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New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
CAMP FOR PHTHISlS
AHicted Men WM Sleep IN
Open and Get Proper Food.

Men I'm New York City threatened Win
consumption or victims OF tuberculosis in
its incipient stages are invited to camp out
every night at No. 2S3 East 67th street
and attend business during the day. The
capacity of the camp is limited, but up to
that limit all will be welcome
At the end of three to six months out
ing DR. Edward ]. Birmingham said yes
terday a sufferer would be practically cured
and at the same time have gained liberal
education as TO how to live and what TO
eat DR.. Birmingham, who is at the head
os this night camp. lays down all the rules,
and he says If any camper disobeys he must
get out. Dinner is served In an indoor
dining room at $50 o'clock, and consists
OF plenty OF roast beef or lamb, varied with
turkey or chicken, and on Friday fish. one
green vegetable and one starch vegetable.
There is nothing to drink but milk.
Until O'Clock there Is reading and card
pla aging and educational talks, special In
struction being given by DR.. H. Holhrook
Curtis and DIR. Elmer A. Miller. This tu-
berculoss clinic Is considered TO have The
best equipment in the world, and the build
ing has been especially adapted to the most
advanced treat atment of the disease.
The camp dormitory is large hail open
on three sides. with practically no roof.
In an adjacent room every man has his
locker, and one of the rules is TO take a
shower bath before breakfast. This meal
consists of three cooked eggs. one-eighth of
a pound of butter and an eighth of a pound
of whole wheat bread, a breakfast food and
pint of milk. At 6 80 in the morning
everybody in camp crawls out of his sleep
ing bag, which is made of double thick
woollen blankets.
The temperature of the camp yesterday
afternoon was such as to make the men
hustle 10 get into the dressing room. which
is steam heated The beds were getting as
much fresh air as they would have got were
they lined up the Brooklyn Bridge.
AS this night camp was only opened in
November, there are no. statistics obtain
able as to results In several instances.
however the patients family has been tenn
porarily provided for while he was under
going treatment and he happened to be out
OF employment; and where the patient was
found to be engaged in work detrimental
to his cure, new place was found for him
by the clinic.
The clinic makes no charge where the
man is unable to pay, and even when he
leaves the camp a doctor will keep track of
him. advising him whenever possible, espe-
cially as to arranging his sleeping room to
the best advantage to ward off consumption
The physicians in charge predict great
things of this I educational tuberculosis
camp. New York apartment houses may
be asked 20 have open air bedrooms in their
equipment and if enough applications are
made for admission DR.. Birmingham as
sures the public all will be accommodated,
even if additions have be made.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
A CHANCE FOR GOOD MEN.
Some $4,000 Places To Be Filled by
Competition.

The Civil Service examination for trans
fer tax appraiser in New York and Kings
counties, which is announced for January
90, has aroused much interest among Civil
Service reformers, and ought TO awaken the
ambition of a good many capable men.
since it offers opportunity for permanent
employment al $3.500 and $4,000 year.
There are six of these places in New York
and three in Kings which may be filled as
vacancies occur from the lists to be made
up. Controller Williams is reorganzing
and reforming his department. land, 1t is
understood. is likely to weed out such of
the political holders of these places as do
not measure up to his standards of eff
ciercy and appoint men who win in the
competition. When the places were estab
lished the Civil Service reformers demand
ed competition but the pressure of the poll
tic.ans was too strong. Now all believers
in the merit system are anxious to see
large number of able candidates, to assure
a list which will leave no room for doubt
of the practicabilty of competition.
In addition to an examination On the
duties of the office, candidates will be rated
on their education experience and personal
qualifications, determined by sworn
statements in the applications, inquiries
from those acquainted with the applicants
and an oral examination or interview with
the examiners. Preference will be given TO
candidates between thirty-f1ve and forty
five years old and special credit will be
given in rating education to graduation
from a college or law school and in rating
experience to law practice. II is believed
that this plan offers the best method of
securing men of the practical sense, expert
ence and personal characteristics needed
for the most efficient work. 1t will be sur
prising if such an opportunity does not ap-
peal TO many able men. Applications are
to be received up TO noon of January Is.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
DIED FROM STARVATION.

