Evening star., 1901-03-28
]. P. Morgan Closing Up Details Of
Big Steel Deal.
Ills TRIP TO EUROPE DEFERRED
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New Customs RuIesuHave Stopped
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Much Smuggling.
CHECK ROOM FOR BABIES

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, March 81 1901.
j. Pferpent Morgan has returned from
the south, and he is now, busily engaged In
the work of putting the finishing touches
on the billion dollar steel combination,
which will pass under the corporate name
Of the United States Steel Corporation.
Mr. Morgan will not wait until all of the
stock of the constituent companies has
been deposited with him. Inasmuch as
more than 80 per cent of the stockholders
Of the various companies have signified
their approval of the great financier's plans
1t is not likely that the minority holders
Will make even feeble protest.
Mr. Morgan, it is said, will defer until
next month his proposed European trip,
IN order to attend to the consolidation of
the various steel companies. The United
states Steel Corporation is expected to
commence operations some time this week.
Messrs. Rockefeller and Stiilman, the lat
ter the head of the National City Bank,
VIII, 1t Is expected, take a prominent part
IN the selection Of the officers and other
matters. Mr.. Morgan had planned to sail
next Wednesday on the Oceanic but it is
now expected that he will not be able to
leave for Europe before the middle of
April He expects to return in time for
the international yacht races.
1t Is expected that one of the first meet
ings of the company will be held at East
orange, N. j. 1t Is said that the presi-
dency of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, with a guarantee that he will be al
lowed to hold the place for five years, has
been offered to President Schwab. 1t is
said that the exact amount of the annual
compensation to be awarded Mr.. Schwab
for his services has not been definitely
agreed upon. OF one thing there is no
doubt and that is that Mr.. Schwab will
be the highest priced man employed on a
salary in the world. -
Smuggling Broken Up.
The operations of the new custom house
rules have disclosed to the officials of the
department species of smuggling which
they say has lost to the government thou
sands of dollars yearly. Dressmakers in
the attire of members of fashionable so
ctety or dressed in the garb of the steer
age poor, have for years been systematical-
ly robbing the government of revenue. They
have brought the richest Partisan gowns to
these shores and escaped payment of duty
simply because the inspectors We're handi-
capped in their work of examination by
the throngs on the piers and the abuses of
the system of "coultesies.' With courte
sizes and cutter passes now denied and a
separation Of passengers and friends on
the piers, Surveyor Croft says:
I'VE have already collected $4,000 In
duties this year, as against 5000 for the
same period last year. The operations of
dressmakers are finally checked and al
ready we have landed in the appraisers S
office thousands of dollars worth of rich
Partisan gowns. The plan to evade the
law adopted by partner in a Well-known
ladies' tailoring establishment on 9TH ave-
nue., who arrived here on the New York
with two trunks full Of wearing apparel,
Is but one of the several ways which, while
possible under the old system, is incapable
of operation under the new. Moschcowitz,
to escape detection. travelled second class,
with two poor, dilapidated trunks, which
looked in keeping with his dress. Coming
up the bay he told the officers that he had
no goods to declare and thereby threw
himself on the mercy of the dock inspec-
tors, who found goods valued at several
thousand dollars in the two trunks Under
the old system he might have escaped de-
lection by colluSon with the dock inspec-
tor or friends who could have met him In
the revenue cutter But such thing is
impossible now.
Minister Wu to Speak.
WI Ting Fang was one of the speak
ers at unique and significant jubilee
golden rule meeting held last evening
at Calvary Baptist Church, under the
auspices of the Baron de Hirsch Monu-
ment Association. At this meeting the
golden rule was discussed from the va
rious standpoints of the Christian, the
Jew and the Confucian. Gen. Thomas L.
James, the president of the association
IL
poem written for the occasion. After
a brief devotional service, conducted by
q Christian and a Jew alternately, Mr.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister de-
livered an address which was followed
by eight-ninute speeches by the follow
ing leader Of religious thought: The
Rev. r. Heber Newton, DID,, whose sub
ject was '"The Golden Rule in Busl-
ness" Rabbi Joseph Silverman who spoke
on '"The Golden Rule as Basis for
Universal Brotherhood" the Rev. Donald
Sage Mackay, DID,, on ''The Golden Rule
and International Comity!" Rabbi Samuel
Children the Rev. Robert Stuart MacAr-
thur. DID, on 1.-The Golden Rule Against
Racial Prejudice and Religious Intoler-
ance;" the Rev. Charles T. Walker on 1.-The
Golden Rule AS an Individual Motto" and
the Rev. Charles H. Eaton, DID,, on 1.-The
Golden Rule and the Equality of Man.
Sir Thomas Lipton's Yacht Signal.
Sir Thomas Upton is to have a private
Coston distinguishing night signal for the
Erin and Shamrock II on the VOYAGE to
this country 1t will be a green Coston
light, changing to red and followed by
green star. The green star is to avoid this
signal being mistaken for the night signal
of the New York Yacht Club, which con-
sists of a green, a red and q green light
shown in succession. Sir Thomas con-
ceived the idea of 4 private signal imme-
diately after the last cup races, when he
met Mr. William F. Coston at a dinner at
the New York Yacht Club. At Sir Thomas
request, Mr.. Coston arranged the signals
as given, and he has had them registered
at the bureau of navigation in Washing
ton and at the board of trade in London.
The signals, two sets for each yacht, are
to be shipped in few days, and they win
be the only private distinguishing night
signals displayed by an English yacht Mr..
Coston says there are but four yacht own
ers in this country possessing distinguish
ing night signals. They are Howard Gould
of the Niagara; Mr. Armour, son of the
late Philip Armour; A. l.. Barber and
Mr. Temple Of the Royal Canadian Yacht
Club. - 81
Where Babies May BE Checked.
The enterprising manager of a Brooklyn
theater is the inventor Of a brand new
scheme to draw the public, and especially
the feminine part OF It, to his audit torium.
The region tributary to his theater is filed
with homes where children are much more
common than servant girls. He therefore
boldly ventured to provide his house with a
check room for babies, SO that in the fu-
ture the mother with young child to
take care Of shall not be compelled. for
its sake, to sacrifice the enjoyment of
theatergoing. The scheme is interesting