The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1895, Page 8

D THE DEATH TRAP. Dranghtsman of Orchard Street House Which Collapsed. OF A FAMILY AFFAIR. ‘ Son Is an Examiner in the Department of ; Buildings. ‘ONE BRADY MADE THE IRON WORK Whether He Is an Uncie to ‘Supt. |! Brady Cannot Be Definitely Learned. ‘Whether the fall of the tenement- (Reuse in Orchard street last week. by Which four men lost their lives, was due $8 faulty plans or poor material, or "whether the Building Department in| @qually responsible with the owner and @eatractor for the loss of life. one thing | > ‘fe Certain toat the course since pursued by Bupt. Brady and hi uties has feet served to allay public suspicion. “The Buperintendent has steadily re- to a:low the plans Med in his De- ‘3 and approved by the offic ‘Mere to be seen. | He has positively refused the name of the architect o B Who drew the plans, or whether a feeegnized architect had a hand in the _ @rawing of them or not. He has reiterated that he will make all things plain at the continuation of the Coroner's investigation next Mon- @ay, and with that the public must rest e@ontent. In spite of ail the precautions taken €8 keep information from reporters, the “Bvening World" not only succeeded obtaining the name of the architect, it in seeing him and getting hin state- Ment. It ts similar in effect to that y Mabe by Mr, Brady—that the plans were @8 that the law required, and that had “they been followed no accident could _ Rave happened. ‘This ia the defense which Supt. Brady | will interp.se on Monday; that the plans Droperly drawn and approved, and whatever responsibility exists, rests the owner and contractor for | ing the plans, and upon Bullding the Orchard street ‘building were drawn by John Kerby, of %@ Tremoat avenue. Mr. Kerby is an @14 man. He has been in the building ‘Dusiness for over forty years and is well known in the Twenty-third Ward. With @ younger son he carries on the business @¢ Greughtsman at the address given, Gnd lives at 20% Bathgate avenue. Vatil threo yoars ago another son, dobn B. Kerby, was in business with his father. They lost a lot of money on a ‘Heriom rea) estate transaction, and then John E. Kerby was compelled to seek a tion. Passed a civil service ex. tor the position of Hxaminer | Bu ent, and secured ‘ammany man, and Henry Ie mn ire Commissioner, chatge of building matter ner inthe Baliaine Eh tld rte " mment, it is the duty of John EK Depa to pane at puliaings filed with Whose ‘naine i Waite, thus it 4 eis Waite. ‘Thus ii seen that John E, Kirby is in & Pass upon thi lans and ich his er, John submit, is e fat! ntioned was t on the original plans per Waite will appear | aa yaiving’s Aoetoved of tl rey in J Kerby ua een at his should all about his connection with Bething to Concea Son. nothing whatever for us to sali or do I understand Says Kerby‘s ut before uniess it be that Supt rady prefers waiting to explain every- al inquest. was my father who drew the plans case, Until ‘three years ago 1 business with him, but then tak- Present ‘boultion 1 had to give| outsije wor! AS @ matter of cs | doubt very much if my father ever sae the the lots before drawing the plans. Yeanon. the owner, came to him f the place and ‘hen it they sre sent Upstairs to the ex. ‘and fortunately for me these went to Mr. Waite. After he had ved of them they were sent to the | Deputy, Mr. Horner ra Deputy Superinte nd. I do nbt think Mt coe ever saw the plans & physical imponsibility fc ae he has to direc thing in the ‘Department, ‘time, “Now fT [ want to say that these plans| ore ail Fight, and complied with wwirement ‘of he law. It !s for the| rep jury, to determine whether or I the plans’ were devinted {tev dent, Mr. Brady It would him 2 t He could noi | ene rere. changed is rt t mith the change, air. Lennon couli ly heve worked within the law b; is freproof halls and stairw | Dies of all the plans and.» now at my father's offic ACE who desires can see Kerby had stated that | the Orchard street bulids g. The asked if he had not vis! ited e | with ry | nd, accompanied Jury, tone’ Grebard treet. pla poe ey . at Department,” ‘ae ni See ete Mis Thelen hip Secret, of the fact that his father drawn tns's plas oF the butidings, Beady to expain matters to e@ jury. Not one of the latter, | nor the ppeipere men br relation rer cent, | Hated this morning | odraen rgordiog to; a spe tanentent hoes have pay cone ry to make Ried § mene the law does not require that they ney re