Joseph Szwrineska, a hungarian, fifty
years old and homeless. died of starvation
and exposure in coal bin in a tenement
house at No. 524 East l1sth street yester-
day morning. lie asked Casper Hrayai the
janitor, late Saturday night for a little tea
The janitor gave him some food, and see
ing the weakened condition OF the man
told him he might sleep in a spare room,
Szwrineska refused, but said he would not
mind sleeping in the coal bin, as it would
seem like a palace after spending three
DAYS and nights in the streets without
food On Sunday reorning the janitor went
down with A cup Of hot coffee for the man,
but found him dead
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
CHRISTIAN BELIEF
IN PUBLIC Affairs.
More Dominant NoSr than
Erer, Say Prominent Mem.

Chicago. Jan. 2--Men Of proninence IN
national politics believe that the teachings
Of Jesus Christ are more dominant n pub
lie affairs to-day than when they entered
active life. according to answers TO ques-
tions read to-day before the Plymouth
League OF the Oak Park Congregational
Church.
Two questions were sent 70 the sixty
leading men OF the nation by Bruce Bar
ton president OF the league. early IN De-
cemoer. One related 20 the dominance ot
the spirit OF Christianity. The other ques-
tion was: lis n an advantage or dis
advantage for public man to re kno~n
as processing Christian
One Of the first 20 answer was James =
Sherman. vice-President OF the United
States. ITO your first inquiry said ths
Vice President. II beg 20 answer that IL is
my belief that with the progress Of edu-
cation and civilization rhroughou. the
world the spirit OF Jesus Christ becomes
more dominant. not only in business or IN
politics alone, but in the smaller affairs OF
everyday life. In answering your second
query ] hate 20 believe. and do not be
lieve. that ii is diSadvantag>ous 20 any
man in any calling 20 be a professin<
Christian. I am firm In the conviction
that the time will never come In this conn
Try when man in high position VIII hes
itate to speak frankly and freely 20 such
questions as you PROFOUND"
Il believe it is strong advantage for
public man to-day to be a processing
Christian" wrote Clifford Pinchot. chief
government forester. 1T gives him conf
dence in himself and IL gives others conf
dence in him
Others who answered the questions eS-
pressing belief in the growth OF Christian
ity and its influence IN public affairs were
Woodrow Wilson. president Of Princeton
University; Or, Lyman Abnott and Speaker
Joseph 6. Cannon
Theological students used 10 take four
years course on hell. but now they take
four years course in higher criticism
learning TO interpret ths book of Genesis
a. in the beginning God created prote-
piasm. after which he created tsdpoles
and monkeys
Brooklyn Tabernacle, preached this after
noon at the Auditorium on the subject o.
The Thief in Paradfse-Lazarus II Abrs-
hams Bosom and the Rich Man in He'll
He said the churches lost members be-
cause Christians were antagonized BY high
er criticism on one hand and eternal dam
nation on the other.
This he'll of which our fathers used 80
tell Us is a felton," he said Well mean
ing but ignorant professors OF Theology
USED to teach it. Their we'll meaning bur
ignorant successors are trying to gratr
evolution on 20 the Bible. We must not
fall between these two stools. There Is but
one way-that is the Christ There is bur
one eternal truth-that is the Iovs OF God "
The stalls. boxes and first TWO balconies
of the Auditorium were filed by Mr.. Rus
sells audience. He will speak tomorrow
in st. Paul.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
COLUMBIA FIVE AWAITS SIGNAL.
Ready for Season. S Opening Basketball
Game with Princeton.

Columbia will enter its tenth year of
basketball next Friday night, when Prince
ton will be encountered in the gymnasium
on Morningside Heights. There has been
q boom in this sport among the colleges.
AT Columbia, although none of the big
four has played so far, the average at
teIdance has been close to two thousand,
and this crowd has been strictly a college
crowd.
Princeton was the first varsity team that
Columbia ever met at basketball, and when
the two teams meet on Friday there will
be some special doings to celebrate the de-
oennial of the sport. The Tigers have al
ways been tough opponents and some OF
Inc most interesting games that the local
i've has ever played have been with the
New JerseyiteS.
In 1901, when the first game was played
in TigertoWn, the Orange and Black com
bination was drawn from the football team.
Captain Pell and Bill Roper. recently head
coach of the eleven, were two of the play
ers who helped to defeat Columbia that
day. Later in the year the New Workers
turned the tables in their own gym"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
b. & O. CONSPIRACT.
Tool Tells of "Jobs
Done for 80 Cents.

