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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-26

Tho twenty-iifth anniversary of tho in
PRODUCTION of electric traction into Ger
many Will soon he celebrated in Bcr-
LIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
HITS ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Or. Fiske Says High Church Does
Not Seek Reunion.

Speaking on 1.-The Reformation ar the meet
ing of the Church Club. an organization OF the
leading Episcopalians in Brooklyn. held In the
Diocesan House. No 10 Remsen-st-, last Night
the Rev. DIR. George Mcclellan Fiske rector OF
ST. Stephens Church. Providence. r. l., VINO
recently refused a coadjutor bishopric In the
Springfield diocese of Illinois. expressed some
radical views which startled some of the more
conservative churchmen.
Dr. Fiske who is one of the leaders or the
High Church party took the ground that the
Reformation was in reality not reformation
but a return to the original principles OF the
true Catholic Church. He used some rather
strong language in criticism Of the policy ana
practices Of the Catholic Church as it is to-day
He spoke of the oxford movement Of Newman
and Manning in England, and said that 1t mao
not been a success and had entirely died out
The Reformation. he said. was not the begin
ming of the Episcopal Church. because before IL
the Episcopal Church was a part Of the Roman
Catholic Church. He said that the Episcopal
Church would never be absorbed by the Roman
Catholic Church. because the latter had never
apologized for the Inquisition.
1t was the annual meeting OF the Church
Club and the following officers were elected:
James Sherlock Davis. president; George Foster
Peabody, Wilhelmus Mynderse and Harrington
Putnam, vice-presidents; Sutherland r. Haxtum,
secretary; William b. DALI treasurer; Edwin A.
Marschalk, Wihelmus MyndeTse. John E Spar
row, DIR. William 5. Hubbard and Clement B.
Asbury directors of the class of 1908.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
GUARD AGAINST SNEAK THIEVES.
Firemen No Longer Trust Police to Protect
Their Property.

the absence of Chief Croker. who is in CUBA on
vacation has issued order to all the fire COM
panies which is designed to put stop TO long
series of thefts from engine houses For years
1t has been the rule when alarm is received
for all the men in engine house to turn out
leaving their personal effects and department prop
erty unguarded. The policeman post was sup
posed TO close the engine house doors and watch
for thieves.
Apparently Chief Binns has better opinion OF
the watchfLlness of the police than has Chief
Croker, for his order requires that until further
notice man shall be left guard at the engine
house when the company responds TO alarms. A
lively reception awaits the first sneak thief who
pays a visit 10 IF. D., N. " engine house
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
REFORM CLUB TO SELL.
Effects Will BE Disposed of To-Day
Plans announced.

An authoritative statement regarding the plans of
the Reform Club given TO Tribune reporter
last evening by DR.. Milo R. Maltbie secretary of
the Municipal Art Commission, who was formerly
secretary OF the Committee on City Affairs. DIR.
Matbie said that the club occupied its home, No.
East S5th-st- under a lease. and all was going on
satisfactorily wnen B. Altman bought most of the
block for drygoods store He bought all the prop
erty around the club. which made it almost impos-
sble TO stay there said Dr. Maltbe, and bought the
clubhouse. The club got fair price for its lease
and out by May /. He continued:
In the short time before May It has been al
town or downtown for the club. SO that temporary
Arts Club in West 34th-st for club facilities there
pending decision Of the selection OF definite ana
There are two propositions that have been urged
One is the taking Of house uptown T9T the usual
luncheon club downtown which would serve as a
eG IN municipal and national QUESTIONS Neither
has been definitely decided and in the next few
vassed. In the mean time, the headquarters OF the
Club and at No. 81 Nassau-st
All the furnishings and supplies of the Reform
CIuD VIZ: ne sold tomorrow, with the exception of
the most important pieces of furniture and the
paintings and sculpture. which have been the prop
erty of the club for many years and about which
many interesting anecdotes are clustered
The Reform Clubs library contains nearly 1900
volumes, having the best collection on city affairs
and currency and banking in the United States
Many suggestions have been made and offers from
three sources for tire housing and maintenance Of
The library being considered The plan which
seems TO meet with most general approval is
temporary loan 10 Columbia University, at least,
until a new clubhouse is secured, and possibly
longer, If the arrangement should be found TO be
satisfactory to Columbia and the Reform Club and
appreciated by the public at large.
The Reform Club has always felt that such a
valuable collection should be open to all specially
interested In the subjects with which ii deals, and
has therefore. for some time made it possible for
persons interested in city affairs and currency to
utilize it's library.
The club has accumulated fund of $4,000 above
and beyond all obligations which have been in
CURED and it is the consensus of opinion that this
fund should be kept intact and the income used
20 further the principles for which the Reform
Club has stood. namely, tariff reform, sound cur
rency and municipal reform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
DEPLORE G.. r. u. ATTACK
Unions Cannot Force Withdralcai
from CiUic Federation

