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New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
STREETS FULL OF SLUSH.
Contractors Unable to Remove Snow and
Traffic Suffers.

Up 10 you. Mr. Contractor was the message
sent out by the Street Department yesterday morn
ing, and the contractors began their attack the
deep snow. 1t soaked with water, and in the
afternoon the increased the moisture and the
streets were almost impossible for the heavy
trucks During the afternoon it reported that
fifteen hundred carts We're in in Manhattan
and The Bronx. with twenty five hundred men.
and in Brooklyn thousand carts and fifteen
hundred In former years ii 10 the profit
OF contractors wait for rain the to do
the profit paying work for them but this year
is the work that counts. and whatever the sun
and may do in the way OF cleaning the streets
clear profit for the city.
Foster Crowell the Street Commissioner. is being
aided in advisory way by the City club. which,
il said yesterday. is responsible for the present
removal plan City Club inspectors the
mefous dumps and report their obsery atons 10 Mr.
Crowell. and thus two forces of inspectors al
work.
Despite the strenuous efforts OF the contractors y
the in every section of the city yesterday
in the condition for years. On the
East Side. in many instances traffic inter
fered with for many blocks because OF the heaps
put up by the contra ctors' laborers and re-
moved. On the West Side downtown the
conditions prevailed There and side streets
near Broadway. the snow piles in several
iaStsncss, used for billboard purposes. In the
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
HIGH SCHOOLS OVERFLOW
Brooklyn Faces Serious Problem,
rith No Prospect of Relief.

ApplIcs tions for admission to the Brooklyn high
schools are running far in advance of the accom-
modatons, and the Brooklyn school authorities
having the hardest time in years take care OF
the surplus. Moreover. the Board OF Education is
apparently making preparation for additional
accommodations. although the overflow is bound TO
increase with every year.
1here are about twenty-five hundred girls and
boys now being housed in '.annexes,'' which
are poorly furnished and dilapidated well
oVercrowded Dr. Larkin who is al the head OF
the Manual Training High School, surplus of
-FOUR hundred 10 Erasmus Hail High School AT
Erasmus Hall part of the large surplus which had
already applied there had been other schools
and the four hundred who came from the Manual
training High School cannot be provided for before
Monday
III is asserted that the Board of Education cannot
get appropriations for buildings from Board
OF Estimate In any case. there no plans drawn
Tor additional quarters, and it would take least
three years to get accommodations completed
One of the principals said yesterday: Every
hlsh school in Brooklyn is overtaxed. 1t is
rage upon the boys and girls who left out and
the people of Brooklyn should find remedy
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
OGDENSBURG SNOWBOUND
Tenn perature Rises 76 Degrees
Thrtu-taco Inches of Sn0zc.

Ogdensburg, n. Y, Feb. 6-This city is COM
pletely snow bound. Not train arrived or de-
parted during the day A gale from the south
west sprang up last night and is causing the
heavy snow that fell last night to drift badly
AS fast as they cleared the railroad cuts
again become clogged All the snow ploughs
and shovellers that be worked are battling
hard to reopen the lines. The snowfall on the
level this week has been thirty-two inches. The
temperature within the last twenty-four hours
has risen from 40 degrees below to 36 degrees
above zero
The ice has iammed the st. Lawrence River
at Cornwall, Ont. setting back the water about
% feet the highest level 1t has reached since
the disastrous flood twenty years ago. The
water is pouring over the river bank and has
flooded the cotton mills causing their suspen-
sion and throwing five hundred employees out Of
work. The street railway system at Cornwall
is tied up by the high water.
Another ice jam has formed at the mouth of
the Grasse River, causing the water to back up
the village dam at Massena and flooding
the 1atands. Many inha bitants leaving
their homes. being fearful that they may be
drowned.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
JELLIFFE ON DEMENTT4.
Most PrecOciOus Dement'S Doomed
from Beginning" He Says.

