The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1902, Page 3

~ HANGS HERSELF O’REILLY STARTS CRUSADE; VREDENBURGH TO S IN PLAZA HOTEL. “iiss Alice Levis, Beau. titul St. Louis Belle, Ends Her Life in This} City. Inatead of sailing for Europe to- morrow with a party of friends to! joim her father in London for the coronation celebration, the body of | Misa Alice Levis, daughter of a St. Louis millionaire, was to-day taken | home in charge of her back to he: brother, Only twenty-three years old, sur- rounded by every luxury that great wealth could provide and the object of a particularly tender devotion on the part of her parents and brothers, | Miss Levis was a victim of melan- cholia. She suffered from a nervous malady, and on the eve of the elab- orate summer sioliday her father had planned for her she committed sul- cide by hanging herself with the gir- dle of her bath robe in her room at the Plaza Hotel. Body Secretly Moyed. Her body was the hotel to the undo t Forty-seventh prepared for burial by No, 125 where it wi Albert Levin, of No. undertaker. Extraordinary efforts were made to keep the facts of the young wo- man's death from public knowledge. No Report Made. No report of the suicide was filed in the Coroner's office. When asked to-day why he had not filed such a report and acquainted the police of the suicide, Coroner Jackson said: “T had no time to make a report yes- terday. I was busy all day taking aj.te-mortem statements.” Young ree levis sald his sister's ide Was due to her over-wrought muita! condition, He told Manager Quinn and Dr, Bartholemew, who was summoned, that bls sister had been un- der treatment by Prof. William Osler, of Johns Hopkins University. Her father, Leo Levis, is President of he Levis-Zukoski Mercantile Company, wholesale dealers “in millinery goods, se trade throughout the south and West. Mr. Levis has been in Burope for several wéeks on busl- ness. Coroner's Explanation, your duty to re- ediately?” Coroner “The Coroner, has matter. I could have k had I been so din- hing in it which would make It ne y for me to re- port it immediate CIVIL SERVICE OF CITY SHAKEN UP. State Commission Approves of Sweeping Changes in Municipal Offices— Proposed Exemptions Disapproved. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, June 10.—Sweeping changes in the Clyil Service of New York City were approved by the State Clvil-Service Commission to-day. The Board, however, refused to ap- prove the placing in the exempt class of the following: Stenographer to Belleyue ‘Trustees, stenographer to the Commissioner ana Second Deputy Commissioner of Chari- Hes, Clerk of Bullding Examiners, Chief Engineer of Sewers and Chief Engineer of Highways of Manhattan Borough, ‘hese transfers to the exempt class were approved: Real estate appraiser, supervising accountant, comptroller's clerk, stock and bond clerk and three deputy auditors ef accounts in the Fi- nance Department; secretary to Brook- lyn Borough president, commissioners of accounts, elght chief examiners, eight examining inspectors, one law exam- iner in offices of Borough presidents, deputy commissioner, deputy Borough commisioners, general superintendent, chief clerk in Department of Street Cleaning These changes in the Finance Depart- ment were approved: Chief clerk, three contract Ks, four coupon fillers, twenty assistants to expert accountants stricken from classification, account au- ditors increased, from thirteen to fou teen, examinin Inspectors Increased from three to elghteen, expert account. Ants and stock and bond clerks reduced from elght to seven respgetively, cash- Jers increased from fourteen to twenty- nine, Tho taking of ten expert examiners tn the office of the Municipal Civil-Service Commission from the exempt class was tabled at the request of the latter com- mission, a6 w change exempting the position of cashier in. the Hureau of Highways, Manhattan Borough. MAY BE THIRTEEN VICTIMS. im Chicago Hoa pital Fire Likely to Dic, CHICAGO, June 10.—OF the thirty-four persone injured In the St. Luke Society tal fire yesterday, it lu foared that will die, thus bringing the total of to thirteen, reported in a critical condition burg Falls, Vi. ry face, hands’ and Chicago, bad) Fj » Aanell) 4 badly burnea, wee! A #earon of the records of the Health Dopacrment t day Failed $0 Aiscover any feeriadnerng nat he noni a secretly moved from aking estab- lishment of Charles W. Poliock, at reet, t Forty- eighth street, en Orthodox Hebrew | | | | + X PANU youR CHEST! THROW OUT'YOUR CHEST — HAVE You-No. CHEST his man. He reappeared and joined O'Reilly, who then went away. The roundsman had left word upstairs that the place must not open for business. It was word from Capt. O'Reilly, he sala. Capt. O'Reilly then made a tour of the