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New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
SCHWAB CHOSEN AG4l
Steel President, Reelected, Talks-
Dryden IN the Board.

| The directors of the United States Steel Cor
! poration at their meeting yesterday reelected
| Charles NJ Schwab president and reelected, also.
| all the other officers. No changes were made in
the composition of the various committees of the
hoard. The vacancy in the board caused by the
death of Abram S. Hewitt filed by the cleo
tion of United States Senator John F. Dryden presi-
! dent of the Prudential Insurance Company, Of
| Newark. After the meeting President Schwab
talked with several reporters. Asked why he had
not since his return from Europe spoken for publ
cation concerning his experiences abroad and the
comparisons he had probably drawn between IN
dustrial conditions there and in this country, he
said:
OF the press and answer any questions you might
give any Interviews to newspapers because of the
absurd things they have said about me- Now, Tor
instance. Sunday last there was page article
describing certain play at the Garrlck i d1eaire' e
sent man up there I last st night and he said
didn't appear in it at all. There was not refer
tween any i- character @ Of of the play and myself
am willing TO answer questions If you Wlli Prom, Prom
foolish things about But have no guarantee
me a short time ago and he guaranteed that
nothing of the sort would be printed But the very
I talked TO the editor of that paper, and he told
me that things would slip in.
Mr. Schwab was then asked about the reports of
few weeks ago that he had visited the Bethelehem
Steel Company. which is subsidiary company Oh
the United States Shipbuiding Company-the Ship
building Trustto decide regarding certain improve
ments to the steel company's plant
Have any been devised for raising three
four million dollars for the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany?S asked
so far as that is concerned, 1 don't know" an
swered Mr. Schwab. Il am not director ncr an
official Of the company. I am only interested d as a
security holder in the United States Shipbuilding
Company. I sold the Bethlehem Steel Company to
the shdpbutiding company and took stock and
bondS.''
1T was reported that you went to Bethlehem hem
with some Of the officials to look over the plant
with view TO making improvements ,,,r,
Yes will tell you about that. The shipDuild-
ing companys officials considering the adVisa-
bility of making extensive improvements. and be-
cause [ was familiar with the Bethlehem plant they
asked my advice. Some engineers who had bUiit
the Homestead plant were In this city. and as the
shipbuildtng company was contemplat ting some i'm
provemeDES similar to those at Homestead, asked /
them to go along with So l telegraphed Mr
Nixon, and we all went along"
report published yesterday in Wall Street
that the United States Steel Corporation, in view
Of the of it's proit-sharing proposition of
few. months ago, would probably within the next
twelve months make further offer of preferred
stock for subscription by its employees, at price
based upon the market price of the stock at the |
time of the offer. Leading interests in the corpora
ton denied yesterday that there was any basis for
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
WANTS TO GUST SQUATTERS.
Alderman Asks for List of Parcels Of Real
Estate Acquired by City.

Alderman Robert F Downing. OF Brooklyn says
that the city Owls about s. 10000 worth of odds
ard ends of real estate in that borough acquired
through purchase because Of Eon-payTnent of taxes
BY resolution in the Board Of Aldermen yesterday
he requested the Controller TO furnish the board
list OF AL parcels OF land acquired in that way.
Il know that lot of these parcels are not bring
ing n any revenue to the city, said Mr. Downing
The city was authorized TO acquire lands by pur-
chase when in arrears for taxes under an act
passed in 1882. Under that interest charged
on arrears at the rate Of 10 Per cent year, and
then the regular interest charge of per cent
making "a per in all. The charges amount
20 SO much that the original owners would not
Inc II profta Die 10 redeem the parcels. ]
practically certain that in of instances squat
rers occupying these parcels rent free, and for
that reason want the Controller to investigate the
matter and send TO the board a correct snd COM
plete list OF all parcels held According to
list OF parcels held under the Arrears furnished
10 the Common Council OF Brooklyn by Controller
Halsey Corwin in 1894 the arrears charged up at
that time amounted to S4looo and there have been
since
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.

