The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1900, Page 2

It slowly de from 4 SHALL BE EXTENDED TO BROOKLYN. r Shey ae punt ee crowd Guests. te the A 4 of nearly ee Sater srertainee, in ti & second. the Mayor had and with a toss he people saw a little! pery, earth rise above his confusion upon the A Jostling, mus relic, for he , which Presi- Guggenheimer had been holding, poured al! that re- to mark the sigantic municipal enterprise ever e tered into by any American city ‘The vast majority of the gathered pe: ple were men, and the greater portion he men were men of tol! To them the ceremony apecial Import remainder of the cere- id the hat in bis right and upon entering hie private Jater deposited the earth In a jar Dut the jar into his safe. the silence was broken by a cheer, so strong, so cordial, #0 that it might well have been the Bronx and to the other end ne, It wae the voice of @ de- people, who realised to the full the significance of what they he supreme moment in the his- York. a i f i " f f Neved. OVER 1,000 POLICEMEN. ack rf if as the people were cheering, and _ eaatly continuing their demonstrations, Mayor turned to Contractor John B. | E\atepaaete_ths man who has undertaken t stupendous engineering fea.) upper regions of the Hudson to Long Island Bound. Deputy Chief carly with a fifth of the Potloe Depart jment at his command, Ani a | TOSSING OUT THE EARTH. ‘Then, in turn, did other men toss eut | #F™y. a ‘There were two inepectors, Captaing, thirty sergeants, thirty rounds men and 1,490 patrotmen, beside a squad of unmounted bleyele police. All the forenoon, down to 11.30 o'clock, | the crowd was permitted to go where {i ton, and his associates, John H. Starin, Woodbury Langdon, George 8. Rives, | ‘William Barclay Parsons, Charles Gtew- | att Gmith, Morris K. Jesup, Bion ls Burrows, Corporation Counsel Whalen, ‘and the. members of the Rapid ‘Transit Mubway Construction Company, Preat- August Belmont, Vice-President ‘ G. Oakman, Treasurer William % _Kmmet, and Secretary Frederick Bs did kewise the members of the a tee on Celebration, Chairman a A. Wise, Bernard C, Murray, ~# Adolph C. Hottonroth, Frank J. Gy sd > Bila, Jobn J. Murphy, Isaac Marks, Rob- = @rt Muh, Peter Holler, Owen J. Murphy and James ©. Gaffney. | ‘By the time they had ali performed oyd and honorable task it if the preliminary work of esing a: artesian well had been be- ony tn front of the Municipal Butiding. Wt wag at this moment that Private A. M. Downes, sbearing aloft Rage bush of red roses in bloom, ap- proached, and with a oliver trowel ‘ecanped a hoje in the soil and planted the " flowers there, This called for further @pmonstrations. Although comparatively people could see the incidents oe- > os. Yet each cheer from those near official party was taken up by those im the rear until they were echoes and Te-echoed from Park Row to Broadway dnd td Mall street. THE PROCESSION. sThis ceremany of breaking the ground ‘Was naturally the most impressive cere- Mony of the day, but that which pre- ceded and that which followed was fraught with much moment. “On every hand, in dress uniform, were the police, keeping the good-natured crowd within bounds, On the plasa fetoad the band, in bright attire, and “ghortly before the officials emerged from the building an overture was played. Promptly at the arrounced hour the Procession formed in the Mayor's office, Bd slowly passing along the corridor, |" New York City to-day,” said a "1 ame out into the sunshine, and walk. | {ehionably dressed woman leaning pnw down the broad steps, ‘9 | the arm of a solld clitsen on the out- < Phe spor chosen for the placing of the skirts of the crowd. To which the mi eommemorative tabiet. replied Incontoally: ‘The appearance of the company was) “Aber nit Bresied with much applause, but none ‘Yeu, that's it,” commented one of _ @f the gentlemen made any response, |% EFOUP of men who overheard the Unless it was to nod to nome acquaint. |Httle passage; “the name of the litte Mayor |s on th Dronae tablet the among the coterie of guests gath- we ‘eace . oO lie wh tee pavemes: over there. and the histories tell of the +, WAPRESSIVE CEREMONIES. event and fifty years from now Van “4 ‘The procession was headed b; the Strong. about the W-foot roped arena on the raised sidewalk tn front of the ety | Hall, in the centre of which a alf-dosen | out that first magic epedeful of Man.! opening of the 2i-mile