
wagons wrecked.

A Boy KILLED. . Driver Injured. and Three
wagons Wreckod.
A Brooklyn Heights trolley car collided with
one OF the big wagons of the Consolidated leo
Company at Third avenue and Thirty-fifth
street yesterday morning. and in the smash-up
e.year-old Msrde Cattelnott of 1877 Third ave-
nue.. who WAS riding on tho back step Of the
wagon, was ,mortally injured. 1t was at first
supposed that tie boy had escaped with a CONT
pound fracture OF the leg and Q few bruises,
but on his removal to the Norwegian Hospital
1t was found that le had .lso received severe
internal Injuries. and he died a few hours later.
George Gotf OF Nineteenth street and Fourth
bruised on the head and body. The Ice COM
pany estimates its loss at S45o. The big wagon
was smashed to pieces by the force Of the col
lision. Motorman John q. Seabold and Con
ductor William Stevenson, who were ia charge
Of the car, were not arrested until after the boys
death. They say that the car was going at an
ordinary rate OF speed, and that Driver Gotf
was entirely responsible for the accident.
s-.Another trolley mishap occurred In the morn
Ing mt tho dangerous crossing at Eighty-sixth
etreet and Fifteenth avenue. Car 42S OF the
Heights road, whilo going at q high rate Of
speed, bumped into one OF Reld's Ice cream
wagons and almost completely wrecked It.. The
two horses attached TO The wagon escaped with
a few scratches, but Frank hone OF SO Presi.
dent street, the driver, was 30 severely bruised
on the back and body that ho was removed to
the Norwegian Hospital.
a Smith street trolley car struck ap ice
wagon at Smith and Butler street with such force
shat 1t was completely turned over, and In fall.
tug demolished Tho awning In front OF Il grocery
Btore.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-10
COP sHoors 4 WoMANBTAccIDENr
NE Met her at Coney and They Went 70 .
Hotei-He Will No Tried.

Ahe oAoN H1tE - SHV INV .NS
Hotei-He Will No Tried.
Policeman Michael ]. Mcdonald, who has
been on the police force since Nov. 5, was sus
pended yesterday pending his trial for aoci-
dentally shooting q woman in the Adams House
al street and Tenth avenue.
Mcdonald, who Is attached to the West
Twentieth street station, got his vacation leave
and on Thursday for a general good time. and
returned about midnight accompanied by
Nellie Wright, 90 years Of ago. Of 421 Ninth
avenue. The two went to the Adams House
about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Mcdonald
registered as George Jcnes.and wtfe," and room
l6 vas assigned to them. Shortly afterward
Night Clork Jackson heard the report OF q pis-
toll in the room, and almost Immediately, Nc
Donald rushed out and asked him to call an
ambulance.
Outside jackson found Policeman Holloway
Of the Charles street station, Holloway called
said that while ne was drawing his revolver
from his hip pocket 70 put 1t on, the bureau It
fell to tho floor. 1t struck on tho trigger and
exploded. The bullet hit the girl In the leg and
surgeon found she had susteIned q flesh wouPd
and shc Wis removed to the hospital. Holo-
way arrested Mcdonald and no was locked up.
Sergeant Ttghe of tho Charles street station
f Essss s ss make HnSs to q d shs alSifPl''l.M sfs ssS s Mss s ss.
raigued in court later In the day. Acting Captain
Petty told Magistrate Flammer that the shoot
Ing was purely accidental, and Mcdonald was
Csptt;' Petty appeared subsequently before
the policeman. Mcdonald said that he was un-
married and lived at 279 Ninth avenue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-10
SAYS WoUAD-BE BRIDE IN INSANE.
I-A. Feniey. Who stopped Her Daughters
Marriage, Wants Her Sent to an Asylum.

MA. Psniey. Who stopped Her Daughters
Marriage, Wants Her Sent TO an Asylum.
Miss Jane Fenley of Tompkinsville. Staten
Island, whose marriage to James +. Hennessy.
by acting Mayor Jeroloman, was stopped by a
telephone message from her mother, was con-
fned In the detention room at Police Head
quarters al Etaplcton last night. She had been
committed to that place by Justice Galloway
upon an affidavit made by her mother that she
was not OF sound mind. Mrs. Fenley will have
an examination made of her mental condition In
order to secure her mint to an asylum.
Miss Fenley treated the matter very lightly
when taken into custody yesterday. She said
that she was prepared to submit to any kind OF
an examination and had no fear OF the result.
She declared that sho had been married TO Hen
messy on juno 10 by Judge .Giegerich in New
York. She would not explain why an attempt
was made to have a second N performed.
The trouble over her MARRIAGE, she said. all
grew out OF the desire Of her mother to hayo her
marry a man from New brunswick, N. j., who
was SO years Of age. and with whom she refused
to have anything to do.
Mrs, ,Fenley is the active head OF a pTosperous
livery business at 90 Monroe avenue, Tompkins-
vile, ana Is reputed 10 be wealthy. Young Hen
messy has resided with his stepmother at SO
Monroe avenue for some years.
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BUSINESS Els.
August Rolker 4 Sons. Dealers In HIortsi
supplies. AssiAn.

