New-York tribune., 1909-06-06

throwing shooting and other forms OF disorder dis
graced labors efforts TO improve its condition The
subway and elevated railway employees joined their
surface brethren out OF sympathy. and great loss
was Inflicted upon the business men OF the city
by the outbreak. After several days Of this a
compromise was reached
THE Georgia Railroad. which was tied up with
a strike of hremen the week before laid Off It's
negro hremen filing their places with white fire
men and signed agreement with the labor union
10 Eubmit to arbitration the question whether all
negro fremen shall hereafter be barred from en-
ployment that road"
II is a difficult problem to o~olve.' observed BUSY
Man but the whites should overlook the fact
that the idle negro is the most dangerous element
IN the social body of the South. and decision 10
bar the black man from this humble JOB on the
Georgia Railroad might become a formidable prece-
dent and argument cor limiting his employment IN
many other directions. business prosperity stil
on the increase?'
For the time in two decades the mills Of the
Pittsburg district run fun turn one thou-
sand agents of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany had TO be dismissed because Of the law Which
prohibits a life insurance company in this state
from writing than $1500O0OOO Of new insurance
in one year The Public Service Commission IN
this city asked the Board OF Estimate FOR S,5VlOo
with which to lengthen the platforms OF the SUD
way stations SO that ten-car express trains can be
accommodated. Contracts have been let for mill
construction in New England alone 10 an aggre-
gate of S4 O0OOO0 1t announced that the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company or lLls CITY houlu
file plans with the Public Service Commission in a
few days calling for the construction of a HOoOOOOoO
subway connecting Brooklyn, Manhattan ana the
Bronx. William G. McAdoo's application for a
franchise to extend his Sixth avenue tunnel to 42d
street was approved by the Board OF Estimate.
James A Patten closed his corner in wheat on the
Chicago Board Of Trade with profits estimated at
20 0O0O0O Arrangements were made with prominent
banking firms in Paris TO let the French public
trade in shares of the United States Steel Corpora
ton II was discovered that the vast quantities or
sludge which wood pulp mills have been discharg-
ing as waste into the rivers and streams, where II
destroyed FISH life and nusance generally
can be worked into a valuable by-product use
full for several purposes. II was announced that
railroad Industrial and other companies had been
Incorporated last month with total capital stock
OF s25s 49, 9O0 E. II. Hartman, before sailing for
Furope gave an interview to newspa per men, In
which he declared that good times now hung not
upon the tariff, but only upon the crop situation,
and he declared the panic of 1907 directly
caused by the famous decision of Judge Lands
filming the standard Oil Company $4,000 oOo."
Did he explain queried Busy Man, Just how
that unpaid fine caused the suspension Of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company in this city. or how
a court decision handed down in America in Au-
gust caused a panic the Egyptian market in
April and the Japanese market in June7 Any
other interesting court decisions last week.?
'rThe Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
decided that Harry 4. Thaw. murderer of Stan
ford White was legally committed 10 the Mattea-s
wan Asylum for the Criminal Insane. The Appel
late Division also decided that the conviction and
Imprisonment of Albert T. Patrick, for the murder