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New-York tribune., 1900-03-09

FIVE JURORS CHOSEN FOR THE TRIAL. OF
KELLOGG.

The trial OF James B. Kellogg. of the old firm
OF the E. s. Dean Company. which went out OF
business several years ago. begun IN Part
OF the Court Of General Sessions yesterday before
Recorder Goff. 1t Is alleged that the company ran
bucket shop and lost the funds intrusted to !ts
keeping. The company was Incorporated in New
Jersey, with Myron l.. Bernard president. The
offices OF the company were at No. 25 Broadway.
kellogg and Bernard and Samuel Kellar were
Jointly indicted charges Of grand larceny and
conspiracy
Alfred R. Gosin. at present under indictment IN
connection with the Brooklyn Rapid Tranist Com
pany matter. may be a witness against Kellogg.
He indicted with the others. but turned State $
evidence. He has been in Philadelphia. Ex-Dis-
trict Attorney W. NJ. K. Olcott. who has been ap-
pointed by District Attorney Gardiner take
charge of the prosecution OF the because It
up in his term OF office. will have Goslin
testify against Kellogg. If Gosn is brought to this
city under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Indictment.
Vernon NJ. Davis Is Kellogg's counsel.
Forty-four ;alesmcn failed appear and they
fined $lC0 each.
The first talesman to Charles
Krenich a retired coal dealer of No Go East
Seventy -second-st. Mr.. Davis asked him If he
knew Alfred r. Goslin, Eugene l.. Packer, Warner
T. Allen and Charles T. Davis. Mr.. Krenich said
he did not These four men have , been indicted
case, Mr. Krench was also asked if he knew Ke; S,;
a bni or P e. as the pean rs H nroT sad he dd
J. W. Mayer a travelling salesman for a diamond
Was S the second Juror hn6 md ' william
Moe,ler 4 painter and decorator, of No. So2 Am
sterdam-aVe. took the third place.
Following him James HavemeySr OF No: 90 West
rty-seVenth-st a cousin of the sugar refining
family. called. He excused, as he was ap-
preaching the limit. Mr. Havemeyer said. too,
that he formerly dealt considerably with Theodore
W. Myers & Co. and on the ground Of his intmate e
knowledge OF stocks he was finally peremptorhy
challenged by Mr. Olcott.
The other jurors selected YESTERDAY are EmanHeI
VI. Ickelheiner. manufacturer of buttons of No.
l57 East Fifiy-siXth-st.. and D. G. Lemon, Dry
goods OF the Hotel Endicott. The case was then
adjourned for the day. .
Vernon N. Davis was asked II keliar had mage fe
rumor Mr. Olcott would say nothing about It,
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
FRIDAY,
MARCH 9. 1900.
IN DEFENCE OF PROF. sHUMWAY.
HIS ALLEGED COMPLETELY IN CIRCULAR
AND PETITION OF RUTGERS
ALUMNI DENIED.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In justice Professor Shuuway I request
that the following statements be given the
publicity has been given the authorized state
ment of the action of the Board of Trustees of
Rutgers College. with reference TO Professor
Shumway's resignation:
Frst-The statements contained in the circular
letter sent out TO the alumni believed TO
the Board of Trustees is invited as to This esps
ctally on the point whether At the time of the date
OF tne circular treoruary "a 1900 any adequats
of appearing before the Committee on instruction
and Discipline, and whether the committee on or
make their report.
Second-The first draft of this circular letter
Shumway. and without his knowledge or consent
several copies We're circulated in typewritten form
requested 70 read the same and make such altera-
Iions as were necessary in order 70 conform to
second paragraph before the circular was printed
Inc committee on Instruction and Discipline were
sacn member OF the committee the morning of
March D, the day before the trustee meeting and
letter in their report Professor ShumwaySs opinion
was not asked to the advisabiIity sending the
Sircuar 10 the alumni Except as stated above.
ci1cuIation OF the circular letter.
Ihird.Professor Shumway did in any way
aid IN the preparation of the petitions sent out
with the circular About five hundred. copies o.
sach petition had been put in circulation before
MS attention was called TO them
rourth-The petition presented 10 the Board of
trustees at their March meeting was signed by
oa i aIuinnl from the class of 10 to the class of
90 Several others have since been received from
the more distant alumni too late be presented
with the others Five alumni have written let
tiers disapproving the course adopted in sending
out the circular
This letter has also been written without con-
sultation sa.,n with Professor shumway or with Dr.
Jersey City, March T. 1900
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09

