New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-28
Constant Reader Tells Him
What He Missed in Last
Weeks Paper.

philadelphia appears to cause moro excitement
these days than st. Petersburg remarked Busy
Man
THE gang there has at last found that it does
not own the city utterly" replied Constant Reader
THE passage Of an ordinance by the council leasing
the city's gas plants for seventy-fve years for
S5,0o0G00 started the fight. Mayor Weaver i'm
medately took up cudgels 10 stop the job. and
before vetoing the ordinance he sought weaken
the machine that the councilmen would not pass
the grab over his head. Accordingly at one blow
he took 10000 Offices out of the gangs control by
deposing principal members of his cabinet
David J. Smith. Director of the Department of
Public Safety. and Peter Z. Costello, Director Of
the Department OF Public Works In their places
he appointed his own men. These two departments
contain 10000 city employees. The Mayor chose for
his personal counsel. Elihu Root"
Il that the first Carnegie hero medals have
been awarded" said Busy Man.
They presented to nine persons The sum
of $4,000 also voted for the survivors OF
Brockton factory disaster. Altogether SO 200 in
money was given. And here's more out of town
news Russia has decided TO buy 5000 tons Of
steel rails in Pitsburg The So 10000 Thebes bridge
thrown open to traffic across the Mississippi
The bridge is the only over that river between
Memphis and St Louis. Work was begun nm +ba
S.5o000o tunnel under the Detroit River TO connect
the Michigan CentraTs divisions The Chicago
teamster strike spread and tied up practically all
the lumber yards The attempt to imprison the
Two We're killed In one riot. Presbyterfans ar
q session Of the General Assembly at Winona
Lake Ind, adopted resolution for the erection
OF a great cathedral at Washington. w c. lutte
OF Pittsburg once worth SO 100000 but reduced TO
penury. killed himself at Atlantic City One was
killed and injured in a collision OF trolley
cars near Baltimore. The explosion of a locomotive
at Columbus killed six. Robert Lake, of Nev-YorL
his brother Harry and two friends were badly
burned by explosion on the yacht of the first
me
totally wrecked"
What lot Of catastrophesr'
And they have happened in the financial world
we'll" continued Constant Reader the fgiIura
Of the banking firm OF Burnett. Cummings & Co.
OF Boston. hit seventy-one banks and trust com
panies. At Canton Ohio. a State bank was COM
PEELED to close. Holman & Co. Of C4ncinnat,
bankers and brokers, assigned In Chicago there
were some small failures. and sudden breaks in
May corn may cause Others. At home financial
circles have been uneasy. The Merchants Trust
Company closed its doors its failure brought about
by the investment OF its funds in a LOT az r,,di
gested securities. District Attorney Jerome is
probing the causes Of the collapse. Stocks have
sagged badly.
What other news about town."
Three lawyers We're indicted for coDsDirac,, o,d
grand larceny. committed it is charged yvbfa
handling the funds Of the Weseu estate The nIa1
TO mutualize the Equitable Life Assurance Society
enjoined. Tiffany gems valued az $50 coo v,oro
reported missing. The Pnkertons here and de-
tecttVes abroad are working on the case The tax
stock transfers has driven some trol,ers :,
Jersey City. Hudson County officials. however as
sert that they will not tolerate any bucket sbons'
there. John D. Rockefeller IT., reported 10 be
suffering from nervous dyspepsia his ratber,s al
ment lockout Of 1900 worImen halted much
building throughout the ci.y The Blue and the
Gray were united at Mount Hope Cemetery where
Union veterans joined in laying flowers on Con
Tolerate graves. The EoAce Commissioner armed