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pi,.f<^ f=en-l what facts you have in rezard tothe a»-ath of Police Lieutenant Petrosliio. Kindlyanswer m once.

It war teamed that Commissioner Itingham hadreceived a communication from the president of

the Pulfc-e IJeutenants' Ber.evclei.t Association ad-'vjsing him that the Mm of JT*\ taken from the

Junllin r1 fund of that organization, had been a;«-in-c.priatei! and sent as a token if respect to Mrs.r«rns-r \u25a0• was said yesterday that the mainrea? .-n lor Perrcsino"E trip to Italy was to make

'arrangements there for a secret service to co-operate trith the fPc!a!« here In keeping track of

Ita'.iar. criminal* Tho flock to this country.

•VThli a secret t-ervice there to k-ep the Sew Yorkauthorities inforni'd as to the movements of thetllinllinl •:\u25a0'«\u25a0 matter of ke*-;.it-.c them out of the

"r">'JT'trj' would be a comparatively simple one. It•was s&id

-Dr.Raphael Asselta, the family physician for the

Petrosinos. was Keen yesterday, and h*expressedIl^iwnnuni view* on The Black Hand situs'

"There ar* in this country alnne sir. or sever.- thousand Italians who arc combined in their b'ack-snaihr.c operations." fcald Dr. Assalta'

•I«-e;;terant Petrosino went to Italy wi'h the• names of threa hundred Italian criminals whor are in this count.y, to which they fled when they

\u25a0were on parole. InItaly the conditions of a parole

\u25a0are very strict: if a criminal violates those re-r <julr«neTits h« Is not sent to a bouse of correction•

lor thirty days, but is thrown Into prison for a" period of from two and a half to seven years. The-criminal thus filinghis par 'le cannot Fail directly

to this country; but ifbe does he takes a sailing

vessel and enters the Vnited States in disguise andgenerally at some peal sad. as Charleston, S. C.. •

Alfsno. the leader of this band in America, ranaway from his parole in Italy end shipped fromTunis. He entered this country in disguise, part ofhaai raimert being corduroy trousers, a bandannata.ndk«>rchief and a big hat.

•There is no capital punishment in Italy, puch

as hanging or beheading. A men convicted of somoterrible crime is thrown into « cell, across the floor

<'»nich is flushed foul smelling water a half inchdeep at half hour intervals. The vater will runInone direction for thirty minutes, will be stopped

. for an equal period, and then for the next halfhour it will be flushed in the ether direction.*

"The only time the prisoner can sleep or lie downis during the ha!f nour the water is turned off."Ifhe survives this treatment he is pent out to

break f;oti».«. and Is then put into a dark cell, the

floor of which is littered with the bodies of deadrodents, which have started to decompose.

"When IJeutenant Petrosino went to Italyit wasprobably known by some of the three hundredcriminals whose names he had that hi*missionhad something to do with their deportation.

\u25a0He had all of these men under surveillance andknew where ha could put his hand on them. Suchnews of 3:ls trip would naturally have beer, sent to

Italy •\u25a0;. the suspected ones or their friends, with

Ihe result that the lieutenant was shot down. Hispurpose was 10 present the list to the proper Ital-ian authorities, with a view to deciding en the most

available method of seizing these fellows for tile\u25a0 violation of their paroles and returning them to

their own country. it is to be presumed that thenames were delivered to the Italian authorities be-lore Lieutenant Petrosino was assassinated."

"There Is, In my opinion." said one of the menattached to the Central office yesterday. *a BlackHand in existence 1:1 this city They are as active•s the police. For instance, 'hey find out through

the newspapers and the friends they may have onthe force the workings of the Hoe. Department.tt is quite easy for Be of the unknown criminalstmpoTt«l from Italy to come to America by way

Df Philadelphia or Boston and finally pel to New• York City. To throw «»ff the city police he will

become a "good citisen' fur a y-ar or 80, and thenhe will report to the police that lie has received aBlack Hand letter, and of course the police willrcnSde in '.him. He. the criminal, will learn allthe workings of the Police Department, at the sametime setting. a good look at the head of the ItalianLureau of detective*. JI«- will be taken Into theRcgtie.=" Gallery a*>d perhaps shown his own pict-

ure-*nd can*! jou guess tli«* Bt?". At a late hour yesterday afternoon Commissioner

t::n{rha.:n sent the foil .win* cable m>-9sa«B to theChief of Police of Pa'ermo:

'Asks Palermo Police for Details ofPetrosino Assassination.