precinct and everywhere the word went forth to pool-rooms, gambling- house and policy shops: “CLOSE UP AND REMAIN CLOSDD! XWhile it cannot be said that Peter Delacey’s has ever been closed down absolutely, it is a fact that to-day both of his Park Row places were shut down as tight ca @ drum i In former days when danger threat- ened it was elways possible for the thabitue to ‘get down" a bet on the horses at Delacey's. But to-day no character of bets was taken, not even “tleker odds" or “morning newspaper odds.” “There's nothing doin'’’ was the stereotyped statament matle by the door-keepers at each of the pool-rooms and gambling-houses in the precinct. “Everything is closed down." Capt. O'Reilly took command of the Oak Street Precinct at 8 o'clock this morning. A huge horseshoe of roses from Brooklyn admirers adorned the desk when the morning platoon lined up to recelye instructions from the new Captain, He made a long speech. The gist of it was that he wanted his men to enforce the law without fear or favor, He prom- ised that If he found any policeman neg- lecting his duty he would prefer charges and press them, In Patrolman Andrew Andesner, at- tached to the Oak street station, but detailed for duty in the Street Cleaning Deparment, Capt, O'Reilly found a com- ade who had fought with him in the Civil war. Andesner was a sergeant in the Third New York Independent Bat- tery and had Capt, O'Reihy, then a private, under hls command, ‘They had not seen each other since the battery was mustered out at the close of the war and their meeting was af- fecting, Capt. O'Reilly 1s going to have Andesner, who has been on the force for twenty-seven years, transferred back to active precinct duty, so he can haye somebody around to swap war stories with, Vredenburg to Stay. Police Captain Watson Vreden- burgh, who in yesterday's police shake-up was transferred to Brook- lyn, declares he w..1 not retire under fire, “I have been pounded by the news- |papers, Frank Moss, the Parkhurst Boolety and Jerome,” said the Cap- tain to-day at his homa, No. 236 West One Hundred and Thirty- elghth street, to an Byening World reporter, “but so long as they are |all shooting at me I am here to stay. apes shall stay until I have Gon- |vinced these very people and others that 1 am a good policeman in every jsense of the word, and then I will get out, but not before then, “1 won der if these men who have continued to pound me~Mons, Park- wet and Jerome: ever takew the trouble to examine my record tor THE W THE SHAKEUP, A snapshot of Capt. Smith. (Continued from First Page.) thirty-seven years in the Police De- partment? If they did they would dis- cover that I have one of the best of records. They would find that I have nevey been fined one day's pay. No Devery Man, ‘They have repeatedly mixed me up with Devery, but I can swear that I have never personally met Devery more than six or seven times. I am a black Republican “While I was away on my vacation in Florida they tried to show that £ in- terfered with Father Curry's boye’ school on James street, and was negli- gent of my duties with reference to putting a stop to alleged vices existing Father Curry and I are good friends. that I am remaining home on sick leave proparatory to getting out of the department. Now, I am not going to get out—not until I have caused cer- tain persons to change thelr minds. I'l go to Brooklyn and do my work well. It is @ long way from my home, but I have been forced to take these tong trips before. Thompson Wroth. Inspector Walter Thompson wes the angriest man in town to-day when he friendship to Devery, Evening World reporter. “You print this just as I give it, see? Bill Devery! ‘That man was no friend of mine! What the —- do I care for Bill Devery? He Was never any friend of mine and I never had any use for him. “I'm lke an old soldier and know enough to obey the last order first, The Commissioner transferred me, and {t's not necessary for any one but him and me to know. “This thing about Deveryism and me makes me tlred. I'll tell you what I did: They put me in the Tenderloin and I cleaned it up and they played tag over my head, Who was it when there was a single-headed Commissioner that had me transferred three times? Was it "BUl’ Devery or ‘Mike’ Murphy? “It was 1 who carried the election for THE PUBLIC HAVE long since found out that straight Whiskey and straight TAY. ORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1902. | INSPECTOR THOMPSON IS LOST IN DARKEST LONG ISLAND. o Police Inspector Walter Thompson lost his way to his new headquar- ters in Long Island City to-day minutes late on the blotter. missed the fer w the car and anked a boy w mowers, 1 mince! the summer. “Hello, boys! Great plnce tha It made lots wht r right to and clei there, Dig under the sand pilen find? them on the east side, and that made | BIll_ Devery sore many fellows who kept r ers saying: ‘Get rid of Thom because 1 was honest hy m why I am over here. But wal name linked with De y use for him, an injunction to keep him from using my name.” To a friend to-day the Inspector sald that the reason he had been transferred was that during the Installation of Pres- 1 , ——_— t I never had an; dent Butler at Columbia University he moved an automobil he entrance to the lib he said, was a Inspector remov WIFE BRINGS CROSS SUIT. Rahway Residents eclal to The Eveulng World.) K June 10.