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New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
CITYS LARGE CLAIMS.
Brooklyn to Investigate amount Of
Uater Used by M. Dady's Co.

An order has been procured by Assistant Cor
poration Counsels Brewster and Wilson, in Brook-
Iyn from Justice Gaynor. of the Supreme Court
requiring NJ J. Dady and the other officers OF
the c,ravesend HYGIENE Ice Company TO appear be-
fore Michael Furst. referee. at No A5 Montague
ST. Brooklyn. January 26 snd submit 10 an
examination as to the amount of coal used by the
company from March. 1897. to date and the amount
of ice manufactured during the same period, and
any other matter which be pertinent to the
Inquiry as how much water was useo ny the
company during that period" The officers were
also ordered 10 produce before the reteree al
necessary books and papers.
As Dsdy is I'm Favana. II was. of course. impossl-
BILE TO serve him with copy OF Justice Gsynofs
order but it learned yesterday that Albert h
Foster Is an officer of the company and copy OF
the order was served him
The charge is made that the main in Neptune
ave tapped in the of 1898 for the oenent
of the Kings County Hygienic Ice Company, In
which John /. McK9ne and other politicians were
interested. and that later the companys plant was
acquired by Dady's corporation, the GraVesend
Hygienc Ice Company. The citys claim amounts
TO thousands of dollars, and has been made on
account of the repeated complaints of residents OF
Sea Gate Norton's Point. that they could get no
pressure of water the top floors of their houses
The order of Justice Gaynor was obtalnea On
1t is set forth by Commissioner Monroe that the
amount of water consumed by the Gravesend
company should have been measured by a water
tioned was The water flowing through the taps into
the plant OF the company measured by water
meters. has any of the water so used been paid
for. but that there is now due from the ice com.
pany the City of New-York many thousands or
dollars. the total amount of which depends upon
the of water used. The water has been
used by the company. it is alleged for making
steam for its boilers and after 1t has been distilled
for making ice
ce-presdent Baker. of the Sea Gate Land Asso-
citation. says he has made continual complaints TO
the city authorities. and that August 80 an en-
ploye OF the Water Department, in his presence
took the of of the hydrants near sea
Gate and found ii to be nine and half pounds On
that day the conditions at Sea Gate were similar
10 what they had been for five years. The main
which supplied most Of the water at Sea Gate was
a twelve-inch main. running down Neptune-aye
On September T. after the six pipes leading into the
plant of the Gravesend company had been cut on
Mr.. Baker declares he found on q test for pres
sure of a hydrant that it was eighteen and a half
pounds. and that the water pressure at Sea Gate
on that day satisfactory and has been so ever
since.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
GLENNON FAILS TO APPEAR.
Bench Warrant Issued for Ex-Wardmans
Arrest.

Edward G. Glennon, Deverys ex-wardman. who
is under sentence TO six months in the peni-
teniary on his conviction for failing to close up
den of vice In the Tenderloin, and in whose case
the Appellate Division has sustained his conviction
was expected to surrender himself in Part OF the
Court of General Sessions yesterday afternoon, but
he did not appear there up to the time the court
closed The remittitur had been received from the
Appellate Division. had been filed with the
clerk of the court. Ii Glennon had surrendered
himself 1t would have been in order for Recorder
Coff to order his removal to the penitentiary
A bench warrant for the arrest Of Glennon was
issued to one of the court officers. Glennon has
been at liberty under $500 bail while his
being appealed. The bail now becomes void. In
case of real estate BAIL the bondsmen would have
been informed TO produce Glennon. but the bail
furnished in cash, there is no one to surrender
him except himself.
Glennons counsel has undertaken to carry his
case to the Court of Appeals. and it is expected
that notice of stay will be served on the Re
corder wnen Glennon appears in court. to prevent
imprisonment pending the continuation of the ap-
peal. 1t was said at the District Attorneys office
yesterday that Glennon was in ne city and proba-
bly, would have his bail continued to-day.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
CITY HALL ANECDOTES.
It Is Wondered If Grout Wears High Hat
to Bed.

