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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-20
QUIET DA1 At GOMEZ ISLAND.
A Few Places Served Sandwiches with Beor-
Gambling Devices Kept Under Cover.

A Few Places Served Sandwiches with BeOF-
Gambling Devices Kept Under Cover.
"Ham or cheese sandwich T. was the question
addressed to the man who asked for a drink at
some Coney Island resorts yesterday. When he
inquired II 1t was necessary to have this accom-
paniment to his beer. the waiter said. Yes,
they're very strict to-day" and pointed to o
sign. No drinks served without meals" There
were other places. however, and they were in
the majority. whore an empty plate did duty
for the sandwich. and still others where even
this pretext was omitted.
Yesterday was a light day" at tho island.
The morning crowds were of average siZe. but
tho threatening weather and showers of the
afternoon kept many at homo. Tho policemen
who try TO bring order out of chaos at the Park
Row terminus of the bridge were no: sorry for
this. Their task was comparatively easy yes
terday. The elevated trains running across tho
bridge carried many people. and bid fair to rival
the trolley lines in popularity. 1t was tho first
Sunday under the new arrangement. but tho
route did not get a fair trial owing TO the small
crowd.
There were q few arrests at the island for in.
torication. Allthe music halls along the Bow
tho performers ignored the Sunday law by ap-
pearinE in costume. There was also much dan
cling and numerous cake walks. Gambling de-
vices of all kinds were kept under cover. The
police have taken a determined stand on this
ulNlleT.
The crowd lined the beach all day and rolled
in the sand. but the number OF bHthers was linn
tied. When a shower came up. about 4 o'clock,
there was n great scurrying for cover by those
who had neglected to bring umbrellas. In a few
minutes every one had found refuge in some
beer hall or restaurant. and tho indoor amuse-
ments did q thriving business.
Thomas Norton, a barber. Of Henderson'S
Walk, was arrested at that place Yesterday
morning charged with stabbing James Doran Of
63l West Forty-third street in the neck with a
pair OF scissors. Doran and Norton had a quar-
Fnl nm tho HpNERFV Mt 1.2Dn 'p1ApE NnrInn UNA
locked up without ball. as Doran's injuries are
said TO BIO dangerous.
During the evening the police noticed the
presence OF a largo number of well-known pick
pockets, and a general roundup was deter
mined on. Before midnight thirty had been
locked up at the island. The majority OF the ar
rests woro made by Central Of1co detectives.
and the mon taken In by them. they say, arc
professionals. All these men gave fictitious
names. Among the well.known ones was Jack
shegperd, who some years ago escaped both from
he was 90 yearS olo, and he described himself
as John Smith of Bayard street and the Bowery.
Another was Joseph Wright. better known as
Roaring Bill" He is 90 years old.
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CURRENCY
StronE Rnorts Made 20 Get the CemEitteO's
Bill Up fer Confederation In the House.

0trOnE RHorts Made 90 Got the Cemaaitteo's
Bill Up fer Confederation In the House.
WASHINGTON. June l9.-Every influence that
can be Oxertod is being brought to bear. at short
and at long range, to induce the managers of
the House to permit the Banking and Currency
bill reported to the House this week to come up
for consideration. A petition to the Committee
on Rules asking for a day has been vigorously
circulated. and it is said that lao Republicans
have signed it. But this alone is not being re-
lied on to secure what is desired, and Mr..
Hanna, Chairman Of tho indianapolis Monetary
Commission. which, in a measure, has charge
Of the machinery organized to accelerate legis-
lation. and who has spent much Of tho past
year In Washington directing its operations.
has been strengthened by the appearance here
Frenzel Of Indianapolis. e prominent banker
and Democratic politician with gold proolivi-
ties. MIR. FrenZel IL also Chairman OF the
Executive Committee of,th0 Monetary Conven-
ton. armed with power to summon conventions
perennially in the interests OF banking and cur
rency reform. These gentlemen are here. as
Gov. Bullock says. ito do what they can TO help
the passage through the House OF the bill re.
Gently reported, - and failure to pass which. no
says, will ineyitably defeat the Republicans
in tho coming Congressional elections"
This eaRern0ss Of tho friends of the bill to
bring 1t before the House cannot DO understood,
10 view of the fact that tho measure does not
have the approval OF a majority Of the mem-
ther fact that 1t cannot secure the support OF .
majority of the House. To foroo Its cor sidera-
ton at this time would DO but to expose the ir.
reconcilabrO differences amOng tho Republican
unnecessarily and uselessly throughout the
Republican membership of the House.
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CAR ROLLS INTO A RIVER.
TWO MEN EILJED AND n DogEN
HURT IN n WREOE.

