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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
PROSPERITY IN THE VEST.
IndisputdbIe Euidence of Rapid Re
oOUery-Need of Labor.

Washington, Aug. s-Indisputable evidence that
the country is rapidly recovering from the effects
OF the recent financial depression and that n is
now on the crest Of great prosperity wave is
furnished by appeals received by the division OF in
formation ~ the Department OF Commerce and
Labor particularly from the West
The greatest cry FOR labor comes from Lincoln
Neb The commercial bodies Of that city made a
similar appeal before the panic. hut following the
slump" countermandeo the request for labor.
In letter received from w. S. Written, score
tary OF the Commercial Club OF Lincoln IL IS as
serted that there Is great need OF labor both
skilled and common. Throughout the state. particu-
larry In Lincoln and Omaha. and in the smaller
cities where more or less manufacturing IS done
The development of manufacturing in Nebraska
mas been retarded in large measure through the
lack OF labor. both male and female"
scale OF wages is submitted, showing that
good money is paid laborers
Shortly following the panic a la Crosse Owls
manufacturing company wrote that we will not
have any difficulty in getting all the help We want
now but throrgn Representative Esch, OF that
state that concern now writes that it wants ten
or mteen families Of FIVE children each"
These straws point quite accurately toward
prosperous conditions I'm Nebraska and Wiscon
sim. said 7. V. Powderly. chief of the division .,
Information. to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
ROBBERS IN AUTOMOBILE.
One Brooklyn House Yields About
$4,000 an Plumber.

Burglars who rode in automobile ard used
the machine 20 carry away loot valued at over
S.0o entered two houses in Hancock street Brook
lyn. through skyligh's. early yesterday morning
The principal victim was Harry g. Nichols who
Is In the drug business in Manhattan and whose
home is at No 2sS Hancock street BROOKLYN The
house next door. which is the home OF Andrew s
Peters. director of the Royal Baking Powder
Company, was also entered. Mr.. Peters is At his
country home. and the police have not learned the
extent OF the losses there but II has been ascer-
tained that articles valued g 900 were re-
moved from the Nichols home
Mrs. A. A. Hussey heard the gentle whirrng of
a muftied automobile motor in front Of her home
at No. 30 Hancock street, at o'clock She Judged
that the machine stopped I'm front Of the Peters
home. but did not think of burglars AT the time
Her statement 10 the police convinced them that
the occupants Of this the men who went
through the Peters and Nichols skylights. There
were probably three in the party. two men and
boy, the officials think. Only boy could have
entered the skylight Of the Nichols place
Both houses were boarded up for the summer
and most Of the jewelry in the Nichols household
had been placed in a safe depos. vault. But all
the cut glass and other valuable articles Of fur
nishing had been left in the house. Almost every
thing portable was taken from the Nichols house
and the other was turned topsy-turvy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
TO MODIFY HARLEM TUNNEL PERMIT.
Government Asked to Favor the City on New
Subway Line 10 The Bronx

Acting Chairman McCarroll Of the Public Service
Commission. sent a letter yesterday 10 Jacob NJ
Dickinson. Secretary OF War. asking the War De
partment To make certain notifications I'm the terms
Of the permit granted on NAV 70 for the con strl,,
ton OF the tunnel under the Harlem River for the
proposed Rroadway-Lexinston avenue subway
route.
TWO notifications are asked for. one is to per
NIT the construction 81 more than one-half OF the
tunnel at time. which is forbidden I'm the orisi
nal permit and the other has To do with relieving
the city from damages navigation during con-
structon, for which the commission thinks the CITY
IS not properly responsible
Mr. McCarroll points out that the provisions oh
jected To by the commission not contained In
the permits granted by the War Department for the
construction of the tunnels Of the present subway
under the Harlem and East rivers The commits
sion plans To make the Lexington avenue tunnel
'"n'r single tube containing all the tracks or
separate tubes for each track not tn exceed fo,,r
In all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
TWO INJURED BY EXPLOSION.
Father and Sou Go to Hospital After Sod.
Water Tank Blows Up.

