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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-01
AUGUSTIN DALY'S ESTATE.
1t Hns Been So Well Managed All He
quests VIII BE Paid.

2 NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The appraisal or
the estate Of the late Augustin DAILY, filed
to-day, shows that after the payment of
his debts and liabilities there is
deficiency. of s2S.4eO The assets in
Guided the lease aid good will, scenery
and property of Days Theater, which are
valued at $4,000; other scenery and cos
tunes, $4,000; library, pictures, furniture,
etc., s155,056; Days Theater, London, and
contracts with George Edwards, of the
Gaiety Theater, London, $70,526. The gross
personal estate Isl valued at $3329 The
total liabilities are 1851. AS OF this amount
Mr.. Days debts in tho United States ag-
.gregate s2266oS. and his debts in England,
$93,029. The commissions the sale of
Days books, etc., amount to $22,9SS.
Judge Joseph +. Daily, who is one Of the
executors of the estate. said tonight: 1.-THE
dtions existing at the time of my brothers
death. 1t is true that he died owing many
thousands of dollars in excess of his assets
Equally true il is that the generous be-
quests provided for in his will could not
have been carried into effect at the time
Of his death. He evidently did not realize
his financial weakness. But L am pleased
TO be able to say that the estate has de-
veloped splendidly under the management
of the executors. Some of the greatest
DAILY successes have been scored since my
brothers death. AS a gratifying result
we shall be able to pay every bequest and
do handsomely by my brothers widow,
the reSiduary legatee"
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West. for the purpose his lieutenants say.
Western connections of the Union Pacific
road.
Six of the principal independent cigar fac
tories of Havana have now entered into ali
agreement not to sell their brands or plants
to anybody for ten years. pndersa penalty
of 100000 Two other firms. among the larg-
est independent concerns, have not signed.
owing TO the fact that under the wills or
their founders they are not permitted to
transfer the business except to the owners
legal heir. The large independent firms
number dozen and there are a score or so
of smaller firms. There have been no def
mite results yet from the conference of
American retailers and others with the in
trade.
Joseph z. Dougherty and Thomas J..
Egan, in behalf of themselves and other
pany, of Delaware, brought bill in equity
in the Superior Court, at Boston, on Sat-
urday, against the Mercantile Trust Com
p3ny of New York and others, with view
of having the four other Boston gas COM
panies ordered to meet the sinking-fund re-
quirements and interest of the united gas
bonds and turn over the excess to the Bay
State Gas Company of Delaware. DAM
ages were placed at So 600. The plant
IFS allege that the plaintiffs of the Boston,
South Boston, Roxbury and Bay State gas
companies of Massachusetts have with
held fraudulent dividends and profits made
by the companies which should have been
paid TO the Mercantile Trust Company 10
satisfy the sinking fund requirements and
interest on the united gas bonds. The bill
VIII be heard next Tuesday.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Arrived: La Lor-
raine, from Havre. Sailed: Patricia. for
Hamburg: Etruria. for Liverpool: Mime
apons. for London; La Champagne, for
Havre; Kroonland. for Antwerp.
YOKOHAMA. Jan. 31.-Arrived: America
Maru. from San Francisco. for Hong Kong
etc: Glenogle. from Tacoma: Yio Maru
from, Seattle: Tartar. from Vancouver.
LIVERPOOL. Jan. 31.-Arrived: Cymric
and Lancastrian. from New York Dr.
vonean. from Boston. Sailed: Ivernia for
New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. Jan. sl.--SaiIed: Me-
saba. from London. for New York, and
passed Hurst Castle at leo p. m.
QUEENSTOWN. Jan. sl.-Arrived: Lu-
cania. from New York. for Liverpool. and
proceeded
FAYAI.. Azores. Jan. Sl.-Arrived: United
States gunboat Machias. from Bermuda.
GIBRALTAR. Jan sI.-Passed: Com
monwealth from Naples. for Boston.
LONEON, Jan. u.-Arrived: Manitau
from New York.
HAvRE. Jan. 5i.-saned: Ia Bretagne.
for New York.
ROTTERDAM. Jan. si.-sailed: Ryndam.
for New York.
ANTWERP. Jan. sl-sancd: FINLAND.
for New York.
BREMEN. Jan. sl.-saIled: Neckar. for
New forx-
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j. P. MORGAN GENEROUS
CONTRIBUTES $500 TO SUPPORT OF
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
Voluntarily Pays Taxes ON 100000
Worth of Property for Which He
Could Not Be Assessed.

