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WHOLE FAMILY
BADLY HURT
IN COLLISION
Car Crashes Into Carriage
at Williamsburg Bridge
Entrance.

Max Dublin. his wife. Ethel. and their
two children. Johnny, three, n Harry.
eve were all badly injured to-day
when n Broadway trolley car wrecked
their carriage at the eastern entrance
to the Williamsburg Bridge.
Mr.. Dublin was driving across the car
tracks when car No. 1858 shot down the
incline from keap street and crashed
into the vehicle, smashing 1t into frag-
ments. All of the occupants were
thrown out and rendered unconscious.
Mrs. Dubin's right arm was broken and
she was cut about the face n body.
Both the children and their father
were insensible when picked up though
no bones were broken. The car was
crowded with passengers and they were
thrown into n panic by the terrific jolt
Of the car and the crash of breaking
windows.
Two surgeons arrived on an ambu-
lance from the Eastern District Hos
pital. They dressed the Dubins' hurts.
but could not induce any one OF them
to go to the hospital. They were all
aiken home in a carriage. Motorman
Kennedy. who had charge OF the troll
ley car, says he lost control OF II ON
ing down the hill from Keap street.
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by a huge bulldog. He has won re-
nown and respect among his kind by
his known brutality to his FIVE slaves
and his great affection for his dog.
In the back Of a Raines law hotel
near Eighteenth street and Third ave
nue. he struck n of his slaves over
the head with a bottle q few nights
ago, knocking her senseless. When a
policeman arrested him. however. the
Young gir would not make any COM
plant.
Another OF these men, known in the
precinct commanded from the East
~Twenty-second street station as 'Selt-
ger from the fact that he never
drinks anything else, recently pur-
chased a Raines law hotel on Third
avenue within a few blocks of the sta
ton house. His resort is immensely
popular with the Gerdrons of that
neighborhood. In spite of his prosper
ity. and he is also said 10 have con-
siderable political influence. he has
now four slaves who are virtually his
prisoners IN the dive he runs.
Girl Slaves from Paris.
Though 1t may seem a remarkable
fact. the Tenderloin proper has far
fewer OF this sort OF men than the east
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TWO CIR USERS FOR
HI A ENJOYS
Japanese aud Russians VIII he
Taken to Oyster bay ON War
ships-ROoscvelt Ready.

OYSTER BAY. L. l.. July T.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt devoted himself excIu-
siyely to-day 10 transaction of the .Ex-
ecutiye business forwarded to him from
Washington.
Arrangements. with the exception OF
the date, have beel completed for the
approaching visit To the President OF
the Peace PlenIpotentiaries. The Navy
Department has suggested ana the
President has approved of the idea that
the ENJOYS be brought to Oyster Bay
from New York on two cruisers.
After the Informal reception. the pier
lpotentiarieS will go aboard the May
flower and Dolphin here and Will be
taken to those vessels to Portsmouth.
y. H., with an escort of at least one
cruiser and perhaps two.
Commander Cameron MGR. Wlns.ow.
who has been ordered TO command the
M~aynUwer, which will be at the dis
posal OF the ENJOYS during their So
journ In the United States, will con
.Inue as tho Presidents Naval Aide
Notwithstanding his new oommsa1s
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BABY UNHURT
AS BIC TREE
FALLS ON II
Child in Its Carriage Is
Found Covered with
Branches.

Surely God protects children said
Policeman Daniel Haggerty as he
stood looking at a fallen giant null
berry tree in front OF No, AZ Cranberry
street, Brooklyn, to-day.
This tree, which looked as though 1t
could crush a house, fell suddenly yes
terIay afternoon directly across tho
pavement. Haggerty saw the big
tree waver!ng. A number OF children
were playing under It and the police
man pushed them TO safety, but he was
not quick enough to roll a baby car.
riaSe, containing the ten-months-old
infant OF Mrs. Charles Stanley, Of No.
70 Hign street, out OF the way.
The tree came down with a great
noise n fel! across the baby car
rage, bearing It to the ground, baby
and all The infant was lost IN the
tree branches, and every one believed
IL was crushed 10 death.
HlgGcrly, with an axe, vigorously
cut through the big branches, Il great
crowd urging him on,
And what. do you think found
when | got there?" quyricd ilagserty,
grnniug. give up? We'll, ! found the
baby, That KID was pulling away AZ
fallen, on the child. but II wasn't
scratched"
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RUSSIA'S PEACE
A rs TOLD.