The following petitions in bankruptcy were filed
yesterday with the clerk Of the United State Dis
trict Court:
LOUIS IsLER 39s Madson-sr., liabiliues, s3442:
$l0O The principal creditors Excelsior
Brewing Company. Brooklyn 81. 707; Bachman Brewing
Company Clifton, Staten Island, $780, Enge Heller Com
pany. Second-st. First-aye.
Henry Lesser. of Lesser Bros. yesterday.
the creditors of LOUIS CHAPKEWITZ, ABRAHAM
SCIIFF JULIUS SILVERAfAN against whom an
involuntary petition filed September last fled
schedules showing their liabilities TO be- far he
could discover. Sl,637-
Of the bankrupts in person. being
by publication. The served. Chapkewitz
clared ad OF there
fore furnish schedules the firms Indebtedness.
The principal creditors Isaac Chatin, No. IA
East Tenthst. s245 and Isaac Levy. No. 43 Orchard
ST.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
INCREASED PAY FOR JUSTICES.
Mayor Reserves Decision Oh AssernbIvman
n0oiins Bill--PiIuts' Apprenticeships

Civil Justice Falfon. AsseTrblyTnan Doolinc Pain
bridge Colby, CepEas Brainerd and Commissioner
Thomas Allison appeared at the hearing given Inv
Mayor Low on the Dooling bill, providing for an
Increase OF the salaries Of Municipal Court justices
n Manhattan The Bronx and Brooklyn from ss 600
10 $500 year. Justice kenny, Of the MunicinaI
that IL does not provide for uniformity Of sal
aries in all OF the five boroughs. The justices in
Richmond he said, worked harder than their asso-
ciates - The Bronx and Brooklyn. Assem- bJvr1an
Dooing. who introduced the bill said that no tax
pastis oI neIhoeTS OF The bar We're present TO
oppose the bill The only people You find here
your honOr. 10 oppose this bill men who
were lett out OF its benecent provisions II seems
IKE Cog IN the manger policy. 1 personally in
produced this bill without the request of anV one
o@t practitioner IN those courts and kDoUi,e,,
she WORKINGS of those courts. While admitting thai
the work ocne by the justices in RichnorS and
Queens IS very good it is in Importance and vol
tan. Brooklyn and The Bronx"
measure. ~ A' 'iie
Assemblynan wainwrights bin provid;ng fo- .
system Of appre pren;iceshfp for Hell Gate pilots came
up Tor discussion Captain Horton. a Hell fSaTe
p1cts told the Mayor that lie had been advised ~,
Governor Ooell 70 get up such bill He had
served an apprenticeship of FIVE years bnf now
appointed by the port wardens The biiI urovIS
greatly Improve the qualifications OF pilots The
Mayor said he would reserve decision.
Mr.. Low accepted bill introduced bv
man Abrams providing that all private contribi,
tons 70 the police pension fund be retained 70
that fund even after the fund exceeds the SIM az
Under the present law when the fund excee5s
go 900 the surplus must be turned over 70 tbs
Finance Department TO lee used in lquidatine The
public debt ~
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
HARVARD STUDENT MAY BE SUICIDE.
DR.. Whitwell's Son Started for Bedside of
Dying Father Here.

Cambridge Mass. May 5.--William WhitweI 4
Harvard senior. and substitute guard on last
years varsity eleven, has been missing from COL
lege since February q. He went away hurriedly
without taking any effects, word that his father
DR.. WhitweIl. Of New-Y York, was dangerously i'll
at home. Young Whitweu did not reach home
His father has since died. The students absence
had not been thought strange until recently when
inquiries were made to ascertain if he was to re-
turn after the spring vacation. Mrs. Whitweu
entertains the hope that her son is all right.
Whitwell six feet two inches in height;
weighed nearly 200 pounds and took Barnard's
place in the last half of the Yale game. A report
was current among Harvard undergraduates to-
day that note left by Whitwen saying that
he tired of life. but the absence from college
Of the student who is said to have note delays
inquiry into the report
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
OPPOSED BY THE CONTROLLER.
Says City Already Has Power to Asphalt
Flatbush-ave

Controller Grout. at the hearing given by Mayor
LOW yesterday bill providing for the asphalt
ing Of certain parts of Flstbush-ave objected 10
the bill on the ground that the city now has the
power 10 do the work without going to the legis-
latUre. The bill the Controller said. is one that
vests the power os making this improvement which
also contenplates changing the grade the tracks
Of the Long Island Railroad. in the hands of a
cornmisSioner This power the city already
enjoys. added Mr.. GrOut. ''and the present 10
my mind is a most uncalled for and hurtful meas
ufe- Several people spoke in favor Of the bill The
Mayer reserved decision Sheriff @ Brien smoke ia
laTor Of biz increasing tue salaries assistant
deputy sheriff from sl,G00 TO $3.50 and that Of the
Under Sheriff from $500 10 $4,000 a year -
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
FALLS FORTY FEET; SLIGHTLY HURT.
Boy Loses Balance Picking Flowers and is
Preeipitated to Central Tracks.

