The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1900, Page 1

4 } ; INSURED FOR $50, 000. ENT KIL gooeaoecosscersooosooonte | iE RNOCHER', GOLUMN. 7 + To-Day He Devotes a Few ¢ 6020s * j Paragraphs to the Players. 4 Weeeverrrecerererniry | ‘My brother Charles and T have peut thousands of dollars on Amerl- ean dramatiata, only to find they can't write good plays.’ said Daniel Froh- man, one day last week. This ts a re fnarkable statement in view of the fact that "Bocret Service, Shenandoah," “Held by the Bnemy,” “Harbara Friet @hie,” “Arizona” and a doaen more typloally Amertoan plays, with Amert @an themes, have been enormour money makers. [ am afraid Daniel Frohman must have eaten golden buck and pig's knuckles, the night before he gave ut- terance to this statement sot Manager Chariot B. Dillingham, of the {Criterion Theatre, has just received hie fall f, Tt iooks like @ club sands wich with Mayonnale dressing. Those ent Highland Imestes tn "A Million Doilars’ baye driven many a man to Beotch hich balls in the pant week. vocative of Woud cries of * Corme Payton has been #0 successful with is ten, twent’ and thirt’ venture in Brooklyn that he has purchased four new diamonds and bas had his teeth Allied with real gold. ere Julia Arthur ia shortly to play “Hams Jot’ In Boston, Richard Harlow will be trying it next month, @ith Katherine Howe as Queen Gertrude, oo > Lederer be ymea the Neehingas It Geotge W manager of James K, Hackett, and fairy wands may be expected take the place of rapiers and Mint-lock pistols In the Hackett berole dramas one Fiteaerald Murpoy has written a play culled “Whose Baby Are Your Mrw iia BoCUy bays her Husband may etar ti i Yano kod | Filzabeth Marbury hax brought sult against Hichard Manpfent for royalties AL Mise Marbury jaa ( careful Highard Will deluunee her sume Hight Wetore Lie eur tad, oe I knew it wold come, A local pubilr cation yesterday describe the Kowne Bivie Ve Woite brought back from 1 Every few months the vkirte and walece and lingerie of kisle are deaeribed and Slumtrated. 1t is becoming quite aw tire woe ae (he Ethel Burry more bevrothals land the Mile Fay escape : . Gua Rogers and Lee Harrison were arguing about @ horse yesterday, when ‘ Harrison offered to vet $00 he was right, “Put up your money, sald Kogers, "L haven't got the cash,” responded Harrison, “but 1')) go and cash my eheck for the amount.’ "Don't do it, Lee,’ erled Rogers, “you'll get arrested if you do,” eee ” ames Forbes, who wan five feet One Meh when business manager of the Camle Square Opera Company, Is re. ported (0 be aix feet two Inches now that he to with the English Grand Opera or- Garization, Ke Mr, Angus McBween ia writing a comic Opera in collaboration with Prof, Fan- clull, Mr, MeBween has been at work fon the book for nearly @ year and has made such rapid progress that he haw thought of @ title for a lyric, see Mr, Charles Gall is in hopes Dan Daly will have @ prosperous season, The flips held againat Daly by Mr, Gall for pinooble losses the past Kummer would buy @ race horae, r ’ Gamue! Shubert, lessee of the Herald Gquare Thoatre, wears French heels @n bia shoow in order to iook into the Window of his box-office. ore William Gillette haa had his theatrion) paper printed: ‘‘Indorsed by the Prince ot Wales.” This doesnt sound ike Git. Jette, He was formerly of « modeat, | totiring disposition, If thie sort of | ching keeps on ho will have to borrow ne of John B. Baerve elastic hats, PASHION NOTE,—Herr Ludwig En) | |e Aad purchased 4 naw silk net for ‘The ingeouious. gentleman @ho wrote protien “Cupid Outwits Adam" Kags ue ayy ” oy A FORTUNE, LED HIMSELF. Robert McCurdy ie Yo Young and Well Born, Returns from a Trip Around the World and Rents a Big House to Commit Suicide. The qutelte of Robert MoCundy Lent, f& retired banker, is one of the strangsat | tragedies of recent years. He was the Mth of his family to take his own Iife, EPITOME OF A STRANGE SUICIDE. ‘ 14 country: heise | Hobert MeOurdy Lord, Hoi Pel & fre) Oe SS ReY rloh, influential, — with the moat aristocratic part of the ex: everything to make ® man cluwive suburb, Mount Vernon, paid « happy, wae found @ead (e | ntonth's rent in advance, had the waa day. company turn on the wae and then killed | 7 He wae the @fth of his himaelf in the bathroom after