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New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
GRIP HAS INVADED CITY
T1cciue Dcaths from Disease Re
DOyfcd Last UecH.

Influenza" according TO the Health Depart
mcnt, but common rip to most people mas
taken hold of this city. and men and women IN
all walks OF life are complaining of pains in the
back chills fever, headache, aching joints, ana
that lazy sleepy feeling, one or all of which
ailments being credited to the insidious winter
visitor.
The Health Department credited twelve deaths
last week TO the grip, 100 per cent increase on
the week before There were nearly four times
as many deaths recorded last week as there
were in the corresponding week last year. Dr.
Lederle. president of the Health Department.
SAYS that he does not think there will be any
serious epidemic hut he admitted last night
that the department was watching closely the
state Of affairs this week,
The cause Of the formidable appearance Of
Influenza germs is the variable weather OF the
last few weeks which has proved a veritabIe
incuba tor in Matching out the germs. The fosgy
days of two weeks aso were accompanied by
"A Thermometer that kept jumping up and down
and barometer that made ziszag lines. sun
shine a few hours and rain the next assisted IN
the work until the air was filed with the germs.
That they are beginning to make their pres
ence felt is shown in the large number Of per-
sons absent from business on sick leave.
Doctors ere busly engaged in attending
patients With tho complaint, and many of them
have more than they can do. They say that
the best rules to observe to avoid the grip
are the general rules Of health Regular meals
and sleep. warm feet the avoidance OF draughtS
and abstaining from alcoholic drinks seem to he
the best precautions The germs seem to attack
the system that is run down ana Improperly
nourished. a cold prepares the way Tor an at
tack more readily than anything else
Although there is more grip prevalent IMAM
at anv time for several years the cases seem
to he slight and physicians are of the opinion
that the situation will not grow worse to an
alarming extent Every precautton Is ADVISED
though, to escape the germs.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
CAR STRIKE EXPECTED IN CHICAGO.
Men Demand that Gable Splicer Be Dis
charged.

rlo,-os of the Chicago City Railroad Company a.
general strike or all lines of that system IS pos
siblc The union last night formulated an uiu-
matum to General Manager McCulloch, and II ne
declines to grant any OF the requests II contains
the committee which will wait OIL him VIII report
hack n ,he lniou in favor of strike on all the
lines of the company Mr.. McCulloch Will ne cailgu
ON to reinstate Thomas Daley. discharged cip'e }
o,,Icor. 70 disctaree James Little. the man VINO
took DaIeys place, and to cease alleged di'crlh'-
ination i'm favor non-unon men. ,.
bis strike win affect not alone the cable spilcerS
barnrnen and shopmen but also the motorHen
y~inn,sn and conductors. and will effectuay tie up
every transportation line the South Side except
the ALLEY Elevated. The chances or 3'sRerai en- ia,
streetCar men are thought to be small, ana the
men fully expect to strike
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
ELEVATED TRAIN GUARD KILLED.
Ascending Steps from Tracks When Train
Hit His Body.

John SheAren an elevated road guard, twenty
one wears old of No 543 West Fiftieth-st, was in
stantIy killed at hfth-st and
Fighth-avc. yesterday by being crushed between
an electric train and the platform.
Sheeren had been working at the downtown sta
ton and crossed the tracks to do some work IN
the ticket office of the Putnam Railroad branch
He started up the short stairway at the south end
of the station and was nearly at the top when a
northbound train approached. Sheeran did not
see it and while his feet were nearly at the top
Of the ladder his body projected to the tracks.
The train hit him. and he was knocked down be-
tween the platform and the swiftly moving train
He was rolled The length of the platform. Train
men rushed to him but he dead, nearly every
bone In his body having been broken
The Inoturman Of the train. George Y. Page. OF
No III Woodycrest-ave.. did not know of SheeTen $
death until told of it later He arraiSned be
fore Coroner Brown and held in $3.50 bail TO await
an
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
SAYS DOCTOR ELoPED WITH PATIENT.
Husband Who Placed Her in Sanatorlum
Suing for Divorce.

