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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-12
ROOSEVETT 1ND PL4TT,
Hold n Conference In the Office of the
senator.

New York July 11.--Senator Thomas
C. Platt and Governor Theodore Roose-
welt held a conference this afternoon in
the senator's office. After the meeting
the governor left for his home in Oyster
Bay. He declined to talk of what pass
ed between him and Senator Platt.
Senator Platt said he had talked with
the governor about the latter's confer
ence with President Mckinley in the
matter of the appointment of state Off
GERS to commands in the new regiments
of volunteers. He said that Governor
Roosevelt fully endorsed his plans for a
union of forces between the independ-
ents and the republican organization,
and he thought a strong fight would be
arrayed against Tammany Hall in the
next campaign.
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GOVERNMENT is NOT LIABLE
4NSVER TO MISS Ivan F-iVRE'S
VAR CL1IM OF $4,000.
Steamer OIindo Rodriguez Captured
Or San Juan During the War-De-
cision May Have an Important Bear
Ing on Other Claims.
Ing on Other Claims.

| Washington, July 1.-THE secretary
ofstate has sent to M. Cambon of France
an answer to the latter's recent letter
submitting the claim of Miss Iva Favre
for $4,000 damages attending the cap
ture of the French steamer Olinde Rod
riguez, on which she was a passenger
by the cruiser New Orleans during the
blockade of San Juan. The secretary
reviews the facts in detail and states
the conclusion that the government is
not liable on this claim. The answer is
likely to establish a precedent on a
large number of similar claims.
The secretary says the French steam
er was first observed by the cruiser Yo-
semitic on July 5 and that an officer of
the Yosemite went on board and noted
In the log of the Rodriguez that a
blockade of San Juan was in progress
Miss Favre subsequently took passage
at Port au Prince on July 13. On
July II the Rodriguez again appeared
off San Juan, whereupon she was cap
lulGu NY the New oFIGdllS. Inc pTlZO
was taken to Charleston on July % and
on August all the passengers were re-
leased by court order and turned over
to the French company. Miss Favre's
claim recited that she had suffered
from an attack of fever while at
Charleston and the damages We're for
this and the indignities of detention.
From the facts cited the secretary
states that the United States naval au-
thoriies could not be charged with neg
ligence in the circumstances attending
the capture. Secretary Hays letter is
accompanied by one from Attorney Gen
eral Grigss, giving facts submitted by
the United States district attorney at
Charleston bearing out in detail the
points in the secretary's letter. He says
the Rodriguez was anchored off the
battery in Charleston harbor in one of
the most healthful spots along the At
lantic coast. The health officers letter
is to the same effect Aside from the
bearing of this decision on the individ-
ual cases, it may have a bearing also on
the claims which may be brought for
ward by the owners Of the steamer Rod
riguez and of the Lafayette which was
stopped off Havana.
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EDUCATORS OF COLORED YOUTH,
American Association Meets In Detroit--
1875 Delegates Present

Detroit, July 11.-About 125 delegates
were present to-day in the convention of
ne American Association of Educators
of Colored Youth. Rev. W. s. Bradden
requested that the committee on resolu
tions take some action on the talk of w.
w. Boyd of ST. Louis, before the Chris
tian Endeavor convention. Mr.. Boyds
words that Rev. Bradden objected to
were: IF Christ We're in the south and
His mother or His wife or daughter
We're outraged by negro brute, would
He resent it?" followed by a partial de-
Tense of lynching. They were spoken
yesterday in Tent Williston. The chair
man said that the committee would
doubtless do its work and the incident
was closed, aside from the remarks of
Bishop Alexander Walters of Jersey
City. made later in the day. Bishop
Walters said tina because of that re-
mark it did not follow that the Chris
tian Endeavorers were all of that opin-
ion. Only routine business was done to-
day by the convention.
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DEMOCRATIC CLUB ASSURED.
Office Holders Expected to Pay Two
Per Cent of Their Salaries.

