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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
ATTACKS NATIONAL BANK Law
Charles A. Conant Declares That Note
Circulation Hampers Business.


Charles A. Conant, treasurer Of the Morton
Trust Company, delivered an address before
the students Of the New York University
School Of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
last night, in which he bitterly attacked the
national bank note currency, and ridiouled
the assertion of its upholders that the
present system is at leaet safe, even IL not
elastic.
The speaker declared that bank note
circulation, as it exists to-day, lie a rigid,
sodden mass with no relation to metallic
reserves or to business conditions, that its
safety so far has been a happy accident,
and that the system results in depressing
the prices Of securities and the profits Of
bankers in the New York market in pro-
portion to the prosperity Of the rest Of the
country.
An the dust raised by the opponents Of a
bank note currency" said the speaker, "is
intended to obscure the analogy of bank
notes to checks. The idea that the issue of
bank notes oannot be freed from the present
restrictions is. a monstrous fallacy. Inc
national banking law puts letters on the
Issue Of bank notes by compelling the
national banks to sink their capital in
Government bonds instead of lending it to
the public, and by placing the issue Of
notes by State banks almost in the category
of crimes. The law seems to have been
devised with devilish ingenuity to make
the bank circulation as rigid as possible.
The true bank note currency is based
on gold and on business assets, and any
other principle of note currency fails to
recognize that bank notes are not a part
of the nations money, but Of the nations
credit
Mr.. Conant is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce committee on currency re-
form, and his views are thought to fore
shadow the attitude which will be taken
by the committee in the fight for a reform
OF the banking system.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
SUGAR CASE AGAINST CENTRAL.
Grand Jury's First Move in Rebate
Investigation.

Thu Federal Grand Jury again took up
the sugar rebating investigation yesterday.
While proof has beer laid before the body
Of extensive rebating In favor of the Ameri-
can Sugar Company by all the trunk lines
out of New York, it is understood, the in
ouiry has narrowed down at this stage
to making out a complete case against
the New York Central Railroad in par
tioular, together with the sugar trust.
Those interested in the investigation
predict the indictment Of the two corpora
tons named early next week. Officials
of both concerns who we're behind the
pooling and alleged rebating arrange
ments may also be indicted, although no
positive information could be obtained
on this point.
Two new witnesses came before the
Grand Jury. yesterday. They were As
and Fulton National Bank and E. Wood
ruff, superintendent at Boston for the
Brooklyn Cooperage Company, one Of the
witnesses were H. T, Leeming. general
traffic manager for the Thomas A. Edison
companiee OF Orange, n. j., and formerly
a traffic manager for the trust, and J. F.
Bendernagel, general superintendent OF the
American Sugar Companys retineries in
Brooklyn.
Assistant Cashier Carr was called to
aid in the tracing OF alleged rebates which
were paid in checks to Lowell M. Palmer
and by him deposited in the Market n
Fulton National Bank. Mr.. Carr was
closeted with the Grand Jury for about an
hour He brought with him a mass OF
checks. entry books and other documents
bearing on the deposit of the alleged rebates
and tracing them, IL is said, directly from
the railroad to the trust.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29

and consented to make q few remarks. .
This wa the first time that the signatories
at the table of the white dove seemed to
take much interest In the proceedings .
Addresses by j. H. Boeck and Judge McCar-
thy finished the proceedings.
Besides Judge Foster, Jue Chue and DR..
Tong, the banquet honored Joseph NJ. Sin
Association in this city, and Fung Y. Nov.
Among the Chinese present were: Ii
Way Mum, Tuch High, Fork Hing, Fork
ChonR, Wing Tung Fork, Lu Soon, Wing
On Woo, Wing Tuck, Chu Nee Tat, Lee
Lock Hing, Ham Far, Sun Gum Lung, King
Hong and Moy Ise Tigh.
The following were among the American
guests: The Hon. NJ. P. Breen, the Hon.
]. H. Mccarthy, the Hon. J. NJ. Griggs,
Untermyer and Tim Foley.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
BROOKLYN SENATE DISTRICTS.
Mapping Out the New Boundaries Worries
the Republican Statesmen.

