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New-York tribune., 1902-01-04

In beautiful position completely sheltered from North
Winds, enjoying most healthy climate with unrivallcd
sunshine and luxurious vegetation offering variety of
picturesque and easy drives and walks Fashionable
Social Life. Opera House. Tennis and Social Clubs.
Excellent Concerts given by the Municipal Orchestra.
Casino in course of building.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-04

torslsg Resorts.

| The Grosyenor has been entirely recon-
structed and superbly furnished. is position
at tne terminus of the leading routes from
the continent makes 1T most convenient for
/ and its proximity fashion,
aoIe centres of the West End equally so for
the families visiting London.
THE GORDON =
New-York tribune., 1902-01-04

Large palatial Hotels offering every modern comfort
Numerous sp'endidly situated furnished villas aus
private mansions The provided with spriu,
water. acknowledged to be the purest the Littora
Fsvour1te residence Of Imperial and Families. Pan
ronised by the nobility and gentry of ope Arx c
Safe harbour for yachts, with easy a. ,css-
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
TO DELAWARE Y

TO DELAWARE WATER GAP
and back 81 So Five-day excursion tickets for
Decoration Day at Lackawanna ticket Offices
Advt-
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

THE PROPHETS CHAMBER"
A wonderful story from The Foar-Track News
for May. Sent free receipt or cents by g. H.
DANIELS Grand Central Station. New York
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
MT. PELEE STILL IN ERUPTION
BUT SEARCHING PARTIES I'VE PENETRATED TO THE
HL-STARRED CITY or ST PIERRE

Copyright; 1902; BY The Tribune AssooiationD
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New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
EASLEY ON MYSTERIOUS TRIP
1T is THOUGHT THAT HE is STILL
TRYING TO AVERT THE STRIKE

Ralph NJ. Easley, secretary Of the National
Nl'lc Federation left this city mysteriously late
oh saturday night, and will return some time
o-oay Nothing could be learned at his house
"s 10 his destination. but it is thought that he
vent to see If anything could yet be done to
avert the threatened strike Of anthracite miners
-Nohe or the representatives of the coal carry
ns companies who conferred with the opera tors
e.ore the Civic Federation's Cancellation com
:. ,.setee were IN town yesterday. Oscar s. Straus
night, said: 4 ' A'''
al ~ the strike is declared on Wednesday the
enl VIII be long and bitter one and is likely
-. ~ extend 10 the three hundred thousand bitu-
-1hous coal miners. AS member of the con-
t'.a.loh committee believe that the operators
re uio reconsider their decision not TO meet the
aSplesehtatiyes Of the miners again and should
srpf.Iht pfSeht 10 submit the questions in dispute TO
Sras erauon n AS the miners represent one hum
won,S anu m nlty thousand persons and their strike
'e'Hpt Should be made to avert it."
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
ST. VINCENT CONFUSED
Hundreds Perishmg from the Erup-
Hon of La S0yfflere.
UNABLE TO REACH THE ISLAND.

Thomas d. W. L. May Repos the island OF ST. Vincent
there outbreak thar island Definite however
lacking Many destroyed ashes beced forth
night The invisible
Huge prevails Vim
1t believed about hundred
Vincent The the
still unburied
Kingston Island OF St Vincent W. l. May OAfe numerous earth
the Soufe volcano the the island
Monday
lake assembled cloud exploded The
louder continually Wednesday when the old
formed beched
smoke residents OF Wlbou and Richmond Valley
meath the volcano, Chateau Belair refuge
The hunderous which continually heard
neghborng hundred miles
midday columns
miles high expanding wonderful resembling
uhower wheels beautiful sked
behOlder
and the mind The abOred rid itself OF
of molten which later flowed down the side OF the
following
the black
falling fae attended with midnight darkness all Wednesday,
the Friday fresh and elections OF fiery
dust the island feet deep
The
The destroyed districts with
food and The feeding
bers OF from the outbreak
physical changes the neghborhood of the
Souriere
districts
unproacabe Every brings dde The and doctors
suspended
The public unsettled further disaster.
the deaths whole
still lying nbuied The dead will be buried in trenches
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