DR.. Smith-Ely Jellife physician of IL X
ThaV. who was witness at the latters last trial
has an article in the Journal the American
Medical Association which bears upon the defence
put forward by the Thaw lawyers The subject OF
the paper is Some General Reflections on the
Psychology of Dementia PreCoX' Dr. Jelliffe is
clinical professor OF psychIatry Fordharn Uni
versity, visiting neurologist the City Hospital
and consulting physician Of the Manhattan State
Hospital at Wards Island He is an expert in
dementia, especially in what is termed dementia
prsecox- precocious dementia- Thaw was said
10 come under this peculiar designation. In his
paper the doctor that the emotions constitute
the groundwork of personality. Then he says of
patient suffering from dementia that when
sense dangerous situation reaction. although
accompanied by swift play OF ideas. deter
mined by the feeling tone that unierlies these
series OF ideas, saturated with and inextricably
bound together by the feeling tone. forms the ef-
fectlve complex which determines our reaction"
After quoting authorities and giving evidence
gained BY himself through his practice, DR. Jellife
says
Many precocous dements-in fact, the most-are
with bad structure which TO build, bad en-
vironment and possibly d toxic factor, there is
little opportunity for precocious dement's But
a few worth working for, particularly in the
predementia stage When the diagnosis is more
less patent the process has been too long IN
The making and the opportunities for repair have
triC child is always difficult problem, from the
standpoint OF training Too many are permitted to
when they mature A large number Of precocious
dement's drawn from this class
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
BRINGS HUMAN MYSTERY TO PORT
Royal Mail Packet Houses Man Who Talks
Only the Turtle Languages.

The Royal Mail steam packet Atrato from South
American and West Indian ports, arrived yesterday
afternoon, having board a on whom about
thirty different languages and dialects had been
tried during the trip, which he was able
answer. He booked by the company \
agent Savaniila. Colombia, G. Ferris looks
like Spaniard, well dressed and appears pros
porous.
First Officer Hill who has service in the
Far East tried Hindustani him. but the man
returned more acknow leds nent than he had
TO the different European tongues essayed a Sy-
r!an passenger had no better luck with Arabic
Throughout the voyage the man of mystery COM
muned solely with pet turtle bat the turtle
slipped overheard in the Lower Bay without di-
Vulging who aud What his master il.
, Captain George Chatterton of the ROYAL
ARTILLERY another passenger ON the Atrato
The captain his way home after
taking hundred engineers To Jamaica repair
the fortificatons Kingston, which had been
damaged by the earthquake.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
sTuPENDoUs TASK OF CHICAGO MAN.
Would Drive Women from Shopping Dis
tricts Early to Seat Workers IN Cars.

Chicago Feb 6-One in Chicago has taken
upon his shoulders a huge task II is involved IN
this proposition: Women shoppers should buy early
and get out shopping district before . D. m
Then the working girl and the toiling man could
get seats in the streetcars-
The brave man who proposes this idea is 5. r
Mills a member Of the Real Estate Board At the
boards meeting yesterday he brOached the matter
Il have made a study OF this situation for many
wears" said Mr.. Mills. Might after night have
watched these lazy women. with their sprswlins
bundles march into the cars and take up half ths
seats If a poor working girl who has been worn
TO thread by waiting them all day manages
TO get a it is miracle
If laborng man. heavy and tired after his
days work doesn't rise TO give them his seat. sup
posing by any chance he happens to have one. he
is Immediately regarded dOlt and idiot
These women ought TO be driven out Of the dis
trict before the close of the stores
Let try moral suason and coaxing and
If their selfish hearts ana soIvs
Of the great features OF the transportation
problem; The ministers ought preach this
subject.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
WOULD PROVE WILL BOGUS.
Mrs. Monahan Engages Experts In Contest
for Estate of George Barclay Ward.

