The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1901, Page 8

BETTING AL FRESCO IN TH NOVEL POOL-ROOM GOTHAM EVER SAW. OOO 00000 Tor a aati paisa: THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST: E MOST Life, Take a Bath, Gambol on the Green, Put a Bet Down on the Ponies Running at Any of the Legiti- mate Tracks. and!9 While the New York poolmen are {dle and the telephone bureau at Po- lice Headquarters does not work as] ting thetr cash, frequently as heretofore, the book-| *ooden bench makers are doing a rushing business | '!°* oF studying the charta in Long Island City, where they are Hundreds of.men cross| upper ring on the first floor, and a the river every day and go ten miles | }0UNK man with his ear to a telephone into the country for tho sake of lIay- ing their money. pool “100m.” It is well pat- Hetting al Fresco. It fs located at No. 438 Vernon avenue, where stands a summer inn known an| “School for Seandal at the quarter,” Many acres of gree! this the Ravenswood. and primeval bullding, and thereon has the enterpris- ing Newman erected a great pool-room: When an Evening World reporter en-| fut there ia ro time for reflectton, and tered this plnco—and it in free as Cen-| lowers 1 tral Park for any one—600 men warmed over the pasture, Probably half that} the bi ANNOUNCING number were alther making bets or Ket- while others sat on hinking over their hard A Might of high ateps leads from the lower betting ring in the yard to an horn sat tn the open window calling out Tesults ao that they might be heard in both placer, secrecy about this] At the four windows, one each for You can hear the mur- mur of voices and the shouts of the winners fully a mile away. toga, Deimar, Hawthorne and ‘ombination,”” a hundred pairs of hands reached forward tn feverish ex- “Billy” | cltement to put up money, and all the Newman runs the place and he calls] t!me stout-lunged sports screamed their it “Little Saratoga.” fepe terized and reveals a romarkable| req striped shirt from state of affairs, considering the ac-| eminence of a broken chair, “Hurry up, tivity of the reformers these cays. wares “Now, bo: yelled the one with the the uncertain tor the mecond race, You can't make money by rubberin’ at the board. "Ce “broke In another, “they're a at Saratoga. Don't let ‘em ket away without a bet.” Announces the telephone man and the ‘ arms hin ‘ by three wh ts much groan. eo Kk by the tiify School fo Scandal hevon ul quickly elbowed away. reat the post at Hawthorne,” alarm, and the ty from r4 whe have money on the “They tm the SHOCK KILLED Fell, a Corpse, Among Compantone | what Was TI as Current of 1,70 Through Wis Hody. After rescuing a fellow workman, Edward Walker, thirty years old #5 Tenth avenue, by an electric shock tropolitan Stre at One Hundred and $! Btreet and Kingat jons, who stood close to and saw a sput Nght as he felt ross the deadly rall. ‘tim, heard him tering flash of & three | ‘A third man was hurt in the excava- tlon before Walker He was} rock from a blast + Mood Wright Hospital. a CITY’S PAY-ROLL SWELLED. Appolatments Call for Over 000 Increase n Year. civil service and © faye recently a year. | viliarieg Willlamaburg, vin the yard of Its home to-day RIDGES WERE BLANK, Shooting Not a Serious Affair, What was thought at firat to ben fatal shooting, but which turned out to affair, occurred this tenement at No. 31 W. Thomas McGut vd words last night, and was continued this morning emanded that In a short wall 8m with a revolver and fired. | amby hurri of the house, way mself up te ap was tuken to the Weat Thirty-seventh Street station-hou: When he was a: Side Court it ¢ ver had been ti Aes and that adding aligned In the West ped that the re- J with plank car ant Smith was dincharged, and Six departments, Peraon ap] SARAGOBSA, Spain, Aug. 21—A hur- the | roane hax swept « the village of niured, done te estin ral million pe The damage amount to se as William ry ‘“sowned to-day while bathing, ooocnoocnd © 3 ® fo} a THE RESULTS TO THE OPEN-AIR BETTORS. third race arise as one and Invade the ter he Evening World repo from ir. Newman, wh Why, how d'ye (t's Oklahoma, “Same