The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1902, Page 3

Hex! RS. GRACE’ VALENTINE, WHO TRAPPED WOULOTWPRISON HT HS WOTHER “WAN SHELOVED WITHER RUT Mrs. Constance Drexel Biddle | James Donaldson Fatally Injures Accuses Najil Hasin of Pawn- Crippled Woman Who Refused ing $250 Giamond Locket—| to Give Him Money with He Is Held in $1,000 Bail. Which to Buy Drink. ONCE THEY WERE FRIENDS.|HE WOULD NOW REFORM. She Made a European Tour with Him His Wife, but They Quar- reled, and Now She Pursues Him with Criminal Chargs. Man Declares He Will Never Drink Again, Blaming Whiskey for His Savage Attack on Parent Who Had Supplied Him with Funds. Mrs. Constance Drexel Biddle, of the \ Hotel Grenoble, once the wife of Surgeon i Biddle. of the U. 8, Navy, appeared tn \ the Essex Market Court this morning @s the complainant against Najd Hasin, @ theatrical manager and former lessee a of Koster & B’al's Theatre. Mrs. Biddie alleges that April 19 last she gave to Ha: n for safe keeping adia-| AS @he fell unconsctous she uttered mond locket containing her photograph,|n@ scream, It alarmed the neighbors valved’ at &30, about her home at No, 128 Henry street, ; Brogkiyn. They broke into the house Went Abeoad with Hasin, and’ found Donaldson hiding under a After he had received the Jewelry bed. The police were called and Don- ‘Mrs. Biddle alleges that Hasin pawaed| aldsbn was sent to the Hamilton avenue police station and his mother waa taken to the Long Island College Hospital The doctors said #he “had; sustained a severe fracture of the skull and that she mlght die. When Donaldson was arraigned in the Butler Street Court this morning the case was continued until his mother’s When his aged and crippled mother refused to give him money for use In dteaipation, James Donaldson snatched @ crutch from under her arm and felled her with {t. Swinging the heavy crutch full forse he brought It down on her head with a crushing blow, fracturing her skuil, it In a Bowery pawnshop and she has Hasin P been unable to recover it. arrerted evening by He was represented In Lawyer Morris Sis Broadway Mrs, Bddle testified that she first met Hasin when she came to this city two was iceman rt this tzgerald, years ago and that she gave him the| condition may be definitely known diamond Jo-ket in June, 1901, to keep] Mrs, Donaldson 1s sixty-five years old for her while she was at Colorado} and the widow of a Union soldier who Eprings 1 a visit. She beran asking| was killed in the battle of Gettysburg. Kim for It last June and he refused,|She has been supported by a widow she say » return ft. pension from the Government for many She met him when her husband was] Years. ‘the neighbors saying that her er for div . he} on contributed nothing toward her her for divorce, she testified. 8h*) maintenance. Some of the women, who him arrested six months ago in}had been, calling on Mrs. Donaldson Philadelphia, she said, on a charge of| sald that fe had frequently gone to her in quest of money and that she often gave him small amounts, thereby de priving herself of necessaries. Upon the advice of these neighbors shu had resolved not to give him any more larceny. and he was held tn $5,000 da!l, but friends prevailed on her to with- draw the charge Once she agave him 9 worth of money. It was sald that he had been to keep for her, and she got] frinking Just before this inst vialt ts thie brok » test'fled that sh& had| his mother and that when he made the ved with Hasin, as Mrs. Hasin, and} demand he told her he wanted it so ths he could buy. ilquor, | Mrs, Donaldson has suffered many years from rheumatism. She was 80 they had travelled extensively together, Sny@ She Gave It to Hi mother he remembered nothing about It. mosths ago, in the Grand Opera-House, street, and possibly to get some light on the Sunday money, He was short and put the) Xe 'yother drop ear, ead; | Mr. Hummel, who is the broker's lawyer, asked for wife aud to prove that the so-called surprise was a put- Justice Leventritt announced that the examination of | c HUSBAND; WHO SAYS SHE PLAYS POL ER RICH MAN DRANK: NEVER DRINK Relative of Millionaire Goodwin, Who Is Being Sued for $5,000 