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New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
THE JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS.
REPUBLICANS LIKELY TO INDORsE JUSTICE
PATTERSON. But NOT JUSTICE DUGRO-

REPUBLICANS LIKELY TO INDORSE JUSTICE
PATTERSON. But NOT JUSTICE DUGRo.
The Republican County Convention to nominate
two Justices Of the Supreme Court and Justice
of the City Court. which met Lyric Hall on the
evening of September 10 and adjourned. has
been called to meet again the Murray Hill Ly-
ceum in East Thirty -fUurth-st- Thursday even
ing. The Republicans must nominate their judi
ciary candidates that evening, because Friday
is the last day for fling nominations made by con-
ventioRs. The Tammany Convention for making
judiciary nominations is 20 be held in Tammany
Hall tomorrow evening. The Republicans have
held back their nominations in order to have the
advantage Of knowing what are made by Tammany
Hail.
Senator PIatt said several weeks ago that the
Republicans of New-Yerk County probably would
nominate Justice Patterson to succeed himself and
would nominate some Republican to succeed Justice
Dugro. It was the understanding at that time thar
Mr.. Croker probably would order the renOminat tion
Of Justice Dugro and the turning down OF Jus
tice Patterson by the Tammany Convention. Since
then there has been talk of the nomination OF Cor
poTaton Counsel Whalen in place of Justice Pat
terscn by the Tammany Convention. but within
days Mr., Croker has indicated his intention -
have both Justice Patterson and Justice Dugro re-
nominated.
A COMMITTEES of the Bar Association has been IN
communication with Mr.. Croker, and il is under
stood that that committee will recommend the
nomination OF Justices Patterson and Dugro. Ex-
Justice w n. Cohen and another member of the
Bar Association waited upon General Francis Y.
Greene. president of the Republican County Com
mittee yesterday afternoon. and conferred with
him as TO possible candidates 20 be chosen by the
Republican Convention. General Greene said TO a
Tribune reporter that he would not presume 70
speak for the convention. II was understood that
the committee OF the Bar Association would have
q meeting some time this afternoon or this evening
10 talk over the question OF recommending candi-
dates for judicial nominations 10 the two great
political organizations
Republican leaders who seemed t0 know what
was going said last evening that the Republi-
County Convention probably would nominate
Justice Patterson to succeed himself. even II JUS
tice Patterson was nominated by Tammany TO-
morrow evening. and would name Edward Mitchell
in place OF Justice Dugro. Mr Mitchell was the
Republican candidate when Mr.. Patterson was
elected fourteen years ago Some of the Repubii-
leaders have wanted 20 place Justice Blanchard
IN nomination succeed Justice DuSTO, but the
former who was appointed TO his place on the 81
preme Court bench recently by Governor ROose-
vet is said be unwilling 70 take the nomination
at this time.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09

EOAE ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF The
SHIP AURORA. BY Philip Freneau. Svo, PIP.
ls. NJ. F. Mansfield and A Vessels.
Phillip Freneau a brilliant young American of
Huguenot descent a native of New-York,
classmate of James Madison and familiar with
others of light and leading in our earlier days,
was captured by the British while passenger
on the ship Aurora in 1880 It was off Cape
Henlopen The British frigate Iris easily got
the better of the Aurora (Which seems to have
been on a predatory errand itselD, and the
and passenger We're taken back TO New-York
and confined first on the prison ship Scorpion
Lying off the college in the North River
Later after he had contracted a fever, Freneau
was removed to the hospital ship Hunter. in
the East River. 1t seems to have been very
disagreeable and even dangerous; but whether
Freneau's experience not fearful as it
might have been on the prison ship Jersey, for
instance, or whether he put restraint on his
narrative style when he wrote the pages
made into thin volume, the picture he drew of
Imprisonment shipboard does not impress
the reader with the horror usually associated
with the floating British prisons at New York
On the Scorpion he had TO sleep on a chest
'almost suffOcated with the heat and stencil"
He expected 10 die before morning, but, as he
sustly remarks, human nature can bear more
than one would at first suppose" He was rem
bedding: the steward was brutal and uncvi;
one night the water came in through the open
ports and they thought the ship sinking.
There was an unsuccessful insurrection, after
which usage seemed too severe for them.
Their water was thick and clammy and had a
dismal smell"; their allowance of rum was with
drawn, and at night their experiences below
were extremely distasteful.
This all seems to be somewhat slight con-
tTibution to the detail of the history of the
Revolution, and TO be of rather more interest
20 the poets descendants than TO the general
public of this day. For this reason, though q
handsome and well made book is always well
come, there seems TO be a certain lack of pro-
portion in peTpetuating Freneaus story of his
experience in so elegant a form as the printers
and binders have given it. An interesting portion
OF the volume is the short Introductory sketch
OF Philip Freneau by Jay Miles from which it
appears that Freneau was "the greatest Ameri-
can poet and writer of the eighteenth century"
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
NORTH cARo1IyAs COURSE CONDEMNED.
JUSTICE WOODWARD SAYS THE STATES ACT /!
LIMITING SUFFRAGE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

