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New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
LIGHT ON BLACK HAND.
Paterson Police Make Three arrests
Nth Inside Information.

Paterson N j. Aug lit has become known
here that the police of this city in handling tbs
Black Hand and its operations have had some
inside information. They have under arrest
Santene Fassini George Sportely. and Gaetano
Pattenelii.
The first two the police say. caught ex-
tortfns money from George a Paterno, a barber
Of No 1877 Beech Street They were arrested On
June 80 PatteneH was arrested later IN jersey
C,itv rndar the suspicion that be was the ring
leader Of a band Of backmailing Italians
The inside operations Of the society. 1t Is said
came 10 the police through q demand made upon
Nicholas Sportelly woodcarver. with shop a.
No 81 Oak Street. According to the story told
fv Nicholas Sporteily. his brother. George was
decoyed into the Black Hand by being invited soma
months ago to join what he was told was pa
triotic Italian society. with offices in New York
After a hair raising initiation ceremony george
was told, according 70 his brother. that as a
guarantee of good faith lie must name some
wealthy Italian. who had money that could
be used for investment by the society George Il
is said gave the name Of Nicholas Some days
later Nicholas received typical note from the
Black Hand that unless he contributed $3.50 ne
would be killed
Nicholas communicated with George. George
appears then for the first time to have realized
what he had gone into. He tried to communicate
with the leaders Of the Black Hand. but found
they were beyond his reach His attention was
tached, and the Unsuspecting Italian found HIM
SELF in a web in which he was helpless. He was
told that IL he Wavered in the line of action pre-
scribed by the leaders he would be found dead
some fine morning. He ordered tc Coerce the
barber Paterno. and older member OF the band
said have been Fassini, was detailed to oversee
his conduct.
In the mean time Nicholas working with the
authorities. unknown to George, hut whether lie
gave up the 500 does not appear.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
BARS ALL PETTY CASES.
Ire Of Night Court Magistrate
aroused by FiUe-Cent Handkerchief

Magistrate Kernochan, Of the night court. does
not any cases brought before him with only
five cents handkerchief and notion store open
for business Sunday issue He made
this very plain at last nights session.
This is exactly the kind of petty that
should not be brought to this court he said.
The is bail and should have been ar
raigned tomorrow in the Harlem court and
turning 10 the policeman. you tell your lieuten-
ant for me If he does this thing again III have
the matter reported to the Commissioner.
II all happened because Mrs Adelaide Aentz is
saic 10 have sold q handkerchief Sunday.
Miss May Lange. living at No St Columbus
avenue. who acts an agent for the West Side
Merchants Association. appeared as complainant
against the storekeeper, whose place of business
is at No. 1f72 Fifth avenue. Miss Lange went into
the store II o'clock she said, and made the
purchase Detective Nolan. of the West f25th
street. station. entered. but he did Mrs. Mentz
grabbed the handkerchief from Miss Lange's hand,
keeping also the five cents
At the station Mr.. Mentz offered bail and the
lieutenant told all hands To appear at the night
court After Magistrate Kernochan's wrath mad
cooled he consented to hear the and imposed
a fine of g.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
ENDS LIFE WITH ACID.
Brooklyn Nan Commits Suicide
While FamHy Looks On.

With all his family about hin. Richard Hoffman
drank Carholic aci6 in his Brooklyn home last
night a. the dinner table. His two sons and his
wife fought desperately with him to tear the poison
from his grasp. but he broke away from them, and
then fell to floor writhing in agony. while his
family looked on. powerless to help him. He had
been sufferer from neuralgia recently, and this
is though; to have been the chief cause OF his de-
sire 10 die
Mr. Hoffman lived No Third Place with his
wife and eight children. He the son of Captain
Hoffman the last of the of the old yacht
America the of 1853. In the last two years
two Of his brothers committed suicide. Two years
ago Frank Hoffman took carboic acid In Prospect
Park before a crowd Of people and died almost
instantly Last year Herman Hoffman called his
parents into the dining room of his fathers house
at Ienox Road and Bedford avenue. and then shot
and killed himself Richatd Hoffman was foreman
for the Red u" Steamship Company, and also
largely interested in towing and lighterage
business.
The bottle Of acid with which he killed himself
has been around the Hoffman house for seven
years. DR.. J. J. Lyon, who lives close by, was
summoned. He he could do little for him and
applied restoratives and stimulants until the ar
rival OF an ambulance from the Long Island Col
leee Hospital Nv Hoffman died soon after being
taken TO the hospital.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
"POLISHED PAG4NS."
Bishop Tiucent Says Persons Dust
Shosc Religion or BE So Considered.
IRv 60 = e Irisans ]

