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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
WRECKS CAR TO SAVE WOMAN
Chauffeur Smashes Auto Against Motor
Bus in Emergency.

In an effort to avoid running down Mary
Gushing. OF No. 81 Van Dam street, at
broadway and l35th street, yesterday
Frederick Rau. a chauffeur wrecked his
employers automobile by running into the
rear OF motor bus. Miss Gushing was
struck a glanoing blow by the mudguard
and thrown down. She was taken to the
J. Hood Wright Hospital in passing auto
mobile and is suffering from Commissions OF
the body.
Rau is employed by Henry S. Hollender
OF No. 2s3 Hudson street who was in the
automobile when the accident took place.
Rau was thrown out. but was not injured.
The passengers on the motor bus were
shaken up and the bus was damaged
slightly in the rear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
Crowds Press Police Reserves.

% The crowds had, been so augmented in
the streets by this time that the reserves
from three precincts had strenuous work 10
keep them out OF the danger zone. Along
the river front also the crowds watched the
progress OF the flames for more than two
hours.
In the rear Of the burning buildings at
Nos. % and 81 Cornelia street, more than
p hundred horses IN the stables Of the
Evening Sun Publishing Company We're
held ready in their stalls 10 be set at lib-
erty. This was not necessary. however. as
the building was well doused with water.
Eight high pressure engines pumped
many thousands OF gallons OF water into
the burning buildings. and after q battle
OF more than two hours the FIRE was under
control II is estimated that the damage
will amount 20 10000
While leaving her apartment IN Nc II
Jones street out OF which she had been
ordered by the police and hremen. Mrs.
Annie Longman. carrying her four year-old
daughter. Lillian. fell into an areaway.
She was picked up by Patrolnan Scanlon,
- rho Charles street station. and was at
tended ny Or. Mcneil. o. st. Vincents
Hospital. who found her suffering from a
sprained back She was removed to a
neighbors house. The child was uniniurec.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
LAY CHURCH's CORNERSTONE
Presbyterians to Build for the Rev. e.
y. D'Anchise, in The Bronx.

In the presence of large crowd FRO
lessor William Adams Brown. chairman OF
the home missions committee OF the Pres
bytery OF New York. laid the cornerstone
of the Presbyterian Church of the Holy
Trinity, at $3.50 street and Morris avenue.
The Bronx, yesterday afternoon.
Long before the time scheduled for lay
ing the stone a large crowd gathered. and
ty o'clock il was estimated that there
were more than five hundred persons pres
ent. An Italian band supplied the music.
The church has a congregation OF more
than one hundred. and the Rev. g. j..
D'Anchise is pastor. Addresses were made
by the Rev. u. J. Mcmillan. the Rev. Nor
man Thomas and the Rev. William l..
Schrver. secretary of the home missions
committee of the Presbytery Of New YORK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
PERFORMANCE FOR INVALIDs.

II is not often that the three hundred IN
mates Of the Montchore Home for Chronic
Invalids have an opportunity 70 witness
an athletic exhibition. but on Tuesday A.
ternoon. May 10, they will see ten genuine
sons Of the desert, Sic Hassan Ben Airs
troop OF Toozoonn Arabs. 60 through their
tumblng, jumping and pyramid building
tricks. The request came 70 iassan
through a friend. and he referred il to the
Arabs at Coney Island, where they are
ouartered. They unanimously voted 10 go
and asked the privilege Of paying their own
fare 70 and from the home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
INDEPENDENT FIRMS YIELD
Metal Trades Association Will Continue
to Fight the Strike.

The striking maohinists who demanded
the eight-hour workday held a series of
shop meetings yesterday in Manhattan,
Brooklyn. Hoboken and Jersey city. Sixty
Of the independent firms have granted the
eight-hour demand, 1t was reported last
evening. There was no break in the ranks
Of the New York and New Jersey Metal
Trades Association. which H. fighting the
demand, along with a number II he larg
est Of the independent firms.
IT was said on behalf Of the employers
organization that. beginning with today,
new men will he put to work in tie plants
affected by the strike a. last ~ men are
needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
LEFT 475,000 MILES BEHIND
Rath Expects to Get $4,000 When He
Completes 100000.

