The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1901, Page 1

,of the bullding, vin the primary department, and on the [ _“ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | EW YORK “PRICE ONE CENT. Ss fet lek eitlilsiriieleeielnii-i CAPT. GEORGE F. TITUS. ieieiei Ieinieinirinininirinininivinieleinlnlnlelelnieleiniek f. HER MUSIC STOPS: PANIC IN SCHOOE. $-2-—__— Teacher Higgins Plays Piano When Fire Alarm Starts Rush of Boys. 1d schoolboy kindled a] west wing into One Hundred and Tenth tries to Public School | street. which runs from One Hundred Two Alarma of Fire. nth to One Hundred and Tenth} Meanti: 1 b a eecipnbalavenuaanver nic time two alarms had been sent jn to-day, In fyscroinutes |i and the streets were fiiled with fre the 280) boys In the school were thrown |@2sineH and. trucks, and the whole into @ panic and pandemonium resulted. | "7puvormond mas aroused. : The children all escaped, but the po-| THe mothers of the children in the ce are looking for the boy who set fire |20H291 camo Mocking to the scene, to a bak of paper refuse and then ran tinging thelr hands and crying In a Reza) frenzy of apprehension for thelr chi dren. The mothers of the kindergarten chil- ho janitor of the school, Thomas B. Wier) brought two large bags of] 7 Fefuse and placed thom in boxes In the | {TC} *unoned down upon AMiveTartt tk entrance to the primary department, in| hundred furies, a ould © u eres motbed her but for the police, the northeastern wing of the building, which ts in the shape of the lette In tho excitement, and after the bose ast been marched out of the building, the bow on One Hundred aireahitihet forte earttne : e-Principal Vett, who sad been 4 itondreaeenanrenen into the building to make sure no chii¢ jhad been forgotten, heard a falat cry sabove him, Finds a Crippled Boy. Going back he found on the steirs be- tween the second and third floors little John Segal, a erippied boy. The Ind juses crutches, but {n the scurry and panic his crutches had bren knocked from under him. In falling he struck hia head and way made insensible for a ume. Mr. Velt gathered the Ittle feslow up {n his arms and carried him down Miss Tartt's kindergarten Claes had no other exit than through the hallway where the blazing bags of rubbish wer of Third avenue Tencher Gaye the Alarsa. Three or four minutes later Regina Tartt, teacher of the A 1} C in the kin- dergarten, opening her door, discoy- ered the fire in one of the bags, She called the Janitor, who says he saw a twelve-year-old boy by the bag run out of the building. He tried to shove the box and bag out but tn an instant the blaze rushed up to the ceiling. Me ran upstairs to warn the classes and Miss Tartt marched and ccarrled the little pupila out to safety. On the Noor above 1,600 children were Upper floor were 1,2) grammar-school boys. That no Ives were lost and no er’pples made among these 2,800 fads wa due to the caim herolam of Misa Bers Higgins, the music teacher, who flew to the plano in the diz the first alarm and out popular march with all the strength of desperation. Mastic Calmed the Panic. What the stern commands of Principal Joseph J. Casey ‘and Vice-Principal noo e fifty : 9 Ko in and get the o c:ouks and hats for the youngster. Janitor Wiberley says the boy who set the fire was a member of the school, and to-morrow morning he will visit all the class rooms; the boya will be drawn up in line and he Is expected to Benjamin Veit could not do, the familinr| Pick out the youthful incendiary who muste/ accomplished. ‘These 2,80 boys were distributed through five floors. They have been Carefully echooled in the fire drilt. ‘The teachers the ground and sec- ond foors of i of the U-shape? schoo kindee- garten. children and the 1,4 boys in tre | 5 primaty department out into the street in perfec: order. Then cries of "Fire! Fire! F rangethrough the bullding, and the boys of the xrammar department on the | 4 upper Moors became excited beyond ie trol. ‘The fire-dril: order was unneetet the boys flying to the exits and dow the stairs {n disorder and panic, emtt- ting ¢rles and yells as they went, until ‘Miss Higgins r‘ached the plano, The music had a magical effect, The boys that remained became calm, formed in orderly Ines, ‘and were marched out the building by way. of the visitors’ entrances, and the exits into Onc Hun- dred end) Ninth ‘strect, endangered the lives of 2,89) other little boys, ‘he damage to the school by the fire and water te $4,009. ——— PRDDED IDOE 2DDDODDGHDHOH: WEATHER FORECAST. ‘The forcenat fo the thirty- « Tuesdny for New York Cit and vicinity: Cloudy night) falr and mach colder Tuerdays high gales, north- Wind Blew Ont the Gas, Mrs, Mary Yunghaus, stventy-tw years old, was found asphyxiated Ly ean in her room: at 459 South Tenth Newark, to-day:, She had been atreet, wlecping, and from) the the jet of a gas stove, anda gust of wind blew out ar ; MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1901. “ Circulation B M’CLUSK ‘cooks Open to All.”’ WEATHER-—CLOUDY; COLDER. 10 AEM Ren! AIHA COMA ARRESTED ~FORTHEFT ; Accused of Stealing Rail- road Stock by Grand- son of Pitt. Archer Harman, of 27 Pine street, Promoter of high standing among the jfnanciers of three continents, was ar- rested to-day in his Fifty-ninth » th, by 2 USE. ON Sergeant | tT. He was arra d before Judge | MeMahon in G rasions under al Beginning of Dentist’s rand Jury Warrant : him with the specie larceny of 29| Second Trial Postponed shares of common stock he G. . quit and Quito Ratiroad con are ae Till To-Morrow. jer the laws of nt was St. 4 granissn of Sir Wilita 18 not wanized u ‘orge Lane the English Mr. Pits tached to the com- K to the faot that to-day was the nary of the ascendancy Supreme Court Bench of Jurtice John plaint, but he is known as a frequer Marshall just one hundred years ago, of clubs patronized by men promin Justice Fireman, before whom Dr. in the financial distr! Samuel J. Kennedy ts to be tried for Mr. Harmen w the murder of "Dolly" Reynolds, »mply companted to court by ex-Mayor Abram 3, Hewltt and [had the roll of Jurors called, heard ex- Tunnel Contractor John B. McDonald, | cures and then took a recess untl to- The ft r furnished ball in $15.00 for} Morrow morning, his friend, The youny woman, who was the friend Mr. Harman returned from England| Of a well-known Wall’ street broker and on the Heanla last Saturday. Two lived fn a luxuriously furnished fat in days previously Mr. Pitt appeared be-| Fifty-etghth str was murdered In the for the ti and swore to hie] Grand Hotel on the nigat of Aug, 15, comphaint. Mr. St. George Pitt ie well- | 188. Dr. Kennedy, 1 was shown, was jilon where on March 23,{ With her in her reom that night. She 1 Lady Gdlth Douglass, | had given him money to bet on the and to secure a worthless check by Kennedy, and the Marquis brother of af Queens- Lord Sholto Face for $13,000 indorsed St. Baul's Church, at Knightebridge. | and Robert M. Moore, a firm of younz Sayn 1'a Minckmall, lawyers from tho somewhat odscure = a town of Malone, N. Y. Thewe young Attor Mr. Harman's arralgnment and men ore convinced that there hid the fixing of ball, he made this «tate- ment to an Evening World reporter: “This ty a caso of 1 all pure and The indictment against me was on perjured t ony ven been errors enough In the trial of Kea- nedy to tec d a0 they went to work on the ca: Jonn F. Meintyre ana Fr * Hennes. nev, thouga not members of the District- ; H '» Atalf, will conduct the prowe- nt, The whole motter| cusion, They