Tho conservative delegates of the Central Fed
Grated Union were indignant yesterday at the at
tack made ON the Civic Federation on Sunday,
eliminating in the passing of resolution by the
Central Federated Union calling all affiliated
unions to withdraw their members from the red
Grafton. They say that the meeting was stampedeo
in favor of this resolution by men who know
nothing about the Civic Federation, its aims and
objects and that the unions have no authority TO
carry out the resolution. Herman Robinson, hnan-
ciaI secretary of the Central Federated Union, said
that union had more right to order any OF its
members to withdraw from the Civic Federation
than to order them to withdraw from the Masonic
fraternity.
''The members of unions who are in the Civic
Federation" he continued, belong to it in
dividuaIs representing the wage earners not as
representatives of their unions. The destinations
against Samuel Gompers and other prominent labor
men who belong to the Civic Federation were made
by men who either did not know what they were
talking about who wanted to abuse them any
way. I am not apoogist for the Civic Fedora
ton, and I have nothing to say against it. 1 do
know however, that it has done great deal OF
good In bringing both sides together in a labor
dispute as disinterested party. when settlement
settlement Most Of the speeches against the Civic
boiled them down they amounted to nothing"
Ralph NJ. Easley chairman Of the national ex-
was rather surprised at the action of the Central
sConsiderabIe misunderstanding seems to have
arisen as to how the membership OF the Civic Fed
no delegated members from either the Employers
associations the labor unions. The labor mem
bers represent only themselves, not the organiza-
lions with which they are affiliated. and the
thing is true of employers who are members. For
instance James p Archibald. member OF the
Brotherhood of Painters, is not in the Civic Fed
GRAFTON as a member Of the brotherhood but as an
individual. Samuel Gompers is a member. but not
representative of the American Federation OF
Labor Neither is John Mitchell in the body "a a
representative of the United Mine Workers You
might as well say that Bishop Potter was mem
Der representing the Episcopal Church, or that
Lucius futile there to represent the Boston
and Maine Railroad. They are there individuals
and such speak their minds freely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
PLAYGROUND ON ROOFS.
City Children Made Robust by Open
dir Treatment.

Living in a choice dwelling house the upper
East Side is a family which with the aid of DR..
w. P. Northrup professor of pediatrics in the Uni
versty and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, has
solved the perplexing problem of how to keep three
Children in the city in the winter and spring season
free from bodily ills. The father built play
ground for the children the roof of the house.
At a recent meeting of the pediatric section of
the Academy of Medicine. DR.. Northrup read a
paper on Roof Gardens City Private Houses
and in that paper, which has attracted widespread
attention in medical circles. he told Of the expert
ences of this family.
Three of the most striking sentences in his paper
are 1.-THE air of New-York City is really good
after one gets above the drifts and swirls of dust
of the street level. In inaugurating this new and
radical treatment a wise nurse is a necessity.
Parents with sand a necessity. It requires
courageous parents to follow implicitly such a
hares as were the parents of the children of which
I speak. The total cost of the roof playground was
a little than $50"
Continuing he said:
why were they not sent out into the park half
a block away? some one will ask They were sent
to the park daily. Soon they came to loathe the
thought of going out. In the country they had
when out of doors. In town they must be dressed
1T for the park, the must dress herself prop
erly and by the time they all ready to go out
they in their wraps, impatient, pull
ing in divergent directions. After twenty minutes
perhaps they emerge from the house Within the
flowers fruit or leaf, must not get on the iron
benches with their feet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
SUE j. III. KIRBY'S COMPANY
Land almost Equal to Dela1oare
IRUOLUed.
[pY TELEGRAPH TO THE rn1RuNE.l

