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DEPOSITORS
TO PRESS CHARGES
Brooklyn DepositOrs Prepare
List Of Accusations Against
state Department.
TROUBLE OVER POLITICS

\ committee OF thirty depositors ~
the old Union Bank Of brooklyn had an
hours conference yesterday with Fred
erick J. Groehl. who was appointed ny
Gov. Whitman to investigate the State
Banking Department. Louis Gold
stein. an Assistant District Attorney in
Kings county. represented the deposit
tors.
The meeting WAS held in the Criminal
Courts Building, but beginning to-mor-
row Mr.. Groehl will have his confer
ences in the Woolworth Building, where
he has taken offices.
In presenting tho side Of the dcposl-
tors Mr.. Coldstoin said tho principal
charges agains; the department are:
That the Banking Department had
been used for political purposes.
That Investigators had been APP
pointed in the department who were
untitled to hold Office,
That compromises and investments
had been made by the department
which were not in accordance with the
best interests OF the depositors.
ildN ! u ~ lnr IT.
p~ositors considered themselves entitled
were being unduly deferred.
That the Banking Department had
refused to consult with the Dispositions
a. to proposed action and had not
kept the ~depositors duly informed of
what II was doing.
Mr.. Gold-'ein said the dcposi,ors had
received n great deal of consideration at
the hands of State Banking Superin-
tendcnt Van Tuyl, who had preceded Eu-
gene Lamb Richards in the Office. Tic
also made the assertion that Mr.. Rich
ards had turned over to Charles f.
Murphy. Jr,. nephew of the Tammany
Hall leader, the insurance end OF the
business, and that William Sohmer, for.
mcr State Comptroller. had received a
valuable appointment from him.
Daniel W, quinn, n former examiner
in the department. has been appointed tc
take the place of Mr.. Dodge in the liqui.
dation of the affairs OF the Union Bank.
Mr.. Goldstein said this change was no
satisfactory to the depositois, for Mr.
Quinn has not tho same familiarity will
the affairs of the bank az had Mr.
lodge.
In concluding his presentation OF th'
matters to be- gore INTO Mr.. Gioldstcir
said that there was now on deposi
$3.50. 600. which, he thinks, should b,
distributed as dividends.
The depositors have lost faith in tn,
State Banking Department. declared
Mr., Goldstein. They believe that thu
office Is being used for political pur
poses and to All jobs"
In concluding the hearing Mr., Groch
said that he would begin his inquiry OF
the assumption that the affairs of tn,
state Banking Department had beer
well and properly handled. A thorough
investigation of all matters will be mad,
by him. he said. Mr.. Groehl has ar
ranged to meet "a number OF depositors
committees from other banks In his OF
fec tomorrow.
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q surface parallel to the surface exist
ing on October Ia, the date OF the last
complete survey, and lorty-hve fee.
below It, on which basis 10, 900, 900
cubic yards would be the quantity To-
be handled.
He thinks, however. that a mean
between the two amounts MAJ be more
nearly correct. which was the method
Of arriving at the 10000. 900 cubic yard
figure which has appeared I'm the press.
II is at best only a guess. II mus,
be inferred from this thp, the
canal vii, be closed until this amount
is dredged. for such Is not IN. case
on the contrary. /, is the intention d.,
pass ships rs soon rs , crnnrr, BE-
secured through the remaining &C.
feet. and there are reasonable gr..s-
for assuming that Il channel thrn.,l
the INSTRUCTED area can he miir,pHcI
1t Is certain that the |,roull.> ar,
due to the failure of undr-lyug ..f.t.
because these were unable tn tcp. .r.
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territory that cannot show clear bills OF
ownership. the villa cause mas p~rospered
during the mont just closed through
customs receipts at Juarez. Twenty
eight thousand head Of cattle were eN-
ported from Juarez through FL Paso
during November and from these villa
officials collected SO per head. or a total
OF saS0.00o.
Other export duties and receipts from
the races and gambling institutions in
Juarez more than brought The total to
$500. 600,
Another body Of Villa troops arrived
from Chihuahua city to-day Mt luarez
brlI.sing confirmation Of a report that
Gen. Luis Herrera. comm ul.ns a car
rama force. 'as occupied santa RrS1lIL
chihuahua, abuu, 10" miles out OF the
state capital
Practically 'le entire garrison ~
Juar"z las uoeu dIsarmed again. to IN
sure loyalty.
