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New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
SECRECY ABOUT UNION PACIFIC.
ALLEGED ELECTION OF THREE NEW
DIRECTORS CANNOT BE
CONFIRMED.

Unofficial reports were circulated in Wall Street
yesterday that Thomas T. Eckert and Alvin W.
Krech, OF this city. and Norman B. Ream, OF Chi
cago had been elected directors OF the Union Pacihc
Railroad Company. succeeding George Buchanan,
Roswell Miller and the late John ". Doane Mr..
Eckert IS president OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company and Mr.. Krech is an official of the Mer-
camille Trust Company, which has close Gould
Affiliations. At the office of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company the only information was that there
was no news for publication.
Wall Street attached significance TO the
fact that conferences held at Mr.. Hartman $
Office all the morning and in the early afternoon.
One OF the conferrees H NICK. Twombiy, who
is said TO have visited Mr.. Hartman in behalf Of
J. p. Morgan. The reported conference at Mr. Hills
Office in the morning denied, but it can be set
down as a fact that Mr. Hill, Mr. Lamont and
some of their associates IN session at the
place named about II o'clock
Mr Hartman and his associates declined abso-
lutely TO discuss reports dealing with the changes
IN the Union Pacific board. A prominent member
OF the Hartman syndicate said:
cannot say anything about the new Union Pa
enc directors at this time. The news will probably
come out Tomorrow. l think il will be found how
ever, that any changes will lack the significance
ATTRIBUTED TO them in certain circles.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
C. N. SCHWAB'S ADVICE TO BOYS
SAYS MEN HE KNOWS AS TRULY GREAT
IN INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING
LINES ARE NOT COLLEGE BRED.

Charles NJ. Schwab. president OF the United
States Steel Corporation talked Interestingly for
twenty minutes last night 10 three hundred poor
boys of the East Side, students In St George S
Evening Trades School, at the commencement ex-
ercises of tho school. which held in St.
Georges Memorial Hall. NO. 207 East Sixteenth-st
Mr.. Schwab said in part:
From my long experience 1 am led To believe
that many boys make the mistake CT depending
upon influence to obtain for them positions OF
profit. Go yourself 10 seek work in life and depend
upon your own exertions and merits
No matter what business you enter, the essential
feature Is that you perform your tasks
better than anybody else This alone will command
attention. Everybody Is expected to do his duty,
but the boy who does little more is certain
of promotion.
Success is not money making alone. And want
TO state that of the truly great men know In in
dustriaI and manufacturing lines none college
bred men. but men who received an industrial or
mechanical education. and who worked up by
perseverance and application.
Let advise you all TO make early start in
life. The boy with the manual training and the
common school education who start in life at
sixteen seventeen can leave the boy who goes
TO college till he Is twenty or more far behind
In the race that he can never catch up.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
TO FAVOR BROOKLYN TUNNEL.
COUNCIL WILL ACT. 1T Is SAID BECAUSE
DEMOCRATS FEAR APPROACHING
CAMPAIGN

1hfeats made by certain Brooklyn organization
democrats nave brought about plan for the i'm
mediate passage by the City Council of the resnI,,
uon giving the Rapid Transit Commission the
authority for extending the tunnel TO Fiatbush
ave, in Brooklyn This plan on the point OF
oelng carried out when A. L. johnson and resi-
dents Of South Brooklyn succeeded in blocking n
Mr johnson asserting that he wanted TO build a
railroad tunnel under the Narrows.
Brooklyn Democrats anxious to elect their
county ticket this fall. and they find themselves in
bad shape. They are held responsible TO a large
extent Tor the hold up Of the tunnel extension
and are fearful Of losing thousands of votes unless
something is done The plan now is for the
Council TO take up the tunnel resolution on Tues
icy. ana II the RAILROAD Committee will not report
taEoraoly on il TO discharge the committee This
VII permit its passage by the Council John r
88aakiey: Iammany leader Of the XIVth Assembly
plstrict is Vcepresdent Of the Council and chair
mar, man OF the Railroad Committee. Mr.. Oakley is
oohInS ioT the nomination for Sheriff this fail and
s se mas been told that if the Railroad Committee
aoesnt 90 something right away his chance for the
notfhnauon VIII be slim. The other members of
the committee are Hart. of Manhattan and Hv-
ttano OF The Bronx; Cassidy of Queens and
Hester, Comfy and Francisco of BROOKLYN II is
SAID that all the members of the committee will
Hyand 0A
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
CALIFORNIA; WELCOME.
Continued from first pnGe.

