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Cologne. Dec. 1.-THE Cologne Ga
zette publishes a dispatch from Der
lin which says il is doubtful II. at the
present stage OF the Venezuelan diff
hculty, arbitration can be considered
by Germany. Germany can AFFORD TO
await. the dispatch adds. the outcome
of a situation that is very uncom-
Portable for President Castrn.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
TO HEAR CHARITIES BOARD.
GOVERNOR ARRANGES FOR A CONFER
ENCE ON THE NEW BILL-TO SEE
SENATOR PLATT TO-DAY.

Governor Odell came down from Albany.yes-
terday. and was n the Fifth Avenue Hotel for
short tirle in the afternoon He went 10
Brooklyn for dinner. and returned to the hotel
late last night The Governor had a few mo-
ments' conversation with Senator PIatt and
Colonel Dunn, chairman Of the Republican state
Committee. Several matters Of interest were
touched upon in a general way but nothing
definite was reached. The Governor will break
fast with Senator PIatt this morning and then
various matters relating to party affairs and
business yet to be transacted AT the present ses-
sion of the Legislature will be taken up and de-
cided
An impression prev allied yesterday that Gov
ernor Oden intended t. recede to a certain eN-
tent from his position the proposed IegisIa-
tion regarding the State Charities Board This
impression, IT may be stated. is erroneous Al
a conference last Wednesday it was decIie,i
that senators Higgins and Ellsworth. Assem-
blymen Aids and Kelsey and Speaker Nixon
should draft bill Tor. reOrSanizing the sta
Board of Charities. There was some discussion
as to whether this bill should be submitted
with or without memoranda 1t was decided
that it should be submitted without memoranda
These Legislators have under consideration vaIi-
GUS features which il is proposed 10 i0cOrporat.
IN the new bill Governor UdeI felt it was
only fair that the members of the Stare Board
OF Charities should ne heard on the subject.
and he issued p call toC all members of the State
Charities Board 20 confer with him and the com
lnlttAe named 20 draft the bill hIc issuing
OF this call brought about the impression Jhd-
the Governor had shifted his attitude bur it
was said last night that such was not the case
me conference Of ,hc Governor. the tpmmitLra
OF the Legislature having tho bin i'm hand an
the members Of tho state Board Of charities
VIII be held next Monday afternoon at Albany.
Just what features the new bill viii contain have
rot Yet been determined. b1- ii is jutinated
that the local boards viii no abolished
Inc question of n successor To john ) Ken
yOn as secretary of the Railroad Commission,
VIII he taken UP. There are eight candidates,
including George W. Aldridse. Of Rochester. and
ex-senator CogEeshall, Of Oneida II was said
last night that Mr. Aldridge would pTOba bly,
he appointed The salary is $4,000 a year. II
Is understood that the Governor is aVeTSe 10
the appointment Of Aldridge. but will not inter
fere
The fate Of Sheriff Gudeu. of Kings County.
may also he talked over. The belief is that
Gudeu viii ne removed.
Governor OdeIl viii go 10 NewbUrC after
breakfast this morning, remaining there over
sunday ana 20 to Albany Monday. The Gov
eruor had nothing 70 last night. and Sena-
tor Plat was equally reticent Colonel Dunn.
asked II there was anything going on, said
quantity
once there country girl and farmer
lad said. sue. IS any one cOurting You now"
She replied, Wen, s0rter ard sorter nOt-and
maybe more Sorter not than sorter
Delivered of this mystic reply, the colonel
lapsed into silence
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
DRrGGTHT S4LOONKEEPERS.
TWO HUNDRED WILL BE PROSECUTED FOR
ILLEGAL LIQUOR SALES

