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New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ULTTJlATUM TO UNION.
Master Carpenters Wish Building
Situation Cleared Up.

The Master Carpenters Association it was
learned yesterday, is likely 70 issue an utimatum
10 the Carpenters Union OF the greater New-York
which has dehed the master carpenters and refused
TO obey an order 10 accept charter from the ma
uonal officers OF the Brotherhood Of Carpenters
The employers wish the situation cleared up as
the building season has just opened and declare
that the national union has made all reasonable
concessions in granting the charter. The new
union says it will make no terms with the brother
hood.
A meeting viii be held tonight at the Building
Trades Club at which it is believed decisive action
viii be taAen II Will be attended by the executive
committees Of the Master Carpenters Association
the Greater New-York Carpenters Union some OF
the national officers of the Brotherhood Of Car
penters. the Amalgamated Carpenters Society and
the representatives Of the local unions of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters
In case the members OF the new union II a rIpt-
ure occurs. refuse TO work. their places il is said
will be filled by brotherhood men AS the new;
union is not in the Associated Building Trades
with which the brotherhood OF Carpenters is afili-
ated, IL viii not be able to bring about a svm
pathetic strike OF the other trades
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
Trial OR BAIL FOR NAN" +"
Her Laz0yer Says GaynOr's Decision
VIII Be Insisted On.

warm legal battle before Recorder Goh is ex-
pected to-day when the of Miss Nan Pat
terson indicted for the Staying of Cesar Young
up for trial he third time. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rand, it is understood. will ask for
another indefinite adjournment of the trial, on the
plea that ]. Morgan Smith and his wife, arrested
in Cincinnati. cannot be brought back in time to
be witnesses at the trial If it proceeds Immediately
In such Miss Pattersons counsel will call to
the Recorders attention the fact that the date
set for the trial after Justice Gaynor's de-
cision that the trial must proceed before May or
Miss Patterson must be admitted to bail.
Abraham Levy, OF Miss Patterson's counsel, said
yesterday that he prepared to make the bitter
est possible fight against keeping her in the Tombs
months longer while the District Attorney was
having detectives hunting for evidence against her
The weakness OF the prosecution was evident. he
said. because Mr. Jerome once consented to have
Miss Patterson admitted to bail The testimony
of the Smiths, ne declared. would be Of value
TO the prosecution.
Detectives employed by the prosecution have OBJ
tained a letter supposed to have been sent by Miss
Pattersons father to J. Morgan Smith when Smith
was living In Montreal under the name OF w. A.
Adams telling him to his judgment about some
matter not mentioned. II may be used at the trial
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
MOFFATT"S BUSY DAY.
CrO5ods Big Assortment of Trouble
Into Fe7c Short Hours.

In comparatively short time yesterday, W.
r, Mofatt. who declares that in the last i've
years his domestic life has been tranquil and
happy met with a series OF difficulties which
began with quarrel with his wife and ended
with A reconciliation. His troubles succeeded
one another with bewiloering rapidity, and
briefly summarized follows:
He quarreled with his wife; left home in
rage with firm determination never to return;
drowned his troubles IN his faVOrite beverage;
lost his travelling bag, In which was placed a
few OF his valuables and hastily gathered as
sortment Of clothing; was arrested, locked up.
arraigned in the West Side police court, dis
charged. and at last happily recOnciled TO his
wife.
After recovering his stolen property in court,
Noffatt had the satisfaction OF seeing the three
alleged thieves take the place he had just va
Gated before the judge
Moffatt told the magistrate that he had quar-
relied With his wife and mad got drunk, but
that he was sorry and would never do ii again.
Mrs Moffatt then put in plea saying that he
is a good husband and seldom drinks, but sup
pose he was provoked this morning. Magis-
trate Ommen then discharged MOffatt.
on Moffatts complaint, three boys in whose
possession his travelling bag, il is alleged, was
found. were arraigned on charge Of larceny,
and were held in 500 bail for examination to-
morrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Mofatt, carrying the re-
covered Vaiise and smiling contentedly, then
went home
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
c. f. L. POT AGAIN BOILS.
NO7C 1t FOGmS OUer on Murrag HID
LyceUm Meeting.