With the eriival yesterday at Police Headquarters

of Commissioner Binghtm. who hss been on a

week's vacation, the •work of running down the«j»a«=Flri= of jj*-jt*ii.'intJoseph retrain* was taken

up anWh renewed rigor. While the indications arethct PetrosSno was murjered by members of the

2Jaf:a tefco had heen coinm!f»slor.e<". to k'.ll Was.

nex-rnhelew! the nutlrorHiea here «re trying to make

certain that V,, 'rim* was not committed by ca!

ii»!Lans who followed the detective to Sicily,whereth«»y knew that th«Hr chances of slaving him andpwlr.g away »ere much bettc than In thiscountry.

The first thing that Commissioner Binghum didwhen he reached his office was to bold a confej-

•ence with Inspector McCaffertr. after which hehad a !"UK talk -with the members of the detective

bureau. The Commissioner told rh<? men that they

must mak» every effort to Btamp out the BlackHand in this country

He said he had received a letter from the Ita'danAmbassn.'or in "Washington expressing regret atthe death Of Pe'.roslno and asking that he make.known to the widow the Borrow he felt. When3Rk«>d if petros'no had eon* to Italy to make prep-aration* for Fafegtjarfllrig ex-President Rocsevelt.Commissioner Hinpham Millthat the lieutenant hadbeen workingfor the police alone.

Inspector Mccaffertv was asked if the number*^824" which was found in Pctroslno's pocket wasin any way connected with the man whose picture

In the Kog-ues" Gallery bore tfcat number. He saidthere »«f r.o connection. There was a rumor thatamong the men Petrosino was searching for In

Italy Tea* one "Chop Suey Joe," a-cused of mur-dering John Flynn on January 2. 3907. nod that thisman might have been connected with the. murder,

but there was no confirmation of this report.Rumors of all kinds have been floating around

Police Headquarters as to the motive of -*»Jie shoot-Ins; and th« sjadßts 1 persona.

ROUXI) UP ITALIANS.

HOODOO SCHOONER BURNED.The schooner Miles M. Merry, which had come

to ".'e regarded as a hoodoo vessel since she waswashed hiffh up on the. beach near the Moricheslifeanvteg station, was burned to the water?edge yesterday. The vessel, which had been givenTo th« lifesavers to wreck, because of their suc-cessful rescue of some thirty-. men. -was flr»ilthrough accident by some men who were In herabout 7 o'clock ye.sterd.iy morning, the auxiliaryrnghn< becoming overheated. The llfesavera willget nothing of value from her.

TWELFTH OF GAS REBATES PAIDUnited States Commissioner Shields, as special

master in churijft of thr- pas rebate fund. Issued astatement! yesterday SSMashMJ that in the last week.the second in which checks have been sen: to con-sumers, 33.757 « he.-'us were sent out. representing atotal of J.Y2.CUH, of which the Consolidated dls-hursed Jtf>2.»7r: 9i nn'l the subsidiary companies$12>\*K> IS. The total for the two weeks was $1.06

-S7B !>r., and checks. 7i*.321. The disbursements so farrepresent UUO-lneUta Of the total rebate fund.

CIRCUIT JUDGE G. M. DALLAS RESIGNS.Philadelphia. March 15.—Judge George M. Pallas.

of the United States Circuit Court for th» daMjudicial circuit, has sent his re*tgr.ati -->n to Presi-dent T.ift L'nd»r the law he was e!'<rlb!* to re-tire, but the announcement of his resignation wasunexpected.

Judge Dallaa was appointed to the Federal Cir-cuit Court bench In March, 1*32, He reached th»age of seventy years last month, when he beenasoeligible- under the Taw to retire. The last Im-portant case in which he sat was the on» In-volving tbe constitutionality of the commoditiesclause of the Hepburn railroad l«w. which case Is

now before the Initer)States Supreme Court. Ju<f«»Dallas Joined Judge Gray in declaring against tS«clause.

hack to the neighborhood Of the hotel to look forthis other ma::, but he could not find him.

Captain H>>Kan and two Central Office men ap-plied third degree methods to the prisoner, butlater they said they had established no connectionbetween Seth and the De Valant case. They kepthim a prisoner, however, on a charge cf intoxi-cation.

"Barrel' Murder Recalled by One ofS>i Seven Arrests Made.

Folknrtnc the klllirg- \u25a0•' Detective lieutenant•\u25a0-•- petrofcino. the detectives of th«- Italian squad have

-\u25a0 seen active in looking up Sicilians susp» • of-'- sr'me. A nu:nr*>r cf IlaMaus were arrested last»* alghi in ti;e hop* that some clew might be ob-."""lained. intb two exceptions the charges mad»

itainst the prisoners were "carrying concealed,- weapons" and "being suspicious persons."