Jersey Central RpHins PIunEes Inte . wall
sr the LehiEh valley at OHbsw. Pa.-En-
GtnoeF or the Central Tossed on the BshiKh's
Tracks and Run over by y Train There,
: ALLENTOWN, Pa, Juno 19.-Central Railroad
Of New Jersey passenger train No. 76 was
wrecked at Oxbow, a short distance above
Glenoko, at 5:55 o'clock this afternoon. The
following wero killed: Richard McHAlc OF Eas-
ton. engineer. and Willie Ettinger Of Easton,
nowsboy. Tho injured are: Conductor Tom
Heath, Brakemen Frank Mccarthy aud Will
liam Bell. Baggage Master Church Taylor.
Fireman William Gumras, Signal Man James
Roede-. George Smith and William Meyer OF
MRuch Chunk, Silas Moon of Odenweldertown,
Harry Filmer Of this city. and Mr.. Fenicle, an
extra conductor, who was riding on the train.
At the place where the accident occurred the
Central and Lchigh Valley tracks run parallel
with each other, but the Iehigh Valleys
tracks are seven feet higher than those Of the
Central. Passenger trains were running south
on both roads at about tho Same speed. At
Penn Haven Junction the Central train
stopped and the VALLEY train ran ahead. The
Central train, however. caught IN and main
tanned the lead. What caused the accident Is
not Known. Either tho rails spread or tho
driving wheels OF the engine broke. Tho
train stopped suddenly, and tho engine ran
against q wall upon which tho Valley tracks are
laid. The engine and baggage car were a mass
Of splinters. The smoking car rolled down the
Ombankmont into the river.
There were twenty passengers in the other
coaches which remained on the track. When
the engine ran against the wall, Engineer Nc
Hale was tossed out and landed on the Valley
tracks. At this moment the Valley train camo
along and cut off his leg. He was also badly
cut otherwise. The body of Newsboy Ettinger
was found on tho same track, but whether he
was struck by the Valley train Is not known.
BaRRaRemaster Taylor is badly injured about
the head. Fireman YeomHnB was taken to his
homo ut Easton on the train which passes here
at 7:30. He was lying unconscious on a cot In
the baggage car. In the smoking car which
went down the ombankmOnt into the river
there were also twenty passengers. Fortu-
nately the river at this place is very shallow.
and the passengers succeeded in getting out of
tho car. Harry Fulmer Of this city was in the
smoker. He is injured In the arms. The car
made q complete turn and landed with the
wheels down in the river and with its roof torn
or.
The discrimination the paSsonEerS had Of the
accident was the pushing together Of the seatG.
Fulner says he found his hat hanging on q gas
jet. Rooder and Smith are both severely
injured about the shoulders and Meyer in his
hands and legs.
The debris was scattered over the LohiEh
valley tracks. and the train which came along
piled through It successfully. The body Of EnEi.
nser McHalo will be taken to his home to-mOr
row. He leaves . widow and ASlArgO number Of
children.
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UNUSUAL v1s1r OF BIZ Ur Z Ns.
Eastern Connecticut waters FiIIod with These
Fierce Mig Grabs.

