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New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
car STRIKE T.HREATENED.
DrUers Demand Better Pay ana
Shorter Hours.

A strike of cab drivers throughout the city at the
hotels theatres and clubhouse stands is threateneo
TODAY by the members of the Liberty Dawn Asso-
citation of Coach Drivers against the Livery Staoie
Owners Association for advance in wages rom
s14 to SIT 50 a week and twelve hours of out Oh
every twenty four the present hours off being zen
a day The demands go into effect to-day, ana 'iie
strike if 1t takes place. will involve about thrce
thousand drivers.
The demands were positively refused by the LlV
cry Stable Owners Association after several con
ferences with committee of the union An oiiei
by the employers to continue the present "ae''
and conditions and to arbtrate complaints IL 'iieS
were not satisfactory. has been rejected pS 'ii0
union.
The EMPLOYERS say that while, If the strihe taAo
place there will be great deal of Inconvenience o.
the first especially at theatre time, the drivers ar
hound to be beaten as there is great faitlng oii III
business on account of the prevailing scarcltS "
money and a number of drivers have peei lalo oi-,
The employers also say that if the strike Is loiS
on them the open shop will be the rule from ti9
time forward 80,
The union of the cab drivers got the haiio oi -
Liberty Dawn Association from the hhlsH,o
Labor many years ago at time wnen the hhis =
were giving fancy names to all organizations IL -
now affiliated with the New York District opu, NJ
of the United Teamsers of America, Oh "floi h1
win Gould is chairman.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
BURNED TO DEATH IN HIS ROOM.

One man was burned 10 death and several others
had escapes in fire which destroyed the
extension early yesterday in the rear Of two
story frame dwelling at No Ale West Broadway
Philip Snyder. forty-three years old, who lived in
the house where the fire occurred. cost his life.
Emil Dletsch and his wife had a furnished room
house No. 4l6.
Besides Detsch and his wife there were three
roOmers in the house Henry Schmidt John DON
nelly and Snyder Donnely awakened by smoke
to Dietschs roorl and aroused him and hts
wife and then pounded the doors of Schmidt
and Snyder. Schmidt hurried into his clothes and
Joined Donnelly. Snyder answered that he was
getting dressed. Donneliy and Schmidt believed
that Snyder had got out Of the building and thev
TO the street. where Detsch and his wife had
already gone. The engines arrived and extin-
guished the flames
The fremen found Snyder dead on the bed
having been burned to death The bed on which
he had been lying almost consumed The
loss 500.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
MAULEY MISSION CELEBRATES.
Water Street Institution Thirty-five Years
Old-Many at Service.

The old McAuley Water Street Mission was
packed Il the doors yesterday afternoon at the
celebration of its thirty-ffth anniversary. Many
while others had back to the mission after
months years
r. Fulton Cutting, who has been a trustee of the
mission for thirty-one years, presided at the after
meeting. at which the Rev. Hugh McC. Brick
head. rector OF St. Georges Church. and the Rev.
DIR. Wallace McMullen. pastor of the Madison Ave
nue. Methodist Church. We're the speakers. AT the
meeting in the evening John S. Huyler and DR..
Thomas Darlington made addresses.
Students OF psychology come down here and look
into the faces of men who say they have been
tian lives and they can't account for It," said Mr..
Cutting in opening the afternoon. AT this mis-
sion a homeless outcast who seems utterly hope
less wreck is transformed into a respectable men,
Der of society. is a miracle to be explained only
by the agency of a supernatural power 1t Is a real
democracy you have here. Our common brother
hood Is recognized down here and those who are
best able to lead have the opportunity to do So
Everybody must cooperate in the work, and YOU
can depend upon the trustees OF the mission to do
their part.
bers of the mission had learned by experience where
the power to lead Christian lives came from, and
that there hundreds OF persons who went To
church who had not learned much Among the
trustees Of the mission at the meeting Thomas
s. Clay. w. E Lougee. B. u. 3. Curtis and l. w.
HYDE \
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
MISS LEcLERE AND FRENCH MORALS

