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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-08-04

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The sun., 1903-12-13
YALE EDITORS SUED.
Student Demands $4,000 for Publishing
His Name for Selling Football Tickets.


NEW HAVEN, Dec. 12.-The Yale Daily
Mems, the students morning newspaper.
and Manager Burnett Goodwin of the Yale
Alumni Weekly we're made defendants in a
libel suit brought tonight by Carl A. Mears,
Yale law school. '07, fer $1,000 damages
because of the publication of Mers's name
among the list of those whose tickets for
the Yale Harvard football game were
found in the hands of Boston spectators.
The property of Goodwin and the Netrs
board of editors WIS attached for $4,000.
The editors of the Ne,rs en- whom at
tachments were served are Chief
Thomas D. Thacher, son Of the New York
lawyer and Yale clubman Of the same
name; Edward W. Lucas, Brooklyn; Brad
ford Br:nton, Lasalle, III; Dwight 7. Farm
ham, Binghamton, n. Y; Arthur Have
never, New York; Allen H. Kerr. Pitts
burg: Lawrence Mason, Chicago; James
Il. William.Ss,. Brooklyn; ana George D
Mears alleges that Goodwin, as the rec
ter of the distribution Of the tickets for
the Cambridge game, furn shed the list of
names of those whose tickets were found
in speculators' hands to the Neps. He
says that the publication Of his name on
oraby and in a manner to gain personal
and pecuniary advantage to the detriment
of Yale University" When the case comes
to trial in the Superior Court in this city.
he says. he will introduce evidence to show
that the tickets were used by personal
friends of his and were never IN the hanos
of spectators. Mears says that his charac-
ter and professional reputation have been
damaged by the publication and the no.
toriety following.
The sun., 1903-12-13
CAR AFIRE on THE ELEVATED.
Firemcn In Danger From Third Rail--Delay
in Cutting OF Current.

Passengers on East Side elevated trains
we're delayed for thirty minutes yesterday
morning because the power had been shut
off to give the frernen a chance to extin-
guish a blaze on a fat car at Franklin
square. The car, hitched to the front OF a
passenger train, struck switch on the
uptown side. jumped the track, tore up the
beams and stopped with its front wheels
against the third rail
A show er of sparks ignited some cotton
waste and set the woodwork of the car on
fire.
The power house at Seventy-fourth
street was at once notified, and after delay
of twenty minutes the power was shut on.
In the meantime some one in the street
turned in an alarm and four engines, two
trucks and a water tower in charge OF
Deputy Chiefs Maher and Langford. turned
out. The fire was out before it did much
The firemen were in constant danger
from the third rail, and were ordered to
work from the station platform This ham; I
pered their efforts. Through the combined
exertions OF fifty or sixty Of the railroad
men the fiat car was put back on the rails
and pushed along to siding.
The sun., 1903-12-13
EDGE A MODEL EMPLOYEE.
Bank Dcfaultcr's Memphis Employer Says
He Was Honest and Faithful.

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. l2.-James M.
Edge. who stole about 100000 from the
First National Bank of this city on Aug. 4,
1902. and who was captured in Memphis
last week by Detective Fields Of the Pinker-
ton agency, was taken to Newark to-day
bv Federal officers. He will be taken to
Trenton on Monday and held for the Federal
court which convenes the third Tuesday
in January. Edge will plead guilty.
Mrs. Edge saw her husband last night
for the first time since his peculations We're
discovered The young wife received
letter from Frank Lawson. proprietor OF
the Elpin Butter Company Of Memphis, in
whose employ her husband was when
captured, In part the letter reads;
Mrs EDGE: ! being !he last employer sply e.,
of your husband ] take It in my hands 10
write you. For the last few, months your
husband has been a faithful empioyee 10
me. He has, been one of the mos most asay traass.y
a large share of my money. doing ail my
banking business. also handling Il very large
portion in other ways. he has peen moHti
man since in my employ, always I'd ms
room at night; he boarded and roomed at
my residence.
Mr.. Lawson offers to aid Mrs. Edge in any
way in his power and says that her hus-
band can have a place with him, II he
gets free of this trouble, at a larger salary
fhan was paid him before his capture.
The letter has created wave OF sympathy
here for Edge. ., ,..--...--- u
The sun., 1903-12-13
CAREY'S BLACK FRIDAY.
Charges Pile Up Against the Lawyer
Accused OF FORGERY.