For very long time visitors to the Controller
office have noticed that Controller Grout who occu-
pies a long fat desk in the main office, transacts
business and talks to callers with his high nat on
Does he ever take 1t off?' asked one visitor on
Tuesday Il wonder if he wears it to bed! in
ouired another ''If I didn't know he was a Chris
tian I'd take him for rabbi remarked another
The fact that Mr.. Grout does wear his nigh hat
while at his desk. although the room is at COM
foraEe temperature, surprised several visitors yes
terday when they found the Controller bareheaded
His high hat. however, was on his desk at his
elbow and it not there very long before he put
# again.
new addition to Mr.. Grouts office was noticed
yesterday 1t is q large bronze bust, which has
been placed on top of the Controllers safe. There
was some speculation to who it represented
Finally Mr. Stanton, the Controllers secretary, was
asked to identify it.
Tut. tut, It is to laugh!' said Mr. Stanton. NO
it's no farmer: it's a bust OF Horato Seymour
Some one found it over in the archives of the City
Hall basement and brought it over here. 1t was
ali covered with cobwebs and dust and stains and
chap here who didn't know whose bust 1t was,
wanted to add to the half ring of whiskers under
the Governors chin g mustache; Some one man
aged to change his features with a mustache so
we had to have the whole bust bronzed"
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
IOWA LAWYER AGAIN ARRESTED.
Put in Insane Pavilion for Second Time in
Month

Charles Finney Wilcox. an Iowa lawyer, who
was arrested on the night of January Is, charged
with making a disturbance in the corridors of the
Grand Hotel here. and later placed in the
insane pavilion in Bellevue Hospital, was again
taken that institution last night, and inside of
an hour was again put in the insane ward
Wilcox was removed from boarding house at
No. 72 West Forty-seventh-St. and taken TO Flower
Hospital. y Mrs. Mitchell. at that number. said
he had been acting queerly. Dr. Quick. of Flower
Hospital, said that Wilcox suffering from
nervous prostration. and he transferred to
Bellevue. There he was placed in of the
medical wards but soon became bo1sterouS, and
was placed in the insane pavilion.
On January 13 after his arrest he suddenly was
stricken dumb and unable to tell his name or
TO give any information. From letters and papers
his identity learned His jaws seemed oCked
almost, and had to be pried open at Bellevue be-
fore he could take nOuriShment- This condition
lasted for some twenty-four hours In the mean
tine DR.. Packer and Or. McClymOnt. his associ-
ate. declared that, in their opinion; the man was
mentally deranged. He was kept In the hospital
until January 49, when he was discharged. In the
custody of his sister Clara, who lives at No. 146
Fenn-St, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
WARNS AGAINST ATTACKS ON LABOR.
Speaker at Unitarian Club Dinner Says They
May Drive Workingman Into Politics.

The industrial problem was. discussed at
the dinner of the Unitarian Club at the Hotel St
Denis last evening. The Rev Thomas R. Slicer
pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church. presided.
John \. Hobson. of London argued that labor had
the right TO organize and name its price well
the employer. Organized labor he said, had the
right to refuse to work with the non-union
man, the emploer may get non-union abor. if
he can. 1t was idle Mr. Hobson said. to talk of
smashing trusts and unions. Fierce attacks
labor. he continued, likely to drive working
men into political fields and force the enactment
of Objectionable laws.
Professor Cummings. who occupies the Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hales pulpit in Boston, said that it
seemed strange that unions should he afraid of in
corporation hen they had made the laws them
selves and had che power to knock them down. He
thought that perhaps in some States the unions
justified in distrusting the courts, as they did
in Pennsylvania in the hard coal strike. 1t was
not surprising he said that they refused to sub
nit their dispute to the Court OF Common Pleas,
He said that the captains of industry had the
power to bring about pure democracy.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
STEEL MEN IN CONVENTION.
Presidents and Others Of Subsidiary Com
panies of Big Corporation Meet.

y convention or presidents and other high Of
1icars OF the subsidiary companies Of the Cnlteo
states Steel Corporation Is being held this week IN
his city the day sessions at the Offices OF the
corporation and the night sessions at the Holland
House.
The convention is the first one called under the
plsz announced ia the circular 10 stockholders on
New Years Day. in which the profit sharing plan
MAS set forth. The officers are formed into a com
rnittee 10 confer with the executive officers Of the
corporation the general conduct of the busl-
less. and to make suggestions as to ways for max
sB- The subsidiary companies work together Tor
the common good.
There has been in partial vogue in the United
States Steel Corporation for some months a sys-
lem Of gathering suggestions for conducting the
business with better results Suggestions from
Nvorlzrnen foremen and the lower grades of ex-
ecutivs officers have been solicited a suggestion
anade TO the officers OF Of the subsidiary COM
1,sries is discussed b- all Sometimes II can be put
into effect several branches of the steel indus
=ry Tho present conference began on TUESDAY.
and viii last through the week Some statements
may be given al the close as TO the results
reached. Plans involving outlay of at least
s25oe0.900 are being formulated by the presldent5
The money Will be used in modernizlEg certain
plants and concentrating the work Of others.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
LEAVES BODY FOR DISSECTION.
Testator Makes Bequest to Hospital for
that Purpose.