Baltimore. Jan. with the arrest to-
day OF Charles ". Gruber and John B. Ken
ney, there are now in custody seven men
charged with completely In attempts 10 de-
stroy property of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. and with other offences. All of
the arrests grew out of an effort to wreck
a bridge of the company in this city on
Friday night
The other five men under arrest are w.
H. Zimmerman. William b Shipley. III. w.
Leightner William II. Ames and Harry u.
Madden, arrested last night. Zimmerman,
Shipley, Leightner and Anies are held under
bail Of $40 900 each. The others will have
hearing tomorrow.
Gruber is the man in whose house detec-
tives found a quantity of dynamite yester-
day. which one of the accused men said
had been taken there. Kenney is youth
OF seventeen years. and from his story ap-
pears to have been the tool of others in the
perpetration of outrages against the rail-
road company. He is said to have told the
detectives that it was he who, during the
more active days of the recent strike of the
railroad machinists, threw d brick that
fractured the skull of Frank ". Wilger, a
watchman in the employ of the company.
Wilger is still in hospital, and until to-
day no clue had been obtained by the police
to the identity of his assaiIant.
kenney says Zimmerman paid him 80
cents to throw the brick, and aftcrward
congratulated him on doing a good job
He also says that he and Zimmerman made
an attempt to blow up the riverside round
house of the railroad company soma time
ago, when they accomplished nothing more
than the breaking of several hundred panes
of window glass. He received 80 cents for
this work also. AS a result of this state
ment an additional charge of conspiracy
has been placed against Zimmerman.
Ames, who is one of the vice presidents
of the strikers union, is said to be a Chi
cago man
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
PUZZLES DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
Man Thinks He Was Deceived at Sale
of Unclaimed Articles.

Washington. Jan. .. Why is a plain
gold painted Canadian, penny with ring
attached called medal? Why should
two hundred thousand souvenir postcards
be officially designated merely as 20 box
or postcards? Why should three hun
dred pounds Of metal which has been
floating about in the mails unclaimed be
catalogued as just miscellaneous brass
articles and castings?
These and other questions are asked by
c. II. Roeder. of Silver Spring, Md, in d
, letter protesting to the Postoffice De-
partment that the Dead Letter Office in
its catalogue for the recent annual auction
sale. concealed real values and magnifed
trifies. Mr.. Roeder says the methods used
at the sale were unfair and abridged his
constitutional rights as a citizen. Having
been advised that the departments in
quiries failed to substantiate his charges,
he declares he will ask for an inyestiga-
tion by Congress. ~r-r,
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
% MISSIONARIES PLEDGED.
Men and Women Students Show En-
thusiasm at Volunteer Convention

Rochester, Jan. 2.-Crowdng the plat
form of the convention hall at the close OF
the sixth quadrennal international con-
vention of the student volunteer move
ment tonight, ninety-two college and
university students offered themselves for
service foreign missionaries They in
cluded young women from Vassar, Welles-
ley and the Womens College of Baltimore,
and men from Harvard, Yale and Johns
Hopkins University.
These volunteers expect to leave for
their fields within the next year under the
direction of various church boards. China
as field of labor appealed to most of the
students. forty students volunteering for
that country. Ten men and women Of
fered to go to Africa and nine to India
and volunteers for other countries were as
follows: Philippines, one; Japan, four;
Russia, one; Corea, one; Alaska, one:
Siam. one: Moslem countries, fourteen
Other students said they would go wher-
ever sent
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
-FOUR DIE IN FIRE.
B1ase in Jersey City Tenement
Imperllled Many Lires.

