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The sun., 1903-10-15
LOWS RECORD AS TO SCHOOLS.
This Administration Doing 30 Per Cent.
More Than Van Nyck Did.

Chairman Lummis Of the finance conf
mittee Of the Board OF Education yesterday y
gave out some comparative figures Of
money appropriated by the city for school
purposes under Mayor Van Wyck and
Mayor Low. He said:
From 1893 to 1901, the four years Of
Mayor Van Wyck's administration. the
Board OF Estimate granted Sl4 ,ss3, $40
for the purchase Of school sites and the
erection OF new buildings, in addition to
which sum balance on hand from the pre-
vious administration OF Mayor Strong made
a total OF SIT ,372,9 ,947, which was expended
for school purposes during the four years.
Under the present Low administration
7,TSS, ,430 had been granted In the first
year, and three-quarters for school sites.
OF this sum the amount actually expended
for sites bought and buildings contracted
for was Sll 1882, ,28S, In addition to which
there was set aside for the purchase Of new
sites 81, ,259, 200 and for new buildings for
which the plans we're completed % ,O53 ,92S.
And there is grant Of g., 1856, ,43O now await
ing the approval of the Board Of Aldermen.
ut will be seen that including the unex-
pended balance on hand Jan. 1, 1902. to-
gether with the grants made since that
time, the total amount available for school
PURPOSES under Mayor Low ia $40 ,9s3 1927
q yearly average actually expended OF
90, 732, ,724, or an increase OF more than 30
per cent. over the amount expended during
the previous administration In the same
length OF time"
The sun., 1903-10-15
VINO CAUGHT ALVORDr
Court Asked TO Name Owner Of the -, 900
Reward.

Supreme Court Justice Scott will probably
call to-day the case OF the three claimants
for the s. 900 reward offered three years
ago by the First National Bank OF Now
York for the arrest Of Cornelius L. Alvord,
Jr.. it's s7OO 900 embczzling note teller.
When, on Oct. 20, 1900. Avord disappeared
he went to Boston and put up at the Touraine
Hotel. A lodgcr at the hotel, Alexander $.
Took. recognized him from newspaper
description and spoke to several people
about it. These. in turn, communicated
with Capt. McClusky, then Of the New York
Central Office, and with Chief Of Police
Watts OF Boston. While this was going
on Alvord secretly changed his residence
TO a Huntington avenue lodging house
kept by j. H. Atwood. Atwood also notified
Chief Watts, As there was no one in Boston
WHO was sure of Alvords identity. his
arrest was postponed until the arrival Of
Detective Sergeant T. j. Armstrong from
New York.
Immediately after the arrest Took,
Atwood and Armstrong all filed claims for
the Is 900 reward. The bank turned the
money over to the City Chamberlain "to
the credit Of the action Took has since
assigned his claim to Robert T. Dunlop.
Atwood, Armstrong and Dunlop. Took's
assignee, will be represented by three
lawyers in to-day's inquiry.
The sun., 1903-10-15
SPHINX CLUB DINNER.
To BE Born Right best Preliminary Train
Ing Of an Advertising Man.

The fifty eighth dinner Of the Sphinx Club.
a nine -year-old organization Of advertisers
publishers and advertising men, was held
last night at the Waldorf Astoria. c. W..
Post Of Battle Creek, Mich, was the, prin-
cipal speaker, his topic being. The Pre-
He said that one of the most succ. ssful
national advertisers owed much Of his
ability to his mother, who, for year before
his birth, was occupied In organizing and
planning about her home. The preliminary
training of national advertiser, he said,
must be experience added to heredity, and
he didn't think college education helped,
nor did he think the man could be trained
In . school
These officers were elected for the ensuing
presidents. G. r. White, Boston; W. H. Maule,
Philadelphia; j. l.. Nj bin, Chicago; W. H.
Lever, Port Sunlight, England; treasurer
w. H. Hallock; secretary. F James Gibson.
The sun., 1903-10-15
DOCK SCANDAL TRIAL nov. o
Ne Great Objection 70 Letting It Gs Over
UntM After Election.


