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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
ADIRONDACK RAILROAD WRECK.
Engineer Neyins. Who Disregartied Orders.
May he Charged Wit h MansIauGhter.

UTICA, May lo.-It is probable that Engi-
neer Nevins Of this city, whose disregard
or misinterpretation of orders was re-
sponsibile for yesterdays wreck on the
Mohawk and Malone Railroad at Nelson
Lake, in which three persons were killed
and twenty-eight injured. will be charged
with mansaughter. following the inquest
which will be begun Immediately by the
Coroner of Herkimer county.
Nevins absolutely refuses to discuss his
part In the tragedy, but from the facts at
hand 1t is evident that he disregarded his
orders. which directed him to hold his train
at Nelson Lake siding and give the Mon
treal northbound express clear track.
Instead. he passed the siding and quarter
of mile beyond collided with the north
bound passeng ger train. Conductor o 'Connor
of the southbound train says he applied the
emergency brake when he discovered
that Engineer Nevins was passing Nelson
Lake siding, but Nevins claims credit for
applying the brakes.
OF the injured, Engineer Plato of the
northbound train. William Martlock of
Herkimer and Joseph Elliott Of Buffalo.
an actor in "A Texas Steer" company. are
in a critical condition, and their recovery
is doubtful. Many suits for damages
against the New York Central company are
certain to result from the disaster
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
UNIONS FORCED TO SEEK ALLIES
Building Trades Board Trying to Bring In
the Warning Carpenters.

Building Trades Board Trying to Bring In
the Warning Carpenters.
The action Of the Mason Builders Asso-
citation in supporting the fight Of the Lum-
Der Dealers Association and the Building
Material Dealers Association against tho
Board OF Building Trades will be taken
UP at the meeting Of the Last named body
to-day.
The board in the meantime, being now
on the defensive, is endeavoring to bring
about harmony between the Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and the Amalgamated Car
penters' Society, against which the brother
hood has been ordering strikes.
A committee of the Board Of Building
Trades held conference last week with
a committee Of the Brotherhood OF Car
penters in the hope Of getting the brother
hood to quit the fight, at least temporarily.
The subject Of the shutdown and tn Q
action of the Mason Builders Association
was carefully avoided at yesterdays meet
ing of the Central Federated Union. Score
who attended the meeting would not dis
cuss the matter beyond saying that there
was no shutdown.
A meeting Of the joint Arbitration Board
OF the Mason Builders Association and the
Bricklayers' Union will be held on Thurs
further the demand OF the unions that fore
men must be made members Of the union,
The general impression yesterday was
that the bricklayers would not insist on
this demand and that the trouble would
he compromised. The bricklayers have
creased wages.
It was said yesterday that an appeal
will be made to-day to the Civic Federation
TO try to settle the main strike.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
YALE NEEDS BATHTUBS.
10 Declares . Senior VINO Calls Loudly
for Their HIOuly

NEW HAVEN, May 10 .--Thorne Baker. an
academic senior OF Yale University, whose
home Ia In Cincinnati voicing the sentiment
OF the Pundit Club. recently organized
literary organization OF the university,
containing many Of the leading members
OF the senior class, has made plea
for more bathrooms at Yale. The appeal
In made in behalf OF the members Of the
club In addition to an increase in the
bathing facilities Mr.. Thorne calls for pure
drinking water, cleaner rooms and better
drainage Of the campus. His appeal has
stirred the university officials. He says:
Matthew Arnold has said that England g
wealth and greatness consist in her art
galleries and culture centres not in her
great steel indust ries and coal mines.
Nevertheless, he could not deny that ma =
terial comfort furnishes the basis of cult
ure. A gentleman should be we'll housed
and fed while he is getting his education.
"The recognized and crying need about
this university is more care and attention
to the physical well-beine of the students.
The university authorities furnish them
bathrooms and dining hall at a price
culture and godlinees than a top room in
Lawrence or Durfee. We have five dor
mitories which have no baths at all.
1T requires no abstruse reasoning to
convince one that man will battle oftener
II the bath be next door than II his fresh
clothes must be packed into suit case and
pilgrimage made to a building two blocks
distant. Taking bath under such auspices
becomes a state occasion
"No mans room is even decently cleaned.
The average undergraduate is tender upon
this point, and II you ask him how his room
is kept you call forth torrent Of profanity
and imprecations upon the sweep day,
that is, If the man still cares. But during
the years passed at the university he be-
comes hardened.
New Haven water has never been Of
the best, and the university authorities
know It. A typhoid epidemic, indeed. did
arouse desutory efforts for improvement,
but the results were totally inadequate.
the form Of prejudice to numerous tubs
must end
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
sALEM,S QUAKER STATUE.
More Criticism Of the CIT That Frederick
r. Aver Has offered.