ct. PETERSBURG, July 1.-THE No.
voc Vremya to-day prints the following
statement Of RussIa's position. which
may be inspired:
PRUSSIA can consent only TO such a
peace as will not affect the dignity OF
vital interests of the Empire, TO act
OF herwise would be fatal 10 Russia and
would threaten all Europe. Europe NJ
longer believes in Japdn's assurances
thai she viii not restrict European in
terests In the Far East,
Even In England and America tn,
voices OF moral instigalovB can be neard
in favor of the ind rect interference o.
mands,
"olr plcnipotentLariss must renrem5e.
oaniy or Russia but also OF the othe,
caucasian powers, ami they will hni
Sapral SUPPORT IN Berlin. Paris. WASH
iszton and perl ps ever In London
Our army In the field is. much stronger
than Il was hfteen months ago"
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dismal. foul-odored dance hall. whj,s
policemen stand at the very threshold
swinging their night sticks.
This place is often the SCENE ~ ,bo
merciless beating Of white slaves when
their masters find them there intoxi.
Gated instead OF paTadins the street an
'hey We're commanded. No one would
interfere with the most brutal chastise-
mcnt OF women in a place Of this char
acter; whereas, in resorts tina endeavor
to maintain a higher tone, the punish
ment is not allowed to 60 to the length
of a cruel beating.
There are few G%erdrons, however.
south OF Canal street. Their most pom
ular haunts extend northward from
Grand street and abound along Second
avenue to Sixth street. There are many
resorts in this ne!ghborhood where you
VIII see girls. for the most part of for
eisn birth. come in and report their
earnings and turn them over to their
masters at stated hours.
If they do not report on time 1t Is a
part Of the dreadful system Of these
Gerdrons TO go out in a party to round
up the unfortunate wcman and when
found she will be driven to her home
and held there a prisoner until her mas
ter arrives to mete out her punishment.
III one of these places a few days
after the Staying OF Emil Gerdron was
a young and vesv pretty girl sitting
alone in a corner of the room sobb.ng.
Every now and then she would raise
her head and glance fearfully toward
the door. A group of Gerdrons sitting
near her were making sport OF the girls
grief, and II soon became apparent from
their talk that she has lost her purse,
containing quite n sum of money that
she had been driven into the street
to earn.
Soon a broad-shouldered. extrava-
gantly dressed young man entered the
place. He had three diamond rings on
one land and a jewelled scarfpin. When
he saw the girl he strobe toward her.
and commanded her to stop crying and
get out on the street again, 1t vas two
hours past midnight.
Struck and Kicked Slave Girl.
When she told him that she had lost
her pocketbook his face became livid
with rage, and he struck her across the
face with the back OF his hand, his
rings making deep marks In the soft
nesh. Then he kicked her in the ankles
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side and the district now known ms
the French Tenderlo:n. it was in the
French Tenderloin that Gerdron vas
slain. Only a few years French
men began TO come over from Paris
bringing their slaves from provincial
villages and peasant homes.
There is hardly a resort from Twenty
thlrd street north TO S!NtieSh street
along Seventh avenue that is not fire.
Guented by these Frenchmen. They do
frightened by the fate OF Emil Ger
dron, and are as bold as ever in their
watchfulness OF their bondwomen and
their public chastisement OF them.
There is a dance hall on Seventh
avenue. near Thirty-seventh street. thai
IS almost exclusively patronized by
Gerdrons. The revelry docs not begin
IN this place until midnight and con-
tinues we'll into the day. Many young
girls from the neighboring tenements
are lured to their ruin in rhis place.
as there is connected with II a sort
OF trap. n suit OF rooms on an upper
floor. where the spiders take both weak
anj willing flies into the depths OF the
tr.h
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Regular Patro! System.

1t is difficult to get into many o!
these places after midnight unless you
are known. and until Midnight there is
practically nothing going on. These
back-room dance halls are often OBJ
tanned entrance to by winding pass
ages, and the doors are as carefully
guarded as the thresholds of gambling
houses
Since the shooting and killing Of
Gerdron, the Frenchmen have not only
not relaxed in their slave-driying. but can
be seen. II one is acquainted with their
system, exercising more vigilance than
ever in keeping track OF their victims.
They have a regular patrol system OF
both sides Of seventh venue. taking
in all the Raines law resorts on the
thoroughfare. by which they are ac-
qusinted with every step taken by their
slaves.
The police know these men well, but
full in their, conduct and discreet n
their attitude that .patrolmen would
really have no legal right to arrest
them. Every nov and then. however,
when one of them becomes overbold
and assaults his slave on the thor
oughfare.. it, gives the policemen a
chance TO show what they think OF
them. More than one In the past
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ARREST four IN
LODCINC-H0USE
Death MYSTERY
Police Hold Men as Sus-
picious Persons Pending
an Investigation,

