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New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
NAY DIE FROM WRECK.
Head-on Collision at Washington,
n j.. on L0cka7CGnnd.

1y-asbinpton Y i Feb lo-There was a
head-on collision, the Lackawanna Railroad
this morning about two miles this side OF
PhilIipsburg -hree passengers were severely
shaken UP and had to be assisted to Easton.
Penn. George Bowdon. Of Hoboken. baggage
master of the passenger train severely
hurt and it is believed his injuries will result
fatally.
The trains were No 4o3. a passenger train
from Hoboken to PhiIlipsburg and Easton and
No 103. a work train. John keenan,. of Ho-
boken. was engineer of the passenger train.
Henry Hoffman was the conductor. John
Myers of Phillipsburg. engineer of the
work train. The collision occurred at 1040
this morning
Trains over the Morris and Essex division of
the road which runs through Newark, the Or
anges snd Morristown strike the main line at
Dover. and run 10 this point and then leave
il, while the main line swings northward toward
the Water Gap From, this place to about two
miles this sid, Of Phlipsburg the Morris and
Essex division is single track. Two miles this
side of Phillipsburg the Iouble track begins
again II is rule of the road that the switch
at the joining of tn, single and double tracks
shall be thrown by the crew Of the westbound
train. and it is always set for eastbound trains
to the single track.
1t is said that Engineer keenan, had not run
over this section of the road for five years be-
fore this morning. When the conductor Of
keenan's train heard the joining of the single
and double tracks he sgnaled keenan, to stop
Keenan, is supposed to have taken the signal
to mean he was to stop az the next station.
When he the switch would send him on
the eastbound track he tried TO stop, but the
storm had made the rails greasy and with un-
diminished speed the passenger train ran on
the eastbound track On this stood the work
train Myers had been waiting for the pasSen-
ger train to pass the switch. When he saw it
approach without stacking he tried TO get under
way TO back off He could not gain headWay
on the slippery rails, and the trains came to-
gether. keenan, jumped. did his fireman.
but Myers stuck TO his post. Both engines
were badly damaged and the work train en-
CINE was partly wrecked. Myers was badly
scalded. The baggage and express cars OF the
passenger train were deraled. In the baggage
car with Bowden a man said to be NJ. h.
Butler of Monroe County. Penn, who had a
tank of young trout which he was TO use 70
stock a stream He sprained his wrist. he pald
no attention to this for time, but went ABOUT
searching for some one to pay for his hsr
William johnson. of Easton, Penn, pfake-
man. was hurt about the legs and back. y. r:
Shifted. of Hoboken, mail agent was cur
about the head and arms. Other passengers eS-
capped injury.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
MR.. DEvINE REPLIES TO CHARGES
Denies That Charity Organization Society
Is Extravagant

In reply 20 the charge reported TO have been
made at Carnegie Hall Sunday night by Arch
bishop Farley that the entire cost OF dis
tributing the money intrusted the of the
Society of St Vincent de Paul about $500,
against $4,000 spent by the Charity Organization
Society in salaries and other expenses. a dollar
of which latter sum went to a poor person. Ed
ward T. Dcvine, the general secretary the
Charity Organization Society, said yesterday:
cannot help believing that Archbishop Farley
has been misquoted. The Charity Organization
Society aims not to relieve distress, but act as
intermediary and clearing house for inVestigat-
ing, and obtaining relief. 1t is principally a GO
between twiXt various benevolent societies, with
whom it emphatically does not attempt TO compete
and persons deserving relief. The entire admins
tratiVe expenses. however Of its intermediary Of
fees borne by the society.
The $4,000 alluded to covers. among other things
the cost of eleven distinct offices in charge OF
eleven paid agents. eleven district committees,
the making good of a deficit In the laundry depart
ment. the cost of printing and distributing he cir
CularS relative to the and objects of the soc-
ETY. the department of dependent children and the
department of tuberculosis prevention. All the
administrative expenses of such things as these
are, almost without exception shoudered by my
society The brunt of agitation also tenement
house reform has been borne by the society and
all these expenses are included in the cost OF ad-
mniStraton referred TO.
For the year ended June 3. outside the Numbers
of in which the society acted an inter
mediary between deserving persons and the var-
benevolent societies. the society was instru-
mental in obtaining over $4,000 for needy cases
from private parties. from which deduc-
tion was made for administrative expenses
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
WHAT is GOING ON TODAY.