One of the anested was Metro Ir.reri'.li, cfHo. 225 Elisabeth ftrect. who v..<= taken into cus-

:• s»dy at tbe time of the "barrel" murder. At that1 tinss in«er-.n; kept a coffee house In Elizabeth- itreet. Just as he does to-day. Inxerili and_an

Italian, who *ald lie was Salvatore Arcald:. of:No. *29 Chrystie street, were arrested at Kiizabe'

js. -»nd Prince streets. -.xe-iiii was arrested pre-\u25a0 eumahly on suspicion of knowing: something about

the explosion of a bomb in the hallway <'No. *WPrtnc-« street on the night of December CO, the de-tectives asserted, and Arc.TlciS \u25a0was charged vit.sr'ns a vajjram.

I*at«- in the evening the police arrested fourItalians at Mott and Spring streets, charing them

The Tempting.Teasing Taste

» PostIToasties

Is better than c tor.ic la "«r«ke up"ihe appetite.

\u25a0 Golden -brown Kits. F!avory. Crisp andDelicious

—riV The Taste Lingers"

Tutn&T t»Mt. 56« :1-rirST FniiiH» Mr iir.

It.<tut. «>reaj Cerafxirv id.imrt:*Cwk. MJ.-r_

SUNDAY OPENING BILL.INTRODUCED.IBy Tt^KT-apb t<> The TnTiunc.;

Albany. March lr.—

Th? bill of the Committee ofFourteen amending the ex<flse laws to provide forSunday opening of saloons in New York City wasIntroduced to-night by Senator Brougli I:amendsthe Raines law generally regarding details of en-forcement, Uae number of Inspectors sad the like..

FOR PENSION FOR MRS. PETROSINO.

"BigTim" Sullivan Introduces Billat Albany—

Anti-Black Hand Measures.(in-Telegraph inT!.e Trll \u25a0

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Albany. March J5. -Senator "Big Tim" SullivanIntroduced to-night a bill permitting the widow ofLieutenant Jo«w»ph Petros!no to draw from the pub-

lic pension fund annually one-half Of th* detective'ssalary at the time of his death— s2,7oo.

Anti-Biack Hand legislation was presented byAssemblyman JArkson. fit Buffalo, at the request ofSuperintendent Regan of the Police Department 01that city. It amended the P*nal Code section rela-tive to extortion of money or property by meansother than robbery by making the penal* at pres-ent five years' Imprisonment, Imprisonment fromten to twenty-five years.

Safude sent his wife to Police Headquarters onSunday to tell the police that he had been ap-

proached In Cherry street by two men who haddemanded *."" on the threat that he would be killedunless he -i.l them the money. Mr«. Safuoe saidtnat her husband promised to pay the money to

tbe men on Monday night in front of No. 142Cherry street. Detectives De Guldo and Constan-tino were assigned to the case. They told thewoman to mark three bills and have her husbandgiv» them to the alleged Black Hand agents.

Tm> was curried tat to the letter. Last night

Safude strolled up and down Cherry street Whilethe two Italian detectives remained eealed In mdoorway. In a few minutes Sabetlno and Mignuslappeared in the street and walked up to Safude.

Safud* handed the money to Sabetino. and the lat-ter, the detectives say. took the small roll of

marked bills and pushed it into his pocket. Thenthe detectives arrested Bnbetino on 'he charge of

extortion and Mlgnusl as a suspicious character.

The prisoners were taken to Police Headquarters,

and there the money was found In Sabetlno'sclothes, the police assert. The prisoners werelocked up at headquarters. .

Police Get Two Men Who l^scd

Black Hand Methods, They Say.>:)!.<\u25a0\u25a0• no and Caraadlo Mignusl were'

last nlchf b> Central <">ffW detectivesoharirori with extorting, money by Bl«-k Hand

Is from Balvatore iafode. an 'tnli^:) laborer,of SCO. PI Oliver street.

HELD FOR EXTORTIOX.

Judge Praises Petromno in Sen-

tencing Black Hand Highwayman.With the comment that the crime which Lieuten-

ant Petrosino tried to stamp out appeared in thecase of the Italian before him. Judge Dike, in theCounty Court. Brooklyn, yesterday aenienced Gia-oomo d"Ambrosla. a Black Hand operator, to Sing

Sing prison for a maximum term of lire years and

fix months and a minimum of nino years.The prisoner was one of three Italians who he'd

up Frederick Meyer, a Brownsville grocer, on De-cember 11 and took a sum of money from himafter he refused to accede to the:r demands. D'An-brosK refused to give the names of his accom-plices, fearing o<>aih If he was freed.