Handwriting experts CarvaIho and Kingsley have
been engaged by Miss Jennie de Grasse Monahan'
Of Manhattan who is seeking TO have her father $
will which disnherited her. set aside. she says
the will executed through undue influence ana
that forgery played q prominent part in its max
ing George Barclay Ward. her father, made his
will the day of his death, December o. 1906 1t was
drawn by Douglass Conkn, cashier of the Bank
of Huntington, and witnessed by Allison s.
1.owndes. justice Of the peace, and County Treas
Henry S. Brush. both of Huntington, where
Nr. Ward resident
The will. which disposed of $4,000 disinherited
the daughter, and left all to his two sons. Louis
De Lancy Ward and George Clarence Barclay
Ward. These brothers married the Brandagee sis
ters Of Huntington.
Mrs Monahan notwithstanding that she inherited
s25d 90 from her grandfather when her father, who
had enjoyed its during his lifetime, died an
nounced her determination to contest the will 1t
probated nevertheless, and she instituted a
suit for annulment her counsel being County Judge
Timothy H Grif1ng. of Riverhead Long Island,
and Thomas !. keigharm. o. Manhattan.
The defendants filed answer in Riverhead
Louis De L8ncy Ward makes affidavit, which
appears in the in which he bitterly at
tacks his sister in these words
For number OF years Immediately prior to
her fathers decease. plaintiff grossly and flag
ranty misconducted herself publicly and privately as
IN cause great scandal in the village OF Hunting
ton. where her father resided, and elsewhere, fire.
ouentIy being the public streets in in
toxicated condition. which condition her Ian
guage was noth basphemous and indecent, all of
which caused great sorrow to her father said
George Barclay Ward, and hastened his death
and in addition estranGed him that he stated
on several occasions. which fact deponent can
prove, that he fully intcnuad disnherit plaintiff"
Mr.. Ward had been engaged for fifteen years to
d daughter of the late Ward McAIister.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
WELL, HERE'S A FEMALE RAFFLEs.
Shes Highly Educated, Handsome, Speaks
Five Languages and Poses as a Noblewoman.

Mrs. Kasimir Lushowtch, of No. 215 East 26th
street. Manhattan, the female counterpart of the
gentleman burglar otherwise known a Rafffes
was convicted OF grand larceny in the Kings
County Court yesterday. The woman is a Pole and
is twentysix years old. She is handsome and ap-
pears he well educated. speaking five languages
fuently that she has been able to perpet,,are
her crimes according 10 District Attorney Clarke
by posing various times d a German French or
Polish noblewoman and a Russian political reflI-
gee
She arrested for aiding two men in robbing
Mrs. Josephine Olweck and her husband Of No 415
Oakland street, Brooklyn, Of S5l1 last July She
viii be sentenced Monday. 4 warrant is out for
her arrest for a robbery committed in Iackensack
y. J.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
LUCY MARIA OSBORNE DEAD AT 100
One of the Real" Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.

DanbIry. Conn. Feb (SpeciaJ- Lucy
Ma ria Osborne. hundred years Old died this af
ternoon at her home here. She was one of the few
real Daughters of the American Revolution Her
father. who died when she a child. fought in
the war of the Revolution, and she recalled on
her hundredth birthday stories which were told
her OF incidents of that war By those who had wit
messed them had been told about them by
bers of George washingtons army
Miss Osborne often attended the meetings Of Mary
Wooster Chapter. Daughters OF the American Revo-
lution and otficiated its chaplain The cnapter
held formal celebration Of Miss OsDOrne's ous
hundredth birthday December ;. and Of the
interesting features OF the occasion
quaint little speech by her.
Never worry fret. and busy yourself muca
possible in making others happy" Miss Os-
borne's motto. Her death. which occurred unsx-
pectediy. due stomach trouble. She had
been i'll only forry-eght hours Miss Osborne was q
native of Danbury the daughter of Levi and
Marian DIbble Osborne. and her father and grand
father were also natives OF this town Her father
witnessed the invasion Of the and the burning
OF the American stores in the Revolution. and the
sight fired him with patriotic that he en-
listed the age OF fourteen and served in ar army
hospital until he able 20 shoulder muskst and
20 into the field with the regiment commanded by
colonel Heman Bangs
In sketch OF her own life. completed shor,
time ago. Miss Osborne told Of a journey from
Danbury 10 Lancaster. Mass. In 1888 before there
railroad communication In New England Shs
was called TO Lancaster by news OF the death OF
her mother
Il shall never forget the experiences OF that Jour
ney. she said. Travelling by coach. a mail coscn
with only men passengers except myself riding all
night. delayed in NOrwaIk account % a storm
preventing the boat coming ID the Sound with pas
sengers from New York for the stage | reached
there the = 1ond evening after starting
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
PATTERNMAKERs FIND EMPLOYMENT
Many of Men Laid Off Go to Bridgeport
and Others Get Work Here.

