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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
THE FIGHT ABOUT OVER
STATUS OF THE YELLOW PLAGUE
AT NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, October 10.-The an
nouncement by the marine hospital service
that the work of fighting mosquitoes. In
which the forces of the government have
been engaged since August 8, as we'll as the
fumigation of squares in which case of
fever appears will be permanently discon-
tinued after today is accepted as a declara-
ton by the federal forces that the fight
here against yellow fever. is about over.
The cases now appearing are SO few and so
mild that little difficulty is experienced in
handling them.
The state board of health yesterday
wrote to Gov. Blanchard requesting him
to issue proclamation Withdrawing the
proclamation of quarantine against ports
to the south of New Orleans which went
into effect May 1.
The board asks that an exception be
made as to Colon and points on the 18TH
mus of Panama. Vessels from Colon will
be fumigated at the mouth of the river,
but not detained The governors procla-
nation will be made November 1 and will
remove all restrictions against maritime
traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
woMEN's GOLF TOURNEY.
Keen Interest in National Champion
ship Contest-Record Playinr.

NEW YORK, October 1O-There was no
falling off In the attendance Of spectators.
and II anything keener interest was shown
by every one concerned In today's rounds
of the match play for the women's national
golf championship on the links of the
Moreys County Golf Club. at Convent Sta
ton. N. j., than during the qualifying
round OF medal play yesterday. The wealth.
er conditions were summerlike, with lit
tie breeze which on some of the holes added
to the length Of the drives
The. quality of golf exhibited by Miss
GeorEianna Bishop of Brooklawn, Conn,
and Miss Margaret Curtis of Boston in
the preliminary round was probably the best
ever shown by women in America. These
two are tied with scores of 81 each for
the low-score prize.
The previous women's record for this
course was So
At the conclusion of today's round for the
Oh npionship division there will be a con-
So Atfon handicap for those who failed to
qualify for the championship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Personal Mention.

Mr. Scofield. chief clerk of the War De-
partment. has gone to Portland, Ore, to
close up the affairs of the War Department
exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition
Mr.. r. C. Shinn returned this morning
from trip which embraced numerous
points in Colorado. Nevada, California and
other western states. He was absent over
a month.
Mr.. James NJ. Thompson, editor of the
Norfolk Dispatch, was a passenger on the
Norfolk and Washington line steamer to
this city this morning.
Mr.. John Callahan, manager of the Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat Company,
has gone to Wilmington on business con-
nected with the building of the new ferry
boat Woodbury..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Naval Movements.

The protected cruiser Galveston has ar
rived at Norfolk, the gunboat Paducah at
Greenport, the collier Nero at San Juan,
the torpcdoboat destroyers Bainbridge
Dale and Decatur at Cavite and the tug
Rocket at washington.
The torpedoboat destroyer Lawrence has
left Boston for Provincetown the supply
and repair ship Iris has left Guam for Ca
vite, and the torpedoboat destroyed Perry
has left Bremerton for cruise.
The armored cruisers West Virginia and
Pennsylvania have sailed from Newport
for a cruise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
To Be Consul at St. John.

1t is announced at the State Department
that Mr.. Gebhard Willrich has been ap-
pointed United States consul at ST. John,
n. B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Movement of Cavalry.

The military secretary is advised that
Troop d. 9th Cavalry, has arrived at Fort
Huachuca from Fort Grant, Ariz.. for sta
tion and that Troop I. 5th Cavalry. has ar
rived at Fort Apache.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Return of Secretary Taft.

Secretary Taft is expected to arrive In
Washington this evening from New York.
where he went to meet Mrs. Taft on her
return. from Europe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10

