St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 2, 1897

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(COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.) POST-DISPATCH BULLETINS T0-NIGHT From the exciting elections in New York, | Other States. Everybody Ohio and invited, — DE SEEGER 9 EE meee RO IO METI Ee ee ee ee - 5 tee a. 2 Fs > ‘5 Ba “ey ST.LOUIS’ POST-DISPATCH. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES, TWELVE PAGES. : | VOL, 49, NO. 85. te, TUESDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—NOVEMBER 2, 1897, . Louis, O Cent. PRICE i Detsiée St. Louts, Two Cents. POST-DISPATCH © SSS" AN To In October, 1897, were 45% esponding ” seeed | ofthe paper! greater / month last year, and ‘any previous month in the history —s For the earliest and most. reliable news of the elections see the EXTRA EDITIONS of the POST-DISPATCH TO-NIGHT. No extra will be issued until IMPORTANT AND REASONABLY WELL-CONFIRMED news is received. The Post-Dispatch will have a triple telegraphic election service to-night. ——- — —_—— SCAFFOLD FELL WITH ElGniT Meh Two Fatally Injuredand Four Seriously Hurt. WABASH BUILDING ACCIDENT. SECTION OF A PLATFORM THAT HELD SIXTY-FIVE LABOR- ERS GAVE WAY. me COVERED WITH BRWK AND DUST Victims Lowered to the Ground in Boxes—One Who Will Die Said to Be a Son of the German Consul to Baltimore. Dead. x OTTO LEYH, 18 North Ninth street; skull crushed. Fatally Injured. HERMAN WERTHEIM, 835 South wmpet: internally injured. Seriously Injured. GEORGE SMITH, Thy Market street; frac tured skull. CHARLES WILSON, 1730 Franklin avenne; ribs erushbed and internal injuries, CHARLES HARRIS, Silver House; face and hands crushed. . ll. L. CROSWELL, 835 South Seventh street; scalp wounds and cuts and bruises on face. Seventh Two men were fatally injured and four others seriously In an accident at the Wabash Building Tuesday morning. Fire destroyed most of the building re- cently and the men were removing the west wall. Sixty-five workingmen were on @& large staffold, extending the full length of the building. Without warning a section of the scaf- fold gave way, falling to the floor. below,-}- It-carried eight men with it as it crashed into the mass of debris. Only two of the eight escaped the plunge. One grasped the. top of the wall and hung there until rescued by fellow workmen, The other jumped to the portion of scaffold that remained. The men had been at work less than half _ an hour when the crash came. They were divided into crews of four. Fach crew had a wheelbarrow. Two men removed bricks from the top of the wall and two wheeled the loaded barrows to the rear of the building and dumped the bricks into the alley. Just before the fatal plunge the men on that portion of the scaffold in the north- west corner of the building on the fourth floor had been ordered to quit work tem. porarily to give a foree of workmen a chance to repair the chute used in carry- ing the bricks from the building. Two wheeibarrows had been loaded and stood on the scaffold. The men were in a group, conversing, at the extreme north end of tte scasfold. Their combined weight in one spot was too much for the filmsy structure. A section twenty feet long gave way. The timbers flew in every direction. Leyh, Wertheim, Croswell, Harris, Wilson, Smith and two negroes were precipitated to the floor below. Charles Meintz, who was etanding on the scaffold, jumped back and was left on the very edge of the portion of the platform that remained intact. John Lesa grasped the top of the wall and hung there. Meintz grabbed his companion and pulled him to his side, ° é cries and groans of the injured men resounded through the building. ' Superintendent Frank Vincent of the Mis- e0url company was sianding at the south end of the eca’cid when the crash came. With his force of workmen he ran down & temporary staircase, outside the building, to the third floor, The two negroes who went down with the ecaffold extricated themaglves and left the building by a ladder. Vincent tried to call them back, but they ran down Seventh street. None of the workmen knew their names, The othor six men were still under'a mase of bricks and timbers. yh was the first. rescued. The poor fellow was all but dead. He was covered with blood ard the braics were oozing from acut In ‘is head. Wertheim Wos next taken out. He was unabie to walk and groaned piteously. These two were placed in a large dry goods case and lowered by ropes from the 0 ge story window on