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New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
DARING RESCUES AT FIRE,
POLICE SAVE AGED MAN AND GRIP
Piled WOMAN.
FLAMES WHICH DESTROY PLANIN'
MILLS IGNITE TENEMENT HOUSES
DAMAGE $4,000.

The first fire OF the Fourth of July was started
q little after midnight by a skyrocket in the
planning mills of John Crawford at Nos. 236 and
25S West Twenty-eighth-st.. and in an hour had
practically destroyed his two big five story
mills, another smaller wooden mill between
them and ignited several other surrounding
mills, one of which In Eighth-ave., he owned
himself. Nobody was hurt, though an aged
woman and an old watchman were rescued, a
roundsman doing some heroic work in saving
the latter The damage is estimated at $4,000.
Crawford's planning mill in Twenty -eghth-st.
is duplicated in Twenty by similar
building at Nos. 257 and 259 Between is a
wooden mill, connected with the main build
ings by wooden runways and sheds. good
start was gained by the flames before the fire
was discovered. A second and third alarm
was quickly sent in; and ROundsman Martin
Reagan, of the West Twentieth-st. station,
heard yells of fear coming from the Twenty-sev-
enth-st building. He got into No. 255, quickly
got to the top floor and found Joseph Chaffee.
sixty-five years old who slept on the top floor of
No. 251. Reagan could not get to him.
He found an iron ladder with hooks al the end
OF it and this he showed from the roof of
The building he to the window of No.
2oI, at which the old watchman was yelling in
great fright. Chaffee was too much scared TO
get over, and four men who had come up with
Reagan held the ladder while the roundsman
climbed over it to the old man. 1t was a tick
lish situation, and it was some seconds before
Reagan could induce old Chaffee to make the
return Flames We're shooting out of nearly
every window of the front and back buildings
by this time and Chaffee was afraid. Reagan
put him on the ladder and climbed over behind
hin Encouraged by Reagan and the four men
on the other side. and afraid to return to the
WINDOWS now filled with flames, the old man got
over safely
The buildings in both Twenty-eighth and
Twenty -seventh-st had tenement houses flank
ing them on the east side. Many of the tenants
carried their furniture and other belongings TO
the street. The fire caught in the of No.
"a West TWenty-eighth-st An old French
woman lived on the second floor and Policeman
Charles Wilson of the West Twenty
station. heard she was invalid. He ran
that floor and found the frightened woman at
a window awaiting the fiames which were
breaking the glass. He took her in his arms as
she had tainted, and carried her to the street
Mrs Jane Simons. a paralytic confined to her
room on the top floor of No. 255 West Twenty
seVenth-st., was screaming for help when Pa
trolmen Brennan and O'Donnell, of the West
Thirty -seVenth-st station heard her They
rushed to the room, made litter of their hands
tand wrists and carried her TO the street She
was unconscious from smoke. A doctor revived
her.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
PART OF WALL CAVES IN
\ TEN BY SIN HOLE MADE IN ACErp
MERRALL & CONDIT'S CHAM
BERS-ST. STORE.

NO little excitement was caused soon after :
p M yesterday by the falling of a wall in ths
"hoiesale grocery house of Acker, MerraI &
Condlt' IN West Broadway, between Warren
and Chambers SITS. No one was injured bvr +h
hyins debris, and. as far as could be learnAd
no damage was done to the stock in the Iouor
department, where the wall fell
The firm has for some time been prenari,s
for alterations to the party wall separating the
two buildings occupied by the store which face
in Chambers-st This wall was not deemed of
sufficient strength to uphold the weight OF she
floors above when they were heavily stored
with goods. The facilities for shifting goods
from one building to the other were also made
quate, and the new wall is to be so construct
ed as to make the two buildings practically one
Plans were filed with the Buildings Depart
ment several days ago for this work which the
firm hoped could be completed between last
night and Sunday morning. The contract was
awarded to William T. Cody and the work was
to begin last evening after the work for the
day was over. The workmen began to arrive
about D O'Clock and getting ready the
staging to shore up the ceilings. when there
was a sudden crash of falling bricks and NOR
tar. Every one in the building rushed to the
liquor department, from which direction the
sound came, and then it was seen that a pOr-
ton of fifteen-foot section of wall had caved
in.
y foreman for Mr.. Cody made an examina-
ton and found that the break would not seri-
cusly damage the rest Of the wall, but for the
sake of caution he ordered that the staging be
put uD at once. No one was near the wall al
the time. 1t is not positively known how the
wall came to fall, but it is supposed that some
bricks became loOsened at the base while the
workmen were making an opening to brace the
staging. The aperture made by the falling Of
the bricks and mortar was about six feet wide
and ten feet high.
About $50 o'clock Cody told Policeman Con-
ley, Of the LeOnard-st station. of the occur
renee and requested that the workmen be
permitted to continue the work. a permit
could nos be obtained from the Buildings De-
partment before Monday morning. COnley re-
ported to Captain OBrien, who in turn sent
word to the Buildings Department through
Headquarters. An inspector was sent to the
store and after an examination of the wall
he permitted the work to go on.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
MR.. PIRRIE OPPOSED TO SUBSIDIES.
SAYS A GOOD WORD FOR THE MORGAN TRANS
ATLANTIC DEAL

