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New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
RONyER AFTER MORE PATRONAGE.
REGISTER WANTS COURT TO COMPEL CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION TO MAKE
FoRTY-TWO PLACES
EXEMPT

County Register J. H. J. Ronner. through Deputy
Register Matthew Breen, made application to the
Supreme Court yesterday before Justice Fitzgerald
in Special Term, Part I. for a writ of mandamus
against William Miller Collier. president of the
state Civil Service Commission. to compel that
board to remove forty-twO places in the Regis
ter's office from the classified service and make
them non-competitive and exempt, on the ground
that the positions are confidential and that the
Register should have the selection of the men to
III these places. which range value from s. 200 to
s.. year.
Joseph Cotton, representing the Attorney-Gen-
eral, and 7. J. O'Neill and Victor Shanley repre-
senting the Civil Employees Association. appeared
IN opposition to the application. and argument was
adjourned until to-day. The employees who are
fighting prospective removal have sixty affidavtts
In their papers controverting the assertion chat
the positions are confidential and asserting that
the same application has been thrice denied by the
state Ciyil Service Commission. after hearings
held IN Albany ana Rochester, and that with the
nve exempt places now at the disposal OF the Reg
lister, he would be able TO make a clean sweep OF
more than half OF the employees OF the office re-
moving the holders of all the more responsible of
the ninety-hve positions. They also point our thar
the power Of the State Civil Service Commission 10
exempt places in the classified service is now being
tested in the Court Of Appeals.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
THE Y. ". C. A. CONVENTION.

Silver Bay. n. Y. July THE students section
Of the Young Women's Convention closed to-day
and the delegates for the city section of the same
conference already arriving here. Among the
speakers Of these last services were George selton
Of England. and DR.. Mrs. S. Howard Taylor Of
the China Inland Mission. A students service was
held this evening. The speakers were Miss Stone
from China; Miss Yoseits of Japan. and Miss
Zasileza OF Bulgaria, all students Of foreign mis-
sion institutes; Miss Mich-Hi-K aui, of Japan now
a student in New-York; Miss Barlaies. OF Mexico
a student of Boston University. and Miss Susie
SorazLd head Of a school in India The last
vesper service made up Of three parts by
delegates from Smith, Colby. Radcliffe Vassar,
Wo1'nt HoIyoke Westminster, Bryn Mawr and
wellesley The registered attendance this year
was sls delegates representing eighty colleges, the
arpast delegation being siXty-one, from Mount
Holyoke including six faculty members and thirty
seven members of next years senior class
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
B. R. T. TO ABOLISH HALF FARES.
PANY SAYS - THROUGH ELEVATED
TRAINS TO CONEY ISLAND.

Because they give the conductors an opportunity
FOR dishonesty the three cent half fares are to
be abolished by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany Application for permission to make this
change in tariffs will be made the State Railroad
Commission at once on all lines OF the m
pany at present children between three and twelve
years old are allowed to ride for three cents The
old Nassau Electric Company had no half fares.
Children under five years old were allowed ride
free. and all othc-s paid the regular five cent fare
This is the system which the Rapid Transit Com
pany intends to adopt
The half fare gives opportunity for many petty
peCulatiOus, said officer OF the company yester-
day, and JemptS the conductors be dishonest, as
al fares are rung up on the same register. a
conductor who has seventy-six fares rung up may
report ffty-dve full fares and twenty-One half
fares for example, while perhaps there may not
have been more than half dozen children his
car He pockets the difference OF cents for
each fare collected, and nobody is the wiser
Through elevated trains to COney Island will be
run and after next Sunday. They Will be
operated the West End Bridge near
Harway-ave and II is expected will Go much TO
relieve the congested traffic the shore resort.
The morning headway OF these trains will be
tW Wenty minutes In the afternoon they will be
every ten minutes, and oftener on Saturdays, Sun
days and holidays.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
Us Of 1901 and 1902:
REAL ESTATE.
DE ecTease.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.