JUSTICE WOODWARD SAYS THE STATES ACT IN
LIMITING SUFFRAGE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Justice John Woodward, of the Second Depart
ment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court, who the guest last evening of the Phi
Delta Phi Law Club, at a dinner given in the
Marlborough Hotel, addressed the club on The
Legal Right of a State 10 Limit the Suffrage"
Justice Woodward began with a reference to the
recent action of North Carolina in amending it's
constitution, requiring educational qualification
for voters and exempting from its operation the
descendants of those who permitted to vote
in 1857 After mentioning the requirements for suf-
frage demanded by most of the States the Justice
said:
North Carolina. to the extent that she has estab-
lished educational qualification for her suffrage,
is clearly within the limits of her constitutional
and natural rights. much Maine Colorado;
she might have gone further and prescribed prop
qualification, or that the voter should have
paid taxes. that. in Virginia. he should have
been free from dueling i'm any capacity, either
a principal accessory, and there would have
been no constitutional ground on which this action
beyond this, and excepted from the opera ton
of this qualification men who, with better Oppor-
tunitieS than have fallen 10 the lot of the
man of color in the South. have grown in ig-
conceded that the object not the improvement
OF the intellectual standard OF her voters. but the
exclusion of class on account of race, color or
previous condition of SerVtude." II is effort
directly and clearly violation Of the consti-
tutionaI provision though il had mentioned the
race or previous condition Of servitude the class
against whom the exception is obviously directed
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
STEEL RAIL PRICES DISCUSSED.
QUOTED FIGURES SATISFACTORY. THE MANU-
FACTURERs SEEM TO THINK.

The president of leading Western railroad COM
pany was quoted by one of the Wall Street news
agencies yesterday saying that steel rails at
$26 ton altogether too high. He thought
that s2S would be a fair price all around. When
this statement called the attention of
President Gary of the Federal Steel Company he
said:
mate suggest that the price of steel rails should
be less than S25 ton.
Some one described IAN official of the Car
negie Steel Company" said yesterday the sub
ject of steel rail prices, according to report
According to press dispatches disseminated
throughout the country, the Carnegie Steel Com
pany at their recent meeting at Pittsburg were
announced having decided sustain the full
brought about by information to the effect that at
a recent conference of railroad officials in this
city the railroads had decided not to pay more
than S22 The facts as shown in this dispatch
we are in possession of definite information the
effect that such course antagOnistic to the rail-
road interests is against the announced policy OF
the Carnegie Steel Company.
On Ihe contrary, the purpose of the company Is
70 sell its products, heretofore announced by
Mr.. carnegie himself at fair profit, to the manu-
factlrer the company not being obliged by reason
OF Its capital to take any question of dividends
Watered stocks into account in fixing such prices.
This alleged statement, which would seem 70 in
dicate the probability of a disruption of the So
called steel rail pool" which recently fixed the
price of rails for next year at $26 a ton, de-
Clared last night by a leading Carnegie interest
canard, put out perhaps, for stock jobbns pur-
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.
Washington. Oct S-The following Army and
Navy orders have been issued:
ARMY

Captain NOSES WALTON. Jr- assistant quartermaster,
Will report for assignment duty quartermaster
and acting cemmIssary of subsistence the transport
Buford 10 relieve Major William J. White quarter
master.
The resignation of First Lieutenant ROBERT NJ. BROOK
FIELD, 1lth Infantry, has been accepted.
First Lieutenant EDWARD J. TIMBERLAKE. Ir, I'd
Artillery, Is detailed a member of the Examining
Board convened Washington Barracks, vice Can
tain S5 muel w. Fountain, sth Cavalry, relieved
NAVY.
Captain J. b. COGHLAN sick leave extended three
months from october g.
Lieutenant Commander r. NJ HUGHES detached the
Pensacola October 20 and report Naval Training
Station, san Francisco. relief OF Lieutenant P.
Andrews.
Lieutenant NJ. l.. WOOD, detached Navy
Yard. Pensacola, and TO duty executive Of the
Pensacola, san Francisco, October 90
Lieutenant P. ANDREWS detached Naval Training Sta
tion, San Francisco. and TO duty the SOlace; TO
duty Asatic Station arrival
Lieutenant H. II. CALDWELL. detached from duty in
office of Admiral and duty in command of the
Holland.
Lieutenant y. MANSFIELD, detached the Indiana nd
line duty the Solace October 1S, to line
duty Asiatic Station arrival
Commander T 6. PHELPS, commissioned from August
10 Mare Island YardE
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
pEART NOT COMING BACK THIS FALL.
THAT THOUGHT TO BE THE MEANING OF FAIL
URE OF THE wINDwARD TO APPEAR