NJ Bloch. Inspector OF Finance. and NJ La
barthe. the Colonial Minister'S secretary. who
have been dispatched by the government TO
Martinique. sailed from Brest to-day on board
the French cruiser D'Assas which carries
money. provisions and other stores for the re-
lief of the Martinique sufferers.
a French cable official who went to ST Pierre
reports that the company's office has been
burned to ashes and that there is no trace OF
the staff, This oficia; adds that the cremation
of the bodies of the victims has begun. and that
the cable steamer Pouyer- -Quertier is proceeding
to repair the northern cable
The waves of lava are still reported to be iow-
ing northward. They have extended even to
lie Carbet
The candidates for election to the French
Chamber of Deputies who perished at ST. Pierre
were NM Percin and lie Clerc.
The Colonial Minister has organized relief
distribution committee consisting of himself
and NJ Decrais former Colonial Minister. the
colonial members of the Chamber of Deputies.
the Colonial Senators and number of CONNER
ciaI men. The first meeting of this committee
will occur Tuesday.
The British Ambassador. Sir Edmund ]. Mon.
son. called at the EIysees Palace this afternoon
and communicated to President Loubet person.
ally the sympathy of King Edward
The Temps to-day, referring to the destruc-
tiOn at st. Pierre. says:
We believe from the information received
here from the island of Martinique (meanlns.
doubtless the official dispatches). that the dis
al lluaClOQ
ceive. The whole northwestern portion or the
island is laid waste. Three large communities,
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
4 MERE HEAP OF RUINS
UNDER WHICH LIE THIRTY THOUSAND
OF MONT PELEE'S VICTIMS.

COMMANDER OF THE SUCHET TELLS OF HIS
EFFORTS TO REACH THE DESTROYED
CITY OF ST PIERRE
Paris, May 1.-THE Minister of Marine. NJ. de
Lanessan, to-day received cable dispatch from
the commander of the French cruiser Suchet.
dated Fort de France. Martinique saying that
he conducted search at St Pierre yesterday.
The captain reports that the town is now a mere
heap of smoking ruins, under which the vic
tins Of the catastrophe are buried The Suchet
was able to convey some of the inhabitants of
lie Precheur Fort de France. but could not
reach the northernmost part of the island on
account of the dense rain of ashes which was
falling.
The captain of the Suchet further reported
that the Mont Pelee volcano stin had a threat
ening aspect yesterday evening. Subterranean
rumblngs were still heard. flashes of flame fire.
quently belched from the volcano and stones
were thrown out with immense force
A dispatch received at the Colonial Office here
to-day from Fort de France says there is no
doubt that Governor Mouttet and the com
mander OF the troops at ST. Pierre. Colonel Dain,
are dead.
Other dispatches confirm the reports that the
American and British consuls and their fam
lilies perished.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12
SEARCHERS IN ST. PIERRE.
THREE THOUSAND CHARRED BODIES
WE'RE FOUND ON THE SITE
OF THE CATHEDRAL
Copyright; 1902: BY The Tribune Association)
Especial to The Tribune by French Cable.l

Especial to The Tribune by French Cabe.l
London, May u, 1 a m.-The story of the
destruction of ST. Pierre is substantially re-
lated this morning by THE Daily Mali
respondent in st. Lucia. The correspondent
says that successful attempts have been made
10 reach ST. Pierre. The town is a heap of
ruins, and dead bodies are lying all around
Few will ever be recognized, so great the
mutilation and distortion. Search parties have
found three thousand charred corpses on the
site Of the cathedral. All appear to have been
asphyxiated at first. Not soul was found
alive in the whole town. Unless wholesale
cremation. as is Intended. is carried out. there
will be epidemic.
Describing the destruction of the island city,
the correspondent says that last Monday Mont
Pelke poured forth a stream of molten lava
twenty feet high and half mile wide. It's
progress was appalling. Rushing down the
dry bed of Riviere Blanche 1t reached the sea
in three minutes from the top of the noun
tain. 4 400 feet high and five miles away. and
bIotted out everything in its course The force
OF the impact was such that the sea receded
for three hundred feet for miles along the
western coast. Loud detonations followed at
short. irregular intervals. absolutely awe in
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