awnings. exploded like the continuous rattle of
musketry. The city had been beautifully deco
rated in honor of the Presidents coming. The
fiesta is in progress here, and the colors of the
carnival-red. yellow and green representing
the wine, the orange and the olive-predomina-
ted. The streets were avenues of masts fes-
tooned with yellow bunting and crowned with
palm leaves and wreaths of laurel At the sta
tion the party was met by the citizens commit
tee and many we'll known people from all over
California. General Shafter commander of the
Department of the Pacific with his staff in full
uniform. had come down from the Presidio to
greet his chief Secretary Long who was to
have met the party at San Francisco also came
here to meet the President, and was at the
station. The party was driven in carriages to
the Vannuyes Hotel. An escort of artillery and
several companies of militia had been provided
to escort them but both military and police had
to fight their way through the enormous crowds
that had swarmed into the city, drawn by the
double attraction of the Presidents visit and
the carnival At the hotel the police
obliged literally to force way to the entrance.
There the President met Governor Nash of Ohio
and the Ohio Congressional delegation, which
had arrived by different routes an hour before.
In the rotunda of the hotel the Mayor of Los
Angeles formally greeted the President and ex-
tended TO MIN the freeuom or the city, to which
Mr.. Mckinley responded.
The President then held a short public recep-
tion in the parlors of the hotel. In the
time Mrs. Mckinley and the women of the party
had been driven to the womans club in Figure
st, where they met the women of Los Angeles.
This evening the President and Mrs Mckinley
dined at the Bivouac. the handsome home of
General Harrison Grey Otis, and after dinner
a private reception was held there in their
honor. They spent the night at Bivouac
Governor Nash held public reception at the
Chamber of Commerce Late in the afternoon
some of the members of the Presidents party
ascended Mount Low, 5000 feet high. whence
they had birdseye view for seventy miles q
Southern California and the Pacific Ocean. To-
night the members of the Cabinet and other
members of the party witnessed the brilliant
illumination in the streets. The whole city
blazed with fantastic coors, and the air was
binding storm of confetti, thrown by the merry
rioters.
Tomorrow the President and his party will
witness the floral parade and in the afternoon
visit will be paid to the Soldiers Home at
Santa Monica
The train will leave Los Angeles early Friday
morning.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
SAYS TAHMANYEVADES La WS
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION
ALSO CRITICISES APPOINTMENTS IN
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform
Association held last night at, the Mott
Memorial Hail. No. 6i Madison-ave. The follow
ing officers for the ensuing year were elected:
President, Carl Schurz; vice-presidents James c.
Carter D. Willis James. William G. Low Levi P.
Morton. Alexander E. Orr, Theodore Roosevelt,
E2lihu Root. Edward NJ. Shepard Oscar S. Straus
and Alfred T. White; secretary. George MeAneny;
assistant secretary. f. H Goodwin; treasurer,
A. 8. FrisseI
The report of the Executive Committee reviewed
the work of the year, and was in part as follows:
During the last year-the twenty-fourth year of
its existence-the Civil Service Reform Associa-
ceved I an noeme Of IS ssh and spent $40
Speaking of the Federal service the report says
been faithfully administered 1t has produced good
that Congress has shown disposition within the
last two years 10 exempt from the operation of the
departments in consequence Of the war with spain
pointments made without m Preliminary examinatohs
70 be In excess OF the Samher equally
scribes-laborers and mechanics excepted.
- The association finds that promotions are stu
the case with certain appointments in the Internal
ReVeIue Service + amens the fact that in many
stands is not faithf9lly faith Ill enforced o.,..,o
ports that than one hundred exemptions from
examinations were permitted in the Controllers
Continuing, the report says that the State Com
eondons si in tSe Smaller Cities The association IS
satisfied with the amendments to the city char
ter, which affected its interests. An exception was
the amendment relating to the appointment of de-
tective-sergeants in the police department which
permits the Police Commissioner to promote
roundsmen TO a sergeants post without examna.
tions The report states that few open violations OF
the requirements OF the city Civil Service rules
have occurred in the year, but that the number of
evasions and violations of the spirit of the law
tinue to be 1t points out that of the
most fragrant abuses demanding attention is the
practice of appointing persons without competitive
examinations, either through the Labor Bureau or
TO exempted" places, and subsequently assigning
them TO places subject examinations having
higher duties and higher salaries.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
THE PRESIDENT AT WESLEYAN.
PLANS FOR HIS PRESENCE AT COMMENCE
sTMAsTER-GENERAL SMITH To
GIVE PHI BETA KAPPA GRAFTON.

