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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
6O-62 West 23d Street.
MEN HARNESSED TO WAGONS.
They Are Hauling Many Hundreds Of Tons
OF Freight In Madagascar.

They Are Hauling Many Hundreds Of Toni
OF Freight In Madagascar.
The very best OF wagon roads have been
built to Antanansrivo, the capital Of NADIA
gascar, from both the eastern and the
western coasts. The capital is high on the
inland plateau of the great island and both
roads wind up many long hill before they
reach Antananarivo. The sea terminus
on the east coast is Tamatave, the most
important port Of the island, and on the
west coast Majunga, on one Of the best
natural harbors In the world.
These roads have been completed less
than two years, but they have already
brought about marvellous change In the
method Of carrying freight. Before they
were built. every pound Of freight that
reached Antananarivo from the sea wa
carried on the backs of men. Naturally
freight rates were very high. To-day
supplanted by freight wagons, nearly all
animals.
ons loaded with freight were hauled from
Tamatave to the capital. Tho number
of wagons from Majunga was $50, making
tOla OF 4,VZo wagons Hduico ny AA'oSi
men. In the same time only sos porters
carried loads on their backs between tho
sea and the capital. while 70, 900 mon were
engaged in this business in 1901.
The economy of the new method Of car
riage is shown by the fact that the freight
wagons in 1902 carried goods which would
have required e2,As men to transport.
The result is that goods are being intro
duced into the far interior Of the island in
larger quantities and more cheaply than
ever before.
1t Is likely that animal traction viii be-
fore a great while supplant the men who
are now hauling wagons. In the last
quarter of 1902, ffty-four wagons we're
drawn by mules and Io' by oxen from the
ports to the capital. In the first half Of
the year only four wagons were drawn
by mules. Thus haulage by animals Is
gradually increasing.
The day Ia not far distant when both
man and animal power will be supplanted
by the railroads which are to extend from
tho coasts to Antanansrivo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
WANT no CARS on s6TH STREET.
Property Owners There Can't Understand
West End Associations Attitude.


Property owners on Eighty-si1th street
who have been fighting the Interurban
company's plan Of extending its Eighty
sixth street crosstown line from Central
Park West to Riverside Drive expressed
surprise yesterday at the action Of the West
End Association in coming out in favor Of
the plan at a meeting on Monday evening.
According to the property owners on
EHhty-sixth street between Central Park
West and Amsterdam avenue, whose con-
sents the company has tried in vain to
obtain. the association does not represent
them in the matter Instead of having
changed their attitude, all property owners
in the blocks in question are as firmly op-
posed to the plan as ever.
The West End Association had refused
10 favor the railroads. plan until Monday
night. At that meeting some forty new
members were added-none of them living
in Eight y-sixth street-and by a vote of
Il to % the report of committee favoring
the plan was adopted. This report con-
tanned suggestion in favor of subway
through the two blocks, the railroad COM
pany, ii was said, having practically agreed
to undertake such scheme II the property
owners would agree.
John Flanagan, one of the property
owners, said last night in reference to the
action Of the association:
This action has not altered our feeling
in the least and does not affect matters
one way or the other. We have on ssso-
citation ourselves and not a single property
owner, believe, has given his cnnse mt.
This streetis like Seventy cond street,
q parkway, and controlled by the Park
Department. II was made SO by Legisla-
tive enactment some years ago and people
who bought property on this street since
paid high prices for II on the understanding
that it was restricted rs parkway and no
tracks could ever be laid here.
Ito allow even subway would depreciate
the value Of our property at once, would
bring Objectionable crowds nd would make
these blocks what those on the East Side
are. The people who, as members OF the
West End Association. voted to favor this
plan are in many cases residents elsewhere
who are afraid the company will try to go
through their streets"
It was said last night that the company
has 80 far failed to get the consent OF the
Park Commissioner and that his consent
must be obtained as we'll as that of a ma
jority Of the property owners. The Com
missioner, 1t was said, had decided that the
latter must determine the matter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
BULGARIA SNUBS TURKEY.
Declines to Receive Note Charging Lacl
M Nert nlity