|. NEW HAVEN. Dec. l2.-Lawyer George
w. Carey Of Stratford, who was arrested
last evening On the charge OF forgery and
perjury, and who spent last night in the
New Haven jail, was allowed by the Judge
in the Milford court. where he had a caring
to-day, to so out and spend the day hunting
for bondsman to 60 on his 5000 bond.
He is a trustee and prominent member
of the Methodist Church in Stratford, and
Identified with religious work all over the
Sta.e.
Carey is charged with forging the name
of his sister-in law, Mrs. Elizabeth c.
Wheeler. to bond of $1,000, which he gave
as trustee of the estate OF John w. Ford,
deaf mute. The perjury charges allege
that Carey wilfully made false returns to
the Milford probate court. The Fairfield
County Bar Association had already charged
him through its grievance committee with
forgery, perjury and embezzl lement be-
cause of his mana agement of this property.
Yesterday was Black Friday for Carey,
for he lad only just received notice from
the Bar Association to appear be.ore the
court on Dec. "a and answer to charges
when papers were served on him charging
him with mismanagenent of the $4,000
estate OF the late Susan l. Crocker of New
Lo ondon for which he was trustee, and ask
ing for his removal Then followed his
arrest
The sun., 1903-12-13
LONGER RIVERSIDE DRIVE.
Work Begun on an Extension That VIII
Cost 81, TOO, 900.

