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The sun., 1903-11-01
AURORA UpSETS TELEGRApHS
MORE ELECTRItITl LOOSE THAN
SINCE 1855.
Flaming swords In the Skies GIVE Election
Prophets Something to Augur on
and Extra Currents oil the Wires
Interfere With PrOsaio Business.

The aIror borealis gave New York q
brilliant display between and O'Clock
Yesterday morning. and those who were
out then saw more northern Lights thar
ever before The flaming swords in the
skies were interpreted by the election
prophets according to their private preju-
diCes
Soon after the quverng rays appeared
the telegraph lines began TO have trouble.
So did the cable and the long distance tele-
phone, ard for while the experts couldn' t
figure out what WAS the matter. The dis
turhance did not tie up the telegraph lines
entirely, but it made lot Of trouble. Some
times the instruments began 10 click Of
their own accord, then messages came
through all ri. ht for time. only 10 be inter-
ruptc,, bv q STICKING and 'puttermg, as
though the receivers and relays were net
properly adjusted. II was. said by cleo
trical experts that Yesterday = vaa the
worst disturiLIr since lSSs II was nearly
noon before the I'll graph instruments we're
ticning unin'erruptedly again.
j {. R!rniey, the western | MONS CHIEF
electrician, said that in 1888 the aurora
played the same trlcHs.
1t is nothing at all serious. ne said. We
are always somewhat aifeo ted by iii aurora.
| should Judge that the disturban, g ex-
tended from London 70 New York as we'll
as iu ',her to the west. The cables were
in trouble from , o. oock until Q. The
dist urbance was continued intermittently
ard various lines were cdur, but only for
n few moments at n timA Communication
with sonlN places would be- broken fer
few seconds and then resumed again,
The p s'al also had trouble Mr. Shirley,
who ha.. charge of the system here. tried
to explain it, but had to admit that he
Couldn't.
Il don't think any one can account for
the disturbance" y" said. The trouble
j. laid 10 an excess Of ei'ctricity, both III
the earth and the atmosphere. Where 1t
comes fromaud whore II gocs don't krow.
The cist of the matter is that we set our
batteries and machines with reference TO
a Certain current. When this state OF
affairs occurs We get a surplus currnt
with more or lsrS unhappy results.
The financial dis;ric, felt the Trouble
soon after tho wire houses started Ccin-
muricatoa with CHICAGO and the West.
ne hrokornce house which has three dire ct
wires TO Chicago. reported that between
80 and 10 . clock they could operate their
Instruments onlv about one minute In i've.
The heads of the wire houses commru J.
Gated with the wire chief, of the telegraph
com, anics ard were ted that at a score
of noirts ground currents we're making
the trouble
The sun., 1903-11-01
WOMEN RAN THE AUTO,
but Not Fast Enough to Win . Bet From
Their Husband Passengets.

ORANGE. N. j., Oct. 3l.-Mrs. Frank
A. Hoyt and Mrs. Harry H. Goode Of East
orange. who wagered with their husbands
ehat they could drive the big touring car
belonging to Mr.. Hoyt from Providence,
H. l., to East Orange in one day without
any assistance. making all necessary re-
pairs themselves, have lost their bet. just
what that bet was none Of the members
Of the party can be induced to saw, but IL
is understood that it is something very
NICE 1t Is said further that the women
will not be allowed to welch.
The party left Providence at S O'Clock
on Thursday morning and arrived in East
Orange shortly after o'clock this morning
They had been in New england since the
early part of the week, the men having
drlven the big machine up there in one
day, and n spirit of emulation prompted
their wives TO max the wager.
he men sat in the tonneau Of the ma.
chlne ana laughed while the two women
'rassed' with the auto and ground the
starting crank when the mao hine came to a
stop under their inexperienced honds.
They found that driving the machine at a
thirty-mile clip is very different from sit
ting IN the tonneau and letting some ex-
perienceo person take the Job.
good run was made through Massachu-
Springfield. Bright and early the next
day the trip was resumed 1t is said that
the chivalrous husbands offered to extend
the time limit to day and ialf or two
A stop was made at a little town in Con-
meet ticut wnere Mr.. Hoyt spent many of
his boy days, and then the trip was
resumed.
Just outside Of Hartford tie only accident
which hefe'l tie party lol rened. when one
~ lnIp VI 1l,,I
soaring the women ain ost into Mysteries
me machine was stol rcd and tie two
women chaufeurs rueiully set about max
ing repairs, vi lie u cir husbands lit cigars.
sat down OH a nearby einbankmcnt and
laughed. The women said nothing. and at
last they fitted tie spare tire on tie rim.
Msrlden was reached at o'clock. and
drcct run madc from therc to East Ornnce
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BUDGET $9,50o,ooo HIGHER.
TAX RATE LIKELY TO BE $50,
AGAINST 1.41 FOR 1908,
But StilI Lower Than Last Year-Mayor
Says Part OF Increase Is Due to Changes
In FInanciering by Comptroller Grout
-Grout Explains Why He Changed.

