The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1902, Page 1

—— ee GHILDREN—" S230 222. WONDER SUPPLEMENT NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT EDITION. RACING # SPORTS. eee GENERAL GElarld ¢ SPORTING NEWS SPORTING NEWS i ON PAGE 8. - ; £ “ Cleoulation Books Open to Au.” ON PAGE 8. PRICE ‘ONE. CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 21 1902 ‘PRICE ONE CENT, ' SET ASTOR HOUSEON FIRE VERY LATEST NEWS THREE MANSIONS WRECKED stop.” | 0 d0 — | ————_—_—_--4¢<—_____——- * Edward Farley’s Astounding Confession Shows that He Has Started AS SEEN THESE RUNAWAYS? Nineteen Blazes In New York and Saratoga Hotels. WHO HAS SEE s aN ccurionaissteitunt Front Yards, Stoops and Basement Walls Drop Into and Lizzie Slooum, each { Boston, The former wore a Tunnel—Big Water Main Bursts—Tenants De- Edward Farley, elevator man at the Astor House, to-day confessed that he had fired the hotel nine times, and that he had started tenother|{¥ ONE HUNDRED FIRES ' Ale 5 fpatt + fires in this eity and Saratoga, Fire Marshal Freel believes one hundred STARTED BY FARLEY. dark coz ab Lis inenesintnetgit sert the Block---Dam age $500,000. ineendiary fires can be traced to him. Here is Farley's astounding con- ———— RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. fession: {a aon ee FARLEY’S CONFESSION. Fourth Ra 1. Eva Rice 2. Johnny McCartey 3. I have been an elevator man at the Astor House for about a year. Fifth Race 1. Mere Belle 2. Moderator 3. Previous to that I worked in the Broadway Central Hotel and in the Grand Union at atoga nee Lhave been af the Astor House T have started nine CANTOR CRITICISES COMPTROLLER GROUT. NOPS—_.. Vis Arey far Four of these were sertous enough to call out the Department. The others were put out by hotel employees without damage. I started the fires Wednesday night. I don't know what made me | 4) President Cante tne meeting of the Board of | do it. 1 had been drinking and was a little jagged when I came to Estin this 99) charged that Comptroller Grout : work, I guess that is what caused me to set fire to the place pares the routine for ihe & f Estimate secretly in ad- Euensten wire! tne Wicea doe gost gave tMelafsceslaa ka) etadtta vance and th REED SUUIO EAOWAWnaU Wey Hy put the fle out. In doing this I hurt my arm so badly that I have had voting on A laromise was reached. and ie | to put it ina sling Comptrolier | make publi he most important matters | x x - x : While everybody was excited over the curtain fire I sneaked to] — - ———}| he intends he attent the Board within iwo PARK AVENUE Bees s AE F seer WY CAVE-IN room 20 on the top floor and opened the door with a key I had in my weeks. | path ice 4 pocket. [had a bundle of papers with me and there was some paper in . { ——= == tre som “NO ONE TO OLAME FOURTH TUNNEL DISASTER. | Park avenue's fourth great disaster came to-day | stuffed the papers in the drawers of the bureau, lighted them and | : f f icin B . api StL ne dapat nie: areweneiog the bucyest leaiad cates nae ANGRY STRIKERS 5 ——— | Within a few blocks of the scene of the dynamite explosion, the Park Avenue Hotel fire and the Central lock it | a) ham Barcmy FSOns ‘fine! engineer in charge Of} tunnel wreek, the ‘ 2a of three mansions slipped into the tunnel, making them unsafe. Phis fire was discovered by somebody in the street before I had al uc s Toth The ree which] Every house on the east side of the block, between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth street, was deserted chance to give the alarm myself. I set another fire the came night in| a ant e acci2at s n- by the terrified tenants, the closets of the Barclay street side of the hotel, but I put tt out my-| MASONS READY FOR FIGHT t giving way bi viter pipe, aid that) A burst water main added to the danger. The subway was flooded. The damage is at least $500,000. rth and fo s of the buildings. The acci- A eel Sr siti self and did not give an alarm WHEN FORCE APPEARED. In the last two or three years I have started quite a lot of fires. I started a fire in the Broadway Central that pretty near got away from the firemen. I also started a blaze in the Grand Union, In Saratoga. i a |CRASHING ROCK AND BU RSTING MAIN L've tried to burn down almost every house I ever lived in, I guers.