—Rahway| Stephen Cowper, cupied seats in the Court of | Pavonia Yacht , when the taking of} worth a fe divorce proc 1 the ‘ground’ of desertion, The couple are weil known society leaders, ’ Johnson’ has filed a cross bill in| pox, anc which she alleges cruelty a ser The coupie w: 1900. The husba son of Henry Johnson, a we ss man, who retired some rs daughter of Ash-/Club house and will fumigate it and well Browne, of Ra’ Boats In Accident. Coroner Golderkranz held an Inquest y in the death of John C. Atter- promoter of West New Brigh- in a collision OF "the health officers. W sland, between |that Mr, Cooper pad small Edwin |¢ ac which broke the latter's bowsprit and damaged the ferry-]away before they could be were ex-| Mr. Cooper is also a onerated and discharged as no evidence [clubs and has been know was produced to show that either were |spirited citizen. His family to blame for the accident. The captains of both bo! frat)? watt the wromge car, t got away ap cre and I knew that muat be the wrong direct wre hendquarters wan It anid, (Aw, take a Jackson avenue car 1 got t ckwon avenue and landed ont £ to wet ap “Well! continued the Inspect anrround headauarters, “you nee all these gambling I-rooms and dixorderly places. New, I want yon to n them all ont. There's tote of The Inspector was not in a good humor. and accordingly he is marked as three na then [got ated, and h e wrong ent by nenr an ocen hin in a lovely As he entered Police Headquarters three minutes late he told the desi Sergeant to mark him late, and then he shook ha Central Office detectives who had heen sent over to work with him during ds with eight Moat all of you are from the old Fourth Ward. © Captain and Inspector, pointing to the big yacant no ing whrt crimes you will Wealthy Man a Small-Pox Victim and All of His Guests Wilf Have to Be Vaccinated in| —Events Cancelled. | Commodore of the Club, and said to be enter- half million dolla tained a large party of frienc t the day. and after a cruise | te complained of not feeling well. ‘This af oon physicians discovered that pr was suffering from small- as a result much alarm is evi- a dent He 1g in his palatial home at No, 260 |Garfleld avenue, Jersey City, and the place 4s under quarantine. Health officers have gone to the Payonla Yacht vaccinate all the members and servants of the club, besides others who may NOT TO BLAME FOR DEATH. | have come in contact with Mr. Cooper. The party Mr, Cooper served Sunday of | dinner for was large, Including several women, and all of these will have to be vaccinated. It mav be necessary to isolate some of them. All events on the yacht club's pro- gramme will be cancelled by suggestion ¥ the ne ox reac ‘al exodus. getting ecinated he club there was a gen prevent the people the police guarded the pla ber of other as a public entertains extensively In society. as that of Dominico Ri years old, of 2 nue, where he was in the business of making gultars and mandolins with his brother, Geegorto, om FIER HAUANA WATER SUPPLY CUT OFF \Big Main Bursts and Street Is Flooded — City Is Without Water, but Work of Repair Is Being Rushed. (Copyright, 1902, by the Preas Publishing Company, New York World.) (Special Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) HAVANA, June 10.—Karly this morn- ing the great h water main sup- plying the elty broke at the corner of Figuras and Belascoin streets, leaving the city waterless. The flood from the break rushed down a newly built street, destroying it, but doing no damage otherwise. ‘There was great alarm over a pros- peective drought, as the big reservoir outside the city was drained, but it 1s hoped the bi can be repaired before serious inconvenience is felt. The reservoir 1s being rapidly re- filled: It is thought a heavy steam roller, working on the new street, cracked the main, BRIDGE SUICIDE IDENTIFIED, Man Decapitated by Train Wan a Guitar Maker. The body of the man who committed suicide by Jumping in front of a bridge car was Identified to-day at the Morgue meni, forty-three o, 249) Amsterdam ave- The latter identified the body and Je arrangements for ‘ts burial. near the school. 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