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GEORGE J. GOULD THREATENED.

Totals. s6Os7 1ol 447 23s7 e77 SO Gas e1.a75 1887
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
ATTEMPT TO kIDNAP CHARGED.
UNION HILL GIRL ACCUSES a STRANGE
MAN AND WOMAN OF TRYING
TO TAKE HER AWAY.

Union HILL Dec. 9-Miss Eta Geayer, the six
teen-year-old daughter of Mrs Rose Geayer. a
wealthy widow, who lives in the Hackensack Turn
pike, Union Hill. says that an attempt was made
last night kdnap her She says that man
and woman were concerned in the attempt, and
that they would probably have succeeded in carry
ing her off had not her screams brought several
persons to her assistance
Miss Geayer says that several times lately a
strange woman has STOPPED her in the street and
fried TO engage her in conversation. On occa-
sion she saws the woman grabbed her by the arm
and attempted to drag her along with her. She
saws the woman is tall and dresses in black.
Last night Miss Geayer says. she walking
in Franklin Lane when she stopped by man.
who apneared be about thirty-f1ye years DID,
and who seized her by the arm Miss Geayer
shook the man off and started to run, when she
was confronted by the woman she had met on
previous occasions who seized her about the waist
and tried to drag her with her. Miss Geayer
sisted the with all her strength, and at the
same time screamed for help. Her cries
heard bv several men, who hurried to her assist
ance and and woman fed.
Miss C,eayer and her mother regular attend
ants at the West HoboEen Reformed Chapel and
are well known in Union Hill. Miss Geayer says
that neither she her mother imagine why
any one should want to kidnar her. unless it
might be for She Gays they not
aware that they have enemies They wished to
keen the affair quiet and did not report it to the
police but Miss Geayer said this afternoon that
long as II had become known they would call the
attention of the authorities to the matter.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

Six day bicycle race Madison Square Garden
Hearing on KinGsbridge railway change Board nj
Fstjm Apportionmert II" a. m
National Baseball League meeting Fifth Avenue Hotel
p.
Municipal Assembly city Hall afternoon.
Columbia Alumni Seth Low. Sherrys, evening
William H Eyck's dinner for election district cap
One-hundred- twenty-ffth-
evening.
anniversary dinner Company H. 9TH Resi-
ment ". G. " Y, veteran Corps. Hotel ST Denis .
r.
Sterling Republican Club entertainment. One-hundred-
ani-sixty-sixth-st. and Amsterdam ave. evening
Review the Battery. evening.
Ninth Regiment review, evening
Nineteenth Century Club discussion of Public Art, y
Sherry's $50 p. IN.
Meeting Of the Bar Association. No. AZ West Forty
foUrth-st, p. m.
Euchre party Johns Hospital. Long City.
Central Palace. evening.
Clinical lecture and demonstration NewYor School of
Clinical Medicine, No 33s West t'orty-second ST.
$50 p.
Social Reform Club No 12s East Twenty-eghth-st.,
p. m
Peoples Institute lecture THE Relation to
Political Reform by DR. John Quincy Adams. Cooper
INF n m
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
CITY HALL AND BATTERY THE PUZZLE.
BROOKLYN TUNNEL COMMISSIONERS HEAR
THAT THOSE POINTS FURNISH THE
RAPID TRANSIT PROBLEM.

public hearing before joint session of the
TWO Supreme Court commissions appointed to de-
termine a route of the rapid transit road in
Brooklyn in lieu of obtaining the consent of prop
erty owners, was held in the Office of the Rapid
Transit Commission yesterday. John De Witt
Warner submitted as evidence portion of the re-
port of expert engineers the remedy for the
congestion of traffic the Brooklyn Bridge
Benjamin Gilman Church, a civil engineer who
has been twenty years in the city service. prin-
cipal1y in connection with the water supply, said
that his surmse of what the travel would be
when the proposed section of the subway was
opened agreed with Mr.. Parsons's figures He
thought four tracks would be required because
OF the increase in traffic that had always followed
the opening of new facilities. AS to the construc
ton of the proposed road between City Hall and
the Battery, with reference avoiding congestion
he said 1t most desirable have four tracks
instead of two.
He said the strongest reason existed for carry
ing the four tracks TO Wall-st least but better
to the Battery He favored the suggested plan of
two tracks under two in open He said he
snch cut at would be dangerous for build
his own-to open the street and put in side walls,
as in sewer. one wall on each side; then to ex
the construction as braces the way down: the
bottom girders being put in last He offered
of overcoming the conditions. which were put in
evidence.
He said the cost of his four tracks from City Hall
TO Wall-st- would be about so per cent more than
fbs from 61 the sW9 track @ , plan Of M his pa wo
be 10 per cent cheaper than the plans proposed ny
Mr. Warner said that he was not at that
ment prepared to urge the adoption of four tracks
informed him that the crux of the problem was
the section Of the road between City Hall and the
o @ a Hal r Bdoy 5nf foush four ne
Were desirable his witness did not advise insisting
Adjournment then taken until tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
NEW-YORK CITY.