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VILLA HAS ONLY 1000
MEN, U. S. IS TOLD
Many DrsertiOnS Follow FIRE.
oucnt Defeats in Sonora
and chihuahua.

WASrING7oT. Dec. "a statement
ISSUED AZ The state Department to-day
regarding conditions generally In Mexico
described item IS steadily improving,
with a usyl'ne in the NIlla resistance II
said
'"rhe Dertrtmeni is Informed that
Gen. VITA appears from the best infor-
nation o~htainahle - Ice operating near
ures win about 1000 men. Tn" De-
partinout - informed that many Gescr-
tons from his command are taking place.
"tieu. RoiE .Eu"4 of the Nili.sld forces
was reported about the inst oi his
month 20 bt Operating west Of the
Nacoztii railroad wiki 500 men IN
tsliyiticr u|.rcctrd agains' h a line from
Frou,etss 10 Nl,oziri HIS fore" Is said
20 have h"rN rcpulscd at FTonterds on
December ''
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WILLS AND APPRAISALS.

JOHN REILLY, who died June so, lalI.
lctt $llJ,3i6, Of which sys.7i2 was In bank
deposits. lie gave the bulk Of tho estate
to his son John j. Reilly, and to grand
children,
BERNHARD ULMANN. who died No
vember ~ last a. Hienhead. !. left
moro than. voc, 900, He gave $50. o00 out
Of his daughters. Edna V. Necarsulmer ot
$50 Central Park West and Doris V. Jaeger
OF i2a West E'Shty-,iyth street. ~. 6nN.
An income. 81 $1,000 to his brother, Iud-
wig. and left $500 each to the United
Hebrew Charities, Society for Ethical Cul-
turs ana Mount sinai Hospital The lie.
brew. orphan Asylum and Montshore Home
got $4,000 each, and ~ 400 each went ~
the home for Aged and Intirm Hebrews.
the Hebrew Inhrmary and the German
Hospital.
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present mOVement will he taken away
long before the area involved could
be reached. Like the east side, sluic-
ing away from the direction OF the
prism is impracticable.
Tho conclusion reached. therefore,
was that the only method Of handling
he slides on The two banks Is to
remove the material from the prism
by drcdg,J as it comes in. The breaks
on the two banks are clearly defined.
and judging from experience with
other slides and breaks the limits of
the movement ave been reached.
Mr.. Macdonald, the geologist for
merry employed. passed through here
on his way to Costa Rlca three weeks
ago, and after going thoroughly over
the d reached ;he same conclusions
as to the limits tn which the sliding
would take place and the methods en-
ploycd for handling the material. His
profession. his intimate knowledge Of
the formation OF tho locality and his
experience with IL" various slides and
breaks make his opinions on the sub
ject Of value. lie also expressed the
belief that the troubles due to slides
would end with the removal OF the
material from those in progress.
When the break occurred in Octo-
Der. lHli. and the Subsequent break
Ing M Of the west bank became evil
den, II was decided to augment the
dredging fleet b> another fifteen yard
clipper drpdge and three 1000 cubic
| yard hargee, "a of which are now in
service. and the drcdges are handling
at the slide nearly l.00o.0 600 cubic
yards per month at a cost less than
80 cents per cubic yard.
As In the ampuOts involved. Ii is
difficult to make ans reasonable es-
Inmate. As already stated, when the
break occurred az c~Icaracha In 1913
Ii was estimated tlIat 1000. 900 cubic
yards were inv Owed, bat before the
movement ccascd i.6I?.23s cubic yards
were taken M ny steam shovels and
dredges. in addition TO upward of
900 600 cubic yards of material
which would have entered the prism
had IL not been removed by sluicng.
The .ength Of the slides. which ore
directly opposite each other, II APP
proximatelv ZOO feet (the channel
through which is navigablc with the
exception ~ 900 feetJ: the banks are
800 to $50 feet above sea level IN the
east and extend up to $50 feet above
sea level on the west. The area of the
territory affected on the east side
covers e~ighty-one acres and on the
west side IS.5 acres.
Btg job Ahead.
Assuming that all material lying
above planes extending from the out
side limits OF the bottom of the prism
reference 80. up to the limits OF the
breaks Will move into ire cut 1000,
600 cubic yards will have to be re.
moved before the slides are entirely
stopped. Mr.. Comber. resident engi
neer of the dredging division. assumed
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possible the movement had ceased
there wal no evidence of any further
movement and the d~esirability Of or
necessity for walls no longer existed.
