The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1902, Page 5

aS NEW YORK TO SUFFER FATE OF ST. PIERR And in all the city Lot could not find one righteous man. And the Lord God destroyed it.—Bible. Although lack of righteousness is onee molten state pe(rosr not the exact reason he ascribes, the | nave proven wi a shadow of doubt total and utterly utter destruction of Bergen Hill a Volcano, \ Greater New York as Sodom and Go-| | “They belong t the nerios Reena =| known as t and thelr chemical and morrah, Pompeii, Herculaneum an& | mineralogic compositions are {dentical St. Pierre were destroyed is prophe-} yi:h volcanic rock all over the world ‘The Glancs Causeway Is of | pied by Prof. S, Harbert Hamilton. fe does not set the date very far ahead either. He bases his belicf on purely scientific facts. Authorities by the score he quotes to show that the entire city is in danger of extinc- tion from some great volcanic dis- turbance which he says may come to-day, to-morrow or not for ages, Despite the learned young professor's positive announcement and his seeming- ly incontrovertible data, there have as yet been no marked increase in fire, life or accident incurance rates, aeurces, | ANtHonyls Nose! (opponite Prof. Hamilton is a young man ie) Peekskill, is another formerly active fhas already won for self an enviable | volcano, These may all break out, name among the leading geologists and students of natural phenomena of the new world. at the very time Vesuvius destroyed Not yet thirty years old, he Js the} pompeii, sheep were being pastured in possessor of a higt degree from Cornell /ity very crater. There was absolutely University, was formerly assistant in- structor at Princeton, is a Fellow of the Academy of Natural 6clence at Philadelphia and at present 1s attached to the Museum of Natural History In this city. “The destruction of New York and the entire Hudson Valley by volcanic action {s as certain,” he sald to an Evening World reporter to-day, “as the fact that it exists now, Made the Island. “Volcanoes made the island of Man- hattan and the land which now lies under the city of Brooklyn, Staten Is!- and, Long Island and the State of New Jersey. They will all be totally de- stroyed by the same forces, ‘It may not be for ages and it may be to-day “The entire Hudson Valiey was once dotted with a series of what were un- doubtedly the greatest volcanoes the world ever saw. Geologists assert that from these subterranean rents in times past there poured forth streams of lava that make the outbursts Indies seem solid reck—now the peerless Palisade That the rocks of the Palisades Indicate to the eye the existence of there| monster volcanoes, but to the sclentists the marks are self-evident. York are two supposedly extinct vol- canoes—Snake They are liable to break out again at any time, when natural conditions force an upheaval of the earth to permit an outlet for the forces now imprisoned by nature. another flow of lava from the same either singly or in series, at any. time lke the rejuvenation of Vesuvius. Why, no indication of a volc ‘sinking of solld roc interior, with the Internal forces. dence that New ‘York City is sinking Is found in ‘That riv than it is to-day, and that it has sunk is shown by extends to Troy. Government in the approaches of New York Harbor prove that once upon @ time the Hudson plunged into the At- lantic from an elevation three times as great as Niagara Fall brought weighed down mi sustain the mouth became submerged. continued to carry poskt It éach successive load the bottom sank more and more until the conditions now prevalent became established. in the West st insignificant “This old lava stream solidified Into alt structure. ‘0 be sure, there is but little left to oD “Just across the Hudson from New Hil! and Bergen Hill “The range of Orange ,Mountains show no belng there “Volcanoes are caused by the gradual 3 into the earth's come in contact Now, the evi- where they condition of the Hudson Hudson is a drowned river! bed was once much higher th Th River. the fact that thde water Big Niagara Here. “Soundings made by the United States As the Hudson down more and more slit it the seabed more and e. “The ocean bottom being unable to this welght sank slowly until at the river's ancient ‘The river more slit and de- in the ocean's bed; and with cataract E AND POMPEII. Prof. S. Harbert Hamilton Predicts City and Hudson Valley Will Vanish from Earth as Result of Volcanic Action. “But the river still continues to carry down Its load of solld material to dump on the ocean bottom, and slowly but surely the land must sink! What would happen were New York City to sink, fay fifty feet? What will happen when the sediments now being deposited in the ocean have accumulated to such an ex- tent as to push fresh fuel into the inter. nal fires that once burst forth and formed the Palisade@ and are now slum- bering In the earth's [nterlor?”’ Find Dig Fall. “Frm the soundings taken by t engineers of the Coast Survey for yea back, it is a dorermined fact that the Hudson River, thousands of yeans ago, poured into the Atlantic about twenty five or thirty miles fartehr out from Its present mouth, Tt sought the sea from an elevation of more that 90) feet, many umes the hel@ht of Niagara. Constant erosion wore away the falls; the ac- cumulated silt on the ocean bottom weighted down the bed. Suddenly the whole sea front. sank many, many feet. It slanted the whole Hudson Vai- ley as far north as Troy. This is proven by the fact that tides are apparent now at the city of Troy. “The oid fails of the Hudson are yet sharply defined some twenty-five infles out at ea, ‘The water shoals In the width of a mile from ten to thirty fathoms. ‘rhe present New York was once as high above the present water line as the top of the Palisades. But this. por- ton happened to be of less hard ors ganic substance and the pacers and rivers wore it down to the present levels. For the same reason there fe a deep valley between the Palisades and the Orange Mountains. “The trap ‘dykes’ extend back Into the State of Connecticut, The most clearly-defined area of the greatest yol- canic disturbance seems to be bounded by the western art of New ersey’, the Connecticut Valley and northerly somewhere around Peekskill. When- ever the next eruption takes place the yoleanle formed idle craters will undoubtedly be In this territory, Where, it Is to conjecture. When, God only As before, there will probably nuny fissure ‘Vents—not one enor- ening.” 2 well established by the Govern: there $s an appreciable settling of the Atlantic coast from Vir- mia to the New Englan As it sett the earth fn the vicinity of Hudson's Bay $s rising, The crust of the earth is tipping—down at the sea and upward Inland. This Is caused by the weight of earth being constant)s washed down to the shores. When thy vcean bottom can support nom: welght and the elasticity of the earth's crust is past endurance then the sea bottom will fall in. “The Inrush ef water will make the interlor of the earth an infernal chaos ‘There must be some vent for these frresietible forces of nature and the path of least resistance will be followed, | “Then will come the engulfing of New York and surrounding area for many, many miles." States. HONOR PUPIL DEAD, HIS DIPLOMA HE LONGED FOR WILL BE BURIED WITH HIM. —_———- Brave Little John Van Dam, Who Had Planned a Brill- iant Future, Gave Way Un- der Strain of Study and Died Before the Graduation Paper Reached Him. ‘The First Methodist Church of Hobo- ken will be the scene of the saddest funeral for many a year when tts pews fil up to-night with the school children of the city to Heten to the eulogy spoken by Rev. Dr. tharles L. Mead over the body of the fifteen-year-old lad in the casket before the altar, holding in his death the diploma he had earned as the foremost boy in his school. John Van Dam was the valedictorian of the graduating class in Public School No, 6, but he was doomed never to de- liver the valedictory, for death snatched him on Tuesday, Clans Will Mourn Him. His class, led by the vice-principal, Miss Bailey, will sit just behind his widowed mother and his sisters, Hen- rietta and Anna, and his little brother Peter, at the funeral services, and to- morrow six of his intimate friends in the echool and the Sunday-schoo) will bear ‘this body to the grave in Flower Hill. Then the graduation. exercises will go on on June 27 without a valedictorian. “He was a particularly bright pupll, obedient, courteous and manly, and of very high principles," sald Miss Bailey, his teacher, at the school to-day, tears welling in her eyes, “He was extremely ambitious. His ambition was his undoing I guess, He used to say, ‘l am not strong, but 1 ould earn dollars with my hands. 1 will make my brain strong apd earn more.’ Mrs, Annie Van Dam came from Hol- land, a widow with four children, seven years ago. They lived at No. 1212 Wash. ington street. The girls grew into young Women and relieved the mother of the care of the house, Wanted to Help Mother, John was a hard student, But th: years ago an attack of rheumatism Feached hie young heart and from that | day his fate was sealed, He was marked for death. No one told his mother 80, and she was saved three years of sor- row, “I knew my John was frail, but he loved his school and would go. He used to say, ‘I will educate my brain and carn more than my hands could earn if strong. Then you and sisters shall have it easy. Daniel Webster was not strong, and h{s brain was magnificent, I can make a better ving for you all with my brains than my hands, and you can rest all day, mamma,’ " John Yan Dam‘s heart was stout, if not strong, He wanted to be a lawyer, and had arranged to go on with his studies at the Y. M. C. A. night school, as soon as he was graduated and went to work, The ovher boys called him “the Professor” and ‘John, the Lawyer.” He was wont to say, ‘I was born & Dutehman, but I’m all American and I shall become a citizen when I'm old enough and go into politics.”” He was a leading spirit in the debat- ing society, and had chosen Daniel Web- ster's character for his valedictory, His poor mother with sad pride exhibited his school reports, showing that for five «months he hud been first in his class with an average of nearly 98 per cent, THIS BLUECOAT IS NO “AUTO BUSTER” Found Deserted Machine at the Casino, and the ‘‘Brute’’ Bucked and Reared 'Cross the Sidewalk. Policeman John J, Brady, of the Broadway Squad, saw a vig red auto- mobile standing in front of the Calo early to-day, and ae the earilest riser could not remember whence it b come or to whom It belonged, the offi poe ed to bake She machine to the ar 08 ; it had Hoon Cc net when he climbed pees, fingering @ few of the lever: uddenily the instr ward, 100) the "brute," as he called tt, Brady sent own to Thirty-aixth street for Dan IUnn, who was a sailor, cannon-maker, te-chopper, machinist and biscksmith be he’ became a member of the Broadway squad, Rnn took the ley- ers, and with Brady in the guest's peat they started for the station. ‘On Beventh avenue, and while @ block trom the station, the gasoline gave oul, and relnforcementa from the station were necessary to drag the automobile up to the hitohing post, Before daylight, it is sald, two young and a’ young woman drove up to the Casino in !t and were last seen in the wine rooms in that vicinity. JUST WHAT YOUR BY&S NEKD —_——>—- His Teacher and Classmates | Will Attend His Funeral and There Will Be No Valedic- torian at the School Com- mencement Soon to Be Held. But his work was too much for his strength. Longed for Diploma. Ten days ago the overtaxed heart be- gan to fail, and slowly but surely death THE WORLD: THUR! crept upon him in the horrible form tt assumes in cages of this kind, For a week he could not ile down, but sat day and night by a table, his head rest- ing on his arms before him. Five days ago, seeing his mother | weeping, he sald: “1 am not afraid to die, mamma. It is all right. I only worry for you, 1 was going to be sucha help to you. But I do want my diploma—only four weeks away!"" It was his great desire to see and hold the diploma he had worked so long and bard for, and his longing became 80 intense that fis feacher brought tho matter to the school authoritie All knew that little John could not ve unti! ommencement day, when they would be awarded, so a special meeting of the Schoo! Board was held, the matter considered and ghe diploma filled out and signed. Tt was the first time in the history of the school that @ diploma was award- ed before graduation. That was on last ‘Tuesday. Died Wetbte He Got It. Miss Balley, with the honor paper, ‘hurried to John Van Dam's home, think- ing of the Joy she was going to bring to the boy. But as she entered the house all was hushed Brave lttle John had died just thirty minutes before. ‘The diploma, though, was placed in his lifeless hand, It 4s still there, and will be buried with him, Mra. Van Dam longs to keep it, but she says it 1s John’s and must go with him to the «rave. | | | | | DAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1902. MOTHER PARDONED FROM JAIL THROUGH GIRL’S WORK. Miss Fannie Pelziger Heroine of Long Battle for Freedom of Her Innocent Parent. Miss Fannie Pelziger 1s entitled to all moved Governor Smith, of Maryland, to the congratulations that being pee her. 7 ter five months of work and eelf- shi ad jowered upon her for the success that! sacrifice, during which her little five- at laat crowned her indefatigable ef-| year-old sister was killed by a trolley forts to secure the pardon and release|car, her father became too iIl to work, of her mother from a Baltimore jail|‘#@ household effects were sold for to which she had been sentenved for bread and her own dowry was spent, this devotea daugnter was able to send shoplifting In a store she never entered. The gin, who is only seventeen years the glad news home to No. 173 Allen old, succeeded in enlisting