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ap — ered with After Being _ Dying from House Cell - Hospital. ‘What may develop Unconscious from a cell epileptic fits. knew how to care for him the selzures. man giving the name of ‘been arraigned in the H gould give no account of “wis at one time a trained him lying unconscious, > gponded. 5 ies Doctor Said “Fak: take him to the hospital. ) | Brummell was insistent, ‘Mmoonsclous, and taken to Where he died on Monday ‘Mrs, Whitsell and the newspaper re- Porters were told that the $f @ fmotured akull, and Mrs, Whitsell jon to hi . the Merritt Company's establishment. ner’a Physiclan Weston performed an certificate of death ‘Autopsy and gave dedema of the lungs. @vidence of a fractured sk! could be learned. The body was whe saw Its condition she West One Hundred and street station and wanted to know how ‘nd where her husband had been ar- rested, Mrs. Whitsell Tefused her and that rhe from the station. She has to learn how her husband 7) man who would drink and his home. x of Fifty-secon street ue near a , SAYS her husband wa u dea the police who arre: At a1 what he died of. hospital authorities te! ‘8 office that they t ad died of a fractu not know for a certa ma Loosen, one of oon by Capt. Myles d from the force Partridge to-day. led last week. Quigley, ¢ the three other hear their fate later. Victim's ud Fo aileged, " baker, who lives | were enemies Street an condit in 8t. V be into another MeAuliffe case is that of Gurge “Whitsell, a chef, of No. 337 West Forty-ninth street, who was taken _ One Hundred Fifty-second street sta- _ tion to the Harlem Hospital, where he died Monday morning. At the hospital it was stated that skull, but when the widow claimed ‘the body it was found to be covered with contusions from head to foot. The man's chest, arms, abdomen and legs were black and blue. Had Three Epileptic Fits. Whitsell had been employed at Dun- sston’s for some time, and on Friday last, | between 11 and 12 o'clock, had three His employers wanted him to go to bed there, but he said he Preferred to go home to his wife, who Shortly before noon he started for his 1, and Mrs. Whitsell was advined of departure. She waited up for him ali of Friday night and Saturday, care- folly watching the newspapers to see whether or not he had become {ll on/ the street and sent to any of the hos- pitals, She learned that late Saturday ‘Court on a charge of intoxication and remanded for one day by Magistrate Crane because he appeared to be in @ stupor. Whitsell was apparently dazed and @id.not appear to be drunk. Whitsell “yas placed in a cell, and late Saturday @fternoon Head Keeper Brummell, who | > Brummet! from his hospital experience > believed Wahitsell was suffering from a i tured skull and called a Harlem pital ambulance, and Dr. Griel re- man was “faking” and refused to ‘Whiteel! was put in the ambulance, atill then taken to Mrs. ‘Whiteell's home and she claims that it qwas so badly bruised and beaten up that she hardly recognized it. Jem or what he was doing there when » @rrested. She says that he was not a | The police of the West One Hundred | | | a Whitsen was picked up in av the station-house Saturda appeared to be drunk. They that it was After his death | SHOOTER OFF FORCE. an John Loosen Dismiasea | Staten Island Folk Accuse A. By Comminsioner Partridg. hn the it “shooting craps” in the James Campbell tridge announced that he would y time to read the testimony care- In Held to Await Result of njuries. lero, twenty-seven Sjwas remanded for examination on ei? by Magistrate Poo! in the Tombs Laudiero on Sunday last, thot Genero Russo, a hot him in the ———— DLICEMAN RETIRED. | Aléxander Barr was to-day re- ¥ Police Commissioner Part- je.recommendation of Burgeons. Sergt. Burr | Broadway and Twenty-elghth stree: at of the Police De- he. /HITSELL’S WIDOW SAY POLICE BEAT HIM TO DEATH “Chef's Body Was Cov- Bruises Taken Station to the in the West S GEORGE WHITSELL. when he had Whitsell had farlem Police Democratic State Convention met here to-day and rapid progress was made in the transaction of business. The Johnson party was in complete himeelf. He CEDAR POINT, O., Sept. 2.