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New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
WILL FIGHT THE BEEF TRUST
PHILADELPHIA MEAT DEALERS ORGANIZE
IN A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION.
rRy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l


PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-Iocal meat dealers
driven to desperation by the constantly increasing
demands of the meat trust. have taken the hrst
decided steps in policy OF reprisal against H.
They have organized the Philadelphia Live STOCK
Association and will at once begin vigorous cam
naign of education among the farmers OF Ian
caster County It is Of the aims of the new
organization to interest farmers and other growers
of live stock in State in reviving the live STOCK
and dressed meat industries, which nave peen
practically abandoned since the invasion oi the
trust In this way it c hoped TO place Philadelf'ha
bevond danger of future "squeezes by the west
ern nagnates, by increasing the supply OF Eastern
beef to quantity sufficient to meet local demands
Stems will also be taken to obtain laws 10 govern
the sale of meat and meat products in the state
and to stimulate cooperation and mutual DETER
roent of PENNSYLVANIA dealers.
A charter for the company Will prooaoiy
ne granted during the coming week No time Will
he lost in pursuing a vigorous and bitter cam
naign The warfare will be under the direction OF
the following Board of officers: David b. Martin
president of the Philadelphia AbattolT association
nresident: Leslie McCandess, OF Mco coanuIess e
fleming vice president: j. z. Hendriekson, treas
urer and Frank r. Shattuck, in whose oince the
ORGANIZATION was effected, secretary. with the
business and financial standing or its members te
association hopes to obtain l,vD recruits III the
state and to become powerful FACTOR IN Ieeis-
iative action governing meat and pure food laws
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.
A JURY OBTAINED IN SO MINUTES.
JERSEY MURDER TRIAL BEGUN YESTERDAY
EXPECTED TO END TO-DAY

Hackensack, April 15 (SpeciaD.-What promises
to be of the shortest murder trials on record
began in the Bergen County courts at Hackensack
before Supreme Court Justice Dixon at 10 O'Clock
this morning when Peter Hernia. of Wallington
placed trial for the murder of Bernard
Kanter. a butcher. of that place. Thirty-three
minutes after the opened jury had been
selected, with John H Van Thun, of River Edge,
foreman.
Prosecutor Ernest Koester in addressing the
jury said he expected a conviction of murder be-
there provocation whatever for the
crime. He said he would show that the murder
premeditated. and that Hernia was heard to
make threats to fix Kanter few minutes before
the deed committed
Hernia was called a last witness for the de,
that prevailed along the Passaic river at the time
of the tragedy. The alleged murderer said he could
remember nothing from Sunday afternoon. March
2, until about two weeks after he had been a
prisoner in the Hackensack jail Hernia said his
mind complete blank during that period, and
that he remembered nothing about the shooting
and did not know that he had killed kanter
Prosecutor Koester showed the prisoner the re-
volver which used to kill Kanter, but though
he identified it, he said the last time he remem-
bered seeing it last New Years When asked
said it fright from the flood. The case closed
at o'clock.
Both sides will up tomorrow morning. and
Judge Dixon will charge the jury before noontime
A verdict is expected before o'clock tomorrow
evening.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
OFFERS TO BUILD FOR CITY.
GEORGE w VANDERBILT MAKES PRofo-
sTTIoN TO PUT UP BOROUGH BUILD
ING IN RICHMOND

Talbot Root counsel for George w NanoeI
filt appeared before the Borough Board III 81
George yesterday with proposition for a ooi =
ough building to be put up by Mr.. Nanderpht il
stapleton on the Vanderbilt homestead property.
He said that Mr.. Vanderbilt would PUT up On
the Vanderbilt property, at Bay-st. and Union
Place Sfapleton or on a plot directly oppoSiVe'
in Bay-st adjoining the Bank of Staten lsiaho'
a fireproof building Of brick and iron on piahs
furnished by the city Il would be ready for &C
cupancy he said. on May /, l9o5
The city must take a lease Of the bullolhs Iol
ten wears at Ga per cent of the actual cost oL
The building and value of the land. After i've
wears. and before the expiration Of the lease the
city must buy the building at cost ana the
value Of the land. During the term OF the led7e
the city must pay the taxes and assessments
and water charges cost of lighting and healhs
and keep the building in repair. The cost OF lhe
building would depend entirely upon lhe PlaAs
furnished by the city. az,,u ora
AT present the offices of borough oHlclals ar
an three buildings The Borough Bulldllg ia
New Brighton is the headquarters OF most VI
fhe heads OF departments, While the bui Va
Arrears has its office in another bulldlng fIesl
dent Cromwell has his office in ST George, anu anu
IL is proposed to erect building IN SlaPie- 90
large enough to accommodate dii Niie -
ficials .-, +r,a
The Borough Board could not act upon uie ~
proposition and President Cromwen Salu II
would be submitted to the Sinking fuho I'm 80 =
mission as soon possible. MI Ndhueio oii' -
at present in Europe
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
IMPROVING GOVERNOR'S ISLAND.
WORK ALREADY BEGUN-To BE ONE OF
THE FINEST PARKS IN THE WORLD.

