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19 ) - Herman Treetz, Seven- teen Years Old, and} Ida Depuy, Sixteen Shoot Themselves on Her Father's Boatand 3 Drift Away on the & Tide. Dying In each other's arn ing out to sea, Ida Dep. old, and Herman Treetz, her s gear-old sweetheart, were f ht aboard her father's » the Jamer K. Po near New Dorp, 8. 1 Madly in love, but teo young to ebiain parental consent to marry, they had attempted sickle. ‘The girl, «. frail little and blue-eyed, selzed h ver, and with hin hand to guide and steady her alm, placed it against her throat and sent a bullet crashing into her brain. She fell into his arms. He, walting until he thought her heart took the weapon and fred twi the revolver sown throa was bad, for told of one builet that w was a Afth bull th Alscovery came. ‘This, saved tu make sure of in the event of consciousness returning | A mere pitiful story of hopele and youthful folly wasn Ida Depuy is the daughter of 4 Puy, an oysterman, whi ve topping the bank above Lhe Hill road out of New Dorp, the Kiils on the suuth shore Taland, She ix a beauty and a sp one, for four big brthers worsh fer. She had no eyes for other men but them until wix menths ago, when Her- | man Treetz swusaere to he father’s home on the Mil road throw without her father's grou: He Had Run Awny. Herman ts the son of a fairly weil-to- || Ge merchant who combines the business ef butcher and zreen rf Mis 1 ture, blond jover'n rey * crane viming Mis aim y cartrid @ handsome, Anely put up fellow, had, Tun awny to sea after leaving #: | and some ray had eniisted ino tne prtel, Anyhow, Herman | deal of hOs adventures | Me had a salior's women and ! vealed for Ta Depuy the days, not so long ago when they school-day sweethearts, | she lost her heart to him | Herman's father noticed Me growing attachment for the girl and reprimand- ta him. Ida Dopuy wax a apollet git Bhe never soiled her hands by washing a dish. Old Farmer Treetz knew shi would never be n housewife, and tod his boy she was not the girl for nim But Herman was ply In love, | and hia d otfon caused an extra ment between him and his father, was only smouldering opposition to ‘Treatz at the Depuy home until there wadijalk of marriage. ‘YG te only a child. The tdea tn at eurd,” said Austin Depuy, and he or- dered Herman to stay away for at least navy and de with sand 9 el with the Father, On Friday night 1 nn quarrelied awith his father over his love affatr, they dolted out and went stralght to his sweetheart. There was a family counsel of the Depuys, firmly that he was to ¢ An affectionate parting betwe era followed, ant they range a secret meeting for the next d. On Saturday morning Ida dres: her best. and told her mother sh going to visit an aun Weat Bri In the afternoon she met he Peter returning, She sald»! ing home, Instead -he followed on the road to Midland Beach, where Herman 7 The lovers afternoon and ¢ night wore an they w down to AOR the Depuy oyster stoo: they spent the whe the plan to ai i a i On Sunday morning Herman lef sloop and returned to his father's home He apologized tor remaining out ali night, and surprised his father hy clasping his he nd declaring that he had decide! this advice and give up his lit Then, dressing himself in his beat. he Kissed nls morhe: and his sisters Mina and F and left the nouse He went straight back to the yacht, | where Ida had remained, fexrtul to «0 home, dericka Senrch for the Girt. Meanwhile, when Ida of return to her hoine er four Dig brother started out to make search for her. They are, Vignard and printer is only one other child, years, Peter and Vignari » land Beach, whil vester scoured th miseing girl w Bhe had been » erase with Herman y the patr had made am ‘. £ Of their last. ft was lat tight before the br ere fe thetr elster and Herman hat Angactoss the fleldx in Fresh Kill Crees. the brothers reached the little bay in which the yacht was moored. To their amazement, the line 1 been cast off ~and only the tide from drifting out Towed out in a fish called, and. there ve direction of n the Fonght the Urothers, {tr (haggard. As P ny fl RT reetz lunged. at him. dext ta blow sent nim reeling ty brown nec! Va Murderer!" ghrieked Peter. Nera sank io Trecta's ner ant lero Pwolyer went to his head — His brother, bY! ard, sta fed ils arm. ol jelpleas now, as im be, If Eithere Je lifo left the law will take tis