Declines to Receive Note Charging Lack
OF Neutrality.
Special Cable Despatch 10 THE Sun.
SOFIA. May 5.--As a result Of the out
RACES at Salonica Turkey has sent note to
Bulgaria drawing attention to the alleged
importation Of explosives into Turkish ter
ritory from Bulgaria. and to the recent in
cursions Of revolutionary bands into Mace
dona.
NJ. Dancff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister
and Minister Of Foreign Affairs, objected
to the strong language of the note. which
he refused to accept, land in an interview
with the Ottoman Commissioner, he pro-
tested against the imputation that Bulgaria
had failed to maintain neutrality. The
Commissioner has communicated with Con-
stantinople asking for instructions.
VIENNA, May 5.-The relations between
Turkey and Bulgaria are undoubtedly
strained. To some observers the greatest
danger Of the moment seems to be the posi-
bility that Turkish evaporation at the
alleged connivance OF Bulgaria in the
doings OF the Macedonian committees
will lead to Turco- Bulgarian war.
This i'll feeling. which has been frequently
noted in the cable dispatches to THE Sun,
has been greatly intensified by the out
RACES at Salonioa and the persistent &C.
currencc Of atrocious murders in Mace.
donia which can be traced to the instigation
of the committees.
1t is also added to by the constant fight
ing Of Bulgaro- Macedonian bands with
Turkish troops, in whichthere ia frequently
serious loss Of life. ..
The Poliische Correspondence states that,
owing to the failure of the Bulgarian Gov
eminent to prevent armed Bulgarians
from crossing into Macedonia, the Sultan
has ordered the construction of line of
blockhouses along the Turkish side Of the
frontier.
The whole situation is increasingly per-
picking and serious.
.CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 5.-The British,
French and Italian Embassies have notified
the Porte that they will claim damages on
behalf Of their respective subjects who
suffered from the outrages at Salonica.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
MISS DINGLE'S LOVE LETTERS.
DR.. Grant Produces Them at the Trial OF
Dr. Kent.

ROCHESTER,, May s.-Aliss Mary E. Barth,
superintendent Of the nurses Of the River
side Hospital, Buffalo. testified at DR..
Kent's trial this afternoon. She gave the
dates when Ethel Dingle came to and left
the hospital She said that Miss Dinge
left there Aug. IL last.
DR.. Lillian Craig Randall. superintendent
Of the Riverside Hospital, testified that she
felt it her duty to inform Miss Dingle's
relatives OF her relations with DR., Kent.
DR., George Grant, to whom Miss Dingle
was engaged, was called and ordered by
the defence to produce all the love letters
that Ethel Dingle had written to him He
stood up, and with tears rolling down his
cheeks, made this statement: Mr.. Raines,
theseSare letters written to me by young
woman who was very dear to me, and 1t
is with feeling Of shame that hand them
over to you to have them published broad
cast"
Judge Sutherland said the letters would
not he published unless offered in evidence:
The letters show that Miss Dingle had
great affection for the man she intended
to marry.
While John Mckay, Kents chum. was
on the stand II came out that there was
to be double wedding, and that Miss
Dingle and DR.. Grant were to be married
at the time of the marriage OF Mabel Dingle
and Lorenzo Van Allen.
Mrs. Van Allen has since died OF broken
heart because Of the disgrace over Ethel's
tragic death.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06

lance changed the baby jib topsai1 for
reaching jib topsail and she laid her course
TO head the Columbia of, that yacht hold
ing more on the wind than the new boat.
topsail, which was IA smaller sail than that
carried by the Reliance. The Reliance
had her sheet trimmed in rather fiat, while
the Columbia's boom was eased on TO port.
About 4:35 they drew abeam, separated
by about an eighth Of mile, and then the
Columbia 3 sheet was trimmed In and both
headed for Red Springs Point, with the
Reliance In the weather position. The
big sail spread of the Reliance lowered
above that of the older boat and u was
expected that she would soon draw by the
champion and take the lead. The Column
bia. however. in spite of her tapping sails,
was sailing fast. and she began to fore
reach on the Reliance. Slowly, but surely
she drew ahead and then Capt, Barr gave
good full to the Reliance and the new
on the older boat The Columbia. how
ever, was moving fast enough to hold her
position. and the Reliance had TO pass
astern Of her. In the few minutes they
were reaching it seemed that the Columbia
more than held her own with the new yacht
the Columbia to take the lead and the
weather position when the two hauled on
the wind.
At 4A7 the Columbia hauled close on
tno WlIlO, ana TWO minutes ldteT tOOh tHe
port tack, at the same time running down
her lib topsai The Reliance took in her
tb topeai1 and tackled with the Columbia,
and the two yachts were then heading to
the west, with the Columbia about an eighth
o. q mile on the weather bow OF the Re.
lance. The wind was steady and OF about
six knots strength.
From THE Sun tug. the c. P. Raymond.
1t looked as II the Reliance, was slowly
pulling through the lee of the Columbia,
but 1t was seen later that while she was foot
ing faster she was not holding 80 high as
the Columbia. The crews on both yachts
were gathered along the weather side OF
the boats. At 4:57 the Columbia went on
the port tack and headed up Hampstead
Harbor. The Reliance tackled two minutes
later and was then dead in the wake Of the
Columbia, and both yachts had the wind
clear and were sailing under. similar, CON
ditions. The Columbia then forged ahead.
It s hard to say just how much she gained,
but when she luffed at SOP which was
signal that the brush was over, she had
considerably increased the piece of water
that separated the two yachts The wind
ward work had lasted just thirteen minutes.
The Columbia then went TO her moorings.
The Reliance wore and reached across the
Sound and picked up her moorings of
Premium Point at $50 o'clock. The Con-
stitution, after she got ont in the Sound,
reached about for short time and then
returned to Glen Cove. Her sails fit better
than those Of the other 9o-footers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
GAINES FOR JUDGE PARKER.
The Southern Congressman wants Him t.
run for President.

