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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-21
A DAY IN THE COURTS
Judge KittrelI Held First Session Of
Sixty.First District Court.
MOTION DceEETs CALLED TODAY
Capt. Robertson Discharged In Contempt
Proceedinas---Cited to Appear AGAIN
on Same Charos--Other Courts

The quarters for the new sixty.hrst dis
tfict court are now being arranged The
carpenters started TO work yesterday after
noon They will put in partition, max
ing two court rooms out OF the one hereto
fore occupied by Judge w. P. Handlers
court. II will probably take them two
weeks to finish The work
Judge Charles r. Ashe will call the mo
zion docket this morning at ~ o'clock. lie
will also hear demuiers and questions OF
law In Jury cases. The motion docket VIII
also be called by Judge W. +. Rmbleh
At 10 o'clock
me case OF Mary Roane Buster against
John Warren. sr. ct al, which has been
on trial in the Eleventh district court be
fore Judge Charles u. Ashe, was taken I'M
der advlsement by him.
Judge Norman G. Kittrell, judge OF the
sixty.nrst district court, held his first SEES
Sion yesterday morning In the county
Court room
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
DR.. DIX ON ARCHBISHOPRIC.
Interesting Suggestion, He Says, but Not
Likely To Be Adopted.

Regarding the recommendation made before the
Churchman'S Association by the Rev. DR.. c. F..
Canedy. of Trinity Church. New Rochelle, who
suggested that, retire Bishop Potter. the State
of New-York be created d province, with the New
York diocesan as metropolitan, Bishop Potter be
coming in that archbishop Or. Morgan
Dix pastor of Trinity Church. said yesterday:
There proposition some time before
the general convention to divide the country into
provinces, which if passed would have meant EpiS
copa1 archbsropric. The proposition however.
was voted down. The difficulties of such a divi-
sion felt TO be great were also
those of supporting the archbishops of the new
divisions. The present question is of proVid-
ing relief for Bishop Potter. The diocese appar-
emily is not in favor of Il coadjutor. and DR..
Canedys suggestion. least first sight. appears
only multiply tho difficulties contemplated by
the proposition first mentioned.
In any the next biennial convention viii
not meet, I believe. until october, 1904, and its
necessarily be slow.
The whole question is interesting one. but per-
sonally ] present likelihood of the adoption
of DR.. Canedy's suggestion.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
SONS OF REVOLUTION DINE.
Washington Lauded-Dr. Green, the Chap
lain. Raps Selfish Labor Unions.

r,elmonicog was gay with the American colors
and flleszvith four hundred members OF the Solis
,f rbe Revolution at the annual celebration OF
Wasbinston.s Birthday last night Frederick Sam
mol Tallmadge president of the order in this state
presided The Rev. DR. Thomas Edward Green Oh
Jona anlain general of the society made an ad-
dress on washington and tho Day We Celebrate
His Rirthday': Hamilton W. Nabie spoke on Then
5 Hop-r Colonel George F,ltNeed Pomeroy. of
TolAdo on ''Nashington's Influence in the Found
ing of Great State
Tho award of tic society medals follows;
To college students i'm the State of NewIork, for
Tho hest essay on Principles Fought for in the
Revolution Gold medal. Henry 6. Moses, il,
f-n1lern of tho City of Eew-York; silver medal,
Leonard Felix Field. Columbia bronze medal
Abraham Rockmar, College of the City OF New
York To High School students for the best
ossav on The Importance of the Hudson River
and West Poirs in the Revolution Gold medal
Arthur A. Allen Buffalo Central High School;
SILVER medal Henry Hudson, jamestown High
school: bronze medal, Bennett Davis, Mssten Park
High School, Buffalo
DR. Green said: George Washington would stand
to-day as he did Of old, for liberty and freedom.
o,,r,nsAd 10 the incarnation OF Selishness that is
the sin that cankers the blood of individuals and
digs the pitfalls of nations He would look at the
ishats he would stand and say This far shall
We come. and no further His spirit would stand
and would the who, crying for their lib
critics have become the most gigantic organization
for oppression and George Washington would say
You can work where you like and when you like,
hHfx have - right 10 you must work my
way or not at all He would say. stretch out the
hand of reciprocity TO the Queen of the Antilles
she arises He would stand for civic righteous
ness. He would condemn YOU who stand for that
which Is best in citizenship for turning over that
which fs business in civic administration TO those
who make II a business So
DR. Hamilton ". Mabie's address was largely his
torica Americas sublime progress, he said
has not stopped We no longer shout about ',i, our
greatness. because the weight Of our responsible
ties has hushed voices. and We realize that the
whole world is before constitution summing
up the experience Of the nations of The ages. our
function IS the function of friendiness and peace
and blessed the hour when such a man as
John Hay CAME In TO teach and practise these
things DIR. Mabie declared he hoped the day
would come when Americans would be wealthy
that they would not be oppressed by wealth. and
would come to cultivate the higher things of life
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
BR4DY'S MIND BLANK.
Motorman Remembers Nothing Of
Wyeck-lSerUicc Pm, off,