A e0u! + But Peter would not take hi, ty Ls ote's head, aiemece oMHe’ ll not play. um on me infah ss ob wit t mele sald 7 we siimpR mE I KN him before he drown Y sed the courseasof the yacht ‘down:the creek. They heard th q | cen aboard, and, Ding into | iota “et at H yam gut to thelr brothers’! boy‘ wes inad with love, Wor six monte Plequs, THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1901. _OPERS SEEK ND PR o18 19/81 81018) CLL@seVey HILD EL IRL’S WOU FOOT subjected tu tnte morning on the extremely unfavorable 1 being recorded in Misnour! Pacife, [cline of 6 3-4 polnts, Huge blocks of | Union Pacifle were unloaded on the market, resulting In a decline of 4 1-2 points In the firat fifteen minutes of trading. The initial transaction tn this fairly crumble stock sank 4 with 1641-2, Satuniay's closing. St. Paul fell by mon was carried down 31-2 points to Sess} SS SX \ SS SS fasues were heavy tn sympathy, though they Were comp: close of the first hour, but the down- Amal Copper E RESCUED The Edna Turns Turtle off Yonkers—All Aboard Saved. aving Crew No. In charge of Ca econ thelr way home when they met with the acchlent owitg when the bout reached th LOVER’S STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. Dying Statement of Herman Treetz. I have loved Idan Depuy for six months. We wanted to marry Were too yoang, his house turned Vemtel. ken into the Ib went out a sec- She loved » but our parents snid we night her father told me not for at least a yenr, Ida met me Saturday by appointment. all of Saturday might on her fther's yacht together our plain to die South South at c StL & San bran et Stan Ten Tex Twin City eT | YACHTING PARTY SAVES FOUR MEN. We spent SR We could not rmined to die together, Morning for one last look I joined tan, talking over Jon Pacis Union Bacto p R Leather I went home on Sunday mother and to get my revolver afternoon had Saturday telling them what we GRAIN MARKETS qrew dark pistol to her thront. She pulled the trigger and fell {Joan Marre I waited until I thought her heart stopped bent- thought she was dead volver and put it to my own ne lose consciousness and fired again, but the shot went change to-day w exeltement and a sharp rise in corn. k and fired. bushel, at 60 1-8, and quickly extended | al half point. Wheat|ter waa adopted by the Legislature. ‘There are three waye of ving the city from bankruptcy, One ts to let it 0 to the dogs; discharge the police and ite gain an add followed with a to my throat and shot aldtierlSenterstee I got dizzy from the pain, but I had another I was going to shoot, but I thought {t best to LONDON STOCKS HEAVY. leapatches thia morning from the corn Vorelan Market, — | bel buying orders from country” po Then I knew nothing until | heard her brothers in ratlway sharoe wish he had I don't want to live. They won't let me have ) reports from. shares in partie tember wheat, 69 1-4 to 701 Wille Se befefebatelfeleieiel-bt-im he has been beside himeelt, was inidntght when acstatan Te) of nothing but thelr dyin, wis hust and he wit This Is breaking hiv mother's heart. the equivalent PING NEW: quarters Me unawering | ,aiganmnti Peter, Cue, himaelf at the sikht groan. stained body, wheat, 79 1-8: July corn, 61 | Only the plea that ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. ept under the bo: 5 ¢ reater sorrow on his mother rrible fiure a a a) welght bite a « The Cotton Market. ax made al WGM WATER houme reached | GRAIN MARKET rowr oF NEW though drought and parts of the central belt. | aight, traders in grain to-day made de: perate attempts to buy the yellow cereal in this market, rel of the ya | Salluet, Argentina Auguat, | 17-8 hi 0 2 father anid: "The fi r, Market steady, were the leading DEATH; | VES FAT el AND CHICAGO GOING HEADLONG TO SHAMEFUL BANKRUPTCY / CAUSES ROP Second City of the United States Cannot Raise Enough Revenue to N “CHANGE. —— Union Pacific Drops 5 Points and All Corn Roads Follow. The prominent Granger Ismuea were © bear prearure thin op report. Pricer ylelded from 2 to 6 ints in short order, the maximum lone which suld a point below par at a de- tock was 10.40 shares. In the firat half jour of business 4,000 shares in the KereKate were dixponed of. Atchison, St. Paul and Rock Inland away. The last named points to 140, compared ints to 164, and Atchixon com- sh the depression was most us in the Granger stocks the nt rullrouds were by