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- f J**-- / - I V H' 0 vV SP P W M M S n n i- W e e k l]f- - 6 Paps. P r ic e , H im G u t s . VOL LXXX1, JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, MAY 14. 1901 NO. 394, SALISBURY FEARS IRISH Declares “Any Measure of In dependence” Dangerous. PREMIER'S REMARKABLE SPEECH. Says Iceland Would Go to W ar With EnKlnnd—TIUnkH Boer W a r Proves That Great Britain Is as Formida ble as Ever, London, M a y 1 4 —Prim e M inister Salisbury, w h o has ju s t returned from France, m ade a speecli in London last night in w h ieh he review ed the benefits Which he believed had resulted from th e w a r in South A frica despite the lam entable sacrifices England had been called upon to m ake. One of th e greatest o f these benefits, h e said, w a s th a t the display o f the latent pow ers o f the em p ire had dissi pated th e notion w h ich had spread throughout the w o rld th a t G reat Brit ain’s star had set, th a t sh e w o u ld nev er fight again and th a t any adversary only needed t o press boldly enough to com p el her to yield. N o w i t w a s seen th a t s h e could copy th e brilliant exam - • p ies o f the past. T h e em p ire w a s un doubtedly safer and th e cause o f peace m ore secure. There w a s now no power in the w o rld but knew th a t i f i t defied th e m ight o f England it would defy one o f th e m o st form idable enem ies th a t m ight possibly be encountered. Anti-British Conspiracy. A n o ther benefit w a s th a t the w a r had revealed the existence for a long tim e o f a conspiracy to oust th e British from South A frka, whieh, i f it had not been encountered now, would have strengthened and grown more danger ous. The B ritish thereby had learned a lesson regarding hom e rule for Ire land. W aon they had fought in the past against Irish hom e rule they had not realised w h a t sort of a fight could he m aintained !■,, a hostile governm ent against its su.”*»iain, no m a tter how overw h elm ing the power of the suze rain. If the hom e rule bill of 1803 had been passed and an Iris » governm ent had been established at Dublin, it w a s not very extravagant to assum e, in view o f th e exhibitions in the house of com mons and elsew h ere, th a t it would have been a hostile governm ent. W h at, then, w o u ld have been Great Britain's position i f s h e had not only to m e et the youth A frican republics, but concur rently a hostile Ireland? There w e r e good reasons before for resisting hom e rule, but since the South A frican experiences had taught the \power and capacity o f modern instru m e n ts of w a r his hearers knew that i f th e y allow ed hostile Irish leaders un lim ited scope to m ake w a r like prepara tions they would have if engaged in w a r w ith any other power also to begin again th e task o f conquering Ireland. Buckley Oeta Eleven Years. John Buckley, 31 years old, convicted in the County Court o f a ttem p ting to aid a prisoner to escape from the county jail, was sentenced Saturday by Judge Moore to Sing Sing prison a t haid labor for eleven years. Buckley w a s caught by Detective Butler in a plot to aid William Sweeney, alias Carroll, a Brooklyn burg lar, to get out c f the jail. Beatbtt In tbe Tow n of Jam a ica. During the week ending May 11, there were five deaths in the town of Jamaica, a s follow s : Jennie E. Dunn, 22 years, Morris Park; Ellen S. Snydam, 78 years, Jam a ica; M e t l e n e D u c a r e l , 2 y e a r s , Ozone ^ a r k ; George H. Duryea, 61 years, Union Course ; Edith Margaret Jones, 21 years, Queens. Woman’s Body Found. The body o f Mrs. Patrick Kernon of Patehogue w a s found floating in the river on Sunday in an upright p osition, w ith the top of the head ju s t above the surface. T h e la s t seen of the woman was about 10 o’clock Saturday morning, when she stopped a t the store of J. L. Petershon. Green port Wants Tournament. Greenporfc wants the next firemen’s tournament, and $400 has been pledged toward the expenses. Henry A. R e eves and Lewis T . W ells \frere elected dele gates to th e Suffolk connty volunteer firemen’s association, which m e ets at Huntington on J u n e 11. TROLLEY CAR KILLS TWO MEN. nurrajr flanged Himself. Daniel Murray, aged 35 years, son c f Henry Murray of Springfield, com m itted suicide Monday m orning by hanging him self. H is body was found suspended by a rope from a beam in his wagon house. Murray had b een