The budget for 1904 was finally made UP
yest erday by the Board OF Estimate. The
new budget calls for an expenditure Of
3l03. .B74 ,955. an increase of %, ,SO4 ,97S over
tne appropriations for this year. Nearly
81 900 900 Of this increase will go>for the re-
dnmption OF city bonds. The board has
decided to wipe out about 50, 700 900 Of out
standing revenue bonds, while the amount
set aside for tho redemption Of corporal
stock is nearly $2,0oo,OOO greater than last
year
Mayor Low pointed out vest erGay that
part Of the increase was due to "a change
Of the methods of flnanciering adopted by
the Comptroller" Mr. Grout promptly
issued statement in reply. in which he said
that the change referred to was simply
that he had refused to continue the practice
Of selling corporate stock in advance of
requirements. Mr.. Grout also explained
verballyto Sun reporter that it has hitherto
been the Gust ON of Comptrollers to Use the
proceeds of corporate stock sales to re-
plenish the treasury.
Corporate stock should be sold only
for specific purposes" he said -If the
city is in need OF money for current expenses,
this want should be met. according to the
law, by revenue bond sales. The interest
on these bonds. however. is greater than
that OF corporate stock. and consequently
the syst m has grown up of using the money
than specific purposes. That system
have stopped, because IL is unla wful.
These are the budget fcuras the column
showing increases or decreases.
The sun., 1903-11-01
CONTESTS LOIGHR4N WILL.
Granddaughter, Who Says He Adopted Her
as Daughter. Alleges Undue Influence.

Mrs Mary Ellen Cummings Of Fall River.
Mass. a granddaughter Of the late Johs
Loughran, has filed in the Surrogate's
Office in Brooklyn q petition III which she
contests the probate of the will OF her grand
father. Mr.. Loughran was president of
the Manufacturers National Bank He
died in his home at South Portland avenue
on Oct 9. and it is believed that he left
large estate
He bequeathed $25 900 10 his daughter
Annie T. Walsh: 5000 10 Mrs. Cummings.
and the residue of the estate to his daughter
Mary Elizabeth Loughran, with whom he
lived. His son. Daniel S. Loughran. and
his grandson, John W. Loughran, he re-
lieved from all their Indebtedness to the
estate az their share.
Mrs, Cummings saws that while she is
the granddaughter OF the testator, yet,
twenty years ago. he adopted her as his
daughter. She alleges that the will was
made by Mr.. Loughran through fraud and
undue influence on the part Of Mary Eliza
beth Loughran. the readuarv legatee. or
Of some other person or persons.
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WEELTH1 NEW UEKSE1.
Has a2.05l .O3S Cash In Her Treasury
After Having Paid Out 81 ,4OO, 900

TRENTON, \. j., Oct, 3l.-New Jerseys
fiscal year closed at Eoon to-day with the
largest cash balance il the treasury in the
history OF the State, When the books had
been balanced, State Comptroller j. Willard
Morgan seat to Gov. Murphy the followir g
telegram
The close Of the fiscal year TO-DAY leaves
q cash balance in the treasury Of 81 ,85l 637,
an irCrease over the balance of last war
of ) :o8.8ls This is the largest balt nce at
the close of any fiscal year in the history
OF the State. hstandiMg the fact that
extraordinary payments amounting 10
over $l,4O0,O00 have been made durir &
the year, of which amount over SNO. 600
WAS paid to the various courtics Tor the
purpose of reducing the state school tax"
The sun., 1903-11-01
IOt Nc YZN.4GA SAFE AT HOME
Came by Railroad From Fort Ticonde-
rOxa--Mill Return to School.