ag the rest—on a tre fa the answer." from New York” are marshee? . what's the use? Welcome the Poo “Why, do you know th glad to have us here. riendly, and aa stn hale « of Innd Increastn you ean hardly buy m weua drink, have a bath, gambol on th summer Outing tut the pollee?” ‘the are all right We mak 1the neighbors don’ “Harring the Inw, complain about Newman's pool semblance of order 2 aT THE CASHIER rowdyism and no fighting. ns all seem to be serious- 1 persone, who the business of 4t noe r for each man uiway t attan. STERN BROTHERS are displaying First Fall Importations of Ladies’ Trimmed Hats the latest and most desirable Paris creations and special styles In Mourning Piillinery Special Sales, To-morrow Ladies’ Gloves | 4.Button Real Kid and 3-Clasp Glace Gloves, broken lines, In all sizes and colors, A new shipment of 2-Clasp Lorraine Glace Pique Gloves, Paris Point embroidered, In new shades, tans, mode, ecru, pastel, pearl, white and English reds, Ladies’ Handkerchiefs Allelinen hemstitched 10¢! All-linen, lace edge, 8 hand-embroldered initial, 4 aa ‘ ndeas $1.00,.. | hand-embrotdered initial, {Sik and linen hemstitched, All linen embroidered and 12¢ | colored, striped and drawn-work hematitched, {plaid effects, drawn centres, West Twenty-third Street ————— n K frat and special reports similar to those ent Agene tual Reserve Building, > Broadway, has failed. Appiteation will] Fifteenth street, © made for a recelver, ing thrown virt firm had 8 for ox weeks. | F i fy clerks and atenogra- | ing with him. veal ofttces: da small percentage | stuff. AY, announced + ing World re Mutual Mercantile Agency|Man She Accuses of the Is Now Forced to Sus- Crime Is Held in pend Business. $1,000 Bail. EMPLOYEES ARE UNPAID.|/HE BLACKENS HER NAME. Inability to Make Collections Kills]She Does Not Defend Herself on No, 23 East Four- * tied by the Dun and] teenth street, appeared before Magis- so] Bradstreet agencies, the Mutual Mer-| trate Brann, in the Yorkville Pollce with offices tn the Mu-| @ourt. to-day againat Robert De Gors 5 to a0] thirty-eight years old, of No. 145 Enst arging him with hav- at n unable to pay full | while she was standing at the corner of centh street and Irving place talk- {den large} ‘The woman's face and arms were seven branch offices | slightly burned with the acid and parts|ago, was the acene of the latest acci- tted States. ‘These | of her dreas Were eaten out by the flery | dent Tho work of sinking the big In-take at this point wan completed yea- and five workmen were en- in digging a tunnel In the dirce- talking with the Woman when somg one] tlon of No. 2 crib when the fatal explo- clve came along and threw the acid. salary due them during the last | De Goes, who says he is employed in j month a catering establishment on Broadway, Ross M, Turner, manager of the Com- | dented the charge. Ho said that he was EXPENDED (WOMAN = § KILLED IN A MILUON | GETS ODoE | NEW WATER AND FAILS. OF VITRIOL| CRIB HORROR — This Rival of Dun and Brad- This Score but Says Spite Determines that the Men Shall street. Prompted Him. Be Safeguarded, ere din as he ts CLEVELAND, Aug. 21.—As the resul: cate aan WW heey eee ane ees tas and of an explosion of gas in the new wa- waterway. her last night court and John Bert. ston ovcurred. Terrific Explosion Two Miles from Scene of Last Wed- nesday's Catastrophe. MAYOR STOPS ALL WORK Johnson Visits the Scene, Then ter-works tunnel under Lake Erie Inst night, flve more lives were added to the alrendy long iat of casualties recorded since work first began on the artificial The dead are: Ray Treadshaw, James Williams, Daniel Higgins, James Dallin- Crib No. 3, five miles from shore, and two miles beyond crib No. nearly a dozen lives were lost a week PISTOL DRAWN GUESTS WOULD | WORKMANIN PIT. IN THIS FIGHT WRECK HOTEL. ‘WALKER HAD JUST SAVED A!