For lives we're lost ard three persons
were seriously hurt in the fire at NO ool
Montgomery street, Jersey City, early yes
,erday morning. The dead are Anthony
PssqueIls, twenty years old, who was fatal
" hurt by jumping from a window OF ms
apartments on the fourth floor TO the SIDE
walk; his wife. Mrs. Jennie Fasqueild,
nineteen years Old who, with their daughter
Annie six months old, was found dead IN
the front room on the fourth floor after the
fire was under control and Barnadina west
two months old. who died shortly after her
rescue.
The injured are Mrs. Annie West. the
mother of Bernadlna. who was burned on
the face and hands and had eyes injured;
Thomas FerneII. of No. 213 Mercer street,
who was burned about the head and on the
hands. and inquired by jumping from sec
end story window. and Mrs. Margaret Don
nelly. eighty-four years old, of No 32s
Montgomery street. who went out 70 help
her burned out neighbors and returning fell
down stairs in her own home.
The fire was in four story brick double
tenement, owned by Mrs. Annie Oxley and
occupied by eight families. Appearances
show that the fire started in the first floor
hall. That floor. the street door and the
bottom stairway were burned TO charcoal
A man passing saw smoke coming out at
tho front door and windows and he turned
in an alarm at Montgomery and Varick
streets
When the cry Of fire rang out all the
tenants were asleep except Mrs John
Oxley, who was nursing her son Harry,
seven years old, who was i'll from scarlet
fever All the stairwsys were soon blazing.
The Pasquellas and Mrs. West swoke too
late to gain the fire escape, but the Oxleys
escaped that way. Mrs John Oxley going
down the fire escape with her sick son on
her back
Patrolnen Charles Traynor and John
Kenny. of the City Hall Precinct. who were
going home in plain clothes, jumped from
a passing trolley car. ana Joseph Brennan,
of No. 4ie York street. and Thomas Fennell,
of No. 21S Mercer street. got into the burn
ing house through John Oxley's store, on
the ground floor, and climbing the fire
escape. gave timely assistance. When the
first OF the engines arrived a great blaze
shot up from the roof and the crowd in the
streets saw Pasauella raise a fourth floor
window and drop down sixty feet to the
sidewalk. He struck upon his side and lay
moaning. He was carried into house and
the City Hospital ambulance was called.
After the third alarm was given Mrs.
Annie West appeared at a third story win
dow. calling for help. The firemen and
crowd saw her baby in her arms and called
out to her not to Jump. Ladders were
quickly got to her windows and Captain
Cooney and Patrolman Amman carried the
baby down Captain Rudolph Braun and
Fireman Kugman. who came with an en-
gine from the hill on the third alarm. as
sisted Mrs. West down the ladder. The
baby died in her arms few minutes later.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
DEMOCRATS ELECT REPUBLICAN.

Despite the fact that the Bergen County
Board OF Freeholiers reorganized a Hack
ensack yesterday with a Democratic ma
jority of fifteen to eleven. with one indie
pendent vote. the Republican candidate
for clerk, with a salary of s2,500. was
chosen by vote of is to IL. The fortu-
nate officer was Harry Shuart. of Ramsey.
who was reelected after having served
since last June. following the death of
W n. Taylor.
The County Democratic Committee urged
the election of all Democratic candidates.
but the vote by ballot allowed Several
Democrats 10 show their appreciation of
the excellent Services rendered by Clerk
Shuart Freeholder r. Stanley Clarke re-
signed from the board, due. IT is said. to
the recent death of his father, Dumont
Clarke.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
MAY ADMIT NEGRO PAINTERS,

IL was announced yesterday that prepara-
tions were being made in this city and
other places by the local of the Brother
hood of Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers to take vote on a recommenda-
tion by its national officers on the abo-
tion of the color line that negroes might
become members. The voting is TO begin
this week. The national body has also de-
cided to give local autonomy TO the paper
hangers branch Of the brotherhood Many
years ago the members of the Paperhang-
ers' Union could earn so or so week on
piecework when trade was good. but when
il was forced into the brotherhood the
wages went down.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
SINGLE TAKERS CELEBRATE.
Fifteenth Anniversary Of Fair Hope
Colony Observed
IBy Telegraph 20 The Tribune

tby Telegraph 20 me lr1Duhe
Mobile Jan. 2-The fifteenth anniversary
OF the founding OF Fair Hope. the single
tax colony of Baldwin County, was cele-
brated last evening by members of the coll
ony and numerous invited guests
Upton Sinclair was the principal speaker
Mrs. NJ L. Johnston also spoke. Among
other speakers were Joseph Fels, of Phila-
delphia, disciple of the Henry George
theory, and one of the strongest supporters
of the colony; Fl. +. Ring. formerly of
Houston, Tex, and Daniel Keifer, of Cin-
cinnati- L. f. CASTOR was master of cere-
monies.
Fifteen years ago Mr.. CASTOR said, there
was only a log cabin on the site Of the col
ony. Then came the single takers, and,
through their thrift and energy. a town of
eight thousand inhabitants, with modern
schools and other buildings, was founded
More than three hundred guests attended
a dinner, which brought the celebration TO
a close
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
BOY FINDS FATHER DEAD.
Real Estate Operator Overcome by Gas
in His Office.