have been specialiy re- 1 over ta court before] tained because of thelr intimacy wl h jhe Wil be a prosecus! e Mr, st. George Ki ed nas been tar and a. An ante-room 9 en her husband War xhe had n bual- Intereat In the ca Marinan tha report that a mained silent even when the youne z dentist wax {1 the whadow of death, will Howitt when ae! hat he! come forward nud at the sacrifice of his trouble between, Pitt und | own reputation declare that he was the fed: "t kknow nothing about! person. who owas in the room with Mwelf, but J do know that! spony Reynolds a ¥ houra before Is Incapable of commttting | ae was found murdered. ye and T hear that Mr. Pitt! “Other new witnesses will he produced n, through tho untiring efforta. of Mrs. Kennedy, the wife of the accused, who since his conviction has been doing de- fective work herself and leaving no legitimate means untried that might Recure the freedom and vindication of her husband. DR KENNEDY'S BOLD “HOLDUP” to the} Rained notorlety during} Cound on her body, wan believed to have of Oscar) Wil Both Mr.] been the motive for the crime. Fs Pitt und ht* bride are converts toy In this second trial Dr, Kennedy will Buddhiam, but they * married In| be defended by William W. Cantwell | | | + SB ED HIM, Mra. noon. ~AT SOUTH FERRY ' : | Woman Robbed of $400 —The Thief. Caught After Chase. j Paul Logan, of 37 Bowery, thts aft excited the neighborhood of South F Fer! Mrs, Margaret Brown, of M3 West Une th street Hundred and Twenty-eigh Staten r way home f after coliecting her monthly rente ta the neighborhood of St. George, She curried the collection, amounting to nearly $40 jin cash and checks, in a small leather handbag. An shy roed! Th ty w was abont to ascend the “1. Tagan cab bes the be ¢ s eign his to Mann's saloon at 2 It street t shed with bis plunder under his} against § re Polleeman Butler, of the ation, arrested him: BULLET IN HIS LUNGS 2 YEARS. James J, Dowd ts dead to tnat followed was ehot jt x! DP. G, Begker, in his last filnes: r u thon Was perform SHINGT( ing to get ut the du.tet, to paseed t wuccessful. miasion The aathma resulted fy the presence of the Dull he Coro- ner's Olce will investigate. RS. HUSBAND IN PRISON. | Barker and the two Germond visited Thomas G. Barker, who shot Rey. John Kellar from am- bush, in Kearny, N. J., jail this aftes-|E They were all velled and f would say nothing. I While being led out of the court-| room Barker was mobbed by and women, who tried to shake hands | with him. 3 The police had great diMculty inj _ getting thelr prisone: away fror the; sarker. « luuae for rwo y te the re Ane Two years ago Dowd lived Itrcome street. am y lan, Met WOMAN in Bixtyefret at atte War Clatmn BARKER VISITS ey Would-Be Assassin of Rev. John Kellar Heid Without Bail. the n Manhattan A stook H AY, revived the O} port that the “L0 terests Gad pasecd to Ure Var hits v of his death tx st The stock was bld up te 12) 3-6 during but ther is Hitle doubt afternoon, watch how mt wateh heen ty day row re all Feb, t—The House enate bill for aC to the Court of Claims, Misses men; women during toils demonstration in/ his favor, and back to the jail. | On the way Barker relterated his for fear he “might reflect on the ‘statement tha: he was driven to| rector.” desperation by his wife's charge! against the minister. Justified in shooting Kellar. | The clergyman will live, and may even regein his sight. things dimly, aad w name to He can see ag able to-day to complaint This complaint charged “atrocious | ‘ ANHATTAN“L” GRO to adjudicate the Spanish war’ parts of ¢ Claims with an amendment to refer them will bring REESE SSNS SN NE SSS SSNE LESS NESE SENS Arictetet BARI i Kil” Ba: Record: | nowspape Rev. oan (Con REPORTED SOLO. HEAT IN CARS rush t conductors qaany tot the Court. ielnelrisieleieieivininieielieieirint teltinlebicleinleininivinleleininininint agsault and battery, with intent to John Ke He said he felt: Mission hours. fe favestigated, and found that aint pane 0aGg9g090q0000000° | | £ SS KER MADE HIS VOW AND KEPT IT. made vow, and 1 it, You may a prinoner."