The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1900, Page 3

THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING) MARCH MRS. THUROW’S HEROIC FIGHT AGAINST DEATH. Though Dying She Carries Bushel Sacks of Coal Upstairs---Neighbors Think She May Die in Fifteen or Twenty Years if Her Appetite Should Fail. ! Mrs. Thurew Foragin, bed Lunch, Here is the daily life of a “dy 1” woman, as told by her neighbors. It is the story of Mre. Augusta Thurow, a Sormer dive-keeper, who has made affidavit on her “deathbed'’ that she swore falsely and with malice afcrethought before the Lexow Commities that she bribed Police Captain Doherty and his ward men, Hock and Bean. An Evening World reporter spent a day in the vieinity of Mra. Thurow's home, 15 ‘St. MarW’s Place, where she lives, on the second floor, rear, in (wo squalid rooms. She is dying hard, Indeed, she is ap- parently enjoying a very lively “deathbed” The neighbors and th: tradesmen offer the following testimony in proof of Mrs. Thurow's declaration that she is about to) tahe the trip to the Great Beyond: mew, The janitress of f 15 St. Mark's place i Dying Mrs, Thurow's Appetite, :|Mes. Therow Very Il—Makes Mr. ‘Thurew Wash the Dishes. | or three times a day. She wobbles when | jahe gets along. oying her death, | hey? | "Geant Joe Dominick, | Carries Mig coal dealer, base- Sacks of Coal. Sment vw Bt MARA Mirk's Ask me not] ~ OE] 5 somedingn abouts |"! ds coal fo falta lady Ast. dot voman. She not do nodings here. No "Whee mI ny as eae arse Bomedimes she be the stairs ups and} igh Pata ae WE te Gee te downs as many as ten times every | | days. her, She not dies quick yet already, | guess, " cer, 18 place Mrs. Thurow ne of my customers. Bhe was here this morn- ing. Been here about every day f four months. Once tn a while the old man comes arohind, but the woman she does the business, She dying? Jee Levin, Bt Sure gro- Mark She Goes te Market. nnn nnn ne whiss! That's a good one. | hope | dies an cary! A. Mayer, butch-| 0 ut y for er, Bt Mark's Dying Woman, vince Know Mra! eens Ture 1 guess Deal here? Sure > much, but fee her about Healthy-lookin’ corpre. ain't r wants day oh? Mae Carpnel, | ttle woman what floor rear? Eve SOLDIER WEEK | ; AT THe CARDEN, | Years misnamed, but fs now properly | | named, tells some Interesting facts | Gov. Roosevelt Will Re- view Military Tourna- ment To-Night. | All New York and x good winare 0! tae | country arou: » the Military Tournament sway this week | in Madieon Square 1 | Boldiers are o« py there days What vith the memo Uttle late War with Bpain and the impen. @reds years’ war in the Philippines America . interested fn the! game of me and | age yew than they were wont 1 of peace. dea, the performances given by the! Military Athletic League are intrinatca.ly | #0 exciting and interesting that they be in the would attract even if the performers Were not real, every-day soldiers—the men belind ite guns, ine soldiers on! horseback and afoot and the sailors of the best little navy in the world. The tourname: open this evening, When Gov. Roosevelt will review Wes and United States troops. On | Inesday tect e: var iHtoot, of will be feviewing officer, While Saturday even.nge Gen. Milex au png Mai tt, real soldier, i and arms wit| x nt part, arrived jade ba an | ROURETEL if 10 BE THERE. Geverser wit ties Attend = Military Tearuament To.Sight—Won't ‘Falk Pelittes, 1 don't see nodings dying mit|y oe iy of o | dying person ‘4 Ain't that a good purpose. ne) “My clder sister had learned before | /™ * of using. Upon inquiring fer the | feel dis—and here jying woman grasps a raiyzed hands. noa da trou, oa! with her carry upa da t'ree fl ara Classon my own business. the woman, she's dying then it's truly a living d I gee ber in and out of day, and I haven't o- ny need for the undertake hang around | ne Mie, Mary Tropp, Has Record } first floor, rear (2 for Strength, 24 neighbor—What! | that olf fat lady ways she's dying? 