demented for som e tim e . Coroner Guy was notified and will h o ld an loqueBt. An OM Landm ark to Go. One o f f-hc b ldest h o u ses built i n Middle Island, o w n ed by Sylvester M. Sweezoy is being t o m down and a new one i s to b e built on the prem ises. T h is house Is one o f the landmarks. I t w a s probably built in 1750, though the first p o sitive record oi it i s April 1 ,1765, JSlta Cornell’s Prize Design. Misat Grace A. Cornell o f Jamaica, atu- - dent a t Pratt Instltntc, Brooklyn . , h a s ^ . w o n a first p n >e o f $50 offered b y a Boe- ' .ton arm, raanv facturers o f d yed taportry -iitfrlape- for wall coverings, for t h e b e e t Tbe eoateet was confined to the Fatal K u d in a o t a Straw R id e —A Number of P e r sona In j u r e d . Of twenty-six young people who set out joyously from College Point for a starlight ride in a wagon on ^Saturday night, two were carried home dead on Sunday morning, five are lying in the Jamaica H ospital suffering from more or less serious injuries, find a ll the others are n u r s n g cuts or braises as the result of a c o l l is i o n w i t h a trolley car which crashed into the wagon alm o st at full speed. On the car w e r e twenty-five p a ss e n g e r s . AU W ere b a d l y s h a k e n up, and out woman fainted, but none was injur ed. Those killed were Michael Schneir, 2 3 y e a r s old, and Jo s e p h P i c k e l , 20 y e a r s old, of College Point. The p a r t y left College Point som ew h a t late. A wagon had been hired from Dereschein Brothers, truck gardeners. John Rogers, one of their em ployes, was driving. Cushions had been placed along seat9 on the sides, and the bottom of the wagon w a s filled with straw. The trip was made to Jamaica by way -of the Hoffman Boulevard. R o gers says he was g o ing at a trot when he turned into Fulton street in Jamaica. I t w a s get ting toward midnight. H is objective point w a s D istler’s Hotel, near Van Wyck avenue. When in front of the hotel R o g e rs says he looked back and saw a car approach ing, but a considerable distance away. He calculated that he had plenty of time to c r o s s , but s a y s he had no idea that the car was traveling so fast. When he first looked the headlight appeared a long way off. He turned sharply, so as to cross the rails and drive 'under the sheds adjoining the hotel. When his team was straightened out and his wagon directly upon the tracks he looked again, and saw the ear was rushing toward him and less than 200 feet away. Rogers says that up to that tim e the motorman had made no effort to slacken his speed. Others say that the car was within 100 feet of the wagon before the motorman did more than turn off the current. The car had been running at top speed, and when the current was turned off the speed did not slacken ma terially. When the b^ake w a s finally ap plied it was too late. Rogers, when he saw the danger, frantically whipped up his horses, hut the load on the wagon was heavy’ and the horses had hardly broken from a walk to a gallop when the crash gam e. The car, after b reaking the rear end of the wagon, pushed It to one sid and-then stopped. The car itself was badly wrecked. The front dashboard and the front platform were demolished. The side of the car nearest tne wagon w a s b r o k e n . Charles Van of Brooklyn, was the mo torman of the car. Martin Eagen was the conductor. Van stuck to his post, but just a s the collision came he stepped to the far side of bis platform and escap ed without injury beyond a bruised shin. Pickel and Schneir were occupying the end s e a ts a t the rear o f the wagon. Pick el was hurled into the air and fell thirty feet away. As he descended his head struck a fire hydrant, and his skull was crushed in. He was carried into D istler’e but died as soon as he was being|placed upon a couch in the parlor. Schneir was also thrown into the air. He landed head first on the asphalt pavement. He was unconscious, and w a s carried into the hotel. A few minutes later an ambulance from the Jamaica Hospital arrived and started with him, as the m o st seriously Injured, for that Institution. H e died before i t was reached. The ambulance made several trips back and forth carrying the injured. Nine in ail were taken to the Institution, but Sun day morning four of these were allowed to go home. Those detained at the hospital because of more serious injuries w e r e : Debcvoiae, M attie, 17 years old, con tu