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The sun., 1905-11-21
LOVERED PIANOS TONE.
Man Shut Out OF Carnegie Hall Wanted
$50 an Instrument for Tuning.

Edward Ritt, the Russian piano tuner,
who was arrested on complaint of Supt.
Salter of Carnegie Hall appeared in the
West Side police court yesterday. Mr..
Sater said Ritt tried to force his way into
the Sunday night concert. Ritt, he said,
had had trouble with Arnold Somlyo, man
ager of the Baldwin Piano Company, and
had threatened to break up the concert,
blow up the hall and do other violent things
Ritt told the court that he was tenant
of the building, having sublet studio
from Miss Wood. BY excluding him from
the building, Ritt said, Mr.. Salter was de
priving him of his living.
Mr.. Somlyo said that Ritt had done work
for his company for four years, being paid
by the piece. Three weeks ago Ritt began
to act queerly; he imagined he had invented
something that would make him mil
lionaire and that his services were, there
fore, worth $50 for each piano tuned in
stead of the usual 50. He demanded that
he be paid the $50 for all the instruments
he had tuned during the past four years.
Somlyo also said that Ritt had gone. into
Carnegie Hall at night and lowered the
tone Of the concert pianos and hence it was
necessary to keep him out of the building.
Mr.. Somlyo showed number of threaten
ing letters written to him by Ritt. Magis-
trate Barlow remanded Ritt to Bellevue
for examination.
The sun., 1905-11-21
LIBRARIAN ALLEN RESIGNS.
Another Step In the Reorganization OF the
state Department.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-Another step
has been taken in the reorganization of the
State Department on lines laid down by
Secretary Root. The resignation of An
drew H. Allen since 1892 chief of the bureau
of rolls and library, was announced to-day.
The reason for the resignation or if it had
been called for by Secretary Root was not
announced,
Since Secretary Root assumed control
of the State Department there have been
two important changes, and others are
expected. Col. William H. Michael, for
merly chief clerk of the Depart tment has
been replaced by Charles Denby, Jr, of
Indiana. Col, Michael, however, has been
appointed to handsome consular mission
It is expected that Third Assistant Secre-
tary of State Peirce will soon leave the
Department and will probably be appointed
to some foreign mission, possibly as the
American Minister to Norway. Mr.. Allen
will probably be succeeded by William
McNeir of Michigan, the present assistant
librarian.
The sun., 1905-11-21
81 RAILROADS APPEAL.
Suits Involving validity OF MichiEans
Ad VaIOrem Tax on Railroads.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-Twenty-six ap-
peals. filed by as many railroads operating
in Michigan, have reached the Supreme
Court from the United States Circuit Court
for Western Michigan. They all concern
the validity of the ad valorem tax imposed
on such corporations by the Michigan Legis-
lature in 1901, when it changed from the sys-
tenn formerly in vogue to taxing their gross
receipts.
They brought suit in the Federal Court
to enioin the State Auditor from collecting
the taxes alleging their unconstitutionality
on various grounds, among others that
other property was not ,as was railroad prop
erty, taxed at its full value, and no allow
ance was made for debts owed by the roads.
The court however, held the tax to be valid,
rejecting all the contentious Of the rail-
roads, which thereupon took appeals to
the Supreme Court
With one other appeal filed in September,
making twenty-seven in all, these are the
greatest number of cases involving one
cause that have appeared in the Supreme
Court since the so-called Cherokee citi-
zenship cases, decided eight or ten years
ago. There we're 1888 of these cases, sixty
seven being brought by Cherokees, sixty
eight by Chickasaws twenty-five by Choc-
taws and six by Creeks The court dis
posed of all of them in one opinion, affirm
ing the validity Of the act of Congress
granting citizenship to the members OF the
five civilized tribes, and providing for the
allotment Of lands in severalty. The highest
previous record In numbers was in the
Smokehouse mine case in Idaho, out of
which grew thirty-sS appeals.
The sun., 1905-11-21
B0ARDER WITH DIZZY HOPES.
Hun Up a Couple OF Zig Biiis on Talk Of
Srlling John ". Gates a Railroad.