"You c->::• before me." Judge Dike said, "to be

sentenced after a conviction for highway robbery

at a time when two continents re shocked by thereport of the brutal and cowardly assassination of

Lieutenant PetroalnoJ chief of the Italian squad

of the police for- '\u25a0 of New York City. Unmindfulof danger, he went Into the very hotbed of theMafia and the Black Hand of Italy, where he felthis duty called him. A splendid ex.imple be wascf the Italian American cliizen. of the brave andconscientious police officer. He will take his placeamong the martyrs of th« police force.

"The same cowardly crime he was trying tostamp out appean in this case V.. refuse to re-veal your 'wo 'confederates throush some fear ofBlack Hand revenge And your wife, when shesought them, had her face slashed to ribbons, yet

disappeared when she was sought for to appearagainm those two who had assaulted her. Therewas nothing to excuse your attack, so Igive youi!;e full sentence."

GETS KIKE YEARS.

Washington, March 13, I9».Dear Sir: Ihave learned with a sen?? of horror

the assassination of Lieutenant Petrosino, and I\u25a0want to express to you. and through you to thePetrosino family, my deep sorrow for the death ofthat good, conscientious, courageous, honest ma::.Believe, dear sir. with most distinguished consid-eration, yours very sincerely.

E. MAYOR DES PLANCHES.Royal Italian Ambassador.

ffo-if May Lie in State at CityHall.

Arrangements for the funeral of Lieutenant Pet-roslno are being carried out under the direction ofJames E. March, who was.a close friend of the de-

tective. In company with Alderman Samuel Marx.Mr. March called at the City Hal! yesterday andhad a long talk with the Mayor. It was suggested

that the bod* li« In «tat« at City Ha", for severaldays after Its arrival here. The Mayor said thathe was in favor of the plan, but that Borough Pres-ident Ahearn would have to be seen. Mr. Ahearn

referred Mr. March to the Board of Aldermen. They

will decide the question to-day. CommissionerBingham was also a caller at the City Hall yester-

day. He had a long talk with the Mayor about

Petrosino.Hundreds of Italians called on Mr. March ypßt.er-

day to express) then* sot tow at Petroslno's death.Forty Italian societies wiE be in line m the funeralpro <-ssion. While the police ofli Inls have not made

KSH ;js yet. it is known that Deputy Corn-

er Bugner and Tnsper;or Bchmittberger willb-» in chaT£> 4 of tiie arrangements. There will he

four aquadrona of mounted men in line and several

hundred patronnea. Beiikea will be held to BtPatrick's Cathedra:.

Ameeting of prominent Italians will b<» held to-night at the office of Mr. March, In Lafayettestreet, and a committee will }*\u25a0 appointed to go toWashington to a«=k that soldiers and sailors be de-tailed to the funeral. Plans for raising at least$25.000 for Mrs. Petrosino will be made and themoney will be need in purchasing a home for herand Sieving her from want. She received the fol-lowing letter yesterday from Mayor McClellan:

March IS. IW.Dear Madam. Please accept my profound sym-

pathy In your exeat loss. We who knew your hus-band' as a man and an officer ran to some extentrealize the grief of you, who knew him as a hus-

band and a father.May it be a source of solace to you find yours,

row ar.'j In the years to come, to remember thatJoseph Petrosino died In the performance of hisduty, a brave man. sacrificing his life In a causeto which he had devoted his best years. He willnot be forgotten by the people he served so well.

GEORGE B. MCLELLAN. Mayor.

In speaking of the slaying of Petrosino the Mayor

said: "The death of Lieutenant Petrosino is agreat loss to the Police Department, and, therefore,

to the city. The very form In which it camefhows the man's worth, for the hatred In whichthe criminals held .him was a measure of his value

to his employers. For years he had worked faith-fully*amld the dangers which culminated In hisassassination. He knew those dangers, but never

.flinched from them. He was a brave man.""

Police Commissioner Bingham sent the following

letter to Mrs. Petrosino:New York. March IS. 1909.