Emile McAllster. eight years old, of No. 442 East
Observation-Disclosures -third-st, fell forty feet,
landed on the tracks of the New-York Central and
Hudson River Railroad. yesterday, and escaped
with slight injuries.
The boy gathering dandelions on the grassy
slope that borders the railroad cut at One-hundred-
and-fifty-first-st., when he stumbled, rolled down
the incline and tumbIed off into space The fall
fully forty feet and when the lad was first
picked up it was thought that he had been
seriously injured. Or. Oden, who took him to Lin
coin Hospital said that the boys injuries were
superficial and that he would recover.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
KILL UNION FRANCHISE.
Aldermen Insist on Transfers to
InterurbGn.
WAFER LEADS FIGHT AGAINST IT.

After debate covering two hours the alder
men yesterday killed the franchise recently
granted by the Board of Estimate and Appor-
tionment 10 the Union Railway in the Bronx.
one feature Of which would have allowed the
company to lay its tracks across Maeomb's
Dam Bridge Alderman Moses J. Wafer. Of
Brooklyn, led the opposition to the adoption of
the favorable report CT the Railroad Committee,
On the ground that the franchise did not guar
sntee 70 the people a free transfer from the In
teruTban TO the Union. both OF which. he
serted, were under one control.
The Union Railways application for fran
chise which would allow it TO cross Macomb's
Dam Bridge has been pending before the Board
Of Aldermen since 1901, and in the Railroad
Committee ever since the Board of Estimate
came to terms with the railroad company six
weeks ago. A motion 70 give similar permission
10 the New-York City Interborough Railway
Company was granted month ago. That per-
mission however, becomes operative only when
the Union Railway Company has constructed
The tracks.
President Haffen, OF the Bronx IN reply 10
Wafer. said the alderman from Brooklyn did
not Know what he was talking about and Mr.
Wafer retorted that if there were more inde-
pen6ence OF thought in the Board OF Aldermen
.here would be less need Of the legislative action
so frequent of late. He advised his associates
not to be led to the slaughter at the whim of
the party leaders,
The public sentiment OF Manhattan and the
Bronx President Cantor said, was unanimously
IN favor of laying the tracks across the bridge.
Alderman Wafer moved that the draft of the |
franchise be sent back to the Board of Estimate |
Tor the insertion Of a clause compelling the |
operating railroad company TO issue transfers !
that VIII carry their passengers downtown in /
Manhattan Alderman Sullivan agreed with Mr.. !
Wafer The Chair ruled that the aldermen |
could not amend the franchise; that they must /
adopt or reject 4 send It back 10 the Board Of
Estimate for amendment.
President Haffen complained that a man was
lobbying the floor, and requested that the
be instructed to remove him.
Escorted by the sergeant-at-arnls, the man
Covelieu, Mr.. Haffen said his name was-left the
aldermanic chamber NJ Hafen said later that
Mr. CoTelien is enthusiast the subject of |
fare. transfers and municipal owner i
ship. Mr. Haffen declared that the Union road
sould not transfer to the Interurban system.
Il needed forty negative votes to defeat the
franchise. The first count showed only thirty
1ine against II, but Alderman Coggey changed
his vote and the franchise was lost.
a petition from the Brooklyn City Railroad
company asking permission TO erect car barns
,nder the Brooklyn end of the bridge was laid .
ver for consideration on June 4.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
MEN TAKEN IN wALL-sT. RAID HELD.
Examination Fixed for Tomorrow Morn
ing

John ]. Prince. of No. East observation-disclosures
sixth-st.; his son, Joseph Z. Prince, of the
address. and Horace Blackmur, OF No.
491 State-st.. Brooklyn. were arragned be-
fore Magistrate Cornell in the Tdmbs police court
yesterday, charged with carrying business at No.
Wall-st. under an assumed name and also fail
ing register in the office Of the County Clerk of
New-York County, in ViolaI1on OF Section 633B, of
the Penal Code
The men were held on a short affidavit by De-
tective Sergeant McConvilIe for examination
Thursday morning at $50 o'clock. Bail in each
case fixed at $500 Assistant District Attorney
Kresel appeared for the prosecution. Fred c. l..
keating appeared for Blackmur and Daniel O'Reilly
appeared for the Princes.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
SAYS JUDGE: WE'RE ALL CROOKS" :"
He Discharges Prisoner Who After Getting
Money Had Made Forged Check Good.