BosroN, May 1o.-Frank w. Benson,
the artist OF Salem Mass, has contributed
to the yoluminous discussion OF the Quaker
statue offered to Salem by Frederick FAyer
OF New York. He says:
.The model is not supposed to he perfect
in small anatomical details or to be smooth
and finished in surface, but all important
lines and proportions In the figures are
worked over and thought out to degree
that would hardly be believed by one
who noted the apparent roughness OF the
execution.
Now this model is found lacking by
artists In respect to these fundamental
oualities-de plorably lacking-and however
much one might wish to- have historical
event perpetuated is it worth while to do II
by means of poor piece Of work? l do not
sneak here of local criticism only. A .pict-
ure Of the proposed statue has been shown
TO several eminent artists. sculptors and
painters OF Boston, and the opinions given
have been adverse in every case.
Regarding this artistic feature, Frederick
F. Aver says that the photographs which
he sent are made from small clay sketch
which does mot attempt accuracy.
There seems to have been an entire mis-
conception OF the meaning of the tiger.
Mr.. Aver says
.The tiger ia intended to be typical OF
the ferocity Of unbridled superstition
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
OBITC.4Rl'.

Mrs Elizabeth Alice Jones, So years old.
whose death at Mount kisco was briefly an
Jones. Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF New
foundland and Bermuda Her death. which
was caused by Bright's disease. occurred at
Bishop and Mrs Jones had been visiting the
Harrimans, with whom they were intimately
daughter of the late Sir Adams c. Archibald,
K { NJ G.. Lieutenant; Governor Of Nova
Scotia She was taken i'll soon after her ar
weeks ago, and was attended by DIR. Chap
man of Mount kisco and New York specialists
will be held tomorrow In st Marks Episcopal
Church, Mount kisco The body win he
placed In vault for "A week and then taken
TO st Johns. y. F. for burial
Charles L. MeiRs. O. years of age, who for
twenty years was connected with Puck. died
at his home. 1906 Liberty street. Bloomfield
yesterday from q complication OF diseases
He was born in Albany and was son Of the
late Charles Il Meigs OF that city. -,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
WHO rs DIR. ". W. POPE?
Found III In the Street and Now at st.,
Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn.

There is a patient in st. Mary's Hos
pital in Brooklyn who says he is DR.. W. NJ.
Pope. so years old, and II he has given his
address, the officials at the hospital refused
to make it public. He was found in Bergen
street and Franklin avenue about 10 O. clock
Yesterday morning and as he appeared to be
i'll patrolnan summoned an ambulance.
Surgeon McSheedy OF the st. Mary's
Hospital responded but refused to diagnose
the case. Instead he took the man tn the
hospital and subsequently Capt. Murphy
Of the Grand avenue station sent Detective
Monck to the hospital to ascertain some
thing about DR.. Pope. The detective was
told that the patient was not In a condition
to he seen and last night when inquiries were
made regarding DR.. Pope, the hospital
authorities said they could not give any
information about him. The name does
not occur in the New York or Brooklyn d.
reCtories
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
CROWDS AT SEASHORE.
COney Island and ROckaway Beach Sur
prised-Explanation Fine Day.