Amt American Newspaper Publishers
Association, Waldorf. morning.
Bible Teachers Training Chapel
Avenue Presbyterian Church. $50 a TO 12:45 r.
Teachers: Miss Palmer Miss Holmes and Dr. White
Board of Aldermen. City Hall, afternoon.
United Golf Association annual meeting Del
monicos. s P. NJ
Democratic Club meeting. evening.
sewanhska Corinthian Yacht club dinner, I:15
: Hastings. p m, No. Forty-fourth- st
American Geographical Society meeting. address by
fessor f. L. Stevenson Of Rutgers College, Mar
Waldseemuller and the Earliest CartoGraphy Of
New World" No. l19 West Fortieth-st $50 m.
New York chronological Society meeting Museum Of
Natural History, p.
Peoples Institute. symphony concert. Cooper Union.
p.
Free Education. p. m.-Amity-
House No Fifty fourth st. The Hawaiian
Islands" H Hungerford; Cathedral School Hall, No.
III East Fifueth-st:. King Lear, Gustav Hart
Rivington sts "Anthracte Mines Miners Miss
Frances - Lance; Realty Hail, Ogden and Merriam
aVes. Highbridge Martinique and Mont Pelte. the
Worlds Creates Catastrophe f. G.. Rosti School
Beaumont and Cambreling aves-. "Cuha-Past and
Present" Mary II. Willard School No. 81.
Third-ave between Cne-hundred- and sixty ninth and
hundred and seventeen Transportation Of
the Sick" Dr. g. Alfred Lawrence;
Church st. Cornelius, No. 4o3 West Forty-stxth
St. ''Evangeline-the Land and the story John
B Devins. Museum Of Natural History
SPAIN william Freeand School No. 30 No 23t
East Eighty-eighh-st.. Russia Vera John
son, St Peters Hall Twenteth-st-. between Eighth
Ninth aves.. THE Famous Ruins Of Yucatan. -
Mrs. Alice n. lie Plongeon; Judson Memorial Hall.
Washington Square South. Thompson St The
Chemistry o Electrical Battery. Primary and
Secondary Professor William {. Peckham
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17

congregational Club Speakers Talk
of World Federation.

A meeting and dinner of the Congregational club
of New York held at the st. Denis Hotel last
evening. The speakers were DIR. Benjamin +
Truebood secretary of the American Peace So
cfety on What Arbitration Has Accomplished: :
the Rev. Dr. Amory II. Bradford pastor of the
First Congregational Church. Montclar. n j. on
The Unity of the Word': Professor Jean Charlie
magne BRAGG. of Nassar College on 'Arbltratioh
and the Solidarity of Nations. and Professor Johh
B. Clark. of Columbia University. on Arbitration
and Economic Progress
DR.. Truebood began by surveying what aroltId-
ton had accomplished in the realm of opinion IN
the seventeenth century, through Henry N o.
France. Hugo Grotus. of Holland. and William
Penn. of England. and in the eighteenth century
by St Pierre in France Kant in Germany ana
Bentham in England. In the nineteenth cei'uIH'
he continued. opinion had organized into move
ment urging governments to adopt arbitration as
the proper of settling disputes. In the last
decade less than sNty-three cases had been 50
ad djusted average of more than SIX Tor each
of the ten years. The movement eliminated III the
Peace Conference of The Hague, out of which came
the Court of Arbitration. The treaties drafted at
the convention for the pacific settlement OF DIS
nu+ns he regarded as the greatest documents in
history Finally. the same Hague. aroltrat1oh
had won its Waterloo its Gettysburg. Hence
forth il only a matter of detail. In two OF
three years. he said in conclusion. he expected
that the South American States and Cuba would
join and the world court of arbitration be estan-
lished
DR.. Bradford declared that the prophets Of divi-
sion were the prophets of evil; that the unity OF
the world would be the greatest fact in modern
history. and that that unity was steadily CROWNS,
The federation of the world. as the Iate Johh
Fiske had said. was lin the line of cosmic prog
ress." He prophesied that The Hague would be
the future capital of the world.
Professor Clark said that in the last ten years
arbitration had been translated out of the realm OF
dreams into the realm of realities Ihe solidarl1y
of nations was not being induced by higher, but
especially by the lower and pecuniary forces The
world was becoming an economic organism COM
mercially. and the dread of disruption was yearly
Increasing and the movement for arbitration was
rapid because 1t not necessarily dependent Tor
its progress on individual morality. Latent moral
forces had. however, cO-Ordinated
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
GAVE LIFE FOR C0MRADE,
Workman sufocated by Gases in Oil Tank
The Other Man Recovered.

