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GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8 Cur i [“ Cireulation Books Open to All.” | ~<a (1 EDT TO GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8. > 111.” | | culation Books Open to « __PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, ‘Tt ESDAY, MARCH 4, 1902. PRICE ONE CK NT SWEAR TO BE TRUE NT WARNED AT [VERY LATEST NEWS BEFORE A ‘SQUIRE. Jersey Soldier and Sweetheart Plight Their |: Troth in a Novel Way. Lemuel Meekins, of Fairview, N. Philippines. This means three years’ Miss Laura Morgenson, of Granton, N. the other, the agreements having been duly made before Justice of the Peace George F. Seymour, of Hoboken. Here they are: WHAT HE PROMISES. 1, Lemuel Charlies Meekins, do sacredly vow to remain unmarried and unengaged for the period of three years and six monthe from date. To pay no merked attention to any unmarrried woman or widow during said period other than the attention due from any gentleman. To carry on no correspondence by mail or communication by telephone with any unmarried woman or widow. If wounded on the field of battle to re- @eive care or attention from only those employed regularly as nurses. To receive no attention from any school teacher who may be in the Phil- igpines during said pertod; and 1 do further agree to save from my regular pay 7% per cent. of all moneys recived from the United States Gov- ernment during the term qf my enlist- ment. POLICE TOWELS J., is going to be a soldier in the absence from the girl of his choice. J. Each hes sworn constancy to WHAT SHE PROMISES. 1, Laura Amelia Morgensen, do sacred- ly vow to remain unmarried and unen- waged for the pertod of three years and six months from date. To receive no marked attention from any unmarried man or widower during the sald period of three years and six months. Net to be escorted to or from oF to be Present at any church service. church sociable, entertainment, concert, mu- sical, picnic, excursion, outing, theatre, baseball game or ‘place of public amusement oF recreation with any un- maicied man or widower. or any man other than members of my own imme- diate family; and I do sacredly vow not to carey on apy communication or correspondence mall oF telephone with aay unmerried | man or widower, or encourage, promote or foster any courtahip whatsoever | during the sajd period and six mon’ i BLOOD-STAINED. Two Found in West Forty-seventh Street Sta- i tion After McAuliffe Was Imprisoned There. Following close on the finding of blood {mn the cell at the West Forty- seventh street police station occu- Pied by James McAuliffe, concern- ing whose murder suspicion at- taches to the police, comes the woman who makes the beds at the station and who states that on the followng the murder she ‘was P upon to cleamse“Mh. un- usual number of blood-soaked tow- els. Mrs. Mary Feehan, a widow living at No, 6161-2 West Thirty-ninth street, has Been employed at the West Forty-sev- enth street station a number of years, it being her duty to make the beds and cai® for the dormitories occupied by the Washed the Towels. Once or twice a week she has gath- ered the soiled towels from the different parts of the station and has taken them home to launder them. Bhe always did the Monday mornings end occasionally once during the week. The Monday morning after the arrest ef McAuliffe Mrs. Fehan says that un- der the common wash bow! near the equad-room there were two long roller towels well soaked with blood. She thinks there may have been other and smaller blood-soaked towels, but does not remember definitely. ‘As the towels were dry she imagined mi the blood had been on them since the preceeding Saturday night or early Sun- day morning. “Of course, towels there before.” bloody Feehan, Tt have found said Mrs. TWO COINERS ERS CAUGHT WITH | THE aoons. While looking for a thief named John