The anxious looks with which score OF
Tammany men entered the Supreme Court
yesterday morning to see what disposa!
was to be made Of the case Of the city OF
New York against Joseph Egan. the young
dummy who held fat pier privileges under
the Murphy -Meyer-Cram dock board
faded away and we're succeeded by smiles
when Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed
ward J, Mcclure told Justice Scott that
he was quite willing to adjourn the case
until after election day
Justice Scott consulted his calendar,
and then looked up with twinkle IN ms
eye, and said:
-How will Monday, Nov. 2, do?"
The Tammany men made long faces
for that ID the day before election, Mr
O'Sullivan said he was sorry, but tnat ~
wouldn't do at all and he hoped the Court
could find q later date. The Court man
aged to oblige him. and Nov.9 was finally
fixed.
The rumos OF newly discovered scandals
in the old Murphy Meyer Cram dock board.
which were printed in The Sun yesterday,
greatly excited Tammany men The
stories told are that q railroad company
had to pay 81, 900 for It's pier leases. ana
that steamship company cou!d not get
mailed In the sum OF $4,000. 1t was
great relief to the Tammany men when MT
Jerome announced yesterday he was not
going to bother any more at present about
the dock inquiry. Mr.. Jerome SAID tnat
he had by no means abandoned his m
ouiry, but that Il would be impossible to 60
any deeper into it until after election.
The sun., 1903-10-15
SPLIT SNOW FAMILY IN TWO.
Referee Recommends Separation Of Chill
dren as Well As Parents.

F. J. Hennessy, the referee appointed to
take testimony in the divorce suit begun by
Mrs. Fannie Pickett Snow against her hus-
band Elbrdge Gerry Snow, Jr, has re-
ported to the Supreme Court that Mrs
Snow is ent tiled to a divorce and to the
custody Of whichever one OF the two chill
dren she prefers.
The children are Dorothy, aged S, and
Elbridge, aged 4. and the one the mother
does not select is to be intrusted to the
fathers care. The referee says, how
ever, that the children should be allowed
to see each other, and each to see the absent
parent at intervals. 1t is understood that
in place Of legal alimony Mr.. Snow has
agreed to allow his wife $3.50 a month.
The Shows we're married at West New
Brighton, Staten Island, on June !, 1893.
Mrs. Snow is the daughter Of Richard F.
Pickett. When they separated, Mn. Snow
declined to part with either child. She
has been living at 81 West Seventy-ffth
street. Mr. Snow denied her charges, but
did not oppose her suit very vigorously.
The sun., 1903-10-15
PROTECTORS VANISH.
The Eagle. J. b. kellegg. Has Got Through
with Another Batch Of Lambs.

A concern styled the Investors Pro-
tective Association, with offices, once upon
time. in the Downing Building. loe Fulton
street, has disappeared, and there are some
persons up the State who would be wiling
to give a small reward for information
az to its whereabouts or those OF one Alex
andey Ferguson, the alleged secretary and
treasurer. The same persons might even
be glad to have little talk with Albert J..
Cook or Isaac Newton Martin. respectively
the president and vice-president.
According to the prospectus. the In
vestos' Protective Association was or
ganized for the sole purpose OF informing
unsophisticated persons. with money, what
companies, with stock to sell, were real
honest-to-dead corporations and what
were those awful get-rich-auick concerns.
The association impaired this information
to all who took out certificates of member
ship and paid for them at the rate OF "a
year.
its readers from up the State yesterday
which stated that the writer had SUBJ
scribed for a six months membership in
the association. paying 81 therefor. and
had made two applications for lmorma,
tion, to neither OF which had he received
any reply. He asked The SUN to inform
him what kind Of concern he had got
into.
The Investors Protective Association
moved into the Downing Building on
May l, tho offices being rented toa man
who called himself Ferguson. The con-
Germ moved out on Oct. I, leaving no ad-
dress. The superintendent OF the building
said, however, that he knew that Mr.. Fer
guson now has an Office in the Park how
Building, If he has, he didn't rent 1t IN his
own name or in that Of the Investors Pro,
tective Association. Nobody connected
with the Park Row Building ever heard OF
Alexander Ferguson or the lost association
They have heard, however, OF the In
vestors' International Protective Asso-
citation. That concern had offices In the
Park Row Building up to May l., when
IL removed without leaving any address
1t was on May that the Ferguson con-
Germ moved from somewhere into the Down,
ing Bui ding. The Investors International
Protective Association budded and bios.
somed under the skillful ministration OF
James B. Kellogg, founder and father
of the E. s. Dean Company and the past
master Of all that was. II and is to be IN the
art OF getting something for nothing.
Maybe Mr. Kellogg. II he could be found.
might be able to tell THE, suN's oorre,,
spondent something about the Investors
Protective Association.
The sun., 1903-10-15
ATE OF SCHOOL GIRLS COOKING.
Moseley Commissioners Have Luncheon
At the Teachers' Training School.