Work on the Riverside Drive extension,
which is to carry that thoroughfare north
to junction with the Boulevard Lafayette
at l5sth street, was formally begun at noon
yesterday, when the Hon. Jacob A. Cantor,
swinging a silver plated pick, made
neat little incision in the soil where the
Riverside viaduct reaches 135th street.
The new road by it's junction with the
Boulevard Lafay ette, will give the city con :
tnuous broad avenue overlooking the
river from Seventy street to Dyck-
man street, u stretch of over six miles,
The contractors expect to finish their WORK
appropriated Sl,75O,OOO for the job last
cost Will reach $3,2oo,0Oo.
The new drive will be practically coun-
terpart in construction of the old drive below
the viaduct, The roadway bride path and
walks will follow the same plan, and the
side walls will be Of granite. The de-
preston at 14Oth street will require q
ma sonry viaduct three blocAs long, and
there will be bridges at lsSth, l45th and
l5lst streets.
the engineers by the presence OF Trinity
Cemetery between 153d and l5Sth streets.
Here the drive curves to the west to Iass
between the cemetery and the tracks OF
the Hudson River Railroad. The space
is so narrow that 1t Will ne necessary 10
carry the westerly half Of the drive on
steel viaduct over the tracks In making
the curve the edge Of the cemetery Will
be cut on. ,.,
Fountains will be placed at l4Gth, 1!sth
and l5eth streets. and there will te a lire
of small grnss plots ard trees from i49th
street on between the bride path snd the
eest walk. The extension is pert OF the
scheme initiated in 1897. under Mayor
Strong, when the construction Of the steel
viaduct carryino the drive from the north
elope Of the hill ct Grant's Tomb scross
the l25th street valley to l35th street wcs
beyun. 1t took four years to complete
this third of rlile Of steel trestle.
After the emony the contractors
ente. tanned Mr. Cantor and other guests , at at
luncheon at the Cla'emont. While the
party was eating in the Claremont glass
loom the Hon. Michael Mul ply, the gentle
man who rrepa, ed the ground for the
pick -stI oEes Of tho Hon. Mr.. Cantor, was
ente, tained downstairs. One mouthful OF
champagne was enough for him. He turned
from the "Frinch slops" to la sc black
bottle, and when the foreman came to steer
him back to work he was discovered hold
ing forth tea, fully on Mr.. Cantor's great
pick work and the crying shame of scratch
ing such fine silver on plain dirt.
The sun., 1903-12-13
YALE'S FORESTRY FIRE.
Damage to the School About 1000
Valuable Specimens Lost.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec, 12.-As a result
Of the investigation to-day into the fire
that started at 1 o'clock this morning at
the Yale school Of forestry, Director Graves
of the school said tonight that the loss was
about s2O,CcO. The building, which was
the home of the late o. c. Marsh,
Yaes famous geolog;st, was damaged
about $1,000. The greatest loss to the
school was the destruction Of specimens
ard instrl ments.
A valuable collection of Instruments
which the forestry school had been col
Letting for five years. and which was the
largest in this country. was entirely de-
stroyed, The plant specimens. the. result
Of years Of labor, were damaged and dried
up by the heat. but some of these may be
saved The library, which is one OF the
largest and most expensive in the country,
on the second floor, was damaged by
smoke.
The fire started from gas oven in the
basement, Cornelius Barry. instructor in
ehg neering, was the only one in the build
ing when the fire started. He was sleeping
on the third floor and was awakened by the
smoke. Escaping in his night clothes: out
which he slid down the waste-w water pipe
three stories to the ground, and turned in
an alarm.
Director Graves of the school is to be
married next week, and was in New York
yesterday making plans for the event;
He returned home late last night. but did
not learn anything Of the fire until he picked
up the morning paper. The school was
founded three years ago by gift OF $780,.
goo from Mr. and Mrs James W. Pinchot OF
Washington, WHO also maintain a summer
forestry school for Yale men at their sum.
mer home, in Pennsylvania. DR.. Graves
said tonight that If the building was not
ready for occupancy by the time the stu
dents return from the Christmas vacation,
temporary quarters would be found in the
scientific school
The sun., 1903-12-13
CHARITY CASE TANGLED UP.
Hogan Has Trouble Under.
standing Who's Accused and OF What.

Magissra.e H,gan in the West Side
police court yesterday struggled Tor two
hours with the charge of larceny made
by Mrs Sophie Brandt against Mrs. Della
Cummings who lives at 46 West Sixty-fourth
street After hearing only two witnesses
and not making much headway the Magis-
trate put the hearing over until next
Wednesday The prisoner was paroled
again,
Mrs. Cummings was arrested on com
plant which alleged larceny. forgery and
obtaining money under false pretences.
The Magis.ra. admitted that he couldn't
figure out what the complaint was driving
al and said that the evidence adduced yes
terday didn't help him any.
Mrs Brandt came here from Buffalo to
put on a musicale for some charity and
made a deal with Mrs. c innings, whom she
knew Mrs Cummings said that she had
contract with Ra chel Sargood, who runs an
industrial and Educational Home for
Friendless Girls" at PAL West Fifty-third
street.
Mrs. Brandt paid Mrs. Cummings s25 on
acc unit and then learned from Mrs Sar-
coed, she said. hat no O. ntract had ever
been signed. The whole case rested on
was signed by Mrs. Sargocd and she de,
eared 81 lively that her signature had
been forged,
Lawyer James f. Smith, VIII, appeared
for Mrs Cummings, then showed Mrs. Sar-
gord her sigma ure to the corr b rating
affidavit made before Magistrate Ommenn
when the warrant was issued. She said
that it wasn't her signature: Then she
examined the affidavit she had signed in a
lawyers offi which stared that she had
n, I signed a contract for Mrs. Cummings
The Signature, she said, had not been writ
ten by her.
Then she l., k>d at lot more of what
purp ed to be her signatures and ad-
mi ed that she could No. tell whether she
had written them She was sure, however.
tha. she had not written the signature, on
the alleged contract. Finally she said that
she'd have to have her eyeglasses. and
Mrs, Brandt has since made a contract
with Mrs. Sargood direct The musicale,
she says will be held in March.
The sun., 1903-12-13
MRS. RHINELAADE TO ASYLUM
At Her Sons Instance, Her Brother, Michael
McGinnIs, OblectinK.

