The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1901, Page 10

Up to Jast night 189 letters had delivered to Jo: 2 “West Thirty-third erect, offering to| Many Offer to Care for eecre nist ire "| Little Josie Fellrath, Some in the three days since his letter was published in The Evening W Who May Soon Be an! Sppealing to somebody ty take t | Bhild, decai is dying Orphan. | consumption not bear to Jen her alone. Out in front of the little ¢ r shop} could have described almost every home on Thirty-third vtreet, where her father | ‘The let from a va- works when 11 ght-y con- Josie Fellrath rat yesterday, and Ie up brightly at every one the shop, with one remark on her Ups: “Tare going to be “nounced gravely to « Not for a coup! weeks, though, | baby,” sald her father wistfully from which he Sot y badly spelled 1 some were from hon refinement; east side and some we a large number we country; some promised that she should educated, and others sud frankly that the wrt uid give her no ad- vantages sa good home, a Chris. an bringing up and lots of loves” A number of them were exceedingty ‘The letters begun to ¢ attractive and promised bright things | teeidey callow ing ith for the Mttle girl withogt any definite | Pctase ere tnaeentt ; etatement. All the lettats breathed x cannot raise abo’ child. The article to SneLey EES ny date here wae Brctaaicerman, educ ‘in perfectly good faith, Most of them ‘at one time an excelles wabine la eeuacnt great Ten ig hassel <Yonger able to work, 3 us almost | Cnitd right away. without money, and h 6 was anxious 4 Esliath canietauane mins make some provision for ‘dary. Upon one thing he was de Motherless child he eioul “)Oits Uitthe girl should net be given te ‘Consumption. ny one whom he had not seen and Had Lock a x tuiked with, and 189 vinta "Do you think I'll have luck for} # ood many her?! Joc Fellrath inqut kerly of | Meant time wh » could not ‘canvEvening World reporter when he|!t meant strength whiten he must first. told his story. And luck began | Watte, and It meant car fare which camaing In handfuls with the arrival of | "td Ret sot the postman the very next morning, Would V Them Al. New York letters hall been written the} “What did [dot he repeated. “Well, Very night the appeal was made, and| 1 got together what tittle money. 1] erive the next day out-of-town letters—from | could and started to try to visit em | Up the State and from New Jersey and | all, Whenever | could get a dollar and | fury Pennsylvania—degan to pour in. And] 4 half 1 went out and went to some of fast night Joe Fellrath was deliriously | the addresses Vd got happy with 1:9 offers of homes for his t was wonderful how many nice, | Ittle girl. comfortable homes were opened to my. With this embarrassment of riches} little Josie, and how many kind people | embarrassmen ly came to him, and] Wanted to take her in. ‘We'll expect | now he ts overwh with the re-] You back with her in a few days, Mr, | Stlaer Cou corn Sponsibility of vsing a home for her.| Fellrath.’ more'n one called out after | enough in to make Is? offers of a What if 1 should go and p! me, Idon't know what todo. I can Vawhere she shouldn't be happy pot her in all the places, 1 can't Just quJred, shuMing the letters. light on one blind-Ike, and send her “All the first day he spent koing over| there. And then if 1 should pick out and over the various offers that were|one and take her to them and she made, comparing and welghing them,|enouldn't be just happy, what an awful MUM he had them almost by heart and! thing that would be for me and for her SHAMROCK’S TRIAL | TRIED TD LYNCH WAS CALLED OFF., ae Gonditions Were Unfavorable, and Sir Thomas Decided Not to Send Challenger Out. Shamrock didn't go out for her regu- If weather permits, the challenger Jar trial to-day. After consi will Cormorrow take her last spin be- Conditions, which were nune too favora- fore the first race. She will then ple, Sir Thomas decided to call off the towed up ty Erle Basin and dry docked spin. Sunday or Monday STRIKE OFF 600 BROKER PANE — LLEGAL VOTERS SEEKS & WAIT COURT ORDER IN HACKETT-' HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS | MILLER FIGHT. TO FREE HIM FROM JAIL. | Held tor ¢ xments and Notury'a Signa- | tures Were Forged. Trananction, | Paine. the oCUN let Thorner tn ek trans te and whose