The meeting at the Murray Hill Lyceum last week
10 protest against the holding up OF franchises by
the Board Of Aldermen, at which Controller Grout
was the principal speaker. was repudated BY the
Central Federated Union yesterday. A. J. Smith
OF the Clothing Cutters Union. wanted 10 know
who authorized the meeting. He understood he
said. that Alfred J. Boulton. delegate OF the Stere
otypers' Union presided. and that the public was
given 10 understand that IT was Central Fedora
ted meeting
Boulton said delegate came to him from the
Central Federated Union and told him that he had
been appointed on committee OF the Central Fed
Grated Union to call the meeting. Several Of the
delegates said that the Central Federated Union
had authorized such meeting. The secretary
went over the minutes and said that the only record
Of a resolution calling for a meeting was one
70 eall mass meeting TO protest against the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company getting more
franchises No committee had been appointed TO
arrange for II.
II WAS decided 20 appoint committee TO investi-
gate and make charges against any Central FEEDER
ate Union delegates found responsible for calling
the meeting in its name.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
PANIC IN THEATRE.
One Fatally Injured IN Trying to
Escape Fire.

Kokomo, Ind, April S.--George Armstrong,
seventeen years old, was fatally injured and a
score Of persons seriously burned tonight by a
fire in the Spe Theatre. which caused by
the ignition of a roll of ceIluloid films used in
operating a moving picture machine. In the
panic that followed Armstrong jumped through
a window in the third floor and received fatal
injuries
A moving picture show was in progress and a
big celluloid film. suspended the balcony
railing, ignited from electric light The
machine operator threw the audience into q
panic and started rush for the fire escapes
and exits by cry of Lookout everybody, the
theatre is afrer' In instant about six hun
dred persons rushed toward the exits. That
more were not hurt is largely due to the sys-
tenn Of FIRE escapes and exits in the theatre and
the department Of the house employees. Young
Armstrong occupied a seat in the gallery and
at the warning cry Of the machine operator
broke plate glass window and jumped to the
sidewalk, forty feet. He is still unconscious,
both legs broken ana he is internally in
jured.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ELEYATOR KILLS WOMAN.
Hotel EmpIoye M0ngled As She Re-
enters Moving Car.

Mrs Margaret Clarke, employed in the Hotel
Imperial was crushed to death In freight ele-
vator on the 31st-st side Of the hotel shortly
after o'clock last night. She was on her way
to the basement in the freight elevator with
three other servants
The elevator was In charge of William Men
ters. All the passengers had left the car at the
basement except Mrs Clarke. who. according to
Menters. had stepped of part of the way. and
then quickly started to re-enter the elevator.
The basement shaft door was not closed when
Menters started up. Mrs. Clarke was half way
on the elevator when the flooring Of the car
came opposite steel girder which supports the
first floor Of the hotel, and she was crushed in
a horrible manner between them.
The hotel physician, DR.. Taylor. pronounced
the woman dead. Mentors was arrested on a
charge of homicide.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
MYSTERY IN SUICIDE.
Man Registers One Name, Letter
and Wallet RereaJ An0ther.

A guest at the Imperial Hotel who registered
there Saturday G. H. Greene. Of Chicago.
committed suicide in HIS at IL o'clock last
night. by shooting himself in the head. From a
letter and wallet found by Coroner Schoer in the
dead mans pockets, his right name is believed to
be F. F. Hennessey, of No. p AIurray-st. Burling-
ton VI That name appeared in the wallet, and the
letter read: In OF any accident. please notify
my mother. Mrs Mary II. Hennessey, No % Muir
ray-st Burlington VT" Strangely enough, how
ever. the letter written on a fine quality OF
paper, at the top of which were the embossed in
itials % 9. H. G." corresponding to the name the
man registered
Little was known Of the man at the hotel. The
clerks say that he seemed of a cheerful DISPOSE
tiOn. He went TO hts room early last night and
was called down after to settle dispute about
a dinner check. He then ordered meal to his
room. When the waiter took it. he sent him back
for gin hzz. Getting no answer when he returned,
the waiter ran for the manager. who Opered the
door with pass key. They found the guest lying
dead upon the bed, fully dressed. He had wrapped
a blanket around his head deaden the report of
the pistol. which held in his right hand
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10

