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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
SAY SUBWAY WEAKENs FOUNDATION
Architects Studying Cause of Settling of
Criminal Courts Building.

AS result of the rumor that the Criminal Courts
Building Is sinking which has persisted for several
years architects employed by the city Yesterday
went to the building examine IT preparatory to
a thorough survey which will likely be begun to-
day.
The 1anitor of the building. Edward Coppers. who
has been making tests Of his own, said yes
terday that he thought the building had sunk about
an eighth of inch I'm the last two years. but
there is absolutely nothing serious the matter he
says
1t is pointed out that the Criminal Courts Build
ing is built on the site of the old Collect Pond
of Colonial days which eventually filled ill., If
the building has gone down any II is believed
that the subway Is also partly responsible. as II
goes through Centre street and the undermining
when II built well the running of trains
would naturally affect the foundations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
SUCCESSFUL WEEK AT STATE CAMP.
Signal Corps and Batteries Depart and En-.
gineers Arrive To-day.

State Camp. Peekskil. N Y. June 14-vhst VAS
one OF the most successful weeks ever had In tn.
State Camp Of Instruction was brought practically
to close this evening. for the batteries and tbs
signal corps men will break camp early as pos
sible tomorrow morning There has been more
work and less play In ca this week than ever
before. Even the afternoons. which the men
usually have to themselves. almost wholly
taken up with work. When it was not target p-sc-
tice IL drill.
The target work excellent. The LIST Battery.
from Manhattan, oUtshOt the three other batteries
scoring 59i The I'd Batterys score was also excel
lent. being 42i while the Sd Battery came in a sood
third. with Az The score OF the eth Battery, OK
Binghamton. 1sS.
The gunneTs had their examinations this morn
ing and the batteries drilled as battalion
this afternoon. Because of their hard work and
the fact that the signal corps was still searcsrm
miles os country at o'clock. a review u was
planned TO tender to General Smith was abandoned
The signal corps mon took down to-day al o, ms
twenty stations they had established Ihry f$eieo
up their wire and cleaned and packey away ths'r
instruments. dismantled their tower and roles asa
worked until well on toward taps. getting tner
outfit ready to take away with them The details
from Haverstraw came with their outfit IN sooo
shape this evening.
AT in the morning the signal corps will o-eak
camp and march TO Roa Hook where thsy VII
entrain for Manhattan At the same time Ma''l
Burnell and the twenty United States Sisnai eo.ps
will depart fo- their posts. The -FOUR oae'eiie
will also get away just as early as lHss 80
Owing 10 the cool weather they plan 20 push a.o,s
the Albany post road as Tar as posslos t.v ros-
They will camp somewhere nortn OF US us IEys-,isnd
sibly at Hastings. Ycnkers or even an ~ ,s.,.
II the horses stand the trip. They will reach tne'f
armcries Sunday morning. -, ,--,,,. To-
r,orro1y TbeI Will b. tojns1 NV a detachment and
several officers of the United states ehsi4'eo Sf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
MAY STOP BOXING BOUTS.
Sheriff Flaherty Will Be at the Crown Atll.
letic Clubs Opening.

When Sheriff Flaherty. OF Brooklyn asked
yesterday TO whether he would stop the boxing
exhibitions between members OF the Crown Ath-
ietic Club al the Clermont Rink next Monday night
he said that his action would depend on the stand
Governor Hughes may take. The boxing game
ran up against the Sheriff last fall when ex-Gov-
ernor Higgins took rap at the promoters of the
boxing shows
Although the Sheriff has not vet received So
called guest ticket he will be at the opening Of
the Crown club 10 that the law, he con-
ceiyes H. is not violated. Several of his deputies
will accompany him. John Oliver is president OF
the club. Oliver is also president of the WAYNE
Athletic Club. in Manhattan. and looks after the
financial end Of Harlem Tommy" Murpht's bouts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH SHIPS.
Merchant Marine League Asks Government
Not to Ship Coal in English Bottoms