by a Nurse, Says He Was Always a Gentleman. JOLLY FATHER TESWFIES. He Keeps an Alcoholic Sanitarium in Jersey City, Yells of Nephew Quinn's S.ay There, and Laughs Merrily on the Stand. | Miss Mary McHugh, a second cousin of the ant, was the first witness jto-day in Part IL, City Court, before Judge O'Dwyer In the sult of Kathleen Gannon, widow of the chief bar- te in the Waldorf-Astoria, for $5,000 damages against her former employer, John Goodwin, millionaire silk merchant, }of Twenty-third street. Mrs. Gannon was nurse and governess to Mr. Good- win's slx-year-old son and sues for an alle attack on her In her bedrocen b millionaire, the Mist McHugh is a demure little wo- man, without frills or furbelows, She Jlived in Mr. Goodwin's home. She seemed quietly amused at the proceed- Ings, but maintained her dignity throughout. She was modestly gowned In black clo: wore a black velvet hat and black ves, testified yesterday that Mgs, Gan- non had told her that Charles Quinn, Mise MoHugh’s third cousin and the de fends nephew, had invaded the gov- erness’s room while under the Influence of Heuer, o Never Saw Him Drank, e Q. (By a Juror.) Was Mr. Goodwin In the habit of becoming Intoxicated In the house? A. Ni Q. Did you ever see him Intoxicated? A. No. Q. Dia you see nim under the influence of liquor? A. Never. fe drank some, but never got Intoxicated. Q. (By Mr, Morris, plaintift's at- torney.) You know Mr. Brady? A. Yer. Q. You remember the night Mr Brady brought Mr Goodwin home and stayed four days? A, Yeu severely afflicted that she did weil to Hi fe They went to Europe together, she| hobble about the house on crutches. It’ Q. Nursing him. A. Staying fa his i ‘4 te x was with one of these crutches that her room. sald, Hasin returning to Syria to get son struck her on the head. Q. Warn't Mr. Goodwin smtoxicated money, with which, she said, he prom- Whisk has caused Donaldson much h 1 AN ‘ {hed to: remunerate: her tor her Jewelry:|| tfouD'r: come near sending him to then? A. No, He had been drinking. ., as “ei . “| the electric chair on one uceasion. Father John Cc! MacEriane, who * stayed at Naples while he was in| Whie ina drunken quarrel ina saloon sree eda tt erce iar oa nd they came back on the same|he shot a mun named Dantel Rouike | ’ hoat, but a quarrel caused them to oc-|and for this he was sent to sing Sing} Because A. H, Hummel had to attend another trial the | much time, as {t related to the happenings of a single | red-faced, jolly man, beamed on the cupy separate staterooms, for Ave Seat ig morning he was acked| DIE crowd that filled Justice Leventritt’s courtroom to- | night, when Mrs. Velentine and her sister, Ida S$. Wyatt, | TY and on counsel and then turned Hasin ‘testifle) in his own defense! it he had not werved time ther than day was disappointed [t expected to hear pretty Mrs.| with two men, surprised Mr. Valentine in the room of | \)! guia eveuiine hart Seidel UE ei G aad IF It h < 2 | in Ke ec Wee ean: Mrs. Biddle in a resort in| Ht vepiy wages ne 80 BS CAre-| Grace 1. Valentine tell how she acted as her own detet-| Miss Grace Stowell. Yea Do! gear Khaw dona, Gacawin cand Lome tntacunted Wie her gine, taal tee east deve, done many a ten day] tive and surprised her husband, Broker Charles Carleton | “Why,” sald Mr. Hummel, “I have no less than thir-|Charies Quinn, his nephew? As Yeu given him the locket he aaid, about six| He said that if he had struck his| Valentine, with another woman In West Forty-elghth | teen witnesses to show the relations of this husband and) Q. Was Charies Quinn with you for jsix weeks? A. Yew, about that time, ane that he was drunk when he came home | § "9 | trom’ Dec. 9. re eve hesras ean eee MS fen chrough with liquér now, though: hight dollar-limit poker games in which the broker said | up jb, aud that the witnesses for Mrs. Valentine ave not! GQ. What kind of a sanitarium Is the locket if she falled to ei gi the| through with it for good. I'll never| the fair plaintiff indulged. wortny of helief.”” yours? A. One for sufferers from a »holiam, Q. You cid not see Quinn on Dec. 117 Biddle displayed much feeling and fre- quently appeared on the verge of