The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1901, Page 4

FATCONDUCTORS BROOKLYN “L” FIRE. + ongestion and Bad Management Responsible * for Blaze That Blocked the Elevated Sys- is tem---Crowd Pushed Siove Over. World Contest Award- ed the Prizes. Reneral miamanagement ssid tn-) In 4 moment more fl @dequacy of accommodation on the part | tilled and , 3 of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com: | oughly w 1 that is ! : : ADV AWas again made manifest to-day |some sown the narrow statrway tu the Hunn Jonn Segor Gots Second % lives were endangered by # | streets, others to vis nite th : é ie Y Reeeiliitne wiation at Fifth avenue and; All this oceurr Oeluck, when stutio Phe Mongy and Frank Conley 2 Bixteonth street. of the Filth avenue | the jam ix at ite height. and for many wiaem toh Is the Lightweight. 3 Aivisionvof the Brooklyn Rapid Transit} minutes dt looked as if many men and Per fire wax caused by the upsetting | Wiliam Bo Lewl. the ebenion agent ' rh aati ile Sof gistove In the walting room by the |resued Sth of bis oreh, but was fore SA ERS : ‘fush of Intending passengers who )t © Dehind Gm over $20 In sliver a ' - ind Uetore Cos : Rbeen huddled and jammed into the | hts roll of tek He stuck ty hie a Nea eT 10) Bae Ube & toy. structure. In this rush the stove|trying to 5 ap the money until Po-| completed | HCE a ae cWasloverturned and the white-hot coais|ticeman Marker dragged him out, Hoth) antown tr ADARIO hiner tig EOI Ie g00n/ set fire to the flooring Lewis and the policeman had their hair! for downtown tratne Haesnsonth ec aa aera teat conductor within a radius of twen- E OBTAINED ON BRIDGE ty-flve miles of City Hall was awarded MIGHT B Ld to i a conductor on OOOO. {81a ye) sso 1eVeye) eye fererereverere)| the I < line of the Coney e in Brooklyn “ Alexander F. try public of Kings County, cond prize of $ fattest conductor wax won by John Zund Segor's official wetght stripped was 260 The :haded portions represent the platforms; the black portions the pintforms pro- B posed to be erected. By carrying out this improvement Joenl passengers could be car-| Third prize of HH In gold for the i ried directly to platforms D and E (new), while Brooklyn-bound passengers could em- u niRALHRCOMILL Daa apart Rie > bark from platform C he evening, during the rush for Brooklyn, this nrrange-|'h! “A Sa aa Me ee joan ‘iment could be reversed and passengers could board the trains from platforms E and D. abched WAN neeekrtcheards Platform A could thus be reserved exclusively for local bridge passengers. This eneialand TH ancavortGine Twould provide exactly three times the area of platform space for Brooklyn-bound Rave: Hala ania Mt Mewes, Con: Passengers, besides saving the time of shunting trains by londing and unlonding at the inal ie seri Caen as al An 1 - same time. —. be \ single prize ; : goon Maniiatt mductor, Struggling, Ahting men, fainting the diMeuity, the rompany, | The frat teal action to attard rotter| 4"! eines area lante taka women and children, a mob nade je make of waving w few dollars. | to the long-suffering passengers on thes te eamctl eR neatahie “mud “by belng wedged into a com! has abolished a half dozen sicket sel. Brooklyn Rapld-Transit: ears will lace kentiiienc erent tes an Alita elalani “pact muss that can neither go forward ant takers, exusing confusion and de-‘taken to-day, President Murphy. of ¢ Cuutascantisnaiitee Ritwinkine “nor recede, a jam of humanity that te a/lay at the entrances, and etil! further | Noant of Health, wlll present ty. the uate i Law ae aS ace to safety and decency—such | blockading the pamagewayn nnd dury evidence to show that the! “the contest ck res ert ern the condition every night and every| ‘The greatest hardahip apy Health of hundreds of thousands Enda lihaueHi hati leant, ‘Vaiorning at the big bridge that stretches] on thone who demire « € leltizenn are’ belng: Jeopardixed! dally Gounlatneewlehe denies leration across the East River. bridge. ‘They are eal the ct of the or He locveseneaniepahee nite ae By the Rossiter pian the passage from | fact ls