io te. the Headings, ‘Tennessee Coal & cked at lefcten- ‘The local Traction atlvely quiet, The urgent demand ‘to. ‘liquidate med tohave mubslded before the tal anies of stocks to-day were ) shares, The Closing Quotations, Open. High. Law. Clos, M3 11S MON 126 bret ¢ eer See tt Wway ay pf Jo. & 0. le SW. ont ye Twine 1 & Tron fe es S Steel pf tax-levying bodies than any other city in trend of prices’ continued) un-| the world—twenty-one, to be exact. Yet| neas of $16,00000-less than half that of, ruptes the second city of the ‘nation cannot| Milwaukee, a city of 20.0% Jnhabitants extricate the city from. the slough Into which tt has falfen, has fled] vulued at $30,000.00; a municipal Hg | Che usual ut from the Board if othe Narrizon administration. Chicago owes its unenviable condition to the fact that, with tte 2,000,080 people, In 1875 and Intended for a city of 300,680, wherein ite bonded Indebtedness !e Itm- Ited to $16,000,000, Thin charter enabled the growing Western metropolis to take in outlying townn an It expanded, but It permitted ench town Xo absorbed to levy and col- lect Ite own therefore, has its tax sor and col- lector, with a full ae: of machinery, In- cluding an army of clerke. powered to tax the property-holdera: . As each body does busines: way and fixes the size of its own lev there fa a fine muddle when the time comes for settling with the city, and the comptroller hax a merry time al (4 by lotting the city’ revenue to the varioun se mORGy: Is comming to. him, and the Twenty-third Street. Pay Its Expenses and Debts—Rich Men, Corporations and Country Legislators |i Bane. PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN Se OO violin} rleieieietelelieb-eiebiet 1 THE REAL REASON WHY CHICAGO IS BROKE. Politician—“Don’t pother that gent, he is too busy counting his money.” Chicago |e broke! A nt Gipere exceed the eonatieut ional Houle ot The alternative She h ore rate and distin cent. on the ansess valuation of that. c, ford moren Aree tte borded debt, and. therefore musi relief and eave streggte along with a bonded indebted. and hum!) init: Yet on Jan. 1 of this year the city owned | raise enough revenue to pay its expenses in phy deal property. worth $75,000.40. en and core and is on the verge of bankruptcy. Chicago has ‘doubled Its popuiation in| erse Pats yeaa Mayor Harrison, wearied of trytne to| ten years. In that time the income from | ugh as financtal | t2Xe* haa increased only $2,000.00. Yet | They would fight any pian to increase the city has a great water system. | their if they cout Am, Gatton OH 4° B'| tor the peace and quiet to be found tn]piant wort millions of dotiars, anda Hevlew-can, lnstitith Omerie igan'e pube improvements whic! have ys been Ain Suet & Met i pbs lodge in the wilds af Michigan's | {rvolved enormous expenditures. far Am Smelt. & Hel. pi. £3 | pentnauta of pines, where he has @ los] ‘Chicago's revenue from. taxation and Biv [ett 4s ily cabin, remote from railroads, telegraphs| all sour Including licen: id per- F the contingent Aner 338 | and telephones. e 000,000, In round numbers. Y ro million Oy n iret 1 policemen cost $3,800,000 a year a 2% | The people are in a panic. and her firemen almont $2,000,000. After! 1 cise to make that two mill Walt. & Ono pt 3? Acting M1 MeGann, once @ Con-| these two items are pald, the cli ne Orage ke thar (wo millions Mtooklyn itap, Trane, Hl ereseman and now Commissioner of/ left, only $200.00 for atreet cleaning, | Ai A halt no Aron, Mazer Harriny " FS e zm water service, electr' ‘ io Mav onenet 14 | Pubttc Works, in in tavor of tocking up| fight service, salaries, public improve: | Mounced «| horlzon 06 2) per went. G. Went 2 | the grimy old City Hall and letting the| seas itrelf for more than > per cent. {all along th Police and Fire 4 don vt & | town take care of itself. ite bonded indebtedness to the rule that | Departments are pitifully crippled. Po- 156, s ‘I now prevails, and that ta proving the | lice and flrem docked" for every He haa no remedy for quick relief tol ruin of a t municipality. hour off asked to take long. 138% pal 3% | offer; neither has Harrison; neither Mar! In all truth, Chicago in dirty enough | victor: je thet 19 4 an ler! neu as it that) pileations e -pay EN anybody elae. There t# none. the first p ation ut of ine quca: met with oat ity. Street-clean- ft Care. yn, thou jayor larrison, ot ping has a full stop except in Had mehmsen wer py | knowing what else to do, in working | the busine: trict of the First Ward, #.