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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
YERKFS SAYS HE CAN'T HELP.
No Power to Postpone Enforcement of
Law rs Be and the Court Read II.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.-John W ferkes,
the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
holds that he has power under the law to
POSTPONE the enforcement of his recent
ruling that the war revenue tax is collect
ible on all certificates OF stock ~hypothe-
Gated for loans. His attention was called
tonight 70 the feeling in New York that
the enforcement Of the ruling would create
havoc in the financial district, and this.
TOO. on the eve of the probable total repeal
Of the war axe ny Congress.
Mr.. Yerkes said hat he should be very
sorry TO do anything 20 embarrass stock
transactions or the conduct of financial
business, but his ruling had been sustained
first by the Acknowledgement of the United
States and then by the United States Dis
trict Court for the Southern District OF New
York. Two OF three days ago he instructed
the revenue officers at New York to proceed
with the enforcement Of his ruling, for,
he explained to-night, he had no alternative
under the law. Secretary Shaw sustains
him in this,
The late Commissioner Wilson held that
the stamp tax was not collectible after the
repeal of the mortgage feature Of the law
by the act Of March ?, 1901, but COMMISSIONS
Yerkes maintains that the tax still applies
under another clause, as fully set forth in
his decision and ar confirmed in a long
written opinion Of the Attorney-G General.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
LlDELLED CORONER zUccA.
Editor OF "n ProErcsso'' Held on q Grim
inaI Charge for Trial.

Ex-Coroner Antonio yucca was the com
p~lainant in the Centre street police court
yesterday in an action for criminal lbel
against Carlo Barsotti, the editor and
director Of II Progresso. Barsotti was held
for examination in $1,000 bail, Magistrate
Cornell refused to parole. him In the custody
Of his counsel.
Mr.. yucca said that before h dinner OF
the Italian Chamber Of Commerce at the
Hotel Savoy last February he heard that
Barsotti had been urging Italians to attend
and to hiss Signor Bianchi. the Italian
Consul-General, when he rose to speak.
Ex-Coroner yucca, who is President OF the
Italian Chamber of Commerce, heard OF
this and In consequence refused admission
TO the dinner to the reporter OF IL Propresso.
who was sent TO write an account OF the
festivities. The reporter telephoned to
Editor Barsotti. who in turn was not adj
mitted. Then ~ Progresso rented a room
next TO the hall. By dint Of the reporter
keeping his ear close 10 the partition and
Editor Barsotti b~uttonholing the diners as
they left the paper had its story of the
dinner.
From that time on. the ex-Coroner said,
Barsotti's paper began to abuse him. IL
said that he was unfit to preside at the din
ner; that he was not Of Italian birth, as he
has always asserted, and, finally, that he
had changed his name.
Il do not care how I was or am abused as
a politician or as Coroner" said yucca.
Sbut these innuendoes are beyond endurance.
1t is largely for the sake of my family that
/ am bringing this criminal action
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
POLICE PATCHING AUTOMOBILES
Col. Partridge Instructs Them to Enforce
the Speed Ordinance.

The accidental killing Of seven-year-old
Henry Thies by S~tockbroker Edward X.
Thomas's automobile on Wednesday re-
suited in orders being sent yesterday by
Col, Partridge to the Harlem police stations
TO enforce the ordinance limiting the speed
of automobiles to eight miles al hour.
John l.. Copley of Bronxville was the
first automobiles TO be arrested after these
instructions were issued. He came down
Seventh avenue in a locomobile at a speed
which Mounted Policeman Martin con-
sidered faster than the law allowed and
Martin saws that when he signalled to him
to slow down he put on more power as il
bent on getting away. The policeman
caught him after a run Of nearly ten blocks.
Coplev was arraigned in the Harlem
police court before Magistrate Zeller.
He told the Magistrate that he had been
in the habit OF riding to his business every
day at the same speed and did not know
he was going faster than the rate allowed
by law. He was inc s..
Assistant District Attorney krotel has
beer assigned 10 investigate the killing of
Henry Thies. District Attorney Jerome
said yesterday that. according TO the opin-
ion Of the Corporation Counsel. Mr.. Thomas
and his friends, having been arrested by
the police, Coroner Scholer had no right
TO release them on bail as he did.
Mr.. jerome favors a law requiring an
examination Of all Automobiles before
permitting them TO handle automobiles.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
FATHER PARDON on THE RIFLE.
HI Controyerts I.uthers Claim TO Being
First German Translator.