Panning, alias “Curley.” in the hope of connecting him wth mall robbery, Detéctives Clark and Peabody to-day atumbled upon bogus money. He was being agelated by one John Morrissey, well known to the police. The men were found on the ground floor of the rear tenement at No, 24 Bidridge street. They had a completo counterfeiting plant and had just fin- ished & shiny batch of quarters when end rrivsey Fanning Mo. tae Bast Bide relanlikelneeonnt of had occupied the rooms in which they were found f root found for WEATHER FORECAST. Vorecast fer the thirty-six heure ending at & FP. M. fer New York Wedneoday, Otty and vicinity: Fair te- might; Wednesday, snew or vain; fresh merthweet to north winds. him manufacturing, Quite a pile of dimes! it Bigoee pte Si melee on this morning, “as I guea@ once in a while they have to use the belaying pin on some of thelr customers.” but it is vaually only one towel that his blood on it Like Red Crash. “I remember this instance @o weil Decause there were two or more towels. ee hid were 0 ‘ope they looked a ' “ rowanibar' the Ulsod was aby, ‘be- cause then it is barter to while, If the blood is newW*an@’ Gimp, {t comes out easily.” By the statement of Capt. Donohue and his officers, there were no bieeding prisoners in the station at the time McAuillffe was there. Cept. Titus tmd Fireman zene. Cunningham, ine Company 3% Ubefare him ptoaiay ie to give the fi statement of be py 2 before send. ing in a call ambulance—the ambulance Ta Foote McAuliffe to the aeegvert Hi I before he was ar- Saw MeAulti Pall. Soningbam, who silyes Cy No. ‘enth avenue, aay ys that he Saicned McAullffe sta down ight ave- nue and saw waa ver} He watched nim until McAu by the fact that at tie hoepltal puficlentiy, aroused ‘by “the fumes of Ammonia to be locked up on a charge of Intoxication, Vapt tus has several men trying to the place McA st at ing the station and just before he for the last time. . Capt. Donohue the men aseer: that there he was ted and received his fatal injuries t his deae® was due wholly to his or falls EASY FOR THEM IF coccErs IHT'S EVENTS, TO MAKE MONEY, | Dianer @ rer Rev. Ne. Dr. am University tee- re, Great Hall of Cooper 128 «East atreet. Lecture, Central Preaby- Twenty-cighth meert, Firat Presbyter- lan Charch, Fifth avenve and Twellth street. Amaveal meeting Hospi: Ga No. G8 East Sixty. olxth strect. Amelin Rellef Society ball, Lesington Opera- House. rr ene e-Ponnayiynnie. Rallread—Weee eet cgtaetting iiak betwess the, com: moreial centres of the coustry. ‘waine convenient hours. °° Phare Nffe went first arter | ‘ BIC HOTEL FIRE. ling Testimony to Coroner's Jury. NO SAFETY APPLIANCES. ond street. who alleged she had been insulted by them. | Goldenkranz Begins His In- vestigation of the Park Avenue Disaster. Many important facta were brought out to-day at the first seasion of the inquest into the Park Avenue Hotel fire in which twenty-one persons lost their lives. Battalion Chief Ross admitted that| Neither woman was badly injured.’ the hotel had not been inapected| since a year ago last January. Both he and Fire Chief Croker in- sisted that the hotel fire was sepa- of three years | pate from the armory fire. Fire Chief Croker testified that’); there was no fire-fighting appliances in the hotel whatever. He admitted that he has sent no|that they were duped, and that articles sold them were eally A up to the hotel roof. but sald) cast-off things from the ocean steamer Hohenzollers. that as there was plenty of snow he tom oer that there was no danger SEAS Chacin report showed there | [he oa but no ropes or fire- escapes. Miss Lida Leggett, » guest of the ‘hotel, said she had received no waern- ing of any kind, and Mary Josephine rated her testimony. — DETAILS OF WHAT THE JURY HEARD. After witnesses had testified as to the twenty-one deaths, Andrew J, Patter- #on, armorer of. the Geventy-firat Regi- ment, was