The Southern Congressman Wants Him to
run for President.
Congressman John Wesley Gaines Of
Tennessee, who is here with the committee
inspecting waterways. had a great deal
to say about the political situation in the
South. Judge Alton B. Parker Is the Presi-
dental candidate TO win the Solid South
in 1904, according to Mr.. Gaines.
He IL the one man on whom the Southern
Democrats can unite because he repre-
sents no party faction" said Mr.. Gaines
THE Democrats who voted for Mr. Bryan
in 1898 blame Mr.. Cleveland for the party
schism which defeated Mr.. Bryan. The
Bryan Democrats can drop the silver issue.
but they will not unite on the man they
blame for the disruption Of their ranks.
IL have followed Judge Parker's deci:
sions In the trust cases In New York and
1t IL very evident that he has the true under
standing Of that Bible Of the American
people. the Constitution.
when It was question OF whether the
people had a right to get at the methods
OF the Toe Trust by an examination Of the
oompany's books the Supreme Court denied
that right az a violation Of private rights.
Judge Parker in the Court of Appeals re-
versed that decision, howing that the cor
poration which receives it's privileges from
the State IL accountable TO the State.
There are seven reasons why Judge
Parker should be the candidate. First,
he Is . good man; second, he Is a good citi-
zen; third. he b q good Democrat: fourth,
he is . good farmer; fifth, be II good Judge;
sixth, he b good party man, and seventh
b y a'good party leader
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
ROUNDS UP CROOKS AGAIN.
TAKES ~ IS OR 60
INCLUDING noe OWEN.

One Bunch Of Them Said TO BE q Wire
Tapping Outf1t. With a Shad0wy Vic.
tim in the Bacitsrountl-The General
Idea Is, Get BACK to Chicago.
Police Inspector McClusky's detectives
made another roundup of crooks yester-
day and landed eighteen or twenty of them
behind the bars temporarily. At the De-
tective Bureau it was said that the arrests
were made as result Of Inspector McClus-
ky's determination ito keep all the Western
gunscfr the big lane
Ten of the men, however. who were taken
to the West Forty street police
station, are charged with attempted grand
larceny.
Among the prisoners is James alias doc "
Owen. who has sat in at great number OF
card games on ocean liners. He described
himself as traveller, and facetolsly gave
his address as the Sturtevant House, whose
present inhabitants consist Of watch
man and some flies and spiders.
According to the police records eight Of
the ten men who were charged with at
tempted grand larceny, we're arrested at
1850 West Forty-fourrth street. The people
there last night said it was a boarding
house and that no one had been arrested
there. The eight are Charles Hunter, alias
Harris, alias Havens Harry Lang, alias
Black Mike. who says he lives az the Della
van; Ben Harding, alias Deafy Morris;
Tom Bradley, Dan White. alias Old Tom
Sol Bloom. alias jew Ham; Benjamin Bald
win and James Lally. Others we're Max
Cohen. alias Sheeny Mike, and Charles
j. Happen.
The ten men, who were taken to the
West Forty seventh street station, were
said to have been mixed up in some wire
tanning game Detectives Kelly and Cray,
according to the people at Headquarters,
ran across trimmed sucker from
Providence at the Grand Central Station
yesterday and took him down to Police
Headquarters to see if he could pick out
the pictures Of the two men who, he said,
had fleeced him. He failed to find picture
of either of the men, but Inspector
McClusky, hearing Of the affair. came to
the conclusion that it was about time for
another ration the crooks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
HARVARD SENIOR MISSING.
A. q. WhitweN OF This City Hasn't Beer
Seen Since Feb. ~.