Brady. the motormana recovered consciousness
at ST. Michaers Hospital, Newark, last evening
He knows ali that goes about him, and can re-
call happenings of week ago, but Thursday morn
ing is a blank him. He seems not to know now
he was hurt. The doctors say IT is possible that
he may never remember what took place after his
car began to slide down the incline
There will be exercises at the High Schooi TO-
day in memory of those who were killed All ar
rangements had been made to hold them, but yes
terday the sombre drapings OF the auditorium were
removed, all other signs of the disaster
This was resolved by the faculty. The fnstruc-
tors reported that while attending the funerals
they found the scholars unnerved by the dis
aster that it seemed wise TO postpone the service
It would be bad enough, they said. to resume ses-
sions with forty Of fifty vacant places All
seemed to think that it would be week more be-
fore the high school would settle down to routine
The memorial exercises will probably be held in
few weeks.
There is fear that the death list OF the victims
of the accident may yet be increased Miss Mar
garet Cummerford and Miss Edith Fox, II was re-
ported yesterday in critical condition -.
The funeral of Miss Jennie NJ. McIelland, the
ninth victim. took place yesterday at the Me
mortal Presbyterian CHURCH at South orange-sot o+
tendance of pupils of the Newark High School
Mayor DCrem has received q telegram from
Mayor Smaey of North Plainfeld. in which the
sympathy expressed by Newark's executive for the
stricken people of that borough because OF the
Graceland wreck is returned.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
AMENDMENTS
County Medical Society CphOlds the
Present Tenement House Ldsr.

The storm of protest the East Side against the
proposed amendments to the Tenement House law
grows stronger every day. Daily fresh or8aniza-
tons representing all and conditions of men,
women and even children, falling into line and
go to swell the chorus. Yesterday the Knicker-
booker City History Club, composed OF youthful
East Side high school girls. themselves drew up
a petition addressed to Horace White. asking the
efforts OF his committee to prevent the passage OF
the amendments, las they tend to deprive Us of
statutory rights to space, light and air-the
prime requisites of d dwelling"
The Neighborhood City Club. Rumania Lodge, and
the executive couEcn of the Downtown Ethical
Society have also passed resolutions. the Neghbor
hood City Club having further appointed COM
rnittee to organize meeting TO take place at
Liberty Hall a monster mass meeting is also to be
held in Brownsville Brooklyn, in the hall of the
Hebrew Educational Society. at which the Rev. II.
Mashansky. the Jewish orator. and DR. N A
Cohen will speak Thousands of handbs
nouncing the meeting and denouncing any relaxa-
Brooklyn. as contemplated by the amendments. are
in circulation.
Nor is the protest restricted the East Side. In
the course of a largely attended meeting of the
Medical Society of the County of New-York. held
I'm the Hosack Hall of the New-York Academy OF
Medicine last evening Dr. S. A Knopf delivered
a fervent protest On the motion of DIR. Knopf,
and III of the extreme prevalence of pulmonary
tuberculosis. of the most potent OF
which the lack of light and air in the
of the great masses of the people II resolved
present tenement house laws, and urgently
quests the legislature TO permit no changes to be
made that will In any way decrease the amount of
light and air available for the people living in such
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
LITES HERE; T44ED HEhE
,Justice O'Goyman' Decision Re
.ou,.d1ag Spencer Estate.

