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New-York tribune., 1900-03-22

sUB-COMMITTEEs APPOINTED TO WORK
FOR RAPID TRANSIT.

The Committee of Fifty, which was named by
Ludwig Nissen president of the Manufacturers
Association, for the purpose of dealing with rapid
transit problem for Brooklyn. met last night in
the of the Manufacturers Association. in
Montague-st. William McCarro1l made perma-
chairman.
A committee Of five appointed plan and
scope TO deal with the general question of rapid
transit. The committee is follows: c. n. Chad
wick. chairman; Ludwig Nissen. Abraham Abraham.
DR.. Truman ]. Backus. r. w Bainbridge and John
Phillips. a committee rapid trnnsit ap-
pointed to meet President Clinton L. Rossiter of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company He had sent
a letter TO the committee asking that conference
be held The committee named ia William E Pulsi-
fer. chairman: William Gray, George McLeisch A.
6. Belden and G. W. Brown. The following
mtttee to go TO Albany TO urge the legislation
necessary for the depressing Of Atlantic-ave. and
the divorcing of the tunnel project and the At
lanti-ave Improvement, appointed: Ludwig
Nssen. chairman; Arthur Dinsmore. Otto Kempner
Richard Pickering and F W Roe.
An expression in favor OF pending legislation in
Albany relating TO the tunnel and Atantic-ave.
proVement was adopted. This resolution will be
sent TO the Governor and the representatives at
Albany from Long Island.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
DR. GILDERSLEETE ~ RENARRY.

DR. Charles l.. Gildersleeve OF Columbia Heights,
through an order made by Justice jerks. OF the
Supreme Court. yesterday received permission 10
remarry. His wife. Florence Leroy Overflow whom
he married in 1887, obtained divorce on statutory
grounds in 1894 In 1886 Mrs. Gdersleeve was mar
ried Anon Buckley. of No. Ts Clinton-ave. The
afidavts submitted yesterday alleged that Mr..
Buckley was a visitor the Gildersleeve house.
Several dispositions were submitted attesting the
good conduct OF DR.. Gtldersleeve since the divorce
DR. Gildersleeve refused yesterday TO say whom
he about marry.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
WILLIAM E. PULsIFER OUT OF THE RACE.
SUCCEED HIM AS PRESIDENT OF UNION
LEAGUE CLUB.

William E. Pulsfer president of the Union
League Club announced yesterday that he would
not seek reelection president of the club. The
reason ne has given his friends for this action
is his eXacting business engagements. which will
prevent him from giving sufficient time the
affairs Of the club. Mr.. Pusifer is the treasurer
OF D. c. Heath & Co. The annual election of Off
GERS at the Union League Club takes place in May.
Colonel HILBERT B. Masters is prominently spoken
Of the probable successor to Mr. Pusifer. He
Joined the club in 1890 three years after its organi
Zatiou. and three years before Mr.. Pusifer became
a member OF the club Nominations made by
ballot at the regular meeting the second Wednes-
day n April.
Among others Of the prominent members of the
club who were spoken of last night possible can
didates for the presidency Andrew B. Rogers
Henry A. Powell and ex-Mayor Charles A Schieren.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
BIG FIRE IN RIDGEWOOD-

BUSINESS BLOCK DESTROYED AND $4,000 DAarAsS
DONE-AGED WOMAN DYING FROM SHOCK
Paterson. March n (SpeciaD.-Fire to-day de-
s1roved a business block in Ridgewood The loss Is
estimated at $4,000 Mrs Mary COster, an aged
woman. who lying i'll in the third story OF
brick building had TO be carried down a ladder
md is diving from the shock Frank E Gibson q
fireman had his face badly cut by the explosion OF
fire extiuguisher that he handling on roof
The flames started in the cellar OF Herman I1ceS
drug store. at RidgewOOd-ave- and CheSJnut-sr-.
and quickly spread 70 adjoining buildings Two
engines sent from Paterson nut arrived too
late 10 do effective work II is believed that thd
fire started by inCendiary.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
NO VERDICT IN ANDRUS CASE.
THE JURY DISCHARGED AFTER REMAINING OUT
TwENTY-THREE HOURS

TwENTY-THREE HOURS.
The jury in the suit of Annie D. Andrus against
the Long Island Railroad Company to recover So
eco damages for injuries in the "tallv-ho' collision
Memorial Day. 1897. retired 10 consider its YER
dict on Tuesday night. The jury had been out
eighteen hours yesterday morning when the court
convened The foreman asked whether they could
hold the railroad responsible for negligence in not
having the proper sign over the crossing which is
required by law. Justice Gaynor said that he so
charged If not coupled with other evidence how
ever that fact not enough TO defeat the rail-
road company, unless the jury found that it con-
tIbuted to the accident
The jury retired. and in again at D. m
having been out twenty-three hours and having
failed 10 come to an agreement. Justice Gaynor
then discharged the jury saying that there was no
necessity for them TO stay long, could
not agree, and that he had received word from
them since morning. The jurvuen are said To
have stood seven for the railroad company and FIVE
for the plaintiff.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
FoR i cEYrR4L LIBR4RY BUILDING.