To Mrs. Petrosino: 1 herewith convey my deepestsympathy In your bereavement by the cowardlyniurder of your husband. While no words can com-fort you. yet as tim* passes and somewhat tempersyour grief. it will be a partial solaco to rememberthat your husband die,! In performance of his duty.

a brave man. faithful to his trust, honest and re-spected by all who knew him as an expert in hisprofession— valuable and Inspired heritage for his

child. THEODORE A. BINGHAM.The following letter was received yesterday by

Commissioner Bingham Trom the Italian Ambassa-dor at Washington:

BIG PETROSIXO FUSERAL.

with carrying BoneeaSed weapons. Ailof them werearrr.M either v.l: revolvers or long dirks, thedetectives eaid.

Still another Italian, who said he ttm Giuseppe

Piszo. of No. 153 Chrystle street. was arrested at

No. 192 Chrretie street by Detectives Mondo andUpton on a charge cf carrying concealed weaponsAH the prisoners were locked up at Police Head-quarter*.

Do Valant was of French descent, forty-five,years old, and lived In Mountvale, N. J., where hewas tax collector. He had been employed as night

clerk In the Eastern Hotel for two years.In the afternoon Detective Keattngr. of the John

street station, saw three men In a brawl In frontof the. Eastern Hotel. He arrested one of thembecause th« man had blood spots on his hands andon his hat. The prisoner said he was Otto Seth, afireman, of No. 9 Emmet street. Brooklyn. On theway to tha station the prisoner asked Keatingwhy he didn't arrest one of the others in th« fight,who, he said, had a revolver. This made Keatingail the more auspicious, so he took his prisoner

Captain Carey, of th- homicide bureau. Is in-clined to believe that these men did not commit themurder; that they went upstair* to the office of th,>

Eastern Hotel, and. finding nobody there," wrot«

their names In the register, scribbling as they

waited. When Urn clerk, who was probably thenlying drad in the pantry, failed to appear, they

went downstairs and Into Hillehrlchfs saloonagain.

A newsboy, Oscar Bewiy. of No. "'t Monroestreet, said that three drunken men. roughlydressed, came out of the hotel at 4 Ita. m.. boughtpnpers of him and asked where they could get adrink. He directed them to HlJlebricht'.s Hotel,

next door, he said, and they went In there. Onthe boy's coal were found blood stains where, it issupposed, one of the men took hold of him.

A waiter named Joseph Sundorfen said the menhad !ven in rlillebrtcbt'a earlier In the morning

and that they had been directed to the EasternHotel. They came back, he said, about :> o'clock,

ami said they had been over to the Eastern andthat there was nobody there. "You could haverobbed the place," they toM him. After taking afew drinks they went out. Sundorfen said thatwhen they left the hotel the first time they had nomoney, and that when they came back they hadplenty of it. He heard one of the men called "An-

demon." which was one of the names on the reg-

ister next door.

Brutal Crime in South Street Hotel—One Arrest Made.

one arrest was made late yesterday afternoon in

tb« case *>f Isadora De Valant. night clerk of theEastern Hotel. Whitehall and South streets, who

was slain between Iand 5 a. m. yesterday. He

wfts last seen alive by a newspaper reporter whoreturned to his room at tho hotel at It"a. m.

The first man to discover the body was WilliamHubel, an employe of th-: hotel, who arrived at 5

a. m. As was his custom, be went up to the office

on the second floor to get his keys from De Valsnt.Not findinghim at the desk, he searched about, andfinally went Into the butlers pantry. There thebody was lying in a pool of Mood in the corner,

surrounded by broken chairs. There was a deepgash In I>•• Valant's throat and his skull wasfractured, apparently by blows with a two-Inchiron pipe, which lay on the floor beside him.

When Captain Marten, of Police Headquarters;Captain llogan. of the John street station, andpoveral detectives arrived on the scene they discov-ered that Dfl Valant had been robbed of his goldwatch, sc-arfpin, shirt stud and $150 of his ownmoney, and that the money drawer bad been rifledof $t."> fin I a revolver. Bloody finger prints wereOn the safe, which contained $3,000, and on thai cashdrawer and desk. On the register were signed inuncertain scrawl*, Indicating that the writers weredrunk, the names 'Her. Hiss" and "C. Andersen."X.i rooms had been assigned them, and it wasthought, they had lured the clerk Into the pantryon some pretext, bad killed and robbed him, andthen made their escape.

AFTER CLERK'S SLAYER

Andrew Carnegie will be the guest of honor at adinner to be given by the Lotos Club at Its club-house, y.o. 110 We»t 57th street, to-morrow evening,at 7 oi.uclt.

' .

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.Samuel Shaken a waiter, and Alfred Adler. a

piano player In the St. Charles Hotel. ?3th streettnd Lexington avenue, who were arrested on com-plaint Of Bishop Cusack a.nr! the Rev. M. W. Lie-l>ert, were discharged In the Yorkville Court yes-terday.