Fred Pettinyl went several months
ago to boarding h1l'S in WsG T@nnty-
0fih s.rest. Il, All hi wife had the best
lack Of baggage by tn, d,layJ incident to
Journey from California. They dis
appeared when their bill footed up $500
tha police say.
Going to the Carlos Hotel. il West
Twanty-fourth street, they told the same
story Of delayed baggage. Pe.tingill let
II be known that he had come East to put
through several enormous stock deals.
Most i'm portant of these was the sale Of
a Western railroad to John W. Gates. This
transact ion would net him S7S ,oo0. or
course such things take time. Though
he owned over 100 gold mines in the far
West, he was without ready money. But
he would soon show the anagement that
he appreciated their kindness in allowing
his bill to run. 1t was a slight matter.
When his credit looked shy, he came in one
night radiant.
Al dom want you to sell single drink
tonight, Give everybody what he wants,
and charge it up to me. I've just received
word that one of my deals has netted me
S75, ,OOO."
Unfortunately, the money failed to show
people assert that he forgot to pay bill OF
several hundred dollars. They asked
Detective William Kidney of the Second
court squad to look him up,
Kidney worked for several days and
found Pettingil in boarding house at
PAS West Twenty-fifth street. He had
Pettingll in the jefferson Market police
court Yesterday. The Carlos Hotel manage
ment made a complaint and Magistrate
Baker held him in 81 900 bail for trial.
The sun., 1905-11-21
Mrs. Ann O'Connell
requests the honor OF your presence
at the marriage OF her daughter
Bedella Agnes
Thomas +. Walsh.

Bedelia Agnes ia one of the beauties of
Father Knickerbocker' civil service army.
She has wavy golden hair, big blue eyes,
a creamy complexion, and finely chis-
eled profile She halls from the district
of The McManus, the new Tammany dis
trict leader, Tom Brady made her stenog-
rapher to the old Board of Buildings as
New Years gift when he was Building
Commissioner in 1898, and not long ago
Supt. Hopper raised her salary for eff
cheney.
Walsh comes from Richard Croker's
old East Side baiwick, in which Tom
Murphy is now leader. He is a graduate
Of NJ anhattan College, and was teacher
before he got his appointment in the civil
service Supt. Hopper promoted him a
year ago to be department bookkeeper
Bedelia Agn es is the fourth woman of
the Manhatt an bureau to be carried off
by some lucky fellow ola husband, and her
wedding has been fixed for Thanksgiving
eve at Father Moneys Sacred Heart
Church.
Supt. Hopper when he read the invita-
ton jingled his electric buzzer and Chief
Clerk Glass hurried into his sanctum.
"Honeymoons for two in hurry, Hopper
ordered with wink, and Clerk Glass made
out the necessary papers granting q Two
weeks vacation with paythe regulation
departmental wedding present. Supt Hop
per affixed his signature to the papers and
formally accepted Bedelia's resignation, to
take effect after the honeymoon. Then
he sauntered into the adjoining room. where
his group of stenographerS were clicking
away at their busy typewriters and said,
We've lost Miss O'Connell, ladies, but
our eligible list for brides is not exhausted
by any means"
Witness that upstairs in Chief Engineer
Rudolph Miller's division his new stenog-
rapher came tripping in yesterday with
fine solitaire on the symbolic finger of her
left hand. This stenographer Mr, Hopper
appointed last February as an expert in
handwriting, and as a result he now has
somebody in the department who is able
to read Assistant Engineer Jake Roth's
script, which looks like a row of palings
and keeps everybody guessing whether
Jake is experimenting with Hebrew, Gaelic.
Greek or Arabic.
The sun., 1905-11-21
ROYAL ARCANUM SUIT.
Supreme Secretary Testifles That the
Change I'm Rates Was Regular.

Supreme Secretary Testifles That the
Change I'm Rates Was Regular.
John Morch, Brooklyn lawyer and a
member of Berkeley Council Of the Royal
Arcanum, obtained temporary injunction
last month enjoining the Supreme Council
of the Royal Arcanum from compelling him
to pay the new schedule of assessments or
from suspending him from the order be-
cause he refused to pay the new rate The
case came up yesterday before Justice
Gaynor.
W. X. Robson, supreme secretary of the
Royal Arcanum, testified that the order had
in force at the present time between $575, e,
000, 900 and $500 600 900 of insurance. He
said that under the laws of Massachusetts,,
the Royal Arcanum being Incorporated
under the laws of that State, fraternal or
ders had the power to increase assessments
or to change rates under proper procedure,
and he contended that in the present
change that proper procedure had been
had
Abb Landis Of Nashville, Tenn, an
actuary, was called as an expert and testi-
fled that the change in rates was to
equalze them so that the young man
would not be compelled to pay more than
he should, such as had happened under
the old rates. and the older members should
paw more. He said that statistics demon
strated that 80 per cent. out of every 100000
died between the ages of p and 65 years,
while the percentage was as over the age
of B5 wears The case will be continued to-
day
The sun., 1905-11-21
AGAINST JIM GROW SCHOOLS
East Orange Negroes wiling TO he Ar.
rested for Keeping Children Home.