the Beventh street eide. The crash attracted an immense crowd and the rescuers, bearing Leyh and Werth- eim, had to fight the‘r way to the ambu- lance. Crosswell, Harris, Wilson and Smith were carried down the temporary stairs on the west side of the bu lding and over the roof of the Lincoln Trust Company's building to the building occupied by Fischer & Co. at 714 Chestnut street, and thence to the street. All of the men had a narrow escape from a #-foot plunge into the basement. Only the extreme western portion of the floor, to which they fell, is intact. A few feet m where the men were picked up the floor ends abruptiy over a chasm reaching to the basement. The injured mén were hutried to the City Dispensdry in two ambulances. Al) of tham were able to waik, with assistance, from the —— Fyn ma Leyh. They were moan. 4 hing terri as the the operating room. f nn . Kearney saw that Le was | wore condition and gave . Shismetee first. He was lifted from the stretcher to ‘he table, He was conscious and suffered Grain His head was split open and his 00 out. . “ ve his name and address, but an. all other questions with screams of ha a the doctor oi the doc to do some- - 7 CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. aS H. L. CHAPMAN, (Democrat, Ohio.) 3 G, F. WILLIAMS. (Democrat, Massachusetts.) J. H. TYLER. Democrat, Virginia.) FRED E. WHITE. Democrat, Iowa.) att ei | THE ISSUES Oe ~~ _ OO ee eee vx—Vv——e a ee ee _ -_ owes ose eeOeeeeeeEOEee eee ee Rear a Yaya -—_ -_ -_ -_ —_ = tll til eee - ~e (National Democrat and Citizens’ Union.) AND CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS HELD TO-DAY. > CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR Bagel OF GREATER NEW YORK.$ #s CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. Lux yes } ie Oh eed" _——— “ ms. it i) \ ~ ’ i- >> = i* ty } = ave area ha : — , =~) a # \ ‘ 3 /, < “ ‘, Aah ‘ess bs . Pay by fF i ‘ = ge ; ‘ i? TENA |! W/, ig “f/ soli 4 “= \Py,\ \ i] _ ae ¥ s a \ A. 8. BUSHNELL. (Republican, Ohio.) BENJAMIN F. TRACY. ~ (Republican. ROBERT A. VAN WYCK. (Tammany Democrat.) POLITICAL CONTESTS IN TEN STATES. To-day elections are held in ten States, and in addition the most interest- ing municipal contest ever waged in any American city will be decided by the ballots cast in Greater New York. In Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and Massachusetts full tickets from Gov- ernor down will be vcted for. Iowa and Ohio are attracting most of the at- tention. In Ohio the issue is the election of a Senator, and therefore the in- terest centers not in the gubernatorial result, but in the composition of the Legislature. Senator Hanna is the big figure in Ohio State politics at pres- ent, and is really the issue. Both sides are confident of success. In lowa the campaign is most picturesque. The issue there is the ver same as stirred the country in the national campaign—free silver. Leslie M. Shaw and Fred E. White are the respective candidates. The Republicans claim that Mr. Shaw will have a plurality of at least 40,000. The other ele- ments in the election are,not sufficiently worthy of special-cwe\deration, The campaign in Massachusetts has been unable to raise a ripple of ex-- ROGER WOLCOTT. (Republican, Massachusetts.) citement. It is as dead as can be, for the reason that the Republican ticket seems certain of election. In Maryland the issue is Senator Gorman. As to the outcome it can only be said that the result is in great doubt, though both sides claim to be able to count enough votes in the Legislature to secure a majority on joint bal- lot and to elect the United States Senator. The Republicans have a slight ad- vantage in that of the thirteen holdover State Senators nine are Republican. The National or Gold Democrats of Kentucky are on trial in that State. That is the most interesting feature of the election in that State. In Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Nebraska the campaigns are rather insignificant, but are interesting in their bearing on the silver ques- tion. This is especially true of William J. Bryan’s home State. The State election in New York is totally overshadowed by the wonderful campaign and the tremendous issues of the municipal election in Greater New York. No contest in politics of a purely local nature has ever created such interest in the up-State counties as has the Greater New York contest for Mayor, and the death of one of the foremost candidates has but added to that interest. It