|NO DAMAGE DONE. FOR CART- MAN FROM DEADLY RAIL. } | raise enough money t BESIEGED TRIANON AT AR- VERNE IS STILL OPEN. to De a Fatal! nut Beets 220 vloet New York weak condition from drink, | mit, sixty-nine y’ Hotel Trianon, at Arverne, which esleged dy ehertfs from cred: “TO DISSOLVE THE COMPANY. Augustus Smith, | mes | 7 nt down to Smith's door| thouga Dete at and} ylonly a few minutes when he pulled a penknife from his pocket and gashed| ‘Yjeavy tron girders and machinery With a howl, MeGuire fell to the Moor | and said that he was going to dle An} was called and the man was} to Roosevelt Hospital Smith |! ard | Hoffman are p: ‘Those patrons x Interested parties are on the scc SHIPPING NE' OWN SITS AGAIN. successor \ot STORM WRECKS SARAGOSSA. he munteipal| Forty Butt Jilota, Forty buildings were tment# | razed to the ground. Six persona were Street-Cleaning | \itied and numbers wo Supply Departmems, es OTHESPOLE KILLS BABY. i} Vesela and Jett ted to MANITOU TAR IS DROWNED.) eltion of motions ry Death ihaby girl of George Hunt, of No.| While Nathiog in North ittver, woile Willlam) Brydone, thirty-two years old, attached to the steamship Maniton, ick by a falling clothespole and! lying at pler 40 North River, was HAVE YOU AN OIL PAINTII°G OR other raro article of valup to dis: | the vessels and jettles were destroyed. pose off Advertise it where the ‘ ie People will see i#—In the Gumday Michaela §=Work, He made certain charges against the woman's. cha take the troubl Shoe satd that bec - to the demanc w the acid Magistrate Brann held De Goss in $10) bail for trial, to deny use she would not sof De Goss he Unfortunate workmen at the bottom, TRIED SUICIDE IN COURT. | "rn? stettcar cccurred iant nights but on Remorreful over his arrest and in a elix Sum- rs old, of No. 2 ted to end his life : in the prison pen of the Essex] them. plosion took place spent the night vainly accident to-day, and Immediately upon Policeman Winter 1 Precinet, When brought] guard shall be provided for the protec- t-room pen with a number | Hon of the men: while drunk > the Fourte to the co very bad be done. 2 dinaster, ———__. DETAIL IN HIS SUICIDE. Mea. actoun from old, was found uncot inating gas in her apartments on the Necause of wecond Moor, of No, 206 Enat “|| Jeremiah Murphy, sixty years of age, Mth street, to-day and was tnken '0) o¢ No, 384 Baltle street, Brooklyn, com- Bellevue Hospital In a dying condition. | mitted autcide with-great attention to A policeman who was called to the) detail this morning. He opened tye door house by tenants found the woman on| oe his room, Inserted the sharp end of Wife'a Death. 1| the for, A tube that led to a Ras Jet) an axe under the door to keep it ajar, : had fallen from her mouth, placed ‘a bed slat under the top of the singer at Coney 1 the house seaterda, about them, id, and was about! and tied a rope to the end of the bed Little ts known| slat. Then he mounted a chair, tied — kicked the chair away and died. GALE DEVASTATES BARBADOS] ‘*""" ° his wife “Getttes Deetroyea ana} FOUNDER BRADLEY SAILS, Craft Wrecked. 8T, THOMAS, D. W. L, Aug. 2-4 revere gale swept over Barbados and other islands yesterday. A number of | James A. Bradley, founder of Asbury small craft were wrecked, The storm! Park, salled for Europe to-day to Im- was moat severely felt at St. Vincent, | prove his health. Following Mr, Brad- 10 miles west of Barbados, where all/ley's departure was the summary di of “Jinks Newman, the police- The force of the gale was/also felt at | Man, WhO, was found asleep yeatercay on sort. es ‘tinique Domini ‘ The policeman says he is a victim of. URTEB COS, rg id ely as at the other The heavy casing of the shaft wan er which she did not/shattered vy the terrific force of the jon and an immense volume of from the Inke rushed {n upon the Two men who were at work at the top of the shaft were blown high into the alr, but alighted on the crib, and beyond betng stunned, were not ser- nothing was known of it on shore untli Old Man Remoracfal Under Intoxt.