ILLEGAL LIQUOR SAILS.
Albany. Feb. D tspeciaD.-Patrick ". Culinau
the State Excise Commissioner. disclosed the fact
to-day that for several months he had bee. in
vestigating complaints that druggists had been
selling liquor without requiring prescription. and
had learned that nearly t-so hurdred druggists
had violated the excise laws. These druggists Will
be at prosecuted
Druggists nay only a nominal tax OF & annually
for the privilege Of trafficking in liquors upon the
prescription of physician. II they sell to any
passerby they enter into active competition with
liquor dealers who pay the state annual tax
ranging from 500 $500 Mr.. Cuninan. in his
statement. says that the investigation showed
'alarmngly fragrant abuses of the kind com
planned OF IN almost every city and village OF this
Stat.. Evidence Of the most conclusive character
has been reported in nearly two hundred cases
which will be referred to the several district at
torneys Of the State for criminal prosecution ac-
cordng to Section 3, of the LIQUOR Tax law, I'm ad-
dition 10 its bv the state Commissioner in the
enforcement Of such civil remedies he shall
consider necessary to institute I'm addition to the
criminal prosecution.
Then Mr. CuIlinau points out the loss Of revenue
caused by this violation of law, follows:
The total amount of annual excise taxes paid bv
ness at the nominal rate Of 8 Zach is sS4o The
amount which they should have contributed an
rs Is b % 500 Of net @ m annq9 ia tbe 9s 5P bs the
have existed since the amendment Of the law in
S97 as il is fair TO suppose they have, the total
net loss the taxpayers is SlJi,300.
Mr. CuIIinan will recommend an amendment to
the Liquor Tax law, imposing a largely Increased
rate Of taxation upon the liquor traffic as con-
Quoted by pharmacists i'm order to correct exist
ing abuses and protect legitimate dealers against
Illegal and unjust competition. This proposed
amendment the Liquor TaT law will be sub
mitted 10 the Legislature next week by senator
Raines. 1t will probably restore the rate of taxa
tion imposed upon pharmacists by the original act
of 1897 which lowered TO s. upon a promise
that IL pharmacists violated the law their
tincates as pharmacists would be revoked That
promise according to Excise Commissioner Cul-
Imam has not been kept.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
DYNAMITE BOAT DERELICT
FTREBOATS SEARCH IN VAIN FOR EX-
PLOSINE LADEN BARGE ADRIFT
IN EAST RIVER

Police Headquarters was informed at an early
hour this morning that the hulk of an old tug
boat used for the storage Of dynamite by a firm
CT contractors who blasting rock in the
East River. opposite Fortieth-st.. had parted
from its mOorings in midstream and was help
lessly drifting toward the Brooklyn Bridge. The
informant was John Mclaughlin the gateman
at the East Thirty-fourth-st. ferry He had
been informed by some unknown person.
The boat was moOred the middle Of the
stream. and in the day displayed a red flag and
AT night red lantern. II was commonly sup
posed in the neighborhood to be a storage place
for dynamite. Ice drifting in the river is sup
posed to have caused the hawser holding the
boat part
Police Headquarters informed the Fire De-
partmenr and fire boats sent out TO find
the drifting craft. At 2.}U O'Clock this morning
the boat. so far could he learned. could not
be found Employees of the Thirty-fo and
Twenty-third-st ferries said they had not seen
the dereict They admitted. however, that the
boat. showing as il did, only small red light.
could pass down the river without being OBJ
served.
Police Headquarters AT go a. m. reported
that the drifting tug had been captured by Fire
department boats ana had been towed 20
fTT2ud-Sr
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
CROSS MAKES RAIDS
HE GOES INTO CHURCHILI.S PRECINCT
THE LATTER NOT KNOWING II. WITH
PARTRIDGE'S ENDORSEMENT.

inspector Cross, with one hundred policemen
IN plain clothes and six patrol wagons made the
third Of the wholesale raids on disreputabe
resorts in this city last night Nine alleged
disorderly places were visited and forty prison
ers' men and women, taken All were in the
Flfth-st precinct. and Inspector Cross went
over the head Of Acting Captain Churchill The
latter was unaware that anything was going
on IN his precinct. He not at the station
while the raids werc in progress, and could not
be found when the last batch of prisoners was
rounded UP ard driven TO the station where
they were locked up.
The places raided were Tom sharkey's. No.
IA East Fourteenth-st. Suicide Hall the
notorious dive at No 295 Bowery. No. 303 Bow
cry. No 327 Bowery. No. - Third-ave No 10
Fourth-ave. No. 311 Bowery and No. a19
Bowery. At all of these places the alleged pro-
prietors, managers and the women found in the
rooms in the rear Of the saloons were arrested.
Inspector Cross had warrant for the ar
rest Of Tom" Sharkey. but he had left the city
yesterday. Suicide Hail. was tipped or while
the SharSey raid was in progress. it is charged.
and wler the police visited it there was nobody
in the rear room but Thomas Burns the al
legged manager.
The proprietors and managers arrested were
charged with violating the excise law and with
keeping and maintaining dsorderly houses.
while the women taken in custody we're held on
a charge Of disordery conduct. All the prison
will be arraiEned before Magistrate Pool
in Yorkvine Court.
Commissioner Partridge recently issued an
order commanding captains TO clean up their
precincts and the lower end Of the Bowery
the first place to receive the blow from the
police. While things in the lower end Of
ChurChills district showing considera bic
Improvement for the fpst few months, II was
different in Fourteenth-st, the lower end OF
Third-ave.. and the upper end OF the Bowery.
Inspector Cross said last night that he spoke
to Acting Captain Churchill repeatedly. calling
his attention the condition Of affairs in Four
open.
Churchill said he would investigate and a few
days ago. when Inspector Cross asked him what
ne intended doing he replied that he was trying
10 get evidence Inspector Cross got his staff
detectives to work. and they quickly got alleged
evidence against Tom Sharkey's resort and
others. which apparently had influence in Some
direction. The evidence they gathered was sub
mitted to District Attorney Jerome. approved
by that official and then the warrants we're is
sued. Before the raids were made Inspector
Cross had consulted with Commissioner Par
trdige who indorsed the plan proposed by the
inspector
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
PARK AVE. GUESTS KILLED
Continued from first page

