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New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
TO CLEAR ELEVATED ROAD OF SNOW.
But Whether More Brushes Will Be Sufi-
cient Is Doubtful, Experts Say.

To reduce the chances of delays and blockades in
case of another storm like that of last week. the
Manhattan Railway Company is simply going to
add more brushes to its trains to brush away the
and sleet. The brushes attached to the trucks
of the electric trains last week proved Intellectual
for keeping the rail clear of snow and partial tie
ups resulted If brush on the forward truck cam
not keep the snow from piling up the power
rail to such an extent to the electricity
to leak from the rail, it would doubtful ac-
cording TO some experts that the addition of few
more each train would do the work. What is
apparently needed. according to engineers, is
appliance that would not only keep the rail
clear, but would remove the that piles up
in the trough either side of the rail- formed by
the boards that protect the power rail-
Some complaint has been made that the West
Side lines trains that supposed to stop at every
station often omit one more, thus making many
passengers walk a considerable distance.
1t said at the offices of the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railroad yesterday that this happens only
when train is crowded and is blocking those
behind IT. When any omission. it was said. was
made OF usual stop, the passengers were always
Informed of the omission OF the stop at the pre-
ceding station, and that when passenger car
f1ed past his station because of this omission he al
ways could have free transportation back to the
station he desired. This change from up or
down town train is said to be effected by the gate
signalling to the other station how many pas
caring for the passengers, IL is said. has been in
operation for the last three and a half years
three-quarter minutes in the busy part of the day
There supposed to be four in every
steam train, and five cars in the electric ones, al
though it has been reported that fewer have
composed a train. This number Of a train
is said to obtain until well into the forenoon. until
the heavy downtown traffic has been cared for
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
EXPLAINS ACTIONS BY HYPNOTIsM.
Young Woman Arrested in Yonkers for So
liciting Fund Sent To Reformatory

The mystery surrounding the young woman,
Miss Nellie Howell who arrested Monday
by Patrolman May for collecting money under
false representations In Yonkers, has been cleared
up. The young gave her correct name
when arrested. and turns out to be the daughter
OF w. B. Howell. a well known pigeon shot and
this city. She lives at No. 5S2 Mott-ave.. Mott
Haven. and iS part owner of the house. The elder
ly man that called on her Monday evening in re-
sponse to telegram from her turns out to have
been not her father but artist of this city. 1t
also developed that the young had been
arrested before in New Rochelle. according to her
own admission. on the same charge.
Ever since she first arrested Miss Howell
has been retcent and has refused tell anything
about herself On the day she arrested she
steadily refuseu to send for any of her friends
until late in the evening, when she allowed
to to telephone in charge of officer TO
call up a friend. She changed her mind, and in
stead sent telegram TO the artist informing him
In response to this an elderly man arrived at Po-
lice Headquarters. and at his request shown
the prisoner. The two talked for time Later
he went to Judge Kellogg's house and tried to Sc
cesSful. When he first arrived at Police Head
quarters he allowed the impression to go out that
he was her father, refusing to give his name Be
fore leaving, however. he stated that he the
girls guardian.
When arraigned yesterday the girls father was
in court, but the artist not. Mr.. Howell
demned the artist and said that ne could account
for his daughters actions only by hypnotic infiu-
ence. The young woman sent to the Refor-
matory for Women at Bedford. A message
sent to the Rev. Andrew F. Underhill by the girl
to divulge the reason for his visit or say what
Miss Howell wanted
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
BISHOP POTTER WARNS LABOR.
Must Not Push Unionism To Endangering
Personal Liberty.