Lancaster. Penn Feb 16.-Moses Keller, forty
years old. gave up his life this afternoon in 4
brave attempt to save a companion from asphyXia-
tior in an oil tank David Lindeman entered the
tank sweep oil that had failed TO run of
Ordinarily this would he 5afe but to-day the heavy
atmosphere confined tho poisonous gases which
usually escape through the manhoie. Lindeman
was overcome and fell unconscious.
Seeing his predica nent. Keller dropped through
The rnanhole Of the tank TO the rescue. refusing
II take the precaution urged upon him of tying a
rope about himself. shouting that there Was no
time 10 be lost Keller also was overcome. as were
several OF her Norkrner who tried reach the men
ir The tank. BY means Of hooks both were finally
dragged out, but Keller was dead. Lindeman soon
recovered.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
BY STATE Gas HEARING
Secretary Of DeLasoarc Company On
fke Stand.

Boston. Feb 1s.-Henry a. Wyman. as master TO-
say began the hearing of the case OF Joseph l.
ooberty and others. stockholders in the Bay state
esz Company Of Delaware against the Mercantile
rms Cornpanv Of Nev-York and the South Bos-
:on. the Boston the Bay State Of Massachusetts
and the Roxbury Gas Light companies This is
Ease in which the plaintiffs seek an injunction to
restrain the four local companies from neglectnS
10 nay from their earnings the sinking 1uno ana
interest requirements on United Gas bonds which
their stocks were pledged TO secure, and also TO
restrain the transfer Of these stocks recently soo
at auction by the Mercantile Trust Company as
trustees TO Kidder. Peabody & Co Tor Sll'"t'e'e
There were many attorneys present representing
various interests.
The first witness was John F Donohue. Of Lynn
,ecretarv Of the Bay State Gas Company Of Della
ware Mr Engstrom. for the petitioners. attempt
ID TO question 1-r. Donohue upon the purposes Of
The organization Of the Bay State Gas Company OF
NeUy-Jersey but Mr.. Snow representing hldder
Peabody & Co. objected. saying that the witness
knew nothing about il except from hearsaY, ahu'
even So that he could only give an opinion.
This view the master was inclined 10 coincide IN
bat il was shown that Mr.. Donohue was present
Al a meeting cf the Messrs. Addcks and others
when il decided, there was delay in getting
the Delaware charter TO take no chances Of fall-
ure deliver the United Gas bonds. which they
had planned issue under the Delaware charter.
Accordingly. they went to New-Jersey, and IN nj
teen minutes got charter. under which the bonds
tract.
II was admitted that the Delaware company
- owned tho greater part Of the New-Iersey com
pany stock up to the time Of the Rogers voting
HETeenent'' which gave Standard oil interests
the controlling interest in the Boston gas com
psnieS
Nr. Engstrom asked Mt. Donohue if since 1ha:
cate any transfer OF that stock had heen MADE
Witness replied that while he not familiar
with The legal intrfCacies surrounding the voting
trust agreement he Of opinion that the Della
company sril owned the stock At least II
claims ownership in i. The sinking fund require
1nents of the United Gss bonds the Delaware com
many has met
M Snow questioned Mr.. Donohue at length.
elicirlnC nothing new. but winding up with q re-
quest that the witness produce the books of the
Bay State Gas Company of Delaware Mr.. Dono-
hue declined. counsel agreed that they would
like the books. and asked the master 10
make a order a \ foundation for legd.
proceedings compel production OF the books
This however the master said he did not feei
% he within the scope Of his authority and he
asked counsel to provide him with precedents.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
FORU4LIN CURE FAILS.
Woman at Bellevue Responds to
Treatment. bm Relapse Is F'ataL

-rt,. a,,lics+;on of the formalin treatment Of
,,-bic, so much has been made of late has just
failed in a Bellevue Hospital case. MIS-. MdiS
Miller twenty-eight years old, OF NO. oo7 west
Forty-ninth-st, who was taken 10 belleN uV
Hosnitsl last Tuesday. suffering from puerperal
septiceria. received the formalin treatment vi
.L recommendation of Dr.. ". Gill Wylie, OF
No 2S West Forty-third-st., physician WIZ
has no faith in the new method, however anu
,,o sa,-s 50 The woman showed Improvement
;,,,adiatelv after each injection of formaln' but
oo,, af+er-n-ard she would lose headway, and she
died late last night.
Dr. Wylfe, who attended the woman. noticed
blood poisoning week go, and discoVered IhaI
it was of virulent nature and that there WAS
very little hope for her under the reg
ular treatment. that of the saline solution
Dr. Jones the house physician. took charge
Of her case and DR.. Wylie visited her every
dav. The first application was the usual one
advised hv DR. Barrows five hundred cubic
co,,+iroetres of an intravenous injection of
for1nalin. in the strength OF one IN nv I
thousand The woman's response TO the m
iaction was astonishing and dellghteo the
doctors. Of whom there We're IlallY ~ ~ r,1
bosnitaI watching the case. The woman > 'eli-
oerat11re at her entrance to the hoSplIdl Ndo
106 a phenomenaly high DEGREE put lIIIliit nm : .
5fata1L nnder the treatment it went down TO
1O2 The pulse had been proporuoldIe'S !liE H.
but il succumbed TO the treatment ds q0iohi'
and in the same degree 1900,
a few hours afterward, however, the "oii!dh
began to lose. The temperature pesdH W ~. ~
crease again. the pulse rose WIN II, an +io
condition of the woman was back again " @ ,I'
same place as at the start, twenty-tour houiS 3i
after She was placed in her cot IN the HoSplla J.
n To,,ee was disappointed. DR.. Wylie SAID
nothing but let the treatment go IN. he sdlu
last night he did not have any falth IN me me
for7naIin injection. but that there was not much
bona for the woman under any other treatment:
The treatment was repeated on the second ana
third days with the same results. ~,
The last treatment was gwen yesterday Ci5 j
eftl, injection The amount was not Increased
nor the strength of the drug changed. The re-
sponse was very good but the relapse tiis UNI . I
give her up this time
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
arrest ESQ YOUNG MEN.
Police Make a Raid On an Alleged
Prize Fight

In long. narrow han just next door east VI
he salvation Army barracks in West -FOUR
eenth-st and just opposite the 9Th Regiment
.,--,cr,- some two hundred and fifty young men
,o,e herde6 late last night by the ponce vi
he Charles-st. station and all arrested because
Z taking part in a prize fight. -Four young men,
aid 10 be fighters. and to have been the pflh-
ipsls in two bouts that were scheduled. were
AIKEN in. two of them who were i'm ring cos
,in1e charged with participating in prize hgh'
md the other two with disorderly conduct
Acting CAPTAIN Farrell and Detectives car
,-oaz and Gallagher of the Charles-st stauoI
,ere out patrone the precinct They "eie
,ear Joseph Murtha's saloon and cafe at NO
- West Fourteenth-st. when they hearo' "
-ood deal Of noise and shouting. The detec'lFes
ys,,e sent in to investigate and bought tickets
,r the Grand Annual Smoke Of the Odeoh
t.,asure Club" for whici, they paid % cents
.lch They found two hundred and hfty me"
.at hered IN hall back of the cafe ABOUT oIie
hundred and fifty feet long and twenty -INe Iee'
side. In the centre was a I4-foot ring and can
ras mat There also were TO he seen gloves
.ovels. tights and all the accessories of a prize
SIGHT
The police reserves then were sent for, and at
7 o-cloctz surrounded the hall. so that none
,o,,l5 ..eca1,e Then the patrol wagons from the
-l7srles-st. the Mercer-st. and the MacdouGal-
3, stations were sent for. The police broke in
hen. and stopped everything. just as Tommy
Holden and Frank Restel were dressing II Is
taid 10 enter the ring for the first bout.
Holden is a lightweight champion, and Frank
Restel is a Jersey City boy
Everybody WAS arrested. There was a
,cran7hle for the doors and windows. but all
s-are e,,arded The police say that Eugene
costello and Frank Woods were TO nave been
ne r1Inciuals in a second bout They. too were
,r7ested as was Joseph Murtha, the proprietor
,f me hall For over an hour the three patrol
s-arons were busy cartinE the prisoners down
n the Charles-st. station. With the exception
II Holden Restel and Murtha- the prisoners
an we're charged with diSorderly conduct
Eurtba was charged with aiding and aoettlng
n a prizefght.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
ARCHBISHOP GUEST OF ALUMNI.
Fordham College Graduates Have Annual
Dinner at Delmonicos.

Arcbbiehon Farley was the guest of honor the
annual dinner of the Fordham College Alumni AS
sociation al Delmoncos, last night. He is grad
uate of the Fordham College class of &c. At the
Archbishop's left was the Rev. Father Richard .
Treacy So the president of the association On
his right was seated Morgan ]. O'Brien. ~.
President Richard s. Treacy acted as toastmas-
ter The speakers were the Rev. George A. Petit,
s J.. president of the college. who replied to the
toast of Alma Mater" Justice Morgan j.
O Brien discussed Alma Mater and Law. while
DR. James y Butler was on the card TO answer 70
Alma Mater and Medicine" Thomas B. Lawler.
president of Holy Cross Alumni. responded to the
toast our Sister Universities" while Michael j.
Sweeney of the class Of SO responded to the toast
of The Ladies" college "reminiscences was
the topic OF John c. McNeilly historian of the
class of 90, while Selden B. Mclaughlin responded
to The Glass of 02
Archbishop Farley said in part:
To-day there is battle going on about us. Not
the battle which ragged in our youth: not the battle
terialism and anarchy two things of which every
true American. no. matter what denomihatlom ne
NAV be- is an eremy. The other day was taking
to the Governor of one of the greatest states OF
the Union He said that two great evils existed
infdelitv and threatening anarchy. The barrier to
these two he said, was our church these were,
ro @ bs name m y6G wond appreciate that he knew
Of that which he spoke. Your Catholic institutions
ike Fordham are the bulwark to save the country
from those evils.
J. J. Dougherty predicted that Archbishop Farley
yet would wear the red hat of a cardinal.
John T McDonough said in part:
Ii makes no difference whether the constitution
follows the flag or not in the Philippines: wherever
E follow m There g is no as breB 10 the N 6
Philippines. talked with President Mckinley on
that question and he said that & no I'm mattsT Where
see no reason why we cannot trust to present
President seeing the matter in the same light.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
HOME NEWS.
PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.

ALBEMARLE--W. B. Van Rensselaer,. Of Albany:
?. Loriard of Tuxedo. CAMBRIDGE-S
Canenberg. first secretary Of the Austrian Legation
Washington CONTINENTAL-M jor c. T.
Greene. L. S. A. FIFTH AVENUES. 3. Ashley,
of Fall River. Mass HOLLAND-Colonel Ned
Arden Flood and Colonel Daniel B Shepp. of the
staff of the Governor of PENNSYLVANIA IMPERIAL
-Ex1Mayor D. 6 Robinson Of Elmira a. 5, HarTi-
Dingley, of Maine: Ex-Governor Frank s. Black
of Troy: William H. Seward, of Auburn. MUIR
RAY HILI,.Captain r Wyl1is. u. s A ST
DENIS-P. NJ. Arthur. of ST. Paul. STURTENANT
-Amasa Clark. of Brookline. Mass. VICTORIA
Frank B. Conger. of Washington. WALDORF-AS-
TORIA-George ". Stevens. of Richmond. presi-
dent Of the chesapeake and Ohio Railway: T. F
Corea. Nicaraguan Minister 10 the United States
D. L C1off, of Pawtucket.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
ASSAULT CASE DROPPED?

Charleston. W. Va, Feb. !6-After all the ex-
element here for the last days over the al
legged assault by John II. Wnders and Dan r
Hanna on w q. Caldwell. OF Wheeling, il was
stated to-day that everything had been settled
out of court" and that there would be no in
vestigation of the local officials by the legislature
General Alfred Caldwell. father of w. G. Cald-
well, arrived here to-day to bring i'm the
federal court for damages against Wnders and
Hanna. Caldwell did not appear in the House to-
day His friends that his condition is
favorable No official action taken by the
House
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
BATTALION CHIEF KENNY RETlRES.

Battalion Chief thomas A. Kenny, OF the Fire
Department. was yesterday retired on his own ap-
plication by Fire Commissioner Sturgis In ac-
ceptng his application FOR retirement Connlls-
sioner Sturgis complimented Chief Kenny on his
work in the department in the twenty-siH years he
has been a fireman. In that time Chief Kenny did
have a charge made against him.
Chief Kenny received the stephenson meoal lot
general efficiency 5 commanding officer in 1855
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
TO GIVE FREE COURSES IN FRENCH.

A provided for by previous agreement colufrln.a
7-i-;+,- and +be Alliance FranCase of this city
have decided TO open free courses in French In
February courses will be opened in the buildings Of
the Medical School of Columbia University, FIFTY
riurh-st and Tenth-ave., and of the Speyer Schooi
~, av-rence-st These will he elementary in char
.c,er- and are 10 be conducted by Messrs. S. lie
Rov and Coheleach. They to be for one hour
in the evening three times A week and VIII last
mil Tho end of Nav No fee will be charged for
tuition but there will be a registration zee OF Sl
Each class will be limited TO fifty pupils.
cards Of admission are to ne optaIneu lrolll
eorees Eapte secretary of the Alliance FranCaise.
of this city at No. 120 Broadway
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
IDENTITY LEARNED AFTER DEATH
Hermit Was a Veteran and Former Com
mander of United States Gunboat.

Nfar,sriile Cal. Feb. l6.-Albert Evcrson. aged
49,. who died from exposure during a snoHstorm
- Tuesday while the way TO his cabin has
1.ser hurried here with military honors. For years
j., had lived by himself eking out bare subsist-
euc4 Not until after his death was Il discovered
-, nc ms = veteran the Civil War and former
,77r,,,,ier of 4 United States gunboaL II Is also
s.jd that he WAS related by marriage 10 General
~ SNerrhants' National Bank OF New York
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
BAD WEATHER DELAYS ELM-sT. WORK.

Cunningham & kearns the contractors for the
regulating and grading of Elm-st., did not begin
the work yesterday. Under their contract they
have sixty days in which do the work, but
stormy days. holidays and Sundays are not counted
II at end of sixty working days the work is not
done the contractors viii! have TO pay the city's
INSPECTOR 50 20 a day for all the time used beyond
the time limit Chief Clerk Davis in Borough Pres
ident Cantors office. said yesterday the firm
had promised begin the WORK soon as the
yyeat permitted.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
AN ITALIAN BANKER HELD.

The sixth man arrested for alleged participation
in the life insurance frauds perpetrated by Italians
in Harlem was arraigned in the Harlem court yes
terday. He Michael ) fascA an l'aiiaii l
,,,.l-o- md notary Of No 2O72 First-ave. He had
,een arrested on Sunday afternoon by Patrolman
Sharpe OF the District Attorneys office, on a
charge of accepting aftidavits as te the death OF
people who said TO he sun hNIhE' dscd was
I.La II, Lii