The Republican leaders in Brooklyn are
having a lot OF trouble in mapping out the
new Senate boundaries, the job having TO
be tackled owing to the addition of another
district to the seven already existing. Col.
Charles B. Morton. who was active in Re-
publican politics thirty years ago but has
long been in retirement, was employed by
the Republican executive committee to
submit a scheme for laying out the eight
districts in a way most satisfactory to the
interests of The party.
After over a months political statistical
labors he formulated no less than six plans
but not one OF them proved satisfactory to
ex-Lieut,-Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff, the
county leader, and Col Morton's services
were dispensed with and four other political
experts are now employed in the work.
One of the chief difficulties is the trouble
the experts have in mapping out four sure
Republican districts, the scheme being APP
parently impossible unless some territory
is taken of from the present three sure
Republican districts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
SUIT OVER TELEGRAPH ERROR.
Business House Gets q Verdict Because OF
an O~peratOr's Mistake.

Supreme Court Justice Maddox in Brook
Ign yesterday handed down a decision in
favor of the plaintiff in the suit of E. S.
Halsted a. Co., bag manufacturers of rs
Pearl street, against the Postal Telegraph
and Cable Company for the recovery Of
damages due to an error in the transmission
OF a telegram.
In July, 1908, Armour & Co. of Chicago
asked the firm Of Halsted & Co. to submit
a price for 5000 sets Of beef cotton goods.
Halsted g. Co. telegraphed through the
Postal company to the Cannon Manufao-
turing Company Of Concord, N. c., for q
price on 200 900 yards of cotton necessary
to the filing Of the order of the Armour
company; The replying telegram read;
"~Two-eighty" for the narrow and three
eighty" for the wide cloth, but in the trans
mission of the telegram the word eighty
was sent as eight" Through this mistake
Halsted j. Co. sustained a loss of 50, 1913. rs,
the Armour company refusing to cancel
the contract.
Justice Maddox handed down his deci-
sion without comment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
OBITUARY..

Walter G: Wittingham, a member of the
New York Stock Exchange and a broker with
StiSes ia at N Is B]GGaqNy y. J. d Mfl EWfis WHITEHALL at r his
43 years old and born in Millburn, Y, ]. He
had been a broker for eighteen years. He
Pa, Ad died suddenly in IsEseWood. E. '5Jn j.. yes:
terday afternoon, He was 65 years old
dru Governor Of New YORK. Death was vas
due 10 spoplexy. He had been on sick leave
for six months. He went TO Lakewood about
Malvan W, Decker is dead at bis home
Decker was one Of the best known hotel
Paul Halliday and, two women were muT-
dered near Bnrltn CHAM some years ago, Mr..
Decker conducted the hotel in the village,
which was the headquarters for hundreds
of New Workers.
Juan G. Ruiz died on Tuesday in his apart
ments at the Aylesmere, 90 West seventy
OF the late Juan Ruiz. a Produce Exchange
broker, Until the death Of his father eight
6 EieaFii IN ago bus sGss o. but Epif Re ~9 a6e ass fetired! T HIS
mother, adelaide L. Ruiz; a brother. Henry
Ruiz, and two sisters, Mrs. Fayette Dolan
this city. Funeral services will be held in
the Church Of the Blessed Sacrament this
morning at 10 O'Clock.
Plainfeltd Public library dice IN that city
on Tuesday night q following an operation per- +
Pittsfeld, Mass, March u. 1912. He graduated
from Amherst ollege IN 1851. was for q time an
occupied a similar place on Moore's Rural
Ner Yorker. Later he became assistant to
the librarian Of Johns Hopkins University
Library al Baltimore. From 1879 10 1883
he was the librarian of the Indianapolis
Public Library, and during rhe following two
years held a similar place in the Quincy, III,
Public Library. Subsequently he organized
the Plainfeld Public Library and also NE
Public Library at Branford, Conn, which
was endowed by Mr.. Blackstone Of Chicago
al $500, 900. Later he became assistant 10
the librarian of the Carnegie Library, Wash
ington, d. c.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
DrsTURBER m COUNTY JAZZ.
etackhOuse. VINO Complained Of m-Treat-
ment, TO Have His sanity Looked Into.