s i o n s o f c h e s t a n d h ip s . Dietz, Ellen, 17 y ears o f age, shock and bruiseS. H o f f m a n , K a t e , 32 y e a r s o f a g e , e' above right eye; suffers from shock. Rocklin, K a te , 20 y e a r s o f a g e , A s t o r i a , sh o c k a n d b r u i s e s . Silver, Henrietta, 20 years old, Wood- side; scalp wound and chock. Motorman Van was arreBted and lock ed up at Jamaica. H e declared that he was not to blame. H e said that his bell was ringing, and he was traveling at an ordinary rate of speed when he saw the wagon ahead of him . I t was g o ing east as he was, and there was no intimation that i t w a s not to continue upon its way. Suddenly, w h en h e w a s within a hundred and fifty feet, perhaps less, the driver sw u n g sharply across the track. H e acted instantly, shutting off the power, putting on the brakes, and reversing his m otors. Under favorable circum stances h e could not h a ve stopped entirely, but the r a ils were w e t and slippery, and de spite all he could do his oar had only begun to slacken, after sliding along the rails, before he h it the wagon. The accident developed a clash between the police and the coroner. Van was taken Into custody by the police and ar raigned before Magistrate Healy at Far Rockaway. Coroner Guy appeared and asked ih»t Van be turned over to him. The police ioelried tbat tbe jmotorman be held on their charge o' homicide. Magistrate Healy refused to honor Coro o ner Guy’s demand, and com mitted Van to the county jail without ball,' Upon arraignment before Judge Con- norton, on Monday, on a charge o f hom icide, Van w a s held in $1,500 ball to await the action of the Coroner’s jury. Van gave bail and w e n t home. On Mon day afternoon he was again arrested on a warrant issued by Coroner Guy. Upon being arraigned before the Coroner, he refused to make any statem ent and was committed to the County Jail without bail. The Inquest has been set down for May 20. THE NOBLES ARE DIVORCED. Tbe Sculptor’* Friends In Ricbm o n * R i l l Greatly Surprised. A despatch from Boston on Thursday announced that Lillian H. Noble, wife of William 0 . Noble, a sculptor, had secur ed a divorce from him. Mr. Noble Is known In Greater.New York and he lives in Richmond Hill, near the junction of Myrtle Ave. and old Jamaica road. He is one of five sculptors who are to submit m odels for the equestrian statue of Gen. W ashington, to be donated to Brooklyn by Jam es R. Howe. Mr. Noble is known among his circle of personal acquaint ances as an athlete of no mean ability. He excels as a boxer. The news of the divorce case brought surprise to a number of Richmond HUI residents. According to the despatch from Boston the divorce granted to Lil lian H. Noble, w a s secured in. the Su perior Court of B o s t o n , o n May 8. Tbe woman’s papers in the case assert that Mr. Noble has failed to support her. The despatch further s tates as follow s : “Mrs. Noble testified that in addi tion to Mr. Nohle’s failure to sup port her she had other grievances. She said she saw Ida Glenn, an actress, go into the studio upon three separate occasions. Once she said she found the door looked while M iss Glenn was there. After tbat, Mrs. Noble said, her hus band s e n t her down to Newport to live with her mother, and she had since sup ported herself. Since tho separation Mrs. Noble eaid that a New York paper published an article concerning the re lations between Mr. Noble and & woman named Julia Adelaide Pdfes, who had brought a civil s u it againaf him in the Jefferson Market Court.” Judge Fox thought she deserved her liberty. Barnuw Island Poorlionse Closed. The board of supervisors of Nassau county visited Barnum Island on Mon day and closed the Institution. The property is now In charge of a keeper. There were twenty inm a tes in the place. S i x t e e n o f th e m w e r e re m o v e d to tbe Jones Institute at Brookville, the poor- house used jointly for the charges of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, and four were taken to the Hempstead poor- house at Unioudale. All others were turned adrift. County Superintendent of the Poor Smith, who has resided on the property and cared for the Inmates, has moved to his private residence at Freeport. He w ill s till continue to look after the county poor in the town institutions at a salary of $500 per annum. Jam a ica B a y Causeway. Work on the new causeway across Ja maica Bay is progressing