is*apparent that the general expectations are that Tam- many will win, and that Mr. Low and Mr. Tracy will have a fight for second place. These prognostications are based upon the theory that the normal Republican vote is very much more evenly divided among the candidates than is the Democratic vote. —_—_- -— —_ ltt tt i a = -_ —_ —_— —_ — — = a P. M’CAULL. (Republican, Virginia.) till stil al HENRY GEORGE, JR. (Thomas Jefferson Democracy.) SETH LCW. ZL. - SHAW. (Republican, Iowa.) GREATER NEW YORK'S PRUE AWARDED AT THE POLLS TO-DAY, The Betting Is 3 to:l Van Wyck, the Tammany Candidate, Against the Field; but the Other Candidates Are Confident. TOTAL REGISTRATION OF THE CITY 568,568 The Total Vote Which Is Expected to Be Cast Is Put at 529,000, and It Is Predicted That 126,250 May Elect One of the Eight Candidates in the Field. - © Special to the Post-Dispatch. ‘ NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Democratic estimate gives Van Wyck a majority over all. other candidates combined of 2,000, and plurality over Low, the next highest, 130,000. Republican estimate gives Tracy a plurality of 75,000. Citizens’ Union estimate gives Low a plurality of 15,000. George’s estimate gives George a plurality of 65,000. The open betting to-day was 3 to 1 Van Wyck against the field, with rain falling, which is held to be in his favor, Here are the candidates and the parties they rep- resent: Democratic (Tammany)—Robert A, Van Wyck. National Democratic and Citizens’ Union—Seth Low. Republican—Benjamin F. Tracy. Thomas Jefferson Democracy—Henry George, Jr. Independent—Patrick Jerome Gleason. Socialist-Labor—Lucien Saniel. Prohibitionist—William T. Wardell, Independent—A. B, Cruikshank. Total Registration—b568,568. Expected Total Vote—629,000. Vote Which May Elect—1@6, 260. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The first Mayor of Greater New York will be elected to-day. For bitterness, complex situations and un- certainty the campaign has never been ex- celled in national or municipal elections. The dramatic death and funera}) of Henry George, the nominee of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson and author of ana Poverty” on the eve of the | an unprecedented event ém the history of the country, if not of the world, and the selection of his son Henry, as his political heit, may, in case the unexpected happens, because of sympathetic and sentimental considerations have an effect upon the gen- eral results. It is difficult, if not impos- sible, to make any estimates in this regard because of the absolute lack. of precedents similar dn character. The average man, however, appears to be of the opinion that the votes that would have been cast for the late leader of the Democracy of Thom- as Jefferson will be scattered among the candidates under the new and existing con- ditions in a manner which, while they may}, alter the totala received by the various nominees, will not affect the positions of the leaders at the conclusion of this mu- nicipal race, With the dawn of day came preparations for the opening of the polls. The skies were dark and lowering, the falling rains pre- saging a long and disagreeable day for the workers at the polls. Political leaders early commenced the struggle for the control of the second greatest city of the world, for the privileges involved fn the expenditure of perhaps $300,000,000 during the next four years, for the patronage involved in the ap- pointment of at least 35,000 men to places under the next municipal government, THE REGISTRATION. There is a weather tradition attached to New York State politics which is believed by many to hold good in this municipal struggle. Fair weather is called ‘‘Repub- lican weather,’ rainy weather ‘Demo- cratic.” A full vote will mean probably 529,000, and this estimate is arrived at by taking the total registration—66s, d deducting therefrom the usual 7 per cent allowance for defective ballots, stay-at- homes and non-voters for other causes. Out of the tangle of alleged “deals and splits and straddles and withdrawals” have been drawn into alignment four prominent political parties with the following as their mayoral standard-bearers: pomeerans (Tammany)—Robert A. Van Wve : National Democratic and Citizens’ Union —Seth Low. Republican—Benjamin F. Tracy. The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson— Henry George, Jr. | Patrick Jerome Gleason, the present TWO POINTS OF INTEREST IN TO-DAY’S ELECTIONS. SSE | = nee GREATER NEW YOR Se