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New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
PREPARING FOR DEDICATION DAY.
EXPOSITION NEARLY READY CONCERT
HALL MEN MAKE TROUBLE

Buffalo. May s-In response to a notice served
on the Superintendent of Police by counsel for
the Buffalo concert hall propretors who teea
prohibited from giving both instrumental and vocal
concerts, the Police Department has issued orders
to the captain Of the precinct in which the Mid
way OF the Pan-American lies that the ordinance
must be enforced in the Midway well else
where in the city. The ordinance which re-
Gently enacted. permits music hall sing
ing one. but prohibits both music lnd singing.
or singing and dancing, music and dancing
The concert hall men threaten proceedings look
ing to the removal of the Chief of Police unless
the ordinance is impartiaIly enforced.
While the Pan-American grounds will be open
usual tomorrow. and the regular band concerts
viii be given, all of the buildings will he closed
a the preceding Sundays. The day in the build
lnss will be devoted to cleaning up debris and in
st&lling exhibits in readiness for the formal oper-
ing on Monday While in none of the buildings
arranged that only those who know what ;he
finished exposition is going TO be will know that all
i not complete.
Tie exhibits in the mines and government build
ings are practically compete, but in The graphic
aTts. liberal arts. electricity. machinery agr-
culture buildings they in incomplete state.
In the liberal arts building the hanging of pictures
Will not begin until next week.
Mr.. Murphy. superintendent of construction, an
nources that his work will he finished by Monday
noon
The Neyv-York State luding. the impos-
ing eCIlce on the grounds, will be ready for
dedication day. In fact, the section de7ote1 to
State buildings is in a backward condition
Secretary Marion De Forest to-day repur-ed that
the women's building would be ready by Monday.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
HARLEM BRANCH FOR CHILDRENs AID.
SUBSCRIPTION FOR SITE STARTED BY AN ITAL
IAN EDITOR WHO WAS BENEFITED
BY THE SOCIETY.

The Childrens Aid Society is to build home
in Harlem, in the district known Little Italy"
The society has twenty-siK branches This will be
fits first uptown branch
TIE site for the new branch has not yet been
selected, but the ground will be paid for by popu-
lar subscription F. l. Frugone the editor of an
Italian daily per published in Little Italy" has
nneany collected $3.50 80 for this purpose OF which
800 francs subscribed by the Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
The building. which Will be OF brick. will have
frontage CT hundred feet and will be fifty feet
deep. II will have two stories and basement, ten
classrooms and large playground.
The school will be known the Verdi Branch
and will be open evenings to foreign born men and
women for instruction in English. During the day
childrens classes in sewing, cooking and dress
making will be held well instruction given in
English grammar, arithmetic and other branches
of education.
Mr. Frugone received his education in the Leon
ard-st branch of the Childrens Aid Society twenty
years ago. when he first came 10 this country. He
has started the subscription for the branch to
show his gratitude for the benefits he received
The society has agreed to erect the building at It's
own expense soon as a suitable site is pro-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ABSORBED By TIE CAN TRUST.
SALE OF THE INDEPENDENT COMPANY RECENTLY
INCORPORATED

It was learned yesterday that the Independent
Tin Can Company. incorporated some time ago
under the laws of New-Jersey with a capital of
81, coo 00O had been absorbed by the American Can
Company, otherwise known as the Can Trust. The
company was formed for the purpose of manu-
featuring solderless tin by process patented
by &. f Meudham in England and other foreign
countries and more recently in the United States.
George T. Benjamin the treasurer of the COM
pany when at his office. No. 81 Fulton-st.
confirmed the report of the sale. There is little
say beyond the mere statement OF the fact that
have sold our United States patents TO the
American Can Company" he said. They consisted
of number Of patents on can making machinery
and sOldereSS tin all issued within the last
few months. the last only ten days ago, and
l am inclined TO think they were the only patents
of any Importance not controlled by the American
Can Company. An arrangement has been made
which is satisfactory TO all concerned
The Independent Tin Can Company is believed 70
have been backed TO large extent by English cap
ital. plant having already been established in
London which is turning out about five
million a week. The German patents covering
the invention recently sold for $4,000
marks but 1t is understood the price obtained for
the American rights was considerably higher.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
THREE SISTERS GQINSANE
LIED BY HYsTERIA AFTER RRoonIvc
OVER THEIR FATHERS LOSS
OF REASON