Julius Rath twenty-eight years old,
dressed in khaki and decorated with beads,
dropped into the ship News Office 81 the
Battery yesterday and asked the way to
Governors Island. He was accompanied
by a good-natured hybrid whose mother
was a wolf, whose father was an Esquimau
dog and whose place of birth was some
where near Sitka, Alaska.
Rath has contract 70 travel 10000 miles.
He has covered in eighteen years $4,000
miles. having been in every state and terri
tory in the Union and every country on the
globe. He Is not allowed 10 beg. borrow or
steal II he goes back TO st. Louis after
completing the 10000 miles. accomps MED
by a dog and 500. the 81. Louis Club. he
says, Will give him $4,000. Originally he
was a newsboy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
F|REMEN FALL AT BLAZE
Five Unconscious from Smoke
When Found by Comrades.
CHIEF KENYON IN CHARGE
Jones Street Loft Building Fur
nishes Lower West Side
Spectacular Sight.

The lower West Side section OF the city
was treated 10 a spectacular sight last
night when the big six story loft building
running from No 10 No. II Jones street
took fire. The flames. beginning on the
second floor. raced toward the roof and
cent their columns Of light shooting into
the night air, casting a glow for many
blocks. and momentarily threatened to
spread 10 other buildings in the vicinity
chief Kenlon had his second biz fire since
he has been promoted 10 the head of the
uniformed force. He raced TO the burning
building on the first alarm, and after see
ing that the fire promised TO be stub
horn one he turned in two more alarms.
lie directed the work of mis- men and sue
ceeded in preventing the flames from en-
croachlng on adjoining buildings. Under
his orders abe tenants Of Nos. 2. 4, ana
IL Jones street were told 10 go into the
streets when il appeared as though the
flying embers might start fire in those
buildings.
The fire was first discovered by Patrol
man Murray, of the Charles street police
station. at o'clock. Murray saw the
flames coming from the third floor and sent
in an alarm. lie then raped for assist
snce and broke down the doors Of No. ~.
AS he did so the draft thus created sent
out column Of dense smoke, and the
patroinan was almost overcome, lie was
soon joined by other parolmen, who kept
the crowds away from the fire
Smoke Overcomes Firemen.
F'iremen Foster. Irwin. Bensinger and
Sweeney and Lieutenant Decker of Engine
q, were overcome by the smoke and We're
attended by Dr. Mcneil. Of st. Vincent's
Hospital. They had been working on the
second floor. in the offices of the Knicker-
booker Machine Company. when the heavy.
suffocat.ng smoke proved too much for
them. They fell unconscious in the centre
OF the floor and probably would have been
burned 10 death had they not been rescued
by men from other companies. The uncon-
scious men were carried TO the windows on
the second floor and passed down the lad
ders TO the street. They returned TO their
posts after they had been attended by the
ambulance surgeon.
After consuming everything infamma bic
on the second floor the flames made their
way 10 the third. which Is occupied by the
Globe Laundry Company. When this floor
had been Quilted the fire sprang out on the
fourth floor, occupied by Schramm & SILL
verstein. paper box manufacturers. Here
the flames found easie~ material to feed
upon. and I'm few minutes had burned
everything except the walls
The fire then ate its way rapidly to the
roof and spread 10 Nos. and 10. on either
side. Chief Kenlon and his men had a des-
perste battle at this time as the flying
sparks We're continually falling upon the
roofs OF the neighboring tenement houses
II was only by playing many streams of
water on these buildings that the fire was
defeated in its efforts TO enlarge It's sphere
Of destruction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
State Commission Praised.