Chautauqua. -. Y. Aug. I1-Many business msa
and society women lack religious principle. and
those who are religious must show II by their w.
ing 10 avoid being called polished pasans IS ths
belief Of Bishop John r. Vincent. who preached
the Chautauqua Assembly today
Religion should never be accounted of less in
portance than business said Bishop Vincent It
Is necessary u be always talking ABOUT t. bur
IL is not a good sign when men who owe all that
ts best in their lives 70 our Christian civilization
give sign Of reverence fOr Christ and regard fo-
without religious observances- Especially is .;
important that cultivated. refined professional ard
the really best society people who make any
profession Of Christianity az all and who protest
against being accounted polished paEans should
conform 10 a religious programme q lre
"of all the public advertising devices ~ G1r
times perhaps the most pitiful Is ths HiI1zTs
dummy. with its eXpressiOnless features and
CorPselike p1se. utterly deaf. dumb and dead
thing. wearing the fashionable Earb 0f the living
society of the day. having that modern feature
and nothing else. Processing Christians nay hs
such dummies. Religious talk may be little slss
than cant.
Religion has place for morbid irrrospectivs
analysis Of ones feelings or the thTs4dnars r.
citals Of spaSnOdic raptures 0f ten fifteen wears
ago Rituaiistic confOrmitiss and co1ventionairiss
or evangelistic fe-vors cannot be substituted Or
Christianity Many people allow the refnemeuts
conflicts of life blunt their moral couvcrons
programme for everything but the personal spirit
usl life
We need a religion that Is good not Just tor
Sunday. The modern literary and critical stuiT
Of the Bible Is one Of Gods ways OF vitaizins
Christianity"
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
SHOE At SEA.
Whales, Waterspout, Comet and
DereIict Greet the Brooklyn.

Passengers on the steamer Brooklyn OF the
Insuisr Line, in yesterday from Porto Rico re-
ported having school of fourteen wh'ie''
. ,,atersnouf n derelict and comet on the pas
sage from Ponce to New York
On the second day out of port the quarter
master reported that a miniature garoeh '"i
Fountains was working overtime with electrical
dispIay off the starboard bow The few ;'as-
sengers on deck carried the news TO those beiow'
and With the exception of a few persons w1o
were seasick the entire passenger complerneht
WAS soon on deck looking for what the traineo
eve OF the quartermaste. had seem Within q"
half hour the Brooklyn brought her passengers
into the middle of the tamest school or WhaieS
that the Sea Board of EduCa tion mas recoideu
The teacher who was said TO be more than
f,rt, fec. long led his pupils unusually close TO
the steamer-and under their own power the
students of the deep ran with the Broohyh iot
two miles The quartermaster was continent
that he could have led the class to Sandy HOOK
had NOT an unruly old hurled a piece OF
coal at Professor Whale, causing him to snake
his fukes. kick spray as proIhc as the
wake and dive deep into the depths OF the ocean
University All the little whales followed the
leader" and the passengers upbralded the uhruiS
old man who threw the lump of coal.
on Saturday al p m. when about 2oo miles
south of the Hook the passengers again ruSheu
on deck to see two miles dead ahead water
spnut that connected the ocean with black
cio,,d said 10 be a half mile high. The water
spout which lasted for ten minutes was moving
from southwest to northeast
Cantain Mclean said that Friday morning
at about 4;3O O'Clock he saw fan shaped Hum
ination to the eastward which puzzled him at
first but which became more distinct the longer
he looked at il. 1t was an unusually big comet.
and resembled shuttlecock with head pointing
perpendicularly toward the horizon.
The comet was visible about the same hour on
the following morning and many early risers
saw it, A derelict about forty feet square was
noticed when passing the Virginia Capes on
Saturday 1t was thought to be the deck Of a
wrecked sailing vessel.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
4 VOICE FROM THE DEAD.
Sammy, the Bird. Gets of q Fec
"Fan" IdiOms IN the Cemeteru.

Buster McGinty. whose father keeps the
Washington Inn. at West 155tn street and Am
steIdam avenue where the Yankees and Their
fans hang ont between games. has a parrot
named Sammy "Ar' Orth went into the inn
along with Edward Everett Bell Gym Barley
and one or others Saturday afternoon The
parrot is a wise bird, and he listening to the
conversation and picking UP a lot of new things
when Orth began to tease him.
Beat it, Charlie Hoss'' said the parrot. hanging
upside down from the gas jet. You've got
wooden Hurray for the Goants,
That last too much. and Orth ana Bell both
tried 10 grab Sammy. Sammy is a wise bird as
said before, and he just fed from the inn
The McCiinty family into mourning for
him until late yesterday afternoon when word
brought that some one out in Trinity Gene
terry. just across the street, was yelling ~Iynck
him. XIII the dub "Out first' and a few
other dioms of the heachers. The Mcisintys
thought that probably II only fan"
practising TO get in trim for to-day's game. bat
took chance and went 10 the cemetery
There they found Sammy tombstone cheering
imaginary team to victory.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
HONE IN AUTO URECk.
Dr5Ter Hurled Through Windbrcak
as Car Hits telegram Pole.