The smoke was so thick that IL was feared
that some Of the women who had been seen
the windows had been suffocated. and an IN
vestigatiOn was made at once Two women
were found dead on the nth floor Their names
could not be learned
The home OF Robert Bacon. Of the drm OF
J. P. Morgan & Co, at No. Park-ave-. was
endangered Mr.. and Mrs Bacon are in Europe
Their was in the house, but he got out when
the fire threatened
At 5.;N the hremen seemed to have the IRE
under control They were lighting it back from
the east. where the main danger was. and the
apartment house No 80 East Thirty-feurth-
81. was thought TO he safe. although the guests
at that time had been driven Out.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
A NERTOUS DISEASE WARD.
MRS. II. \. L. SHERMAN GIVES $4,000
TO HELP SUPPORT ONE IN THE
POST GRADUATE HOSPITAL.

The Post-Graduate Hospital and College sec
oud-aTe. and Twentieth-st. received yesterday a
gift OF $4,000 from Mrs Hannah y. l.. Sherman
of Lawrence, Long Island. Dr. d. b. ST. John
Roosa. president Of the faculty, said yesterday
that Mrs Sherman had chosen the Post -Gradu-
ate Hospital the recipient through the advice
Of her friend. Dr. Grace Peckham Murray OF
No. 331 Fifh-ave.. and formerly connected with
Lucy Blackwell Woman's Medical College. since
merged into the Cornell Medical College
This money is TO help support new ward cor
women and children afflicted with nervous dis
eases The ward Is 70 contain fourteen beds.
five Of which viii be supported in perpetuity
by Mrs. Sherman's gift The sum given is not
enough in itself to support an entire ward Aut
makes il possible 20 devote entirely pa
tients suffering from those particular diseases.
1t viii be the only one in the city. The nam
ing Of the new ward has been left to Mrs Sher
man. and she has decided TO call 1t the Hope
Ward. The five beds will be called the Law
renee beds
DR.. Murray said 10 a Tribune reporter yester-
day that the gift had beer contemplated f7r
some time. and that Mrs sherman had asked
her 10 decide in what manner the money could
best be applied. Two years ago Mrs sherman
built an annex TO the New-YorlS Infrmary FIR
Women and Children. No. Livingston Place.
at an expense of N30OOU. She has also con
tributed freely 10 various other charitable
stitutions of this city.
The Post-Ciraduate Hospital the name
indicates is a college for physicians and sur
geons who have already graduated from the
regular medical colleges, and are here bic to
continue their studies under surgeons Of long
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
FLINT OUTOF ORDNANCE co
THE CONTROLLING INTEREST BOUGHT
BY HOADLEY-CRANIP SYNDICATE.