The accident occurred a few minutes after
the elevator. crowded with visitors, had
reached the top of the shaft On the stone
terrace outside of the manument half a
hundred more visitors were waiting for a
cnance TO ride to the top of the shaft.
Not one of the sightseers, inside or out
side of the structure, knew that there had
been an accident, until the ambulance from
the Emergency Hospital dashed up to the
entrance of the monument and Owings'
body was carried out A number of ladies'
who were among the visitors Immediately
left the scene, but when the nature of the
accident was explained the rest of the sight
seers remained and went to the top of the
shaft.
There was no one on the lower floor of
the monument when the accident occurred
except Custodian Craig. who had stepped
inside to attend to some routine duty. He
had just turned around to make his exit by
way of the revolving door when he heard
crash, preceded by a scream of terror
from far up in the semi-tWilight of the
shaft. He stepped back toward the door of
the elevator and glanced upward and the
next second a body flashed into view and
landed with a sickening impact on the stone
floor of the great shaft.
Summoning several of his assistants who
were within call. the custodian ordered the
doors locked. The entrance to the elevator
shaft was then opened and OwiDg's body
was removed to the elevator lobby.
1t was recognized at a glance that the
unfortunate painter had been instantly
killed.
Ambulance Summoned.
The custodian at once summoned the
ambulance from the Emergency Hospital,
and, DIR. Martin responding. took the body
TO that institution, whence it was later
transferred to the morgue. Owings fam
lily was at once notified.
Up to o'clock this afternoon no detailed
report of the accident had been received
by Colonel Bromwell, superintendent OF;
public buildings and grounds. AT the mon
ument itself all information concerning the
cause of the accident and the manner OF
Its happening was refused
1t was learned at Colonel Bromwell's Of
flee, however. that a number of painters
consisting of a foreman and eight men,
had been engaged for some days in painting
the iron frame work of the monument.
James McCabe the foreman is in the en-
ploy of the government. His eight assist
ants We're hired by the day. McCabe, who
laid out the work and apportioned the
tasks. is understood to have been in sole
charge.
Nothing will be known concerning the
exact details of the accident until McCabe
turns in his report to Supt. Bromwell.
1t was said at the monument that today'S
accident is the first fatal affair to be re-
corded since the completion of the struc-
ture many years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT 7
Painter Loses His Life at
Washington Monument.
INST N NTLY Kill LED
FALLS DOWN SHAFT DISTANCE
OF 27O FEET.
DLI-
Two Other Workmen Narrowly Escape
the Same Fate-Dead Man
Badly Crushed.

BY the breaking of a scaffold In the
Washington Monument at a quarter of 1
O'Clock this afternoon, Joseph G. Owings,
forty-five years old and a painter of 905
I'd street northeast. fell distance of 2T0
feet down the marble shaft and was dashed
- death on the stone tagging below. Prac-
painters, ]. c. Martin of SOC 23d street
northwest, and another whose name could
no be asCertained, who were working with
the unfortunate man when the scafolding
gave way, managed to save themselves by
clinging to the iron framework of the struc-
ture and subsequently sliding down a beam
to the landing below
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No More overtures to odeu.

Leaders of the Municipal Ownership
League said today with emphasis that they
would make no further overtures to Odel
and Halpin for fusion but they did not
say that they would refuse to listen If offers
or suggestions should be made by the other
side. It is evident that Mr.. Hearst and his
friends are averse to standing up and being
counted with third ticket If they can find
some other way to keep in the political
limelight and preserve their organization.
They have never refused to support Ford
for mayor, although he was not their first
or second choice. If Odell and Halpin can
induce Mr.. Ford to take their nomination 1t
will cause no surprises If he Is indorsed by
the Hearst league. t
Richard Young, who was nominated for
controller by the republican convention, de-
clined as firmly as Mr.. Hughes declined
the nomination for mayor. The committee
then sounded Mr.. Young on the question of
nominating him for mayor. He refused to
listen to the suggestion. Then Senators
Page and Elsberg were sounded Page re-
fused to be sacrificed. He said that he pre-
ferred to stay in the senate. Senator Els
berg protested that for family reasons he
could not make the race, but today there is
strong rumor that unless John Ford con-
sents to make the race, Elsberg may be
drafted
There is little time in which to fix up
makeshift ticket. The time for filing party
nominations made by conventions expires
at midnight on Friday. If the committee
nominations fails to agree. the city
convention must be called together, and
that will require at least twenty four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
NEW YORK POLITICS
0dell Despairs Of Getting a
Sacrifice Candidate.
REPUBLICANS AT SEA
REMARKABLE SITUATION II
LOCAL POLITICAL FIELD.
Leaders Fail to Harmonize and No
One is Willing to Accept
Makeshift Nomination.
Special 'Dispatc tch to The Star,