increase
II will be observed that compared with last
years valuations there has been a decrease in
personal valuations OF S23, 1872 473, while in the
assessment roll Of 1902 there is a net increase
in the valuations Of real estate Of 800 S69 31S
The latter increase is due TO the natural growth
OF the city and increase in building operations
and the natural enhancement in the value of
properties due TO environment
The most noticeable feature in the list is the
decrease in the valuation of personal property
due TO the swearing off Of valuations made last
year by various persons as for instance in the
case Of Mrs. Caroline ". Astor. widow Of
William Astor. who last year was assessed
on personality of S250,OOO This year she
had that amount wiped out by swearing that
she is resident Of Newport. W. c. Schermer-
horn, who was last year assessed at $780, 600,
also had his tax abolished by declaring that
his residence in Newport
When the statement was received by the
Board Of Aldermen President Fornes ordered
it read. after whrch it referred to the
Finance Committee without any recommended
ticns. It rs expected however that the com
mittee Will report back TO the full board.
In explaining the decrease in the aggregate
or personal assessments, President Wells Of
the Tax Board said:
The decrease is due in large measure to the
growing familiarity the part of wealthy peo-
PIE and their lawyers with the intricacies Of the
law, availing themselves of which many people
are enabled to evade the payment Of personal
taxes. Before the last day comes for correct
ing the tax rolls many people come and make
affidavit that they have removed TO Suffolk
County Rhode Island or Connecticut, and we
are obliged to take their affidavits. Sometimes
subsequent investigation shows the affidavit
will not stand. The law compels the tax as
SCISSORS 10 accept the affidavit at the time. In
going over the lists this year we found II ad-
vtsable TO strike from the rolls absolutely the
names Of five or six hundred persons"
All the indications point to much larger in
crease in the assessed valuations of real estate
for next year and the following year 1t is estf-
mated that nearly S1O0,000,000 worth of new
hotels and office structures will have been COM
pleted before June 1. 1903. and that these will
be available for taxation purposes in time for
next years report
Mayor Low expressed himself as very much
gTatifed over the reduction in the rate this
year and said that the finance department
was confident Of making an even better show
ing in 1903
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
ANOTHER FL4TIROy BUILDING.
1T WILL BE PARTLY OCCUPIED BY THE
NEW-YORK TINES" IT IS REPORTED.

NEW-YORK TINES" IT IS REPORTED
A building almost similar in height and style
the dattrOn ar Twenty -third-st and Broadway will
be built on the triangle bounded by Seventh-ave.,
Broadway and FOrty-secOnd-sJ- According to A
report current yesterday IL viii be partly occupied
by The New-YOrk Times" II. LOewenthaI man
aging editor OF The New-York Times was asked
last night II the report were true. 1T is unau-
thOrfzed, and there is nothing to be said"
replied Mr. LOewenthal- This transaction will In
vOlve several millions OF dollars
A small parcel OF the triangle is occupied by
the Pabst Hotel The lease the hotel building
was bought some weeks by the subway Realty
company. and since that time the hotel has been
closed Title TO the rest OF the triangle IS held by
the subway company. The fee OF the plot whiCn
the Hotel Pabst stands is held by the estate Of
Henry DOlan and cannot be purchased IL is said
Charles ThOrley IS the owner OF the building His
lease or the plot IS for period Of ninetyntne years
The hotel is nine story building. IL has a 'front.'
way. . feet in SevenJh-ave. and a rear line OF 81
feet. That part OF the triangle owned by the sub
way company has been bought by the George A.
Fuller Construction Company and the Central
Realty, Bond and Trust Company. The same COM
panies have acquired lease for a long OF
years to the hotel
II is said this lease IS for forty years at rental
OF $4,000 year Henry MOrgenthau. president OF
the Central Realty Bond and Trust Company, said
yesterday thai the transaction pending, buE
that all the papers had not been signed
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
DIKEs ESCAPED PRISONER FOUND.
HE GOT AWAY THROUGH THE NEGLIGENCE OF
TWO KEEPERs-No ADDITIONAL PUNISH
MENT FOR HIM

Andrew Ehrtng, the prisoner who escaped from
the Raymond-st jail Brooklyn, June l. has been
recaptured. The prisoner was found at a North
Beach dance hall Saturday night by Warden
Roach and three deputies Ehrtng was with
young who has been watched for some
time the theory that Ehring would eventual lly
be found in her company.
The escape of Ehring was due TO the negligence
OF two keepers. They allowed him the freedom of
the Jail, and he unlocked the doors walked out
while they were asleep. The keepers were dis
missed Sheriff Dixie did not inform the police of
the escape of Ehring, but attempted to find him
with the aid OF private detectives. He has spent
a large Of money In that way.
No additional time in Jail will be imposed on
Ehring for escaping, and he will only serve out
his six months sentence for assault in the third
degree.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
SAY ALDERMEN ARE NOT DELAYING.