WON'T VOTE FOR AN ARMoRY AND SAYS MEN
ARE TRYING TO ADVANCE THEM
SELVES SOCIALLY.

There was sharp discussion at the meeting Of
the Armory Board yesterday over the proposition
to pr ov'de armory for the % Naval Battalion in
Brooklyn A committee had been appointed at the
last meeting 10 look up the question of site and
report Yesterday. The committee consulted with
the Dock Department. and decided 10 provide tenn
porarv quarters for the battalion between Forty
third and Forty fourth SITS. Brooklyn on the water
front
Captain Jacob W. Miller in command Of the Naval
Militia appeared and asked the Board to provide
a permanent armory for the battalion lie SAID
there was bill in Albany for the building OF the
arrnory by the State If the city gave the land
Brigadier-Genera McIeer moved a resolution that
the Dock Department be requested 10 provide
site where permanent quarters could be built The
Mayor and Commissioners Kearny and Feltner
voted against IT, and Generals Butt and Mcleer
for it.
The trouble was precipitated by General Butt
who having read the resolution prepared by Presi-
dent Fetner threw 1t back across the table and
said: That is not what want" Il under
stand" said the Mayor. that this organization
is made up of men who want to get into society
than anybody else If they want TO get themselves
and their families into society they cannot 10 IL
at the city's expense. .
Il sorry to hear the Mayor make that state, .
ment said CAPTAIN Miller q This oaVRbon WIEN hss fs
Spanish war broke out they volunteered. They
divided among TSgTeeen Coal nnd
hard work In short, they did their fun duty, and
are entitled to consideration"
repeated the Mayor. "All the regiments which vol
unteered did their duty. They are not any better
than the 69th which had TO wait for its armory
We will provide for you temporarily and will
build an armory when We have the money
The resolution providing for temporary quarters
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
KHAKI BECOMING FASHIONABLE.



BY the time Khaki being employed to bin
books and make slippers, cigar cases and tobacco
pouches, II needed very profound seer to
prophesy that ii would be the great novelty this
year for every conceivable purpose for which 1t
could be used.
The manufacturers of khaki colored cloth are
about busy they be, and in the general
drapery trade material Is being made up for the
summer into dresses to as do those of holland
and pique, and. m )re particularly, into chdren's
garments both indoor and outdoor For boys
oVeralls khaki Is very suitable color. and there
is doubt that during the summer there will be
many little gentlemen in khaki going south
the seaside for the holidays
In this connection The Tailor and Cutter says:
There is every reason TO believe that khaki an
khaki colored clothing will be very much
during the coming season. The popularity os this
material for army clothing is so very marked that
II Is find It's echo in civilian attire"
Daily Mail' representatiye has made some
inquiries West End tailors and Is able 20
state that. while IL Is early to predict what
will be the fashionable color In gentemens clothing
during the coming season. there will undouhted :
be "a run on khaki colored materials for women's
wear.
Cyclists of both sexes and great many cricket
ers will show their up-to-ddteness by adopting the
prevailing color; while the great favor in which
women Of England hold our hghting men is shown
by the fact that adapted Imperial feomanry
hat will adorn the heads of many of the fair sex
this year.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
WILL OF WILLIAM VI. WTCKES.
MANY CHARITABLE BEoUEsTs-THE REST OF AN
ESTATE VALUED AT $4,000 GOES
To RELATIVES.

