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New-York tribune., 1902-12-29

cattle and fatten them il. for il is excellent
feed when mixed with little grain
These latter items by means insignlh-
cant II ths factory is properly managed, ana
VIII add enough to its income to make - cents
a pound a safe estimate to the average cost
or making beet sugar in this country The
prices have stated have been paid by Oxnard
both at his Grand Island and Norfolk factories
IN Nebraska for years. At time. however
his managers deducted such an enormous per
Indignation against them. That has made II
necessary for the company to raise its own
beets
HAVEMEYER SAID TO BE BUYING.
There is considerable talk in Congress and
of the beet sugar industry by the American
Sugar Refining Company. Senator Rawlins, of
Utah, is authority for the statement that the in
dustry in his State has lost interest because of
the belief that it is largely predominated by the
so-Called Sugar Trust. Prominent authorities
on the subject say that the American Sugar Re-
fining Company controls seven of the beet sugar
factories in Michigan and has 4 large interest
In fourteen. The publishers of THE Sugar
Trade Journal say that definite inforna-
tion is obtainable except from Mr. Havemeyer
himself and he will not supply it because he is
quietly buying up beet sugar stock wherever he
find it. and is unwilling to make public his
success in this direction for obvious reasons.
There are friends Of the beet sugar an
dustry who apprehensive lest its promoters
reveal themselves to be too SraSpinS ana so 1oi :
felt public sympathy. Secretary Wilson, VINO
might almost be called the father of the induS.
try in this country, has so expressed hlnseit
on several occasions as to give rise to the belief
that he entertainS such fears
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
SAYS HE KILLS CATTLE TO SAVE LOSS.

Boston Dec. 2s- DR.. Salmon. chief OF the United
States Bureau Of Animal Industry. has issued a
statement regarding the prosecution of the work OF
exterrninating the and mouth disease. and espe-
ciaIy in answer to the efforts of certain persons
who have systema tically tried to work up senti-
meut against the killing of the herds affected He
says:
We are Obliged to face the fact that there are
only two to pursue Either the diseased
animals must all be killed off and the contagfon
stamped out Immediately. thus relieving the state
quarantine restrictions at the earliest poSSinle
moment or we must sit down and watch the disease
and try to prevent its spreading by quarantine.
How long the quarantine would he prolonged In
that case. and how much the disease would spread
cannot possibly foretOd, 1t is certain. however
that everything which delays the operation of Kill
ing and disinfection will proong the quarantine 1ust
to the extent that such work is delayed. and the
100000 day loss. more or less, to the state VIII
continue for correspondingy longer period .
I'D to the present time thirteen hundred neau OF
cattle have been slaughtered I'm Massachusetts ana
II the work goes on as il should. with continued
cooperation from the State officials and with q
friendly public sentiment. all of the known infected
herds should be killed and disposed of within the
newt week or ten days. There Is every reason to
believe that this will he accomplished
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
DR.. HALLS SERMON FOR NEW YEAR.
New Pastor of the Church Of the Divine Pa
ternity Urges Cheerfulness.

At the Church of the Divine Paternity, Seventy
sixth-st and Central Park West. the Rev. DR.
Frank O. Hall. the pastor. yesterday morning
preached sermon for the old and year
The church is prosperous, and DR.. Hall, who is an
eloquent speaker and ardent worker, is expected
to have great success in his ministry Taking
his text from Psalm cxi@. DR.. Hall began
by quoting wordsworth's lines describing "a man
of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.'
who" asked Dr.. Hall would not be such
man. Ee continued in part
This phrase sums up about all there is of happi-
ness Life consists largely of memory and antici-
# the memory is filled with pleasant recolIectons
snt ills may be borne With serenfty. H. however
memory is burdened with painful thoughts and the
future filled with fear then no circumstances can
brig Ing, happiness ppm o ,u -.,,, ,....or,,,.o
to-days. Tomorrow this day viii have become a
eording as It has been lived worthily '' or unwor
hy 1t is n9t that that one should % have Ave G
difficulties of lives. Meet difficulty manfuty
and the very fact will give joy to recollection. Be
overcome by evil. and memory will he taint upon
IS to win cheerful yesterdays by living manfully
gains the desired confidence in law and in himself
%h he laws Of Samony Th engneefs
son Wh0 ARE to ongs hs @ Kno hs h ad as
mathematical law. SO II is with the moral law
ness; Speak truth, and lou shall win confidence in
truth. Obey God. and YOU shall win confidence in
the providence of God. The only possible way to
overcome the worries of life the anxieties the
future. Is to learn to trust God. If God is
father and friend, then the future can have no
terrors ard even death will have lost its sting.
The Offering was in aid of the Hospital Saturday
and Sunday Fund The service In recognition OF
DIR. Hall pastor Of the church will take place
next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock The principal
parts will he taken by the Rev. Drs. ]. NJ Pull
man, ]. 9, Adams W s. Grove and Merle St G.
Wright, and Henry :. Hebert.
special feature of the services at the Church Of
the Divine Paternity is its choir. Resides J. War
!en Andrews the organist, this includes. in add-
ton to the ChOrUs, a quartet composed of EsteIIe
Harris. soprano; Cornea W. Marvin contralto;
Albert Quesnel, tenor, and Gwylym Miles, bass.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
GREEK coNsUL's ROUGH TREATMENT.
Pool, Not Knowing Him, Ordered Him To
Leave Bridge.