ever; that I was both surprised and pleased by
%6at saw OF the extent and Development Of the
YORK. stopped for few hours IN Chicago and
oils halted at NagaTa Fails FOR dav' and Sbs
OF course filled with wonder by the tremendous
seen before. The things that most Impress me in
tatIon tacllitesInot only the surface lines. but the
elevated and subway roads being apparently neces-
will sail the steamer Philadelphia for the Ven
ezuelan capital the middle of the present month
The humor of a situation sometimes depends not
merely on spoken phrase. but may turn on the
way it Is used-the accent that marks the express
sion. One day recently a tottering peevish old
man entered the lobby OF uptown hotel and
made a more or less labored advance toward the
elevator used exclusively to reach the guest rooms
He was not guest, but had been in the house
on earlier occasions One Of the hallboys. who
the old man and In a manner that should have in
dieated q disposition to be courteously helpful
said TO him: Anything you want, sir?'' The old
man misinterpreted the hallboy's INQUIRY as a
to glare at the youththen resumed his EaS enough s
Ing. more to himself than in answer to the query:
he was on his way to see his mother-ninety-eisht
and not peevsh by half. -0'
Why didn't some one think of It before? FoIlovv
ing the announcement that the New-York Central
is To adopt electric locomotives an uptown drug
store has placed circular track in &s window and
installed miniature train service with an electric
locomotive. In the train. OF course is load ~
patent medicine bottles. The other dav the it,Ia
train got up such speed that II jumped the curve
There said nervous looking woman watching
IT, II knew those electric engines wouldn't he safe
I'm sorry the railroads are going 20 use them
Occasionally finds knowledge OF the YER
nacular of high finance and politics in quarters
where It is least expected, Along 125th-st the
other day walked a negro, originally exceedingly
black He was carrying whitewash pail and had
succeeded in plasterlnE himself. features and alI
with the contents He was met by an acduafnt-
ance Of the same race. YAH ha! ha!" rOared the
latter In great glee. surveying his friend Sam
reekin youse been investigator OF yOself"
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10

Three sandwich men, weary of pounding the
pavement halted in triangular conference on a
Broadway corner. The Volube One talked while
the others We're for the most part silent and re-
ceptive The one of ready speech had ininitable
brogue, which ne had imported in the steerage.
he told his of the publicity corps how
he had been fooled April l. He penny on
the street and when ne stopped to pick it up he
found that heartless jester had nailed It to the
only walked to the corner of the sthreet whin
dollar bin II ia bin thar. instd NV foolln' with
that copper that wouldn't let go NV tn sthreet, it
that needs the money most is niver on the shpOt."
Colonel Peacock. who has been for more than
twenty years behind the desk the Hoffman
House makes "A point OF giving good he
gets" and when guest friend calls him colonel
he invariably returns the greeting with the same
or higher rank. one day recently. when military
some one said Everybody about here here seems 70
promptly responded. '.An the same price!"
Speaking of red headed girls and the certainty
that their appearance heralds the proximity of
the white horse" said the Observant Nan. Il
am reminded that l rioing In q train passing
Pride's Crossing in Massachusetts, a few years
ago. and Just the train made the station stop
girl with red hair brushed past the end Of the
et ,oce5 out the window ana sure enougb se
a farmers cart was passing at the moment drawn
Dy the only morse IN slsh1-d "Hlte OHe'
What is the rarest name ever a hotel
register?' said a veteran clerk. repeating query
put 10 him Amelia Turnipseed. and that was
years ago in Boston,.
Baron H. de Rotenhau. who has served as secre-
tary Of the German Legation at Peking, and who
was recently assigned TO the legation at Caracas
where he will assume the same relation arrived
few days ago from San Francisco having come on
the steamer Dorc from Yokohama. Seen at the
Hotel Cambridge. the baron said: 1t Is specially
enjoined upon the younger members OF the dipIo-
natic corps that they do not talk / may say. how
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ANN ARBOR RAILROAD REPORTED SOLD
Control Said to Have Passed from the GOulds
New Owners Uncertain

Toledo. April s.-A dispatch to The Tines
from ST. Louis says:
RumOrs were current on the stock Exchange and
In banking circles here yesterday that cOntroi OF t
Ann ArbOr Railroad OF Toledo had passed IrQhn tn1
Gould people. and that IL would no longer continue
part OF the Gould system lu was later IeIIe
excellent authority that the rumor was We
founded and that the deal for the sale OF the prop
erty was practically closed. .. 80. -,
The Ann ArbOr Railroad is worth NSSeoeO. ne 9
brokers say. A bonded debt OF $40O.oVo stah1S
against the property and The purchasers are ~ ~
deTStOOd TO have paid $4,000 for control OF tn7
road and ferry system
IL is said that either the Great Central or iI,e
ests closely allied TO the big Cincinnati, Haullto"
and DaytOn-Pere Marquette combination are inter
ested in the purchase. A syndicate of which t4u-
gene Zimmerman Is the head has bought control or
the Detroit Southern Railway. and may hook n up
with the Ann ArbOr Railroad. making a thorough
line from the Ohio River to Lake Michigan ana lhe
upper peninsula of the State OF Michigan
The Ann ArbOr Railroad was bought through the
ST. Louis Union Trust Company The trust com
pany and James Ramsey, jr.. were the chief IA
tors in an underwriting syndicate which took over
the Ann AFbOr from ". r. Burt and others or
Saginaw, Mich George Gould is understood TO have
paid 100000 to this syndicate for option pend
Ing the financing OF his Ann Arbor proposition. The
option expired without Mr.. Gould seeing ~ to e1-
eTcise IL. and the Union Trust crowd dropped the
Gould negotiations and sold 70 other parties
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
C. F. U. COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
To Investigate Charges Against Interna-
tional and National Officers.