George l.. Yznaga del Vale, the fifteen
year-old boy who ran away from school in
Montreal and started to tramp all the way
to New York. arrived in this city last Tues
day. He WAS first heard of when he arrived
In Plattsbure h last Monday and telegraphed
to his parents for money. No answer came,
and he went on to Fort Ticonderoga. where
kindly woman advanced him the railway
fare to get home.
Meanwhile his father, who had received
the boys telegram too late. had telegraphed
the chief of police at Platt sbure to hold the
boy.
The father is Jose y. Yznaga del Vale,
manager OF the Export rtising and Pur-
chasing Agency, 1873 Water street. George
is now with his father and mother at their
home, 1881 Amsterdam avenue.
The difficulty on account Of which George
ran away has been adjusted. and he viii
return there in about week.
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ELECTRIC POWER on THE CANALS.
State Engineer Bond Thinks 1t Preferable
to tho Proposed Enlargement.


ALBANY. Oct. sl.-Preference for the
installation of an electrical traction system
for tho propulsion IF canalboats as against
the 1000 ton barge canal proposition was
expressed to-day by State Engineer Bond
He said;
4 have had my attention called to an
article in the Neu YORK Tribune headed
State Engineers Look With Suspicion on
the Electric Motor Tests The article
referred to was in no sense Official. I was
in distant part OF the State, attending to
work in charge Of this department, vi en-
the invitation was received for witnessing
the test at Schenectady. and was not able
personally to be present at the test; but
/ have conversed with several persons
who were present and have examined the
photographs showing the general lines Of
those who witnessed the test am impressed
with the great possibilities for the succo ss-
fuI perfection of n practical system for
propellng boats by electric power.
At tnls time ] have no Official record
nectady the depth u which boats are
loaded. and the wave produced by u single
boat or by several boats towed together
at various speeds; but II is perfectly prac--
ticable at such points as may be found
and protect them from any wavo that
NAV be caused by the increased speed of
boats. That is matter which can be regu-
lated at the same time the electric power
is being perfected, 40 as to reach he best
nructical reults The Il atvancement in the
application Of electricity for power prr-
t,oaes in all it's various forms within the pat
ten wears has been rapid. and tho system
tested at SCHENECTADY Wednesday has all
the indicati ions Of success,
Sir. Bond was asxed whether his system
would be practicable for use on the pro-
posad barge canal. In reply he said
: at would be al points where the canal
has the ordinary prism, but in cases OF wide
water like Oneida Lake. or where the con-
A ruc,ion Of the canal is made by canaliz-
ing rivers, it would not be practicable.
The sun., 1903-11-01
COLLEGE ATHLETICS BAD.
SO Says Carroll u. Wright, the President
M Clark University.

WORCESTER, Mass Oct, 3l.--A criticism
of college athletics as they are now con-
Quoted and an arraignment cf the educa-
tional methods in high institutions Of learn
ing hv President Carroll y. Wright Of Clark
University were the fearure, Of the annual
,,ilNu...l "A Gf the Worcester County Tea. h.
crs' Asa soiati,,n yesterday. He said in part ;
The ANIMAL contests are an injustice 10
tho institutions involved and should not bs
allowed. Onlyn clusan few nave the a,ten.
ion and necessary training. while the reat
are no; benefited il the least. A ncttd
at tat st ician .'lowe tina: men who are trained
for ,:por,s in college are apt to have heart
trouble and in after life do not accomplish
as much as those who do not go in for the
sports.
intercollegiate games are a gambling
irsitu.ion rrin,ari", This ramhlirc win
stop in tim,, and in;ercole siate games will
muip ~ 'ine: IA" pui!s |" i.,4y s"h, 81
should have the benefit Of at hl"tic contests.
,aros, &c. but these should 10 fer Ike
benemt oi everybody, not II certain few.
Evarybody ohr uld he given q chance to
have gocd tin-, hut they she uld go to
college e. sJudartn, not as rugiets.
The sun., 1903-11-01
CANAL MAN WRITES IN GLOOM
HEARS ODELL EXPECTS TO DE
BEATEN BY 100000 VOTES.
Labor End OF the sIOI 900 900 Grab Didn't
WOrk--Somebody dug Up the Alien
Italian Canal Labor and Slugged
Sam GOmpers With It-Greene for
an Engineering Expert, "H'-