cas fi the eourt | ral months, was arraigned agaln | In the Exsex May art Magtvtrate Flammers private ottice. | ‘Justice Truax, in the Su Deday, on the application « teen Miller, Repub! of the ‘ Seventh Assembly District, who is op D by ex-Aldern y Sait, jesued writs of mandamsy ins tin Board of Vlectlons to stetke of ne hares agadmat T Fo of voters of Ui pdalabealRaUaL ih hary election to tak« ° a MGT which he ee next more than 000 1 Her valleged that more than 70 lawere fraudulently placed on the | gf, in Sie Hd that about 6 of the a ball he committe Mdgments sworn to by the aup-|PFifon 5 : Yoters were forgerten, to which | cor the Hmmever ouly st formatlty meyot a persag, was also forged] habeas corpus, was not pl i ant 1 but at Magistrate Flammer's | Eiparaisloxenvor: geation wax ail ait in | : [corridor until his counsel secured 72 7 writ, Mr. MeManus, of the firm of Biack, OOleott, Gruber & MeManus, hurried away to make the application to Jus- lee McAdam, in Part IL, Special Term SS the Supreme Court, % her s good h plenty ae hear } Jam | the Jamalea police station hought maybe I'd get an itd be easy, I didnt it ike this, but I'm thankful enough to think ft Is so." There Is another ditteulty, too. | Mr. Fellrath very much. preferred to have hls iittle daughter brought. up in the yuntry. Several lett notably one m the Berkshire Hills, had | been [posted right out by g of- to take ber he to have her br father will not wend her to whom he hax never seen, and he to visit: personally the pl y with this in’ mind, the letter from the Herkshtre Hills re- ferred to suggested that the writer be Al to ralse a fund to send hohis child and pay his maintenance during Als flness, so that he need not be separated from her. Tie letter, whleh wi + of the pleasantest 1, was thie One of To the Paltor of The Tomas very tnuch tourhed e pathette let in The Evening tay from Joe and who My person up here, and i {miserable py SOnGE D > Matin ained that, of nine no great dif- and | feel sorry So vend her along.” Lendstrom, No. 68 Sutton street, yn, writes: tle clase 1 had fromm vounty, Pa. ve her a home and take her same my o8n, hittren, Ll can at Another ame from the Rens- of Albany, from Miss Fanny JA. Riley. And the © home for the motherless itt girl Pant yo see” said Joe Fellrath a little sadly yesterday, ax he turned over the letters, “that | guess the best 1 de for my little girl after all was and leave her to some of these They can do for her what [never That seems pretty rough, but thankful for tt” A NECRO BRUTE POLICE TOOK HIM FROM CROWD AT PISTOLS’ POINTS. her Tried to Mi-Use a Little Girl but Was Caught by Teo Clthens, An attempt was made to lynch Corne- Mus \ a@ negro, at Ozone Park, morning for attempting to Mary Smith, the nine-year-old ter of Charles Smith. Walke Was saved only by the determined action of some cool-heided eliizens who locked the negro in a barn and stood guar the pol arrived fram a seized ul who was gn her way to school dragged her t barn, 1 Inger eat work 0 D near by y pursued and caught Walker, nto Ruows’s undertaking shop. on & 6 a crow ot 1) per gather The girl's ither was there Hed upon the monte an for a rope other citizens } fy Rutoss's barn a door, Two wltoem from Jamatea, ind at their pistols ot Walker Away from the mob and took him to The girl wax not serfously hurt, but very badly: (lightened, ———____ MAN'S BODY IN RIVER. JACK WILMERDING'S ' IS DYING AND: DESOLATE. —.-— She Is a Great-Grand- daughter of Old Com- modore’ Vanderbilt and Was Once a Belle in This City — Left Husband and Went Mad. Phe exelting and pitiful Marie Wilmerding, trey jack WH Hing and the z taughter of © . sald to be ries ving seriously M1 in the Caledonia riment-h Ixth stree ren week itne ind two serious operations have taxed simost to the imit a ation al undermined by an unconventional Blooming. dale Insane Asylum, three years ago, Mrs. Wilmerding haw not been much in the public eye. Her been divided between an effort recover a fortune, taken from he loan sharks while she was) ment unbalanced, and studying for the sts Loyal friends, among them Mra, Ja Hloodgood, have sought to ald her to re- deem herself. She tried hard to re thelr expectations, but she was not capa- ble of the physical effort necessary to ccess. Once a Helle Here. Marte Wilmerding ts twenty-nine years