The directors OF the Brooklyn Public Library
have set foot a movement for the establishment
of a large central library in Brooklyn. II was en-
Enthusiastically discussed at the monthly meeting Of
the directors which held Tuesday night.
President David A Boody and Franklin w. Hooper
in favor OF enlisting the efforts OF Brooklyn
people to have a special appropriation made by
the city for the library. Plans of action Will be
arranged the next regular meeting.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
BETTER sEWER4GE ZOE BROWNSrLLLE

At the meeting of the Board of Public Improve
ments yesterday President Grout asked that some
thing be done toward improving the
sewerage system of the Brownsville part of Brook
lyn. THE condition there is awful" declared Mr.
Irout. 1t menaces the health of all Brooklyn. The
condition there is the fault of the city" The prom
ise was made that a resolution would be ready at
the next meeting which would remedy the trouble
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
H4mTLTOY TO BE BR4yCH OF ryTON B4vK

The Hamilton Bank. Nos. 70 and 81 Hamilton
ave, has been absorbed by the Union Bank. An
agreement has been reached between the two
Boards of Directors by which this plan will be put
into effect. The Hamilton Bank will go out Of
business as soon possible. and the business at
that place will be taken by the Hamilton Branch"
OF the Union Bank The stockholders of the Union
Bank will meet April TO amend the certificate
OF incorporation as TO allow il operate the
nraT oh haTly
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22

RETIRING TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
DESIRE FOR MORE ROOM

Tha Sinking Fund Commission yesterday referred
10 tie Controller a request by District Attorney
Gardner fo- increased space in the Criminal Courts
Building. Mayor Van Wyck declared that Mr.
Gardner wss a much abused man. and needed
mere room. He should have more room" said
the Mayor. because the Governor is sending down
50 many deputies of the Attorney-GeneraI and
Grand Juries that the Office Is Overrun and over
crowded. Il is outrage. The District Attor-
rey is followed about by reporters and has no
chance for privacy. Attempts being made to
have him removed ] say ne has done nothing to
deserve removal II he Is removed on trumped UP
charges the people VIII resent Il by electing the
Tammauy ticket AZ the next election by 10000
nat0ritv.
The mayor declared that the proposition OF
President GugEerheiner OF the Council 10 cut down
the appropriation for repairs 10 the 14th Regiment
A-7nory IN Brooklyn from $4,000 20 900 would be
defeated. He said 10 Colonel Clayton, who was
present You need not come again. This Com
mission Is with you. and although I do want
10 dispose Of the matter in the absence of Nj Gug
genheimer. YOU may be satisfied. You viii get your
20 GO"
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
ANOTHER "THIRD RAIL FIRE. -
CAUSES A PANIC ON FIFTH-AvE. ELE-
WAITED ROAD-THE TIES AFLAME.


While motor No. 24 of the Fifth-ave ele-
waited line was running between Unfon-st. and st.
Mark's Save stations, its way to the Bridge, at
$50 o'clock last night the main fuse blew out en-
veloping the with flame and creating panic
among the twenty passengers aboard. The pas
sengers made their way TO the behind A
ladder placed against the elevated structure
and iremen extinguished the fire.
In the time flames broke ol-t the ele-
waited structure Baltic, Butler and Warren SITS,
where the flames caused by the fuse had ignited
the ties before the train had stopped. These
flames put out by a hose from the streets
The outside of the badly burned and the
interior scorched. The delay about twenty
minutes.
A score of the passengers made their way TO the
st. Mark save. station, more than two docks
away along narrow walk The walk dark
and the peril of the pedestrians increased by
the fact that they had to two third rails
before they reached the station. The train was
finally pushed down to the Bridge and back again
to the repair shops This is the fifth accident of
the kind since the introduction Of the third rail.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
CH4RGE o. EKTRATAG4NcE 4r N4rT EARn

