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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-08-27

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90. Srant & @u. in Der 6auptitaot
Werifo bat fauiert. Nctiua $780,.
600; BaiSipa $500, 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
NOT 4 WIRE FROM VEST.
PooIrooms Get Service Only from
Norris Park.

The patrons of the pooroOms had to be content
yesterday with service from only one track.
That was Morris Park. Not a single poolroom
got a Western, track service SO far rs could be
learned up 10 a late hour last night. The West
crn Unions sweeping order was the worst blow
the poolrooms have felt since twelve years ago,
when a certain member OF Temmany Hall sent
word to the poolroom kings TO shut up shop and
stay closed until further orders.
Just how the poolrooms got the Morris Park
service it is impossible TO say. as only q few
Of the big men in the pooroom syndicates saw
TO the carrying out Of the plans. They carefully
guarded their secret and not even the lesser
in the syndicates were able to tell how the
results obtained. Several poolroom keep
told a reporter that they obtaining
their news over leased wires. and that one
would interfere with those wires Those pool
room keepers are members Of one of the three
big syndicates in this city. and if they had had
to depend upon their own resources yesterday
TO get the news about the Norris Park races
there would practically have been no betting in
poolrooms here
Not only was the Morris Park service slow.
but the way the service given TO the patrons
OF the rooms indicated that the syndicates held
back the news on several races where the favor
ties were among the also ram and then sent in
the odds on the race and minute or later
ANNOUNCED lIaI the horses were running Inc
service on the third race at Morris Park had all
the earmarks Of a hold-out. and Of the
greatest "hold-outs'' ever given TO the people
who bet in poolrooms. Pooroom men will have
many chances in the future TO hold out" as
they expect to manage and operate the race
track news service themselves, provided they
not driven out of business.
In "hold-out" at the moment the bettor
makes his wager he is loser and the poolroom
knows it,
The poorooms started the day in splendid
style from the patrons and pookeepers' point
Of view. The first betting on the first at
Norris Park was posted at 2:lJ. and few
minutes later the second betting received
While the running Of the first was being
described, the service against the unlocked
for Western Union snag, and the announcers
yelled The wires have failed" About five
minutes later the result was made known. The
poolroom men not only had a bad Morris Park
service. but the odds they offered were appar-
emily in sympathy with their feelings unusually
below the average. Here are the odds as
posted by one poolroom keeper and the track
quotations:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
ARRIVALS OF BUYERS.

