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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
Obituary Notes.

Edwin Bleeckcr Williamson of the law firm
of McCarter, Williamson 4 McCarter of New
arAdied on Friday night after a short illness
of pneumonia. Mr.. Williamson was born
near Schenectady, n. V, in 1852 and was
graduated from Rutgers Colleg re in 1871, being
married a'daug hter of the late Thomas n.
McCarter. His wife survives him. MIR. Will
iamson became a partner in the McCarter
law matters with his brothers-in-law. Robert
II. McCarter. the Attorney-General of New
Jersey; Thomas \. Mctarter, the president
McCarter, head of the Fidelity Trust Company
In Newark.
Joseph j, Jennings. a native OF New York
city, died at the Masonic Home in Utica yes
to the Masonic Home in August, 1897, upon
the application of knickerbocker Lodge of
New York. city, of which he was. the first
Jennings. who lives al Porter Corners. Sara
toga county; a SON. Raymond G. Jennings,
and a daughter, Sarah Jennings, both OF
Greenwood Cemetery. Brooklyn.
S. G. Calhoun, chief operator for. ". f.,
Conner d Co.. the Stock Exchange firm, in
which the late jay Gould was at one time a
special partner, died OF pneumonia OH Thurs
day. lie was previously confidential opera
tor for MIR. Gould. but for the last twenty
five years wds in the employment of Conner
x Co.. He went to business on Thursday
morning, but complained of ,indisposition
and later In the day was assisted TO his home
at IA Bond street, BrSoklyn, where he died
and two children.
Horace 4. Noodle, New York manager for
the John Church Company, music publishers
dTsd y p.an% mar m m"biat s GaMs s %a G,nG,dnati'
He was II years old. Mr.. Noodle was born
at Ashland. Pa. He was n member Of the
Reisenauer, the pianist, last season. lie i.
survived by a widow and three sons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
SHIPPERS on THE STAND.
Denials That They Intentionally Misde-
scfihed FREIGHT

The Interstate Commerce Commission
continued yesterday the hearing begun
on Friday of the charge that shippers have
been trying to cheat the railroads by under
billing and misdescribing their freight.
Frank r. Davenport, superintendent
of Butler Bros. one Ct the firms accused
was the first witness called. He said he
hal never heard of his firm practising
such a deception. He denied that they
ever shipped china as orockery or notions
as hardware. "We have TO make orders
of mixed goods, he said, "but we always
give such orders the highest classification"
In answer to questions put to him by
P. j. Farrell, attorney for the commission,
the witness said that whenever customers
minated that they would place their orders
elsewhere unless Butler Bros. could bill
their stuff at lower rates his firm refused
to give in.
Jacques Kahn of Kahn Bros. mirror manu-
facturers at SOL West Thirty-seventh street
admitted frankly that all Of his goods were
billed as plate glass. though they were
mirrors. We have always paid the highest
That broke in one of the railway in
spectors, was because your bills are al
ways corrected by the railway companies. "
Kahn said he had never known before
that mirrors called for a higher freight
rate than plate glass.
Georg, Lott, one efthe-trunk line freight
inspectors, then showed a list of thirty
correction ms he had made recently on one
shipment of freight by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad from Pier %, North River
This list showed guns marked hardware,
dry goods shipped as cotton warp, clothing
billed as cotton drill, &c.
Robert G. Stevenson, the chief trunk line
inspector, then took the stand.
Il am much surprised at Mr.. Daven-
ports statement he said, 'for his firm
have been persistent viofators Of the traffic
regulations. We find them so all the time :"
The inspector said that he believed that
more Measurements escape the inspectors
than are discovered. Even with his force
tripled it would be manifestly impossible
to examine all shipments. He also m
phasized the fact that offending shippers
customers were often the cause OF VIOLA
tions by threatening to transfer their orders
unless lower rates were obtained for their
shipments.
The last witness was William Lorenseur
assistant general manager for A. A. Van
tine & Co. He denied that his firm ever
shipped china as rockery.
The hearing was adjourned indefinitely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
BLACK HAND HUNT in CHURCH
DECOY BON or MONEY BEHIND
HOLY WATER FONT.