the ald of treet that mother was free. Mrs. Pelziger was visiting in Baltt- Cardinal Gf>bons and Admiral Dewey in behalf of her mother, through first more. She met and was talking In the getting the ear of Isador Rayner, Ad- are street with an old friend she had not seen in years, whe two men joined thom. ‘Then the police swept down and| miral Schley's counsel. : 0 | Judge Harlan, who eentenced tre, | (rregted all four SOP tert proteats, and | Pelziger, signed the petition which! sent to prison. | KNIGHTS OUT FOR BRANN. |MRS. CROFT’S DIVORCE SUIT. —— Asks Legal Separation from Rich Pump Manufacturer. Mrs, Anna D. Croft has brought sult for divorce against James Croft and the case will be tried before Justice Gaynor, in the Supreme Court, Brook- lyn, next week. Croft {s a Ithy pump manufacturer at No, 260 Front street, Manhattan, His wife alleges that he maintains an es- tablishment In Brooklyn where he sup- ports three women, while she and thelr elehteen-year-old daughter are tn want. Ore ot the women is named as co- respondent. Croft dentes the charges. Mayor Low Asked to Reappol the Magistrate, A delegation of Knights of Columbus called upon Mayor Low to-day to seek the reappointment of Magistrate Brann, whose term expires on July 1. ‘The delegation was headed by Rev. Father James B, Curry, the New York State Chaplain of the order, and Rev. Daniel C, Cunnion and Rev. Matthew Gleason, both prominent Knights. The interest’ of the Knights ts due to. the fact that Magistrate Brann is the State Advocate of the onter, The Mayor promised to give careful request, ANOTHER BIG SURPRIS MEDICINE CABINETS, SPECIAL SALE, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, °1,98. Large Size, $2.24. Contains labelled bottles, has parti- tions and drawers as shown in cut, two doors, lock and key; very well made; comes in two sizes. No home should be without one. We haveonly a limited number, consequently only one to a customer and no mail orders filled. These extraordinary prices are made for Friday and Saturday only, Impossible to duplicate this first-class Medicine Cabinet for twice our price. Two sizes, $1.98 and $2.24. ————— ey OPEN AN ACCOUNT Do not overlook the fact that this is New York's most progressive Furniture and Housefurnishing Goods House selling at lower prices than any other house, and on the DOG POISONER AT Many Valuable Animals Vic- the hill has a lot of fresh graves. avenue dogs are in a state of .xclte- ment over the news. @aw one of thos stoop last night, and I was saying ‘that she screamed that the steak was poi- Reconciled the sult be disiriesed without costs, and WITH US. nl ye 39-5 GHTt Ke most liberal terms of credit. Opef Saturday Nights. Northwest Corner 37th Street. we will toll you after solentifioally venti a anette Uh ane ied we euieot ts $54 os effective kind, and charge mod Prices of our Spectacles aud y Bolld Hekerat Gold trom. fre Cases Bold karat Gold, trom. Livkaret Gold Filled, from Nickelled Alumins across the sidewalk, ‘ne aie ae up oo ted séjusios All glessen are o ond , THE HOT ONE~1 don't eee bow you keep #0 Coo! and Mean end comfortable this blistering weather, THE COOL ONE-Simplest thing in the world. I keep cool and clean inside, aod that makes me feel cool and clean Outside. | lake eCABCAPET Candy Cathartic every night betore going to bed. It cleans and purifies the system, stops hot fermentation tm the stomach and bowels, aad- makes excessive perspiiaop impossible, You know they wose ‘WORK IN HOBOKEN, tims of Some One Whoj}i 4s Places Poisoned Meat at Houses Where Dogs Are. “Yes,” yawned the spaniel, “all Park It's dreadtul. 1 poisoned steaks 01 a for me,’ when I was grabbed by Mrs. L. Schmidt, who ves at No. 213, and soned and carried me back home, toll- ing Mrs, Crocker, my mistress, that I had a terrible narrow escape.” And so the news has travelled. Dog owning residents of Park avenue, Ho- boken, are in a state of excitement over the poisoning of upward of a Score of valuable dogs in the neighbortood with- In the Jast two weeks. Mrs. LL. Schmidt's brown spaniel, Herman Paul- us's fine Scotch terriers, Chris Schwetze's dachshund, Henry Dirr's white poodle, Fritz Wagner's collle, Henry Wunderlloh's mastiff and many other dogs have been poisoned. Now a large reward I offered for the detec- tlon of the polsoner. His practice ts to leave polsoned steaks on door stepa and In areas of houses whe: iuownisloeowasd | Co ne ae COST $50 TO MAKE UP. Couple Have to Pay Lawyer His Fee. Justice Blanchard in the Supramo Court to-day told a couple tha: had become involved in a sult for separation and had made up that tt would cost a $50 foe for the wife's counsel