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New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
CONFIDENCE IN O'KEEFFE.
No Charges ProTed, Bingham Says
Deputy Sues for Libel.

Commissioner Bingham has confidence in Deputy
Commissioner O'keeffe in spite of the stories that
the lid" off in Brooklyn. General Bingham
yesterday issued a statement that effect
For several months past" he said. "a bitter
attack has been developed against First Deputy
Commissioner O'Keeffe and his administration. Il
has been lately become more energetic. I have
given the accusers every chance prove what they
said they could prove have made certain trans
fers their request. / have given them all the
assistance l could
Il have been furnished with a great deal OF in
formation, but nothing yet of such character
10 shake my confidence in Mr. OKeeffe When any
thing has been proved against Mr.. O'Keeffe I will
at But at the present time ! have
reason 10 doubt he has fully carried out my order
10 him 10 play no politics in the conduct Of police
business committed to his charge
The Commissioner asked If Commissioner
Hanson would be transferred Brooklyn and
O'Keefe brought over to this borough The Com
missioner said: AS long as I trust Mr.. O'Keeffe
] Will keep him in Brooklyn"
Concerning the sO-called brutality Of the police
and the overcrowded condition OF the trains on the
'L" roads the Commissioner said:
II should be very glad if the Public Service
Commission would look into the matter with a
view It's amelioration. have found 10 my sur
prise that the L roads in Manhattan have no
some time ago because they insisted on wearing
blue uniform"
vacation he will name his fourth deputy, and make
a number of transfers in the department.
All that Mr.. O'Keeffe would say when told of
Commissioner Binghams words that he was
grateful for his superiors confidence in him. He
said that he could not tell who had made com
plants against him Yesterday he began suit
against the Standard Union Publishing Company
to recover 10000 damages for libel. The action is
based on an article published in The Standard
Union" on Sunday. entitled, police Protection for
Poolroom Trust"
William Berri. Fulton street merchant. is presi-
dent of the company O'Keeffe believes that the
article was inspired by friends of Police Captain
Crearner Of the Bedford avenue station who was
fined thirty days pay recently for falling
orders. He is also preparing to prosecute these
men
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
DETAILS OF TRAGEDY.
Columbia's officers Blamed ed-Rescue
by Sirteen-uear-OEd Girl.

Eureka, Cal. July 22-Eight minutes after the
San Pedro struck the Columbia she had filled
and sunk The watchman warned all the pas
sengers TO go to the upper deck. Without cloth
ing they rushed out. 1t only or three
minutes before the decks were awash. Six
boats and three liferafts were cut loose and as
many passengers as possible were crowded into
them There scarcely any evidence of a
panic, the women acting with heroism. The
crew of the San Pedro Immediately lowered a
boat and picked up a large number of survivors,
while the boats from the Columbia lay to by the
San Pedro
Captain Doran and First officer Whitney were
on the deck when the Columbia sank the cap
tain's last words being: God bless you"
Just as the Columbia sank her boilers ex-
ploded This COunteracted the suction and saved
many lives. Husbands and wives were separat-
ed and fathers and mothers and children became
lost TO one another
Two hours after the wreck the fog lifted and
cold wind began to blow. The people in the
boats suffered terribly.
o. Swanson sailor of the San Pedro was at
the wheel when the collision occurred. In his
report the blame is laid the Columbia's
| officers Others of the crew substantate Swan
sons story.
If all had gone well, he says the San Pedro
would have cleared the Columbia but he believes
than an order, Put the wheel hard a-starboard"
was given on the Columbia. This sent her dl-
rectly across the bow Of the schooner
passengers also say that there was poor naVi-
cation and that the lives lost are upon the
head of some one.
r. Hawse. third officer the Columbia. tells
If the heroic rescue of a woman by Mabelle
Watson. of Berkeley. Miss Watson in a
boat, which capsized when the ship went under.
She had been in the water thirty minutes when
a young woman appealed to her for help. Miss
Watson asked others to help, but all refused.
She held the woman's head above water for al
most two hours. When Hawse went to rescue
Miss Watson she refused assistance until they
lifted her unconscious companion on board.
The doctors said that Miss Watson's Compan-
ion was beyond recovery, but when they learned
Of the effort of Miss Watson TO save her they
worked hard and she revived. Miss Wat
son is only sixteen years old.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
FRENCH HONORS SOLD7
Gil Bias" Makes Charges May Ba
ReUiUaI of old Scandal.