tunnel to Kings: bridge and the Brons. A DAY OF DAYS. “This ia a bigge? day than the day they celebrated the completion @f the aqueduct,” said Martin Keese, the Keeper of the City Hall. Bergt. Murphy, of the City Hall sta- tion, standing with hands clasped he- hind him and looking on with crilicai Dose, sald: “Ive a little thing they're doing, but it fo the kegianing of the biggest thing on earth, and the big plate they're going to put in in place of these stones will remind the people of another cen- tury, when we are all dead and for. gotten, of the wonderful work that he- G1 on thie spot to-day,” George W. Meeks, formerly for meny yeare Guperintendent of City Delivery At the Post-Office, said to his neighbor: “IT Hive tm Harlem, Pretty much ev- erybody in my neighborhood think alike to-day. This is the inauguration of a Movement that will put Kingsbridge in the heart of the city and enhance real estate values in the nm beyond the dreams of the visionary.” “It's the beginning of the biggest move forward that New York ever took,” re- sponded John James O'Leary, A CRITICISM. “Mayor Van Wyck is the digecst man Wyck will look like all there was of Gergean: . | this occasion ETEE ii iinnisigal Acoratty, Aieasre enat| ‘Where 4 Hugh J. Grant's name on and Coakley, and they were followed |'M@ tablet? He te the man who ough: the Mayor, escorted by the Celebra- |‘? Dandie that ailver spade, and his Committer, and his messenger, bears | MAM CURD! to be In the bagest letters aloft the Maycr's fag jon that tablet-ahe father of rapid hy Rapk Transit Com. "#0" ine Vavestcone tne! “STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.” the Presidents of the mbly, the members of both houres| | Soura’s Band had come out of the Gov. | reom on to the by sand especially invited gucets party, numerous and feeling deep- jaar © Wy and palpably tne importance of the |‘ @ecasion, grouped themecives « jy Dewan at Mo’ Mout ‘the Executive, who. tw ing | MPAnaled Banner foward them, began his address. The crowd ga At first his voice was iow, but he| The workmen by ht the big bronge hered a litle closer toned ed and me much good ene cheer | pl valled. ——— Happy Crowd. Thousands of people had found their way to City Mall Park this morning long before the scheduled time for the beginning of the ceremonies which were beginning of the most Wan one of To them |t meant work. It meant that thousands of New York men were to find employment, and that for many months the congestion of the clty by the unemployed was to be re- ‘There were real estaie men who saw in the ceremony @ promise of the open-! ing of a vast real estate field in the Manhattan and all has ever known—and handed | Ver the Borough of the Bronx from | ‘ortwright was on deck the equal in [number of a regiment of the regular twenty | willed, and they gathered en masee, 000 | * + : 4 * q] men carefully cut a square of five feet | dimensions out of the tenselated Paving | to make a place for the Mayor to ais| hattan soil which was to symbolize the} aS URE CATURUAE | SVENENS, MAM N WYCK SAYS “TUNNELS MUST AND | ‘ed he he 0+ | of C4-06-4 04-4-654 4. FACTS OF THE UNDERGROUND ROAD. Length of time to build,,..2 years Number of men to be em- ployed... . tr al P Length of tunnei 10,570 feet Ferth to be excavated 1,700.28 cubic yards \ ¢ Number of local stations, oo | Number of express stations... Station cievators, tees Concrete to be used 9.122 eudie yarde n | than the mere incident of breaking Rock to be excavated ground for a great public Improvement, #1 18 cuble yards We celenrate by this ceremony the in- Rock to be tnnelled,......-.. auguration of @ new and Important \ Os cuble yarde Policy In clty government, the policy of ‘Track underground 2510 feet @ | municipal ownership and control of Track elevated W716 feet great pubiic franchises and utilities 8 | | Frick, common, enamel and | facie. 18,619 cublo yards Stone + ALBBS cubt> yards Bteel GOW ner tons Castelron 7.01 net tons Namber of vinduet founta- tions, 24 Waterproofing tor stations... T5196 square yards Restoring wtreet surface...... 270,646 square yards Restoring park surtece....... 