LOS ANGELES GRAFT INQUIRY.I>is Angeles, March 15.—Judge James, of the Su-

perior Court, called a special grand Jury to-day, to

meet on Thursday. District Attorney Frederick'sbegin the preparation of a list of witnesses, whowilltestify regarding the charges of graft. Amongthese is said to he i-:. T. Karl, proprietor of "TheEvening Express." who secured the informationthat i«= alleged to have caused the resignation ofMayor Harper.

TERRY TO BEGIN WORK MONDAY.George S. Terry, whose nomination to 1"% Assist-

ant Treasurer of th« Unlt'ed Stat. s at New forkwas confirmed nearly two weeks ago, has tiit yetentered upon th» discharge of his new duties! al-though it was understood last w«k thai lie woulltak« ciiarne yesterday. One of his aaaociatea jes-terday thai Mr. Terry had been ill. andtherefore bad been usable to «\u25a0> to Washington tofile his bond, which would have private \u25a0and would not b» Furnished by a bonding company.Mr. Terry was much unproved In health. It wasadded, and now expected to begin !:!« duties at theSub-Treasury next Monday.

Oeery had been on the force ainca 1896 and waa(•n<« of the most n In the department.He is ,i close friend of .Mr. Jerome,

Dismissal Follows a Leak Regarding McCaf-ferty's Estimate of Jerome.

Lieutenant l*.l^ Beerj'i bead of the staff of ile-tectivea attached to District Attorney J<office, wh-c iiiMiiissed from the department yester-day Th.' charge on Which he was tr!«%d was allow-Ill? Iran is <;. Bailey to escape from his custodywhile Bailey waa under arr>-t on a ship in thebarber sf Puerto Cortes, Honduras. The whis dismissal came us a gicat surprise to Beery,

vino waj; promptly relieved of his command andleft the Criminal Courts Building after having ,-t

confidential iaik with Mr. Jerome. Beery was tri^d

several months ago, decision was reserved, and itv \u0084\u25a0; expected thai he would be acqvitt* I

the Hi:-;! Inspector MrCafferty and Mr ,lo-

raaie have <iisHg:e<_-d over statements McCafferty

made concerntaig tiie conviction of Paul Kelly, who< .iised the Ninth aveiiii-- elevated wreck, and haveexchanged personalities. While talking to ins menMcCafferty said: "J understand that the .iKarettpand highball emporium la working overtime Inthe Criminal courts Building '

Thw newa whs car-ried to Mr. Jerome bj ersoa. Com-missioner Bingham h^s i»-f-n looking for the manthat carried the news. Yesterday n

-dismissed

Bf-ry.

LIEUTENANT BEERY DISMISSED.

"Of course, it 1° cheaper to 'ak. care of thepatienta ii> large bodies, but t • lews <\u25a0;!

treatment >>f Insane hold that it to tak*care of the temporarilygroups. Th<- id»-al plan we hm i- In mind is for

stablishment of a aort "f village on a siteof S'.m. Bye hundred acres or more, withand small cottages Thla would Mk-a considerableamount of money, but would be worth •if a suitable aite of flve hundred •\u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0 m"i<> bitps

is found, the commission will undoubtedly Mart

erne of building The Legislature willbe H.-k<-d foi an appropriation of $2,500,008, which, it

is thought, will provide accommodations requisitef.;r the present demand.

"'We have not decided on a new site, and willm« do so until after careful consideration. Wemight finally decide to use. the Creedmoor, rangefor a small hospital— •\u0084• for eighteen hundred ortwo thousand of the. recoverable Insane and makeprovisions for the custodial insane on some othersite

Real Estate Men Would Exchange

Hempgtead Farms Property.Certain real tstate, interests are pressing on the

State Lunacy Commission a proposition for an|exchange of the site of the old state rifle range

at Cr«edmo©r, owned by the commission, for a site

In Hempstead Farms, on which to build the newLong island State Hospital. Under a bill intro-duced by Senator John Raines the commission has

the power to sell or exchange the Creedmoor prop-erly, which was turned over to it last year as asite for the hospital to take the place of the on*

iin Flutbush. Since then th« commission baa re-ceived many propositions from land owners In

various parts of Long island, but has reached no-conclusion on the question.