col- lapsing Magistrate Brann held the prisoner in $1,000 bail for trial. Was Once an Actress, Constance Morris, as Mrs. Biddle was Known before she married Dr, Clement Griscom Biddle, of Philadelphia, ts a very beautiful woman, and once was a society leaser in that eity. After her divorce, she became an actress, produc- ing “Mme, Sicard,” an adaptation of a French play. It was a failure. Then she went into vaudeville, where she met Hasin, Bho was once reported to be engaged to marry Fernando Yzhaga, brother of Consucio, the Dowager Duchess of Man: chester, and at one Ume the hushand of Mabdet \Vright, -vho is now the Countess STARVED 10 DEATH Couldn’t Swallow Food, and Tried to Live on Milk Vapor Diet, But Failed. HAVANA. STRIKERS, THROUGH A WALL. HUA STAKES Made a Hole in Brick Partition ment of the Trouble Will Be Arrives at Plymouth Next Door to Browning, King, E‘fected by President Palma. & Co.’s and Reached the ” Safe. HAVANA, Nov. 25,—-As a result of yes- terday's rioting four persons are re- ported dead and 10 wounded, but there | has been no further trouble, 8 reet cars (fire running as usual to-Gay, and the rural guards seem to have the-situation | well In hand, After much formality and ceremony the one-pound baby which has been living tn an Incubator at Bellevue Hos- pital, was christened “Jimmy Conway” by the Rev, Dr. Byer, Episcopalian Chaplain at the Hospital, and tren the Over Her. LUNCHED AS: THEY WORKED. | PLYMOUTH, Epicurean burglars, who GAPPLED ACA with Her Port Side Badly Damaged by, High Seas Which Dashed |WORST STORM IN 30 YEARS.| vinket in pawn. Laat al rmacne Re puCANON ae sour an adjournment when the case was called to-day. Henry | seventeen witnerses would carry him into Thanks- Ax Sxcuse! me. f haveséworn’ that x qquaugtntement was arobarates ine ferore you ger michnace’to take whother |G. McCormick. attorney tor Mrs. Valentine, pro-| giving, so he would adjourn the trial until Monday, | siw him every day after Dec. 9 In ISGIAU ENA: NRG VialtGA TRIER AE ls RW eee tg, tested. He said taking testimony would not require | when it must go on. | fact. 1 ate with him ha = saat oes pees = _ _ sa PRES “ret — — — oo . With all yo pa thes 2 Ye: SENe Une In Soathen alee ord |the’etrvant te na beller-tnaa) his equa: da scene, finally chasing him all | | ters f the way to 9 street car on which he | | The proc has had to be stopped to mise tie Geos, | ‘tet the happy old father give vent to his At the scuitements of the defense Mrs. a Jolly Father, Q. (By a juror.) Are you In good nding In your chureh? A. (Laughing nmediatey and becoming very. red. now, If you put me on trial—, (oMhe juror. 1 t to be sati ne juror. I want to be sutis to the reliability of the itieneee tn his case, To ‘satisty my mind, not udge Daly. ection repeated and question with- | drawn.) Mrs. Gannon. the plaintiff, here took | the stand In her own behalf. She ts a \dark-eyed, black-halred, round-faced woman. She was dressed in. mourning and wore a jaunty turban. Q Did you put glycerine on the face of John Goodwin, not the defendant, but the handy man about the house, and sit in-his lap while doing {t. A. No, gir. Q. He testified he saw you on the sofa with Quinn. Is that true? there?’ A. No, sir; never! Help Was Near at Hand, akg ati Vienne, Infant died. lunched as} There were Indications that there will Nov, 2%.—The Deutsch- Former Juatice Daly, for the detend- Dr. Biddle is a surgeon in the Navy.| Conway Is the chief engineer at the| they worked, made strenuous efforts to/ be @ break in the general strike to-day, | land arrived here at 7 o'clock this morn-| Nt. took the witness. and Mra, Bidile has travelled abroad are: get Into the safe in the store of Brown- | Several of the bakeshops opened during |ing with her port side badly damaged| ytie “sterdeyy Uer tne statement that extersl She was xnown as the] hospital, He supplied the heat for the| {wy 4c 5 x Tue the (heavy. het 8 McHugh's testimony was. false. SHRP AELiher NAVIN ‘cnatwaaratcons ing, King & Co., at the junction of Ful-) the moraing and most of the bakers re-|0¥ the heavy sea which ran during timu considered ihe most beautiful] !ncubator and that was the