ment, TO Have HIS SANITY LOOKED INTO.
When the attention Of Sheriff Hayes was
drawn to the letter published in yesterdays
Sun. signed George F. Stackhouse, Lud-
low Street Jail, in which Staokhouse com
planned Of the treatment accorded prisoners
in the Jail and commented on the fact that
civil imprisonment is still allowed In this
State, the Sheriff turned TO his desk and
produced a communication which he had
just received from Henry H. Connolly,
the acting warden Of the jail. The com
munication read:
Hon. Nicholas j. Hayes, Sheriff, Nev York
County.
SIR: Your attention lie respectfully called
TO the fact that one George F. S~taakhouse,
confined in the county Jail, is now and has
been since his arrest conducting himself in a
disorderly and bolsterous mi using pro-
fame and indecent language to the keepers
and other employees OF the Jail. This morn
ing. In fact. he grossly insulted the female
employees, and particularly Annie Boyle. the
prison laundress, to whom he also threatened
physical violence.
It has not been customary to lock the
prisoners In cells at night. and this privilege
has never been heretofore abused. but this
man persists in roaming through the corridors
at all hours Of the night and disturbing and
annoying the other inmates OF the jail.
! do not know whether his actions arc due
TO an unnaturally perverse disposition or
mental disease, and l ask, pending his ex-
animation by the physician OF the county
Jail. that / be authorized TO keep him in close
confinement from 7 at night until $50 In the
morning.
Sheriff Hayes approved Of the request
made by Acting Warden Connolly. DR..
James A, j. O'Brien, the physician Of the
jail, said that he had examined Stack
house and found him irrational in his acts,
and hada consultation inthe afternoon with
Under Sheriff johnson as to the possibility
Of having him transferred to the insane
pavilion in Bellevue for examination as to
his sanity.
S~tackhouse is held under three separate
orders Of arrest, issued by the Supreme
Court in Erie county, at the instance Of the
Phelps company of Buffalo, for which con-
Germ ~Stackhouse worked as a salesman
He is accused of slandering the company
by spreading false reports concerning its
financial condition.
The Sheriff declared that S~tackhouse's
statements concerning the condition of the
jail were untrue, and that the place is thor
oughly sanitary and clean. 1t is the only
jail that was favorably reported on by the
State Board Of Prisons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
BOGUS COLLECTOR NABBED.

Dartmouth College Graduate n OF "Splen-
did Family" Up for SWindllng.
Howard Fletcher, % years old, Of Rox-
bury, Mass, who is said to be a graduate
of Dartmouth College, was before Magis-
trate Furlong in the Adams street court.
Brooklyn, yesterday charged with swindling
the Curtis Publishing Company out Of
about 81 900 by acting as its agent without
any authorization for collecting subscrip-
tons. The young man told the Magistrate
that he came of "a splendid family" and
that his mother, who lives at Newport,
n. H., would make good any loss sustained
by the company through his acts.
Before his committal to Jail pending
examination Fletcher received a telegraph
message from his mother. saying that she
was fastening to Brooklyn to get him out
of his trouble.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
RICHMOND THIEVES CAUGHT.
Burglars Who Have Been Operating in
staten Island Arrested Here.

On descriptions furnished by the Staten
Island police. Adolf Wessenburger of "a
Elizabeth street, West New Brighton, and
Edward Duffy of 81 Roe street, West New
Brighton, we're locked up yesterday by
detectives of the Church street station house
They are charged with committing several
burglaries in Staten Island, stealing jewelry
and money valued at So 800. Some Of the
finest residences on Staten island nave been
robbed.
Detective Cohen Of the Church street
station noticed a mar answering the de-
scription OF Duffy standing in line with
other men at an enlisting station on West
street He arrested him on suspicion. At
the station house Duffy weakened and con-
fessed that he and Wessenburger had COM
mitted the robberies. He said that Wessen-
burger could be found on the Bowery pick
ing pockets.
Detective Crowley found a man answering
We~ssenburger's description trying to pawn
a watch in a pawnshop on the Bowery. At
the police station he admitted to the ser
geant that be was Wessenburger. BE said
that he and Duffy we're going to enlist in
the army to escape arrest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
S1,0o0,O 900 JOHNSTOWN FIRE.
Five Business Blocks in the Pennsylvania
City Are Destroyed.

JoHNsIowN, Pa, March 2s.-Fre de-
stroyed nearly 81 900, 900 worth of property
in the business part Of this city last night.
The fire started about midnight in the five
story brick building Of the Swank Hardware
Company, at Main and Bedford streets, and
was not under control till daylight
Following are the principal losses:
Swank Hardware Company 500 900. in
surance $4,000 tenants in the same build
ing $40, 900, insurance 10000; Louis a.
Gels. home and business place, loss $50, 900,
insurance $50 900; Journal Company, morn
ing newspaper, $4,000, insurance SIS 900;
Henderson Furniture Company 10000. in
surance $4,000; Fisher & Co. 3o,O00, in
surance $50 900; George Wild $4,000, insur-
ance partial; Bernard Nees, hardware,
Sl2, 900, insu $1,000; other tenants in
the Wild Building 5000, partly insured,
Five Of the most prominent business
blocks of the city were laid in ruins, and the
fire for a time threatened to cause the total
destruction of the business district.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
CROWDED CAR AFIRE.
Panic Rush for the Doors When Fuse
Burned Out-Three Lines Tied Up.