James T. Kemp Of No 100 East Eightcenth-st.
an official of the Peerless Furnace Company, asked
for absolute divorce from his wife, Genevieve p
Kemp before Justice Blanchard yesterday About
two years a go Mrs Kemp became afflicted with d
nervous trouble and was placed in DR.. 5. S. Wat
sons sanatorium at FishkiI
Mrs Adeline Lockwood, aunt of Mrs. Kemp
testified that she and Mrs. Kemps mother visited
Mrs. Kemp at the sanatOrium.
We were told In November. 1901 said the wit
ness, that Dr.. Watson and Mrs. Kemp had
eloped."
She declared that on December last she and
brother OF Mrs. Kemp visited the sanatorium. which
had been removed to Tarrytown. and asked for
Mrs. Kemp. servant said there was no such
person a Mrs. Kemp there.
She is replied the servant.
Mrs Lockwood said that a few moments later
Mrs. Kemp greeted them.
Ida Treadweu. a nurse. testified that when Dr.
Watson opened the place at TarrJ town Mrs. Kemp
with him and that the doctor said that she
was his wife Justice Blanchard reserved decision
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
s7e6e 90 AT SECOND DAYS SALE.

The second ana concluding days sale Of the arc
property belonging to she late David G.. I.yaU &c
Brooklyn. took place at the American Art cal
Ieries yesterday. Some two hundred and forty lots
OF Oriental and European ceramics. brcnzes. brtc-
a-brac and otner objects auCtioned OF. re-
aliz;ng S1666 90 which. with the S251 19t realized
by the pictures Tuesday brings the total of the
sale S21S. iii 20 The CTOWning figure OF she sae
S620 for 4 pair OF SevreS vases. torty-hv,
inches In height. with spreading mouths and bases.
These euar:9led with a COuded blue glaze. N
imitation OF lapiJ le=uli. Mrs T. f. BigelOw was
the purchaser. at $500. OF pair Of ivory tusS
vases. representing ancient battle scene and
carved by ChiKa-hiro. Both vases are mounted on
laCduprad stands
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
MAYOR FAvoRs FIREPRooFING.

MAYOR LOW yesterday sent letter to Bridge
Commissioner IIndenthal regarding suggestion
that the roadWays driveways and footways Of
the new Williamsburg bridge be made freproof
lie said IL part:
I agree with Mcssrs Morrison and Schneider that
both the increase i'm weight aud the increased
are too inconsiderable TO be conclusive against
SO important an Improvement fireproofing the
roadways. 7 am of the opinion. therefore. that
the Recommendations OF the report should be
rieI ont ae 10 the dTiveways and the footways.
I think that the freproOfing treatment of the rail-
road section NAV we'll be- deferred until experience
demonstrates whether such a modification of the
original plan is desirable hope that the heavier
rail recommended by the commission will be
adopted in any event. shall be obliged If you will
determination.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
DEATH LIKELY TO STOP HoMEGoING
Consumption Forces Miners Bound for
Austria to Go to Bellevue.

Too weak from the ravages of consumption TO
stand a sea voyage, Joseph Dercar, thrty-nine
wears OLD. ard his cousin. FRANK Ograr twenty-one
years old. Austrians. were taken to Bellevue Hos
pital last night. where, il is said, they will die
They had hoped 10 die in Austria among their rel
atives.
The mon arrived here yesterday from Ely, Minu
where the eldest had worked for thirteen years in
the coal mines; the younger had worked in the
mines a wear. Both contracted tuberculosis. and
the advice Of a physician decided that they
would hack - Austria When they arrived here
rher were much exhausted by their journey
Ihaf physician was calico To the hotel. No. 1S9
tTreenN1cb-st. where the men were. He told them
they would not survive the journey home, and ad-
NISed them 10 90 to Bellevue.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
STRANDED BARK IN DANGER.

Fire Island. Ions Island. Feb u.-Thc situation
Of the French bark Olivier dc OIisson, which .s
ashore Point Lookout. is precarious tonight
unless the wreckers have succeeded in floating h"r
Owing to the breaking of the teIephonc wire. COM
municatiOn with Point Lockout has been cut or
Short Beach cannot the vessel, OWING to the
heavy rain and fog 1t is thick along the coast 70
night, and the ind is blowing Of the south
ward and growing stronger. Heavy breakers ar4
rolling in All along the shore and II the b8vk ~
still aground she will stand fair chance OF being
broken up. unless the weather mOderates bsfors
morning which does not likely.
The life savers the short Beach station
ported later that they could see no lights At Point
Lookout. where the bark ashore and rhat they
presumed She has been pulled of from the ocseH
tonight.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
M. B. RAYMOND AGAIN ARRESTED.
Automobile Operator Who Was in Yonkers
Car Collision Held Here