Aldermen Will hold public hearing Friday on
the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel contract \
meeting Of the committee was set for last Thurs
day, but most OF the members had gone out OF
town over the Fourth Of July, and quorum
present. Alderman Diemer. chairman n the
mitJee, declared yesterday that the contract would
be referred back to the Board Of Aldermen the
earliest possible moment. He said there
desire the part OF any member Of the committee
hold the contract back
1T is injustice this committee" ne said. TO
say that il is delaying this contract. IL only
placed in our hands last Tuesday and We have not
had time 70 DO anything with IL Yet. I don't
know whether there viii be any other hearings
the contract after Friday That hearing may be
sufficient. I hope So
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
CoRPoRATORs OF WINDg0R TRUsT co

The following corporators have given notice Of
intention 10 organize the Windsor Trust Company
under the laws OF this State: William H baldwin
II. Erskine Hewitt, Daniel O'Day, Eben B. Thorn
as, Charles II. Van Brunt, August Belmont. William
3. Leeds. Charles D. Wetnore DeLancey Nicon
James A. Burden, jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt James
Gayley. John Alvin Young. Andrew Freedman. John
II. Hall, r. H McCurdy Cord Meyer Jordan J.
Rollins. George W Young, Ernest Iselin, Ogden
Mills, James Timpson. Archibald s. White Robert
Walton Goeet and Charles Lathrop Pack The
company will be established in the Murray Hill
district
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
THE FIRE RECORD YESTERDAY.

IS5 Mo sufrofl1-st: Jacob Godstein; trihing.
BIS a m.-No. 349 East Thirty-hrst-st; Maria Cor
don; S25.
+ 40 Mo eol Broadway: L Wolf and others;
$1,000
l2-2o .. Mo. 12s3 Broadway: French. shriner &
Co: SO.
$50 .. Mo. I95 Ptt-st: unknown. SO.
sos D m--No East Eighty-third-st.: Edgar Carnch;
$500.
BIB D Mo. IO4 Greene-st-: D. z. Meyer: s25.
others. $4,000.
$40 P Mo East Eighty-hrst-st.. Wallace. trif
ling
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
CLOSED TO HAyDBOOK nEy.

President Fornes, Of the Board OF Aldermen. has
taken steps prevent the OF the City Hall
telephone by handbook men, The room in which
Alderman Matthews found man receivine, racing
the telephone the other day was closed
yesterday during the session of the board Mr.
FOrnes gave orders that only the members OF the
board and newspaper men with badges were TO ba
permitted inside the railing Many OF the
had no badges. and IL suggested that Mr.
FOrues either should give them a password. to "a
ChanEed weakly. or a written pass.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
PILE DRIVER STOPS COURT.

The steam pile driver in use by the contractors
on the addition the Tombs Prison made such
a noise yesterday that Judge Newburger found
It necessary to adjourn court for the day. After
adjourning court, Judge Newburger saw Acting
District Attorney Rand. and told him that some
way must be found TO stop the nuisance. Mr.. Rand
Carlin & Co.'S foreman. and the latter agreed
that the pile driving should hereafter be done be-
fore and after court hours Recorder Gofr was so
annoyed by the noise yesterday that he trans
ferred his court from Part II TO Part " on the
other side of the building.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
CRUSHED BETWEEN COGWHEELs.
AN OPERATIVE IN THE AMERICAN FELT
COMPANY's MILL NEAR PORT CHESTER.
PROBABLY FATALLY HURT

While attending a spool in the American Felt
Companys woollen mill at Glenvie, Port
Chester. yesterday Harry Adams's clothing caught
in the machinery and he dragged between the
cogs of big gear wheel The cogs tore out about
two pounds Of flesh and skin from his limbs and
stomach, and he would probably have been crushed
TO death IL the machinery had not become clogged
with flesh. Adams removed 70 the Port
Chester Hospital. probably in a dying condition.
If he lives il viii be necessary graft cutice on
his body, and all the mill hands say they will be
willing to give up pieces Of their skin to his
life. If necessary.
Only two weeks ago Mary Afelt a seventeen
year-old loom tender, had ner hair and scalp torn
of by the machinery in the same mill She is now
in the hospital, and the doctors intend to
gin grating pieces of skin her head from the
bodies OF some Of the girls who work in the mill
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
p4rBOADS APPEAL Allowed.