Office Holders Expected to Pay Two
Per Cent. of Their Salaries.
The democratic headquarters in the
Insurance building was a hot bed of en-
thusiasm last night when the organiza-
ton of a democratic club was assured.
At the last meeting it was suggested
that all office holders contribute 5 per
cent. of their annual salaries toward the
support of the organization. This met
with some opposition and the matter
was deferred until the meeting last
night. The discussion was again taken
up and several present argued pro and
con. Judge Blydenburgh finally ad-
dressed the meeting and said he thought
per cent. was better basis. 1t was
then voted to amend the bylaws to
read: 1T is expected that all demo-
cratic Office holders will pay To this Or
ganization a sum equivalent to per
cent. of their annual salary, the same
to be payable to the secretary in two
semi-annual dividends. And the secre-
tary is hereby instructed to notify said
officeholders of this action.
The membership of the club is not
confined to the city alone, but outside
members will not be expected to vote on
questions of local interest.
The bylaws relating to nonresident
members was discarded on the ground
of unrestricted membership. A COM
mittee of five was appointed whose du-
ties it will be to enroll members. They
have also power to add to their body
one or more members from each ward
to assist them in their work. The COM
mittee is Messrs. Manning, Norris, Grif-
fin, Nottingham and FitzssSald.
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HEIH TO RUSSIAN THRONE.
Imperial Manifesto Issued Naming
Grand Duke Michael.

st. Petersburg, July 1.-THE Official
Messenger to-day publishes an imperial
manifesto worded as follows: "Our be-
loved brother and heir to the throne, the
Grand Duke George Alexandrovitch,
died at Abbas Tuman June % (old
style). The illness which attacked him
might, it was hoped, yield to the treat
ment initiated and the influence Of the
southern climate. But God willed 9TH
erwise. In submitting without muir
muir to the decree of Providence, we call
all our faithful subjects to share our
deep sorrow with us and to offer fer
vent prayers for the repose of the soul
of our departed brother. Henceforward,
and so long as it may not please God to
bless us with a son, the right of sue
cession to the throne devolves, accord
ing to the precise definition of the law
of succession, upon our beloved brother,
the Grand Duke Michael Alexandro-
witch.
Signed: Nicholas"
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STREET sPRINKLlNG PROBLEM.
Director Troup Busy Securing Com
tractors Figures.

That New Haven will have her streets
no argument, or debate can now stop it.
The only question that remains is
whether the work shall be done by con-
tract, or by the city itself. The resolu-
ton of the court of common council had
not been signed by Mayor Driscoll up
to a late hour last night, and the mayor
said he was waiting to see how reason
ably it could be done. A conference of
the mayor, Director Troup, Corporation
Counsel Robertson and Controller Rowe
was held yesterday morning, and the re-
suit was that the director was busy last
evening obtaining figures from the va
rious contractors. The mayor favors
the clause of the resolution wherein the
street railroads sprinkle each side of their
tracks and is anxious to put that part
of the matter into permanent opera
ton.
Corporation Counsel Robertson was
asked at the conference if the city is
water the streets no matter whether the
money for the purpose was included in
the last estimates, and he said he be-
lieved the act was mandatory. He said
the cost of street sprinkling might be
regarded as debt and that the city had
a right to pay it's debts at any time.
Controller Rowe was asked If there
was available money to pay for sprink-
ling and he said there was. Money is
available from the tax revenue over and
above the estimated revenue,
The work Of sprinkling the portion of
the streets through which cars run and
which portion the railroad companies
are not obliged to sprinkle under the
law, will be let by contract and the di-
rector will advertise for bids on the
same Immediately The city will be di-
vided into districts for the sprinkling.
A man will be assigned to cover GER
tain district and If there are any COM
plants from that district it will be easy
to know who Is responsible for the cause
of the complaint.
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PLUMBERS MAY ARBITRATE.
Hartford Men Have Similar but More
SeriOus Trouble.