A se-horsepower automobile broke from the con-
troll Of Samuel Bovine. Of No So East Szth street.
BROOKLYN early yesterday morning on the Mer-
rick Road near Jamaica. and after skidding
sharply 90 one side dashed into telegraph POLE
reDcuaded and rolled over into a ditch at the side
the road Bovine, who was alone IN the nlachlile
at the time, was hurled through the glass shield
.n the front ot the machine and landed on the
road his head. face and hands badly cut
After lying unconscious and alone where ne had
fallen for more than an hour he revived and man
aged to drag himself 10 nearby hotel he was
zaken to the Jamaica Hospital The hig car Is the
property OF Louis Bossert. owner Of n lumber ana
.noldine mill in Brooklyn. who has a summer home
In Bay Shore, Long Island.
Bovine the chauffeur. biarnes the steering gear
for the accident He said yesterday at the nos
pitai that after he had taken some Of the members
OF the Bossert family from the city TO Bayshore
earlv Saturday evening Mr. Bossert had lent him
,he car for q run Brooklyn
Shortly after midnight he started out There
were few other vehicles out. and consequently ne
was able TO oper up the speed lever The car sped
along through Merrick Road. Jamaica, until near
oxford street when Of the wheels hit stone
and the car was detected from its course Bovine
xras thrown almost out Of his seat and before ne
could prevent IL the crash came
NJ Bossert was reached by telephone and said
,e zro,,ld come TO hospital The wrecked auto
,,,olbi1- was lifted of the ditch where IL lay
YESTERDAY afternoon and taken TO garage
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
WHITES WIN IN RACE RIOT.
Burn Property of Negroes Said to Have
Stirred up Trouble.

Onancock. Va. Aug. 1.-THE race disorders
Of yesterday have in large measure disappeared.
and the white residents apparently have the
situation we'll in hand.
The trouble was the outgTowth of the effort
Of a constable to arrest a negro who had re-
fused TO pay livery bill few days ago. The
matter Is said TO have been taken up by the
negros employer. Samuel L. Burton also
negro who keeps a store. and by ]. u. Uzzle,
school teacher editor of The Peninsula Times
and secretary and treasurer of the Negro Fair
Association. These two accused of having
stirred up trouble among the negroes for a long
time They have not yet been captured.
\ negro doctor named BOwn. who is said
have helped Uzzle and Burton in fomenting
trouble among the negroes. ordered to leave
town in ten minutes. When the white citizens
got the upper hand last night they burned
Burton's store and Uzzle's printing office.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
"CRIHE WAVE IMPORTED.
Due to Unrestricted Immigration,
.SayS DR.. Madison {. Peters.

In speaking OF the called crime wave in New
York the Rev. DR.. Madison g. Peters. at Tent
Evange;. Broadway and 5Tth street. yesterday
morning said that its unrestricted immi-
grafton He said that lawyers. merchants. edi-
tors. politicians and preachers could not say so.
fear OF losing their money. but that as lie had
acquired the unfortunate habit OF telling the
truth he would have to disclose the whole cause
OF the trouble.
This country made by immigrants said the
preacher, but that is reason why should
allow IL TO be ruined by immigrants. The govern
ments of Europe have relieved themselves long
enough of their undesirable citizens by systemat
iCally dumping their convicts upon us. We can
never have too many good immigrants in this
country; OF bad don't want any. Our foreign
population less than ~ cent of the total
population and yet furnishes 81 per cent OF the
white criminals OF the country.
In the last five years 45O0o persons have been
murdered in the United States continued DR..
Peters. The dscourasing feature about the
whole thing is that the children Of these inlnni-
grants are more criminal than the immigrants
themselves they furnish three times as many
criminals those OF native birth and parentaSc,
and than twice many the foreign born
themselves
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
BOYS REPUBLIC ELECTS OFFICERS.
Defeated Candidate for Mayor in Orphan
Lads Contest Demands Recount