MOOeley Commissioners HeVo LuncHeOu
At the Teachers Training School.
The Alfred Moseley Educational Com
mission disregarded the programme mapped
out for it yesterday and investigated schools
which were not in bib and tucker form to
meet them. Committees covered almost
every district Of the city, inspecting schools
OF all standa rds Mr.. Moseley. Mr. Hamilton
and about ten members Of his commission
went to the Wadleigh High School for Girls
and the New York Training School FOR
Teachers At Wadleigh Mr. Mossley ad-
dressed the pupils. He said that this was
a high school In every way meeting his ideal:
At the training school the members OF
OF the commission were entertained at
luncheon, prepared and served entirely by
the pupils in the cooking department. Mr..
Moseley declared that he hoped to SEQ such
departments established in some OF the
English schools II possible.
Fifteen members Of the commission
visited the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn las
evening. Five of the members talked With
Mr.. Parsons about the grade cf int" diligence
and knowledge of the men In his enq 10y.
They were particularly anxious TO hn2"
If the most expert mecha MICS in his emf Icy
were men with high school or college train
ing. Mr.. Parsons informed thcm tn3t his
experience had demonstrated t. him t',at
the man with college training Was more
capable and certainly more ambitious IN
hia abCra
The sun., 1903-10-15
DEPARTURE or DOWIE'S HOST.
Fire he'll Summoned All Of the Zion City
People TO PRAYER before They Left.

ZION CITY, Ill.,, Oct. n.-Like Crusader,
John Alexander Dowie, General Overseer
Of the Christian Catholic Church, waved his
hand in blessing at O'Clock this morning
and by that act Of paternal direction
sent the first phalanx of his Restoration
Host away to New York TO redeem that
"unmodern Sodom."
Exactly at o'clock all in Zion City were
warned by fire department whistle that
the time had come for moment of silent
application for blessings upon the crusade.
Everywhere in Zion, in homes, shops, stores,
the streets Of the city and the crowded
platforms OF the Northwestern railway
station, the eyes Of all Dowieites were
upturned. while brief prayer was muttered
BY thousands. Thus was the movement
recognized in religious way.
At 9:3O o'clock in the morning the first
train OF Dowie's followers drew away from
Zion City for New York, without any
special incident to mark its departure
1t was comfortably filed, and 81 scattered
here and there through the cars were uni
formed Zion guar 8, each of whom had been
drilled thoroughly, so that none Of the
faithful would stray away in the
metropolis.
Dowie himself returned to Shiloh House.
his official residence, Immediately after
the departure OF the second train. lie
remained there until shortly after OF clock
when he returned to the station and with
his personal staff, entered his own train,
the last car Of which was the private car
Acadian, set apart for himself. The car
q contains exclusive dining service and also
a private sleepitg & apartment, with brass
bed and other luxurious equipment When
Dowie reaches New York on Friday morn
ing he will take himself and personal staff
probably to the Park Avenue Hotel, where
he will meet newspaper men, and through
them present his message to New York
Then he will hear from his leaders on the
subject OF the Restoration Host.
DR.. Dowie's address on the evening Of
Oct 20, 1t has been aIhounced viii be an
answer to Dr. James NJ. Buckley, whose
article, -Dowie Analysed and Classified"
appeared in the Ceniurya year ago.
CINCINNATI, Oct IA The Cincinnati
followers Of Dowie began tho trip to New
4 York this afternoon, Among them are
Deacon A. F. Arlington, Deacon II, A.
Hdre'h and wife, X, II. Putnam ard wife,
Deacon Hammock Deacon j. p Soiaefvcr
and Deaconnesses Rodenburg, Root, Star
iitt. Storey, Miller and Grote
Deacon w. J. Yergcr, an insurance man
Of Fourth street, with his wife and daughter
let Cincinnati early this morning for zion
City, DOwie's own place, to travel to New
York with the leader and fanny ~ his
special car. The local DowjDites ars mcst
eHth elastic workers, and they say greaL
things will be accomplish ed In New York
The sun., 1903-10-15
TRY PARKS AGAIN OCT. GO.
Judge NewburGer Sits on "Indeflnite Post.
pOnemcnt" Suggestion.