Ihree sisters suffering from hysteria at
rihuted 10 religious enthusiasm. were adr,i,tad
the pavilion for the insane at Bellevue Hos
htal yesterday morning. They were accom-
pahied 10 lhe institution by their brother and
their physician.
The sisters are Catherine T White tbir,,,-
four years old; Mary Veronica White tbirt,,
three years old. and Agnes NJ White. TWENTY
seven years old. They live in a browns+opa
house at No. l54 East observation-disclosures
seventh-st' which they inherited eight wears
ago on the death of their mother II is a two
story house and is comfortably furnished. The
sisters are members of All Saints Roman Cath
olic Church, ne-hundred-and-twenty ninth-st
and Madison-ave
The father Of the vounp women ,,,bo ,,-as
contractor, is now inmate of the Niddletovn
Asylum. He has been there two wears Agnes
the youngest Of the sisters has long brooded
over her fathers condition. She confided in
Father Keenan, the assistant pastor of All
Saints Church. The priest said last night that
he believed her excessive brooding over this
trouble had been the cause of her mental break
down.
For some time Agnes has been acting errati-
cally. She was continually watched by her
sisters. So constant were they in their attend
ance on Agnes that last Tuesday night thor
oughly worn out, they. too. became hystericaL
At o'clock on Monday morning Agnes had be-
come wildly hysterical and ran into the street
screaming and calling upon Heaven to restore
her father II was with difficulty that she was
induced to return TO the house
After Tuesday there were odd scenes and
noises in and about the house where the sis
ters lived They improvised an altar in the
vestibule Of the house and set lighted candles
on il. Again. they placed lighted candles in
their windows and eXhorted passersby 10 come
and be saved.
Dr. A. Ward Rof of No. 75 West Ninety-sec-
deemed il advisable that the patients should
have careful attention. and a trained nurse
employed. brother. James F. White, OF No.
19 Eldert-st.. Brooklyn, tried 10 make ar
rangements to have his sisters cared for in
private Institution, but could not find place
for them.
on Friday evening Mary became violent, and
It was decided 10 take the sisters 10 the insane
pavilion. The family physician is satisfied that
treatment and care will soon restore the young
women TO their normal mental health
Drs. Fitch and Wildrnan made an eXamina-
ton Of the three sisters yesterday afternoon. ana
afterward refused TO say anything about their
cases
DR. Louis Schultze, of the insane pavilion, last
evening observed the sisters for some time. He
said that they We're all in one room and were
consoIing one another in a tender and sympa-
thetic manner. He said il was a pathetic spec
tacle.
Father James ". Power, rector of All Saints
Church spoke last evening in the highest terms
OF the White sisters He attributed their trou-
bic TO brooding-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
TO DO away WITH GR4DE CROSSINGS.

bill recently signed by Governor Odell has started
the work of abolishing seven dangerous grade
crossings In The Bronx The bill permits the Cen
trail with the approval of the city authorities. to
change its route do away with the grade
ings and big curve around Marble HILL Surveys
being made for a practically direct line along
the north bank of the ship canal Besides abolish
ing the grade crossings the change will about
three-quarters of mile in route. The new route
will necessitate the building of bridge over
Spuyten Duyvil Creek at its junction with the
ship canal. The kingsbridge station is to be
moved to the triangle formed by the junction OF
the ship canal Broadway and switch which
is to be built by the railroad TO connect with the
Putnam Division, at wo-hundred-and-t thirtieth-
St, nearly a half mile from its present location.
Work will he begun upon the change of route
within a
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
TEA FOR THE LoEoLA SCHOOL CHAPEL.

reception and 'Knickerbocker tea will be held
at Delmonico's on the afternoon of May p for the
benefit of the chapel of the Loyola School, Park
and ighty-third-st. which is under the direc
tion of the Jesuit Fathers. W. Bourke Cochran
will make an address Fundamentals of Catholic
Education and Archbishop Corrigan. Bishop Far
ley. Monsignor Mooney and other we'll known men
will be present
Among the women interested in the affair are
Miss Leary, Mrs. BrockhoSt Cutting, Mrs. Neeser,
Mrs. Jose de Navarro. Mrs Francis Burial Hoff-
man. Mrs William Arnold Mrs. Walter Romeyn
Benjamin. Mrs. Aeosti. Mrs. Richard Croker Mrs
Albert F. DOench. the Misses Vyse. Mrs. Van
brugh Livingston, Mrs William r. Grace. Mrs. Al
bert Jennings Miss Crimmins. Mrs Morgan j.
O'Brien, Mrs. William Schickel Mrs Won Hup-
mann. Miss Leontine Marie and Mrs. 7. c. T.
raj
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
EMMETT CORRIG4y HELD.
EMANUEL FRIENDS PERSISTENT EFFORT TO
COLLECT SIS.