seen since FeD. II.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 5-Harvard I'M
dergraduates were startled to-day by the
report spread around college that William
Scollay Whitwell, '0s, had been missing from
Cambridge since Feb. ~, after he passed
all his mid-year examinations and had only
the finals between him and his degree.
On Feb. u Whitwell left Cambridge. tell
ing his friends that he was going to New
York to see his father, who at that time was
very ill., Since the day he left Cambridge
he has not been seen, either In Cambridge
or by any Of his friends elsewhere. Every
effort has been made to get some trace Of
him. Detectives have been working on the
case, but they have been unable to find
any trace OF the missing man.
Until recently, Whitwell's club mates
who were the only ones in Cambridge be-
sides the college officers s aware .,s o. his MS
would return, but now they are beginning to
look upon the case az hopeless: They can
see no reason why q man In his position
should commit suicide. Nor can his
friends see any motive for numbering him.
Much less can they understand why he
Whitwells mother, in New York, Is still
hopeful that he will return soon. His
father, who was sick when the former left
Cambridge, has since died. When Whit
we'll left Cambridge he took neither money
nor clothes with him. as, he said. he ex-
pected to be gone only a short time,
Whitwell was popular at Harvard, He
was a substitute on the Harvard eleven
last fall and went into the Yale game as
Barnards substitute, winning his H. In
his freshman year he was on the 'os fresh
man eleven, and he also rowed on the fresh
man crew that year. In his sophomore
year he was on the second eleven, and the
next year he spent in Germany. Last fall
he returned and at once took up football
again. He was a member of the Delta Phi
Club, Of the Institute Of 1870, the D. X. E.
and the Hasty Pudding Club
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
BROOKLYN REPUBLICANS A STIR.
The Managers Preparing for the Monday
Night Fusion Conference.

The Republican managers in Brooklyn
will hold a meeting on Friday evening to
select committee to represent the or
sanization at the fusion conference in
Manhattan on Monday night. Former
Lieut.. Gov. Woodruff is coming down from
Syracuse to attend the 'confab and will
probably head the delegation from Brook
lvn. According to the present outlook the
Republican leaders In Brooklyn feel COM
PEELED TO urge the denomination Of Mayor
Low, although they realize he has lost his
hold on a large section in his own party
and has antagonized hosts Of inde-
pendent Democrats who supported him in
1901.
So formidable is this opposition that even
some Of Mr.. Lows most earnest supporters
fear that he might even fail to carry the
borough of Brooklyn this year.
So far as Comptroller Grout Is concerned,
the present attitude OF the Republican
managers is antagonistic, and his renomina-
ton on the fusion ticket is regarded as i'm
possible. Many Republicans favor the Sc
lection Of Mr. Swanstrom, president Of tho
borough, for Mr.. CIRCUITS place.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
INDTANA'S ELECTIONS.
Where Party Lines We're Drawn the Re.
publicans Won Most Of the Victories.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 6.-Complete returns
from yesterdays town elections In Indiana
confirm the earlier reports that politics
cut little figure in the results, the majority
Of the towns electing their local officers
on questions that did not divide the people
on party lines.
Out OF more than 400 towns three-fourths
elected tickets nominated by the citizens
irrespective Of politics and In many cases
no opposition tickets were named.
Where contests were drawn between
the two parties, little interest was shown
and light votes were polled.
The Republicans. however. elected tickets
in forty-fve towns Democrats in twenty
three towns, and the Socialists in seven
towns. In the foregoing seventy five towns
party lines were distinctly drawn, but neither
party polled anything like full vote.
The most pronounced campaigns In any
Of the towns were made by the temperance
people. and as q result Of the vote saloons
will disappear from many places where
they have been established for years.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
IMMIGRANTS NOT FOR HIRE.
The Irish Girls, Who Come in Increasing
Numbers. Have Other Views.