Policeman watched II, Eye at PeephOle
Young MAJ Game IN n Carried II
On-CrOwd I'm the Vestibule blocked
.Pursuer's Path and Crook Got Away.
The Rev. Father Boleslaw .Keyiatkowski,
pastor of the Church of st, Anthony, in
Monmouth street between Sixth and
Seventh streets, Jersey City, and one OF
the best known priests in Jersey, got a
Black Hand letter about the middle Of this
month. &c. 3.
The letter ordered him to put 81 1000 in a
small box and put the box either behind
the holy water font in the vestibule or in a
back pew. If he didn't obey at some time
between March 20 and March q something
very unpleasant would happen to him.
Father Keviatkowski gathered from the
letter that His life was in danger.
A day or two later he got another letter
repeating the instructions and telling him
that he would certainly be killed if the
box full Of money wasn't behind the holy
water font or in a back pew when a man
came to the church to get it. Father Kevi-
atkowski was very much disturbed and
worried over the letters a while before
he took them to the police. .
Detectives gotta box and put some ma g
bank notes in it. The box was put behind
the holy water font in h manner pre-
scribed, a man was detailed to watch inside
the church n since March 20 a policeman
has been on hand constantly, keeping an
eye on the vestibule. Policeman Beggans
was, there yesterday morning.
There was a crowd of Father keviat-
kowski's parishioners at 8 o'clock mass.
Many were women and they crowded into
the vestibule, knots Of them stopping at the
door to talk. A young man pushed through
the crowd, stopped when he got opposite
the holy water font and peered behind it,
glanced around, saw that no one appar-
emily was Watching, reached behind the
font, grabbed the decoy box and started
out Of the church.
BeRgans was in an anteroom almost OPP
hposite the font. his eye glued to a peep-
hole. He saw the young man start for the
door, bounced out himself and made for
him. The young man broke into a run,
taking the five stone steps in front Of the
church ct one jump.
Beggans pulled his revolver and tried to
force his way through the crowd Of women
in the vestibule. They all wanted him to
He was tangled up in the crowd, couldn't
force a way through without knocking
somebody down and didn't dare to shoot.
Finally he got clear and went down the
steps. The young man who had the box OF
marked money under his right arm was
sprinting up Monmouth street. Beggans
ran after him and a crowd tailed behind
women, children and a few men. every
body shouting stop thief" Beggans fired
three shot at the young man, but missed.
The hue and cry went for five or six
blocks, the young man in plain sight most
Of the time, and not another cop showing.
At Fifth and Coles streets the young man
disappeared.
Father KeviatkoHsh was greatly disap-
pointed and worried. The Jersey City
nnlipn took the fQillrp an muph IN hnarf
that they wouldn't talk about the case at
all.
The letters were ~postmarked in Man
haitian and were signed The Black Hand"
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He had ridden up town on an elevated train,
and the passengers noticed that he ep-
peared i'll. When Forty-second street was
reached Mr.. Vivanti left the train, but be-
fore he could reach a bench he fell.
After a doctor from the New York Hos
pital had said that the man. was dead, APP
parently from heart disease, the body
was taken to the Eqst Fifty-frst street
police station. A doctor whose address
was found in the lead mans pocket identi-
fed the body, He said that ne had beer
treating Mr.. Vivanti for heart disease for
some time, and the Coroner at once issued
q permit for the removal of the body.
Ferruccio Anselo Vivanti was about So
years old. He was the last of his name
in this country, and the last surviving mem
Der of the firm Of Vivanti Bros. He lived
with his wife at the Don Carlos apartments.
Mr.. Vivanti had recently returned from
Yokohama, where he had visited d branch
Of the firm.
During the Russo-Japanese war Mr..
Vivanti received a decoration from the
Mikado. He was the author of a pamphlet
on silk culture for which he received letters
of congratulation from the Emperor Will
liam, the King OF Italy and the Secretary of
Agriculture. Mr.. Vi~Gnti was a member
of the Geological, the Players, the Lotos,
the United Yokohama and the Tok-Tokyo
clubs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
MAFIA CAN,T SCARE VAN HISE.
Nineteen Black Hand Letters Sent to New
Jerseys Hangman.