7 1 didn't know who the woman wae till I read tt in the been In and out of my five mon more stre "| FOOD RULES COMPLEXION, Medicines cf No Avail When improper Food Is Persisted In. A young lady whose firet name 1s Blossom, and who was for many about her efforts to clear up her com- pleaion, which, in spite of all sorts of | medicines and wasues, face breaches, éc., &c., weve inefect.ve, because the root of the difficulty was not re- moved. Her own story is Interesting: “From childhood up, 1, with my sis- |ters and brothers, have been allowed | the use of both tea and coffee. After | 1 becaine was no mere than human that | should wish for a beautiful complex- jon like several of my companions, | but which I did not have. Many dif- ferent courses were taken to aceom- plish my end, such as applying face blest, taking bottles and botties of | cleanaing medicines, €c., all to no| that coffee was the root of the difficulty, and urged me to beg’n tak- ing hot water. I tried it, but could | find little satisfaction in 80 weak and | pola able a beverage. While vis! in, riend one day I accepted a! cup of coffee ‘as I supposed), when I noticed that this particular coffee had |a hundred per cent. better taste th the coffee we had been in the hal ceipt of this very pleasing beverave. |I learned that I had partaken of the noted Postum Cercal Food Coffee. “Th truck the goal at last. Th's was the morning beverage that I wanted, and this, it turned out, was the secret of the beautiful complexion of my friend. Of course we immed! ately commenced using it in our) home, and I want to say that to-day | not a more hea'thy, robust family (+! to be found in the United States, and: bd fact is attributable to our aban donment of coffee the use of Pos- | tum Cereal Food Ceffee.” We do net | he given to those interested, by lette~ ALBANY, March %—Gor. Roosevelt |t? the Portum Cereal Co., Lid, Battle Will dttend the milttary tournament nj CPCCR 5 Yor City to-night. eM on the 23% Central Hudson Railroad train this afternoon and wiii eS leaving New City he will not) tise. 00'» tinien, throughout the ecuntry have 4: {th the use of coffee an: as Gl Postam The young lady tives in Traverse City, Mich. It may be of interest to know that i many of the young ladies’ seminaries ust Food Coffee. /. letter from Rev. Alex. Burr, of the Seattle. Wash., Young Ladies’ Sem. Joe showed the reporter! Why, | 4 young lady of course ‘t/| disposed to publigh the full name | jot Miss Biessom, but the name can and 1 look after my house and five lit- tle ones. She was sick # long time ago, and I looked after her, and she wae no more near dying than 1 was eee She makes the old man wash the dish- | Papers Gave er, and he aint Her a Relapse. working, 80 he's got to turn a hand in around (ne houre, She was in my place the other night, as strong and ever, but when the news about that aMdavit she tur next day. dl into bed Mr. Tropp, hus. band of Nelghbo Mrs. ‘Tropp—She's the healthiest dying “Like a Two- Yea woman | ever back from Bre “y li bet she can eat a bigger meal than an, and there's nothing the matter with my. appetite i Ladies’ Suit De We offer for Tuesday and new and distinct styles in LADIE selling of the limited quantity on 19 coth, in light and black, or cheviot: the fronts, hand: stitched, and colored silk; | special price, 10. fly-tront uuality satin, sizes have in percaline Link 4 tailor MM. light gray jacket, like cut: limed with finest gu: maine: the skirt has stitched double & and finish this is an exceptional 16. —Ladies’ Tailor. Made Cheviot and medium gra) and stitched; excellent value for A Bargain in Ladies’ 598-2 of all-wool cheviot or lined with nearsilk and velvet bindi | cial, | Second Floor, ih Bt. Section Greatest Watch Offer. $48 Watch for $14.98 is certainly a rare offer, and this is cxatly what we are offering, When we sav a $45 Offering bargains like this is what keeps our wate’ department busy all the year around, | | watch we mean every word of it. The importer was ublized to seil his i purchesed the stock from him at a nning to-motrow, we offer al Pa 14 kt. Gold Watches, tures and set wts jewel; in a i accurate timekeeper: value from 32 we offer them at, each, Pasit lowaly, 4 Sfooue” pag Easter. aitraction As joweley ci we fodier cho Seabee ular styles, horseshoe, ree tarvett | sold Brooch ith tiom 15 to ‘feo $2.00 Si.ver DIVORCE | Just SUITS at prices that will undoubted! Ladies’ Suits, in all-wool Albert shape, Dox-plaited beck, percaline lined and velvet bound, Ladies’ Sul jouble Watteau plaited bee" the entire suit handsomely an unusual offer- ing tor cheviot, percaline lining, velvet binding: considering style, material Fair homespun: the coat has notche with penu wie to match, and i new cight-gored flr ng skirt, with dou ack, lined with moarsilk; beautifully