32,09 square yards electricity and engineering «kil! tion to public ures. Each city has | turn raised ite voice in jubilee over :t tary to set forth ite importance I speaks for neeii. TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. Man has always been ready and anx fous to Join in the commemoration o: mountains and bridging seay. He gladly jotns in thin celebration of the parts, « creater high tally industrious men and women to their homes and business centres The completion of will be second that of the Erie Canal thie seventy-five years ago, De Witt Clinton mingled the Erle with those of New Yor brought into clone ¢ ple with the teeming imperial West PROGRESS OF THE CITY. Through and riches communion our peo- millions of the waterway the lap of This made our city the commercial | and financial metropolte of the world millions of people, for «hor mn and comfort this undergroun proceeded it Increased in volume unis | {bet out of the City Hall and Atted it "i words were audible to most of thos fin the opening made in the pavement fim the semi-circle. It was not a long At 1.9 Deputy rae Cortwright agi. @Gdress, but in it he pointed out vie {tated bis army coals. They got importance of the work that waa |!” the middie of on now more My be oMccally begun within the next ina 10,08 in number, and slowly forced few minutes and the tremendous Lear. | ‘RAT WAY out until they had driven the of the (People back to Mall street, Broadway fag 1 would have upon the future of th. aad Fark Row Then the poltcetners formei a barrier end that gentleman made his ad-|'° ®!! Intruders that was for all the outlining the arduous labors of | ¥OF!! like a blue picker fence Oniy | Comimiasion, the obstacles which |those bearing tickets of admission were M@ surrounded them, bu: the supreme |#!!"¥*! to approach the centre ‘As he closed he turned to Pres the striking and instructive. De Witt Clinton saluted In MBS a city contrast exhibited periods i between of one hundred and siaty thousand We speak to a population of three and a half millions Then the slow stagecoach was the only means of passenger (ransportation, now supers seded by steam and electricity ON TO BROOKLYN. The contract for the work begun ‘ay Involves the expenditure by the in knowing at last that | By far the most interesting element Jabors tad not been in vain in the vast crowd was the workingmen. | 4 who saw the giad promise of steady | a TABLET PLACED. employment in the symbolica! breaking i. oneluded, Chairman Wise | of grourel in front of the City Hal! | Eile Maree te the Mayor, and the y of the been done the com- was p.aced in posl- rected this this Inserip- rk ve —— Mayor Talks of the Future.' No Homan citigen ever entertained + keener pride in the glory of that | perlal city than does the New Yorker In the fame of his home city. The foun- @ation of her structure is 00 solld to be shaken by the unjust attacks ef the | , || eelsinformed stranger or the misguided | : | pon. Toe people can ever be relied | pon to resist both Tt has been the custom in ali ages to _ |[Commemorate the eventful and novel in & nstion or city's Ife, ether In che Works of peace or war. The songs of wietory ari the enterprise of peace of Wr have been induiged tn by all. Steam, et | to be congrat ty of over thirty-six miliione of dol lare given out for tly thy the largest single contract ever och work fu Il necesear- Uber expenditure, tor this read 4 shall be extended under the Kiver to Brook! business oeatre. ringing closer together in every respect the different parte of sur etty, separated by the bays and Trivers of its wonderful harbor HOPEFUL FOR FUTURE. The peop) iter New York are ed that, with all of her former heavy eomewna, re she le now, for the fret time, able to undertake euch an exper which wh! forneh Ove firet in | thie experiment of municipal ownership of public uttlities on such a scale as will be decisive of that pr ne-ple. Lat Us indulge in the sincere hope that ihe early coon 10,000 | Otero me have been celebrated In their chief applica- first railroad connectiom This oceasion stands in no need of laborious commen- mmencement of a work for the purpose of biaging beneath a bury city, and the arms of the sea separating its fore constructed above or beneath a city | Uon of millions of physically and men- thie undertaking only in importance to celebrated in when of Bay anal connected our harbor with | nd seas of this continent and with a population of three and « half | rightfully unters'and, are ihe people's Wag "ir | Greneameeneeee PANO THODGOOLOVUCC¢ 0506 VBEGOOO ates ever dreamel ef —_—_o Speech of the I earnestly hope to be here placed commemorates not only the commencement of Denetiegnt publle enterprise, bu