Emmett Corrigan. thirty-two years DID, OF NO se
East Fffty-third-st- actor. who played in Ben
Htr" at the Broadway Theatre. and who Is now
plavIng Sinonidas in the same play at the Co
b,n,bia Theatre. Brooklyn. was a prisoner before
Magistrate Brann in the Centre-st- court yester-
dav morning He was charged with perjury, the
charge being preferred by Emanuel Friend. a
LAWYER Corrigan arrested on Friday night
after the close of the performance
Several wears ago Friend began an action against
Corrican in the Supreme Court for 500 damages
He alleged at the time that COrrigan owed him
,25 for services Several months afterward Judge
NcAdam gave a decision In favor Of Friend. Cor
rian was arrested IN Boston. Instead Of paying his
debt he went into the United States court and
was declared bankrupt Since that time Friend
has been hard after his money:
Ex-Alderman Fred Ware and Benjamin Bernstein
iatter said that his right Anton Zilles.
that he was of French extraction and was born IN
Amsterdam. He asserted that when he swore he
did not owe Friend the money he did the ad-
vice OF his counsel. without thinking that he
committing perjury
MAGISTRATE Brann said he inclined TO believe
that the had not committed perjury, bur in the
face of Mr. Friends fnsStence on the technical in
depreciation of the code he would take the mat
ter under advisement until Tuesday. He held Cor
rgan in s1,0O0 bail pending that decision Corriyan
appeared at the Columbia Theatre. Brooklyn yes
terday.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
NAY APPEAL TO GENERAL BUTT.
FRIENDS OF DEGRADED MEN IN THE TwELFTF
TALK OF CARRYING COLONEL
OVERS ACTION Up.

The possibility of clash between General NC
Coskry Butt. commanding the First Brigade. and
Colonel George r Dyer Of the 18th Regiment, was
widely discussed yesterday in National Guard cir
cles The cause Of the trouble is said to 'ae back
to the regiments visit TO CreedmOOr. last Tuesday
when. as printed in The Tribune yesterday Colonel
Dyer personally tore off the chevrons from several
non-commissioned officers of Company l.
Friends of the who had been degraded by
the colonel urged them TO make a formal cem-
plant to the brigade commander. and such action
It was said yesterday may be taken
1t is said that strained relations have existed be-
tween General Butt and Colonel Dyer for some
time and that the friends Of the disciplined men
will take advantage of this eStranSernent 10 seek
redress through the general
The disciplinary action of Col1ael Dyer at Creed
moor is commended however. by many IN his reSl-
ment who say that he has the almost Cnann-ouS
support of his men other ndtl2ndI Euaru men men
regard the episode humorOUsly, and say that there
has been some April thunder, which will soon be
followed by pleasant weather.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
EAIGFs MOTIVE STILL A MYSTERY.
CORONER DECIDES THAT MAN WHO POISONED
HIMSELF AND CHILD WAS INSANE
OF DESPONDENT.

Coroner Banning yesterday afternoon made an in
vestigation of the deaths Of John FLOYD halgn, OF
Pelham the expert accountant and his son. The
father on Friday night poisoned the boy and him
self
The bodies are 10 be buried this afternoon in
Woodlawn Cemetery. The service will be conductea
AZ the cottage in Pelham at o'clock by tne Rev.
@ Winter Bolton Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church OF the Redeemer. Mrs Haigh ana me
bro+her Robert Faish, who was employed with the
dead man in the wholesale millinery trimming
house al No 70 Washington Place, this city. are
of the oninion that the crime the result of an
1rFalanced mind. due TO overwork or worry. Coro-
ner Banning decided that Haigh killed hlmseh ana
the boy while insane or cespondent
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ARE WORKING FOR DOLLARS.
UNUSUAL METHODS ADOPTED TO RAISE MosrEr
FOR A CHURCH