URE OF THE wINDwARD TO APPEAR
A dispatch from St Johns, n. F., yesterday,
was 10 the effect that the absence of the eXplor-
ing steamer Windward led to the belief that Peary
would not try to get back this autumn, that prob
ably the season in the Far North open, and il
so Peary probably had taken the Windward into
some high latitude hoping to her in another
expedition next season. 1t inferred that he
had made special record this year.
Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary of the Peary
Arctic Club. told Tribune reporter yesterday
that as the Windward ffty-three days coming
out from London to this city in May and in June,
1897 it would not be surprising if she did not make
a record passage from Sydney to Etah and return;
that if there was any place on or land where
the unexpected happened it in the Arctic Cir
Gle and if any abundantly able to meet
and beat it, it Peary. The had been
shipped for two and half years, and coal and
supplies ample.
no uneasiness is felt about the Windward"
said Mr. Bridgman, beyond the uncertainty. 1t
is later now than any ship has come back from the
North, but ii is not under charter. When ship
costs large sum day you take care to get home
time, but when the ship is your own you come
home when you get ready"
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09

THOMAS j. MANGANs REASONS FOR SUP
PORTING REPUBLICAN TICKET


Binghamton, y. Y. oct S.-Thomas J. Man
gan, four years ago chairman Of the Broorae
County Democratic Committee, presided this
evening at a Republican mass meeting at the
Stone Opera House. where he one Of the
principal speakers Congressman Serene F.
Payne also spoke. Mr.. Mangan said in part:
There appears to be in the East this year
slight difference OF opinion. even among Demo
Gratis. over the advisablity OF pursuing the
present financial policy Of our Government. The
success Of the Democratic ticket this fall would
bring sure destruction to many Of our industries
and the loss of many a home by mortgage fore
closure. This policy, II inaugUrated. would
mean the cutting in two OF all savings pre-
viously invested. since all the obligations would
naturally be paid in the cheaper metal and
most OF the present investments made by poor
people are upon long time credit. Wages are
invariably the last TO advance, and the toiIer
being compelled to pay advanced prices for his
commodities and to accept his wages in the
cheaper metal, would then indeed find that ex-
istenCe meant hardship and strife
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
PRIEST IN HANDS OF THIEVES.
WHEN HE is TURNED OUT OF HOTEL
THEY TAKE HIM AWAY IN A CAB.

man who described himself as the Rev
William H. Toal. rector of st. Marys Roman
Catholic Church, OF Newburg, N. Y, entered the
Hotel Imperial last night and asked 10 be as
signed to a The clerk noticed that the
man acted In peculiar manner and refused TO
allow him to register After several minutes
wranglng the said he would go to another
hotel, and started to leave the place. At the
door two young men volunteered to accompany
Toal to another hotel and a cab was called
The trio entered the cab, and the driver was
ordered to turn into Fifth-ave
When the cab was passing the Reform Club
at Twenty -seVenth-st.. cries of Crooks were
heard to come from the cab, and eX-Conmis-
sioner of Charities Faure, who was standing in
front Of the club rushed out and stopped the
cab AS he opened the door the two men
jumped out and escaped
Mr. Faure. seeing Toals condition, had MIN
driven to the hospital, where he was placed In
the alcoholic ward. The identity Of the men who
were in the cab is unknown.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
IN 1886

Elihu Root the Secretary of War was al the
WaldOrf-AstOria yesterday. having come the
city with Mrs Root from southampton Long Isl
and. He said he recovering slowly from his
recent Illness and he expected TO return 10 Wash
ington and resume his duties there to-day.
II have kept myself informed about the rapid
developments in China" Mr. Root said, las / have
been in daily teegraphic communicated with
Washington I have heard some criticism OF the
withdrawal of the American forces from China but
that is the right thing for do Z believe
Mr.. Root not willing 10 make any statement
about the political outlook. saying that ne had
had opportunity 70 keep informed as 70 the work
of the Republican leaders in the campaign but he
said II think Bryan Is weaker than he in 1895. 30
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
HR. WRIGHTS TRIP FROM NEWPORT.
ATTEMPT TO BEAT MR.. vANDERBmT's ArroMo
BILE RECORD.