Middletown. Conn. May (SpeciaD.-Active prep
arations have been begun by the faculty for the
visit OF President Mckinley and members of his
Cabinet to the commencement exercises at Wes-
leyan University in June. According to the pres-
ent plan. besides the regular exercises a Phi Beta
Kappa Grafton will he delivered at p. m. on Tues
day. June %. by Postmaster-C General Smith. At
this meeting President Mckinley and Secretaries
Hay and Long will also deliver short addresses.
A reception TO the President will be held In the
Fayerweather gymnasium after this meeting.
While IN Middletown Mr.. Mckinley will he the
guest Of Judge Knapp. of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. II is expected that the President will
arrive Saturday evening. and remain until Tuesday
evening. Besides the President and the Cabinet
members Governor Mclean. Senator Hoar. Chief
Justice Brewer and other prominent men Will be
present.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
RAILET AT THE METROPOLITAN.

Alfred E. Aarons said yesterday that he and
Maurice Grau representing the Maurice Grau
Opera Company, had made arrangement where
by the Metropolitan Opera House would be rented
TO Mr. Aarons for a term beginning on September .
and continuing until the opening OF the grand
opera Mr.. Graus company will remain at the
Metropolitan for eleven weeks, in which time Mr..
Aarons says that ne shall take the ventures which
he stages at the Metropolitan to Boston and Phila-
delphia. In case this project at the Metropol-
proves successful. he will return this house
the end of the grand opera season. Mr.. Aarons $
new plan coutempates the presentation of extrava-
ganza and baets. in manner behtting the dignity
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
LOCOMOTIVE WORKS COMBINE.

UNION OF SEVEN CONCERNS WILL. HAVE AN
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL OF s5o.OOoOOo
Arrangements have been completed by Harvey
Fisk Sons and William c. Sheldon & Co. as
syndicate managers. for the formation OF the
American Locomotive Company. with an author
lied capital Of S0oOo.ooO of which one-haf will be
preferred and one-haf common stock. The agree
ment provides for not less than s6OOo0o0 of cash
working capital, in addition to the plants in
Guiding lands. buildings and fixtures and the trade
marks goodwill, etc. of at least the following con-
Germs: Brooks Locomotive Works, OF Dunkirk
n Y; Cooke Locomotive Works, of Paterson
n j.; Manchester Locomotive Works, of Man
chester, N H; Pittsburg Locomotive Works of
Pittsburg, Penn; Rhode Island Locomotive Works
OF Providence r. l.; Schenectady Locomotive
WORKS. OF Schenectady, \. T., and Richmond
Locomotive Works, of Richmond Va Ii is said
that the American Locomotive Company will con-
troll two-thrds OF the locomotive mann
featuring capacity of the country
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY WORK
THE sEVENTY-sIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE ORGANIZATION.

The seventy-siNth annual meeting OF the Ameri-
Tract Society was held yesterday afternoon In
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, General
q. Q. Howard presiding In report by the Rev.
DR. George l.. Shearer. the financial secretary ap-
peared the statements that twenty-seven new pub
cations had been added to the society's list with
In year that since the beginning of its work the
society had issued s,33l distinct publications. not
counting periodicals. and that in seventy-six years
there had issued from the home office of the So
ciey 3239ls27 volumes 1899 7l9 and 25s lO
5SS periodicals. The floating debt OF the society
has been reduced TO about $I00 0EO
The Rev. Or. II. Z. Meredith was elected to the
Board OF Managers 10 h the place of the late DR..
A. j.: F. Behrends. and the Rev. DR. Frank P
Woodbury. was selected to NIL the place of DR. r. r
Booth, retired. The Rev. James r. Steele James
b Wilson and DR.. Sas F. Hallock were elected
members Of the executive committee. President
Mckinley was elected an honorary vice-president
of the society
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
FLrCTUATIoNs II LONDON.

