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The evening world., 1904-05-07
CROKER TO STAY
AS FIRE CHIEF
"Not a Word of Truth in Report
that He Is to Be 0usted," He
Declares - No Words with
Commissioner Hayes.

Chief Croker. of the Fire Depart
ment. said to-day in regard to the
that he was to be ousted from
the department In another month on
account Of differences between himself
and Fire Commissioner Hayes:
There is not a word OF truth in 1t.
Let me say for the benefit of my
friends. tho department and the public
hat ! do not intend to get out. You
may positively say that 1 am not going
to be ousted by any one. 1 shall stay
in the department until n wall falls on
me. That is the only way l shall be
got rid OF.
Again, there is positively no truth
In the statement that dissension has
sprung up between me and the Com
missioner, We have not n any words
of any kind. No, sir! l am going to
stay. Take that as coming directly
from me"
The evening world., 1904-05-07
ASHBEL F|TCH'S
WILL IS FILED
Comptroller and Con-
gresham Divides His Estate
Among Members of Family
Makes No Public 6eGuests.

Frederick r. Grant to-day fled the
will of Ashbel p. Fitch in the Surro-
gates office. The will was executed
June II. 1901. with n codicil dated July
30. 1903.
There are no requests tn public pur-
poses. The household furniture, pic
lures, plate n $4,000 in cash are be-
uueathed to the widow. Mrs. Elizabeth
A. Fitch. who is to enjoy the use Of
the residue of the estate. after deduct
ing $40. coo left in trust. for life or until
she remarries. the six children to share
alike in the final distribution. In the
codicil n Tarrytown estate is be-
queathed to Mrs. Fitch.
Mr.. Fitch distributed his jewelry
among his children. and provided $3.50
for the purchase of a watch for his
son Littleton Fitch. to be inscribed
with his own and his sons name. The
law library and office furniture Is left
to Ashbel p. Fitch. tr., who is to pay
a fair value for them to the estate,
with the proviso that II he cannot use
them he is to sell them and distribute
the poceeds equally among the six
children.
George L. Mott n the Trust Company
OF America. the income 10 be paid to
Misses Elizabeth o Fitch. Ella j.
Fitch and Davis Fitch. daughters. until
they reach the age of thirty-five years
respectively. when the principal goes to
the beneficiartes.
Two sons Morton c. and Littleton
Fitch, are beneticiaries each OF IA so. 200
trust, receiving the principal on their
t~wenty-tifth birthdays respectively. while
Ashbel p. Fitch, jr.. receives II legacy
of $40, 900 outright.
To Mrs. Alice NJ. Taylor. wife Of Ira
Iayior' u ss,soSI 900 tor I,n ''eh hor deotH
the $50, 600 will be divided equally among
her three daughters.
Mrs. Fitch, A. p. Fitch, jr,, and
George f.. Mott are named as execu-
tors. No estimate of the value of the
estate is given. the petition saying per
functorily that It is more than $4,000. "
The evening world., 1904-05-07
President GotshaIl, Of Port
chester Road, will Not Say
that overtures We're Made to
z Him for Money.
STORY CIRCULATED
AGAINST ROADS RIVAL.
Alderman Sullivan Says as Soon
, as Railroad Committee Gets
a Chance It Will Act Upon
GotshaII's Application.

President Gotshall will not say that
any overturcs were made to him for the
payment of money to effect action on
his application for q franchise in the
Board of Aldermen. He SAYS he has
no knowledge of such n transaction and
cannot go upon the stand and state
ar ything to the contrary.
AS President Gotshall appears TO be
the originator and active spirit in the
Portchester enterprise, the city author
tiles know of no other to appeal to for
the purposes OF the investigation which
President Fornes has suggested. 1t is
explained that the members of the Rail
road Committee of the Board of Alder
men have ~endeavored to ascertain who
the actual promoters-of the Portchester
road are. but have failed to find any,.
President Gotshall. according to report.
seems to be the whole thing"
Alderman Timothy Z. Sullivan said
to-day:
president Gotshall nor any other
man would dare go upon the stand and
make the assertion that he was APP
preached. He would know that the
story is not true and l do not believe
that he would attempt to make an
issue on that point for the purpose of
creating sympathy. 1 am in favor
however. of the fullest Investigation
and will insist upon one being made.
story Circulated Against Rival.
THE story appears To have been cir
culated. however. in the interests of
the Portchester road as against it's
rival, the Westchester and Boston
road, which is backed by reputable
men and being flnancicred by Dick &
Robinson, of No. 80 Broad street.
These bankers stand high in Wall
street. Former President Bull, of the
stock Exchange, is the president of the
Westchester road and 1t Is backed by
others of equal responsibility. These
mer. v received favorable action In
the Board of Aldermen because they
are going TO build n road and give the
people OF the Bronx rapid transit"
Alderman John 4. Mccall said: I'VE
Know mat the Westchester road people
81 not gong to tuggle with their fran
Snise ana use 1t as "A specializing me-
Gium. aoWever. just as soon as the
Will act upon President GotshaITs APP
plicatlon. The committee may report
adversely on the application or 1t may
decide to send 1t TO the Board of Esti-
mate. as was done in the case of West
chester. If the, terms are not fully
satisfactory to the Board of Aldermen
h franchise may be sent back with
recommendations for fuller compensa-
ton. II such is not provided for in the
contract. personally am In favor of
disposing first of the Westminster fran
1ehise and then act one way or the other
on Portchester."
The evening world., 1904-05-07
BROOKLYN WATER
SHUT OFF TONIGHT
A Large Section of the Borough
Will Be Affected While Re-
pairs Are Being Made in At
Iantic Avenue Main.