FROM THE LETTERS OF CANAL CONTRACTOR
TO HIS SON.
NEW YORK, Oct. 80.
DEAR BILLY: l ran down here day be-
fore yesterday to see how the game is
! going. After my trip through the State
, was satisfied that we'd have to get a
! tower Of votes in Greater New York or
we'll never get chance at the 3l01 ,0OO. 400
| the farmers are coming oown to New
| York with bowling big plurality against
us. It's frightened lot Of people. The
Governors aown In the mouth about the
, reports he's hau from the rest Of the State
and is now grumbling that 1t looks as if
we'd be beaten by l00,OOO.
For the money we put up we haven't had
! much Of shout The campaigns been
bungled in more ways than one. IHemem-
ber | was quite jubilant when wrote to
yoi while ago that we had hired Samuel
| Go!npers TO deliver the labor union vote
for the canal.
1t looked mighty easy. All we had to do
was to travel around and put it up to the
unions this way: Here's SIS. 600 900 to be
spent for labor. Do you want it?s Well
they paid him IL salary that suggested
in harness. 80 started off splenddly
then came a setback He had resolutions
favoring the canal put in before federated
unions and things. and they tabled them
or turned them dow1.
Some of the fellows that haven't much
to do dug up the report Of the State Com
missioner of Labor Statistics for lst .. show
ing that Of the 5000 laborers employed on
the 1895 SO 900 900 canal improvement. i4.5OO
were Italian aliens. By the way, they men,
toned me as one of the fellows that brought
them in, One of the agitators said the
ltalianswere all still here and still aliens. and
soc ei to have saved something out of the
w cents n day they got.
Then other agitators brought up the cir
cumstances of the amendments which one
Of the labor legislators tried to have inserted
on the dav the bill was up for final passage.
He wanted the eight hour, the prevailing
rate of wages and the citizen labor pro-
visions put in. Didn't want much, did he?
OF curse. thev dropped him and his amend
ments down the f1ue.
Well, Gompers got stalled by these propo-
sitons and when the campaign committee
found that his resolutions were being
tabled and no goods delivered they cut
his salary off, Now he sore, too.
Then the elevator combine at Buffalo
undertook to get the United Trades Assem-
bly, there to indorse it but il was beaten
because Conners, the dock contractor, was
for it.
The feeding Of the editors and "prom-
nent citizens at ban.quets up state didn't
of the money has gone, but don't see the
intelligence that spent II in that way.
Still, I'm hopeful, for your future, that
the thing will go through Tue sday. In
most sections the political machines of
both parties are actively for it, just as they
would he for any game that meant spandinp
The sun., 1903-11-01
FAILyRE TO LAUNCH 4 MIG SHIP.
Tho Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria
Sticks on the Ways.

CAMDEN, n. j.. Oct 3i.-The big Pacific
Mail steamship Manchuria was to have
been launched at the yards OF the New
York Shipbuildjng Company in South
Camden this morning. The supports were
cut away but the vessel refused to move.
Tugs strained on the cable and the
big hydraulic pumps worked futilely.
The keel blocks we're chopped away,
and President May of the shipbuilding
company ordered more pressure to be ap-
piled by the hydraulic press but this was
found TO be of no use After an hours
work two tugs were signalled for and they
great effort was made in vain, and TIE at
tempt to launch the vessel vas post poned
to Monday,
The cause of the failure was the great
weight OF the ship and the stiffness Of the
tallOw.
The sun., 1903-11-01
BOOTH TICkERS TRIBJTF.
His Only Disagreement Win His Wife Was
as to Which Loved the Other Most.