1t was 11:45 o'clock last night before
| the Master Plumbers had finished the
business at their meeting in the Insur-
ance building The meeting was held
behind closed doors and for almost four
hours there appeared to be heated dis
cussions and addresses bearing upon
the threatened troubles with the jour-
neymen. After the meeting s. e. Dib-
BILE, president of the association, said
that there had been nothing but rou-
tine business transacted. THE matter
Of the journeymen was discussed" said
Mr.. Dibble, but no decision was arriv-
ed at 1t will come up before special
meeting to be held later" Further
than this Mr.. Dibble would not commit
himself, but it was gathered from sew
eral Of the members that an attempt
will be made to arbitrate the matter and
it was hinted that a settlement of the
trouble was already in sight.
New Haven plumbers are not alone in
their trouble, however. Hartford is ex-
periencing a similar discord among the
craft which bids fair to assume more
serious proportions. 1t was announced
yesterday that the journeymen plumb
ers of Hartford intended to quit work
this morning and to remain unemployed
until the master plumbers acceded to
their demands or agree to a compromise
that will be satisfactory to them.
The first phase of this trouble was
shown when five or six weeks ago the
journeymen plumbers sent a communi-
cation to the master association stating
what they considered their grievances
and requesting that they be redressed.
They demanded that the Master Plumb
ers' association agree to several propo-
sitions One was that eight hours
should constitute a days work, anoth-
er that the minimum rate of wages
should be SO day, and in addition they
asked that there be only one apprentice
for every shop and that the association
appoint a committee to confer with
committee from the Plumbers union.
The committee of the master plumbers
reported back to the association that
they were unable to adjust the difficult
ties with the Plumbers union.
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CHESTER ". oH1pIN 1AUNCHED.
Miss Cecilia Geraty, Daughter of supt.
Geraty, Christened the Vessel.

! Baltimore, July 1.-THE new steel
| steamer Chester w. Chaplin, which is de-
| signed to ply between New York city
| and New Haven, Conn, and Providence,
| under the control of the New Haven
Steamboat company, was successfully
| launched to-day at the shipyards of the
| Maryland Steamship company at Bar
rows Point, in the presence of large
| number of invited guests from New
York, New Haven, Philadelphia and
| Washington. The launching was sched-
| uled for p. M, and ten minutes later
| the big hull slid from the ways into the
Patapsco so smoothly that she scarcely
| made a ripple as she took the plunge
Miss Cecilia Geraty, the eight-year-
daughter of D. A. Geraty, general super
intendent of the New Haven Steamboat
line, performed the christening cere
mony, breaking a bottle of champagne
over the steamers bow.
The Chester w. Chaplin is the largest
vessel of her kind ever launched at thia
port. Her dimensions are: Length on
deck 324 feet; length on water line, $40
feet; nodded beam, AS feet; breadth over
guards, GA feet; depth of hold, II feet
2 1-2 inches. She is calculated to main
tain a speed of q 1-2 miles an hour
Power will be furnished by two invert-
ed, drect-acting, surface-condensing
triple-eXpansion engines, with cylinders
of a. 3S and go inches diameter by 80
inches stroke. The high pressure cylin>
der will be equipped with pistol valves
and the low pressure cylinders with slide
valves. To these engines, which are ex-
pected to develop 4,200 indicated horse
power, steam will be supplied from six
Scotch boilers, 13 feet in diameter by IL
IL feet in length, at working pressure
of 100 pounds. The boilers will have
three steel corrugated furnaces, 400
square feet of CRATE surface and 1,200
square feet of heating surface. The
crankshaft will be of the built-up type.
The steamer is expected to make her
contract speed on draught of 10 feet 6
inches The vessel when thoroughly
completed for service will represent an
outlay of $5O0,00Q
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Watkins Was to Have Quit Sen.

New York, July 11.-Manager Clement
A. Griscom of the American line said
to-day that Captain Frederick Watkins
of the stranded steamer Paris whose
license was suspended yesterday for two
years by the United States local inspec-
tors of steam vessels, was to have quit
the sea of his own volton at the end
of the present season. At Southampton
he had a quiet home, where he intended
to rest from his labors and enjoy the
retrospect of a long and useful career
His wife was a Southampton woman
and his home was there, although he
was a citizen of this country. After
the accident to the Paris said Mr..
Griscom, "he could neither eat nor
sleep, and his grief was almost more
than he could stand. He's better now,
though, and | hope in time he'll get over
it. When the underwriters no longer
require his services on the Paris he will
leave the boat and go to his home and
stay there"
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FRICTURED HER THIGH.
Eaton Street Child
Falls Out of Bed.