The Will OF William w. Wickes was filed for pro-
bate yesterday by his nephew. Edward Van Wyck
Rossiter who IS the executor The estate is valued
realty and 100000 In personal property
Clinton l. Rossiter the president Of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company who is a relative of Mr..
Wickes IS alternative executor.
To the adopted daughter of the testator. Annie
w. Stephens, is given all the sverware furniture.
horses and carriages. and 10000 in cash; to his
sister Mary w Rossiter. $4,000: his brother
John Rosster, $1,000: to the children of his brother
Henry, $4,000. to the children of his brother
Stephen $1OOOO 10 the children OF his brother Van
Wyck $4,000, and to the son OF his nephew. W. w.
Rossiter, ir, his gold watch.
He leaves TO the Presbyterian Church as follows:
For home missions. $1,000; foreign missions. H0.-
900 and Board OF Education. $4,000. Other be-
quests are 5000 the Board of Relief for Disabled
Ministers. 5000 to the Board of Aid for Colleges
and Academies OF the Presbyterian Church. $500
to the Missions for Freedmen. $500 10 the Amer
lean Sunday School Union of Philadelphia and
s. to the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men. There
are several other charitable bequests Three thou
sand dollars left the Lafayette Avenue Presby-
terrain Church in trust for the care OF his pew.
which is he used by persons selected by the
trustees of the church.
The residuary estate is divided among the rela-
tives already mentioned.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
DIAMONDS STOLEN BY HIS FRIEND.

man living at the Clarendon Hotel. Fourth-ave
and Eighteenth-st.. was arraigned before Magis-
trate Meade in the West Side Court yesterday
morning charged with stealing the 5000 worth or
diamonds and jewelry taken from the apartment OF
DR. Ashton b Talbot In the Pabst Building. Forty
second-st. and Broadway. last Friday. He was
friend OF DR.. Talbot They frequently dined
together Thompson known TO be In poor cir
cumstances and he was watched closely for four
DAYS Detectives Fitzgerald and Lyons learned
that he was trying TO dispose of check for SCs
drawn by William Barthman & Co. jewellers or
No ia Broadway. on Wednesday night they con
fronted him in his room in the Clarendon Hotel
bots property TO the firm mentioned. Thompson.
believing the detectives knew more than they DID
confessed that he had taken the jewelry small
part he had sold to Barthman & Co, few pieces
had been pawned and the balance he had checked
in the parcel room Of the Everett House All was
rPrnNareN
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
BROOKLYN NEWS.
POINTED REMARKS OF THE REV. ]. SLATER
OVER THE BODY OF SUICIDE.

POINTED REMARKS OF THE REV ]. SLATER
OVER THE BODY OF SUICIDE.
People IN Bath Beach still talking of the re-
markable address made by the Rev. J. Slater. pas
tor of the Cropsey Avenue Methodist Church, at
the funeral Of James Wakelee. who committed
suicide on Monday at his home in Nineteenth-ave,
near Cropsey-ave. There were many prominent
residents of Bath Beach at the funeral, which was
held Wednesday night According one of
them, who yesterday. Mr.. Slater said
IF this poor. frail body of clay could rise up and
become flesh and blood. and the tongue OF the
dead could speak, you would hear the voice saying
and sec the finger pointing to many of you VINO are
here now as those responsible for his downfall ana
death. Two years ago he God fearing and
Christian man. Bad associations caused his ruin
You responsible for il, many of you who are
now here mourners
The clergyman added. IT is said that many of the
business men in Bath Beach had bounded the dead
when he financially embarrassed, and
that women of the community had obliged him to
entertain them although they knew that he was
not financially able to do
Some of the mourners, including members OF
Kedron Lodge F and \. NJ, who We're present
eft'the room They returned later to take part IN
the Masonic services. Some of them wished to de-
mand a retraCtion from the minister, but the
cooler heads prevailed, and no scene was made;
Conrad Stubenbord, Master of kedrOn Lodge
SAID yesterday he did not think the Rev Mr. Slater
was made Mr.. Slater, but he could not be
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
ROBERT DAVIS GIVES SOME OPINIONS.