—The long {financial policies the muney auestion| received a g OHIO DEMOCRATS INDORSE BRYAN. Following Lead of Tom Johnson They Re-Affirm Kansas City Platform—Denounce Monopolies. Wall street interes cannot die. Rejects 16 to 1 Theory, “You know T have nevor doctrine commonly known 4s ‘Ii to 1° who do ac nurse, found | control. It dictated the platform iets Dorr see nity ihene | . r vecause T have beltey which indorsed the Kansas City dec-/ yer, that the free-silvear ¢ laration of the party’s national policy and paid a warm tribute to W. J. Bryan. Rev. Herbert Bigelow, of Cincin- son man, was named for Supreme Court and the whole Jonnson State the hospital, tek bi + 1 ' Shall we continue to govern slatantsifcet seven RincnEE tal bs aud welghing | mi s ticket was chosen by acclamation. colonte Fashis about one hundred and forty pounds. orning, y ° lonies from Washington, an diatant| oye omn hair and wore a mark metiaiea Tom Johnson as temporary Chatr-| provinces governed by imperial) sutt and a black derby hat. In the man had | ‘i Rome before her fall and as crown col-|atruggle with Bergen and Moonry his eS net Address, which iwaain | nies ure governed by the Britlah Bhic| at wha hiomrea ofand: then thet old art as follows: F ‘ x not stop to pick tt up, e police hope so shel body Pat pire to-day? That queetion also ts at} ty use the hat as an-ald jn identifying | ndertaking | ‘"Dhe principles of Democracy, always | hottom a monopoly quesiion. * Yere| the man old but never obsolete, confront us to- day both in local and In national ques- tons. There Coro- He found no ull so far as Destroy the Monopolies, “One of the national questions relates “PUBLICITY—that might protect investors against fraud; bat how could it protect the public against; monopoly, which is the basis of trostet “Men whose Incomes have increased When went to the Fifty-second t t AMINATIONS OF THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THE TRUST; IT IS THE go far from as some would have us belleve, Dead]? though It may be in o m, {tis alive in other and more ralleal forms. 30 ell. t destitute | her hus- | is certain| suggested by, Mr. and indorsea" the of the party as “faithfully and ably rep. ernment by Posed to all other lega and privileges we condemn every effort ignore them.” lirst great protest of the ple against monopoly—1 struggle here of the masses nzainat the privileged classes lt was not free silver ing.’ nat!, was nominatedfor Secretary of|ened the plutocrath State without opposition. WHAT THEY FEARED Head Keeper| Judge Michael Donnelly, « John-| MEN. and finally “We have in national the vital questions of self-government would be no subject cold nlea culd give no monopoly franchises, The platform adopted fol! ohnson, to trusts. For this evil our adversarics | resented in the presidential campalim of advise publicity as the remedy. 100 by Willlam Jennings Bryan.” Continuing, It declares: | “Regardln, these principles as opposed to Impertal- ism and colontalism, as opposed to. poy: nciton, as opposed to trusis and trust-fostering tariffe, as op- in, oeed to Ananclal monopol ) repudiate o Other planks were: he denial of the “That we demand the an: code which provides absolute home rule for municipalities. which niclpalities, and to street © service plants as they may established under muntctpal and operation.’ THE WOxLD: wevansvs’ KVEI American peo-| thlef freed himself and ran to the plat- nsas City platform 20 shall TWO SLASHED ANU THE |A Desperate Fight in Which One Man Wiil Prob-bly Be Injured Permanently. PASSENGERS SCARED. None Came to the Rescue | and Man That Tried to Grab a Watch Escaped After} a Chase. Edwin Bergen, a brakeman on the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Raflroad, living at Fifth and Grove streets, Jersey City, {s in Flower Hospital with two deep gashes in his left arm which the dootors say will render the limb per- manently useless. The wounds were received in his desperate fight with a thief in a Third avenue elevated train. Thomas Mooney, an elevated train guard, living at No. 710 Bast One Hundred and Twenty-third street, is also in the Flower Hospital with similar wounds, but his injury will not result so seriously. Bergen was riding in en uptown train when he saw @ thief across the aisle NG, SiP7’ LMBkit 3, 1902, CROWD ON 6TH AVENUE “L” SAW MAN GROUND TO