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New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
CITY WANTS HALF FOR QUIT CLAIMS.
E.nects TO Obtain Considerable Sum Yearly
from Land Claimants.

The CITY will ask hereafter 80 per cent OF the
value of the property in return for quit claim
deeds given TO persons who, through twenty years
nossessIon are entitled to property When the
c+, has given quit claim deeds to whatever right
If might have to put streets through 1t has done
so for a nominal fee Of 81
II is believed that 8 considerable sum OF money
can he obtained by charging half OF whal the
property is worth TO the claimant resoiu'io. u
to THAT effect was put through, at the instance OF
Controller Metz at the meeting Of the Sinking
Fund Commission yesterday.
resolution was passed permitting The DOCK
Commissioner to provide free transportation 10
prouns of public and parochia school chiloren on
their way to Curtis Field, over the staten isiaiiN
- rse.,, children a day in charge OF teach
or will he transported free.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
ANIMALS AT AUCTION IN THE PARK
Director Overcome by Heat While at Sale
in Sheepfold.

John ". Smith, director of the Central Park
nnenagerie was overcome by the heat during the
auction Of the surplus animals in the Central Park
sheenfold Yesterday. Others who attended the auc-
,ion nero affected bv the extreme heat in the
nlace and the afternoon session of the sale was
held in the open Mr.. Smith recovered during the
afternoon
Fyftv-three sheep and lambs and thousand
pounds Of wool were sold at good figures w. h
n Stokes through an agent, bought fourteen
,,,,bs ,yhic9, he will send to his farm and Brian
g. Hughes created much speculation when he
bought two Angora goats for SS. pair OF Amer
ican elk brought s111 from firm of animal deal
ers and the same firm paid S45 for pair or req
deer Warner Van Norden, the head OF the an
Nordsn Trust Company. bought four fallow deer
- ,,ir ~ sacred zebus to send his estate in
Connecticut The total amount realized on the sale
was SS5
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
TO CLOSE WILLIAMSBURG FERRIES.
Company Posts Notice Dismissing Three
Hundred Employees.

The Brooklyn Ferry Company posted notice
yesterday, informing the employees that their ser
vices would not be required after July 81 Three
hundred will be thrown out Of employment, IN
cluding pilots. engineers, hremen, deckhands and
others.
The ferries which will be closed the Roose-
Welt Grand street, 23d street. 42d street and an
other running from Grand street, Williamsburg.
TO Grand street, Manhattan. The same company
operates ferries from Greenpoint to 10th street,
and elso TO 23d street Manhattan, which will be
continued.
The property OF the ferry company was sold at
auction last week the New York Terminal Com
pany, which organized recently for the pur-
pose OF conducting a lighterage and freight ter
minal business. for $4,000. The buyer took over
a mortgage held by the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany for S. ,54 with interest from December 3,
1903 and assumed responsibility for debts aggre-
eating more than 81 10000 due for taxes, water
rates and assessments.
There has been considerable agitation the part
of business men to force the city to purchase the
ferries A special commission appraised the prop
erty and reported unfavorably
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
EQUITABLE INPATIENT.
An1ious to Start Work ON Nezc
Building of Waste IN old.