In a conversation with a Tribune reporter yes
terday Robert Davis. the leader of the Democratic
party In Hudson County. y. j.. said that Anthony
Hauck and John Nolan, Street and Water Com
roissioners. whose terms will expire next month.
had been excellent officials. and would be re-
nominated without opposition Referring TO what
is known as Senator McDermOtts bill. No. 9s Mr.
Davis said that il was not Democratic, and he
doubted il II Mr.. McDermott's bill: that Ii
practically reduces the Street and Water Board
10 a nonentity in certain respects and gives auto
cratic power to the Mayor. in that il requires the
approval OF the Mayor and the Board of Finance
OF any motion. resolution order concerning the
control operation. construction, repair. main
tenance or management of the public waterworks
the public supply the distribution
thereof In the language of Mr.. Davis. the bill
fS had
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
GARDINER HEARING POSTPONED AGAIN

Hearing on the charges against District Attor-
ney Gardiner again postponed yesterday morn
ing 20 to-day at 1920 a. m. According to Com
missioner AnsIey Wilcox there will he no further
postponements. There a Tmor around the
ST Paul Building just before the postponement
was announced that the charges had collapsed
and that the three postponements already had
were 10 serve as Introduction to an official
statement that effect
Asked about this rumor. Arthur F. Cosby, Spe-
cial Deputy Attorney General. said there was moth
ing I'm II.
said has yet 10 be presented. The stuff already
brought In does not compare in weight with what
have IN reserve"
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
BROOKLYN DELEGATION IN Uasu,vcro,
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS SEEMS
TO FAVOR PROPOSAL TO BUILD SHIPS
IN NAVY YARD

Washington, March s.-A delegation from Brook
Iyn was before the House Committee Naval Az
fairs to-day 10 advocate having one Of the new
naval vessels built In the Navy Yard at BROOKLYN
The delegation included number OF city ofIl-
Gials and Representatives briggs and Clayton
Inc speakers urged that naval ships could he
built in Government yards a a less figure than I'm
private yards. The statement made that th.
showing or the Navy Department in favor Of
private construction due the charging
against ship under construction I'm a Government
yard Of much OF the work Of the yard having
no connection with the ship. Members of th,,
committee showed difference of opinion on
the proposal but the Brooklyn delegation was
encouraged 10 believe that majority would favor
their request. No final action was taken
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
DEyyETT COyFEssEs JUDGMENT.

Alfred W bennett well known a former restau-
rant proprietor. confessed judgment yesterday for
1906 in favor Of w y. Clark and ". T. Sabine as
trustees under the will Of Maria T. Sabine. The
Plaintiffs obtained a judgment against him for de-
hcency foreclosure of a mortgage property
N East Fourteenth-st.. June 10, 1899. for s4520
The judgment was afterward satisfied by Mr.. Den
ast paying 81 800 cash and giving for 1920
shicn note Is due and unpaid. and he confessed
augment for the amount due IL with In
terest and costs
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
PRINCETON TRUSTEES MEET

Princeton. March s-The third quarterly meeting
OF the Board of University Trustees was held here
to-day. The Board made the following appoints
ments:
Professor Arnold G. Cameron. 81 TO be Wood
hull professor OF French in the academic depart
ment; Professor George Harper. 81. the chair
of Holmes professor of bellies lettres and English
language and literature; Professor John c. Hibbens.
TO be Stuart professor of logic. William Arm
strong. jr.. 81. TO be T. II. P. Sailor Biblical IN
structcr; De Witt c. Blair, OF Belvidere N j. TO be
trustee TO fill the place of his father the late
John l. Blair The Board examined and approved
the Paris exhibits.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
BODY SENT BY EXPRESS TO BELLEVUE.