Washington, June IA protest has oeeh aouss
with the Navy Department by the Merchant ~ a.
League against the use of BRUSH oo'.'
shining coal from Norfolk to Pacific Coast points,
The department is short of coal at San Franc''''
and at Puget Sound. ,..
The government during the famine ias'
supplied coal at cost to public schools au .,,v
sells carrying the transpacific malls lle,sr,shed.
was depleted and has now got 10 oe I-psunfciert
In view of the impOsSibility OF securIhs stierin1
American bottoms. the department Is GUNS
utilizing British ships. -, earnest
Secretary Metcalr sets out that Is tae ali other
desire of the department to ship coal anu .ais ano
naval supplies by sea In American Vesse,ss' hen
SAYS that all American vessels that nsJ
offered for this purpose have been accepls csn 10
Under no fair interpretation. he declares. = dis
be claimed that the American ship tndns', syvaabs
couraged. when all American vesseis
have been and will be accepted 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
STRIKERS BACK At WORK
Cotton Hooks and Kniues Used in
Frau at White Star Piers.

There was Joy among the longshoremen yester-
dav they got back to work. and the superin-
rendents the piers seemed to fell pretty good
about it, At the White Star Line pier about
three hundred Italian strike breakers were dis
charged and paid off at II o'clock In the morning
AS they walked out into West street from one of
the piers the strikers, returning like prodigas
In at the other or, at least. started to go in.
One look at the strike breakers enough. Broke
the strike did yez?" yelled one husky Irishrnan
banana he had been eating spoiled the appearance
OF an Italian face. Then the riot Crowds
of longshoremen took up the cry. and In a moment
there was plenty for the few police in the neghbor
hood 10 do. Clubs were used freely. and. as often
as not. il strike. breakers head felt the
weight of the law. a few Italians drew knives. but
sticks In the hands OF lustY longsboremen made
knife plays look foolish. and &c resulted The
worst injuries resulted from the cotton hooks the
strikers used after they saw the knives. cotton
hook is used to cotton bales around and there
Italians ready to testify to-day that II is
distinctly effective weapon.
The police from the Charles street station finally
drove the strikers back, and forming ring around
the most seriously injured of the strike breakers
took them to the station where doctors from ST.
Nincent's Hospital attended them. The injured
men went home under police guard because Ital-
isns who looked like dock laborers weren't very
popular along the waterfront yesterday.
At most OF the piers the old men taken
hack without much question. A few had to walt.
At the American Line there fear of a
trick, and only few men we're taken back yester-
day. More will resume work to-day. At the French
Line the men were all taken back. but struck again
because they had new foremen. They got their
way. and went back to work.
While the not at its height people in the
1enements along West street threw bottles Jars
sna other missiles from the windows down the
fleeing strike breakers. Mrs Kate Coffey. the wife
Of one Of the longshoTemen. arrested at her
residence, No. 422 West street. the charge OF
throwing a heavy flower pot from an upper win
dow ! he flower poi in its fall just eraZed the
cap Of OF the policemen.
During the fight trying to
put his hand into his hip pocket When arrested a
loaded revolver found him. He described
himself as Antonio Dorenzo, OF No. 3is East 18th
street.
Captain Watson, wharf superintendent of the
White Star Line. said after the that he had
fewer men than before the strike breakers
paid OFF. The best Of the the riggers and
WinchTnen, he said, had not yet returned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
NEGRO coNFEssEs CRIMES ON GALLONS.

Atlanta June 14.-Standing the gaIlows Will
lam Johnson, n negro convicted of criminaliy as
sauting a white woman last August. confessed his
crime to-day, and also confessed that he shot n
white farmer who murdered on his way home
August Is of last year; that he attempted to
assault Miss Lawrence Atlanta August
20. for which another negro was sentenced to forty
years imprisonment: that lie emptied q shotgun
through open window OF the home of J. W.
Bryant, a farmer living several miles north of The
city. on the night OF November II last seriously
wounding Mr.. Bryant and his sister; that he at
tempted assaults two white in the sub
urbs of Atlanta last fall and that he murdered a
man whorn &C cellsa Jackson, IN Texas. several
years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
LONDON cURIo CLUB.