According to a decision just handed down oy
Justice O'Gorman in the Supreme court io n,''i
or trustee Of estate who is a resident vi 'ni'
citv can escape taxation by going to town OF city
of another State and causing his name 10 De PidCeu
on the tax lists or voting lists of that town Inc
decision is i'm the suit against the Tax Confnis-
sioners TO have vacated the assessments asaih9t
the estate of LorilIard Spencer and also against
Charles g. and William \. Spencer. individually
In his decision Justice O'Gorman says that neither
of the Snencers is resident of this city, ana
that Charles G.. Spencer has not had residehce
in this city for many years. having spent ms uine
travelling principally in Europe for the last twenty
wears His last visit to this city was four years
ago. o.c..,.
"He is not required" says Justice O'Gorman'
"to establish residence in some particular place
in order to escape taxation here
AS to Wiiam 4. Spencer. Justice O'Gorman says
he is permanent resident of the city OIL Paris
France having lived there for several years MT.
Spencer has been to TINS country oIhS '"' ~
twelve years.
In regard to Wacott G. Lane, the trustee OF the
estate of Lorilard spencer however, Justice
O'Corman says that there is no doubt that ne
is a resident of this city. and that he mas cohIoi
of the estate in question Justice OGorman says
that while Mr. Lane lives with his family In TINS
city and practises law here, he has pretehuei
residence Lyme Conn. This fact declares the
Justice cannot affect the jurisdiction OF the lax
commissioners in the present case win the en-
ception OF occasional NlSItS " ii'9
there Justice O'Gorman says that MI Lane stays
in New-York
these occasional visits do not estaplsh a resi-
dence there" says Justice O'Gorman causing ill'
name to be placed upon the voting list ana TAX
list of the town of Lyme and his expressed IN
tention to vote there but declarations winch
are opposed and overcome by his conuuc' a"u
habits Of life" -
1ustice O'Gorman further holds that while Mr-
Lane has removed securities to the State OF New
Jersey they are still under his control Comment
ing upon Mr.. Lanes conduct, the 1ustlce says
that If is not in good faith After reviewing the
facts Justice O'Gorman holds that the lnulVluudi
assessment against Charles G. Spencer is cacSlle
and that the estate assessment against WaICot1
G. Lane as trustee under the estate OF Lorliiaru
Spencer, should be sustained
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
MILES Ross'S FUNERAL TOMORROW.

New Brunswick. Feb. 23.--The funeral of Miles
Ross who died last night from pneumonia, follow
ing an attack OF BrgEts disease, will take place
ar $50 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the
family home in Iivingston-aTe- The services will
be conducted by the Rev. j.. f. Wheeler. pastor
of the First Baptist Church, but i'll the quietest
possible manner 1t is expected that there will be
a large attendance of prominent men,
Mr. Ross was born in Raritan in 1928. He was
for years identified with the coal carrying trade
here with which his father connected. He
served several terms as County Freeholder and
was Mayor of New Brunswick for term. He
was elected to Congress In 1874 and reelected
in 1876 1878 and 1850. In 1882 he was defeated by
State Board of Riparian Commissioners for a
number of years
Mr.. Ross senior member OF the wholesale
firm of Miles Ross & Son at the time OF his
death For the last eight or ten years he had
taken no active part business politics. He
leaves two married daughters and three sons.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
QUOTES MAYORS EXCISE ADVICE.
Magistrate Declares Back Rooms Should Be
Undisturbed on Sundays.

In criticsing what he seemed to regard as too
jealous efforts the police TO detect violations of
the excise law on Sunday, Magistrate Breen yes
ter1ay read a letter which Mayor Low wrote last
summer for the guidance of the police He mad
before him a saloonkeeper who had been arrested
on Sunday because a policeman found several men
drinking in a room in the rear of the saloon The
policeman admitted that the door leading to the
saloon was locked. and that the bar was exposed
to view from sidewalk. Magistrate Breen said:
want to express my opinion of such arrests, and
in doing SO l will quote Mayor Lows words |
believe the police become oppressive and exceed
their proper authority when they force their way
into back rooms of saloons. The barroom being
fully exposed to view and there being no evidence
conduct the entrance into back rooms by police
officers in citizens dress ferret out in this dis
guise technical violations is not only unneces
Sary but unauthorized. for the whole scope and
object of the law is to secure peaceabe and quiet
Sunday. and when this condition exists the design
of the law is accomplished.
In expressing this view a magistrate of this
city, l but following the rule laid down for the
guidance of the police by the chief magistrate
himself Mayor Low. than whom no one has more
matured views on the subject. in his public talk
down rule for the guidance of the police au-
thorities:
THE duty of tho police in relation to ordinary
saloons is confined 10 seeing that the doors of the
harroom proper are locked and the screens raised.
They have power TO investigate back rooms.
and should not do any detective work against
saloons that they cannot do in full uniform"
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
NEW- W-ORLE4NS C4RNIPAL
Loving Cup GiUen TO Rear Admlrdl
tSchLeu.