EAST ORANGE, N. j., Nov, 2o.-The indig-
nation following the establishing of Jim
Crow classes for colored public school
children by the East Orange Boar of Edu-
cation still continues, and the affair has
taken on a new phase following the ruling
of Recorder Doremus, the East Orange
Magistrate who holds that the negro children
who remain away from school during the
present trouble are to be regarded as truants
and their parents will be liable to arrest,
regardless of the measures decided upon
by the parents at their mass meeting on
Friday night.
1t was agreed at this meeting to keep the
negro children from attending the Jim Crow
classes if they had to stay out for year"
The Rev. J. H. Travis, negro minister of
East Orange who is one of the leaders in the
fight against the Board Of Education, said
to- day:
You will find that the parents are willing
to he arrested for keeping their children
awav from these rooms. There Is another
law, however which states that the super
lntendents of schools and the principals
must not discriminate hetwee pupils re.
gardless of creed or color, and this they
have done.
The sun., 1905-11-21
The Presidents Callers.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Senator Cullom
called on the President this morning to invite
him to attend the Lincoln birthday banquet
of the Sangammon Club at Springfield Ill.,,
on February IL, The President said that
he would probably not be able to 60 to
Illinois at that time.
Represen tative Grosvenor Of Ohio, a
member of the House Committee ON Ways
and Means, called on the President this
morning. After coming from the White
House Mr. Grosvenor spoke Of the visit Of
the Massachusetts shoe and leather manu-
facturers a few days ago.
IF they will agree TO reduce the price Of
shoes and other articles made in Massa-
chusetts which we have 10 buy out West
W. will do what we can to have the duty on
hides reduced"
The sun., 1905-11-21
BRUCE AND MORRIS, RECEIVERS.
Both EX-Presdents OF the Republican
County Committee,

Judge Holt has appointed Lieut-Gov.
NJ. Linn Bruce receiver Of the assets of the
Yelman Transmitting Typewriter Com
pany Of 22O Broadway against which credi-
tors have filed a petition in bankruptcy.
The company manufactures at lion a
typewriter telegraph instrument which
is used by several railroads. The liabilities
are said to be SIS, 900: assets at least s37 500.
Judge Holt appointed Robert c. Morris
receiver of the assets of the Williams
Company. dealers in women's clothes at
$50 Sixth avenue. Liabilities about $40, 600.
Both these receivers are ex-presidents
of the Republican county committee.
David c. Yuengling, formerly presi-
dent of the D. G. Yuengling Jr. Brewing
Company, Amsterdam avenue and l2Sth
street liabilities, ss4,s7O, has obtained
discharge from bankruptcy.
The sun., 1905-11-21
BE,LlR MD UNDER THE BED.
W Nr'l'lntt saw Him Crawl Out and
Fought Hl'n-COp Took Him Away.

The wife Of Peter Schumitt, proprietor
al o re etaurant at q Broadway, Williams
lufc, WAS awakened early yesterday morn
irg h" noise in her bedroom, and saw a
form awling sea thily from under her
bed b the flicker Of ght from the ele-
Nd''d r,Ilroad criminal nearby Mrs Schu-
mi recognized the outline of a man. She
decided to awai developments. Her hus-
land who had closed his restaurant an
fCr lofCre, We | eG oefully slumbering
Tho burglar Tassed into another room,
where ne oTened bureau drawer and
(egan to ransack it. Mrs. Schumtt got out
of ted and made rush for the intruder,
tciGiug him by his shoulders, at the same
time shouting for help. Her husband
hWokc ran to front window and shouted
for help. .'eanwhie the burglar turned
on Yrs Schumitt and pulled n dagger from
his rocket. He was unable to get the
weapon out of It's case and then fought the
woman with his fists.
Mrs Schumitt with one swing Of her right
arm knocked him against a chair and he fell
with the chair on top of him. Then Mrs.
Shumitt also ran to a front window and
helped her husband call for assistance
They were heard by Policeman James
Connor Of the Bedford avenue station. He
found no trace of the burglar rear win
dow was open.
Connors made search of the 70 ms and in
sinaA wardrobe he found the burglar
crouched in corner. The burglar had
the dagger, but Connors, with his club,
Knocked it from his hand. The prisoner
astaken to the police station, where he said
he was George Peppers. Greek, 20 years
Old Of Seventh avenue and Fifth-i fifth street,
Manhattan, He refused to tell anything
about himself
Schumitt told the police that he caters
70 late night trade. On Sunday night.
ne sad he had big crowd and he believes
mat Peppers awaited an opportunity to
,'ak from the restaurant into the hall and
tthente up to Schumitt's s rooms, where he
I'D under bed and waited for the restau-
rant to be closed. Mrs. Schumitt and her
TWO children had gone to bed early.
fepPers was held without bail pending
hSA-.cr tomorrow
The sun., 1905-11-21