nearest|ton street and De Kalb avenue, Brook-' sumed work, though the Central Com-| the greater part of the trip. | a (harile Quinn never slept in my room woman in Washington. the authorities could get to the parent-| lyn, on Sunday, Nothing but a door of | miftee of the strikers was unyielding in| The capt reports that he encoun- ann : imening Up trorner stiles Daly ST age of the child and so his @ame was| Stee! stood between them and $3,500 inlits determination to continue the strike | tered the worst weather he has seen| sald; “Not one cent for tribute, but at raj iuiithe nonelaten bee cash, but they went away without get-jand it was rumored it had refused to years. hstanding thix| his energies for defense,” referring ‘to ass ting through the door. The facts of the| meet the committee from the veterans ¢ was completed in five duya| DA,CHent Atay eat quutante, New Yor: The baby, which was found In a hall) attempted burglary came out to-day. ang confer with President Palma, Work | Seventeen hours. This 1s about nine| called attention, tothe fact mat wines at No, 102 Attorney street, was taken} Next door to the Browning-King|along the water front was completely | hours behind the Deutschland'a best| 1869, Mr. Goodwin hag been respected in to the, hospital Monday morning, It| Bullding is a business structure, the up-|suapended, no vessels belng unloaded, | eastern record strike leaders, and it Is said tht there will be @ conference at the palace, at which It {8 hoped a settlement gf the whole trouble will be reached. There 3 to be a general desire to end the ing-King store, From the position of the hole t is ap- parent that the first burglar who put his head through It discovered that to at sea and had to by means of her condition, But last night it commenced to refuse food. The thorax was not sufficiently de- two screws, Three More Arrests of Prisoners to repair ard she or A i i veloped to permit It to swallow any- n ia{te-up, and it ts expected that conces: | up for the plaintiff, shook his fst In the Charged with Robbing Him of thing, so the doctors and nurses were ad Hate, a aa ead be raw sions ‘will be made on both sides yor again earls this month Then she | worried miliional face and hurled: 7 ~ 6 to ero a es Two strikers and one fireman were |had one engine In a crippled condition, rhi ; John Go i tn Football Tickets. Sompelled to Hold @ spoon of ‘heated| 7 sway. The hole was oven with. the|killed to-day as the result of a collision | ‘The Deutschland. sailed from New| co ree ene ood inis at him at milk under {ts nostrils so that it in- RIGGS R ARs Cte Pont aren faleoreie ew lanch close range that it seemed as if haled the vapor, In that way they hoped] floor on which the burglars were work-| (11 ies York on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Among|his hested breath must singe the ven- to get sufficient food into the child's|1ns, but was just below the ceiling In|" '" ao the passengers wore Miss Clara alt-|crunle whiskers of the defendant. concg, (fneclat to The Evening World.) avatamitolaecalac ie the store on the other side of the wall. NEW YORK CREW MUTINIES, |m2m, M& John Brinckernott-Jackson, | renin Ww the millionaire auftered NBW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. %.—Three | “Arter the christening this morning the| Then the burglars took mvasurements | US Me "| United States Mintster to Greece, Mr. | was, called a spade a apa more prominent Yale students of the| oiiia became weaker and was) not |and bored another hole largo enough t9| so Gaon wesser ome of [Witter Phelps-Dodge, Mr. and Mrs, Guy [othing more nor eas than alcoholism. ri Refuses s ™ Bhai okoDal Dclace 4 ——————— weno clase mere, token ee eine breathing with vixor sufficient to Inhale| admit the body of a man. This hole al- read! eee Pheins-Dou Prince Pless and Mr. W een aioe and robbery of Herman {the steam from the milk, Brandy was|lowed them to enter the Brownin Y » < tok TUG AFIRE AT PIER. Fn at aren oneculetor who waa | tried It revived for a few minutes and| King Bullding m the shelter of @ pile} (Social to The Bvenlng World) Barends Js In command. Pie % then died. of clothing. NORFOLK. Va, No