t-HangmHn James Van Hise when not en-
gagged in hanging condemned murderers or
growing about stays and r~eprieves, is a
boss carpenter in Newark. He is a short.
stout ruddy old man with a grizzly red
mustache and scant gray hair. His
his eyes are small, half closed and of chang
ing color, according to his mood. They
glow with Indignation when a victim is
snatched from him temporarily by lawyers
wiles and the laws delay, and they shine
with pleasant emotion when he finally real
lies that the job is his.
4 Jim Van Hise has few troubles when the
courts are not invoked to save murderers
from his ministration. He is a mar without
nerves and he has shown his pride in this
phase of his character by balancing a hrim-
full glass of water Upon the back of his hand
a few minutes before springing the trap
which sent q murderer to his doom.
Consequently he ia not disturbed by the
nineteen black hand and red ink letters
which nave been forwarded to him by Sheriff
Mercer of Bergen county threatening him
with dire vengeance il he carries out the
1-eTteneelpf the courts and hangs Mrs. Anna
Valentino. He has the letters, but refuses
to show them to anybody. They are deco
rated with dirks, daggers, skulls and cross
bones, and most Of them are said to come
from Mrs, Ealentina's friends in Cleveland,
Ohio. He Says that they emanate from a
Malta branch in that city, and he feels sure
that his life is in danger, but Jim has a pistol
permit and packs a big revolver. Old as he
IL, he feels that he is good for a hand to hand
encounter with any two of his enemies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
LAKE NAVIGATION THREATENED.
Strife Of rs 900 Men May Come n De-
Stnands OF Pilots Are Not Granted.

STRIKE OF 10 ,uNbO Wen way eOTue ii Des
.HJnands OF Pilots Are Not Granted.
CHICAGO; March 24.-The opening Of
navigation on the Great Lakes this spring
may be attended by labor troubles. The
Lake Carriers Association is negotiating
with the marine engineers and the lake
pilots unions with a view of averting a
strike involving 5000 men. Mark Crowley,
president OF the Lake Pilots Union. said
To-day.
e sAH agreements on the Great Lakes are
FfHHieI but not signed. In other words,
the agreements are tentative.
THE agreements include those with the
Licensed Tugmen's Association; the Tug
Ffremen and Linesmen's Association, the
grain scoopers, the iron ore shovelers
and the boat handlers. Unless the agree.
rhent with the pilots is signed L is all of
with the other agreements. The pilots
demand recognition from the Lake Car
,riers' Association, and also demand that
ali pilots be hired through the bureau on
shore conducted by the association Unless
the demands OF the pilots are satisfied the
kindred organizations will not go to work
on the opening Of navigation."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
WORE FINE SHIRTS AND TIES.
Too Like Those IN store where He was
CIerk-Has Entertainers Billheads.

aHH q.
W. A. Mclaughlin, who has a haberdash-
cry and Quitting store at 3o4 Firth avenue
has missed a good deal of fancy stock in the
last few months. He suspected one OF tne
clerks who was accustomed to wear n
shirts and ties of theIkind the store sold
although ne never bought any there A
month ago Mr.. Mclaughlin made an inVen-
tory of stock and found that he was outaoou
s 8 900 worth of shirts, socks, underwear
neckties. gold stick pins and numerous
other things.
He had a private detective shadow the
young man under suspicion. Yesterday
afternoon the detective thought he hau
enough evidence to justify calling IN the
West Sixty-eighth street police, and they
arrested a young man who gave his name
as James Wilmar, although his right name,
the detectives say, is John W. Martin, n
he has gone under the name OF John w.
MARITIME.
The detectives went to his home at 3i7
West Eighty-fifth street and. found there,
they say, about 5000 worth of goods OF the
kind that Mclaughlin misses. Wilnpr, or
MARITIME, or Martin has worked five years
for Mr.. Mclaughlin;
is rather a good looking young man, with a
pleasant face and good features. He
wears excellent clothes. He is single and
has lived for some time Ia the house IN
West. Ei~ghty-ffth street. He sent out a
number OF notes trying to get bail, but was
unsuccessful.
The private detective produced a number
Of cards which he said belonged to the
prisoner and which read, John W. MARITIME,
Special Treasury Agent, L. S, Customs y
He also found, he said, among the prisoners
effects billheads reading, THE Enter
tainer, John w. MARITIME, Stories and lmper-
,onotiopo
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
ZERO WEATHER UP THE STATE.
Ice Cutting Resumed at Albany and Other
PIaces-I4 Below Zero al BallstOn.