About five minutes past one o'clock
this morning John L. Capela of No. Il
Eaton street went to the DiXwell avenue
station and asked Sergeant Orr to send
for the ambulance. When questioned
further Capela said that his three-year-
old daughter had fallen out of bed and
injured herself. In the meantime DR..
Porter had been called and found that
the child had sustained a fracture of
the thigh. The girl was removed to the
hospital, and while suffering from the
break was made as comfortable as pos
sible Owing to the child's age no seri-
Gus results are feared.
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DIXON DEFE.ITS WHITE.
| The Colorcd Champion, However, is
| Stood or for Twenty Rounds.

Denver Col, July u.-George Dixon,
featherweight champion of the world,
was given the decision over Tommy
White at the end of a twenty round
bout before the Olympic club Tonight
Dixon led the fighting from the start to
the finish. Tommys purpose was to
avoid a knockout and stay the limit
Georges left hand work was the COM
ment of all. He would bring his left
from the ribs to the head and back
again so quickly as to almost escape the
eye The attendance was $500. Dixon
weighed in this afternoon at 125 Ia
pounds and White at 120. The betting
was ten to eight on Dixon and quite a
bunch of money changed hands at these
odds In the last minute of the twen-
tieth round George brought a hard left
to Tommys neck which caused him to
waver. 1t looked like the finish, but
Tommy Strengthened out and put Dixon
off until the gong sounded when Referee
Masterson announced that Dixon was
the winner.
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Nicholas"
Late czarvitch secretly Married.

London, July 12.-The late czarvitch,
according to the Paris correspondent Of
the Daily News, was privately married
with his mothers consent He left no
children. The remains will be brought
here and inferred in the Cathedral of
the fortress. kilograms of coincidence
have been received from Queen Victo-
ria, King Humbert and other sover-
eigns. The late grand duke was an
English scholar and an earnest student
of naval matters. He once translated
Captain Alfred T. Mahan's Influence
of Sea Power Upon History"
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BEQ UES7S no HART-IRD.
$4,000, Paintings and Other Property
Given by Late Lucy Elltu.

Boston, July 1.-THE will of Lucy
Ellis, filed at the Suffolk registry of
probate, bequeaths $4,000 and such pic
lures belonging to testatrix as they may
select, to the trustees of the museum of
fine arts and to Harvard college a
house on Boylston street and the residue
of the estate of testatrix after a few pri-
vate bequests are deducted The amount
given to Harvard college is specifically
given to augment and be used for the
same ends as large bequests made by her
brother, Calvin Ellis, in 1880.
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TrOtflng at saginaw.

Saginaw, Mich, July 11.-Fair wealth
er and a good track marked the opening
day of the Union Park harness meet
ting The attendance was four thou
sand Results:
2:15 trotting-Surpol won in straight
heats; time, 2:15a4, 2:16h, 2:14A. Cut
ting, Phoebe Childers. Gunsalus, Lenark
and Robert j. also started
2:25 pace-Won in straight heats by
Sphinx S.. time, 2:1512, 2:12A 2:15%
Annie Thornton, Mabel Star, Harry o.
Pilotelle and Wandering Jew also start
ed.
2:17 pace-Hontas Crook won first
second and fifth heats; time 2:15. 2:O9A
2:12&. The Maid won third and fourth
heats in 2:10 and 2:11A. Hipless, Little
Pete and Harry c. also started.
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Interpolation in the Commons.