inured that {t wan really for lite tone detive in ake eehinT ecnity thea Bo Ge Manhattan to Brooklyn {s a journey!theae pnssengera that the bridce was nd oof the beldwe ure vf thin will aia ey renter of hardship and danger. It Is attended | bullt and they are discriminated aguinst | inenace tu. the thennialitecotachallwagtewukereriemteenteit aie ef With more risk to life and limb than ain favor of the Brooklyn Rapid ‘lranalt Vatopaiwill hol tnkenttoramont | tise ere ee oe aceon a trlp across the Continent. Men whore|ayntem. The reason for thin will readily | prot Most popular ‘ inductor Gan: business duties call them on the Man-| be seen when it Is recalled that the cote HEL eANGGn CEIURE | OGRA Re ee a ee ieee hattan olde all day and who reside in| through paasengers pay five cenia while nit: Comiunyi d@etaiiicl Mek cerent uuintier Brooklyn look with dread upon thelr) the bridge pansengers pay but three. | ive that «ome Howitt Women avold the passage When they must brave Rapid Two cents ta a bie thing to a biK core poration, home golng. when they can. out delay wh at the brtiti Miter pre ce He has ree ent veut the dangern, of the Brooklyn ‘The local passengers reach the train | the following answer Transit cars they dreas aa If they were | trom the far east end of the terminal. | ym eels oo tides going forth Into a storm. Thon they are herded lke cattle on a|recetvel 1 bee to a sere that it tt the MW atequate pro And despite the Inconventence, deapite the danger, and in the face of a roar of protests that ts heart from Prospect Park to the Battery, the management of the mismanaged corporation asserts that harrow space divided from elther ui of the platform by railings. These pens are frequently Jammed (o auch an ex- tent that men and women are almus: crowded off onto the tracks. In control | Tere submitted to ihe De Siete one cenbarkation pistform |of these helpless passengern are certain | sus aeliiet wiey sult a! in done solely. for the purpose of facill- | Men Who act Ike “herdgra” in a Went: alo conaitered «plan to Inclose 1 iy. : ern cattle pen. They drive or push the fer to forty hanile the tating:the rapld filling up of cars from . torlly handle th patrons forward or backward as the whim strikes them—thelr main object being to keep the “locals” from getting the platforms where passengers every ay take their lives in their hands. "2 There ts a studied, brutal disregard ROSSITER in with the regular passengers. The reading the letter Prealdent f a, the comfort am! the aafet, ri there are not more accidents than there | {font car only may receive the crowits not 1 will look are Is not due to any care or protectjon | OM! one car on each train In rew! up the rece riment and afford by the management, but to the| for the" locals."" Mr. Rossiter ronut ea n amply sufficient. But tien Mr. Rossiter 1s not. obliged to enter his cattle pens Over on the Brooklyn alde it Is as bad as it isin Manhattan. The c In frequently Kept walting for thir minutes on a platform with no pro Prudence of the people who are unfor- tunate enough to be obliged to submit toc the “imposition. The plan of the Brooklya surface system has been to throw as much of the trave! an possible to the elevated roads, which have been running very light until the 1 heme | {lon whatever from the cold winter Was put Into effec ‘he management {a} Winds. Then when the train finally Tuboing Its hands over the success of the | Comes along ft oftentimes happens that Lup tay mind dittony at the bridg fut amd it by any rot the Grand Ju refuses to ft can be m: oWithosses he public courts.” til te tens the plot, for now the elevated cars are| there Is not room enough for all and} tify the brid) | ure left behind The sixteen fy crowded to the gates of the platforms a nd, The “stxteen pl 1 | An improvement has been suggested | cure dn the. fuiel-eh LO OS 1 |for handling the crowds on the plat |done Krent nari’ tot This crowding of t [forme at the terminal which ts itive. | lteds of vereimns who are com ity means a crowding dub) theldlaxrnta presented, walt tone for sith tle NEW