The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1902, Page 3

GABLES SAFE Damage by Fire to New East River Structure Not So Great as at First Supposed. ONLY TWO MONTHS DELAY, Charles G, Roebling Says His Loss Will Not Exceed $75,- 000 and It Will Not Be Nec- essary to Take Down Cables, After a conference with all the en- gineers, those of the difforent companies and those representing the Bridge Com- mission. Charles G. Roebling, represent- ing the John A. Roebling’s Sons Com- pany, made this statement this morning: Mr. Roebling’s Statement, “The loss to my company will be be- tween $50,000 and $75,000 and will in no event exceed the latter figure. “There will be a delay of only two months in the completion of the work, “The damage is not so serious as was at first believed. It will not be neceseary to take down any one of the cables. “It will not be necessary to rebuild the foot bridge. “We were getting ready to take down the foot bridges and have the travelling carriages all ready to put on the cas- ing. There will be no delay there.” “The wires from which these cables are made are air-chilled and thoroughly tested before they leave the shops in Trenton. The saddles upon which they rest in passing over the towers are made of the highest test steel, and from these tests we know ‘t would take two or three days for such a heat as that of last night to in anyway affect the cables or saddles. “after the investigation we shall probably decide to cut out short pieces of the outside strands of the cables and splice new pleces tn their place: Martin Differs with Him. Between .the estimates of damage given by Mr. Roebling and Kingsley L. Vere PHOTOGRAPH ber will not exceed twenty. To replace the burned parts and splice will not be Martin, engineer of the Bridge Commis- sion, there is considereble difference. Mr. Kingsley, who went to the top of the tower last night, sald that the south cable nad been Badly damaged and that it mignt have to be replaced. He suid the cable cost $600,000, and that If it was found necessary to replace that cable the loss to Roeblings would amount to that. Climb Burned Structure. ‘The four principal engineers in charge of che construction of the new East River Bridge, accompanied by an Even- ‘ng World reporter, this morning made the periious ascent of the burned and warped Manhattan tower to the par- tally culned canies where they buckle over the top and start in either direc- tlon for the river and for thelr anchor- ages. A complete investigation will be made and the engineers will then be able to Such a great expense or take a great Tengen of time. “Bat cable No. 1, the south cable, badly damaged, and it may have to spliced or entirely replaced. ‘These cables cost $609,006 exch and from that a fairly good idea may be had of the Jamas." Battalion Chief's Bravery. The heroism of Battalion Chief Guerin, of the Fire Departinent. 1s praised b; the enginee his is what Kingsley L. Martin, engincer in charge of steel construction, sald: * Chief Guerin climbed to the top of the tower while the fire was hotest, and being unable to get a hose there né kept is the re from spreading to the north tower by carrying water in his helmet | from barrels ‘and dashing it on the flames, He continued that until there was no further danger of a spread. It wax a remarkably brave feat. Several times he came “near falling to the groun]. When I saw him fighting fire that way then I sald to myself, ‘He ts certalniy a hero.’ Lindenthal to Investigate. Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal will make a report to Mayor Low to-day on determine the exact amount of damage done by the spectacular fire, The party included O. F. Nichols, chief engineer of the construction; assistant engineer Kingsley L, Martin, in charge of the structural steel; assistant engineer Hol- ton, obinson, !n charge of cable con- struction, and Withelm Hildenbrand, chief engineer for the John A. Roeb- lng’ Sons Company. ‘The ascent was started in single file over a treacherous and debris-tilled Iad- der. Two stenographers were taken along to take the notes made by the enginee: Parts Still Hot. Pasts of the stecl structure were still hot from the intense heat of the flames and the progress upward was delayed considerably by the stifling vapors and smoke which rose from the smoldering mass of wreckage which was heaped be- low the thwer. For many blocks around the base of the tower a cordon of several hundred police was stretched to keep the crowds back. While all danger {s not over tt 1s belleved by the engineers that if one bf the great strands of woven steel, over a foot and a half in diameter, were to break it would tear the tower from {ts foundation in the recoil. For that reason no one was permitted in the danger zone. . Cable No. 1 Ruined, Assistant Engineer Yastin would not offer to predict wha? delay the fire would cause to the completion or the bridge. He: was asked if it woula be @ year, and he repiled that It mixht de, that th would certainly be a con- siderable delay. When the fire on top of the tower was out Mr. Martin went up, and made a superficial investigation. "Cables Nos. 3 and 4, attached to the north tower,” he sald, "are uninjured. Cable No. 7, the north one on the south tower, js slightly damaged. The upper layer ‘of wires, 0 far as I could see, are the only ‘ones damaged, and their num- the damage to the new bridge. ‘The Mayor talked with the Commisstoner over the phone and suggested an im- mediate investigation. Commissioner Lindenthnl, who resides on Staten Island, waa not apprised of the fire until he reached the Bridge Department at 10 o'clock. He called two Inspectors and proceeded