The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1902, Page 4

_ Near-but' Her Feeble Old Mother. a With Her ‘Needle the Poor Woman Managed to Drag Out a Miserabic Existence—Had No Food for Four Days Before Her Death. @lizabeth Green, a cripple on crutcnes ./ @ll her life of forty years, a slave with |, ® needle to support her nonogenarian, fleeble-minded mother, is dead in their miserable, naked little room on the scc- nd floor of the tenement at No. 241 i _ ¥ atarvation. About the wrinkled and solled bed on which the body lies, awaiting the arrival yf the Coroner, the weazened little old ‘mother totters and mumbles and wants *\ to know what is the matter with Liz- » sie, “why she doesn't get up and cook )/eomething;” and “why are all th Fehurch people atound, they who have ‘mot been here in so long." In her age-weakened mind she | able to understand that “Lizz! » @ead and that the prop which has sus- + tainea her during her widowhood of a +goore and a half of years has leen taken away, and that the open door of the poorhouse is beckoning to her. + Too Proud to Beg. , The woman died of starvation because whe was too wenk to go to the m t @nd secure provisions on the credit of kindly doctor who was her friend and @ she was too proud to send to him and beg. She probably would not have died had \ Dr. Inslee H. Berry, of No. 165 West ‘Twenty-second street, been well himself For over two years !t has been his “hablt to go to the poverty-wrought ‘ foom, give medicine to both women and ‘take them provisions, He tad told his butcher and his grocer to give them .provisions when they wanted them and charge it to him. Sa this. way they Hved. ‘% “ays tere week Dr. Berry,.was taken "pick and confined to his home, At the @ame time the cripiged spinster became and she was unable to hobble out of house. on her broomstick crutches, nothing in the house to eat became, weak and went to bed. ‘The latter ¢ partition’ which separated room from that of Mrs. Crosby, = the nelghbor who was sometimes kind YL to her and her aged’ charge. Once she tlWato'ac this’and hor pride’ overcamo her. She would not send to Dr. Berry ‘fend beg. But'she could not understand } Why he dia fot come, No Food for Four Days. H Last night the doctor felt able to go 5 out, and his first stop was at the home _ et these two’ triendlexs women, He . found them in a deplorable condition. / Mise’ Green was so weak she could } Mardly speak. Her one sentence was: “Doctor, I haven't eaten a particle of _ 0d In four days." He called in several of the nelghbor- y SE families, sent one of them with a ! eee for food and another for med!- | "I aid not think she was in danger of \ dying," said the doctor this morning. 2 | “I knew she was very weak and sick a great privation, not only of food, but of medl- ‘eine. After staying with her an hour I game heme, resolved to call again early this morning. I was greatly surprised and that she had undergone 1 ‘ ‘ ? } Paid Help Wants in this morning’s World. Paid Help Wants in the thirtes other New York papers combined. ADDRESSERS AGENTS .. ‘a TICES: > akrists | BAKRES LADIES! TAILORE LAUNDR! MACHINISTS INDERS KEEPERS a oa] HDR : MAKERS. PERHA | PHOTOGRAPHERS. 9| PIANO j1ANDS 2) PLUMDERS 3| PORTERS 16/| PRESSME 3) SALESLADIES + 18 | BALESMEN 28 | 3HOE HANDS 6) SKIRT HANDS 2|8oLictToRs ..., STRAMFIT! iS. BTOCK CLERKS ., STENOGRAPibAS., TAILOR BS8E8 TAILORS PTINSMITHS *6.< UPHOLSTER ERS: > 2 12 oll DIES OF HUNGER. Elizabeth Green Expires in Her Miserable Home with None TOILED THOUGH AN INVALID. 8|ROOFERS:..,..4.... 