Baltimore, March 27.-The filing of suit by
the Maryland Trust Company to-day in the Fed
eral Court at Houston. Tex, against the Kirby
Lumber Company, is the beginning of a contest
for Houston oil properties. Land about equal to
the area of the State of Delaware is involved.
Elihu Root is among the counsel Of the Mary
land company. The persons chiefly involved are
John H. Kirby and B. F. Yoakum, president of
the ST. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. and
Patrick Calhoun, of New-York
Among the allegations are these:
That the lumber mills were not transferred by
Kirby to the Kirby Lumber Company free from
debts, although the Houston Oil Company fully
paid the price in cash. Debts Of more than
$266OO0 on January l. 1902, were charged, and
creditors said to be suing.
That Kirby failed to supply the Kirby Lumber
Company with working capital agreed. and
cept what came from the Houston Oil Company
by credit upon the property furnished by 1t.
Yoakum is accused with Kirby of conspiracy
against the trust estate of the plaintiff 1t is
asserted that it is planned to give YOakum con-
troll of all the railroads and tramways of the
Kirby Lumber Company
The bill asks for notification of the railroad
agreement between the Kirby company and B.
F. Yoakum, enforcement of the rights of trustees
over the mills and tramways and accounting
between the Houston Oil Company and the XIII
by company.
The Maryland Trust Company is the trustee
of the lumber and oil companies and has been
operating them under an agreement made when
they were organized. There are large holdings in
New York and Philadelphia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
RECOVER JEwELRY CALMUs STOLE.
Philadelphia Police Find Articles Valued at
$4,000 in Pawnshop.
[BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE. !

Philadelphia. March 27-The police of this city
to-day recovered silverware and jewelry worth
$1,000 belonging to Mrs. H Kochsberger and Mrs.
Annette Kochsberger, which stolen from their
apartments in the Manhattan Square Hotel New
York, by John Calmus. the young hotel thief The
articles Were found in pawnshop.
The local detectives aided in their search
by Calmuss confession 10 Detective Al Rice, who
forwarded TO this city information which led TO
the location OF the stolen property. Mrs Kochsber-
ger came here to-day and identified her property.
The goods were pawned on February IA. the day
after the robbery.
CalmuS remained here for several days after this.
and occupied suite Of rooms for time at the
Hotel Walton. and spent two days at the Bellevue
Stratford
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
| WITNESSES MUST REPLY.
Gas Investigating Committee WM
Not Tolerate EUasion.

FxSn information obtained yesterday from re-
sponsble sources it was learned that the legislative
lighting investigating committee, of which Senator
Stevens is chairman win not tolerate recalcitrancy
on the part of witnesses. If those who are sum-
moned do not answer the questions propounded by
Charles E. Hughes, the counsel. they viii be COM
mtted to jail for contempt. The committee Is
clothed with extraordinary powers and can do this
Senator Stevens spent some time yesterday with
Mr.. Hughes Gustave E. Kirby and former Assist
ant District Attorney schurman. Half a dozen
process servers were started out with summonses
for officials of the Consolidated Gas Company One
of the paragraphs of the subpoena served on the
lighting officials yesterday was follows:
And we hereby command you to bring with you
and produce before said committee at such time
and place all the minute books of the CONSOLIDATED
of directors Of said company. and OF the stock
holders of said company from the date or It's or
nent Tor II the original is not in your possession
a copy thereof, made in or about the year 1854
between the New-York Gas Light Company Man
haitian Gas Light Company. metropolitan Gas
Light Company Harlem Gas Light Company, Mu-
nicpal Gas Light Company and the knickerbocker
Gas Light Company, and all the minutes of the
and of the stockholders of the said companies,
respectively from the date of organization TO this
date
The officers of the Consolidated and those of Its
constituent companies have been summoned. Vice
President Lewis B. Gamtry OF the Consolidated was
served with three subpoenas-one as vicepresident,
one as secretary of the Astoria Light, Heat and
Power Company, and one secretary of the Ed
son Electric Illuminating Company.
Walter r. Addicks. a brother of the famous Dela-
Thursdays hearing. Other officers Of the Consoli-
dated who the schedule for the opening days
H Bradley. chief engineer. and Benjamin Whitley,
assistant treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
TO RENOMINATE FORNES
Catholic Club Endorses Him-Prea-
ure ON Murphy.