ted upon heavy girders run- oar rom, main walt to main wall,” he “Th are but sixteen inches thick conpequentiy the girders have but an eight inch rest upon each of them. few law provides that the all re upo: anite block foundation, and in Phi Instance this was technically carried out, but through the ignorance of either the contractors or the Fores ts the girder is placed obate the ena Ge th e block inatead of the ntre. When the thaw came the mor- far under the ‘eranite block softened, causing the girder to topple, Kerby Exonerates His Son. Mr. Kerby states that his son, who a connected with the Building ‘Depart- ment, had nothin hatever to do with the drawing of ceptance by the He expects to be called an on Monday. His story is that the dis- na ester was caused by a combination of | bad mortar, poor workmanship, unfa- | vorable weather and negligence of the Inspectors. ‘An there has been considerable talk to the effect that the collapse of the bulldings was in w measure due to the absence of proper iron Deama and sup- porte, the reporter atarted aut to dis- cover the contractors who auppiied ted ve {ton work. ‘They proved to. be Wer tata, ef fod and tol eiter avenue. Neither of the peinara was in, but the foreman insiste) that all the iton work had been eup) cording to. specifi- ons, and that the girders and beams had beer cant’ by simpson, & Co, Rodney street, rookly The Genied’ that the disaster was Way due to the tron work oF defects iH ‘The name of the firm suggested the Sener ee next question: ‘Ia Mr, Brady, the senior member, any relailve of Supt, Brady, of the Bulluing Department? Did Brady’ cle Furnish Ma Well. 1 have been {x Supt. Brady's uncle, “but 1am not sure.’ The Superintendent could not be found to state whether or not his uncle had the contract for supplying the fron Work for the pullding, ¢he callape of which caused the lows of four lives, Deputy Supt. Vreeland w urbane, but uncommuntcative as ever when, the Instructions been in the day. that no in- formation should be ion to reporters until the Inquest on Monda: Mr. Vreeland was asked if he dia not have an examiner named eKrby in the Department, and If a man named eKrby had not actually draw the plans, Hi mitted that John E, Kerby he: ition ther Tt ix not the first 1 heard of Kerby's was the reply to the second T do not know whether drew the plans or not. I have not asked him. If [did I think he would de- cline, to anaw: “T think, das fbi beh) ty get down! 01 th at formed that he was the reply, name," question, that there is | SPF ning the De-| ply a question Whether or not the plane filed with, this | Department were followed. ‘The plans} and specifications will be shown to the) jury on Monday. I do not know who | drew them up. Nothing further will be given out from here until the » Inquest.” — HIS MESSAGES SPURIOUS. Young Shaw Wrote Them Himself ‘and Collected Char; Vifteen-year-old Morris Shaw, measen- ger 601 of the Postal Telegraph Company, who was arrested last evening by Detec: tive Groden, of the Barge office, was among the prisoners at the Tombs Court this morning. He 1s charged with carrying spurious telegrams to many lower east side resi- dents and swindling them out of small sum i Di loner of Immigra- tion, Years day, be- gan’ to recelve complaints péo Who had been hastily by wells worded telegrame: to Lillia Tsiand to epanse whom they expected to arrive in this country, In some instances, the ‘he friends were rvice. ‘admitted that the hi charge against him is true, He has also been identified by some of his victims. Lavinson and Mendel Cohen, two thir ten-year-old boys, the former of 90 Di street and the latter of 60 Forsyth sirest, were held for trial on « charge of burglary by Justice Two Boys Are Mra. Willlam Phillip Beedendender, of 2: One Hundred and Third street, asked th thie morning to look for her twelv William, who has been missing ain: morniny years eleven Fourth nelther of the boys they may have been Invelgied trom the city ‘@ padrone. —__—~ s—_-_ Forty Years for a Yo In the Super or d eighteen years, tn the penitentiary y robbery. John Smith ied euiliy and wan years, While leaving court ursed the Judge ant knocked down the policeman who arrested him.” They are mein ere of RANK of four youthful highwaymen, who came here from Chicago and Kansas City. —— A Newsboy Saved from Drowning, Tr ear-old Tommy Donnelly, newsboy, fell overboard from a pl the foot of slept on the a homeless of brick at UNIFORM FEATURE— AT Is, SOMETHING? YOWDER