| The ance proud and beautiful city PY | along those linen, having cut off sev-| and: th en innumerable s2%S| the tg lake 1s almply broke! and Iteleral. minor bureaus in large depart-| chargex nsions in the en- 38? 35" | wealthy cltigene haven't the decency. menta and effecting a saving on mal-] ginrers’ and the Bureau of : artes, jewers, BS ES] priue and patriotiam to go down in thelr 34% 368 | pockets and put up the cash to save the ee > === 4, it] municipal honor. On the contrary, they 130 1734] are doing thelr utmost to whittle down iy 2. | thelr taxes and there in a better pros- 24 204 | pect of thelr doing that than of the Sale of iH taaes being raised, as demanded by the LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS At unprecedented prices. and Floor. {a operating under a charter pesed 5,000 Waists—made of finest quality, sheer to heavy weight Imported materials. In- cluding,— Scotch Madras and Cheviot, Knicker Cloth, ‘These Must Be Fed. Tendon Cord weaves. French Nainsook Meech folie tena aroperisrnalaeretne Rayee, English mercerized Mull, French Linon, and embroidered Linens and Swiss, White and colors. All waists are fashioned from the latest Paris models and are made @ work-rooms on the premises by expert cutters and shirt tailors. $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00 each. Formerly $2.50 to $5.50. xen, Each little boreugh, he City Counell, for tty school and Itteary ke sanitery canal, Y le bef IN BIG BOOM. | when 'atempts to" make appropria: The opening at the local Produce Ex- tons. An Knorm xf Mayor Harrison, in a reent state- attended by much| ment. -aimont incredible, made. the as- tounding ascertain that this year! September corn opened up 2 cents a mighty, Chicago would get lees money mpathetle rise to ritnble flood of bulliah ‘There was a Mrivate-wire houses were delug m taxation than it aid twenty-elgh! ‘8 Ago, Just before its present cl cut off the lights and refrain atreet-cleaning beyand removing ar! ‘The other is t) .convene the ea eth Geielature and ane a sen titution 1 ints and;amendment permitting Ohicz to ec lwan very. little for sale. of the Legislature. The New York New w York's opening prices A ‘alator from up the State who delights tember wheat 3-4; Octo to December, 76 5-8; September cori it ive Greater New York everythi docan't want, in. complalsant, “ring 1kO'R Opening prices were ing, easily handled individual compared 9-1-8; September corn, 87 te the haired ateeman from t and the banks of the Sangamon. . xcliement in the grain markets} This’ intellectual giant aulés whenever : ho i he| the name of Chi throughout the morning, the | the name of © ke ntioned. He 21-2 cents over Satur-| his | con: he has voted from the spring wheat ¥ bullish, New Y¥ oning prices were: July wheat, A nominal; September, wheat, 1-1! October wheat, Tr 3- rn, i$: October corn, Osing prices were 3 September wheat, 72. 3-8: 18; September corn, 69 3-8 AT CHICAGO, | cet ttrsttrom basting or siour travel tet Tower and Midway, the cost aud management of CACC! me aa iran eae oe the Exposition, with much other information. CHICAGO, July 22.—With the western BROMO-PEI : With Plan ot the Grounds and ‘orn fields withered and no rellef tn Opening bids were wild, ranging from tn lor 1 TB a Ze to 3 Ta to Over Saturday's close, Shorts who put out lines on ‘Saturday'a enhanced) values were frantle bicalers, Wheat opened acarce) wild th: 1 corn, September sold 6-6 a t-4 tod $48 ©, er, at @1-4 to 703-4. The dry| ALL ORUGGISTS, 10c., 1.4; Jan-| hot wi her and sagimpathy with corm FOR SALE B. RLM! uences, NAUSEA Also a list of Nations to participate, the Electric entiened. He Wwuenta when he a measure ced ‘Cook er, “According to his proc: his county wilt be In wealth when Chicago ls de- a bankrupt, the chances for a Constitutional amendment or. new charter are de- cldedly slim, and In any event cannot thout n long and hard fight. metal Figures. - tli erselizncharter!t Containing a condensed description of the pur- ses of the Exposition, with numerous features. eating, from over-Grinking, trom i eadache.” Ine Bird’s-Eye View of the Exposition. INVALUABLE TO INTENDING VISITORS, i Price 25 Cents by Mail. Meeeter etme alae er been “chuaweti, CHMMICAL C3., "4 Addtess THE WORLD, Pulitzer Building, New York.