The Rev. William O'Brien Pardow, s. j.,
delivered the first Of a series Of four lenten
lectures, for the benefit Of the Loyola School
on Eighty-fourth street, yesterday after
noon, at the home Of Miss Leary, 3 Fifth
@ His su bicct was, The Bible at the
Beginning Of the Twentieth Century He
began with an argument against the belief
that Martin Luther vas the first to trans
late the Bible into German.
There lisa phrase familiar TO you all which
reads: III You See II in THE sun lts So,
and / am happy to state that it remained
for our great American daily 70 burst the
bubble OF disbelief regarding this most
interesting subject. About three years
ago THE SUN commented editorially on
Martin Luther's claim. and in reply TO that
editorial Father Henderson wrote an IN
teresting letter to the editor of The SUN,
setting forth the fact. and giving references
there for that there were seventeen trans
~latlons Of the Bible in the German language
before the birth of Martin Luther.
I'm a very fair and interesting answer
to the letter of Father Henderson, THE Sun
acknowledged that the only authority
in favor OF Martin Luther, was JOhnson,s
Encyclopedia out of the many records
of historical facts in the English language.
Father Pardow decla red that the Roman
Catholic Church was not opposed to the
reading of the Bible, as many supposed,
but had decreed against versions Of the
Bible which differed from the original man
uscripts in possession Of the Church.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
SAY MRS. HARDING rs BANKRUPT.
Creditors OF Her Brooklyn Furnishing
store Petition Against Her.

A creditors petition In involuntary
bankruptcy has been filed hero against
Lucy b. Harding who resides at 9sl Madison
avenue. Manhattan. and does business at
57I Fulton street ,..Broooklyn at the Harding
Manufacturing Company, dealer in mems
furnishing goods. The petition alleges
that she is insolvent, that on Feb. 0 she
transferred a part of her property TO credi-
tors whose names are unknown to the
petitioners, that she has paid some of her
creditors in full, that suits nave been begun
against her and that in order to prevent
judgments being taken she has been maxi
ing weekly and monthly payments on ac-
count, that she admitted through her at
torney that she Is insolvent, that her LA
bilities exceed $50, 900 and that the assets
do not exceed $1,000. The business was
started in 1873 by her husband. who died
in 1883, was continued by her son, Edward
l.. Harding until May, 1890, when he died.
She is the executrix Of his estate, and the
store has of late been under the manage
ment Of Duncan b. Harding, another son.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
The Weather.

There WAS a low pressure area central yesterday
over the states Of Texas and New Mexico and
another on the Newfoundland coast; elsewhere
the pressure was high. with tho principal high
centre over the upper Lake regions.
Colder weather was felt In the Lake regions and
Southw ard 10 the ohio and Tennessee valleys and
In the central and southern Rocky Mountain dis
trlrts. There has been a general Use In tcnpcra
turc In the section from North Dakota southwark
10 Texas. Freezing weather extended yesterday
a. FER south a. northern Georgia. The lowest
reported was 10 degrees below zero from Moor
head. MINI.
Light snow has fallen IN the New England States.
New York. Pennsylvania. the Lake regions. the
pakotas and Montana,
IN this city yesterday n was fair and Slightly
colder. wind hri,h northwest. average humidity
a. per cent; barometer, corrected TO read TO sea
level. Al Nj, c0.S7. 3 y. ", ?asS.
The tcmprratua yesterday, az recorded by the
ofloiAl thermometer. aud also hy 1HE SUNS thct.
momctcr at the street Level. IS shown In the an.
neIcu table:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
SOCIALIST WIND GAVE OUT.
shortage OF Takers Brought Mass Meeting
TO Sudden End.

The hall in Cooper Union was half filed
last evening in response 70 a call sent out
by the Socialist trades unions for an anti
industrial peace mass meeting. The only
speakers were Joseph W. Dooley and Will
liam MacQueen, the latter IN English
Socialist. Socialists are proverbial as
takers; but, marvellous TO say, no other
speakers could be found In the hall last
night and for that reason the meeting had
TO adjourn.
Samuel Gompers and other labor men
who attended the peace conference OF the
National Civic Federation were denounced
by the two who did talk and resolutions
condemning the arbitration movement
were passed. Then the chairman announced
that his stock of speakers had given out.
Some one recognized in the audience
Mother Jones' who came into prominence
as a leader during the Anthracite coal strike.
and there were calls for a speech from
her. She declined on the ground OF poor
health. Anarchist John Most was present
but was not asked to speak.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
no NAVE NEW DYNAMITE LAHS.
40 Tons Of the stun Exploded In the City
Every Month co. Petition to the Mayor