HAVEN BLAZE. Buried Under a Wall at a Factory Fire— Two More Badly Hurt. (Gprctal te and some of| NEW HAVEN, 1 company, were to work on West side o! ling, ‘The ft found 5 “\infured by falling walls at a fire in od, amd the building was. so FRANK. H. CONLEY. old, Judson Packing Houre on Canal | en Thinnest wi ot street shortly after } o'clock this m Kot to work when if ‘ a: Hees ing. about thirty feet Y A nol bite. outwerd, burying the | ' verned: this THE DEAD. fee deep under piles of contest odin the wells known Contest, and nt stood at rin were si did not know The dead a6 Capt. sos zen spectators had narrow es: lected by Un Powell was jus f hat road: as Just on the edge of the falling wall and his lege were pinned down by the hot bricks fe was hit by flying debris Sucams of water were poured over the bricks unth they were suMetentiy cooled to commence the work of rescue, when the bodies were taken out and re- moved to the Morgue. were notitted night and ci ote Nis Henry M rive apd wa frat prize Frank 1 Staten c " They. t pectivel 4 The injur taken to the 10 In gi and were highly elated, an hospita pt. Joseph Condren was wax Conductor Howard, at thelr auc broken, face and | forty-tive years old and had been tn the “Co Conductor Henry M. Howard, the wine ner of the frat prize, cated man, servic years. dren, of the depart He leaves a widow for eighteen nd two chil- f isa highly. edu well past the middle age. Howard wan formerly a prosperous mor- chant in Brooklyn. “He haw been tall: ruading now on the De Kalb avenue line of the Coney Inland and Broeklyn Rall= road for five years, Howard, John Segor and nley Now become the deat luctors in Greater JOHN SEGOR. en, badly barnes. bodies may be in the ruins, Middle-weight Cond of Second jor, tne, All of the three other dead men were wines, married and leave families, two-story structul It] The packing house was a total lows, to be on fre by u police- |The damage ts estimated at $10,000. ‘The Ha 1m Firat Weat inter, ithe alarm, calling out building has been unoccupled for sey- WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. —“oseph K. * are published Rare eral yeara, and it ts belleved that the] Aca, full-blooded Kanaka, in the Sand: nly Justice to. them 10. sate that they appreciate the honor which ix in | blaze waa the work of’ frebug, now theirs, Wieb Islands’ fret West Point cadet. THE WORLD: TUESDAY KVEN ING, FEBRUARY 19, 1901. -GET THEIR GOLD Winners in The Evening} chee on HENRY HOWARD IS FAT. EST Island and Brookiyn Ratiroad Company, who weighed, ntripped, 275% pounds. Howard wan oMfdaily welghed on the lerick Bauman the weight was in gold for the Beau sad the Midland Elec- | 7 trle Ratiroad of Staten Island, Segor’s | Wiincesen were Henry Bruns and Paul Shauotte and his oftictal weight was at. & tested before Edward Predennta, of | @ Staple Staten Island. Conductor |@ prizes on. § NO HOODOO IN NO. 13, | | ie L. B. \" SLSLOLe SIS 0 Fie wre wyerere, elelee oer ele Giererey 7G Ie lt Ath atre thoroughfar in \ Houlewant wit Hundred ant 4d tyesixta str fs bounded vot ends on and the curtous a Nosket fr work, put dn the tast pile iast waterproof filin ; a nese petween One TE toand Thirty s the frst i Haunitre ub ‘Thirt stands) to-day the big the first fthat ty to make halt tunnel sy upports al tonsa of Be MeCat rows longs th ments witch efirat portl brick work, and the aldes - the contr, covered with) fireproof I tunnel more FIRST TUNNEL SECTION FINISHED. McCabe & Brother, Contractors. Belong the Credit of Completing a Rapid Transit Subdivision. {ee WL OMECLOCO ed will be tube, mavsly MBUTe, le whe the tunnel K Was not ditt) tunnel cumnple uly ¢ 1 funt nimietor Me lasting to ress. ‘The work ix colng forward as exp wasible. We ure 169 feet below the it One Hund fo we wf the ¢ ay from the drift. the tunnel will ‘Il be at the There it will b Great wassengers from the vice verea, and experienced some weter mains and M-inch water ation, but section ly completed sec- i fi actor MeCab vty in ower points alonz: tion and ¢ 1 vigorously is stimulated announcement 0 far ahead of belng