August Rolker 4 Sons. Dealers In Elortsts'
supplies. AssiAn.
winfrisd and Joseph Rolker, doing business
under the style Of August Rolker s. Sons, whole.
sale dealers and importers Of bulbs, Towering
plants. and florists supplies at 1876 and 1873
West Twenty-fourth street, made an assignment
yesterday TO Francis Lawton. lawyer. Of 40
broadway, without preference. The business
was established In 1898. The liabilities arc
100000.
Deputy Sheriff simonson received yesterday
five executions. aggresating se,424, against
Louis Mayer, manufacturer Of picture frames al
All Broadway, In favor Of tho following crndi.
tors: Dreschcr & Schlesinger, 81, e35; August
4. Richter, 81 .3S4; liolbrook Bros, 81 .237;
Reuhl Manufacturing Company, $3.50; Marc
Aastrich, $l32.
A. & F. Pape. dealer in wines and liquors at
$500 Third avenue. Morrisania, have given u
chattel mortgage 70 II. Zeltner for 81 200.
Deputy Sheriff Lipsky received a writ OF re-
picvin against them yesterday from Wahlo s.
Stone for S4l2 worth Of RUNE wines sold to tho
lirm by Oscar Fritz, also an execution for Sl5S
In favor of Otto j. G. Schmidt.
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eRAMERor CLUB ON T TRIAL
HAD Place, witnesses say-Court In Doubt
About CancclIinE Its License.

HAD Place, witnesses In Doubt
About CanccIlinE Its License.
The State Excise Department moved, through
Senator n. N. s~tranahan, before Justice Rus
sell OF tho Supreme Court yesterday for an or
der r~evoking the liquor tax certificate sold by
the department to tho Gramercy Club, which
meets at Tblrtieth street and Sixth avenue, and
of which Edward B. Corey Of the Newmarket
is Secretary. When the application frat came
up 1t was referred by Justice Beekman to Ed
ward D.. O'Brien as referee TO pass upon the is-
sues raised. Justice Russell said yesterday
that tho referee had not made findings on the
facts, and t~hercupon Senator Stranahsn moved
on all the evidence taken that the license be re-
voked.
He said that thirty.fve witnesses had been
examined before the referee. of whom twenty
FIVE said thoy had been solicited by women OF
the: town in the so-cSlled Clubroom5. He said
that 1000 tickets Of nacEbeEship had been
sundays as well as on week days, is"a saturna-
liz of vice" Reforming TO the evidence taken
he sA!d: ann.
feel that We should almost, apologize for bring
Ing it befor9 the cour; II this hot weather. tits
tho most fragrant violation OF all deconcy I
have ever had: to bring to the attention OF a
court"
en Ths la sS 6 as ss5a sh Club es ;Ss sl hss a SsSps xs, e. h.
then the Gramercy Club blossomed out.
Counsel for the club said that the motion
papers and evidence failed to make out that the
lax certificate had been obtained on false rep.
resentations, which 1t was. necessary TO show
in order to revoke it. The: Justice seemed to
think that this point was well taken.
IT. was further urged that Corey had been
tried for keeping a disorderly house, and the
jury had disagreed. first standing II to i for
acquittal and flally standing 10 to Q for acquit-
Court could not very well find the place was dis.
orderly, on atidaytts. as tho case had been full
ly tried.
The Justice said he would take tho papers
and reserve decision.
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YoUNG WIFE,s DEATH ED INTO.
Physicians Suspected Poisoning. but the Cor
oner's Deputy Bnys No.


