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The Washington times., 1906-09-05
SO New Fall Skirt S1.98

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Just received 100 new Fall
Skirts. Made of good quality
black Thihet; 7-gOre skirt; invert-
ed pleat, strap and button trim
med. This is one Of the finest
kind of walking skirts for this
changeable weather. 1t is not too
light nor yet too heavy to prove
entirely satisfactory to the buyer
at this season. And then you also
get the benefit of our great re-
building sale reduction. Some
thing not to be regarded lightly.
This is a particularly we'll made
skirt and intended to bring s. to
81. All sizes; at our R. s. Thurs
day you can choose for St.98.
The Washington times., 1906-09-05
S1OO Gloves 75c

Long Isle Gloves; y button length;
2 clasps; extra fine quality, all sizes.
in black ana white r. 5. P. f5ci
worth 500
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
METROPOLITAN BUYING HORSES.
That's Its Only Immediate solution OF
East Sid TRAFFIC Problems.

President H. H. Vreeland Of the Metro
politan system called yesterday upon Bor-
ouch President Ahearn to explain why his
company had been unable to carry out
the promises of immediate improvement
in the street car service on the lower East
Side OF the city.
Mr.. Vreeland told the Borough President
that the only solution was to electrify the
on which horse cars now run.
But, Mr.. Vreeland explained. it was i'm
possible to determine upon any plans for
such changes until the city had decided
upon its schemes for the terminals and
approaches for the new bridges over the
East River. In the meantime, Mr.. Vree-
land said, his company was arranging for
a better service Of horse cars by a large
purchase Of horses in the West and that the
animals were now being shipped here.
Mr.. Ahearn told Mr.. vreeland that he
would not unduly press the company, but
that unless the conditions he had COM
planned Of were not remedied within a
reasonable time he would proceed to carry
out his threat to cancel the franchises,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
POET SUDDENLY SEEKS DEATH.
Arthur Epson Leaps Over Bridge Rail
is Hal Gaines Protege.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 23..-Arthur Epson,
assistant professor of literature in the
University Of Minnesota. a poet Of recog-
niaed ability and a protege Of Hall Caine,
vaulted over the rail OF the Tenth avenue
bridge into the icy Mississippi to-day.
A bridge Waterman who saw him leap
hurried down and with the assistance of
loggers with pike hooks fshed him from
the stream to a boom.
He is at the City Hospital, with slight
chance for recovery.
When Upson left home he was in high
spirits, as he had been for several weeks.
A sudden recurrence of melancholia, from
which he suffered two years ago, is the only
explanation Of his act known to his rela-
tives.
Although only 81 years old, he has been
very successful in his literary work. Three
of his books, "Octaves of an Oxford Garden
West Wind Song" and "The City of Poems, "
were published by New York houses.
Two years ago Epson spent several
months in Europe, most Of the time with
Hall Game on the Isle of Man. Caine de-
clared Epson was the most promising young
American poet he knew and has assisted
and encouraged him in his work.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
TEN YEARS FOR CAR CONDUCTOR
Who While Spelling the Motorfnan Caused
Mail wagon Drivers Death.

Albert Oreman Of 1874 East Fifty-ninth
street. the conductor who was convicted in
General Sessions OF manslaughter, was
sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing by Judge
Foster in General Sessions yesterday. Ore
man was the conductor of a Lexington
avenue car that ran into a mail wagon and
killed the driver, Bernard Mcdonald Of 9
Grant avenue, Astoria.
II il the first criminal case in years in which
a street car employee has been convicted
Of manslaughter. The motorman had gone
inside Of his car to talk to a woman passen-
ger, and Oreman took charge Of the con-
t~roller. The Gag got away from him and hit
McDonald's wagon.
As a warning to careless motormen and
chauffeurs, it is my duty to impose a heavy
sentence on you" said Judge Foster. Il
hone il will be an object lesson against
carelessness by such men as you. / have
been reliably informed that the New York
CITY Railway Company pays s., o0O, 900 a
year to settle damage suits. In nearly all
instances these suits rave been the result
Of gross carelessness by such men as you,
often resulting in death and loss of limb.
This must be stopped
The railroad company settled with Nc
Donald's family for $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
PLAN TO MOVE THAMES STREET.
The Trinity Corporation VIII Give City
Land for O wider Street.