Demetrius y. Botass. the Greek Consul Cen
eral in this city. went to the Tombs court yes
terday morning to get protection from the al
legged annoyance of Greek named Eraskervas
After long line of "drunks' and "disorderles"
had been disposed OF. Mr. Botassi pushed his
way up to the bridge and attempted to speak to
Magistrate Pool.
Put that man away cried the magistrate
pointing to Mr.. Botassi Mccartney Ito the
court officer the BRIDGE, put that man
down.
The officer did as he 6idden, and Mr.
Botassi, indignant at this treatment, went TO
the back part of the courtroom. Later he sent
his card to Magistrate Pool. When he saw
who the consul general was. Magistrate Pool
listened to him and remarked: Why don't
you come around and once in a while:
We have lots of Greeks here, and we need
good interpreter.
Mr. Botassi explained that Eraskervas had
been annoying him for several months, ana
Magistrate Pool sent Eraskervas away Tor
three months.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
"cHRISTMAs AND cHANUcHA."

christmas and Chanucha. a Parallel and a
Difference in the Celebration of the Midwinter
Festival" the subject of the sermon of the
Rev Dr. Siverman in Temple Emanuel yesterday.
DR.. Siverman began by pointing out that from a
time beyond the range of history all peoples have
observed some festival at midwinter. have made
merry, decorated their houses with evergreen and
exchanged greeting and gifts. He said IT evil
dent that the common custom must have a common
background. He continued:
The Christian Christmas is a concession to heath
enism. 1t commentaries the birth of the Man OF
God. Christmas is day which preachers seek
to operate between man and God; that that day
the Eternal One sent to die in order to
them. Christmas is a season peculiarly given over
to rejoicing. All the forms of merrfment SYM
bos to enforce the Christian teachings. lights
used to symbolic that Christ is the light of the
victory of the Jews over heathenism. 1t is not
concession to but victory over the heathen The
lights kindle are not 10 commemorate the birth
of God the superstitionS of heather
peoples but to teach the doctrine that Jehovah is
God ard that He has mediator between
Himself and man. The two teachings of the festival
are directly opposite. We deny the Trinity We
deny all human mediatorship. all kinds of mediator
ship between God and man. We deny that any
any other and deny any proof OF
salvation by righteousness and individual effort.
The lights kindie the flames from pure
soul upward God. symbolic of the pure soul that
burns in purity and can only be quenched in i'm
purity.
Notwithstanding this theological difference the
world. Both teach peace on earth, goodwill to ali
men
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
THE SCIENCE OF GIVING.