A large section OF Brooklyn will be
without water from o'clock this after
noon until & o'clock tomorrow morning
because OF repairs which the Water De-
pnrtment Is obliged to make in the At
lantic avenue main. Between those
hours the engineers are to replace n
broken thirty-six-inch gate In the main
on Atlantic avenue between Clinton Ind
Court streets. establish new connections
IN the main at Atlantic avenue and elm
ton street and put in new gates at At
iantic avenue and Smith street and AT
iantic avenue and Nevins street.
THE entire section OF Brooklyn bound
ed nv Atlantic avenue on the north.
Fourth avenue on the east, Prospect
and Hamilton avenues on the out and
the shore line on the west will be
efTccted by the shutting OF of tho
water. Policemen notified the residents
NJ this section early to-day to draw all
the water they would need during sthe
night before 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
Invitations to the Marriage of
Miss Worthington and Son o!
John Brisben Walker Arc
Suddenly Recalled.
CEREMONY HAD TWICE
BEFORE BEEN POSTPONED.
Young Man Is Son OF the Owner
of the Cosmopolitan Maya
zine and Miss Worthington'S
Father Is Wealthy.

Mrs. Charles G. worthington. NJ
T~arrytown. whose daughter was until
yesterday engaged to Justin C. Wal
ker. the son OF John Brisbcn Walker.
admitted to-day that the couple had
auarrolled. but said the engagement
was broken by mutual consent.
The trouble between the young
couple-Miss Worthington is twchtv-
one, and Mr.. Walker twenty-throe-
occurred last Wednesday NIGHT. Mr..
Walker called upon his nancec II
there was n disagreement over some
matter which neither family cares Il
make known. Mr.. Walker left the
Worthington home o N Broadway. Irv-
lngton. aud went lmmedintel" to his
fathers place.
The Invitations. which had been sent
out were recalled and the formal an-
nuLncement made that the engagement
mad come tn an end.
The Young couple had been engaged
fUf two years. They were to have been
married In June last. A p"OStponement
carried the engagement over to May II,
RlNch date for the marriage was set
some tim ago. Then came a second
engagement, May u being fixed as the
date of the ceremony.
Miss WCrthingtOn ordered her trouS-
sCau and had received most of her
wedding outht from the tailors and
m~!lliners, Son of her closest friends
had already sent presents. The brides
maids were selected. one OF whom is
on her way from Europe
Mr.. Walkers father Is the editor and
owner OF the Cosmopolitan and a politi-
cal and social economist of reputation.
The two families nav long been on
terms OF intimacy.
A home had been fitted up ut Sunny
side which the young couple was to
occupy soon after the wedding cere-
mony.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
HUBBY PREFERRED
CASH TO CHICKEN
Wife Suing for Separation Says
Husband Objected to Mother
in-Law Sending Her Fowls
Instead of Money.