Albert HebeIer. proprietor Of an ice cream parlor
at No. 1881 Avenue A, and his son. Albert jr
were both badly injured yesterday afternoon in
the basement under the fathers store when a soda
water tank exploded Both taken To the
Presbyterian Hospital where II was said last night
that they were out Of danger.
The explosion was heard throughout the neigh
borhood. Several windows were broken in the
house overhead The mother, sitting In the rear
OF the store. suffered from shock and is III AT her
home. Father and son had gone to the basement
to MI the tank. II was placed a rocking chair
This was kept IN motion 20 make the water absorb
more readily the carbon-dioxde gas. Young
Hebeler rocked the tank too violently. causing a
strain on the hose they using 10 transfer the
gas. and explosion resulted
Both father and knocked off their
feet and struck I'm various parts OF their bodies by
flying pieces OF the tank. They managed TO get
TO their feet, however, and walked upstairs where
both collapsed in the ice cream parlor
Florence Hebeler, eleven years old with her
chum. Augusta March, twelve years old had lust
climbed the stairway 10 the Hebeler home on the
second floor when the explosion rocked the build
ing. She knocked down and was found
screaming, by neghboTs, after the excitement had
died away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
ARRESTED FOR BIG DIAMOND THEFT
Police Think They Have Man Who HELPED
Loot Ottawa Jewelry Store.

James Howard. known In the under world nc
Cock Eye Howard. was arrested last evening IN
West 18th street. as fugitive from Canadian ms
tce He is said To be OF four men who robbel
an Ottawa jewelry store OF tray of enc hundred
diamond rings. valued at $500 The robbery took
Place in July. and Chief Dilarond asked the aid of
the New York police.
Howard was locked up at Headquarters He said
he lived at No 526 West i3d street. was thirty-one
years old. and an electrician. Detective O'Farreu
says his picture is In the Rogues' Gallery
The three other men alleged to have been con-
cerned in the robbery of the diamonds were ar
rested in Ottawa. They Ar Blair alias Chi
cago Ar Thomas Malone. known also as '.Smitbv :.
ana James Holden. alias 'Cocky'' Holden
dispatch from Ottawa stated these men had
told where they had hidden the diamonds in the
reservoir tank In the lavatory OF hotel Blair and
Malone were sentenced to one years Imprisonment
after pleading guilty. and Holden was turned over
to the authorities of the State OF New Jersey He
is said to have fed from that state while upder
bail for a still more serious offence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
WIDOW WANTS ESTATE.
Husbands Uncle Left Bonds No1c
Held by Home for aged.

Believing that she has a legal right to a large
amount Of property left by her husbands uncle.
who died I'm 1889. Mrs. Joseph Randall. widow.
who formerly lived In Yonkers. has retained New
York firm to investigate her rights IL is said
that the attorneys have already discovered that
the Hebrew Home for the Aged and Infrm has In
its possession bonds of the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company. originally worth $4,000. left
by Joseph Randall. who spent his last years In
the home.
Mrs. Randall did not know that her husbands
uncle was dead until last week, when she was
looking of her husbands papers. In a
copy OF a Yonkers newspaper she found the death
notice She then recalled that her husband had
been brought up by his uncle until he eighteen
years old, when the older man went into the He
brew home and left the younger man to shift for
himself. This action caused a break between the
Uncle ard nephew that was never healed. although
in 1885 the former inserted advertisement in
Yonkers newspaper apologizins for his action and
asking his nephew 10 go to see him
AS her husband the only relative of the
elder Randall. Mrs Randall believes that she will
prove her rights 10 hts property. She has two
children Her husband died in July, 1903.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
CITY'S ENORMOUS FINE.
Noe Ozces $50 900 900 for Polluting
HudSOn-Ne1c MOUe Made.