The first step In the accomplishment of the con-
templated improvement of Governors Island re-
ferred to in a Washington dispatch yesterday. has
been taken, and is well under way. The enlarge
ment of the island decided upon two years ago.
and the retaining wall for 1t has been partially
constructed The work done far has been all
under water The material for the wall was fur
nshed by the subway contractors. The enlarge
ylent is being made the south side of the island
On this side there is triangular shoal of ninety
acres in extent formed by the channel of the East
River and the Buttermilk Channel. This is to be
filled IN The total acreage of the island when this
is done will be hundred and fifty acres.
planned to have Accommodations for all the
officers of the post and garrison. comprising
regiment and battalion. There will also be large
storage warehouses and wharfs for the accom-
modatfon of several transports A feature will be
a parade ground large enough to furnish camping
ground for FIVE thousand soldiers. In case of war
this camping ground would be of great value; II is
believed II is asserted that everything will be
done to beautfy the island, and that there will be
no army post in the world equalsto II in many re-
snects Several years will elapse before the COM
pietion of the plan which has been drawn by c. F.
McKin and is being considered by Secretary Root
The Sundry Civil bill as reported to the Senate
in Washington yesterday carried an item of $26OOOO
for the project.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
HARRIET MEN LOSING TRADE.
AwAY-VEGETABLES. FISH AND POUL-
TRY HIGHER IN SYMPATHY"

It is estimated that the trade Of retail butchers
who supply poor families with meat has fallen off
from 25 30 per cent the result of prevailing
high prices. A West Broadway dealer said yes
terday that so great had been the falling off that
he was running behind many dollars day Sew
eral wholesale meat dealers said that they expect
ed higher rates within the next sixty days
IF you could tell when the prices will turn
back said butcher yesterday, Il could make
great deal of money. There is no doubt that the
meat trust is squeezing the people, yet there is
truth in their complaint that the big four
has had pay out high prices for cattle. Good
beef is growing scarcer, though large shipments
continue to arrive every day. l should not be
prsed If the present scale of prices continued for
six months
A member OF an old Fulton Market firm yester-
day complained that his business running be-
hind several hundred dollars a day in consequence
of the imitation of prices
In some cases beef costs the poor 10 cents
a pound more than il did A short time Lamb
and mutton continue TO mount upward, and house
holders are wondering when 1t will end
Vegetables have responded sympathetically to
the advance of beef Market men say that fish
and poultry within the last weeks been
added TO the list and that the end of the rise in
prices has not been reached
Renovated butter is selling at q cents and 80
cents and choice creamery butter at 81 cents, which
adds 10 the woes of the thrifty housewife
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
WEALTHY WOMAN INSANE?
COMMISSIONER APPOINTED TO INQUIRE
INTO MENTAL CONDITION OF
MRS. WARREN.

Proceedings have been begun by the relatives of
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter Ludlow Warren. a wealthy
woman who lives in New-Rochelle. TO have her
committed TO asylum it is said that she is
insane and incompetent 10 manage her property.
Mrs. Warren's husband is already In asylum.
Since the papers served her few days
ago, Mrs. Warren. who is sixty-hve years old and
eccentric has refused 10 leave her cottage at No.
10 Locust-ave, New Rochelle where she lives alone.
Neighbors say that she has barricaded the doors
and windows and is so frightened that she will
not out. Trouble is expected next week when
she is brought before a sherifs jury which is to
inquire into her competency.
Mrs Warren property in NewYork City
valued $4,000 and it is said that she has about
$4,000 cash in the banks. She rnagines that some
enemy is trying take her property away from
her and also that she is the mother of a boy. al
though she never had child. She says she has
the boy hidden in the attic of her home, and VIII
allow any to enter for fear they VIII spirit
him away
Westchester and a member of a famous family OF
that name. She is also related to the Hunters an
other old and aristocratic family. She mas always
peer she as asopfsbed an her relatives and
friends by MARRYING Louis P Warren. New York
u &C. aid that when Warren met Miss Ludlow he
On Of fiathomses The policeman man Of fine
10 her relatives. fell desperately in love with hlIl
finally obtained divorce from his wife and mar,
ried her After the wedding the polcemdn tuI Into
in his shield and with nis bride went TO Ne"-ho-
The lived together until 1890 when Warren be-
the fashionable women in America and Europe
We're rnadly in love with him One night ne Ian "a n
once in charge to loan to him an automobe SO
that he could go over on Davenport Neck & and and
marry Miss IselIn; He also said that he was en-
pared TO Miss Helen Gould.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
TO GUARANTEE MORIA GES
A CONCERN WITH A CAPITAL oF
s1.Oo0.ooo INCORPORATED.