The police OF the Elizabeth Street
Station to-day arraigned in Centre
Street Court four mon whom they
charged with being suspicious persons.
They hope to hold them prisoners until
a further investigation can be made Of
the case of Patrick Hayes, a lab1rcr.
found dead in bed last night in a lods-
ing house at No. 9 Chatham square.
The prisoners are Joseph BarbeT. OF
No. IS Baxter street Luigi GArblnO, OF
No. 400 Pearl street Andrew C~avanagn.
the night clerk wAo lives in the mouse.
and Henry Meyers. lie watcAmanr oil
No. IS Bowerv.
Hayes was found by Cayanagh. A
wound IN Hayes's heai and blood On
his hands seemed 10 indicate foul play.
N DR.. Merrill, OF the Hudson Street
Hospital. who was summoned, said r.e
man had been dead Tor eight hours.
"a the man : pockets was SIS rAe o
men denied tIat there had been any
night IL The place, and at the same time
they said Hayes had not had the wound
when ne came in.
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and seized a bottle, raising it as II TO
strike her, when a waiter hurried UP
and separated the pair. The miserable
incident was closed by the man order
ing his slave to return to the street and
make up the money she lost before she
dared come TO her home.
Then he sat down with a fellow Of his
kind and bought drinks, paying for
them from a large roll of bills. All OF
the Gerdrons in the place applauded
him for what he had done. and he wore
the satisfied air of a man who has done
something worthy of commentator.
In another place OF Second avenue, a
block further north, three young women
were alone at a table talking with some
animation. At a large table a short
distance from them were a dozen men
OF the u~nmistakable Gerdron type. As
the voices of the young women rose the
name of Berthe Claiche became audible.
Berthe Claiche's Name Tabooed.
Like a flash two of the men strobe
over to the table and, while the women
covered before them, they threatened TO
beat their heads off" If they again
mentioned the name OF the French gir!.
This served to completely subdue the
hapless bondwomen. and they skunk out
into the dark street to again join the
fu-tive shadows OF the night.
The conversation OF these men. tina
they take no pains to subdue in whis-
pers, is usually about the earnings of
their slaves. AS 4 rule they drink little
or n~othing-that is, until 1t is daylight
and they have had an accounting from
their victims. The vast majority of
them are sober and quiet.
They rarely take any part in the dane
Ing that goes on in the resorts they
make their headquarters. In most cases
when they drink anything women whom
they allow to sit at their table pay for
1t. They are very wary of TO
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N'AS iAt' "a AL uliuSldI pltStIlCt.
System Of Espionage.
There Is n resort on Fifth street. near
Second avenue. above whi1l several
score of these men have a club. One
OF their number is posted at the foot
OF a flight of stairs leading up TO this
club-room, and he bars the entrance
there TO all persons who might mistake
the way when entering the dance hall
part OF the establishment.
II Is said that whenever a member
Of this organization gains possession Of
4 new slave she is taken TO the club
rooms. so that all the members OF the
club may be made acquitted with her.
and thus establish the system Of
espionage by which the masters may
hear OF her every move.
Among the Gerdrons who frequent
resorts along Third avenue. between
Ninth m Twenty-third streets. is an
Englishman who is widely known as
Handsome Harry" He is said to be
the master of five slaves, all of them
Young girls he lured TO New York
from their homes in London.
He always goes about accompanied
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Ellis Island authorities when o came
TO this country? A. Yes.
.. Did you not marry Gerdron then
In order to get through Ellis Island?
81 did not" cried the woman, with
flashing eyes. waving her arms wildly.
Il allowed him only to pose as my hus-
band in order to get off Ellis Island"
Q. Did you know this man Gerdron in
France? A. On, yes; he knew my daugh-
ter when she did embroidery in Paris.
Then he put her on the streets for about
a year before she came to ua!s country.
Daughter Confessed Her Shame.
Q. How did you know that he put her
on the streets? A. When my daughter
arrived in this country she wrote me
that she had been on the streets a year
in Paris.
@ How long was she on the streets
in Paris? a. About ten months o, a
year.
@, How old was she then? A. Sixteen.
.. Why did you let your daughter
come to America with Gerdron? A. He
took her ava while ! was gu of the
house.
Q Did She live with Gerdron in Paris ?
A. Yes: they lived together there about
a year,
Q, Where did they live? A. I did not
know their address.
. You saw them once in awhile, did
you? a. Yes they used 10 come to the
house.
Q. Why didn't you keep her home? A.
] tried 10 gel her back, but she refused.
She said Gerdron threatened TO cut her
head on II she left him,
Mrs, Deon rose half ont OF her chair
and made d gesture as II passing a
knife ab1u, her throat as she answered
this question, Her three daughters sank
back In their seats trembling MIR. Turn
bull c]oItlnued:
{, When did she tell you that? A.
Sac write 10 me In Paris.
y, lid you happen to hear from you.
daughter A | was irying TO find out
whefa they lived, ans Gerdron heard
OF it.
@, Were you ever convicted Of a
crime?
The woman sat back ag u she had re-
ceIyed a bow In the face. Sac looked
about Wildly for a moment and stcadicd
herself by gripping the arms OF her
chair, Then She replied win slow en-
Lhasls; 81 cannot tell a lie. Yes"
q. You were convicted Of robbery? \.
Yes,
Upon the consent Of the Coroner she
explained how che came to NEE. this
charge,
AT this time" she said. my husband
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The storm of public Indignation
yaised by the Partisan grisette's story
OF the life of misery II actual torture
h led while in the thraldom OF Emil
Gerdron does not seem to have driven
one OF these miscreants to cover. In
fact, II appears to have Increased their
defiant boldness, Judging from their
bearing in the Raine law dens' len
der,oin honk-a-tonks and the oistlat
music halls in which they may be seen
any night keeping watch upon their
slaves and driving them upon the
streets.
There Is a place on Chrystie street
not far from Broome that has come 10
be recognized as q regular slave mar
ket. Young girls. some of them mere
children out of short frocks. are iureu
from their homes to this place anu
there b~argained for by Gerdrons. Iheir
e~nt!cers literally sell them to the nigh
est bidder. and then settle oetweeh
themselves whether the slave shall be-
come a prisoner in a disorderiy resort
or be driven upon the streets
Complete Organization.
IT is only very rarely that the par
ents of these girls ever reclaim them
from the lives OF degradation into
which they have been sold. The Ger
drons never trespass upon the homes
of the influential, selecting their VIC
tins from among the humblest sort OF
foreigners that have been only a short
time in this country. or sending abroad
for them with promises of marriage.
In this Chrystle street slave mart the
Gerd-ons are for the most part Rus
slams and Germans, the vast majority
Russians. They have q complete or
sanitation. a club that has become
somewhat exclusive in Its membership
because OF the ever increasing number
of men who seek 10 live in this man
per rather than work.
But In the back rooms OF saloons on
Forsyth, Essex, Delaney and Market
streets there will be found every night
on an average from twelve to a
score young men who are the masters
of white slaves.
1.-THE Drunkards' Cave"
beginning with the Bowery and fol-
lowing northward there is q dreadful
place near Chatham Square where white
slaves may be found III to the lowest
depths OF degradation. The place is
known TO some as The
Cave" Besotted men n women reel
up and down the stairs leading into the
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CARS TROOPS
IN new MUT|NY:
OFFICER KILLED
Soldiers at LODI Rebel, While
Police Official Is Shot
at Warsaw.