y disiciat mobbed on the Yale Campos and re- : ee 5 s Un States Marshal left here to-day #1,600 Damage to th aay Dr, Shearer had placed hopes of a| Thoy made thelr way to the office and} U oF we to the ile of ten Xale-Harvard game), esatul teat of the Incubator through| went to work at the safe, It is not a | fee Barer ten Gu Kor arrett ve mens GAS KILLS A NEW YORKER. Charles T. Kuper. this child. He ts not In search of an-|particuiarly form{dable safe, bet evi-| bers ‘of the crew of the > ee an rennanolthe Charles pane atuce ene Oueneela et other child to tale its place. dently: the burglars were not equiyoed | Jennle Hulbert upon the charge ofl peayelling Suleman Found Dead statlon, saw smoke coming ol rt + ?. S ‘The: crac! mutiny. Phe ore rt, which is A y } 7 ———————— ith up-to-date tools. They scrached . the cabin of the tug Charles T 6t. Louis, Mo., and John A. Moorehead, As a a pried it} Sound from uela to New, York In Wilkesbarre, ! ; nI a, Bawyer is a proml- the dgor, and dented it and pried it) ound from Venegucls t madlaniecrhe ENGR an Kuve ying at the foot of Clarkson of Allegheny, Tt’ yale and Moorenead| JOHN BULL IS IN A STEW. |up ana down, wut they could not break | He chew refused. toatl th WIDKERUAR HE, BEIM Not) | [street nariy iis morning. He turned pan gud end on the football teanr and the Jock, While at work they drank jampton Roada before they were Pua reiinect. a travelling. salesm Helin cy alarm, and by the time the firemen was hottie of whiskey and ate a substan: Warrants wero secured f¢ a trave CAD AD, Was ce. uppee desk oe is a well-known athlete. Lehr ule OWepts to Eee anee Pata by tial! linen, traces of wil th sey” lett in, Omar’ Anderson. J E_But-| found dead in the Wyoming Valley |abtcve, Hig Wh oUT/UBparis Genk eas ‘de office. Sengtein and Herman Graund, | 454 hay frebos ) lowed the their cases Peer oneal ‘of New York | LONDON, Nov. %.—The American | scared away véfore they, had expected | known whether he committed sulcide or timated a ainst Bradfor b plan of paying good wages and encour- | to Ko. ttle more work on their part whethor edentally turr on the | at ed et i 0 1 e . b r h | o' e City, held on Saturday’ and sneer aging employees to increase the dally | Mol have onabled | them. to wer tie BEST COIN EXPERT DEAD. oe ncn he untered his room not_Kknown how the with robbery, and Wm. H. Barnut, of output, which was introduced by the| covered until Monday morning, and up On’ the man’s person wag fount a tet- the Kuper Towing New York, charged with+ breach manager of the American Blectrical|to date the pollce have not discovered| At tho Sub-Treasury to-day the death | tor foom his son announcing that he| Ufo t peace in the eame affair, are to COMe YP) Works, at Marichester has been for-/*"% more about It than Is ‘old above | of Francis G. Meyers, Chief of the Coln} wax adout to be marriol. My Kk ss for trial. ante | mally protested-against by the Employ- Se paete ees Divison, was announced, Mr. Meyers | represented James E, Re | Phe areet thle, morning cared a tune ers’ Federation of that ditrien, The Bays Big Coal Fields. had been suffering from plearisy, whlch |79 phomas street, w Y MARCONI FLASH TO ENGLAND ed atudents, participated in the NeUliatter claim that the Jabor market s| {NDIANA, Pa Nov. 2%.—Dy a deai| turned to pneumonia, which was the} was fifty-five years of ag tan We in which Trovder, Niteets where a prom-| being demoralised and thelr works | consummated herg yesterday one of the| cause of death, ; eens Effort to Be Made to Send One to Game local pubisher wa smistaken for| drained of thelr best men by the Amer-|langest blocks of untouched Pittsburg| Mr. Meyers had been employed in @ Manutnolarer ii, the King. Inent Wsiator,aseauleed and ican oflolaie’ who pay ther laborets 12|cosl. in Western Pennsylvania changed | prominent Wall atreet house for years ni 4 ee (Speblal to The Eventog World) rough the streets. . hands jounty for a consideration | before he connected himself with the G, N. ¥., Nov. %.—Wenry H, x Nn, Ny, af ¥ that -more of} cents an hour against nine cents pald 308,000. i HALIFAX, N. 8., Nov. 2%.