Margaret Rhinelander, the seamstress
whom William Copeland Rhinelander mar
ried and who was divorced from him, was
removed from Bellevue Hospital yesterday
to the Long Island Home, at Amityville,
on an order Of Justice Fitzgerald in the
Supreme Court, Part IL. Before being
taken to the institution Mrs. Rhinelander
was arrigned before Magistrate Hogan
in the West Side police court, to be dis
charged on the original charge Of alcohol
ism on which she was sent to Bellevue.
She created a slight scene in court by de-
claring that she was not insane and re-
fusing to 60 to Amityville.
The application was made by her son,
William khinelander. She is to 60 to the
Amityvile retreat for a week or ten days
and will then be removed to the st. Vincent
retreat for the insane at Harrison. Michael
McGinns, her brother, told the Magistrate
that he wanted to take his sister home with
him for few days. The Magistrate said
he could not interfere with an order Of the
Supreme Court.
McGinnis said that the matter wasn't
ended and that he would appeal to other
courts. He added that there might be
a suit for damages for false arrest.
The sun., 1903-12-13
FEWER FOUNDLINGS DIE.
Due to Work Of Association for Improving
Condition OF the Poor.


Condition OF the Poor.
The sixtieth annual report of the New
York Association for Improving the Con-
dition of the Poor, which has just been
issued, shows increased efficiency in every
depa trnent Of the associations work.
Besides the work done by It's department
of elief, the association carries on a fresh
air home at Coney Island, home for found
iings, a social settlement and sever al Zee
baths.
One feature of the work in the past year
has been the care of foundlings The re-
port says that under the old system, by
which all foundings wee, sent to the
Citv Hospital on Randail's Island, 95
out of every 100, died before reaching two
years of age Under the p esent system,
by which the association shares response.
bilty for their cae, only l. out of 100
die. The rerort also says that the death
late among It's foundlings is only II per cent,
while that of all child en- in the city is l3
per cent.
The association has presented to Borough
President Cantor plans and tentative
list of sites for system of thi ty comfort
stations, and money has been appropriated
BY the city for seven stations.
Visitors employed by the relief depart,
ment made $1,000 visits to the homes OF
on er 30, 600 last year. The same depart
ment has supplied sewing to women.
The sun., 1903-12-13
TRUST co. TOO TRUSTFUL.
Discounted Notes Signed With Dead Mems
Names, Endorsed by Myths.

4When these nine notes fell DUE" says
the Mutual Alliance Trust Company, Of
Grand street. which had discounted them.
at was discovered that two were signed with
the names of persons long dead and that
the Inducements on the others were In
the names Of persons who never had lived.
The trust company asks the United States
Court to appoint receiver for the assets OF
Samuel Abrahams for whom it discounted
the notes, amounting to several thousand
dollars. Abrahams used to run the New
Amsterdam Carpet Company, at SO West
Fourteenth street. 1t Is alleged that he
-let favored creditors have the stock at
about half its value and then moved To
Ninth avenue, where he went into business
under the name of H. J. Lefkowitz. Judge
Holt has appointed Walter c. Low tenn
porary receiver in bankruptcy.
The sun., 1903-12-13
YOUNG GIRL RRtTALLl BEATEN.
FoIlrteen.Y Ycar.Oid Porto Rican In Terror
Of Her Adopted Father.