favorably. A big steam dredger h as b een pumping sand and filling In the meadow lands at Broad Channel for several weeks past, and much headway h a s been made. I t i s now expected to have the road open by June 1,1902. The road will be about seven m iles long, connecting Brooklyn with Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway. The road com mences at Liberty avenue, runs through private property to the bay and thence across to Elderhurst Park, at Hamrael Station. Here a big term inal w ill be established. At the Aqueduct end another summer resort similar to Bergen Beach, w iil be established, to be known as Nassau Beach. Class of 90 Confirm ed. Bishop Littlejohn v isited St. M atthew’s church, Brooklyn Manor, on Thursday evening,and confirmed a class of twenty- six persons. Five o f the candidates were frOm the Church of the Resurection at Richmond HUI. The opening exercises were conducted by Archdeacon Bryan and the R ev. Mr. Kimber, rector of the church. At the confirmation exercises Bishop Littlejohn made a short address to the class and when they were seated he spoke t o th e congregation. Tho sing ing was by the hoy choir. The ohurch was filled to overflowing. A number o f clergymen from neighboring churches were present. St. M atthew’s church was established fourteen m o n ths ago in a store on Jamaica avenue a n d four m onths ago t h e present ediflce w a s opened. No Sm a llP o x Case l a Q c e siu . A ssistant Sanitary Superintendent Lusk, head of the Health Department of the Borough of Queens, speaking of tha alleged spread o f sm a llpox in the borongh declares that there is n o t a single case in th e borongh. The H ealth Department of Queens has vaccinated 14,000 people, 600 o f whom were school children, The department h a s a territory o f 110 square m iles and a population o f 15^300 people to look after. 1 LONG ISLAND MAN HUNT Dastardly Crime of a Farmer Rouses Neighbors. KILLED MAN IN SLIGHT ROW. rhea the Murderer Took to the Hills. He Hay Be Lynched When He Is Captured—Dispute Over Horses the Canse of Trouble. Roslyn, N. Y., M ay 14.—-Arthur Schw inz w a s shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon by John Boush. Boush fled after the shooting a n d is be lieved to be making his way toward tbe center o f the island. A hundred men are out searching for him. Guards have been placed to head him off If he at tem p ts to pass through M ineola or Ja maica by railroad. The shooting w a s deliberate, although follow ing a quar rel. Schwinz w a s about 28 years old. H e w a s w e ll thought of and quiet. H e had been em ployed upon th e M ackay es tate and yesterday w a s using his team there carting. Returning from work, he reached h is hom e on the H ighlands about 6 o’cloek. H e unharnessed his horses and turned them out to graze. One of them strayed from the field in which it belonged to the old W illard H icks estate. Boush lives in a house on this place. H e ordered Schwinz to take his* horse away. Schwinz, it appears, did so, but Boush follow e d him around, berating him for allow ing the horse to get upon the property. Schwinz, it is said, re torted that if the place w a s properly fenced there would be no danger of horses getting into the fields. They had an argument. Schwinz drove his horse out upon the road and started it toward his own place. Boush ran to his house and, obtaining a dou ble barreled shotgun, follow ed Schwinz. H e overtook him m idw a y between the houses they occupied. Murderer Flees. Schwinz heard som e one running be hind him and turned to see who it was. W h en he saw Boush, he turned full about. B y this tim e Boush w a s close to him. Boush halted and, taking quick aim, fired both barrels in succession. One charge m ade a hole in the right breast, and the heavy shot w ith which the gun w a s charged tore out th e right lung. The other charge struck over the heart, m a k ing a hole eight inches across. The shot lacerated the heart and the surrounding flesh. The shooting w a s w itnessed by sev eral men. They started at once for the murderer, but he either slipped tw o more shells into the gun or pretended to do so, which w a s ju s t as effective. He kept the pursuers at a distance with the gun as he retreated. They fol lowed, but kept out of range. I t w a s growing dark, and w h en Bousch reach ed the wood he w a s soon lost io sight. Word has been sent but, and witbin hair an hour a large mob of armed men w a s u a t gunning for Boush. P o r t o R ic o ’s E x h i b i t S e ise d . Buffalo, M ay 14.