SAYS A GOOD WORD FOR THE MORGAN TRANS
ATLANTIC DEAL
London July 3-The committee of the House of
Commons appointed to inquire into tho question Of
subsidies heard William J. Pirrie. chairman OF tho
Harland & Wolff Shipbuilding Company. to-day.
This witness, who figured prominently in the
the opinion that subsidies given merely a
bounty, and to encourage inefiicency, and
that even where they could be legtimately be-
slowed the tendency of subsidies would be to fos-
ter individual against general interests. Mr.
Pirrie regarded foreign subsidies a blessing in
disguise. they stimulated British shipowners to
keep more abreast of the times
Replying TO a question of the chairman, Mr.
Pirrie said the Morgan combination, which he pre-
ferred to call community OF interests" was
tablished purely for commercial purposes and on
entirely business principles. He convinced that
dangerous international situation rapidly ap-
preaching at the time the deal effected. but
by the creation Of this community of interests the
future of British shipping we'll of British
sidered the deal to be in every way satisfactory
the British. Giving subsidies would only invite
retaliation in the most important markets OF the
world. The extent of State assistance to German
shipping greatly exaggerated.
Mr.. Pirrie also said that the feeling against the
bad BAD been doing was to act on the advice of the
wake up Mr.. Pirrie thought that the best way
for the government to help British shipping was
to deepen the approaches to and otherwise i'm
Mr.. Pirrie added that British participation In tie
future IN the worlds carrying trade would depend
methods
Replying to the chairman Mr. Pirrie asserted
that he did not think it possible that subsidies
would prevent the transfer of such ships as those
Of the White Star Line 70 Americans.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
COMPROMISE ON PIER WORK,
LINDENTHAL PERMITS THE CONTRAC.
TORS To GO AHEAD UN-
DER CONTRACT.

Ryan Parker. who hold the contract for
the stone piers and masonry for the Black
wells Island Bridge, had a conference which
lasted two hours with Bridge COMMISSIONS
Lndenthal at the bridge office late Yesterday
afternoon, at which the trouble that has arisen
over the change of plans for the bridge was
practically adjusted. The firm recently defed
the order of Mr.. Lindenthal to cease work pend
ing the adoption Of his changed plans and de-
clared that it would carry out its original con-
tract with the city. Mr.. Ryan asserted that
the Bridge Commissioner had no power to
change the plans to readjust the masonry
contract
Mr.. Lindentha1 after the conference said
that when there were sensible men on both sides
there difficulty in arriving at a COM
promise. He declared that he was willing to go
half way. and that the contractors showed a
disposition to be fair. Another conference he
added. would be held on Monday. when the de-
tails of the compromise would be decided upon
He asserted that he had no desire to put the
contractors to any loss and that the plans
which have been withdrawn from the Municipal
Art Commission for revision, would be arranged
to their satisfaction.
Il cannot give you the details Of the COM
promise" said Mr.. LindenthaI because they
have not been decided upon But I can say
this that the contractors will not suffer any
loss"
A few minutes after Mr.. Lindenthal had gone
Mr.. Ryan came out of the Office. When asked
what had been accomplished, he said:
why. the Commissioner has withdrawn his
plans from the Municipal Art Commission and
will fix them so that the piers will remain the
same they were in the original plans. and
contract won be disturbed. The Commits
SiOner has been very fair, and have no
cause to complain. We held that he had
authority to interfere with the contract that
made with the city long ago, and We have
point We won't be Obliged 10 stop
work at all. We have some five hundred men
employed at our quarrieS and at the bridge. and
il we laid all these men off there would be no
end of trouble for US. Each of our wOrkmen
is fitted into the place where he is the most
useful TO us, and If we had TO lay them of they
would find employment elsewhere, and We would
find il hard to get others when we resumed work
on our contract. Besides. our stone Is quarried
and cut to size about two months ahead, and
if the plans changed all this work would
be wasted and the stone would have TO be
recut We cannot afford to accept a change OF
plans. and Commissioner Lindenthal sees the
justice of our argument
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
RISE IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
A NET GAIN OF 3as PoINTs-A NUMBER OF
RUMoRs STARTED AS A CONSEQUENCE.