New-OIreans Feb. 23.-Rex made his tri-
umphal entry into this city to-day. ana Ihe
Krewe of Proteus presented their gorgeous
pageant tonight in the presence or the largest
crowd ever gathered here for carnival Ihe
number of strangers exceeded that of any pre-
vious year Aside from the homage paid the
King the feature of the afternoon parade was
the popular demonstration for Rear Admlrai
SchIey and General Wheeler. both of whom had
been created Dukes of the Realm for the oc-
casion They rode near the head of the process
sion through solid masses of shouting men. ana
past crowded galleries of appauding women
At the conclusion of the parade Admiral
SchIey accompanied by Mayor Capdeviile ana
General Wheeler escorted by the Contlnen-
tai Guards to the armory, where, in behalf OF
the SchIey Pleasure Club. City Attorney Fill
more presented to the Admiral loving cup
bearing an engraving of the cruiser Brooklyn
Tonight Proteus rode through the streets,
congested with people. The subject chosen for
the paraders was Rider Haggards novel Cleo
patra' and the story of the Egyptian Queen
was illustrated in twenty floats
Following the parade, Proteus was host at q
ball at the French Opera House. Miss Roose-
Welt. Miss Root. Admiral Schley and General
Wheeler were the principal guests
Nearly every State in the Union was repre-
sented i'm the attendance. which also included
many guests from abroad. and the officers or
the battleship Texas and the Frencn cruiser
Tage The curtain on the maskers grouped
in a striking tabeau. The maskers occupied
the floor for an hour. after which the ball be
came general
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
SM0THERED BY SNOW.
Son of Thomas J. MeKenna Buried Alive
Could Not Be Revived

snowhouse nearly ten feet high caved in yes
terday Thomas j. Mckennd. jr.. the fifteen
year-oId son of Thomas J. McKenna, the con-
tractor, the back ward OF his home, at No 2rls7
Broadway. 1t is estimated that half ton of snow
buried the boy and smothered him. He dug
dead. The boy a confidential clerk and
secretary to his father.
With his younger brothers. Lawrence, thirteen
years old, and Ray. eleven. he began TO build a
snowhouse on Saturday. 1t huge and
elaborate that they could not finish it then, but
resumed operations yesterday ard worked all day
When the outside completed. the finishing
touches OF the inside needed the final attention
Thomas, the architect and designer. to at
tend the completion and the house not
largx enough for him to stand mp in. he lay down
his back and worrped himself into the house
lie began padding tho ceiling making it level, and
touching up the windows and corners Suddenly
the whole white building fell In. with the boy
crushed under il.
The other boys called for assistance and started
10 dig their brother out Their father and DIR. n
h. MacAlpine, who lives in the house. and a
who visiting him took shoVClS and began to
throw the off the heap
When they succeeded In digging out the buried
boy DR.. MaCAlpine tried artificial respiration and
Drs. Cook and Good came from their offices
hy and used electric batteries but they all failed
The boy had been suffoCated by the
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
A SUICIDE FOR LOVE OF MARRIED MAN

infatuated with married who for many
years had exercised almost hypnotic powers over
her. Miss Kate Bethon, twcnty-onc years old. de
csded TO end her existence On Saturday night she
took the contents of a vial of carbolic acid at her
home No l4i Leonard-st.. Brooklyn. and died an
hour later. The case was suppressed in the cor
oners office the police desired to find and talk
with the man for love of whom the girl killed her
self He Will not be brought into the case, how
ever as it clearly a suicide
Miss Bethon had for several years been head
bookkeeper for the Fallert Brewing Company, and
it was there that she met the who wronged
her
The young woman had $500, which was left 10
her by her father several years ago ON Saturday
morning she took 800 out of the bank, and in her
handbook left "A addressed the bank ask
ing that the balance be paid to her. mother The
girls object in takug out the 500 is not known.
but she evidently changed her plans for its use.
as the entire amount found in the book by her
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
TENDERLOIN MISH4PS.
EXCITING Runazcays and Collisions
4mono Cars. Cab and Wagon.