CHICAGO, Oct. 3l.-CommGnder Booth
Tucker of the Salvation Army, last even ing ;.
standing beside the bier Of his wife, at the
old Princess Rink, befo re- what was rob!bly
the greatest throng Of peoE 10 that ever sat
under that rooi, said:
"The only thing that my wife and
I ever disagreed upon, YVES which loved
the other the most. Our life wCs per-
petua courtshir A man il al audiarce
once asked me if would lovc God if my
wife should I've killed il n railrcgd wreck.
as his had been. If thai man were here
now would say 10 him; Even though He
slay me, yet cen trust Him
The sun., 1903-11-01
Killed In an Elevator.
Prossor,

SYRACUSE, Oct. 3l.-Julius &. Proesor,
superirtel der' Of city election mat orial,
was killed to-day while moving some of
the voting machines. He had placed n
machine on the elevator in the basement
of the City Hail and started it toward the
iron trapdoors in the sidewalk above.
to open them or to atop the lift and wns
crushed to death MIR. Prosscr VS. Gi
,.oorc old
The sun., 1903-11-01
DecolIette Gowns and catarrh.
Pe.ru.na Is Safeguard for the Society
Women,

Miss Florence Wayland, in letter
from 1908 Aidrich Ave, Minneapolis, Mimi,
writes:
Il can honestly give Peruna the highest
q d 'rsemert. for l Lave used it and found
it has special merit During the early
part Of the winter | caught cold, be-
ing exposed 20 d,alght at the opera,
and the ext evening attended dancing
party a ID caught more cold, ard sooi
found that Influenza had me in its iron
grip was then dosed with liquids,
powders a ID pill, but found no relief
until a fri I'D who called brought me
a bottle of Peruna and insisted that
and give this an honest trial | did so
and feel very Iad indeed that did With
in tet. Cayr i was convalescing and in
20 weeks fell my ieif once more. Pcruna
has an honored place in our medicine
cabinet al hom'. AID we all take il upon
catching the slightest cold. FLORENCE
NaylaGG =
The sun., 1903-11-01
MathenaticianS Meet.

The American Mathematical Society held
its annual meeting al Columbia University
yesterday. In the morning papers were
read by DR.. A. s, Gale Of Yale. DR.. l.. p.
lscnhart Of Princeton and Drs. Z. Kasmer
and T. n Cole OF Columbia The afternoon
programme was made up of articles by
Prof 6. A. Miller OF Leland Stanford Uni
vrrsity, Miss |. NJ. Sclnttenfea and Burke
Smith
The sun., 1903-11-01
Honors in Scholarship at Columbia.

Dean J. Howard Van Amringc has an
nouncod those students who won the high
est general honors in scholarship at Column
bia College the past year. They are:
1908 Nathaniel W Barnes, STANLEY NJ
Isaacs, Rohcrt L. Schuyler. Frederick l..
Wells, Murray " Rass. Clinton G. Abbott.
1901 Walter A, Jacobs Arthur $. Guthan.
Meyer JAcobstein.
,oos = leonard F. Often. William Klaber,
Robert lie Roy, Kaufman Il Wallach. Edward
Sapir. -u
The sun., 1903-11-01
She Married the Man Of Her Choice.

SYRACUSE, Oct. sl.--Edth Maude Kirby.
who was spirited to Canada by her par
eNt| in order TO prevent her marriage with
john frederick Emerson, has returned a.
The wife Of the man of her choice. Emerson,
finding out that she vas visiting her sister
a' Rrookvile, Car ada. fastened to her
AID 'hov werr married in spite of all
objections. Since her marriage she has
been disOwned hv her PARENTS.
The sun., 1903-11-01
Glens Fails withou, Water for . Day.