Mrs. Margaret Bottome president of the Inter
national Society of Kings Daughters will he the
principal speaker this evening at the meeting OF
the Disciples Union Of the Len Avenue Union
Church. in One-hundred-a and ineteenth-st
course OF ten lectures in German will be given
on Wednesdays in January, February and March,
at 430 p. m, in Havemeyer Hall, Columbia Univer-
sity-
William Webster Ellsworth will deliver an ad-
dress on Arnold and Andre the Story of the
Trea SON. on Friday evening, before the NeW-forK
Genealogical and Biographical Society. No 226 west
ifty-eighth-st.
Charles D. Pierce, Consul General of the Orange
Free State and treasurer of the Eoer RELIEF fuho
acknowledges a gift of $50 to the fund for boer
women and children. which the gi er asked shouio
he made known through The Tribune.
The sale for the entertainment ana
dance of the Emanuel Sisterhood of Personal SER
vice to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on January
O will take place in the vestry room of the leHiFe
Emanu-El on Thursday evening at $50 O'CLOCK
Surrogate Fitzgerald yesterday postponed the
HEARING ,,f argument on the application 10 hA
date for the trial of the contest over the two Wills
of William Marsh Rice, who, 1t is alleged "as
murdered by Albert T. Patrick on September o.
1900 until Monday January o.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
BILLIARDS.
SUTTON WINS ASTONISHING TRIUMPH OVER
SLOSSON

One of the biggest surprises since the 1s-inch balk
line championship tournament began week ago
yesterday afternoon, when George Sutton
the Chicago player. met George Slosson and de-
pected to put up good game. it not expected
that he would defeat the Student in such de-
csive manner. and when the twenty-ninth inning
ended IN which sutton made 81 points, winning the
game, there was a great demonstration from the
large crowd which witnessed the contest.
In the opening inning Sutton made 80 points,
while Siosson met with a In the fourth in
ming rolled up cluster of IS points. and the
score 122 to p in the Chicago players favor
In the sixth inning he scored 80 points. and the
Student had not yet reached a double figure.
The Chicasoan followed his big lead in the follow
ing inning with IS points. sending him the
second century with total of go TO 26
Sutton, in the sixteenth inning made his highest
of the game. scoring 81 points. which ties the
record made by Schaefer in of his games last
week. The Chicago player in the third
century. with a of S16 to 65- He was fire.
quently appIauded for his ceverness difficult
shots. and especially for his masse work.
AS this was slosson's first defeat in the tourna-
ment' his friends were much downcast-
The
50 1s p As i 20 50 IS .,si 1s s;5 ;. O.
age IS 3 %: high runs 81 50 45,
sis'sno H. g. 10 10 r6s I isS avs2sss a. r.
4 20-29; high 15 II. L
In the evening game BaruteI the French expert.
"JHDe'' Schaefer- The game. like the morning one.
was short ending in the thirty-second inning with
a score of 4cO to 2O5 The Frenchman played
throughout the game when the chances were 100
to against him steadily if he were on equal
terms with the Wizard Schaefer manipulated
the worries with wonderful dexterity, and eaptl-
waited the spectators with his cIeverneSS- On a
few occasions when il looked as If he were going
20 make a phenomenal run. mlScueS relegated nun
TO chair until the next inning
Both made ZerOS in the opening inning, and
it until the fifteenth that the first century
was reached. when Schaefer made 81 points. max
ing the 12S 81 in his favor In the elsh-
teenth inning he made 80 points and passed the
second century in the tweEtytrSt with y points:
He made 81 points in the twenty-third inning ana
81 his highest of the game. in the twenty
seventh inning He in the third century,
with lead of 156 points In the JhirtyirSt inning
rolled up cluster of IS points. and was cheered
for a fine masse shot The score at the end of the
inning 80 2O3. and the next inning saw the
finish of the game
The score:
schaefer-O H. Is. o. o. Is. s. Il. o. l. o. 3D. 4.
. So H. o. 81. H. .. o. 81 o. o. 6. 46 D Total
4isl. Average-12 High runs-54. 81. Al
T. S. p o. o. s A. . o. T. = o. B. H. Is 0.
IL. IA 10. s. s. s. g. IS. o, 13 o. "A Total-203.
Average-6 11-32. High runs-26. II. H.
This afternoons game will be between Schaefer
and Morningstar. and in the evening the Wizard
will meet SIosson-
The standing of the men in the tournament Is as
follows.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
o,,orrrroN TO MACHINE MADE CIGARS
DEFEATED-OFFTCERS OF METAL
TRADES FEDERATION.