—The exhibit of Por to Rico w h ich arrived at the Pan-Amer ican grounds yesterday h a s been seized by Collector o f Customs H enry W. Bi/endel. The m aterial w a s brought from Porto Rico on an arm y transport and w a s unloaded in th e navy yard at Brooklyn, thus escaping inspection at any custom s office. All the exhibit buildings at the Pan-Am erican grounds are practically bonded warehouses. A careful record is kept of all foreign goods received there. The deputy in spectors discovered th a t no warehouse entry had been m a d e for the Porto R i can goods, and the material, including tw o cars w h ich w e re being loaded for reshipm ent to Boston and other eastern points, w e re seized. The goods w ill not be confiscated as sm u ggled goods, but w ill b e held pending an investigation. Wife Ctmaot Claim Dower. Philadelphia, M ay 1 4 —The supreme c art has handed down an opinion holding that w h e n a man and his w ife by contract agree to separate the w ife is n o t after her husband’) leath enti tled to her dower rights in his estate. The decision w a s rendered In the case of George J. K a iser and his w ife Cath erine o f Lycom ing county, this state, w h o signed and acknowledged a con tract agreeing to live apart. A fter the death o f her husband Mrs. K a iser brought suit to recover her portion, and the county court decided against her. T h e superior court reversed the deci sion of the low er court, but it w a s up held by the supreme court. W h y Schley Is Coming Home. N e w York, M a y 14.—Rear Adm iral Schley’s decision to take passage for N e w York on the North German Lloyd steam ship K a iser W ilhelm der Grosse, scheduled, to leave Southampton on W ednesday, three days in advance of the St. P a u l of the Am erican line, on w h ich he had planned to com e home, is due to ih e serious illness o f Dr. W in field Scott Schley, son and nam esake o f th e veteran naval commander. You era get Conklin’s Favorivi m e a t a t o il drug store*. 3$ —al Found Body of Deserter. N e w York, M ay 14.—T h e body o f A l bert Allen, a private in th e U n ited States army, has been found floating In the sound off N e w Rochelle, N. Y. On April 10 Allen and W illiam Carter, an other nrlv&te, in attem p ting to escape from y s it C Slocum in a raft w ere m v arVed, and A llen w a s drowned, ter w a s rescued and Is now In pris- - at the f ort. .. ------ Osnklii’s Oo«fh iafc* odds- 0Z0WE PARK FIREMEN Refuse to Turn Out tor Sunday Drill Notwithstanding C h ie f ’s Orders. There w a s a mutiny In Ozone Park on Sunday by tw o fire companies against an order issued by Chief Engineer Conk lin directing the members of the seven companies scattered over his district to assemble for drill on that day. Chief Conklin had a n . nged an elabo rate program for the day’s drill. His district embraces Ozono Park, Wood haven Junction, Brooklyn H iils, Aque duct and Union Course, in which seven fire companies are located. According to program, Americus hook and ladder company In Ozone Park was to sound an alarm at 9 a. m ., when all com panies in the district were to respond, hustle to Ozone Park in response to the alarm in full uniform and from there report to the Chief at Union Course for drill and in spection. The companies are all volunteer, and many of the prominent men of tne differ ent communities are Included in their membership so that Chief Conklin’s order didn’t g o well with quite a number. In fact, Americus hook and ladder company and Americus hose company, of Ozone Park, openly rebelled. The trustees of Americus h ook and ladder company held a m eeting and decided to ignore the chief’s order for Sunday drill. They also for bade the sounding of the alarm in Ozone Park except in case of actual fire. They didn’t consider it necessary^how ever, to inform the chief that they had concluded not to obey his orders, so that 9 o’clock Sunday morning found the other five companies in the district with many members m issing in readiness to respond to the alarm, with Chief Conklin in full uniform and with a big brass trumpet, waiting their com ing at the rendezvous at Union Course. The hour passed, and there was no sound of alarm. After waiting until his patience was about ex hausted the chief sent to Ozone Park to find out why Americus company had not responded, and his m essengers returned