The trial Of Sam Parks on the Tiffany
studio, extortion Indictment was set for
Monday. Oct. 20, by Judge Newburger in
the General Sessions yesterday, Parkss
counsel opposed motion by Assistant
District Attorney Rand for a special jury
to try Parks next Monday, the day
originally fet. and wanted the case post
pJned indefinitely.
Common decency on the part Of the
prosecution would permit the case to 90
over until the Appellate Division Of the
Supreme Court has decided the caee in
which my client stands convicted, said Law
YER Osborne "There Ia an organized plot
to send my client to prison. There are now
four or five indictments against him In this
court. and two OF his witnesses are now
under indictment. II he is put on trial 1t
simply means his burial. and ] ask for time,
in that event, TO arrange for his obsequies. ="
.In that case" led Mr.. Rand, Il will
consent to q weeks adjournment to permit
the buying of Grape"
This is an unheard OF proceeding for the
District Attorney" declared Mr.. Osborne.
"It's not at all unusua," interrupted
Judge Newburger. you yourself have
tried one man three times in one month
on one indictment In these courts
The sun., 1903-10-15
ANOTHER GIRL ACCUSES HIM.
Says Adam Levisky Kept Her . Prisoner
for Q Week.

Julia Ungerlein, sixteen-year-old Rus
sian girl who had worked as servant in
a Russian family at 1903 Stanton street.
was complainant In the Yorkville police
court yesterday against Adam Levisky,
whom she charged with assault and abduc-
tion in OBTAINING her against her will in
his rooms in the basement OF 23 Second
street.
According to the story told In court Le-
visky kept the girl prisoner for week
and. continually threatened to kill her,
unless she would 60 out on the street and
help make living for him.
Anna Unsenberg. a Russian girl. OF 843
East Twelfth street learned on Tuesday
that Julia Ungerlein had left her place at
1O3 Stanton street and that no one knew
where she was. She traced Julia to Le-
visky's rooms and caused his arrest.
Levisky has served two years and nine
months in Sing Sing for procuring young
girls and sending them to disorderly
house in Youngstown, Ohio, He. his wife
and John and Louisa Weisberg were ar
raigned in Yorkville court on Feb. IL on
suspicion OF causing the death OF Anna
Gerskinsky, 2s years old, Of l23 Third street
by poison, but they were discharged after
the autopsy.
Ievisky was held by Magistrate Breen
Yesterday in 81 900 bail.
The sun., 1903-10-15
Patrick Murder Case 10000 Pages.

The case on appeal Of Lawyer Albert T..
Patrick from his conviction Of numbering
William NJ. Rice is about settled. Some
800 amendments to the case. AZ prepared
by Patrick's attorney, were submitted by
the District Attorney. Agreement had
seventy. Yesterday Recorder Gon ad-
mitted thirty Of the seventy and took under
advisement the other forty. He will prob
ably decide to-day. The entire case con-
sists Of about 1000 printed pages Of
testimony and 1900 pages OF exhibits.
II will take two months at least TO print II.
The sun., 1903-10-15
SHOT FOR NOT WAITING.
Bronx Man Tries to Kill His wife for Hav.
ins supper Too Early.