BaIlston. N. Y, July 7.-Justice Houghton on
petition of the Hudson Valley Railroad Company.
has allowed writ OF certorar to be issued against
the State Board of Tax Commissioners and the
IS. r,,,- eled bare to-day 1t is to review the
Va ina tions of the cOmpanys properties IN certain
towns of Saratoga, Washington ana warren coui-
t,es rbe totaI va he of the properties mentioned In
the writ Is sI9l 500 and the writ Is returnapie 10
Justice Stovers in Amsterdam, on July 70
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
THE TAX RATE REDUCED.
TT IS 2.27 OR .O4349 LESS
THAN LAST YEAR.
nFCREAsE IN Personal PROPERTY
VALUATION, S23, ,792. .473; INCREASE IN
REALTY. 500, ,S69,31s.

Controller Grout announced yesterday, after
consultation with the Tax Department officials.
that the tax rate for 1902 would be 2.273S4, as
against 231733 for 1901. a reduction Of O4349.
This reduction is made in the face Of the pre-
dictions Of the tax officials Of the former admin
istration that 1t would be impossible to reduce
the rate for the year 1902. On request Of Trib-
me reporter Mr.. Grout gave out the following
statement showing the reduction in the rate in
the various boroughs. together with other fig
ures, the meaning Of which is familiar to those
who have made a study Of the tax problem:
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
ALLEGED BOOKMAKERs DISCHARGED.
JEROME CALLS EVIDENCE OF UNTRUsTwORTHy
COUNTY DETECTIVE WORTHLESS

Judge Newburgec. IN General Sessions yesterday
dismissed the indictments against twelve men who
were arrested last summer and fall on evidence
obtained by county detective whose word Dis
trict Attorney Jerome has since found unreliable
Mr.. Jerome Of the opinion that conviction
could be had and recommended that the defendants
be discharged. All of the prisoners accused
of bOOkmakiuE.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
THIEVES ATTACK WOM4N IN BED
THEY BEAT HER ALMOST INTO UNCoN
sCIOUsNEss AND RANsACK BUREAU.

Elizabeth \. J.. July Two men entered the
house or Mrs. sh 1gard. at No All F'ulton-st,
today while her husband was away, and gagged
her as she lay in bed. They beat her until she
was almost unconscious, and ransacked the ou-
reau drawers. securing Sc and some trinkets
Then they attempted to assault her criminaly,
but her screams frightened them away Ihey
dronDed from a window and escaped.
Mr. Shugard who is employed IN the singer
factory returned home soon afterWard. ana
found his wife ir a half conscious condition
Mrs Shugard says that one Of her assalIants
was about sixty years old and the other was
about twentv-one She says that they threat
ened 70 murder her If she gave alarm. The
police are hunting for the men.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
REPUBLICAN EXCERSION.

The seventh annual excursion or the Republican
organization OF the XXIst Assembly District will
take place tomorrow Fully seven thousand wora-
and children viii go Laurelton Grove. on tha
Sound, starting from West Ninety-sixrh-st, az
a m
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
J. R. VAN WORNER GRAND JURY FoREn4N

Judge Newburger in Part I OF General Sessions
yesterday swore in the July grand jury. The fore
is John R. Van Wormer president OF the
New-York Athletic Club. Judge Newburger read
the law concerning the actions of the grand Jury
and tcld hem that there were sixty-fve prison
and eigh1y-five bail awaiting their al
fRnfinn
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
FIRE Ar WINTER H4RBOR. uE.