DEATH DIAGRAM SHOWINS THE ACCIDENT Life Crushed Out of John Mangin and Three Other Work- men Injured Near Twenty-eighth Street. THE DEAD. MANGIN, JOHN, forty-five years old. married, No. 8% East One Hundred and Fourteenth street. THE INJURED. FASSIG, PETER, forty-five years old, 26 «Bast Wighty-third street; arm broken, internal injuries, cuts and bruises, New York Hospital. SBEBECK, CHARLES, forty years old, 108 Manhattan street; cuts about the face and head. Taken home. GMITH, FRANK, thirty-five years old; No. 300 East One Hundred and Twen- ty-sixth street; cut about face home. How It Was Caused. ath it of el & gold watoh from tne passenger. back of bis seat and 6 eo thief, an pinned the feat the leant) By Ing on him, and In the struggle h fotlowed the pick- pocket, eves rasor from his a slashed to ite dictate our otrugg! men. down cd bold the ¢ ash hief's leg he which rendered his arm useless. Both called for help. There were twenty other men in the car, but they accanted the |seemed frightened and ran into the other | ung in the arrest. ing into the Fifty- station. Bergen’s arm through the injury to the! ight was the| muscles tnfllcted by the cute and the ted to fol- swung his form, Others In the car low him. but he turned ai razor about him and cried: “Keep back. I'll cut the first one who 2 firs: great that fright-|comes near me. I'll cut his head off. Keep back." lo leaders.| ‘This had the effect he desired and his WAS FREE | timid pursuers halted wa he turned and vaulted the closed gates, ran across the platform, by the ticket chopper and polities also] 208R the atairs to the street. Bergen told the police that the thief was a smooth-faced young man, five! The name of the owner of the watch was not learned. He was drunk, and, during the excitement of the thlef's| escape, he staggered out of the car and down to the street without even know- Ing that he had been robbed. ontes if Golo- lows ‘the lines It “reaffirms | gates, Jumped to the tracks. While 200 passengers looked on,! @ man was run over and killed and three others injured by a heavily laden train on the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad at the Twenty- i eighth etreet station to-day. The body of the man run over was dragged fifty yards and torn apart. The wildest excitement followed the accident. brought to a stop hundreds of the passengers, who had crowded to the were followed by most of the passen- and} arms, body severely bruised, Taken ON THE “L” ROAD. | Engineer, in Fear of | the 200 Passengers | Who Swarmed on the Tracks, Locked the Door of His Cab. rumble of the approaching train is pe- Meved to have caused {t to slip so thit Mangin's shoulder projected out of line. Warning Was Too Late. | same time It Is necessary for the men| Seeing this a number of men on the between to stand in a line shoulder to| passenger platform yelled to him to ahouldee! | Stand in close to the giatlonary train on fe north- & A north-bound train had arrived at] Jate. Just as the engine aicuck hints the Twenty-elghth street station with | number of women screamed, Mangin only a few pavsengers aboard, as the| Wa® lifted and thrown about. He first tra Me at that hour is toward the down- | bound’ ‘ne ‘steuck® Seabecins one eres town section. him Titel oie At the same time a crowded south- Winging his own body under movin, n. bound train was seen to approach from | “"g ws Roundsman Hertz arraigned Allen be- the north. |fore Magietrate Deuel in the Jefferson Mangin, who was the furthest nortn, Market Court, who remanded the pris- Was etanding on a loose plank and the oner to the Coroner. Ad? sfarger ISHORN BOER LAUDS AMERICAN BARBERS Engineer Munnik Hopes the Whiskered Generals Will Visit Our Shores if Only to Get a Good Shave. J. H. Munnik, former State Mining Engineer under the Transvaal Govern= ment, sailed for Southampton, on his way to South Africa, on the steamship St. Paul to-day. He was accompanied by many members of Boer socletles in New York. “I have been treated most cordially by Aferican#’ said Mr. Munntk, “and I hope that our Boer Generals will come over here for a visit, even it only to be shaved by one of your bar- bers. I never knew the luxury of @ shave until I e to this country. “As Ihave before, I expect South to rapidly rise