tail Fish flaring effect, ir Wattcau back, our regular $).U0 skirt, spe- Faymerts to mect and nothing but watches to pay his bills. inlaid with precious stones some with fine enamelled minia- signs; all bave fine Swiss movemert strictly guaranteed We cannot sell more than one wa'chto a customer $1.00 Solid Silver WITH IS, Mrs. Simmons Swans Husband After the Decision. Mrs, Loulse Dressler Simmons threw her arma around his neck, ur fault, wanted had done as trouble woul Take good alone tn t ree years feciired evidence “by ‘brea + was granted a degcree of divorce from her husband, Peter Simmons, by Justice A few utes later, on meeting him | outside the court-room door, ahe| Peter. If you! come about. other and let Hquor handsome woman Thed Drees | ind later | et OF. ‘Simmons made no defense to the euit, n Petty Harves| the Ezpence of Jeracy Dupes. wanised gang of petty swindlers, who are using the old exprens receipt dodge. ed rooms are let, engages a room | # he will attend + (eferich, In the Supreme Court, to-day. to, all this a with other woman | 5 & hot ve Are Reaping « Hoboken ls being invested with an or- One of the gang calls at @ house whore | (o have his} sent that same day About an hour or two later he re- turns with a pal and presente an ex- Preee receipt to the landlady stating will require it ino t e two trunks and two valtses seating. At this point the Tews works asking for ° that she receive ( that he ts to kive him change. +o much change is on hand, and Ay he} Lag for the joan of that amall amount ‘pa h presaman pal The ming viatim gives up enatly, holds @ seemingly valu. as he able receipt, but, of course, she gets no tenant. partment. gerelee: these S’ TAILOR-MADE 4 make quick han Tailor - Made it gray, tin. royal, navy black and mavy blue jackets are Lton or tly somely tailored and lined with tine quality the skirt has the new 7.98 ot black vy Engitsh cheviot, jacket, lined with fine newest cut skirt, with extra verte! | plait back, tinest ng and velvet binding: sts 32 to 46; 10.00 Ladies’ Ta'tored Eton Suits, in and dark gray, bluish ard brown homespun double = breasted ie y colored silk ro- pox-plaited back, best cluding tl able, “ene 14,00 Eton Suits, of blick le plaited Watteau "16,00 Dress Skirts nest quality Sicilian, ng, welted seams and 5.98 Blue Fox ty value £25.00, on $25.00, stock to us. 25 be had «reat sacritice for cash. able case or open face, {$15.00 and $25.00, great variety of de- 5 fh $45, a 14.95 Main View, Prot, thimbles with a bani of an 12.50 Sable Fox Mufts, value) ote at i250 fadt* 13,95) ays The Solid Gold Jewelry. ; 7.50 = 12,50 | One million dollars ts the fee James B. Dill, the big corporation yer, i to receive for bringing the in- terests of the two big steel kings, Andrew Carnegie and H. ©. Frick, to @ harmonious adjustment. is yet @ young man, was asked by Mr. Carnegie to find some way to settle the differences between the magnat The mammoth new combine is the re- sult of Mr, Dili's work. Spri lined, _ spri Thursday only None C, and hemstitched,great assort ment of colors and styles, light and dark colors, pleat- back and front, Second Floor, uth st Mr. Dill, who —————— The Taffeta Silkk Waists To-morrow we shall place on sale 250 black, white and colored Taffeta Silk Shirt Waists, finely tucked back and front, separate collars, flare cuffs, all colors; 2.99 0. D. No mail orders filled. Shirt Walots of Taffeta Silk, tucked 5.98 Challe Waists, in dots and stripes, 2.39 Seetion The New Wash Fabrics| For the balance of the week, we are going to place } LoT 2 AT 4%e.— on sale, on one of our large special tables, the hand- somest Wash Goods ever shown. Here is an entirely new fabzic, Silk Stripe Crepon; its beauty lies in the fact that it is light weight and s.icer. the new ny and Summer colors are displayed here, in- ¢ Pastel shades. This is equal in every way to the French goods that are selling at $1.50 to $2.00-—in fict, these are more serviceable, as the color: Our special price, yard, 5 are wash- 29 Main Ploor laa ci hem very ‘fashionable. value party 75 value G4 Stick Great Sale of Fine Furs. Another great sale o! fine furs, in many instances at very much less than the price of the material and workmanship alone, We have purchased the entire stock of a prominent manufacturer at I¢si than 4 price. Here is an opportunity to purchase a tine tur pies at a little cost. Just the article you require or March, April and even May weather and also very serviceable and stylish for the seashore, Fine Fur Neck Seeets and Muffs. Fur Muffs with Heads and Tails. [pews 12.50 a Ree Fox Metis, value, teeth, Sertion All $1,000,000 FEE FOR PEACEMAKER DILL. | | alowed without question. Dil, Bomelsier & street in poitt! on the Chi een mel er his frm has. affairs of 4 | eutly gu: LOT 1 AT 28¢, aranteed, en and ¢ our stle p 6065 LOT 3 AT $8. to retail at $1 {LOT 4 AT oSc.