London. May s-The excitement in American
stocks here continues unabated They opened
to-day considerably below parity on heavy re-
alizations. and fiuctuated wildly. This was es-
pecially in the case of Northern Pacific COM
mon which started at 14615. dropped to 133 re-
covered quickly to 141 and then receded to 13S
The movements in the other stocks were less
violent The market was feverish, awaiting the
New-York opening
The activity of Americans lessened, and prices
were slightly better after the receipt Of New
York's opening prices.
Americans. after further declining, following
the official close. improved 50 cents to 81.
Northern Pacific common reached 132le after
touching 131 Southern Pacific went up TO 3D.
after touching 53lR Union Pacific common was
quoted at 126
There was uneasiness regarding the
forthcoming settlement. in view of the large
fluctuations during the account Canadian Pa
ciics reacted sharply. Grand Trunks were
easier.
Money was very unsettled to-day, and was
unable to entirely free itself from the Bank
of England. Discounts Were firm The joint
stock banks were chary of taking bills.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
TUNNEL TABLET TO BE REMOVED.

1T WILL BE REPLACED WHEN CITY HALL WORK
IS poNE-BRIDGEs FOR THE MALL
WORK has so far proceeded on the loop OF the
rapid transit tunnel in City Hall Park that It will
oe necessary 70 take up the bronze tablet in front
% me City Hall marking the beginning OF the
tunnel in few days. The Degnon-McI.ean Com
pahy sub-contractors for the first section OF the
tunnel. have been at work in the park for about a
month They have dug about one hundred yards
d tne tunnel, and for space of about fifty feet
cave sunk spiles TO The limit Of thirty feet the
aepth to which the tunnel will go. The work so
fTdi 1 mas extended to the bronze tablet directly in
tIot OF the City Hall The tunnel itself will take
m that space and will then continue on a ctIrya
10 the east wing OF the City Hail. whence 1t will
sld Registers Orlce 1850 - '
" nle the Mall is dug up this summer a system
of bridges will be used which will allow
70 pass from the City. Hall toward the Postoffce
me work VIII extend through the summer AS
ssoon as the section where the tablet is placed is
a.ssneo 1he tablet Will be replaced IN its original
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
ARSON AND LARCENY CHARGED
MEMBER OF CA2LSTADT CHEMICAL CON
PANY IN JAIL. AT FACKENSACK

MEMBER OF CA2LSTADT CHEMICAL COM
PANY IN JAIL AT HACKENsACK-
Hackensack, N j. May 3 (SpeciaD--Edward
s Hull, jr. a lawyer at No. 32 broadway
New-York, is a prisoner in he county jail here,
charged with arson and larceny. He is a mem
Der of the CarIstadt Chemical Company. whose
plant at Carlstadt was destroyed by fire last
November. The insurance company paid the
loss few months ago. but has since learned OF
facts which led it TO believe that the fire was OF
an incendary origin
Detective George s. White, of Brooklyn, ar
rested Samuel s. Prednore. a stockhoider OF the
company. last night in Hoboken. and brought
him to Hackensack. Hull was another man
wanted by the detective, and when Prednore
asked IL he could telegraph for his lawyer. Ed
ward 5. Hull. jr. the detective consented Az
about 10 o'clock man walked into the sheriH :
office AMI asked Deputy Shertn Post IL ne couid
Mr. Predmore.
What Is your name?'' the deputy asked.
Il am Edward S. Hull, jr.. and lawyer MI
Predmore is my client" the reply
Under those circumstances you can consider
yourself under arrest" said Detective White, as
he placed his hand on Hull's shoulder.
This is a d outrage" declared the young
lawyer his face livid with rage. These charges
are a lot OF Internal lies"
r. NJ Hart. a lawyer, Of Hackensack. was
called In by Hull and succeeded in getting
Judge Zabriskie to fix bail at 1900 for each de-
fendant. Eut AT a late hour tonight neither
had been bailed out of Jail.
Mrs Hull the wife of Edward 5. Hull. when
seen at her in this city last night said that
she decline to discuss the affairs of her hus-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
NEH NAL M4GONS 70 SAVE TINE.

Postmaster Van Cott has received authority from
Washington to advertise for bids for twenty-three
rew wagons to be used in place of the two
wheeled carts now used in the collection of mails
from sub-stations. package boxes and chute boxes
The new wagons will be built plans designed by
the Postmaster. and will much OF the col
lectors time. The vehicles will be four
wheeled wagons. completely incosed. except for
the door. which will occuy one-haf OF the space
at the rear. At the left of this door will be the
seat for the collector. and a rear platform will en-
n hle him to deposit the mail and lock the door
while the wagon is in motion speaking tube
will connect the collectors post with the driver
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
OLD MAP FOR THE LIBRARY.