Anderson Company Bunalo Miss }. A Tracey. wom-
brown Payne. beaver = Co. knoNvile. Tenn J. L
iJrsc5r,i 20 81 FraaKlln-sr Jayarrc
brownlug King * Co, milwaukee,, II b. Henderson
BUSH H@n coqp2ny,. wiiH,lssmsporti a F 59a2E
l.. Carpenter 81 Denis ,,.,-.. ,,--,or q.
notions fancy goods. aces handAerchiefs gloves etc
goods No 20 Union square west Grand -.
dryFoo,is notions and furnishing goods N9varre
ribbons. haudkerchtefs, women's collars. etc Nc
BY Waller Dry Goods Gsmga3y St Louis; yD,. p
Morga1 riaons e9rset' yelinss ana women 1''-7
England Bros PIttshsld Mass . y f y enGPst''
Jacob EPSTEIN baltimore miller hOqsetgrnlshins
goods Continental r. Goldman. Innings and trimmings
fe5s4son e Dry Goods Co; St Louis Forrest
Marshal Field Co. chicago: J. F. Henderson, cloth
FORBES Wallase spTngdsJd: NJ IL McNul,y.
nshing rooss. o'ConneL domesties linens etc. No.
Gmeic Br5thSrs Thnadelphia E E Maraen clothing.
NJ GoidenberF, Washng,on d. c.; II. Greenebaugn.
Goldenbcrg Bros Baltimore: J. Wolf cIoaks furs
N Go98sndi TOY. y =. drysOods. notions and
Hoc6t Bros s Co. baltimore: T. O, Hecat, carpets.
William Hengersr COMPANY, Buffalo: W. r, Smith.
Hoffman Brothers. Chillicothe Ohio; e. Hoffman,
A. r Hofmeistsr Company Cincinnati: A F Hor-
uester dress trimmings Hoffman.
Houghton Dutton, Boston; l. /. Mears carpets.
Hutzer Brothers baltimore; E & Hutzle- notions
fancy goods trimmings gloves and leather goods, AMI
J. \. Houston Boston c. Il. Noyes millinery,
Denis
lain carpets u9holsterng goods, etc No 80 Broadway
Jordan Marsh 5-.s Company Boston Coleman, dress
S Kann Sons & Co Baltimore Philip IIiltz Gomes,cs
and nan m No 4Si BEoadway EaTlinston p,
King. millinery. No. 62l Broadway. 81 Denis.
Kline 3rothtts. Altoona Penn Kline. drygooiS.
tons ana iurnishlns goods 81 Denis
Kohner & Co. Baltimore. j. A kohner drygoods,
Iaue- baltimore: O. Fisher notions hosiery gloves
and underwear Herald Square.
Rothschud 81 Co, Chicago: O. c. Wollinger linens.
white goods and handkerchefs. No 43 Leonard St Va
G schenk. Lebanon Penn drysoods notions and fur
nshing goods; NJ Shenk. notions, and H. J. Shenk.
Shophei Dry Goods Company wliamsport: W t.
shopbe domestcs fiannels linens etc Herald Square
a, shuman Co Boston; J. L. Adr6n women's IN
degwear. Victoria: s E. shuman Holland
\. Shwartz & Sons. Nevv-Orleans; : Shwartz men
furnishing goods and fancy goods No Worth-st
and stationery, No Go wooster-st Nevarre
a. b. Siewert & Co. Duluth MINI: A. g. Sieowrt
snberberg. Atha ( Adler. Pittsburg stecker linens.
Smith * Murray. Springfield; II. J Donnely. furnish
ing ods hosiery laees ribbons etc No 80 Whttest
man. clothing and furnishing goods Navarro
Sudbury Manu- featuring Company. Boston; IAssner
The Metropolitan. Einghamton n Y c H. Alderman
drygoods, notions. etc, Alhemarle.
NJ. +. Thompson, Bnghamton dr-goods notions nj
furnishing goods, Iroad Central.
John Wanamaker PHILADELPHIA; C. C. DarnelI hosiery
school stationery and pocket cutlery Westminster
Welnstock, Iiben & Co, san Francisco: r. Mayors
II 4 &, A. VI Young Manedcii Ohio, n vr,ne 'i Fry
goods and notions Marlborough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19

by long distance telephone. and late in the after
noon a few OF them succeeded in doing this.
The big gamblers here are not disposed to
give UP their profitable business and are trying
TO devise some scheme TO carry operations
Mont Tennes, one Of the leading bookmakers
declares that all the important gamblers viii
panies and will organize the International
Leased Wire Telegraph Company, by means of
which all racetrack service Will be carried on
without fear of interference by the authorities
This is not the first time the Western Union
Telegraph Company has cut off its service from
2 class OF patrons. 1t took this action with
buchetshops IN Chicago on December 4. 1896
In the thrty-ninth annual report Of the Chi
cago Board of Trade, for the year 1896, written
by William T. Baker, its president. He said in
part:
Bucketshops and poolrooms twin outlaws in
nearly every State in the Union. Their united cor
rupton fund has enabled them TO BATTLE justice by
debauchery OF the constituted authority for the in
vestigation and prosecution of crime but they
could continue in existence day but for their
alliance with the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. That company furnishes all the machinery
and all the news on which bets are laid, and it is
that wires for the private OF bucketshopS
81 swindlng their patrons. The spectacle of a cor
cleaned from the vice and crime or the country
Is make any American blush Contrast this
with the conduct of some of the great newspapers
Of this city, which cannot be hired 10 print tho
harmless appearing advertisements of bucketshopS.
1t may be said that a great commercial Organiza-
ton like this has no need to concern itself with
questions Of morals. but the ethics Of business are
based high standard OF commercial morality,
which it is duty to preach and 10 practise.
incubus Of bucketshOps embarrassed by such a con
dtiOn is here outlined. find our self-interest
ing down wrong. The crusade In which We have
been long engaged will not cease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
LEWISOHN CASE TO-DAY.
Failure Viii Mean jail or Testimony
for Un1cilling Witness.