old, She Is the daughter of the late Commodore Vanderbilt Allen, than whom no man In soctety lar She was one of the York ten years ago, possessing be: wit and a dare-devil nature that her aa In the smart net She marriat Jack Wilmerding years ago. The ceremony was | formed in Grace Church and was one of the society eventa of the bride was radiantly beautiful Witmerding was the person ation of a handsome, well-groomed young man- bout-town They lived for a time on Staten Island and were ad puntry se Then they moved to thix city and thelr troubles began That they were un- happy wae an open secret. They took no pains to cone One night in Delm Hmerding hurled x | plate of fces in the face of his pretty! wife, | Left Her Hupband. She left him after thie and went to Italy with her father. They lived on the sland of Capr, whence Marie Wil-| hearing as to her sanity she testified COSOG MIN OAECCROCSCESEOOCSE: merding sent weird letters to frends he this city, Her father dted in 18 she came back to New York, undoud Insane, At the request of her uncle, Franklin Allen, she was contined fn Bloomingdale. The © money-lenders, wh ! encom: sed her tnanctal ruin, were anxious have her declared . so that thelr transactions could be legalized, They eventually obtalned her release, At the IS HEARD FROM. Fo Arctic Steamer Erik Has Arrived at North Sydney, C. B.—Al NORTH SYDNEY, C. B., Sept. 13.—The Peary ar k, from Cape Aug. 29, ar- All well. Peary left) Fort) Conger April 16, crossed. Robeson Channel to the West Greenland coast, and followed it along on foot and over sea ice to the north: ward. On April % two natives were sent back, and from Cape Britannia two more were sent back in May, Lock- wood's furthest north cairn of May 13, 18, was opened May 8, and Its records were taken, and at Cape Wash{ngton, the headland aeen by him fifteen miles northeast, in 1882. another catrn was erected and a copy of the “Farthest’ record and additional memoranda were deposited Peary pushed on, and at 81 degrees 29 seconds north rounded the northern extremity of Greenland, finding the coast at this point to trend rapidly cantward, here, on the most northerly known land fn the world, Peary built a cairn, in which he deposited records, &e. Peary then struck over the sea ice for the pole, but was able to advance only to S$ degrees [4 seconds north, when he was stopped by the broken pack and much open water. Retracing his steps, Peary pushed on along the Greenland coast, all the time eastward, about 160 miles beyond Lockwood's fur- | LAWYER SULLIVAN ADVANCES | A NOVEL POINT OF LAW. ———__ Te Holds that Triate Over Taich Devery Vas Presided Are A writ of certiorar! has been served on Police Commissioner Murphy In the ase of Henry Woodley, a policeman, | who was dismissed from the force some of conduct unbecoming an offer. ‘The case attracted considerable atten- tion at the time, the oMcer being « ed of & series of spectacular per- in dealing with a plenic TO BE TESTED, | Well on Board. West, or. approximately, but little more than a degree from Independence Bay, discovered and named by him July 4 reconna ce ended with a demonstration of the Western orthern coasts of Greenland. In ter detailing his work dyring 19 ry says: fT do not capture the pole Itself In this spring campaign (90K) 1 shall try {again next spring.” 1 Windward, fast in her winter rters at Payer Harbor, near ¢ Sabine, with Mra Peary and Miss Pe board, prisoners in the lee for r ight months, was reached ™ in her Peary « tahed hie h ters until the auxiiiary ship of 1901 should arrive until (he Windward was reached ary learn » death, almost eighteen months . of his daughter, Francesca, born In Washington, D. C., tn January a, following his departure for the Nor Jehiste and other undesirable immigrants jthat rhe had been a drunkard and a etre flend ever since her marriage. ve her release she has by in |kood hands and studied for the ntage. announced that she was going to follow Mre. Bloodgood into vaudeville, burn rectred an engagement. | Ver relatives appear to have lost In- terest In ier because of her repedited refusal to have anything to do with them, ond ene is almost alone in what y prove to be her last Mines, SMUGGLING STI GONG ON. Cargo of Immigrants Has Been Landed at Buz- zard’s Bay. the exposure that certain of the fon officials ut