Miss Louise II I.eclere. whose VIII was h'eu IN
Minneapolis on Saturday died here In New YORK
on February - last. leaving the greater part Oh
ber fortune TO French institutions for the purpose
of raising France from her present low morai
state" Miss Ieclere. who was In her eighty
third wear al the time OF her death. was the
daughter of one of the young guards of Napoleon
She came 10 America with her father about
sixty Years ago starting ont herself as teacher
while he invested his fortune in starting SILK
trnortIng business. For years he WAS rival OF
4 T. Stewart but in 1873 his business failed and
he Was left without a cent BY this time his
daughter was making enough as "A teacher or
French TO support him
Miss I.ecIerc according those who knew her.
resolved early in life TO devote Herself TO over
coming or esseung the baneful and immoral IN
nueucc she believed France was having on Amer
lea As private teacher in homes and in many
private schools Miss Leclere was known to the
wealtbiest families in the city In all OF her teach
ing she deprecated the modern French novel and
its effect upon the morals Of the people.
George Macculloch Miller. the administrator CT
her estate said Yesterday that her will had been
filed In Minneapolis. owing To the fact that she
owned a large amount of real estate In that city
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
PREDICTS Il REBOUND.
Prince Poniatozcsba Inalg2es Present
Banking Situation.

.rrba condemnation Of your currency system is
found in the fact that your banks have more re-
serves and are far stronger to-day than they were
before the panic. This has been bankers panic
caused by their fears of your currency system
While your industrial progress has been tempo
rarily checked. the rebound from the present de-
cline will sharp and your prosperity VIII be con-
tinUed A central bank of issue is the remedy Tor
your currency troubles. and the United States VIII
ultimately come TO it,
With this statement Prince Andre PonatoWskl'
president of the French Finance Corporation VINO
is here inquire into the financial ana ihdusOr!aI
conditions now existing. succinctly expressed hlh-
self last night on the present monetary strin ency
ascribed its causes and suggested its remedy Inc
prince returned yesterday from Washington Where
he went after his arrival from France to confer
with President Roosevelt and Secretary Cor'elyou'
Il am here 10 look into your financial and lndus-
trial condition especially with respect TO any posi-
HE new currency laws said the prince I am not
arranging for large shipment of gold from France
to this country. reported The french people
have a great many investments in the United
States and there naturally much desire TO
learn the reasons for your money troubles ana
what your Congress purposed doing in the way OF
effecting remedy.
Wen, bankers have whispered TO that they
ara to-day stronger than they ever were, and III
fact this IS Industry needs money ana Is not
able to Obtain it. An elastic currency would nave
precluded any such existing state OF AFFAIRS Nh'e
central bank of issue is greatly TO be deslfeo anu
would prove preventive OF eNlstlils tioAN'e0 Az -
future. il must not be thought mat TINS co"i'''s
, ~, the sr,lr of the moment create replica OF
the Bank of France.
"A central bank OF issue which would nave me
authority to issue bank notes on prime coii'ile,
aI raper is desirable. and TO this institution couid
be added other adjuncts as the neeo arose me-
is orrsosition to such a bank of issue because OF
Capitalization. which is difficult for the European
to understand.
Prince Ponatowski will remain in New YORK TOT
y pca1
he denarte for France, where report OF ms liilu
80 ar7 conclusions on the industrial and hnah-
cia1 stability of this country is awaited oy ''e
loading French bankers.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY.

Free day American Muse IN OF Natural History
Grating Eagineefs Engineering Societies Building
No 20 west 39th street, $50 m.
Meeting of women's Peace Circle Hotel Astor p. m
Reception and farewell Choze Koike. retiring
japanese Consul General at New York and Nine
Annual entertainment and ball OF the Ivy Club. Terrace
Garden. p. m.
Club night city Club. No rs West 44th street. p m
Professor l.. L. wilkinson Rural Life In England
at Peoples Institute Cooper Union. D. m.
& % hSed S M q & OF S the ,
OF the Board OF Education. De Writ
Clinton High Sa9o S" se1s 1s and q rsgss sa
tratedl: Public School 3. 4ict street Edgecombe
Ps S9 asi LIZ East IT ai5
Public sehoo, 49, AS West 2sih street Professot
& m as syse, mont Ss s. Pub
Miss Carolina 4 Huidobro. The argentine Republic
street Harlan smith Wyoming Lie a Ranch:
ruhf M SGGl Wsaso 81 e nas and
batteries AI!sms' dIlustratsG Public school 81
Year The Trees illustrated: Public school 1ls
ston. what Social Service Means dlusrsted, Pub
lie school lsS First and ias street Professor
between atn and 18th streets Charles
15s N 24i East 18th ave qRq MssasS sasSi
ss and T fHSe
l. Rridgman. The Antarctic; The Cruise OF she Bel
sStS Sd .ss Has:s. Ha5cs 1s;
Hail aoh street between D1sh.h M and Ninth avenues
trated5; Norris High School, l66th and Boston
Road Professor Ernest K xyon Nardroff. Molecules
and Molecular Structure (llustraied): Public SchooI
5. No. 2438 Webster avenue: Miss Emma r. Steiner
Alaska Her Wonderful Resources dIhstrafedI.
Public School Z. Church street. Kingsbridge Colonel
Edwin Havers. The Mediterranean (iilustratrdS.
Public school l6, Matilda street Wakefield Hugh g
Iowther 'Hercu,aneum and Pompeii'' OIiustrated,:
Public School 26 Andrews and Burnside avenues
Charles B. Ackey. The Fire Department OF New
York tllustrated); Public School ~, AIMS ave-
nue. between 14Ith and 14Sth streets George Grouse
Cook .The Development OF the Ship tiIlustrate1l:
Lafayette Hall. Alexander and 18TH streat
Henry Collins Walsh; The Land OF the Moor dus.
trated): Realty Hall. Ogden and Merriam avenues
Highbridxe. John Hutchinson Niagara Ealls'' Qus-
txatedA
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02