NET GAIN OF Sa PoINTs-A NUMBER OF
RUMORS STARTED AS A CONSEQUENCE.
sharp rise yesterday in Illinois Central started
number of explanatory rumors none OF which,
however. received authorization. A fortnight ago
there was rise Of several points from about l53
on the announcement of the proposed increase of
Sl5SoOoO in the capital stock the shares to be
offered to the stockholders at par The stock
stood inactive for several days at around $50 until
yesterday, when, on sales of 5000 shares. it adj
Vanced to 16424, closing Il point under the high
leEel, net gain for the day of 3% points.
one OF the reports current yesterday that
the strength OF the stock due to buying for
controi by the Moores who, it said had al
ready got control of the Railroad Securities Com
pany, and with it of the $1,000 shares of Illinois
Central stock held by that corporation and were
accunuiatlng the necessary additional shares by
purchases in the open market, their object being
10 secure an outlet 10 the Gulf for the Rock Island
ana the rumor was again set afioat that they were
also still buying into Chicago and Northwestern
IL was learned on good authority, however, that
the Railroad Securities Company had passed from
the original holders. The Illinois Central has
sS5OioU0 capital stock, counting in the SIS $4,000
referred to.
Another rumor had it that the Illinois Central
was about to take over the Iowa Central, but a
director OF the former road said that he had heard
nothing of such project Iowa Central declined
The prevailing opinion in the Street was that the
buying OF Illinois Central really for account
of the controlling interests in the road who are
also dominant in the Union Paci1c management.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
USUAL CROP OF CASUALTIES.
BOOTBLACK HIT BY SPENT BULLET-BOY
USES GAsPIPE AND GOES TO HOSPITAL.


casualties the result of premature celebrations
of the Fourth.
Leo Liguori, ten years old. of Garden Place.
Wakefield. rammed a big charge of powder and
paper into old gaspipe near his home. and
touched a match &c the fuse. The pipe exploded
scattering pieces of 1t and the powder about. and
tearing the left side OF the lads face so much
that he had to be taken to Fordham Hospital.
His head and hands covered with blood and
holding small pistol bullet, Italian rushed
into the West Thirtieth-st station last night and
told Sergeant Shiels that he had been shot Shiels
rang for the doorman, who found that the Italian
had been hit by a spent ball He was Pasquale
Yanniozei OF No. 2G SullivaE-st
Il standing at Thirty-fourth-st and Seventh
ave-" he said, in broken English, 'and shin
ing a gentemans shoes. when | hear a pistol go
OFF. Then l feel something strike the head
and fall to the ground. At first i thought | had
been hit by stone but when look the ground
there l this bullet. Then the man. my Gus
toner, he tell me that my head was bleeding and
when l put my hand there IT was all blood L
think some one was trying to kill me-
In Brooklyn n bullet struck Mrs. Mary Hermann
wife OF Otto Hermann, in the head pIoughng a
deep furrow in her scalp. Luckily the bullet took
glanCing course. and the wound was not serious
She attended by an ambulance surgeon Mrs
Hermann was sitting at the time I'm a rear window
OF her home, No. 2B JeffersOn-st. Nicholas Chris
tan. twenty-one years old, of No. 227 Troutman-st
was found responsible for Mrs Hermann's wound
lie had discharged revolver out of his back win
dow. He was locked up in the Hamburg-ave. sta
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
HOW TRACY GOT AWAY. y
HE OvERAWED THE CAPTAIN AND CREW
OF A LAUNCH