Emil Fritschle who describes himself in his will
as a resident of Attleboro, Mass, but who died at
No 9oS Westinghouse. in this city December 2l
left his body for dissection to medical college.
Eleven days prior his death, Justice Scott in the
Supreme Court granted to him an interlocutory
decree of divorce from his wife. Emma, who lives
at Allis. Presq3e Isle, Mich. The decree has not
been made absolute Fritschles estate consisted of
a deposit in a savings bank and promissory note
for 500.
The will says that the wife had released all in
terest in the estate
81 direct that my lungs and Viscera be given to
some reputa BILE medical college. to be dissected and
examined In the interests of medical science. and
direct of So be paid from my estate to
said college for the purpose of carrying out my
desire" reads the document
The residue of the estate Is divided among the
Fo,,,. child dToT1
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
NEW ARMoRY PLANS APPROVED.
Those for seth and 71st Regiments Agree
able TO the Board.

The two most important things considered yes
7erday by the Armory Board were the plans Tor
the e9th and list regiment armories. The board
first examined the plans for the armory of the
R9h Regiment which is 10 be erected in Lexington
1c between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sizth sts- IL
5nureved the plans. and voted TO ask the SINKING
Fund 20 appropriate an additional SlelTo 1or the
building OF the armory. The committee on sites
reported that the $550ee9 appropriated was lnsul-
uieut to complete The armerF.
The board then examined the plans for TIE 'lSt
Regiment ArInory Thirty-fourth-st- and FOURTH
ave which is TO cost the city s65o.9o. The Mayor
critically examined a pastel picture Of the new
rrlory as it will appear when it is conlRe1ed with
SITS lofty signal tower. and seemed to be impressed
with it The board also approved of the plans for
thc list Regiment Arrpory.
The plans of Lord & Hewlett architects. TOT d
new armory for the % Naval Battalion % be erect
Cd in First-ave between Fifty-frst and F1fty-sec-
ond SITS Brooklyn. at cost of $259,en were also
approved and adopted -
The board recommended the Sinking Fund to sp,
rr-nriate slO50t for repairs to the 1tl Regiment
ArInorv 1t also approved the report OF The com
TafTtee on sites recommending the purchase OF a
eite for an armory for the ID Battery at Franlilr-
sve. and One-hurdred-and-siAty-sl y-slHth-Stn IN J ne
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
PROVING BIssERTs CONFESSIONS.
Men and Woman subpoenaed Supposedly to
Corroborate Them.

George Bissert. the ex-wardman at the F1fth-st
poIfce station who has made two confessions 70
District Attorney Jerome recently. went TO the
Criminal Courts Building yesterday and was IN the
office OF Assistant District Attorney Morgan for
time With Bissert was Andrew Witt. who is under
Indictment charged with bribery. and is credited
with making confessions in support OF those mace
by Bissert After they left MIR Morgan office MI
Norgen had a talk with a man VINO apparently
had been sent 70 the office by Bissert The man
was served with a subpoena to return to-day de
ys9s followed by A woman, and she also was IN tns
Office about ten r1inutes and was served with
subpoena before she departed
TThe mvsterv of the visits to Ilr. MOrgan's Office
Vas NOT xnlared but there were reports about the
District Attorneys Office that BisSerts confessions
varta beins sbstantiated by several witnesses and
that evidence against some present and former
noIfcs officials of high rank would be laid before ths
99Tand ir1rv soon to cause their Indictment for
6Iacknnai. 1t is understood that Bissert has told
ali he knows about the police protection OF denS
of vice i'm a district east of the Bowery and mas
told who received the money paid for that pro-
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
THE DRAMA.
KRickerbocker Theatre-'Mr. Blue
Beard. -

