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New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
SLOT MACHINES CAPTURED.
ANTHONY CoMsToCK MAKES A SUCCESSFUL RAID
IN THAMES-ST.

Twenty-Five gambling slot machines and betting
machines of various kinds con1scated and
carted to the Church-st. police station yesterday
afternoon from Office the fifth floor of the
Thames Building. at No. % Thames-st. F. c. Nc
Donald, who said he thirty-two years old and
who refused to give his address, was arrested and
locked up the charge of violating Section 1856 of
the Penal Code. The arrest and confiscation were
made on a warrant issued by Magistrate Flammer
of the First District Police Court, and sworn out
by Anthony Comstock and his agent Louis F.
Dittmann, of the Society for the Suppression of
Vice.
Mcdonald said that he had not sold any of the
machines in this city. He said that he was agent
OF the Mcdonald Manufacturing Company of
Chicago which made the machines.
When the police patrol wagon drove up TO the
building hundreds of persons gathered and blocked
the narrow street and 1t required extra policemen
clear the way for the removal of the machines
to the wagon. To add to the discomfort of the
police the freight elevator was suddenly discovered
to be out of order. The elevator man at first said
he could not fix it, but when threatened with arrest
it took him just three minutes the police say. to
get il in order again, so that the bulky machines
could be lowered to the ground floor.
Captain Westeryelt said last night that whether
the prisoner convicted or not. all the machines
which cost thousands of dollars, would be de-
stroyed.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
GIRL INSTANTLY KILLED BY WAGON

Hazel Garvin five years old. whose parents live
at No 54S East Sixteenth-st. was instantly killed
yesterday afternoon by the rear wheel of a heavy
coal wagon. The child was playing in Avenue
and Sixteenth-st.. and ran directly in front of a
team or horses attached to a two ton coal wagon
owned by Rhinefrank & Co.. of Avenue D. and
Fourteenth-st., and driven by John Shutz Shutz
was looking for a number. and did not notice the
chlldren playing As soon the child was knocked
down SHUT stopped his horses, but not before the
Cash. OF Bellevue Hospital, pronounced the child
dead Shutz was locked up in the East Twenty
second-St. police station
Inc dead child was one of pair of twins Her
5 sister aled TWO months ago from natural causes
me mother Is grief stricken. She was attended
py DR. Cash The child's body taken home
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
POLICE VISIT ALLEGED pooLRooM.
REPORTS WHAT HE SAW TO INSPECTOR
CROSS-WILL GIVE PLACE SPE-
CIAL ATTENTION

Captain Vredenburgn, of the Oak-st police sta
ton. accompanied by Central Office Detectives
Darcy and Schoemock, yesterday afternoon visited
an alleged poolroom at No. 1So South-st and In
of the occurrence said:
/ found about hundred men IN a room, but no
betting was being done on he when we en-
tered was unable TO obtain evidence to base an
arrest / found racing cards and slips In
the room found man stationed at door at
the foot or the stairs. paddock on the out
side of the door. and when a person who was
known TO the doorkeeper appeared he was allowed
placed
Captain Vredenburgh further reported that he
would give the place SPECIAL attention. and sta
name Of the reputed proprietor as Cyeorss Torn
saloon ksADsr. OF Cherry and Catharins sts
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
GODDARD STARTS A CRUSADE.
WANTS TO DRIVE POLICY GAMBLERS OUT
OF HIS DISTRICT.