pro} " aub-contract axed haste by t ix" 1s ready SHRANK TO PLEAD MADNESS. ‘Trial of Plano Workman Begun in Long Island City, ‘The trial of David Shrank for killing George Schaefer, a fellow-workman {n Sohn & Co.'s plano factory, on Dee, 16, was begun to-day County Court, Long Island Cit District-Attorney John B. Merrill con- ) | difeted the prosecution tn person and ch prisoner was defendel by William W. jen. The forenoon was taken uo In uring a Jury. It ts understood that the line of de- fense will be Insanity. STRENGH TESTS. A Record Afier Using Different Foods. J. Henry Myers, of Otsego, Mich., a travelling representative of a certain } medical missionary assoclation, made |wome strength tests with different foods, with the following result: He says: “In 1897 I became officlally connected with an Institution manu: j facturing a large line of health foods. “My desire was to add strength. [ was in good health, and faithfully . almost entirely, for nearly two y ir foods, and believed la {them thoroughly. In January, '98, my strength test showed 6,700 pounds, in January, ‘99, by the same machine, my strength test was only 4,560 pounds, a heavy falling off, notwith- standing I had not been sick, but had POLE ACT IN BARES STRIKE Jersey City's Labor War Assuming a Serious Asp :ct. 1 1 men shorte ind ehtidren of tea rant whe were at threate of violence stant lo ond nen work. but the police kept a ¢ the turbulent men Thomas Covne, James Michael Mannion we Pollee Judge Murphy this morning for attacking each other Jast nizht. Burgess, who refused to zo on strike, was badly beaten. Poilce Judge Murohy men for « hearing. Prices remanded the Are FL ix y {san veres s should the pub ed the Miners’ —Thomas Prin jentist, save Martians are too . y to understand earth CHICAC reult NOTHING EQUALS IT For the Cure of Catarrh. A physician now retired from practies, but who still keeps abreast of the times, in peaking of the advance made in medicine In the last ten years, says: “One of tho most obstinate and battling diseases {a the very common trouble, catarrh. “Nasal catarrh ts only one of its many formn; eatarrh of the throat, catarrh of the stomach, bowels, liver and bladder are very coinmon, but the sufferer usually thinks it fs something than catarrh and is treated for the wrong disease, “The best and most successful treatment for any form of catarrh is now admitted to be by internal remedica through the atom- ach, and the safest and probably the most eMctent Is in the tablet form sold by drug- sists aa Stuart's Catarrh Tablets. “I have seen many remarkable cures of catarrh resulting from regular daily use of these tablets, which seem to act on the blood and liver, driving the catarrhal polnon out of the system through the natural channels. “I once had occasion to analyze these tablets, and found them to contain no c caine nor opiates, but simply a combin ton of harmless antiseptics like Eucaly, tal, Gualacol, blood root, ote. “At any rate, I have known of severe ca- tarrhal headaches which were cured by Stuart's Catarrh Tablew, and catarrh deatnees, hay fever, asthma and catarri of the throat and stomach speedily show Breat beuent after a fow days’ use of tho Femedy, and when it fs remembered how much more conventent a tablet ts than in- haters, douches, salves and powders, tt ts ot surprioing that this new preparatto should so rapidly supplant all other rem des for catarr! Scrofula THE OFFSPRING OF HEREDITARY BLOOD TAINT. Scrofula is but a moditiedform of Blood Poison and Consumption. The parent who is tainted by either will see in the child the same disease manifesting it in the form of swollen glands of the neck and throat, catarrh, weak eyes, olfe.sive sores and abscesses and of- tentimes white swell. 