TOlstoy. in the opening chapter OF his What Is
Art% describes with grim humor the rehearsal OF
what we call a comic opera. Amid various poles
and rings and scattered scenery decorations AMI
curtains he says. stood and moved dozens IL
not hundreds, of painted and dressed up men in
costumes fitting tight 70 their thighs and calves
and also women, as usual. as nearly nude might
be. These we're all singers or members OF the
chorus or ballet dancers. awaiting their turns. .
Besides men and women in costume. two other men
in ordinary clothes bustIed and ran about: one
was the director Of the dramatic part and the
other the dancing master. whose salary per
month exceeded what ten Iaborers earn in a year
And, after describing the wearugly rehearsed
movements that, ne truly says. resemble nothn.
but other operas. and datng the wear and tea
and great expense. ToIstoy finally asks. what is
the of it. after al?
And the phiIosophic spectator Of the productios.
of the Drury Lane extrayasauza. Mr.. Blue Beard
at the Knfckerbocker Theatre last night could only
answer ITO make a New-York holiday 'Mr
Blue Beard. this years successor to The Siesprz
Beauty and the Beast" has the dozens the
hundreds of men and women. doubt trained
through weary hours to the perfection OF svolu-
tions they exhibited last night; IL has the lavish
display of thighs and calves. Of contours and COS
TUNES: on it's production must have been ex-
pended large sums of money; il is like nothing
under the moon but other eXtTavagsnzas;
and it displays effects Of electric lighting and me-
chanicsl ingenuity that probably Tost9y never
saw eauailed. If attempted But a large au-
dience came to see. and remained to applaud
loudly. They are willing to give up their money
for seats: Klaw & Erlangsr are willing to take IT,
And there's end
The production Of Mr. Blue Beard" has been
''Americaaized'' by John ]. McNally- AIr. NcNaly
should comfort himself with the thought that the
English version was probably no better Dan
McAvoy as Mr.. Blue Beard; Eddie" Eoy. s5 Sister
Anne, and Herbert Cawthorne. as Irish Patshsv.
played the low comedy parts. and managed 70 keep
on the lowest level without apparent difficulty
Flora Parker as Fatima who was stolen away
by Blue Beard. but finally restored TO her lover
by the good fairy, attempted some songs, and
Bonnie Magfnn displayed her pleasing agility
with good natured grace. The dances and tableaUs
are the real attraction OF the piece, well drilled,
gorgeousy costumed and staged with dazzling
effect. The final tableaU of the second act show
ing more than two hundred people on the stage.
backed by great electric fans, with fairies poised
in the air on spinning stars and the queen fairy
herself swimming out over the audience, shower
ing carnations into the very balconies reached the
upper limit of the spectacular If there has been
much preliminary expense, there is no doubt thai
there will be much greater returns to the propris
tors Of 'JIr. Blue Beard Tolstoy pronaHtFr VII
not he considered in the matter
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
KEENER DEFENDS ODELL.
Retiring Justice Replies to Attack on Gov
ernor at Dinner.

The Medice-Lesal Society gave dinner last night
at the Hotel Brunswick. Fifth-ave- and Twenty
sixth-st ill honor of the retiring justices of the
Supreme Court of this city Alfred SteCkler. Ernest
Hall and William A keener. Among the guests
were General O'Berus. ex-Collector of the Port;
Charles V. Fernes President of the Board c: Al
dermeu and General T. Jonathan Edwards of
Maryland
In introducing Justice Keener. President Bell
said that if Governor OdeiI had fulfilled his obSa
tions TO the State this city would not have given
the vote il did at the last election To this state
mont Justice Keeuer took exception. lie owed his
appointmeut 10 office to Governor Odell. he said.
but not his defeat If integrity in office and fidelity
10 the interests of the people had been rewarded
they deserved Governor odell,s majority in this
ritv would have hundred and nifty thou
sand ne declared. Among the other speakers were
pr II w Mitchell, eX-presldent of the society.
and Mr. ForneS.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
OFFICERS CHOSEN.

At a meeting yesterday of the newly elected di-
rectors of the Bowling Green Trust Company the
following officers chosen: Edwin Gould
president; William II. Taylor. first vice president:
John A. Hilton, third vice-presdent and treasurer
William A. Laws, secretary; executive committee
Edwin Gould, William Ii. Taylor. William Nelson
Cromwell. +, c. Converse. Charles z. Armstrong
Winslow S. Pierce and Frank Brainard.
At a meeting of the Washington Trust Company
David NJ. Morrison reelected president
Charles +. Clark and George Austin Morrison re-
elected vice-presidents; Francis II. Page, who has
been secretary of the company since It's organiza-
tion. was elected second vice-president; NJ s. Lott
secretary. and II. S. Price assistant secretary.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
BURIED ALIVE IN BROADWAY CELLAR
Nearly Every Bone in Apprentices Body
Broken.