Paris July 22.-"Gn Bias is responsible fon
the sensational statement that it has been dis
covered that a former private secretary OF ths
present Minister of Justice. NJ Guyot-Dessaigne,
at one time conducted a scandalOus traffic IN
public offices. decorations and pardons. Ac-
cording TO this newspaper. which promises ID
publish the names OF those concerned to-rnor<
row. a number of important personages include
ing NJ. Guyot-Dessaigne and some OF his frien1a
and relatives are implicated
Continuing "Gil Bias says that VI BouChari,
an examining magistrate, has been conducting
an investigation OF the affair for a week. and
that the private secretary has confessed.
The publication Of these charges has caused a
great stir and recalls the notorious affair d
which NJ Wilson son-in-law OF Francois P. J.
Grevy. former President Of the Republic. was
so deeply involved, and which compelled VI.
Grevy 10 resign in 1887.
The Temps" however. assumes that the rev<
elatiorns made by GIL Bias refer 70 the old af%
fair OF NJ Chaumie. who was Minister OF Public
Instruction in the Coombs and R0uvier "a binets
and who sued the 'Matin'' for defamation q
character NJ Chaumie says il is ridiculous 20
sneak OF a repetition OF the Wilson scandal He
saws that neither he nor his son is involved.
and that the letters with which al attempt vas
made 70 bescnirch the standing or his nephew
we're written eighteen months after he left the
ministry NJ Chaumis declared also that his
hrother-in-Iaw had informed him two months
ago that unless he abandoned his suit against
,hs "Natin' his sons and his nephews would %
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
GOTERNOR SIGNS BILLS.
City Office Building at Bridge
Terminal assured.
LBy Telegraph TO The Tribune J

Albany, July Ex-Governor Hughes signed to-day
Senator McCarren's bill providing for the erection
Of a municipal office building at the Manhattan
terminal Of the Brooklyn Bridge The measure
declares that the Commissioner of Bridges may
employ architect draw plans for this build
ing, which is to be paid for by bonds issued FOR
that purpose. This commissioner also may oversee
the requirement of property for the purpose me
Sinking Fund Commission is TO designate those de-
partments to occupy the building when completed
Senator Pages bill, providing for the extension
OF Riverside Park by the filling in of lands now
under water. to permit the erection of water gate
and monument to Robert Fulton, also became
law. Other bills of interest to New Y ork Clty
which signed were Assembyman Prentlces'
authorizing the appropriation of $4,000 by the city
for the Legal Aid Society; Assemblyman Francis s.
increasing the penalty for kidnapping from hfteen
10 twenty-five years. designed to check so-called
Black Hand kidnappings; Senator Cullens' per
mitting increases In the salary of the DOCK COM
missioner and his deputy. and Assemblyman
Brough's declaring 4 vagrant any disreputaole
woman in apartment room in a tenement
house This amendment to the tenement house
laws was designed to discourage certain class or
furnished roomers" who becoming trouble
some to tenement house dweers and apparently
avoiding too close scrutiny from the police.
The Governor signed the bill of Assemblyman
Prentice, amending the Penal Code relative 10
frauds on hotels and lodging house keepers, making
1t misdemeanor to remove baggage without pay
Ing the bill or to give worthless check IN pay
ment of board bill with intent to defraud.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
THE WRECKED VESSELS.

The Columbia steel vessel Of 1746 tons and
300 feet in length, 3S6 feet beam and l44 feet
In depth. She carried a Of seventy-fOur men,
under Captain p 4. DoTan. who had been master
Of the vessel for five years. The vessel built
at Chester. Penn. in 1880 and owned by the
Sun Fran isco and Portland Steamship Company.
During the earthquake and fire the Columbia was
lying at the drydock Of the Union Iron Works and
the shock lOOsened some Of her blocks, with the
result that she capsiZed. But she was entirely
reftted II Is said that she the first vessel or
her class to be equipped with an electric lighting
outfit This installed at the suggestion OF
the late Henry Willard, who supervised the con-
struction of the vessel
The San Pedro was commanded by Captain Han
sen and is a wooden vessel of 3IS tons. She is
l66 feet long. 81 feet beam and l2 feet deep. She
was built I'm San Francisco in 1892 for the J. r.
Haney & Sons Company, and recently sold TO
the Eastern and Western Lumber Company.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
C. H. VENNER SUES HILL.
Great Northern Stakeholder Alleges $10,-
100000 Fraud.