lay surety ¢ them permanent sources of Income { the municipality as this rapid transi road will surely prove rapld transit, pality ship and control of public pr should never relinquish Vesiment & year for legisiative in for (he sentiment (ni a few years will extend to every bor- ough and every section, thereby creat- Ing a Greater New York im fact a» well asin name, the telutmph of sclence and-art over the CITY WILL BE GAINER. obstacles of nature, to witness the mighty achievements of human Indus- pas hi om Rael lb hed del try, guided by Intelligence, In levelling rite tant ee Aeeme nen’ at ption by the fear that its enor- f & prohiditory ob- whore duty tt was to ae it It was successfully disposed of by a financial arrangement under which the city will become the owner of the road within the lifetime of some of those in ) attendance here to-day, and without call.ng upen the (axpayers for a cent The adoption of the conatitutional amendment relative to the city's debt Hint was one important reaulste to this enterprise, as that alone made Mt} oeaible to effect the temporary loan of | the city's credit to the amount needed | for the completion of this work, | By the terms of the contract the Anan- jeusties have been disposed of | and the entire coat of construct’on falls | Mpon the contractor, whore good faith j one responsibility are thoroughly guar- anteed te the elty | THE GREATEST ciTy, | The practical solution of this rapide [Eranait problem ie an object lesson to t fast-growing number who are in- Tested in the great question of munic) [pal ownership, and will go far to sirongthen tnew faith in tte ultimate rumpn The continw nm and extension of this ™ of brane ring—munteipal owner. nor a me of rapid transit, but of docks ate Income-paging provements ww." make New York ine richest and greatest city in the world. Great Period, Said Mr. Orr. ‘The removal of the spadeful of earth by our respected Mayor will be the in- auguration of a system of municipal | transit which, if courageously carried out, will continue to stimulate our marvellous developmen! and knit to- @ether all the sections of (his great city in fact, af (hey have been lately untted in name. ‘Tf we were to give expression io the thoughte of many of us here to-day 1 (Mink we would congratulate each other Upon the outlook; that we have at last reached « period if our civic history when we are beginning to apprecta the posstbilities of the fulure, and we would express to one another ihe hope that hereafter we will reserve to our- Selves the contro! of what is lef: of our valuable municipal francnises, which. | | birthright, and destined. tn (ime, to be come sources of inestimable benefit as MP population coniinues jo increase, If we are to judge of the future of this transit than its moat enthusiagtie advo- Comptrotide We celebrate to-day something more the memorial tablet Gteat and gance In giving valuable privileges to private corporations, instead of making | : end of a long, + This ceremony marks the beginning of hard struggle for bur through all the years owner roperty that |@ Woman, who jeopardized their ilves to may be developed into a profitable in- We are paying now almost $16q00,0w | Mrs. Mc consolldatlon, oF, [demanded aw cliy great in wealth, in| area and population. The building of this ratiroad will be the beginning ot | @ vast system of rapid transit that in ee sent agtion will be recognised as hay. i Teredty contributed te that cowth ied Poet whcn'Ma pace | me cannot tart ot peed i oe fren. th howe cannot fall of appreciation from those who ees to follow ue In the line of civie jad by some of those plea as to the out- prac on the site of City Hall Pa accounted for the presence of the | day to Lower the Bleecker Mreet Sewer. The first real, bona-fide tunnel work ‘will commence on Monday, when James Pitkington, the sewer contractor, will attack the Bleecker street sewer, be- tween Elm and Greene streets, an@ lower |i sufficiently to make room for the fun: overhead Pilkington was hired do the job by Contractop MeDona'd because he ts Of} bustier, Thie Ip an earnest of the spirit in which McDonald in going at bis huge contract, ‘The sewer is about fourteen feet be! the street level. It le designed to lower Tay | Mt between Bim and Greene streets, so eee, {that the flow wi be into the North he River. The new depth is to be twenty feet, which will bring it at the Bleecker street crossing a