Captain F. Norton Goddard. Republican leader
in the XXth Assembly District. has an earnest
desire to promote the welfare of his constituents
and has become convinced that one of the worst
enemies of the people Is the policy gambler he mas
accordingly started a little crusade OF his own
upon these barefaced swindlers of the poor
Superintendent Edward j. Reardon and Agents
John Simpson and John Finley. of the stan or
Captain Goddard. who is at the head of suppress
sion of vice society of his own. appeared before
Magistrate Flammer In the Centre-st. police court
yesterday and secured four warrants against man
ayers of policy shops. Four policemen were de-
tailed accompany the men, They entered
barouche and drove first to No l5o Goerck,st..
where they arrested Adolpf, Fisher. Then they
drove to No. 433 First-aYe., where they arrested
William Laughlin; then to No. $50 East LhTyo 1 y
third-st. arresting Frederick Grant and lastly 10
No. 6S7 First-ave.. where William Carroll was ar
rested.
The taken to the Centre-st ponce
court. where the complainants declared tnat @ tney
had played in the places. A number or poncy
slips were seized in each place visited. Maglstrate
Fammer held each of the prisoners in sl'WV for
eXaminat tion.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN BED.
SUSPECTED OF ATTEMPTED sUICIDE-NEw-HAvEN
MAN HELD IN BELLEVUE SUFFERING FROM
GAS AND CARBoLIC ACID POISONING.


MAN HELD IN BELLEVUE SUFFERING FROM
GAS AND CARBoLIc ACID POISONING.
Walter T. Cross forty-fve years old, taken
to Bellevue Hospital from No 109 East Twelfth-st.
yesterday morning, suffering from carbohc acld
and gas poisoning. 1t is thought he may recover.
Cross went TO the boarding house OF Mrs. Mar
garet Brown, in Twelfth-st., about o'clock on
Wednesday, engaged a room, ate hearty supper,
out and. returning. went TO bed in his
the third floor The servant smelled gas
from the yesterday morning and Cross was
found undressed in bed with the gas turned on.
Two bottles one of which had contained carbolc
acid and the other holding oil. lay table.
DR.. Christian came from Bellevue Hospital in
ambulance. and after hard work brought the man
to consciousness. He said Cross had taken some
cal rbolic acid
On table in the mans room small vol
ume of Ruskin. 1t opened at a photograph
of a handsome young woman which in it. Un-
der the photograph written in a womans
hand. In Memoriam, Emma" There were several
letters addressed Cross. and all written by
ter on Continental Hotel paper addressed to Miss
Emma Leary, No. 4S Lafayette-st., New Haven.
Cross is a prisoner at Bellevue Hospital though
eide or not 1t was learned yesterday that he re-
a when the ey at the md Moss
t teenth-st It was said there that he had been
buyer for Gamble Desmond @ Co. dryg00ds deal
No reason was known why he should kin himself,
though IT was said that he s had grown despondent
The clerk at the Continental Hotel knew the
man well & He said Cross used to stop at the hotel
was last there from January 80 February 8.
eers He did a@ so on Clerk s
Cross was well liked. and that he time
head buyer for Malley Brothers, in New-Haven.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
JUDGE, A MASON, HEARS MASONIC SUIT.

JUSTICE sTOvER TAKES PAPERS IN THE CASE OF
KoPP AGAINST GRAND LODGE.
Justice Slower In the Supreme Court yesterday de-
clined to entertain a suit brought by Robert Kopp
against the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons this State compel his reinstatement In
the order unless the parties the action consented
He gave as his reason for this that he was him.
self Mason. Both sides agreed and Justice Stover
tried the action Counsel for the plaintiff and de-
fendant submitted the case, Ebert Crandall. at
torney Grand Lodge, admitting all the facts
on which Kopp relied. Mr.. Crandail contended ina
Kopp had had fair trial before the tribunals or
the Masonic order and was bound by their de-
cision. property rights were invoived: -
Kopp was expelled last June from Strict OBJ
servance Lodge. No. 81, after having been a Mason
twenty-three years. for writing letter to Grand
Master William A. Sutherland alluding 10 an at
tempt introduce politics into the order; He ap-
pealed from the decision of the lodge expeliing him.
but unsuccessful
Justice Stover, after the case had been submitted
gave counsel on both sides two weeks to submit
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