to have the case dismissed. ¥annie ©. Dennis, formerly an ac- tress, sued her husband on the ground of cruel treatment, and then withdrew her action. The lawyer, Z. Kuraman, of No. Rroadway, presented bis bill and payment was refused Henry R. Dennis, the husband, ap- Record Selling Friday | i ine eal could imply, and where the disagreeable feat freedom that is extended to you “heute eoawene, eae Pay by Hecht's Part-Payment Plan. Ladies’ Waists, pearl gray and under Record Selling Friday... House Wrappers—Flersat ayaiity of ite i oH Seersucker Underskirts—The dew Fumes: 03 Record selling 2 Corsets at Half—Populer makes, some regular handling, straight All sizes among this lot ara Record Wash Suits you ane Bue. and Te. price t ng Friday ae porte Record Selling Unported. Too! uarantesd worth 1b, ; Beantifal Presents Free, Send for Promiam List eb Btrect and North River, New York City, ——<—— With Its Refreshing |] News, A free mind and ease of shopping is a priceless comfort In these troublesome merehan~ of warmth. Such are the pleasures of shoppi x is ever at your highest ideals—where prices are Yours ta alt that the Buy to your heart's content— of in charming arctyye4 | luslin Drawers—Mate with um “You don’t catch mp» eating any of brella ruffle thotn porterhouse steaks thee ace Lott {fp Madean cloths and neautitul fanty Mrioed | lace trimmed, Value 50 lawns, all eigen, valve 89e., Record 8 : lying on the stoops and 4 WT Setitng Fridays eee S AB q| feilise Freitas... ‘ ald Hoboken Dachshund F Wash Skirts, 0", !aties, a4 Mes, Wash Pants— Meteriais ot smoorted Crocker's cocker spaniel dy, r 3 material of duck, With and trish iinen. Al tai 7 Y fark grounds and polka dot black fenmnt hear.” continued Fritz, “that lots of oak oF 95 AyTenlllty, ,Atee $10 32 yeare Hoboken dogs are being polsoned {n » Regular Solling Friday C | rridny ; this neighborhood by eating those choice |J| Wash Suits, trate, statre | mae #tenks. I heard Mr. Fraumeister, my peared Seay ith deep Gounce and skirt, | 4) a 4 : ent and dark color effecta. Value y marmeut. Atl j master, tell Mrs. Rausamitem thie |{}sia8 "Reto fling Pritar 1.85) : orning that tne dog pooner is Walking Skirts, *, °°! s | xrobnd sane ivataty: ig Skirts, Mi, Wty Sailor Straws 0". bors, ornament and that the dog cemet Mil pifare land “tailored caticohea,s ate S with slik band and tage Oxtord clotha To sell Hperal retailing. 1,90 HM} at 30e, Recard Selling Fri- $3.50 In ? I Vesta for x ot and white, pink,” aly" sind lavender TF Geup cinoneen et . You couldn't hope to dupll- hited atten nos hem under Se. Record Selling 124 braid trimming creating «most ia of Black, indigo white or colored, and all sires made with deep fauna’ | The grade that creates custom at 19. Record Seiiings Friday some witht rows of Children's Hose~?: nae Hon Fe ptional Friday, Slightly golled trom ronts, blak gores, cholee of white and | suits for boys: clothe that real worth of $1.00 una’ Selling Friday 19¢. lua, Record Selling Friday harm L yan) i =} —Black oF tan cotton, x washing; | TL@M’S SOCKS Wit souble neciw ail tana and in all alzes, The grade that ought to A Batch of Invincible Sellers. celluloid Hair Brushes, with mirror to | Wi jhe E inty. travelling ‘companion; vim iarne. variety; Worth H.00;" 5g¢ | and k5c.; Record Selling Friday. aieseatiilenaea (a edium and small Jot Buck NLT BRINeE | led ones amongut "em; val 7c | to Giy.; Record Seiling Friday. 60 to | Veilings in plain Jc | tit colore—a grade th | 196.; Record Selling Friday 5c! jacea_ and couldn't Brash a aizea. th Black’ “Steel” Ping value 3c.; Record Belling eubew’ ot 100 ‘asortod jst stra quality; 0c. In the waual Record Selling Feidny. | Bera Zate, Collars,” Branten sive dewiens. never sold for ter HS nt 42.50, Recprd Selling Frid PROF. KOCH'S LYMPH INHALATION — AND TUBERCULIN BS ‘CUR! 7 Asthma, Bronchitis, — Consumption, — Four yeara ago 2 ine in and cough. brother dled of tou and I feared T go that way, but the tor at 119° WEST ! 8T., NEXT to ¥ PROF. Koc OF BERLIN. store, cured Dougians of $45 Oreane Bi INHALATION $3 for $10. KOCH-0-Li C ‘ 1, Mtoubles eetmination FREE” Howry, 16 and 4-7. Sundays, 11-3. eae Call or write to the only plac DAVID &. BROWN & CO., peared In court to-day and asked that tne row reconciled wife joined in the application, Justice Blanchard said that the law rejoiced In the restoration of domestle harmony, but could not approve of the lawyer Delng done owt of the fee that the had earned, and so it would cost $50 to have the action dismissed. ‘The place to advertise or seek Bus- {ness Opportunities is in the Sunday World Want sheet. 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