WASHINGTON, Nov .20.-The cruiser Tacoma
has arrived at Lambert Point, the tug In
cas- at Rock land the destroyer Worden at
Provincetown. the torpedo boat Blakely
at Annapolis and the tug Nina at Boston.
The cruiser Chattanooga has sailed from
Hampton Roads for Monte Cristo, tho
cruiser Cleveland from San Juan for Santo
Domingo City the cruiser Baltimore from
Shanghai for Chefoo, the cruiser Columbia
from Hampton Roads for League Island
and the destroyers Hopkins, Truxtun,
Stewart and Macdonough from Province
town for Pine Beach.
The sun., 1905-11-21
MUTILATED HER SHADE TREE.
No Redress for Mrs. Moriarty, Whose
Ailantus Invaded LAYS hack Yard.

No Redress for Mrs. Moriarty, Whose
Ailantus Invaded llly's Back Yard.
Catherine Moriarty, an elderly woman,
who lives in the three story brownstone
house at 42 East Fifty-seventh street,
complained in the Yorkville police court
yesterday that some Of her neighbors took
advantage of her attendance at church
on Sunday to cut branches from the fine
ailantus tree that grows in her rear yard.
One Of the neighbors was in court to answer
summons she had served on him. He
was Patrick Lilly, white haired man, who
has retired from business and lives at 414
East Fifty-seventh street.
That was beautiful tree that grew In
my yard" the woman said to Magistrate
Breen.
1T stood near the fence that separates
my yard from Mr. Lillys and some Of the
branches projected over his fence. have
watched the tree grow, and each spring 1t
was so pleasant to see the blossoms bud
out. 1t was like being in the country"
yes, but it wasn't 80 nice for the neigh
bors when the mosquitoes from the tree
buzzed about our beds when we were try
ing to sleep, in the summer" responded
Mr.. Lilly.
but Mrs. Moriarty had rejected the offer
THE tree made a beautiful shade in
summer and l could sit under 1t and listen
to the criokets in the grass and the katy
dds overhead. When Mr.. Finkelstein, my
Hebrew neghbor on the other side of me,
saw Mr.. Lilly, my Catholic neighbor. cut,
ting down my tree on Sunday, what did
my Hebrew neighbor do but get man with
saw and start in to lop of the branches
of the tree at his side also"
Mr.. Lilly insisted that his neighbors
tree had grown so large that it cast
a dense shade on his house that made the
house unhealthy. Besides, the odor of the
ailantus blossoms was unpleasant to him.
The Magistrate said the branches couldn't
be put back on the tree and as fIilly had
only cut off those that hung over his prop
erty he didn't think there was anything
criminal in the act. He dismissed the
complaint.
"Will you give me summons for Mr..
Finkelstein. who hacked my tree on the
other side?" asked the woman.
The Magistrate gave her summons,
The sun., 1905-11-21
LOCKED IN A FREIGHT CAR?
Missing Erie Railroad Employee Believed
tn Re n PriEoner on the Road.