LODI, Russian Poland, July 17.-Part
OF the Ekaterinburg Regiment. sta
an officer. The mutineers wero ar
rested.
Owing to the state OF siege the citl-
zens OF LODI are compelled to contrib
ute $500 daily toward the maintenan,e
of the troops here.
WARSAW. Russian Poland, July H.
A sergeant of detectives was shot and
killed here to-day by a man who es-
capped.
A patrol of infantry. while pursuing
the assassin. fired a volley, killing a
merchant.
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Gerdron's Club Closed.

Since the murder of Gerdron, what
was known as the French Club" on
West Twenty-n!nth street. near Seventh
avenue, has been kept securely closed.
building. which is iavishiy FURNISHED
and appointed with every luxury, has
been entirely deserted Not many
!shed and Gerdron was one Of the
!, was made up OF men Of his stamp
IN Young French girls, Many young
the steamer on which they had sailed
from France. drawn TO This country
honest employment.
Detectives visited the place on many
eSidsbee u p@i w wbIcb ana Die 70 get ssti ANY
The splendid organization of these men,
their complete dominion over their vic
Tins and the fact that there is no
prosecuted, forms the greatest bar
rier 10 effort that might be made
to extiroate them.
Hedsed About by Spies.
Women and young girls leading tae
same wretched lives and suffering rae
same tortures that drove Berthe
Claiche TO commit; murder can only
their condition. They are so hed ycd
around by spies and 'ntormers that
tleS Iedf II tnty say anything they
will be punished with a terrible beat.
ing.
These women slaves of Seventh ave-
nue. are allowed only to visit certain
Ratnes law hotels and saloons. A
Gerdron is stationed at these places
during the, night who makes a COM
plete record OF when the slave enters
and leaves the place, how much money
she had when She came in and how
much when she went out.
In this way the unfortunate Great
ures are kept from getting ssion
of any substantial sum Of honey and
and returning to their home in France
is obvlatcd. They are also prevented
from consort!ng TO. any extent with
that friendships between their slaves
might shake their control over them.
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MRS. CLOSE. DEAD AT SO,
WAS KISSED BY LAFAYETTE.
Paterson woman Used Ia Tell of
Generals Visit ana HIS salute
to Jersey UirlB.