Sixty tone Of dynamite a month are used
In blasting in this city, and the Rapid Tran
sit Commission will petition the Mayor
10 appoint a commission Of five experts
TO draft at once new ordinances or statutes
governing the handling of the dynamite.
When the Rapid Transit Commission
met Yesterday Chief Engineer Parsons
reported that since the Park avenue ex-
plosion he had been making investigation
into tho general use OF explosives in this
city and had discovered facts that war
rant the most serious consideration by
the municipal authorities. He said that
Of the sixty tons a month which he had
found was used, although the Rapid Transit
contractors are the largest consumers,
a large percentage is used in ordinary
blasting. He went on:
As Manhattan Island north OF Twelfth
street is n handbook formation. nearly all
building operations north of that point in
yoiyc the use OF explosives. and with the
growing tendency TO make and
cellars deeper and deeper we must expect
a steady increase in the use Of explosives.
There are certain regulations imposed
by the Charter and by tho Fire Commissioner
relating TO the use Of explosives but these
The result of old laws and old regulations
which have never been subjected 10 modern
scientific analysis. As illustrating the, ar
chRic character of some Of these provisions,
The Charter Of the city refers TO explosives
Ia quarter Cask~, an evident inheritance
from tho days Of gunpowdeT: while the old
regulations of the Fire Department require
the packing of explosives In manure, which,
when dry. possesses no more virtue than an
equivalent amount Of sawdust, and Is equally
innammsbIe. Al OF these regulations.W can
b" seen, aim not so much al. preventing eN-
plo~ioUs. but by limiting tho quantity on
hand, TO keep down the effect Of an explosion
after the same has occurred. II l. evident. OF
COur~r. that the reverse should be the case,
aud that prevention in the first instance
should he the thing aimed IT.
While q battery of boilers such n u 10 be
found In any one Of the large buildings OF
New York contains far more eN plosivc energy
than SNs IN tho powder house AT forty-fit-t
sire, ard Park avenue At the time OF the
explosion, 80 well regulated are the, main
ten nee and safety Of the boilers THAI no
citizen need feel timidity ia walking about
TIA" streets although beneath HE feet IN u
most every block the possibility OF a terrible
explosion Is always present Legislation
similar 10 that. which safeguards boilers
should be applied 10 the storage Of explosive.
Dynamit" IN itself, Il properly taken care OF.
~ no more dangerous than a ST. avn boiler,
aud believe II l. perfectly possible 10 regu-
late its Use 80 a. TO prevent eN plosions.
Fire COMMISSIONS Sturgis was present
and he also said that the present ordinances
were out Of date, - the Commissioners
decided 10 petition the Mayor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
COURT AFTER ARE LEVY.
Juror Complains That He Was Abused
for Finding Against LEWIS Client.

Lawyer Abe Levy is TO be investigated
by Judge Foster OF General Sessions and
by District Attorney Jerome. Thomas
Riley, foreman Of a petit jury, told Judge
Foster yesterday that Levy had used
abusive language TO him in the court corri-
dor because his jury had convicted IA client
of Levy's. When Levy heard this, he
appeared In court, but Judge Foster cut
of his explanation, saying that the charges
would be reduced to writing and sent TO
Levy, who would then know just what he
was accused of. He can answer on Mon
day, when the Judge will hold a hearing.
Levy's client was Mrs Gussie Ohrnstein
of $50 Madison street. on trial for throwing
acid in the face Of Annie Fantellie of $50
Madison street on the night Of Aug. 1, two
years ago. Mrs. Ohrnstein was Jealous
of Miss Fantellie's influence over her hus-
band, who is a bartender, The complainant
lost her right eyo as a result. The de-
PENDANT had a small son In court. She
was convicted of assault in the second
degree and remanded for sentence. After
the verdict, Levy met Riley in the corridor.
Look at that little boy sobbing there"
said Levy. God forbid that you should
have done this wrong. | still believe in
this woman's innocence. You did a most
unjust and cruel thing; il was contrary 20
the evidence and outrageous, Rufus Choate
once said that God in his omniscience
knoweth all things, except the verdict OF a
petit jury"
TO Judge Foster Mr.. Riley said that dur
ing fourteen years Of jury service he had
always done his duty and he had just been
told that he would go home with a guilty
conscience over an unjust verdict. He
said that the jury's first ballot in the case
was IL TO | for conviction.
District Attorney Jerome said that while
n lawyer might ak to a juror about his
verdict outside Of court, II was a question
he could abuse him for It. 1evy's
partner is Henry W. Unger, who was the
Tammany candidate whom Mr.. Jerome
for District Attorney.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
POISON KILLED MISS OHLANDT.
Inquest into Death Of Young Woman Who
Died the Day Before Her Wedding.