OR POTION RE ACTUALLY PEOPLE To: ENDEAVORING TO CURE DYSPEPSIA BY TAKING SUCH NOSTRUMS, nA BETTER WAY AND THAT Is BY MOME CERT ALN N THAT FOOD. REPARED WITH F LARD LOSES ITS COMMONLY CALL 1 CAUSES INDIGE & IN WICH WAY IX YOUR FOOD PRE PARED, WITH LARD OR WI LENE@ THE DIFF! CE IS PHAN YOU May REALIZE, THY MoU HOLD Us BUT DYSPEPTIC MONT SOLD EVERYWHERE: f ND FIVE ND TINS, PS LEAD | | A PILL| AND! at her home o AY | by a wr H IN COTTON-PLANT WREATH—ON EVERY | PACKAGE, ONLY BY GET THE GENUINE, MADE CHICAGO, and Produce hxobauge, Now York. |r con-|THB N. K, FAIRBANK COMPANY, aay THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 9, tes Geo. S. Ryer& Co. will offer for the next few days their entire stock of Rugs, Furniture, Bric-a-Brac, Lace Curtains, Upholstery and Drapery Fabrics at great reduction, about 1 =2 regular value Special 200 prs ‘Irish Point Lace Curtains Formerly $9.00. $5.75 500 yards Tapestries 5] 79 yd Formerly $3.00. 64 & 66 West 23d St. IT WAS DARK IN CHICAGO. House Coughlin, hin clothes last | nlant loaded, di she, M ickey der in the Council Chamber," yelled the Mayor. || "Those Kents who ‘ein r of voting for gus and light, say jotographic "Aldermen His wife went iS ea wh It was dark in Chicago. When the sun sets on Chicago, that town is darker than any other place in the universe. It is worse than Darkest Afric In & large room in the centre of the city the Aldermen were at work making light. They were getting ready 10 ordinance, letting a bij sledtrie eight company in’ on the ground floor. in the gallery were the B ons. ES tough, armed for the fray. two. halt foe meets, Down on the floor of the Council Guha Aldermanic blackemith work, putting wrought fr apouae the Mayor's gavel and the table in front of his ch: With bullet-proaf steel platen, The Aldermen were lounging about in i .Qnly the artist. with his ph in show how Chicago the Mayor, fell neadforemost in @ cus- pidore, from which arove during the melee, ‘remarking that t hit me wid a b ck 1s no gent For one minute the alr was full of fats, and then Medillan, who used to tend bar on South C t before he me io eaoon tor hin eit, snouted e are pie yes, Mr, Mayur, thru Ulck e forty-three ov us, pints in his vout C Carried yelled HOE ‘ins, as he knocked the iron band off one end of h carried?” demanded Sure Thing Powers, who had yoted in the Oriental attitudes in thelr comfortable | affirmative. leather, chairs, and smoking over-ripe | don't know," shrieked back the cigars. The waves of smoke beat against | Mayor, ‘But it's carried Just the same,” the walls like angry surf on the sea-! After the session, the Mayor, with his shore. | new smoke consuming hat, was con Suddenly a man with sealskin whisker: pe upon his par laméentary rul ng to his His big, strong, white |b ythe man with the scalloped ears teeth took a firmer hold on the cigar he | the Louls LV. shirt, who ls gftectionacelg had been smoking, an: tn & voice quiver- | iknown as the qitink Dink from the ing with emotion he sald Bad Lands,” and Handsome Adam, who “Mr. Chairman, I move you that 8moke | is In receipt of a tare income for keep= Inspector Ad led to stop| ing off State street, so his countenance the amoking in the galler will not int “Mickey Ityan has the of the cable Mm ‘he three urn out the lights Mayor to the janitor. It was dark In Chicago, fere with the movements or,” remarked | ars. walked out arm in, arm. Jerry,” sald the man with the kers.”” “That's all he has, * soliloquized Bath- hey Ten’t Mico in Chie: ago’s Councli Chamber TO ANSWER INGERSOLL. Rev. Dr. ¥ ny Nah prine Party in Harlem, to Miss B Ma A nurprise party was given Levia ft Hastenn: lynn Will Reply San- nn's entitted | and Hearts is a reply 4 4 soll's more t iver i nex’ *hureh, lecwure ads Robert fifteen vears; Edward Nort Afiven years, and Henry Crowley, eighteen ye old, wery held by Justice Burke to-tay. Crowiey contess “yeh wr at 3 are de! famous Dr. MeGlynn ix first to deliver this leeture in their church, and the hoa many fr sand admirers of the priest and will crowd th reh to hear it Maren 9 enlay New Tas Coniral family from 7 1 keved a Hampshire have en Wer ii of the property sat White Platus. f the Harlem Railroad Company and Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only R. H. MACY... SIXTH AVE., 18TH TO 1TH BT, ““WE SET THE PACE.” ANNUAL SPRING OPENING, Beginning Monday. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE IN AN ADVERTISEMENT THE MANY EX- TRAORDINARY VALUES THAT WE SHALL OFFER IN ALL DEPARTMENTS NEXT WEEK. Three Noted Politicians Who CALM DISCUSSION (Te majority, led by Alderman |p Make Chicago Lively. “Fweas Teac Feb bs Ge IN THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL. MoGillin, throw out the minority.) SIX LIVES SACRIFICED. it OMe the Longfellow. CINCINNATI, March 9.—Tne loss of is and list of missing by the collision erday of the steamboat Longfellow with a bridge piei, ls reduced now to @ix, The list furnished by the company this morning ts: DAVID ALDRICH, Rome, N. ¥., missing: be- Meved to be lost. His wife is at the Palace Hotel, CARTER, Newport, ky., ly lost, AUGUSTUS C T, barkeeper, New Orleans warely lost, body not reoovered 28 MiLLER. colored porter, eottally ont Mra WJ and ai the Morgue. J. AULL, Dayton, 0.; not recovered, In the despatches sent out last night, mention was made of an unknown young woman as among the missing. The un- known woman was probably Miss Belle Harrington, of Jamestown, N. Y. She ie safe and noused at 35 Kenyon avenue, this city, with Miss Armstrong, at the home, of ’ viltiam Culbert, clerk of the r came, engers, Cincinnati, OS boty recovered certainly lost; body AiKen the collision with the pi Gate wlteen mausered ine Dai His taughter, Ellen, aged about twenty | vears, was missing.” With n ery of an- uish he ran to her room. ‘The door was lock it he put his hand through the lass, "burst open the door and ‘carried jer out. James Miller, the porter, returned for hi and ‘clothing and lost his life. ped from the atateroom a m. ment too late, for the vessel had already drifted away He attempted to {ump from the cabin jeck and aa he did the boats drifted together. He was caught between them and Hterally cut in tw one part of his body falling beneath the hull of the Longfellow, while the trunk remained attached tothe side of the boiler deck 'n the front part when the wreck went down, of {he pasaengera were about the hotel last night telling thelr experience, All will return home, as th baquage ts pre. There was ¢ome suffering db; ose who escaped in night ‘dresses. ENGINE BOILER E EXPLODES. Fatally Injured. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 9.—The engine of the Pa express on the Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked at! Cove station, eleven miies west of here, geplasion. night oy mm * store ‘was entered and the hospital vox ehd’ til emptied. i a ane - | iE HOUSES, FLATS AND Rooms | Heed for rent in at day'e Rvoning World. | That w why It is the beat anring medicine, It you intend moving read ty eid you'll ace that wis eult you, = ee 1 True Blood Purifier un destroys (be dispase gevine aud datyes out tue tm. punles EXPLOSION ON A STEAMSHIP. Two Men Were Fatally Injui Si Franciaco. BAN FRANCISCO, March 9—A ter- rific explosion on the tank of the steam- ship Bawnmore, lying at the Arctic Ol Works docks, at the Potrero, oc- FEE past aet ‘che'Vesuel was badly ark. of crude petroleum havin; been” oie arged, two workmen, carr: ing 9 went into the tanka yester- day “afternoon to clean them and” the explosion instantly followed. CONTRACTOR FAWK FREE. Not Held for the Reckle in One Hundred Frank Fawk, of One Hundred and | Thirtleth street and Old Broadway, the | contractor who having the blasting red and Third stre End avanty yesterday, was arraigned in the Harlem Police Court {his morning, charged with reckless pasting. He was discharged, as he was not pres- ent at the time of the explosion, which damaged elx houses, —— | FELL FROM THE ROOF. Workman on a Broad Street Bi ing Instantly Killed, Philip Meyer, a roofer, whi at work this morning on the roof of the building at % Broad street, fell to the sidewalk |and was instantly killed. Meyer had approached close to the edge of the roof and lost his footing. His body was taken to the Old Blip | station, Macculloch Miller, who has had some @ In choosing sites for New York Crashed by am Elevator, ‘Thomas Wright, twenty-one years olf, of by ue thie Heed a Tl at ha ie udswas taken to Roosey nk, of Harrisbure, probably fatally. injured. The explosion Mieralled the mail und baggage cars. —_—— THERE'S NO Riegel LIKE pega Antiseptic end Prephylectia SATE sec atecowm JOHN H. WOODBURY DERMATOLOGICAL INSTI- TUTE. Extablished over 20 years, SKIN DISEASES, FACIAL BLEMISHES, FEATURAL IRREGULARITIES. Ever since 1870 John H. Wood- bury has been curing all sorts of skin diseases and imperfections. He is President of the John H. 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