from its ‘ re, and in a short time be Africa now ashes, as it wi one of the leading vountries of the world. I shall quietly submit to the new government, although it was as hard for me as any one (o realize that we had been beaten. “[ predict a great future for South Atrica, for I do not think there fs any country In the world that has such & foundation for a great empire as So} Africa. I am sorry that I am going away and I shall look forward to re- turning,” ———<—-—— INDICTED FOR MURDER. BRIDGETON, N. J., Sept. 3—Coroner McPherson finished his inquest in the Holmes murder case to-day. Nothing new wes brought out, and the jury re- turned a verdict holding Job Murray Williams, who is now under arrest for the crime. When the train was | They | gers who were awaiting the train on, the station platform. The tracks soon swarmed with an excited mob,| many of whom accused the engineer Engineer Feared the Crowd. John Allen, engineer of the engine which caused the accident, feared the anger of the people and closed the cab doors, locking himself in. He could not | move his train out of the station, as the tracks were blocked by the people. On the platform and in the trains many women, frightened by the screams of the men and women on the platform who had witnessed the accident, fainted. The four men were employed In in- stalling the third or contact rail for the electric system. The passage between the tracks {s 80 narrow that to permit trains to pass in both directions at the GIRL DIED AFTER LOVERS’ QUARREL y and ax op- 4 monopolies 8 all information waa] but little or not at all, but whgse liv-| “That the denial of ight of peace. was ordered |Ing expenses have increased enormous: | #16 persuasion In times of labor diss . ) not been able|ly—why should they care for publicity? | freemen,” and that government py In| Pretty Fannie Rudin Took got to Har-] “WHAT IS NEEDED I8 NOT EX-| junction, if norsieied tn, will wreck the! a Doge of Carbolic Acid actment of a and Left a Letter for the tystem| Coroner. SWEEPING OF MONOPOLIES| the right to establish the merit system © are{ with civil service, under which that ays- FROM THE STATUTE BOOKS OF | tem, as now In use in fire and police de- station say partments, may be. strengthened and Amster THE PEOPLE. perfected and be extended (9 other mu-| Recause she had quarrelled with her “The money question also {s national.| nicipal departments, particularly to wa- yl And let me tell you this is no dead issue, | ter and lighting plants operated by mu-| sweetheart, pretty (annie Rudin, a ar and public reafter be ownership | shirt-waist operator, killed herself with carbolic acid in her room, No. 383 Mad- Her failure to appear this z iwon street. ten to deatiy SAY SOCIETY MAN KILLS THEIR CATS, oned the ught Whit- | skull, but | H. Tucker, of Philadelphia, of Wholesale Massacre of Feline Pets. Policemen O'Rellly, we by Commis- Loosen was Dislike for cate ts one of the ruling passions of Albert H. Tucker, of Gor don place, New Brighton, 8. I., accord- ing to his nelghbors, Mr. Tucker ts a prominent society man of Philadelphia | and his wife was a daughter of Dr. Pepper, the famous professor of medi: | cine at the University of Pennsylvania. He spends his summers at New Brigh- | ton, Nolghbors complain that he has deen | shooting every cat that appears on his | place, Angoras and other fine antmals | have met death from Mr. Tucker's rifle, according to his neighbors, Complaint was made to Agent Elliott, of the Soclety for the Prevntion of Cruelty to Animals, but he could do Jnothing, as he had ne evidence against Mr. Tucker. and officers tried, Commisaton- in the Bronx, in Italy and } ec TAKES HIGH BALL ON A FORK | Bedinf Will Perform on a Broadway Crow Jehan Bedini, a variety actor whose Specialty is catching turnips and pota- toes thrown from great heights on at | fork held In his mouth, will appear on Russo a behind him Is sald to incent’s Hos- ect for the hoon to-morrow, Oars, He will stand on the curbstone and was attached |oatch a three-ounce turnip thrown from im, lass, |the roof of thu lofty St. Jame: Bulld- of the Police |ing. There is a bet of several hundred Aid at the | dollars on the result of the feat ve- At the rica] manager, and a wing agent named Chappelle, a GIRL