Miley 3. Raymond, Of No. $50 Eighth-ave-, who
described himself automobile operator was a
prisoner before Magistrate Zeer in the Harlem
Police Court yesterday, a charge of speeding
an automobile in Fifth-ave. Tuesday night
faster than eighteen miles hour
Raymond operated the automobile which ran
into trolley in Yonkers October 81, the
car being knocked off the track, and a number
of persons injured. lie sentenced to the Kings
County Jail for six months but gained his release
on a writ of habeas corpus pending the decision
of a higher court.
Bicycle Policeman Ajax Whitman of the East
One hundred th-St. station arrested
Raymond at One-hundred- and twenty ty-seventh-st.
and FYfth-ave. The magistrate held Raymond for
tria
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
WRIT AGAINST CONTINENTAL PRESS
Publisher of Congressman Grosvenor's Book
NAV Be Dispossessed.

secured February 10. the Continental Press,
No. 5T Fifth-ave., the publisher ot Congressman
CirosvenOrs The Book Of the Presidents ~
retUrnable to the Seventh District Court Friday
The papers. made out by J. q RoEcnkranz. agent
for William r. Duncan. jr.. manager for -1a
Havemeyer estate. set forth that the second foor
rented for year from November l lH-
for s., +oo. payable monthly, and that the tenant
detaulted February /
y. 2. T. Elder, the head Of the Continental Press.
it said at the Office yesterday. vas in wash
ington. and expected back this week IL NsS
understood that he had gone to see COrSresSnla1
Grosvenor. and that the affair would be settled ~
a few daEs
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
SHOTS EXCITE SHOPPERS,
Policeman Fires Them in Sixth-ave. to Stop
Fugitive.

Policeman Rosenfeldt. Of the Tenderloin station
fired two shots in the air yesterday to stop an
escaning prisoner He had been arrested a
charge Of stealing a gold watch from a department
store He said he was Louis Frankel, of No 81
Eldridge-st.
The patrolman had taken Franhel up SiXth-ave.
as far as Twenty-seventh-st. when Frankel broke
swav and started to run. He was gaining on
Rosenfeldt when the patTolman fired. Frankel then
STONED and submitted to rearreSt. The avenue
was crowded with shoppers and the chase and the
firing Of shots caused excitement for few mo-
n1cnts Frankel was held for examination.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.

The following petitions in bankruptcy filed
yesterday with the clerk Of the United States Dis
trict Court:
JOSEPH GOTTIIEB No. go one-hunTredth- hist.
Liabilities 81 2S5 53 assets sl171 o. Principal cred
Westbrook Sull Port Jervis. S223 II. r. Cshn
Company $3.50 Booker & Epstein No 613 Fiftlsv
Sis. Assets judgment notes. s6l3 accounts s557.
ROBERT T. ARTHURS, salesman. No. 1sJ4 Jerome
Liabilities So $3.50 So assets SO Principal cred
itocs. Helon Howard Newark. S5lT: Steckler & Brill,
Newark. S513 and Edgar c. Barnes Newark. s259
MICHAEL. and LENA POPKIN. trading as NJ Popkn
& CO.. coaks suits No 20 East Seventeenth
voluntary petition. Pettoning creditors. the Kirsch
Manufacturing COMPANY. s316 Daniel Cohn. trading
silk Works. s1e3 and Joseph Hartshorn.
trading TIartshorn Embroidery Works SSl James
J. McEyiny appointed temporary receiver; bond, $500.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
CHINESE HONEYMOON" AT MRS. FIsH's

Mrs. Stuyresant Fish has engaged nearly the
whole of the Chinese Honeymoon company to
present parts OF that musical comedy at her St.
Valentines dance next Saturday night The dance
Will he her home I'm East Seventy -eighth-st and
viii be Chinese party. stage IS being built in
the dance hall and scenery painted When the reg
Usr performance at the Casino is over tho princi-
pals. the eight bridesmaids and the musicians and
twenty five Of the chorus viii he driven to her
home without changing their stage costumes Al
midnight the. will appear for the third time i'm one
day IN a Chinese Honeymoon"
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
Mr.. ROCKEFELLER ENTERTAINs CLASS.