| ‘"** Meee Nee prs C hk An ae. SPREAD PANIC IN THE NEIGH BORHOOD, When J lived at No. 117 East One Hundred and First street I set fire to dent couid not be foreseen or ¢ the tenement four times 3 I set fire to the tenement at No. 113 East Ninety-sixth street when Ty 8 fore ineliceny fel fohea ee ae SUIT INVOLVES 4.340.339 ACRES OF LAND, Three magnificent houses on Park and saw wi had happened. He’ rowd who gathered and pressed in om lived there, and aleo i Third avenue, when I lived there. GhIGK. AVGRGGlT MOCAROILIBNG fe aaiete —_ avenue, between Thirty-seventh and ld jook rtmht into the basement, '!* he of the wreck. At one time I set fire to Cobalt & Theall’s Iron Works, in Bethune 4 pict call and found the neighbor- A suit ving out tne absorption of the Houston & | Tmirty-eighth streets, were ruined. of fis own house, and he thought the Wii Raghers ath a wees street. hood in an uproar, r 3 eRIPAcifi | ; pante.e » bt 5 tumt or Bt more: (Of) / (he) Sa xa Raily Pacifi a the lives of their occupant ndan- whole building would tumble down) « 4.60, and tt a fee I have never set fire to the Louse Iam living in now, at No. 176 East!" front of a row of five five-story Texas © . N v agen ifie interess, wes put ; reeaen ever ntueripe Hel vatlthe members ot Rept: (hee h tehouses that are being built by! On { A befor tice Truax. the Supreme Court. | sere? and the very existence of every fc i ald ge he members of * back ts ance. Righty-elghth street ‘ tor Michael Luongo were F ( ' tockholder of the { * \mullding on the east side of that hls household ont He hustled them) 4! ¢ t was sald that the other I can’t say what causes me to start fires. When the impulse comes ori 2 aheone. iwmellecTt The p alt ¥ ' y aM re 329 ee of latid cone block threatened by another disaster ont as qnickly as he could and put! "°U*** a rare! ante, on me I just go and do it f n es the t $540,339 acres acquired | a : : Lael page. " in the rapid transit tunnel to-day hem in the home of Mre MeCu 4 matin bi I have been burned a number of times putting ont fires I started my rles Milingham under ¢ osure proceedings. The front yards of the tree lonets fatlier. across the street SAL fetes eee of ame welt I don't remember when | sarees all the fires | have set = one | houses, Nos and 5% went Meantime th dente onl che: is them from Wililamsbridge and West- a rary} no An ry ‘ plunging into the sixty-foot cut of come rushing out, if ' t FARLEY A PYROMANIAC | cheater CAMDEN’S MAYOR MAY ADOPT DRASTIC MEASURES. = [fhe tunel at that point, and part of out of their vite, ar i m lust ot the! coctpants| aan ‘ontractor Luongo had thirty men at —_--—--——— beget aed sai sipeaad o phe pillars = St these Gui Tei la ‘elieene bet a Bs z . | the front walls followed. int 1 below came piling to MR. AND MRS. A. W. HARD, OF A MOST PECULIAR TYPE urtunitien of the mob CAMDEN. N. J. March 21:—Mayor Nowrey, the first] There was tremendous excitement the su Mit AND MINS HH, Plage 2 » « 7 bad fy in S 1 a e occupants, | 7 " earns t rites a oA i. ma ) ‘ Nn this city in many years. as | in the vicinity and all the occupant Wood was sent to : RO WILLETts Bigs hk Riwvorkiikess wea re allor g of him in certain’ newspapers | frightened by the actual danger and Shaler and to Chief Engineer Ww MR, A MRS. HE. P, THe circumstance surrounding the with some of the blagest fires New York ral others thal Mlglierses That decicred : { address the public on street} made doubly timid by the aorrors on tam Barelsy Parsons of the Rapid JOUGH two fires in the Astor Houre Wednes- now Aten yente nelt accept the $35) « day, ; ; ees thae street since the beginning of Transit Comn n. Mr. Parsons MR. AND! SRS) JORMATE cornet ! § nd have them learn the truth M 1Y Jey night pointed t -endiariem. y in ma pyromaniac. He anys tally when they were told chat the \ ¥ We UUs SR eye ordered Mr. Mu ol 2 = = = . at P f all ape this Year, sought shelter elsewher i tr Mur “MR AND MRS. FL ML Suspicion was directed to Farley, who not tell why he a! res, we or would, if he could, give them] He pufposes lo rid poli ce of al! men who get dru 3 Abeet, $600,000. Rmadtecsivn and iit 3 P discovered” the first fire and injured Those were inclined to go to work and iho 10 iv debts, The owners of the damaged houses |to the Murray Hill He RS ELIZABETH R, BURN- himself in putting it out. He was also cre warned off Hall Park McCullough, John J.