The Rev. Thomas r. slicer preached yesterday
morning in All Souls Church The Passing of
the Old Year and In part said
The new heaven and the earth depend upon
the man and the new woman. There signs
of the coming of a new and the passing of the
old Humanity Is acquiring a new way of looking
upon divine things. New terms have into
use We to-day speak of applied science. we have
passed from the field of speculative practical
science. We test views by their performance
low. With all the accumua tions that belong TO
this age OF marvellous achievements. the very
achievements by which capital Is massed together
for its ends there is awakened the thought that
there is a force at work in the world. i new
science has into use-the rich have learned to
give away their money. During the last ten years
post graduate courses have been taken in the SCI
ence OF getting rid of wealth. and the consequence
is that have age of unexampled benevoience
Some few still clinging to their money but al
most everything but the Church Of God is the re-
cpient of a marvellous outpourng of wealth. and
the Church has not done the things which she has
promised TO do. \ higher type OF manhood has
come into being.
l suppose all things in the beginning were made
out of God. but we have three distinct classes OF
human beings to-day. People either the being.
the doing or the having kind claim We haven't
any business in this world except the making of a
human soul; everything else is contrihutive.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
DEFENDS HOUSE AGAINST ENEMY.
Aged Veteran Becomes Insane and Shoots
at Imaginary Foe.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TErBUNE-1

Kingston n. y, Dec. 2S.-Colonel G. D. West
brook of the best known of the older cltl-
of this place, became violently insane at his
home, in Fair-st.. this morning, and, sefzlng a
rifle began firing through the front door and
windows. shouting: There they come! The
enemy is coming!
His daughters and other inmates of the mouse
fed and alarmed the neighbors- Recorder car
penter who lives across the street. went TO their
assistance among Others and narrowly missed
injury from the firing of the crazed man. After
a struggle he was captured by officers and taken
to the hospital.
Colonel Westbrook is more than eighty years
old He has been somewhat feeble in health for
the last few years but mental trouble was
noticed until Christmas. He is the only sur
viving brother of the late Judge T. r West
brook and served i'm the Civil War. He went
out with the Tooth New-York Volunteers be-
came lieutenant colonel AND commanded the
regiment during part of the battle of Gettys-
burg in which he was wounded He is a civil
engineer by profession. and had charge OF ROAD
construction near Fredericksburg, Va
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
BOWERS APPEALS FOR AID.

Georgetown. KY. Dec. 2s.-Caleb Powers, ex-
Secretary of State. who has had two trials and
now awaits in jail here his third trial for COM
plicftV in the murder of Governor William Coebel
to-day issued the following appeal to the public:
7 have recently had written a number of letters
TO different States asking for financial aid IN my
coming trial for alleged completely in the Goebel
murder. A portion of the press through mis-
understanding OF the facts. attempted TO thWart
nv plan for raising the much needed money with
which TO defend myself by circulating a report
that these letters genuine. because signed
by different persons for me. 1t is true that many
of the letters signed by different persons os
cause ii was impossible for one person to send
them out in the limited time before my next trial
hut all of these letters are genuine. I have been
continuously in the jails of this state for nearly
three years My means are exhausted. The gem
erositv of Kentucky has been taxed to the utmost
in my former so-called trials; In a few weeks [
am again be tried for my life; hence my appeal
now TO my friends outside of Kentucky.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
DR.. SAVAGE RAPS EDEN THEORY.
Says Science Has Proved, Beyond All Intel
ligent Question, Mans Evolution.

Taking as his topic The Problem OF EVIL the
Rev. DR.. Mlnot j. Savage preached yesterday morn
ing at the Church of the Messiah. His text was
from the third chapter of Genesis the seventeenth
eighteenth and nineteenth verses. He said in part
When we start to improve the world. to save men
from sin and evil what do find? One great
branch of the Church says: You must submit to
my authority; you must become member of my
communion; you must join In my rites you must
partake of my Sacraments; if you do not there is
hope for you. hope for the world Another
branch says. You must accept my creed" Another
says, You must be baptized according to my
method Another You must he spiritually
wrought up in a special way by the Holy Spirit
Very unfortunately, I think. the early Church
accepted A bit of pagan legend which had crept
into the Jewish annals in regard TO the Eden story
and the fall Of man. The Church accepted this
and made il part of what 1t claimed was an in
faible revelation All evil. then. all pain. all sick
all sorrow. all death. has into the world
because the first man sinned. Science removes at
one stroke every cornerstone of the theology of
Christendom. 1t demonstrates beyond all question
all intelligent question, l mean-that there never
has been any fall OF man. We know that
started away down on the borders Of the jungle.
and that every step from that day to this has, on
the whole. been step upward and forward.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
VAN BRUNT TO HEAD TRUST COMPANY
He Imposes Conditions Made Necessary by
His Judgeship.

