The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1901, Page 1

NIGHT EDITION Balad daca bi Posed | tive Committee Making Up | the County Ticket."’ Printed in Four Colors, Separate Sheet, for Every City Reace-, World. Double = Page “timmany Hairs Execn Photographie Supplement | cet gums Hall’s Execu- Spicially for the Sunday [ “ Circulation Books Open to All.” ] NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER | 18, 1901. rid i Circulation ion Books Open to All He RACING # SPORTS “With Pirs. PicKinley at the Qld Qanton Home.”’ A Story that Will Touch the Heart. Every True American. See Next Sunday J World Magazine. (Illustrated. PRICE ONE CENT. 100 IN PERIL IN FACTORY FIRE. Women Employees of Big Tin Can Establishment in| _—_—_++ Jersey City Rescued from Windows by Ropes —Two Persons Badly Injured. The lives of nearly one hundred em- | ployes were threatened In a fire w broke out this afternoon In the tin can factory of Theodore Berger at Seven- teonth street and Jersey avenue, Jersey City. i} There were thrilling escapes in plenty and through rare fortune all but two of the employes got the building njury. The exceptian Robinson and Rosie Hl burned, Many | were Tho ner, who were reverely others were slightly hurt, : four-story frame | bullding, 100 x 6) £ The tire started in the storage room on the fourth floo: It fs thought to have been due to spon- taneous combustion. Before any warning could be given to the employes the flames were aweep- | | to leave ing through the bullding. There were; twenty women and seventy-five men at | work {n various parts of the structure and for a few moments It appeared that aly those on the ground floor would | t out alive. | The coolness of Mr. Berger and his Inspector, Thomas $. Edgar, served to| the pante that had started. These two men with the assistance of the least | excited of the employes got ropes which they hung from the windows. these ropes the men climbed with the women clinging to them Robinson, who was one of the last uilding, was lowering him- self from’ ave third floor when flames burst from a window near him, His 1 and arms were so badly scorched that he could not keep his hold and dropped to the ground. He was uninjured by the fall, The Bleser girl was at work on the third floor and was overlooked t the general plan of rescue. She gained a window and jus: ® preparations were cing made co get to her ant carry her down the flames caught her. In a moment her dress was on fire and she leaped from the window. She pool of beet te water rancis’s Hos- tat the when the work wax complete and Robinson ser girl were taken to that ‘The condition of Mise Bleser ts quite serlous, as she was Injured by her fall in_nddition to the burns she received. The bullding was totally destroyed, entailing a loss of about $35,000, re Chief Gangler was slightly tn- Jured by some burning debris that fell on him ,but remained at work. DEATH LIST IN THE TUNNEL HORROR MAY RISE TO NINE. Twenty laborers In the Rapid Transit tunnel at One Hundred and Sixty-second street and Eleventh avenue were buried 105 feet below the surface under fifty tons of rock and earth In a caye-in at 9.45 o'clock this morning. Five men are known to have been killed outright. One man who was taken out badly Injured is In the hospital, where it Is sald he will die. The Ist of dead may be Increased by three. William Martin, the laborer who gave the first alarm, told the police this afternoon that he was sure three Poles were buried under the wreckage besides the bodies already found. Poltce Inspecter Kane and Capt. England, with several patrolmen, at once descended into the tunnel to in- vestigate. Another gang of twenty men was working at drills in the heading of the tunnel beyond the fall. None of these was hurt. The List of the Dead. DANISE, LUIGI, twenty-five, No. S11 West One Mundred and Sixty-second street. GERONSKY, JOUN. KELLE TIMOTHY, One Hun- dred and Elghty-first street and Amaster- dam avenye. ADDEN, PATRICK, No. Hightleth street. SOL Weet ! aa Rescuers Searching for Three Poles Beneath Tons of Rock in Har- lem Subway — Five Bodies Already Taken Out—One Victim Dy-|‘ ing in Hospital. O'HARA, PETER, thirty-five, No. 35 Amsterdam avenue One who escaped death was Dominick Depiotra, twenty-four