TOOK POISON, ~ MABE BY MISTAKE | Suffering from Hysteria, She Swallowed Four Ounces of Carbolic Acid and Died Be- ore. Ambulance Arrived, Suffering from hysteria, berg, twenty-four years ol Madleon avenue, swallowed four ounces of carbolle acid to-day, hi Meve by accident. The young woman father, Louls Lindenberg, @ younger sister, Julla, in nished second-floor the ollest daughter. good health mothers’ death made her invalid, She was constantly taking medicine, and to-¢ay hearing and found Mary lying ui the floor with a carbolic her side, a cupbourd her younger where the Heves she took the wrong | take, Dr. Plotz was called an sent for a Harlem Hospital ambulance, but before it arrived the was dead SAVES A DROWNING BOY. Lad of Nine Fell fro Dock-Bullder Rescued Him, * Thomas Reilly, nine years old, of 632 East Fourteenth street, to-day while playing on foot of Bast Nineteenth a Thomas Hoey, near, and throwing off his ed into the water and with ‘wouble. Th apartment, mother died a year ago and all fell upon She was not in very and worrying over hor ns in the sitting-room, went The carbolic acid was kept in young woman | kept her medicines, and her family be- @ dock-bullder, morning caused no alarm on ,the art of her landlady, Mrs. Goldman, aa tt was her custom to sleep late. When she had not appeared at noon Mrs. Goldman became alarmed and broke in. The young woman was found dead ta bed with a vial which had contained carbollc acid by her side. Her face and neck were badly burned. @he left a letter for the Coron "The young womna has relatives in Brooklyn, but Mrs. Goldman does not know where they live. She has been living at Mra, Goldman's about eight months and worked for @ Broadway suit manufac- turer, Mrs, Goldman said to-day that Miss Rudin and her sweetheart had quarrelied several times recently and that the girl was frequently in tears. DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING. Mary Linden- Id, of No. 1650 er famity be- ed with her a tallor, and |Tagboat Deckhand Sucocumbed @ nicely-fur- | While im Bathing Off Oak Point. | Her! nest Johnson, seventeen yeara old, a deckhand on tugboat No. M4 of the New York and New Haven Railroad, went in swimming at Oak Point last night. He was drowned, not yet been found. practically an PATTERSON-MIZEN WEDDING NOTABLE, Guests Thronged Church of Nativity, Which Was Beauti- ful in Floral Decorations— Page Attended Bride. In the Church of Second avenue near Adeline Mizen was married to G. H. Paterson by Rev. J. B. Retlly last night in the presence of hundreds of friends of the bride and bridegroom. The church was prettily decorated for the occasion, floral offerings from friends delng banked in profusion at the ohance! rail, while the aisles of the church were decorated simply but pret- tily with blossoms and ropes of ribbons. Festoons of flowens and smilax decor- ated the organ loft. The wedding march from “Lohengrin” was played as the bridal party entered the church, the bride attended by Mies Lillian Castle and Mr. John 8. Patter- gon acting as dest man. The maid of honor was Miss Adelene Herre! and Master Willlam Koch acted as page. He was attired in court costume and was a pretty figure in the general pic- ‘ture presented by the wedding party. The gowns of the ladies attending the ride were rich and of exveptionally deautiful design. ‘The ushers were Mr. Frank Brosnan, Mr. Harry Bartlett, Mr, Phillp MoGuire and Mr. Guy L. Harrington. After the wedding reception and sup- the Nativity, on Third street, Miss pes, the newly wedded couple, lett for home". ‘SH’ wast’ One Hundred home” ‘at No. and Twentieth street when they return. Sn Prevention is better than cure Sunday World Wants prevent Busi- The body has} seen Failures. sister, Julia, | ~~ noonaclous on acld bottle by bottle by mis- 4 immediately young woman m Plier and 6th and 13th, when fell overboard a@ plier at the treet, was coat he ju: West Twenty-third Street. Stern Brothers Announce that their store will be open until 6 P. M., on week days, except Saturday, Sept. it will close at Noon. othe ene Store. WE ST “Growing Remarkabie Opportunities for Assortments are broader than ever. upon equal qualities. Portiere Specials. | At 4.25 Pair—Reversibie Portieres, in red! and green, \At 1.5 Pair y