A step I'm the fight to stop the sewage nuisance
in New York Harbor taken yesterday when
the pollution committee OF the Merchants Associa-
ton made application Attorney General
Wickersham 10 take action against greater New
York to compel the city to improve it's present
methods Of sewage disposal The committee points
out that under the law fine OF ssl 30 daily is
accommodating against the city. and that the sum
now due amounts 10 nearly sS6.cn0Ooo.
The move follows the statement issued on Sun
day OF the engineer OF the Passaic Valley Sewer
age Commission. which. with the state of New
Jersey. is the defendant In the suit brought by
New York State to prevent the proposed big drain
from emptying sewage into the bay. The en-
gineer asserted that New York City itself so
used the harbor the state had no legal right 10
forbid New Jersey q for a like purpose.
The fight is three-cornered
There Is the New Jersey suit the suit 20 keep
the Bronx sewer. Just outside the city limits
from emptying into the Hudson where the refuse
would drift down past Riverside Drive and come
hack again the food tide. and the latest move
which seeks 10 get the federal authorities force
greater New York itself into line. Edward Hatch.
jr chairman OF the pollution .ittee. said
yesterday:
We much grstined by the appearance OF a
new ally in the fight for the protection OF the
waters OF the harbor especially when II comes
from camp we have always looked upon as
hostile That Mr. Harrison. chief engineer OF the
Passac Valley Sewerage Commission entertans
the belief that the waters Of New York Bay are
at present polluted by sewage from Brooklyn and
are further menaced by the growth of population
in the district. IS conversion that viii help solve
the problem.
There is much opposition to New York's
sewage 10 that Of New Jersey but the differ
ence Is that Manhattan Island started TO empty
sewers into these water shortly after Henry
Hudson discovered them. while New Jersey wants
10 start in shortly after the precautionary Of that
discovery"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
SHIPPING NEWS.
Port of New York, Wednesday. August 1910

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and nasua the Hamburg Ameq S@ 20 Hnss,on %
Is'rsers' mails and mdse- Arrived at the IA a.
steamer Tweeddale tBr, MILNE. Shields mt. - .
A. n " ~ q GO. In ballast. Arrived AZ the Pa
., S ,s HsSkon VII tNor,. Thuestad Bsne. I, %
al & a m 49, Fiui' 20 with sugar Arrived at the Bar
soh ~ Dorado Nelson. Galveston july % y, ,n
e'h facinc co. with mdse. Left Ouara5tt1s =, - tae
baitar ~ s ssSIi Ter, Pauisen Barcelona July CT
Stea.,os NLINed at the Bar 4 m - '@'''''
Porto Padre 81 Nuevitas 90 and Sic, Sioara July *.
F,r ~ with ~ passengers mdse Arrtysa M @
~, steamer Gamer ogeeehee. Pickett Rrunsw,ck ,,.
q 7n n M ~ TO- with lumber. Left Ouaran.,r.. 20
Sofs%sr VasaT lBr Cadogau Bueno. ,vr.. ,,,
barbados 90 10 E,s MO DE Janeiro is Bahia Of
s,sa anu m K Arrived the Rsr al s6 passengers
FOLK To- the Old Dominion s. 80 Por , News and
s,a.,, .S', quarantine at 4;2O m " 'ohsers and
Sana - carasena Colon p ana July 30
Arrived n, NJ, , with % passengers malls mi SI 20
steamer Avalon Norl. Olander Po. -,
Bar an i,96 ~ FRUIT Co. with fruit ATri,, July so
70 steamer tear Crown Of Granada tBr,. Grrcn,,
Passed QUARANTINE az ana Trading Co. In ballast
steamer Narrag,n"a, at s:oi m.
midnight Sd IN ballast Arrived az M, 'g MY IS
land NayiSatInS Se ~ mn Healy Boston, to the Nav -
1852 WIN muse Passed In GUARANTEE -,
Co with md sa"nee Rich Philadelphia 70 M. ca.
fresh Sree elooS; ro T. j. Aug $50 naWi sO m
S ana thick; rough sea "0'n
steamers Mauretania 1R-1
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rama I S enqno Tuscany OBI 1;uSn Juan Amelia
Halifax Huron Jaeksop1,,d anpa Colonia 1sr cbe
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
REPRIMAND FOR KUHNE.
Policeman Jailed for Ignoring Court
Order Goes Back to Duty.