Charles H. Van Brunt. presiding justice Of the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First De-
partment at his home, No 10 East Forty-siXth-st'.
last evening gave for publication a letter re-
garding a report that he would resign from the
bench accept the presidency of the Windsor
Trust Company. In the letter. which is to George
W. Young. chairman of the committee on organl-
zation OF the Windsor Trust Company, Justice Van
Brunt says:
] have received your comnunlca ton in which you
ask 10 accept the position of president OF the
Windsor Trust Company if selected by the d.
reCtors.
As you intend to provide for the active manage
ment of the business of the company for the pres
ent through of It's other officers and Its ex-
ecutiye committee, this would secure me an hon
orable position, though without salary while | re-
main the bench: and my retirement there
from would give employment for which | think
] am still suited. and an income which | VIII then
need and IN the mean time leave me entirely Tree
to discharge my public duties.
As long as | remain judge my hrst obligation
will be TO discharge the duties appertaining to that
Office as faithfully and zealously as have endeay-
ored to do In the past: but in my free time VIII,
If selected aim TO promote the interests and sue
of
If. therefore. the directors willing to assent
to the conditions which In my present situation L
obliged to impose will. II elected, accept the
presidency, and on my retirement from the bench
will give my time without reservation to proinot-
ing the success Of the company
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
KILLED BY FALL IN ELEVATOR SHAFT
Edward B. Mclean Dies from Injuries Sus-
tanned in an Office Building.

Edward E. Mclean. manager Of the Newark office
Of the Sterling Meeker Company, dealers in rail-
road supplies. killed in an elevator shaft in
office building in Elcventh-st- on Friday after
noon He his way to his brother
II. a. Mclean who has an office on the fourth
floor Of the building. and il is supposed that
he stepped through the open door OF the elevator
shaft. falling about ten feet. He found inn
mediately. His skull fractured. and from that
and other injuries. he died in St. Vincents Hos
ptaI at O'Clock In the evening
Mr. McLean's numerous friends shocked and
mystifed over his sudden death. He a popu-
lar member OF the Phoenix Bowling Club and the
Atalanta Boat Club, and also of the Royal Ar
He was born in Albany in 1857. and came
to New-York when boy He secretary of
the Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad until
that road purchased by the Metropolitan sys-
tcm. He leaves a widow and one daughter The
funeral will take place at his home this evening
$50 p m, and the burial will be In the Albany
Rural Cemetery at Albany
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
POLICE mATRoN AS A DETECTIVE.

Captain Cottrell OF the West Twentieth-st sta
ton has recently been trying to get evidence
against house in West Twenty fifth-st that he
felt sure was being woman's pooroom-
No men were admitted the house, and the
csptsin does not approve of making raids before
he has good evidence. he asked the matron of his
station Mrs Isabelle Goodwin, to get the evidence
wanted Mrs. Goodwin consented Saturday after
noon the captain. accompanied by detectives visit
Kennedy thrty-seven years old. and his brother;
Arthur twenty-six years old living at No. 10
Pearl-st. He accuses them of being the pro-
pretors.
In Jefferson Market court yesterday Mrs Good-
win made the complaint and the men were held In
$500 bail each for examination Tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
CITY EMPLOYEES PAY HELD UP.
Technicality Delays Payment of Salaries IN
Tenement Department.

Many employees of the Tenement House Commis
sion passed a sorry Christmas because their sala-
ries had not been paid. Robert w De Forest the
Tenement House Commissioner. at his home NO. I
Washington Square North, last evening gave a
Tribune reporter the following explanation OF the
delay
About hundred temporary employees of the
Tenement Department in November have not NFt
received their Move mber salaries. The payrol was
Civil Service Commission but was not approVe6- IN
the Controllers office. in view OF the form ~
been approved hy the Board of Estimate in the
early part of the year. When the new charteI
went into effect there was some doubt as 70
whether further action by the board OF fstilsr Ir
and approval Cf that action by the Board OF IueI
men might not be necessary, in order to authorIne
payment of the salaries of these temporary en-
ployes. although necessary to pay
their salaries entirely covered by the appro-
priaton for the Tenement Department. Controiitr
passed by the Board of Estimate. which was dorle
and the matter before the Board of Aldermen
pct this resolution without reference TO tne
appropriate committee. ! sought to OBTAIN liiS
consent | attended in person. and explained the
matter to the Board of Aldermen. and had pre-
viously explained il to all the members OF the
Committee Salaries, well as the leaders on
both sides the president Of the Board of Aiderueh
however objected. and the matter. therefore: Went
over to the next meeting of the board when nave
ceved. both from the fusion and the Tammany
aldermen. that proper resolution will be passed
The action is purely formal. IT involves no ne"
appropria ton. It simply permits a part OF the
uneXpended balance of the tenement appropriation
to be paid these employees The delay, however
has been matter of great hardship for them and
ment. We have done everything in our power 10
avoid the delay.
II is understood that the alderman who objected
to the resolution Alderman Ciaffney-
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
THE COMkNCHE AGROUND.
Extremely Low Tide in swash Channel the
Cause-Gets Off Unhurt-Ice in Harbor.