Bishop Potter talked last night in Grace Chapel
in East Thirteenth-st, to the Grace Chapel Social
Club Lessons of the Coal Strike" The chief
OF these he found to be the advantage of labor or
ganizaton, the danger of overestimating that ad-
vantage and the necessity of taking into cOnsid-
Grafton the burdens of others.
IF there is any working man within sound of my
voice. he said. 81 want him to remember this A
great change is going@on in the American mind to-
and this change is due to the action OF organized
labor itself. 1t is danger organized labor is not
looking in the face. We have the right TO life lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness and We must
recognize that anything that impairs the liberty
of the Individual, whether he be the member of
a military company not member OF a
labor organization is something the country will
not stand. If member of labor organ
zation [ should consider the greatest lesson OF
the strike that must not press the value of the
union principle to point where 1t endangers the
personal liberty of somebody else. ] should say
that of all the lessons taught that of paramount
value is the value of ideas and ideals.
II believe with all my heart that the differences
which divide the miner and the operator
bitrable. and be arbitrated by effort
the part of each to understand the burden of the
other. In the settlement of this matter. of all
like matters, the personal element must be emi-
come from honorable adjustment of the diff
Guilty, and that only come when both sides
meet footing and with just considera-
tion for the rights of each. When ask, not, how
does 1t affect your wages my dividend. but. how
is 1t going to touch the elements of Justice and fair
dealing which must be at the foundation of all
then. and not until then, shall reach basis of
arbitration of the differ of capital and labor
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
LEGAL FIGHT OVER BOOK PRICES.
R. H. Macy & Co. Want Injunction Against
Publishers and Booksellers Associations.

Isdor and Nathan Straus, as r. n. Macy & Co.
applied 10 Justice Leventritt. in the Supreme Court
yesterday. for injunction restraining the Amer
lean Publishers Association and the American
Booksellers Association from acting under certain
agreements by both associations intended to main
tain the prices of books or similar commodities at
retail.
The plaintiffs also ask that the defendants be
enjoined from putting their resolutions in effect.
far the plaintiffs their book business
cerned. and from circulating among the members
of the associations the public any information
intended TO inJure the plaintiffs; or from interfer
ing with their purchases sales of books.
The plaintiffs allege that in 1900 number of pub
lishers including the defendants. had passed
lutions to prevent the cutting of prices. especially
Association then organized to cooperate with
the publishers. and that now neither of the
sociations will sell to any dealer who sells books
for less than the net price. They say. too. that
they invited to join In this plan. but refused
to do so. 1t was alleged also that the defendants
had attacked public and circulating libraries.
Counsel for the defendants said that the Pub
publication price of book had been agreed on IL
should be sold to the wholesale retail trade
at discount off that price OF more than % per cent
Any bookseller, who agreed to sell the price
agreed could buy books from the members of
the association He said that there had been no
discrimination against the plaintiff the rules of
the association applying to all alike and argued
were causing much more disturbance of trade than
had been brought about by the rules adopted by
the association.
Justice Leventritt reserved decision.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11

SUFFERING From Nervousness He
Shoots Himself.

Extreme nervousness is given by the family
as the cause for the suicide last night in Hol-
lenders baths in hundred -and-twenty-
ffth-st Harlem of Samuel ]. Stiffsonn fifty
years old a well to do trimmings merchant or
No. 133 West Twenty-third-st.. whose home is
at No. 205 West -hundred-and-thirty ninth
ST He shot himself in the head and mouth
Stiffsonn went to the baths about $50 o'clock.
took the different parts of the bath in their or
der gave the elevator 30 cents. the rubber
so cents and the attendant the same amount
Then he retired to his room the fourth floor
to rest. He told the attendant, Frederick Sand
holm to call him at ) o'clock. if it was dark at
that time
SandhoIm called Stiffsonn at , O'Clock and
the man called out '.An right Sandholm was
still on the stairs when he heard the crack of
revolver He heard two more. and then ran
to the manager The latter sent for Policeman
Za1nes who teIephoned to the ]. Hood Wright
Hospital and ran into the bath establishment.
Stiffsonn's room was entered and he
found on the floor with bullet in the left side
of his head and another in his mouth. A third
bullet found in the wall A revolver was
by his side, with three of five chambers empty.
Dr. Pollock, who accompanied the ambulance,
said the man had been dazed by the shot in
the head and killed by the shot in the mouth.
Coroner Scholer was informed and receipts
for bill established the mans identity. His
family of wife and five children, at home wait
ing for the father to eat supper, were then told
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
VICTIM OF MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT.
Shipping Clerk Found Senseless and Bleed
ing in Shop Where He Worked.

