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New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
TO OBSERVE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.
Peoples Institute to Celebrate-Rapid
Growth Since First Season.

The Peoples Institute will celebrate its fifth
niversary on Sunday evening at Cooper Union. The
speakers will be Martin ]. Keosh, Charles Sprague
Smith John Martin and J. G. Phelps Stokes. Rob
ert Fulton Cutting will be the chairman.
A survey of the development of the Peoples In
sttute shows that the number of lectures has i'll
creased from nineteen in 1898 to one hundred and
twenty for the present season. The average at
tendance at the meetings has increased from 900
to more than 5000 and the total attendance from
1900 to 10000. A branch has been formed at
Marion Hall. One-hundred-and-ty twenty -ffth-st. and
Lexngton-ave.. in Harlem. which is in its
second season. 1t has average weekly attend
ance OF 800 and 8 total attendance estimated at
z 500. The Peoples Forum. Of New-Rochelle, re-
Gently organized Is offshoot of the People s
Institute and similar Institutes being organized
elsewhere.
The purpose OF the Peoples Institute is not to
ally itself with any party or denomination, but to
assist in the reorganization of society on the basis
of universal brotherhood 1t recently sent records
to Albany Of votes OF 100 to against weakening
the Tenement House law and 1900 to in favor
of child labor legislation.
The Peoples Institute Club A. of No. 241 East
Fourteenth.st. has membership of 375 and Il
library of 800 volumes IT supports itself paying
a rental of $12G1 a year, and has balance in its
treasury.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
ELECTRIC ToWAGE ON CANALS.
A Comparatively Novel Method Proposed by
a Boston Inventor

r. D. Davis formerly of Syracuse but nov lv-
ing in the suburbs of Boston, has a scheme fnr
using electricity to tow canal boats which is some
what original and which he regards superior to
other plans for that work which have previously
attracted attention.
He would construct in the middle OF the canal
double track elevated railway for motors. one
set Of which would haul boats in one direction
and the other towing those going in the other
In order to get more power out of the motors
he would have them pull themselves along with
wheels that gripped central rail, possibly with
cog wheels and rack. He believes that four boats
could be taken in a single tow. at the rate OF
about three miles hour. and that the trip from
Buffalo to Troy. including lociages. should take
about six days d42 hours, to be exacb. At con-
yenient intervals small sections of the elevated
railway would be mounted on pivot like a draw
bridge permit eastbound boats to be transferred
to the westhound channel.
Perhaps the most novel feature of the Davis
plan relates the locks. He would not have boats
enter these at ALL but pass over them. having
first been drawn onto a horizontal car long
enough to accommodate two of these at once.
Counterpoises would be combined with the
mechanism that the lifting power required would
be reduced q minimum. Mr.. Davis estimates
that eleven minutes would he needed for two
boats and twice that time for a tow of four. at
each of the seventy-two locks along the Eric Canal
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
RESCUES SEVEN 1T FIRE.
Country Home of J. T. Seymour, at
HaTIson Destroyed.

Joseph T. Seymour. wealthy resioent Oh
Harrison on the Sound. early yesterday rescued
seven people from being burned to death IN
blaze which destroyed his country nome.
Mr. Seymour was awakened by smoke WHICH
nearly choked him. ana, On reaching the main
hallway on the second floor. found that the
whole OF the lower part of the house was III
flames. He went to the room of his wife ano
after CRYING Fire" carried her to the front
piazza roof and then down ladder which
rr4iIkman had placed against the side OF tne
building Miss Julia Healy, friend; MISS
Drake and Miss BuEcc, who were visiting the
Seymours, were also assisted down the ladcer'
clad only in their night clothes. Miss Drake
who is the daughter of John D. Drake, formerly
a well known circus man, assisted Mr.. Seymour
considerably In rescuing Miss HeaiE, VINO WAS
nearly overcome by the smoke, and two cniidrtn
WI o were in the house,
a narrow escape from death. Three times she
was awakened by Mr. Seymour. who told her
the house was OF fire, but each time she Went 70
sleep again. Finally Mr.. Seymour. Wner1 ne
found the stairway leading to her room ourn-
ing. dashed upstairs through binding smoke
and flames that scorched his face, ana carried
her to place of safety. Several minutes later
the roof fell in. =. A.
The servant girl, Mr.. Seymour and two or tne
Young women lost in all 500 in cash Wn1cn tney
had in their rooms, together with their ciotnlns.
mementos collected by the late Francis A Ao-
bott a missionary worker and fatnef OF hArs'
Seymour, valued in all at S15pO, was coh-
pletely destroyed.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
THINKS COMPETITORS HELD HIM UP.
Bakers Driver Forced to Promise That He
Will Abandon Route.