officials % the Boys Republic proved exciting
the orphan lads of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society Broadway and 150th Street. yesterday.
The boys have decided 20 establish bank, and the
new officials whose ages average about fifteen
years met last night to make plans for IL.
The campaign for the city election going
for several days Candidates from nineteen dis
tricts were presented TO the citizens" At
mass meeting held just before the election the
merits of the rival candidates painted in
glowing by their supporters. Numerous
references made 20 their past political
reers' One aspiring candidate for president Of
the republic advocated a "punlie service commits
siou," and made his campaign that measure
The result Of the election WAS in erea. doubt n
til the votes counted. According the
official announcement. Harry Shapiro fifteen years
old elected mayor; H. Angus. president of
the republic-he WAS not the p s." candidate
and Gerslal Schwartz ehief Of the sanitary squad.
According to the latest advces. the defeated candi
date for mayor has demanded recount of the
votes.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
NAY BE BRONX MURDER.
Mysterious Death of Nan, Cat and
Bruised en- Room, Pu2zLes Police.

Until an autopsy is performed to-day on the body
of Joseph NcGuness. thirty-one years old, who
was found dead in bed last night at his home in
173d street near Westchester avenue. The Bronx.
with many cuts and bruises about his body
and face the police of the Westchester sta
tjon and the coroaers office viii not be able 10
determine the exact causes of death Indications
showed the nolice said after they had made a
hurried investigation. that the man had been muir
1ered for the cordition the rooms showed that
a struggle had taken place The cuts on the man 5
face and the bruises his body. the police say
apuarentlv were received during fight
So far as the police of the Westchester statloh
can learn McGuipess. VINO is single and pas
terer had been living alone fer the last TWO Gays
The latter par4 of last week his brother George
and his wife. with whom he hTed. went 10 tie
country and he was left alone in the house
John s;rCyuluess who lives directly across the
street from the Joseph MCCuineSs home. but VINO
is not a relative entered the rooms with view OF
calling on his friend. and found Joseph dead
NcCSuiness informed the Westchester poIce STA
tion of the case Detectives Reid and Dwyer found
tba, the man had been dead about three hours
The Bronx detective bureau and the coronefs
office Immediately started an investigation. 'ofo-
ner Schwannecke ordered the autopsy to-day
According 20 the dctactives there was no trace
az a robbery in the house. and, 50 far as tneH
could learn no strangers were seen about the
house during the day.
In making the report to the East 1oth street
station the brother of the dead man sad ms
brother had returned home shortly after o clock
Yesterday morning in a weak condition. The IN
ilIred man said he had Ieen in a saloon nsut anu
had been beaten by several men.
Following the report detectives went to the Sa-
loon and arrested Terence Kelly. the proprietor
on a charge violating the excise law lheE uleii
arrested Peter Greene, of No POS East 12lst street
and John Campbell. of No 119 East l24th street
on charges Of being suspicious persons. 1he ponce
say the three know all about the fight
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
WHALES END SHIPS RACE WITH BIRDS.
Etruria and Mother Careys Chickens Hav-
ing Great Contest When

The Cunard liner Etruria arrived here yes
terday from Liverpool, after passage which
would have been uneventful for the passengers
had not a flock of Mother Careys chickens
swarmed about the bow when four days out of
port. While the birds flying along with
the steamer a school of porposes entered the
race, and after a spirited contest between the
ship, the birds and the fish two large whales
cut across the bow and put end to the sport.
Among the Etruria's passengers was Miss
Louisa Lyme. of Hull, England, who was de-
tanned by the immigration officials until the ar
rival of her fance, Frederick Garland. en-
gineer Of the Belmont tunnel. After bringing
documentary evidence from minister that he
intended 10 marry Miss Lyme before sunset.
Garland was permitted 10 take his fancee from
the pier.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
CARDINAL GIBBONS ON CHARITY.
Makes Plea for More Brotherly Love in
southampton Sermon.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

Southampton, N Y, Aug. u--Before a large
greEaton Cardinal Gibbons who Is n guest here
of Father O'Hara. preached a sermon this morn
ing on charity.
You may possess the wealth of Rockefeller and
OWE the Pennsylvania coal fields. but IL YOU have
sympathy what will IL avail your he asked.
Manhattan Island probably the worlds richest
island might be yours. hut if there other
heing there whose hand you might clasp. how
might II profit you? Christ has raised the dead
and while you cannot do this miracle you can do
as great act before God by rescuing your
brother from the death of worldly life
Cardinal Gibbons then Illustrated the need for CO.
operation between the members OF society and
their utter dependence upon one another
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
PLAN FOR C. F. U. PARADE.
Effort Will Be Made TO Induce Business
Agents to Join Celebration on Labor Day