| Mr. McCullough sent for Wrecke . ; . Shans for the notoriety and “Oj het om 3 : ere ae ORS 2 iti : . ; NO. G-MRS. ANNIE E, CRAWe one ot the ee to roach the blaze tn the is | genttowiating the ee marnecene, Mis?GGS anal Rll DaveeNirtneldars | Cod: ack lage hm to anita) work 1 feemon' the) top: floor which) broke’ ou ACGE Ge atiek Phat bball A ety fac manner lage to the houses and to the tunnei|shore up the rest of his h work + prosecuted on this Geos titeen ree invite ! ‘aa NONE INTERESTED IN BRIDGE CRUSH. [is estimated at about $500,000 that that might not follow t het me. | Not Close questioning failed to incriminate 5 a e sidant vat ; ie Gadenoute t * f space ; slowly and felt The accident did not happen all at} ment wall, Cody put elgh Fe OF SORE a ’ Resee Gnu lee Ents Helvas fenee. \ emu Hearings were scheduled for this afternoon before the Committee on once. It began day before yesterday,| work, but they could find nothing in where the rock: haa. oe to the private office of the Astor House yt» pose | ——_ | Laws and Legislation of the Board of Aldermen on three important subject® wien a jot of the rock on the wast|the floor of the basement substantial « nn et oe and confronted with Fire Marshal he never let an oppo: |—the Jerome Excise bill. the storage and carrying of explosives and the side of the cut and under the frant | enough to hold thelr props i * » be pumped out and Freel, Assistant Fire Marshal McGough. He was arraigned in Centre Street Bridge crush. As each one in turn was called, no one appeared either fOr | yards of the houses along aie A Second Landslide. wreckage removed before the proprietors of the hotel and the Court id morn ies and held for exam- or against the measures. The committee therefore took the matters into! pan to slip down tate the tuanel rh . th § eo woh bie tmned Dutid- use detective. After four hours’ cross- ny BSH) Hem ueed ey ; \e 7 ‘i 3 ‘ \ pease at Amar ‘pi m 20) jete FORE | nice executive consideration, and it was announced that they would be reported | nig was caused by what the con-| noon when there ca s ho wae Bold » Fire Headquarters to be ques- examination Farley broke down and) tioned further. Gontaen No. 176 East Elghty-elghth street, Fire Marshal Freel regards him as the Farley, who is unmarried. lived with! most dangerous person of his clas his father, Patrick, and his brother, | New York. His adroitness in covering mas, who if @ policeman atta ned | Ris tracks was marvellous to the East One Hundred and Fourth Suspicion was often directed toward Street Station, Thomas Farley was aa-| ba but he ma: ed to evade proof. saunas when told of his broth now his connection reat, ary fr t which and kill- jents along of Inge. on at the next meeting of the Board of Aldermen leractora know aa wet seams in the) «lide w pica can rock, Great masses of the rock sllp| This la WILCOX: CASE GOES TO THE JURY. | off trom time to time and make the! main - | work especially dangerous nutpo ELIZABBTH CITY, N. C., March 21.—The Wilcox case went to the jury The tremendove bineta: which {t haa this afternoon. tad Jones in his charge went over the story of Nel! Sheps - rypretlinalt 1am) aoe pression you may have had,” he said, ‘or any public opinion or anything else | the rock all the more likely to slip Influence your verdict you do violence to your oaths, | have no opinion in} when the fret leplacerhent (0c It was like hydrau O'NEILL NEILL MAY BE MORTOWANTSCASH MR. MORGAN E EVADES scat hearts He | curred Contractor Ira Shaler got hie| Trt and rock flew and j men at work trying to prevent a re- oM igh ; foundat Founda Mr M : to-day that wkile POLICEMAN AGAIN FOR WAR TAX REPEAL BILL PASSED. currence of the accident: They did|/'%. Tis foar of is . ee a eae . |a lot of shoring-up under the side " ‘ ‘ BRONX PARK. PROCESS-SERVERS. WASHINGTON, March 21.—The Senate has passed tne War Revenue | walk at that point, but at 8.30 o'clo «| ‘ a Repeal bill. The bill removes all the special taxes imposed on the outbreak this morning there was @ recurrency ‘ . ' ae ae of the Spanish war except that on “bucket shops.” It has already passed the| o¢ the difficulty i, Les ILL OA kof “ > BE. House, but as the Senate has made some verbal amendments {t will have to} Otinock stipped | DS! or k had B UTHORIZING REIN-'URGES CLAIMS OF “Z00” BE-'SLIPS INTO OFFICE WHILE | {ius Dut as the Senate has made, Another erat muse of foek apne et ig ihe pit below Word was taker partment and men ¥ ‘STATEMENT PASSED. | FORE BOARD OF ESTIMATE. | WAITING IN JERSEY CITY. (ate erie adwie tate] iter bea —- CONFERENCE ON MYAULIFFE CASE. the inet, Thlel way th nee } residents of the bloc). “knew « Police Commissioner Partridge called at the Criminal Courts Building danger, So great was the late this afternoon and had a long conference with District-Attorney Jerome. | caused by the fall that it was hear Inspector Brooks was also a caller at the office of the District-Attorney for blocks and the people Neither would divulge the nature of his business, but the meetings are! neighborhood rushed into th : thought to have had reference to the McAuliffe case. Whele Front Vard Sank | rapidly becoming a terranean Hariem Bye Pa aI The house of Hall Park sicCullough | river FROLICKY CHOIR~FOLK RESIGN. auffered at this ¢ TO-NIGH!’S EVENTS, Alumal Uniwerstty of , dinnes, Hotel Manhate the mighty stream k time more of the four and De house flown into th aut (soetial te The Evening Wort Ex Lavil i Morieniwent)batare || i wairaie procesescrveraltampieged hy ceNtren | UL Ex Policeman the Board of Estimate to-day to urge| Peter Power wer waiting In Jersey City 1 Her Devery and was | ')* Apropriation of $280.0 for Bronx|to serve a summons on J. Plerpont oa’ dismissed, may be rein-| Park. The ex-Governor introduced | Morgan, the financter quietly evaded Henry F. Osborn, chairman of the! them and reached his office in a round- ipasouye Committee of the New York} about way He was to have been Zoological 8 who urged the] served with notice to appear for exam- claims of the 2 {nation Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Osborn said ‘the society asks tts] The attorneya for Peter Power say authorizing Commissioner Pai trldge to reinstate: ONein wan to-day in the Assembly by a vote « High School, avenue and Ninetecnth ‘The Tammany members defended dismissal of O'Neill and lauded | . to the greatest At 2.30 ook Deputy Commirsioner Devers appropriation from the city because it]that ho will have to appear at that : a \s maintaining « zoological high a1, | time extent. The whole front yard of the Murphy baset A tute of Bawk an extension of the cational Mm] The subpoenas are ordered by Melville You can't cake-walk and eing-in. the choir of the Windsor Terrace own and the front wall and a hal at of the! of the city ; ~ jj lot went down a' thm West Pifty- The money le to be used for fences, wy eu: nme Court of the United | Methodist Church. Members of the chdir did the other night, and the pastor,| the basement below tho level of the] Devoe house follow: as time) ae walks, rc 0 C1 tates Bupreme Sap eeraert succeeder hth atree u-Customs Collector and Asstet-|ulldingn to house the animals, Uew| Peter Power wanta him to tell tne | Rev. Alexander MeLesn sald:tt wasidancipg....Leader Lewie Smith and his| street followed, Part of the stoop the Water Departr ud ied ota otras a Pry AeA, Fapely: tnarenss ng in number. Court all he knows about the wife, who plays the church organ, have resigned in consequencé. also fell into the big hole. in shutting off t! ig malo ar ca| aaneh Hite venihintwaedt was| flow of water was stopped, but stl! joner Bustle ury of the dene Northern and the Northern Apptopriation, pointing out tha ‘oot Pacis, Gy wi visitors, weat to the “Zoo” last year bit) the $0, n wi Rapid’ Transit Bbway te Aniehed. the | PAV G o’etock the A fieMrine was adjourned agg al tha Brak, Bao ee ee WPM bchiet “and Charles’ Le 'atecle “could May the on not be present. given immediate at tion. The 2 Mayor OF eo ha ais a lecture, No. 40 tts and the formation of 01 leth street. RS ES (Try ther side of the lot t Pe nay bie not} from time to ‘im bits of the! CARNEGIE GIVES CANADA LIBRARIES. a big slump in the land, but : i bial oc i Caress ars fall all the way down, ‘The frone| loosened rock went tum | Autre”, je has given away thirty-eight new libraries, among| walls of No. 57, occupied by John J.| the tunnel 2a. athe them several in Canada. The important buildings will be London, Ontario,| Murphy, and of No. 59, occupied by Lapis a prin het TAY rhe $10,000; Denver, Col., $200,000; Godacteh,.Omity, $10,000, Ont., $15,000; |. M. Devoe, still held on. the scene, He took fifty policemen with Ps MeCullough.ran into the street! nim and they had # hard time with the} om anty’* *' ‘ . fe } LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 21.—In- Gictments against former Internal Re’ enue Collector Charles E. sapp, Leon- Parsons, Assignment Clerk under oped hog 2 and Joseph Potonin, Sie se by the Federal! ae eel ‘The Line of Beauty. ‘a? One enjoy