The work of the last state commission
is treated as follows:
During the last eight months or 1910 the
etate Commission made comparatively few
chanqes of classification. The important
extensions to additional counties and 10
seven villages made prior to the last re-
port OF this committee carried the classl,
Sed service a. far as In the Judgment of
,La commission Il was practicable To apply
il at present Its report shows that dur
ing the six years Il had been retained IN
office the classified service UNDER us lnine-
positiCns an increase Of 10 per cent. the
number q competitive positions hsd IN
crea sed from 1850 70 1.i20 and the number
~ candidates In examinations from 923 to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08

1868 Many important improvements
methods of examination and admin TIM
committees desires 10 expires SO its app.,',,oao
ton Ct the energy and devotion OF pr, Of
OF Commissic ner Roscoe G. r.. brv"d In
New York Citv. who took the Ieaua ,rn
measures for strengthcning and extending
the administration OF the merit system, ,aii,i
with whom Commissioner Charles Yen.
ken, OF Canandaigua, with but Few eN''P
tons, worked in entire accord
The report is signed by Samuel h. oru-
way. chairman, and Elliott II. Goooina"'
secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
BLOW TO CIVIL SERVICE
Reformers See in Charter De-
struCtion of Merit System.
DEMOCRATS GET PATRONAGE
State Supervision of Municipal
Commission Essential to Keep
It Out of Politics.

The annual report OF the executive com
mittee OF the Civil Service Reform ASST
citation criticises the Civil Service pro-
visions contained In the so-called Gayho'
charter, highly commends Commissione'
Ludvigh for "the courageous stand he mas
taken in opposition to his colleagues OH
requests for wholesale exemptions from
competition" adding that he is therefore
entitled TO great credit, and iustifies the act
OF the association In publishing RESOLUTIONS
calling for the removal of Commissioners
Kraft and Burton.
About the Gayncr charter the report
says
The proposed new charter for New o. OH
City, which is popularity known as w
Gaynor cnarter. although the Mayor haS
pointed out that he took but bttlt Pe.t a -.
the aCtua. drafting of 1t. was lhtIo l'I =.
by Senator cullen and Assemblymah o',s
on March 81. The fact that the charter -
net Mayor Gaynor's own WORK may acccus'
for It's startling civil Service proNisionn,
which are so dlametrcaliy opposed 10 Wy
merit system. The ASSOCIATION ~ utter!
opposed to the proposed charter In lts
present form, and it's law committee Ids
been authorized to act for IL IN conjunction
with other civic bodies in the enort 10 ns
feat N unless the Objectionable tlNi SCI
vice provisions are eliminated. Iney are
wholly destructive of the merit system do
II has been built up through r. long series
of years in this city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
THOUSAND CHICKENS BURNED

About one thousand chickens were burned
10 death yesterday in fire that DESTROYED
the storage platform in the Erie Railroad
poultry yard at Weehawken. ~ ]. The fire
is supposed 10 have been Of incendiary orr.
gin. There we're several hundred freight
cars In the YARD, but they were taken on,
by means Of locomotives to places OF safety
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
POLICE SEEK MISSING GIRL.

A general alarm was sent out yesterday
by the police for Annie Croly. seventeen
years old, a telephone operator, who has
been missing from her home at No. 33l
East 10Th street since Friday. According
to the girls father. she had s. when last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08

The foregoing summary Of the results OF
the operations Of the companies for the
last year shows that 1910 did not prove
very profitable one: the material increase
in fire losses and the relatively low values
OF securities both had Their effect In re-
ducing the amount of the increase In sur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
Eliminates State Control.

The ayowed object of the clauses Inaer
the headings Municipal civil Service COM
mission" and The Classified Service -
to eliminate ths supervision and control
now exercised by the state civil Service
Commission over the local commission
Such supervision Is absolutely essential 10
prevent the merit system from becoming
the football In the game of local poAtlIs.
Experience elsewhere-in Philadelphia AZ
the present time for instance-has SHOWN
this beyond any doubt. Massachusetts anu
New Jersey have but one commission APP
pointed by the Governor exercising lurls-
diction In all classified cities. State super
vision does not seriously interfere with local
administration and does not impair local
initiative The state has an absolute right
TO provide for the carrying out or gen
eral policy established by general law ana
founded on n provision OF the constitution
embracing all cities and other civil divisions.
Such supervision Is no more obnoxious 10
the theory OF home rule than supervision
over local authorities by state boards OF
education, health aid charities. and Is
equally necessary to uniform and enlcient
administration. II extends TO every city
OF the state. but the new charter would
make it imperative In New York City
alone. This Is the reductio ad absurdum
OF home rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
FIRE INSURANCE REPORT
Companies Operating in State
Have $3.50, $50. 756 Assets.
YEAR OF LITTLE PROFIT
Laws to Prevent Such Disasters
as Asch Building Fire
Favored.