Frank l. Andoffe, forty years Old who lives In
Yonkers and is employed driver for a bakery
firm, yesterday compelled by four masked
men. who pointed revovers at him, to promise on
his knees that he would never again drive his team
over the post road between ScarsdaIe and White
Plains. =
According to the drivers story. he making
his usual rounds in the neighborhood at an early
hour, when four masked suddenly emerged
from the woods. and. while of them held his
team, the others cambered into the wagon and
seized him by the throat. There was a struggle.
wagon to-day. The men forced the driver to rise to
his knees and while he in that position he
saws that a revolver was placed to his head and
he was compelled TO take oath that he would
again
Andone was badly scared when he reached Mount
Vernon, and his horse covered with latner.
He he is certain that his assatlants are bust
ness competitors Who have determined to drive
him out Of the field, and he has appealed to the
police to protect him. For the next few days two
his rOundS-
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
MANY WATCH FOR WESTERN sIEUTHs
They Do Not Appear in Court, However
Alleged Gamblers Held.

In the corridors OF the Criminal Courts Building
yesterday were a number of men who scrutinized
each stranger that entered the building. These
were said be employees of the gambling houses
tryiaF 10 get line on the Indianapolis detectives
imported oy Commissioner Greene to get evidence
against gambling The Western men, however, did
not appear in any OF the cases, as their evidence
was not needed.
James Liddy, Albert Martin Edward Harris, Rich
ard White, William Van and Harry Ward. the men
arrested Saturday night in raid made on an
alleged gambling house n West Thirty-fourth-st,
said to be kept by Louis Belts. against which the
Western men were said to have obtained evidence
were arrsig1ed yesterday morning before Magls-
trafe Deuel. in private examination In the Tombs
court Their counsel Louis Lowenstein waived
examination and they were held for trial in bail
varying from $500 10 $500 .,, ,r,
Ex-Assistant District Attorney Daniel Okeily nt
also waived examination for his client, Martin
Murray charged with being the proprietor Of an
alleged gambling house in West Thirfy-nftnoos D. 81
rsided the same night. Murray was heio IN S-'S'o
bail trial
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
BURGLARS GET $500 snvERwARE.
One Hundred and Twelve Pieces Taken from
House in Mount Vernon.

gang of burglars which has selected Nhester
Hill fashionable residence district of Mount YER
ron for its field of operations has been keeping
the police of Mount Vernon guessing for weeks
The thieves made their largest haul on Thursday
night at the home Of Davis Talbot, No. 25S Rich
ave- where they made midnight visit and carried
away 1l2 pieces Of solid silverware, valued at
about 81 800.
William Frazer. another burglar. who visited the
home of ". w. Hart. a New-York furrier living at
Chester HILL was recently captured in Brooklyn
with satcheI filled with 81 500 worth OF sverware
Frazer has pleaded guilty, and has been committed
the White Paine jail to await the action or the
Westchester grand jury.
Police CAPTAIN Frederick Woodruf Of 81 Yonksrs u;rs
Frazer as he believes that he committed several
robberies in that city. The police say they have
testimony tending to show that Frazer. who is
Westerner, robbed several large houses on Long
Island Sound in the last few months.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
SEVEN KILLED BY BANDITS.
Mexicans Hold Up Stage and Murder Driver
and Six Passengers.