Land for q wider Street.
The Board Of Estimate gave a public
hearing yesterday on the proposal SUBJ
mitted to the city by the Trinity Corpora
ton, the owner Of the Trinity Building at
Ill Broadway. to change Thames street
by moving it twenty-seven feet to the
north. The corporation owns the land
on the north and south sid OF the mar
row alleyway and wishes TO widen its
building twenty seven feet.
In return 1t offers to oede property to
the city which will allow q new street six
feet wider.
The change wa favored by property
owners representing S23, 100000 Of real
estate, while the only opposition came
from E.. s.. Benedict. who appeared for
the Citizens Union. and who contended
that as the corporation would gain largely
by the adoption of the plan, the city ought
to have adequate compensation.
There was also a substitute scheme
submitted to the board for the closing
entirely OF Thames street and making in
place Of it a broad thoroughfare of Cedar
street, but this was strongly opposed by
Father Mclean of st. Peters Church,
who explained that the Cedar street widen
ing scheme would wipe out st. Peters
School.
The whole matter was referred to a com-
mittee consisting of the Mayor, Comp
troller Metz and President McGowan Of
the Board of Aldermen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
RUMOR OF ANOTHER HTTCH.
Drafting Committee Said to Have Abnnd-
oned American Plan.

Special Cable Dispatches TO TIE SUN.
ALoECfRAs, March electromagnetic
Usual contradictory rumors followed to-
days session Of the drafting committee of
the Moroccan conference, which discussed
the police scheme. 1t is now reported
that the American-Austrian plan has been
abandoned.
BERLIN, March 2S.-THE Sun representa-
tive was informed at the Foreign Office
to-day that while it could not be said that
a full understanding had been reached
between France and Germany it was ex-
pected that the session of the Moroccan
conference On Monday would result in the
removal of all obstacles and in a definite
agreement.
THE Sun correspondent is assured that
the message sent by the Russian Foreign
Minister, Count Lamsdorff to Count Cassini,
Russian Ambassador to Spain, as to Russia's
firm adherence to the French alliance will
not effect Germany's policy toward Russia.
PARIS, March 23.-The Echo de Paris
uus summarizes the probable conditions
on which a settlement OF the differences
bet ween France and Germany at the Moroo-
can conference will be reached:
Three-fifths Of the stock Of the state
bank will be in French hands, As COM
pensation Germany will receive certain
concessions in the police and other ques-
tions. At Tangier and Mogador the police
will be a mixed force. At the other six
ports the police will be French and Spanish.
The inspector Of the whole force will be an
Austrian Lieutenant Colonel, who will re-
port monthly to the Sultan and to the
diplomatic corps at Tangier, which will
form an international commission, with
large powers. The mandate given to
France and Spain will be for a term of five
years.
ALGECIRAs, Spain, March 23.-As the
sittings Of the Moroccan conference have
continually been deferred against the wish
OF the delegates, NJ. Revolt. the head OF the
French delegation, and Sir Arthur Nichol-
son Of the English called upon the Duke
of Almodovar. president Of the conference,
this morning with the request that he
summon the conference for a sitting this
afternoon.
The Duke replied that it was impossible
to do so, owing to the indisposition of Herr
o Radowitz, the German delegate, who
is confined to his room and is said to be
suffering from rheumatism, and because
tomorrow he THE Duke) would have to go
to Cadiz to bid farewell to King Alfonso
on his departure for the Canary Islands.
He promised to call a sitting for Monday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
DENIAL FROM JUDGE PARKER.
Didn't Speak OF Roosevelt and Mcclellan
as Rival Candidates.

Dlunt speak OF Roosevelt ana MctIeilan
rs Rival Candidates.
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker yesterday gave
out the following statement:
AN alleged conversation between a man
from Maine and the President on the sui
feet OF a third term reports the latter, ao-
cording to the Herald, as having said that
a second nomination was an impossibility.
This has been brought to my attention,
with the suggestion that it is intended as
an answer to an alleged interview or speech
by me while in the South, expressing a
different view.
Il do not believe. however, that it was so
intended. because 1t is 30 much more tenn
perate than his last reply to a statement Of
mine. But, be that as it may, the fact is
that neither in speech nor interview did /
at Birmingham or elsewhere make any
statement on the subject.
Nor did / at jackson or elsewhere sug-
gest Mayor Mcclellan for the Presidency.
Ny friendship for him would not permit me
to make such a suggestion at this time, In
view of his well known and often expressed
Another public office. The people may
later on compel him to forego that deter
minetion, but I am sure he does not think
30. and / would not wrong him by a suG-
gestion that his friends are planning other
wise.
1Nor is 1t true, as reported, that Presiding
Justice Morgan j. O'Brien was in the South
while / was there. He was during that
period and all Of it with the court over
which he presides."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
STRUCK DOWN FROM BEHIND.
Police Captain Mannlon Thinks Dying Man
Is 4 Victim OF Striking IrOnwOrkers.