carefully family who has ended his bi Hife by wutotde, His mother left him 9200, 000, mach which has mone in reoklens | Molding hie eves He was rich, influential in church and | sootety, with a charming wife and child | he idolized, Yet he spent three days in carrying out the deliberate plans he conceived for destroying his lite, ° Formerly a broker in Kanwas City he Inherited a fortume and came to New York, He had no business except ty ent tragedies of recent speculate In Wall wtreet, Recently he years, met with losses Kissing bie wte ohild good-by, He had @ beautifal country place at Bayonne N, J, and all his friends be: lleved him to be far happler than moat men LEFT HOME SATURDAY. daye He called on his pastor had a but wave no that he conte Last Saturday he disappeared from wntelde, home. He told his wife he was coming Hut hin plane were then into the etty for a few hours and would already comple Me | revurn in the early evening, Hip wife rented « large vacant | now recalls that he wae more affection: howe in on arintoeratio Mount Ve had the company the gas, le wrote to hia brother, giving the number of the and advising him ate than usual when he kissed her good- | by, From his home Mr. Lord went to the of his pastor, the Rev, Fre k Krikus, pastor of Trinity Church, There was nothing peculiar in rectory | Bayonne s conduct, When the clergyman, at 2 yclock this morning, looked upon the dead face of hin friend, he #ald he could not now reeal) so much asa word during A rubber tube seourely to ‘T. bh. thelr conversation Jast Saturday that |e blindfolded | would throw any light on the tragedy eyes and lay down and WROTE TO HIS BROTHER. tea, Ilenry J and lord, of @ Rast One Hun. Beventy-elghth street, a} brother of the dead man, received a let. Tt was written in found the body this morn. ing. Although he had inherit. ed a larme fortane, tt te anid that he had recently ter Inst evening Mount Vernon "You will And me dead in the bath. room at M8 Summit avenue,” the letter nald, Just before It came Rey, Mr. Krikue arrived at the brother's house, My, Lord had not been at’ home since Saturday His wite was almost crased with anx: jety, and Rev, Mr. Krikus had started Out to eareh for him, Joat A25,000 of more in stock speculation im Wall tree! coat and vest and placed them on the floor, Then he removed his shoes and but them In a corner, | poem, and jt would be diMowlt to con Although It was late at night when the letter came the two men started immediately for Mount Vernon. They reached the police station there at 2 o'clock this morning, Policemen Atwell and Deveaugh were detailed 10 go with them to the Bummit avenue house, which is in the moat exclusive and aristocratic section of ‘Mount Vernon, FOUND HIM DEAD. Atwell opened the front door of the house with @ skeleton key, The house was full of gas, Every jet was turned on, After the poltcoman had allowed some fresh alr tO get into the house the party, Hehting the way with a lantern, wont upastaire to the bathroom, The door was fastened inside, Heenan broke it down, Lord's body Was stretched lifeless on the floor, A piece of rubber tube from the gas jet was fastened in his mouth by a strap tled About the doad man's face, Lord was deliberate in taking his life, He hired @ house in the aristocratic section of the city and paid a monta's rent in advance, He then had a gas moter placed In the house and ordered ten feet of rulher hose, He pasted ail the cracks In sho reom up with news Ps vanes Liar BLINDFOLDED HIS EYES, He tled @ handkerchief about his eyes before turning on the ga He made a pillow of hi he turned on the ga die, The body waa swollen to twice ita normal size when found. Considerable money and checks were found in the dead man's pockets by Coroner Bireh, of White Plains, A loaded revolver was taken from hia hip pocket. The body will be taken to Bayonne, LETTER TO HIS WIFE. An Evening World reporter visited the Lord Mansion, facing Newark Bay, at the, foot of Fourteenth street, Bayonne, Tt 1# a handsome, commodtous country home, surrounded by well-kept lawns, There young Lord lived with his wife, a handsome blonde and two children, both iris .the eldest, seven years old, being named after her father, Roberta Mra, Lord this morning received a let. ter from her husband, couched tn affec- Hongte language, telling her that he nad sent her his watch and the money he had in his poekets by express and that whe must not take Me veath too hard, as t was all for the bert. One passage reada: “Deut wive way to bil everything for ¢ ‘There was no cause assigned for the ; no hint of Iiness or disappoiniment and no allusion to any trouble, When young lord, who was thirty. A po- ke |! NRW YORK, TUESDAY, OCLOBER 2, 1900, NEW YORK 12003000 PHILADELPHIA. 