- - =, 'serios of accidents in the Tenderlon
district yesterday afternoon, caused py '"o
sways and two collisions. Electric cars ran M
am electric cab and "a coke cart. One OF the rune"
ways was in Broadway, injuring man. anu .'''
other and more exciting one. was in west twenty
third-st.
A horse was drawing a Consolidated Gas oohi
many wagon in charge of Michael Maher, of NO
23i Frrst-aye when at Fiftfl-ave. the pufnng Oh
big automobile scared the animal INTO ruflniils
awsv The horse dashed between fashonaple car
riages and past and carts having many nai
row escapes from collisions, until in front OF 'ie
Eden Nusee the horse onto the sidewalk
People shrieked and scattered in every dlrectio!'
and when the horse had the walk to himself people
looked with astonshment, on finding no one iau
been crushed by the mad animal
The horse galloped mp to a showcase AN" s's"
of manicurist at No 165 and smashed both
scattering ,he contents of the all over the
hasstones At No. 157 the horse demolished 4 sis'i
and showcase of a dental company. Gold teeth anu
filings and sets of teeth worth 800 were Spleu
over the sidewalk, and many of the sets hrohe"'
while the glass and and sign were destroyed
The horse swerved into the street again nearly
hitting an elevated road pillar. and dashed through
the crowded maze at SiXth-aNe. ana twenty -Ihiiu
St where collisions were narrowly aVerted.
BY this time a big crowd was chasing the morse
A sudden swerve threw Msher out. and he was
slivbt,,, cut and bruised but not seriously hurt
Policeman White. of West Thirteth-st-' ana 'o"'l
Harrigan a citizen of No. 2S3 Tenth-ave, captured
the horse SeTenth-aVe . r.o,,,dor
James A. Johnston forty years o. age, mouldeIi;
of Brooklyn standing at Thirty -fourtl,st; a m n
broadway yesterday afternoon when a 1oi @ id o..
away with a laundry company "ason ~ ~ Oi' ~
William Griffin. s2s West Twenty t9-St, 81 made
An automobile frightened the horse anu ne enr
a dash down Broadway. with seveTa! tanH, arovd Of
rages automobiles and wagons ana d ",,, tior ~
pedestrians ahead Of him, which he seer seelits, tr
could not pass without hitting. But ne passSu T,4on
all except at the first jump, when ne MT iii
knocking him down and breaking ms tdtI tg1s IN
hone He was taken the Newly orK Iosl,tat. -. ~
an ambulance Policeman Hellman spilnted ai'e
the horse and caught him at Thirty-thlfFoILSb Ib Mo
crosstown electric car, IN charge Oh jill J1t,rt1-
N1lty motornan. running through ;tb NJ an
tbird-st between Sixth and Seventh aVes., mL @ =,
clertrc cab of the Electric Vehicle company, - II,
front OF it, The driver was Edward iIapliaS p I'm,
of No 239 West Sixteenth-st lneIe W. We. os tho
her of carriages and wagons in that part ,,nc @. @
street and Traphagen suddenly SiO9peId end hit the
cab hard blow smashing the WinGo"H 1,ic on of the
wheels Several windows in the car "eIe IN, Il
and the front platform smashed me ne Ten nas
,,;aces az glass fell over the women anq HeIi pc
sengers and some them it is believed were cu,. @
hut all rushed out to the street ahd none heo -'
oadica "a
New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
WELLS FARGO PENSION SYSTEM.
Plans Being Prepared Under the Direction
of E. H Hartman.
IRr TELEGRAPH TO TEE TRIRUNE,l ]

Houston. Tex Feb. 23.-It - officially an
nounced by Superintendent George A Tart OF
the Wells Fargo Express Company mere mat
old and faithful employees of the company VIII pe
placed upon pension list The plan appies 10
all branches of the service While the details OF
the plan have not been made known TO the local
officials they have been informed of 1t from
Headquarters. Under the direction of President
Hartman. who recently instituted similar
system on the Southern Pa .ific Railroad the
plans are being prepared and the lists VIII De
ready within two three months.
Under the rules of the Southern faclhc men
who have passed the age of sxty-hVe years
and faithfully performed the duties assigned TO
them are relieved from further service ana re-
ceive a pension amounting to about half thelr
average salary. Employees injured ana not
bringing suits are similarly rensioned. A pen
sion board composed of the higher officials OF
the company acts upon applications. AI9duy q
iarye number have been granted OH the Harri"
man railroads. with headquarters in Houston.