with new bank note circulation already taken TO
the amount of about s69.oo0ON within the last
month and additional circulation in sight to the
amount of perhaps $i0o00,o0e making total of new
currency of about SIS 100000 within the last few
weeks, il is not believed that it viii be necessary
to go much further in swelling the circulation On
the contrary, it is anticipated that money VIII be-
come drug in the market within a short time
IN the panic of 1898 lawful money reserves stood on
Juy T. 1898 $3.50 pa $50 which the low point
shown by the reports the Controller of the Cur
rency, but increased by the date OF the statement
fo- May T. 1894. to S452.l03214
The in which the national banks have
stood the strain has been very gratifying to Con-
troIler Rdgely Less than a dozen failures have
occurred since October l, which is not much above
the average of normal times. This is in striking
contrast with conditions in 1893 when more than
hundred and sixty suspensions occurred al the
height of the panic. Some of these suspensions IN
1898 took place before the suspension of currency
pa yments which in the present case protected the
banks from runs by depostors. but the fact that
about half of the failures in 1893 were not followed
by reopenng indicates that the situation at present
is much stronger than at that time. The creation
of banks with capital below $4,000 and not less
than $4,000 has not apparently impaired the gen
eral strength Of the national banking system The
number of banks October 81. 1873 was $3.50, WIN
an aggregate capital of s695.S5S,lA1 The nulnber
on October 81 1907, $3.50. with an aggregate
capital of 5000 pa. .775. The number of new banks
oeanized With capital of less than S50.eto since
such organizations permitted by the law OF
March a 1900 has been 2,3S9, with an aggregate
cspital of s6 32 500 ~These institutions, therefore,
while they have added only about Z per cent to
banking -capital have added a very much larger
proDortion to the 1tunber of institutions. Reports
cornpiled hv the Controller of the Curl -hcy Tor
state hanks loan and trust companies anu savings
banks on or about June $50 last show total re-
sources of Sl 54516 OF which sS776I Io52o repre-
sents individual deposits In the case OF savings
hanks alon. the number of depositors increased
over 1906 from sO27 1872 S5SS,sl while the amount
r 5aost increased from S 4S2 9S TO s69o0lS9 $40.
II is felt at the Treasury that the immediate
emergency has nearly passed that II WI! NOT De
necessary for Congress to proceed with nasty ana
i'll considered measures. but it is hoped that some
intelligent legislation will he enacted which VII.
enable the banks to meet similar conditions IN
future without suspending currency payments ana
without recourse the Treasury for special meas
lres of relief From present indications. the treas
urv VII be able to recoup the cash actually heid
as a working balance by a considerable amount
during the spring. and may not be called on 10
increase the deposits of public money very largely
in the banks in the next crop moving season.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
PEOPLES MONEY SAFE.
Al Secured by Surety Company
Bonds, Sans Glynn.