Florence b. Reinstein seeks a separa-
ton from William Reinstein, a short
waist drummer. to whom she was mar
rled June 10. 1901. and to-day Moses IT.
Grossman applied to Justice O'Groman
In the Supreme Court for SIS weskly
alimony and $3.50 counsel fees. Decision
was reserved.
Mrs. Reinstein alleges hat Immediate
ly after their marriage her h isSard be-
gan auarrelling with her over none
matters. lie wanted money from n,r
savings az a public school teache-, and
not Setting It resorted to petty iccep-
tons and falsehoods. she alleges. seri-
ously affecting her respect for him.
She declares he had been a thriving
salesman. but after their marriage be-
came lazy and indolent, spending only
one hour a day In employment, and the
rest of his time at the baseball grounds
and In the courts listening to trials.
She Had to ray Living Expennes.
The unhappy wife says she has had
To paw the living expenses and than the
money she gave him to buy provisions
for Thanksgiving dinner, 1901, he spent
on himself. remaining away all day and
leaving her lonely.
He took me to my mothers house in
1902 says the complaint, "and said to
otaer time, in December. 1902, he told
OH servant girl to put me out on The
fire tscap% to cool. when baby came
my mother brought some d~elicacies, in
Guiding a chicken.
80 If she brings another chicken here
I'll fire her out said my husband.
II she was a decent mother-in-law she
would send a couple of hundred do.-
lars"
The trouble eliminated last February.
when. the wife says, he left at s A. NJ.
A "a. NJ. I missed u diamond cres-
cent. a wedding present from my father.
! telephoned to my husband and threat
ened 10 have him arrested. to which he
replied on the phone: You crazy luna
tic. what are you talking about?'
"But he brought the crescent back an
hour later" concluded the affidavit.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
COACHING PARADE
MOST BRILLIANT
Eighteen Vehicles Laden with
Beautiful Women and Well
Groomed Men Dash Through
Central Parks West Drive.

Beautiful women. well groomed men.
splendid horses. magnifcently accout-
cred. and eighteen OF the most fash
ionable drags that the city OF New
parade OF the New York Coaching
in Its history.
The members of the club with their
horses. coaches and guests came elat-
tering to the rendezvous at Fifth ave-
nue. and Sixty-second street, one after
the other, and by IL O'Clock all hands
were present and ready for the word
to start. On every coach. save one,
were more wome than men. The ex-
ception was the bachelors coach. The
women were all brilliantly attired, while
the costumes of the men were those
prescribed by fashion for such func-
tons.
At IL o'clock sharp the parade got
under way II entered the park at
Fitty-ninth street and Fifth avenue.
taking the west drive to the Circle at
One Hundred and Sixth street, where
the usual m~anoeuyres were gone
through, ending up with a review OF the
entire line by Col. William Jay. The
coaches then went to One Hundred and
] eItn StTttt, WHERE tney d~lSDan0e0,
zach coach proceeding individually to
Morris Park. where luncheon was served
promptly at l O'Clock in the clubhouse.
Some Of the coaches in the line We're
Col. Jays dark green and yellow drag.
Secretary William Gulliver's green and
black coach. C.. Ledyard Blafr's yellow
and black coach. Perry Belmont's ma
roon aid yellow drag. Peter Goelet
Gerry's red and green coach. and the
brilliantly colored drags of George Girls
void Haven. jr., Alfred q. Vanderbilt.
Robert Livingston Gerry, James Henry
Smith, Edward T. H.. Talmage and Ed
ward b. Smith, of Philadelphia.
guests OF the club were Mr.. and Mrs.
Douglas Robinson. Mrs. Alfred G. Van
derbilt, Miss dab Gerry. Miss Natica
R!ves. Miss Marguerite Loew. Mr.. inc
Mrs. Frederick NJ. Davies. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Van lngen. Mrs. c.. Ledyard
Blair and Mrs. Thomas II. B. Prentice.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
Mrs. Troyy sun "A Mason.

Mrs. Cora Wells Trow denies that
abe is no longer n woman Mason. as
announced. Though she resigned from
the Laurel Chapter OF the Order Of the
Eastern Star she is eligible for any
other chapter. and has not taken oath
before a notary that she will not re-
veal the secrets of the order.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
sCHlFF MEETS KING EDWARD
New York Bnnke Has Private
d with EnEland'a Ruler.

LONDON. May 7.-Jacob Schiff. who.
In behalf OF Kuhn, Loeb & Company,
arranged to take half the Japanese
loan, has had a private audience with
KING Edward. This unusual incident
is understood to have been due to His
Majesty's desire to express his appre-
citation at the fact that the United
So tremendously In large financial I'M
dcrtakings. Sir Ernest Cassel, an old
friend of Mr.. Schiff's, apparently
brought the matter to the Kings
knowledge. 4,
The Japanese loan Is nominally
quoted to-day at PA per cent. premium.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
cHlLp,s ARM CT oEE.

PATERSON. N. j., May 7-sadie Fox.
aged three. OF No. 533 Main street, was
playing with some other children near
her home last night. She ran out into
the street directly in front OF a trolley
car and her right arm was. cut OF.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
PRESIDENT OF PERU DEAD.
Manuel Cnndnno Had Reunited Al
Factions in His Country.