special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, October 1O.-Former Gov
ernor Odell and County Chairman Halpin
have despaired of getting a man outside OF
their own political circle to accept the re-
fused republican nominal ton for mayor un-
less they can draft ex-senator John Ford,
who was the man they presented as their
choice for mayor to the first and second
fusion conferences last month Ford wanted
fusion nomination of the office, and he
may take the knocked-about nomination if
he can obtain some assurance that he
would be indorsed by the Municipal Owner
ship League.
Mr.. Ford has for months been trying to
be an Odell machine republican, a good
Citizens Union man and an active member
of the Hearst League all at cnce. Now
that Mr.. Hearst is trying to dodge the
nomination of his own organization for
mayor. Odell and Halpin may be able to
bring Ford to his rescue. When Abe Cru
bers assembly district convention was in
session last night to renominate Assembly
man William Young, who has the indorse-
ment of the Citizens Union, several of the
speakers mentioned the name of Ford
Each time his name was mentioned there
was enthusiastic applause. This may or
may not have been a prearranged plan to
test the popularity of Mr.. Ford in the dis
trict in which he lives.
Mr.. OdelI may not come to the city today
because his son is to be married in New
burgh tomorrow, and arrangements for
big wedding have been made, but he will
keep in communication with Halpin by
telephone No final action in the makeup
of a makeshift ticket will be taken without
the approyal of OdelI,
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
GAS INQUIRY TO GO ON.
Controller Thinks He Can Compel
Trust Officers to Testify.

Controller Grouts postponed inquiry into the cost
of city lighting will go tomorrow forenoon at
10 o'clock 1t will be preliminary in its char
acter. A more important session will be held next
Thursday when the Controller expects that light
ing experts from Chicago Boston, Detroit and
New-Orleans will be on hand TO testify with ref
erence to the cost of producing electric lighting at
municipal plants The Controller wrote TO the
Mayors of the cities named asking their co-opera-
tiOn, and in each received favorable answer.
G. E. Phelps. chief engineer of the Electrical
Commission of Baltimore spent the greater part of
the day in consultation with Controller Grout and
Harry p. Nichols assistant engineer of the
Finance Department. Mr.. Phelps is one of three
experts who three years established an electric
lighting plant for Baltimore. Mr. Phelps will re-
turn to Baltimore to-day.
Henry Yonge, special counsel to the Controller.
said yesterday that there doubt that the
officials of the New-York Edison Company, who
refused to obey the summons sent out week ago
for hearing at the Controllers office. would have
to obey subpGnas which will be served on them for
the hearings under way
I'VE have the necessary power TO compel wit
nesses 70 testify at the inquiry" said Mr.. fonge
land shall have them here sooner or later
The hearing Is regular legal proceeding ana
there is doubt about authority 10 subpoena
witnesses need them"
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
STRENUOUS LIFE WINS.
APOSTLES of Simple Palette Worsted
at ART School Election.

For weeks the students Of the New-York School
of Art in West Fifty-seventh-st. have been de-
batting which Is the more desirable in life and art,
strenuosity simplicity. Last night they decided
by an overwhelming majority In favor of the
former.
Following the custom Of art schools since the
dweller first sketched the mammoth the
ivory tus1. every student is mulcted of all his
loose change on his entrance, which is turned over
TO the committee fun for the benefit OF the
criticised the committee of late for spending So
much Of these involuntary contributions on dances
and dinners and such frivolities. On the other
hand. the free grafters and the strenuous life
party got together and adopted oliver Twists re-
mark, II want some more" for their slogan The
fight eliminated at the election of the committee
on fun last night. when the simple life party was
defeated by 107 TO 6S
The electoneerng fervid Cartoons setting
forth the evils OF grating which would result
from victory OF the strenuous life and the
idiosyncrasies OF the simple life followers were
spread on the walls. The strenuous parry an
nounced In head letters, mo life like the
pleasant" The opponents asked every one to vote
for the simple palette and the simple life" and
their district captains went about urging the re-
turn to nature clad in Roman togas
When the voting began after several tumutuous
professions around the hall by both parties shout.
ing their battlecries. OF the women challenged
the. vote of an exceedingly young looking youth,
must be given as the votes were cast The women
protested, and every from the head instruc-
fessor went to the ballot box The Simple life
5S TO rng DarR IN h ss9 but in vain
ticket. dropped out OF sight early and its votes
otherwise have been defeated by Just two more
votes. The entertainment committee pledged in
which was elected. consists OF Carlos ~ scoyil' p
l., Tott. Rockwell Kent and Q. N. chaffee. They
at once announced that the arst dance would Be
given January ~.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
AGED FATHER TESTIFIES.
DIR. Page, in Tears, Tells Of Finding
DAUGHTERS BOdy.