02000000 —2 GAME CALLED, BROOKLYN YN VS, BOSTON, JROOKLYN 10202 0 Im7 i] 0 3 BOSTON 0022 0 0? GAME CALLED At Chicago 40, 0 cagn, 8 ahs ST, LOUIS RESULTS, rik i" M ha 2 at Friend 3 1} wr la Gul 2 t WINNERS AT HAWTHORNE rot RACE ak 2 b) COMMANDO LOST TO BEAU GALLANT. Keene’s Crack Two- Year-Old Beaten by Hil-| dreth’s Youngster for Big Matron Stakes. | (Bpectal to The Rvesing World.) RACE TRACK, MORRIS PARK, beth M. » Wh her wreat Mahi of speed, Ovt hed to the front_and cut out the tute 2-The Westchester Joakey Club ee | Monae They rans mad Hwee ite Fall meeting this afternoon favored) down the hii, "here Eitaabeth Mo hid by the moat porfeot conditions no far as weather and (rack were concerned Nothing better than the weather of \o day could be devised for racing pur spe he Rar Apene eh kent Commande to le Ind to the dip by two lmawee " aupabetn M. and The Parador were then the most prominent of the others. Commando at thin folnt neerned to Hold the race sate heal rencor Wie wating The Parader an? Elisabeth M on the outeide, Buddenly Heou Gallant shot out of the ruck with an clectr ruah ride by stride she overhau celve a bettor card than that which Mr Crickmore placed before the publi The rich Matron ata worth $2, wan the feature of the afternoon, w Commands, while Bpercor sat unio: there were the Jerome and Manhaitan jin Toot rwoittertiy au Gallant ne handioape as pide \smues ator was af close on the mil ‘Phe Mr, Whitney changed lds mind at the | shoaite %, tne 4 crowd finally awakened last minute concern Bilaabeth M. | Spencer ny ie from the wire ana he and added hee to the Matron Btakes to | [irned ind Hoan Gallant a tn try wo tnke the measure of Commando | front. an he rode Commando hard Mr. LAttiefeld also added Sweet Lay. | Ut Beau Gallant held hie own and won evder to the Dig make JA, manaattonal moe, by halt 9 nth hte Ce no wan enkth anda half in heb Se ere Whines front of Tho Parader for (hree-year-olds and upward, mnie POURTH RACH fearvors, waite. Jocks. Me HIE Pin i Place | The landicap, tor (womyenrsolde fie Deitht. WW. Odom: ol! ht vovardy ales ‘ours asl ial aation. 11}. Hut man Ht Hort ing Briewdler, 107 irae d ET Maree, arte ALMIE PIN Air Pace Unmasked, 08, 8 i} ) Prearm, 10a Ee ee Ca & iY ) gadrealens, Vy Fy } belts ot Man'evensil Moirr 1 ( i i Siar Chime Maden 6 tf 12 Valea, 18, Hulman 4h deb Mart ool, panama e-1.00 Heeb, iis, Peer hi} ™% t Btar Bright war not rat the paddock in “OMemer, HB, Melon time and there was ule a Tash Brig: | At ome.” Won ariv ng, Time~1.10 bdier was backed. dow uple of Belle of Jaxingion wae the frat to points on thie account, Tuntnanked was OW and a made the running, fol Rush and Contestor the fret to show, but Odom took Star | lowed by They held this order Bright right to the front and made the| hi Cigee ordor | running, Io el'in clowe order by Com: | (NO dip, where Contes the fire 4 Ui 4,|10 Oreck, Belin of ine held her! lead’ to the Inst alxteenth, where Fire arm joined her, and tn a pretty fniey ianon't 8 Wop by ia ont Relle of Lax nan length an a OPN ane « @ half in front at Trt however, he winning clev by & length from Compensation, beat Brigadier a head rim Nace y who SRCOND RACE. ‘The Jarome Hanticnp, for threeyearoite, one Por saidea Wwerrearvaide and vpwort; ve and | HO €B4 8 guattor: ps ct © halt furlongs. netting | 4 ri ee 5 gg fi Pate , Wo Mr Here, ina pierre Sie, ite. re. By entation, Wallan 1 4 bul 1 ae SoM ee i 4 , y ‘ fe htt tt "| | Sette eat Rett, 4, Petes, my Ve llagtetly welueh ted Dod tl Thine Poms, [8 Termer sf runing, triowed by Alek Seale teks tom I hag i ri 3 an and ftontajon. my ran this way th “ny R 4 a where everything Maret Hofinna 100.3 yal" v0 38 % » pa 4 Tidy. Alomdo then took up the A BY th punm: and Mastoakin went After him » i H i} ih 1 0, The Weaterner ran straight and true to ME pind. Wen ariving, Time—1.08 14 ihe and. however, and won entily by a Bory, Monad an) ‘Tateose mace, the) Jena@h and a bait from Gontelan, ‘he running heads apart to the dip where beat the tiring MoMeekin a hea! for the they were joined by Trigger. From that piace. int to the Anish it was a feroe drive Nielson with Tetnwet winning by a feck from bh in Pid Pas who was only & head before) eon Post. THIRD RACT ‘The Stead Matton, tor tworyear-olde, Brlipee TO AR | OU ® ln he B T ALWIL. Str Pace, MeO H L -DRETH, sit ILD FY } J 4 (peria| to The Rrening World ) 14 MORRIB PARK RACE TRACK, Cot y aI) wae given out that the entries . 