London, July 1.-THE parliamentary
secretary for the war office, George
Wyndham, replying to a question in
the house of commons to-day, said that
the comnunique published by the Lon
don Times July 7, giving the names Of
British officers detailed to proceed to
South Africa to organize the forces
there, had been sent with the knowl-
edge of the Marquis of Lansdowne, sec
retary of state for war.
The secretary Of state for the colonies.
Joseph Chamberlain, during the course
of reply to Sir Henry Campbell Ban
herman, liberal leader in the house, ON
the subject of President Kruger's latest
proposals, said that in the absence Of
fuller information it was impossible to
be certain as to the practical effect of
the franchise scheme. But SO far as he
was able to judge, it would have no i'm
mediate effect on the representation Of
the Outlanders in the first Volksraad,
and he was not certain that the Out
1anders would be able to carry any Of
the new seats allotted to them In the
Rand until a very much later date.
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Receptfon of British Squadron.

st. John, N. F., July 11.-Elaborate
preparations are being made for the
reception next week of the British
squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Fred
erick George Bedford. His coming this
year at the head of powerful fleet is
considered another evidence of Mr.
Chamberlain intention to show the
French that they are no longer pow
or in Newfoundland waters.
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542 PEOPLE RESCUED.
Work of fGOvernment Life Savers in the
Texas Flood.

Washington, July 1.-THE life saving
gram from Superintendent Hutchings at
Galveston, Tex, who with force of life
district: Have rescued 542 people.
Seven to fifteen feet of water over the
cotton and cane plantations. Some
drowned; many narrow escapes Have
surf boat and borrowed boat and seven
men operating now under keepers.
Water receding"
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Medal Sent to Dewey.

Washington, July 1.-THE navy de-
partment to-day dispatched to Admiral
Dewey the medal awarded to him by
act of congress to commeorate the bat
tie of Manila Bay. The admiraPs med
al is identical with those sent to each
man in the fleet, with the exception
that his own name is engraved upon the
edge
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Creyy,s Escapc 1yas NJirnculous

Machias, Me-, July 1.-THE crew of
the schooner Ida L. Hull, which was
wrecked Sunday night at Camp Island,
came up from Rouque Bluff to-day and
left for Boston this afternoon Their
account of the twenty-four hours spent
in an open boat in a dense fog and a
terrific sea showed that their escape
from death was almost miraculous,
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Approve Terms of Purchase.

Boston, July 1.-THE railroad commits
sioners in an order issued to-day ap-
proved the terms of the purchase of the
Portsmouth and Dover, Portland and
Rochester, and the Saco and Portsmouth
railroads by the Boston aud Maines
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Oxford d-Cambridge Team Preparing,

London, July 11.-With the exception
of L. r. O. Bevan of the Cambridge
team, who is practieing at the Queen s
club. all the members of the two uni
versity teams are in strict training at
Eastbourne for the forthcoming tussle
with the Americans.
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KING OF BELGIUM.
Report that He is to Visit Newport Dis
credited.

Washington, July 1.-THE report that
the king of Belgium would visit New
port this summer is discredited in off,
cial quarters here No such intimation
has come from any American official
q broad
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Cardinal NlerteI Dead.

Rome, July 1i.-Cardinal Teodolfo
Mertel, vice chancellor of the Holy Ro-
man church, who was raised to the car
dinalate in 1858, died to-day in his nine
ty-third year.
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SHAMROCK NOT LEAKING.
"A Positive Denial Made by Sir Thomas
Upton.

London, July 11.-Sir Thomas Upton
this evening informed the correspon-
dent of The Associated Press that there
was absolutely no foundation for the
report that the Shamrock was leaking.
He said that she had been docked mere
ly to have her hull repolished, prepara-
tory to the trial with Britannia.
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FOR RELIEF OF SHOPWORKERS.
Bill to Require Providing Them Seats
Advanced In House of Lords.

London, July 1.-THE house Of lords
this evening passed the second reading
vide seats for their assistants by a vote
of 70 in favor to 28 opposed. The Mar
quis of Salisbury, prime minister, spoke
and voted against the measure.
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ANGL0-T -TRANSYAAL TROUBLE
GREAT BRITAIN STILL PREPARING
FOR HOSIILITIES.
seventy-third battery of Artillery
Ordered to South Africa-Five Bat
teries Now Under Orders for the Capo
Thirty Machine Guns Shipped Ycs-
terday-Warships in Delagoa Bay.

London, July 11.-The Seventy third
battery of artillery has been ordered to
South Africa, making the fifth battery
of field artillery now under orders for
the Cape. All the gun carriages Of
these batteries are being painted to
match the local color Thirty machine
guns We're shipped to the Transvaal to-
day.