Newport r. J.. Oct. (SpeciaD.-J. Dunbar
wright. OF New-York started at noon to-day on an
automobile trip to New-York. He will make the
nrst part Of the run 10 New-London entirely by
road He will go through Fall Aiver and ProvI-
dence and expected TO reach Kingston by dark and
there spend the night The condition of the roads
VIII determine the course Of the rest Of the run
and he may continue from New-London over the
Connecticut roads or perhaps cross the Sound 10
Sag Harbor and continue the Long Island roads
70 Brooklyn. Mr.. Wright has d nine horsepower
gasoiene Winton automobile. and carries with him
an attendant. He also has an extra supply Of
e-e soIene and TWO extra tires. Mr. Wright hopes
- heat the time between Newport and New York
E7,a6e recently by William h. Vanderbilt. jr.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
NAT GOODWIN RETURNs HOME.

Mr. and Mrs. Nat Goodwin returned from Europe
yesterday the New York. They went abroad
some months ago and have been staying in Eng
land. Mr.. Goodwin said:
We have not been outside OF England except 10
visit the Passion Play. We shall open In Syracuse
one week from to-day in When We Were twenty
one" Next season expect TO produce two new
modern comedies. One is by the author OF my
present niece
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
RELIEF FOR WATER SCARCITY.
MAYOR APPROVES BOND ISSUE FOR NEW
MAIN FOR BROOKLYN

MAYOR APPROVES BOND ISSUE FOR NEW
MAIN FOR BROOKLYN.
The rainfall of yesterday. amounting to only one
and fourteen one-hundredths inches according to
the Weather Bureau not sufficient to afford any
appreciable relief the water situation in Brook
lyn and The Bronx boroughs. Chief Engineer
Birdsall of the Water Supply Department says
that several inches needed in order to Danish
the scarcity Mayor Van Wyck yesterday approved
the ordinance passed by the Municipal Assembly
authorizing the laying of 4S-inch water main
from the Croton aqueduct through the Kingsbridge
and Marble Hill districts in The Bronx, and also
authorizing a bond issue of $l.01O0O0 for the con-
struction of a 4S-inch water conduit from the
Millburn pumping station to Spring Creek on Long
Island.
Commissioner Dalton expressed great pleasure at
this action. He said he would at once proceed
let the contracts for laying the Long Island
main, and added that if the Municipal Assembly
had not held these measures up for the last two
years the distressing water shortage of the sum.
mer would never have befaen the citizens of
Brooklyn and The BRINK.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
REPORTED PURCHASE OF Ex-nAYoR GRANT

1t reported yesterday that Hugh J. Grant
and others had bought a large tract of property in
Washington Heights for nearly 81 900 The
seller in the transaction was mentioned as Jacob
D. Butler. Both the persons mentioned denied last
night that such deal had been made Others WIN
have been talking about the reported transaction
said that negotiations were under way but the
report of the sale was premature This ranor+
brings to mind the rumor that James j Coogan
was about 10 purchase large tract of land along
IaIayette boulevard This property is now being
hlled In with soil excavated from the rapid transit
tunnel - ~1'- N'Sii9iN
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
ODELL DENIES LABOR CHARGES.

Chairman Odell last night at the Republican
State headquarters denied the charges made in the
Central Federated Union on Sunday that the Re
publcans had bribed certain labor agitators to
smother certain legislation. Mr.. Odell said a man
had made certain propositions 10 him and he had
repelled them, He said Mr.. Barnes, too denied
the accusation. Mr.. OdeIl said he believed Mr.
Barnes. I've been accused OF bribery of a deal
whereby Bryan Is to the State, and OF sitting
here handling money for my own election That
ought TO wofry one. hadn't it7' he said
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
A NEW CAUSE FOR DIsCoRD.
RUMoRS THAT THE MINEOLA TOOK ON
EXTRA BALLAST BEFORE ONE
OF THE RACES.
OF THE RACES.