Charles " Fornes. President OF the Board OF Al.
dermen. had a long talk with Charles F. Murphy
at Tammany Hall yesterday, and Mr.. FOrnss's
friends said last night that he would be renoni-
mated for President OF the Board OF Aldermen
II is understood that the Catholic Club has raj
lied to the support of Mr.. FOrnes and that the
members OF that organization will insist that Mr.
Fornes's services to the city be recognized By a
denomination
The argument for the denomination Of President
FOrnes - that he has stood by the Mayor In the
Board of Estimate and that President OF the
Board OF Aldermen he has established reputation
for fairness
The denomination and reelection of President
Fornes would be agreeable TO the Sullivans Lit
tie Tim Sullivan Is the commanding figure in TIE
Board OF Aldermen at present. This is apparent "a
the record made by Mr.. Sullivan In the Port Ches-
ter franchise and again with the New-Yorl Con
Meeting Railroad franchise. When the latter prop
ositiOn was held up by the Tammany men under
the leadership Of Messrs. Sullivan Mccall and
Doull President Fornes told Tribune reporter
that he was going to take firm stand against
such tactics and would insist on the prompt pas
sage OF the franchise. He didn't DO it.
II Mr.. Fornes really is on the Tammany slate
as he thinks he is ID makes II practically certain
that Tammany will go to Brooklyn Tor its candi-
date for Controller There has been a good deal
the ticket and naming a good Iammary nan from
Manhattan The Bronx for COntrOter Mr.. Muir
phy will not name a candidate for Controller who
will embarrass him as Controller Grout has done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
DEATH RATE INCREASES.
Meningitis Still Unchecked = Or
GuiIfoy CriticiseS Treatment.

Although snow has vanished and the condition OF
the streets has in the last few days. the
meningitis epideHlic is increasing There we're
eighty-fve deaths from this disease last week.
thirteen over the number reported in the preceding
week For the corresponding week OF 1904 there
were only fourteen deaths from this cause. Had II
not been for the epidemic last week would have
shown an exceptionally low mortality record As
IL was the percentage of deaths per ,ooo was only
mil while last year the record for the correspond
ing week stood 2451 per 1000.
The officials of the Health Department have little
faith in the experimental operation performed BY
Dr. Helmuth. at Flower Hospital last week. al
though the patient Is reported on the road 70 re-
covery. In discussing the case. DR.. Guilfoy said:
do not believe that trephining the skull In order
TO remove the pus from the covering about the
brain will be found satisfactory. The operation IS
an exceedingly dangerous one. Last year and THIS
year the pus has been removed from the brain and
the spinal cord by means OF a hypOdermio needle
This is done by puncturing the spinal cord. and Is
not dangerous. We have drawn on the cere0rO-
spinal fluid both for therapeutic and casnostle
iured In some cases antiseptic solutions have
been injected in order antagOnize the effects or
the meningitis germs on the system Inc results
in all these treatments are matters OF question:
The death rate has ranged from 80 TO 90 per cent
even at the best appointed hospitals rms patienr
OF DR.. Helmuth's may recover, but that does not
prove that he has found a cure any more Inan
when a single patient at GOuVerneur ftosplLal I'M
proves under a treatment OF diphther1a anutOxin-
Bellevue has no faith IN the serum
There are thirteen cases Of spinal meningitis at
Mount Sinai Hospital. Eleven OF the patients are
children II was said at the hospital last night
that so many cases were not unusual for this time
OF the year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
FULL MILITARY HoNoRs FOR AzpIRoz
Troops for Escort-Cruiser Columbia to
Garry Body Home.