Armures and Repp At 2,50)rs" iPordsres, wie 9430! \At 2.25 At 3.98 Pait-—Selt-Color Armure, embroit At 4,98 Pair- Empire and Rococo Effects, At 5.98 Pa esr value $7.50. At 6.98 Pair Every thread of the stock is new and desirable. At 3.9 cause) At 498 P Silk Mercerized Portieres, value $9.75. At 5.9. nbercco a ™= ST Lace Gurtains and Portieres. These advance sales of fall curtains and portieres have made the Rothenberg store famous. Just at the very beginning of the time when you most desire beautiful effects in home decorations we place them befot Per Pair—Real Scotch Lace Curtains ; 344 yards long; value $2.50. Per Pair—irish Point Lace Curtains; value $3.75. | Per Pali At 2.98 *tain Per Pair—Point D'Arabe Lace Car tains, er Pair—Renaissance Lace Curtains, usually sold at $6.50. Per Pair—Fine Irish Point Lace Cur- tains, worth $7.50. f4..2-4.t.0n “Wuaranteed or floney Promptly Refunded. Fall Buying. re you at a‘tounding price concessions. Prices are far lower than ever before Lace Curtains. r—Genuine Antique Lace Cur- ; worth $4.50 per pair. worth $5.50. | $2.00 Rope Portieres at 98c. 7 feet long and full width; 12 leading colors, to dad stripes, | match any furnishing. ae ae is ngth 9 8c! fs 432.00 Couch Covers at 98c, le 50 inches wide and full 98| to hang, at we have for you. The largest lines that we the styles that you will admire. Here are examples of prices: Garpets. Bigelow Axminster Carpets, borders to match, per yd 90¢ Smith's Axminster Carpets, borders to match, per yd. 80¢ All-Wool Velvet Carpets, per yard dining-room, sittin; m, hall and stair pat- 59c Li inoleum. oleum, in 3 and 4 yard 59 per square yd.; special at c 65c. per square yd; special at yd.; special at. . $19.50 Japanese Oriental famous for terns, able { Higgins’s Best Velvet Carpets, some with bor- 70c Smith's Best Brussels Carpets, in parlor, r terns—the regular 95-cent grade at 79c.; regu- Genulne Hand Printed Scotch Lin- widths, exceptional as- Good Cork Linoleum, 2 yards wide, English Enamelled Floor Ollctoth, ders, per yd ++ 596 lar §5-cenl grade at 69c.; regular 75-cent grade sortments; worth 89c, in splendid patterns; worth 39, (J 2,1 1-2 and 4 yard widths; worth 45c. per square 29¢ Ast 100 Oak Side- boards (like cut), French mir- ror, handsomely carved top and base, lined silver drawer, cast brass handles; value $22.50; sale price, 14.50 | $16.50 Couch for $9.00. 75 Indestruct- ible Couches, like illustration, & heavy oak frame, covered! in a choice selec- $68.00 Pario This 5-Piece Parior Suit, Verona velour; choice colors: $65.00, sale pricessecsscceeues | finest tion of velours; a written guar- antee with each couch; positively. wort! this sale at Pees s Save 16Gents a Window. 45¢.Lace Window Shades, 29c. ON SALE TO-MORROW-—1,000 BEST OPAQUE WINDOW SHADES, 36x72, beautiful lace edge, best spring roller, 6 colors to choose from, good value at 45c.; complete, ready Floor Govering and Rug Specials. You'll be neglecting rare economy pppor tunities if you buy Floor Coverings or Rugs without seeing the showings that ve ever carried are here, Bright, new, attractive Fall designs and colorings; Extra quality, strictly all wool and shown in effective Turkish and floral patterns; 12 feet long and 9 feet wide, usually sold at $19.50, special for this sale at...... Reversible Smyrna Rugs, 12 ft. x 9 ft., usual $12.75 value; special at. strictly hand made and worth $9.98 each; special at 50 Genuine ee) Rugs, 9 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, leir At, cseeeerencenecececsssereestresescsetseere Reversible Smyrna Rugs. 30 Reversible Smyrna Rugs, shown in rich Oriental pat- 15 feet long and 12 feet wide, suit- for very large rooms and usually sold at $25.00, special to-morrow at Granite Rugs at $1.49. A Special Lot of 100 Granite Rugs, 9 feet long and 6 ft. wide, strong and durable, all colors; special to-morrow at . ounding Furniture Prices. covered in French gobelin tapestry, silk damask or $10.50 Beds for $6.98, We will place on sale to-morrow, 50 Stee! and Brass Beds, like illustration, heavy . pil lars and solid brass scrolls; these beds are in three sizes 29c just Rugs. Brussels Rugs, $13.98, 13.98 7.98 6.98 Rugs, 10 ft, 6 in. x 7 ft. 6 in, durability, $13.50 value, 9.98 17.50 1.49 actual value piano finis!