resentatiye of the people scandal and a
shame that the in question could neither
formulate a question did he understand the
rules of evidence"
Recorder Goff declined give the of the
assistant referred to. and, despite the long argu
ment of counsel, the Commissioner declined to
compel him do He also declined strike out
the testimony of the witness on that point. The
witness also declined to identify the that
rise his remarks and Mr.. Untermyer declared
strenuously that the statement of the witness was
untrue and that such conversation the Re-
corder spoke of had taken place.
1890 o'clock this morning The session will be
short and only for the purpose of argument
the admission Of the records In Recorder Coff's
of March Is last.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

entire seminary could do away with the
study of the German theories Men must be shown
that these theories wrong by logical argument.
The Rev. John j. Reed of the Washington Square
Methodist Church, preached the Conference sermon
at II o'clock
Many of the delegates visited the Five Points
Mission, where Bishop Warren addressed six hun
dred children who gathered in the meeting hall.
Speeches made by the children, and then rep
resentatives of the different nationalities welcomed
the members of the Conference, each waving the
National emblem.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
TRIED TO THROW WIFE FROM A WINDOW.

POLICEMAN ARRIVED JUST IN TIME TO PREVENT
SERIOUS INJURY To A WOMAN
Samuel Kaplin twenty-eight years Old of No. S
East One-hundred- and thirty y-fourth-st.
raigned before Magistrate Cornell in the Harlem
Court. yesterday. the charge of felonious as
sault, preferred by Patrolmap Cornelius Maher OF
the East -twentysix station.
Kaplin lives with his wife and two children the
first floor of the address given. Ills wife is In poor
health. The district is known ''Neggersmth-
vie,' because Court Officer George Negsersmith
and his hve-sons-in-law. all of whom policemen
live in the neiShborhood
Kapn returned home yesterday and began
beat his wife, and then attempted TO hurl her from
the window. Patrolmen May and Harry Negser
smith jumped over backyard fences and clambered
up the fire escape. Patrolman George Neggersmith
and his son-in-law, Cornelius Maher around 10
One-hundred-an -thirty-fourth-st. and broke open
the door in Kaplins apartments Al this juncture
kaplin had his wife half way Of the window.
The policeman grabbed Kapln and pulled him back,
and in doing so pulled back Mrs. Kaplin Kaplin
showed fight hut was quickly suhdued. Magistrate
Cornell held him in $500 bail for examination.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
GOOD SEASON FOR Road WAGONS.

The invitations issued by j. NJ. Quinhy 4 Co. of
Newark announcing their spring opening have at
tracted considerable attention. and a number of
satisfactory sales have resulted. Their pneumatic
tire road wagons have been greatly admired and
every wonders how the man racer with It's
spiderllke proportions. can withstand the strain OF
fast work. Bachelor broughams seem 10 have the
call far In the spring sales. The repair depart
points to Q heavy season
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
HOW GOLD MEDAL FLOUR rs TESTED

Housekeepers who use the Gold Medal -four made
by the great Washburn-Crosby mills have every
guarantee of superior article. because several
different tests employed to insure purity and
nutritousness First the wheat is analyzed chemi-
cally TO hnd the proportions OF starch and gluten
Another ties is for the presence of moisture Sam
pies OF Hour from each OF the mills are received
SIX times a day ana are tested for color and
strength. Then bread is baked with them u,bicb
In turn is inspected for size and weight This
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
LECTURE BY MRS. BOOTHTrCKER

Mrs. Booth-Tucker. of the Salvation Army de-
lvered lecture last night at Memorial Hail. No
12 West Fourteenth-st.. which was accompa MED
by large number of attractive stereopticon pict-
ures. These 'stereopttcon campagns' of Mrs.
Bootn-Tucker have met with much appreciation
IN many Western citiea
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
LABOR'S RELATION TO YRVsyS

In ST. Georges Church, Stuyvesant Square an
audience of workingmen listened 10 an address
last night made by William Dudley Foulke OF
Richmond Ind, upon The Relation NJ Trns,. % =.
Labor ORGANIZATIONS" AS'o "
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
A SATISFIED ADVERTISER.
MORE ANSWERS TO HIS ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE
SUNDAY TRIBUNE THAN FROM ANY
OTHER SOURCE.