Some of the sandstones and shales
in the cut when exposed to the air
disintegrate. but harden when kept
occurred the resulting soil would
grow grasses and vegetation. and
steps were taken TO protect the slopes
and the underlying material in this
way. assisting nature to some extent
in "A country whore vegetable growth
springs ny and expands rapidly.
Experiments were made with ce-
ment covering to the banks by the
cement gun and by concrete held in
place by rods embedded in the rock:
neither proved successful and they
were abandoned. When the use Of
concrete proved q failure the geologist
thought that experiment might de-
velop n solution which applied to the
face of the sandstones and shaies
would combine chemically with tho
substances In these rocks no as to
form a coating Of glass. Experiments
made. but no satisfactory solu-
ton was obtained.
Tightening the hanks.
With the breaks. except those which
occurred in the vicinity of La Pita
Point. tightening the banks. where this
could be done. sec ured good results, as
did also the sluicins of the ppe por-
lions of the hills around Cucaracha
slide into II valley on the opposite
side of the hills from the prism: but
in all other cases the only effectual
method found was to allow the mate
rial to enter the cut and remove IT by
the steam shovels. This procedure
has resulted in bringing all the slides
to a state of rest, and with the ex-
ception of those now active none of
them has given any trouble since, Cor
there has been no movement of any
Kind in any OF them after all the ma =
terial that was In motion had been re-
moved or come naturally To rest.
This was true Of slides and breaks
alike along the entire length of the
canal. With breaks Of the La Pita
Point type. since these were due To
the waters of tho diversion. the rem
edy lay in removing the cause by
turning the waters of the channel into
the cut.
Whe-l h water was turned into the
cut from Gatun Lake the only obstruc-
tons existing were the dixie at Gam
boa. Hagan's slide and Cucaracha
slide. There remained In addition, to
complete the excavation of the prism,
a portion of the I.lrio slide extending
beyond the chord at the angle In the
line Of the canal ut this point; u
bench that was left along the east face,
between points opposite Empire and
Lirio, until the tightening work on the
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GUEST OF
baron shibu N wa Din~a Also With
DR.. Takamine.

"'
Baron Shibusawa was the guest Of
Frank vander,n prssid.,, of tho
S.,,a,o, ci.. D..
- """" "' "''"''" ''H''''
DAY IN Mr. Nanderlips home in Ossining.
The other guests were NJ. Zumoto. the
por,,s sacr.,,rv and ,n,.rnr...r NJ
iV''"o""s"' "'''aser ot 'he ioH'o Specie
Bank. and Consul-Gcneral Nokamura.
After the luncheon the Baron was
.,,aa,,o, g. ,o,, at,,o ,u
~ ~
OF 'he TOXIC 'omnerc'W Schooi NJ 'he
Nippon club, l6l West N~lnety-third
stree, but hec.,se of tho nr,ss of on
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Il ana afraid" the Baron said, that
"" In Japan have not Yet come 10 the
y gi standard IF business manhood of
Americans. T. must Ice remembered that
.l Old Japan business was looked down
upon. 4 was even lower thar politics.
"" greatly need a gentlcman's educa-
to" ll business"
such "a lovely spirit" ''surh a positive
ar Jlo' were other phrases the Baron
applied 20 the friends he has met here.
N."u ur said Americans We're hunoring
III" Golden i!ule in business conduct one
- tHr listeners cried 'Iiincho, Hincho 80
According TO the Japanese theological
-t.l'ut Who sat beside and translated
. '". exporter for THE Sun, this means
N.u' liotr,'
Whenever | talk with American
men, f"v Baron went on, II feel their
.orI''tll character, And their religion
80 .'Ir tn my own teachings OF Con-
i...I. visited John Wanamaker's
..al. school. Later. with tears in his
'.' Nh Nanamakcr asked me to be-
.m' % Christian. Ec gave me "A Holy
I'.' win a sincere heart and | am
81. .'Il for it.
b. acquiring wealth our motive must
'' ' uulp others. That Is the way to
i.'N zap a great nation. such "A motive
..I5 POSSIBLE through religion. There
'' ..'nN beautiful faiths, Every man
p. ..t OIug To n Of them.
AIR. Nludmakor said he would like
..i"tt his life. That is one Of the
'.'-' ''lutIful things | ever heard Think
' having a life with nothing to be
..u"d ~
100 Interested IN business education
90" tltt commercial morality mag
. .-'I I'm our country, There lies tn,
.'.rtt Of progress, Our business
'.' "l has reached quite "A satisfac.