II was announced here last night by Joseph
H. Hoadiey that the controlling interest in the
American Ordnance Company, of Bridgeport.
Conn. had been bought by the HoadleyCrsmp
syndicate. Charles 7, Film, who was president
of the company. hHs resigned. and Joseph H.
Hoadley has been elected 20 succeed him.
George W Hoadiey has bssn elected vics-presi-
TeJaTy.
The following directors have also been elected;
Joseph H, Hoadley George ". Hoadley. Frank
W Curtis. r. NJ McIlvaine Walter H. Knight
Edwin :. Crsmp. L. Y. Benet 3 NJ Bruff and
CYRUS Field Judsou
II Is announced that there VIII in the near
futur- be a C0DS0Ii,lst riOn Of interests incIud-
in- certain foreign companies and Il new cor
Porauou organized with a capital Of S1O0n0OD0-
l. y. FeOet sailed for Paris yesterday 70 con-
duct the European end of the transaction.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
WI IN HEATED COLLOQUY.
HOTEL CORRIDOR DISCUSSION OF CHI
NESE EXCLUSION
THE MINISTER ANE EX-MAYOR PHELAN OF
SAN FRANCISCO DRAW a CROWD
IN THE WALDORF.

EX-Mayor PheIan Of san Francisco had an
Waldorf-Astorta which ~ Will not soon forget
He has come East 70 represent California in
her efforts have the Chinese Exclusion act
continued in force While staying in this city
he has been at the Waldorf. Last night. while
passing along one Of the Railways with a friend
ne met Minister Wu. who is also in town for u
few days
Come. let me introduce YOU To Mr. Wu.' said
Mr. Phelan's friend. scenting fun ahead. Mr..
PheIan made no objection. but no sooner did
Mr.. Wu hear the name of Phelan than he cried:
What Phelan, You MI Phelan, of San
Francisco, You-you-the enemy Of my race"
ard he darced about as though medtating per-
sonal violence on the Californian.
Il am not the enemy Of your race" retorted
Mr.. Fhelan. hotIv. Il object to the admission
Of coolies only for economic reasons
Coolies, Coolies!" shouted the excited diplo-
mat What do You call cooiies?"
"Worbmen, laborers We don't want them
here, They don't assimilate with us"
"Assimilate? What's that? Why don't they
assimuate?'
BY this time both participants in the argu-
ment We're gyrating about, and tanning each
other with their hands \ crowd rapidly
gathering about them
Why don't YOU let in students and mer-
chants? cried Mr.. WI. in a high voice.
students" snorted Phelan, students with
picks and shoves. I tell you We don't want
them
The crowd now became so thick that the two
verbal cOmha tarts became alarmed. \ friend
persuaded them to cease their argument
All the same shouted Mr. Wu his adver-
sary as they separated Il can tell YOU some
thing about the Exclusion act"
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
P4rNCEFOTE uISUNDERSTOOD.
NOTE FROM LORD LANsDOwNE TO THE
GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

NOTE FROM LORD LANsDOWNE TO THE
GERMAN GOVERNMENT.
Berlin. Feb 21-Lord Lansdowne, the British
Secretary OF state for Foreign Affairs. has in
formed Baron Won Richthofeu, Secretary of the
German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, that the
british Government has taken note OF the publi-
cation bv Germany Of the dispatch from DR..
LoIjeben the German Ambassador TO the United
states. concerning the meeting Of ambassadors
held in Washington on April a. 1898. without
following the usual procedure Of obtaining the
consent Of the other governments Interested
Lord Iansdowne and the British Government
desire Germany to know that II has mlsunder-
stood the action Of Lord Pauncefote. the British
Ambassador to the United States. in the meet
ing of April A. 1895 Lord PaunCefotes part in
member of the diplomatic corps, and nothing
that he did was prompted by unfriendlness to
;he United States
Baron Won Richthofen has not yet replied 10
Lord Lansdowne's dispatch of which the forego-
ing is the substance. The Indications are that
Germany in it's reply thereto will point out that
the British Foreign Office first giving in
formation TO the press, coincident with the first
speech Of Lord Cranborne. the British Under
secretary for Foreign Affairs
The German Foreign Office is seemingly taking
cornfzance of the official British statement given
TO The Associated Press on January u last that
Germany. Russia and France supported the ef-
fort of Austria to persuade Great Britain TO join
in European intervention.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
MAS BUTLTBTA. 7. STEWART
PARK AVENUE HOTEL WAS INTENDED
EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN-SUP-
POSED To BE FIREPROOF.