—The Chelsea best known umbrellas manulactured; thousands of these : made of Mercerized and nearsilk, whicn will wear for years; they look as weil as any $3.50 silk umbrellas sullable for men and women, tinely finished, with paragon frame steel rod: have an assortment of tine Congu and sterling silver trimmed handles; our sale have been sold at $1.2 price, LOT ¢ AT 9%. FACY—Tie Imperial and Banner, md: sand tata, will outweigh any silk um- it is manulactured of sil¢ and linen, all tight roll; of union silk serg. brella; mate in the have an assortr horn handles; suitabl nt our sale price, each, tershire Sauce, pints, Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, can, | Coorer Gelatine, 5 Early June Peas,sweet ata yoshi can, s24 cur Seeking geal) wT 20 Bartlett Pears, 3-Ib patisfactory to both Carneale and Frick, and Mr. Dili's bill of $1,090,000 le to be Mr. Dill is @ member of the firm of Haldwin, He has a fine manson in East Orange, N. J, where he is @ local power He gtarted life as a reporter M obs, and hie rise has ‘or the past five years) pited and hand! ome of the biggest corpora It is eminently | Lone in the country, of In the variety of offerings, merit of merchan- dise and price moderation, “ Bloomingdales’ ” stands pre-eminently first. ly your wants 8 Spring and Summer here. Read the interest- ing ‘ac secant events for to-morrow as here appended, It will pay to -The Hercules, a goo, strong umbrella of English Gloria with Congo and oak handles, for men, dren, 22, 24, 2) and 28 inch, value 28 The Gant, 1 fine, ladies or gentlemen, in 26 and 28 iuch, mace ot Manchester Gloria, with fine Congo handles, steel rod, some silver trimmed, some with Dresden handles, umbrellas that were manufactured to retail at 95¢; our sale price, The Tiger, made of Britannic: Gloria; which ts guaranteed for two years, finely finished, with Par- agon frame and steel rods, tine Congo handles, also silver trimmed and sterling hinalts, suitable for mzn and women, 2 and 28 inc; these umbrellas were manufactured nr special price, 1d London, two of the very Dest manner with paragon frame, a Congo, Dresden, for men and women; case and Uossel; an umbrella that readily sells at $2. A Sale of Hercules Fireproof Safes. small investment may save you thousands For home and office use.queted af figures tht arelessthan hal! the pricesof regular dealers. Every Sate is warranted strictly fire-prootand was made by snexpert. The pricesare: 5.98, 13.98, 21.98, 23.59, 29.98, 35.75 and 53.00. . Sale of Groceries, Lea & Perrins's Worces-[Californts peeches, J Neath Peaches, big ¢ cans, and te from France, quarts, Price of the Kitch 8 cake, Pine the rant it jeserted her. Others swore t! When the little bride secu Was & question how to Juriadiction of the coi letter was written. a jet USED WEDDING L friends inviting them to be present, sipped down to Hrooklyn to feast. At the jouse to whi ae been directed he found a court y Willlamaburg trick,” he Deserted Bride, the t id he had been age Oh Fisher, Landed Hus- band in Jail. nsible for his staying here, “Its all a case of mother-in-law," when held for Lemsiietaaes:- Mon. jay. ————__ SCHOOL WALL FBLL Buried in Collapse Michael Delfama, machinist, twenty- }four years old, gnashed his teeth this |morning in the Lee Avenue Court, Two Workm I lyn. of New BD jing om Jerome | He looked unutterable things at pretty Avenue. | Marie, hie seventeen-year-old bride,| Without warning part of the nest wing of the new school building white s under construstion at Jerome avenge and Highbridge road collapsed to-@ay ind buried half a dosen workmen ts (he whom he |s chargedswith deserting after a honeymoon of only three days. | They were married by a New York | Alderman three weeks ago. Three days later Delfama salled for New Haven Ho nays he had a job there, and asked Teg ‘0 go along, but that she refused rulos. e her mamma. Marie swore that Martin