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New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
DJVED OFF FERRY FOR 81.
4 Dare and Bet Land Brooklyn
Man in Greenpoint Cell.

If IS due TO the fact that he has never taken
q dare that John Curran, of No. $50 Lafayette
avenue Brooklyn. almost lost his lie yes
terday by diving into the East River Tor
hat and Is now prisoner in the Greenpoht
avenue station the charge OF attempted SUI
eide. With a couple of friends, Curran boarded
the ferryboat Kentucky, Of the 23d street line,
at about 6 o'clock last night, on the Mammal
tan side on his way home.
The boat was crowded. but Curran and MS
friends managed to find comfortable place on
the forward deck. The boat had reached MD
stream when the wind blew straw hat over
board 1t didn't belong to Curran.
Would you dare to get that hat for dollar
asked one of Curran's friends, addressing hin-
Sure" said Curran. "and after getting the hat
I could beat the boat across"
BET YOU dollar you can't" said the friend.
Done" said Curran, who without taking OH
his own hat dived into the river and went after
the other hat, which by this time had foated d
distance downstream. In an instant the poae
was In an uproar Women screamed and men
hurried for life preservers TO throw TO the swift
mer
The ferryboat was stopped and a small poa''
in charge of Thomas Gaffney and Alfred Lanes
deckhands put off after Curran, who had
reached the hat and was then heading toward
the Greenpoint shore. He was swimming easily
and would probably have beaten the poat Vo
shore had he not been obliged to swim through
the wake of one of the large Sound steamers
making her way up the river The strain was
too much for him, and he had gone down once
when he was overtaken. Without waiting Tor
Curran to come to the surface Gaffney dove
after him and brought him up The two men
were then hauled in by Lanes. who landed them
at Noble street. Greenpont. where they founo
Patrolman Martin. who had been attracted oy
the distress signals of the ferryboat, and VINO
placed Curran under arrest.
But I won the dollar said Curran to Lieu
tenant Rouss, as ne was led into the cell.
YES but it will cost you more than dollar
tomorrow In court" said Rouss. but Curran
seemed happy
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
IRON WORKERS CRUSHED.
Beams Break from Derrick-TUo
Dead, One Dung and Score Hurt.

Two men were killed. one was fatally injured
and nearly score of others were slightly hurt
by the breaking of derrick cable at the huge
plant OF the Union Gas Company, at North 18th
and Berry streets. Williamsburg, yesterday
A gang of over a hundred men have been en-
pioyed for more than six months erecting the
largest gas tank in the city at the Williamsburg
plant. and yesterday morning the framework IN
side the tank had been completed and the top
beams, eight inches thick were being hoisted by a
steam derrick TO top off, the scaholding. wheh
tbe cab1e of the derrick broke and the beams
crashed down on to the uncompleted platform,
crushing 1t like a she'll
On the platform at the time were three men,
Robert Gold thirty-three years OLD, OF NO III Siu-
berry street; Robert Bell. twenty-nine years old
of No Ais East l0sth street. and James FIynn, OF
No is1 Mott street They were hurled to the
ground a distance OF forty feet. landing among
seventy other workmen
Rolts tools and hving debris from the platform
hit fully twenty of the iron workers WHO
scramble was made by the men in the excavation
TO reach the surface of the ground, and II was re-
ported that number had been killed
FLYNN and Bell were removed TO the Eastern DIS
trict Hospital. and Gold was taken TO the VIII
iamsburg Hospital Gold and Bell died short
time after arriving and Flynn it is said, cannot
survive The accident caused crowd OF over
thousand people TO gather, and for time the
notice had their hands full. They arrested the
foreman of the job. Richard F. Wall. ana locked
him un on a charge Of criminal negligence.
Tho work Is being done by Thomas Spinknall, a
contractor who left the scene of the ACCIDENT
shortly after II occurred. Coroner Kennedy visited
fbe plant but refused TO say what action he would
take When the foundation for this huge tank was
being built three years ago seven men were killed
bv the cavfng in of the breastwork
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
DECISION AGAINST MUTUAL LIFE.
May Not Exhume Body of Lucius H. Perkins,
of Lawrence, Kan.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. T--Judge Smith Mcpherson.
Of the United States District Court. to-day filed a
decision denying the application of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York for order to
exhu1ne body of the late Lucus H Perkins.
of Lawrence, Kan.
Perkins died in June last after fall from the
roof Of his home In December, 1906. ne had taken
out policy for $4,000 in the Mutual Life company
After his death the company refused 10 pay MS
heirs the amount Of the policy and filed petition
asking the court for order to exhume the pody
and allow analysis to be made or the ooIl'e's
Of the stomach, intimating that Perkins had oled
from poisoning. The heirs of Perkins filed a oe-
nurrer TO the bill Of complaint
Judge Mcpherson sustains the plea OF the de-
PENDANTS that the court lacks Jurisdiction out says
that his decision without prejudice 10 any
further action concerning the policy OF insurance
referred to in the bill OF complaint.
Mr Perkins at the time of his death held policies
in various companies agsregating s6eo,cH SeVeral
or these companies have already paid the face
value of these policies.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
SOCIALISTS ARRESTED.
Police Break Up Another Meeting
Near Hotel WinthrOp.