The chairman of the Central Federated Union
started in yesterday. he promised last week, to
appoint a committee to investigate the Civic Fed
eraticp and force the delegates who had made
charges against the international and national of-
GERS who belonged to the Civic Federation to prove
them or retract them He found it hard to get
a committee as he did a week ago.
Charles Delaney, Of the Granite Cutters Union,
was the first man he named but Delaney declared
that as he was member OF the Civic Federation
himself he could not Others objected on
the ground that they had opinions of their own on
the subject, and therefore could not be impartial
After MANY declinatiCns committee. consisting OF
Delegates Iormer, Richter. Morton. Green and
Hand was appointed.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ATTACKS PRESENT SOCIAL SYSTEM
Speaker at Cooper Union Contrasts Wealth
and Poverty of Nation.

That the present social system which allows
enormous wealth on the one side and abject poverty
the other 10 exist al the same time is wrong
the sentiment of the principal speaker at the
Cooper Union meeting last night and that Gov
ernor Higgins might speak from the Institute plat
form brought out by another.
Charles Sprague smith the director of the In
stitute presided and said that he would ask the
Governor 70 speak az Cooper Union and hoped he
The heV, Ut; p, Merie ST g. Wright then spoke on
'Shalees NhI biaihts. tie described the condition
OF wealth. OF thls country and declared that Igs
families Of the country owned as mncb uSsItb a.
from John Moodey the statisticisn 1o shoSSS tbS
Tamitcations OF the Standard OH interests ''0
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
U. S. CIVILIZATION IN DANGER.
Chicago Settlement Worker Says Churches
Must Work Harder.

That the civilization Of the United States is in
danger OF falling unless our great cities change
their political principles the warning enunci-
ated by Raymond Robins a settlement worker Of
Chicago in Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. last night.
His subject was The Probl ms Of the Poor in the
Tenement Region and he spoke almost entirely
of conditions in Chicago. lie said that al the end
or the lake season there were 600OO unemployed
persons in that CITY. who squandered So 10000 in
The red light district He told Of the political
leaders who were able TO sway thousands Of these
mon M one direction the other for corrupt pur-
poses.
unless our churches work harder and announce
the truth In a louder voice"
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
GROWTH OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Due, 1t Is Said. to the Establishment Of
Public High Schools.

Rudolf Tombo. jr. in pamphlet reprinted from
The Columbia University Quarterly" shows the
growth Of that institution In the last seven
Years since the removal Of the college TO Morning
side Heights, the number students has increased
from 335 10 81. The increase in attendance il is
shown, due 10 the establishment Of public high
schools and the entrance into the college OF stu
dents from those institutions
The pamphlet shows that the De Witt Clinton
High School expected 10 graduate in midwinter
this year fortytwo; in June. seventy-seven in mid
winter 1906 ls2 and in June Of that year ls4 stu
dents The present freshman class Of the college is
the largest IN its history and Of the 2O candidates
who presented themselves for the final entrance
examinations seventy-Of whom forty-eight were
admitted-or SS l-l3 per cent. from the public
nigh schools Of greater New-York.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ELECTRICITY KILLS BOY.
Playing 7cith Bridge Lamp When
Bulb CoHapses.

Crawford. \. J.. April 9.-Albert Ruhdart ten
years old. instantly killed this afternoon while
playing with incandescent lamp on the bridge
over the Railway River He was with another boy.
Instead of keeping TO the walk they ascended the
girder which forms the side of the bridge. Ruh-
dart stopped near lamp. and holding to the iron
standard leaned out and tried TO unscreW the bulb.
The bulb apparently collapsed in his hand. and his
fingers came in contact with the metal points 70
which the film Is attached
He fell TO the walk dead. His hands were burned
where the current had entered into the standard
He received about 1OO0 volts His father is a "a h
met maker employed at the organ works at Gar
wood.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
MUSIC PUBLISHERS STOP WORK.
Attempt to Force British Government to
Make Effective Copyright Laws.

