The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1901, Page 1

To-Morrow’s “Washington as a Leader.” An Article That Will Create Wide Comment. Sunday World. PRICE ONE CENT. __NEW YORN, AMER AFTER MAKING JUST ONE HIGHT MORE: : geeeeeenecesccces esecccereesessere cnccetecoossoooes HORS Leader's Nearest Friend j Tells Evening World That Next Mayoralty Campaign Will End Active Career. 2Ptee l ° “Mr. Croker wif return to New York in ten weeks as he said he would; he will confmot the Mayoraitg campaign. ) baw req as he sai4 he would; but you can state street positively that this ts to be his last Prasat a fight as leader. The ne “After the fight 1s over he will retire porte permanently as leader of Tammany Hall, although he will undoubtedly_con- tinue to have a voice in the councils of } the organisation.” 0 Evening ‘This patent is made tot! w ‘oker than ‘by a man closer to anybody elee. SAY TAMMANY LEADER IS ILL. (noctated Prem.) LONDON, Fo. 16.—Intimate friends of chard Croker openly @eolare he will ver re-enter active political life in America. Those who have seen Mr. Croker recently noticed bis general sical weakness, which ts said to be a \ form of nervous melanchotia entirely op- posed to hie usual activity. A number of American racing frienda who know Mr. Croker intimately say that while he will probably return to the United States ‘uring the coming summer, he {s utterly tired of political work and would gladly pass over the control of Tammaay Hall to younger hand: TAMMANY IS DEPRESSED. ‘The Associated Preas cable from Lon- telling of Mr. Croker's apparently iriperding breakdown, following — # % <leeely upon Preaident Guggenhe!mer’s letter from Croker himself, in which the leader spoke of his ‘much improved health,” had the effeot of depressing Mr. Croker’a long-time political assoc‘ates to-d The letter to Gugeanhelmer raised a doubt in their minds. It was thelr firat ‘intimation that their leader was ill. The cabiegram deepened their gloom. ’ Mr. Croker’s friends have known that the death of Mrs. Warren, Mr. Croker's beat beloved ulster, threw him into a depression bordering upon melancholia. ‘This was plainly seen in his manoer in the few days beforo he left for Burope. . His manner of dismissing the reporters muy be given in illustration. Instead of waving them off with a bluff “thats all I have to aay to-day,” or of brusquely refusing to talk at all, Mr. Croker would RICHARD CROKER. sossesseassesesessasssosssossevees s99s0900000~0009 LOST MAN SHE LOVED, SHE TOOK HER LIFE. ——_——__++ Mrs. Sadia Wilkins Wrote Letter to Marks and Swallowed Poison. 5 “aay Gaccaveussasessedevecsesssccecssenccuccasencdesees$teceostert® © FE FOES SSTSSSTISSSS FFFTFSS ISG SFSESS VEISTSTTSSTSITESS 68TSEISISESITSOTSS | | come mopingly up tho temelated lobby| “I told yom often if ever EP lust) ner in your heart for your own lovey at the Democratic Club, his head down, | your love I should want to die.’ Jack, wh a ned ou not too but too well : is alr quite dejected. He would lean man she Writ to K these By Grover Cleveland. ¢ *"™ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY WHIPPED DOCTOR FOR FLIRTING WANT NEW STREET FOR EAST RIVER B CHASED THIEVES. OVER THE ROOF. With Revolver, Mme. Dela Pointe Pluckily Drove Burglars Away. RRR AAA, M Reena HOVENONNOEN <0 bee AT NEW ORLEANS. erview Without Words with J. Pierpont Morgan. _ By Kate Carew... WEATHER-FAIR, FI SS ACING ul SPORTS: PRICS ONE CENT. culation Books Open to All.’”’ } 16, 1901, CHOSEN AS THE NEXT POLICE Hand Man. Bernard J. York, President: Board of Police Commi: slated for next Chief o¢ place of Chief Devery. ‘Tammany has indorsed ~ backed up by the Brooklyn racy under Hugh McLaughlin. » the time comes for Devery to York will step into his positio Axa matter of fact, York iain de all the recent change every has had to acquiesce wi | he Iked It or not. Many of these changes hay, BERNARD J. YORK. but he has had. togive way. ©) fo York is the MAN In the Police! Dez; partment to-day and will be the #ex Chief of Police. Yee $95,000,000 PAID VER TO CARNEGIE. ote Transfer of Huge Sum Shown by Bank Statement To-Day. strong for Devery, and Crol not save him. Chief of Police Willlam 8. Der was aatd to-day, would retire 3 He will end his term as aead’e police force at 6 o'clock in the f Tt Is sald to have come from “Ins! authority, pension. By the a of the Board he Is to bebire Uredy from office wit has 3) honor and emolument as if he the best Chief that New York ever The taxpayers are to be saddled wi pension, although Devery under’ tl fe not entitled to retire with «1 alon at all. To secure it the vote of the Board is necessary, It was by his transfer of: police captains about a. month age: Devery angered President York | | | Wall street waited for some definite: tie payment of min cash—in the point Where open war Was Aanouncement of the big new steel com. Mank statement to-day, They called ate]! tween them. pany to-day and goaviped meanwhile, lenGon to the increase of $19,55,600 in] ve wae taken as not only: Ail that Inedefimitety known of the big the stitement of loans as an evidence] ttacy against the President. Of combine ts that it in to be called the of aut Goan jranaaeite andraliG Board, but as a direct slap/at United States Steel Company and Is to (0 tae Incr nv deposite of $16,735100. | Cr aughlin, who bad up to that) which was surprising in view of the fact the right to be capttatinest +1 $500,00,00 ‘suppasadit ’ Lawyers were busy all day proparing [has fewer dividends have deen pald) prooklyn police officials was one ef Bt the prarre necessary. for the Inearparas using the want week than any Week) yrerogatty fon of the new omy iy, whoeh will be tis yeal Sito sald that if payment was made, Using three banks, the transac- tion would simply be shown upon the hooks of the banks, although figures in fan ace ement would be changed de by out-of made next It was been paid had week 1 that Andrew Oarnegte had in cash and that he amount as LAWYER SAYS against the door Jamb at the rezepiion| toyed Sadia Wilkins ended her life to Younedll ie ak Petrie baie? count" with a certain bank #0 aa not to whi room and listen to and answer a ques- “11 Ks Sinety= erift. It is al ave in this Y disturb: condition now ex- | crease in deposits, Jay at her home, No. 211 Kast Ninety olver in hand, Mme. Zucker de 1; L. Y, a th enor Uon or two quite humbly, replying in a ‘weth street world) Pointe, wh 3) husband ea a see on is pee a anae nite ico featke | sting Theklosn faccount. would jshowh money, mourntul vadenoe, and then, with a bard| When found In bed sh Good-by, and God: Uless you, Once eee eg ea we a epoloone | there, chase the burglars than have! “Financini students thought that they |{weramctae imuee, un, the lliference tn J au; y a 5 one. more [am dosed to death. Withoat 2 js the fourth ag sd ra et he amount on dey nd that neces- f plorinelye xan ee leiers saarenis ti] dreesegiand by er, side) \a aoe ee eee nee eethor hold on | Pody guard, met and put to Might sev-| tempt to rod me that haa been made in | Could detect this enormous transaction! sary to complete t uti Policeman. f 3 : f £x-| four-ounce bottle which had contained! ji7., eral burglars at No. 1377 Broadway eatly two years. Otner people on this block | x . cuse me from any further interviow Even after that he would remain a ¢ mocidney hep withdrawing in the same ' i eRe men wes only a little of the old fight- carbolte acid. to-day, The woman had moved Into the house only a few weeks ago. T h George E. Von Brunt, she ‘The letter was signed “Silenco,” in Spanish means “‘ailence.” BS Marke, of 136 Lexington avenue, which elarm. and fou wus meant for him, and sald he tended the w sions. the police arrived they made a h for the $ mentioned in the wom- of the faces three shots. shot nad taken effect. roof she aaw the men toward Thirty-ninth strect. 