years oli, who had bosh legs broken and his skull trae: tured, He was taken to J, Hood Wright Hoapitl. The doctors say he will die. Forty Were at Work. The forty men were working in two Banga when the accident happened. The drililers were at the nouthern end of the tunnel, which has been dug out nearly to One Hundred and Bixty-xcc- ond street. ‘The other twenty "were “muckmen,” who draw out on cars the stone dislodged by the busting, Without warning a great of rock fell directly where,the “muckmen” | were at work. ‘The tunnel at that point about fifteen a high, and the silmost blocked tt, the place filled with chok- Ing dust. The twenty. drillers were thrown down by the shock. Groping blindly over the tons of ragged rock with but a few feet between the top of the mass and the roof of the tunnel, hey made their way past the obstruc: was fall Instantly returning to men were fell. He at en th ran to the tunnel’ shaft | scene. Rescue parties were at once formed and under the section foreman, oF hurried down the tunnel. was the rush of people to shaft that the police had to establish fire lines to keep them back. Relatives of the tunnel laborers crowded around and begged vainly to d to help In the work, was later arrested and taken to West One Hundred and Fifty-sec- Ona mtfeet police: station. Ambulances had been ‘called from J. Hood. Wreght Hospital, Dra. Hanson and Fakrenbach respo! hes were Kept. busy attending the minor injuries of many of the rescuers, Hho were hurt. by. displaced stones. How the accident happened is not knowin It ix supposed that the rock which: fell was loosened by the blasting cht and nad not been noticed by ig of “muckmen.”* De, Bros. have the contract for ection of the tunnel. They were tailed ‘te: the seen _but could tell noth- ing about the catise of the accldent. They sald that the west aide and root Of the tunnel, which had fallen on the men, had seemed xecure and was ap- harently of solld roc ‘The Inet blast. fired in the tunnel was at two o'clock this morning, un- fer cnarge of Night Foreman’ Cor- nellus Sheehan, It was a tremendons one, and shook all the houses in the pelebornao special man, known as a “tamp- Inspec ‘ted the walls after the blast and all was @afe. Sheehan ways hi rank mi accident was caused by a "dry When & new. shift of Iaborera was of dered to Work this afternoon in the northern end of the tunnel at One Hu dred and Sevenileth street thirty: ne. erces, fearing another cave-in, ‘refused to obey rder. Polte noon thi ber of.the England sata this atter- he had been told by a_mem- rm of McCabe Brothers that the firm had taken every precaution agninst toss of Ife known’ to human Ingenulty and could not be held respon: sible for the accident, “THIS AWFUL INJUSTICE,” SAYS MOLINEUX’S WIFE. The Evening World prints to-day the first interview with Mrs. Roland B Molineux since the Court of Ap- peals granted him a acw trial. Mrs. Molineux was seen at the home-of Gen. Molineux's sister, Mrs. Edith Burnham, Ne. 133 Fort Greene place, Brooklyn. The Evening World reporter was! sent there to give Mrs, Molineux an opportunity to deny the story that she had been hurt at the Hempstead hunt, Mrs, Molineux spent yesterday afternoon with friends in Manhat- tan, arriving home about 5.45 P.M, When she received The Evening World reporter a few minutes later she was in avery havpy mood. “My Joy {w doubtly great," zaid Mra. Molineux, “for not only ts Ro- land vindicated, but I, too, have had my nume cleared in aigreat degree. They say he did this awful thing for love and jealousy of me, 8o when he ts proved Innocent, a8 he will be soon, then am I not aleo freed of suspicion of wreng doing?" Mrs. Roland Molineux is thinner and paler than she was last year, At Thanksgtving time she gave to The Evening World her story of suffering since her husband had been fn the death chamber at Sing Sing. Then she was rosy and vivaclous. Now she ts pale and melancholy, The strain has been too great. Not only has the strain been because of her husband's impending doom, she said, but also because of the unjust and cruel rumors that pave bees scattored broadcast about her, To Evening , World reporter Mrs, Molingux unburdened her heart. ane lees rete two years was fort! she begged for and