THE HANDSoMEsT TRAIN IN THE WORLD
The PIONEER Limited of the Chicago. Mil-
waukee and st. Paul Railway. between Chicago
St Paul Minneapolis Electric lighted solid vesti.
buIed train. Office 31 Broadway, ". Y-(Adyt
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

Group can be cured with
JAYNES EXPECTORANT.-Advt-
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

sElrins and so loud that they were heard three
hundred miles away At night the voIoo,,
crater was mass of lurid flames, which shot
hlgh up over the mountain. while all the time
the cannonading went on
Many In st Pierre had then an inkljnr Of
their coming doom. Despite the intense dark
ness the people in their night clothes ron
screaming to the hills in direction a.a,. f,o,,,
the volcano, while some escaped from the town
by steamships to ST Lucia
The cannonading continued at intervals op
Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday morn
ing it was relatively still St Pierre was as
usual early astir and business was partly 60
ing on about o'clock. when a sort Of whirl-
wind of steam. boiling mud and fire suddenly
swept with incredible rapidity down on and
over the city and roadstead, where Law a nur
Der of vessels, some eighteen altogether he
sides coasters. They included four American
sailing vessels, At once the town was in
blaze, The fire seemed to run over all The
ships instantly canted over and began
simultaneously to burn and sink in the sea
which was then raging cauldron. 1t was like
a tidal wave. and swept over the steamers
carrying away boats, spars and tunnels at once
The water and mud came, it were, from the
skies, while the heavens black with i'm
penetrable darkness.
When the survivors of the Roraima next saw
the light, city and shipping were blazing furi
ously. The horror stricken supposition that in
all about thirty thousand persons had persisted
was only too true. The whole destruction had
taken place within less than twenty minutes
Of eruption
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

ROUND TRIP TICKETS TO CALIFORNIA
Ar an ticket offices. offering diversity OF routes
going and returning via Chicago and North
Wesfern. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Rys
odices ISL 2s7 and 349 Broadway-Advt
New-York tribune., 1902-05-12

,,I ,"hAI COULD BE MORE CONVENIENT
your nave your railroad station placed right at
frzTs 1yor, as Is the case with the New-York CEN
ye-is oaand Central Station in the centre ~ New
through trains leave every hour-Advt
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18

wants Is to have all possible changes
suggested. and then. when by process
of discussion residuum of absolutely
necessary reform has been left. to see
the people Of Chicago make absolutely
unanimous and irrepressible demands
at Springfield As to the manner of
making those demands, the Federation
favors constitutional amendment rather
than a constitutional convention. II
thinks that all the different things Chi
cago needs can he sewn together In a
crazy quilt amendment and stitched to
some article of the present constitution.
If this should turn out to he impossible
1t suggests the immediate repeal of that
article of constitution which forbids
the amendment of more than one arti.
Gle at session. Then. with all impcdi-
ment removed. as many amendments as
are necessary can he added to the con-
stitution at any time when the Legis-
laturc is in a pliable mood. Such Is the
position taken by the Civic Federation
committee. 1t ought not to be twisted
into anything else.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
GOVERNOR XTES' VERT COM.
MISSION.