Washington, March 27.-In compliance with a re-
quest from the Mexican government forwarded
through the State Department, the War Depart
ment has ordered that full military paid
10 the memory OF Senior Azproz. the late Mexican
Ambassador, the occasion of the obseques in
this city tomorrow.
Orders were issued to-day by General Chaffee,
chief Of sta for the participation OF United States
hoops in tho funeral ceremonies military escort
viii be provided, consisting Of a squadron of the
9Th Cavalry from Fort Myer. detachment of field
artillery with four guns from Fort Myer and bat
talon of engineers with the engineer band from
The Washington Barracks. AS arranged, the
funeral cortege will be escorted from the Mexican
Embassy to st. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church
and thence to Oakhiu Cemetery where the body
Is 10 be deposited in the receiving vault pending
the completion OF arrangements for its transporta-
lon 10 Mexico. The State Department for
lnaliy advised to-day that the Mexican government
gratefully accepts the offer OF the United States to
send the Ambassadors remains to Mexico on a
United States Warship. and the naval authorities
have selected the cruiser Columbia for this pur-
pose. The Columbia to-day ordered to pro-
ceed from Guantanamo to New-York, where she
VIII coal and be properly equipped for the accom-
modation of the party which will accompany the
body TO Mexico.
Sonora Azpiroz and her daughter. Senorita, Az
plroz, VIII be invited to accompany the body to
Mexico on the warship, and suitable accommoda-
tons viii be provided for them.
As a remark of respect TO the late Ambassador 1t
has been ordered that the Bureau of American Re-
publics be closed tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
liar" SAYS SCHOLER.
Body Sn0tcher," He odds to I'm
dertaker- TzCo Wives ActiUe.

Coroner Scholer, 7th-ave undertaken and the
lawyer of one of the two women claiming Doris
w. Warren as husband, had wrangle yesterday
in which the lie direct passed freely
Warren died last Friday from asphyxiation in
his room at No. 222 West S7th-st. and an agent of
the insurance company which employed him as COL
lector gave orders to have the body taken to an
undertaking establishment in 19th-st On Saturday
Mrs. Rose Warren, of No 5O1 West 4Oth-st.. claimed
the body and had it removed to the establishment
of P. B. Mcdonnell. No 374 7th-ave. Yesterday
Mrs. Josie Warren, of Hawthorne. N j., applied at
the eoroner's Office for the body. She said she had
been married to Warren several years and had had
five children by him. In his application for posi-
ton with the insurance company Warren described
himself married and living in Hawthorne
Coroner Scholer and Mrs Josie Warren went to
McDonnell's place and found that Warren's body
had been buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery Mas
peth Long Island, early in the morning. by Mrs.
Rose Warren. Coroner Schoer had with him
sheaf of subpcenas, which he began to serve on
every one in the place who had had anything to
do with the for the inquest Friday. Nc
Donnell protested and the coroner became angry
TN stop this business he said you're a crook
and body snatcher"
You're liar' yelled the undertaken
you're liar and body snatcher!" repeated
Scholer. lawyer named Cohen, counsel for Nc
Donnell, interrupted at this point, and the coroner
demanded who he was. When ne learned, he
called him a liar also Cohen, this, started
toward the coroner with uphfted fist, the coroner
squaring off to meet him with alacrty Two
patromen jumped in between them in time to pre-
vent bloodshed. Then the coroner resumed his de-
scription of the undertaken.
I'll stop this body snatching business of yours"
he cried. 1--WE been watching you for a long time,
and I've got your pedigree all right. This amt
the first time you've done anything crooked. I
command you to take up Warren's body and re-
move it 10 the morgue within twenty-four hours to
await the inquest"
Mcdonnell declared he would not do this without
an order from Mrs. Rose Warren, whereupon the
coroner, after saying he would arrest the man at
the expiration of the twenty-four hours if the
body not at the morgue went out, slamnlins
the door behind him in McDonnelrs face.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-28
ARREST CAUSES RIOT.
Several Hurt When Police Take Han
ON Little Girls Complaint.

More than three hundred persons took part in the
arrest Of George z. Goss, fifty-one years old,
furniture salesman of No. 513 5th-ave., Brooklyn.
last night when he locked up in the West
47th-st station on the complaint of two girls, six
and eight years old.
Stones were thrown and persons were hit on the
head by angry men and women. Special Policeman
John Mclaughlin received a cut in the scalp and
John Burns of No. Ala West 56th-st. arrested
on a charge of assault. James Creter, of No. 541
West 47th-st. was also arrested, charged with
larceny Goss alleging that Creter stole his gold
watch and chain. Viola Englehart, Of No S48
11th-ave., and Mamie Murray, of No. SAG 11th-ave,
were walking in West 57th-st. when they say, they
met Goss The latter, it is alleged, offered them
money and tried to pull them into hallway. The
girls called for help, and a crowd at once gath