Following their usual custom, the members OF
the Socialist party. with headquarters at NO z@S
East saith street. attempted TO hold an open ar
meeting last night at Seventh avenue and 1zotn
street alongside Of the Hotel Winthrop and as a
result twenty-six of them were locked up In the
West 125th street station. charged with disordery
conduct There has been trouble at the same cor
ner for several weeks
Thirty policemen hand last night TO
prevent speechmaking. and were succeeding an
right prtiI Henry Harris. Of No S11 East s'tn
street came along driving wagon adorned WITH
several sociaIistic banners Then everybody IN the
crowd wanted 20 speak at the same time The po-
lice then got busy and as man attempted
70 talk he was arrested bowling mob followed
the police and prisoners TO the station mouse
but no attempt was made TO free the prisoners
One member of the party said last night; we
never had any trouble at the corner until Mag1s-
trate Crane moved into the Hotel Winthrop. and
then the hotel management insisted that the police
put an meetings. We have issued
statement TO our followers. telling them that the
action OF the police in making the arrests Is only
a. pretext provoke violence and inJure our cause
We will go 10 the courts and obtain Injunction
preventing the police from interfering with our
meetings.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
CHICAGO RAILWAY APPRAISER HERE.
B. J. Arnold Calls on Members of Public Ser
vice Commission and Offers Aid.

b. J. Arnold an expert who has been employed
by the city of Chicago TO appraise the street rail-
ways there, called on the Public Service Commits
sioners yesterday He had a long talk with Com
missioners Eustis McCarroll and Malbie. and later
IL said he called Mr. WINS special counsel
for the commission in its investigation of the Inter
borough Metropolitan and Brooklyn Rapid Transit
systems. and volunteered his services in connection
with these inquiries.
The commission did not hold meeting yesterday
although quorum present in the morning.
Chairman Wilcox is expected back Monday and
Commissioner Bassett will probably return on the
day.
The commission will to it's quarters
In the Tribune Building about the middle of the
week
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
MINES FLOODED; SUES.
HER OWN LAWYER.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin Says Defend
ants Prosecuted Her IN California

Mrs Isabella J. Martin who acts as her own at
torney, began action recently the Supreme
Court recover s2S.ceo from the La Grange Hy-
draulic Gold Mining Company damages to ore
dumps and tunnels in Trinity County. Cal. owned
by her and known the Black Quartz Mining
Claims.
Mrs. Martin said yesterday at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel that since she served the complaint Robert
Matfer. president the corporation. she had been
advised not TO prosecute the suit here in New
York but in California, where the property of the
la Grange Hydraulic Gold Mining Company is sit
uated and where she could invite jury TO inspect
the damage caused by the water flooding her prop
erfy-
Mrs Martin says in her complaint that the COM
psny. in conducting its mining operations, arti-
ncially impounds its property through fumes and
bitches for thirty miles large volumes of water.
which at times is released through food gates. pre-
cipitatng the water the plaintiffs property, d
grosp OF gold. silver and copper mining claims.
1t IS alleged that october q, 1906. the defend
snts ~lfully turned loose the plaintiffs mining
hands their entire Of water, flooding and
destroying the plaintiffs tunnels and dam. carrying
swsy large dumps endangering the lives
OF the worknle-. The plaintiff asserts that Mather
and his associates not acting innocently and
within the law, but prosecuting her II is also
set forth that the plaintiff and her have stood
in the water their knees half the night on sew
eral occasions in frantic endeavors to save and
protect their dumps and tunnels from the water
turned TO their property by the company
Great damage 10 the plaintir by the direct ano
preneditated acts on the part Of these officials
IS alleged The ditch constructed by the corporation
IS declared be sufficiently large TO hold enough
water drown entire town Through if
they conduct the water from Stuarts Fork Of the
Trinity River their mining claims.
The plaintiff alleges deception said TO have been
ractised by Mather liz keeping the plaintiff in this
city by making false promises of settlement which
he intended TO keep. The plaintiff also says
st is well established that the right of way to con-
Duct water mining claims cannot be acquired,
except for public purposes She alleges that the
corporation has prosecuted, damaged and mis-
used her TO the extent Of S25.e0
Roberts Walker, Of No. lis Broadway. attorney
for the la Grange Hydraulic Gold Mining Com
r7any, expressed surprise when told that the suit
would be tried in a California court The only
statement he would make fer publication regard
ing Mrs Martins suit follows
We have given her case every consideration,
and the best Of knowledge we think II is
absolutely without merit
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
FARMER BEATS RAILROAD COMPANY