5 wt vw ag) Papers made 204 haa ELIZABETH GREEN. when I was informed that she had died during the night. “It can hing else than starva- tion, She was to» proud to send for me. If she had only let me know that she was sick I could have sent another doc- r. It Is too bad." I never know a woman with higher notlves,” said the doctor e had a noble spirit life had been on -sacrific, yet 1 never heard J} Her Love for Mother, don halt to the New York Hespital and her hip disease. Her re- y was: ‘Then, wh “Hor mothe t will become of mother?! has nN exceedin hidish and unable to underetand things for many years and-I assured: her that vie would care for her mother until she Was out of the hospital, Then she would be better able to oare for herself and her mother, But she wae fearful and Would not ‘abandon her mother for a ‘She never remembered her father. ars ugg T wanted | THE WOKop: ‘rHURSDAY EVENING. TE ERR TY ETE TERETE TET OLE SR EE NOVEMBER 20, ICGRIPPLED NEEDLEWOMAN WHO STARVED TO DEATH. a child her hip w Jured in un t, and since then she hag been # constantly becoming worse, mmenced to sew As handle a needle. ith a lttle outside later years, she ry scantily’ for to provi mother and he Lived in One Room. “I don’t bi meal ina re e that she, ant, Her i Spent In one room bed has on boards and her ir has been a box refrom luxury, she never knew | what the simples enlence As, “Ror a time the «of Dr. Mottet's Jchurch, ‘Twentleth street and. Sixth Javenue, gave her sewing to. do, but |Tecently they have not been near her. While she had no word of reproach |for them she thought It was pecullar | that they yped thetr visits Just when Jahe was getting to need them most.” Miss Green and her mother had ved in the West Twenty-second street house for elght years, In thelr single room they had a rickety old bed, a plne board tate, noveral boxes for chaira, @ broken cook's ho carpet or floor covering and Only ‘the most miserable of bed coverings. POOR, SHE SOLD BABY FOR S800, Mother, Deserted and in Need of Food for Remaining Chil- dren, Bartered Her Boy. Having sold her youngest baby for $500, Mrs. Sarah Goldberg, with bowed head and In tears, returned to her miser- her remaining three children frantleally to her bosom husband had deserted her, and she must have food for her pinched and ragged family, In another household there was Joy as wild as the grief in the Goldberg home. At No, M2 Monrve street, New York, Abraham Welsburd and hiv wite, Rather were fairly beside themselves with de- light over their purehased baby. AU ir Own Dead, For r waited for a child of thelr own. Six bies had come, but all had died within hour of chelr birth, The lust one was burted a week 1 the a child. r than go to a public asylum for thought best to advertise in ers of the east side for a ould Know had been barn of their race and in their faith J about the nt t Sunday, and after purds decided they We © to her. She looked me, two, thres, four. How ¢ } But there was no food If the house, and & knew Hot Where to BEC IL | Which should it be? “It was a long s gle, and then she took little Morris, i ed weve: Weeks, in her and 2| simoth nim with kis she 8} sel him as best she nd Look lan ty Monroe street | Pormal Bill of Sale Drawn Ww bunds looked the boy athe was pln vd und heal transaction was quickly ¢ In the saloon of Max nig, Jwho is a notary, a f bUL of sale Slwas drawn up and signed, Mrs, Gold vok her baby in her arms for one |herg g hug and kiss and ala “ hand fled land int, They’ spent two as must mite of ctations Delighte! Svening World report the Welsburgs to-day |foster mother fitting In a aha Sling the baby to her breast, Ajover it as only a mother can. sald that she on 4 )husband out to work i} in on. sitting infant 3 the. notary, day that in simply om. jof*sale for the baby fh plied with the Jaw a\and this morning he went +|preme Court to have the out. s this’ morning, ‘ and looking 3) th learned to- had the 5u- necessary 4 Iceman'a | Fall gh Louis Barberi, thirty an. ie. dealer, of No, 103 Macdouga strept, died in St. Yineent’s Hospital is rom Injuries fi, y The. able little home in Bayonne and clasped! She did tt because her) years they had hoped and| | viral ng their now baby and putting him ch Xhibition of frantic h § h ad almost to drive her | 18 King out a bt! not com- rding adoption, | years old, Fecelved by falling | V front sf No, 866 |ened at BELLEVUE HAS A BABY. MYSTERY. Infant Found in the Possession of Suspicious Pair May Have Been Kidnapped. Rellevue Hospital has another baby myatery In a fine month-old boy who arrived there dressed cleanly in white allp, blue