TIE latest thing IN clubs is the Curio Club of
London. ct No. 1os Regent street started for con-
nojsseurs and collectors n headquarters where
fney may meet and exhibit their precious objects
ana oner them for sale exchange. There is al
ready valuable collection on view under the care
oI an expert who values and cares for the articles
Whlch lncluGe al the curios Imaginable There
is no doubt Of the success OF the club as many
persons possess valuable articles of many kinds
enc nave no idea OF their real value until sub
fnltted 10 an expert At the club this may be done
ENC the articles left safely guarded for sale or
sxechanee RULER particulars may be had by adj
crossing the secretary London Opinion Curio
eluo NO i1a Regent street London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
BROADWAY MERCHANTS LOSE

Justice Truax In the Supreme Court denied yes
terday the application Of ". ]. Sloane and other
Broadway and Fifth avenue merchants for an in
junction TO restrain the Rapid Transit Commission
from building subway down Broadway from Odd
street by the open cut system Justice Truax SAYS:
The question raised by the plaintiffs is purely
academic, and there is real controversy In the
matter as there Is no present threat or intention
10 commit the act OF which the plaintin complains
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
PACKING HOUSE STRIKE PROBABLE
Chicago Transfers Prepare to Go Out Mon
day Morning-General Tie-up Threatened.
fBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune !

Chicago June IA general strike OF tho packing
house drivers and complete tie-up of the meat
delivery business in this city Monday morning is
practically certain. The drivers will NOR
and receive their final strike orders
I'VE will call the out early Monday morn
ing, said George Golden business agent of the
drivers tonight. Nothing stop the strike. so
far foresee. Not wheel will out OF
the stockyards beginning Monday
Golden telegraphed this afternoon to Secretary
Hughes of the International Brotherhood of
Transfers in Indianapolis for the Endorsement of
the executive board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
SUMMER AT OSTEND.

As usual at this time of year Ostend is crowded
with cosmopolitan crowd. many OF whom are
Americans Many have membership I'm the Casino
Club. which occupies magnificent rooms at the
Kursaal. where the grand concerts and other forms
of pastime and amusement unsurpassed in
Europe. During July and August the programme
of races. polo matches and yachting affords amuse-
ment for all. This season the German Emperor
has entered his yacht for competition in the va
rous matches and may personally visit Ostend
during the yachting week. Ostend is only five
hours from London and four from Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15

Cab Door Flew Open and Bag in Which They
Were Fell Out.

Mrs. Harry A. Trnm. Of No. los Quincy street
Brooklyn wife of a broker with offices at No. 2O6
Front street. Manhattan. reported at the Grand
station yesterday the loss of diamonds and
jewelry valued at 5000.
While driving down Bedford avenue in her cab
the door swung Open and Mrs. Trimm thinks the
black seal bag containing the diamonds and jewelry
may have fallen out when she leaned forward to
close 1t, d she missed 1t few minutes later.
a liberal reward is offered Cor the return OF the
handbag and its contents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
NICARAGUA ExrRApIrIoN TREATY

Washington. June H.-Secretary Root and Senor
Don Luis F. Corea, the minister from Nicaragua
to-day exchanged the notifications of the extradi-
ton treaty between this country and Nicaragua
The treaty was negotiated in 1905 and was soon
afterward ratified by the United States Senate Its
ratification by the Congress OF Nicaragua did not
take place until the early part of 1905. and various
causes have delayed the exchange of notifications
The convention 10 in the usual form of such nstrI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
WOMAN ESCAPES FROM sANATORIUM
Police Searching for Wife of DR.. J. Arthur
Booth, Thought To Be Here.

The police have beer asked % search for Mrs j.
Arthur Booth wife Of Or. j. Arthur Booth OF NO.
12e West nth street, who escaped from the sana-
forum of Dr. Hitchcock at Greenwich, Conn, on
June 10 and is believed 70 be wandering IN
New York.
Mrs Booth is forty-eight years old She weighs
100 pounds IS feet 8 inches in height has dark
hair ard eyes and is OF fair complexion. When
she left the sanatorium she wore a black bonnet
and dark dress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
QUICK LEGISLATION IN INDIANA.
Citizens Committee Gives Town Board Forty
FIVE Minutes in Which to Pass Ordinances

Galveston Ind. June li-ProYoked because GER
tain improvement ordinances suggested by citizens
had not been acted upon. a committee OF three APP
pointed citizens meeting here last night called
upon the board members and ordered them to con-
the town hall and act on the ordinances,
giving them forty-nve minutes in which 10 do the
work.
The board members hustled to the hall. passed
tho Improvement ordinances ana ADJOURNED IN
exactly forty minutes,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
pArRoLmAN MUST SERVE SENTENCE.