Newburg " y, Aug I7.-After fighting the Erie
& Jersey Railroad Company. a subsidiary corpora
ton of the Erie. for several years in the courts
for the preservation of his farm. Walter III. Brown
a well-to-do farmer OF Cornwall. has
The railroad company started work year or
two ago on a new route. forty miles long, from
Highland Mills TO Guymard. Orange County. Pro
ceedinCs were begun to condemn Browns farm
He resisted. He fixed price of s25 his prop
erty but did not want the railroad 10 take it at
any price. It had been the home of his ances-
tors for many generations
The referee to whom the matter was sent to-day
dismissed the railroad petition for condemnation
and the building of the road is thus held up IN
definitely. The new railroad is built up TO Browns
farm on either side. and there IT stops
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
TENANTS ORDERED OUT OF BUILDING.
Twenty Families Must Leave Condemned
Structure in Mott Street

The twenty families in the old five story brick
tenement house az No. 43 Mott street were warned
yesterday that the building may come down at
any time, and that they get out. The roof
has saEged and is away out Of plumb, tapping over
the houses at one side and in the rear Many
Of the families fearing that the house would fall
recently deserted the building, but few remained.
There a grocery store and a Chinese laundry
on the ground floor OF the condemned structure.
Braces have been put up in Mulberry street, where
excavation for new building is In progress.
This IS the second tenement house that has been
condemned by the Buildings Department un-
safe il six months The three story structure at
No. 20 Mott street considered dangerous TO
live In and the Buildings Department took quick
action and ordered the Chinese inmates out.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
SHOOTS WIFE AND KILLS HIMSELF.
Sea Cliff Barber Was Jealous of Her, Al
though Both Were Over Fifty.

Sea Cliff. Long Island. Aug. 1T-Valentine Hess
barber, is dead at his home in Maple avenue
and his wife IS in a critical condition in the same
house. the result of quarrel which the couple had
early this morning. Despite the age of the couple
both more than 1fty-Hess is said to have
been insanely jealous of his wife. and this is the
only reason that can be assigned for the shooting
Hess. according to the neighbors had been
drinking considerably Quarrels between them
had been frequent within the last three weeks
Hess's family say, however, that he was not un-
der the influence Of liquor when he shot his wife
and then blew out his brains this morning.
For the last eighteen years Hess had conducted a
barber shop in the centre of the town. n few
blocks away from his home. The couple always
seemed happy Mrs Hess has fighting chance
for her life.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
NEGROES IN BUSINESS.
Meeting of League in Kansas Shosved
the Races Progress.