'i'|r, but one tning we especially
coral "ducation-the culture OF
= ,a.I'y.
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the cracks had been entire.y dug out.
When the excavation was completed
through the Culebra section all the
Indications pointed to a condition OF
uuillbrium, In consequence of which
no further trouble was anticipated.
Within the SIS miles which con-
st,tute Gaillard cut twenty-five slides
and breaks developed. C~ucaracha re-
sumcd it's activity after the United
states took charge. when operations
were resumed in its vicinity In July.
1905. In January. 1907. a slide &C.
Cured ON the east side opposite Guile
Nra and the first break on tho west
i.nk at culebra in October. 1907. The
,;hers developed AT various times, the
,st one, a small slide. occurring VI
.irp Miguel in January. 1918.
The causes Of all of them were as
Already noted except the breaks near
n rita poin, on the east side between
Empire and Cascadas. the first of
fUese occurred IN May. 1910. and the
second in september. 1912. The line OF
-re canal after leaving the Chagres
followed the valley of the Obispo River,
which had two tributaries emptying
into II from the east and two from the
yost. draining the basin on either side.
New Channels Built.
II waS necessary to construct new
channels in order to keep the waters
" the adjacent country from the area
which was being excavated, go the
Obispo diversion was constructed along
IN. east side and the Comacho diver
son along the west. The former
sklrtcd the La Pita ridge and the
waters ~ the diversion seeping
through Crevices in the rock undoubt-
ally weakened some OF the seams.
which. combined with the pressure
that was eXerted. pushed a portion of
tie rock away from the bluff. the
broken portion settling down and
throwing a mass of rock into the
prism. Through each break the
waters OF the diversion were turned
into the II and new channels for
them had 20 he provided.
The various slides began without
any warning and there were no means
OF determining the extent to which
they would proceed. Various attempts
were made To check them. but all
without success. There is no question
that the excessive rains were respon-
sible in "A great meaure for most OF
them and for the difficulties that re-
suited because OF them. Yet some OF
the most troublesome ones occurred
curing the dry season.
Drainage proved ineffective. The
rains. which Y q period averaging
nine months Of the year. so thoroughly
saturate the ground that though the
surface may be dried out by the wind
and sun during the remaining three
months, the ground water remains.
Beoause Of the great depth OF the cut-
ting. subsurface drainage could not
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G. o. P. TO FIGHT CANAL TOLLS.
Leaders Favor Complete Exenp-
tton for American shfps.

wAsHtNGToN. Dec. 4--Certain Repub-
lican leaders. II was to-day.
will make an effort to restore the tolls
exemption clause in the Panama act.
enabling American merchant ships TO
pass through the Isthmian Canal with
out charge. Representative Moss Of West
Virginia, after a conference with Re
publican leaders. said that he would in
troduce a bill in the o Monday re-
pealing the work of the last Congress In
levying tolls on American ships Of every
description.
Mr.. Moss. who too a prominent part
In the last tolls fight, said hat the Re
publican party IL determined to exempt
American ships of war and commerce
from tolls.
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POLICE CONCERTS THIS WEEK.
Uniformed hand Ia Play In Harlem
and In Brooklyn.

The Police Band, composed OF seventy
seven of the uniformed members OF the
New York force, is practising for two
public concerts this year. IN" first is
10 he given Wednesday evening In the
Harlem River Casino and the other
Thursday evening III Prospect Hall.
Brooklyn.
Onc Of the features will he the rendi-
ton each evening Of Miss Columbia"
n song composed nv Sergt. Otto Shas-
burger of the Charles street station, one
of the BASES In the band The score
In tho rough was put on scraps of paprr
when Sergt, ~Shasburgcr was on re-
serve duty and i~ransposed. with the
help OF his piano. when he had reached
his home at night.
Chester w, Smith has b&en In.
structor OF the band for two years and
Gustave A. Beaufrcre is drum major.
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rahch the ground water sufficiently
deep to be effective, even II the excess
sive 8 involved warranted such a
procedure. 1t has been suggested that
artificial heat be applied through pipes,
but the cost precluded such a method
of relieving the situation; further
more the relief would he temporary.
Planting the slopes with grasses and
vegetation prevents to d certain extern;
the erosion that follows some of the
heavy d~ownpours. but even in places
where this has been done the results
anticipated were not secured. The
trees that have been standing on the
banks for years slide down. standing
erect in their normal positions. with
slides Of the second class. and In the
movements that take place subsequent
to the "breaks."