.u,,-,,- Dec lin a statement given out TO-DAY
a. the state Controllers office it is announced 'ha'
..C,ontroIIer Martin II. Glynn and State treasurer
J,lius Hauser will show II the monthly report Vi
balances in state repositories, which viii be issued
Tomorrow that not single dollar OF the peopie-S
money is tied up in any Of the banks or trust COM
NAMES of New York City which suspended pay
,,,e,t during the recent financial furry. This
a.tie,,a,,ent suostantiates the wisdom OF the
policy inaugurated during the present administrs-
lion Of the states finances. Of requiring deposi-
tories of public funds to insure their money
through the bonds of surety companies
The statement says that at the time of the dis
turbed financial condition about 100000 of the
20JOGo0 in the State Treasury was on deposit in
banking institutions of New York City OF that
amount sSS5oo0 with the following institutions:
Knickerbocker Trust Company. New York $275,oo0;
United States Exchange Bank, New York. 10000;
Hamilton Bank New York, 100000; Borough Bank,
Brooklyn, s125.ocO: Brooklyn Bank. Brooklyn. $685..
600: First National Bank, Brooklyn. s25 600; Jenkins
Trust Company, Brooklyn. 100000; Williamsburg
Trust Company, Brooklyn, $4,000. The statement
continues:
Of this large sum of money s535.090 was secured
by the bonds OF surety companies and s35o.00c by
postories but deposited with the State Controller
safety of these funds have reimbursed the state
>every dollar due including interest at 22 per
or the car canal III impr5vement @ bonds pledged to Sc
cure the states funds s250.o0O were owned by the
Knickerbocker Trust Company and soo.oo0 by the
jenkins Trust Company. These Donds were sold
b. the Controller and state treasurer at public
auction on Friday last and bid in by the
state for the canal debt sinking fund and the high
way improvement sinking fund at par. Should the
Knickerbocker and the Jenkins Trust companies
resume business they can redeem the bonds by
re funding to the State Treasury the due IL
81 the time the bonds sold.
Regarding the action of the two state officers in
compelling all state repositories to procure surety
bonds the statement says in part:
The efficiency Of that determination is demon
strated by recent events Not only have these
banking institutions been required TO procure
surety company bonds, but they have been restrict
ed their choice of surety companies TO those only
which are the best able by their financial re-
sources TO assume risks of the proportions neces-
sary in protecting deposits of state funds.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
NIXON HEADS OFF BRYAN
Gets Him to Postpone NezC I ORR
Tour-Was to Meet Murphy.

William Jennings Bryan left for Washington iast
midnight not to return TO this state unlil eailS "
February. It had been expected that he 80
come to New York TO see Mrs Bryan anu Nj "
Ieavitr his daughter off the Mediterranean 'iio
latter part Of the week and then go over "ie ''
but his plans were changed last hght: ,,.,.o
After Mr. Bryan returned to the norman NUS
from the Westminster Presbyterian Church. "IeIe
he smoke IN the evening he had long talk with
Lewis Nixon, who took him TO the feliiisS -,
ferry in his automobile. 1t is UNDERSTOOD W
Nixon told Mr. Bryan that it was sohle"ha. ~ 80
to crvstalze sentiment in this state for a 'eli'o
cratic Presidential candidate ana IL "ouiu "o
fer if he wou!d nostpone his trip through the state
for "A couple of months At the end OF ! tt!aI - M
Nr BRYAN will have idea or the way 'i''iie -
shaping themselves in Congress, VIII nave 'ai'1
with party leaders of various parts OF ttie -!
particularly in the West, and VIII De II d '''C'
position to state his position to the people :,
The object of Mr.. Bryan's trip 10 washington - -
to get In touch with the Congressman anu
at the opening of Congress lie VIII pe 'n't In
of the week in all probability From theIe ne ne "
go West The first week in February MI d? q"
will speal, before the Civic Forum IN '"9 80,
which will mark his return to tAe r-''''- IN
that time an extensive tour through 'Io 50 =,
have been prepared for him. Some OF MS 1iie"
lost niebt said they thought Mr. Bryan would oe
able TO get the delegates from this state. 0oie "a
the most optimistic think he may carry 'iie s''''
he is nominated - ,,on,,
!. WAS learned last night that Charles f. Murphy
leader
Mr. Bryan than he has permitted 'he pu"lO
know It was said that Murphy expressed d ues,to
to rect Mr. Bryan at this time, ana PtopaoiS -
meeting would have taken place through ''ie
-i,as of NJ Nixon if it had not been tor MI
Brvan's short stay Mr.. Murphy is sala 10 nd,
expressed the belief that after ALL Bryan Is the 'y
logical candidate but he believes 1t Is TOO carry ~
come out and say so go -,
While Mr. Bryan is In the west ne VIII man
careful study of conditions there Nheh ho
turns it will be for the purpose OF hahliis az -.
can7paign It is understood for delegates F'"iii
this CITY he will probably go TO the hoItUeiit pa
of the state and from there work down INTO 're
southern tier Great arguments are peii7
to induce Mr. Bryan to speak in MohueaI anu
Quebec and it is possible that he VIII agree "
sneak at both of the Canadian cities.
MIR Bryan spoke to a large crowd OF young men
,os+or5a,, oftarnoon at the Orpheum Theatre, in
Brooklyn. under the auspices OF the Young men
Christian Association. His topic was the FIln0o
of Peace and no reference was made 10 poiIlIcb
- +bis od,raes or the one at Westminster Church
last night on the Golden Rule
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
CHINESE STUDENT LOST
Returns from China-Can't Find
Brooklyn Home.