NEW YORK, Jan. ST. don't want to
be tax dodger. believe every man doing
business in New York should pay some
thing, and while / could make a sworn
statement showing that 1 am not liable
for any personal taxes, / don't take any
such oath. L will agree, voluntarily, to
pay on 100000, but If 1 am required to
swear to the Formal statement shall prove
that L am not liable and shall not pay u
dollar"
In these words j. Pierpont Morgan yes
terGay swore his personal assessment
down from 100000 to 100000, and placed
himself on record as owning no taxable
personality in this city, yet volunteered
to pay to the municipality $500 this year
as his tribute toward the expenses Of
maintaining the local government. The
offer was accepted.
Entering the office of Commissioner Stras-
burger, Mr.. Morgan drew from his pocket
a notice of assessment which showed he
had been rated as possessing $4,000 in per-
sonality.
Il wish TO have this assessment correct
ed, Mr.. Morgan said. cit is too high
The commissioner asked the usual ques-
lions as TO the financier Ssplace OF business
and residence. and then inquired: '.Of what
does your property consist. Mr.. Morgan?'
All my Investments are in railroads,
was the reply.
DO you own any railroad bonds?"
No: My property consists of stocks
alone" Mr.. Morgan answered.
ANY bonds or mortgages?"
ANY bills recelvable?" N
"None" Tat.s-fa -.-
ANY other chatteIs?" a1a'-
Il have some, but my debts far exceed
them in value. | borrow large sums of
money to conduct my business-millions
of dollars. and know that 1 am not liable
to a personal tax" "
"Will you take an oath TO this effect?'
the commissioner inquired.
II don't care to take any OATH" Mr.. Nor
gan replied firmly. He then made the offer
quoted above. 1t was promptly accepted,
and Mr.. Morgan left the office
Jacob II. Schiff, Of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
yesterday said an assessment of 100000 on
personality was too high, and volunteered
to pay on 100000. The offer was accepted.
George w. Vanderbilt had his assessment
reduced in the same manner from 81, 900, 600
to $4,000. John r. Drexel. on the rolls
as the owner of $4,000 in personality,
swore that he was resident of Rhode
Island, and his name was erased.
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TO COST $eo,ooo,o 900.
Murray 4. Verner's Scheme for the
undertaking of st. Petersburg.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Referring to the
negotiations that have been long pending
for the construction of an electric traction
system in st. Petersburg, the American to-
morrow will say:
after more than a years practically in
cessant negotiations with the various Rus
sian authorities. Murray A. Werner, of
Pittsburg, backed by New York capital, has
gained the important concession. The en-
tire construction will cost not less than
500, 100000. The offer of the American syn
dictate was in the first instance rejected by
the st. Petersburg municipal authorities.
they being hostile to foreign tenders in
general and TO the American scheme i'm par
ticular. This decision. however, did not
balk the Americans. who entered into direct
negotiations with NJ. Witte, the Russian
minister of finance, who has, according to
private advices just to hand, finally ap-
proved the enterprise.
1.-The project involves the construction of
an underground railway, the changing of
the network of existing horse tramways
into electric roads, the drying up of the
Catherine canal. the building of sixteen iron
bridges across the River Neva, the CONVEX
sion of a hospital into a huge power sta
ton, and the erection of new hospital
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Representative Bell, of Union City, sug-
gested an amendment for all the salary
increasing measures now pending, which.
IL adopted. would result in a sudden loss of
interest on the part of nine out of ten of
the men who are now lobbying for the bills.
Insert an amendment providing that the
increases shall not affect present ificum-
bents Of these Offices said Mr.. Bell, land
the representatives and senator's will not
be pestered to death by a lot of officials
who are so active IN the lobby at present.
These men are not supporting the bills be-
cause they think that the offices are not
sufficiently lucrative and think so so strong
ly that they will unselfishly labor for their
successors. There are too many of these
salary-increasing bills-practically every
officer from township assessor TO supreme
judge wants to dip deeper into the public
treasury"
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FIRE IN ASSAY OFFICE
MILLIONS WORTH Of TREASURE EN-
DANGERED AT NEW YORK.
Gold and silver Bullion Hastily
Locked i'm Vaults-Nitric Acid Sup
posed to Have Ignited FIues.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.--Fire broke out to-
day in a laboratory of the second floor of
the United States assay Office which is
next door to the subtreasury, and destroyed
a portion of the roof and upper story and
some of the apparatus. Chief Assayer
Torey said the loss on the apparatus prob
ably would not exceed 5000 and that the
loss on the building would be nominal He
thought the business of the assay Office,
which amounted to about seventy-five as
says day. would not be interrupted longer
than three or four days. Mr.. Torey be-
lieved that nitric acid, which is used in
testing bullion, was the cause of the fire.
He said it might have eaten into the wood
en- flue which leads from the glass basins
where the gold and silver bars are melted
and subjected to chemical action. The
flames. which were first seen in one of these
fines, soon got beyond control An alarm
was turned in and the sixty-five govern
ment employees in the building FASTENED to
save the millions of treasure in their care
There was about $i0,0000O0 in bullion In the
vaults and about st.50c0o0 lying outside in
various parts of the building. The ST. O0, 600
and about 100000 in a melted state, as
well as records, were hastily locked in the
vaults. Then the employees hurried out
Assayer Torey, who has been employed in
the building for forty years, said ii was
the first serious fire in the assay office.
Several times the fiues for conducting the
fumes up the chimney had caught, but the
flames had always been put out easily.
The building is historic. Before it began
to be used as an assay Office, forty years
ago. it was a government mint, and for a
time it was the United States or govern
ment bank. The structure is of gray stone
and brick and very old-fashioned.
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For Judge.' Expenses.