with the information that the house was closed, and the majority of the members were at church. Then Chief Conklin said things through his brass trumpet and finally sounded an alarm h im self from Union Course. Amer- leus H o se and Americus Hook and Ladder paid no heed to the summons, while the other companies, depleted In numbers, straggle 11nto drill. It is n ot known what action Chlei Conklin w ill take against the refractory companies, but in the meantime, it is asserted, action w ill be taken to prevent the Chief from repeatiDg this Sunday drill. M a y b e B o o m fo r B ir e r lie n i l . A paper manufacturer from Holyoke, M assachusetts, reading in the papers about Riverhead being a “dry town,” h as been attracted there, and may boom the place, for the very reason that the town voted dry. Tills man visited Riverhead in search of property for a paper mill and was shown the different properties along the river including a large mill owned by H a llett Bros., and unoccupied. The pap er man said that he would require twelve tons o f wood pulp per day,and would a ls o em ploy a large number of hands. He stated that reading in the papers that Riverhead was a dry town, he came to the conclusion that it was just the place for his factory and he wa3 tired doing busi ness where there are saloons. The bus iness men o f the place are greatly Inter ested in the schem e, and the people are w illing to offer every inducem ent for the Holyoke manufacturer to locate his fac tory there. Doctor H as Blood-Poison. D \ George S. King, {of Bay Shore, Is seriously, ill at th e Flower Hospital. H e w a s taken there Sunday afternoon and an operation w a s performed for blood-poi soning* While engaged in performing an operation three m onths ago Dr. King scratched the back of his neck. Blood- poisoning developed and for a tim e his life was despaired of. Later he partialy recovered and it was thought that he was gaining rapidly, when com plications set in and it was decided that an opera tion m u st be performed. I t is thought that the doctor may recover. Schooner Ashore. The threemasted schooner A. R. Keene Is aground about one m ile and a half from Long Beech H otel. She may prove a total loss. She hails from Jonesport, Me., and cam e a shore about 4:30 o’clock Friday morning during a heavy fog. The Point Lookout lifesaving crew brought h er orew o f eight men and Gapt. Keene ashore with great difficulty. She is filled w ith water and lies in the break ers, with anchors c a st offshore t o p revent her working ip. Sou th M ile L e a g u e Games* The L o n g Island South Side Baseball League w ill be continued th is season. Although th e Hempstead and Freeport clubs withdrew from the league, th e clubs representing Rockville Center, Bellmore, Amityville and Baldwins w ill remain, The league wlU open its season on May 18. and g am es w ill b e played every Saturday and holiday until September 14. C h lcb e a R o a s e a B u r n e d . The extensive chicken houses o f John Frelinghusen, in College Point, were de s t r o y e d by fire Friday night, entailing a \u>m of over $1,000. o o KING MANOR ASSOCIATION. Officers aud Committees Named lor Current Year. The annual meeting o f King Manor As* sociation w a s held Friday afternoon in the association’s room, at the old man sion in Jamaica. Mrs. Charles O. H . | Craigie, president, occupied the chair, and M iss Brenton recorded In the absence of M iss McCormick, who was kept at home by illness. The annual election of officers and chairmen of com m ittees resulted as fol- laws; President, Mrs. Charles O. H. Craigie; first vice president, Mrs. William Cogs well ; second vice president, Mrs. Oliver Livingston Jon e s ; third vice president, Mrs. John Lewis Childs; fourth vice president, Mrs. George Y. Brow er; fifth vice president, Mrs. Thom as M. G rilling; recording secretary, M iss Annie F . Bel knap; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Henry A. Pow e ll; treasurer, Mrs. John L. Wyckoff; h istorian, Mrs. Henry Earle. Chairman of com m ittees—Finance com m ittee, Mrs. Charles W. Kirby; bouse com m ittee, Mrs. Charles J. Stewart; library com m ittee, Mrs. Francis M. Ed- gerton; entertainm ent com m ittee, Mrs. W illiam Gillen; suggestion com mittee, Mrs. Frank Sm ith; press committee, Miss Elizabeth B r e n ton: music commit tee, Mrs. W ilmot Sm ith; gift and loan committee, Mrs. Oliver Livingston J o n e s ; legal committee, Mrs. J . E lliott Lanstaff. The report of the secretary showed the membership to be 205. The treasurer reported a balance on hand c i over $60 with no indebtedness. Applicatons for membership from thir teen persons were received. Mr. D e Wolf, Superintendent of Parks of Queens Borough, presented the asso ciation with a door from the venerable Blackwell mansion, now demolished b u ilt in 1720, in Newtown. It was resolved to postpone the colonial reception, which was to have taken place this month, until fall. The fassociatlon w a s foundedaa year ago,and the growth,from about 40 to 205, is regarded with much satisfaction. MRS. MACKAV’S PUBLIC SPIRIT Is Now Renovating and Bringing Up to Date tbe Library at Roslyn. Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay is having built on Harbor.Hill, ju s t outside the v il lage of Roslyn, one of the handsom est summer residences on Long Island. She has spent much tim e there, and through her efforts the streets have been bettered and others improvements made. Recent ly Mrs. Mackay installed in Trinity E p i s c o p a l Chureh a very h andsome altar. Then the grounds about the parish house and church were improved at her expense. L a st week Mrs. Mackay’e attention was called to the condition of the public library in Roslyn. This library was donated to the village by William Cullen Bryant, the poet, y ears ago, when he made Roslyn his home. In recent years, through lack of funds, the library and reading room has been fallinginto de cay. As soon as the m atter was called to Mrs. Mackay’s attention she had a m eet ing of the directors called. She asked permission to make a library up to date in literature and .appointments. The per mission was readily granted. Then Mrs. Mackay made a tour among her friends who live in the v icinity and in less than a week she has collected over $1,000. The subscribers to this fund were Mrs. Lloyd B r y c e , M r s . Stanley M o r t im e r , M r s . C. Albert S tevens, Bourke Cockran, William Cook, Clarence H. Mackay and Mrs Mackay. Having secured the funds Mrs. Mackay sent to New York for a decorator and gave him a contract to transform the old reading room into a bright and cheer ful clubroom, with handsome carpet, rugs and easy chairs. The old k erosene lamps gave way to electric lights. Mrs. Mack ay then made the rounds o f the book stores and selected the latest books. She engaged a trained librarian to arrange and catalogue the old and new b ooks and place them in new library eases. The ex terior Of the building 18 a lso : being re painted. Mrs. Mackay expects to have., the work completed in several weeks, an d then she thinks the library w ill be\ som ewhat a s Mr, Bryant would wish it. to be were he alive. (t) Naphtha £an n c k Burned. The n aphtha launch, Charles F. Day ton. belonging to Frank W hite of East Rockaway, caught fire while anchored. Saturday, and was badly dam a g ed.- The heat was being p a t in order for the open ing of the fishing season, when in som a unaccountable way the gasoline ignited.’ Frank W hite, who was at work In the boat, jumped overboard. - - • Queens Borough Statistics. . During the w eek ending May 11, there were thirty-seven deaths, fifty-one b irths and eighteen marriages in the borough of Queens. There w ere tw o deaths from smallpox and tw o from scarlet fever. Nine of the deaths w ere coroner’s eases and eigh t were under th e age of five years. B u rglary lu Elnomt* Thc ra^denoe o f Peter Brown a t Ei- m o n t w a s entered b y burglars on Tues day night and ISO stolen. They effected an entrance through a window to the bed room in whieh Mr. Brown’s son. Charles was sleeping and soeoedsd la getting the money ttam • bureau drawee. FIGHT ON UNION PACIFIC Morgan Said to Be After Har- riraan’s Scalp. BEYENGE FOE NORTHERN PACIFIC Latest Humors Concerning* Lait Week’s Battle In W all Street amd Its Effect*—London Stock Exchams Saves “ Nipper” Shorts. New York, May 14.