jamaica Long Island May 5-"We all crooks.
and when anybody tries to be straight like to help
him out" was the remark made by Judge Forker
in the Court Of Special Sessions to-day when he
discharged The prisoner, Henry Schernan,
was accused of giving worthless check for S6 to
Rocco Cape, of Long Island City. 1t shown
that the man had given the check when he out
Of work and that he had found employ
rnent and earned some money he had made the
check good.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
COURSEY ASSAULTED.
Has T'sco Hen Arrested, WhO Sag
He Struck Them.

". S. Coursey. secretary of Police Commits
sioner Greene. last night had two men arrested
in the Flying Squadron" club above Browns
chop house in Broadway
coursey charged the two men with assault
ing him, but they in turn. allege that he struck
them.
On entering the chop house he demanded to
see the proprietors license which was shown to
him.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
KRoNPRINz mLHgLM,s STORMY VOYAGE

The steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, from Bremen,
southampton and cherbourg, arrived here last
night after a rough passage. On May 2 she en-
countered q severe west northwest gale with high
seas. which compelled her reduce her speed for
eighteen hours On May dense fog again COM
PEELED her to reduce speed for q few hours.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06

OF checks In payment Of Is debts TO crsdters ana
when these checks were presented for payment tney
were refused and stamped "not sufficient fUndsS
Notwithstanding the company says. that it's dep0z-
its exceeded by several hundred dollars all chscks
drawn, as It carried large daily balance IN the
bank
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
Off to the Country

THE microbe of migration has been little tardy in its
activity this The hot days
but the cool and little added preparation
The thermometer has already taken another
May plenty enough all the buying preparations
need be made when and
out in the country hurry
One of the strong merchandise features of the W4NAsKER
for the furnishings homes supplying
hanging of cool and dainty wall and other
benches and hammock helpful
will find in New York City.
Not alone do show the broadest and
furniture the city, but article
required the
Draperes Floor Coverings Garden Things
Window Screens, Awnings and everything else.
Today to tell much of this
admit and yet our advertisement
readiness to help in all matters of
Two things Yous
things that will satisfy possible to
and second that have paid
The WANAKER will be quite
merchandise In order ory
in
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
JUDGM ENTS.

The following judgments for sums over 500 were
fled yesterday, the first being that of the
New-York tribune., 1903-05-06
ARRIVALS OF BUYERS,

DR.. whtweH lived at No. 81 Yves. Eaeventh-ss
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17
A Laugh Needed.

Kentucky newspapers call atten-
ton to the noticeable fact that all
the press humorists who whet their
pencils on the Kentucky feudism
write on papers that are not publish
ed in Kentucky. The presumption
is that nobody in Kentucky dares be
funny at the expense of the feudists.
They can not take joke; and that
it seems is exactly what ails them.
Their inability to see anything hum
orous in their own mental attitude
keeps them in an assassination frame
of mind; and yet there is the height
of grim humor in it. The idea of
keeping on killing each other for
something said or done by somebody
removed from earth a decade ago,
when you isolate the idea, is one
that only burlesque opera could do
justice to. If burlesque opera
that is as good tske. off of feudism
as the Pirates Of Penzance is of pir-
acy could travel through ihe noun
tains Of Kentucky and could be un.
derstood, feudism would be laughed
out Of existance. But it is hard to
smooth out that century old scowl;
and the burlesqe company would
likely all be msssacred. When a
man never has lucid moment of
good nature, we say his liver is out
or order. What, then, may be the
matter with the Kentucky mountain
feudistsY
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17
The West In Finance