A small wooden box wrapped in brown paper and
directed to Bellevue Hospital received by
Major Samuel Russell, steward OF the hospital yes
tcrday The box was sent through the Century Ex-
press On one corner of It marked, "Pigskin,
No. 2s Rutgers-st.,' and there was also a stencil
mark wv II. Walker. Pittsburg. Penn. Major
Russell found mbedded in cotton the body Of a
male child. He sent the box and contents TO the
Morgue and asked the police of the East Thirty
ffth-st station 10 investigate the case AT the
address given, No. 26 Rutgers-st there are twenty
four families A inquiry of every family brought
out nothing concerning the box.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
DEATH OF HENRY 7. RYDER

Plainfeld, March (SpeciaD.-Henry v Ryder
twenty-five years old. died at his home in East
Front-st., this afternoon, of pneumonia. He was
employed by the Atlantic Trust Company. Of New
York. Mr.. Ryder graduated from Yale last
June He was member OF the varsity hockey
team while at college. and prominent here in
tennis and golf and member of the Hillside
Club. He lived with his mother. Mrs Charles E.
Ryder. DR. George Ryder. OF St. Vincent's Hos
pital. New York, is his brother
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
TAnuANY COMMuTTEEMAN FALLS DEAD.

Edgar A. Cone. forty-nine years old. an In
spector of Public Works of the Borough of The
Bronx and a member of the XXXVth Assembly
District Tammany Hail General Committee. was
found dead on the sidewalk in front of his home,
No East hundred "a nd sixty-rinth at
o'clock yesterday morning. slight abrasion was
. found on his right temple. It IS believed that ne
rang the bell and then fell from the steps after
attack of heart failure
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
THEODORE HOWARD.

The funeral of Theodore Howard held yes
terday afternoon at his home No l25 Livingston
St, where he had lived for fifty years. Mr. Howard
was born seventy years ago farm In a cabin
which stood on the present site OF the Municipal
building Mr.. Howard came from an old Long
Island family. His grandfather was Major Howard
who kept the tavern in New Lots which figures
IN the battle Of Long Island. Mr.. Howard a
carpenter by trade. and had shop in Livingston
81 A sister and two brothers survive him.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
DEATHS on LONG ISLAND.
GEORGE WASHINGTON WHITE.

The funeral of George Washington White. one
of the old members of the Marine Engineers Be
nevolent Association, of New-Yo-k. held last
night at his home, No. 9l3 Madison-st.. where he
died Tuesday from gastritis Mr.. White was
born seventy-one years ago at Shark River N j.
John P. White. his father then the owner, It
is said. of the property known as Ocean
Grove Mr.. White was a marine engineer by profess
sion. He first employed the Harlem boats
forty-two years ago. Since then he had been on
the Old Dominion Line and the Nicaragua and
Greytown Line and in the South American trade,
and recently with the williamsburg Ferry Com
pany. On one Of the cruises of the Ariadne, bound
for South America in the sixties. he ship
wrecked For a week he afoat In open
boat 4 widow and one daughter survive him.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
FJsTJcrFFS BETWEEN BROKERS.

IN the Rutler-st police court yesterday morning
Derby CrandelI Wall Street broker. was accused
OF assault by Ernest Tietzen, another broker. The
two men got into dispute at the Wells House. No
2ss Clinton ST. Wednesday night. Crandell II is
alleged knocked Tietzen down. A quarrel which be-
gan over bet was renewed at the supper table
Tietzen declares that Crandell punched him the
law and the ear. In yesterday Crandell de-
cared that Tietzen struck the first blow, and
the latter refused TO subpoena two women who, he
said would bear his side of the case, Magistrate
Rrstow dismissed the complaint.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR.