Los Angeles, Cal. March ia dispatch from
Tucson, Ariz, says that Mexican bandits held
ur the stage which runs between Potam and
Torin, on the Yaqui River, in Sonora, last Tues
day night, killing all the six passengers and the
driver. Among the passengers was Filiberto
AIverado d Mexican, who owned number OF
ranches along the Yaqui River. The stage car
ties little main and rarely any money or valu-
ables, so that Alvaredo must have been the
mark for the bandits. The hoidup took place
about half way between the two towns
The dead bodies were found on Wednesday,
and the authorities at GuaymaS were at once
informed
AIvaredo had been married only two months.
With slim were his wife, Senorita Julia Berdo
and Senorita c. H. de Gonzales, both of proTn1-
nent families in that country.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
E. B. BALDWIN NOT SURPRISED.
Leader of ziegler Expedition Talks Of the
Toll Party.

Boston. March 1s.-Evelyn B. Baldwin, leader Of
last years Badwin-Z!egler- Polar expedition. was
to-day shown the dispatch relating to the return
OF Professor Barula, the zoologist of the Baron
Toll Arctic expedition. Regarding the failure to
force the expedition steamer Saria through the
New-Siberian Islands to Bennett Island owing to
the exceedingly unfavorablA conditions of the ice
last summer. Mr. Baldwin said:
The experience of the Russian expedition in
falling to force the Saria from Kotelnoi. one OF
the southernmost Of the New-Siberian Islands, to
Bennett Island. which lies only hundred and
fifty miles northeast OF Kotelnoi Island is anal
ogous to our own experience in being. unatle to
push the America through the ice blocked channels
of Franz Josef Land to Crown Prince Rudolf
Island, in the of 1891 It will also be re-
reach Franz Josef Land last summer, and that
not single Norwegian sealing vessel was able
to reach the east coast OF Spitzbergen, where
had expected balloons to drop the most of
their buoys. The return Of the Saria to the main
land at the mouth Of the Lena River before the
completion of the work Of the expedition is also
doubtless justihabIe The experiences Of the Toll
expedition well as those OF our own and the
Norwegian sealing fleets would seem to indicate
that the unfavorable conditions of the ice dur
the Barents Sea and Kara Sea regions. Under
petitions should run short of fuel
When asked whether he intended to go North
again, the explorer said:
THAT question cannot at present answer def
nitely but were $150,000 placed at my disposal:
/ believe, more firmly than ever, that my plan OF
reaching the North Pole and safely returning from
it would be effected. At any rate, I would be
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
H1G1MAN,S BODY DUG UP.
Parts of 1t Brought Here for
Anolysis By W:tthGGs. :.
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l,o,,~hksens,e n. Y, March 13.-The body OF
,rr.odora HaRaman was exhuned this morning
et 4he Rural Cemetery where 1t was buried TWO
ana n half years ago. When the New-York om-
cials arrived. on early morning tram
stranger followed their carriage to the nelson
Eouse He followed the detectives, DOCTORS anu
newspaper men to the cemetery ana watcneo 'ns
aisinterment Of the body. It was intiHateo
that he was Pinkerton detective watching the
proceedings in the interest OF DR.. II. 7. flo"ei.
After the body had been axhumed and parts OF
a. +.Leu hy Professor Witthaus for chemical
anaIysis,' the stranger left the city for New
York. - u
In the New-York party were Detective N. T.
Brindley of the District Attorneys office; Cor
oner's Physician Schultz, Professor "lttnaus'
Mr. BcyIns the undertaken who had charge OF
the Hasaman funeral In 1900. and Isaac Haga-
man The Hagaman plot IS marked by large
monument.
A singular coincidence connected with the
death of Theodore Hsgeman is shown IN tne
monument He died on the anniversary OF the
dav that his father Henry Hagaman. was oorn'
September II.
Detective Brindley had made all arrangements
for the disinterment of the body, and when the
narty arrived at the cemetery superintendent
McGIasson had the grave open the comm anu
outside box rested in a slate vault. SIX men
lifted the coffin from the grave. and it was car
ried in a wagon to Superintendent McGlasson's
workshop. The exhumaton had been conducted
so secretly that only the stranger and the oH-
ciaIs and newspaper men were there.
When the coffin was opened Isaac Hagaman
identified the body as that of his brother, Theo-
dore Later he said to The Tribune corre-
spondent: <.,L,o
Il was much surprised at the remarkable
preservation of the body. His face looks much
better than it did a the time Of the funeral!
Professor Witthaus and Coroners physician
Schultz rsunained in the workshop for over an
hour Professor Witthaus dissecting the body
Professor Witthaus did not make known any OF
his discoveries. if there were any. A stenog-
ra pher at his side took notes, as directed oy te
professor Coroners Physician Schultz stated
that it would probably be several weeks oe1ore
q report of the chemical examination would oe
prepared. ...z ~r
Nezy-York on a late afternoon train.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan said last
night that nothing would be given out concern
ing what was found in the dissection or the
| body He said that If the autopsy showed tnat
death was due to pronounced cirrhosis of the
liver there would be no further investigation,
hut if the cirrhosis not pronounced, ana the
cause of death suspicious, the inVestlgatlon
| would ne continued.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
NEW TRIAL ASKED FOR w.A.E MOORE
Alleged New Evidence for Man Convicted of
"Badgering" Martin Mahon.