Ice Cutting Resumed at Albany and Other
Places - Below Zero al BallstOn.
ALBANY, March 24.-The river this morn
ing was covered with an inch Of ice, and in
the North End, where the lumber dealers
should be preparing for the coming season,
the Hudson Valley Ice Company has been
harvesting ice for the last week. HI
slips in the canal at this late season have
given a crop of ice seventeen inches thick
which is of "a superior quality. Operations
were suspended this afternoon only because
all the ice in sight had been cut. Charles
Baker resumed the cuttsng of ice at Cedar
Hill this morning. He already has secured
a good supply, and the ice he is cutting
to-day has formed in the inlets along the
shore. The ice cutters are also busy at
the work in Watervliet.
The mercury took another fall last night
and touched 5 above. That is the official
figure, but reports from various parts
Of the city show that the temperature
went below the zero mark. In some OF
the outlying sections it was much colder.
Down atlNewburgh the. mercury vent to
below, and at Highland Falls it touched at
! 8 below. At Ba llston Spa the country
roads are blocked with snow and with the
mercury IA below this was n Of the coolest
days of the year in that part of the State.
At White River it went down to a below,
while at Parry Sound it dropped to IA
balOw
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
CRUSHED BY HIS ELEVATOR.
an Tried TO Board II as II Moved Upward
and Was Killed.

John Baronowski, an elevator man
was killed yesterday morning in the Com
mercial Cable Building, at Exchange place
was running, He left the car for a few
minutes at one of the top floors. He
thought that he had stopped it, but on
turning he noticed that it was ascending
slowly.
He tried to jump into the car when it
was waist high and succeeded in throwing
himself on the floor of the elevator with
the lower part Of his body protruding over
the edge Of the car. Before he could draw
his body into the car the elevator moved
up and crushed him against the iron grill
work of the gate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
THE ROCKEFELLER HE4LTHs.
william Has No Cancer His Son Says, and
John ID. Is as Well as Usual.

When asked about the condition of his
father yesterday William G. Rockefeller
said:
THE reports about my fathers condi.
tion nave been greatly exaggerated. There
is not a word of truth in the statement. that
he is suffering from "a cancer. The real
cause of his illness was a nervous break
down. 1t may take some months, but he
is sure to come out all right
Henry H. Rogers also denied that Mr..
Rockefeller was the victim Of cancer,
why. these stories about his condition are
all nonsense" he said.
Isn't he ill?" asked a reporter.
Il believe he was i'll" said Mr.. Rogers,
-but he is all right now. There was moth
ing the matter with him except a nervous
breakdown ~.
What truth is there in the reports that
John d. Rockefeller is in ill health?"
Nothing as far as l know" VISA the re-
ply. Il haven't seen him in some time,
but I am sure hat he Is all right. There
is nothing the matter with him at ALL
Would you allow a subpoena server To
stop you from seeing a new grandchild?'
put in another reporter.
NO, | don't think ] would" he said
smiling. you know | have a new grand
child myself, only he is nearlya year old
now 80
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
CUT TWO INCHES OUT or SKULL.
Boy struck by Trolley Car Saved by Eek.
tenaiYe TrenhIninR Operation.

Nine-year-old Joseph Pelton of 26e
West 153d street was discharged from the
Washington Heights Hospital yesterday
after an operation Of trephining. The
surgeons consider his cure rema rka BILE.
The boy was playing at 14sth street and
Eighth avenue a month ago and was run
down by a ~southbound electric car. His
head was badly crushed. The ambulance
surgeon told his friends that the boys
chance for recovery was one i'm a III nd.
The little fellow was unconscious.
The surgeons at the hospital decided that
the only thing to save him was to remove
where the bones were splintered.
DIR. c. G.. Sichels and DIR. Henry NJ, Kalvin
GU about two inches out Of the top of his
skull and put a silver plat over the spot.
The scalp was then sewed up. For a week
the boys chances seemed slim, but he began
to pick up and yesterday he went home
almost as well as he ever was.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
GIRL DRIVEN TO Suicide.
College Student Drowned Herself When She
Was Falsely ACCUSED OF Theft.