An admirable step has been taken by
Governor Yates in the appointment Of
a commission to investigate the opera.
ton Of the merit system In the appoint.
ment Of employees Of state institutions
In other states; also to study the cen.
trail board plan where It has been adopt.
ed in place Of the separate board sys.
TEN in operation under Illinois stat.
utes.
The men asked to act upon the com.
mittee are DR.. william Jayne, Presi.
dent Of the State Board Of Charities;
=. 8. Murphy. Warden Of Joliet Prison:
DR.. w. Z. Taylor. Superintendent Of
WATERFOWL Insane Hospital; Zina r.
Carter. Edgar A. Bancroft. President Of
the Civil Service Association, and John
II. Hamline. In this list all IRE e.
pecially acceptable appointments and
the committee as thus constituted may
be depended upon to investigate will
thoroughness and earnestness.
The form Of broad system and tn,
details Of new legislation are yet I,
be ascertained. To this end the com
mittee will serve the public well. ant
its report will be awaited In confidenc,
Of Its impartiality and intelligence
Chicago Evening Post.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM AGAiN IN
TROUBLE.

1t would now seem rs IL the City Civil
Service System is again In a peck of
trouble, this time with Uncle Sam HIM
self. 1t seems that the commission Is
in danger this time of getting into Il
controversy with the United States
Courts. 1t has been the custom of the
commission to discipline police and fire
men who do not pay their debts, thus
forcing payment. The other day two
cases came before the Trial Board, one
Of Policeman John Condell. of the For
ty-iirst Precinct, and one of Policeman
Alfred Barry, Of the Thirty-tirst Pre-
clnct, who owed debts of $S6 and SCI,
respectively, but who had gone through
bankruptcy and thus been relieved Of
them The commissioners were dis
posed to take the ground that the men
should pay the debts anyway. but hest
tated for fear of possible contempt pro-
cecdings. In COndelrs case nothing
was done, as he brought with him re-
straining order from the Federal Court,
but 1t was adjudged Barry should pay
the bill, which was due an undertaken.
The commissioners propose, however,
to consult with Judge KOhlsaat before
going further. While the Eagle has
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
DEFEAT THE NEW WATER METER
ORDINANCE.

Another water.meter ordinance was
introduced In the City Council Monday
last. 1t provides for meter for every
user Of water. II should be defeated.
The Eagle gave its reasons for hold.
ing this opinion several weeks ago. and
will only briefly refer to some Of the
leading ones Just now.
In the first place there IL no neces.
sity for such a measure. Under the
present system of water tax the water
Office 10 not only self.sustaining but
a paying institution. The water fund
has always not only been found amply
sufficient to maintain the present water
system. but to develop 1t as the needs
Of the city In that direction grew. and
after doing oil this 1t has produced
an annual surplus which has been not
infreQuently called upon to help out
other funds. 1t does not therefore ap-
pear to US to be necessary to invent
any additional or new.fangled method
for squeexing increased water taxes
out Of the property owners Of Chicago.
1t Is the belief Of The Eagle that this
general water meter system would i'm.
pose a grinding taxation upon the
property owners, particularly small
and outlying property owners. Of this
city. 1t would prevent the improve.
ment Of vacant property. because the
owners Of real estate who might un-
der ordinary circumstances invest their
hard.earned savings In the erection Of
fiat buildings, would refrain from do.
Ing so In view Of the fact that sys.
tenn Of water taxation prevailed which
might not only prevent the realization
Of any profit on the investment but
might actually entail a loss.
1t would not unlikely lead to sys.
TEN of leasing which would restrict the
use of water In fats, which would not
improbably lead to insufficient santa.
ton and perhaps cause pestilence.
1t most probably would lead to a
general increase In rents. because prop.
erty owners could not lease at present
prices and take the chances Of prOba-
BILE wastefulness or Mt least very free
indulgence In the use of water on the
part Of tenants. Thus heavy share
OF the burden might fall upon the
shoulders of that great army of poor
ana middle-class wagewOrkers who
live In flats. For all OF these and
other reasons which might be ad-
duced, this latest water-meter measure
and kindred ones, past, present and to
come, should be voted down and de.
feated.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
WHAT The FEDERATION VANS.