to the ¢ iast oMcial report of the work on the bridge states that the wrappings of the cables with waterproof canvas was complete for a considerable distance {rom the Manhattan tower. It was then calculated that this work would have been finished by Dec. 1. Cover plates had been placed on two of the cable: three hundred feet out from the Man. hattan tower, and the caulking of the Joints of the’ cable bands, which work followed the waterproof wrapping, had all been accomplixhed, ——-—_. KNOWS WHO CAUSED BIG BRIDGE FIRE. Foreman George Green, for the Roeb- lings at the Williamsburg end, made a report to the officers of the company to- day that he kuew who was responsibie for the turning of the bridge, “T know tie name but will not make {t pubtio without the sanction of the company," Green said to an Evening World remmter, “This man threw a lighted cigarette stub Into a barrel of oll He had been cautioned about his carelessness, I was present a few cays ago when his foreman told him that he must not smoke whtle in the ofl house ‘on top of the tower, Men working with him told me he frequently disobeyed the order. “There has been no order against smoking on the bridge, the practice being enjoyed by the men, and it did not Interfere with their work. In fuer, | if there was a particularly dangerous place to go the man assigned tu it seemed to do it with more confidence See as iy TAKEN MINISTER GIVES BOXING LESSONS City, Adds Sparring to the Sports Encouraged in His’ Church. TO DON THE MITTS HIMSELF.) Talk about any one had ot Rev. the true John Doctor of Divinity and pastor of the} First Congregational Church City Heights, he would have underste significance your strenuous visited to-day Scudder, fet Tf the study Yale ‘74, of Jersey A now of this hackneyed term, In a room flanked with great volumes dealing with soul and such sets of boxing gloves which will donned to-night the immortality of the lke, were piled two score be the sctons of Jer- sey {Cty's most fashionable houses, Rev, Dr, Scudder h tmself will be instructor and he hopes, with the material in hand, to turn out more than one Terry Me- Goyern and James J. Corbett. # great deal has been sald and written about athletic Christianity, but this in- novation at the First Church of Jersey City is just a bit more radica! than any There are ne church, represent * Heights, and not a few citizens on the hing yet advanced, arly 1,000 members of the g¢ the most cultured wasped with astonishment at thelr pas- tor's daring idea. No Objections Made. At the same countenance It, achieved such men of Jersey no one of them dis- Dr. Scudder has success with the young Clty through the medium tim of healthful sport that he has the im- plicit confidence of his congregation in his every endeavor. When an F called to-day Bergen avenue World reporter mage, No. 381 City, Dr. ‘Boud- ning der had just left to order more boxing gloves, but his ter, Mrs. Hall, the sparring when he was smoking. But there was obiectigin to smoking around the oll jouse.”” father's study “My father, John Presto is very good, most excellent. It is much quicker than any other It is the best I have ever tried. P24 method too. Jenkintown, Pa, October 18th, 1902. The H-O {%22'}Company married daugh- iy examining Mtterea hi recently was amusi outfit that she sal@ “1s a wonderful The biscuits are delicious, athlete and he believes in an tional church, have some attractions to hold big membership as we have. summer the | tennis courts and 360 In the treasury." institu- In these days you must such @ Why, this church purchased the sport met with such favor that 150 of our young people! Joined and we closed the season with | three | Dr, Scudder is 6 feet in height, with | muscles strong as steel. At played baseball, |run further, punch harder, lob The basement of my church is nasium, every Tuesday to drill. whether I at there or not, j fled." Like Rough Ride! The organization which Dr. effected 18 known as the Roose} i dets, thi e ' Amertoa,' TT having been Univ sonally don church basement and give initi strained body of yo the ‘sity for two years, the mitts to-night one of the cadets learning to no rough-and-tumble business, cation arises when he should an Insult or protect himself, Dh greatest In! the Heights, not on! Out also by y Congre elieve that his system wil in causing’ the Jersey youths to prize-fishting heroes, eee Wealthy William Supreme Court Justice White Plains, to-day appointed J. Tierney and Dr. Manning, Rochelle, and A, Clark, |. All L the alleged Incompetency of Wi Allen, a wealthy resident’ and {mate of the eanttarium of Dr. Ruland at Westport, Conn. He was comautted Dec. ally. tors a on un is ‘sald, a one sister, Mra. EB. V. is now travelling in Japan, ohter denomtr , who do novt cherish Dr, Scudder’s Keogh, Yale he | Was captain of the football team and Rev. John L. Scudder, of Jersey’ In spite of his forty-nine years he can swifter jand cover the links with fewer strokes than any one in his congregation. “If Thad not devoted myself to (Sport. he says, “I would not be alty= | | Religion and health go hand in | hana. | have 150 boys from the ages of | ight to eighteen fn constant training. | a gym- Here the young athletes gather night and have gym- “*A visitor might drop in any time. ‘and he would never hear a word of vulgarity jor blasphemy. My course ts fully justi- Scudder velt Ca- These lads have a uniform of khaki and Rough Rider hats. A United | Suutes Army officer proclaimed them uthe in he pastor Is himself an expert boxer, champion of Yale He will per- in the jal hints ull that can be taken care of. T shall insist.” he says, “upon every spar, Intend that they shall become scientific “A doy that can box and wrestle will never get into trouble, but If the provo- avenge then he t Is manifested on ttonal- ations I result emulate SOCIETY MAN INSANE? Comminsioners Appointed tor jen. In Michae! ot New of West- chester, as commissioners to decide upon Mam 8. former soolety man of Rye, who 1s now an in- Fred D. to the institution 11, 1896, ‘and he imagines con. t that a gang of pursuing him with the n- n of getting possession of his body. Ward, DRIVEN MAD BY USSIA t stroyed Masterpiece Hounded | from Place to Place by Czar’s Secret Agents. \HE IS OF ROYAL BLOOD. 