Albany, May IA summary OF the busi-
ness OF fire, marine and marine insur-
ancc companies operating In this state dur
ing 1910, contained in Part OF the annual
report OF the State Insurance Department,
Hotchkiss, shows that at the close Of the
year the POI fire. fire-marine and marin ,
insurance comps MES doing business I'm New
York had s5s3.6JO756 Of admitted assets not
including assets held abroad nor premium
notes OF mutual companies. This Is an in
crease OF more than si1 10000. az compared
with the financial returns OF the same COM
panies for 1909. The liabilities OF these
companies excepting scrip and capital.
were s3l6, 4s6,560. an Increase of some S20-
700 900 over those of the preceding year.
The total income was s332. 321. 23l and dis
bursements 1898, ,166. an increase as com
pared with 1909 CT about si5.Oco0o0 in income
and nearly sS,OoO.0OO in disbursements.
Premium receipts increased about $500
900. while losses paid increased s13, 600 0o).
The unpaid losses show slight Increase
over 1909 The total amount Of insurance
in force at the end OF 1910 was nearly sH.-
500 100000, an increase over the previous
year Of about $4,000, 900.
The total result Of the companies under
writing and investment returns shows that
the 20i fire, 1re-marine and marine insur-
ance companies reporting to this depart
ment for the year 1910 made an underwrit-
ing gain of s1S,s26,339. The gain from in
vestments OF these companies was N4,A2,-
sie. a total OF 1913. 400. 1856. from which must
be deducted a loss In surplus of 81, 0lS.523
on account of dividends paid, changes I'm
special reserves and balance OF remittanccs
to and from home Offices Of fire and
marine companies Of other countries. MAX
ing the total net gain In surplus for the
year So, 450,s62.
The fire companies wrote In the State Of
New York during 1910 So 5sl OF insu:-
ance, an increase of about s}0t,co,0oo over
the previous year. The excess OF fire pre-
miums received over fire losses incurred
and estimated expenses on New York State
business for the year was 2s0S, and is
classified as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08

New York State companies. 80 Gao 80
Companies Of other states. ............ 3.083, 81
branches Experimentation. 2,5so. 50
Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-07
From

mating and deducing. saf ft toog time to get the evidence.
 Burns left San Francisco ard came east and was preparing 10 take a European trip for the government, when he got 8 wire rom Chief Wilkie to report in Washington. Wilkie had been sent for jy Seci e. tary Of the Interior HitcheccS who informed him that extensifc land frauds involving millions of dolisrs had been discovered.
 Land Fraud Cases.
 They started Burns out on Nav i, 1905. and it was not until Sebten,- Der, 1906. that his task vas finish ed. resulting in the conv;e,ion Of United States Senator Nitsneli of Oregon. and a number Of very r. om- inent millionaires. business ;nd professional men of she r fife coast.
 Burns played large part in The labor troubles in the Couer z afene district, Idaho. and was instramen.3l in obtaining a confession rom Hen ry Orchard. a confession os murder and outrage similar to fae .Onfee,- sions alleged to have been si med from Ortie McAIanigal in the present los Angeles dynamiting sase
 The warfare waged in SaE Fran cisco against the graft Of @noss" Abe Ruef, Mayor Sehmitz and Oti- CTS was conducted through Burns efforts. backed by the stFonc arm Of the law as administered 5s Fran cis ! Heney Rurns yaS allowed ff, go to the coast by order of President Roosevelt, and for three years he dag around that city, where he a5- tained enough evidence to send a goodiy number of eraftsrs to jail for long sentences.
 Burns never carries 'ssoiscr, relying on his diplomacy and txtert skill as a prize fighter to get him out of any scrapes that he may en- counter. Threats of assassin jon e treats with contempt and he has had had his portion of them.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-07
(ny Jonathan Winfleld.l )