Coder the terms of the bill the Governor mustapprove of any proposition for pale or exchange,

and the one for the Hempstead Farms site is nowbefore him, with, it is understood, the Informationthat the lunacy commission and the managers of

the l*»ng Island State Hospital, who are co-operating in the affair, do not believe the proposi-

tion any ton advantageous to the state.The Creedmoor site contains IP7 acres. Dis-

interested persons have placed its value at any-

where from J2.2T.0 to M.OOO an acre. Real estateinterests which have had an eye on tltia property

for development as suburban lots have been careful,however, not to make any definite offer for apurchapo of the property outright. The property

is nboiit a mile ions: and narrow making if not soton-able as a more compact piece of land wouldbe for a hospital, but the commission does not

Intend to dispose of Itunless it gets a fair price.

The Hempstead Farms property, which has been'offered In exchange, la situated on the branch lineof the I»ng Island Railroad running from Hemp-

stead to Bethpage Junction. There Is no regularschedule of trains now maintained on this line.The syndicate making the offer has assembled dif-ferent pieces of property aggregating betweenfivehundred and six hundred acres. Their proposi-tion Is to exchange this for the Creedmoor prop-erty on the basis of two acres for one, with anextra amount for the additional acreage. Expertsemployed by the commission have reported thatthis property la worth on an average a. little lessthan $5W an acre. On such an exchange the state

would be paying the syndicate a bonus of morethan $1,000 an acre on the basis of 12.25 Aan acrefor Creedmoor, which Is about the lowest quotedby Independent Interests.

Meanwhile the commission, working throughagents, has got an option on another property of |about the same area In another part of HempsteadFarms. It '." on one of the main lines of the rail-road, and can be obtained for about MM an acre.A site In North Hempstead has already been re-jected?

l>r. Albert W. Ferris, bead ..ft- Lunacy Com-mission, speaking yesterday of the requirements

for a new site, said:"It must be well situated as regards drafting*

anil disposition of sewage; It must be near agood water supply, and must be situated on arailroad, nr near enough to make \u25a0 short spurfeasible, and must not be without the range of a10-cent fare from the city. The latter point is Im-portant as touching the frequent visits of friendsof Ihe patients.

AFTER CREEDMOOR SITE.

LU.N'ACY BOARD BESET

Adjutant General Henry Announces Action

Taken by Governor Hughes.Albany, March 15.— Announcement was made to-

night by Adjutant General Kelson H. Henry thatGovernor Hughes had retired Major W. A. Turptn,of the 13th Artillery district. Brooklyn. MajorTurpin had served In the guard sinco IS9O and wasretired at his own request.

Captain William X Butler, of New fork, of thefiel>l hospital sci *If.also wis retired at hl^ ownrequest, and reslgnationa were accepted from Cap-tain Ahi-aiii c. Glaanand, of tM Hth Infantry,Brooklyn, and captain Henry Oodet, of the sjl;:l:1

corps. New fork.

DETAILS OF NEW RAILWAY ISSUE.The new stock of the. Minneapolis, St. Paul &

Bault Stc. Marie Hallway Company authorised onMarch ii, it was officially announced yesterday,

will consist of 10,iaS shares of preferred and 10,220shares of common stock. This stock will be offeredto the stockholders at par In the proportion of sixshares of new stock for each twenty-five sharesof old stock. Payments are to be made infive instalments, 20 per cent being payableApril 30 next, when the rights to subscribe expire;

30 per cent June 4. 30 per cent July i.'., 20 per centAugust 31 and final payment of 20 per cent on< October 15. All subscriptions must be made forboth kinds of stock In the ratio of one share ofi•» (erred and two shares of common.

STEAMER AND SCHOONER IN COLLISION.Philadelphia, March IS.

—The British steamer

Marouette. from Antwerp via. Boston, arrived hereto-day, and reported having spoken yesterday the.schooner Fuller Palmer, which left Boston on March11 for Hampton Roads, mi anchor fifty miles offthe Delaware Capes, slightly damaged after having

been In collision with the Italian steamer Taor-mlna, from Philadelphia for Genoa. The Taonninaproceeded a/ter sending a wireless message ashoreasking assistance for the schooner.

SPEAKER OF TEXAS HOUSE QUITS.Austin, Tex., March 13.— 1n compliance with a

resolution passed by a minority of its members,Speaker Kennedy of the Texas House of Repre-sentatives resigned this afternoon. His resignationwhs accepted by a viva VOCS vote. John J. Mar-shall was then unanimously elected Speaker" In hisplace.

LA CROIX DISCHARGED; GIVES NEW FLAGBridgeport, conn.. March Paul La Crolx, the

Rutomobillst. was discharged in the Falrfleld towncourt to-day on the charge of reckless driving, andwhen he appeared later In the City court of Bridge-port to answer to the charge of defacing the UnitedStates flag th« charge was nolle prosequied. LaterLa Crolx presented to the Police Department of thecity an American flag 15 by SI feet, to take theplace of the one which had been damaged.