Piling was tried with the hope that
with the ends OF the piles in firm
ground the loose or moving portion
might be retained in place: this also
proved Il failure. and along some pnr-
tons Of the banks are now seen piles
rejecting at various angles and at
different elevations. though originally
the piles were driven vertically and
they were properly aligned. Where
the moving mass was clayey material
loosencd up by the movement and by
the rains a covering of heavy riprap
was resorted tn with the hope that
their weight would carry the pieces of
stone through the mass to the solid
ground below and thus check II not
stop the movement: much of this rip
rap was subsequently removed from
the prism by the shovels.
II was believed that blasting was in
come measure responsible for the
sides, on the theory that the shaking
destroyed the cohesion Of the particles
In the banks. resulting in their break
ing down, so that steps We're taken 10
reduce the depth OF the holes and the
amount OF explosive used. in order TO
lessen IL not remove any source Of
trouble IN this account.
clay Fails In Weld.
II was learned that In experimenting
with clays for the manufacture of pot
terry the bureau OF standards had dis.
covered a means of removing the slip.
reriness from the clays by inoculatinG
the soils with "A simple and inexpensive
solution; with the hope that some such
method of preventing the slides might
prove effective with the soils on ihc
isthmus samples were sent for experi-
mental purposes along these lines: hut
/; appears that these clays are of ar
entirely different character. and NJ
method of treatment has yet been
evolved TO secure the results desired.
The construction of retaining wall.
to withhold the moving masses was
not possible. for access to the sides OF
the prism where the walls belonged
could not be had; when access was
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CLEVELAND STRIKE SETTLED.
1900 Employees 81 ThcOdOs
kundtH 10. Win Increase.

CLEVELAND. Ded. THE strike OF
2.400 employees Of the Theodore Kundtx
Company. cabinet makers. WAS SETTLED
to-day when the men voted 10 accept q
wage Increase.
Those who formerly received less than
Sc a day will get % cents a day moro
and those who received over So will yet
12h cents more. The strike began Oc-
tober 26.
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necessary to ,emove hose portions of
The Slide.
In moving toward the Il the ma
terlal on the east side is form ng into
a succession of waves. which move
gradually nto the prism. The ono that
occupied part Of the channel in Octo-
her Is being dug away. except at the
obstruction, another has formed In
It's rear, and still another is forming
M the slope of the hill. This ma
ter.al n moving down has at the
same time taken away the support Of
the everything rock on the north side
If Gold Hill. which. being scanned,
becomes o~verbalanced and breaks
away. producing the same results as
occurred on the south face ~ Gold
Hin during the removal of Cucaracha
side.
ON the west bank the wave effect
is also evident. Here the bank was
pushed forward horizontally into the
channel. followed by a settlement Of
the mass: the benches in some por-
tons stu maintain their relative posi-
ton with respect to each other, nut
The ground in their rea settled. form
ing sink holes on the side away from
The prism. There il soine movement
nurthward along the axis Of these de-
p~rcssions into the prism. The south
eru portion of his west bank ms come
| "a rest, but projects into the channel.
ola Methods "f No isc.
~ stated previously, tho breaks IN
the vicinity Of Cdlebra were handled
by excavations in the prism and 10y
steam sinvcls. tightening the bank
! above. At cuCar1Cha a great zeal oil
material wa diverted from the prism
~ sluiCing. When the break II Dcto-
p Der II. 1914, occurred an examination
was made To ascertain If relief cuuId
! Ne afforded b. either of these methods
but neither n practicable for the
east bank.
The ~conflguratiun OF the ground
made it impossible to sluice II ma
tcrial away from the prism. SteaT
! shoVels and trains could not operate
on any portion OF the broken mass
which was incapable OF giving their
necessary support; and so far as con
cerned the stretch OF ground between
the break and the limiting crack, i
was IN such condition that befor'
preparatlons could be completed FOL
beginning work II would be broken W
So that steam shoveis could effcc
nothing: subsequent deveiopfn"nt
have verified this. NJ further crark'
NJ indications of n further extension
eastward have occurred. and judsini
from past experience the existing lin
is are definitely marked. the furthes
section being 1900 feet from the cas-
water lire of the canal.
Similar Investigations were mao
with regard to the use Of steam shoNel'
and sluicinR operations on the ives
bank. The configuration OF the gruun'
il such that all the material in tn