4eiephohe 1888 Cortlandt Mortgage Loans
c. J. SANDS
REAL ESTATE BROKER AND APPRAISER
Detached Houses, Lots and Villa Plots Invest
ment Property.
130 BROADWAY. 5TH FLOOR
~ NewYork City. March 23 1900
To The Tribune Association
Gentlemen: Please insert inclosed advertise-
ments in The Sunday Tribune. l have received
more answers: that brought business, from my ad-
Vertlsements in your paper, than from any other
source. Very respectfully yours.
c. j. SANDS
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

$35, from $60-3 pieces; bureau, "A in long "a in.
high, swell front fancy shaped, French beveled
mirror 26x32; nicely carved; bedstead, full size,
carved; washstand, SHAPED top, large drawer,
small drawers and cupboard
$50, from 500 pieces; bureau 20 in. long, "a in.
high; fancy shaped, beveled plate mirror 26x32;
full size, nicely carved bedstead-
Fourth Floor.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
Bedroom SuiteS===AbOut Half Prices
ALL FINE MAHOGANY

great furniture The saleoom large field bos,
Broadway Ninth Tenth would
should display and selling But still the
roon provide additional
theman
to ese"ne SO na on goas
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
Bamboo POrtieres and Veranda Shades

reduced
idea of decorative drapery They effective
kinds
dz1no
The veda shades sizes 4x8 II nsaI
japanese Basement tn a ad 9th
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

$40, from S63-5 pieces; bureau, 48 II Ions y |,
high, swell front, fancy shaped French ~.
mirror 28x3+; full size, carv-d 6.dsreai; ,,g'
stand, shaped top, I long drawer, small a-,,-
and cupboard.
S45, from sos pieces; bureau, 48 in long 7, /,
high, swell front, beveled plate mirror 2s136 c,,-
tull size, carved beistead; washstaad, SHAPED ).
! large and small drawers and c1o1lari
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

Soc pair-90 styles-Consisting of various stripes
open work, embroidered clocks in numerous color
combinations
81 pair-French Isle thread; vertical horizontal
stripes in light, medium dak colorings. German
Isle thread, black grounds with vertical stripes
silk embroidered fronts.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
The New Fancy Half Hose
Fourth Floor.


moderately hosiery We're
Prepared
English German represented with
hosiery designs that will be found
63
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06
Fancy Vases at Half Prices

Bohemian and Bacclrat Vases, f
full shapes. These prices
Vases, IS u inches, S., from $40
Vases, 10 inches, $4.25, from So. so
Vases, IA inches, 81, from So
Vases, So, from SO
New-York tribune., 1900-04-06

Sl50 pair-French Isle thread; slack ], cIls
with raised silk stripes various styles Of erb.a;..
fronts; checks, dots, vertical stripes, plaidS Ea
Isle thread with colored silk stripes.
SIS pair-Pure silk, French and English n
collection Of fancy half here in embroidered N.
and lace effects; light medium and dark euir .,
binations.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Strange Case of a Young Man Who
Lost Himself.
BIG LOSSES FROM FIRE.
Mayor Van Wyck and the Ecumenical
Council-Madison Square Car
den Doesn't Pay and the
City May Lose 1t.
BIG LOSSES FROM FIRE.