Detectives OF the East One e-hundred-and- MY
sixth-st. station are investigating alleged mys-
terious assault on Hector Corbett Mclean. of No
2,I39 Creston-ave., The Bronx. superintendent of
shipping of the American Talking Machine Com
pany, of Park-ave and hundred -tf1lrtieth
and e-hundred-a thirty first sts He was found
unconscious last night about 10 o'clock at the foot
OF a flight Of twelve steps leading from the main
floor TO the basement Of the building He was
bleeding from two scalp wounds. and the four lower
steps of the flight and the floor which he lay
were spattered with blood. He was taken to the
East One-hundred-and-twenty- station
where his wounds dressed by DR. Sevin of
the Harlem Hospital. and where he regafned CON
sciousness.
When he had recovered sufficiently Mr. Mel can
told the police. they say that it being a busy
season, the clerks in the shipping department had
to work late last night. He left the shipping room
In the of the build'"- go into the basement
for D few minutes. II dark at the head of
the stairs and just as he about to step down.
he said he struck behind the ear by something
hard. The blow stunned him, and was immedja teIv
followed by another which knocked him down the
steps That all he remembered. He said that
he had no enemies in the place and produced his
gold watch and chain and roll of bills proving
that If he was assaulted the motive could not
have been-one of robbery. Mclean was found by
two of the clerks. who went in search of him
after he had been absent from the shipping room
for half hour.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL MANAGER
]. B. Hutchinson Resigns and Successor
Will Be Chosen To-day.

Philadelphia, Dec. 10.-The board of directors of
the Pennsylvania Railroad to-day relieved ]. B.
Hutchinson Of the duties of the position of general
manager at his request. and Mr.. Hutchinson was
appointed assistant to Charles Pugh second vice
president, take effect January 1, 1903 and re-
ceived a leave of absence OF four months Fall
ing health induced Mr.. Hutchinson to resign his
Office.
While the directors declined 10 announce Mr.
Hutchinson's successor, who will be selected to-
morrow. ii is generally understood that w w
Atterbury. general superintendent of motive pow
er, located at Altoona, will be named. r. R
Durborow. superintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania Railroad division is said to be the
choice of the directors 10 succeed Mr. Atterbury
Mr. Durborow is also stationed at Altoona. Mr.
Hutchinson, who is flfty-eight years old, entered
pany In 1862.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
THE MAsCAGNI PLOT THICKENs.
Composer Has Not Been Able To Present
"Iris" Since His Concert Here.

When Mascagni left this city last Sunday night
it was said that he got away with all his music
and instruments in safety. This turns out not to
be true In fact, he has not been able to present
Iris all since his concert at the Herald Square
Theatre, and it is said to be open question
whether the tour will get beyond Toronto. where
the composer and his company last night.
The tale of this second tour is muddled, more
complica ted, than that of the first asserted
that there less than two attachments on
about everything needed for the production of the
operas, and nobody seems to know where he stands,
least of ALL notably, Mascagn
Only thing Is sure, Boosey & Co. of this city
American agents for Ricordi of Milan, publisher of
iris stepped in Sunday night and took away the
orchestral score for that opera, we'll the
tunl, or big Japanese gong, which brought over
here and leased to the Mittenthas by Boosey &
Co. together with thirty-one other Japanese in
struments. How Mascagni came by this music and
these Instruments. which at present belong ex-
clusivey to the Mittenthais. Bcosey & Co. do not
attempt to say. They do say that they propose to
hold the Mittenthals not MaScagni, responsible for
their safe return But while the Mittenthals were
inactive, they stepped In Sunday and got back
their account, by threatening Mascagni's
ayers with arrest what of the music and instru-
ments they could The Mittenthals have promised
them the remainder in few days.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
LAW FIGHT WHILE WOMAN Is DYING.
Counsel for Mrs. Waters Hints at Future
Developments in Conklin Case.