Ninety thousand visitors overwhelmed
the hotel and restaurant propnetors at
Coney Island, eating all the bread at the
island before o'clock last night. The
observance Of the Excise law, which COM
pels the proprietors OF all hotels to serve a
sandwich with a glass OF beer, caused the
shortage.
Early in the day rumor spread over
the resort to the effect that eighty Of the
Rev. Cortland Myers's detectives were
on hand, looking for violations of the Ex-
else and Sunday laws. The name Of the
minister caused more alarm that that Of
Commissioner Piper. or even the appear
ance Of Piper, on the island.
Fifty OF the vast throng, the largest ever
seen at the beach before Memorial Day,
took dip in the ocean. They found the
water very cold and did not remain long.
They found satisfaction in calling them
selves the first bathers Of the season.
Second Deputy Commissioner Piper. with
shore in the early afternoon. He said he
OF things. and congratulated Capt. Knipe
on the good order and the way the big
crowd was handled. The day was excep-
tionally fine.
At Rockaway Beach the few hotelkeepers
who opened their, places Yesterday were
greatly surprised by the crowds OF
men. women and children who fiocked
to Rockaway during the day. Every train
that arrived at the Beach was packed.
| The early season rush was also surprise
| to the railroad officials, who seldom make
| preparations for the handling Of big crowds
before Memorial Day
Yesterday however. it was estimated
| that at least 10000 visited the beach. As
there were only few hotels ready to do
business they were crowded. and by 3 o clock
everything in sight and started foraging
for more. The result Of this was that before
darkness had set in even the hotel walters
who sat down to supper found scarcity
Of bread; AS one Of them put it there was
nothing left for the walters to eat but dry
cake, and this had been saved by the stew
ards.
The crowd wandered along the beach
and had q heap Of fun watching a solitary
man who took a plunge into tho surf at
Curleys. All Of the homecoming trains
were damned just as they are in the middle
Of summer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
JEWS MEET TO PROTEST.
A Cali to Christians Also to DenOunce
the kishenen Massacreti.

The Israelite Alliance Of America held a
mass meeting last evening, in Temple
B'nai Sholom, Brooklyn. Among the
speakers were Nissim Behar, the Rev. Alter
Abelson, Louis B. Michaelson, and A. H.
Simon. Mr.. Behar said among other
things: "The persistent and consistent
policy of Russia has been to discriminate
against the Jews. Not only against their
own Jews. but also against those coming
from other countries. Even against Ameri-
can citizens of the Jewish faith though
armed with a passport. Russia may Of
ficially deplore these massacres; but by
her conduct toward the jew she is morally
responsible for their occurrence
Rabbi Alter Abelson said: I'VE Jews
have been the real Christians of the world
for over twenty centuries. We have turned
our check to the smiter 80 long that in the
words OF the Psalmist we will determine to
deal justly with the just, froward with the
froward.'"
Resolutions were passed unanimously
protesting against the massacre at Kishe-
neff and calling on the Christian world also
to protest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
MOTHER AND SON BURNED.
Lose Thelr Lives by the Explosion Of .
Spraying Mixture on Stove.

spraying mixture on stove.
Hartford, Conn, May 1o.-Mrs. Cora
M. Roe wife Of Edward L. Roe Of Rocky
Hill and their seven ear-old son, WILDER
Power Roe. were burned fatally at their
homo in that place on Saturday evening,
and their daughter Ella, who is II years
old, lies at the home Of her grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Morton, in a critical
condition as result of burns.
On Saturday evening Mr.. Roe prepared
q mixture composed of whale oil soap,
kerosene oil and water to be used in spray
ing his fruit trees. In order to mix the
Ingredients thoroughly 1t was necessary
to heat them 30 Mr.. Roe put the kettle on a
out to do some errands at the stores in the
town them leaving Mrs. Roe to watch the
kettle on the oil stove.
1t is supposed that the mixture became
80 hot that gas graz gradually, t formed in the
the kitchen into the sitting room and into
the parlor, broke the glass in one Of the
large windows and jumped to the ground.
He rushed to the home OF the nearest neigh
bor George Andrews, for help. He was
still burning and 1t was necessary for Mrs.
Andrews to wrap rug about him to ex-
Meantime Mrs. Roe had gone through
the dining room and hall out OF the front door
onto the lawn. where she was found by Mr..
and Mrs. Andrews. After a time Mr..
Andrews succeeded in quenching the flames.
The daughter Ella escaped through tho
cellar and was not so badly burned IA the
others.
and ARR we'd q little after o clock. Assisted
by friends and neighbors, he did all that was
possible to make the sufferers comfortable;
The ambulance from Hartford arrived
at about O clock and the mother and son
were taken to the Hartford Hospital The
little boy died on the way and Mrs. Roe
died at the hospital at Q clock this morning.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
cEU,IN The SUBWAY STRIKE.
IRVING TO MAKE UP FOR ITS
NASTY INDORSEMENT.
Effort to Settle II This Week
strikers Fear That Their Places VIII
he FIlled--The italian Consul.('en.
cral Asks Them to Avoid Disorder.