\ reception was given last evening by ], u.
Rockefeller ir for his Bible class in the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church Mrs, Rockefeller and Mr.
Rockefeller's mother Joined him in greeting the
young More than two hundred were present.
slip Of paper bearing the name of each was
pinned on his coat lapel. that he might he readily
identified After the handshaking there
musical programme by the class quartet and OIL
ChcStra. Refreshments followed.
Al the class club debate at No. II west Forty
ffth-st.. Saturday evening. the question VIII be:
Shall United States Senator's be elected by popular
yotc2" 4. ]. Robertson has the affirmative and
Frank G. Cooper negative.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
AsToR HOUSE CASHIER DEAD.

William -. BroWnclI. who for seventeen years
had been emploSe of the Astor House. and for
some years had been the cashier IN the restaurant
the Nesey-st side OF the hotel became i'll while
AZ work yesterday afternoon. and taken 10
Hudson Street Hospital. where he died last night
IL was said that death resulted from uremss
poisoning. Mr.. Brovnen forty-fiVe years ola
and came 10 this city from NeW-Bedford, Mass
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
A PATIENT DISCOVERED FIRE.
None of Others, However, Knew of Blaze IN
Private Sanatorium.

Fire started yesterday in the ceiling Of the hall
rSav On tie top floor OF the four story oro"hs,ohe
1,o,,ss Al No "a West Fortv-siXth-st occupied as
. ,,rixate sauatoriuIn ~ Dr. Mary L Edwards
Allen Hervery a pat'ent. and the only one having
room on the top door heard the flames cracking,
threw 4 heavy blanket about his Nody ano went
!op-rsrairs TO the offce where he told DR. Edwards
She releuhoned TO the district telegraph once IN
f-orty-fourth-st.. near FifIh-aTe, and messenger
turned alarm.
I3r Edwards said that none OF the other HatleTlts
knew .hpre 2 IN the house. although there
Y 2 little excitement.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
USE OF DRUNK" FREES PRISONER.

Recsuse Policeman Hellmers. of the Tremon: sta
ton told Magistrate Pool. in the Morrisania Court
yesterday that his prisoner habitually drunk
the magistrate discharged the prisoner and gave
the patroman lecture
This man is dismissed the officers testi-
n1ony" said the ma gistrate He then turned to the
policeman and said;
There is no such word drunk in the code
II is a common and low word ard patrolman, or,
In fact no one else, should use IL.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
A FRENCH SHIPPING TRUST.
A Combination Representing 1,5oo,ooo
Tons.

Paris Feb 12-The MarseilteS correspondent
~ tho .petit Journal announces the formation
of = syndicate of French shipowners Whl'H
practically includes all the French navigation
companies NJ Lebon. formerly minister 't
Commerce and president of the MessaserleS
Maritimes Steamship Company, is at tne hedo
Of the syndicate. which is A ver1taole truSt
ropresentins steam shipping amounting 10 LOW
OO0 tons.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
FIRE COSTS GOVERNMENT $1,5oo,ooo.
storehouse at Rock Island Destroyed
600 600 Rounds of Ammunition Lost.

Rock Island. ILL., Feb. 11.-Shop "A, the p'i'
cipal issue storehouse at the Rock lsidiiu "
senaI was destroyed by fire tonight WIN 10
contents The latter included cavalry anu III
fantrv equipments of every description ana o''0
oi,Iio, rounds OF Krag- -Jorgensen smokeiess
,,,,upitinu The contents were worth Si'.~t-
ono The building was massive struct i ctu, ,lla e,
three stories high erected twenty years d5'
AZ a cost of StpOWHi.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
HOLLAND CREW AT SAN FRANCISCO.

san Francisco, Feb 1.-THE special crew which
s. 10 take the Holland submarine torpedo boat
l-7sn7ri.s on her trial trip has arrived from the
last Captain Cable. Tho conducted the tests made
uf.h submarine boats on the Atlantic, in charge
OF tac Iar1y aud wiB have command Of the
,;ranItu- BEFORE being tested under water the
t,--r1ilII, Will have = surface trial. with the new
,rep- IN charge A preinIinar. submarine trial trip
Vii lie leld next week
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
PROTEST AGAINST GARBAGE PLANT.

meeting Of the East MoCrisania Property
Owners Association held last night One
hundred and forty-seveuth-st. and the Southern
Boulevard TO protest against the placing OF the
Decarie garbage incinerating plant St. Joseph
and Whitlock-sve. Protests denouncing Street
Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury. were freely In
dulged in. and he was blamed for allowing the
plant TO be put in the neighborhood.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
iNDoRSE NAVAL RESERVE BILL.