Albany, April 16-Articles of incorporation OIL
the New-York Mortgage and Security company
of New York City have been filed with the state
Superintendent of Banks. The capital is Hl'oVo'-
900, and the directors are Charles l. Barney
c. H. Burdett. E. NJ. Burghard, John ID. Crlfh-
Minis James A Deering William F. Havemeyer
J. B. Hadskin c. r. James William Jay. T. D.
Levey, Peter Mcdonnell T. F. Miller, Anore"
Mills Charles W. Morse W. G. Hannah, r IA
Pendleton, +. A. Philbin, II. r. Steele, OahleISh
Thorne, Warner Van Norden and George Ia
briskie.
John D Crimmins one of the directors, SAID
last evening at his home. No. 40 East Sixty
eighth-st. to a Tribune reporter:
This new company is connected and mixed IN
with the existent Title Insurance Company OIL
New-York. You will notice several men are ol-
rectors in both companies. But the title COM
pany was authorized under the insurance laws
and this company has been authorized under the
general law Its purpose Will be TO guaraptee
mortgages and interest on mortgages Inc meet
ing for election of officers and general org anna
tion will he held tomorrow afternoon IN the
title company's Offices at No. l49 broadway
The men who are directors in both companies
are Messrs Barney, Burdett, Burghard. Grim
minis. Deering Havemeyer. Levey, Miller, Morse
Pendleton. Steele and Zabriskie.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
cO1ruRI4 ANNUAL FELLOWSHIPS
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR THE AcA-
DEMIC YEAR MAKES AWARDS

The annual fellowshps in Columbia o ohl'ersi'y
were awarded yesterday by the university couhcli
for the academic year. Recipients or the hohor
come from MANY parts of the United States anu
even from Germany and England. There were over
two hundred applicants for the eighteen unVersitS
scholarships Awards made the following
NEWCOMERS:
University fellowships-Walter Ernest Ciarh'
economies. Michael Marks Davis. Jr'' SOCIOLOGY !,
Percy Hughes. philosophy, and Henry husse'
Spencer American history. Alternates-froH lhe
faculty of philosophy, Harry Hull ST Clair' zd'
lingustics from the faculty of political sclence,
Daniel Lawrence Peacock statistics, ana FreSerFed
Smith. European history -. fo,,o-,-
Other awards were follows: honorary leio"
ships Royal Meeker finance Newly ork Clty ana Ir
Henry Raymond Mussey economies AIklllSon III III
Endowed felowships: For the Jonm ~ tyhEar Rarnard
fellowship, John Alexander Mathews. He"si cl9an
for the Schif fellowship. George CharieS soe,uen'
Northwood Ridge, N H. for the l)rlsler IeIiow
shin Harwood Hoadley, New York; for the Mosen.
thai feowship Frank Edwin Ward. Rye n. =
for the Carl Schurz fellowship, John LOUIS hh1, 40
Omaha Neb.: for the Proud1t Fellowship IN Let,
ters John Erskine. New-York and the annual al
fellow ship. william Jones. anthropology, sac ana
Fox Agency, Oklahoma.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
DIES AT FORTUNE TELLER'S.
WHILE WAITING HER TURN WOMAN I.
STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY.


STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY
A woman who died in the house of Morri,
Lowey, a fortune teller, at No. I PSI Garden-st
Hoboken, on Tuesday, was identified yesterday
as Mrs. Arthur Jaeger. forty-one years old OF
No 100 Bleecker-st-. Jersey City Heights Ths
Identification made by her husband. who is
the proprietor of heating and ventilating works
in Jersey City.
Mrs Jaeger went to Lowey's house to have
her fortune told There were several women
ahead of her. and she had to wait some
time. At last Lowey came out of an inner room,
and motioned to her. He says that as he d;d
so she fell back in her chair and became nm.
conscious. He called his wife to assist him ar5
then sent for Drs. Zenneck and Lewis When
they arrived the woman was dead
Mr.. Jaeger says that after supper on TUESDAY,
his wife asked him where Garden-st was nav
ing that she wanted to make call there Hs
told her how to get there, and sne went away.
AS she did not return he became greatly excited
and yesterday informed the police Of her disan
pearance. He told that an unknown woman
had died suddenly in the house in Cfarden-st
and, going there, identified the body as thar of
his wife County Physician Converse ascribed
the woman's death to apoplexy.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
RELIEVE ADAM AND EVE MYTHS.
TWO CANDIDATES FOR MINISTRY FAIL TO
SATISFY PREsBYTERY OF ELIZABETH.