co-ar+on Penn Dec. a-The convention or the
.-,e,,can Federation of Labor was in session oIiS
.ro hours to-day, adjournment being taken uhti
+o-oorrow in order TO enable the seVeral coiiiii'
tees 10 consider the large number OF resoiu'o
In ,n their hands There lively discussion
on the floor Of the convention over 'he
. bovcotting machine made cigars IL Is 'iie
= =. -,,az-;on that the Cigarmakers' international
I-rion has brought up at previous conventions ol
+be Federation and the union has always Deeh ue
.eates In its fight against the INTRODUCTION VI
o-btr.-v in the cigar trade. At the present time
not q machine made cigar in the United states u
=. aid hears the label of the Cigarmakers Inter
national Union ,,,.,o,
The matter came up in the form of a resolution
..,,ad hv President Gompers John c Deerhel
"a Thomas F Tracey, of the cigarmarkers
,,,ion and was referred the committee on iapei'
y denounced a certain company for MAKING cIsa
bv child labor and machinery and called upon '
federation to assist in unoniZing the Ndiio
,r+s of the company The committee reported
che resolution back with the recommendation N
.be word machinery" be stricken out ana 'lie
-o,u-ion adopted Then the cigarmakers opened
mir fight They insisted that the term III"
-ni,ery' should not be eliminated and argued tAd'
cigars made by machinery are not so goou "s
tho.e made by hand and that the machines drive
hand cigarmakers out OF the business
The sneakers in opposition TO the cigarmakers
ronosition argued that to oppose machinery wouiu
he follv Machines being introduced IN man.
1.nes of trade they said, and the union could ho'
e,,ccessfully fight the law of progress 1t was poi
"a ont to the cigarmakers that the hest thiis 'o
So was to organize the operators of the machies
and adopt a wage scale just as the Iyposrafhi0"i
and other unions have done, when machinery was
;nrroduced in their trades The discussion pIoIii
traa to he long but the moving OF the previous
question quickly ended the debate and the Ies -
tion. with the word machinery s1rlchell ou'' 0
tied As recommended
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
WESLEYAN TO GET 10000.
PRESIDENT RAYMOND ANNOUNCES AT
DINNER THAT THIS AMOUNT HAS
BEEN PLEDGED.

Illuminated with hundreds Of red shaded
candles, and echoing the music of mandoEns'
the voices of student singers and bright speak
ers, the Astor Gallery Of the Waldorf-Astorla
WAS a pleasant place TO be in last night 1t
WAS there that the Wesleyan University Club
held its thirty-third annual dinner The 1rnpor-
+snt announcement of the evening was made by
President Bradford P. Raymond Of the uniVer-
sity. Replying 10 the toast, Alma Mater ne
said that 100000 had been pledged to the uni
versity toward the construction or an adInlhls-
tration building. OF this sum, he said, S2o,ooo
was promised by John E. Andrus, Wesleyan.
'e3. of Yonkers and $4,000 by Frank s Jones.
of Brooklyn Messrs Andrus and Jones are
trustees of the institution President Raymond
did not disclose the names of the pledgers of
The remaining $4,000 He added that, in ad-
dition to the 100000 which had been promised
S25 600 TO be applied to special needs of the
university. had been given He referred to the
movement now under way to celebrate in 1903
at the university the bicentennial of the birth
of John Wesley At that time, the president
said he hoped that sufficient funds for the
erection of memorial building will have been
subscribed
Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff, re
spending to The College Man in Politics., SAID
that ne had served under three Governors, all
of whom were college graduates.
Acting President Nicholas Murray Butler, of
Columbia University, responded to the toast
Columbia
the list of toasts made short speech in winch
he said that his aim in political life hao been TO
establish political and financial decency- be
urged that colleges and churches take more
interest in civic life He told some of his ex-
periences with college men in Wall Street
Other speakers were Miiilan hntnseS. 9n oepet ~
William F Mcdowell. James n. Brown 7. D
Hill and Captain Alfred Inglis-
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.
ATTEMPT TO KILL A BOY.
SHOT FIRED AT A LAD WHO WAS A WIT
NESS OF MURDER

