The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1900, Page 3

ILM, IR HES SUODEALY. Ex- Corporation - Counsel Ex- pires While Relatives Were Denying His Illness. H. Glark, office of c Wiliam rk, ex-Corporation- pe | Pets, CoE Counsel and millionaire; one of the| it became known that mosi of Cockran's leading owners of racing stables; bulld- is vita thunder was manufactured ev of new Empire track near Yonkers, ne went into politics and and once a power in Tammany Hall A ea rg until his intimacy with ex-Mayor Gil- won the euiadt of roy put him among the ‘men non, per: fice, of, Coeporgun soua grata in that organisation, dled | Lorin’ par ‘Sm OME one a} his home in West Seventy-sixth | friendships and they” ied Sirect, this morning, while his relatives | street, but led him in wire sending out denials that he was| ‘hat he war on the winning feriously indisposed and declaring that beepen the stories that his fortune was trre- trlevally wrecked was a baseless fic- tlon. The news came from the dead ma: house and the dead man's brother. He called up the City Hall this morning, and after announcing his name simply said In grief-stricken tones: “Billy ts Inquiry over the wire revealed fact that he died at 6% o'clock morning. ‘The news was teleplioned to the Demo- erate Club and the fag was at once put at half-mart on the club-house. It was &# terrible shock to Mr. Clark's club- mates, a* it was an utter surprise to them. A few weeks ago, yielding to the en- treaties of his wife ant brother, he went to Lakewood. !t did him no good. | 8 He returned to the city, placed himself in| the hands of his family physician, and Went Into seclusion in Dis uptown resi. dence. His condition yesterday was so favor- able that (he family felt authorized tn predicting a speedy return to health But in the evening he had a rela) and at midnight the famiy were Moned to the bedside. He rallied again Until early morning, when he again wuf- fered from falnting spells and his death became a question of hours, If not of moments Police Commissioner John B. Sexton, a faithful friend of many years’ standing, reached the bedside and was present when the great change came, His wife and two children, Kémund and W. Grant Clark, were on their knees at the bed- side. Other tmmediate members of his famous. Its bet wi “ Say xe Mas cies te the eng.| EME Roosevelt would win. Col. Brown tobk Van Wyck. The winner was t He died peacefully, leaving his biegsing | save the dinner and the loser to pay for on his weeping wife and litt ‘ a dinner which was was the result of a $10.000 Bill Brown. Clark bet nd extend i's] BANQUET IN HIS STABLE. a extending a tranquil farewell to Goose ol Goeth eae Niadt tert She Plone jobs hold in Clesicd Mabie ¥ uF eed, leged. in he vw © A_ naturai-born there with tremen the tutel: Flower and and sates Weer By Boise ere Be ned up money lecting his the this y is conceded by lawyers that his know!l- edge the law was marvellous, LAVISH WITH HIS WEALTH. Meanwhile (he soclal and aesthetic side of his nature was blossom! He married happl Two bright dren called him ther. He indu hie propensity for art. sums for pictures. ‘| gallery and even bis In Wert Seventy-sixth atreet has art of the first class on the jo man seemingly, got more money than Clark, But oh, oney fier nieriainments were simply prodi- whether they were semi-pubitc | “ouck” dinners at the club, or more re- | Gned entertainments at hls hi As he grew richer and ik In work Clark went into cing. had already made some big winnings on the turf. eH loved to drive uw fuat horse. He owned several trotters and Was one of the wamed whips of the But ke wanted to go deeper, and he tn- j Vested In thoroughbreds and started a Facing stable He ran this in the same extravagant ahion, counting cost » nothing. To- da yhe had thirty running horses in training and each cost him & a far, 82 le pald Joc! aMher $10 a His stable, is