fourteen-year-old girl, whose eyes
were almost as red as her dress, walked up
to Policeman Murphy in Broadway, near
Sixty-eighth street, yesterday afternoon
and managed to make him understand
in her broken English that she was lost.
He took her to the West Sixty-eighth street
police station. There she said that she was
Marie Albert. a Porto Rican girl.
Matron Quinn took the girl up to the
matrons room. There Marie, between
and that a year ago man now in New
York adopted her. While she was telling
this the bells down at the sergeant's desk
rang several times. Each time they rang
the girl hysterically asked:
"Oh, can, that be the man?'
The matron was unable to get anv definite
explanation of these actions until last even
ng, when, as the girl was taken down.
stairs to be sent to the Childrens society,
two men and a woman entered the police
station. One Of the men said that he was
j. de Cortada Of 263 West Sixty-eighth
street and was looking for fourteen-year-
Why, there she is, he said, as he saw
The girl ehrank back into Matron ouinn's
aoh, don't let me go home with them. y
she'said .,,
sWhat do you intend to do with this girl?'
said Sergt. Londrigan to de Cor ada.
"Ill take her home and punish her for
running away was the reply.
you just bet you wont. said Londrigan.
THAT sol of thing doesn't go here. Over
here in America we don't allow even a parent
to beat his own child. net to speak of an
adopted child. This isn't Spain;
Inpdr;nap et1od I'm laana0 over his
Little girl, he continued. do you want
to 90 with this MANI
The girl said tnat she didn't. She also
said something else which caused the
mat-on to take the girl upst airs again ana
PAL TALLY undress her. The mat"on said
later that the girls right side and right
arm were covered with bruises. She was
sent.to the Children s Society and de Cor
tadas and his companions went away
The sun., 1903-12-13
SERVICE EUNIFORMS FOR SEVENTH
The Regiment to Appear In the Olive Drab
Of the United states Army.

OF the vnVeO StateS Army.
The Seventh Regiment has received
orders from Adjutant General Henry to
equip itself with the new State service
uniform of olive drab, which is the uniform
recently adopted for the United States
armv.
The new uniform was ordered to be worn
NV the Seventh on the recommendation
Of Major-G Gen, Roe. comma commanding the the
sanitation to wear a State service uniform
When ordered out for state duty.
Whenever the regiment Is ordered to
camp or duty under orders of the State,
it will wear this service uniform. In armory
cerem onies or street parades, where the
service uniform is net required, the regi-
ment may wear its well-known uniform OF
gray.
posed to wearing any other uniform than
the gray, and it, was the only regiment
in the guard not tprovided with the Stats
service uniform. But sentiment has un.
dergone a change, and the members OF
the regiment will welcome the new service
uniform,
The sun., 1903-12-13
Team Tumblcs Into subway.

Two horses and a wagon toppled over,
a little after noon yesterday, into the sub
way excavation opposite the Brooklyn
bridge entrance. The wagon. which be-
longed to the Degnon-McLean company,
had been bat ked TO the edge Of the opening
and a load of sand was being dumped when
the accident occurred. The horses were
not much hurt. The street was thronRed
and 90 great crowd gathered that an extra
force Of policemen was called out.
The sun., 1903-12-13
THE SALA CLAIM.
Survivor Of the Firm Wants 07lS 600
From tho Dominican Republic.

The arbitrators selected to pass upon
the claim Of j. Sala 4 Co. Of this city against
the Republic Of Santo Domingo met here
Yesterday and after some preliminary
work adjourned to meet in Washington on
Jan. 2. Frederick Van Dyne, assistant
solicitor Of the Depart ment Of State. and
]. M. Ceballos are the arbitrators. b. g. Z.
Heath is counsel for Santo Domingo, and
Howard T. Kingsbury for j. Sala Il Co
The surviving partner Of the firm OF J.
Sala d Co. is Emilia G. de Sala, the widow OF
Juan Sala, who lent money and furnished
munitions Of war to President Heureaux
of the Dominican Republic. Sala was .
Frenchman. but his wife Is an American.
This accounts for the interest Of the United
States in the matter.
After Heureaux's death the Dominican
Government recognized the Sala claim.
but afterward showed q disposition to
ignore it. The amount Of the claim, with
interest, is about S2l5.O00.
The sun., 1903-12-13
New SSOO,ODO broadway Apartment
III ,llSe,