After seven years Of study of the Chinese L.,
guage in Hong Kong. with occasional peeus in,.
the wise saws Of Confucius. Kerwin Lirg tbirtaa.
years old. arrived here yesterday and was unabI.
to find his home. at No Debevoise street. Brook
lyn.
The young student. who. according to the Chimes.
Consul at this /port. is u wonder at convert,n,
genuine American sentiment into the hieroglyphic,
Of the Orient, arrived here yesterday from Hony
Kong on the British steamer Sikh He was pui
aboard by the American Consul at Hong Kong a,
October s. after a stormy protest that he must
have American apparel before he started for hi,
fatherland. which is Brooklyn.
The sikh made unusually quick trip from III,
East. and Mr. and Mrs. Ling not aware that
their pride and joy within telephone distancs
when the steamer crept UP suddenly 70 the Atlantic
Docks. at Bay Ridge.
The wee student showed the immigration official.
his birth certificate and pedigree, and. being an
American citizen. he not taken 70 Ellis Island
ND 10 late hour last night Kerwin Ling had no,
appeared at the home Of his father Mrs Ling
who is an American woman. was exceedingly anx.
ious last night about her and thought perhaps
he had gone 70 his uncle-s home at No. Doyers
street. A telephone message 10 Uncle Lng's re-
vealed the fact that the boy had not been there
and late last night procession started for Allan.
tic Docks
Mr. and Mrs Ling have been married eighteen
years the former having lived IN New York for
over twenty years. Seven years ago Kerwin was
sent to relatives in Hong Kong TO be educated
and is said 10 be exceedingly proficient in English
and Chinese
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
REFUSES BLACK HAND $500: KILLED

Michael Cirasella. a young contractor OF Tgcka-
hoe, in Westchester County. found murdered
early yesterday morning on the California Road
Tuckahoc. and II Is believed by bis friends
that he killed by the Black Hand FOR sev-
eral weeks he had been bounded by agents Of the
secret society, who demanded 500 Of him pain
Of death. lie said, however, that he would fight
to the death rather Than be blackmailed.
When found hc armed with Il revolver
extra supply of cartridges. stiletto and a dirk.
He lyins his back in the middle of the road.
There was "a bullet hole in his forehead. and Cor
oner Wesendanser said the bullet had passed
through the brain, causing instant death That his
slayers had tried Ia drag his body to the trolley
tracks was shown by the condition OF the roadway.
There were footprints OF several along the
trail the body had been dragged over.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
YOUNG THEBAUD GIVES TESTIMONY

For the first time since Paul Gilbert Thebaud ir
the seventeen year-old son of Paul q. Thebaud was
shot by his fathers butler, John Biorlin at his
home, White Plains was in condition Yesterday
to be examined by Coroner Amos Squres, of West
chester County. about the shooting The young
could throw light on the attempted murder
by the butler. Coroner Squires took young The
bauds testimony at Hillar. the Thebaud home in
the presence of DIR. Joseph Blake. who removed the
bullet from his head; DR. Ernest Schmidt, the at
tending physician, and Mr.. Thebaud
Paul told the coroner there was no reason why
Bjorlin should try TO murder him. The police now
believe that the butter. who had been drinking
heavily and had threatened to kill second but
Ter. entered young Thebauds room by mistake
Then when he realized his great mistake. he COM
mitted suicide beside the bed of his young master.
1t the morning of November 10 that the
tragedy took place. Nothing connected with the
shooting is remembered by the young man
New-York tribune., 1907-12-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Mcdonald and his wife. Alice. OF NO 90
Tenth avenue. who were accused BY Processes
Charles Beard. os Columbia, OF having obtained -
from him under false pretences. were held IN W
bail each by Magistrate Crane in the Harlem Soui
Yesterday Mcdonald told Professor Beard tha
he was an Oxford graduate and Temporarily -
need OF money and succeeded In getting SO
Thomas Crimmins. son OF John q. Crimnlins' va
held In 500 bail yesterday by Magistrate Cfaii0
the Harlem Court the charge or ndslns -
ceeded the speed limit In his automobile MS -.
bond was signed by Edwin j. Schaefer, the ore"s'
Albert c. Wagner. chauffeur for the DepA- s,o-,
az Docks and FERRIES was also arraigned osrof'
MAGISTRATE Crane on the charge OF exceedins - -
speed limit Secretary Savage. or the DosSA-sa DoSA
partment. tried to have the chauffeur discna 90
but the magistrate said he would hold MN -
ban for Special Sessions