The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-10
ON TRAIL OF
 YELLOW DOG
ANDREW HAMILToN's RETURN SHOULD REVEAL TO INSURANCE PROBERS WHERE LOST MIL
 LION WENT.
cO3Aumption LurI<s i'm Gotham's Sub- wny-LocmI Jurfsts Interested in BlI1-GOld Mine Discovered
 On Broadway.

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 1 New York, March 9.--(Special Cor respondence.)-A curious coincidence brought Judge" Andrew Hamilton. dis penser of Yellow Dog funds, back to l America on the very day when the Grand Jury of New York County be- | gan to consider evidence against in l surance magnates with a view to crin- | inal indictments and at the time when I investigators in the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company were busily engaged in trying to find out what the Judges" tangible assets are, with view to suing for the recov- cry of the hundreds Of thousands of dollars for which he is held accoun- table. The only real estate of Hamil- tons that the investigators have been able to locate is his house at Albany, which Is said to be mortgaged up to the attic. As for personal property, two or three speculative accounts have been concerned in these Since Hamil- ton has returned to face the music, as he expresses 1t, 1t Is probable that the public will at last learn what became of about S1,000,o00, for which the Fowl CT Committee held the Judge" and John A. Mccall jointly responsible. EIamilton's statement that he heard something about criminal proceedings" and hastened home. has set New York laughing. There is no doubt that the
 
 of following from his European retreat every step in the various insurance in- Vestigations.
 Consumption is the latest disease for which New York's subway is held re- sponsible Since the first train was operated in the big underground tun- nel, scientific men have wrangIed over the hygenic merits and demerits of the place. Eminent chemists have taken bottlefuls of the air and demonstrated that 1t was so bereft of oxygen as to be injurious to life, while other equally eminent chemists have shown that sub way air was even purer than the att mosphere of the streets It has been declared on scientific authority that gases were being constantly generated in the tunnel that would eventually cause it to explode like huge cart ridge and recently a sanitary engineer reported to the Rapid Transit Commis- sion that the subway cars were as full of microbes as a limburger cheese. A coroner's autopsy on the subway track welkers revealed the fact that they had died from construction caused by the inhalation of small particles of steel dust. The particles of steel, deposited on the surface of the lungs. caused in- flammation and thereby diminished the capclty of the lungs. According to the coroner. other subway employees and
  similarly affected. 1t is estimated that the dust generated by the friction of the shoes on the third rail and the brakes on the wheels average a ton mile a month.
 The legal aspects of the Hepburn bill are exciting much attention among members of the New York Bar. Con stitutiOnal lawyers are pointing out that the power sought to be conferred on the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion by the Hepburn bill Is identical with that of Congress, since no stand ard of charges, save that they shall be just. reasonable and fairly remun- erative. Is enacted, and all is left to the judgment of the Commission. Tn this connection 1t is recalled that Attorney General Moody, in an opinion, stated that Congress can entrust to an ad- ministrative body no more than the power to fix rates in conformity with a stsndard established by law" Does the Hepburn bill provide for any such standard? is now being asked. More over, MT. Moody further pointed out that as the rate-makins power was not a Judicial function, 1t could not be conferred upon the courts. In the light of these points. conservative opinion bill will have to be very carefully amended or run the risk of eventually being declared unconstitutional.
 The discovery of a bona fide gold mine on Broadway. under one of the newest skyscraDers, has caused great interest in Gotham. but it is improb q ble that any of the tall office buildings will he torn down in order that shafts may be sunk. Samuel c. Pyle. an un- der foreman of bricklayers, found the gold while carrying on work necessary for the establishing of pIunger eleva- ! tors in the new building of the Title l Guarantee and Trust Company at 176 | Broadway The big annular drill used | drags out short cores of gneiss and | hRrdpan and it had been worked almost 1 to depth of 174 feet when Mir Pyle 1 noticed that one of the broken cores | reflected the sun in places. According | ly MT. Pyle took 1t home and found that 1t assayed $2.000 to the ton Ac- cordingly the Title Guarantee Company officers were notified that they had a very rich vein of gold beneath them, ! but they refused to rage their new mill lion-dollar building to investigate. This Is believed to be the first gold bearing rock found lay below the surface of New York city
 Lady Helen Forbes the titled Eng fish author, is in New York hunting American milliouaires New York Is | somewhat accustomed to the presence | of titled Englishmen hunting the | American millionairess. but an Eng |