commiseratioa in) place. of Declares Ta if the Spreading of False Stories About Her Does Not Cease, She Will Lose Her Reason, the revilings and canards she sald have been hurled at her. Svorne Ins! tions “They even say,” sald she, “that 1 have tired of Roland; that I would have been anyway in the two years even If hi ad not been in such great troubie. They? Who are ‘they? ‘They’ can't know love. Why, I would willing- ly—yes, gladly—give up my own life this instant to se Roland happy. Isn't that love? My one thought and alm {s for Roland Molineux. “ They’ sald yesterday I was hurt In a runaway accident at Hempstead, when I should have been near my hus- band. How cruel!’ Why. “ten. Molineux himenls wes with me whe., this accident happened. We were here in my own home. Was Away at His Request. “And that’s another thing ‘they’ wi of me—that I stayed here In New York's gayety whilc Roland was in the death cell. Was It not at his own request that I left Ossining and came to Brooklyn? At Mrs, Miller's, In Ossining, [ was much a prisoner as Roland. Nowhere to go, nothing to see, I would have gone mad soon. Roland saw the change. T couldn't be light-hearted, try as hard as I might, when I went to see him, He begged me to come here to Fort Green place, In Brooklyh, and stay with his father's sister, Mrs. Burnham, Here I have been more free to go about and keep up my health and spirits, “*They’ sald I was flaunting myself at Rector's—why didn't they say at th French ball?, God knows I had no heart for gayety. “Now, the last and most awful thing they say im that: I have made my: obnoxious to.Roland’s' mother and that we were estranged. It's almost too ¥|my speci: much. Only this morning the dear old General, with tears in his eyes, brought me Mrs. Molineux's love, and begged me not to mind these silly reports. He be- eves in me, Roland believes in me and s9 does Mrs, Molineux. Why should I care? Yet 1 do. J don't want It sald, for my husband's sake at least, that Roland Molineux's wife in deserting him and his In time of trouble, “10s All Fala “It Is all false! ‘The charges against ny husabnd and the charges a, net ‘1 went to Sing Sing Prison every Week ard saw Roland every Thursday— as ofter us his own oth re Avoiding her, aa “they” naye't went aoe her to the prison and came away with yhy I did not go to him the news of « new trlal came the General asked me not to.) Mo Roland felt that even hla own m should stay. away and avold all notoriety. The brave boy us all the time, “P hope to see Rol. not if he and the ( want to keep Mr. possible thought for nd to-morrow, han neral aay no: ‘The Molineux and me mune um there ‘people theme people n fo'lowed us MANE by Part afraid to open a strange let- it may be an anOny mou Instead of the sympathy of some stranger, with which we. wit Save been o1 imed, and love. Even Mr, Weeks wie personally called to count for the alleged Rector’s episode, and wi forced to telephone me at Sing’ Sing tor dental ‘Twan Love Only, “Oh! they seem to think I'm an ogress, who ‘caught’ Roland In a trap and made fim marry me, No, I tell you; it was Jove: “And unlesn thin awful Injustice cei T shall lose nl reason “Yet we huve many friends and aym- pathlzers, ‘The country, people seem. to ave more real sense in deciding Ro- land'x case for themselves than the metropolitan folk. 6 that the Assistant Dintri prosectited-—no. persecuted-—Holands man whore name even—Oaborne—I hate and loathe, wan rebuked by country peo from the crowds of mort pln whe on ple. “He was, so Cam told, summering in Great Barrington: the village Where Roland went to school as a bay and made many: friends. The story goes that ho was getting Mie shoes blackened (Continued on on Second Page.) es CA debts xen Order a Bottle of Ale the feet that you want EVANS’. » APES Tare ee UM UD CI CRE ate | § AEA As AR ANVIL. H) John F. Westbay. a dentist, of No. 328 West Twenty-third street, was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court this afternoon charged with assaulting Samuel S. Hart, of No. 250 West Twenty-third street, his wiic’s attorney. THE FISHERMAN’S NEW CHAMPION. Piscatorial Sport -President Cleveland Eloquently Defends and Condones, a Good Fish Story. In to-fay's issue of the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia there ap- Mr. Hart testified that Mrs. Westbay came to him several | pears an article in defense of fishermen weeks ago and said that her husband had put her and her cignt-year-old son out of the house and that she wanted to get a divorce. A few days ago, while Mrs. Westbay was in consultation) tavorite recreation aboun th Mr. Hart, the husband called and demanded that his wife | humor. \ leave the attorney's office at once. by ex-Preaident Grover Cleveland that puts that statesman in @ new light. Never has Mr. Cleveland been accused of being a humorist, but his contribu- tion In defense of the followers of his in delicate Mr. Cleveland introduces hia subject with the assertion that he attempts no Mr. Hart refused to allow him to enter the office and an|fefense of the fisherman who funes for altercaton followed cn the steps.in which Mr. Hart said that he was assaulted over the head with a stick by Westbav “He used my head as an anvil.” he said. “and kiskea me through my broadcloth breeches.” Mrs. Westbay has made friends with her hush his arrest. She said that she did not know Decision was reserved. ——_____+-+—____ pand since it} SKINNER WINS AUTOMOSBI!.E SWEEPSTAKE FROM OWNER. PROVIDENCE, R. |., Oct. 18.—In the big automobile tour- nament the ten-mile sweepstakes for winners classes was won by Kenneth A. Skinner. with gasoline motor tricycles by two and a quarter miles; Percy Owen, 17.33 gaso- line carriage, sesois 1; George C. Cai steam carriage. third. Time—13. 372 LATE RESULS AT WORTH. Fourth Race—Denman Thompson, Argregor, St. Marcos. Fifth Race—-Her m nei 1, MacGyle 7 Jessie Jarboe 3. aed aee AT ST. LOUIS. Third Race—Brtlare 1, Kindred 2. Tremar 3. Fourth Race—Hiintressa 1, Jordan 7 2, Meditation 3. [TOLD IN TABLOIDS. PLOT, SAYS SULZER, Congreseman William Sulzer al- leges that Postmaster Van Cott {8 delaying Democratic campaign lit- erature in the mails while Repub- lican campaign matter {s promptly delivered. On behalf of Tammany he has filed a protest with the Post- master-General, robbery the police kept watch and later found a man who gave his name as Michael Dermino, who was trying to break into a fruit store, FIRERVGS INA TENEMENT. Several attempts have recently: been made to burn the tenement- house at No, 45 Oak street. It is a four-story double-decker and the upper floors are occupied en- Urely by Italians. The latest at- tempt to burn it was this morning, when waste soaked with oil was found against the door of the dry- goods store of Isaac Singer and Ja- cob Harrowitz, As former at- tempts to get the plaice on fire wero made tn the same spot the police are working on the theory that the storekeepers have an enemy who Is seeking revenge. CASHIER GONE, WANK CLOS| WASHINGTON, Oct. 18,—The Comptroller of the Currency is in receipt of a telegram from the President of the National Bank of Boyertown, Pa., that the bank has closed its doors on account of the disappearance of the cashier, James B. McDougal. A National Bank Examiner has been appointed tem- perary receiver to take charge of the institution. The bank's Habili- ties are $647,336 and its resources MOSS RAIDS Et $647,535. Aas Under the leadership of Frank WGURK IS ARRESTED, Moss, attorney for the Parkhurst John McGurk, owner of “Suleid Society, the Bopesp Club, at No. 267 295 Bowery, the Merri mac, at No, 110 Third avenue the Hoffman, No. 112 Third a three notorious resorts, was urrest- Hall,” No. West One Hundred and Twenty- 4ixth street, was rafded this morn- ing. Five prisoners were taken and a quantity of gambling para- ed this corning on a charge ll phernaiia sefzed. The Bopeep keeping a disorderly house. He; Cla was formerly located at No. was released on D ball, Com-] 213 West One Hundred and Twen- plaint against him was made by ty-siath sireet, next door to the State Superintendent of lections home of the Rey, Mr. Wrigh:, pas McCullagh, whose evidence was tor of the Lenox Avenue Baptist ~Cy}.| Church, who was frequently an tained by his deputies, Mr. MeCul noyed by persons who mistook bis lagh says MeGurk's places are re-| home for the house occupied by sorts for repeaters. the Club, BURGLANS cent nny HART AGAIN A POLI AN. Burglars smashed {n the door of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to-day handed a saloon three blocks from Police Headquarters at 2 o'clock this down a decision ordering the re- instatement of Willlam A. Hart truck first.