AS soon as Edward S Murphy Superintendent Of
Buildings approves the plans work on the pro-
posed sxty-two story building of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society will be begun. The waste
of space in the old building due to its thickness
of walls and overspacous corridors. has become a
scandal in the eyes of the board of trustees.
There will be no such waste in the building.
It may be that public hearing will be called
by the Buildings Superintendent. The building s
erection Just below the towering Singer Building,
which it will top by just yard less than three
hundred feet, and the lofty City Investment Build
ing will throw thousands OF offices into gloomy
shadow It will add to the tempestuous torrents
of air in the streets winter. 1t will have to be
considered also as a new factor insurance risks
and in the danger fire. No stream of water
could reach fire In any of the upper stories. IL
would take complete pumping system to insure
normal flow, let alone an emergency supply at
that height. The disablement of this internal sys-
tenn would leave the tower Of the building
waterless.
The plans for the new building, said Paul
Morton Yesterday, shave been worked out by Daniel
H. B,lrnham & Co. the Chicago architects. 1t
seems TO be the consensus of opinion of those In
authority at the Equitable that the lot on which
the present building stands is - valuable 10 pe
without a modern structure
When the present Equitable building was erected
IN 1872 the value OF Broadway sites was not so
great by many times as It Is now, and from 3 10
feet were taken up by the front walls alone The
Eouitsble property IS now worth about $4,000
front foot. Modern steel structural work VIII 90
au-av with such waste, and the huge corridors and
court spaces will be cut down through the press
of present day economic conditions.
When the Equitable Society was reorganlzed the
building was paying only about 21z cent on the
original investment, q return which the new man
agement has forced UP to about per cent Under
these conditions real estate experts have agreed
that the land would be valuable without the
Euutab BILE building. Although the new building VIII
cost 1t is estimated at least 100000 which, with
the value of the site about S15.G0,OO0 VIII make II
the costIiest office building in the world 1t Is e3-
nected to make a much larger return
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
WOULD NOT FREE THAW.
DR.. Ferris, Head of Lunacy Com
mission. Issues Statement.

Alhanv June 30.-Dr. Albert Warren Ferris
president Of the state commission IN FnacS' IN
a statement made public to-day on the mental con-
dition of Harry X Thaw, that there are some
differences of opinion to the form OF ina"
insanity but those who have studied his case
agree that he is of unstable mental condition. and
the past shows that he is homicidai. Dr. Ferrls
adds that 'for the safety OF the community pa
tieuts with Mr.. Thaw's unfortunate heredty tafnI.
With his long history of mental alienation and
with his INSTABILITY of mental poise and demonstrate
cd homicidaI impulse. should be cared for In a
hospital for people of his mental class and the
community should not be subjected to the risk OF
experiments entered upon from sentimental
reasons"
..Matteawan is not a penal institution" says the
statement in part. Unfortunate sick persons who
ara cared for in that hospital not punished.
The institution established for the care of the
insane committed orders of courts OF criminal
Jurisdiction for persons convicted OF petty crimes
cr n7sdemeanors mot feons) becoming insane while
undergoing sentence, and also for patients ex-
hibiting criminal tendencies who cannot be cared
for with safety in other state hospitals.
THE term 'brainstorm' is not scientific nor eie-
CANT and should not be used in connection Win
insane cases. The outbreaks OF ungovernable fury
or the intervals during which patient suffering
from, periodical insanity yields TO his impulse come
.i+,or+ prsmontory symptoms and at varying pc
RODS" ,., 49,,
DR.. Ferris expressed himself as pleased win INC
decision of Supreme Court Justice Downing deny
ing the application to have Thaw committed else
where than to Matteawan. He declares that Thaw's
axnerts at the second trial, proved to the satis-
faction of Justice Dowlng, apparently. that MI
Thaw was affected with constitutional aHecton
,iL .i,I not terminate in recovery. They laid
Tho foundation for a belief that he Is permanent
victim of periodical insanity According 10 'helr
convincing arguments and history, he may recover
rrono isolated attacks and re-enter the norman
state but unfortunately the shghtes' moral cause
will reproduce the disease
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
RULES TO FOLLOW IN ely TIME"
Advice Offered to Householders by Me1
chants Association Committee

In furtherance OF the campaign OF the Merchants
Association against the house fly the Board of
Health has been asked by Edward HATCH Jr
chairman of its water pollution committee 10
undertake the distribution. among householders'
hotel and restaurant proprietors and in other places
-. ,bo,, will do the most good. of cards which
ore nrinted the following simple rules for fly
time:
Keen the flies away from the sick. especially
those in with contag gous diseases. XIII every fly
thai stravs into the sickroom. His body Is Gov
cred with disease germs 49,, = - .
Do not allow decayng material OF any sort 10
accumulate on or your premises.
Keen all receptacles for carnage carefuy Gov
cred and the cans cleansed or sprinkied with lime
oil. ,.
Cover food after meal, burn or bury table
refuse
Screen all food exposed for sale
Screen all windows and doors, especially the
kitchen and dining room .
Don't forget that II you see mes ther preceding
place is in nearby filth.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
nR WASHINGTON AT SUMMER HOME.
Attempt to Prevent Him Having Telephone
Of West Neck House Proves Futile.