socks, knit shawl and elder- down jacket, He waa taken there by the police, who rescued him from the arms of Dantel Lysegt, allas "Kelly," ‘at Third avenue and One Hundred and ‘Twenty-ninth street, Lysegt is in prison in Harlem on a yarlety of charges. Lys his wife, Mamle Kelly, and | Charles Lutz all lve at No. 164 Kast One | Hundred and Twenty-elghth street, The ro together and had the baby m When Detective Mooney and McCabe arrested them b use the well- dressed baby and its keepers looked in- | congruous They said they had found the child lying on the sidewalk at Southern Bou- ‘levard and One Hundred and Trty-si: Street. They were taken to the One Hundred and Dwongy-sixth police sta- tion and Juter they were discharged In Harlem Court hour later “Lon 1 George. b. of No, 214 1 nights ago. 8 locked up Robert Noble, [in the same house with them, | plat that thieves had entered |voom and taken everything he had, | Upon Searching Lysext's room the’ de- tectives found Noble's clothing an jaome other things he had lost, as well com hia as a lot of burglars’ ; A month ago Lysegt was arrested on| | the charge of having worked a badger game with the 1 with him ets No clue to the identity of the In Bellevue. id of the Woman ar- “FINDS BABY ON STEP IN LEXINGTON AVE, Two Days’ Old Girl, Clad in Pink and White, Abandoned on the Stoop—Sent to Bellevue, While passing the stoop of the brown- I stone house at No, 1% Lexington ave- nue, this morning, a man, who gave ls name to the police as Alphonse ley, night Mey raw lying on the steps what Was a bundle of clothes, bent down to pick up tho © infant y St atation | two days old | "int as robe of pink and whi tex as that No marks that identification 1} fo 1| Was ordered | Hospital, baby wa 10 the hood, Would lead to the child could take it to | vouna P s when he heard the wall of an At and saw peering up at him under and white hood the bright Besides tho hed in a long el, the same the be don the clothes and the pSliceman. to Bellevue The baby seemed not at all f st ne r to! jor Wo bag tis TO SHOW HOW ft "HODE THE COAT.) Man Who Went Through a Rough Initiation in the Knights of Columbus- Will Have Ex- hibit in Court at Trial of Suit. TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE. His Tormentors Had a Lot of “Ring- ers” Done Up in Splints and Band- ages and He Wouldn't Stand and See Them “Abuse! ‘When the case of D. B. Nally, man- ager of the Pennsylvania Rubber Com- pany, against Dr. John G, Coyle, of No. 2% East Thirty-first street, for $2,000 Decause he was treated rudely when members of Lodge No. 1%, Knights of Columbus, tried to give him the third degree, comes up on appeal an exhi- bition may be given to show just how the secret organization handles a now- comer. In fact Mr. Nally 1s determined to take any means to make Dr. Coyle and other Knights suffer for the indigni. tles that he was subjected to. On the other hand the accused ones say that} eral ever since he was born. He heard about the Knights of Columbus. He was told that the members did not kill Its members for divulging a secret, so he got his friend John O'Brien to propose him in Lodge 124. Firat Two All Right. ‘The first two degrees were, in Nally's own words, Intellectual in the extreme, but when hoe got the third degree he says he was used worse than any prisoner who was ever put through the mill by Inspector Byrnes, Nally and elghty-two other candidates were taken Into a room in Terrace Garden, They didn't know that "prop- erty" candidates paid to be mauled and hauled was part of the programme, “Two masked men appeared,” Nally sald po-day, ‘The cold perspiration stood on my forehead, One of the gan- didates was a sickly youth with’ his right arm In splints. I didn't know that tn B. ty, on the pair of invalhts and my blood | ¢ began to boll, I thought they were the real thing: “I held myself together for a few moments until one of the {nitlators jumped on the Iittle fellow's chest. Didn't Know He Was Padded. “I didn't know he was padded, and then I let go. All around me men stood trembling at the sight NMWee that little fellow alone,’ I crlod, ‘and punish me.’ With that the other masked man began to go at the fellow whoke head was 6andaged. I offered to ligk any two of them. I jumped for tho fellows with the masks and there was a mix up then that would do credit to ayy Donnybrook Fair, “bit the biz fellow with a Fitzsim- mong swing and he took the count. ‘Then I went for the other fellow Somedody handed me out one from behind and I was forced Into a chair, Then they gave me the water cure. “T broke away and ran into where Di Coyle, h of the lodge, was. I d manded protection, but got the glas: eye, as the ‘foller’ says. My shirt was torn and | was prettMadly ueed up. They Were Acrobats, When I returned to the ower room I fougd that the man with the spints and. the other fellow with his head bandaged were acrobats engaged for th usion. That made me mad, mind,’ I sald to myself, ‘1 ress’ So T went to my lawyer, e Hyman, at No. 320 Broatlway, De suit against Dr. Coyle $2,000 for assault, | A jury before Judge O'Dwyer In tho City Court defeated us, but 1 am not through yet. I'll be vindicated and I'll illustrate in’ court just what kind of a hot time it was." | ———— CRUSHED HIM TO DEATH. I, Nov. 20.—J. brakeman on the Long Island Rallroad, was instantly killed at Mincola to-day by the east- Jefferson express. Heany stepped from the caboose of his train on the track in front of the ex- preas and did not hear the whistle. He Was crushed to death, HEMPSTHAD, L. Heany, a freight ———___ DROWNED IN EAST RIVER. Body of Unidentified Man Found on Brooklyn Shore, ‘The body of an unidentified man was found in the Easi River at the foot of Joralemon street, Brooklyn, this morn- Ing. He was about twenty-five years old, five feet nine Inches tall, weighed about 173 pounds and wore a dark sult, striped shirt and laced shoes, —_—— FOOD TO USE When Doctor In Not Conventent. | Many people dislike to call in a doctor until it {s absolutely neces- sar frequently a change of food will work wonders. A young lady in Russellville, Ky., | say “IT was taken ill six weeks |ago, and could not take solid food; |was only allowed to eat soup and milk. In about a week I got so weak | and nervous that I could not sleep. | ‘Father wanted to call in a doctor, but | I objected, as I didn't feel I needed | medicine as much as good food,. The next day father had to go to town, and brought back a package of | Grape-Nuts with him, and I com- menced to eat it twice a day In milk, T would get hungry for it from one time to the next. In a fow nights I could sleep soundly all night, and in| two weeks T was up, and had actually gained flesh, and was soon as strong as before I got sick. | would not be without Grape- Nuts row for anything, and my friends comment on my looks. I tell them I owe tt to Grape-Nuts and recommend it to all who complain |with stomach trouble, whjch 1s the general complaint jn this neighbor- hood.” Name by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, il fi ea , 4 een fact MRS, MOLINEUX HAS Nothing Lavish About SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., No: allegation of Mrs, Blanche C. Molineux hence, will, it ts sald, be extreme cruel- he was a fake. Next to him was @/ grounds on which a divorce may be | fellow with his head bandaged. granted, and the statute gives the infer- “The two big masked men jumped | ence that It need not be physical cruel- Mrs, Molineux will plead that ineux has mental creulty. While Mri l the abuses were all in Mr. Nally's| 2 leagination rg Nally 1s a great big whole-souled Irish-| man who has objected to things in gen; | ©%0006644604¢0¢04. e406 1YUz. KNIGHT OF COLUMBUS WILL SUE GOAT FOR § SToP! STeP!! TAKE AMANOP SO809900089 NO PRINCELY SUIT. Her Apartments—Mental Cruelty May Be Her Divorce Plea. 20.