Senator Dausman, Of Goshen, will intro
duce two new bills this week. one of which,
at least, will be of more than usual inter-
est. 1t provides that in judicial circuits and
superior court circuits composed of more
than one county the judges shall be given
an extra allowance of $500 per year to pay
their travelling expenses. A bill similar to
this was offered two years ago. but IL was
killed because it contained provision that
the judges should render a sworn itemized
statement of travelling expenses before re-
ceivfng the allowance.
The second of Senator Dausmans bills
provides that an executor or administrator
before compromising any claim or chang
ing any contract belonging to the estate In
his charge, must lay the matter before the
Judge OF the Circuit Court. The bill is an
outgrowth of a case in which an executor
extended the time on a promissory note
due the estate he controlled; the extension
released the sureties. and the estate lost
the amount of the note.
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nsitted that bill Of. the brewers to become
a law without opposing IL with every means
81 MY epswcrss and. indeed. shall. hardly
have the courage TO go back home II the
biif Is PASSED lin spite OF the fight that I
zlali make against il. The great. overpow-
crfng moral clement In Indiana demands
l,erance legislation. We fought too long
and too hard TO obtain the little power we
have against the liquor interests to re-
linquIsh an inch of the ground gained
II am not Prohibition crank. / do not
for one minute believe that II is possible
10 Iegfslate away mems bad habits or that
we can do away with the drink evil by
scnactmeHts of the General Assembly. But
j do hold that every community should
have the right TO say that no saloons
shall be conducted therein, II the large ma
cjorfty OF the voters of that community
are opposed 10 saloons Under the blanket
rsr1onstrars4e law they can do that. IL
the law is repealed. they cannot. Repeal
the law and the brewers will get saloon
into any ward or township that they de-
sire TO enter. because they can wear the
Imposition cut. They will put up A as an
applicant. The temperance people get up
a remonstrance and shut him out. Then
they put UP Il, and again the remonstrance
is forthcoming. but by the time the brew
crs have put UP half dozen, or dozen
vmen, IL. necessary; the temperance leaders.
and IL always dev0lves on a few. men TO do
tise real work. win find when they go out
10 secure signatures to their remonstrance
that the people are tired OF being asked
continually to sign their names TO SUCH
papers and Will refuse TO continue lndenn-
itely. As result the brewers eventually
triumph.
WILL 1T TURN ITS BACK?
THE Republican party passed the Mich
olson law and gained thereby the support
OF thousands OF the best citizens Of our
State. VIII the party turn its back on
these people now to cater to the worst
selement IN Indiana? There is powerful
political argument against the repeal of
the. blanket -remonstrance law. but the
moral plea Is stronger still. and believe
-that IL will prevail I know that the bill
that is now in the House will meet with
breaches the Senate, but L rely on the rep
resentatives to defeat IL and gain the hon
or for 50 doing"
Senator Burns. of South Bend, on the
other hand. Is a supporter Of the blu, and
believes that IL should be passed. His ar
Representative Luhring, Senator Dausman
<and other leaders OF the Senate, it Is I'M
..derstood, viii also vote for the bill II II
comes before them.
= 1T is rumored that the brewers have in
.timated that they have 100000 to spend
in pushing their bill. but it is difficult to
& trace the rumor to a reliable source. Sen
atCr Lindley said that he had heard Ii, but
knew nothing of its reliability. II don't
care II they have twice that amount" he
said, "for / do not believe that that kind
OF influence will have any effect on this
Legislature The Numbers are not of the
timber to listen to money arguments"
Although he did not say so, Senator Lind
= ley evidently does not believe that the
jingle of the guinea" will help the hurt
the Sixtythird General Assembly are con-
cerned.
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BASEBALL BILL FAVORED.
Senators Burns and Dausman Say
why IL Should BE Passed.

It am heartily in favor Of the bill pro-
viding that professional baseball may be
played IN indianapolis on Sunday" said
Senator Burns, Of South Bend, last even
ing, Tin spite OF the fact that have re-
ceived a number of letters urging me to
vote against it. Most of the letters came
from women who assailed the bill on the
grounds that 1t would bring temptation to
boys and young men and argued that 1t
should be killed for the sake of the coming
generation. i made a little investigation in
regard to the writers Of several of the let
tiers of this character and made a remark
able discovery-they were all old maids or
childless married women who have no boys
of their own to look after and consequent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-01
IMPORTANT BILLS PENDING.
Measure Repeating Barrett and Art
- man Laws-Sehool Corporations.