Seattle. Wash. July 3-Captain Clark, of the
steam launch H. and s., to-day gave account of
the trip of himself and crew up the sound yester-
day in company with Harry Tracy the escaped
Oregon convict who at the point of a rife forced
all hands to embark and pilot him northward. For
nearly ten hours Tracy was commander of the craft
by virtue of force, finally abandoning it and es-
Gaping into the woods
I'VE were in the company o. Tracy from 8 o'clock
in the morning until $50 in the evening yesterday
said Captain Clark, who continued:
We had been working at South Point. L entered
the company's house in the morning and found a
leading to the stairs. | supposed the boys were
PLAYING p g some prank and paid no further attention
breakfast The rest of the seemed unusually
As the other men had already been apprised of the
GGnditions. they Were somewhat uncommunicative
my pocket. and then for the first time the stranger
Take your hands out of your pockets. captain"
draw Gq It have gun there, 1t is no use for you to
Who are you?" I demanded
Tracy" he replied.
~ After ordering ring the cook to put him luncheon
the party, and then proceed to the launch Ar
irving at the launch, he helped us to get under
We set sail about 10 O'Clock. and it was his first
desire eid to land on the beach near Tacoma, he
SAID ne wanted to go as close he could to Nc
NeiiIs Island, in order to take shot the
Al All day he displayed the most daring reckless,
@ us from getting the drop on him in any manner. or
even from discussing the matter among ourselves.
for the purpose Of forming plan for simultaneous
action. We all unarned
on just one occasion in the day did there seem TO
be for single moment opportunity take him
at a disadvantage. That was off McNeills Island,
when he leaned over the side of the launch to
a shot at the seals That was the only time in
the day ne actually shot his rifle. though he was
seal was some two hundred yards from the boat
and in spirit of bravado he raised his rife and
fired at it,
As he was firing the chance for which I had
seemed L
made move toward him, thinking to push him
over the barge while his back turned. AS
did he raised up slightly. as though he had
abandoned the idea of shooting. and IN order to
elude any suspicion TO my intentions, ! turned
my face away though to look after the boat.
He fired, and before could return my attention to
him he had turned around and reloaded his rife.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
EXTRA CARS FOR REGULAR TRAINS
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS To CARRY
PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF TOWN

The long holiday from Thursday night to Monday
morning has given many people the opportunity 10
go out of town. Passenger agents think that
traffic will be heavy to-day. heavier than II was
yesterday when 1t was far above normal. To add
new trains has been shown by experience to be
unsatisfactory because the travelling public does
not learn widely of them. Instead. people depend
on the regular trains. which they find crowded
The railroads have therefore determined to pro-
vide for increased travel by adding sections TO
regular trains. The ordinary train will carry one
or two more cars than usual On the Central for
instance. the Adirondack traffic had be split into
seven sections. All available have been
pressed into service including some that might
well be drawing old age pensions. But even So
there is no little discomfort to be expected.
Yesterday every train that left the city, particu-
larly after midday, was We'll filled when not dis
tressingly jammed
The use of sections of scheduled trains rather
than extra trains has not precluded the listing of
special excursions Cut rates draw attention where
mere additional facilities fail to make an impress
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
CONTRACT WITH POSTAL SIGNED.
THAT COMPANY SOON TO HANDLE PENN
SYLVANIA RAILROAD TELEGRAPH
BUSINESS
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Philadelphia, July S.-The contract which grants
the Postal Telegraph Company the privilege of
doing the telegraph business over the system of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company between New
York and PittsbUrg has been signed the
change is 10 be made within few days. This
agreement is TO date from July l. and is TO be in
effect for fifteen years. 1t is understood that the
contract has been signed by Vice-President Green
OF the Pennsylyania Railroad, and Vce-Presdent
Baker of the Postal Telegraph Company
The Western Union will continue to operate the
telegraph service the PHILADELPHIA ISalti-
more Railroad, between this city and Baltimore
until June !, 1903 Under the agreement between
the two companies IL takes a year to annul the
contract Notice was given June Of this year
AT the expiration OF the year the Postal will con-
tinue the service now performed by the Western
Union
II was reported to-day that John Lowber Welsh
had resigned from the executive board of the
Reading Railroad Mr.. Welsh would neither deny
nor affirm the rumOr. Financial men saw this
change has been brought about by the struggle
between the GOulds and the Pennsylvania Rsil-
road for the control OF Reading stock The Penn
sylvania Railroad is credited with having secured
about 2o.0o shares while the Gould Interests now
own about 5ca0O shares of Reading common stock
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
CHINATOWN EXCITED OVER A FIRE.

An attempt to fill lamp which was burning last
evening caused a fire in the five story brick tene-
ment house at No. 2S Mott-st. which did 5000
damage and caused great excitement in Chinatown
The lamp exploded in the home of Mrs Loe Mon,
on the fourth story of the building. Mrs. Mon
clothing caught fire, but she beat out the flames
without being badly burned.
Policeman Stapeton, of the Elizabeth-st station
the smoke and aroused the tenants With
William j. Gallagher he found that the escape OF
Mrs. Mon and her two children had been cut off,
and they carried the family down the fire escape.
Many of the other tenants threw household goods
out of the windows. Those the fifth floor
hastened TO the roof. where they remained until
the fire was out. There was intense excitement
in the street. Cinnamon fled from all the adioin-
ing houses with their families and great did the
crowd become that the reserves from the Eliza
beth-st. police station had difficulty In keeping
order
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
ORATORS FOR TAAIMANY ARRIVE