Camden. Dec. 9 (SpeciaD.-A bullet fired through
the windows of the grocery store of S. c.
Childs to-day the head of fourteen
year-old Frederick Griffiths delivery boy at the
store. Young Griffths eyewitness of the
shooting of Mrs Kate Van Slaven by her hus-
band Samuel, a week ago Friday, and his brother
Frank Crfiths. manager of Childs'S store, says he
believes it a deliberate attempt to kill Fred
erfck
Mr.. Grifiths, it appears. this morning,
leaving the store in charge of his brother Fred
erick and Harry Watson sixteen years old. The
two lads say they attracted by noise the
roof. though some was walking there They
went out to investigate, but could one, and
returned to the store. About an hour afterward
they were again attracted by noise. this time in
the of the store, as though some one was
climbing the shed roof.
Young Criffths through the store to a rear
and was crossing the room in a line with the
window when pistol shot rang out. followed by a
crash of glass, and bullet flew past the boy
face and buried itself in the wall Others near by
heard the shot, and made hurried investiga ton,
but sight in the of the building.
The bullet through the window of the shed
and also the window in the room where the boy
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH.
FATE OF AN OLD WOMAN WHO WAS AP
PARENTLY LOST IN THE WOODS


PARENTLY LOST IN THE WOODS
Matawan Dec. Q (Specia).-The body of Mrs
elena Hendrickson, a resident of Holmdel Town
ship was found near Wickatunk three miles from
this place this morning. The woman had oeeh
frozen to death. The body was discovered py
school children who it as it lay beneath d
pile of brush in a meadow on the farm OF John
Maloney The children took it TO be tramp IN
hiding and gave the alarm TO Mr.. Maloney. who
made an investigation.
The condition of the body made it evident tnat
the woman had been dead for at least five days.
The throat and had been eaten away oy
animal. -.
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and MIS- James l.
GRAY at Holmdel. Sne was seventy years old
and at times was childish. Two weeks ago yes
terdav she went the home of James NJ Van
last week she suddenly left the Van Brackle nome
and II was supposed that she had returned TO the
home of her daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Gray pre-
sumad the woman with the van BrackleS
and therefore, she was not missed until day or
The finding of the body reveals tale of awful
suffering Near the Van Brackle house are eN-
tensve woodlands. which stretch along the SIDES
of The Holmdel hills. Mrs Hendrckson may have
m her daughters home. At any rate she evidently
hecame lost and roamed the woods Monday and
nerhans Tuesday. Tuesday snow fell and the mer-
rnrv dropped to the lowest point of the season
Wickatunk where the body found, is several
miles from the Van Brackle home
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
HOME NEWS.


ppONrNFNT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.
?, " So ~ Portland Ore FIFTH AVENt r.
Ex-senator T c. Power, of Montana HhAND
G. W SpauIding. of Boston; Dr. T. M Lippite' u
percv CrandaIl L. s N GRAND uNION-W h
H Murray of Guilford. Conn HOi-LAND
Charles s. Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis: j. u "A,
reisbuan United States Minister to Turkey. ana
C:raen,a harrison of London. IMPERIAL-S Har-
rison Wagner. of New Haven. MANHAIIAN-fi'
II Westinghouse. of Pittsburg. NANAhRE-oap-
tain + q linton U s. A. STURTENANT-I1tus
Sheard ex-Speaker of the Assembly. NlCIOflA-
w n Cott president of the Hooking valley hali-
way of Columbus, Ohio r. Dreyfuss, president OF
tho Pittsburg Baseball Club. WALDORF. M
Beckley president OF the T.. II. and b. Railway.
of Rochester and f. ". Roebling, of Trenton
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
A FALLING OFF IN THEOLOGS
THE DECREASE DUE IT IS SAID, TO
THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE NEW
POSSESSIONS FOR AMERI-
CAN YOUTHS

Princeton. n. j., Dec. 8 (SpecaD.-Professor
John B. Davis, of the Theological Seminary. an
nounced to-day that the coming issue OF the
seminary catalogue would appear in two weeks
The catalogue shows a great falling on in the
enrolment. The number of students is twenty
three less than last year. The total number Is
133. and is divided by classes follows: Eight
graduate students, forty-four seniors. thirty
nine middlers. thirty-six juniors and SIX
specials
The seminary authorities believe that the gen
eral falling off in candidates for the ministry
is due largely to the opening of the new posses
sions Of the United States which seem to ap-
peal to the business instincts of the American
youth. In 1896 there were over 1000 students
in the Presbyterian semnaries of the unteo
States. There about 900
The vacancy in the board of directors made
by the death of The Rev. DR.. George I. FurVes
has not been filled.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
NAGLE WANTS ONLY $500