1 was the fol ara,” whieh | h On a tuble In the roo lowing letter addressed + In Spanish means “a I told you often If ever I lost love T should want to die. In ever ee! gn a former = eh Whales has not wesumied He bce epoken in the name Hie is out of town noon several ence, leadership. and voice of Croker, now, iil with grip. ‘Wictiratiy the Headers left in town are our 4 ‘The butlding ix of two atorles, Mme. Ge la Potnte wae aroused by a burglar 4 thieves trying to enter gtite tnt on he told an Bwering [a dressmaker, Mr. Van. frunt. called | called with an undertaker and asked per-| the acuttie In the roof over the rear of oc he woula be back f2,New by appointment to-day and discovered | mission to remove the body. He nd-| her apartments. . John Whales hag teen | the body. mitted that the letter addressed tol Selzing her revolver whe almed at one peering down and fired A loud yell tuld that one Cilmbing to the disuppearing Dintriot-Attorney Merrill, of Queses: soe County, expressed his opinion of t Police Board of Greater New York tu) measured language before President: York in Brooklyn Police’ Meadquarters K to-day nm President York was acting as trial judge In the case of Delete Jones,,02 > the Jamaica police force, District-Attorney Merril! with having warned gamblers and dance-hall of intended raids. | have been robbed, (oo, and the police do | not seem to be able to protect us. Mme. de la Potnte's husband was a contractor and builder on Wooster atreet. Hig affairr were tangled when he died several ycars ago, and the widow started @ halr-dressing establishment She ts well known in the houses of grominent society people. Dobson, the banjotst, a reataur keeper and @ truckman have recently been rodbed on the block between LURED BY TALE. OF BIC LECACY. COLER FLIRTING FOR MAYORALTY. Willoughby Visitor to Fetlcent regarding tne news conveyed in| Please find $5, half of that you gave |an’a letter, but did not find it. ‘They are] "I ain not a brave woman," Mme. de|Thirty-elghth and Thirty-ninth sireets, Bader, Exhausted, Ar-| acter making his charges Mr. Mi v the B cable and those scen were} me. Tae agent only took ih unable to account for the disappearance i Street and Smiles at = ‘iinet he would submit them sun in szprension, but it ia'plain the | inonth and gave me receipt to Marca [of the money and will make an invea- raigned in Courtas |"Sins. Bs ant DY those WhO know Hicpeey| 1 Lhave kept tt toward April, Lut do | tigation. SERGEANT SHOT DEAD HENS. TOO [LL TO APPEAR. Question. Commisatoner York said that he F Crofer best. not need It now, #0 return it to you ne suicide was forty-five years old c Vagrant. mimoel oer ort sericeoce aaele Fire, gcomepinsioner John J. Scanneli] who ove tt She bore traces of retinement and in her St Se aA Sa acqu' iets anol. Mr. er's business partner, tacts Nenun | hand. |In Slahtmare Miazed Away at |Girl Rescued by Comm * : sufficient to convio' ey Tater f Maver expecnite Tea gatRer | Geod-by, my love, my_valontir antasea eae ; . Comptroller Bird 8. Coler ts in train: Nery well, 1 will take the cane. be , Croleer St Wantage See yy alt HE: Woes MBN Sas oi jo of alles Kcr free | E ce mnln mers eeretiiee Ine icon lina: Mavoreits i nomina vont viraw Bader, decently dressed and] fore the Queens County Grand Surres Tis turn with him four weeks Inter | Aitrlosotinllened schicken inetceens| Duty" Aust vit District-Attorney| fall and politicians {n both aldes of the luble, who says he ts heir to afought to have known that I eae ata Mee TON ee aut “WHOLE CITY IS FOUL.” COL. _ MICHIE DEAD. caught at One Hundred and Seventy-( Arthur C. Traln appeared In the Basex| Eaat River admitted this 10+ tate In Germany, was arraigned justice here,” sald. Mr. Mer : Rae aneerantons ie haw broken i ) seventh ttreet and Jerome avenue, In nexer Court to-day to prosecute Mrank| Who suggested co Mr. C g the the Gatex Avenue Police Coatinuing a gathered up a 4 mr h was . G 3, venty-two rm beefsieuk dinner might de a Boat op ch . = '. : ot i” ona, at 3 jock this morning } a charge of vagrancy, sald: ved fromm him to were