MAYORALTY = RACE - oF, ve ‘ / me. &, Mae eakta , — ee Le . ei q ” SI oe . <a Se = YRS Sue A All Renoing But One, in New York. » akg nh , - baie _ ee ee ee ye og { Mayor of Long Island City, is running an independent candidate and may 10,000. The official ballots show that there are three other candidates for Ma ty: honors—Lucien cialist-Labor pa o wil Willam T the leader of the Prohibitionists, who is expected to poll more than 6,000 votes at the maximum, and Alfred B, ikshank an The scatt ig total, orotate for Glea- son, Saniel, ardwell would would leave about 606,000 to be divid among the candidates—Van Wyc cy, George and Low. If the above calculation is accurate, and if the candidates Bey) even,”’ the man who receives over ; votes will be the first Mayor of Greater New THE FIRST INDICATIONS. The gathering of the election returne to- night will be complicated by the large num- ber of tickets in the fleld and the mulfi- plicity of candidates ta be voted for. The size of the ballot and the probability that many mistakes- in marking will be made will render the task of getting at the re- sult still more difficult. The special elec- tion law for Greater New York makésg the olice Board of the present New York City the Board of Canvassers of the vote. Th returns from the entire territo includ in the new city will be sent to the Bureau of Elections at police headquarters. The first news received will probably come from the down-town districts, where Tam- many’s strength Is the greatest. The early returns, therefore, will very likely show that Van Wyck is in the lead. The come- parative strength of Low and Tracy in “these districts, however, will be of itmpore- tance. Mr. Low’s friends believe that he will receive many votes from the tenement house districts, and particularly from the densely populated Hebrew districts of the lower East Side. The Italian vote will probably be divided between Gen. Tracy and Judge Van Wyck. The early returns should also give a dé- cisive indication of the strength of Henry George, Jr. If he is strong anywhere it is among the dock laborers along the water front of the East and North Rivers. There his friends have held hundreds of meetings, Should the Tammany vote In the lower part of the city equal the vote In’ the same dis- tricts last year, it will show that George’s~- total vote will be comparatively small. The residence districts up-town will next be heard from. The returns should show at a glance whether there is any baais for the dletm of the Republican leaders that Gen. Tracy will poll the Republican vote, His strenath, if he has any, will be shown in these returns. On the other hand, Lew's vote approaches the claims made by his managers in these districts, a landsiide in his favor is assured, The decisive test of Low's strength, hows ever, will come from Brooklyn. News from that borough will begin to come in soon af- ter the uptown districts have been hea from. Uniess Low runs well ahead oO Tracy and Van Wyck in Brooklyn the cal. culations of those In charge of his campaigns will be proved erroneous. BShould the con- test be close. the returns from the boroughs of Queens and Richmond may be needed te settle it. These will come last, and the may be a long wait before complete corrected figures can be obtained. There are 1,522 election districts and of course as mony vee * en in Greater New York, divided aa fellows: : Manhattan and the Bro s of Ma - Hiorough of ueens, 76; Borough of Richmond, #%. “Te reach a total of 523,000, an average of nearly 80 votes for each dietrict must be attained. In 189 the total vote in the same territory was 586, VOTING IN-THE RAIN. Rain, which fell ersistently throughout the forenoon, has had little effeet to ree strain the voters from giving expression to their preferences for city and borough of- ficials. The polls opened at § o cloc within two hours @ good third of the votes had been polled in the residential sections of New York and Brooklyn. From = time forward the polling erooeenee a - | tle jess rapidly, though «till with —— animation to keep the clerks of eiee from gossiping, so that there was af neon but a small fraction of the re tered vote " the uncaat JD tale Nehind. four of the sev lot pa rks and ot cieras nished for the Tour votera, as Tavern, Pi Oe woe me . 2 é oe oy ea = Pee ots 3% ahaa (6) * . a ‘ ert a Pie i, ws 4 7 ie, ‘inl r SA ES SR ET ne ey ree , ple : of ; AB abe Se Unt aiibtins <i aah € Ate aane KE em a yer of <4, ee Le at eee fo PET 5 Ses