called. He lived in the arm Ory before the fire. He told of the stare of the fire and of the escape of himeeif, wife and two children over the armory roof to an apartment-house on Thirty- eet. Explosions tn Armery. t were 48 pounds of black 2 pounds of amekeless 20,000 rounds of 45- cartridges, These were red in the magasines un ry jewalk on the Thirt | atreet aide.” Battalion Chief L. Ro witnese When he gor to the fi sity feet of the armory was burn * ray wae the wind bio And sparks from the fire were blow- ing across the Park Avenue Hotel?” “Yes, sir.” The ‘witness said he went into the (Continued 5 (Gontingea on Fourth Page MS, PHILBI SUES SENATOR PLATT HIS EXPRESS COMPANY LOST HER PACKAGE. Genator Platt and George W. Siinger- land are being sued by Mrs Jessie Halladay Philbin, wife of the former Disirict-Attorney. The defe: the responsible parties Express Company Mra. Philbin in the © is represented by her Mrs. Philbin sues for the vatue of a package shipped on Aug 16. 19M, con algned to E. A. Philbin. at Heabright, N J,, and $ damages for the fatlure the package ‘The package tained: to Teach its destination Mrs, Philbin alleges, con- ed net dress with silk Jow neck and tf ral One lavender batiate waist ‘There have already been severs Journments of the case, and it l« down for trial on T my Thursday BRODRICK SAN SATISFIED. LONDON, March 4—In introducing Two Women Give Starts Carmody, a trained nurse, corrobe- ‘| secretary of the Executive Committee, also was re-elected ETRURIA IS BROKEN | /DOWN AND HELPLESS ——_____ ++ BRIEFEST FORM. TWO DETECTIVES FINED. Magistrate Pool. in the Yorkville Court to-day. fined De- tectives Henry F. Kane and George Smith. of the East Twenty second street station $10 each for disorderly conduct. on the complaint of Mrs. May Minstrel. of No. 149 East Twenty-sec- ‘Liner Headed for Azores in Tow, but Making No Progress, Evening World Correspondent Cables. ODD COINCIDENCE IN ACCIDENTS. The big Cunard liner Etruria, which lost her propeller and rudder in midocean on the evening of Feb. 26, SS © jund was reporied to-/ay in tow of the seamship Wil tam (iJ making for Azores, is stil far from port end Mrs. Julia Welch. a widow. of No. 304 East One Hun- | making Jittle progress. dred and Third street, and Mrs. Magdaline Feldman, a widow. This information comes from an Evening Worid correspondeit, who is a passenger on the Etruria, of No. 153 East One Hundred and Tenth street. were struck The cablegram of The Ev ning Worla’s correspondent, wich cave the first news «f the overdue liner, eame and injured by trolley cars at almost the same moment within a | from Horta, the ca;ital of Fayal, in the Azores, to whieh port it wos taken by the captain of the oiletank few blocks of each other in Hariem this afternoon. Mrs. Welch | steamer Ottawa, from Philadelphia, whieh spoke the Etruria last Friday. The eablegram reads as follows: was struck by a Second avenue car. at the corner of One ‘HORTA, Azores, March 4 Hundred and Third street. and Mrs. Feldman’s accident oc- “The Etruria lost her propeller and steering gear in mid-Atlantic on the evening of Feb. 26. Drifted helpless curred at One Hundred and Ele rs in a heavy sea all night, making continuous signals. Too much cannot be sald for the bravery and coolness of F venth street and Third avenue. Capt. Stephens, whose example filled the passengers and crew with courage “They are trying to tow the Etruria to the Azores. Asi write we are in tow of the steamer William Cliff, Wind and sea against us and Cliff not strong enough to do more than hold us « . but are making no Buse rey meady. “Propeller and rudder went to bottom of the ocean without warning of travel at the time, but during the night drifted out of the track of steam ers. ing us, is a North Transatlantic eteamer from New Orleans of about 2.000 tons “Passengers have all petitioned to be transferred to the first