—The Gov. is expected tha: ing $1,200,000. The transfer of| Treasury Department twenty-five rs | Sinclaire, secretary of the Corning Glas: % Zale,men, will follow. Great 1 3 ble Dut s preliminary to the for-/ago, and was well known in the Ananclti | works, died to-day of heart trouble aged pe RMD yeaa bil Sag reg Hine pageen bo . among oper? ¥ ‘ @ cap. ist, He was considered one - room! a je for . ‘and’ the consiuction of in ie MOUntES Hie way (sixty-eight years He left a widow hig eyg see Beer thfee sens. et ‘ tides ed Into port The damage done took several months | arrived in New and "The text row, the heart of the business community weighed only one pound and was lesa| Per floors of which are vacant. The! ‘The Mayor has issued another edict] This is the third successive trip on Heat ee reALthatlitwhen Gare Gene than a foot long. Dr. Shearer, who has| Ursiars got Into this bullding and from | asking the strikers to preserve order | Which more or less serious damage has| non awoke and found her employer in charge of the incubators, thought that} Vacant storeroom bored a hole through /and remain in their homes. befallen the great liner. Rea nookwar ane sreate one Gar the he could bring it through to a normal| the brick partition walls Into the Brown-| President’ Palma nus sent for the Ny In the year eho lost. ner’rudaer | Had Knocked on,, Mies MeHush's door a housefull of witnesses In a moment. Shook Fist at Platntim. Attorney William E, Morris, summing JEWELS STOLEN” AS THEY DINED. Thieves Ransack Lawyer De! Fere’s House, St. Mark’s Ave- nue, Brooklyn, and Get $5,000 Worth of Jewels. THEY USED FALSE KEYS. While Paul FE. De Fere, of No, 636 St. Mark's avenue, Brooklyn, and his family were at dinner yesterday even- Ing thieves entered the house, ran- sacked the upper floors and stole Jew- elry valued at $5,000. There is absolutely no clue to the per- petrators of the robbery. Tt 1s the opinion of the police that the thieves opened the front door by means of false keys, walked boldly up the maln stairway and went out as they had entered, There are no marks on doors or windows to Indicate that an entrance was forced and the ser- vants in the house are beyond suspicion. Robbed an They Dined. } The De Feres were aydinner from 6.90 o'clock to 7.90 o'clock. There was a bright light in the main hallway of the house and the door leading from the dining-room to the hallway was open. Servants passed through the hall from time to time. Lights were burning In several of the rooma upstairs, but so far as is known no member of the family and none of the servants was above the ground floor during the dinner hour. The robbery was discovered by Mrs. De Tere. Rings, watches and a pearl necklace had been taken by the thieves. A thorough search of all the rooms In the upper part of the house was made, The police are puzzled over the rob- ery and have been unable to do any- thing but send a list of the stolen prop- erty to the pawnshops of the city. St. Mark's avenue {ts one of the finest streets in the residence section of Brook- lyn and many persons tn the neighbor- hood were “abroad at the hour of the robbery. No one can be found who saw any suspicious characters about, Mr. De Fere is a lawyer with an of- Nee In Wall street. He was formerly associated with Justice Gaynor, of the Supreme Court. in Brooklyn, and Comp- troller Edward M, Grout. Hud Key to Dresser. When Mrs. DeFere left her dressing- boom she locked her Jewels in the top drawer of the dresser. ‘The thieves locked the drawer and closed the boxe which had contained the jewels ju she had left them. On the floor Is ay light-blue carpet, and, it having bean a | Wet and muady night outdoors, It was believed that tracks or footprints would be found on the carpet, Bul there were | "iho ever committed the robbery hid a key to Mrs, DeFere’s dresser drawer and was the location wel dequainted with the Jewels. Nothing else in the hovee was disturbed, The thief overlooked a pearl brooch two Inches long, which was In one corner of the drawer. That was the only Jowe: which | was not taken, excepting those which | Mra, DeFere wore at dinner. The family has told the police that all of thelr servants had been with them a