GLENs FALLS. \. V, Oct. a',--The 5000
persons, of Glens Falls have been without
water all day as The result Of a break IN the
main be, ween the village and the mountain
reservoirs. An attempt was made {. pump
water in the mains IRON the canal ieefer,
the steam fire engines being used Tor maj
purpose, but little pressure was optalned,
The shirt factory. and custom laundries
we're compelled TO cloee down The break
vas repaired late this afternoon.
The sun., 1903-11-01
anal Subsidy. 81 q Ton.

tsNry tia, ,ne canal has asked for more
mo1'v many fair promises have been mad"
W II ram". Has it kept any OF them
Ia 'Ha biggest year in its history It's whole
hl'I1"ss was but a little over 5000 TONS.
l'' US put the canal where II was
CRY hs advocates,
And pay subsidy Of 81 a ton on it's trainer
" 1t worth ity
The sun., 1903-11-01
Catarrh 7ay Attack Any Organ of the
Body,

Miss Mary Gray, Walkerville, Ontario,
Canada, writes:
-Pen and ink never can tell of the good
Peruna has done for me after severe suffer
tn my stomach ard bowels. | realized
TIE cause had 10 be removed. and as had
your medicine reco merded to me by
a friend who had used it. concluded to
The sun., 1903-11-01
SAILED FROM PORTION poRTs.

IS ampania. from Liverpool .or New FORK.
IS Vadcrland, IRON, Hn'werp tor New York.
IS Pennsylvania. from HamlCrg for New York.
IS Mnnetonka. from London for New York.
~ La SavoIr. from Havrc for New York.
S. Celtic. from Queenstown for New York.
IS Columbia. from GisssDS for New YORK.
SIS In Ga,roene, from Hhvrc for New York.
Ss Sloicrdrk. from Rotterdam .or New York.
IS Main. from Bremen for New York
The sun., 1903-11-01

OCV. 1T
DEAR BILL See Mike and remind him
that I've agreed TO have his son app oint ed
a resident enCinecr--there's 10 be thousands
of themif his Assembly district gives a
plurality for the canal hut not otherwise
Hastily, FATHER.
p. S How did you find things at New
hur
The sun., 1903-11-01
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALAASAc-.THIs DAY.
Sun rises $50 Sun sets .%.s Moon sets 2:s9
HIGH wATEg--1hIs DAY.
Sandy Hook, 4 60 Gov. I'd. I4l Hell Gate :. C:3i
The sun., 1903-11-01

Change from the heated ball room to ens
bitter outside cold causes innumerablo
cases of ca'arrh yearly. They must sub
nit to these exposures, 20 the society woman
especially needs protection IN this direction.
They should have some tried remedy for
colds and coughs at hand to take upon
the first symptom OF catching cold.
That Perura is exactly such remedy
the accompanying testimonials prove.
Peruna prevents colds by strengthening
the mucous membranes II cures colds By
healing the catarrhal mucous membranes,
Society women find II a protection and
cure. All classes of womer find II in.
valuable for the many catarrhal derang0.
ments of winter.
Miss Margaret Hueston. ll27 Linden
St, Indianapolis, Ind. writes:
"Pcruna is indeed household blessing
Last fall ! caught n severe cold. which de.
veloped into a most unpleasant catarrh
of the respiratory organs. and for over
two weeks could neither enjoy my food
nor secure restful sleep. became nervous
and irritable and nothing looked Just right
to mo. good neighbor advised me 10
trv Peruna and Immediately sent for .
bottle. ] am very glad indeed that did.
began to feel relief in II week md soon felt
better than had in two years. l do not
dread a cold any more as used to, for Q
small quantity of Peruna cures me-
Margaret Hueston.
Ii you do not receive prompt and salts.
factory results from the use of Peruns,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving .
iull statement OF your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O..
The sun., 1903-11-01
No pOlilics-,Iust Plumber.

No politics in the barge canal project
just plunder.
The sun., 1903-11-01

Arrived SATURDAY, Oct. 81
IS Etruria Liverpool. Oct, 2i.
SIS Philadelphia Suuthsmpton, Oct, "A
SIS La Tuurainc. Havrc. oct. u.
IS Prin2 OSksr, Genoa. Oct. 10
So ls'and Copenhagen. OCT. IA
81 itta al Miaro. Gcnoa. Oct. i&
IS Nordkap T, t.ove. Oct rs
81 81. iu6o. Oh lL,jap. Aug. 20
IS SIeland. IaIlpCO, Oct. ~.
IS prins der Nederlanden. Pararlarlbo. Oct, o.
IS AraI,lhoc, Jacksonville, Oct. ~
IS Princess Anne. Norfolk Dc.. 80.
IS Alamo, Galveston. oct -.