A new twelve story freproof apartment
house s to be built at the southeast corner
Of Broadway and Sixty-nnth street at
cost Of $500 600, for the Spencer Realty
Company, of which Robert s. Finney is
president. It is to have i5l feet front on
Broadway and will have faCades OF lime
stone. brick and terra Gotta. The plans
have been filed with the Building Bureau
by Mulliken 4 Moeller, architects.
The sun., 1903-12-13
Tailor stabbed by an Italian Employ ee.

SYRACUSE, Dec. l2.-William Honman,
who conducts tailoring establishment
in the Bastable Block, rushed into the po-
lice station this morning with blood stream
ING from six cuts in his neck He said that
he had been stabbed by Luigi Fanelli an
Italian who had worked for him. Fanelli
stepped up behind him and slashed him
several time with razor. Hoffman had
$50, and he thinks Fanelli tried to murder
and rob him. Hoffman is In q serious con-
diuon.
The sun., 1903-12-13

The new style AlaSka Sealskln Luxt,
elegantly finished, $3.50. $50 and $500 for
best In the world. Persian Lamb. Silksn
Persian, Broadtail Jackets. Coats In seook
or to order, lowest possible prioea G. q
SHAYNE, Manufacturer, Alst and I'd
sts-, between Broadway and 9th ava ,
The sun., 1903-12-13
DIED

0ILDERSLEEvE.-On Saturday. DsA a. - ~
residence, $50 9Th av., Brooklyn. JAnss 0tds0.
alecve. in the 18th year Of bis ago.
Notice Of the funeral hereafter.
l.ANDoN.-A Bordentown, N. J., De-. II. 01RUA
Durand. wife Of the Rev. ThompouA Il lAAAoa
Of the Newark Conference.
The funeral viii bo held from hs1 Ase home Mo-
day, Dec. IL at p. n.
WEYMAN.-on ThursdAy nighs Doa 70. isoe
Edmond Holcombe woymsn
Funeral services st 81 Aynos Chapel. Wess IA
st., near Columbus av.. on Sunday, De- ~
At O'Clock.
wILMERDING.-A Orange N. J.. % Ys.day.
Dec. IL. 1903. In the 7t&h yeaf OF his 49,, JohA
Christopher wilmerding, son Of the lass WI.
Ham 3. Wilmerding.
Funeral services viii b held u his lste seadsnee,
Beau Sejour. Orange. N. j.. a Monday. De,
Il. 1900. on arrival OF tram leaving Barclay
OF Christopher q. ss 1910 4. ".
The sun., 1903-12-13
$500 FOR WELLESLEY c.UR.
freceeds Of Mr.. BisphAm's ReU0taS-Te d
to College EndoWment

to College Endowment
Under the auspices Of tho New York
wellesley Club David Bhpham eavs 4
song recital at Sherry's yesterday aftsr.
noon. and $500 was raised 10 20 into the
fund to provide . memoris! In honor Of
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, . former
president Of Wellesley College. The meme
orial ts to be an endowment Of the prusa.
dents chair Of the college.
have pledged themselves TO oontsibu1o.
The New York Wellesley Club has promised
70 give $4,000.
Mr.. Bispham's programme included
twenty songs.
The sun., 1903-12-13
RELIGIOUS NOTICES

At TEMPLE BETH. FL, Ssh Az, and 7etA 81
Reruisf SUNDAY Services at II A. n. Rev. d, 8,
EcSujmaS Win leoture. Subject: "Prophss, Sul0at
Sn6 bv0ae - EduoAtors.S
The sun., 1903-12-13
RTE RlE0.

CEMETERlk0.
The great Pilslaw1 Ceuetssy. Pubic eeus
soieum complsted. Now open. once - broea o.