— Harker ta fe Shepned. rker was held without bail. jer Krebs refused to allow er men to talk to the arrested ‘ar, pastor of the Trinity + and secrezary of the Newark wounds Infilet- friend and parishioner er, of the Commerctal New York, who am- him. mpany nd eh « of his of hiy co: Atty attire or posure when he tinued on Second Page.) T WANTS. for toe turn was tho that tt agninst vers foroidil y the ce Grout say8 h x, ent in jail had not spoiled | | y to do 8) curing | PAGES PRICK ONE CENT.! |Police Department Again. 4 Shaken Up and Many. Officers Reported | Transferred—Price: Sent Back tothe Grand Central der Said to Have Come from Devery, but He Denies Alf. Seven Brooklyn Captains Shifted Around, and” Tlartin Short Sent: tor Coventry—Abeli’s Friend Put in Charge of Adams Street Sta= tion—Denials by York 3 | and Sexton. 4 of another shake-up caused ex- ment in police circles late this afters ~ noon, It was reported from Brooklyn — olice eHadquarters that Capt! Titus. hax been relieved as Chief of theiDe= «> tective Bureau, to take effect at § o'clock | to-morrow morning. He will be suc- - ceeded by Capt. George McClusky, whom he succeeded a few nrecks ago.) Capt. Titus to take command “at Elizabeth street, witle Capt. James. — Price Is to return to the Grand Central stat from Elizabeth etreet, Numere ; ous other transfers were hinted at. Seven changes’ in Brooklyn have bees) deciled upoa, as follows? BALDW Bedford enue. Capt. MARTIN SHORT, trom Bedford avenue to Fort Hamilton. Capt. HARDY, from Coney Island to. Bergen street. Capt. KNIPE, from Fratbush to Coney, {| Istund, ! | Capt. strest | Capt. |to Adams Capt. DI Gates avenue. : Chief Devery was at his offce all te © and when told by @ reporter: - vering World of the repsrt! 7 any changes had been mate uv tis knowledge. t. ‘Titus when seen also - dented | that he had been transferred, ; “This {s the first I have heard of Itt he said, “and while {t may be, trues Ke doubt tt!" : Bee pt. McClusky could not be fou this afternoon. At his office sin) Central station it was setd, iat” her-was: JAMES WHITE, from Bergen grip. He had not been change. mm ‘both ated, theese y know noths) i 7) ton both stated’ t e: i Ing of any transfers. “SUll,’" added ary York, somewhat grimly, “I didn't about the recent shake-up, you’ may, member. ‘Ine changes in Brooklyn, while) una pected, are not surprising, = of Capt, Buchanan from Gates: avent to Adams street, Cal chanan 1s 0 Of ine recently ‘appouited captains, aa is known as # protege o! Roki Who bus been a stanch. friend Chief Devery. : Hire want of any transfers,'*: sa! missioner Sexton, when asked i£°45 Siok, Cot, Rng ueClusky bac! 0. ri and Titus to Ett festive Ut t asking; your’ he . sur street witnow aMtND) 1 do not.’ 0, bdo not, Heve any such’ changes have been or dered; and, 1 don't tnink there's! anys: thing ‘in 1” Lika eae FILIPINO GOVERNOR KILLED. I Mindoro Natives Win in a Fight Agninat lusargents, MANILA, Feb. 4.—Natives have re- cd at Bitangas that @ week ago the vf the island of Mindoro rose insurgents and killed the ere are BO * he sald." ch atives: ora. rty of Bataan Province, Pres dents of cach Pueblo, ing at Orant yesterday, oxa.ved to hotly the Insurgents Af Bataan that they must cease operas # within a week of the people vwill the Americans to capture them. rmishes con A few insur- ——=—>_—- Sunday {s opportunity day for wan? case he oan find before advertisements, Get a line im)