ST Paul. July 22.-Clarence II. Venner, of New
York began suit against J. ]. Hill and the Great
Northern Railway Company in the Ramsey County
District Court, the complaint being filed late to-
day, in which he alleges that Hill while acting as
president Of the Great Northern Railway Company
wrOngfuy and. fraudulently acquired stock of the
Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railway at prices
averaging about $50 share and that he induced
the board Of directors of the Great Northern to
pay 5000 share for the stock. He alleges that Mr.
Hill made profit thereby of more than $40 900 000
VenneT sues the holder of 300 shares of Great
Northern stock, and asks the court to compel Mr.
Hill 10 account for his profits and pay to the
stockholders of the Great Northern the alleged
illegal gains.
The defendants in the suit filed demurrer set
ting up the claim that the Northern Pacific should
also be made a party TO the suit and the further
claim that the complaint does not state cause
action.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
4DDINGTON SEES HUGHES
Complaints Of Illegal Liquor Selling
and Gambling alleged Reason.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Albany. July 22.-When District Attorney Ad-
dngton of this county called Governor Hughes
to-day. following recent visits of Sheriff Besch, 1t
became known that the Governor had called the
attention Of those officials to certain complaints as
TO the violation of the Sunday law. and the exist
ence Of gambling which had come to him. The
Governor declined to discuss the visit. and neither
official would talk about the affair Considerable
comment has been stirred up here over what some
people consider a lacking up of the county
officials by the Governor. There report that
this presaged similar action against excise viola
tons and gambling particularly all over the state
The complaints which Governor Hughes sent to
Albany County officials, well as TO State Excise
Commissioner Clement, affldavits forwarded
70 him by the Rev John Lowe Fort and the Rev
J Wallace Young a committee OF the Civic League
They signed by George Dunbar and Wifred
Paley and charged that liquor sold on Sundays
here. besides certain incidental gambling in tho
back rooms OF saloons. 1t is understood that the
ufldavits did not take up the general gambling
situation. though it is common knowledge that
poolrooms. policy shops and faro and roulette are
running rather openly every day.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
"OLD JOES" SECOND REST.
Juror Once and Noe Death Gires
Him Long Tacati0n.

"Old joe Jackson is the second vacation he
has taken in forty years service for the Hatch
banking family The first rest he took in that time
to sit jury and he came back with ex-
alted ideas of the equality Of the law. This time
he will return. He is dead
"Old joe light in color that he would
not have attracted attention in the jury box but
for slight kinks in his black hair. Forty years
ago he went into the service Of A. S Hatch, then
of the banking firm OF Fisk Hatch, and went
with the family whenever 1t made a change
Whether n quarter of a dollar "A million dollars
worth of securities bonds ntrusted
Joe" his employers We're always that II
would reach the place where IL was intended go
Frederick J. Hatch made his first surveys of the
many prominent Wall Street man to-day had the
o4 man guide him when he put in his first
work in the district. To the end he was odd
joe to them. and the door always held open
to him by not few bank presidents and heads OF
big Stock Exchange houses
Unlike some others who have spent less time in
Wall Street. the worst @that his employers could
say of him yesterday that he was a man who
simply couldn't do anything wrong and always
tried to do everything to the best his ability
Millions of dollars had been intrusted to his charge
in his forty-one years In the Street but never
was cent missed.
'Old joe was interested in the movement of the
market but always as messenger He never
specula ted. but saved his money which he invested
in dwelling house in College avenue In The
Bronx. His only plunge in the market was in tho
interest OF an estate, of which he executor
IL netted the estate about $4,000
"Old Joe" was always there until the last mem
Der OF the firm called IL day, even IL that meant
the early hours of the morning after. or his kinl
the Hatch family and all who knew him Intimately
place him. He fell dead on the street the other
day.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
CONGRESS OF RUSSIAN MODEBATEs.
Democrats, Forbidden to Mees
in Capital. May Go to Sweden

ST. Petersburg. July 22-The Consti'u'lor'Ai
Democratic Congress. which it was pIanheu ~
hold here. has been forbidden by 'feneraI ~
effsxi. Prefect of St. Petersburg Ihe N'liS'''@
tional Democrats. nevertheless, hope 10 NO. - 80
congress In Finland In the cary pd'' - y
to,,rha- II the Finnish authorities. however.
rsf,,ss nermission NJ Milukoff. the leader OF ne
party. SAYS that the congress Will be .'is helu =.
sweden. but he fears that II the
Democrats leave the country so near -
time the police will place such obstacles N -.
way as they did in the case OF the oool'ii -
- - ,,,rserrees In London. that they will %
urab1e 10 return in time TO take part IN Vns
elections.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
ESTIH1TES ABOUT READY
illumination Of Centrars Crossings
Would Eat Up appropriation.