—The World d a y s a y s t h a t S e n a t o r \W illiam Clark, who is now a b r o a d , w a s a purchaser of Union Pacific stock j th a t th e s e p u r c h a s e s w e r e m a d e half o f the Hill-.Morgan party. T h e W o r l d a l s o s a y s : “An im m ense battle is n o w on for control o f Union Pacific, th e fight be-, ing retaliatory by Morgan against the\ Harriman syndicate for th e latterts struggle to w r e s t Northern Pacific from the Hill-M organ crowd. K u h n , Loeb Sc Co. on M onday com p leted a revised count o f all the stock actually held by them and their allies here and b y their agents abroad. This count show e d a great change over that m ade on Satur day. W h ile the stock actually in their possession does not give them control, the margin is very narrow, and they still have a great m a n y purchases to hear from. I f one-fourth o f these re sult in deliveries o f actual stock, th e y w ill have control.” • A member o f the i \'rriman-Kutn Loeb & Co. syndicate .. ' gave th<j ?e facts to The W orld reporter said: ' “W h en Morgan & Co. stated that thej had control of Northern Pacifle, they m ade the statem ent in perfect good faith. In stating now th a t th e stocks actually in our possession give every indication th a t w e ha y e L go t con trol w e do not w ish it i\ stood that Morgan & C o .lf tl,e Si?crc“^ | . saying anything th a t they _ ith tlu> conscientiously entitled to s a y .” Newby certify The Harrim an-Kuhn, Loeb & Co. V th3rctrom dicate m ade no attem p t to say thH„„te their control of Union Pacific could n o t be purchased aw a y from them by the high prices appealing to som e o f the stockholders w h o are a t present allied with them . W h en their representative was asked yesterday who w a s buying the big blocks of Union Pacifie, he said: “Our b e s t inform a tion is th a t it is Senator Clark and the F irst N a tional bank. Of course in this Senator Clark would be acting in th e interests o f those w h o are hostile to Mr. H arri man.” “Is it possible for th e other side to get a controlling interest in Union P a cific?” “W e control Union Pacific a t th e p r e s e n t t i m e , but it w o u ld be possible.” “H a s not your side got enough o f ac tual Union Pacific stock locked up to insure its control?” “I w o u ld n o t s a y that.” “ Northern Pacific Situation. Official announcem ent o f those w h o have control of Northern Pacific w ill not be m a d e until the end o f t h e m onth and perhaps n o t until later. It w a s practically settled yesterday that the purchase o f th e Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy road by Northern Pacific and Great Northern w ill be p u t through. The buying roads are t o Issue $200 i n bonds for every $100 par value share o f Burlington stock. T h is w ill give Mr. H ill and Mr. M organ a profit of nearly $20,000,000. H ill and Morgan bought up great quantities o f Burling ton before outsiders knew th a t the pur chase w a s in contemplation. In a ll i t i s said they got 400,000 shares a t an av-^ erage price o f 150. T h e price th a t i s to be paid by baying roads i s 200. The spokesm a n of th e H arrim an s y n dicate said: “W e w ill not oppose t h e paym e n t o f 200, for th e Burlington stock, though i t is true th a t great blocks o f it w e r e bought up by som ebody som e tim e back a t a low figure.” / — The London Stock E x change com “*■ tee and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan \ com e to tbe rescue o f the situ* there, and th e difficulty in w h ich ators and brokers who have g iven for Northern Pacific for the end o f and July found them selves i s satisfa< s - ^ torily settled. The com m ittee decided th a t th e “buy ing in” of Northern Pacific com mon and preferred be suspended for th e present. T h is m eans th a t th e stock need n o t be delivered im m ediately. The com m ittee also fixed th e m a k ing up price o f Northern Pacific common at 140. Mr. Morgan is lending Northern Pacifies at “evens”—that is, for'noth- ( ing. !_ T h e London Stock E x c h a n g e w ill be j closed M a y 18, the date o f the hun dredth anniversary o f the la y ig g o f it* foundation stone. | Craiser Bafiiltt Retttrtu F r o * K a a lla N e w York, M a y 14. — The United ? c/ States cruiser Buffalo has a rrived from , M anila, h a v in g com e by w a y of the Suez canal. She left Cavite, n e w Ma nila, on April 4 and arrived outside Om ( 4 » r a t Sandy H o o k a t m idnight, mak ing th e run in 38 days. /P»e brought 591 seam en and t>7 maria—, m o st o f whom had enlisted for the for three y ears. T h e y w ill be d ia d m x * ed a t th e Brooklyn n a v y yard. N 21 W ilke>N a r r « M aefcl*l*t* *t*Uka» Wilkesbarre, Pa, May 11—The m chinists em p loyed a t to e K ing—ea! ahopc of the Lackawanna railroad y e a ( torday Joined th e other machinists a—rj «n strike a t Scranton, Dover aad fkio. AH the machine Iboga of j^ekw w a a a a