oner's Deputy Bays No.
The Coroners' Office was notified yesterday to
investigate tho death OF Mira. Fannie Kliphan,
% years old, of ID Lewis street. DR.. T. N. Hol-
den of 294 East broadway, who attended Mrs.
Eliphan, told Coroner Foeber that when he WIS.,
tied Mrs. Kliphan on Tuesday last she had been
vomiting and complained Of pains in the aldo
men.
II gave her a hypodermic injection of NOR
phine and at-opia," said DR.. Holden. land
called again " ednesday. at 3 A. NJ, and found
her with weak pulse. labored respiration, and
constant pains. ] attended her constantly UP
to Thursday ut l 7. NJ, when she died"
DIR. Holden also said that Mrs. Kliphan told
him before she died that she was jealous Of her
husband, DR., Holden told the husband that no
suspected poisoning. and the husband imme-
diately asked for a post-mortem examination.
way also made a statement to The Coroner, say.
ing that he saw Mrs. Kliphan several times be-
fore her death, and that he agreed with DR..
Holden.
Coroner Hocber then summoned Mrs. Hillman,
the housekeeper. to his office. She said that
Mrs. Kliphan had not been well since her child
was born in May. II don't know what allied
her, said Mrs. Hiliman. "I was a friend OF her
and her husband and she was somewhat jealous
Coroner Hoeber sent Coroners' Physician
Schultz to make an autopsy. DIR. Schultz did
that at once md reported that Mrs. Kliphan died
of acute peritonitis due to natural causes. He
notified tho police and they dropped the case.
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NEW B. AND 0. SUIT BEGUN.
REOEITERs' PETITION DIsoIosEs a
VIEW LINE OF LITIGATION.

They Ask the Courts fer RerEnissionY to
Huy Moro Rsliinr gteck-It LEADS to =
CounteF Petition 20 BrinG . suit ror R1,eoo.
600. which IL SAID 60 Mean Foreclosure.
BALTIMORE, July e.-Messrs. job X. Cowen
and Oscar q. Murray, receivers of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, filed o petition to-
day asking the United States Court for author
ity to cxpend about O. 1900, 900 for equipment Of
the road. Tho receivers appended to the petit
ton . statement showing that In the spring OF
1895 they had e71 locomotives. 6s5 passenger
cars, and %. 9s8 freight cars. In 1897 the equip
ment consists Of s7S locomotives, 979 passenger
cars, and 3O,637 freight cars. Between March
and Juno 1, 1897. there have boon put out Of
service two locomotives. one passenger car, and
354 freight cars. On May 81 3s6 additional
freight cars were condemned. There are now
about 1.8oO cars in the shops awaiting repairs.
The short equipment has to be supplemented
by getting cars from other roads. Between
June 1, 1896, and March i, 1897, 1891, 900 was
expended in mileage for these borrowed cars.
For the first four months of 1897 $129,O 900 was
SO expended. In March there were 1AeO2 Dor
rowed cars In the services OF the Baltimore and
Ohio on which mileage was being paid. This
and the Baltimore and OHIO lose heavily for
The receivers state that. they want 5000 box
sSfs ; zoo g so nd ! o cars and sIr,6 forty J. l o. nmS iSe St n
cars already purchased. The hearing Of the
application Of the receivers for authority to
issue $3.50, 600 in receivers certificates for tho
purpose OF purchasing from Carnegie & Co..
limited, 400 tons OF steel rail to be laid on
the main stem, Of the Baltimore and Ohio from
Washington junction westward. began in the
United Statcs Court to-day. Tho petition also
includes the purchase Of 1900 tons to be used
on the road beyond the Ohio River. This petit
ton, made to-day, will also probably DO heard.
Just after Mr.. John q. johnson. one of the at
torneys for the bondholders, had attacked the
receivers in n scathine argument, Messre. Fran
els Lynde Stetson of New York and William L.
Marburg Of this city sprung n sensation by petit
tioning the court that they as Representa-
tives OF tho bondholders of tho Chicago
division be permitted to bring. suit to
ff sr 81 eS On oo the and %9 %bG'sSs ;. S isSIgS0fS D. II F,1 LEX
and New York capitalists. Tho interest was
due on June /. but the oompany defaulted.
Leave was at once granted and suit will DO en-
tered in the United States Court at Cincinnati
in a very short time. As one Of tho leading
counsel expressed II, this suit means foreclosure
in the near future and the reorganization OF the
road by the Morgans and other Now York In
teresta.
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Tho Weather.

There was no break yesterday In the intense heat
over the interior OF the country. In fact. tho wave
expanded. spreading further northwurd into the
upper Mississippi Valley and eastward to the Atlantic
States. where II was slightly warmer. In tho North.
west It was cool. tho temperature touching A. at
Helena. The coolness is held back by the low pressure
area. which stretches In n trough from northern Texas
to the Lake Superior region; but It has condensed the
moisture over northern Minnesota, the Dakotas. and
Montana. and given copious showers there.
In this city the day was fair and warmer. Highest
official temperature s6'. lowest o.. average hu.
nudity rs per cent; wind southerly. average veioc-
ity IL miles an hour; barometer. corrected to read to
sea level. at 3 A. Nj. 5000 . p. NJ. P9.o1.
The Thermometer at the United States Weather Bu-