estimated, cost . lites private ex- more. uiged Cause of death was heart fatture. w of its usual phernalla and profusely ‘decorated. Or HIS WOKDERFUL CAREER, ends) this morning by Magistrate Cornell in| be oe tare, ee clack a ; of the gol poesia within ¢ res a i ui igpeettys ue i om ih if {| green-goode game, but as {t could not x | be shown that any of the circulars setaed THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, GAIP if Slt, STAGE ME GE MEN DON’T | FEAR CRUSADE. MEASLES BAD ae Marcus Mayer Says He Would Like to Have Rev. Dr. Parkhurst Witness a an Epidemic of Infiuenza. I$ APT TO BRING IT. Performance of “Sapho.”’ There Were 850 Cases of Measies and 39 Deaths from It Last Week. F FEBRUARY 1 DAVID BELASCO. (Whe saye “Zasa” teaches a moral leanon.) The threat of Dr Parkhurst's Soclety for the Prevention of Crime to here- after éxercise a censorship over theatr!- cal productions In New York does not appear to have caused any widespread feeling of apprehension on Broadway. Tt was stated to-day that a very ¥ 2 earnest crvaade against slage * which, In the opinion of Superintendent Burr, of the society, ad not conduce to @ greater morality among the men, women and children of| the elty, would probably be Inaugurated next Tuesday. It ls expected that on this date Dr. Parkhurst will be entirely recovered ) his present indispasition, and pre- pared to don sword and buckler in the interests of public morals, But although this annotincement was solemnly made there was no grief apparent among man- agers. ‘They all, without exception, de- clared they had done nothing to make them Hable to the wrath of the soclety, and no one of them had any idea of changing a Mne or 9 situation in the 2 they are now produeing. pre While the Health Board has not had the usual epidemic of erp to contend with this Winter, the officials are never theless keeping clone tabs on the weekly statistics, fearing from the prevalence of the disease in other countries that ft may strike here at any time in epidemic form. “It tsn't Bad yet," anid Col, Michae! C. Murphy to-day, “but thore ts no tell- ing how soon it may become a factor. It is a treacherous and insidious disease, and we dread it. “ast year, for the week ending Feb." As the contemplated attack wm, tn 4, aixicen Geaths were reported from any bility, be chiefly directed «tip. This year there were ten. For the! seainet Mies Olea Nethoradle and her week ending Feb. 19, 180, there were | dramatiza of the novel “Sapho, nineteen denths; this year only three / what her manager, Marcus Mayer, har Up to yesterday to say on the subject of the late “The open weather amt lack of snow | Parkhurst crusade, js naturally fraught that have characterized this Winter | with the greatest Interest. have doubtless levsened the grip rate. A nucocaston of snow worms woult prot. | MAYER DOESN'T FEAR, Ably cause tt 10 Jump, Snow collects. | pealiy.” ald Mr. Mayer, “we have carries and amalgamates the grip germs “The best prescription in ease of grip ts & dootor—one who has treated you and knowa your west poirms, physi nothing to fear I only wish Dr, aPrk- burst and hig superintendent, Mr, Burr, woul! visit Wallack’s and witness the performance being given by Miss cally, The grip always mweks out (Me | Nethersole. 1 feel confident they would | most vulnerable spot for its attack {leave (he house instructed and with a “Measles have been very prevalent in feeling that they had absorbed a great the city since iast Septem! | lesson | week, up to noon yesterday, “‘Bapho’ was witnessed by the higher were reported tn Manhattan and the| police officials of New York, and each Bronx alone, Last week there were 8) one of them pronounced It to be harm: cases, jless, and probably beneficial. That is “In the whole city last week there| honestly my idea of it. If the Society were S@ cases and thirty-nine deaths! for the Prevention of Crime wishes to from mensies, Last