Cambridge Mass. JAN 5.-In a voice that fire.
ouently trembled and unable to keep tears from
his eyes Edward Page, the aged father of Mabel
Page the Weston woman who stabbed TO death
in her home on March 81 1904 to-day told to jury
the story OF the discovery Of his daughters death
Charles l. Tucker. the Auburndale youth who Is
on trial for the murder of Miss Page listened in
tently to the old mans narrative, but never be-
trayed the slightest sign OF emotion.
Under suggestions from the District Attorney. Mr.
Page told in detail OF his movements on the day
which brought death to his daughter and OF finding
her body on his return to his home after brief
absence. He entered the house. he said. by the
front door. which he found TO be unlocked. He
went to the pantry and a slice of bread and
drank glass OF cider. He expected to find his
daughter, who he knew was alone in the house in
luncheon he went into the parlor and sat down for
a while He heard no sound Some OF his daugh-
on the table, He thought she had Just been there
and he went upstairs to find her. As he entered
his daughters room he saw her body on the floor
On going downstairs to the living room, after de-
terTnining his daughter was dead, he found on the
table, near the place where he always sat. a slip
OF paper. which was the announcement in his
had teen hIrt, and that she was going to Boston
to him at a hospital He identified and read
attorney. Mr.. Pago then told of summoning neigh
bnrs and telephoning to Boston. and learning that
his son had not been hurt in any way
The evidence OF DR.. Julian a. Mead, who fol-
lowed Mr.. Page a witness, occupied much time.
The description of Miss Pages wounds was eX-
haustive and following the plan adopted in the re-
prosecution introduced part Of skeleton for use
in connection with this testimony. DR.. Mead de-
shown him by the District Attorney, the one
found in fuckers house, and that 1t fitted the
wounds in Mabel Pages body. The witness identi-
fed bloodstained waist as that worn by Miss
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
STABBING II MYSTERY.
Police, at First Doubtful, No1C Be-
HeUe BOY'S Story.

Samuel Sullivan. OF Arlington. Staten Island,
who was found on Wednesday night lying in a
snowdrift with fve stab wounds, sufficiently
recovered TO return to his home last night from ST
Vincent's Hospital The boy sticks TO his original
story Of having been assaulted by unknown man
he leaving the station TO to his home.
Sullivan says that last Friday night he leav
ing the station near his home. when he
costed by a man who asked him TO buy some rail-
road tickets of the Tottenvle division Of the
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad. The man
offered 10 sell the tickets at half price. Sullivan
purchased two On Sunday, when he boarded a
ductor refused to accept them. he had been told
70 look out for tickets with certain numbers which
had been stolen from the Arlington station three
weeks ago. Sullivan explained where he got the
uchets. ana the latter advised him TO J. NJ.
Vanderbilt. general ticket agent of tie railroad
and state the circumstances. Sullivan did So On
"wednesday night, Sullivan says he was leaving
the station ne was accosted by the same man that
had sold him the tickets and without warning the
man grasped him by the shoulders, and he remem-
bers nothing more until he aWoke at the hospital.
The police made careful search around the SPOT
where sullivan was found yesterday, and found an
old razor lying in the snow. From the description
Of the wounds Sullivan the police and physcians
at St Vincents Hospital of the opinion that
such an instrument was used to infict them.
Mr.. Vanderbilt corroborates SuiVan's story. The
police are working on the with renewed energy
Mrs. George King wife of a conductor on the Rapid
Transit, was in the station at the time She saws
she heard noise outside like a scuthe and like
silver coin being jingled. Looking out she saw a
something lying in the outside. She ram
out and across 10 a saloon and gave the alarm
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
MISS PAGE GOES FREE.
Alleged Shoplfter Discharged :
UW Be Sent to SanatOT1Nm.