5 ing—sure signs of Leveverereieye 5 HENRY M. HOWARD. Fattest Conductor, Winner of First Prize. JoLerereleVereyayereye (yey PRIZE WINNERS IN THE FAMOUS CONTEST. —_-- eee First Prize of OO in gold for the fattest conductor within a radius of twenty-five miles of City Hall, won by Conductor Henry M. Howard, of the De | Kalb nvenue line of the Coney Island and Brook- { lyn Railroad Company. Official weight, stripped, 275 1-2 pounds. Second Prize of $1u.00 in gold for the next fattest conductor, won by John Segor, of the Midland Electric Railroad, of Staten Island. Official weight, stripped, 260 pounds. Third Prize of $10.00 in gold for the thinnest con- ductor, won by Frank H. Conley, of the Midland Electric Railroad, of Staten Island. Official weight, fully dressed, including heavy winter overcoat, 102 pounds. POUND TTTTTESOED1-0.06-0-06-0-1-06-.00 FOOCCOCO COCO) faithfully and religiously used the foods I so fully believed In and had been hired to lecture for and advo- cate. For a month eftor that teat I was uncertain what to do. I felt weak, and what I wanted was strength; so in February of that year I quit all other health foods and began using Grape-Nuts alone. My welght now has Increaged from 130 to 143 pounds; my strength has Increased from 4,560 pounds to 5,940, and I am now 1,609 pounds stronger, by actual test, than the average man. My eyesight is clearer, my mind more active and stronger, and I can endure more Scrofula. There may be tio external signs . 55 for a tong time, for the disease’ develops slowly in some cases, but the Poison Is in the blood and will break out at the first favorable opportunity, S. S.S. cures this wasting, destructive disease by first purify- ing and building up the blood and stimu. lating and invigorating the whole System. J. als, 115 Public Square, Ten yeara ago my t her forehead. From thi lands on the side of her tac swollen and pursted. Some of. the. bes doctors here aad elsewhore attended het Without any beneftt. We decided to try 8. 8. S., and a few bottles cured her entirely.” labor, physical and mental, than ever before. “I do not know any person inter- ested In the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., and this letter is not written with any motive except to bring honest facts to the attention of persons dc- airing to live well and live rationally, I have the charts filled out by the physicians at the Institution making the health foods that fafled in my case, and these facts cannot be dis- puted by any one. I will make oath that they are absolutely correct.” Mr, Myors’s letter gives the name in full of the concern making the so- called health foods, which falled in his case, but this name {s not givon WIHT Manager Rosenbaum Wint | ment will do tae same this: evening, The one thundredin pectormancs of | ,, Smee Rosenbaum laid a wager “Florodora” will be given at the Caalna | celpta to-night would exceed $2,265, to-night and much money hangs on the —<—<—___ dox-vitice recelpin, Lillian Russet hols | Mather Grieves Herself to De the house OM of $3,285 for one ‘. formance in “Princess Nicotine.” Thea | NEWVILE she charged $1 admission and $2 for the | the joss of a_child caused the death beat seats, Tae “Florodora” manage: | Mrs. George Niblock, the re- Feb, 19.—Grief over to the public. It !s not the purpose of the manufacturers of Grape-Nuts to build their business by depreciat- ing the efforts of any competitor. ‘This experience 1s printed as an illu: ih. {tration of tite indisputable fact that Grape-Nuts food {s a true, honest and of|remarkable rebuilder of the human body. “+ of makes new and pure blood to nourish and Strengthen the bedy, and isa positive and |" safe cure fur Scrotula, * it overcomes all forms of diood noise whether inherited or acquired, Kanes L remedy so thoroughly and effectively Iceanses the blood. It you have any blood * trouble, or your child has _inherite blood taint, take Ss, S. Ss, aahoane blood in good condition and Prevent the disease.doing further damage. Send for our free book and write our Physicians about your case, We make no charge whatever for medical advice, THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co. ATLANTA, GA, ee The Trenton True Amerte The World Almanae and "Bneyelos Pedia for 1901 is just issued and, as usual, Is unequalled in scope and presentation. i a& mine of in- formation more easily tapped than any other com; i} ‘grenuat pendium of earrent