1) from Bam Hildreth'e etable will be re | isha for the meeting here and also at Na one, Won driving, Time—t.10 1-4. Wren obapty due to hi a red-hot favor, of il with sh ti 2 aepuy Ctud, Heme and Ofiee | 1, Blatehtord, Jnave gone before the naninet the Legutions, which are held inytolable among all Nationa, nor for) i? ertevous oe orld, _ | “ Circulation Books Open to All,” } BASEBALL sé RACING PRICE ONE CENT. ROOSEVELT FLAYS °* ICE TRUST MEN; : SILENT ON MAYOR PPODDDIDODDDDOIDOTOO OOOH 4 “WHY | DON’ THE ICE T T KILL RUST NOW.” BY ROOSEVELT, Because tcomen's connse! are appealing and appesling oF legal technioalition, ‘They ave urged Both of these mon ere am here of one of the woret tr Van Wrek treete at Kamens Clty, If the lee Truet were not employing the best comnee! in the jelay by Richard © t traste in theory; and are mem- ker and Mr, Van Wyek, ped to draw ap the platform plank against 3 FATALLY BURN EX ED IN PLOSIO oe ea a Wife of Property Clerk Blatch- ford, of Brooklyn, and Two Plumbers Will Die, Three people were fatality and one seriously burned by the explosion of phimbers' gasoline melting furnace at the residence of Property Clerk Charles wh Brooklyn, this morning. The viciima are Mre, LEONIE BLATOHFORD, hor- wibby by ail over the body, Will die, ANTHONY WRISTMAN, thirty re old, » plumber, of 240 Kingsland ver hody, Will Grand avenue, avenue, burned a a CHET MEKDOOH, plamber, of 188 Steuben atreet, burned body, Will a LOUIS BAY, father of Mr ford, elmbty-two years old, we hands and over sly burned about ¢ WIIL reeower, The explosion occurred at 1.60 thie morning sont to the houre to repair the holler at. | tached to the kitchen range The men had a small gasoline emeit Ing furnace and, It I sald, carelewaly STERN WORD OF KAISER, ee Must Have Punishment, Not Libation, for Slain Christians. BERLIN, Oct, 2-Pmperor William has replied to the Chinese Kmperor offered to pour out libations to atone Von Ketteler's death as follows “To the Emperor of China—I, the Ger man Emperor, tmve recetved the tele gram of Your Majesty, the Emperor of China, E kave observed with satisfa tlon that Your Majesty t# anxious to plate according to (he custom and p cept of your religion the shameful mur fer of my Minister, which set at naught) The two plumbers had been| of the olothing waa titeratly throne and the of Placed it too near the kitehen range, in whieh there wae a fire, Mr. Mre. Ihatohford was in the keitehen, Tey wan in an adjoining room. ‘There was « terrific explosion and Mra, Ulatehford and the two plumbers were their clothes catching Are from the burning hurled violently to the floor, mnsoline. All (hres were unconacious Mr. Bay, twenty feet away, Was thrown violently to the floor by the shock, As soon a ed Into the Kitchen he recovered he ru: and found the clothes of hie daughter and the (wo plumbers burning fercely He rolled te daughter on the monte, | fire was extinguished, hut not before three had been horribly and, no douby | fatally murned floor | and tried to tear off her burning ware) ¢ term an Governor we passed @ very at~ With the aametance of neighbors the | Vere antitrant law, and now the Attors all flo terrific wae the explosion that aome blown the vietima’ bodies. Ambulances were summoned from John's and Brooklyn Howpt on a js and Mrs. Hietehtord and the two men were hur red to the latter, Your Majesty “Aut ft my the adviners Christian reste the blood-muilt of @ Your all ctviitgaton “Yer, as the German Christian, Teannot remand able crime as atoned for by a Nbatlon | Besides muntered Mb there the | large number of our brethren of tan faith, blehops and mbsal women and children, who, for the mike wt their faith, which is miso mine, have died the violent death of martyre