In Part II OF the Supreme Court Justice Dugro
will this morning hear the arguments made by
Jesse Lewisohn's counsel Alfred Lauterbach for
the issue of writ of certiorari to enable the
Appellate Division pass on the summary COM
mitment Of his client by Judge Mcmahon on Mon
day.
Judge Mcmahon committed Lewisohn to com
mon jail for fifteen days for contempt of court in
refusing TO reply to inquiries about Richard A.
Garfield IN a proceeding before the grand jury. II
Mr.. Lauterbach fails to get his writ LewisOhn will
have appeal and will have to go to Jail or testify
On the other hand, If he succeeds, the Appellate
Division and subsequently the Court Of Appeals will
be asked pass on the constitutonality of the
Garfield gambling law and District Attorney Jerome
will be unable prosecute under its provisions for
months.
The question of the issue OF a writ of habeas
corpus in the case against Lewsohn before Justice
Wyatt will also come The trial is set down for
1890 o'clock. Neither Assistant District Attorney
Sanford. who will argue the case for the District
Attorneys office, Mr.. Lauterbach would discuss
the question yesterday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
PEARY TELLS OF Plans.
Hopes to Reach the Pole Early IN
1906 or 1907,

Commander Robert E Peary L s N the Arctic
explorer is in the city business connected with
the plans he is perfecting for summer voyage to
the Arctic region. Seen at the Grand Union Hotel
yesterday he said:
I shall leave Sydney. Cape Breton, on July !. with
vessel OF from 400 to 500 tons burden, and shall
Foulke Fi6rd. on the Greenland shore, opposite
SedSoS Win f5e serious work in the expedon
planned for the summer of 1865 l expect 10 be &C
ecehfss as Sy on my former Summer and
to return by September /
been found who would provide the amount neces-
tin2S bnt as that seems Mt This time impossible 7
am now engaged in enltsting a larger number with
rI and ~ must now secure the none NECESSARY
for the current expenses The estimated total cost
cost Of the ship is 10000 If / should be able to
accomplish the objects of the expedition inside OF
fifteen months from the time OF starting. and bring
the vessel back and in practically unimpared con,
dition. a much smaller outlay Will have covered
nv handicap on all previous expeditions into the
arctic region has been my inability. on account Of
north before beginning the sIedge Journey Having
reached 81 degrees u minutes or only degrees S
highest point vet reached on the western Hemi-
sum the o se 5e oaTne Ra been y degrees north
My objective point to be reached by vessel with
Grant Land which is S. degrees north I shall
through smith Sound to the objective point by
September l. when the arctic winter begins ana
would be detained until February, when the Siedge
journey could be undertaken.
On four previous expeditions l have covered with
sIedges a sufficient distance going north from the
point OF starting 20 carry the full distance
across the Arctic Sea baSiu-that is. 40 nautical
miles from Grant Land to the Pole. IL must be
accomplished between February and the end OF
Nay-depends on the point at which the start OF
the sledge journey may be made.
Aside from the ships crew OF probably fifteen
men, who will. OF course remain winter quarters.
shall be accompanied on the expedition by not
than two white men. and possible only One-a
surgeon. I shall take about twenty-five sledges.
with six To- eight dogs for each sledge. and only
Esquimau with each team Of dogs.
| have attained the proper starting point
the north shore of Grant Land: the conditions
be regarded important are the refinement OF the
personnel. the equipment and provision supply
Under favOTiRE conditions the sedEe journey 20 the
pole and return should be accomplished in eighty
ninety days.
II am unable 20 push the whole distance
20 the north Of GrantIand the first I shall
winter az the furthest DOnS may reach and in
he summer OF 1906 continue TO objective point.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19

Only one betting given on the other five
races run at Morris Park There was no de-
scrption II was announced about O'Clock that
the syndicate had held meeting in the after
noon. and had perfected arrangements for fur
nlshing a complete wire service. a complete
wire service means that the pOolroOms that
want the news OF three tracks. namely, Worth,
Louisville and Morris Park, Will get II. If any
of the syndicate try TO execute hold OUT they
may find themselves beaten on their own tracks.
on the alert to play race after the race is run.
The handbook men came near having one OF
the best days of the year. They depend on the
ticker service. and the ticker's Morris Park
vice was excellent The ticker did not give the
suits OF the Western races well the Nor
ris Park races to-day the handbook men viii
be f1guratively speaking, in clover.
Poolrooms in the Tenderloln got some returns,
With a delay of ten minutes, by telephone They
seemed 10 be afraid TO take late bets and the
books were closed much earlier than usual.
For instance. on a race that was scheduled 10
start at 3 o'clock bets were taken after
80 This to prevent any getting
inside information and placing "A bet after the
race had been run and before the pOolroOm own
knew that the had been started.
A number of pOolrOoms refused TO pay bets
telephone returns from the tracks and de-
pended entirely the bulletins in front OF the
newspaper offices for news regarding the re-
suits. Some Of them even went so far to
fuse TO pay bets until the official cards and the
late evening papers had been issued containing
lists OF the winners. No news was received from
the Western tracks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
n HARD BLOW IN CHICAGO.
PoOIroOmS There Had a Similar
EGperience IN 1896.