few feet under the tun- nel trecks, Mr. Pitkington said last night that he will begin work at the leorner of Greene and Bleecker streete {and work up to Elm street, Nine hun- ‘Bone Found ie Plana, |“s, "oo fe oS ae, While the workmen were preparing | about'$i4,09 or avout $ib a foot, which the earth for the sliver spade a human | gives an idea of the great coat of dis- Done was turned up about three feet | turbing and rosacea, anaes of of the below the surface of the concrete pave- | fREr, ®: | gg City tine to the eas Gent of the nlage. he matn and tte two bth bone was apparent!y a portion of | xth sireet. “ari "rom the tl teen minut goes, but means very muc, for New York, bri A jem of bc: from all bas} coattanous Aevelopmen: ararhie | | GED WOMEN $e Mrs. Prindle Tried to Save Mrs. | McNealy and Her Own Cloth- ing Caught Fire. that we have tolled for this we have been learning something. We ha Jearned the lesson that a great munici- Death came moke and flame to in the hall fanned the flames into Mercer Mra. Mary M y, of Brooklyn, to- | heat | day, and two other persons, aman and! Mes Ann Prindle, another old wo- man, esstyed to wrap a rug around Mre. McNealy. eo her, will probably die ax a result Of thelr bravery. Reilly, of 246 Pearl street, Brook- ly lived at 2% Front street. liyn, was passing. He ran tothe hallway he War neventy years old and feedie.|and threw Mrs, MeNeasiy to the floor. Vpan her neighbors she depended for | With his hands he beat out the Aames help in performing her housenold duiles. | ‘Then he turned hie attention to Mrs. With @ maton she easayed to set fire | Prindie, whose clot! had caught. to a small heap of rubbish in her front! Reilly succeeded in tearing the clothes | yard this morning. There was a brisk | from Mra. Prindle. breese blowing and the tiny flame! By that time his garments were | caught the old woman's skirts. In an) gbiaze. | instant she was the centre of a pillar | Papsers-| iret ten” to Aerobe, of fire. Be wae dle Shrieking for help sie hobbled into the *A% ype rsa Hospital the phy Nailway of 216 Front street. The draught | oud said that both would die. == CRUEL SMUD A WOMAN'S FOR DEWEY. TM L f to In-|Found at the Bottom of ane Seruey a Cliff on a Pile of Rocks. | vite Him There Now. | Mystery surrounds the death of a@ (Mpecial to The Rvening World) whose skeleton was found this ATLANTA, Ga, March %4.—Admiral | afternoon at the foot of a high dluff on Dewey has been snubbed by Atianta in| One Hundred and Fighty-slxth stree rejurq for breaking his promise to visit; be:ween Fort Washington avenue and thie clty last October, the Boulevard fayette. ferrams came from Congressman! ‘Two lads John Fink. of 6 West One Livingston, lors Clay and Bacon] Hundred and Twenty-Ofth, and Daniel to-day addressed to numer promt | Finn, of One Hundred and Eighty-fourth nent Atlantans, including Ma Wood-]erreet and Kingsbridge Road, found the ward and Hoke Smith, who was Chair-| body while playing. | man of ihe Reception Commitiee for! tt lay on a pile of rocks, half hidden Dewey's propored vint by shrubbery, “Do you want Dewey to virit Atlanta, now?’ was the burden of the messages. “We do not want Dewey now,” was! the reply which went back to Washiag- ton, the dectaration coming unanimously from all whe received the telegrams | from the Geot o Sereaiion. | Mayor We to-day that Dewey got no Geos Toptiatten to visit Atlanta at this time because he ted Atlanta Glecourteously in her former invitation, and furthermore the Mayor eatd he considered thai Dewey inrulted | Flag Lieutenant Brumby, living and dead, the Insult living being when the Invitation A visit buloopal * home wes cs a tne out nt ants ss ‘haa’ cs jasalt to 4 A . refueed = yr i ¥. The body was outstretched, atm rested under the head. Tattered remnants of clothing clung to the bones. The shoes were badiy worn and nearby wae e@ black straw hat and several bits of women's apparel. Police Captain Kirsehner, of the nel Hunted and Fifty-second Gta. the skeleton gathered up and 0 te aha. ion oni One |fanerat of eu 4 comrade in Lo mpanion on the trip to ine Nome rs] Dewey n Vermont. ANGEL DANCERS REPENT. “Bieedina” and “Titus” Cant Of Measen In@eceres and Re- tore te Regelar Cherch. | Mary Storms, known as Maudina on the “Lord's Farm’ at Park Ridge, N. J.. and her brother Garry, religiously known as “Titus” by the band of Angel Dancers, have returned to the earthly space again, and to-morrow