All the out of town speakers scheduled to appear
at the Tammany Hall Fourth of July celebration
with the exception of Senator Charles A CuIberson
OF Texas arrived last night and went to the
Savoy. Senator Culberson will reach town early
this morning. The entertainment will open at 10
a. m. with short talk by Justice O'GOrman the
grand sachem After some patriotic selections by
the Tammany Glee Club Senator CuIberson and W.
Bourke Cochran will deliver 'long talks" The
short takers will be Congressman David A. De
Almond. of Missouri; Samuel Il. Cooper of Texas;
W s. Cowherd. OF Missouri: James NJ. Griggs OF
Georgia; John Allen. of Mississippi. and W. Temple
Elnnet; Ihomas r Grady the silver tOngued
orator" and Thomas c. O'Sullivan. The attendance
is expected 10 be large. il has become known
that there will be unlimited supply of wet
goods on hand.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
LEO STEVENS NOT DEAD.
MAN KILLED AT LOUISVILLE WAS HIS
EMPLOYE

A dispatch from Louisville, Ky. last night said
that Leo Stevens. the aeronaut. who will compete
with Santos Dumont in airship ascents at the St.
Louis fair. and who will make ascents from Man
haitian Beach, backed by Austin Corbin and a
syndicate, was reported to be the aeronaut killed
there in parachute descent
Mrs Stevens, the wife of the aeronaut and airship
inventor, said last evening that il not her
husband who was killed. but employe of her
husband, Frank Derl. a Hungarian, who lived at
with his parents and two sisters. He twenty
eight years old.
Her husband, Mrs. Stevens said. was now at
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
INJURED IN PARACHUTE LEAP.
4 NEW-ENGLAND AERONAUT MAKES 4
SENSATIONAL DESCENT AT
LONG BRANCH.
[BY TELEdRAPH To THE TRrBuNE.l ]

Long Branch n. j. July 3.-Charles Litchfeld.
the New England aeronaut, made a sensational par
achute leap this evening at the opening Of the
Business Mems Carnival and Street Fair The as
cension was made about half mile from the sea-
shore a strong westerly wind, which carried the
balloon directly seaward.
Realizing the danger of dropping into the
the aeronaut cut from his balloon at a height OF
about quarter of a mile. landing the top of
a chimney on the Ocean Wave Hotel, In the Ocean
Drive. He tore away part of the chimney, wrench
ing his right knee. The. balloon was picked up
mile and a half Offshore by fishermen.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04

man had been abandoned and that the case would
be dropped. 1t said that Mr. Hartman intended
TO test the constiutionaity of the speed law should
his driver be prosecuted. and on account of the
Mr.. Hartman off easy this time
I'VE have accomplished what we wanted to-
said Chief of Police Carpenter. I'VE have made
Mr.. Harriman's driver his machine slowly
through the toan. We didn't want prosecute
Mr.. Hartman. Besides he has lots of money, and
he might put us to useless and great expense.
Therefore the affair has been dropped. I believe"
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
NEED A WARSHIP IN THE PACIFIC
COLOMBIAN GENERAL STARTS FOR SAN
FRANCISCO TO Buy ONE

Colon, July 3-The Government General Pom
pilio Gutierrez left here July l for New-York
His destination is San Francisco and he has in
structions from the government to purchase a
Warship for use on the Pacific side of Colombia
tnat shall be larger and more powerful than the
lnsurgent gunboat Padilla. Such a vessel is re-
qulred TO protect the mobilization of govern
ment forces on the Pacific Coast and to insure
the capture the destruction of the Padiua
The Colombian cruiser Cartagena, which left
Fort de France, Island of Martinique, on JuIv
J. Is expected to reach Colombian waters
New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
4 PL4GUE-sTRICkEy EXPEDITION.
TERRIBLE MORTALITY FROM cHoLEEl

TERRIBLE MORTALITY FROM CHOLERA IN
BORNEO.
London. July Especial dispatches received
here from Singapore. Straits Settlements, declare
that cholera is ravaging an expedition OF ten
thousand men which was sent up the Batans
Luoar River. in the territory of Sarawak, Bor-
neo, TO punish the head hunters. The dispatches
say that three hundred members Of the expe-
dition died from cholera in the course or single
night. -,
in London, however. nothing is known OF sucn
an expedition as the Singapore messages reie1
to-