Chicago, May 1S.-Racetrack gamblers book
makers and pooroom operators received
crushing blow this afternoon, when the Western
Union Telegraph Company shut of the service
for returns from the racetracks here and all
over the country. Thousands Of racehorse fol-
lowers were kept from betting by the action of
the telegraph company. Throngs OF men and
boys crowded into the poolrooms, only TO find
that the telegraph service was entirely dscon-
unued and operations We're suspended for the
Gay, or that books were being made with the
understanding that the bookmal1ers would pay
OF according 10 the racing form odds to-nor-
row. The action Of the Western Union, leaving
the downtown ''boolIies" isolated from the
tracks. caused a belated rush TO the Worth
track. The whole poolroom fraternity Of Chi
cago was thrown into panic. and bettors gem
orally refused 10 wait until tomorrow morning
10 learn the outcome OF their bets The volume
Of betting fell of more than 50 per cent. The
handbook men. crippled but still fighting
sought TO make arrangements with the tele-
phone companies TO get results from the track
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19

Bishop POtter's Comment on Vest
ern Unions ACtiOn.

In his address to the graduating class at the
General Theological Seminary yesterday. Bishop
Potter referred to the action of the Western
Union in deprving poolrooms of the racetrack
news service in the following words:
1t is claimed that this is discouraging time for
a young TO enter the ministry because of con-
ditions In the church and in American life. The
people who say these things do not understand
either. There are encouraging circumstances. and
think be forgiven If make two local illusions
which my brethren of the clergy 1 hope will note
for their deep significance.
We have all noticed that effective steps have re-
Gently taken TO check the great evil Of common
gambling which was being maintained in this city
by great corporation. These steps have at last
been made effective by the force of public opinion.
This great corporation has finally surrendered, be-
cause public opinion too much for IT,
Popular hostility against gambling found to
he too strong. We cannot minimize the vast and
far reaching effect the action of cutting the wires
will have in tho uplifting of the people.
The other local allusion concerned the Episco-
pal meeting in The Bronx on Tuesday night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
G0TSHALL All HEARING
Continued from first page.

Vernon Board Of Aldermen. would not talk -
terday about the New-Yorx alderman vvh.
supposed to have told him that the PORT Co.'S
franchise would never pass the aldermen 49,
until some one had seen the captain" Ha has
had no word from the investigating cornn,,-a-
or the District Attorney. he said.
IF they subpoena me I'll attend" said NJ.
Hayes. but can give them no evidence t,.,'
want. L have no legal evidence. In the ans {.
would be only my word against this mans. ana
one of his friends has gone into print. You kuoa
with explanation of how the conversation
might have been perfectly innocent"
The request of the Merchants Association th,,
the Railroad Committee of the aldermen No.
summoned before the investigating COMMITTEES
for examination. and that John w. Griggs Act
ing for the Merchants Association. be allowsd
to examine the members, was denied YESTERDAY
Mr.. DOul, in replying. said that his COMMITTEES
would have no power TO ask the Railroad Com
mittee's reasons for not acting on the Port
Chester affair. The request that Mr.. Griggs b
allowed 70 examine the members seemed 70 be-
of the most extraordinary character"
There can be- said Mr.. Doull. no power %
compel the attendance Of any one TO be interro-
gated by private counsel, and certainly such
proceeding would only introduce confusion ana
delay in the inquiry into what Is now per.
fectly simple questionable tracing Of Their
source, if they have any rec. of the runors q
alleged corruption in the matter OF granting
right of way TO the New FORK and Fort Chester
Railroad. etc"
The Bronx sees ray Of hope in the decision Of
the railroad committee TO hold a public hearing
on the Port Chester application The borough
believes that the aldermen are becoming weary
OF the long fight waged by the people TO obtain
decent railroad facilities for The Bronx. and
that the hearing Will probably result In the Porr
Chester application being reported out Of com
Tnittee and the responsibility for further action
placed on the full board. President Haffen OF
The Bronx represented the sentiment OF his Dor
Ough at Tuesdays meeting.
Officers of the various associations are urging
their members and residents OF The Bronx gem
orally 10 attend next Mondays hearing ana
speak for the passage of the resolution The
North Side Board of Trade. the Twsnty-third
Ward Property Owners Association, the Tax
PAYERS Alliance, the Ven Nest Property Own
ers' Association and a score of other organIsa-
tions will have delegations present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
TALE OF MUTINY At SEA.
Coal Passer Wounds officers of
British Steamer-KilLs One Man.