Panic Rush for the Door When Fuse
Burned Out-Three Lines Tied Up.
There was a bad scare or a southbound
Broadway car yesterday morning when the
fuse blew out just as the car was crossing
the junction at Sixty-ffth street and Column
bus avenue. The car was crowded with
men and women on their way downtown to
business. There was a loud explosion and
a tongue of flame shot up through the floor
ing Of the car, and men and women got into
a lam trying to get out of the car at both
entrances. Several Women were, knocked
down. The front door was latched, but the
motorman opened il az soo as he realized
the situation. Then everybody got out in a
minute. No one was seriously injured,
but several had bumps and scratches.
The car began to burn at once, but en-
ployees of the road put the blaze out with
sand before it had done much damage.
The accident tied the Columbus avenue. the
Amsterdam avenue. and the Broadway
cars up for a considerable length OF time
while the crew of the emergency wagon
repaired the damaged car.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
RIOTOCS STRIKERS FINED.
Mixup in Police Records Concealed Lively
Tenderloin Scrap.

Twenty tailors formerly employed by
Morris Weingarten at 81 West Thirty-fif
street, but now engaged on strike, gathered
in front of the place last Friday and him
dered customers from entering. Mr.. Vein
garten called Policeman William D. Ken
nealy. Kennedy reported back to the
West Thirtieth street olice station with
bruises.
Capt. 7 odgins and the reserves then
gathered in seven Of the strikers. Accord
ing TO the police report they were fined $40
each for disorderly conduct in the Jefferson
Market police court on Saturday morning;
not correspond with the court record.
Search revealed that they we're arraigned
and fined late Friday. All the reporters
had gone and nothing was given out about
the case.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
PRIVILEGES OF EX-SENATORS.
State Senate Rule Amended After Flor r.,
Brown Had Violated Il.

ALBANY, March ?s.-EX-Senator Elon
p. Brown Of WATERFOWL. was in the Senate
Chamber to-day in violation Of the rules,
and the sergeaEt-at-arnis politely informed
him Of the TACT.
Senator Elsberg moved that the privilege
Of the hoor be extended to Mr.. Brown. but
Senator Lewis objected. Sena tors Bra ckett
and Grady were ince2sed at this, and sue
ceeded in having an amendment to the
rules adopted permitting ex-Senators on
the fioor of the Senate, despite Lewis's
remark that Senator's i'd not want to be
bothered by ex-Senators lobbying for and
against pending legislation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
SMOKY FIRE on CANAL STREET.
Closks and Waists in n Bad Way-Hot Rals
Hour for Eitemen.

A very smoky fire in a tarse story build
ing at POI Canal street gave the iremea q
hard tussle last night. ", Silverstein d.
Son, who manufacture cloaks and suite,
have the first door. The CHER two are
occupied by ParachoI ard Poss, manu-
facturers Of ladies' waists.
Policeman Finn saw flames shooting out
Of the windows and turned in the ala I'm.
The fire was subdued in half an hour. The
damage was 81 500.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
BITTEN BY VICIOUS DOG.
Woman and Four Children Victims OF a
Halfbreed I'm Brooklyn.

A vicious dog Of the halfbreed hunter
type ran wild on Hudson avenue, Brooklyn,
yesterday afternoon. He started from
Willoughby street and ran down the avenue
to johnson street. s~narling and biting as
he ran along.
The dog bit Mary Farrell, 81 years old,
Of 222 johnson street; Fernando sagone,
7 years old, Of l5e Navy street; Giordano
William Simmons, 6 years old, Of 81 Fleet
street: Rolp Cottifetto. 10 years old, of IS
Fleet place. Mrs. Farrell was bitten on
the hand while trying to save one Of the
boys from the dog. The bite in each
case was trifing. Or. Sutton Of Brooklyn
Hospital attended the victims.
Patrolman Battle killed the dog with his
club.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
SETH COOK COMSTOCK.
Author OF "MarcelA the Mad Dies Soon
After Coming Back TO New York.