year there were] investigate ‘Sapho' we will extend its twenty-one deaths.” Mficers every courtesy.” The bacterioiogists of the Health} David Helusco, author of “Zama” and Board have not yer fMured out the| “Naughty Anthony,” said: cause for the prevalence of measies. Of] “I doubt very much if the Parkhurst Society, #0 called, will do anything ia the matter. I have not seen ‘Sapho,’ but I have read the novel, and I con- older ita classic, When I say I have not m the play, I mean I have not seen | the Clyde Fiteh version. If saw Mme | | Kejane play the part in Paris, and | thought it one of the strongest dramas T had ever witnessed, 1 actually cried the end of the third act. “If a play is bad, immoral and de- moraliging, it is because tie aviress and thé audience make it so. Would you call the statue of the Venus de Mio immoral? Certainly not. The artist haa idealized it and made it beautiful. fo could ‘Bapho’ be made beautiful. I have no doubt It is, If it ts not, then the conception of the actress is at fault. SAYS “ZAZA” IS MORAL. T would resent any {mputation that ‘Zazn' was not moral and uplifting, be- cause J know it teaches 4 great moral | lesson. The police are practical censors of the stage, and it is right they should| be. “Were we to have a theatrical censor, ~ - - ~[such os is a dictator in London, the} ourre {t la the microbe, but why he ts/™an of influence could produce anything more active now than usual they do not| he desired, while the man without in-| knew. fluence might not be permitted to pro- | ly bring the to pee elther. 1 do not ‘Bap a bit worse. If moral- are really sinoere they will stop vertising plays they deem objectionable. “RIDICULOUS !”—ZIEGFELD. most. inno- The measies victims are in most all| duceeven ‘Unele Tom's Cabin.” With| BP. Zlesfeld, Jt. producer of "The ‘Ture cases children. Very few adults have] all due respect to Dr. Parkhurst's so-| tle." allie, Fi" and “Papa's Wile, been stricken. clety, 1 think we are doing very well a8 | TR oust Dr, Parkhurat’s Bociety eh ai a we now stand. will vou may be sure, conclude to keep orge W, Lederer, manager of the| it» hands off. ‘The London censor would wome ty produce ‘Mile Fin’ in and if We are ging to Intro- on methods here, it were thine tres closed. ‘Fin’ enjoyed vere, and | have not noticed spread of vice In the town II find that ene good dostor ia too kensihle to mix in on @ matter of this nit Col. Casino, sald \? “Certainly the public does not have to patronize plays which they may regard) as ‘risque.’ I do not think the American | Home Has Reen Devastated — | stage has ever injured any one, and the In Hin Absence. interferenc a soctety would be noth-| HAY Carats: & eee . who |/M& short of an impertinence. [ am Hives ordinarily at 20 West One Hun. | $¢Ptaln no Casino production has endan- “ gered the moral health of any one.” ROUSE, ir Edwin G@. Know! m Fifth Avenue ‘Theatre, anager obser dred and Twelfth street, has, with his! MGlition: Sill he: died slain. Somnus been staying tn the home of his| George H. Broadhurst sald there a goretng eeeiat tee eine mother ever since the death of thetr ti! ‘The agitation seems to me to be nb-| local wtage.” jo baby six weeks ago. They returned | *Urd. Here we have, and have had for| Al Hayman, of the Frohman forces, sald their home yesterday and on the More years than 1 can enumerate, pro- | ‘4! “ hreshhold of the door stood gasp: | ductions of yer] Ht T were a Young git! 1 would have Lr hers with amazement and | no hesitation whatever in talting my in- conaternal Protest, Surely the story of ‘aust’ ts wee either ‘#apho,’ From top to bottom :he house had | quite as wicked as all the ‘Saphor’ and a. ‘Brother Officers, matically ranenoked of nearly | ‘Camiller” and “Zazix agitation ei avere, Twent KL) ’ able article of furniture, {ro . " ‘ae % ing now running in the city, brievachrac and allverware down tot [ont terres te ser" Pater