The Celtic invasion. familiar in remote
years, has started again. Among the
1900 immigrants who arrived yesterday
by the White Star liner Cymric from Liver
pool and Queenstown were 800 light eyed
Irish lasses and lads. Nearly all the girls
are here 10 meet relatives ami friends who
have undertaken to provide for them.
Only a few will become house servants
Father Henry Of the Mission of Our Lady
Of the Rosary. in State street, has put out
. sign in front of tho mission saying that
none Of the Irish immigrant girls there
can be hired as a servant.
About Is per cent. more Of young Irish
immigrants have landed here within the last
two months than we're landed in the same
period last year
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
REPUBLICANS WIN IN DOVER
Town Has Been Democratic, but No
Democrat WIN he Left In once.

DOVER. N. j., May s.-The municipal
election In Dover to-day resulted In . clean
sweep for the Republicans. AL the can
didates on their ticket being elected by
pluralities ranging from -e25 to o.. For
the last two years the Democrats have
been in control OF the towns affairs. To-
The successful candidates we're: Mayor,
Nv Soaring; Alderman, Thomas E. Sture-
want; Councilmen, Robert +. jenkins. Otto
Sektberg, A. W, Condict: Freeholders,
John Moller and Andrew X Baker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
SHAMROCK DOES NOT SAIL.
Kept In Port by Bad Weather-No Alteration
In Sail Plan.
Special cable Despatch 10 THE SUN

Special Gable Despatch 10 THE SUN.
GouRocK. May Slowing to the continued
cold and unfavorabls weather the trial
Of the Shamrock liz, set for to-day. was
abandoned. Sir Thomas Upton aud De-
signer Fife. who had been aboard the chel.
lenger, returned to Dumbarton in a motor
car. Sir Thomas says the challenger will
70 out for a trial on the first good day.
The headquarters will be at Rothesay
Bay during the trials.
It is stated on good AUTHORITY that the
new mast Of the Shamrock III. is of the same
length as the one destroyed in the recent
accident, but is several hundredweight
heavier. The sail plan is the same as before.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Cleveland Boom Hits Texas.

AUSTIN, Tex, May 5.--The Cleveland
Presidential boom has struck Texas in
full force. Hundreds Of Texas Democrats
who attended the worlds fair dedication
exercises at St. Louis have returned
and are telling Of the ovation given
to ex-President Cleveland whenever be
appeared in public. There is already talk
among leading Democrats Of the State to
send . delegation In his favor to the next
National DeTocratio CONVENTION
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
SHOT SUPPOSED OYSTER THIEF.
Owner Of . Bed Thought . Planter Was
Stealing His Bivalves.

Benjamin Carman, an oyster planter Of
Flatlands, was shot and seriously injured
yesterday by George White. the owner Of
an oyster bed in Carnarsie Bay between
Bergen Beach and Carnarsie.
Carman was In a rowboat over Whites
oyster bed, where, according to White,
Carman was stealing seed oysters White
was waiting In a boat behind some grass in a
little creek. He fred his shot gun at Car
man.
Carman's arms. face and head were
peppered with shot and bled profusely.
He was taken to the Kings County Hos
pital and White was arrested.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Emile Maupas Throws Retro Twice in
wrestling Match.

YoSKERs, N. Y, May 6.--Emile Maupas
OF France tonight defeated Petro, the
Belgian, at Turn Hall, Maupas contracted
to throw his man twice in an hour.
The first bout was lively, Maupas winning
In IL minutes. He ecored again In - min
utes and 30 seconds. In the preliminary
Peter Goloistein vanquished Siehai Miller,
securing two straight falls. one In II minutes
and the other In Z minutes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Check for scrst. Gilhooly's widow.

There was.a story told in the Tenderloin
last night to tho effect that before Inspector
Thompson was retired he had the lives of
day q certified check for e. 900 which he said
was for the widow Of Sergt. Gilhooly who
was killed ip the brawl in the Lenox Hotel
at Sixth avenue and Third street on Satur-
day night -Sergt. Gilhooly was once Of
Thompson's staff
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-06
Two Lake Binnepes.ukee steamers Lost.

The WEIRs, n. H.. May 5.--Just az the
season is about to open on Lake Winnie
pssaukee the feet OF steamers suffers by the
loss OF two. the Eagle and Ella F. The
Eagle, one az the largest passenger boats on
the lake was burned at Long Island SUN
day night. The Ella +. OF Lakeport sunk
IN the lake yesterday afternoon while CON-
veying party Of fishermen from this place
10 the fishing camp at Breezy Island.