—The her petition for divorce from Roland Molineux, to be filed six months In of the| thls State that ts one mental cruelty is sufficient, Mol- | Infileted Upon her much it, circumstances tend to show that tho divorce proceedings are a part of an agreement made with the Molineux family. ‘The atmosphere of the Cataract Hotel, in which Mrs. Molineux registered as unday, Ig not quite Mrs. L. C. Johnson the atmosphere of the Murray Hill Ho- tel, but such as it {8 Mie, Molineux has promptly adapted herself to It. She has not the princely sult which imaginative correspondents have plc- tured. In fact, there are no princely apartments, Its a rather sordid habi- | tation, filled with ill-mannered men and a colony of upholstered and chemically complexioned women seeking the same end as Mrs. Molineux. But. Mrs. Mol- ineux Is not a “mixer.” Gowned s ately In black, she remains immured in her modest apartment, reading bundles of New York newspapers: writing and glancing over the maga- zine: oe TO SUCCEED HITOHCOCK. CHICAGO, Noy. 20.—Acting on the rumor that Secretary of the Interior Hitcheock Js soon to resign from Presi- dent Roosevelt's Cablnet, local Republi- cans are mentioning T. N. Jamieson as a likely candidate to succeed him. The argument that they are advancing is that Illinois ts entitled to representa Inthe Cabinet, and that Mr damuuios Molineux pas not admitted 1s equipped to fill the duties of Secre: of the Interlor. ELS yourself ONTRIVE to have a be- coming suit this time. See insome of ournew Cheviots and Tweeds ready made- _up—the easiest way to know. If youcan’t wear thenew browns there's gray, olive, innumerable mix- tures and rich weaves of blue and black. Kirschbaum Hand-Made. suits and overcoats—a new luxury for the man with a discriminating taste in dress. ! Ask for Kirschbaum hand-made. iside breast pocket of coat. Prices, $10 to $25. Be sure you get our goods, Send for our new style Book anyway. A. B. Kirschbaum & Co. Broadway and 11th Street write us. (Makers) Identity it by linen label Jf you have any difficulty, Tt is free, SUDDEN DEAT OF WR, HERS Editor of The Sunday World Thrown from His Trap and Killed While Driving to His Staten Island Home. SPIRITED HORSE RAN AWAY. Mr. Nelson Hersh, editor of the Sun- day World, was thrown from his caft and killed Instantly on Manor road, near Brooks avenue, West New Brighton, S. 1, last night. When Mr, Hersh left the city for Staten Island he was accompanied by Mr. Thomas McVeigh, jr., one of his editorial assistants. At St. George Mr, Hersh entered his cart, which had been left for him by his driver, Thomas McManus, Mr, Hersh's thoroughbred trotter Tit- mouse was drawing the cart, and after the long walt at the ferry it started for home at a lively clip. Mr. McVelgh’s home at Port Hichmond was soun reached. After parting with his friend Mr. Hersh started off alone, driving along Richmond Terrace. Mr. McVeigh noticed that the horse was fretful and went down the road at a lively cilp. Horse Became Frightened. From Richmond terrace Mr. Hersh turned into Manor road, when, at ths intersection of Brooks avenue, his horse took fright, ran away and,’ swerving suddenly, overturned the cart. Mr. Hersh was thrown headlong into the street. His head struck the curb and his skull was fractured and his Perfect Fitting. $4.00 Grades Reduced to... $2.85 6.00 Grades Reduced to.. 3.99 $1.00 Walking Gloves now _ 62c $2.00 Fancy Shirts now.. $1.29 55c $1.00 Dress Shirts now... 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Combination Rain Coats and Cravenettes at About % Off. $2.50 Fancy Vests Reduced to.......... TROUSERS. Best $5.00 Grad 7.00 Grad FURNISHINGS. 35c. Suspenders now. $1.25 Underwear now 75c, Under Everything in this big department reduced except a few restricted articles, LOTHING 311 BROADWAY. Near Thomas St., Centre of Block. nera lates, home, in ening, and put all He had the les, on held important leading New York Hersh was born tn Rock Island, was forty-one years old. He ated from Yale in 1880." Two he became connected with port (Ia) Gazette. He came ri in 1886 and was on the staff 2 pers. Six years ago he ¥ York World and two me editor of the Sunday services will be held at his Manor Road, to-morrow the Interment will take y at West New Brighton, S$ RETURN TO WORK. Men Ie rd) Over Non-Union Settled at Last. N. 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