Ean, of 1907 and Aathoay vogel, of and cond avenue, Were {ured sai was hurt x] io wax not true, but that he had basely skull was frestered Lord & Taylor, Grand Street Store. Opening Display of Spring [lillinery. — Tuesday, Wednesday aod Thursday, March 27thy 28th and 29th. Handsome Hats, Toques and Bonnets, Children’s Sillinery, Golf, School and English Walking Hats § tip and Untrimmed Hats. | Also an extensive display of | Flowers, Feathers and Millinery Novelties of Every Dew A visit of inspection 1s respectfully invited, Corner Grand and Chrystie Streets, === RMON 8d Ave, bed The entire re- mainder of a i ave. prominent _um- Shae wale 7%. pe maker's pare sik 2 lnc wide vie stock, ur- itively ny chased by a for Goring this, le tooat yuna 24 cash at prices that hardly cover the cost of the han- dies. Every um- brella in this sale strong umbrella, for 48 58 ia steel earl and ¢ with ‘98 Silks for Confirmation Dresses, White India and China Silks. China Sitk, 20 inches wide, sells at 45c.\ to go this 33 this week for, yard, China Silkk, 36 inches wide, usual price 73. yards 10 BES go this week for, yard, VERY SPECIAL—-50 pieces Black Taffeta, all pure sill, the rustling nat that sells for 75c., this week 59 at, yd, 80c. Taffeta t 65¢. yd.—200 pieces of Greeff & Co.'s well known make of fine colored Tatfetas; this grade never sells for tess than 80c. yard; for this sale we are going to sacrifice them at, yard, Hi iy Sati 1796 ge thes Figured 1.00. Lihert im at 79. yd.—72 pieces Liberty, y inches wide, in all th: fei la newest Persian designs; retails all over th: for 79 $1.00; our special price, yard, 78c. Foulard at Soc. Yd.—An endless variety of phy rae Satin Fouslard Silks, in the latest designs and shades this quality never sells for less than 75¢.; our special price, yu., Figured Ondatine, 1 very beautiful self-colored figured silk: all the evening shades would be good value at 39 50; our special price, yd, 0c, Wash Siks at 39. Yd.—An . styles and colors Corded and Plaid Wan’ sokas guaranteed fast colors: they would be cheap at SOc, vd; to go during this sale at, yd., Main Floor, Near Rotunda. ‘ Dainty Books for Easter. Dainty books such as these make very accepta- ble Easter presems As an Easter attraction to our book store we make the following special offers: r tr vol handsomely bound in cloth amd pomrdapint| At 150, marae ie tere fron ures ee ses b oe & Imitation of Christ, Drummond's Addresses, in His Steps, “ er volume, bound in white and delicate At 25c. Shades a cloth, with gold and silver ing Gold Dust, Kept for the Master's Use, Daily Food, Ai dresses Phillips Brooks, Drummon t's Addresses, Imita- i v Christ, Drummon's Year Book, Abide in ay Like “hrs, Prince of the House of Davit, mn His St Shepherd Fsalm, Silence and ) oice of God, Christian With Christ,Why Ou You Not Geliews’ The New Lite, Rel ious Poems, Daily Thoughts, Water of Life, Out of th the ¢ Deep. a We sell more Sheets and Pillow Cases than any 0, | house in the city, and always at the lowest prices, | sheets, for single bed, 24 Eopgerel Mills Pillow ; | yards jong, wide Sem P Duet, per can, Large variety of other styles | Ro om Raking Pow. | Thimbles, 49. Inexpen- it $9.50, $5.00, $7.49, $6.59, if, ‘ld. cans, 18 Rotled Oats, S-humacher for a, 39\¢ size oe ins this stre sells | We have purchased of Bye ag one better, $10. pigs 138 larly at 1$eq, our tajetodnes irom one propri 14.50, Citron, best, per Ib., $0| se &. 3 Mitte oe rly at Seq We }» a large quartity Easter | The ever popular Wreath Columbia River Salmon, Eronch Olive Of, very § (very good quality for hotel Pig dr nu: this size ot two of thelr finest de- offeri in new efiects, | bighest grade, finest, our “Se. one-tith of fuse) ph ida t 16e. owe Soe tt lar erie ae TINGS, ge $7.49, £2.98 $2.69, } tall cans, tac: gallon bottle, 9c: our 40c. f size 63xc0in.: sells regu ia oa A, beavy solid silver thim. $1.98, and special 1. 69 Salt Mackere!, extra 89 one-tenth gallon larly at 49c. our price, ea 4 bis with a deep band of a © $s, 10m. ae, bottle, Stre 72290 tn; sells regu- Sw asy mer Oe aa repowsse, and heavy Same SPIRAL! assortment of sod f Fomatioes, est, ealion 90) Cherries in Maraschino, | St ore a)| Sara Size §1)9) in. sells regue larly at $8c.: our price, ‘Stee 90x90 ina sells erly at Gac.: our price, 45 equity thes om $a ring sean 9! 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