The Court OF Appeals yesterday afternoon
affirmed the conviction of Arthur J. Mallon. for
merly a patrolman attached to the West 6Sth street
station. Detective Reardon of the District At
torney's Office arrested Mallon, who had
been out 5000 bail. furnished by Timothy Sui
Ivan. Maon charged with the killing of
Robert Brennan in front of a saloon in the Bowery
on May s. 1904. He convicted before Recorder
Golf and sentenced to twenty years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
MAYOR GIVES CITY 100000.

Ogdensburg n. Y. June l4-Mayor "eo',rh
of Ogdensburg announced to-day that ne ,ss,e
give the CITY slooco for new academy ou ",,.
to be erected as memorial TO his deceaseu ,,s
The only condition imposed in connecuoins gu. Tor the
gift Is that the city shall provide tne saraed th1
building. As soon the site IS pu
money will be available for immediate Use
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23
Call A Halt Mr. Director
THE GROWING COLOR LINE IN
THE CENSUS OFFICE
SHOULD BE OBJ

As announced in The Bee last week
Mr.. E Cooper, the well-known col
ored newspaper man. who resigned a
permanent position under the Dis
Hict government to take a position
as a special agent in the Census Of
fee, after a brief service has been
indefinitely furloughed, without cause,
Notwithstanding the fact that Director
North has sent into the field during
the past week more than two hundred
special agents to gather statistics on
marriage and divorce, wealth, debt,
and taxation transportation by water
and other investigations called for by
law In fact the office force has been
reduced to the women clerks, the col
ored contingent, and a few white men
who are married and do not care to
leave their families.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23
DR.. WASHINGTON
HIS GREAT SPEECH AND RE
CEPTION

Boston, Mass, 1907.
Especial to The Washington Bee.)
Dr. Booker 7. Washington spent
two very busy days in Boston last
week On Monday evening he spoke
to nearly three thousand students Of
Harvard University at the Harvard
Union, the largest and most popu-
lar club connected with the univer-
sity The topic of his address was
The Influence of Education" He
was introduced by President Charles
W.Eliot. who publicly advised the stu
dents to read Or. Washington's book,
Up from Slavery"
It was remarked after the meeting
that in his Introductory address Pres
ident Eliot exhibited greater emo
ton and spoke with more fervency
and feeling Oh the Negro question
than has ever been known oFhim be-
fore on any occasion, President Ell
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23

race that perhaps is not true in so
large a degree Of any other race.
That is: the Negro wants education,
and wherever a schoolhouse is open
ed Tor him the Negro will fill the
house. Through the efforts of the
suudreds and thousands OF men and
women-who have gone out from such
institutions as Tuskegee, Hampton.
Snow Hill, Fisk and Talladega, the
Negro has made wonderful progress.
So rapid has been his progress along
material lines that the Negro race
owns in the United States an acre
age OF land that is equal to the COM
bined acreage of the kingdom of Hol-
land and Belgium. Not only this, but
the Negro owns and operates I2I
drug stores and 81 banks. Within
forty years the Negro race, through
the help of friends North and South,
and his own efforts, has blotted out
ffty-six per cent. of his illiteracy.
Everywhere I urge the leaders of
my race not to suffer themselves to
grow bitter or discouraged. The en-
bittered race, like the individual, loses
a large proportion of its power to
influence the world for good The
world shuns an embittered people as
it does an individual 1t is only by
self-control, and hard work, patience,
courage and the exhibition of gener-
osity of spirit are we to win our
battles. Ignorance and racial hatred
never solved a single problem. So
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23