Charges made by labor representatives, that
money has been improperly spent the Navy
Yard is given one of the chief reasons by some
Of the Navy Yard officials why the situation looks
gloomy for the construction Of warships the
BROOKLYN Navy Yard. Naval Constructor Bowles
had his entire force engaged yesterday preparing
data on the construction of ships the Navy Yard.
IhIS Information viii be sent Washington. 1t is
expected that the working force a. the Navy Yard
viii be cut down each week until July 1. There is
nothing more 70 be done besides the repairs on the
three battleships
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
TWO MORE BIG GUNS FOR FORT ToTTEN
THEY FIRE PROJEcTILEs WEIGHING TWELVE
HUNDRED POCNDS-MAXIMUM RANGE
TEN

Two big guns have arrived Fort Totten
Willets Point. They are Pinch rifed cannon They
TO be mounted on the most approved pattern
of disappearing carriages. The guns weigh sixty
tons each, fire a projectile weighing twelve hun
dred pounds and have 4 maximum range of ten
miles
When the new guns are ready for use it will
be possible, without counting the mortars
fire seven prOjectiles weighing in the aggregate
four every minute
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
TOOK CRITICAL CITIZEN TO GRAND JURY.

William H Palmer of No. 1SO South Ninth-st,
who II was said, had made derogatOry remarks
concerning the Tax Commissioners, was taken by
District Attorney Clarke before the Grand Jury
Yesterday and asked to explain verify his state
ments He then declared that his remarks were
de relative the condition of affairs they eX
isted in New-York City ten years ago II was al
iagad that at a meeting of the Brooklyn Pho-
soDhical Society on Sunday he exclaimed that the
"citv officials especially those in the tax office
were set OF political loafers and vagabonds!''
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
:. p. C.. 4. ELECTS DIRECTORS.

AT annual meeting OF the Hudson County
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty Animals
in Jersey City yesterday afternoon the following
directors were elected. Edward H Whitney. Charles
J. SOlyGm and James " Mccarthy The members
of the Executive Committee are Dr.. Leonard J.
Gordon. George Osborne ". ". Varick, A P. Hex
amer. DIR. Benjamin Edge William Vermilye,
Charles J. Carroll, AdOlph Walter, jr.. Dr. John
Nevin and Harry LOuderbOUgh-
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
A POSTM4STER ARR4IGNED.

George l. Rapelye. the postmaster of Corona,
Long Island was arraigned before United States
commissioner Benedict yesterday morning the
charge of defrauding the Government He was
short in his accounts the extent of 81 Sl3 49, Be,
fore the warrant had been served on him he had
made good the shortage and because Of this fact
cIe,nency was asked. It is expected that he Will
s11ffer a nominal fine and lose his place.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
THE GATE CITY TO BE SOLD.

East Moriches Long Island, March 1.-THE
wrecked steamer Gate City will be sold
the wreckers have recovered the of the
cargo. Dynamite is being used to parts of
the wreck which hinder the work.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
RARGE CAPT4n DRoWNEp.

Perth Amboy March 21 (speciaD.-WIliam Miner
ley, captain of the barge William Mineriey, was
drowned last night in Woodbridge Creek. He fell
through a hole in the pier at which his barge
loading clay Two piles nearer together at the bot
tom than the top caught and held the body The
tide low when Minerey last seen, az about
10 O'Clock last night II is supposed that he was
held fast until the water "~-~
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
4CCrsED OF yOr PAYING HIS FARE.

Elmer e Kirkland, of BinghamJon. n Y was
arrested at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station.
Jersey city. yesterday morning. upon the arrival
OF the Southern express. Frederick Henn1ng, ths
conductor charged him with refusing 70 pay his
fare from Philadelphia Kirkland said he had
tickets through TO New-YOrk and produces a,
Pullman car ticket showing that he had bought "a
berth TO Nev-York. Police Justice Potts post
poned the hearing until to-day
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
MEDALS FOR WINNERS AT SEA GIRT.

Colonel Robert G. Smith. OF the ith Regiment,
n G. n j.. announced yesterday that the sharp
shooters and marksmens decorations won al Sea
Girt last summer will be presented at the armory
on Thursday evening March % The medals will
be presented by Brgadier-General Bird w. Spencer
The entire regiment will be parade. TWO nun
dred and forty-eght members will receive medals.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
RFPORr on COyT4GTOrs DISEASES

C. J. Rooney clerk OF the Hudson County Board
of Health submitted a report yesterday showing
2sq cases of measles in Jersey City Heights in
February The other contagious diseases in Jer-
sey CITY in the month DphJhsria. 81. scaries
fever 66. membTanOus Group. .; typhoid fever. a.
SMALLPOX. /
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
MISSING BOY F0rND.