eral Asks Them to Avoid D1soruer.
THE striking rockmen and excavators on
tho subway work are wondering what the
,or,ractors will do next. They are still
deteruined not to return to work pending
,rbi, ration, despite their agreement OF
lime 4. 1901. but they fear that an effort
will be made to ill their places.
# il known that the contractors are re-
Lre.ant TO bring in new men except a.
Ias, resort. There has been talk that some
a, them would import negroes from the
south. but none will admit that he has any
such plan in view. 1t is certain, however,
,ha, the contractors will not delay much
longer
An effort will be made by the Rapid
Transit Committee Of the Central Federated
Union TO end the trouble this week. 1t is
admitted bv members of the committee
TINT the Central Federated Union made a
mistake in indorsng the demands Of the
Rockmens and Excavators' Union before
they we're submitted to arbitration.
Meetings of the strikers will be held to-
dav. but there is no prospect that they will
change their minds about going back to
work pending arbitration. According TO
Vito Pucelli. president OF the union, they
will stick to their ultimatum. James E.
March. Port Warden Of New York, was to
have appeared at the Central Federated
Union yesterday with Pucelli, but did not.
|, was said that he received hint that the
strikers do not want him to mix up in the
matter as IL would look like politics. .,
John j. Pallas. chairman Of the rapid
transit committee of the c. F. u, made
report as to what took place last week
between the contractors and the committee
The reasons for the rockmen and excava-
tors not returning to work." said Pallas.
appeared to us to be good and sufficient.
This is not to be looked on, however, as
the rejection Of arbitration. Another meet =
ing will be held by the contractors this
week
Pallas then said that he wanted the report
10 be accepted without comment az one OF
progress He said he felt that 1t would
not do any good to comment on 1t. The
meeting agreed and simply accepted the
Puceli was asked by Sun reporter why
the strikers were not willing to 60 back
pending arbitration.
They don't want to 60 back without a
guarantee that they will be we'll taken care
he said. as conference over a new agree
ment is to take place June 4. We couldn't
get any such guarantee from the rapid
transit contractors. There will he meet
ngs tomorrow in the various halls. but
it will be simply to keep the people from
This, 1t was learned, ia in cordance with
an appeal made to the strikers by Giovanni
Branchi the Italian Consul-General. He at
tended the meetings OF some OF the strikers
and asked them to keep away from the streets
and not to create any disorder. He made
this appeal because he wanted the United
States to have a good opinion OF his
countrymen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
LABOR ACCEPTS CHALLENGE.
UNION SPEAKERS WILL REPLY TO
Mr.. HAvEMEYERs QUESTIONS.
May he Selected Outside Of Yonkers--
Havemeyer Says He Has Not Chosen
His QuestiOns-May he Framed From
Moral or Religious Point OF View.


YoNxERs. N. Y. May lO.-The challenge
made on Friday by John G. Havemeyer to
the labor unions Of Yonkers In which he Of
fered to PROFOUND various questions for
labor union speakers to answer at a public
meeting, the expense Of the meeting to be
borne by him, was accepted to-day, at a
meeting Of the local branch Of the Federated
union. The conditions named by Mr..
Havemeycr that the unions furnish their
speakers without cost. and that the speak
ers contlne themselves to answers to his
questions, which are to be delivered in ad-
vance. met with no opposition. The vote
TO accept the challenge was unanimous.
j. T. Wendell, the president of the fedora
ton. was appointed to communicate to Mr..
Havemeyer the acceptance Of the chal-
lenge and to suggest that court he named,
consisting OF Ave judges, to pass on the
merits OF the controversy, two to be selected
by the federation two by Mr.. Havemeyer,
and the fifth to be mutually agreed upon.
All other matters as to date, place and the
time for the delivery OF the questions are
TO be settled by Mr.. Havemeyer and COM
mittee from the federation. The committee
Of typographical union, G. F. Clarity Of
the union OF stationary engineers and F.
s. Skinner Of the machinists' union.
IL il conjectured from Mr.. Havemeyer's
letter that he will frame his quotations. from
moral, religious and theological points Of
view, although he himself says he has not
thought them out yet, Mr.. Havemeyer
has been conspicuous in church affairs
and has often occupied church pulpits for
the discussion of public questions from
religious point Of view, 1t was he who
pleaded strongly for strict observance Of
Sunday, several years ago. when there was
much agitation against Sunday golf and
baseball He argued in the pulpit OF the
Central NJ. +. Church that the running Of
street cars was wrong. He has been very
active recently, and In public letter several
weeks ago he attacked the policies OF the
unions. He cited an instance in which
a revolution in the sugar refining trade
was caused by arbitrary demands Of the
employees. In another letter he aroused
keen discussion by declaring that patriot
ism found no justification there.
Mr.. Havemeyer's plan TO hold public
meeting at his expense Is not new one
to him About two years ago ne challenged
the prohibition party to furnish speakers
to answer some Of his questions. and the
local theatre was engaged for the purpose.
Mr.. Havemeyer declares that his purpose
is simply to make people think right. His
latest challenge has aroused no end OF dis
cussion, and copy Of 1t has been sent by
the labor federation to Samuel Com pers
at Washington. 1t is believed that the
national body will furnish the spea kers
for the Yonkers union.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
TWO, FRESHMEN CAPTURED.
Cornell Sophomores Trying to Break VI
the Banquet Of tho Under Glass.