NEW YORK. April 2s.-special.-The
case OF George Ridderband, nineteen years
of age, son of the late j. Soils Ridderbaud,
well known lawyer, is one OF the strans-
est ever reported in this city of strange
occurrences. Five days ago the young
man disappeared from home and began to
wander around. He forgot his name, for
got everything concerning himself, and
did not know that he was in New York,
although this has been his home from the
time of his birth. Yesterday morning he
went 10 the Mercer Street police station
and asked the officer in charge ii he could
tell him who he was and where he was.
The officer assured him that he was In
New York, but the young man replied that
it was all strange to him and that he had
never before seen the city. The police mad
been instructed to look out for lad
answering 10 Ridderband's description
and the officer took him to his fashionable
home near Central Park. Mrs Rider
band came to the door and recognizing her
son fell in a faint. Then the sisters came
and threw their arms around the young
man. but he declared that he did not know
them Physicians We're called III and they
prescribed narcotics. but at last accounts
it was reported that the patient exhibited
no Improvement. Ridderbaud is a SOM
nambulist and once before he lett nome
while asleep.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
A STORE GIVES AWAY ARCH BUT
TONS AND BATS AND BALLS.

A unique feature in advertising mas
been recently adopted by Richmond
store in presenting each purchaser OF
Boys Clothing with a Carnival Arch
League Button and enrolling the young
sters' names i'm membership books. AS a
futher irducement 10 the little fellows
their names are published in the Evening
Leader the following day as members OF
the Carnival Arch League. This enter
prising concern is the Meyer Store, cor
ner F'oushee and Broad Streets, and their
ingenious method of advertising is bene-
fetal alike to both the Arch League and
themselves, inasmuch as it swells the
contributions. This store has arranged
to meet the taste Of youngsters whose
sporting proclivities overcome their pa
triotsm: to such they give a fine base
ball and bat The offer will hold good
throughout this week, but in the Boys
Clothing Store only.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
The Man Hunt.

Editor of The Times:
,Sir,-Allow me little space in your
valued columns to voice my sentiment
anent the abandonment Of the proposed
so-called "man hunt"
Let me first say that it is unnecessary
to indulge in any argument with inteili-
gent people in regard to the danger of
the sport, and those not well enough in
formed on this subject shouldn't NEEDLE
with things beyond their ken.
q I wish to say this as balm to myself
and many others who anticipated the
novelty of a harmless sport and who
were disappointed:
That, first, as Virginaan, l resent
any suggestion Of trucking to outside
sentiments.
Second. That as the whole affair was
arranged by private individuals and the
Hunt Club" it was no matter Of con-
Germ to anyone except such as the club
members should invite to participate.
have not seen any felloN-member OF
the club since the affair was called off.
but will venture the assertion that l /.
voice the sentiments of nine-tenths OF he:
hunting members who take the risks and
furnish the major part of the sports of
the club, and they as we'll as myself ara
unwilling either as Individuals or as
club to have 1t beraldeds to the world.
that we .trurkied''s TO the frightened
whimpers Of few weaklings to abandon
"a demonstration that could In no nea-
sure have been suggestive of unmanli-
ness, brutality or danger. sinasmuch s "
was not disapproved of by g our wives yves,
mothers ard sisters, who are and should
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Atlanta Journal prints the follow
ing in its editorial columns:
.c-,+ Seldom in the history OF
eo.,,,,.. DBL the South has a great
ooathefs' Aodu' railroad system been
formed so quickly as has the seaboard
Air Line.
Within a few months it has s,own
from single line extending from At-l1ta
to Portsmouth into one Of the largest
railroad systems in this section. Its lines
extend from Richmond to Tampa and
will soon reach Washington.
Moreover, every one of these lines
passes through a fine region and one that
is rapidly developing.
THE Greater Seaboard Air Line will be
a powerful factor in the development OF
the South, and Georgia will not be the
least of its beneficiaries.
Mr.. John Shelton Williams, the founder
Of this system and its president has
proved himself one of the ablest and
boldest fnanciers in the South He is yet
8 young man, but he is one TO be reck-
oned with the railroad world
The Seaboard is great Southern insti-
tuition, and its wonderful development in
so short a time is a tribute both to the
gress Of the South.
The Times has more than once of late
called attention to the wonderful develop
,,,a na,a,oouoot ment in the coal indus
'"e oe's'oro try. According to re-
IN toai' turns representing be-
tween SO and 50 per cent of the
total tonnage, the production OF
coal in the United States in
1889 is estimated by Edward w
Parker, statistician of the United States
Geological Survey, to have amounted TO
23o, SSS,973 long tons, equivalent to 25S53e.-
ESQ short tons. As compared with the pro-
ducton in 1898, when The product amount
ed to 196.4G5,953 long tons, or 219,9l4, 661.
short tons, this Indicates an increase OF
over 34Ce0,OO0 long tons, or us per cent
The total value.of this enormous product
is estimated at S2259, 49,, 412, an increase OF
over Sol, 600, 900, or practically 20 per cent,
over the value of the product in 1883.
The part that anthracite coal played in
this unprecedented production was an in
crease from 1861 I5 long tons, or 5SS,SSS2,-
GA short tons, in 1895. to SO, So, 49C long
tons. or SO, $40, ss95 short tons, in 1895, with
an increase in value from Sl5,4l4,53l to
sSs.12S. 1913, a gain of nearly s13ooe,00o.
The States producing the largest num-
Der of short tons were as follows: Ala
bama, 7,233l.55S; illinois, %, 4S4 ,445: Indiana,
6,529, S26: Iowa. 5,265,4S0: Kentucky 5.121,-s
$40; Maryland, 5,5l6S6S; Ohio, 1868, $50;
Pennsylvania, 75,591,554; West Virginia,
Is 155,22 s2
But this is only the beginning Of
greater things. The demand from across
the Atlantic is growing all the time, and
our foreign trade in coal will hereafter
keep pace with our foreign trade in other
commodities.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
A DANVlLLls COMBINE.

The Danville Register announces that
it has absorbed the Daily Bee, an after
noon paper which has been published in
that city for some time past by Mr.. Al,
Fairbrother. and also the Farrago, the
weekly edition OF the Bee. The Farrago
will be absorbed by the semi weekly edi-
ton of the Register, and the Bee will be
published after May 1st as the afternoon
edition of the Daily Register.
In explanation of this new deal the
Register says:
With rent account one-haif less. and
cost and maintenance of me plant IN
stead of two, one corps OF solicitors 10
push the circulation of both papers, the
saving in these items alone will be ma
terial, and both papers at less expense
can be made better, and in this instance
will be.
The R~..ister, approaching these advan-
tages, ini y Ge-d at an early day to launch
new afternoon paper, but the olfPoftu-
nifty 10 secure one already established pre-
scented itself: the Register accepted The
offer.
Ii has been said that Danvdlle is a ''Teri-
table cemetery of afternoon papers
Prior TO the establishment OF the Bee no
less than six have started, striven and
stranded, because an afternoon paper in
cities of this size, with an established
morning competitor, cannot succeed. It
must have the assistance of a morning
contemporary instead OF its opposition
This announcement has a peculiar inter-
est for The Times, because our esteemed
DanviIle contemporary has frequently
taken occasion to disagree with US in
our presentation of the question Of trusts
and .conrbines,'' and we have never seen
a better illustration of the principle,
which we have from time to time exploit
ed in these columns, as governing trade
and industry in this progressive age of
steam and electricity. than that which is
furnished by the Register.
Competition is war, war TO the knife,
and too frequently desenerates into what
is popularity termed cut-throat cornpeti-
ton. Competition is war, but cooperation
is peace, and In this day of Intelligent
methods men in the same branch of busi-
ness. Instead of making war upon one an
other and running one another's trade,
have in many instances pooled their is
sues, as the saying goes, and worked To-
Getf,er to their mutual advantage, form
6ng what is PECULIARLY called at trust.
That Is the whole trust question in .