MontcIair. March y CspeciaD.-Percy Reed. four
teen years old who disappeared more than week.
ago was found by the police OF Perth AnbOy yes
terday. His father went after him to-day.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
PLYMOUTH MAY FIGHT FOR CIVIC PURITY

the Young Mems Club of Plymouth Church, urged
the club TO take up the fight for civic purity. He
said that If the club did so would have the sup
port of all the older members of the church. The
club expects take some action following the
suggestion of General rng.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
MACK-METZ.

Bloomfield March 21 (SpeciaD.-George J. Mack
of this town. and Miss Lillian May Metz. of Rose
Vile were married in St. Johns Lutheran Church
here yesterday afternoon. The Rev. George J.
BIaesi performed the ceremony.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
TO APPEAL RIVER POLLUTION CASE.

President Phillips of the Passaic Valley Pro-
tective Association said in Newark yesterday that
il was the purpose of the association appeal the
decision by the Court of Errors and Appeals in the
case of the Paterson sewers TO the United States
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
MEETING OF LONG ISLAND PRESBTTERY

GreenpOrt. Long Island, March 21-The Pres
bytery of Long Island will meet here in the Pres
byterian Church on April l.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
JERSEY CITY TO ISSUE BONDS.

The Jersey City Board of Finance yesterday
morning ordered an of 5000 in Sia per cent
bonds to pay the balance that will be required for
the building of the fire engine house
Twelfth Ward. The Sinking Fund Commission
will buy the bonds at par.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
NORTH PL4NFIELD SCHOOL ELECTION.

PlainheId March q (SpeciaD.-At the annual
school meeting in North Painfed night the
following members of the Board of Education were
elected Henry A MCGEE. George H HaIock and
John H. Van Wrinkle. The of $4,000
voted to pay the salaries Of teachers and other
current expenses
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
THE RET. f. a. TUPPER Jay CONE HERE.
ASKED TO BECOME PASTOR OF THE FIFTEENTH
STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Montcair y. J. March q (SpeciaD.-The Rev.
H Allen Tupper, jr Of the First Baptist Church in
this town, who is taIeave that church in pril
been asked accept call TO the Fifteenth Street
Baptist Church in Brooklyn, in connection with his
missionary work in New-York City. committee
from the Brooklyn church visited the Montclair
preacher a few days ago Mr. Tupper minated
that ne would consider a call if extended to him
Mr.. Tupper IS a relative of the author of PRO
verbal Philosophy and OF Sir Charles Tupper
His father IS professor of Bibica! literature in
Richmond College, Va. He educated at Rich
mond College University Of Virginia the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
THE DRIVER WAS DEAD.
HIS TEAM RETURNED HOME WITH THEIR MASTER
SITTING UPRIGHT.

William n Brohan found dead sitting in his
wagon in the yard of his home at Bay Side
Queens, yesterday morning. He had been dead two
hours. He had been to Manhattan with a load of
furniture and had returned home an hour before
he was found. The team must have returned 10
the yard with the man dead the his
wagon.
Mr.. Brehan lived with Jacob Griffin his brother
in-aw He was forty years old, and the
of former postmaster of Bay Side
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY NOMIy4rI04S.

Th Socialist Labor party in Newark yesterday
filed with the County Clerk certificates of nom-
nation of candidates for the coming charter cleo
ton. The candidate for Mayor is Henry Carless
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22

CHARGES AGAINST REED WITHDR4WN.
At the meeting of the L. S. Grant Association
of Jersey City on Tuesday evening, the charges of
disoyalty preferred against ex-President William
F. Reed withdrawn.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
WOMEN NOT WANTED on SCHOOL Bo4RD

nominated for school trustee Hasbrouck
Heights last evening. She received only Il OUT
of l05 votes. Some of the men suggested that they
could run the school without on the Board.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
FUNERAL OF BERNARD II. SH4yLEY.