ce nie inet |S Vg hink Dr Parkhurat would, ‘ot-water boiler, clthe The police think the goods were car-| Sa a ried away in a wagon, but all the di fective genius of the force, or of De-! delberg, who lives next has fated to throw any fur- ther Hght on the mystery, GRBEN GOODS CASE PAILS Five Prisenere Taken tm Raid Ko- cape om Mall Clause, Frank Brooks, Charlies Jackson and ‘Thomas Gilbert, and Miss Lilly Walker FIREENCINE URED AWAY A UPSET; 2 HURT. YOUNG HERES, Horses Pinned Down by/|Oscar Alden Scouring the m. nee, eg ania 8 an #| Tongue, and Traffic City for Daughter and Frankfort strect, were all dtecharged | Delayed. Abductor. the Centre Btree: Court. ‘They re itl Mt | as GUAT Cait tease |) Wiuihe runsing at fal speed to 0 See] derioes efoubie may result in the at BL West One Humdred aud Thirty- streets of this cliy to-day if Oscar ¥ hinth street at 615 o'clock this morning | aiden rune acromes the man whom he the raid bad been sent through the Gre-engine No, overturned. (0° | suspects of abducting his beautiful #tx- mails the prosecution was dropped. hortes thréwen 4. ieianere Bonaiiter pong homed ground under the tn Maiden, Mane. Aiden and a party of patrolling Broadway and horowghfares in search he child. Men, were more oF less The acckient hay turned from One liu SHANNON'S PHANTOM FIND, friends are ” other prominent of the man and ight fifth street in Pies 910/980 trom be (= Less | momentum waa ino Feat t Mr, Alden's daughter, Annie Winifred, Then Learned It Was Ont: the slush in a wide circle “ ol het eo Feb. The | ms i car tracks in such a way as to throw {appeared from pith ig sgaliparcypstl ver on the side s ‘ police here were notified the ¥ John Shannon, of 1% Wert Twentieth we horses were carried off thelr feet! arf the slip issued from Headquarters eight of the tongue h street, has Jast paseed through yoy aS icting and stron | call ave been seen walking "Reported ce le recently tating experience. herived hare from Philadelphia, where omens Warner. the Ariver. was thrown jin Madiee aie tu Coupee Ot this thing happenet. When the Mit- | Diogiders. apt Ratnuel He | William & M. Ride ead thipkenper fin mansion ‘np Philadelphia was demol- | rifting the ash-pan be In the Charleston «Mass» N Yara ished Bhannon bought » cart-load of| “Mrown backward, also jan . rrie’ mr “Te used Searls ail of thie wood, ana ii] BOM. were, gatntuity vrutsed. wut, not | Mr. Aiden wes tee cate oar age at tn saw. | MUFE terlously enough to gv to a how | bis quest he rAld to an! Tis itlen ee he ots tu wd | Hemieer Menry Caaroy dem in, te | ie ia, sunpect miming tr Tacenen sonkded the seme toe end, | Just ae the en Upset, averting dan- | the Navy-Yan *, and vt | eer of « xplostas my guepictons p r fh Fe Ree naa rcted inching hy seney raMe on the. Mighth avenue north- | Riz, Wen go hard with him fam thet the wrens “ihe leone oe Mi; | bound line was delayed an hour vail 9 | aailes Alden is descrited na being of r Te eee ihe pees | PSCCRINE Crem removed the engine and | euch beauty that she woul! be very Worth (he pape: 1 gptbarale ta, the cures, Sze ts helrene * ‘by ber mower, HUMAN ROPE ~ SUES LIFE Brave Work Performed at a Fire on Fifth Avenue. WOMAN SAVED MOTHER, Two Persons Overcome by Smoke and Others Had Narrow Escapes. | | | Trave rescies were made by firemen and policemen during = destructive blaze which swept through the fve- story brownstcne house at 42) Fifth avenve al 2 o'clock this morning, A dozen men and women were asleep In the house at the time, and all en- caped safely except two men, who were painfully Injured Neighbors, Including the Orme Wit- fons, John H. Higgine’s family, the fist, Archie Gunn, and others, were hastily aroused from their, stumbers and, scantily attired, rushed out into the chilling snowstorm to geck mifor wartera for the night. ‘The first floor of the burned building war occupied by James Weatherly, ladies’ tatlor; the second, by