Police Commissioner Baker dismissed the charges
against Lieutenant August Kuhne yesterday.
The Commissioner gave out the following state
ment:
in view OF Lieutenant Kuhne's excellent record
and OF the fact that he has already been pun
ished for his disobedence of the mandate OF the
Court. that. too largely because OF his carrying
out the orders Of his superior officer. and that he
has made a reasonable and apparently truthful
explanation concerning the allegations set forth
in the third and fourth specifications OF the charges
preferred against him, have concluded to dis
miss the complaint with a reprinand.
The third and fourth specifications referred TO
had 10 do with the alleged false report in the
Duffy case and Kuhne's testimony before the
Mayor. Mirabeau l. Towns, counsel for Kuhne
pointed the fact that the discrepancy in
Kuhne's testimony before the Mayor only
apparent one. He showed Kuhne had reported
the truth about the Brooklyn boy-namely. that he
had been arrested on a charge Of burglary.
The Commissioner has transferred Kuhne TO
the 9Th street station 10 desk duty Lieutenant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
BIG GAPS IN BROOKLYN FIGURES.
City Employees Testify in Investigation of
Coler's Office

Glarng discrepancies between the amounts al
legged TO have been paid to city employees In connec
ton with repairing the Kings County Courthouse
after in July. 1908. and the amounts actually
paid were brought out yesterday by John r.
Mitchell Commissioner OF Accounts In the investi-
CATION of the administration Of Borough President
Coler Of Brooklyn
Jesse Smith. a negro chauffeur. testified he had
received 81 80 The pay rolls have him down as
receiving ssD John Townsend negro
ployed as a porter. testified that he had received
50 and meals He, too, credited with having
received $50. John Graham, the third former en-
ploye TO be called said he had received only Sl3
although he down on the books having
ceved S36 90
Superintendent Lawrence, of the Bureau of Pub
lie Buildings and Offices. said that to twenty clean
ers each working four hours day, intrusted
the duty Of cleaning ifty-hve thousand square feet
floor space In 1884, ne said. 100000 allowed
him for maintenance and repairs. well as clean
ing; and I'm $685. $4,000 But he said he ran
short i'm the latter year and was Obliged To seek
an issue of special revenue bonds
Several expert witnesses as To the cost of clean
ing public buildings then put on the stand.
one of these Isaac Rothstein said that he would
be willing 10 clean Brookyn's group OF borough,
buildings for $1,000 year. while A. c. Todd. of
the Consolidated RenOvating Company, placed his
estimate at $1,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
MRS. CASTLE 1RRAIGNED.
Woman Who Shot w. L. Craig in the
Waldorf Held in $4,000 Bail.

Mrs. Neville Castle who shot william l. Craig
In an elevator in the Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday
appeared in jefferson Market court yesterday and
was held in $500 bail for hearing tomorrow
morning. Frederick Dean, her lawyer, was unable
TO obtain bail during the afternoon. aud teegraphed
for the woman's brother. Captain Henry Harrison
Scott who is in the artillery service at Fort Nor
gan. Alabama.
While IN the prison Mrs. Castle told her story of
the shooting. She and Craig had grown up to-
gether. she said. and had been schoomates in San
Francisco On Monday night, she declared. he had
come TO her apartment and so misbehaved that
she called her negro servant 10 put him out. She
alleges that Craig used epithets for which she de-
manded retracton and apology In the presence of
the negro.
He threatened to repeat what he had said to
another person." Mrs. Castle continued. land
went 10 the hotel TO make him take It all back.
only paid bastard for dastardly act. Any real
man would wish his sister 10 act in the same way
meant TO shoot myself. and he caught the gun
and got the bullet"
Detective Ross. of the West 90th street station
who talked with the woman during the day. init
mated that an inquiry would probably be made as
20 her sanity She has lived in New York for the
last six years. she says. and apparently in
comfortable circumstances for most of that time
She sublet the studio of Aonzo Kimball, an
artist In the Colonial Apartments. No 80 West 67th
street, before moving into the vacant apartment of
Dean. in the same building. She was a nervous
woman and attracted considerable attention from
the other tenants by her eccentric manner. one Of
her crotchets was to wear a cooked hat OF the
Continental period about the apartment with her
afternoon dress
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
TO TINKER ESSEX MARKET COURT.
Some Years Ago 100000 Was Appropriated
for New Building, but Never Used.