8. B. Rose, a collector of fine paint- ings, of No, 178 Broadway gave to The Evening World to-day some additional facts in the tragic history of Oscar Fer-| lng, the landscape artist, who went! suddenly Insane at the completion of hix masterpiece and was taken to Belle- vue Hospital after destroying his paint- ings and wrecking his studio. | According to Mr. Rose, the mad artist! ix a descendant of one of the royal families of the Russian dynasty, but be- cause he had advocated the refease of; his fellow-countrymen fro mthe strang. ling yoke Imposed by the customs of his country he had been exiled, deprived of exalted title and fortune and then hounded from place to place and house to house, with the ever pursuing, vin- dictive hatred of the Russian Govern- ment. This Js Mr. Rose's atory of the artist as he had gleaned from him plece by} Piece for the past fifteen years: Recognized Painting’s Merit. “When I first met Oscar Ferling fit- ten years ago, he came to me with a| painting, the merit of which I recog-| nized at once. He was a big, fine look- ing man, dressed as only those in the habit of patronizing the best tailors of | the land know how to dress. There wax something in his furtive glance and nervous carriage that impressed me, however, and I determined, if possible, | to learn his history, ' “It was not untll after he had been coming to me for a year that I felt I knew him well enough to attempt to break down his natural reserve, and then I heard from his a story—the truth of which I later learned from investlga- tlon—that eclipse any modern fiction 1 have ever read. “He told me that twenty years ago (Signed) Ernest Zuberano, with John Wanamakes. Wha’ does your cook say? SEES WURLAN LUEBSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER If, 1902. , TO-DAY SHOWING WRECK OF THE NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE AFTER .ONE,.OF THE MOST PICTURESQUE FIRES NEW YORK HAS EVER KNOWN. he ole. dukedom. As he had received a broad} and Mberal education, however, he could not conscientiously fit in with the Idean entertained the common people—the bread-earners— ¢ the fleld, and as they when st Two Fingers Shot of. "One 4 this the of by ’ sent for to the Russian Government went turther atta tis i mpintons, | only brother, were taken prizoners, and prived it was the pampered son of a’ noble Ruaslan, possessed of great wealth and of high standing In the Czar's royal cir- He wns alxo the lineal heir to a! by the nobility did the cattle ill a young man h ety eomewhat akin to the Nihilists. + |from month to montt was driven from pillar to post. e could not visit the Rus- ay he ant the ot aociety wore palice, He eecay two fingers, whic one of the Governm: Ineiuding Siberia to languil rept of thelr livi the familles of th of Ite Uthy tion of Its name, “Ferling made a miraculous from . fa lving Artist Who Went Insane and De- \went that ne was hopelessly exited he ecided to gain wealth and In this great, free land by his art {told me hardly a year after I had met him that with the birth o this ambition as an artist he had conceived the Idea of finiaiing © masterpiece that would startle the world and he began upon that painting fifteen vears ago. ‘He needed a swbtle color ta perfect this inspiration of his genius, and after years of search finally found It. he set out to fulfill the country York, where ho Uy. NEW YORK } Ly, BROOKLYN ! SPIES } itn edict forbidding ever again the men- 5 by his brush. Kni his dr dean 4 with and came to New was compelled to make ever, deen taken. | “Russian heels, joese the c had hardly of yoking| upon to leave hat powerful upon him to. je joined a members jd up the were shot ent Agents. his only |odging-house, j painting ina In enough to in chaina/bave gold d Rut’ the bt ar. able to take Tag 4 and istued | ony” “They the moi yer arrived escape) ernment, “About owing Ruasta. full distinction He learned soon and for fear P. more Hotel, he had thought that driven trom {Would be let alone. elve yelra ago nyas of his masterpiece. been in the studio he had n he was called him ad been brought So It went on to engaged a fortnigat ¥ Hi pre evi y got so thit ithout uarters day liv i Zens from $200 to $200 each, and his native Spies Ever at Hin Heels. soles and Czars government were agents of ever at he started is landlord notified nd from yea: discovering hounds of the poverty that drove ‘alm In a Fitth strect for he could daxh of a that would being hit on for a. mot pt his paintings dh: more time with tiem to him here, of was Yesterdiy against could have had much more, short time ago a relative of Fer-; Hog’s In Russia died and tett him $100 obtained a lawyer to bring When this law- in New York, however. he Was met by agents of the Russian gov- who gave him the option of turning to Ruasia or being cast Into He went back to Russia, five years ago I Before I went mo to deliver a message to_his family, but when I arrived In St. Petersberg t that I stantly followed by went Was being the consequences abandoned the project." 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