WASHINGTON. May 6.-The fs- fure of the Philippine Islands is to ne given serious consideration by the democratic majorll, os t...-. .:- congress, if plans are formulated by democratic representatives interest. ed in the islands to carry at the next caucus, which is scheduled for the first part of May.
 What the democratic members of the house and senate desire is neu- talization Of the islands by & treaty 10 be negotiated by the world pow CTS. In fact. it is their desire. to make of the Philippines a govern nlent similar to that of Switzerland, all of the nations of the world pledg- ed to it's maintenance, with the isi- ands eliminated as war prey
 The three democratic members mostly interested in the program are Representative Cox of Ohio, Rep resentative Cline of Indiana and Representative Martin of Colorado. The latter directed attention to the Philippines in the last congress in connection with the sale of vast tracts of friar lands to former off cials of the sugar trust The sale was held to be legal by the republi- can majority of the last congress, condemned by the then democratic minority. and Representative Martin has begun the unwinding of the leg isiative red tape in this session to have similar sales estopped by leg al enactment
 Representative Cline is the author of a resolution. now pending, grant ing independence to the islands.
 The Entering Wedge.
 Representative Cox has an enter ing wedge for Philippine independ- ence in his resolution calling upon the war department for an itemized statement showing the cost to the United States of the islands since the Spanish-American war. He is of the opinion. frankly expressed, that the islands have not been of the slightest value to this country, and will prove q serious menace in the event of war with Japan. Military experts of all the world powers are unanimously of the opinion that the Philippines are at present a weak ness in the defense of the United States, should a war involve in this | NCNf a prediction that is unanimous, that eventually the United States will have to fight Japan.
 War with Japan would mean the loss of the islands within week, for in that period. Japan could rush more soldiers into the islands than we have in our regular army and mi litia organizations combined. The United States, it is said, would nev- CT cease fighting until the islands were regained.
 "A war under these conditions" said Representative Cox, would have one of two endings: first, a long drawn out fight that would seriously attack the resources Of the nation and prove far more cost ly than the civil war. or else 9 de feat such as no proud nation has ever felt in the worlds history.
 People "crszy" For lnderendenee.
 The Filipino people are crazy
Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-07
fBy Roderick Clifordl ]

WASHINGTON, May 6.-WiIiiam J. Buns. the detective who is re- sponsible for causing the arrest of J. J. McNamara and his brother. James. and eOrtie MoManigal, on charges growing out of the dyuamit- ing outrages in Los Angeles, Cali fornia. is. perhaps. one of the best known sleuths at the present time in this country. The story of his fife as a great detective rivals some Of ertons, or of Old King Brady, fas idol of the dime novel readers.
 His real first detective wos k started with the secret service branch of the United States govern nent iH 1880. when he received an appointment for work in the wesF, Indian territory, Texas, Arkansas and the south Within a short time he was placed in charge of this dis tricf and. on account of excellent work. he was transferred four years after his appoiatneRt to Washing ton. where he was given a rowing commission He was put on the famous Hrockway- -Brafiford- Courtney rase in New York, a eoanterfeiting case.
 BrockEay was celebrated coun- terfeiter. His speciality was counter letting notes or large denominations, one favorite being $100G note. He obtained an impression of this plate through the cupabllity of a wo'lan ernFsioye of the bureau of engraving and printing. who ran a sheet of finfoiI through the press when talk ing an impression of the plate. He had an eIectrotype made from tIss .lnfoll impression, printed the platts, and circulated them with such sue ccss that the government actually accepted Ss0.e00 worth of them bo for,s lt suspected that anything was wrong. Later on. they had to send for Charles ririch. an old time coun-