NOuuGOkICuL NNAtbEn EllIo VIII hh09o
Fierce BIE Grabs.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Juno ia rare and
~phenomenally largo harvest Of blue CLAW crabs
10 being made in eastern Connecticut thus carly
in the season. The waters in and about the
Thames Valley are fairly alive with them. Old
fishermen are aStoniBhed ut the plenitude of tho
supply and are at q loss to give q cause for the
appearance ofsthese tOothsOme flsh. Blue claws
begin to run here in number after July 10. usu-
ally. and they have net been plenty for years.
More are being caught every day now than
would be taken in the height of the ordinary
season during the middle of August. To add to
the pleasing features Of this visitation the crabs
are very large and fat.
At Comstocks Wharf, Montvill0, Q party
caught $50 crabs with dip nets and bait lines
in two hours on Friday. Reuben Bollen, the
veteran ferrymans at Gales Ferry, whom all the
college oarsmen know, caught 800 crabs in two
aud are making grabbing e1pedi-
tionB to Poquetannoc Cove, near the head.
waters Of the Thames River, whore no end Of
these wary shelish are being taken. t Mum
claws are being taken in large quantities and
Of enormous size.
All about the quarters of the rival college
crews on the Thames grabbing parties are fnd-
which flows into the Sound near the Connecti-
cut River. q COW owned by a man named Per-
kins, while standing deeply immersed in tho
cooling tide, was attacked by fierce and hungry
~vehemence that she was driven following from
the water, bloody wounds on herslegs bearing
evidence Of the fury of the crabs.
Last year and several previous seasons have
been unusually poor ones for crabs in these
waters. This makes the present visitationstho
moro difficult to account for.
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rmnoUan rnr WHraEroor nAr1Ds.
.Rsbsrt Leach Or watsrtswn rEakss = sso-
esssrnl Erip o. q steel RaFrsi.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, June 1e.-Tho frsb
steel barrel to be used for the navigation OF the
whirlpool rapids was that employed by Robert
Leach Of watertown to-day, and in II he made q
successful trip through the rapids and around
the whirlpool. Jeach's frst barrel was msdo Of
wood. but ho lost 1t after his trip Of June 10.
This forced him to get another barrel, and
he had one made of steel. The length OF
the barrel is seven feet. Its diameter
10 three feet six inches at the onds and three
feet nine inches in the centre. Tho steel used
10 threesixteenths OF an inch thick, and the
heads are OF wood, in order to better combat the
wave pressure. AZ the barrel 10 heavily bal
lasted. Its weight is nearly 1000 pounds. In
making tho trip Leach was swung in q ham
mock on the inside Of tho barrel.
Tho start was made at 3:45 o'clock, whom a
mail boat towed tho barrel up and out in the
river. Tho delay of last Sunday Was avoided,
for tho main current OF the river caught tho
barrel, and It was soon h~urrying toward the
rapids. There was a large crowd of people on
the bridges and on the river banks. LeHoh's
daring on his previous trip had been widely
heralded. 1t took but a few minutes for the
crowd to realize that Leach and his craft were in
the grasp of the current. Tho frst wnvo was
met boldly, thon tho second. and in a moment
the barrel was being tossed roughly by the
waters of the rapids.
The course was about the centre of the river,
and as the barrel shot from the rapids into the
whirlpool 1t crossed to the north aide and swung
round up in the eddy on the Canadian side.
-Four times did the current catch it and start it
toward tho centre. but each time 1t swung back
shoroward. Finally it got away from the oddly
current and was swept far across the pool to .
point where four boys swan out and captured
1t. One mounted the barrel. and Leach soon
opened tho manholO. Tho barrel was towed
ashore. and Leach landed. He had stood the
rough journey all right, and was In good oondi-
ton. Ho said he was pleased with the steel
barrel. and that he would risk his life in making
o trip over the Horseshoe Fall in It on July L
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-20
MRS. II. d. LOCKWOOD ARREszEDS
The Proprietor or tho Hstel ct. Lorenn 0aynI
She Owes Him $40 fer beard.