and are accusere of Your Majesty “Do the libaclona commanded by Your Majesty suffice for all these innocent onep? 1 do not make Your Majosty/ personatly reaponaible for the outrage Himperor and a hat abomin-| my "mel are the stockholders of thy tions and faiths, and to the subjeote of Tem belle! ' Your MAJ@Hy'® Demooratio party in New York, on whowe heads crime whieh * a.) Ohristian nations with horror. mum explate thelr abominable deed Vien Your Majesty brings Quem to the punishment they have dowerved, (nat I will reward as an explation which will satinty the nations of Chradandom. If Your Majeaty will wae your im» ral power for chin purpose, accep ng to that end the apport of all the In Juped nations, 1, for iny part, declare |tynelt agreed on that point J 1 shoud also adly welcome the re Your Majesty Peking. F y General, Field Marshal Vot tracted not only with the yore) ¢ font Ma " you may : Menin@s the rebels. | also lon for peace whieh atones Tor (he guilt whieh makaw good wrongs dong and which offers to all foreia {n China seourtty for life and and, above all, for the free service of thelr religion WiLdalAM, |. it ee beletebetolelioteininlelelolointotelstotetetnint: WEATHER FORECAST, thirty. six hours ending ats 1, M, for New foinity: alr tornight and Wednen. day, fresh north winds, Vorecust for the to cant ~ if he consent of oe | What oan be done is to have the Lagine | the best of his capactty. “Now, are not those the only things that can Jone? Well, t have done fates like Mr, Guggenheimer, Prevte dent of the Floant of Aldermen, and rporation Counsel Whalen, of Mew York. are very severe on trusts iy \ theory) In praction they are, membets of the worst trust in the country, Now ,the Attorney-General ts pre coding axainat toat trust, and i Bey ‘roker and Mr Van Wyek and tele oat the law intr pre asad by & Roy pub ion Lewtolature tlon T wish we on gato pute, ter this question yi 1 would Itke to mare be } Blames “Croker and Van Wyck for De lay in the Courts—~ He Cannot Call Out Militia toKill Trusts, He Declares — He Does Not Say Why He Does Not Re- move Van Wyeke the Mayor. Fh ergy Neb, Ont. ReGlew, joomevelt spoke to & large crowd in ie pubitc equare here today, He age ewered a question put to him by. = Bryan in a recent spacoh M7 Too Trust of New York, Me ‘ “1 have but a moment to you, but I want to take advantage of this first opportunity of answering @ pitied of Mr. Bryan and of putting: & question to him in return, “No question can be asked me either about my past record as Governor, or concerning any present isques that I hot ready to answer, and | would to have wimilar frankness from ong ponents, Last week at Blar, in Giate, Mr. Hryan spoke of what f maid about the oe Trust, Hie was reported aa H TACKLES ICE TRUST, “That if Gov. Roosevelt waa thie matior the romedy Hew wit wolf, as Governor of the pes the trust wap mippased to Porseased the power to destroy A “That Is hamily oprrect as @ matter” of governmental knowledge, 1 F call out the militia to destroy a t Iature pass and the Governor aan @ o do away with the trust, and have the Attorney-Ceneral proceed der that law to enforee tt according te m before In the first year of my neydieneral is proceeding under thag Jaw awainet the lee Trust “The diMeuity comes tn the delay caused by (he Trust's counsel, ae they are appealing, as they pave a right te appeal to every legal technicality, and are making every effort to atop @ deck sion on the meriia of the case, Hames Croker, “The people who are responmihle for the aotthn of the Trust's comme who are, among others, Me, pier, the I of the Hichard © and Mr, tpponent Van Wyek, who was my for Governor of New York (wo years ago, ap aolietrast (form, binwent stockhol@e ‘Trost. now one of th ere in the fee Mr Van Wyck was the New York member of the Committee on Benolte tons at Kansas Clty whteh drew up (he anti-trust platform. Meners, Croker and Van Wyok and thetr party asad. woctatos bes] are members of the trust ™ employ Me the best counsel save Nad a beckon of the court ” PRESSING THE ACTION, Republi Ationney-General de that ny Way i s Democrat Bi oan 1 by lf bave anawered that Mr Bryan would ‘ali the point aa to rat 8 Into offloy he will ay 9 Ot the pation In Ro 1 will gladly anawer an vee ond | would like to he ne igned by m ‘Now as the