,-es,-o b,siness men of New York City rep
resented at the eighth annual session OF tne va
tional Negro Business League OF whlch BOOKER l.
Washington is president, and which has been IN
session the last week in the hall Of the House Oh
Representatives at Topeka, Kan The New fork
delegation was led by John H Atkins. the president
of the local business league, and Roscoe Conkiins
Simmons. editor of THE National Review" and
secretary of the local league The session was
closed yesterday with outing Of the more fhan
five hundred delegates and visitors
, At the opening of the session the delegates were
addressed by Governor E. ". Hoch- The Mayor.
William Green spoke in behalf of the city Presi-
dent c. x. Holiday of the Topeka Comnercial
Club extended a welcome from that body and
James II. Guy greeted the delegates as the repre-
sentative of the Topeka Negro Business League
The lstte1 body entertained the national orsaniza
ton.
The subjects discussed at the meetings ranged
from house moving TO the establishing of banking
institutions and the building of negro towns, and
follows:
.'Tweuty-eight Years AS House Mover, D. F.
Tipton Emporia, Kan; ''Twenty-seven Years IN
Slate and Gravel Roofing and Contracting M w.
Turner Indianapolis; Railroad Contracting and
Building" E. E. Mcdaniel. South McAlester, Ind
T.; Cement Contracting and Building, John Spen-
GER Grinnell, Iowa; THE Real Estate and Loan
Business" J. B. Bell Houston, Tex, and Robert
C Owens, Los Angeles; The Wholesale and Retail
Grocery Business John Covington Houston. Tex:
General Merchandising Foster Williams, Cofey-
ville Kan; Operating Vans and Express. Philip
Lee, New York City: Managing a Department
Store in the City Sandy w. Trice, Chicago;
Managing a Department Store in the Country
W. L. Sayers. Hill City. Kan- Manufacturing
Brushes" S. ]. Jones Jenkintown. Penn; owning
and Controlling Steamboat Lewis e. Jefferson.
Washington; Making Farming Pay c. N Miller.
Rolling Fork, Miss. and E. G. Terry, West Point,
Miss: Sugar Beet Growing" George w. Cross.
Rocky Ford, Col
At the morning session of Friday officers of the
National Negro Bankers Association, affiliated
with the league. discussed banking subjects. Then
there was dinner in the Topeka Auditorium on
Friday evening and there outing to Gar
field Park Thursday afternoon. DR.. Washington
was reelected president and T. Thomas Fortune
was chosen chairman of the executive committee
Booker T. Washington founded this organization
for the purpose of establishing business enterprises
among the negroes throughout the country and to
create a spirit of cooperation among the negroes
The growth has been greater than anticipated
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
HIGH PRESSURE NOV. I
NesC Fire Service Viii Reach Top
of TolIest Skuscrdper.

The new high pressure fire service will be so far
completed by November that test can then be
made Bids for supplying the electric power for
the stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn have been
opened and the moneys TO be expended found TO be
larger than was anticipated when the stations were
projected.
The New York Edison Company, in Manhattan
and the Edison Electric Illuminating Company. In
Brooklyn. the only companies with plants SUI
rcient TO supply the power necessary for the plants
Two stations in each borough Will be supplied
Those in Manhattan are at Gansevoort and West
streets and oliver and South streets Those IN
Brooklyn at Furman and Joralemon streets
and St Edwards and Wiloughby streets
The Manhattan stations are 10 be supplied Win
a5o kIlovatts of three phase. $500 volts twenty
five cycle electric power The Edison company bid
ss5oo for furnishing the apparatus and equip
rnent for generating the power. and ii will supply
not less than 100000 kilowatt hours at one and a
half cents an hour.
From Brooklyn the stations will be supplied with
$50 kilowatts Of three phase $500 volts twenty
nve cycle power. The Edison Electric Iilluminat-
ing Company bids $3.50 a month. and one and a
half cents a kiIowatt hour for electricity.
Charles f Lacombe. chief engineer of light and
mower said II was not expected when the stations
were projected that the city would have TO pay so
much for power, and the $4,000 year in Man
hpttan is high.
The time allowed for furnishing and installing
IS six months. but Mr.. Lacombe said the company
will have the power hand before November L.
and a test will then be made. He declared IL will
be one Of the most interesting fire tests ever had
IN the city. The experiment will be one Of Sc
curing a pressure of 250 pounds square inch Of
water for fire and he thinks it will be great
sight to see at least eight men trying TO get the
best of a nozzle with stream of that power COM
ing from 1t. It will knock over the cornice of a
sky scraper as easily fire hose stream can
niuepin.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
BELLEVUE HAS ELECTRIC FLY TRAP.
Disease Germs Disseminated by Pests Now
Banished from Autopsies by Drafts.

Flies and mosquitoes have proved such pest in
the autopsy room of the Bellevue morsue that re-
Gently the operating physicians made plea TO
Robert ". Hebberd. Commissioner of Charities, TO
have the conditions improved. And they have been
There are more than hundred autopsies per-
formed every month Bellevue, both by the order
of the coroners and for the advancement of sci
ence Flies, the great disseminators of disease
have been present in the autopsy room in such
numbers that the surgeons took alarm and asked
their removal
Electrically driven fans have been installed, all
sauged so that the drafts of air pass through the
vent in the roof OF the
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
BIG BOYS" ASSAILANT IN TOMBS
Negro Who Is Said to Have Shot Him Re