The Proprietor or tho HotaI 81. Lorsnn 0aynI
She Owes Him sos fer Board. !
Mrs. H. d. Lockwood. who has boon stopping
at the Hotel st. George, Brooklyn. since June q
with her two daughters. was arrested last night
on the complaint Of O.. l. Miller Of tho Hotel ST.!
Lorenz of New York. :
Miller said that Mrs. Lockwood owed him
&705 for board. She was taken to the FlushinG
avenue station. Her younger daughter. Q girDI
of Is, went with her mother. :
Mrs. Latham, the other daughter. who 10 20
years old. came to New York to find Louis O.
Towkesbury, to whom Mrs. Lockwood tOlO|I
graphed from the police station. She elsO sent
a despatch to United States Senator Hayden
Washington. ID. c." There is no such Senator.
Mrs. Lockwood said that she owned valuable
property, but that it was tied up in litigation.
She was divorced from her husband, she seids
and her suit for alimony was TO como up to-day
in the supreme Court.
Her married daughter was to have left for
Chicago on Saturday, but was served with
papers in n suit for divorce brought by her hus"
band.
A New York man. said to be a MI. DouEherty
Of Forty-second street, was sent for by MIRA
Lockwood. He cried when she told him that
she had been arrested. He said that Mrs. Look
wood had been spending an income of $780, 900 .
year. She W as to have left to-day for her SUM
mer homo in southampton. L.. ].
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woBs or TnE zee oAHDE1r.
ne works LouE uours In Dark csEisFs M
Miserable wages.

The Egg Candlers' Alliance, an organization
Of Hebrews, which reorEaniEed recently and
Joined the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance,
held the FIRST Of q series Of agitation meetings
yesterday afternoon in Columbia Hall. 100 Co
lumbia street. The object Of the meetings ID to
form plans for raising the wages Uf the Gamblers.
shortening their hours. and improving their
condition generally. Among the grievances 10
the alleged discrimination by the employers
against men who are moro than 80 years of
age on the ground that their eyesight becomes
impaired after they attain that age.
Tho Secretary Of the Egg Gamblers Alliance 10
l.. Morgenroth. There Is no President, 40 no
Socialist union Is supposed to have = president,
matters Of moment being settled by Q general
executive board. Besides tho Hebrew orgAniza.
tion there Is an English-speakinR union OF egg
Gamblers. The two unions have been undorbid-
ding each other with tho result that wages have
gone down, the Gamblers say. to q starvation
point, while the workdRy has boon heightened
from ten to fourteen and even seventeen hours.
At yesterdays meeting delegates were APP
pointed to propose an am"alRamRtion OF the
rival organizations, The English speaking
union meets privately and mysteriously. but the
delegates were charged with the responsibility
of finding out its rendezvous and the night OF
The Gamblers are employed by egg dealers at
Fulton and In Washington markets in this
city, and at uroenpoint Market In Brooklyn.
They complain that they have to work In
ill.smellinR cellars from which every ray oflight
is excluded. The walls are painted black. and
all the chinkB are stopped. up. In this stining
atmosphere the GAMBLER works, testing each egg
By holding 1t between him and a lighted candle.
Aftor the test he places perfect eggs, in a basket
which is ticketed: Warranted selected fresh
eggs" Eggs which are nearly as good are put In
another receptacle marked Warranted relh
eggs Tho next grade is good fresh ,egge,' the
fourth grade, fresh eggs" and the last 10 just
plain " eggs" Tho less said about egg" the
better.
The Gamblers say that the atmosphere in the
cellars is SO stihing that only they and hardened
employees of the Health Board oan enter them.
1t takes four or a We years to learn tho trade.
yet their wages, which wore. formerly SIS. $40
and S25 q week. have dwindled to from 90 to
Gl2 q week, IS or SO being the average. The
hours Of work used to be from eight to ten q
day; now they are often sixteen. Gamblers lose
to remedy their grievances by organizing ali
the egg gamblers in the city OF New York int
ono union.
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MISS FAYERS MARRIED.
Her InJurIeh by . Railroad Train did Net
Anrct the RaILh OF Her Lover.