Ellis Island for 4 Jorg time had been allowing Ana to land at the various steamship piers! n this port upon payment of sume as low as % eich as American clttzens, traMe In that Hne here hax been at a standstill, although the officials accused of being In the scheme are still in. the] ernment service, Now, however, jt seems that the Im- migrant smuggling business Is still in| full blast, although other methods have | On July 3 the Windward) extricated herself from the tee end di toa siiceensfal hi Vile food for the * and dogs uring the fell work of I! 5 iothen went to Btah, THe DW re eeye Tse, where which ‘arrived Juys from Byd- ry, with other eh in Port try policemen. ‘That power, | lodged in the Commissioner, and as It ts a judicial power, he has no right to dele- gate it to another. Mr. Sullivan also apserts that the law requires that « policeman must be tried in his own borough, and that the trial af Woodley before Devery, in Manhat- was illeget on that account. will probably come up befo e Diviston airing the Oc If the writ should be sustained mont of the pollee trials during the past six months will, as a be ren- dered egal. All fines apsessed durtng that ‘period 89 would have to be pal to‘the men. ay ar |FITCHIE TO HOLD UP TAFFAI. Commissioner Says Bar Anarchiat If Commireloner of Immigration Fitchie was asked yesterday what he proposed to do about the cuse of Taffal, a dan- kerous Anarchist and a friend of Bres:t, ho Is sald to have been recently “ex: pelied from Swjtzerland and expresevd the intention of coming to the United States, “L have received no official notitica- © Soot of Nineteenth Strert and Now at Morgne, The body of & man was found In the Bast River at the feat of Nineteenth >| atreet, this morning. He was about thirty years old, 5 feet 7 Inches tall, has red hair and mue- tache, and wore dark ciothing, white cotton underwear and laced shoes, The body was taken to the Morgue, The writ of certtorarl was sucd out by Charles Sulllyan, a Inwyer at No, 150 Nassau street. He makee a clatm which, {¢ {t should be sustained by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, would cause great deal of confusion In lthe Police Department. Mr. Sullivan asserts that under the a#tatutes pasxet last winter no Deputy, Police Commissfoner has the powgr to he, “but I will at once post a memo- randum in the tmmigrant Inspection bu- reau, If we can detect Taffaty should he arrivé, 1 will have an Investigation and bar him from the country !f It ts poss! ble. “If the law does not permit of his being barred becaue he Is an Anarca- ist, he might be excluded on the grounds that he fs an undesirable Immigrant and one likely to become @ public charge.” been ted ty practieally evade the} law 3 | Today the fact leaked that the immigrant smugglers are bringing. cai rt of retgners in: scho ra to th country and within the past few days a Vessel satd to be named the Laottle, | landed 112 Immigrants at Clarke's Cove | on Buzzards’ Bay, | Inmector Dolan, of -New Bedfori, Mana., who made the discovery that the undesirable {mmigrants were landed in the Buzzards Bay cove and are now scattered throughout the country, Ls at) present in this city hunting for the ring. | leaders in the smuggling acheme. | He ts being assisted by Deputy United States Marshals from Brooklyn, and It {s known that the man wanted has en- gaged passage on the steamship Patri: which salls to-morrow from Brooklyn. | oe VENGEANCE OF PATRIOTS. | Greek, Who Sald President Onght to Die, Thrown irom a Window. A Greek sigarette-maker known by the name of “George,” and employed by | Pinkus Bros, at 5% New street, x- pressed the opinion this afternoon that “the President ought to dl S8everal of his fellow-workmen, an- kered at the sentiment, threw him from « window to the street, a distance of twelve feet. The Greek's collar-bone was broken, and he is suffering from other severe Injuries, ——————— EXPLOSION’S SIXTH VICTIM. Jurna’s Back Was Broken in Pow. der Works Disaster. Another victim of the explosion that occurred yesterday at the works of the American EB, C, & Schultze Powder Company, at Oakland, J, dled to- day. This makes six killed. The man who dled to-day was Bar- thoomew Burns, whose back (was broken. Andrew, Lassenger, who /is also suffering from a broken back, in a critical condition. © ‘ Pe pine ee v