TWO CANDIDATES FOR MINISTRY FAIL TO
SATISFY PREsBTTERY OF ELIZABETH
Elizabeth y. J.. April 1s tSpeciaD.-After lively
discussion lasting nearly three hours, the Presby
,erv Of Elizabeth which closed its two days spring
conference at the Second Presbyterian Church this
afternoon was unable to decide to whether It
ough. 10 admit two young cclesians TO the min
sstrv and took an adjournment Until April 8. when
,he fate Of the applicants Will be decided. Had a
vote been reached to-day. judging from the ex-
nressions of opinion given by members OF the con-
ference every of whom was called upon by
Moderator Mendenhall TO declare his position on
rhe important Subject, the candidates would al
most certainly have been rejected. on the ground
that they had failed to pass satisfactory exam
ination in theology.
The candidates for license to preach were GIL
bert Lowell. a graduate from Yale in the class
of 1900 and now a middeman .n Hartford Theolog-
from Union College. at Schenectady, n. Y, in the
class of 'ss and now a senior in Union Theological
Seminary. New-York City Both young men belong
70 the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Plainfeld Lowell three years ago was transferred
10 the Presbyterian from the Congregational de-
nomination. Wright has been for ten years Pres
6vterian Both candidates startled the staid old
pre- ,hs, Adam and Eve were pure myths
would YOU preach that to your congregation?
asked the venerable Dl. j. A Leggett OF Rah-
So was the reply Of each candidate: but
that's cur belief and that is what we were asked.
..Do you believe the whole human race descend
ed from q single pair
Yes" was the response -
How do you regard the doctrine Of evolution? !?
pair from which the human descended was
In low state OF civilization.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
SAYS HE BEAT LOEB BY TEN 1EAhS
DR. BLEYER DECLARES HE Dissolve Erred
THE THEORY OF ANIMAL ELECTRIC
ITY DECADE AGO.

At meeting of the Medico-Legal Society iast
evening at the Waldorf DR.. j. Mount Bleyer
read paper on THE Phenomena or ELECTRICITY
and Light, with Remarks on Professor Loeb's
Discoveries" in which he asserted that he dis
covered the theory of Professor Loeb almost ten
years ago. In support of this assertion Dr.
Bleyer read extracts from paper which he said
he had had published in THE Scientific Amerf-
can" supplements of September II and 1S 1897.
The announcement caused some surprise. The
part of the paper referring to the discovery of
Professor Loeb is in part follows:
The existence of animal electricity Is acknowl-
edged. Its origin and action, however, are the
points upon which observation-disclosures are not
quite clear. Those who have given the subject
some consideration dismiss it by establishing its
connection between chemical action, heat and
animal electricity. They rest contented in dis
c11ssing the three conditions. without attach
ing the slightest importance TO the precedence
of one or the other of them. Chemical action, we
are told, evolves heat, and so tissue metamor-
phosis and oxidation go on. They are satisfied
with the evidences of the existence of animal
electricity, that it can be measured and that
it Is one of the great trinity upon which life
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
TO CONDENN WATERWORKs
JUSTICE GUMMERE APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS
FOR EAST ORANGE

JUSTICE GUMMERE APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS
FOR EAST ORANGE.
Orange. April IS (SpeciaD.-Chef Justice Gum.
mere to-day appointed commissioners to con.
denim the distributing system and local franchise
OF the Orange Water Company, in East Orange
Arnz Dodd and Thomas Oakes. Of Bloomfield and
Eugene Vanderpool. OF Newark. East Orange
wants to secure this property, but has declined to
pay ss00.0e0 the price set by the company. Thers
will probably be spirited contest over the aues-
tion Of cost.
OF the commissioners Mr.. Dodd was until recently
president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company. and is now it's general counsel He was
formerly a vice-chancellor and judge of the
Court OF Appeals. Mr.. Oakes Is president of the
Bloomfield National Bank, and Mr. Nanderpool is
president of the Howard Savings Bank. an en-
gineer and treasurer of the Essex County Park
Commission
The counsel for the water company are Joseph
L. Mum and Alonzo Church. the former being
counsel and the latter secretary of the County
Park Commission. Richard V. Lindabury is asso-
eiate counsel with City Counsel Woodruff for East
Orange.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
FELLOWSHIP FOR COLUMBIA.
,,u,tRzRS OF DIR. GOTTHEIL'S CON
GREGATION TO FOUND ONE
IN HIS HONOR.