Trenton. March (SpeciaD.-GOvernor Voorhees,
has signed the following bills:
Reorganiztng the Hudson County Board of Free
holders; fixing the salary OF the Judge of the Mon
mouth County Common Pleas Court s. 900 a
year: enabling Newark and Essex County jointly TO
public buildings; providing a fine OF $50 for
every offence where n coal dealer gives short
weight increasing the salary of the Bergen County
Prosecutor to 81 year; providing for new ward
lines in New Brunswick; allowing the Bergen
County Board OF Freeholders to borrow money in
anticipation of taxes
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
AUTOMOBILE PLANT FOR PATERSON.

Paterson. March (Sp@ciaD.-It is practically
sured that a New-York automobile manufacturing
company will build plant In this city the site
OF the Oldham mill in Fifth-ave. The company is
capitalized 81. 800 900 1t has patents a gasolene
motor which works the principle of successive
explosions. The plant will employ two hundred and
fifty hands.
The automobile company has offered to Join in
terests with the Union Transit Company. which
recently received a franchise to line of
mobiles through the principal streets of this city.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
DINNER OF FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK

lhe Society Of the Friendly Sons of ST. Patrick
va niH give its lleth annual dinner the evening Of
Narch II at Delmonico's. Justice James A. OGor-
aH VIII preside. Among those expected 10 be
present are General Merritt, Governor Roosevelt.
'iusustus Van Wyck and Senator Depew. The So
~ was founded by the Irish and Irish American
Gers in Washington's Army. The first dinner
= ntld Few weeks after the evacuation of New
.eiH City, and General Washington was present.
elAher has been held every year since then.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
INSANE WOMAN IDENTIFIED

The woman who became violently insane on tha
Chicago express on the Lackawanna Railroad on
Wednesday night. and who taken 20 ST Mary.s
Hospital Hoboken, on the arrival of the train IN
that city is Gusta Schaefer. thrty-five wears old
a resident of Chicago. ST ? was on her way Easr
with the intention OF sailing for Germany on a
North German Lloyd steamship. The woman seems
suffer from delusion that a friend has done
her great wrong
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
CHANGE IN R4RITAN TROLLEY COMPANY.

ew-Brunswick March (SpeciaD.-Addtional
articles of incorporation of the Raritan Trolley
Company. which is capitalized at S.o00.0o0. were
fled to-day in the Middlesex County Clerks Office.
Papers filed two weeks set forth that James
c. Mccoy the largest stOckholder. In the
papers filed to-day the name of Adolph Lewisohn,
of New-York, is substituted for that OF Mr. Mccoy
and the latter Is made the agent of the company,
with Office in Elm-st.. Perth AmbOy. The COM
pany intends 10 build a trolley line through Rarf-
tan and Woodbridge townships connecting Perth
Anboy and Metuchen.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
NATIONAL GUARD REORGANIZATION

Trenton March fSpecaD.-The bill prepared by
the Commission to revise and codify the laws
relative TO the National Guard of New-Jersey Is
modelled after the United States Army law and
regulations and the militia will hereafter be made
as near like the Regular Army is possible
Ine reglmentaI paymaSter. regImentai judge dd-
vocate. three assistant quartermaSter and
two assistant Inspector generals be dis
pensed with. No officers however, TO be legts-
lated out of office The Governor of the State Is
made Commander in Chief. without restricted pow
ers, and he will have six fdes-de-camp
The Assembly Military Committee favors the
New-York tribune., 1900-03-09
TO GROW FLOWERS BIZ ELECrRIcrry

Anton Schulthers, a member OF the Queens Bor-
ough School Board. has large pink growing estah-
iishnent IN Astoria He Is having OUTFIT put
into his greenhouses by which, as he expresses IT,
the plants VIII be fooled and will do double work
he has signed contract with an electric Company
for the installation of a lighting OUTFIT and very
soon his plants Will have light twenty-four hours
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