The Park Avenue Hotel was built Sy
4 T. Stewart in the late It's II was intended
ry him 20 be II magnificent hotel for women OF
moderate circumstance Considerable time
elapsed from the laying of the foundat ton stone
To the completion of the structure, the latter not
taking pEICr for some time until after the death
81 Mr. stewart II was an iron building with
large and han tSOme courtyard in the centre.
ana was the talk OF the town at the time. II
vas supposed 70 b. OF treprOOf construction.
Inc purpose OF Mr. Stewart i'm building il
HeNe" carried 0Ur by Judge Hilton who sue
t"eded 90 the management and control Of the
stewart estate Instead. Judge Hilton trans
formed the building into a hotel with all modern
ConVenlences tor rntartai ming the general public
III especially Ind reputation as a family hotel.
and was most lUxuriOusly furnished
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
BIGGEST ARREARS PATJ[ENT
RECORD BILL SETTLED By THE NEW
AMSTERDAM GAS COMPANY.


The New-Amsterdam Gas Company has Just
paid 10 The Bureau Of Assessments and Arrears
in the Controllers Office S21S 6TI - for arrears
~ taxes for the years 1896 1897 1898. 1890 AMI
1900. The payment is the biggest ever made by
one taxpayer NJ one time in the history OF the
arrears bureau. In explanation Of their delay
in paving their taxes the officials Of the sds
company told the Controller that as a matter
Of business policy. tho company was opposed to
spending money for taxes while IL was cont-rr-
plating absorbing the East River Gas Light
Company and the Equitable Gas Light Com
pany, both Of which concerns passed under the
control Of the New-Amsterdam company about
two years ago.
The interest pavrueuts in this transaction offer
a peculiar and striking Illustration Of the profit
accruing to the 9iry b. enforcing the fun pen
aItes for the non payment Of taxes on time.
ON this large arrearaEe. if The Tribune reporter
was correctly informed, the city exacted the IuH
per cent a year or S:'6 loo u3 for the five
years. While exacting this from the defaultihg
taxpayer. the city was borrowing ali the money
it needed at 81 per cent interest thus clean
ing up the eidy sum Of XlS.OI7 II in I'VE years
OF one transaction. without doing anything in
return for IT but Just 10 wait. Taxes constitute
a first lien real estate. and the title par
eel is not perfect until there is first obtained
clean bin from the Tax Department.
Edward A. Slattery, Deputy Collector Of As
sessments and Arrears. in reply to questions
yesterday. made the astonishing statement that
the arrears bureau carrying its books
arrearaEe accounts that have been running since
1884
This fact doubtless Will strike the oldest
reader OF The Tribune as quite extraordinary
said Mr.. Slattery, yesterday 1t is a fact how
ever, that there are about twenty-five scatter
ing pieces NJ property lying between Barrow
st and Thirteenth-st. on the line or what ls
known the maps the old Sixth ave. sewer.
that are charged up with the prOpOrtIonaJe ld-
bility for the construction OF that sewer laid
In the year 1894. The sums We're small in the
beginning. but tney now amount to consider
f.; BILE. As a matter Of fact. the owners of these
properties will soon be compelled To pay nearly
900 per cent accrued interest the principal
The Original assessments. duly confirmed
for sums under 500 each. Doubtless there was
some sort Of dispute over the payment in the
first few years that prompted the owners of the
property 10 refrain from paying. 1 don't know
whether the parcels against which charged
up these gray headed arrearaEes have ever bee1
transferred or not The assumption is that they
panes are .arefu these days to not certify to
title until all taxes of every description
paid II these arTearages run until 1906 tn
owners VIII be charged up with aggregate az
crued interest that viii represent just little
more Jhan 500 per cent on the original assess
New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
MAYBE 4 FREIGHT TERMINAL
RUMORED THAT THE PENNSYLVANIA Is
INTERESTED II r R. r PURCHASE.

Persons interested in the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company yesterday bought the property
Of the South Brooklyn Terminal Company. COW
erng about two blocks of water front on New
York Bay. extending from Thirty-seventh 10
Thirty-ninth SITS. The purchase price is said 10
he about S1.OHOO0. This includes a number Of
buildings. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany had leased the property for a long time.
together with a large building about 700 by 200
feet, which has been used a storage place for
cars. In addition To this large building there
some three story brick tenement houses on the
property. The purchase also includes the rail
road, which extends up Tenth-ave.. and which
has been used for some time by the Rapid Tran
sit Company a means Of reaching from Fifth
ave. the Culver tracks 10 Coney Island
Officials Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany refused TO discuss the purchase yesterday
on the ground that il would be premature. II is
understood that there is some idea OF establish
ing a large freight terminal in which the Penn
sylvanla Railroad might be Interested. Colonel
Timothy L. Williams. vice president OF the com
pany, intimated last night that the inter
ests which made this purchase might soon
quire other property in the neighborhOod.