FOR A CHURCH
For the purpose of earning dollar. to be used as
described the following item of news was sent 10
The Tribune by member of the Christian En-
deavor Society OF the church referred TO:
The Fourth Presbyterian Church. at Ninety-nrst-
st. and West End-ave.. of which the Rev. DR.. J.
Wilbur Chapman is pastor. will be closed for two
months this summer and the auditorium rearrangei
TO accommodate more people The sum or seu.o
will be spent the alterations and for new deco
ratiOns. The money is being raised by the various
societies n the church
on Nav p experience social will be held BY the
Christian Endeavor Society. of which member or
the Assembly is president. Each OF the eignUy
members on that evening will turn into the fund
81 or a greater sum. earned by himself or herself
i'm some unusual way. The various sums will be
accompanied by written accounts of the means used
them
Many of the members have never earned a dollar
in their lives heretofore. One young woman has
already earned her money by blackng her fathers
boots 10 polish Another obtained 50 from
her brother on a wager by selling newspapers for
the newspaper woman in West Ninety-Second-st.
. The organist earned his money by hiring a hand
organ and playing through the streets in the neigh
boThood OF the church Saturday afternoon, MAY
IL The choir leader went bass fishing and obtained
the requisite sum by selling his catch OF fish
Pratt Anthony Brown invested in gross of me-
chanfcaI TOYS. which he sold street corner one
evening a young real estate dealer carried
sandwich sign throughout one day TO advertise
ShO
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
W. H. NEWMAN NAY BE CHOSEN.
NO DECISION. HOWEVER AS TO PRESIDENT
s r. CALI.AWAY'S SUCCESSOR

Who is to succeed Samuel r. CalIaway presi-
dent of the New-York Central Railroad has not yet
been decided and may not he for some time. Mr..
Galloway will continue to perform his present duties
until his successor is selected At the meet
ing of the board of directors of the New-York
Central he will formally tender mis- resignation
1t will he accepted and il is expected that by that
time his successor Will have been chosen
W. II. Newman. president of the Lake Shore
Railroad. is looked upon in railroad circles as the
logical successor Of Mr. Galloway Mr.. Newman
followed Mr. Galloway as active head of the Lake
Shore when the latter became president OF the
Central. William. \. Vanderbilt Will take the tni-
tiative in naming successor for Mr. Galloway. and
hfs suggestion will be adopted by the directory OF
the Central
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
REVIEWS COPPER SUITS.
FOR HIS DECISION IN AMALGAMATED-
BOSTON AND MONTANA LITIGATION.

BOSTON AND MONTANA LITIGATION
Flavel MCGEE. of Jersey City who repre-
sented the c. H. Venner Banking Company of
pOs'Oh' In the recent proceedings brought in New
Jersey TO restrain the AmaIgamated Copper Com
PaiiS from buying the Boston and Montana and the
butte and Boston Mining companies properties re-
ceiVed from Fice-Chancellor Pitney yesterday a
copy Of his decision that the temporary Injunction
snould De discharged and the application denied.
Inc Vice-Chancellor's opinion says in part:
I clearly of the opinion that IL is ouite i'm,
possible to say upon the made before me. that
a valuation of the property of the Boston and
or us purchase at that price imprudent. The COM
ptahano n puts MS case on two grounds, which sup
second, that three of the officers of the defendant
ton Company and also largely interested as stock
holders in both that company and the Boston and
use their influence with the directors and if nee
essary with the stockholders of the defendant COM
plained of S''e 'o"'-
The three officers referred to are named in the
opinion as "Messrs. Rogers. Rockefeller and Bur-
rage. The defendants affidavits were signed by
Henry H. Rogers. William f. Rockefeller and sew
eral others Continuing, the opinion says:
On the other hand the defendant makes the
point In addition TO the of value, that the suit
Is not prosecuted by the complainant in good faith
but for the purpose Of aiding the Henze brothers
in their series of utigatons with the corporation
lhVoiVed herein Cand of this fact | satisfied.
and that this court ought. on general equitable
principles. to refuse him relief.
The opinion says that of the 81, 900 of stock
or the defendant company held by a great many
persons, only the complanants Calvin o. Geer and
the c Fl. Venner Banking Company have asked
for relief. THE 2O4 shares held by the complain
ants are but small share of per of the
defendant company's stock. Enough is disclosed by
the pleadings and affidavits to satisfy me that
through but not without the consent of the major
IT. OF the Stockholders Of the defendant company.
der be discharged with COSTS
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ANOTHER MORGAN LINER SET 4FLoAT

Newport News Va May 1S-The Morgan Line
steamship Ell Da was launched at the shipyard TINS
morning in the presence of about three thousand
persons Mrs. Robert Stocker, wife Of the FORMER
superintending naval constructor at the shipyard'
rar,ed her Fl Dia as the ship started down the
ways breaking a bottle of champagne: II Dl.
will cost when completed. 100000. as Will eacn OF
the other Morgan liners building here THESE ships
were designed by Horace See. of New YORK, con,
suItng engineer for the Morgan ah9 s CrIiiiMe @ 81.
all 4OS feet: length between stem and propeller
nsts asa feet sis inches moulded breadth, IS feet;
depth moulded TO awning deck. 80 feet 3 inches;
gross tonnage 4.s55; net tonnage, 2sS-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
THE LAST CABLE LINE SOON To CO.
ELECTRIC SERVICE TO BE INSTALLED IN BROAD
WAY NEXT SUNDAY.