ITHACA. N. Y. May 1O.-On Tuesday
night the annual freshman banquet is
scheduled to be held in the Lyeeum Thea
tire, and developments have been following
thick and fast in underclass circles. E. E.
Free, the president pro TEN. of the freshmen,
was to-day let out ON parole upon taking
an ironclad oath that he would not disclose
to any one the place of his captivity nor
the identity Of his captors.
c. T. Anderson, one Of the most popular
members OF the class, was captured to-day.
Anderson was to be one Of the principal
speakers at tho affair. The sophomores
now have three freshies in tow. To-day a
gang Of freshmen came upon two sopho-
more guards who we're spiriting away a
freshman. and after liberating their fellow
classman gave the sophomores a severe
drubbing
A. A. Armitase OF Troy, while in his room
at the Phi Gamma Delta house, was sur
prised by the sophomores and dragged to
captivity. j. H. Costello, the freshman
president who has not been in the uni
versity during the last term, came to town
to attend the banquet and was driven to
cover by the sophs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
AGAINST SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.
Purchase OF Shore Front at Great Neck
to Head Them on.

GREAT NECK, L. l., May Warfare is
to be waged against Sunday excursions
to this village. A combination Of residents,
among them being Roswell P. Eldridge.
president of the Hoboken Ferry Company
H. B. Gilbert, raised fund Of $4,000 re-
Gently with which they have purchased
a plot Of about four and one-half acres
near the steamboat landing which was
utilized by an excursion company as place
for landing Sunday excursions.
Hotelkeepers and liquor dealers urged
j. B. Vandervan, its owner, not to sell The
price was considered gilt-edged and Mr..
Vandervan lost no time in accepting it,
With the acquisition of this strip OF shore
front it is hoped to shut off all Sunday
excursions
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
NEW STRIKES IN IRON TRADE.
Inside Workers and the Brass Handlers
Have Called 300 Men Out.

Two new sets of strikes have been ordered
against the Iron League. which is COM
posed Of the principal iron contractors in
New York and vicinity. One Is by the
Inside Architectural Iron Workers, who
demand new wage scale. Their delegate
reported to the Central Federated Union
Yesterday that 100 Of it's members were on
strike in eighteen factories In Manhattan
and twelve in Brooklyn for an advance
in wages
The delegate of the Metal Polishers and
Brass Workers, which has ordered another
series Of strikes, reported that 1000 mem
bers Of its union were on strike for $3.50
a day and fifty-hour working week in
shops OF the Hecla Iron Works, Williams
4 Co., J. B. L j. NJ. Cornell and Richey.
Brown d Donald The strikes were in
dorsed by the c. F. L.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
Sleepy Lady.

A lady who had gone to sleep in the
patrol wagon OF the East Twenty-second
street police station at its stable refused
to get out when hurry call took the wagon
into action yesterday afternoon She said
she'd be glad Of the ride. The driver took
her to the station and she renewed her nap
in a cell. Barbara Stotzh'Ts, she said,
was her name
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11
SOUTHERN TRAIN DERAILED.
Engine and Two Cars Roll Down Embank-
ment-The Engineer Killed.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 1O.-The engine
and four cars Of Southern Train IL. east
bound. which left this city this morning at
about o o'clock. left the rails near White
Pine, q short distance this side OF the
North Carolina line. The train was round
ing sharp curve on a steep embankment
at the time.
The engine, express and mail cars were
thrown down the embankment. Engineer
q. B. Holloman was instantly killed, and
every member of the train crew sustained
serious injuries. Some twenty of the
passengers we're more or less injured,
and, had the couplings between the rear
coaches and those which followed the
engine not parted, he loss of life would
have been much greater. The wrecking
crew was sent from this city, and the injured
brought here and placed In the hospital,