LIMA. Peru, May T.-Presldent Can
tdamo, who has been i'll for some time
vat Arequlpa, died to-day.
The Presidents Heath is deeply re-
GREETED, as all political elements re-
garded him as an honorable men de-
voted to the true interests of the coun-
try.
Manuel Candamo was the man &C
cepted. for the Provisional Presidency, OF
Peru in 1895 by the Revolutionists under
the leadership of Nicholas de Pierola
and President Caceres. when both bel
ligerents agreed to stop ightins. Senior
Candamo chose his Cabinet from all rae
tons and he was able TO unite the cop-
try. Four years later he was elected
President by a great majority, and con-
tinued what was generally regarded as
a prudent and Just Administrations. one
OF his last public acts was to visit the
United States cruiser New York at
Callao March 20.
The evening world., 1904-05-07
LucIAN j.. WALKER DEAD.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, May z-Lucian
]. Walker, a well known newspaper
man of Alabama. and at one time In
! the United States Consulate service in
Scotland and Ireland, Is dead OF heart
l failure. ---
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
COL. FITCH AND
THE SAKE CASES
Honolulu. June 25th, 1904

Honolulu, June 25th, 1904
Editor Advertiser: The New York
Board of Z. S. General Appraisers
classed sake as still wine dutiable at
fifty cents per gallon. From this de-
cisfon the New York importer appealed
to the U. s. Circuit Court of the South
ern District of New York. That tribu-
nal reversed the N Y. Board of APP
praisers, and found sake to be a non
enumerated manufactured article,
dutiabIe at twenty per cent ad valorem
or about nine cents per gallon. From
this decision the government has APP
pealed to the y. Y. United States CTR
cult Court of Appeals, and this appeal
is now pending to be heard at the Octo-
Der term.
With this case and the appeal from
it Collector Stackabl has, L repeat, no
more to do than has the Shah of Persia.
The case in which he has taken an APP
peal is one in which he ruled-and the
New York Board of Appraisers reversed
his rulfng-that the sake which leaked
out of it's tub on the voyage from Japan
should pay duty to the United States
Just the same as if it were still there.
The question as to whether the sake
which might, could, would or should
have been in the tub, was a beer,
wine, or "nonenumerated manufac-
tured article is not involved. If, on
Collector Stackable's appeal on the
sake tub case, it is held that nine
gallons of empty air must pay the same
duty as nine gallons of sake, the duty
will presumably and unless and until
the N Y Circuit Court of Appeals shall
reverse the decision of the U. S. Circuit
Court be assessed as on a still wine.
The notice of appeal from which the
Star quotes would have given clearer |
idea of the issue if it had read as fol- |
lows:
said Board erred in not holding said !
vacuum which once contained sake 10 |
be properly eIassed as a still wine va
cuum, dutiable at fifty cents per gal
lon.''
I deviate from my usual custom of
never attempting to correct a newspa-
per report of litigation in which I am
engaged, only because my japanese
clients might be misled by the Star
report based upon the confusing phrase
ology of the notice of appeal into sup
posing that the Board of General APP
praisers had reversed its former sake
is not the case.
THOMAS FITCH.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
School Hypnotism j..

AURORA, Ill, June 10-Alarmed at
the rapidly increasing numbers of am
ateur hypnotists among the boys at
tending the public schools of Aurora
Prof Barriwel, Superintendent of the
East Aurora High School, today is
sued an order forbidding the youths to
further practice their hypnotic spells.
The ban viii be strictly enforced I'M
der penalty of expulsion
The hypnotic craze is of recent orr
gin, but has spread with amazing rap
idity. The disappearance of a promi-
nent club woman, simultaneously with
the departure of a Chicagoan, gave rise
to the report that the two had eloped
and the woman was the victim of hyp-
notism. This report added to the pre-
vailing craze and Prof. Barriweu was
forced to act.
In the schools books of instruction on
hypnotism We're taking the place of
school books and studies We're neglect
ed. Roy Raut was recognized as high
priest" of the hypnotist band Raut
hired a hall last night and entertain
ed a big crowd of boys and girls and
a number of older persons, who were
astonished at his power.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
a Widows Suit.