An autopsy on the body Of Marie ohlandt
in Hoboken yesterday afternoon showed
that the young woman had died OF Paris
green poisoning. Coroner Parslow will
hold an inquest tonight.
The young woman died on Saturday.
the day before she was TO marry Charles
Content. According to Contents story
the couple were discussing the wedding
arrangements al THEW boarding house
20? Hudson street, hoboken, when Marie
complained OF cramps in the stomach.
Content went out TO get a doctor and called
AZ the Offices Of four, he says. before fnding
one willing TO 90 20 the house. BY the time
this one arrived the girl was dead No
bottle or box containing Paris green was
found in her room.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
"St RETHING" Used IRON SPREE
stock Speculation None, ~Snuandercd be-
fore n Got 10 wall street.

PORTLAND. Me, Feb. is.-Jesse Boyd Of
Springfield. Mass, son Of a member oi the
New York Stock Exchange. was bound
over % the Grand Jury in this county to-
day on a charge Of embezzlement. Young
Boyd induced Ralph Morrill, a bnckfeld'
Me, merchant, to let him have sz,Vo Tor
investment in an alleged sure thing II
the stock market, representing that he had
r,Aceiyed from his father a straight tip
about a prospective deal which would
affect certain stocks.
BOYD admits that he received me s2'Ooo'
L,,t savs !, ,yas 10 bp invested at his discrc-
ton. together with some funds OF his own;
that he went on a pr9'racted spree ana
,5at tho CONT here had no Jurisdictions
that criminal intent on Boyd part was
not proved. and tina, as their, funds wciG
10 he invested In common boyd ana NpIIm
Of embezzlement would not holn agdui~'
the respondent.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
THIEF AT LAWYER DELANO'S
Robbie His Fiat while Ills wife Was Out
on q shopping Trip.

The apartments of Lawyer William Ray
Delano at 27s7 Broadway were entered
about noon yesterday and jewelry and
money to the amount of about $500 stolen.
Mrs. Delano was out shopping. On Wednes-
day a young man called on another tenant
Of the house and asked 20 be allowed TO
inspect the plumbing. Yesterday morning
he was seen ringing the bell of the Delano
fiat. A description OF him has been given
to the police.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
THOMPSON SETON SETTLES.
Pays $40 10 the state Of Colorado and
Apologies TO the Governor.

DENVER. Colo, Feb. 49, Ernest Thompson
Seton settled all outstanding obligations
TO the State Yesterday by paying $40 for
permission to remove his pelts. He en-
gagged an attorney by wire four hours
before reaching Denver, and went direct
to the Capitol, whore he waited a hour
for the Game Commissioner He ~apologized
for offensive comment on the Governor,
which appeared In a New York interview,
but got into a quarrel will Game Warden
Bush, which. bystanders say, would have
resulted in blows had the men not been
separated.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
CANADIAN GIRL RUNAWAY.
Money All spent. So Her Hotel Lets the
Police Get Her.

Lily MERCER. is years old, was committed
TO the care Of the Children's Society by
Magistrate Meade in the Yorkville police
court yesterday until her parents in Mon
treal SEND for her. She ran away from home
on Feb. 5 and came to this city to visit a
former school friend, but lost her address.
She made the acquaintance of a young man
on the train. but he left her. She stayed
at the Grand Union Hotel till her money
gave out. Then she told the hotel clerk
that her father was Napoleon Mercier Of
IS Prince street, Montreal; her uncle, Frank
Hart. an Alderman, and John H. Bell OF the
Merchants' Bank was another relative.
The clerk wrote 10 Mr.. Bell and received a
request to hold the girl until some one
could come for her. He sent her TO the
police.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
MAKES The JURORS SLEEPY.
HANDWRITING TESTIMONY IN
PATRICK TRIAL rs DULL.
Prosecuting Attorney Sharply Interrupts
His Own Witness. and Afterward
Frankly Admits That He Did So Merely
to Keep the Folks In Court Awake.