Frank Goodwin. q paperhanger. Of les
Lincoln avenue. The Bronx, became very
angry when he got homo last night and
found that his wife was eating supper and
hadn't waited for him. Playing in the
room were the two children Of Mrs. Good
wins sister.
Sect the kids out Of here said Goodwin.
"I'm going to shoot you
Mrs. Goodwin made no move, and as q
warning to the children he fired q shot
through the window. Then he fired two
shots at his wife, one Of them striking her
in the arm The last bullet In the revolver
he fred into his own breast.
A Mrs. Connors, who lives across the hall,
ceme into the room.
-Gct out OF here" said Goodwin, .or I'll
kill you. If had another shot left I'd put
it into that woman there, he added, point
ing to his wife
An ambulance was called and the Good
wins were taken to the Lincoln Hospital.
Goodwin will probably die. The police
say he was jealous.
The sun., 1903-10-15
M,GIRR, HE WINS THE FIGHT.
Gets Use Of His Pier Again-Would Like to
He Paid for Damage Cantor Did Him.

William J. McGirr, tho contractor pes
tered for 40 long by Tammany men. who
interfere with his use Of the piers at tho
foot OF East Thirtieth street and the foot
of West Forty-fourth street, scored a COM
plete triumph yesterday over Dockmaster
Greenfield, who had him arrested on Mon
day. Greenfield and other Tammany men in
the Dock Department stopped work on
McGirr's Thirtieth street pier for three
hours on Monday afternoon while they
monkeyed with pile driver which they
said they wanted to use on the bulkhesd.
McGirr, with pistol In each hand. objected.
He was arrested and fined $40 and when
he got back to his pier he found lines
for him to get tugs In to move his scows.
Yesterday Commissioner Hawkes. ordered
Dockmaster Greenfield and Engineer Belts.
in charge Of the piiedriver. to lot McGirr
alone. He told them that McGirr was
tenant OF the city and that he could not
be interfered with In TIE operation OF his
pier So Greenfield and Bette had to haul
their pile driver over to. Twenty-ninth
street, where they moored it to an ash
dump. They also took down the lines
that closed tho pier McGirr. with Q
satisfied grin, watched them withdraw.
Then he went back and wrote Commits
sioner Hawkes. letter.
Mr.. Hawkes. telephoned McGirr on Tues
day night that il he had sustained any
damage by the Greenfield incident 1t would
be made up. McGirr yesterday wrote to
Hawkes. that he wouldn't mention the
damage caused by this incident, but that
he had been damaged in 1000 by having
his Forty-fourth street pier shut OF by
Jake Cantor's sewer digRers and that II
the Dock Department would pay him half
OF that and cancel his lease Of the. pier he
would be very much Obliged and would
freely forgive the department the Green
field incident. He hasn't had an answer
vet.
The sun., 1903-10-15
Another Investigation Of Randalps Island
House of Refuge,

ALBANY, Oct. K.-Not satisfied with the
adverse criticisms OF Harry II. Bender,
the State Fiscal Supervisor regarding the
man agement of the Randalls Island House
Of Refuge, Alexander f. Orr, the president
of the institution, two weeks ago asked the
State Board Of Charities to cause an in
vestigaton Of the administration Of the
institution to be made The State Board
to o-day granted the request. and the boards
committee on reformatories will make
the investigation at once. The members
of this committee are William Rhipelander
Stewart. Mrs. Annie G. DePuyster and
DR.. stephen Smith OF New York city
The sun., 1903-10-15
EarIeseIy.Martin wedding Postponed.