Borough President Anearn said yesterday that
ne would ask the Board OF Estimate and Appor-
uonment at its September meeting 10 appropriate
money to renovate the Essex Market court the
eonaition OF which has aroused unlimited criticism
On the part OF people I'm the neighborhood
nave personally known the condition I'm F,ssex
Market for long time. for l was a clerl, 90 ,ba,
court Tor years" said Mr.. Ahearn II have in
strueted Mr. Noorhis. Superintendent of Ruudngs
10 nave his engineers carefully examine the place
anu iepoit no" me contemplated improvements
can be made and what they win cost rrha. -
port VIII be submitted to the Board OF FstIrsta
and Apportionment at it's September meeting
have Informed Chairman Brill OF the snecIaI Co.,
mittee OF my intention
some years ago an appropriation of $500 ooo Mao
made for the erection of a new buiiainy - 80
site OF the present Essex Market court but n was
never used. presumably because the site was con.
sidered hardly appropriate for building cost,n,
that much moneys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
G. w. CULKIN MADE RECEIVER.
Clerk of Special Sessions Who Resigned
Under Fire Appointed by Justice Brady.

Charles w. Culkin. Tammany leader of the 9Th
Assembly District and formerly chief clerk of the
Court of Special Sessions, was appointed yester-
day by Justice Brady. of the Supreme Court. re-
ceiyer of rents OF the property Nos. 12l and 123
West iOlst street, over which there is a suit for
the foreclosure OF second mortgage OF 5000.
Culkin's bond was fixed at 5000.
The suit is brought by Anna Deutsch against Re
beeca Gomberg. William Cuff and others the
allegation that interest at per cent is due from
February H. 1906 and that the security is scant
and doubtful and that the guaranIor. Cuff would
be unable to answer for any deficiency.
Culkn was arrested on March % last. charged
with the misappropriation OF court funds amount
ing to 1888.
Magistrate Crane discharged him on March 81
because the District Attorney failed 10 make full
complaint within a reasonable time ON April
Culkin resigned his place while charges against him
were pending before the Board Of Justices of the
Court OF Special Sessions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-05
MRS. PICKLES SAD STORY.
It's about a Prise for Pickel Baby,
and Mr.. McGOUan Hears 1t.

beautiful Pickel has got Acting Mayor Nc
Gowan in another beautiful pickle. so to speak
Picket is the name Of a Queens Borough baby
whose good looks the designation" of first
prize in the celebration that marked the opening
of the greensboro Bridge But getting a "designa-
ton as prize winner and getting the prize are
two different things says Mrs Pickel. the mother
of the baby. and what she wants Acting Mayor
MCGOWAN to do is TO hunt up the people responsible
for the prize and to deliver ii her baby.
Never was baby beautiful the youthful
Picket And when the judges said II entitled
to the first prize wasn't there party at the Pickel
home. and didn't all the nelghbors gather around
and say that Baby Pickel was the handsOmest child
that breathed? Yes they did. But for all that
little Miss Pickel didn't get the prize. and Mamma
Pickel has put 1t up TO MIR. MCGOWAN. Here's the
very note; this Is what she wrote:
Mr.. McGowan President Of the Board OF Aldermen:
Dear Sir: Being informed you the man 10
notify of the error which was made during the
Queensboro Bridge Celebration. thought would d9
Sixteenth street, College Point. n. Y. & as II was
baby show June Is would like to let you know she
never got her prize, * as feel very much disap-
the third party now. I've seen about It so | hope
her prize pfa done think II IS at all righdo yoG
or course don't know who is 10 blame but one
satisfaction they will get showing in the news
papers. SO hope you will be gentleman enough to
weeks ago doesn't seem take interest In.
now if you will please let heard from you will
be more than pleased or probably you can find out
Who is the BIG CRATER that wouldn't spend
the money for the prizes. There enough
donated to the bridge celebration by the city. 10
give each every one what they won fairly, so
hoping can have confidence in you let me know
what you think of IL. / remain, respectfully.
MRS. ]. j. PICKELh
No 22S Sixteenth street. College Point. \. Y.
August 3, 09.
II certainly shall take official notice OF Mrs.
Pickels letter." said the Acting Mayor. yesterday.
when woman's baby is voted the handsomest
baby at the show she is entitled to consideration.
Now. II is possible there may be big CRATER.
suggested by Mrs. Picket The pages of history
dotted with crimes. but scarcely bring
myself TO believe in this day and age that anyone
would withhold from a prize winning baby at the
bridge celebration the prize belonging 10 ii. Mrs
Pickel and Baby Pickel shall have their rights
Mayors office"