James Holland. delegate of the Eccentric Fire
mems Union. elected grand marshal of the
Central Federated Union parad9 on Labor Day
at Yesterdays meeting OF the latter union. He
made the announcement that everything would
be union. even to the shoes of the horses.
Edward Cassidy headed committee from
Typographical Union No. 6 which offered to try
to influence the Consolidated Board OF Bust
ness Agents to give up its parade and allow its
unions TO join in the parade of the central body.
1t was decided to accept the offer of the COM
mittee
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
SUICIDE LEFT BOOK OF MEMOIRS.
Says American Liberty Is Sham, and Ad-
vises Reading Plato and Bellamy.
LEY Telegraph 70 The Tr.hun. ]

Buffalo. Aug. u-Leaving in his pocket note
book half filled with his memoirs and farewell
message the world, which Is dated Central Park
New York August ;. l. Block about thirty years
old and well dressed. shot himself through the
heart as he sat on q bench in Park Lake, this
city time after midnight Saturday His body
found to-day "A rayine where IL had
rolled.
The suicide in his memoirs says that America s
boasted liberty is a sham" that men not
free" and ends his message by recommending that
the people read more of Socrates. Plato Dante
Henry George. Bacon. Tolstoy and Belamy. He
asks that a brother IN san Francisco. Alcon Block
be told OF his death
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
INVOLVED IN BANK WREChlNu'

lBy Telegraph 70 The Iricun>-t -.,,frsf
Indianspolis Aug. u-State Bank E. me
camp stated to-day that the investigation ,,,xns
vrecking OF the Peoples state Sank OF =. ,lacs
town has shown thar three citizens or thd, ,r-.l
were engaged with the president. hush +s-s<
who has fed TO Canada. in frauduieil, 80 ,,d
and they are now under police surV IL oiace.
Will be arrested IL they attempt 70 leave ,ne ovs
ne savs they signed notes but not with tnell
SIGNATURES. for thousands OF dollars ano - the
with Mr. Rurrel in frauds OF various SIMS sa.Ka
stockholders Mr.. Burreu sank SSo.o" Oh ~
money in speculauons In stocks
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
TO FIX PRICE OF COTTON.

Atlanta Aug u.-President Harvie Jordan of the
eor-rsrr Cotton Association announced to-day that
1he meeting ,f the executive committee viii be
held at Jackson, Miss. September .. instead OF
eert.raber s. 8 previously announced
The meeting OF the Sea Island Cotton Associa-
tion or which Mr. Jordan is president VIII be held
at white Springs ria. September T. The OBJ
1ect OF both meetings is 10 FIX the minimum price
cotton
Mr. Jordan VIII leave here this week for Texas
and viii make tour Of the Southwestern and Gulf
states IN the interest of the association. looking
closely into crop conditions
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
BRIDGES LOW FOR FIFTH AVE BUSES.

y fBy Telegraph 10 Tire Tribune
Hartford. Conn, Aug. li.-New York is not likely
10 be deprived of its stately old Fifth avenue
stage coaches of dgnified gait and venerable ira
ditions. because Andy Welch. the well known
horseman, who owns Charter Cak Park. In this
city cannot get the coaches 10 Hartford
He sold twenty four of the thirty-:wo which ne
bought a auction last week but he cannot sell the
other eight six OF which have end stairways.
D Hartford. because of the low railroad bridges
Now he proposes to sell them cheap. TO be used
at the Empire City track
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

Peter Goodr:c.s. wealthy retired mason and
builder and lieutenant Of tise Y0nkers branch of
fhe r7s,sed States Volunteer I2fesayng Corps.
d-owred a the Hudson River AZ Eshmons Wharf,
yczs1ers -sste-ey afternoon wfiie diving for the
body OF Tacsa< Ferguson, a small boy, Of No. z
soqvette 2oT, who lost his Hfe there Saturday
Eix..s- tiood-c..'s cody Immediately recovered
kH come OK the Other members OF tie corps.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
GEO. ANDERSON. OF Plr1seuRe. TO WE'D.

ffsy Telegraph to The Tri6uEei
pittsburx Aug 1.-THE announcement is made
here to-day that George Anderson. Democratic
member of the Pittshurg Councils and the
leading young politicians of Western Pennsylvania
viii in a few weeks marry Mrs. Anna Eva Penn
broke of Boston. She is the widow OF the late
John Quentin Pembroke who amassed fortune in
lumber MIR Anderson Mrs Pembroke at At
City only three weeks and his courtship
Is said by friends have been like a whirlwind
Mr. Anderson refuses to talk, but friends who were