Colonel Alexander Bacon. representing Mrs.
Sarah n. Waters in her suit against William G.
Conklin, the secretary of the Franklin Savings
Bank TO set aside deed made by her conveying
to him her home. at No 451 West Twentyfirst-st..
which is valued at about 100000. asked Justice
Leventritt in the Supreme Court, yesterday, to
continue the injunction restraining Mr. Conklin
from dsposing of transferring the property.
He declared that in the last day or two he had
learned that Conklin had taken lot more of
the womans property. consisting of $4,000 in cash
and mortgages of several thousand dollars. and
foreclosing some mortgages, though the in
terest being paid in instalments.
IF a crime was committed" said Colonel
Bacon, 'it has been in this case, where this de-
fendant has grasped the whole estate of this old
woman, who is now breathing her last and who
cannot live more than few days at the utmost
L do not mention what we have heard, and which
reads like romance as the whole subject will be
investigated by this court in due time
Lewis L. Delafeld said the action brought
by woman already dead except in name, and
instigated by women who not related to Mrs
Waters. Large amounts of property had come into
Mr.. Conklins hands, for which he was responsible
and stood ready to account at any time. He would
be glad to transfer it to any person appointed by
the court
Justice Leventritt said he would continue the
temporary Injunction for week.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
sWANsTRoM REPLIES TO THE MAYOR.
He Tells of Difficulty in Keeping Brooklyn
Streets Repaired.

Same time ago Borough President Swanstrom, OF
BROOKLYN. received from Mayor Low letler Trans
mittng to him sectiona! map Oh oi -
ing alleged defects in street paVemehts III lie oo
! oueh as reported bv the Police and Street Clean
ing departments The question was reIerfeo pS
Mr. swanstrom to Chief Engineer I1llson' Oh lne ~
Rureau of Highways. Yesterday MI SWanstFoni OH
forwarded Mr.. Tillsons reply lo 'ho +' ''
a letter which in part follows:
Mr. Tilson's report discloses the following 1acts'
rrbat the said reports and maps transmitted 10 10
you by the Department of street ond dnnrelisbe
Police Department are Inaccurate anu "-
in the following particulars: aud avenues are
(a) That thrty-seven streets al ahn ed Of repairs
therein specified defective ana IN qion nee N nv the
although at the time of their 1nspectlou pS ..5 r
salq y i faan Of sf Highways with and mod
ern pavement: and L may mention lla' 'Ai' WIN
(bl The Whole length of Atantic-ave is therein
specified of repair, although II Is ye been
engaged in tearing I'D and eXcavaung tnat nnnI M
oughfaTe for the @ & OF Bosrd for the Allan
tic Avenue Improvement. .,sos =. cold
(c1 That many other streets are speced IN sac Saio
reports and marked said map as s. deteeteedi ere lid
which at the time of their 1nspec1on rea ny IF High
ways and were then being actually repaired py the
That, if the cobbie streets in this borough which
need repairs put in thorough repair Wlufiin 9r
Service of thirteen hundred men, at cost for labor
alone of upward of one million dollars IA -o S Unto
more, it would entail the purchase OF !foto cupIc
yards of cobblestones-a proposition whlen sry De
That. if the defective streets IN this borough
were TO be repaired at the unprecedented rate al
which such work has been done since January l.
1902. it would require eight years to complete sucn
repairs, and at the expiration OF that period we
would not be much better off than we are now, be
cause the work OF repairing would have TO De
begun de novo and continued ad infintuTn.
There is. in my opinion. only remedy for this
condition of things and that is TO replace the cob
blestone pavements quickly as possible with
durable. modern pavement laid on concrete base
Notwithstanding the fact that more repavinS has
been done in Brooklyn during the last eleven
months than done in the four years of the
dred miles of cobblestone pavements left in this
borough. To replace these with asphalt and gran
lite would cost approximately SO 090,000 You will.
therefore appreciate the fact that liberal appro-
pIiation will be required for repavng the streets
avenues and highways of this borough for the
year 1903, and I hope that. far you con-
sistently do so. you will aid in securing such
Increased appropriation
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
THREE BROADWAY BUILDINGS SOLD.
A National Bank May Improve Nos. 291
and 295

The seven story building, No. 291 Broadway, and
the two adjoining buildings Nos. 29S and 295 Broad
way have been sold for the Hemenway estate Of
Boston, by Douglas Robinson, Charles s. Brown &
Co. The buildings stand plot 663 by about 100
feet, at the northwest corner of Reade-st. They
adjoin the north the property owned by the
Barclay estate No. 1911 to 3o3 Broadway. and are
opposite the Dun Building.
Neither the purchase price the name of the
buyer of the Hemenway property could be learned
last night The property has been held at $50 COO.
and it is thought that the purchase price was
about that sum 1t said that the buyer was a
national bank which would undoubtedly improve
the premises If the plot is to be improved it
that the architectural lines of the whole block
front the west side of Broadway from Reade to
Duane st will be greatly changed in the near
future. Plans were recently fled for the erection
of twenty-one story building to stand the plot
owned by the Barclay estate.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
WEDDING OUT FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Sturgis Orders All Officers but Chief To Go
Before Medical Board.