The seventy-ffth anniversary OF the Oh o III -, ~,
the Rev. DIR. Gustav Gotthei, on May 20, WIN
be commemorated by the congregation VI -
pie Emanuel by founding 1eho"0p -,
$4,000 at Columbia University 1hls sum
he raised by a popular subscription among the
membership of the congregation anu Il ie"N
the rabbi who not members.
DR. Gottheil has been rabbi emeritus OF Ieih-
ple Emanuel for three years, and has oeeh d as
ISOLATED with the Temple for generatioii ~ =;
fore coming to New-York he had cAal &c III
Manchester, England. ,o 80
The members of the committee IN charse " VI
tho fellowship fund are Albert F. Hochstadter.
honorary secretary and trustee; Efnahuei Le
man and Henry Bulge.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
vTRPHYS DETECTIVES UPHELD.

Under decision rendered by Justice Gildersleeve
In the Supreme Court yesterday the ninety detec-
tive sergeants appointed by Police Commissioner
Murphy Just before he went out of office prior to
the incoming of the present reform administration
need not pass a Civil Service examination and
cannot be removed from their places. The new
municipal Civil Service Commission declined to
certify the detectives appointed by Murphy on the
payroll, and Detective Sergeant Lahey applied for
a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the
commissioners to do So also naming as respondents
Police Commissioner Partridge and Controller
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
WILL NOT RESUME BOND BUYING.

Leslie NJ Shaw, Secretary Of the Treasury spent
some time in Assistant Treasurer Jordan's office
here yesterday.
My original purpose in coming here. he said.
was TO dine tonight with Lord Revelstoke, but
there are always plenty of things here worthy Of
study. ] shall return to Washington tonight"
In answer TO direct questions, he said that there
was no present intention Of resuming bond pur-
chases by the government, though there was no
telling what might be done later. and that there
were to be no changes in the baggage rules right
away.
Lord Revelstoke and Thomas Barring, who have
been In this country for some time Will start for
home tomorrow the Deutschland.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
TO COMBINE BOXBOARD INTERESTS.

Dean & Shibley, bankers of this city, are the
prime movers in a plan to combine the boxboard
interests of the country. From thirty-ive to forty
of leading of the Northern States. all
the way from Maine to Illinois, are expected to
enter the consolidation.
Experts have made very complete appraisals of
the value of the various plants and have sub
mittcd reports the underwriting syndicate. In
der the terms of the agreement the combined com
panies must have aggregate daily output OF at
least two hundred and fifty tons. This amount has
already been assured, it is said.
The boxboard industry includes such products as
wood pulp board. news board, combination board
straw board. ground wood and sulphte and soda
fibres. Complete details of the proposed consolda-
ton will be announced in about fortnight.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
BIssERT IN TOMBs CELL AGAIN.

Judge Newburger sitting in Part l. General Ses-
sions, yesterday afternoon, signed order direct
ing the warden of Sing Sing Prison to release
George Blssert. the former wardman of the Fifth
St police station. who convicted of bribery
and sentenced to a term of Imprisonment and a
fine 8, 600. The order at once given to a
messenger. who hurried away TO Sing Sing. AS
possible after Bissert's arrival in this city
a motion will be made TO bail him out Bssert ar
rived here last evening In charge OF Deputy Sheriff
Kelly.
He reached the Tombs between and o'clock
and put in his old cell for the night
In all probability bail will be fixed this morn
New-York tribune., 1902-04-17
BURIAL OF DIR. TALUAGE-

The Rev. Dr. r De Witt Talmage buried
yesterday morning in the family plot. in Green
wood Cemetery. The body brought from
Washington on Wednesday night. service was
read at the grave and brief address made
by the Rev. DR.. Howard Suyoam
The plate the coffin IN which Dr.. Talmase was
plate the coffin IN which DR.. Talmage was
buried bore this inscription: Thomas De Witt
Talmage- January Z. lsS2-April r. 1902" Dr. Tai
mages grave is between those of his two dead
wives and that of his twentyyear-old son.
who bore his Christian name.