Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-09

1907 and Tor about 100000 for duties At
other rcfncries. Il tho company decides
TO pay the additional 100000 Il is said
that tho suits will be dropped.
Inc company's payments have been made.
under protest and are subject to appeal to
the board OF appeal and appraisal.
The latest development IN the attempts
to unravcl the tangle Of New York traction
financing came today when correspondence
was givon out showing that the suit by
the Metropolitan Securities company, a
holding company for the Metropolitan
street railway company, against Thomas
II. Ryan, Peter A. widner. Thomas Dolan.
and the estates Of william {. Whitney and
William Elkins had been settled by the.
payment of 500. go to the securities COM
psny.
This sun was originally paid 10 the de-
PENDANTS in connection with the sale OF
the Wall and Cortlandt Streets Ferries
! companies TO the Securities com
pany for sums alleged to have been adj
Vanced by them TO the Metropolitan street
railway. In returning the amount in dis.
pute they admit that these sums should
have been repaid TO the railway compsny
rather than by the holding company and
reserved the right to proceed against the
railway company for the full amount.
Live Wire IRnites OIL.
The high winds here tonight caused a
$4,000 fire, which destroyed the repair
shop of the Second Avenue Elevated rail-
way at the corner of Second avenue and
One Hundred and Twenty-elehth street. A
large sign which hung at the east end OF
the shop was blown down shortly before
10 O'Clock this evening and in falling dis.
lodged enVpraI nIo,4r{.. u,t... "
dropped into a barrel Of oil. Instantly
there was an explosion which blew a sec.
ton of the roof off the. building and a
moment later the end Of the structure was
a mass OF flame.
After an hours fight the firemen sue
ceeded in combining tn. bla re to the repair
shops. Several cars were badly damaged
and traffic was at a stapdstill for about
three hours.
Mrs. VIII ". Low Dead.
Mrs. Bertha Fugwnie Julienne Low. wife
of Will II. Low. the artist. died at her
home in Brunxville today after a brief i'll
ness. She and her husband were intimate
friends OF Robert Louis Stevenson and at
the time of her death she had Translated p
nearly all OF the Scotch romancer and es-
sayists work into French. She was a CON
tributor to American and French period
icals and was an authorizes Of note. Mrs.
Low was a native OF Caen, France, and
was married to Mr.. Low in 1875 when ne
was studying art in Paris. She was one
of the group of friends whom Mr.. Steven
son made in his apprentice days as an
author. She was IS years Did.
Chauffeur Arrested in Texas.
William Darragh, a chauffeur for whom
a general alarm was Issued by the New
York police a week ago in connection with
the killing by an automobile of Ingvaard
Trimble, the 1S-year-old son of r. n.
Trimble a well known Kentucky lawyer.
has been arrested in, Fort Worth, Tex.
according to a telegram received by the
police today. 1t is said Darragh has adj
mttted operating the. automobile. which
ran down young Trimbie is wiling to
return to New York to stand trial.
Bridge Spans Meet.
A giant steel slrder with an American
flag attached, swung to place over the
middle of the East river today, marked
the connection OF the steel superstructure
of the Manhattan bridge, the fourth of the
spans linking Manhattan island and Long
Island. The engineers computations were
found to be exact, the steel cords from the
two sections Of the bridge meet 20 the