| to-day. : ane a ereea nea CP heant! For some unexplainable reason, no boats are kept at the cribs. Thirty men who were on the crib when the ex- signalling for assistance. It was long atter daylight before a tug reached eee rellee cout Mayor Johnson visited the scene of the Summit had been arrested last DIRK) hin return ordered all construction work at] on the tunnel stopped until every. safe- ‘The Mayor sald that tn his opinion, of other prisoners he seemed to be intthe city was now justified in taking n. He was in the pen| the work out of the hands of the con- tractors, and that, 1f possible, this would hia throat welgning more than a hundred tons He wan taken to Gouverneur Hoapital mer enforced out of the shatt by the ex- in a serioun condition. James Willams, who lost his life in Jast night's accident, was one of the! men who so herolcary entered the tun- & SINGER’S WIFE TRIED TO DIE.| Sino" ih acarchor°Fictthe”ot that / i Jeremiah Murphy Kills Himeelf ( Mrs. Swan's husband te a vaudeville! door-Jamb and over the top of the door the free end of the rope around his neck, G had been deapondent over the recent ef Asbury Park Goes Rothenberg & West 14th Street. Garpets and Rugs. Fall Sales Now in Full Swing. Carpet and Rug Departments are doing the biggest August business in their remarkably progtessive history. Crowds are daily flocking to these large and splendidly stocked Sections of the store. Prices are 1-3 to 1-2 Lower than Ever Before Known In August. The range of new Fall Carpets is particularly broad and at- tractive. Carpets for every room in the louseat prices lower than any other store would probably think of asking. And the Rugs! You must see the assoriments, walk among the avenues of handsome loom products to fully appreciate the extent and scope of the sale. And just note how little the prices are, Surprises at every turn. CARPET VALUES EXTRAORDINARY. a yard for Union tngrain Carpets; worth 30c. yard; one yard wide; warranted fast colors; these bargains at this price cannot he had else vtere. 44c a yard for Tapestry Brussels Carpets ; splendid selections; rich body Brussels patterns; for parlors, sitting rooms, halls and stairs; worth €9¢. 50c a yard for all-wool Tapestry Brussels Carpets ; 80 pieces, con- taining from 1$ to 30 yards per piece; values range high as 79¢. a yard. 65c2 yard for Velvet Carpets; parlor. sitting room, library, hall and stair patterns; these carpets are regularly quoted at $1.00 a yard; grand bargains. 75¢ a yard for Smith’s Famous Axminster Carpets; sold every. where at $1.10 a yard; one of the finest bergains at the price ever advertised. RUG VALUES EXTRAORDINARY. SMYRNA RUGS, 200 Reversible Smyrna Rugs, 9 feet long, 6 feet ide ; Oriental and Persian patterns; value $7.50, a a e 1.98 A er arne Sty RNA RUGS. Reversible. Oriental an ral patterns, 12 feet long, 2 feet wide, 8.98 HALL RUNNERS. Hand-made ; woith $3.7 worth $14.50.......65 CODCOCOUROOONXINOGIO a AXIUNSTER RUGS. Seamless Axminster; plain green and red centres; also Oriental and 19.98 floral patterns; these rugs are worth £30.00...........ceessee ROYAL WILTON RUGS. Superb patterns; luxurious pile; 12 feet long, 9 feet wid or parlor, library or sitting-room; worth $40.00... exquisite ART SQUARES. = 27.50 Extra quality; wool filled; 9 feet lorg: great bargains; worth 1.98 ; . $3.00. vee . | Great Furniture Sale. | The Furniture Department is leaping ahead of all August zec- ords with wonderful strides. The volume of business being trans- acted is far in excess of every expectation. But the values tell the reason why. These two specials for to-morrow give fresh impetus to this important event. Two Wonderful Couch Offers. $18 All-Hair Couch, $11.50. | $8.50 Velour Couch, $4.98. AlleHair Turkish Couch, heavy! tullion fringe, or gold:n oak frame; full spring edge; made up to your | Veluur Couches, just like cut, work- order in any style of imported | manship guaranteed, new- | Linoleums and Oilcloths. When buying Carpets step into the Linole: The new fall patterns are now in,and the t bargains we brietly d: below will be sure to quickly attract your attention. Despite the Trust’s in- crease of prices, we sell at our old established popular prices. English Enametied Floor Olicioth teyd., 14; and 2 yd. widths; sold every- ] % where at 30c.; this sale, sq. ydeeeees sees dos, Wild's Genuine Cork Linoleum, wide range 65e. qualit r 35 Best Floor Oilcloth (No. 1 quality), 2 yds. wids; new fall pattern: 3 Per squire 29¢ TAYE NN Ae ANN me Hay ‘SPEC LLL, Ya, aly Lyyabudypend, PRESS Mundin A,