Inc trustees of the New-York Public Library held
their monthly meeting yesterday afternoon at the
Astor Building, in Lafayette Place II was an
houheeo that the most important addition made to
'e Hoiafy IN the course of the month was prob
ably map of New-York Harbor supnosed m bave
peen made about l77s 1t is a COPY OF A man which
Is now III the British War ONCE, and n is said
snot tile only otner copy in existence In Lon
non h rs ABOUT three feet square and IL shows
me Isoruncauons about the harbor they are sup
posed 20 nave been at the beginning of the RevolI
ton. The map will be sent 10 the Lenox Buildine
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
FIGHT AGAINST TOBACCO TRUST TO GO on
THE NATIONAL CIGAR LEAF ASSOCIATION TO
ASK CONGRESS TO ABOLISH THE FACTORY
NUMBER AND CAUTION LABEL

THE NATIONAL CIGAR LEAF ASSOCIATION TO
ASK CONGRESS TO ABOLISH THE FACTORY
NUMBER AND CAUTION LABEL.
The report of the special committee appointed to
consider means of dealing with the Tobacco Trust
was presented at yesterdays session of the con-
vention of the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Asso-
ciation held at the Waldorf-Astoria. The report
advised that a committee of three be appointed by
the president of the association to formulate plan
which should be submitted to the board of direc-
tors and If 1t with the directors approval the
committee should be given power to carry out the
plan. MIR. Latyar. who made the report support
ed 1t earnestly and said that the fight against the
trust would go on, matter what action the con-
vention might take.
Other members of the convention spoke against
the report and said that the American Cigar Com
pany. which manufactures cigars. and the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company which manufactures cigar
cites in way conflict with the leaf tobacco men
The report was defeated
A resolution adopted asking Congress to
abolish the factory number and caution label which
must be pasted on cigar boxes under the present
law and substitute a numbered stamp. The stamp
IL was said would be sufficient for the government
to trace any cigars on the market and would do
away with free advertising. The proposed change
said 10 be in the interests of the small manu-
facturers.
The convention adjourned yesterday to meet next
year In Cincinnati. Last night there dinner
for the association
The delegates 10 the convention were entertained
last night at a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria The
hosts were the members OF the local Tobacco Board
of Trade. Joseph F. Cullman. the president, pre-
sided. The speeches preceded the dinner. Mr. Gull
man welcomed the visiting delegates. and John r.
Young of Philadelphia the president OF the Ma
tional Association. responded,
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
RAN AWAY AND WE'RE MARRIED.

Blanche A. Hallenbeck and Robert Richard
Stevens. of White Plains ran away and got mar
ried on April o. The couple live at Elmsford
about three miles from White Plains The girl
who is sixteen years old. is the daughter of William
Hallenbeck, eX-postmaster of Elmsford Robert
Richard Stevens is only sixteen years old. His
father was Timothy Stevens. a wealthy wholesale
liquor dealer of New1ork, who died fifteen years
ago. leaving $4,000 to his His grandfath
Louis Stevens. the inventor of the Stevens
locomotive. and the lad, when he becomes Of age
will receive royalties from this invention
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09
APPRorEs CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
MAYOR PASSES ON DOCK BOARD MEASURES AND
PRINTING JOKER"

Mayor Van Wyck has approved five of the seven
charter amendments. He has not vet taken action
on the amendment providing that detective ser
geants appointed pror to October. 1900. and still
holding that position January l. 1902 shall be
entitled TO the pay and emoluments of regular
desk sergeant.
for condemnation proceedings and the acquiring
of land. He approved the amendments providing
for the appointment of deputy commissioner at
$500 year. and for the approval OF contracts
of the Dock Board by the Sinking Fund. instead
OF by the Board of Estimate.
Three other amendments which the Mayor has
approved are those pertaining to compulsory
animation by graduates Of the Normal College for
teachers certificates, striking out the power of
tartan schools have public school moneys. and
striking out the Joker pertaining 10 city adyer-
tisements being printed in eight newspapers.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-09

of the Metropolitan Opera House. He says that
Mr.. Grau and his associates have protected lneih-
selves in this respect by clause in the lease ana
Mr. Aarons Is bound TO present nothing whlcn Il
not first class in every respect Mr. Aarohs VIII VII,
sail for Europe within the next ten days 10 make
contracts with artists with whom he mas oeen ne
gotiating for the last thirty days Maurice Ofau
sailed for Europe yesterday on the 81. Paul.