Bloomfield, \. j., Jan. August Ernst,
fifty-eight years old. a real estate or
orator, of Spring street. was found dead
in his office near his home this afternoon,
q victim of illuminating gas. Ernst ate
his breakfast at home this morning and
then left the house, saying he was going
down 10 his Office. He told his son to come
down to the Office and tell him when dinner
was ready.
Shortly after l O'Clock the boy went TO
the office. and was Mortified TO find his
father lying on the floor and the place
filed with gas. He found that gas was
pouring from heater in the room, the
tube of which had been disconnected He
promptly summoned a doctor. but the lat
ter said the man was dead. II is believed
that Ernst was stricken with an attack of
vertigo, and in falling struck the tubing
disconnecting II from the heater and thus
allowing the gas 10 pour into the room
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03

house when the shooting occurred. and IL
Is supposed that Sehwann first shot the
woman and then himself.
Mrs Frick lived with Schwann and his
wife at No. % Holland street. Saturday
night a quarrel broke out, and Mrs
Schwsnn fed from the house. as she had
done ON previous occasions. Later Mrs
Frick fell in front of nearby drug store
and died soon after in the hospital. the
only injury was a small mark under her
chin. apparently caused by the fau'
sochwann was found dead in the house,
with blood running from his mouth. His
death was ascribed to a hemorrhage ana
the woman's 10 heart failure. The autopsy
showed that both had been shot re-
volvcr was found in the room where
Schwann lay. but at distance of several
feet from the bed. Mrs. Schwsnn and
William Frick. son of the dead woman,
were held as witnesses.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
MANY HOUSES RENTED.

Post & Reese nave rented the following
houses. and apartments: No. 81 East 72d
street. for Grace Barton Cuyler TO a Mrs.
FIR deric Jackson for a term of years; No
1O@ East Goth street. for Henry t. Ander-
son TO Or. Henry Belt No. West 4Sth
street, tor L. Stuart Wing to Paul Tucker
man; No. % East 18th street, tor Mrs. John
7lst street, FOR Mrs. William AIetcalf RIiss
10 Joseph Stout; apartment No. 9O1 IoX
lngton avenue. for Mavina H. Cornell tn
+. c. Bishop: No 1886 East 9th street fo,,
William Nj. Hoes to Veryl Preston No. III
East esd street, for Annie McC Smith ~,
Ne. IS East 74th street, IN conjunction viii,
Horace s. Ely a Co. to Mrs. Kunkel fo,,
a term of years; No 81 East 54tn stree
furnished, for Mrs &. &. Moore To no,
Sage; No az East Esd street. for 4. Wr,eht
Pest 10 MIS-. Ada Van Tpsael Ellington e"'
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
WOULD BE STATE HANGMAN.
Ex-Deputy Sheriff of Pennsylvania Has
a Curious Ambition.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune


Pittsburg, Jan. "A state hangman for
Pennsylvania will be proposed In bill TO
be presented in the next Legislature for
passage
Edward SwaPtwOod, an eX-deputy sheriff
of Pittsburg, who has himself hanged
twenty-one murderers. is having an attor-
pey draw the bill, and admits that he will
seek the hangman's job If ii is created
Swartwood believes that executions from
the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania
should be confined to the state prisons at
Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and that some
experienced hangman should be employed
by the year TO attend to all these hangings
thereby relieving county sheriffs of their
most disagreeable duty.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
RED BANKS NEW OFFICIALS.

Red Bank. \. j.. Jan. (SpeciaD.-Ths
Republicans returned 10 power yesterday
for another year. when Charles II. Root
resumed the Office or Mayor. Mayor Root
announced the following appointments:
Borough Clerk. \. c. Harrison: Counsel.
John s. Applegate. jr.; Collector Or. VIII
lam VI. Thompson; Supervisor of Water
Department, William II. Houston: Super
visor OF Streets and Sewers. James Nor
man; Borough Recorder. James IT. SickIes.
Borough Physician. Or. y. ri. Garrison:
OVerSeer of the Poor. Albert Mcqueen and
Chief OF Police. J. Frank Patterson.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
CIGARETTE; PALM; BLAZE.
Flat Dweller Knew Nothing of Fire
Until Policeman Arrived.

A cigarette, carelessly thrown in the dry
moss at the base Of a big artificial palm
sn the apartments OF Mrs. Christopher
Wolfe. on the top floor Of the Soncy
apartments, at No. 80 Nest 57th street.
set fire 70 the plant last night. A passer-
BY who saw smoke curling from the win
nows Of the apartment called up the East
6ist street station, and Patrolman Prayer
was sent over with Fireman Gilman, of
Engine Company 65.
They found Mrs Wolfe in a rear room
OF her apartment, ignorant OF any fire and
snclined TO insist that there was none.
They investigated, however, aud found the
artificial palm smouldering away and
sending up a big volume Of smoke in pro-
portion TO its size. They cxtinguished the
blaze