In report behalf Of his organization Dele
gate McStay of the Patternmakers' Union. said
yesterday that most of the who had been
laid of during the last SIX months have been re-
employed N Bridgeport and New York
OF course" he said. we glad 10 have our
-e-employed. but il II yet 10 ma he
predictions 10 the effect that the OF idleness
the turn. 1t i too 20 say whether
il is Il temporary activity, caused by the desire
Of tie employers 10 get rid of emergency work.
q sign OF a permanent revival in trade"
The delegates OF the mechnists and iron mould
said that there were indications OF re-
neWed activity in their trades. 1t said how
ever that tie patternmakerS would be the nrst
q feel the effect OF return normal conditions
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
KENTUCKY LOTTERY CHARGED.
federal Grand jury Returns Eleven lnolcI-
ments-New Yorker Involved.

Richmond Ky FEB 6.-The special iederai
sfsn6 JIM returned eleven lottery indictments TO-
'ss The foIloHing were charged with conspirlns
" Hsfry cr = lottery ana using the government
nsls ir es-rs-ir,e ore their conspiracy: Laney
-ers + 2 Jameson. Msreh Richmond and Charles
? Wells of Co.i.4etoE. Ky. Thomas Dawson OF
iho'sn2pols- r. ". Armstrong, Lewis cato. John
Aierpt, james starr. aliae James Enmore' ana
seaa Elng - Cincinnati, O.-io. and John WeidneF'
r New YORK
Iae lotte~. * charged u i...1e been carried on
-aoeF ire name Of the Kentucky Lottery Company
M aesdqGa-4--s ~ Covington- The tickets were
-aflsut1d q Various pointn. PittsbUrs, 81 LOUIS
-aiaaspclls. Kew York and Cincinnati being
s@ong the places mentioned. The drawing was
-ohs e. Fort Erie Canada and took place semi
northlv
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
NEW FERRYBoAT RUNS INTO LIGHTER.
The Bay Ridge Goes to Repair Dock and
Service Is Temporarily Suspended.

Traffic on the ferry from the Battery 70 3ath
street Bay Ridge. suspended for a time after
the new municipal ferryboat, the Bay Ridge. ran
into a lighter OF the tugboat Henry Gillen
off Governors Island in the fog yesterday morning
Both boats were able TO continue their way. but
the Bay Ridge sent to the repair dock with
her starboard rail and overhang smashed The tug
signaIled to Captain Ford of the Bay Ridge that
she had sustained no serious damage.
The three hundred passengers on the Bay Ridge
were badly frightened. but the captain and the
deck hands quieted them until landing was made
az the Staten Island ferry slip at the Battery
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
SAVE SCHOONER'S CREW
AFTER 10 DAYS STRUGGLE.
The Mary L. NewhaU Flounders
Helplessly IN Gales and Hurricanes.

The steamship Bermudian brought into port
last night ten men. constituting the officers and
full crew of the four masted schooner Mary l..
Newhall. she picked up in a heavy sea on Mon
day morning, when the schooner. waterlogsed
and with rudder and most Of her canvas gone,
was nearly ready to founder. after ten days
desperate struggle with series Of gales and
hurricanes.
Though the rescued men had reached q point
of exhaustion from many days toll and danger,
they were plentifuy supplied with food and
water when picked up. and last night, after four
days of rest, they had pretty we'll recovered.
The captain first officer. cook and one seaman
white; the other six of the crew negroes.
The Mary L. Newhal. owned by the Crosby
Navigation Company of Bath, Me. set sail from
Tampa. Fla. a month ago for Norfolk, Va,
carrying 1880 tons of phosphate rock. On
January p, when off Cope Hatteras. she ran
into a northwest gale that blew her seaward
The storm stripped away her canvas before 1t
could be taken in, carried away her mizzen gaf
and her spanker gaff, boom and sail at the first
blow.
Through the following ten days she encoun-
tered every variety of weather except calm. Sail
after sail improvised and raised only TO be
torn into shreds On the first day of her bad
luck she sprang leak forward. and no repairs
tons OF rock that overay the strained seam
The absorbent rock took up the water as fast
it in and the schooner settled lower
and lower each day the weight increased.
On the second day, when the wind had shifted
to the south and was blowing hurricane from
that direction, a roller caught the schooners
rudder as il was lifted from the water and
tore il completely away. From that time on
she shifted heiplessly with the wind but too
low in the water to travel fast.
Several efforts were made to rig jury rud-
der but each constructed was torn awav
as soon as exposed to the waves, the attempt
was abandoned and the schooner was allowed to
drift Each night flare light of burning OIL
feet from the deck On two occasions the lights
of steamer sighted but in spite of the
most desperate signalling, the men either failed
TO attract attention or were purposely passed by
dian sighted. and, tc the joy OF the ex-
hausted sailors. approached in answer to their
signals The Bermudan crcled about the foun-
dering craft until daylight, when the lifeboat
were directed TO jump for the boat. The ten
were rescued in that manner.
Passengers the Bermudian took up a sub
scription for the crew of the lifeboat. Second
$500
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07