London. April Sowing 10 the inability Of the
authorities 20 suppress wholesale music piracy
chiefly Of popular Songs. a score OF London music
publishing firms. including several OF the leading
houses, have agreed to cease publishing or adver-
Using new compositions or entering into any con-
tracts with composers artists or singers until
further notice. The object OF the movement is TO
induce the government 10 undertake legislation re-
forming the present ineffective copyright laws.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
WOLVES FIGHT IN PARK.
Visitors to New-York Geological Menagerie
See Bloody Battle.

gray wolf and a timber wolf in the same cage
at the New-York Geological Park yesterday. fought
for twenty minutes over piece of meat that was
thrown into the cage By one OF the keepers.
When the animals separated the cage was
covered with blood. The head Of Of the wolves
badly torn and the jaw OF the other split. They
were placed in different cages.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
Va. MEYER WsITs couNT LAMspoREF

ST Petersburg. April IO.-George Won l. Meyer.
the new American Ambassador 10 St. Petersburg.
made his first call yesterday the Foreign Min
lister Count IamsdorfT who extended an unusually
cordial greeting. The exchanges however. were
devoid OF significance and neither war nor peace
was mentioned. Emperor Nicholas probably will
receive Mr. Meyer Wednesday, when the AM
Ia ssado- VIII present his letters.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
JAPAN MAY ASK $5oo,oooyooo.
Baron Suyematsu's Forecast Comedies with
Russia's Information.

St. Petersburg. April lO.-Baron suyematsu's
article IN ''rhe London Outlook OF Saturday
regarding indemnity comedies with Russia's
Information. the amount demanded being $780,
oCAGsQ
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ONE DAY OF MENINGITIS KILLS.
Mrs. Fannie N. E. Ensell, of Brooklyn, Dies
After Short Illness

After an illness OF only one day, Mrs Fannie NJ.
=. Eusell, the widow OF Or. John Edwin Ensell,
died Of spinal meningitis at her home, No. H5
Park Place Brooklyn. on Saturday. She was born
n NapiersviIle H. in 1857. but had lived in Brook
Ism for many years. Mrs Ensen was president OF
The Woman's Political Equality League, was a
member OF Montague Council Home Circle, and
Of other organizations. She leaves two sons and a
daughter. The funeral will be held to- night. The
services viii be conducted by the Rev. John NJ
Fsrrar Of the First Dutch Reformed Church.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
SANDS DEFEATS CRANE.
Neal Yorker Wins Court Tennis
Cham piOHShip.

Boston April 9-Joshua Crane, Of this city. the
national court tennis champion. to-day beaten
bv Charles E. Sands. Of New-YOTk, in the ina
match of the singles national championship t0urna-
ment at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club Tbs
New-YOrk took three out OF the four stubborn
" contested sets. the score by sets being "a IS
70 6-3 Sands. who showed better form than did
Crane, played floor game. and seldom resOrted 70
fancy shots. Sands is the first New-YOrker 10 win
the national championship since 1895. The score.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
ANOTHER S. l. FERRYsoAT LAUNCHED.

Baltimore April s.-The Bronx, the second OF the
ferTyboats building by the Maryland Steel Com
pany AZ Sparrows Point for the City of New-York
which refused 20 leave the WAYS when her launch
ing was attempted yesterday. successfully
foated az u o'clock tonight by the shipyard app-
anoes. aided by a tide considerably higher Than
that of yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
CAPTAIN cLADo BACKS DOWN.

st. Petersburg. April lO-The proposed duel be-
tween Captain CIado and Captain Zilotd has failed
70 take place, Captain CladO having satisfied him
self by investigation that he had wrongly accused
Captain Zilotti. CladO has published his letter Of
apology in al the papers which printed hts criti-
CiErnR
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
sAT1LEsHIp OHIO AT HONOLULU,

Washington. April s-The Navy Department Is
advised OF the arrival OF the battleship Ohio CAP
tain Leavitt c. Logan commanding. az Honolulu,
yesterday. The Ohio left San Francisco on April
l. and is on her way to the China station.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
cARoNIA ARRIVES ON SECOND TRIP.

The Cunard Line steamship Caronia arrived
last evening completing her second trip 10 this
port in about the time OF the first voyage She
brought lss saloon. 2s3 second and 1914 steerage
passengers. Captain War; reports passing forty
icebergs IN seven hours.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
". LEssAR RECOVERING.

St Petersburg, April 9.-Dispatehes received to-
day nom PelIing say that the condition OF Paul
lessar the Russian Minister. has improved. and
mat the crisis OF his illness has passed.