Beverly Cole a negro forty-three years old. who
shot Oscar Hicks. known big Boy on
August T. causing the 1atter's death. and who was
arrested In Boston by Detective Carrette and
brought here was committed TO the Tombs yester-
day morning without bail by Coroner Harburger-
Cole had previously been arraigned I'm the JEFF
ferson Market police court and remanded for the
coroner by Magistrate Butts. He admitted that
he shot big Boy asserting that he did so IN
self-deferce the latter. according to Cole, at
tackled him with a knife The trouble took place
in a restaurant at No. i43 West 32d street Cole
disarpeared Immediately after the shooting.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
BEATTY COMMITTED TO BELLEVUE.
Supposed Impersonator of Waldo to Have
Sanity Examined.

Herbert F. Beatty. who says he is broker ana
who told the police recently that he fmpersonateo
Deputy Commissioner Waldo one night at the len
derloin police station. committed yesterday IN
81. West Side court 10 Bellevue to have his sanity
examined
The complainant against Beatty was his "lle'
Mrs Millie Beatty. who said that he was acuhs
I'm an erratic manner, rode around town IN CABS
and that he denied being her husband Beatty salo
in court that he had brought proceedings in Clear
Geld County Penn, TO determine If he was legally
married He was arrested short time ago Tor
refusing pay a cab fare
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
MUTUAL RELEASES BANK HOLDINGS.

I'm line with the action OF the Equitable Life AS
surance Society in dsposing of its stock holdings
in several institutions, told in The Tribune yes
terday the Mutual Life Insurance Company has sold
its holdings of stock of the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company to a syndicate headed by
George NJ Cumming. president Of the latter COM
pany The Mutual also sold 100 shares Of Astor
National Bank stock and 1.ooo shares of Bank Of
America stock In addition TO other securities the
sele of which has keen heretofore reported.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
AN APPEAL FOR CHARITY.

The Charity Organization Society appeals io'
500 TO provide a pension for one year for 70
spectacle couple aged sixty and sixty-hve wa.
through poor health and lack Of employment a..
In need Tho man was employed many years
evening public schools teacher OF lans0ae
He va. most enicient and faithful In his worA
There arc no relatives who assist Any rno'o'
for this sent TO the CharitT Organization .
ciety No. 100 East I'd street, sill be publicly -
knOWiedScd
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18

Holding that divorce which Lillian E. Wilson
got IN New Jersey in 1sn from her husband Po-
lice Sergeant John W. Wilson. Is invalid IN this
state Justice Brady in rhe Supreme Court yester-
day gave Wilson q decree OF absolute divorce
from Lillian e. Wilson. The Justice said that
Wilson never entered appearance IN New Jer-
scy Mrs Wilson's New Jersey decree
foYcable in this state and unavailable as a defence
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
THOMAS C. BARR I'LL AT SPRING LAKE.

Orange. n. J., Aug. II (SpeciaD.-Advices re-
ceived here this afternoon told of the illness of
Thomas c. Barr, a resident of the city. who Is at
Spring Lake. His condition is said to critical.
Mr. Barr is Of the directors of the Public Ser
vice Corporation and head of the list of directors
of the proposed Public Service Railway Company.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
ESSEX COUNTY CONVENTION DATES.

The Essex County Republican committee has
e,es september rs as the date for the county con-
vention The convention will be held In Kreuger
Auditorium, Newark The city convention will be
hid on September IL in the Republican headquar-
tiers building. in Newark
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
NEW sf.ooo,ooo SUGAR COMPANY.

Albany, Aug. 1.-The Colombia Sugar Company
OF New York. capital 1900 ooo, fled articles of in
corporation with the Secretary Of State to-day.
The directors are F. velez, OF Havana. Cuba, and
A. I. dAnabegh and F. IL Field. Of Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18
TO HANG FOR KILLING OFFICER

Washington, Aug 17.-Advices received by the
War Department from Manila show that the court
martial which tried Private William Taylor. Com
pany NJ. oath Infantry. at Ioilo for shooting Lieu
tenant Robert B. Calvert. the commanding officer
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18

Newstea.i the leader OF the district. said that eS
Governor OdeIl had promised TO be present. Juose'
Rosalsky and Whitman. OF General Sessions Cou'-
II is said will attend the outing
New-York tribune., 1907-08-18

What Is of exceptional Importance centres ~
this weeks return from Europe OF Mr. j. :.
Morsan-ever the exponent Of good faith. soo'
sense, good times h. ALLa" a.