Albany. July 22.-The Public Service Commission
IN the Second District announced tonight that its
engineers had almost completed the estimates for
the elimination Of the grade crossings contained
IN the New York Central electric zone The COM
mission says that the preliminary estimates far
Indicate that the states entire appropriation OF
10000 would be practically exhausted II orders arc
issued Tor the elimination OF all the crossings
sought TO be altered. and that the whole subject
is under consideration.
The commission has learned from its lnvcstE cation
that the grade crossings at Mount Vernon. White
Plains. Tarrytown and Ossning directly In
volved, and the complete electrhcation Of the New
York Centras suburban territory also involves the
question Of eliminating these grade crossings.
The commission is TO hold n further conference
August I. at 10 A. m, with the express com
panies OF the state regarding tho fling OF rates.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23

had suffered damage, while the sea was lit
tered with the wreckage of the lower cabins of
the foundered steamer.
mo effort made to transfer any Of the
survivors Of the disaster from the decks of the
Elder to the Roanoke Perhaps this was due to
the fact that the wind was blowing strongly
and heavy sea running at the time.
I've presumed that the Elder would carry the
living and dead and tow the waterlOgged San
Pedro to Humboldt Bay, where the previous
day had passed the latter as she was coming out
and going in
THE Roanoke had a full list Of passengers,
and the dreadful experience witnessed off Shell
ter Cove unstrung the nerves of all of us. many
remaining deck all last night and all desert
ing their cabins as soon as the vessel entered
the fog belt and began sounding the fog signals"
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
FRENCH ANGER RENEVED
Germanization of Alsdce-LorraiHs
PrOUOkes Angry Comment.

Paris. July 22-The French newspapers ars
greatly incensed over the decision Of the German
authorities TO suppress the teaching Of Frencn
in the common schools Of the lost provinces
Alsace and Lorraine. The loss OF these prov
inces. the statues OF which on the Place ds i1
Concorde are kept freshly piled with towers.
the sorest point in the settlement OF me -
prrssiap war and the decision TO "Gernanize'
them by suppressing what IS the native tonsu1
for the vast majority of the population Is s@-'
and worrnwood for the emotional French peopl9.
statistics are cited 70 prove that alons the non
tier four-fifths Of the children are 'l
parentage and speak only French
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
MOTHERS SACRIFICE FOR SON.

The surgeons of the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn
succeeded in transferring about twenty square
inches of skin from the body of Mrs. Samuel Hong
of No. 234 ElIery street. 10 the face and neck OF
her fve-year-old William. who was scaded a
few weeks ago Mrs Honig is suffering intense
pain as the result but she says she would cheer
fully undergo the operation again to save her son
from dishgurement. The surgeons say that the
operation successful
On Saturday, mother and were placed On
operating tables. DR.. George J. Miller visiting
surgeon, OF the hospital, performed the operation
assisted by Drs. Krukel and Lederer. Strips Of
skin two inches wide and five inches long were
taken from Mrs. Honigs right hip and laid upon
the boys neck and face where he had been injured
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
Second Louisiana Case Put Off Till Novem-
Der 12-Change of Venue Likely.

Hahnvile, La. July 22-Ignacio Campisciano
his wife. Coiagaro Gendusa and Tony Costa. who
we're tried here last week the charge of muir
dertng the kidnapped Lamana child. and against
whom a verdict of guilty, without capital punish
ment. brought in. sentenced to-day to
life terms in the Louisiana state pententnry
When the case of Leonardo GebbI and his sister.
Ncolina Gebb who TO be tried Jointly the
same charge, was called to-day counsel for the
defence asked that the be continued until
November u, 1857, and the petition granted by
the court account of the present tnhamed state
Of public feeling in the parish,
II is understood that effort will be made TO
secure a change Of venue for the Gebbis
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
HUGHES NAMES CANAL ENGINEER.
Mortimer G. Barnes, of This City, Succeeds
Elmer L, Corthell, Resigned