Her InJurlen By . Railroad Train did Net
Anrct the Faith OF Her Lover.
Miss Eleanor b. layers OF Richmond Hill. L. l..
who has been u patient at st. Johns Hospital,
Long Island City, since March 6 .left thore yester-
day for Jersey City to be married to James z. Ten
Eyck. Miss FRycrs was waiting for = train at
the Richmond Hill station OF the Long Island
Railroad on March 8, intending to meet Mr.. Ten
Eyck, her betrothed, at Long Island City. cross
the river, and spend tho day in the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art. She met several friends on the
station platform and was talking with themwhen
q locomotive whistle warned her to cross to the
other side to take her train. which was APP
preaching. She was hit by the locomotive Of an
cast. bound train. She was taken to Long Island
City. where Mr.. Ten Eyck was waiting for her.
He was overcome when he saw her.
Miss FAyers's left leg was cut off at tho knee
and the right leg was am putNted Just below the
knee. She lowered between life and death for
several days. Mr., Ten Eyck visited the hospital
frequently. A few days ago Miss Fayers began
TO practice walking with artificial limbs and
made considerable progress. but not enough to
got along without assistance. Mr.. Ton Eyck
visited the hospital yesterday. He came in u
carriage, and In a short time Miss Fayers was
ready to leave. She has made many friends in
tho Institution. The carriage WAS driven to a
church In Newark avenue. Jersey City. Miss
Payers was assisted into tho ministers resi-
dence. adjoining the church. where the cere-
mony was performed.
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MINSTREL GEoRGEw W. WOODS DEAD.

Stricken with ApoPlexy-WAS Famous In GhS
Days or the San FrAncIHco MInstrSis-
George W. Woods. an old-time negro minstrel
who was famous as Bones" in the days of the
San Francisco Ministries and Havsrly's min~
StrelS. died suddenly last night at Dietrich'o
Hotel. at the Boulevard and 10th street.
About 1890 o'clock no was sitting On thS
piazza with some friends listening to some
music when he became very i'll. He was ro-
moved to a room upstairs, and doctors wero sent
for. The first TO arrive wes DR.. Goeltz of Man
haitian Hospital. He found Woods dying. and
in a short time Woods was dead. DR.. Go0lt1
said death was due TO apoplexy.
Woods WAS so years old, and lived at 10 Third
avenue. OF late he had been playing in the va
riety houses. doing q black face act alone.
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RA1xnAnEns OUT OF Il JOE.
HGr. Monday May Call In the Police to PrOtoo,
Hin from Demands for Beer Money.

lIr. Monday May Call In the Police to Protect
Hin from Donands for Beer Money.
The members of tho RAinnNkors' Gang. In
Williamsburg, are out Of q job. On Friday they
were hired to protect the new employees who
took the places of the strikers in the United
Cigarette Conpary's factory at 258 Wythe av-
enu0. They did their work we'll and wore paid
in quarter and half dollars. But they finally
got into trouble with the police. who knew them
in their palmy days of panhandling. Tho police
drove them out Of business by taking their
places as guardians of the employees, and yeS-
torday the RainnakOrs had nothing to do but
soak pintS." az one of the strikers put II.
Simon Monday. tho owner of the cigarette fac
tory. paid each member OF the gang so cents for
his days work on Saturday, but they appeared
yesterday with a demand for more money.
The twenty-five strikers say that Mr.. Monday
will soon learn that there are worse strikers in
Williamsburg. They refer TO the Rainmakers,
and say that Mr.. Monday will have to call In
the police to protect him from their demands
for boer money.
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BURGLAR CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