|uona nad been mpent in fahing.”* a living. Such a man, he says, needs no defense. He speaks in behalf of those who fish for pleasure because they cannot help it. Our country, he says, would be more peaceful, more contented, more healthful “if a large share of the time which has been devoted to the con- coction of trusts and business combina- He pays his respects to the revilers of fish- jermen in this, wi “The narrow and fIl-conditioned peo- ple who mariingly count all fishermen as belonging to the lazy and good-for- nothing class, and who take satisfac- don in describing an angler’s outfit an a contrivance with a hook at ous end and a fool at the other, have been so thoroughly dimcredited that no one of finals in all |couta wish for their more Irredeemable submersion, Statesmen, Judges, clergy- men, lawyers and doctors, as well as thousands of other outspoken members 10N. 6.53'4 special class | of the Aahing fraternity, have no effect- tvel vely given the He to these revilere of an honest and consclentlous brother- hood that they are glad to fing refuge in ignominious eilence.” Defends Fish Story. Following this Mr. Cleveland takes up categorically the fons made against fishermen. He defends the fish story, with) amust with amusing eloquence, and with | MILLIONAIRE SHOT HIMGELE Aged Rufus Blake, Wedded a Year Ago, Dying from Bullet Wound. DERBY, Conn., Oct, 1§—Rufus W Blake, millionaire plano and orgay manufacturer, is dying from a seit fileted bullet. wound, The shooting raid to have been ntal Mr. Blake told his phystctans that be was examining a revolver Ww ing at his dressing ta weapon waa riiddenly dis ‘The bullet entered Just b nasal cv low eye, passed around the cume vut at the left eye Mrs. Make heard the shot and ran to her husband's mo} time to save him from falling to the fe Blake tn si years Mr. fell here before dawn to-day { PLATTSBURG, Snow fell at D Mountain, N.Y. te the inches 6. he season, niles from! | Four rn rapidly SILENCE IS GOLDEN—PLATT. morning. The thieves operated di- rectly under the glare of an elec- tric light. They rifled-the cash reg- ister and fled with {ts contents, as well as a quantity of cigars and whiskey. After learning of tyis on the police force. upon condition that he stipulate not to claim back salary. Hart was dismissed on tke, charge of not properly _patrollir his post in the Sixth es Dec. 5, 1897. said Sonator T. Platt to-day when asked about Mr. ward M, Shepard's attack on him Nght. say I won't say any yything for publication,” “Silence is olden, c hin, neh yay he stenographer to take down the Judge's jremark “Tit give allt hat are neces: wary,” thundered © | ‘Now, Your Honor.” began Mr. Levy, inet lwayr enter Two Inches in| os a man sel | Magistrate. rly To-Day. i t. Further Ot. One and one to recognize snow mock indignation he refutes the slander chat the real fisherman {ts lazy. He con- tends that only those who know nothing of the joys of Mahing can possibly ac- cuse the fisherman of mendacity. Concerning the alleged profanity of fishermen, Mr. Cleveland has this to say: *Wvith tho accusations already men- toned {t would seem certainly that the enmity of those who revile fishermen and thelr ways should be satisfied. They have not been content, however, In the demonstration of thelr evil-mindedness without adding to their Indictment against the brotherhood the charge of profanity. Of course, they have not the hardihood to allege that our profanity {a of that hab&ual and low sort which characterizes the coarse and Ill-bred, who offend all decent people by con- stantly interlarding their speech with fearful and irrelevant oaths. They, Nevertheless, find sufficient excuse for thelr accusation in the sudden ejatula- tions, outwardly resembling profanity, which are occasionally wrung from fishermen In trying crises and in mo- ments of soul-straining unkindness of Fate. “It must In frankness be admitted, however, by fsRormen of every de- gree, that when the largest trout of the day winds the leader about a snag and escapes after a long struggle, or when a large salmon or bass, apparently fa- tigued