notice of motion to renew motion made for a
new trial for william A. E. Moore served on
District Attrney Jerome yesterday. Moore was
convicted on December q, 1S9S of "badgertng''
Martin Mahon. proprietor OF the NewAmsterdam
Hotel ct the Grenoble Hotel on November of that
wear and was sentenced TO nineteen years in Sing
Sing The notice is returnahle before Recorder
Goff on Monday next
member of the law firm of Cantvell & Moore
informed a Tribune reporter Yesterday that the
motion was the Of the discovery of entirely
new evidence It will be remembered that the two
trials undergone by Moore and the one undergone
by his wife, Fayne Strahan Moore. at the
time considered to De among the most sensational
in General Sessions In manv years. Mr.. Mahon
having died in March. 1883. 1t probably will be i'm
POSSIBLE to convict Moore again. should the motion
FOR A new trial be granted.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
PAYNE WHITNEY BUYS MANY ACRES
To Be Added to His Long Island Estate at
Manhasset.

Payne Whitney yesterday made a further pur-
chase of land at Manhanset, Long lsiana. by II
he obtained the ownership of 127 acres known as
the Rogers place This purchase increases MS
holdings to between 800 and N0 acres Mr. WHIT
ney's previous purchases were as follows: FROM
George w. Ketcham, 125 acres: from Chafles w.
Mitchell. 112 acres; from A L. Brinkerhoi. l''
acres. ths scberck property 25 acres. and from
Louise Skidnore 2S acres In addition he originally
purchased the Paget property OF 800 acres
part of the honeymoon of the Nhtneys was
spent at the Paget place. and Mrs. Whitney was
attracted by the country about 1t. Mr.. Whitney
purchased the Paset place and has since from time
to time added to his holdings. He Will build a
fne house on the property known as the Mitchell
place Mr. Whitney. according to his agents, has
no desire to make private park of his property
and while willing to purchase property In the vii
lage would prefer that the present owners retain
the ownership, or If they sell, agree TO remain as
his tenants.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
DETECTIVE HEAD
NEW
McClasky Succeeds Brooks By Order
of General Greene.
ALBERrsos AN ACTING INSPECTOR