Police Captain ManniOn Thinks Dying Man
Is 4 Victim Of Striking ~IrOnworkers.
The negro porter at the 15eth street station
Of the Third avenue elevated road found a
man yesterday morning lying unconscious
on the steps head downward. Apparently
he had been struck ON the back Of the head
with a heavy club and knocked senseless.
His skull was fractured at the base.
The man was taken to Fordham Hospital,
where Franz Reichert of s494 Third avenue
identified him last night as Joseph Stark,
a plasterer's helper, Of 500 Melrose avenue.
Stark has a wife and two children.
Coroner Mcdonald went to the hospital
three times to get an ante-mortem state
ment, but the man did not recover con-
seriousness. He will die, the doctors said
last night.
Capt. Mannion of the Morrisania police
station is Of opinion that the injured man
was a victim of the striking ironworkers
who have been giving trouble to %non-union
men employed on the new power house that
is being constructed at 145th street and the
East River for the New York Central Rail-
road Company. He thinks the mar may have
been mistaken for non-union iron pAn. A
dozen men have been assaulted by the strik-
ers within the past two months. and one of
the victims. Joseph Donahue, of OIL East
18th street, is still in Fordham Hospital in a
dangerous condition. This man who slugged
him was arrested, but jumped his bail,
Reichert said he didn't know where Stark
was working. DIR. Ziesler Of the hospital
said the wound was not such as a fall would
cause, and that 1t looked as if the man had
been assaulted from behind with an iron bar.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
EXPECT REBATE INDICTMENTS.
Grand Jury Hears Further the Case Against
sugar Company and Railroads.

Several new witnesses appeared before
Che Federal Grand Jury yesterday in tho
investigation Of the alleged rebating be-
tween the trunk lines and the American
Sugar Company.
1t is understood that enough evidence
has already been given to insure the indict-
ment Of several of the leading officers Of the
American Sugar Company, az well as some
prominent railroad men. Indictments will
be handed down, it Is believed, in about ten
days.
Cashier Boardman Of the New York Gen.
trail fast freight lines, with headquarters at
Buffalo, was closeted with the Grand Jury
yesterday. His testimony followed that
OF W. F. Wilson, general manager OF the
same lines, who appeared on Wednesday
and told about the arrangements whereby
the Central took care Of the sugar company
and in return got its full share OF the enor-
nous through ~westbound freight Of the
trust.
This stage Of the investigation Is re-
garded as especially important, as the
Federal attorneys have considered from the
beginning that the strongest case against
any Of the railroads was that against the
Central.
Another new witness was j.. r. Bender
nsgel. general superintendent Of h rein
ing plant Of the American Sugar Company
In Brooklyn. Yesterdays Unusually long
session of the Grand Jury was practically
all devoted to the testimony Of these men,
manager for the Thomas A, Edison Com
panies at Orange, N. j.. formerly a traffic
manager for the sugar r%efiiers. r. NJ.
Parker, it's present traffio manager, was
before the body with half a dozen files OF
documents bearing on the alleged rebating
Arrangements
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24