The Maritime Association at its meeting yester-
day passed resolutions indOrsing tho Foss bill in
Congress for the organization of y United States
Naval Reserve. saying the establishment of such
a reserve would be a most desirable addition to
defensive naval Of the United states
and tend to strengthen the nation where to-day II
Is most weak and vulnerable
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
MUCH LIVE STOCK BURNED.

Newton Feb 1t-Fire to-day destroyed the barns
on Ball Brothers stock farm. The loss IS said 10
be between 5000 and $4,000 Twenty cattle aud
n,nc horses were destroyed. This is the third fire
on tbe stock farm in five years and it is declared
the fire this morning was incendiary In its origin.
It started many hours after the last man left the
barn for the night. The insurance is small.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
TO ADMIT BREEDING STOCK FREE
Bill Amending the Dingley Law Passed by
the House.

Washington Feb. 1l.-In the House to-day
Mr. Csrosvenor from the Ways and Means COM
mittee called up the bill reported by that com
mttee yesterday to amend the Dingley act so as
to admit free of duty domestic animals Tor
breeding purposes. 1t passed.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
CHORUS OF FIVE THOUSAND.

will sing IN chorus the quadrHnnial session of
The Northeastern sangerbund. which meets here |
neat Juns.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
40 MORE

Editions of the 1908 Tribune Almanac will
lie published So buy of the second
editions before they arc all gone. Price. :5
cent?.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-15
LEOPARD'S SPOTS NOT A GREAT"
NOVEL, SAYS DR.. K1NGSBURY
But it Has a Place Among American Novels OF uenu-
inc Interest and Power, and is a
Success.

sales, and newspapers are 50 accommodate
ing, and the magazines are 50 sympathetic
that novels by the hundreds each year
are paraded as OF the best, as the greatest
selling books Of this country, and much
praise is bestowed that simple minded,
confiding people are easily bamboozled
ard reading their purchases they accept
as correct the descriptive terms applied in
the notices and advertisements IS pat
thctic," sublime" "splendid,'' grace
full brilliant wit, exquisite hunnor'-
the phrases used an hundred years ago, or
more, according to Macaulay, and found TO
be 50 unctuous and useful and gaintul in
these dull, piping times Of peace.
am delighted to see it stated that the
sale Of novels is declining. Puffery and
eXaggeration Of new books have not de-
clined, but people are beginning to bug
less Of the literary trash, so it is asserted
In fact, 1903 is stated by a Northern edi-
tor OF the literary department of a wide
ly circulated weekly illustrated journal ii
merit, to be ga bad year for noyelists,'
as well as for publishers. This statement
comes from the latter. The books are
not really poorer, and fiction still IS all
the go with the reading millions, but the
people are picking up sense and are less
gulIible and ~fatuous. The writer refer
red to says tie publishers have overdone
the advertising of poor books, the puffery
o. mediocre books" Indeed most of the
highly lauded novels are not 50 much as
mediocre" but poor and false. The read
ers are finding out that they have been
befooled no little and have often bought
books that in no respect answer TO the
advertised description If the reaction
should widen and deepen it would be
wholesome and ~aGmonitory.
IF the first adventure OF Mr.. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., is not great it IS not dull. |
read it with unusual zest, for | have been
a very deliberate reader of the really
great novels for a quarter OF a century,
reading a chapter and then perhaps not
referring to it for a week. Recently ]
thought | would turn to the great Thack-
cray and read once more The New
comes" I read with the usual charm at
tending for three nights, limiting myself
to but one chapter at each reading. and
clever and inviting as is this superior
novel, | have not read 4 line for nelrIy a
week in it. l did not find one dull page
in Mr.. Dixon's book. | found very much
to hold me and to allure me on to yet
farther Indulgence. If intense interest is
any evidence of success in story telling,
if Il desire to return to it sooner than is
usual with me is any test OF superiority.
then The Leopard's Spots must be a
success, and must take its place among
American novels of genuine interest and
power. It is Il Southern novel strictly.
dealing with most parlous times, and