BELLEvnLE, N. j., Nov. 2o.-Somewhere
between Chicago and Paterson, John j.
Reilly, freight handler in the employ of
the Erie Railroad, is believed to be pris-
oner in ono of the cars. Reilly has been
missing since Tuesday, and when last seen
was loading car in the freight yards here;
Being subject 10 fainting spells it is feared
that while suffering from one Of the attacks
ties as far west as Chicago have been or
dered to search every car in the yards for
the missing employee.
The sun., 1905-11-21
THE ALBERS CASE CLOSED.
Nicaragua Supreme Court Afrirms Sen.
tencc Imposed by Lower Courts.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The State Depart
ment has been informed that the Supreme
Court of Nicaragua has confirmed the de-
cision Of the lower courts in the case Of Will
liam c. Abers, the American who was
sentenced to thirty-two months in prison
for resisting the authorities. Albers has
now gone to the highest tribunal in the coun-
try with his case and must serve the SEN
tence unless he is pardoned An intima-
ton has reached Washington, apparently
we'll founded, that President Zelaya will
pardon Albers. The State Department
Is very anxious that the case be closed
The sun., 1905-11-21
DEACON FORGOT THE CHURCH.
Story Told by Senator Cullom Of Illinois
While In a Reminiscent Mood.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-"Men do and say
queer things under the excitement of party
politics." said Senator Cullom of Illinois
to-day while in reminiscent mood Il
remember once went back to my old home
in Tazewell county, H., to make a political
speech. The only meeting place available
was church. Nothing is too good for a
man when he returns to his boyhood home,
so delivered my Republican speech from
the pulpit | was young man and very
much in earnest, and as l proceeded I
pounded the Democrats more and more
vigorously. until finally from the rear of
the church sprang up an old deacon who
was an intense Republican and evidently
laboring under some excitement, for for
getting the church and his duties therein,
he waved his hands frantically and shouted:
'Whoopee! Give 'em hell, Shell"
The sun., 1905-11-21
The ScaEOPrs.

Passengers sailing to-day on the North
German Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Will
helm are:
Mrs Nelson W. Aldrich, Miss Elsie Aldrich.
Capt Paul Behnecke, Commander of II NJ. $,
Fake; Mrs Phpbe A Hearst George Won l..
Never, American Ambassador at ST. Peters
burg, aud the Rev. C. {. Tiffany,
On the Carpathia of the Cunard line
are
Gen. and Mrs. Carroll H. Ftzhugh and DR.
and Mrs. j, A. Lippincott.
The sun., 1905-11-21
sl2 800 for Loss Of Her Husband.

Katherine Raymond widow of Henry
NJ Raymond who kept a saloon at 17s
Greenwich street. obtained Sl25o verdict
in the Supreme Court yes erday before
Justice Blanchard, against the New York
City Railway Company, for the loss OF her
husband, who was crushed by a mail wagon
that had been thrown across the street by
collision with an Eighth avenue car.
The sun., 1905-11-21
ARRESTED FOR SURETY co.
"an"ay Agent Said TO Have Stolen $50.
900 Located I'm Montreal

lhe American Surety Company was
notified Yesterday Of the arrest in Montreal
on saturday night Of James Noble Strob-
nor who is accused of stealing about s2o,-
Wv from the Atlantic Coast Line Railway
.ompany He was the company's agent
A. gainesville, TIA. He left there last
SsTst sns and since that time he has been
s,vlk1 Uukh1 by Ihiel detectives, acting for the
'uMeCy company, which was on his bond.
soid iMdahaeer Perrin OF the Thiel service
brn Yesterday that Strobhor would be
srirneInitt, e,Hiuent 10 this country as soon as the
eH'radition papers we're ready.
The sun., 1905-11-21

From the Office boys chair
to the directors table, every bit OF
Office furniture in my store is
selected to serve my customers with
the best Of material and workman
ship at the most reasonable prices
CHARLES E. MATTHEW'S,
OFFICE FURNITURE.
ITS Canal St.-ono Door East Of Broadway
Telephone 1899 Spring.
The sun., 1905-11-21
SOCIALISTS CAN GIVE THANKS
Proposition 10 Celebrate November 30
because OF Four Recent Happenings.

because OF fOur hece' HappehihBs'
Western Socialists have called on their
companions in New York and elsewhere
to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, Novem-
Der 3o as a special Socialist Thanksgiving.
A resolution accompanying the PROPOSE
ton says that the Socialist ought to be
thankful for these things which have been
brought about by the Socialists
First, the peaceful dissolution of the alli-
ance between Sweden and Norway; second,
that the threatened conflict between France
and Germany was averted in spite Of the
efforts Of the captains of industry to un-
leash the dogs Of war; third, the endow
ment of a school Of socialism; fourth, the
Weakening Of the working class in Russia.
The sun., 1905-11-21
HOPPER ORDERS HONEYMOONS.

His Golden Haired StenOgrapher About to
Annex the Department BoOkkeeper.
When Building Superintendent Isaac
Hopper got home yesterday from a ten
days vacation on his orange plantation
in Florida, where he had been resting after
his liveliest campaign as a Democratic
district leader, he found this invitation
awaiting him:
The sun., 1905-11-21
R. Altmtatt j. On.
Until further notice. this store will be closed daily SIX p NJ

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