long time and that they had been entirely trustworthy | great al OL TANKS W CREAT BLAZE, Fire Starts from a Leak at the y Standard’s Long Island City Plant and 2,200 Barrels Are Consumed. “a KEEPS BLAZING ALL DA‘ 4 Flames Confined to Two of the Nine teen Refining Stilis by Pumping the Oil to Other Storage Places= Big Crowd Out. ‘a The greater part of Long Island Olty is enveloped in sooty Dlack smoke to- day, the result of a fire In one of the Standard Ol Company's blg refining tanks near Loth street. The fire, which started about 8.9) o’clock, Was caused by a leak in Still No. 1, which ‘contained 1,000 barrels of crude ofl. ‘The first warning was given. by the flaring up of an immense column of fire, The police of the Long Island ‘ity station rushed over to the oll company’s offices and asked If an alarm had been turned in. The officials of the company said they did not any alarm turned in, as the, firemen ~ would only be in thelr way and could absolutely no good, as water turned burning ofl only increased its com=— ation. es Tank No. 1 had only been blasing about fifteen minutes when adjoining: tank No, 2, containing 1,20 varrels of crude oll, ‘There are burst into flame, nineteen of these huge tanks in. the im mediate vicinity, Before the fire could spread any further the officials of the Standard Company ordered all the ofl pumped from the remaining tanks to the stills in Willlamsburg and on bein imped dry. a rhe | plant in che Bigs te andard Oil t, of off being stored spread of the flames, As nothin; toward extinguishing the blaze the Newtown Creek. Then the ‘cos; ‘'s fire brigade gol out their hose and: gan wetting down the tanks that were ‘The Long Island Cit; Feat in ene Saat, entilione, Se bil any in the Hast, enlilions of salto 5 in the. engelaae tanks, 4 Though the firemen were not. allows ~ to take any hand (besten: o read of tho the “potice ; led out ‘in force Yo Keep badke crowd that surged aroun € Frning stills. can be done burn all day. wu oll in the ls are tanks will probabl; the 2,200 barrels of consumed, be ing oe aie Capt. Reyno.ds sal his Is as great | a myeiery as we have had to deal with | |in-a long time." | WIDOW WANTS Husband Was Killed by Eighth Avenue Car, and She Sues Also in Behalf of Child Made} a Half Orphan. Mrs. Henrietta Fremont and her baby | Dorothy are the plaintiffs before Jus- tice Greenbaum and a jury in the Su} preme Court this afternoon in a sult for | $89,000 against the Metropolitan Street’) Rallway Company for making a widow, and a half orphan of them. | ‘The story of vhe sweot faced, sweet voiced young widow, drawn out by her counsel, ex-Goy, John 8, Wise, of Vir~ ginia, {8 most pathetic, and Francis L. Wellman, counsel for the oompagy, realizes that he has the hardest=fight of his life on his hands. Francis M, Fremont was a prosperous promoter, with offices in the Havemeyer Buliding, Cortlandt and Church streets. He was a joyous, happy young husband and In eager expectancy of a visit from the stork to his bride of two years, when, on Oct. 11, 1900, there was a vic fent ringing at his telephone and be-) fore he could answer another ring. Taking down the receiver he heard the wire: | » home quick! All doing nicely.” With a leap and a bound the you hed Church street, ighth avenue car came wht ca rapld clip. He halted tt, down to about four mules he attempted to board on again at the ins! Fremont was thrown under it | badly Injured t You are needed. | along {it was A rothy tiful mothe: | papa ng hustled to a ho: He hever saw. her. | By a computation of his income from busines and an average with hi: chances as a basis, the measure of | e wife and bibe was fixed at 1 Gov. Wise instituted the it suit In her behaif. RECEPTION TO DR. PETERS. | | St. Michnel’s Congregation Honors Returned Traveller A. reception rousica’ and was ton- dered last night to Rey, Dr. and M |John” P. Peters, who have just re-| turned from the Holy Land, at st:| Michael's parish house. Among the numbers on the programme prepared by the Church Association for the Im- ovement of Labor was a Chopin se- fection which was rendered by William A. 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