'~ NNs
HARTFORD, KY, March 24,-Miss PrIdie
Ford, a .,twenty-year-eld girl = attending
college here, drowned herself yesterday
because she was accused by the woman
with whom she boarded Of having taken a
watch, cloth and $40 from a roommate.
To-day it was ascerteirei that the accu-
sation was false anu oil the property was
found.
Following this there was a largely at
tended indignation meeting at which reso-
lutions were drawn ny and signed con-
demning all who had hao 4 hand in bringing
about the girls death. Hiss Ford left a
letter in which she says:
Il have been a loyal girl since / entered
school, true to my God and true to myself.
As God is my Judge am innocent and l
die with this sentiment ringing from my
lips. He is merciful anG just. When thus
reaches. you l will he at the bottom of
Rough River, that is. my body will; but M
soul will be with Jesus. Live SO as to meet
me there. Death is sweet al this hour and
on such an occasion. With love n
prayers, l am, dying, yours now and there"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
HOPES FOR THE mono.
stranded steamship May he Floated al
High Eide To-day.

FIRE ISLAND. L.. l., March 24.-Tbere has
-been no change in the position OF the steam
ship Bodo since she went ashore near Gilgo
last Tuesday. She still lies high on the
beach. Half OF the crew were paid of
and sent to New York yesterday, the re-
'mainder being kept on board. The cargo
Of bananas is frozen and is being thrown
overheard. Capt. Andrews Of the Merritt
Chapman ,Wreoldng Company expects to
.~stTaighten the vessel with her stern sea-
ward tonight and float her on the follow
ing tide. He hopes TO bring her to New
York Sunday night.
No apparent damage has been done to
the ship. Anchors and hawsers have been
made ready for heaving her of. The sea
b Very smooth and the wind Is from the
land.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25

At a rehearsal early yesterday of the
pIunging horses at the Hippodrome Dannie
Newman, riding Ginger, was thrown just
as the horse hit the water. Both man and
horse went under, the riders foot being
caught. Adele Won OH, the young woman
who leads the plunging horses, went to hit
assistance and hauled him out after he had
struggled free from his mount
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25

A 20 inch water main in Adams street ,
Broc klyn, close to sthe anchorage Of the
new Manhattan Bridge, burst on Friday
night about 10 o'clock, and for four hours
the water poured out unchecked, deluging
the neighborhood. When the gates in
the immediate vicinity of the break had
beer closed most of the cellars in the houses
and factories within an area of three blocks
had been invaded by the water, the depth
ranging from I to 10 inches. The firemen
were busy pumping out the water until
hoe yesterday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
yassar Aid Society BeneGt.

The vassar Students Aid Society will
give a benefit at the Hudson Theatre on the
afternoon Of April 2, when four short plays
nv we'll known authors will be given. All
the four plays are TO be presented for
the first time under the management OF
Mrs. H. c. De Mile. Twenty Yassar College
rirIs will be ushers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
FERRUCCIO 4. WANT DEAD.

Distinguished silk Importer stricken by
Heart Disease on Elevated station.
Ferruccio Anselo Vivanti of 9p5 Madison
avenue, who was a silk importer Of SIS
Broadway, fell dead on the uptown station
of the Sixth avenue elevated railway at
Forty-second street vest erday afternoon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-24
CHATTANOOGA SEES
RACE WAR PERIL
Appeals to Federal Authorities
Not to Prosecute Lynchers
of Negro.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. ~
Washington, March 24.-On the
ground that there is danger Of a grave
race war, Chattanooga has appealed to
the president and attorney general to
cease the federal prosecution of the
lynchers of the negro Johnson, who was
hanged by a mob a few hours after the
supreme court Of the United States had
granted a stay of execution Of the death
sentence passed by the state court:
Many kilograms signed by prominent
and conservative citizens assert that
the local authorities are competent to
deal with the situation and that inter
ference by federal, officials will lead to
a serious race disturbance, but the JUS
tees decline to agree to leave the mat
ter Of the punishment Of the local Off.
Gals and members Of the mob to the
local authorities.
The program already mapped out is
said to be to arrest Sheriff Ship, who
had the negro in custody at the time he
was lynched, and possibly other local
officials and the members of the mob, if
possible, on a charge of contempt Of the
supreme court.
There are about $4,000 negroes in and
around Chattanooga, and it is feared
there that when any Of the officials con-
cerned in the case or members of the
mob that outraged law and order are ar
rested by the federal authorities q ma
jority of the negroes will m~isconstrue
the action of the government and as
a result a race war of grave proportions
will be the inevitable result.