steamer passing, discouragement is felt because the Cliff is unable to get us along with any speed move ahead at all. “All are well on board. and after the first excitement everything has been quiet. They are tryfhg to lash spare to make a rudder. Captain of oil-tank steamer Ottawa from Philadelpia has promised to file this at first port touched. Capt. Stephens wishes to assure al! (hat there is no danger ROBERT J. CAMPBELL” —— ee DAYS BEFORE LINER REACHES PORT; LONG DELAY AHEAD =AD FOR PASSENGERS. The Etruria was in the regular lane The Willham Cliff, which ts tow- DUPED BY HOHENZOLLERN TARS. bound for any port. Much Curio seekers who purchased plates and beer steins from Most of the time we do not the jackies on the royal yacht Hohenzollern. have discovered ‘Ne oe SAID HE WANTED TO KILL HIMSELF. A man deScribing himself as Stephen Deuck. twenty-nine years of age, a blacksmith. of No. 46 Bergen street. Brooklyn. Nvatked into St. Francis’ Hospital this afternoon, and said he wanted to kill himself. He was arrested and commited from Essex Marke Court to Bellevue f Hosnital for observation. The management of the Cunard line has extended to The Evening World oS oe “| the at hanks of the corporation | LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Ee Bly al Minder CUNARD COMPANY THANKS EVENING WORLD, represent: tive of this newspaper on tho | H —————ne A * t z by Etruria. . ; a Fifth Race—Deloraine 1. Silver Coin 2. Major Mansir 3, | “tie message. trom your reporier| Th Spaare Steamehip Company «Limite, Vernon He Brown #2 i lester come a , sO, O Sixth Race—Van Hoorebeke 1, Pay the Fiddler, Lovable. | S00 att one ot_ the Seis oc ine (i pinianerayiet = peat PR eit ge tae f Réttor of The Evening World, New York City 2 me Ag tan ih tee < Dear Sir: { am indetted to your courtesy for copy of despateh $ pale m aw" Leng Delap fer Passengers. 4 received by you from Horta, under (ate of Merch 4, from Mr. R. J. 3 ‘ VAN-WYCK.OW-LOW’S MESSAGE. ‘Powertut tugs have deen vont from! 3, Campbell, jr. a passenger on Etruria, giving particuktrs of the > E F - Iaverpool to tow the Htruria to that | tT acideat to that steamer. Please accept my thanks for the informa, + > Former Mayor Van Wyck is quoted as saying of Mayor | rort. ‘Unies ait signe fa!) it si) be) 2 tion and for Your courtesy In so promptly advising. Youre trwigy Low’s message: “He is simply approving of every great public | mee Ato mneir destinations They | t VERNON H. BROWN. work inaugurated by the Democratic administration during Will-probably be went from the Amores | 144. aa. es renr eRereerererere starter cee Tes by some her line. | am glad he so completely indorses me.” the last four years. “A cablegram from Liverpool An-| Ir seems to me that it will be neces) It peeted that she woul@ be met = Rae nounces that the company expects the! sary for the passengers on the Etruria wi the regular line of steamship Etruria to reach a port in the ABOres® ty remain at Paya) until the date of travel, and as she has a wireless teles POLICE CAPTAIN’S BROTHER ARRESTED. to-night or to-morrow. In view of the the sailing of our ship. Taking them to aboard the officials of the report of your representative tha © Laverpool on the Etruria tn tow would unable to understand why she headway is being made, I do OK ye out of the question, no matter how did not communicate with some passing Andrew M. Copeland. of No. 50 Howe street. a brother of steamer will in distress It possible that the al the tugs. ‘The dietance is 1,00 Capt. Copeland. who has a second-hand metal store at No. 50 |* port before sae fin or ih af she f Jin explained by The Hventne Ann street. was arraigned in the Centre Street Court to-day |i2"Woria's careers to sur Liverpool ET ere Ee oe prrisevanitiiie te Carol ees on a charge of receiving stolen goods and was held in $1.000 | ome” they Capt. Stephens was many bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. Two men employed | omty one Line to the seo + intaen Cia cae ace in his store were also held on the same charge. All three |» case tne cunat ety © the nearest port rather steamer =A the passengers of the Etruria a step Is not kely—they will TRANSFERS WAGON RUNS DOWN A CHILD. ere avieale se to continue the ondition voyage in he were bailed, . 