che firm he got a quarter interest, which
was increased In 1895 to one-half, in 1902
to two-thirds and in 1908 to three-fourths,
making a total net profit to him Of nearly
5000 600 from 1893 to 1904.
This was irrespective Of Thebaud's In
terest in largo amounts paid to the firm
out OF the Mutual's money practically as
gratuities.' These gratuities are said to
Haggregate not less than $500 600 and TO
have been paid to the firm without any
consideration moving to the plaintiff. These
gratuities were Mt disclosed by the Arm
strong committe&
1t Is charged, further, that these gratuities
and the rates of commission received by
Raymond d Co. increased as the interest
OF Mr.. Thebaud in the firm increased, and
chat in the year 1905 the net profits OF the
firm from its alleged contracts with the
plaintiff would have exceeded 5000 600 had
payments thereon not been stopped by the
Mutual in November, 1905.
Mr.. MoCurdy. 1t Is alleged, knew or ought
to have known Of this condition Of affairs,
and is responsible for it through his lack
Of faithfulness and vigilance in the dis
charge Of his duties to the plaintiff.
The ninth cause Of action relates TO the
sum OF S1,2s2, S41.12 received by Robert II.
McCurdy as commissions while superin-
tendent Of the foreign department, from
1886 to November, 1905. The complaint
charges that by reason Of President
McCurdy's unfaithfulness and neglect these
commissions had been allowed at rates
which the enormous increase in the foreign
business rendered 'exorbitant and I'M
necessary 1t is charged further That
Robert H. McCurdy while acting as superin-
tendent Of the foreign department had for
a number Of years been a member Of the
firm Of Charles H. Raymond h Co., and
had received a large share OF the profits
therefrom, and finally. that the services
OF the younger McCurdy as superintendent
could have been amply compensated by a
salary not exceeding Sc, 600 a year.
The total payments, by the Mutual to
the McCurdy family, including Son-in-law
Thebaud, as disclosed by the Armstrong
insurance committee, amounted to 1884,
l2O. The former president is thus held for
more than two-thirds OF the total amount.
McCurdy's friends have asserted that
McCurdy was financially able to meet any
claims the company has against him.
The complaints in the remaining actions
begun by the Mutual are being prepared
and will, it Is understood. be served at an
early date.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
LET GAS COMPANY OFF LIGHT.
Court Rejects the Awards Of Tom Grady.
DoolinE and Byrnes.

-"
On the ground that their awards were
totally inadequate, Supreme Court Justice
O'Gorman has refused to confirm the re-
port of the three commissioners who were
Amounted TO determine how much the city
and State we're entitled TO for their ease
ments in the East River and Wards Island,
which will be invaded by the new tunnel
and shaft of the East River Gas Company
of Long Island City when it builds its con-
~nection from 10th street to Astoria.
THE commissioners are Senator Tom
Grady, County Clerk Peter j. Dooling and
ex-Police Superintendent Thomas +. Byrnes.
Contrary TO the usual custom, these men
will not be allowed to revise their report.
Justice O'Gorman says that a new COM
mission must pass IN the questions in
volved.
Corporation Counsel Delany, it appears,
told the court, when the awards and report
came up for confirmation, that the ease
ments Of the city and State in Ward'st Island
were considered very valuable and that,
moreover, experts had declared that the
GAS would save at least 500, 900
NV the shaft. The commissioners set down
the whole value of the easements at $5,02s
and disregarded totally the States claim
as lessee Of the island.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
BAROMETERR READINGS A-PLENTY
Now the New spapers and the Public May
Have Them From Everywhere.

Have Them From Every where.
A change has come DER the spirit of
Prof. Willis Il. Moore's guesses. He no
longer thinks il unsafe to allow the public
to learn from the newspapers the oficia |
readings of the barometer, In fact, the
press and the public can have all the read
ings, not only locally, but at all The stations
throughout the country,
Late on Thursday evening Chief Moore
OF the Weather Bureau modified his order
20 that THE SUN was to be allowed to get
the local barometers by sending for them
daily, but not by telephone. In accordance
with this order a Sun reporter yesterday
called on Mr.. Emery, the forecaster for Man
haitian, and asked for the 3 o'clock reading.
Mr.. Emery said hat it had just been
~telephoned to THE SUN.
Can l have it, too2" asked The sun man
Certainly you can, and as often as you
want, by telephone or any other way"
Can we also have the readings at other
stations?"
Those readings are taken at 8 o'clock
in the morning, and you can have those
too"
why this CHANGE was asked.
Mr.. Emery turned back into his room
and had nothing to say.
Prof. Willis Moore may only have been
teasing. 1t il possible that he Was counting
fame, and leased the public through the
press just as Rory O'More did Kathleen in
Samuel Lovers poem.
Eight times we protested, as we had before,
"Then here goes another" says he. ito mako sure.
For there's luck In odd numbers" says Willis L.
Moore.
The professor has Rad his fun, the poets
have had theirs, and now every one can
have the readings Of the barometer, not only
in this city but all over the country.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
Sees ROOSEVELT ON MOROCCO
FRENCH AMBASSADOR VISITSTHE
WHITE HOUSE WITH ROOT.
Belief in washington That Settlement Is
Near. but There Is Talk at Algeciras
OF Another Hitch-American Plan May
BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on Monday.