The change of motive power from cable to under
ground trolley in Lexington-ave. and in Columbus
ave has left the Broadway line proper the only
cable line in the city The Lexington-ave. cars
and the Columbus-ave. cars transfer passengers to
the cable cars in Broadway. but most of the cable
cars that formerly in Lexinston-ave and Co
lumbus-ave. have been taken out of the service
for the present. and the result is that the re-
manning Broadway cars crowded at all hours OF
the day and overcrowded at some. The crush on
the Broadway cars at morning and evening hours
q present reminds Newly Workers of the days when
the hOrsecars were packed full and people fought
for standing room on the front and rear platforms
At midnight Saturday. May y, the cable
vice in Broadway will be supplanted by the un-
derground trolley. and then the cars in Lexington
ave and in Columbus-ave will continue down
Broadway South Ferry they formerly did, and
the crowds the in Broadway will be di-
minished When the two cables now operating the
broadway line between South Ferry and Fifty
ninth-st are cut and drawn of the CondutS
next Saturday night there will be an end Of the
cable service in the city
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
NAVAL OFFICERS VISIT IONA ISLAND.

An oft5cial visit TO the new naval magazine now
IN course OF building Iona Island, across the
Hudson River from Peekskin. was made by Ad-
miral Charles O'Neil, Chief Of the Bureau Of Ord
nance. and Captain Briggs, head Of the Ordnance
Department OF the Brooklyn Navy Yard, yesterday.
They came 10 PeekskIu in the forenoon, and were
met l1v the government launch, which conveyed
tbern 10 Iona where they met by Herbert
Campbell, the gunner in charge OF the eohsFue-
ton. 81,
The day was spent in a complete tour OF the
score ~ buildings now under way, the new rail-
way track the magazines, cottages. power house.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
FOR THE YALE CORPORATION.

THOMAS TEACHER NOMINATED To SUCCEED
BUCHANAN WINTHROP.
Thomas Thacher, Yale. IL, has been nominated
to fill the vacancy on the Yale Corporation caused
by the death of Buchanan Winthrop. Mr.. Thacher
is president OF the Yale Club Of New-fork and a
lecturer at the Yale Law School Payson Merrill
80 having withdrawn as a candidate in favor Of
Mr. Thacher those who may have voted for the
former are reminded that ballots of subsequent
date will supersede those already cast. Ballots
should be sent TO the secretary Of the university at
New-Haven.
Among those who enthusiastically indorse Mr.
Thachcr are Edmund Clarence Stedman Robert NJ.
Galloway Brayton Ives, j. Frederic kernochan.
Chauncev NJ. Depew Edward W. Lambert, Oliver
III. Payne. William G. Whitney. William H. Fuller.
Charles W. Gould. Alexander II. Stevens, Nathaniel
Shfpman Payson Merrill Frank ;. Wttherbee.
John Proctor Clarke. NJ c; D. Borden. Robert w
De Forest AImet F. jerks. Walter I. Bgelow,
George O. Haven jr A. F. KOuntze Sherman
Evarts and Henry c. Beadeston.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
BODY OF DR0WNED CADET FOUND.

IT WAS FLOATING IN THE WATER NEAR CRoroN
FUNERAL TO-DAY AT NYACK.
AS George Stephenson walking along the
tracks of the Hudson River Railroad. near Croton
Westchester County, yesterday. he saw n body
floating in the water about forty feet from shore
He carried word to the Coroner, who towed the
body ashore. On Sunday. May 3 Douglas Smith
cadet at the Hudson River Military Academy
fell from steam launch in Haverstraw Bay.
Professor Fields one of the faculty went TO
Croton in a steam launch. the same one from
which the cadet was drowned and identified the
body as that of his former pupil He took it to
Nyack. After funeral in Grace Church. this
afternoon, the body will be taken to Lynchburg.
Va. for burial
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
e G n Y. CLASS CELEBRATES.

The silver anniversary of the graduation of the
class OF rs of the College Of the City of NewYork
took place last night at Delmonico's Charles Put
EEL trustee of the college. presided There were
about twenty present. including Vernon NJ. Davis.
ex-District Attorney, and II. W. Nogel. surveyor
of the Department of Taxes and Assessments. A
fashlight picture Of those present taken, be
preserved a souvenir