It became necessary yesterday afternoon to
have water main tapped in the cellar of the
building being constructed at No. 19S Broad
way John McDonough. of No. 7S2 East One
hundred and d-forty-eighth-st-. and Michael Ken
nedy an apprentice, seventeen years old. were
sent to do the work. There was a scanolding
above them on which sand and concrete
that the masons were using.
Without warning and inexplcably the scaf-
folding with its load of sand and concrete fell.
McDonough jumped to side and escaped in
jury. Kennedy, however, was caught by the
falling debris and completely buried
When an ambulance arrived the boys body
had not been dug out of the debris. So deeply
was it imhedded that it took dozen work1nen
a half hour to dig it out. Dr. Marshall found
that nearly every bone in Kennedy's body had
been broken, including his neck.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
A REPORT ON CIVIL SERVICE.

Albany Jan 21-Defects in the Civil Service law
and ways of remedying them pointed out in the
annual report of the State Civil Service Commis-
sion about to be submitted 10 the legislature. The
report says that nearly hundred legal proceed
ings have been instituted in the last 10 compel
changes classification by transferring places from
the competitive to the exempt class. The commits
sion advocates a closer supervision of city Civil
Service and adds that more of its members
will visit each city the State at least in the
wear 10 investigate the prevailing conditions. Recon-
mendations made to prevent removals Tor poHt-
cal reasons and also an amendment to the law
so that persons occasionally employed may De, at
the will OF the commission, exempt from eNamina-
tfnn
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
RAILROAD BOARD MEETS TO-DAY.

The State Board Of Railroad Commissioners will
hold meeting to-day at 10 a. NJ. in the Aldermens
Chamber Of the City Hall. They 10 consider
affairs relating to the relief of the congestion OF
traffic on the surface and elevated railway lines OF
the city.
Plans affecting the existing state of affairs are
10 he submitted by the Merchants Association and
other organizations that have been trying TO i'm
r,ove affairs Representatives OF the Interurban
s.ra.+ Pa,Iuav Company also are to submit various
plans for the consideration of the board The Off
Gals of the Jnterurban company VIII reply to the
trief OF the Merchants Association, section by
section Later the various committees OF the asso-
Of the railway people OF further defend its posi-
tom
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
ST. LOUIS PASSENGERS CONFER.
Counsel of This City To Be Chosen to Help
Bring Test Case.

Louis B. Bernei, of Baltimore, one Of the attor-
news engaged by pa assengers of the steamship st.
Louis to take action against the steamship COM
pany for alleged damages suffered by them on
account of the slow time made the recent trip
TO this port. in this city yesterday and held
a conference with number of the passengers at
the Hoffman House.
After considerable discussion the choice Of New
York counsel was left TO Mr.. Berne. AS as
he has decided who is to act with him and 4. Par
lett Lloyd who also engaged by the paSsen-
gers represent them the to be first brought
10 trial win be selected and action begun at once
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
MAY HAVE FRACTURED SKULL.
Man with D.. L. and w. Pass to Patrick
Jennings Hurt in the Street

A well dressed man. who said he was Patrick
Jennings but refused other particulars, was
knocked down and seriously injured yesterday af-
ternoon by cab at Washington and Barrow SITS.
He was removed TO St. Vincents Hospital, where
IT was learned that he had possible fracture Of
the skull. The physicians said he was suffering
from alcoholism.
4 PASS on the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad was found in his pocket. made out TO
Patrick Jennings" in his pockets was s75 in
money and gold watch and chain. The man is
apparently about forty-hve years Old
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
-Hr DEATH OF THE REV. p. C. HEADLEY.

r The death Of the Il b. Phineas Camp Headley.
a. tieb was recently RECORDED. writer well kneWn
d. th5s state and New Englsi passed away. He
: ,-ounzer brother of Joel T. Hesdley, tne
etorian VINO died ia 1855. p c. Headley was
4..r,, in TE-9l.e~. \ 7. June a. 1919, the son Of
oievpvra early studies led him 10 take up
tbe isw as 5-ofession. but after his admission
10 the bar Auburn. in is47 he studied theology
tFe was graduated at the Auburn Theological Semi
= - ,v $50 and We 1od to the Presbyterian
uir.stsz. I.s sCccls l,- -astorates were al
New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
MOTION IN TUNNEL WRECK CASE.

Frank Moss made motion before Recorder Goff.
in Part J General Sessions. yesterday that evil
dence be taken in the case of John w Wisker,
who was the engineer of the train that into
another one in the New-York Central tunnel
January g. 1902, causing the loss of many lives He
asked that a commission be appointed to take the
testimony of Frederick G Barnum, who a
hrakeman on the train which run into, and has
rnn1ed 70 Llos AngeIes Cal Decision was reserved.