OF Another Hitch-American Plan May
BE Abandoned-Sesslon IN Monday.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Advices re-
ceived at the State Department from the
Moroccan conference at Algeciras indicate
that an agreement will be reached between
France and Germany at the next meeting.
M. Jusserand, che French Ambassador
President Roosevelt and Secretary OF State
Root had an extended conference at the
White House late this afternoon. il could
not be learned definitely what was dis
cussed, but there is reason to believe that
the conference was the main topic Of con-
versation.
While officials OF the Government hero
decline to admit 1t, it Is certain that this
Government has had a good deal to
do with the recent debates Of the con-
ference at Algeciras. At the State De-
partment 1t is said that Mir. White, the
head of the American mission, has made
no proposals to the conference which might
form a basis for settlement, but then there
is a distinction made between proposals
and suggestions which might have come
from An erican source.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
FOR MRS. HUNTINGTON.
Husband Gives Her Trust Income, but Bars
Her Family From Participation.

SAN Francisco, March 2s.-Mrs. Hunt
ington, who got a diverse from Henry E.
Huntington yesterday, viii receive $4,000
a year, the income from a trust fund Of
81 900, 900.
This is declared to be the basis Of a set
tlement made before the suit was begun.
Mrs. Huntington is worth $500 900 in her
own right, and among other things owns
the family residence in Jackson street.
II Mrs. Huntington dies before Hunt
ington does, the trust lapses and the fund
becomes his property again. BY this ar
rangement he prevents the 81 900 900 from
going to any Of his wife's blood relatives.
Huntington is determined that his former
wife's mother. brother and her sister,
Princess Hatzfeldt, Of London, shall not
enjoy any Of his wealth.
He also allows two married daughters
and a son s 1000 a month each, and an un-
married daughter $500 a month.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
GOV. PATTISON RALLIES.
Family Again Has Hope That He May Win
Fight for Life.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 2s.-Gov. John
NJ. Pattison made a wonderful rally early
this evening and his friends and family
begin to hope that he will yet win his fight
for life.
night and talked with Mrs. Pattison, SEEM
ingly without difficulty. Pulse, respiration
and temperature, alarmingly high all day,
dropped rapidly at night.
The Governors remarkable recovery
astounded even his three physicians, who
had announced that nothing short Of a
miracle could save the pattSnte
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
BUS DRIVERS $4,000 FIND.
He Had Famous Nelson Order Tor Many
Years without Knowing Its Value
Special Gable Despateh 10 THE st

speetd, Gable DeSpatch 10 THE sun.
LONDON, March 24.-The Telegraph says
that the hitherto unknown seller Of Lord
Nelson's General Memorandum" to his
Captains at the Battle of Trafalgar is a
London omnibus driver whose father was
a servan of an unnamed Admiral, who
gave him an old desk containing the his
torical document.
The driver who inherited the desk did
not know the paper a valuable. He only
learned that 1t was worth money through
a chance conversation with a passenger on
his omnibus. He has invested the SIS, 900
which the document brought recently at
an auction at Christie's, and continues driv-
ing the omnibus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
SC4LLION NOT RUINED.
Set Police on q False Scent After Pocket
book with 500. 900 Policy in IL.

Francis Scallion, a wealthy real estate
dealer living at 2o1O Sc venth avenue, rushed
into the West 125th street station last night.
He was perspiring profusely and beside
himself with worry.
Il have been robbed of my wallet on an
elevated train somewhere between Liberty
street and Harlem" he told the sergeant.
Il had in it a life insurance policy for 100000,
a certified check for so 500, a Columbia Bank
check for $28S and $1,000 bond. You must
find them for me or I'm ruined"
. The, sergeant notified Police Headquar-
tiers and sent out all the available men he
could spare. They were just getting nicely
to work when Mr.. Scallon called up the
police station and said he had found the
wallet with all the supposed missing valu-
ables at home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
FAREWELL TO HUSBAND.
Mrs. Andrew j. Clements Leaves an Anec.
tiOnate and Hopeful Note.

Andrew J.. Clements, a fireman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboat Wash
ington Of the Cortlandt street line, who
lives at I2o'Coles street, jersey City, found
the following note from his wife when he
rea ched home a few nights ago:
The beans are in the oven and done. so you
can eat them. Goodbye. sweetheart. From
your loving wife, CARRIE.
p. 81 still will always love you and l
want YOU. dear Andrew. to always love me.
l have zone to look out for myself now. / am
to work, as l have a job already. CARRIE.
Mr.. Clements said yesterday that he
couldn't account for his wife's action in
leaving him. He has been unable to get
any trace Of her whereabouts. He says
he cares just as much for her now as he
aver did.