No Tripped Up the 1ntrudinE Householder aud
Made for the RosE. Shouting ..Firei"
When John wilkinson. a jeweller at $50
Ninth avenue. returned from church last night
with his wife he found . man in his rooms. The
man bad piled up everything of value as though
to carry it away. MT. Wilkinson set up ashout
and the man rushed at him. tripped him. threw
Mrs. Wilkinson on top Of him and ran upstairs
yelling Fire! tre!" as loud az he could.
Detectives DAILY, Thompson, and Lawless Of
the West Forty.seventh street station were
passing the house and heard his shouts. They
dashed in and stumbled over the jeweller and
matter. Daly caught tho thief on the roof.
La wless and Thompson found the Jimmy with
which he had forced the door. In his pockets
was the rest of his o~utht-two candle ends. He
said he was William Howard. q printer, of 6O7
Elghth avenue.
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HORSE TOOK TO THE s1DEwA1x.

0nashad the WaEOn-CauRht BY . Policeman
and Another Man on Bicycles.
A horse attached to q light wagon in which
l. A. Snitkin. who has a law Office at 2o3
Broadway. and his wife were driving up Fifth
avenue yesterday afternoon. was frightened by
q bicyclisL at Eighty-ifth street and bolted. At
Einotieth street the horse took to the walk next
to the Park wall. greatly to the terror and danger
of mPny nurses and children. The carriage
was smashed TO flinders against q tree at Nine
tieth street.
Bicycle Policeman Casey saw tho runaway
pass Ninety first street. and swung in behind 1t.
He got on the sidewalk and came up behind tho
horse on the left side, soaring 1t into the street.
A great crowd of bicyclists and carriages fell in
behind. A young wheelman named John Bolson
of 2O32 First avenue caught up with Casey.
and the two turned the horse down lO6th stroet.
At First avenue Casey caught tho bride and
was dragged from his wheel. He impedOd tho
horse until Belson came 10 his assistance and
stopped ii. TIE horse was taken to the East
lO4th street station. and is still there;
The Snitkins, who were not much hurt, went
downtown in a Madison avenue car.
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John InwIer, l9 Wears Old. Badly Hurt By
John scarDinr. IB.
John Scarpine. an Italian boy, 13 years old.
Of 3os East Twelfth street. who has been in
America only three weeks. was arrested yester-
day for S~tabbing l2-yoAr-old John Lawler Of 1888
East Twelfth street with a pocket knife.
Scarpine and his brother Pietro were playing
In the street in front OF their house yesterday
afternoon and u lot OF other boys began teasing
them; Finally John S%carpine got angry, and
drawing a pocket knife he plunged the BLADE
three times into LAWYERS side.
The wounds made were not large. but ono Of
them was dangerously noar to LAWYERS heart.
Scarpine was locked up at the East Fifth street
police station and Lawler was sent to bellevue.
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roUxD DEAD ON FACTORY STEPS.

Policeman Thought William Kopr was sISep-
ing and Let Rim stay There All Night.
A policeman found William Kopf, a machlnist.
Bs years old. sitting dead yesterday morning at
tho entrance to A. PrinSker & Sons shoe fac
tory at AZ South Fourth street, Williamsburg.
Kopf's head was resting on his arms. He had
been there all night, but the policeman had re-
Trained from molestinR him on account OF his
apparent respsctability.
Kopf lived with his wife at $50 Decatur street,
BROOKLYN. He was in tbs employ OF the Empire
Machine Company. On Saturday his wife went
10 n church excursion. and on her return was
SurprIsed that her husband was not at home.
She waited at a front window all night. II is
believed that Kopf was taken Ill on his way home.
Mrs. Kopf says that her husband had been az
flCted with heart disease for a long time.