NaturaOj all the« differences, while «;hej are.-.,' bj any means end will be Ironed ".:t

\u25a0 ie anti-Hughes men in tha

I^Kisi.-itiir'- .iti'i the politicians outside it. They

rhuckltfriends." and a standing .t"ke haa teen made re-frardlng the date of mtroductlon of the itm

-are not losing anj opportunitj of magnify-

ing these differences and making r-apltnl of themin thoir campaign to il"foai the Governor'a pri-mary reforms. lnd.-. d tn< \u25a0

IIn making propaganda ag i ns( th<hot's project than bia Irionda are in spr«adlgumenta iti favor of 11

NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS RETIRE

Considerable difficulty, also, will arise over theIdentity of the Introducer of the bill In the Senate.Brooklyn men think Senator Travis, who baahandled the bill for two years, should have thathonor this year, when it la the vital Issue of thelegislative Bessie n. Cpstaters want Senator Hill-man or Senator Davenport, both of whom arelawyers and trained speakers. Senator Travis hastold friends he would be willing as \u25a0 matter ofprinciple to sacrifice himself to the good of thecause if It became necessary, but the Brooklyn

men can't pee why It .should be necessary.

When Mr. James came here this morning hedeclared things were running smoothly. That wasbefore he had attended any of the day's con-ferences. But on the question of Brooklyn's band-ling the bill in both houses be bristled up Instantly.

"That question hasn't been taken ip In confer-ence yet," he said, "but Ican't see any reasonwhy Senator Travis shouldn't handle a bin thisyear whichhe baa passed Inprevious years. There's"

no argument to my mind In the fact that bothsponsors .f the bill wotil<". come from Brooklyn.

This has been very largely a Brooklyn matter

from the beginning."

Members ofPrimaries Steering Com-mittee Have Disagreement.

[Ry Telegraph to The Tribune.]

Albany. March IS.—

Continued conferences of the"steering committee" which Is at work on Gov-ernor IluKhes'a direct primary' nominations hillbrought that measure little nearer to completionto-day than It was at the end of last week. Op-timistic legislators my it will be ready for intro-duction Wednesday. Other members of the Ifttlehand which Is preparing the measure smile wearily\u25a0when asked about it, and refuse to make any pre-

diction.As a matter of fact, the work is bejng hindered

not only by the difficulties naturally attendant ona task of th.it magnitude, but by local pride andsedulous care for local interest, and to a certainextent by personal pride. It is manifestly a rjues-

tion at present of "too many cooks." The Interests'of Brooklyn and Manhattan arc" not in certain de-tails the interests of upstate communities; Indeed)conflict with them, and friction has resulted fromthat conflict. It seems likely to become greater

when the question of introducing the bill cornea up.

At the end of last week the conferreea thought

that they had about reached an agreement on th«basis of committee representation, which la one ofthe fundamental propositions of the measure underthe Governor's plan. When Darwin R. James, ofThe Brooklyn Toons Republican Club, and othersgot here today, they decided that they couldn'tstand for the provision as the up-state men haddrafted it in any circumstances, and that particu-lar section of the bill »\u25a0«.« ripped apart and re-drafted.-, Now the Brooklyn and Manhattan menfeel satisfied with It In Its present state, they pay,but the ur>-state men are not.

Senator Newcomb and William H. Warthams, ofManhattan, attended to-day's conference. Theyjoined with the Brooklynmen in th« protests againstthe form of the section governing committee repre-sentation.

•'It was in such shape that no New York City

man could stand for It." declared on« at the city'srepresentatives*' "It might have been all right forup-staters. but I'd Ilk? to know how any Km forkCity man could have voted for a measure whichwould have wiped him out in his district. Thatwould be reforming \u25a0 little bit too far. We're allaltruists in this discussion, of course, hut, aft<>r all,»v"re human a little bit, and politicians a littlebit nlso."

Likewise the ')\u25a0\u25a0'" \u25a0 \u25a0' permitting nominating

committees to name their successors is \u25a0 point

of difference which may produce further troublebefore the bill la In final shape. Brooklyn men be-lieve the committees should hay» that power. Theupbtate men are against It, holding that membersof a committee \u25a0 ••••. . be nominated by petition,and those bodies should in no sense be Belt-par-petuating.

LITTLE PROGRESS MADE.

BILL JNOT YET READY

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