nee y Were" profesor af Uhitorophy at West ee ‘ a hater ie Tet tg. erent: on a charge of abduct portunity for coming Thore jock last night he walked into| the ‘rouble, ae you js that yea sald he was feeulna tn excelent ‘i health from a Knight of Labor. ' Vietim of Pneumonia. ca comanz Trotters ote igre eta li Rou Baral “z iniermiai, manylahrewd gueiiers (who'eay) tt ¢ Atlantic Avenue Station and asked ejarcase ate ease: tersilts death of his sint A man who sald he was Jeremiait San tion. Atreet, She ts confine! In Helle James Shevitn, of Brooklyn. wtih w : rer arre! 1 4 Peter 8 ee gts " ‘or shelter for the night. He sald h Retiean very, fond ot here bar Res | aturphy. of West One Hundr itt ha] In thelr wagon were thirty-eight chick-|pite! in a eritteal condition, t the Comptroller iy on more than | Meearch of the German tonsa ta] vpresident York protested pearl a Row recovered from the shock, and Is ? \ i 4 with thelr heads wrung off and three| {Wo Weeks In a dtvorderly ous terms just at present, a ; use of mich strong language b entte himself avin : nights of Von Mayor Van y Loran eeleawl ‘The caye was postponed unt ibecailrrigtat tan r to obtain scme Information about] attorney: Merrill. oir derril) ” contin Wyck this” morning and protested |“ t abort: Minor fr Hy ‘ i Nesta (THO alleen Ueneed TAR irensiled sbirahy GUTOR, idly A rty io deeraze that the oases in whlod Pol » nu ae Videsrae Gavenieiivelyc shouse the chickens raced ant rescued by the , | told Magistrate Worth | Commissioners Ant aa Judges Were BRQs, ’ i pat the condition of the streets ria thitay youre were hung in Sergt. Hiegins’s room for; Committee of Fifteen siuleos been tnotedsthatesir i ake ne n) judged or not (rented fall SCANNELL'S TRIP Tuwer cant aide about Moo Michi aradaated from ine sui. | #f¢ Keeping, Me went (9 bed In at trent recuine visitor a the Wi] tthe ad walked nearly ail the way | “Gh iuaving he ga ne, maid mage and Cherry. streets. after sleeping an hour was selzed with oughby street wiictlon rooms the head | 5 Tithe tea neaeS to Manhattan, | etend dury of) Queens Co MO} SEE CRORER. | stayse Causisen tt hie ao, 208 ae Ne ss wag Tah ME oe Mi|e meeat a eae intra: | the Street-Cleaning Commissioner. a shotgun la sti je Laugh nen} tion from. a E 3 ch, - ———— ' is te infor several weeks ahatt bla atk “1H not do it" sald Murphy, a att ri Mi dle | chickens, — When WEATHER POnEGRET clan Sori iraly weeks Eres many, that hl mother had died laxt ‘The propored vielt of Fire Commisst Mia Honor then xtarted to walk to was full of flying nd hal left a large estate. pee xt his pri fm 1 ! Il M Mient f poll nit exhausted when he js private office, and Murphy shoutes “ut, Dennis, Mohan Michie A group of po 2 sahen | YOR R ITE wus K ebaitte of Ban duan Ht! red to lnvestignte wi Fareenst tor eo KOtw gf ete, Dire a nadinvicaatihnnvabyenrslatershieconistl testes oe bee Slat hnurnte ; Nehitdren nM fe said Stsembly. giving Deputy Fire Commis- ‘Sure, the whole city government fa] remaining son dled from pneumonin was his ou 5 “naehine Magistrate Worth c moner ‘Tally, Of Brookiyn,..th tera] foul." rrmatat spate Mel ——- sunday ; to tal. of auch «thing flow are you Roing to reach West ort (attr ¢seaptSobeant al aie MOR ETO CUtNe: Comtiivslanee: sere ees 5th 4 | mee ta was wil he Would aay, when questioned | Troy (© 1 let you off? umked the Magix and outhera Rallway, EUW Andi abaaniarotioueriers Murphy. then left the City Hatt. 1 Ran to Chicawy. | Through ay are te Chivage fale Cents nad Snodaye for al moby an Bvening world re. 7 wae eS aia doetarerinelGen ee Mt. Louis nN a d . Under.\the charter, in the: alsenc Matton ia Fi Cand es ana | on ania Lpcing wet 3 ely evbeut MTs eet down the politicians confident au Maciateate Worth diechatwed htm, of ” 24 & 55. 5. | tn'the Department there Is nu head] world record ‘all a Penueyivania Ratiroad aati a eetatlon at dal INDIA PALE AL) B though that the Comptroller wants the namination. palaninsg+e Mace on his long Journeys