A rather interesting comment upon
present financial conditions and the
part which the west is playing in
them is made by an observing New
Yorker.
He calls attention first to the fact
that never before could there have
been a shrinkage of 100000 In
the market value of securities without
such condition having been due to
business depression, loss of earnings
in railways and other industrial en-
terprises; and on the other hand
without causing wide spread panic
in the country. As it is there is no
industrial reason for the decline in
stocks, and the shrinkage has caused
scarcely furry in the rest of the
country. 1t indicates that the west
and south have grown to be much
more independent in their financial
affairs than they used to be. And
it is freely admitted that Wall street
is no longer the decisive factor in
the money markets of the world.
The west, instead of borrowing
money from New York to move its
crops. keep its money on deposit in
the big eastern banks, and when it
needs the cash, simply demands its
own.
Another indication of the VESTS
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17

place in finance is found in the refus-
al of prominent bankers of Chicago
to accept high financial positions in
New York. They are apparently
convinced that the star of finance, as
we'll as Of empire, is westward, and
they are anxious to remain in it's
effulgence.
There is no reason why the mighty
west, the store house of the country's
precious metals, the granary of the
continent, should not continue to grow
strong and great and independent,
and become power in finance as it
is in commerce.-Colorado Springs
Gazette.
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17

The Servian people have shocked
all civilized nations by "peacefully"
shooting half dozen of their tyrant
rulers. As it is only a few years
since an American city hung an en-
tire board Of alderman from the
windows of the city hall for small
part Of the crimes these Servisn rul-
ers had committed, we judge that
shooting is considered more barbar-
GUS that hanging. Even the good
Senator Patterson in his Rocky
News less than half dozen years
ago advocated the "peaceful" EXTERN
ination Of the Denver city council by
means of rope.
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17

al all-round romancer. 4slJherokee"
has been in jail in Pueblo for some
time past, awaiting trial on charge
of robbing tho postoffice at Carlton
several months ago. He had been
down to Lamar to testify in a cattle
stealing case.
While the train stopped here
Cherokee" held regular levee in
the smoking car, and amused large
crowd, with tales Of his "heroic
deeds" and hsirbreadth escapes. One
of the most thrillings tales concerned
Sheriff Barr and Undersherlff Ste
ward, while those officers were in
pursuit of the Carlton postoffice rob-
bera fifty miles south of La Junts.
"Bill" says that while secreted in
secluded nook he saw these two Off
GERS fall over cliff thousand feet
high, and both escaped without a
scratch. From his vantage point he
could have killed them both, but al
lowed them to continue on their
journey southwark in search OF the
robbers. "Bill" seemed to think he
should be given a great deal Of credit
for his forbearance in this instance,
but did not mention the fact that he
is also entitled to q leather medal
for being a close rival to Baron
Munchausen in the art of romano
ing.-La Junta Tribune.
The Lamar register., 1903-06-17
Aconterenoe Of sry.nltes.

A SO. called "National Conference
of Democrats" is to be held in Chi.
cago on July 18. Its national char
acter may be inferred from the fact
that the speakers are to be Mayor
Harrison, William ]. Bryan, Daniel
Campsu, Mayor Reed of Kansas
City, Congressman Trimble of Ken
lucky, Charles A. Walsh of Iowa,
and few others less we'll known,
but all of them Bryan democrats.
The keynote of the conference is
sounded by Mayor Harrison, who
says:
"Most of the talk about reorgsni-
zation comes from men who, however
eminent, are not especially noted for
their loyalty to the party of late
years. The platform enunciated by
our last national convention is the
political creed of the party and will
continue to be so until another ma
tional conyention shall change it.
OF course, it is the privilege of any
one, inside or outside the democratic
party, to urge an alteration of the
platform, and when such an appeal
shall be made it will be determined
upon its merits and not upon the
supposed importance of the handful
of gentlemen who are assuming to
tell the party what to do"
The Significance of the conference
liz two.fold. It means the beginning
of a stubborn and aggressive fight
on the part of the Bryanites to
maintain their supremacy in the
party. The spirit of the conference
will undoubtedly be expressed in
such words as these: "No surrender.
No harmony unless we dictate the
terms" From now on the recon
structionists cannot hope to monopol-
ize the center Of the stage. As &C.
tive campaign will ensue in the in
terests of the Kansas City platform
o. in the interests of reorganization.
Another Significance Of the con
ference would seem to be the launch
ing of Carter Hsrrison's boom for
the presidential nomination. The
Mayor of Chicago will be the center
of the conference, in fact it is appar-
ent that he is the good angel of the
entire plan. Not even Mr.. Bryan
will shine with the glory which vii
radiate from the boss of the Cook
County democracy. To the outside
world the idea Of Carter Harrison
ever becoming president looks ludi'
crous, but to that gentleman himself
and to HE faithful servants in Chi.
cago it seems the most natural thing
in the world and it will be a matter
for small surprise if the National Con.
ference of Democrats should develop
into great demonstration for Han
rison.-Ex.