they will Phripe, Whe Wad Been Asleep a Week. (Apecial c The Rresing Werte) eet init initeeieisieteb ete: FIREMEN DROWNED to the. surface, The firemen say « the Neate metal wales went wed nia. t ihe ho tat "for a ruch “other = necessary. € croeee that seme ow mee Festigntion Pe va af ag @ one could be held gulponly ‘ne bust Ee of if by thoes men ives a vine ‘The flesh bad withered | rellow ‘8 | Paratyote tinged Late of Siew tary The tee canes mory AN’S STORY OF THE DISASTER. By Capt, William Clark, Engine Compony 21. Dictated te an Kvening Werld Reporter. UST to think that-a little spark im the rear of the first floor after we had got the fire cut should have been the cause of the death of three as brave men as the department held, one of jom, good old Grady, would have been « battalion chief in six months. Tt was away back in a corner and all the men of my command, all good fellows, crowded around to get this blaze out. There were bars of pig lead weighing one hundred pounds each piled up around the sides of the floor, and the men were in the midst of it. I was at one end and Lieut. Howe at the other. When the floor suddenly west down from the middie, the men there went down first, the pig lead piled after them, and we in the outside circle followed after, in 8 sliding fashion. At that time there were fully six feet of water in the cellar and it was still pouring in from half a dozen streams. 1 fell om top of a pile of lead, but one of my legs was pinned down by the corner of a safe which had followed me down. My head was well above water, which was black and muddy. Fireman Carrol! was near me. He was held down so that it was ‘with the utmest difficulty that he could keep his head above the weter, I held it up, but noted with alarm that the water was rising im the cellar. It seemed an eternity before help came and we were dragged out by strong rescuers. As we stood there waiting to be helped out, the machinery kept slipping down closer and Ughter around us, and the slugs of pig lead kept falling off the shelves around us and dropping into the water and bumping against us. Our rescuers were men of Hook and Ladder No. 2 and 1 would be glad to know to whom it is that we owe our lives, I would willingly have given up my life for those of the two men of my‘company who lost theirs. The department never had two braver men, I was certain that I felt the body of a man under my feet when I went down and at once had the roll called. That showed who was missing from our company. We found the men who died plied one on top of the other and all pinned down by hundreds of pounds of lead. They were doubtless knocked unconscious and did not suffer any. The whole thing was like an a whe. I have been in many fires, but never had such an experience as this one. Just before it occurred the men were talking and laughing. They were just getting ready to go home, when this little spark was seen which caused this dreadful accident. IN BURNING FACTORY. ae debeisielelebelehintisbeeieiebteb isla": BY LIEUT. HOWE: er Rowen. o i (Continued from First Page.) | that minutes yee the fall of the | 31, was ster. comrad ' nse ft eee man spend oon a rib- ho “wn vals pinned half drow: cellar it was op pe when | was rese ck and para treatment as was to my cued, I held Kach, whe was tnjared, = by the ears, to AN APPALLING SIGHT. ambulance calls warned Chief bing out of the ordin- and his Sutomohile tte scene again learned what “And the mn an in- keep above water a rescuers came, Miehael Carroll's escape was just ne parrew. F ."* he erled. ato t decided that the department for a number of years He joined at eighteen years of At his home, 157 East Thirty-elg! street, are a widow and five childr Grady war prominent in fraternal cles, and his family will be provi: for, He used to say that to decor’ ine, fant Ife nor in pate out @ fire E been ink his life at every fire. Peter J. Bowen. of Engine Compa: No. 21, was to have been married East: Sunday: He waa iwenty-elght yea t}old, and lived at {% Second avenu For three years he had been a fireman. He rupported his aged aunt, Miss Ma: Bowen, sixty years old. Miss Bowen paralyzed—a helpless cripple Bowen an orphan and his aunt brought hie) up. In later years he was Miss Bowen's sole support, His commensations for bravery were merous. Wiliam J. Smith, the second victim from Engine 2, had peen jn the de- \orious work at a tenement-house fire. He lived at