The British steamer Arabistan into port
Yesterday with tale of mutiny and murder at sea
off the Brazilian coast on Bahia, Antonio Cas-
sado a coal passer. knocked down one OF his
mates with a lump of COAL and refused TO put his
hands behind him TO be handcuffed. When Cap
tain Roberts and three others Of the afterguard
started for him, he drew gun and shot the mas
ter in the left shoulder the ball passing through
and hitting Chief Engineer Smith in the risht eye
A second shot grazed Robertss eye. and struck
the engineer In the back. and the third shot pehe-
trated the abdomen of Davis. the first officer ana
lodged in the left leg Of Second officer Hopkins.
Hopkins wounded again by the next shot' Ihls
time in the shoulder and Cascades last shot
lodged in the leg of Third officer Hawkes..
Then the mutineer ran to the forecastie. reloadeu
his revolver and started to clean out the quarters.
Every scrambled out onto the deck with me
exception of the donkey man. a sou WeBlah;
known ions, who started to seize Cassadio only
to be shot in the abdomen before he could graPple
with him: ions bled to death and Cascade par
ricaded himself in the forecaStle-
The panfc-Str1cken, and the WOUNDED
officers had desire to TO close quarters. SO
the Arabistan put in to Bahia. flying signals of
distress Here Cascade was taken of in irons
by the local police.
The Arabtstan. being under British register, Cas-
sadie has been sent England for trial. and Davis
and Hopkins have gone to England to prosecute
him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
PREACHER and GIRL GO.
Her Father PurSues IN AutO-For.
mer Drezc Out Ufe's Honey.
IBr TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE 7

New-Brunswick. y. J.. May 1S-The Rev. J. F.
Cordova pastor Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in South River 8iiddIesex County, has disappeared
and Miss Julia Bovine twenty wears old. the daugh-
ter OF j. COnover Bovine. member OF the official
board OF the church, is also missing Mr. Bovine
has report the police OF several cities that
they have eIoped. and he asked to have them ar
rested.
The minister left behind him a wife and three
small children. He conducted the usual church
class meeting last night and Miss Bovine was there
and participated in the meeting. The girls father
was also there. He had heard OF the ministers
attentions his daughter and that the two fire.
Quenty took walks together at night He spoke
70 his daughter after the meeting and she prom
ised TO go straight home. but later Mr.. Bovine met
the two together and demonstrated. and the two
separated. Miss Bovine boarded trolley toward
Newt Brunswick. The minister, it Is said, BOARDED
the same little later. The went only to
Midtown. haIt way to New-Brunswick. The min
lister. the conductor OF the says tried 70 hire
4 horse and buggy. but in vain. and the two started
walk toward this Cttv-
In the While Mr.. Bovine heard that the two
had boarded a trolley and with George FAR
the l1tterS automobile started in pursuit. Hs
learned that thew had been in NlilltOwn but could
get further trace OF them
Il appeared TO-DAY that Mrs. CordOva recently
deposit IN his own name in the National Bank o.
South River RE had Withdrawn this. and
money which he had in q building and loan ass-
citation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-19
THE CASPIAN SEA.
From The London Telegraph.


One of the most remarkable physical features NJ
the globe is the deep and wide depression in the
hollow of which stands the Caspian Sea and nea >
il the Sea of Aral. The Caspian is nearly as
large France. and it's surface is eighty feet
below the level of the Black Sea. The Sea OF Arai
is nearly large Ireland. and is very little over
the sea level. Within recent geological times the
vast expanse in which these lakes found was
sea Its floor has been gradually raised and the
waters filing the depressions all that is left
of ancient Mediterranean. strange feature of
both bodies of water Is that although they receive
large rivers especially the Caspian into which the
VolEa the Ural River and scores of streams from
the Caucasus flow both have for many years been
getting shallower Evaporation. for they have no
outlet exceeds the inflow. But for some climatic
reason probably. like Lake Aral and it's neighbor
Lake Balkhash, have since 1891 been increasing In
depth. Nature" reports that NJ; Berg visited Lake
Balkhash last summer and found that the level was
rising with comparative rapiditY. Whereas the
Caspian like the Dead Sea. is very salt. owing 20
the rate OF evaporation Aral and Balkhash are
braclSish only These remnants of what was once
great opening into the ocean, as the Mediter-
ranean does now still contain marine FISH and
seals. Some of the latter survive in the Aral and
Baikal lakes, having gradually become fitted for
their habitat though IL is no longer salt but merely
brackish. and, in the OF Baika actually fresh
water