ALBANY, Oct. 1.-THE wedding OF Miss
Mabel Martin, daughter OF Henry T. Martin
ana a niece of the Bradley Martins, ana
Frs nix Farlesely, which was TO have taken
place to-day, has been POSTPONED, owing to
the severe illness Of the bride, until Satur-
day at noon. The ceremony will be per-
formed in Miss Martins room, at the family
home in State street. not in the hospital,
az WIS previously announced Only the
immediate relatives Of both young persons
will le present.
The sun., 1903-10-15
Barge Canal Cannot Withstand the Floods.

ALBANY, Oct. 1.-THE State authorities
are satisfied, in view Of last week's foods
in the Mohawk River, that barge canal
TIN ough the Mohawk Valley could not with
stand the rapid rise of the waters. The
proposed barge canal from Schenectady to
ross twenty-six feet In Less than twenty
four hours last week:
The sun., 1903-10-15
Another bowie Zion In South Dakota.

ABERDEEN, s. D., Oct. Al. ID. PaTr
Of Chicago, who is in Aterdecn or his way
home from North Dakota, annol nces hal
ha has closed o deal for 32 ,OOO acres OF land
IN the solIthwos ern part Of Nor h rakot a
for the Dow ei es q Chicago, who pur-
DOSE coloriying he lard ard esi al lisl Ing a
Zion IN Bowman aud Billings ,ourties
The sun., 1903-10-15
wilson Q. Bissell's VIII.

BUFFALO. Dot. 1.-THE will OF Wilson
s. Bissel, former Postmaster General of
the United States. was hled this morning.
and bequeathed the entire estate. said to
be worth nearly $500. 900. to the widow.
No bequests arc made to charity, and Yale
University, OF which Mr.. Bissell was
trustee, and tho University Of Buffalo,
Of which he was chancellor. are not named
in the document.
The sun., 1903-10-15
JOHN BAPTIST vs.. ELIJAH.


One Of the callers yesterday at the Mayors
Office was an elderly man. with long hair
and whislkers, who announced that he had
been ordered by the Lord to come from
Chicago to New York to fight Dowie Hung
from the lapel of his coat was tin badge
about six inches in diameter on which was
painted: Il am John the Baptist II. He
said his name was John Hoop, and he added
.Dowie is fakir. fought him In Chicago.
and the Lord has ordered me here to fight
him" He wanted license to preach In
the streets. but Sergeant Kennel told him
that the Mayor issued preaching, permits
on Sundays only. This may be described
as diplomatic evasion. ei
The sun., 1903-10-15

Ou 70 NNsc Ee~oEet0"s wi" % e"oc'
A special train left here yesterday over
tho Erie Railroad carrying to the National
Civic Federation's industrial conferer ce,
IN Chicago several members Of the federa-
tion. Among them were Oscar s. Straus,
the Rev. Josiah Strong. John r. Commons
Hamilton Holt, Marcus M. Marks, James
p. Archibald, Peter Doelger. Jr.. Albert
Shaw and Albert Spice. Ex-Preeid ent
Cleveland loft Princeton yesterday in Il
private car to attend the conference.
The sun., 1903-10-15
Lederer Must Pay Up Hack AiimOny.

George w. Lederer is 500 behind in pay
ment of alimony to his wife Adele. Supreme
Court Justice Barrett said yesterday that
he would sign an order directing Lederer TO
pay up within few days on pain OF the
Court's . displeasuTe
The sun., 1903-10-15
Engagsd sIsn Q Suicide.

Walter H Odell. 70 years old, OF ss7 Union
avenue. Tho Bronx, Q clerk for Tiffany A
Co, committed suicide at his home on
Tuesday night by inhaling Illuminating
gas. He was to be married In Jersey City
next week
The sun., 1903-10-15
LIBATION or OIL TO THE SEA.
4,sOO barrels JettisOned Fr ON the Tank
Northwestern.

The tank steamship Northwestern, from
Port Arthur, Tex. with cargo OF crude
petrol cum. was two days wrestling with
the cyconic blow of the southern coast.
She carried away her steering gear and.
dropping into the trough Of the sea. shipped
tons OF water, which flooded her engine
rels of oil to tighten ship and get her decks
further above the tumult. Tho oil helped
to comb down the name Of the sea.