ns VWu NItneSs, anu AIteFWhT0
Frankly Admits That He Did So Merely
TO Keep Tho Folks In Court Awake.
Albert S.. Osborn Of Rochester. the first
Of the nine handwriting experts h are
to be called by the prosecution in the Patrick
murder trial, was on the witness stand all
day yesterday in Recorder COTS court.
He lectured from hour TO hour with but
few questions from the Assistant District
Attorney to interrupt him. At least one
Of these Interruptions. as the prosecuting
attorney very frankly told the court. was
TO prevent folks from going to sleep.
The faces of all the jurors were hidden be-
hind their big albums of photographed sig
natures, which are Just as good as a school
boys geography to hide a yawn or even a
stolen snooze. The witness was In the middle
of a long description Of a simulated dot over
a simulated IL
Are you sure Of that?' shouted the prose-
cutting attorney, as he jumped toward the
witness.
The twelve albums dropped on as many
pairs Of knees in the jury box.
Il object, exclaimed Mr.. Moore, of counsel
for the defence. Il object to the Assistant
District Attorney cross-examining his own
@Your Honor explained the Assistant
District Attorney. Il interrupted the wit
ness because / don't want everybody to go
to sleep. Mr.. Moore knows that very
well; That's why he objects to the inter
ruption.'
The expert reiterated his opinion ex-
pressed on the stand on Tuesday to the
effect that the alleged signatures of
William NJ Rice. whom Patrick is accused
OF numbering. are forged signatures. He
various reasons for that opinion in
the course Of his days talk. The most
tangible was that the signatures on the -four
checks, by means of which Patrick tried to
get $l60 600 Of Rice's money on the day
following the ~latter's death, are exactly
alike with reference to measurements
between corresponding points. These four
said the witness. were all made
from the same model, but he could not tell
whether they were made by tracing or
by copying.
Thu expert also testified that of ninety
eight genuine signatures Of Mr., Rice he
had found no two alike with reference to
measurements.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
PARK FOLKS VACCINATED.
General Muster OF the Employees and
Scratching OF Arms.

Inspectors from the Board Of Health went
10 the Arsenal in Central Park yesterday
and va~ccinated the employees. The ma
irons who nave charge of the Park cottages
and the keepers of the menagerie were
vaccinated with the rest.
Only four cases Of the disease were re-
ported TO the Health Board yesterday
and no deaths were noted. Last week
there were nearly "a 900 vaccinations. but
il is expected that the number this week
will exceed 50, 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
WIFE SUING {. *. BARKER.
Wants the Alimony Promised In Their
Agreement to Live Apart.

Eva Barker has brought an action in tho
Supreme Court TO compel her husband,
Charles b. Barker. to live up to articles Of
separation which they executed in January,
1894. Under them he was to pay her $500
that year and 5000 a year thereafter.
She saws he has not paid the quarterly
installment due last June, Barker has
asked that the trial he delayed until he
arrives from Florida next month. lie
formerly lived in Central Valley. His
answer declares hat his wife has mo-
Tested him, contrary 10 the provisions of
The agreement.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
Porter Battery Company Restrained.

Judge Lacombe of the United States
Circuit Court has granted a temporary in
junction against the Porter Battery Com
pany of Chicago, which IS being sued by
the Electric Storage Battery Company for
infringement on the patent Of the Brush
battery. The order to show cause why the
Injunction should not be made permanent
pending the trial Of the action is ~returnable
on Feb. 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
FORECAST FOR TO
10 MORROW.

WARRINGTON FORECAST FoR TO-DAY Ann
10 MORROW.
For eastern NSr lofk, eastern psnnspirapt3
NoT JerscV and nHlwafS, panty doudg 10 dav.
probably sHOw by NIGHT s1oU 10 '7orror. fresh norm
stnds. becoming northeast.
For New England, 'alr 10 day; cloudy. with
snow In south portion TO morrow. fresh nouhwrS,
to north winds becoming northeast.
For the District ~ Columbia, Man land and
Increasing cloud!ncs, TO day. probabl,
snow IN the afternoon NJ at night. Saow to nofrou
fresh north winds. becoming northeast.
iof western rcnnsy lyanis aud western N,v
Nork. partly cloudy to day. probably snow spo,y
so morrow fresh north 10 norlhsAs, winds.