NEW YORK, June 9.-Mrs. Benja-
min Wood, possible action by whom
promoters of the Shipyards Combine
have been dreading, today took pre-
liminary steps in an action to recover
S195, 600 cash she put into worthless
bonds on the advice of high f1nanciers.
This suit has been feared above all
others, because the evidence, it is said,
will show that big millionaires of Wall
street took financial advantage of a
widow to get from her the money
which they had peculiar reasons for
knowing was in her hands uninvested
They loaded on her 100000 par of the
bonds at the highest price at which
any We're sold to the public and were
about to take the few thousand dollars
she had left when a fortunate chance
prevented the transaction.
Mrs Wood was in Egypt on a pleas
ure trip with her sister, in total ig
norance of what was happening to the
trust and her bonds, while they were
tumbling to nothing. When she learn
ed the facts she was dumfounded and
heartbroken that the men who had
induced her to take the bonds should
have deceived her. After many months
of sorrowful contemplation of her
ruined fortune she retained an attor-
ney to bring suit.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
WARSHIPS WILL
NOT CALL HERE

CAVITE, May 19.-Admiral Cooper
with the battleship Wisconsin, the gum
boat Vicksburg and the naval collier
Alexandria left Cavite this morning
for Hongkong.
The Vicksburg on reaching Hongkong
will bid the rest of the fleet adieu and
start for the states via Yokohama and
Hakodate, Japan, thence taking the
northern passage. She viii cross 70
Bear Harbor, Alaska, and after taking
on coal Will proceed down the Pacific
coast to the Bremerton Navy Yard
where she will go out of commission
pending repairs.
The Vicksburg is classed in the Unit
ed States Navy as a composite gunboat
of 1000 tons displacement and horse
power of LIS with a speed of Is knots
an hour. Her keel was laid in 1897 and
she cost the government s229, 400. Her
guns battery consists of 4-inch rapid
fire guns, 6-pounders rapid fire, 2
1-pounders rapid fire and l Colt.
The gunboat Annapolis, a sister ship
of the Vicksburg, viii remain at Cavite
a while longer in order to complete
needed repairs before starting over the
same route for the States as the Vicks-
burg now takes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
THAT hlIO ACCRETlON.

A piece of land in Hilo "growed," a
Ia. Topsy, between the shore and the
sea. Whether it showed the island of
Hawaii back or forced the Pacific ocean
out to make room for it is a question
that may be left to the Geodetic Sur
vey The lawsuit over the title to this
insertion of realty bids fair, however,
to yield one of the most celebrated
cases that have ever appeared in the
Hawaiian Reports. 1t le evidently too
complicated for any jury in the Ter
ritory to decide without slipping up on
some technicality that viii cause the
verdict to be set aside. A castiron
reference to arbitration or an amicable
submission of agreed points to the Su-
preme Court might be suggested to the
litigants by their friends. There is one
feature of the matter which concerns
the public. This is the great amount
Of time. the legal battle is consuming
in the courts, which delays justice in
many other suits that are congesting
the calendars.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27

J. E. Manix is SO years old and ma
tive of Northampton, Conn. At IA he
swept the floor of small retail store
in that town and made himself general
ly useful at 81 week. Up to about ten
years ago he was a clerk of the Edward
Malley Company of New Haven. To-
day he is president of a company that
represents forty-two large retail stores,
which do an annual business of S0,000,-
600. Associated with Mr.. Manix is Will
liam r. Barr, son of Thomas Barr, vice
president of the Corn Exchange syn
dictate of banks. The head of the COM
pany wears no frills. He is the most
cordial, genial and approachable of
men, worshiped by his personal staff of
fourteen buyers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-27
ST. PETERSBURG sULKs.

nv IFS conduct in ostracizing Am
tossador Mccormick and his wife, Rus
sian aristocratic society in st. PETERS
burg is creating an official issue III the
relations between the United States and
Prussia. which can do no good to Russia
nor have any effect in America otner
than fixing an apparent adverse sehtl-
ment which might otherwise, even IL as
real as it appears to the Russians. only
prove enhemeral. American public SEN
timent was clearly, if the preponder-
ance of expression decided it, in favor
of the Beers in the late TransVaal war
Vet the I.ondoners did not appreciaply
suIk nor show resentment toward the
limited States or her diplomatic repre-
sentative at the court of st. James
On the contrary, influence was exerted
TO prevent the passing sentiment of the
American people from developing INTO
official unpleasantness of international
moment After the war the pro-Boer
synpathies of Americans drifted away
Briton and Boer veterans are fighting
sham battles with each other at the
ST. Louis Exposition to grace an Amer
Jean holiday. The London plan may
have been selfish discretion, but it was
wise nevertheless and an excellent cue
for St. Petersburg to have taken under
similar circumstances.