Miss Emma Page, of No. 16 Central Park West.
who arrested for shOplifting in SlXth-aVe'
department store. discharged. in the JEFFERSON
Market police court yesterday, on recommenda-
ton of the proprietors of the store AffdaVlts
were submitted declaring that the young woman
Is mentally and physically deranged, and that she
was responsible for the thefts she was aIleged
to have committed The magistrate said that
he expected something to be done VIII the woman
She will be sent to a sanatorum. the magistrate
was told Miss Page. with her father. arrived at
the court in a private carriage. They sat in the
back row of seats while waiting for the case to
be called. Her counsel escorted Miss Page down
the centre aisle TO a place inside the railing She
sat for a moment the prisoners bench, and
when her name called staggered forward ana
stood before the bridge, clnging to the ran lor
support -, l. !,
become grayer since her arrest for shophttlng'
She has been in bed he said. since her release on
bail except when she had to go 10 court foF
the hearings When the magistrate discharged her
Miss Page started forward and then haII collapsf4
before she reached the door. A policeman caught
her. a little later she half tainted again.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
DROWNED BODY OF N. S. PHELPS FOUND
Belief That Battle Creek Man Committed
Suicide.

Battle Creek. Mich. Jan 5.-The body Of Neil s
Phelps the capitalist of this city who mysteriously
disappeared a number of weeks ago, and who was
later supposed to have been located in British CO.
lurnba. was found to-day, badly decomposed In
the river here.
Mr. Phelps hao oeeh missing since October %
last The body found lodged against a
spile in the Battle Creek River. near the place
where Phelps WAS last seen alive the afternoon OF
his disappearance. He was the constructor OF a
sanatoTium. and was prominent In the food indus
fry In 1893 his affairs became involved and a wear
was allowed to him In which to straighten out the
tangle: 1t was Just before the expiration of the
year that he disappeared
Soon after Phelps disappeared it was discovered
that $4,000 OF stock in publishing house that
Phelps was interested in had been forged and used
to secure loans from banks in Adrian Tecunlseh a
ana TINS city Ihs gave rise TO reports that Phelps
had absconded Instead. it is believed he committed
suicide while despondent the loss OF his fort
une, whlch had been estimated at several millions
New-York tribune., 1905-01-06
"PAINT OUT FENCE ADS"
PALLAS GIVES ORDER.
Commissioner Receives Court Dec's-
ion-The Contract Cancelled.

In compliance with the order Of Justice scott III
the suit against Park Commissioner aas -
Mcnamara & Co. who held the concession 1Ol
advertisements on the Bryant Park fence the a a. :
Commissioner issued orders yesterday thA' ".
signs be painted out. The contract WIN N
Namara & Co. was cancelled. The Bryah' = =
fence is TO be restored to the dull gray "i''
covered 1t before the variegated corset aus 80
whiskey legends appeared to enliven
and Forty second-st-
The order OF Justice Scott which cOiIill@H
that within thirty days Of the time Oh sel'+So
on the counsel for the defendants the Signs %
removed. was served on Corporation CounSe r.
lanv last Friday as told in The Tribune Inc
Pallas from the Corporation Counsel by mali yes
terday He Immediately annulled the contract
with the advertising company. and oroeTeu 'lH-
II paint out the signs at ana restore tIie
fence to the condition IN which IL was DeIoiS '
contract went into effect -,
THE Commissioner was always perIecty 49, r,,9
have these signs taken down., said Willis IiO''
secretary OF the Park Board; 'in fact ne neS Ls' he
loophole In the contract so tnat ~ H. 80 in
which these people tried to ride Sfair
him left him course except TO have the ailIe ~
tried out in the courts As soon as ne sO0 ~
courts order. ne complied with it" -
The contract annulled yesterday was q,
Commissioner Pallas took once, LIE ~ -
of Mcnamara & Co. was principally r,. t1dLtJ
Hart a well known Tanmany worker Inc COii
paid for thes fence around the ne" II
brary In Bryant Park $500 a year, WLlIe & au-
Vertsing concerns estimated that the privilege %sS
worth at least times that amount 70 us holuSL
AT first there were only few advertisements IN
bloOmingly and advertising men think tnat uniess
Mcnamara & Co. had some special afrahss ssIheht NJ
protests which may take the form OF damage
suits because the advertisements must come down