DR.. Seth Cook Comstock, son of Marc NJ.
and Mary Cook Comstock of New London,
died in this city on Tuesday. He was
born in New London on November 80, 1871.
He received the degree of NJ. D at the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898
and joined the surgical staff of Roosevelt
Hospital, where he remained for two years.
Then he engaged in private practice. DR..
of Montclair in 1899, and in 1901 settled ar
Wimbledon, England, where he devoted
himself to literature. He wrote Monsieur
LIE Capitaine Douay, which was published
in 1908, and The Rebel Prince" which
"Marcelle the Mad" was published last
February when he returned 70 America.
He is survived by Mrs. Comstock and one
child. a girl.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
DETAILS FOR STATE CAMP.
Gen. Roe Decides That II Shall BE Open
From June 2 TO July :.

Major-Gen. Roe yesterday decided that
the State Camp at Peekskill will open
for the season on June ? and continue until
July I. Orders will be issued in a few days
making the following details;
June 2-e-Ninth Regiment, Squadron A and
Troop B OF Albany.
June s-l6-Seventy-first Regiment. Squad
ron C and Troop B of Syracuse,
June ELECTROMAGNETIC and Sixty-ninth
Regiments.
June 23-30-Twelfth Regiment.
June 80 TO July 7-Fourteenth and Forty
seventh Regiments.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
Hippodrome Show for Atlantic city.

Thompson d Dundy and Samuel F. Nixon,
of Nixon & Zimmerman, yesterday afternoon
reached an agreement whereby "A Society
Circus will open July is for an all summer
season at the Atlantic City Hippodrome,
now in course Of construction. Atlantic
City's Hippodrome, which will have a
seating capacity Of 1000. will be built Upon
piles in the sand. The steel work for the
new building is ready and is now on the
way to Atlantic City.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
JIM DUNE FOR HEARST.
Colcr's Patronage Dispenser and veteran
Politician Declares Himself.

Superintendent of Sewers James Dunno
in the Borough of Brooklyn and the SUP
posed dispenser Of the minor patronage
under President Bird $. Coler's administra-
ton, who had been influential in Demo-
cratic politics in South Brooklyn for more
than a generation, has declared his allegi-
ance to William Randolph Hearst. He said
he would become a member Of a new Hearst
club in the Third Assembly district and DO
all in his power 20 strengthen II.
Dunno was formerly a stanCh supporter
of the Wiuoughby street machine and vas
long ore of the lao Hugh NcLaughlin's
closest personal friends. They had become
estranged, however, a few years before the
veteran leaders death. Dune has Keen
an Alderman, keeper Of the old City Hall
and deputy sheriff, hut as his political pull
has been on the wane for several years
there was much surprise over his aIroint-
ment to his present coed job tY Mr., Co!er,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
PLUNGING HORSES SEEN AGAIN.
Jungle Scene at the ~Hippodrome Changed
A New Gypsy King"

The jungle scene at the Hippodrome
was changed last night to allow the plung-
ing horses, which have not been seen since
the Yankee Circus on Mars to get in
their act.
In the first scene of the second act the
monkey and lion burlesque was cut out and
the horses substituted. Miss Adele Won
Oil, in pursuit Of Paul Pdsky, led the dive
into the tank. The new act ven off without
a hitch and pleased the audience.
Another change at the Hippodrome
programme last night was the first appear
ance Of j. Parker Coombes. who sue
ceeded Francis j. Bowie as the GYPSY Kinq
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
RECOMMENDED 70 I'LL MOTHERS

~ have used Cuticura Ointment for
chafng of infants, and as they grew
older all skin diseases were given treat
ment with that and the Cuticura Soap.
l never found it necessary to call a doc
tor, as these Remedies are q sure cure,
if used as directed. lam glad to recon-
mend them to all mothers" Sincerely
yours, Mrs. F. A. kennard,
June - 1905. St. Paul Park, MINI.
Cutie Ointment, and Pulls are sold throws .oqS
tAs Won Drag Chem. Corp, sole PfopL. A0s.aa.
uHA AoS 70 CGssi for the skin"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29

He's Just Killed F1rty-ive Bulls in the
Mexican Ring. and a Matador Wears
Diamonds Where He Chooses, Even on
n Broadway Car-WorthN Near o Million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-12
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