Booker r. Washington is again settled IN the
old Van Wyck place al West Neck Huh'hs'oN
Long Island. a short distance across Oolu ''i,i'"H
:, - caua,oora Hin He arrived there
,,os..rd.,, rr Washington was cheerful, for he
had inst won i'm fight, started by some OF 'he
residents of West Neck. to prevent hm from oc
cupying the Van Wyck place
When il became known that Dr- ""S"ine.
who occupied the Van Wyck place ias' Sedi' nc
declined 10 take IL for this summer unless ne couu
have teIenbone in the house, certain residents II
is said started to block the extension OF tiie te
phone lines to the Van Wyck place the tfiep"o"e
company declined however to discriminate as1Aiis'
DR. Washington. The influence was s""i'
,,otent 10 delay the extension OF the teiephohe e'
,..au,er Tr Washington Is generally liked at
West Neck.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
ANOTHER NOTE BROKER CONVICTED
Three To Be Sentenced for Grand Larceny
Next Tuesday.

Charles Barry, a lawyer, was convicted yesterday
of grand larceny In General Sessions in connection
from Sherman & Co, cutlery firm of Keyport,
n. ]. With Barry arrested A. Regulus
Shippy and John Gundach. both OF whom were
subsequently convicted of grand larceny. The trio
will be sentenced by Judge Foster next Tuesday.
On April "a, 1907 the three alleged to have
port firm, which they were to dispose of on per-
centage basis. the principal TO be returned to the
original holder. Repeated demands for their re-
turn by the company came to naught 1t is alleged
There still outstanding eight or nine of
the notes. aggregating approximately $1,000 each,
or a total of about $4,000
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
THREE DOGS ATTACK BOOK AGENT.
Brooklyn Man in Dangerous Condition in
Newark Hospital

Following attack by three savage bulldogs
Edward White, Of No. 2l1 Pacific street Brooklyn,
is in the Newark City Hospital with his left arm
lacerated from the wrist to the elbow, his right
hand badly torn and wound the left eye
where one of the dogs bit him.
White is hook agent. and was canvassing in
Grove street when attacked by the dogs. He had
gone 10 the OF house when the dogs, who
had been lying the rear porch made for him.
All three jumped upon him. and he fell to the
ground His shouts for help brought a number
Of persons from the house. but before they could
drive off the dogs White had been badly bitten. He
is nov in a serious condition.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
HOWARD CANS GETS LICENSE TO WED

Howard S. Cans, former Assistant District At
torney, obtained a license yesterday in the City
Hall bureau to marry Mrs Birdie Stein Sternberzer
Of No. 1o2 West 10Th street. Mrs. Sternberger was
divorced on April 10 from Louis Sternberger re-
ceving the custody Of their two children. Mrs
Sternberger Is forty years old and Mr. Cans ii.
thirty-fve
New-York tribune., 1908-07-01

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New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
INDICTMENT FOR UTAH BANKER.