The Bee has it that even the skill
ed labor force has been drawn upon
for available" clerks to go into the
field.
If reports are true, Mr.. William
Hunt is the stumbling-block in the
way of the colored clerks to advance
ment by way of detail in the Census
Office. He has charge of the gather
ing of the marriage and divorce and
the church statistics, and is open and
pronounced in his opposition over
which he also presides in the Census
Office has become a hot-bed of colored
prejudice in so much that his under
lings, taking their cue from "his high
ness, give expression to their preju-
dices in such ways as to cause much
friction in the Office, there being some
colored men there who resent such
indignities.
Director North, who has been
counted as a man of strong princi-
pies and open-handed fairness, should
investigate and not allow these mat
tiers to go unnoticed.
The Bee knows there are some cap
able and deserving colored clerks in
the Census Office, and they, together
with all fair-minded people, look to
Director North to give them "a square
deal," and not shut the door of op-
portunity'' in their faces.
The Bee intends to thoroughly in
vestigate all the rumors in circu1a-
ton concerning the conditions in the
Census Office, as they affect the col
ored employees therein, and if the in
vestigation proves as rumor has it,
the letters written to Senators and
Congressman concerning these mat
tiers will prove interesting reading and
serve as red-hot campaign matter for
the colored press in its fight against
Administration delegates to the next
Republican National Convention.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23

lot characterized the institution of
slavery as a horrible mire pot, the
most horrible condition to which man
can be subjected; then, putting a
question to the audience, with FIRE
in his voice, he said: Think of a
condition when man has no right
to his own labor and the Negro wom-
an is at the mercy Of white masters
Is it remarkable that the family life
Of the Negro is not always sound and
pure? It would be a greater wonder
if these people Who came out of this
terrible njre pit were sound and
pure Education is the only thing
that will lift. the Negro to a point
of self-eficiercy and self-respect. The
Negro is going to rise by acquiring
education, skill, and a high sense Of
honor. Facts show that education has
the same good effect upon the Negro
that it has upon the white race, but
we have got to be patient with the
Negro of the South"
DR.. Washington was greeted with
enthusiastic applause. His address
was forceful and inspiring. He in
dicated the marvellous advancement
made by the Negro race during the
past forty years, and portrayed Wv
idly the many difficulties members of
his race had overcome in their up
ward strivingl
He said in part: 'In the present
stage of Negro development it is most
important thai all of us stick to the
fundamentals of civilization and of
racial progress, without which no race
can get upoi its feet and take its
place in usful endeavors. When
ever l am It home I seldom let a
week pass without digging in the
soil, coming in direct contact with
the cows, the fowls, the pigs,-that is.
1 like to be sure I touch the real
things of naure as often as I can
There is one thing about the black
The Washington bee., 1907-03-23

lasting gratitude of the coIored Am
orleans.
DR. NERNON'S SCHOOL GETS
S55.85o.
Kas., Of which DR.. ~. T. Vernon IS
president. has been granted an appro-
priaion Of S55,85o by the Legislature
Of Kansas. While on his Western tour
DIR. Vernon, accompanied by Bishop
Grant, chairman of the board Of trus-
tees, delivered an address to the Ways
and Means Committees of both the
Senate and the House. and when the
needs of the institution were fully set
forth the handsome appropriation as
named above was agreed to without
division. Of the $55,85o the sum OF
S2I95o is to be used for improve
ments - to install a steam-neating
plant and electric service, and to CON
struct a central heating plant. The
other moneys will be used for main
tenance, $1,000 for the fiscal year
ending 1908. and 5000 for the fiscal
year ending 1900.
DR.. Vernon found an increased en-
rollment at the school, and expresses
himself as being highly pleased with
conditions in general. Deep interest
IS being manifested by the citizens OF
Topeka, and indeed by our people
throughout the state, in the forthcom-
ing meeting of the National Negro
Business League, which IS to be Law
ishly entertained, in accord with the
promise made last summer at Atlanta
DR.. Vernon also addressed the Lin
coin Dav Club, of which he has beer
president for the past two years. This
meeting was held in the hall Of th6
House of Representatives, and wa;
largely attended by members of the
Legislature. His speech at Chicago
was one of the happiest features ot
his Western itinerary and the people
turned out en- masse to hear their IA
yorite tell of the glorious achieve
ments Of the Negro since his advent
upon the American continent.
DR.. Vernon has a pressing invita-
ton 10 speak in Baltimore and Ros-
ton. and he may accept in the course
of the next few weeks, if he can ar
range to leave his duties here. Muci
as he would like to oblige his many
friends. he is obliged to decline in
Vulnerable invitations of this charac
ter, as his time is sorely drawn upor
5v official matters that require tn,
closest attention.