streets there was thick layer of sush, which was
spattered pedestrians.
There was more than the usual loss of temper
among suburbanites their way to the ferries
yesterday. On the North River and East River
the approaches were almost impossible Boards
spanned CUTTERS but could not span the streets.
Mr.. Crowell last evening tina to-day
would marked improvement in conditions.
The snow contractors continued their work all
night in the downtown section giving especial at
tention to Broadway. the streets leading 10 the
elevated railway structures. and to the City Hall
Park surroundings. Mr.. Crowell, the street Com
missioner, has asked the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment for appropriation OF s2eoeo TO
pay for the snow removal last month.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
MUST HAZE THE BUBBLES.
BrOad7cay's COnsum ption of Cham
pagne Unaffected By Panic.
.Nother bottle. waiter. .

- Mother bottle, waiter
Does that sound natural on Broadway these
days? Has the financial furry affected thirst
guenching? Have lost their nerve SO that
they don't dare offer Clearing House certificates
in exchange for bubbles surrounded by percenr-
age of alcohol
Although champagne is not a Park Row beyer-
age the agents for the big houses are only rev
blocks away from Printing House Square Along
West Broadway and Beaver street are the
agencies that furnish upper Broadway with fts
inspiration liquid. The chief agents. unlike their
boosters" are a modest sort of folk. and il was
only under pledge of anonymity that one Of them
consented to say yesterday: The champagns
trade is as good as ever. The demand for still
wines is falling of. II has been decreasing for
years But champagne remains a favorite We
have reports from every cafe restaurant and hotel
in town. These. reports are secret. but they show
the proportonare demand for various brands. in
cIuding of course the total consumption
BY this schedule IT is plain that the consunlp-
ton of wine on New Years Eve this year was
much larger than it was tweIve months ago Why.
in one small place that il not by means
famous there were 80 bottles drunk during Janu-
airy. II all goes To show that persons may econo-
mlze IN many ways but they won't become stinsy
in buying wine
the situation said that there would naturally Be
little importation during January. because Feb
ruary l there into effect reduced tariff on
bottled wine. Champagne that formerly taxed
s. a case is assessed only S. by the new rate
1T means difference 10 the importer and re-
taller" said this expert. but the consumer il
willing to pay the old prices After all. the sale
of wine depends a great deal our boosters
They create the demand. and matter what Wall
Street NAV feel Broadway still has its wine thirst
Champagne may be classed a luxury, but TO
those who afford it its necessity
New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
SUES .WAHLE FOR CHECK.
Contractors Sag Magistrates Paper
Vas Returned as No Good.

Magistrate wahle. who IS sitting IN tie Harleus
police court. was served yesterday with pspefS IN
civil suit instituted against him by Michael ALL
egro of the contracting firm Allegro Spauone.
No. sos East I54th street. The complaint alleges
that. on January 8. 1908. wahle presented q check
for $500 to Nicholas Spellone. Aiegro's partner
drawn the Union Square branch Of the Corn Ex-
change Bank. which. according TO the complaint.
came back marked N G. Since then. the plain
tiff AYERS repeated demands have been made on
wahIe to AXE good the check but with no satis-
faction.
ALLEGRO SpaIlone are also pToprietors OK
saloon Morris avenue and I5oth street
Magistrate wahle last night said he would make
his in court.