Salt Lake City. June so.-The federal grand t1ry
returned indictment to-day against A ". Nell
in connection with the alleged iooting Of the
reserve vaults Of the Utah National Bank Nelson
cashier Of the State Bank. and was formerly
employed in the Utah National, where his uncle.
Joseph g. Nelson. was formerly cashier Ths edes
Nelson resigned when President ". C.. McCorntckx
after receiving the report Of experts issued q
signed statement acknowledging the loss OF Go4B9
from the reserve chests OF the Utah National Bank,
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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
STATES WIN
IN PRIMARY FIGHT
Pennsylvania Chooses Delegates
to Various Conventions
by Popular Vote
Attempt to Instruct Democrats
for Bryan Appears to
Have Been Defeated
PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-THE
primary elections Of all political parties
In Pennsylvania were held throughout
the state, today. Each party elected
delegates to its national and state con-
ventions and nominated candidates for
congress and the Legislature. In addi-
tion. all of the 81 counties and nearly
all the municipalities in the common
wealth named candidates for minor
offices.
The last republican convention hav-
ing Endorsed United States Senator
Knox for the presidential nomination
there were no contests in that con-
vention over the presidential prefer
ence, but there were numerous sharp
skirmishes over the individuals who
will make up Pennsy1vania's delegation
to Chicago.
There was fight In many sections
of the state in the democratic party
over the question of whether the dele
cation to the Denver convention shall
be instructed for William j. Bryan or
shall go to the convention without in
structions. The returns tonight are
late and scattered and give no indi-
cation of what the state convention
may do.
The hottest fight of the day was over
the candidates for the Legislature,
which will elect new United States
senator. Senator Boise Penrose, whose
term will expire next March, Is can
didate for reelection. and some of the
Independent republican leaders had an
nounced that they would oppose his
candidacy
The primaries In Philadelphia passed
off quietly. The hardest fight was in
several wards where the republicans
were split into several factions With
few exceptions, however. the republi-
can slate candidates were elected. The
democratic slated candidates for con-
gress were also nominated.
Among those who were elected re-
publican national delegates from Phil
adelphia are United States Senator
Penrose, ex-Insurance Commissioner
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
WOULD ABOLISH
SIX NAVY YARDS
Representative Lilley Places
Mare Island and Five
Others on the List
Alleges Waste of Money and
Asks for Commission to In
vestigate and Report

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Investiga-
tion Of the navy yards at Charleston,
Port Royal. Mare island. Portsmouth,
N. H, New Orleans and Key West by
a commission appointed by the presi-
dent with a view to their abandonment
was urged by representative Lilley of
Connecticut before the house today.
Lilley offered a joint resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of this COM
mission and for improvements in other
yards so as to eliminate the waste
Of public moneys in the maintenance
of the same"
Lilley quoted from reports made by
boards Of officers and former secre-
taries Of the navy as far back as 1885,
TO show that the condition of the navy
yards then was open to severe criticism
and In fact that the reorganization of
the navy department itself was desira-
bic, If not absolutely necessary.
ALLEGE USELESS EXPENSE
The navy yards mentioned in his res
olution were taken up separately and
discussed by Lilley. The Mare island
yard. he said, had cost s1,175, 900.
but the secretary of the navy states
that this drydock will not permit the
docking of a battleship." he continued,
land not only is this true, but q battle
ship cannot get to the yard. Although
Rear Admiral Endicott, then chief of
the bureau of yards and docks, 10 years
ago practically recommended the aban-
donment of this yard, since that time
$728,SSs has been spent in dredging
alone and s5,124.712 has been appro-
priated and spent on the yard
key West is place that has cost
US $1.328,03S. 1t is six miles from the
straits and the low water depth in its
channel is 26 feet, and s101, 900 has been
spent there for dredging. At this yard
in the fiscal year ending in 1907, =
31S was expended for labor and the
value of their total product was but
s7,126.
Portsmouth, N. H.. or Kittery, Me-,
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
GUSTS STANDARD
FROM TENNESSEE

NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 11.-By the
Judgment of the supreme court of
Tennessee in an opinion delivered to-
day by Justice Neill the Standard oil
company Is ousted from Tennessee for
the acts of this company at Gallatin
in restraining trade.
r BY the judgment OF the supreme court
the Standard oil company can only en-
gage in interstate commerce as far as
Tennessee is concerned, and the court
holds in affirming the decision OF Chan
cellor ]. W. Stout at Gallatin that In
the trial of the case at Gallatin the
Standard oil company did violate the
provisions of section 1 of the acts OF
1908, chapter 140, and the punishment
imposed in section 2 OF that act should
be imposed. viz: that the Standard be
denied the right to do business in this
state.
The counsel for the company have
taken an appeal to the supreme court
of the United States
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12