SAYS HE NEEDS IT TO GET HORSES AND CARTS
TO KEEP CITY CLEAN.
Percival E Nagle, the Commissioner of Street
Cleaning, will make another attempt to-day to get
the Board of Aldermen to act favorably on a requ-
sition for money to keep the streets clean during
the three weeks he is to remain in office He said
yesterday that he did want s1S0,000 for three
weeks as had been suggested. When he did want
that sum Ii had been withheld.
Il asked for $50 600 last February, he said, but
/ couldn't spend that amount now, If had ii. All
l want now is $4,000 for more horses and carts.
Without such emergency appropriation the city
kept clean, because the horses and carts
we have overworked. The conditions are
bad in parts of the city, because the garbage
has been removed. | wanted the help of the
Health Department, but they said the conditions
were not dangerous tc health
Suppose snowstorm came?% was suggested
could get all the money / wanted from the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment, because there
would be an emergency provided for by law
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
UNDERGRADUATES WOULD RULE
PENNsYLvANIA'S ATHLETIC MEETING To-
NIGHT MAY BE STORMY
lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBuSE-I

IBY TELEGRAPH TRIBUSE-1
Philadelphia Dec. 9-There is much interest In
the annual meeting OF the University of Pennsyi-
vania Athletic Association. which will take place
tomorrow evening A struggle is on between the
undergraduates and the alumni The latter nave
by far the greatest representation the board OF
directors at present constituted but il the un-
dergraduates turn out in the numbers they have
declared they will. they will carry through any
measure they desire. Some OF the students want
to take the whole management into their own
hands. but il has :ntimated to them that the
university authorities will rot allow the financial
matters to go from the hands OF the graduates. A
meeting was held to-day, and compromise was
effected, which will be pushed through this even
inS. BY this measure the graduates will have
eight men on the board of directors seven
dergraduates.
There is considerable speculation concerning the
meeting because of the effort of certain party to
throw out John G.. BeIl. the present head OF the
ioolDalI committee. and elect Louis De Pui Vail
IN ms stead There Is also great probability that
the resignation of Woodruff will be taken up, and
an efort will be made by his followers have him
nVited to reconsider his resignation and take up
the work on lines that will be satisfactory the
opponents OF the present system
The hockey men indignant the action Of
the intercollegiate Association which threw Penn
sy!van1a out of the association because she
not represented at the meeting although her repre-
would be held. Pennsylvania has ice palace
TINS year, put many men trying for the team,
ana they consider hat they have equal chances
with Princeton to get cut a good This years
seven should be considerably stronger than last
years team An effort will he made to have Penn
syvanlas name added to the intercollegiate hockey
ward Princeton and Columbia in New-York this
winter.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
RIOTING IN SCRANTON.
EFFORT TO SERVE A WARRANT LED III
sEooTINeTHREE PERSONS WOUNDED


Scranton Penn. Dec. a-The most serious VI '''e
many riots that have taken place here IN cofhec-
;on with the street car strike occurred this AFTER
noon in Luzerne-st
A soecial officer. Frank Schof1eld, accompanied
Fv = detective named Cosgrove. who had MS heau
c,,t IN Sunday nights riot, went 10 the scene oi
the Sunday night riot to apprehend any one 'ie
detective might be able identify as having oeeh
among his assailants. They attempted 10 aiies'
. man in a saloon, and sooner was the war
rant exposed than crowd of miners al'acheo
,bero with drills clubs and bottles and put them
.o %irbr AS they were retreatng backward Gown
the sidewalk protecting themselves With III
reyolJers some in the mob nreu tWo ~ sILo,s
Al This the officers and q non-unon IhotuLi
who accompanied them, began TO shoot IIIo tiIs ne
crowd and after emptyinE all the chaLiIpu - %
their revolvers. thereby scattering the nlon, ea
a retreat to Main-st. AS they fed the mop Kept
IN a steady fire from places of concealnenI !.
Three of the mob were shot but their WOUNDS
~ a ne+ eerio3,s Daniel McAuliffe received five
shots in his left leg. William Dunn was shoI IN
the hip The name of the third wounded man
could not be learned he was able 10 Tnd NE
way home The other two are IN the hospital
None of the company were hit
The sracfaI ofTlcer Schoffeld, VINO was serving
-be warrant is a striking conductor He accepted
q Mace as special officer in Magistrate Miiar
court to put in time until the strike shouio pe
serfled MAGISTRATE Millar says he VIII serve the
warrant II he send the whole ponce force
TO back up his officer