2 Ho on & rurta sailed from this port y cabin and ninety-five steer- seengers on the afternoon of e met the Umbria tm mid- linaular Navigation |line running from Falck 4 n New ¥ nese Wae Felt. three days mor Joseph: Leavy, seven years old, Mving at No. 454 St. Nicholas avenue, Mtr Ado! was run down by a wagon of the Manhattan Transfer Company. driven by of thts |! a orn : ad though the shine Percival Norcott, this afternoon at One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street 1 saitera. Se ee rae ae en and Eighth avenue. The boy's left thigh bone was broken, He was sent Siiion 1. Mr Falek this afternoe cei ~ 7 "a to his home, where Dr. Hanscombe said the injury was serious and might No sails until Mar ee camwammaacen CNG SEVENOAYS THEPI THE RICE rs TRAIN WAS TO WRECK OF SH. AND THE POLICE. HEADED OR WBE CREW OF SCHOONER HAD AN LOST DIAMOND BRINGS TROU- B. AND. 0. EXPRESS STOPPED AWFUL EXPERIENCE. BLE TO TWO FAMILIES. JUST IN TIME. ovher —_——++¢. SMUGGLED BEANS SOLD AT AUCTION. An auction sale of smuggled beans was held in the eeizure room of the Public Stores to-day. There were over two hundred barrels of the succu- lent favorite of Boston and they brought $2,700, an average of $1.50 per bushel. The beans were aiezed from a firm that had smuggled beans from Canada for years and escaped detection until this particular consignment arrived. The members of the firm have disappeard. _ OO — | MORPHINE KILLS CORA STEWART. Cora Stewart, twenty-four *years old, of No, 28 Hemilton street, died Only in Gouvenuer Hospital this afternoon of morphine polroning. She was| harged from the hogp'ial last Friday, haying been under treatment for| the same thing that killed her. A man giving hie name as William ¢ penter notified the police of the worin’s jlInews. Carpenter is bain & sou for to explain the circumstances of the death. | | | | | | Fretahe Thrown Whieh ¢ 8500 Reward, Doesn't Get Bite of Salt Pork to Eat. end Pinder Dy Reaten by Terrific Storms. -—-2%e. ALDERMEN OPPOSED Low's S CHARTER AMENDMENTS, The Beard of Aldermen amendments to the Fn Rew who voved with men, Donneily his afternoon + vigorously attacked the Mayor's ad adopted a resolution, offered by Mr. Suilft|, Legislature Al Tainmany men or the Sullivan resolu The Republicans | men are Liebeck, Stewart, Goldwater, Geor- | ‘" Mit charter ® uy the hy he ve Tamm ng n Down ete = SCHWAB RE- ELECTED TRUST PRESIDENT. Charles M. Schwab was re-elec sted Presiden of the United States Stee! | experience! : " wn Corporation at a meeting of the directors, held this afternoon. BH. Gary, '* iy ? 3 _ - ons ; Ricbard Trim- ble was elected secretary and treasurer, Mr. Schwab was also elected to-day an honorary life Clifton Boat Club of Staten Island a | m member of thes the army estimates, £69,310,00, in the House of Commons to-day, ¢ ep Mr. ick, said the War had done its work well, consider: ing Stat a war iad never before been on auch a senile as the South ahs War Om ag to-day war fegain nO te aes, ee ware » WOULD MAKE GAS CHEAPER. [raw state i with a sm |men tema seven days and terrip! Alderman ‘Tim’ Svilivan has prepared a resolution for the Board of 75 cents Aldermen, fixing tbe price of gas in Manhattan and the Bronx at 7 On the meventh day two of the mem le ae per thoused cubie feet. It ie centended that under section 1,589 of the) bers became uneons Ne ae ptheks Limited, i. ynen the ortuna charter the Board has the right to fix the pries. Sere, Sewn on the Laura, Ne exice tare Fast (ine; maichion earvion, *e* °° ‘ ! ®