HIGH MASS OF REQUIEM TO BE CELEBRATED
THE PALLBEARERS.
The funeral of Bernard NJ. Stanley OF Newark.
will take place tomorrow at the Stanley home,
No. 50 Washington-st. The religious services will
be held in ST. Patricks Roman Catholic Cathedral
The Rev Monsiznor George II. Doane will cele-
brate a high of requiem The pallbearerS
selected are James Smith. jr.. e F g Young OF
Jersey CITY John D. Crimmins. Elisha 3. Gaddls-
David Young. Randall Morgan OF Philadelphia.
Leslie d. Ward william Stainsby. Arthur Devtnes
jeremiah O'ROurke and Philip y. Jackson.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-13

order and law which has been hitherto mani
tested by the Republican party VIII character
ize its dealings with the Philippines. Those ISL
ands have been annexed to the United States
with Mr. Bryan's aid and consent, and the Fed
eral Government has had no alternative but to
maintain its authority there as it would in
Alaska or Arizona. The Presidents duty is to
restore order, and his disposition is TO make
that order the safeguard of Filipino happiness.
liberty and prosperity.
The President has happy faculty of stating
a case with moderation but with convincing
force. His review of the last three and n half
years is a model in this direction. 1t shows how
the pledges of 1896 have been redeemed, how
the gold standard was safeguarded how the
promised tariff revision was made, as the peo-
pie expected when they returned the Repub-
licans to power, how prosperity has been re-
stored and the credit Of the country established
at the highest point in its history, where it is
able to fund its debt at a lower interest rate
than any other country. In internal affairs tie
Administration has discharged its duties. 1t
has maintained the honor of the country abroad,
anG in the difficult crisis which grew unforeseen
out of the Spanish war has faithfully guarded
American interests. AS is always the case where
events force new policies, differences of opinion
arise. and opponents of any new step at once
foresee the downfall of the Republic But if
prosperity, redeemed pledges, bright prospects
at home and abroad have any weight with
voters. there can be no question of Republican
success and the reelection of President McKin-
ley to carry out the policy he so ably eXpounds.
At the same time that the President was re-
spending to the committee from the National
Convention Governor Roosevelt was receiving
formal information of his selection for the
second place on the ticket. His reply was
brief, and in becoming taste he left his
chief to make the significant utterance of
the day What he did say, however, was
timely and true. This is more than a party
contest. 1t is a contest against cheap money
and repudiation. free riot and anarchy, the
packing Of the Supreme Court in the in
terest of wild POpulist schemes of govern
ment, just as it was in 1896 It is also a
test against intrusting the foreign affairs of
this Nation to irresponsible fanatics who com
plain because we have performed our obliga-
tiOns of neutrality in South Africa who would
play at diplomacy as recklessly as with the cur
rency, who would shrk our obligations toward
other countries III our own possessions and dis
grace us before the world. The Governor has
a right to appeal to all citizens ''to stand shoul-
der TO shoulder, striving to perpetuate the
conditions under which we have reached at
''home a degree of prosperity never before at
"tained in the Nations history, and under which
abroad it has put our flag on a level on which
lit has never before in the history of the coun-
"try been placed"
New-York tribune., 1900-07-13
4 GLOOMY OTTLOOK-

The agitating news comes from Boston that
the dogs Of war are loose in the AntiImperialist
League. Mr.. Erving Wnslow and Mr. Edward
Atkinson having slipped their tethers and begun
to acerate each other in a truly shocking man
ner. The original casus belli was Mr. Winslow's
recent letter accusing Senator Hoar Of high
crimes and misdemeanOrs in that he has an
nounced his intention of supporting Mckinley
for President in preference to Bryan. Under
standing that Mr. Winslow wrote this letter in
his capacity as secretary Of the Anti-Imperialist
League, Mr.. Atkinson forthwith took the lib
erty Of informing him that, whereas it would
have been perfectly proper for him as private
person to insult Senator Hoar he had no bust
ness to employ his official position in that man
ner. To this Mr.. Winsow, with the phenomenal
alacrity which has led many persons to suppose
that he sleeps in the postOfice, replies that in
point Of fact he did insult Senator Hoar as an
individual and not as secretary Of the League.
but that if the contrary had been true his fault
would have been no worse, TO say the least,
than that which Mr.. Atkinson committed when
as vice-president Of the League he bombarded
American soldiers in the Philippines with his
celebrated Hell Of War pamphlets For the
moment Mr.. WinsOw retains possession of the
field but we haven't the remotest doubt that
Mr. Atkinson, who has rapid fire typewriter
Of his own, will presently let loose a devastat-
ing volley and recover the ground which he has
lost
The worst feature of this alarming situation
is that nothing but "A miracle can save others
from being involved in the carnage For there
are others, all reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. There IS Gamaliel Bradford. for ex-
ample who is not wont to hover on the outskirts
Of the fray when anti-imperialist ammunition is
going off On which side GamaIiel will enlist
consider If extra hazardous to predict A
year or more ago, when Mr. Winslow took the
country into his confidence on the subject Of the
origin, development and destiny Of the League.
he not only alluded to Gamael as one of it's
founders, but distinctly acknowledged that, like