Bassett & Company, photographers: the third, by Miss Nort Raymond Oreene, a teacher of vocal music: her mother. Mrs. N. M. (reene and her sister, Miss Clara Bell- {nger Greene; the fourth and fifth, by Gl. Dyson, who rented furnished Apartments. Among his roomere were R. Ellie McClelland, Willlam M.. Alken, an architect; Dr, Wyatt and Miss Frances Freer, a planet, SAVED HER MOTHER. ‘The fire started in the apartments of Mr. Alken in (he rear on the fourth floor, Misa Greene had been awakened by @ crackling sound, and rushing into the hallway was almost overcome by the smol which was then suffocatingly thick, Mins Greene had barely time to arouse her sister and her mother get them safely out of the house hefore the flamos were bursting out of the windows, As the Greene family ran screaming out tito the street they raised a mighty ery of “Fire!” which brought policemen from the surrounding posts. The other tenanta had been aroured in the mean- time, but moet of them found escape by the stairs cut off. McClelland, who is a wealthy bachelor, suddenly appeared at a window on th fourth floor, He was surrounded by smoke and fame. He threw up the win. dow and was apparently making ready to Jump when a cry from a hundred per- sons below shouted a warning, He hesttated a moment and then din- appeared. Five minutes later he was picked up on the first floor overcome by smoke, and with his feet burned and cut by broken glass had also inhaled considerable fame, He was removed to the Flower Hospital and will probably recover G. L. Dyson was the next man to be taken !. He was found by the fire- men on the fourth floor overcome by the smoke and had to be removed to the hospital By this time the fire had swept from floor to floor and a etifiing smoke dro the rescuers out of the building. While the firemen were returning to the attack William Aiken appeared in a fourth. story window, IAout, Howe, of Engine Company No. 2, and Andrew Fitagerald, driver for Battalion Chief Hi Were ordered to je rescue. Dashing up the statrs of the house adjoining they gained the fourth Noor, paralleling the window in which Aiken was hesitating between a Jump and death In the roaring Mames, SAVED BY HUMAN ROPE. Policeman Cooper joined the men who formed a human rope to save the im- perilied man, Alken stepped out on the window ledge, then lowered himmelf to the cap- ing of the third-story window beneath. Mowe, held by Fitagerald. who in yurn was in the grasp of Cooper, let himself out ¢ jeried by public venders. This ts the een tit Cee Sd ca ican ant: pica at Wid the Mead smallest of eggs is selling, But it looks | as if the very best of Western larce under the arma hauled him in ¢ the window The performance was witnessed by hundreds who had gathered in the atreet | and cheer after cheer went up when the oid man was seen to be safe. Mins Frances Freer attempted to save herself by the fire-escape tn the“rear, but found there were no ladders below roug! ‘ me. 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Ghe was the successful Proponent in @ divorce sult and he the beaten responéent. ‘Mise Gordon, with a national repute- tion for wit an@ beauty, was a daughter of Mr. and Mra, Charles Gordon and @anddaughter of the late Henry A. Smythe, once Collector of the Port of New York, She is a niece of Mrs, Will- pom @, Jaffray and Mre. Béward Paéel- She met and loved in Texas one of the! Mr, a to pall Gert ted to aeaih, bat ft was ‘was Not In the house Here's Another Paster. Frank Foster, a telegraph ri Elisabeth, N. J.. has conciuded tl bit and an He has ruined his stomach and he wi tit t sondition fhe ‘starval ion method, J rom eating for four days he says, and now propores to try a the Last Week and Are Selling Cheap. ‘These are the days when fresh “‘«00- 00 epee" go into the humblest tene- ments and make the children of the poor exceeding happy. 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