to the point of non-resistance, suddenly, by an unexpected and victous leap, frees himself from the hook, the fMsherman's code of morats will not condemn beyond forgiveness the holder of the straightened rod if he impul sively, but with all the gentility at command, exclaims: ‘Damn that fish! It is probably better not to speak at all, but it strong words are to be used, serhaps these will serve as well as any at ean do Justice to the occasion,” CRANE CALLS ABE LEVY “CUR. MAGISTRATE AND LAWYER WAR BITTERLY IN COURT. Worn ty by Hroad smile Latter Client Preety A personal encounter between Lawyer Abe Levy and Magistrate Leroy Crane, sitting In the Centre Street Court, was precipitated this afternoon by a broad Levy's cllent mile warn by Mr. “Hay at man stop smiling Magistr Levy and the “He | roared © when Mr » to the bar, out of court. papers this cas 4 perusal of these ito that,” sald Mr, Levy, time directing the cow: the high and a judge for you born | your sit 1 this cass,” Irate lawye Jona are no good. You're You have violated my per- cur, you.’ 2 a disgrace to the And Lmy ben It looked as if Judge and lawyer would come to I but after a lengthy} wrangle (he case Was taken up. WEATHER FORECAST. hundred of them. GENERAL PORTER _ CALLS ON SONS TO VINDICATE HIM i IN HIS LAST WILE Famous Union Gen- eral, Asserting Cons. stant Loyalty to His )— Country, Demands ~— That the Fight He. Made to Clear Hls' Name be Continued After His Death. MORRISTOWN, N. J., Oct. 18.—Like a voice from the grave comes the last statement of the Into Gen, Fita-Joha | Porter, who died recently at his home | in this city, in which the gallant fighter admonishes his sons to vindicate theif’ father’s reputation and solemnly affirms his innocence in the charges i against him many years ago. The statement {s contained In the last © will of the dead soldier, which has been filed for probate In the Morris County, Surrogate's office. In the document Mra, | Porter ts named as executrix, and both — of his sons, H. Fitz John Porter an@ Robert Eddy Porter, are bequeathed | swords presented to Gen. Porter, which he asks to be held as mementoes of set | vice rendered his country and to be used | in her services should they ever be called to her in time of war. The statement {s substantially as fole lows: “In further view of the uncertainty, of Ifo, and especially human scrutiny, : in justice to myself and children, T have | sought, ay they well know, a ree nation of the unjust judgment aeainat me, and it hus been withheld, if notite-- fused. I admonish especially my sons have my name, to them Hes, thelr fat “On account of my. a duty to make thls testamentary. claration, so that with the disponat of G3 what Iittle property I ma may go on record among neli bors tnd fends. ft aitirm my absolute innot tence of all chargea made. against mer As a soldier of the United States: I. Waa falthful to my country and tothe commission which I held, I tried» in entire integrity to be true and obedi~ ent to my commanding officer, who- ever he might be, and never more ao than to Gen, John Pope during the memorable campaign of 1 Thin Te wolemnly amem. T make ti declaration, whicl’ will not see the li untll my actions and motives ate.oe- yond human ald. More than this f ought not to say, but this T gay with emphasis.” ‘. ID AILLED IN BATTLE. —— Ninth Infantry Attacked by 500 Bolomen in Samar Island. MANILA, Oct. 18.-> Five hun: dred bolomen attacked a detach- ment of fort men of the | Ninth Infantry at Bangajon, on the Gandara River, Island of Sa- killing and ten mar, to-day, wounding A ‘The remainder of the company arrived on the scene in time to. prevent further ighter and routed the enemy, killing over:a Tt is believed that the enemy only retired for reinforcements, As soon as the news was 1 at Catbalogon two gunboats were despatched, Gen. Smith going:in > person to the scene. ‘ CHAFFEE CABLES WASHINGTON, Oct, 18.—The follows ing brief cablegram from Gen. C) was recelyed at the War Debacticcs} this. afternoon: "Manila, Oct. Yorecast for the thirty: hours ending at 8 P, M. Sat- urday, for New York City and vicinity—Fair to-night und saturday cont coy. fresh westerly wii ‘ordin, Adjutant-General, Wash “Forty-eix men, Company 9%, Regiment, U,. 8, Infantry, under.