Owing the stiff offShore wind, which was blow
ing all day Yesterday there was an unusually low
tide a. midday, and the Clyde Line steamer Co
manche. from Charleston. went aground in the
Swash Channel soon after passing in Sandy Hook.
When the steamer finally reached her North River
pier Captain Patt said that he had sailed over
that path hundreds of times, and never before had
TO grief. The water unusually low. he
declared. 'and the ship fetched up on the soft mud
of the bottom where stuck for little over az
hour When the tide began to run IN again she
came IF under her power. No damage was
done to the ship.
The harbor was filled with slushy ice YESTERDAY.
for the first time this winter The North tt1Ver
ferryboats found their slips almost filed with IT.
owing to the wind. which drove il down the river
and toward the New-York shore. It did not seri-
ousy impede travel. but made the boats run at a
slower speed than usual
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
WAVE KILLS ON LA CHAMPAGNE.
Pierre Bardeiles, the Ships First Officer, Dies
from It's Blow

La Champagne, OF the French Steamship Line,
arrived last night from Havre On December %.
I'm a strong westerly gale, which lasted about six
hours Pierre RardelIes. the first officer of La
Champagne. was killed by a high Bardelles
was standing on the starboard side OF the bridge
when the water struck the vessel on the starboard
side. Bardees thrown the bridge with
great force. He picked up unconscious and
carried to his room. where he died about an hour
later. His body buried at sea on Saturday.
BardeIles was forty-fve years old, and had been
on La Champagne only four months
La Champagne sighted east OF Fire Island
at 240 O'Clock in the afternoon but did not reach
Quarantine in time to come her dock last night.
She will be docked early this morning
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
GALE IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

S. Johns. y F.. Dec. @-Another furious gale
has bsen raging here for the last thrty-siX hours
and has caused much damage along the coast line
1t is feared that the shipping will suffer conSid-
erably The Allan Line steamer Peruvian passed
Cape Race yesterday morning. but she has not yet
been able to make port because of the storm and
the fog She has on board shipment OF three
hundred Canadian cattle from Halifax, shipped
from there because of the embargo against Amer
ican ports 1t is feared the cattle will suffer be-
heavy weather.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
TAX DECISION WORRIES TEA MEN.

Yokohama Dec. II. via Victoria, Dec 2S.-
The report that the United States Government
will impose the duty Of 10 cents pound on tea
now held In bond. even though withdrawal may not
take place until after January l. has caused some
CONSERVATION among merchants. The tea mer-
chants jobbers. grocers and others interested will
endeaVor to induce the government to Wlthnold
such action. which has come upon the market ike
a thunderbot. The tea tax In America. which was
one of the Spanish War taxes. is TO be lifted on
January /. and in anticipation of that event a
large quantity of Japanese tea has been placed
in bond In American seaDorts.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-29
WOMAN DEAD; MAN UNCONSCIOUS.

man and registered as j. Riley and
wife" were found unconscious and dead, respec-
tiyeJy from the effects OF escaping gas, in
Crogan's Arsenal Hotel. Thirty y-sixth-st- and
Seventh-ave.. yesterday. The is in the New
York Hospital. Early in the morning Herman
Wallace waiter. smeled the fumes. He traced
them to room s. where the gas pouring from
a tubular stove. The is about thirty-five
years old feet 10 inches in height. weighing about
1s0 pounds, with dark hair and mustache. He
wore blue suit. The woman was apparently
twenty-fcur years old feet inches tall. weighed