In general order issued yesterday by Fire Com
missioner Sturgis all the uniformed officers in the
department under the rank Of chief directed to
appear before the Board Of Medical Examiners of
the Fire Department. that it may be determined
whether not they should be retained in the de-
Partment- All deputy chiefs battalion chiefs. CAP
tains and lieutenants. come under the order.
The examination of the officers is to begin at
p m, December II.
Several weeks ago Commissioner Sturgis issued a
similar order pertaining TO the ordinary frenen
but yet OF them have been examined,
though the order has been rescinded. is
now understood that the officers of the department
viii be examined before the
The order is thought by some to be the forerun-
of general wedding out of and officers
of the Fire Department.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
UNCONSCIOUS MANY DAYS.
Strange Case of Somnambulistic Soldier at
Sackett's Harhor.

watertown. N V. Dec. 10 (SpeciaD.-A case vbiob
outrivals that of Nellie Coreoran. who for twentv
days lay in a comatose state in Bellevue Hosptai
New-York City, has developed at Madison Barracks
sackett's Harbor. the headquarters OF the 9th In.
fantry which did valiant service in Cuba the Phil
ippnes and China
The case is that Of Arthur BauDre, a you,r
soldier who has lain in unconscious condition
for thirty-nine days Baupre. after serving Wit
his regiment in the conflicts which gave to Cuba
her freedom in the strenuous campaign which sub
dued the newly acquired possessions in the East
and after fighting in the hottest of skrmishes with
the allied forces in the Orient and returned to his
country unScratched. met with accident which
will cause him to relinquish his hfe- preserved in
many conflicts
Baupre was a young man of temperate habits and
well liked by his fellow soldiers and respected
racks however he had become someWbat ~
omnambulist, which fact resulted in an accident
a month and will be the cause of his death.
The accident occurred the night of October n
Baupre retired at the sounding of taps, bat arose
in the night and walked about while asleep. Just
that he eventually went to the upper storv of ~
hall, where he fell through the window to the
He landed partly upon his head and partly upon
his shoulders, and tne fali ren9ereg .n n..n uncon-
at the barracks in state of coma and his life has
artihciaiIy The case has puzzled the army sur
geons, who are at a loss to understand either the
during the forty days of unconseousness In fhe
first days of his illness he moaned almost ncessant
ly, leading the surgeons TO believe that he was In
great pain, but of late he has been comparatively
quiet and IL is thought that he suffers less than ar
first. Twice the surgeons have trepanned his skull
with the expectation of fIrding clot of blood
rupture but without avail and still he lies dead to
the world yet living and breathing on a few
occasions he has been partially aroused and mum
bIed few words in incOherent manner but
never since he was picked from the ground be-
meath the window from which he fell has he been
in possession OF either his mental or physical
faculties, has his condition shown any appre-'
ciab1e Improvement. Death seems only few DAYS
of at most he is constantly becoming weaker
The surgeons entertain hopes for his recovery
and If he should recover they state that he would
be both a mental and a physical wreck
New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
GIFTS FOR NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Jacob H. Schiff Gives Second $4,000 for
the Semitic Department.

The trustees of the New-York Public Library held
a meeting yesterday. at which announced d
gift of $4,000 by Jacob H Schiff to be applied TO
purchases for the Semitic department. This is the
second gift of $4,000 which Mr Schiff has made to
this department.
Another gift announced was one by Mrs Henry
Draper of a collection OF Illustrated French alma
macs from 1850 1888. There about two thou
sand of them, and they make ff2 volumes.
The arrangements for the formal opening of the
Carnegie Free Branch Library No l, in East Sew
enty-ninsh-s were considered The exercises viii
be held next Saturday at $50 President Can
tor will preside. The library will be regularly
opened the public next Monday.