manufacturing enterprises OF all kinds
will be installed and dependence upon
the east will be reduced to a minimum.
Upon this cheap power development,
also, they think the Asiatic commerce
of the coast Will depend. for the Pana-
ma canal places San Francisco on a
sidetrack when commerce between New
York and the orient Is concerned. 1t
is only by underselling New York that
San Francisco can compete with New
York in the Chinese and Japanese busi-
n ess after the opening of the canal.
Cheap power will enable the coast to
do this.
Some of the government people won
der whether power will be. as cheap in
such hands as Harriman's as 1t would
besif the government and the state
should safeguard. such natural sources
Of wealth. They think California
ought TO cooperate quickly with Pres
ident Roosevelt in heading OF the en-
terprising spectators who are gobbling
up water power. 1t Is partly to throw
a little light upon the water pow
er situation that the president has in
vited the governors of the states to the
White House next month. He will tell
them a few things that are going on
ingtheir own states which they may
not know. He stands ready to do all
in his power to bring about govern
ment conservation of these resources,
and congress, if It obeys the plain pop
ular mandate, viii preserve all water
power on navigable streams for the
use Of the public. This is a Roosevelt
policy" that cannot be questioned The
nonnavigable streams, however, are IN
the hands OF the states, and it de-
pends upon the state executives, who
are not Roosevelts, to guard these
sources of public wealth. The chances
are that the water powers of all the
western states are like those of Cali
fornia-already in the nav of private
monopoly, to be disgorged only by main
force.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
CALL ON TRUSTEES TO
STOP HEAVY BLASTS
Improvement Clubs Protest
Against Menace to Life in
North Berkeley

BERKELEY. April 11.--A resolution
calling upon the trustees to abate the
blasting nuisance in the north end of
town was. passed by the conference
committee of Improvement clubs at It's
meeting last night In the town hall.
This action follows that Of the trustees
Tuesday night. when they refused to
stop the blasting Of the Spring con-
struction company to which the resi-
dents Of the vicinity OF the quarry have
objected for the past three years.
Victor ]. Robertson, president of the
committee, said that he could not un-
derstand how the town trustees could
consider the interests of the corpora
tion when the lives Of many of the resi-
dents in North Berkeley, were endan-
gered by the heavy blasting.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12
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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12

Continued from Page 81, Column
agents and small corporations. appar-
entity independent, has acquired these
water rights BY beneicially using
them he. can hold them. evena against
the people. unless the procedure of the
public against q corporation has un-
dergone a radical change.
The experience of San Francisco with
the Spring Valley water company is
sufficient TO show how slowly the people
can make headway when struggling
with a corporation.
Some OF Harriman's principal assist
ants in tha railroad business are una
zvsre OF the change that is under way,
or at least they are obliyious to 1t. They
do not see as far OF as clearly as their
master-that IS all. They see the big
coal and oil burning locomotives and
cannot understand how lighter motors,
driven by electricity, can take their
place. But Hartman does, and he is
already planning the larger features
OF his scheme of evolution. The plan
Will unfold rapidly enough after Harri-
man has obtained control OF all the wa
ter power he wants-which is perhaps
all OF the water power west Of the
Mississippi river. He works on a big
scale. and he needs lots OF power to
make his big wheels move.
ELECTRIETING OF s. p.
The electrifying OF the Southern Pa
ci1c will bring about smaller cars,
smaller trains and more frequent sched-
ules. The wayside business will be
much greater than at present and
places now given to the desert will be
inhabited. Towns will spring up along
the new electric roads and the local
business will be enormous This is the
experience OF Indiana, where interur-
ban trolleys have worked up an i'm
mense freight business in square com
petition with steam roads With cheap
motive power the Southern Pacific will
be able TO penetrate every nook Of Cali
fornia and bring out business
The prediction is made by govern
ment officers who have looked into this
matter that the Southern Pacific, If ii
remains under Harriman's management
or that OF a man approximately as en-
sterprising, and If IL is electrified as he
plans, will become a marvellous factor
in increasing the population and wealth
OF California and the coast generally.
They say they are not indalging in
prophecy but merely applying eastern
conditions to the coast, taking into
consideration also the enormous water
power resources pof California They
predict that electricity will supplant
even crude oil in every industry In
the state. Power win be so cheap that