General Greene yesterday relieved Inspector
Nicholas Brooks from the command Of the police
detective service. and placed in control IN
spector George ". McCtusky. the man who was
sent away from the Detective Bureau by Devery
on .ne caNrge Of being too "chesty- Captain
Charles L Albertscr was made an acting IN
epector and sent TO take command OF the dar-
lefn inspection district, from which McCiueKv
was transferred. Inspector Brooks remains d
borough inspector, with general oversight OF all
the districts fn Manhattan
Failure Of the detective bureau under Brooks
to get evidence against gambling houses IN the
city was the cause Of General Greene's action.
He acted after giving careful consideration 10
the long report which Inspector Brooks made
on Thursday regarding the failure, and in a
repIy to Brooks yesterday General Greene said;
1t shows a complete failure on the part Of the
detective bureau under your charge 10 ootdin
evidence against certain class OF weil known
criminals. Your explanation of the causes OF
relieved from the charge Of the detective nu-
reau.
In his long letter to the Commissioner there
~ss an admission of failure 10 get evidence
against the gamblers. but Brooks said he had
applied TO Brooklyn inspectors for the services
of detectives who were believed to he able TO
get the desired evidence. Ten men were select
ed and each of them received $50 with which
10 get evidence if they succeeded in gaining ad-
mission to gambling houses. They failed, ana
then six men from the detective bureau were
tried. with the same result Then some special
ratrolrnen were set TO work, and they failed. A
detective from New-Jersey received money and
authority TO get evidence against some of tnA
gambling houses in the Tenderloin hut he failed,
too.
Inspector Brooks seemed TO take General
Greepe's crder much to heart. but he said IN
reply to al inquiry that he did not intend to
retire from the department at present.
II have done the best could, he said MY
letter told everything"
Spea king of the change he had ordered, Cen
eraI Greene said: Il selected McClusky because
] thought he was the best man for the COM
mand of the detective bureau.
OF Captain Albertson ne said: He is a good
choice or / would not have selected him.
consider hlm good msn for the position of in
EpeCtor."
Albertson is known the bibllophle OF the
Police Department. H. has d mania for col
iectinE rare manuscripts and books, and he has
acquired a fine collection
Commissioner Greene asked If Captain
L2ngan would now be transferred from the de-
tective bureau. He replied: There is no order
at the present tim7 to remove him
When District Attorney Jerome was Informed
that Inspector McCiusky had succeeded In
spector Brooks in the detective bureau, he ex-
claimed: 1T is an opportunity for A man TO do
good work
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
TWO CUSTOM HOUSE MEN DISMISSED
Secretary Shaw Said Several Assistant Ap'
praisers Must Go.

A 'shake-up' has begun at the Custom
House Secretary Shaw told Mr.. Mead, of the
Merchants Association, that the dismissal Of
several assistant appraisers would likely occur
"for the good Of the service" This statement
was made to Mr.. Mead while he talking
with Secretary Shaw about the recent appoint
nent of three new men.
Assistant Appraisers Joseph P. Sklnan and
Alexander Hami received word from Washington
Yesterday that at the close of the day their posi-
lions would become vacant. They in charge,
respectively of the woollen and drug divisions at
the Public Stores. Warner Sherwood, the assistant
appraiser in charge of the silk division recently
resigned his place. by request Mr.. Sklllman and
Dr. Hamill were asked to resign, but they re-
fused. President Roosevelt yesterday sent to the
Senate nominations of three men to take the places
vacated.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
VANDERBILT ADDS 70 HIS ESTATE
Agents Of ". K Vanderbilt, Jr., File Trans
fers Of ITO Acres Near Lake Success.

Mineola, Long Island, March 13.-WiIliam h
Vanderbilt, tr, has added another big tract TO
his already large holdings Of real estate ABOUT
Lake Success. in the town Of North Hampstead
His agents have filed in the County Clerks Of
fee here transfers Of pieces OF real estate AT
Lake Success, aggregating about one hundreo
and ten acres. The transfers were made to MT
Vanderbilt by Mabel u. T., Edna p and tlerre-
pont Potter. and the total amount pald was
$4,000 an average of $136 an acre. wnich is
about $50 an acre more than he has paid for the
most Of his other property. The land adjons
Mr. yanderbilt's present estate, and. 1t is said,
was included in the plans for improvements he
originally made.
Mr.. Vanderbilt now controls all the iaEo dooti : :
tho lake with the exception of the farm OF
George w Payne. and three rights OF way
leading from the main highway to the lake.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
VENEZUELA's WEALTH.
From Pearsop's MAGAZINE

;
One Of natures most generous endowments to
Venezuela Is rubber. for which the demand of the
world is increasing while the resources are by no
means keeping pace with civilizaton's needs. With
the wants OF the world increasing in such enor-
nous strides. it is only question Of time when the
large scale and under regular methods OF planting.
culture and harvesting. VeneSuela offers here a
methods OF the present they produced 10000 pounds
from the Rio Negro and Orinoco valleys alone one
year ago. Explorers in the upper reaches of the
Orinoco and Rio Negro have reported that there
available about six million rubber trees, count
ing only those within a certain distance OF navi-
gable water. Every tree Is good for about hve
pounds of crude rubber per annuu1 making the pos-
sible annual output of the two valleys 10000 900
pounds. At present 1t Is more than 100000
pounds If the tree survives the attacks of mex.
perienced improvident gatherers in its youth 1t
is good for century Of productivity.