Newport, R. l., Oct. (SpeciaD.-The recently
published letters of Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Hermann B. Duryea regarding the races Of
7O-foot yachts this season, and the refusal Of
Mr.. Vanderbilt take the cups and other
prizes won by the Rainbow because her ballast
was altered. may lead to a still more compli-
Gated condition of affairs than has yet been
indicated. 1t has long been common talk here
that the Mineola took on lead ballast after leav-
ing her builder, and that the additional lead
was an advantage. This would not affect her
standing if it taken on before the boats
were measured, but it has been stated publicly
and apparently the authority of Captain
Wringe that the Mineola took on extra ballast
before OF the last races with the Rain
bow This would place her in the same class
as the latter boat.
Many of the races were sailed with no time
allowance. AS in the 30-footer races each
boat supposed to be the same. In the
thirties however, there were many say differ
ences in sails and other dimensions after the
boats were in commission for a while in fact
It was said toward the close of the season that
only one boat had a regulation gah all the
others being too long. When Cornelius Van
derbilt sailed the 30-footer, Veda, she carried
the little spinnaker provided by Herreshoff
while both H. B. Duryea and H. P. Whitney
the present Yankee syndicate, carried spin
makers nearly twice large.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
FUNERAL FOR THE THREE suIrBS

The funeral Of Mrs. Lillian Smith and her two
children held at noon yesterday at the family
home in Broadway, near Dyokman-st. There
we're pallbearers. The Rev George S Pay
son. of the Inwood Presbyterian Church who dis
covered the tragedy. read the burial service and
then spoke informally. The three collins heavily
laden with nowers. were carried into two hearseS
Burial at Mount Kisco Cemetery
The eldest daughter Ethel who was also shot
by her mother In nj of insanity, Is still hanging
betWeen IRE ana death In Fordham Hospltal
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
WOULD MAKE RICHMOND A CITY.
REPUBLICANS OF THE BOROUGH FAVOR
IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL FROM
NEW-YORK-NOMINATI

The Republican Assembly District and County
conventions in Richmond held last night in
the German Club rooms at stapleton. Julius
Schwartz presided. David b Van Name. of North
field, was nominated for the Assembly, and John
c. Marchant. of Southheld received the nomina-
ton for Sheriff. A resolution adopted advo-
eating home rule for Richmond Borough, its imme-
diate withdrawal from the city of New-York and
the obtaining of independent city charter
Charles d. Baker of Manhattan. addressed the
convention the issues of the day.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
BALTIMORE MAN HURT BY CABLE CAR.

o. F. Brasee. seventy-fve years old of No. 6
Mount Vernon Place. Baltimore. knocked
down by upbound cable car at CortIandt-st
and Broadway yesterday afternoon. He sustained
a fracture OF the left thigh and was carried to
the Astor House at his request He was at
tended by physician and put In charge OF a male
nurse The nurse said last night that his condi-
ton not serious and II had been decided TO
take him Baltimore this morning
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
APOLOGIES TO, PLATT AND oDELL.

Milton Robee. a Tammany Hall politician pro-
prietor of the Bartholdi Hotel. at Broadway and
Twenty~third-st yesterday visited Republican
State headquarters and dseaimed responsibility
for the annoyance to Senator Platt and state
Chairman Ode by a searchlight working on
top of his hotel The light thrown into the
faces of the Republican leaders as they stood on
the balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel watchlng
parade on Friday night. Mr.. Roblee said that ne
had cancelled the searchlght mans contract Last
night the searchlight working as usual
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
BROOKLYN CHESS CLUB ELECTION.

At the general meeting of the Brooklyn Chess
Club on Saturday Justice J. T. Marean, who served
the club as president for five years, could not be
induced to stand for reelection A. e. Blackmar
selected his successor. The following officers
We're also elected c. B. Chittenden and J. II. Wat
son. vice-presidents; S. B. Chadwick, secretary f.
d. Chase, treasurer; E. S, Cilley, DR.. c. A. B. de
Sjigetty, r. NJ Smythe w. b. B. Ingalls,, j. NJ
Carroll and r Rose. BOARD OF Directors
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
DISASTER TO RUSSIAN PILGRIMS
FOUR MEN AND THIRTY-sIX WOMEN CRUSHED
TO DEATH.

st. Petersburg, Oct S,-Five thousand pilgrims
assembled at the ST. Nikander Monastery, in the
Porkhoff District, for a religious festival During
the night one Of the upper floors collapsed and
mary of those sleeping there fell upon those be-
low. A panic was caused by false alarm of fire
and four men and thirty-sX women were crushed
death, many others being seriously injured
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
A Ret ON ODELL's MAJORITY.

F. H. Wilkes a Wall Street broker, last night at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel announced that he had bet
$500 even with a Democratic friend that Benjamin
b. Odelrs majority would be $1,000. Frederick H.
Brooks acting for a Democratic friend. bet $1,000
TO 5000 with r. H. Halstead that Bryan would be
elected
New-York tribune., 1900-10-09
"sKIN THE GOAT REARRESrED.

Liverpool Oct s.-James Fitzharris the Phoenix
Park murderer. known Skin the Goat" was re-
arrested here last evening for falling 10 renort
himself under the terms OF his prison release n
cense. II ls probable that he will only be tempo