Albany. July 22.-Governor Hughes sent to the
Senate tonight for confirmation the name OF Nor
timer Grant Barnes we'll known civil engineer. OF
New York city. to be member of the board Of
advisory engineers for the barge canal at salary
of $500 In place Of Elmer l.. Corthel. resigned
Mr.. Barnes is a graduate civil engineer Of tho
University Of Michigan. md has had a varied ex-
perience in the construction Of waterways incud-
ing the Birmingham canal, in Alabama. the Sauit
Ste Marie canal, the Illinois and Mississippi Canal
and the Panama Canal He is al present employed
by the New York City Board of Water Supply
in connection with the Catskin reservoir
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
BooKKEEpER STOLE $1,000, POLICE SAY

Thomas Kenny. of No 138 Hudson street Newark
was arrested yesterday by the police OF that city
charged with embezzling $1,000 from Foley Brothers,
of No. 1856 Central avenue, dealers in old bottles
for whom he worked bookkeeper. At Police
Headquarters the young man is said to have con
fessed having taken the money and declared he
had lavished 1t young woman in this city
Kenny said. according to Detective Sergeants Cor
dano and Farrell, that he obtained the money by
raising the checks OF his employers. Kenny said
his peculations averaged $50 a week His salary
r,as 81 Meek
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23

along the coast" he said, but all that we
have learned thus far has come from the
Roanoke and newspa pers.'
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
TYPHOID FEVER AT Tus.<EeEE

Tuskegee Ala. July "a typhoid fever epidemic
is prevailing at Tuskegee Normal Institute. and
two deaths and twenty-seven cases have been re-
ported from the school 1t is announced that while
the epidemic has been checked its Is un-
known. Considerable sickness prevails in the
fOuyp
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
STEEL PAVEMENTS.
From The Chicago News.

From The Chicago News.
Trial is now being made in Paris OF a new sys-
TEN of paving Steel is laid on a bed of cement
after the fashion Of wood paved roads. the inter
stices, too, being filled with 1t is hoped
IN this way TO avoid the dangerous holes which
appear in wood paving, owing TO the unequal
wearing of the blocks. The pavement is ex-
pected TO last for ten years
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
CHAIRMAN BROWN ISSUES CALL.

Toledo, July 22.-Chairman Walter Brown OF the
Rcpublicaa State Central Committee issued
formal call to-day for a meeting of the committee
AT Columbus on Tuesday July 30. to consider some
contests before the committee.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
SON OF NEW YORK ARTIST BROWNS.

Utica n Y, July 22.-Leach King, nine years old
was drowned last evening in Guford Lake
Chenango County where he had been spending the
summer with his mother and brother The boys
father IS Hamilton Kins, artist, who han
studio in the upper part of New foTS
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23
OYER 100 MEN KILLED.
Explosion in a Japanese Collierg
IN BungO PrOUinCe.

Toxic July 22-An explosion last Saturday N
a colIiery at Toyooka, in Bungo Province Is re-
ported 10 have killed nearly all Of the 40 miners
in the pit
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23

street. favorlte resort of Armenians. both the
proprietor and several of the patrons declared
that they did not know the murderer. II thew
did know him they were not saying anything
about It, At a 26th street Armenian restaurant
all knowledge of the murderer was discIairned
A murder somewhat similar to that of yester,
day was committed in Boston in 1903. when
Peter Kureglah, an Armenian, was shot ana
fatally wounded by another Armenian. described
as Samuel Gulgein, Kureglah entering
the Dudley street station Of the elevated al
Roxbury. The victim not wealthy man
like Tavshanjian. but a member OF ths
Huntchagists
New-York tribune., 1907-07-23

by telegraph % The Irfbune.I
Deal Beach. y. J.. July 22-Tavshaujan oc.
cupied the Rockefeller cottage. at Hathaway
and Norwood avenues. here. with his wife and
two children. He left his family this morning,
and said he would return this evening at the
usual hour. Mrs. Tavshanjian did not learn oe
her husbands death until this evening when ths
sad news was impaired TO her by a personal
friend. who came down from New York Then,
are numerous Armenian merchants at Asbury
Park. They believe that Tavshaniian who was
a leader among the Armenians in this country.
was murdered by a member of an Armenian
secret society because he refused 10 be black.
mailed.
Tavshan1ian was charitable. and recently gavs
S250 600 toward building an Armenian church In
New York City.