PATTERSON, \, J., july F.-Mrs, z.
4. r. Close. who had lived in Paterson
for ninety three years. died yesterday
at her home, 30. 3CI Fair street. from
a stroke of paralysis. She well re-
memaercd Gen Lalayette's visit 10 Pas
erson, and used to take deI.sht In toll
ing how he mad Kissed her ana the
JtncT young lu4les VINO assisted in re-
crlving him on that occasion.
Mrs. Closes fgtgcr assisted in the
building Of the Fra Presbyterian
Churcl here, n she was one of the
organizers and first teacafgs II the
Sunday-schoOl. The General Hospital.
Orphan Asylum and Old Ladies Home
were all substantially remembered by
Mas. Close during hsg lie.
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ADDS
TO HIS FORCES

TOXIC, July lit Is officially re-
ported that Gen. Llnevitch's force num-
bers nearly 100000. and 1t Is reported that
he is extensively using water transpor-
tation to bring forward men, supplies
and ammunition.
An official VINO recently returned from
Manchuria expresses the opinion that
Ilnevitch plans ii great demonstration
TO synchroniZa the meeting of the pleni-
potentiaries, but that he does not intend
real aggression.
rcturns permanently 10 France.
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was a plumber and l worked in a no.
ton shop. One day my husband was
going along the Rue de Criticize to de-
liver some sinks. The police thought
he had stolen them and they followed
him. They took him to our homs and
in searching he house found some rib
bons and laces and little trinkets ! had
brought home to the children from my
place of employment. We were very
poor then. For this was convicted and
sent to prison for six months"
.. Did o ever live with Gerdron? A.
Yes. for four months I Aved with
Gerdron and nv daughter. and then
he Put me out Of the house.
Became Licensed Slave.
C, Where did YOU live with him? A.
On West Fortv-eighth street.
Q What happened TO YOU daughter In
Paris? Tell us something about her
life? A. Gerdron first got my daughter
to take out a certificate or license.
Q Did the authorities grant her that
certificate? A. Yes. and then Gerdron
sent her out TO slave for him ON the
streets of Paris.
O.. Did he ever beat her? A Yes;
many. many times.
@. Did he ever beat you? A. Yes,
several times.
.. What for? A. Because / tried to
get my daughter TO leave him.
.. Did you ever receive a threatening
letter frC:n Gerdron? A. Yes. a short
time ago, after my daughter had been
driven from him 10y his cruelty and took
refuge with me.
Upon the request of the Assistant
Dislrict-Attorney The following letter
was placed IN evidence:
u am surprised at The accusations
against me, ana ] defy YOU - proIace
any proof, First, ] have never had an
American mistress here or in any o,her
part. III THESE are the means that you
coin to TAKE my wife from her duties
YOU Nave acted very dis ustiagiy. You
are rncompensing me in a ye.y peculiar
manner for what | have done for YOU.
Ii my vile Is not with ne BY the nIst
OF the month you vail see what 1 will
do. You have done wrong, Now do
right, as It Is the best thing to do.
II have my wife's letter, and l don't
believe sac believes a word az what has
been sad against me. As for me aad
my vie, once more: Do You wish peace
or wdr? Salutations,
III IN ~
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NEW FRENCH CONSUL.

NJ. Alcide Ebray, the newly appointed
Consul-General OF France, made. n for
nal call on Mayor Mcclellan to-day.
He was presented TO the Mayor by tho
Vice-Consul, M. Lucien Louis Bonzom.
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PRISONER KINSMAN
OF JEROME. HE SAYS.

CHICAGO. July 17.-Welcome Jerome.
a bookkeeper. who claims to be a rela-
tive OF District-Attorney Jerome. of New
York. struck Charles Faure. a French
man, In the face. knocking him down a
hight OF stairs and caus ng injuries from
which he died later at a hospital.
The rason Jerome gaye Tor hts act
was that Fauie caused a separation
Jerome was with Faure at the time OF
the assault.
Jerome Is under arrest and Mrs. Je-
home, who for the last four weeks has
been known as Mrs. Faure, Is held as
q witness.