There are several important bills pend
ing in the House that have not received a
great deal of attention up to the present
time, three OF them, relating to municipal
affairs, being of special interest to every
city in the State, aside from those .operat-
ing under special characters. These three
measures have been reported favorably by
the House committee on cities and towns
and will be handed down on second read
ing tomorrow.
Representative Mummert. OF Goshen.
stands sponsor for two Of them. One of
his bills repeats the Artman and Barrett
improvement laws, and the other provides
that the terms of all municipal officers
shah be four years i'm length, and, by COM
mittee amendment. makes the mayor and
marshal ineligible to reelection. The for
! mer. IN addition to repeating the present
Improvement laws. provides a new law,
similar In many respects to the Barrett
| law. The Artman law, which was an
amendment to the Barrett law, contained a
provision by which demonstrators. even If
not in the majority, could delay or actually
prevent proposed improvements. This is the
Objectionable feature that the new law
seeks to remove. Under the terms of the
bill common councils will have the power
| to force Improvements in spite of re-
monstrances. Mr.. MummertS second
measure does not affect the terms of Off
Gals now in office. For this reason it may
| lose some OF the support that was original
| ly expected to be behind it,
The third of the bills in question was in
| troduced by Mr.. Bell. 1t provides that
school corporations shall be separate from
| municipal corporations far as the 2 per
] cent. debt limit is concerned. Under the
existing laws the two corporations are
| held to be one when it comes to issuing
bonds. Mr.. Bells bill will make il possible
| for the school corporation and the
| municipal corporations each to issue bonds
| to an amount equal to per cent. of the
assessed valuation of the realty of the
| city.
There is a great demand for such a
law" said Mr.. Bell last evening. especially
from the smaller and more rapidly growing
/ cities of the State, and regard it, as a
| very important measure. Many of the
| cities of the State have reached the limit
4 of their bonded Indebtedness and yet their
school facilities are wholly inadequate, The
cities have been improvident and have ex-
/ pended the money for other municipal i'm
| provements to the neglect of the schools
| until they find themselves unable to take
| care of the school children. This bill will
! afford them relief.
II realize that there is a strong prejudice
| to an increase in the bonded indebtedness
| limit. but the limit in this State is much
/ lower than in almost all the other States,
] and j do not believe. that a prejudice should
I stand in, the way of the improvements in
| our cities that are actually needed
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Representative cantwen Better.

Representative Cantwell, who was taken
so seriously Ill Friday morning at the
Statehouse, was reported last night to be
in greatly improved condition. His physi-
clans are now very hopeful of his recovery.
He is gaining strength rapidly and there
are no symptoms of recurrence OF the
hemorrhage that so nearly cost him his
life.
among the members of the Legislature
called at ST. Vincent's yesterday and a few
OF them were permitted TO see him and con-
verse with him for few minutes. He ex-
pressed a great anxiety TO recover suffi-
GENTLY TO return TO his work in the House
at an early date. but even IL he continues
to improve as rapidly as at present IL will
be several days before his physicians con-
sent to his attempting TO resume his legis-
lative duties.
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Philadelphia Record.


my business calls me to New York
couple of days every week." said manu-
facturer, land / have a friend over there
who is continually showing me some new
and strange phase of metropolitan life. He
has a knack of hunting out places that are
little known to the general public, and are
consequently all the more interesting.
One evening last week he steered me to a
restaurant called the Marshallette which
Is patronized exclusively by the swell col
ored people. Would you believe it, we
couldn't get served; or. rather, after the
manager had explained things to US, we
didn't insist. The prices as high as at
any of the first-class restaurants on Broad
way; high enough to keep out the undesir-
able element. There is considerable popu-
lation of well-to-do colored people over
there, and this restaurant is their very
own. 1t Is in the heart of the colored the
atrical colony, and among the celebrities
pointed out to on our brief visit were
williams and Walker, the comedians; Sis
seretta Jones, otherwise known as the
Black Patti and Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
the poet"
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-The board
which conducted the trial of Capt. William
IL. Cushing. OF the revenue cutter service
on charges based upon a report submitted
by the surveyor OF customs of the port of
San Francisco, has filed It's report with
the secretary OF the treasury. They de-
cided that all of the charges were proven
in part. and recommended that Captain
Cushing be placed on leave OF absence on
half pay for period of six months and re-
ceiye an Official reprimand. This recon-
mendation has been approved by the de-
partment and the necessary order carry
ing IL into effect has been issued. Captain
Gushing was charged with conduct unbe-
coming an officer and gentleman.