People seem to have done the Civic
Federation IN injustice in thinking that
the twenty-three changes in the State
constitution which its report enumer-
ates are all suggested by the Federation
itself and sanctltled by the Federation's
approval This misconception of the
situation has found its way even into
the editorial columns of some newspa-
pers. 1t could never have found its way
there II all editorial writers We're care
full to take at least one fleeing look into
the documents they crlticlse. In intro
ducing its famous twenty-three varle-
ties of constitutional changes the Fed
Grafton expressly says: I'VE collect the
following as advocated changes "Ad-
vocated''-there Is the significant word.
Further. in going back over the list
after 1t has been once presented, the
Federation IL careful to explain that
even ''our small committee of three"
does not agree with itself In its attitude
toward all the points involved.
The fact Is that what the Federation
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18

point. and The Eagle takes pleasure in
reproducing it for the benefit Of Its
readers
ANY project with responsible men
behind 1t for the construction or the
use Of subways In this city will he of
interest to Chicagoans, and will be re-
spectfully received by the Council
More than one project of the kind
may be submitted. The value of rights
of way beneath the surface In Chicago
ia coming to be as fully recognized as
the value of rights of way on the sur
face. Because Of the value of the
privileges which will be asked for be.
meath the surface the Council will be
In NO haste to take action concerning
any proposition which may be made
to 1t. no matter how respectable may
be the quarter whence 1t comes. There
is no imperative demand for subways
The city can wait and view with pleas
ure the increased bids for grants Of
the kind mentioned. Furthermore,
there are serious engineering questions
to be considered. The assurances of
persons who ask for permission to
build subways or to use them for ex.
tensivc enterprises that there are no
engineering difficulties in the way of
carrying out their plans cannot be &C.
cepted as conclusive. Disinterested
engineers must be consulted The sub.
way problem is a large one. calling for
long public and official discussion. The
Council, realizing the fact. will receive
applications for subway privileges. but
will be slow in parting with one Of the
most valuable assets Of the city,"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
SUBWAYS AND SUBWAY COW.
7RACT8.

While The Eagle does not desire to
antagonixe anything that makes fol-
the progress or development Of the
city Of Chicago or for the public SER
vice of the municipality It does desire
to reiterate and reafiirm its position
ON the subway question and the grant
ing Of franchises and contracts by the
City Council for privileges under the
surface Of the streets.
We drew attention some time ago,
In fact, shortly before the Council ad'
j0urned for the summer vacation, to
the eager rush for subway privileges
on the part OF certain corporations,
mysterious associations OF alleged capi-
talists and other wOuld.be promo
tiers" OF public" utilities, and we at
that time argued that the Council
should go slow about these matters.
We pointed out that there could not
be too much publicity or too free and
thorough discussion Of the proposed
grants and franchises, and that there
should be the fullest information as to
the identity Of the capitalists back OF
the proposed enterprises, the amount
of capital which 1t was proposed
should be invested and so forth.
The Eagle maintains the same posi-
ton still.
Immediately after the reconvening
of rhe City Council the activity over
subway enterprises has been resumed.
At the last meeting Of that body, as
well as the previous one, subway or
dlnances. involving certain grants and
privileges, including the laying OF
pneumatic tubes and other enterprises,
were introduced. The latest one,
though OF great value, contained no
provision whatever for compensation
TO the city. There has been no edlto'
rial comment on the proposed fran
chlses on the part of our esteemed
daily contemporaries although, strange
| ~ enough, editorial comment on the
subject was quite plentiful previous
to the midsummer adjournment. The
following which about that time APP
peared In the columns Of the esteemed
Tribune would seem to be still quite
appropriate and very much to the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
EALLiN0 OFF IN REGISTRATION.

Elsewhere In this edition the Eagle
discusses the cause Of the heavy falling
OF In the recent registration Of votes In
Cook County. In doing so 1t simply re.
fleets the general opinion and belief az
1t has ascertained It from all sources,
and has presented the facts In the case
rs they have been ascertained. We
merely propose to state here that only
30 per cent Of the voters Of Chicago
will be authorized to cast their ballots
on election day. We also give the fg.
ures. They speak for themselves clio.
Quently: