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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
AUSTRIAN POLITICAL TROUBLES.
Hungarians Offended by Emperor's Action
Disturbances in Croatia

Vienna May 15-Contrary to general hopes and
expectations the Hungarian political situation
have grown rather than better
during Emperor Francis Joseph's stay at Buda-
pest This condition of affairs is reported to be
largely due to an incident which occurred at the
court ball Thursday and which created much
excitement in Opposition circles. AS usual. his
majesty embraced the opportunity to converse with
the most prominent political and official person
ages. but this occasion he entirely overlooked
Count Apponyi. president Of the Lower House.
whose present relations with Premier de Sell
said to be somewhat strained The Emperor's
avoidance of Count Apponyi particularly
remarked. because they frequently stood TO
each other. The Opposition members. who hop
ing that the count will join them. greatly an
noyed by the affair. and had resolved to address
a Interpolation to the ministry at to-day's
sion of Parliament. but deferred action the
urgent request of Premier de Sell
Count Apponyi himself seems to be offended He
did not preside in the House to-day. and it is said
that he will not appear there until the matter Is
settled. 1t is reported that his majesty will
receive the count in special audience
Some light is thrown upon the difficulties of the
present situation in Hungary by remark the
Emperor is reported to have made to a prominent
Deputy at the ball. His majesty said: Il don't
know what to do any longer"
Concurrently with the governments troubles in
Hungary. the disturbances in Croatia continue.
In spite OF the arrival of troops the rioters main
tain their activity. There was great demonstra-
ton at Buccari on Thursday. when three thousand
persons assembled TO demand the release of the
rioters who had been arrested the day previous.
The refusal of the authorities caused the mob to
attack the courthouse and 10 force the officials TO
give up the prisoners. All this happened while
detachment of troops guarding railroad sta
ton a short distance from the town
At Kreutz which is under martial law. two per-
already have been tried and executed. In a
published interview the Ban of CrOa TIA stated
that a revolution had been planned for May 10.
but the government discovered the plot in time
The Ban forced to admit that Hungarian
officials partially responsible for the troubles.
Notwithstanding unfayorable reports. IL is still
hoped that affairs in Croatia soon will become
ouieter. This condition. however. is largely de-
pendent upon the political situation at Budapest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
STRIKERS WIN IN MOUNT VERNON.
Railway President Takes Case in Own Hands
and Grants Demands.

President Edward Maher of the Union Railway
Company yesterday settled the strike among the
two hundred and fifty Italian laborers who have
been engaged In relayng the tracks OF the trolley
road I'm Mount Vernon. The men have been on
strike three weeks for 81 50 day and eight hours
work and the streets have been in a deplorable
condition. they have been torn up, and the
strikers would not permit any one to work.
T. z. & T. Crimmoas tried several times to put
negroes TO work IN the place of the strikers. but
they were frightened of Even with the entire
police force on guard non-union men could not be
persuaded to work. they feared violence at the
hands of the strikers Yesterday President Maher.
having become desperate over the suspension which
has threatened hold up the summer traffic to
Island. Rye Beach and the Sound resorts. VS.
tied Mount Vernon and gave the contractors until
1 O'Clock to put their men to work They failed to
do So and the railway president took the case into
his own hands He granted the demands of the
strikers, and they returned TO work under foremen
in the employ of the railroad company. The COM
rauy's foreman Timothy Meehan. gave work TO all
Italians he could find but he would not employ
negroes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
PRIEST WORKS FOR PEACE.
Father Cuyran Induces Warr1ng
Carpenters to Confer.

movement was started yesterday to settle
the fight of the Brotherhood of Carpenters
against the Amalgamated Carpenters SOCIETY,"
which began the series of building strikes that
eliminated in the Building Materials and Lulh-
Der Dealers associations retaliating by shutting
down their yards. Through the influence u
Father Curran, of Scranton. Penn, who took
keen interest in the strike of the anthracite
miners and who is now in this city, committees
of both unions of carpenters were brought 10
gether in conference yesterday. under the
auspices of the Cancellation committee of the
New-York Civic Federation The conference
was attended by Father Curran and William H.
Wilmer, a Scranton lawyer. 1t took place in the
Mission Building, Fourth-ave. and twenty
eecond-st.
Emerson McMillin. chairman of the concilia-
ton committee, presided at the conference. The
warning carpenters unions were represented by
committees of five members each. headed 10y
Frank Duffy, general secretary of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters. and G. Morrison for
the Amalgamated Carpenters Society. Samuel
B. Donnelly. of Typographical Union No q, was
spokesman for the labor members of the con-
citation committee of the Civic Federation
Ralph NJ. Easley and John R. Commons repre-
scented the National Civic Federation.
Father Curran urged both sides to arbitrate
the differences He said he at the meeting
only by courtesy, but as a man whose mission
was In the interest of peace and good will 10 all
men he counselled the two unions, which could
gain nothing by continuing feud, to come to
terms.
Father Curran's appeal, which was eloquent,
produced a good effect. The conference lasted
nearly four hours. Although decision was
reached, progress toward a settlement was
made. All those present parted on friendly
terms. with the understanding that the con-
ference would be resumed next week
The belief was expressed that If the carpenters
settle their fight il viii go long way toward
ending the tangle of building strikes which has
paralyzed the building trade in this city and
thrown many people idle in other cities. There
are now about twenty thousand carpenters on
strike here and in other cities on account of the
fight between the two unions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
ROCHESTER EMPLOYERS COMBINE.
Form Alliance to Help Each Member Run
His Business in His Own Way.
IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Rochester May IA combination of
ployers of labor. which will eventually include
every branch Of trade I'm this city, has been in
process of formation for the last two months. AL
ready the list of members numbers hun
dred and two hundred said TO be ready
TO sign the roll. The fact that the combination
has been under way has been kept profound Sc
cret. and when the announcement was printed to-
day II caused establishment throughout the city,
and not the least at the headquarters of the var-
Gus labor unions.
The new alliance bears the name of The Allied
Trades of Rochester and while it is not stated
distinctly that it been formed to oppose union
labor. the words in its official statement in which
It defines its objects protective" are taken
to mean that the members of the alliance will as
sert the right their own businesses in their
own way. The public statement reads in part as
follows:
The intention of the association is to be protec-
tive only and it does not intend to assert itself
any matter which is not brought TO its atten-
member shall prove that he has been unjusty
unfairly treated, or has had demands made upon
him which he cannot in good conscience and IN
justice to himself acceed to- The association viii
have neither the express the secret intention OF
arrayng itself against any labor union now existing
itself the existence formation of such associa-
tions but it intends to stand squarely ana IrlnIy
upon the principles OF our institutions which grant
Independence 10 every man in the conduct of his
business. and 1t intends to resent and oppose any
injustice which may be attempted. no matter by
whom. It VIII have for one Of its principles that
question Of the competency of the men to be en-
ployed by him, such member being responsible
for the work turned out by. his workmen. and Il
will discriminate against any man because or
his membership non-membership in any labor
The monopoly of labor is day by day making the
r rsfo 70 nfends to maS # free to- all regadess OF
their affiliations.
The time seems to be ripe for suGn an assoclatof;
is difficult for any one 70 see what may be done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
EXPORTERS ANXIOUS.
Adulteration Lac Likely to affect
Seriously German Trade.

Berlin May 1.-THE publication In Germany
of the statement that the Agricultural Appro-
priation bill passed at the last session OF Con-
gress contained clause authorizing the exclu-
sion OF aduIterated foods and drinks has fright
ened German exporters. especially those ship
ping beers, sausages and wines. who believe
that the United States at last intends to
taIiate for the meat and other food discrinina-
tiOns of Germany.
1t is well understood by the trade that the
export OF what are known "delicatessea"
wares would be nearly destroyed were pre-
servatives and authorizations prohibited. The
trial at Mayence Of DR.. Schiamp. the wine
grower of Nierstein. who was convicted On
May Is Of wholesale adulteration. revealed the
extent of the secret adulteration OF horne con-
sumed wines but the adulteration Of wines for
export Is openly conducted. One concern at
Hamburg exports immense quantities OF what
are labelled as Bordeaux wines. which Il makes
with potato alcohol a base Some OF these
wines are sent to the United States but the
larger portion goes to South Africa and South
America
The feeling. officially. is that the Germans
ought to feel surprise IL the United States
does retaIiate, and that the tariff and exclusion
controversies can only be settled by a new com
mercial treaty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
DISASTROUS YEAR IN PHILIPPINES.

(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE1
San Francisco May 15.-Beckman Winthrop. OF
NeW-York who has been acting executive secre-
tary for Governor Taft. returned to-day from the
Orient on the steamer Siberia. He left Governor
Taft recovering from severe attack of am9oic
dysentery. Mr.. Winthrop left Manila on April IL
The Governor had gone two days before to Ben
suet in the hills of Northern Luzon for his health
Governor Taft" said Mr.. Winthrop, fills Il very
difficult position, and the executive bureau has
eighty clerks all kept busy The question OF the
frars has been adjusted satisfactorily, and the up
rlsngs of small bands of rebellious natives have
been easily suppressed The last year In the
Philippines has been disastrous. owing to cholera,
poor crops and rinderpest. which has killed many
of the native caraboo, or draught animals But
the future looks bright, and with the $,VpVO ap-
propriated by Congress prosperity will soon come.
Governor Taft has worked his way into The
hearts of the people, and all classes regard him
as the personihcation of honesty. The Ftlipinos
are gradually getting better ideas of American
institutions and are working and more in
harmony with the administration"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
LA LORRAINE IN AHEAD OF TIME.

That the Atlantic Ocean has subsidized to some
thing like its summer calm demonstrated by
the arrival last night twelve hours earlier than
usual, OF the French steamer La Lorraine. She
was the first of the Saturday steamers this year TO
reach here on Friday. She went one hundred miles
out OF her regular avoid icebergs, and
covered 3.242 miles. Her time 6 days hours
and As minutes. The best days run was 575 miles,
made the first day out from Havre. She per-
formed the unusual feat Of docking without the aid
Of tugs. 1t done with great celebrity. and her
passengers were on the pier one and quarter hours
after she left Quarantine.
Among the passengers were J. W. Barney son
OF G. T. Barney; A. Liyermore, a Of Baroness
Seillieres, and Mr.. and Mrs. A. z. ValOis. Mr.
Valos Is connected with the United States EN-
bassy at Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16

20 show TO the men. beyond a shadow or doupe'
how they were uisrepresented.
They said they felt that this VICIOUS sss, ,.
called for strong repressive measures, ana that
the public now looked TO them. as employers;
20 take the initiative. and use every laWiut
method to destroy the Goliath whom lack OF
opposition had enboldened that he thIo t.
this great city. without hesitation ano "ilhou'
compulsion- rs-.
Many letters have been received rom pu,Iuers
81 Chicago. Boston. Philadelphia, Plttspuis.
baltimore and other trade centres. susee
the formation of national association OF en-
blowers in the building trades, but no step IN
that direction was taken at the meeting las.
evening II was said that It possible that
81 organizations similar TO the employers as
sociation in Manhattan were formed IN olleI
cities there might be understanding between
the different associations and possibly uliio'A
tn a national organization.
The United Board of Building Trades heid
meeting yesterday. and. despite ruFnors tna'
they would take action with view 10 Will
drawing support Of the striking teaIIsteIs ai ~
material drivers made no reference whatever TO
the building trades situation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
ATTACK SENATOR MARTINS GAS VOTE.
Can Never Be Made Right, Says Assembly
man Finch-Municipa Plant Favored

meeting in advocacy CT the project for
nicipaI gas plant held last evening at the
Tecurnseh Democratic Club No. 40 Eighth-ave.
Ernest Harvier presided. and said in part:
Since the gas companies were consolidated they
have had the city practically by the throat, and
can charge what they wish. Had the permission
been granted by the legislature. the city would
have had the privilege of building gas plant. but
IL would not have been necessary build IL If
the company would come to reasonable terms. 1t
is no matter OF secrecy that there was an extern
sive lobby at Albany in the interest OF he Con-
soidated Gas Company. The of Senator
Bernard +. Martin for not voting for the bill
that there had been effort made in the interest
the consumers TO bride him. He declared he
indignant that he voted in favor of the gas
company.
Assemblyman Edward R. Finch. who intro
duced as q Republican who did mis- duty I'm ad-
vancing the interests Of the bill said that Senator
Martins record the bill was wrong and that II
could never be made right.
William Hepburn Russell said he thought the
best method OF protecting the peoples interests
was the referendum. Graham McAdam said tho
reason why the city should erect its own gas plant
that IL a public necessity and something
the government could undertake. Harding Weston
also advocated the referendum
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
BULGARIA AGAIN TO APPEAL.
Will Point Out to Powers Further Atroci-
ties in Macedonia.

London. May 16.-In a dispatch from Sofia
dated yesterday, the correspondent of THE
Times" says:
Tomorrow the Bulgarian Government will
again call the attention of the powers to the
terrible excuses in Macedonia 1t seems that
in the remoter districts the bashibazouks are
being allowed to celebrate a perfect carnival or
vengeance and destruction.
My correspondent on the frontier says that
the villages in the neighborhood OF Gabrovska
and Planina are burning The Bishop of Mes
trokop and all the Bulgarian notabiiities OF that
district have been arrested and transported 70
some unknown destination. The blockade OF
Bansko and other villages continues. All com
munication between the towns in the interior Is
suspended. ,,,,., r,oba
According to official information Hiirnl Pacna,
the new inspector general of the sultan reLol
movement has divided all the Macedonlans al
rested into two categories-guilty ana suspectt
ed The former will be sentenced. ana tne To-
Ter will either be banished to Asia minor ~, VI
nIaced under rigorous police SUPERVISION 11i
category of innocents does not e1ls,, an a. tbe
gartans being regarded as nilpll0a'eu 40
revolutionary movement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
EMMA CALVE IMPROVING.
Will Probably Sing Again on Sunday
Rumor of Broken Engagement.

Paris. May 15.-Emma Calve the singer, VINO
unable to appear in THE Damnation OF
Faust at the Sarah Bernhard Theatre IasI
night. owing TO having accidentally taken an
overdose Of aconite as a remedy for the grip.
has entirely recovered, but her doctors recon-
mend a rest 1t is expected that she will be
able to resume singing on Sunday.
No announcement has been made here OK the
engagement of Mime. Calve I'd Jules Biols' the
well known journalist. having been broken on
and the fact is not mentioned by any OF the
newspapers, but a rumor to that effect mas Deen
the matter of some gossip in theatrHaI cIIcles
Neither Nine CaIve nor NJ Bios, however
has authorized any statement on the SUBJECT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
DO YOU READ YOUR GAS Meter?
Not Nearly So Difficult It Looks, and
There's Money fn the Reading

1t is not upon record that he who wrote econ
orny is the wealth Oh the poor and the wisdom OF
the rich ever tried to save money on his gas
bills. He never tried hard enough. probably.
Do you, Mrs. Otherwise-Thrifty Housewife.
know that II you only read your gas meter
religiousy you scrutinize your house accounts
you'll have very much less chance to grumbls
about high gas bills? Hard 10 read the meter?
Not at ALI Any who tell the time by
the clock can be just as easily taught 70 read
the meter.
Does any one ever stop to think that once thu
gas meter and appliances turned over TO tha
consumer the gas company has no longer arg,
voice in the matter?
A clear case OF locking the stable door when
the steed Is stolen. TO complain to the company
when extravagant Illuminating burners care
less handling of fuel appliances has been burn
Ing up money for THU " days and not discov-
cred until the day OF the monthly inspection.
Then, again. that aforesaid extravagant
burner, besides consuming about double the
quantity OF gas that rightly adjusted one
would. doesn't give even good light at that and
been 1tted bv n contractfng Pas filter Who has
no thought of him who pays the piper"
Coming down to the bedrock OF solid fact it Is
absolutely certain that with little daily
and attention hold in check the gas
sumption and thus control the size OF the gas
many cases by reason OF a servants careless
ness. or the use Of improper appliances.
The ordinary Illuminating gas burner should
consume only four TO five feet hour. but fire.
quently consumes eight to twelve feet when
badly adjusted. Consumption through fuel ap-
planes varies according to construction but
the ordinary two-oven gas range (all burners
lighted uses about sixty-five feet Of gas an
hour A gas heating appliance like the Ordi-
nary cylinder stove and the four-tube radiator
consumes about twenty-four feet an hour. The
hot plate used in the cheaper apartments and
tenements will use about fifteen feet Of gas per
hour per burner.
The gas company always stands ready to in
struct in the simple art Of reading the meter
"a postal viii receive prompt attention. so that
when all is said and done. good sir or madame ic
Is as Hamlet would say. matter of Thrift
Thrift! HOratiop' TO save the wilfuI waste thac
he TtrT
The moral of the whole matter is learn how To
read your gas meter and save money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
ASPHALT STRIKE DECLARED OFF.

George Livingston. Commissioner Of Public
Works said yesterday that the strike OF the as
rhalt laborers had been declared off, and that the
coupanies under guarantee TO maintain pave
rnerlt laid by them now at work making the
repairs IN sixteen districts. few days ago the
asphalt companies submitted bids large city
contracts advertised by Commissioner Livingston
who told the companies that they would not be
allowed 10 do any new work in the city until they
repaired bad payernents specified IN their contracts
Mr. Livingston said yesterday that the scilian
Barber and Crescent companies had induced large
Numbers Of their 10 go back 10 work, and that
the repairing would be done al once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
CARNEGIE EXPLAINS TO SYDNEY.

sydney N s. May 15.-Mayor Richardson re-
ceved the following dispatch from Andrew Car
nege to-day
London May Is.
To the Mayor. Sydney.
am very sorry that a few detached words should
have given offence. The word mirage used
in repIving to the question 20 whether Sydney's
Generations menaced the United States lead in steel
production. | had no reference in my remarks to
YOUR patriotic efforts to develop your resources in
which | wish you abundant success.
NV wish Is 10 restore the union or North America
and Great Britain, instead of maintaining two
separate divisions We would then rule the world
I'm neace III YOU come Skibo Castle 1 could con-
vert you. sure
regret at anything offensive that may have arisen
CARNEGIE.
The Mayor sent a reply saying that Mr.. Car
neete's exclamation was satisfactory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
GEN. GREENE PRAISES CIVIC CLUBS.

Police Commissioner Greene went TO the Civic
Club last night. az know antidote," he said. in
telling of the good work done by clubs Ike the
Civic. $50 eficacious these clubs for the three
primary vices, gambling. prostitution and drunken
ness. which have existed since the beginning, and
which ] suppose always will exist"
Speaking Of the police. he said he had always
declined 10 believe that majority of the force
was dishonest and four months at the head of
the department had convinced him that he was
right. He declared 1t his hope and expectation TO
arouse In the breasts Of policemen a pride in the
uniform and in the department, and manly, not
ruawkish. sentiment sympathy for those in II ouble
or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
DINNER FOR NEW FEDERAL JUDGES.

More than thirty members of the class of SO of
the Law School OF Columbia College held a dinner
last night at Delmonco's to celebrate the eIeva-
ton the federal bench Of George c. Holt and
John T. McDonough Judge McDonough and Judge
Holt were members of the class OF 69. They were
appointed at the time by President Roose
welt Mr.. McDonough to the United States Circuit
Bench in the Philippines and Mr.. Holt TO the
Southern District Of NewYork, in the same court
Francis Lynde Stetson POSTMASTER. I'm
promptu speeches were made by Judge Holt JUS
tice Scott Simon Hunt Stern and Richard Wayne
Parker, Of Newark. y. J.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
BATTLEsHIP WORK NEARLY STOPPED.

The strike among the riveters and drillers and
their helpers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard has
brought the work the battleship Connecticut al
most to standstilI. and has resulted in the laying
off of seven in the blacksmith shop. If the
strikers do not go back it will cause the laying of
of several hundred men in the other shops.
Francis d. Jackson secretary and manager. OF
the Hecla Iron Works. which shut down and locked
out its two thousand employees Thursday on
count OF the demands of the labor unions said that
the plant might not be reopened for year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
HOTEL FOR NON-UNION MEN
Port Chester Builders Provide Board for
Workmen Disseminated Against

The master builders Of Pert Chester whose five
hundred employees have been on a seven weeks
strike with the other mechanics OF Westchester
County, have leased a hotel in Grace
Church-st and viii open it for the accommodation
Of their non-union men, They will employ Jap
anese servants and will charge small sum for
boarding and lodging. The action OF the builders
made necessary because other hoteIkeepers in
the declined give meals and lodging TO nom
union men