Bar Harbor Ne, July 1.-The village Of Winter
Harbor seriously threatened to-day by fire
which finally was extingushed after $4,000 worth
of property had been destroyed. Schoodc Inn Ed
ward Hammonds livery stable Tracy Block and
the residence and stable Of Nathan Hammond
were burned The losses arc covered by insurance.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
NOT FINANCING A BEEF TRUST

representative OF John D Rockefeller yester-
day said that there no foundation whatever for
the report that Mr.. Rockefeller was financing a
consolidation of packing concerns, adding that he
not interested in any way in the rumored
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
TWO SUITS OVER QUICKSILVER HINES.

ONE INVOLVES THEIR SALE. THE OTHER AN Al
LEGED COMPREHENSIVE.
The interests OF the Consolidated Quicksilver Min
ing Company OF New-Jersey were involved in TWO
motions which made by eX-Judge Augustus
Van Wyck before Justice Chester in the Supreme
Court. Brooklyn, yesterday one motion 70
have aside the attachment issued against stock
held by Riley a. BOggeS DT. j. T Reed, OF Brook
lyn, sued BogEes for $4,000 for services in dspos
ing of quicksilver mines in California, and the
attachment issued against BOEgeS'S stock in
the company which had purchased the mines
The other motion made in the suit OF kath-
ryn e. PIummer for the dissolution OF the
partnership which she alleges existed between
Bogges and her in the mining company in question
The motion for the appointment of a receiver
for the copartnership property. Decision was
served in both
New-York tribune., 1902-07-08

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throughout the continent of Europe and
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New-York tribune., 1902-07-08
SIS. 23O.94O Os

Presidents Wells Of the Department Of Taxes
and Assessments, yesterday sent TO the BOARD
OF Aldermen, which met in special session -
consider the revised tax list. the following tab
ulated statement showing the comparative vaIu-
atoms Of real and personal propertv on the as
sessment rolls of 1901 and 1902:
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zerritary which was incidental to our

serritary which was incidental to our
clash at arms with foreign foe.
The secretary of the treasury sends
to the congress each year a report Of
the expenditures of the government for
the past year, with estimates for the
probable expenses for each ensuing
year, and all of these estimates re-
quire careful consideration. Each de-
partment of the government, and each
bureau of the several departments,
presents, through the secretary of the
treasury, estimates for the develop
ment of it's work. fit were not for the
watchfulness of the congressional
guardians of the treasury the annual
appropria tions would increase the
more rapidly. Each bureau chief
wants increased appropriations, and
the sum total is always alarmingly
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year at their hands. And with them
are the clerks of their commit Mr..
Courts and Mr.. Cleayes; two gentlemen
who have handled appropriation bills
for SO many years that their services
are exceptionally valuable to the coun-
try, as well as to the congress. They
never take vacations for the Christ
mas holidays, nor for any other holi-
days while the congress is in session.
Moreover, those employees work on the
details of appropriation bills during
the long vacat tions when the statesmen
are away from this city for months at
time. They have no time to acquire
the habit of too much resting.
During the past 20 years the annual
appropriate for the expenses of The
government have increased from $780,
100000 to 100000. 600. AS the country
grows in population the federal en-
ploses necessarily increase in number.
Ibis was true before The expansion Of
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WIT AND WISDOM.

When any calamity has been suffer.
ed, the first thing to be remembered
is, how much has been escaped
johnson.
Ever think that when you are sit
ting quietly in a corner, you are les
sening the chance that people are
saying you are fool?-Atchison
Globe.
what makes this goods so ex-
pensive?'' Its the duty" "What
duty?" 1.-THE duty of the manager to
make money for the firm."-Indi-
annapolis News.
The man that starts into active
business with a beautiful nature and
comes out with great wealth seldom
brings the same nature with him.
Indianapolis News.
If man has the right kind Of ma
terial in his backbone it doesn't mat
ter whether he is born with a silver
spoon or an iron ladle in his mouth.
Chicago Daily News.
He weighed 1000 pounds of coal in
the scales and they registered full
ton. He chuckled. ''These l call the
'Ambuscade' scales. They lie in
weight. Topics.
ga man just called, doctor, an ugly
fellow, who asked if you were in, and
said he wanted to give you horse
whipping" swell, and what did you
tell him?" II said / was extremely
sorry, but you were not at home!"--
Der Dorfbarber