The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1902, Page 3

died FOR LE —~s— | order Goff Hears Argument | vn “Newly Discovered Evi- ” for the Lawyer Con- of Rice’s Murder. TRADICTS DR. WILLIAMS. | rt Aurich, Morgue Attendant, -\)iwears the Physician Said a: the ‘utopsy He Cou-d Not Determi ') he Cause of Rice's Death, * 4 yaerder. Goff sat in the library of| Justice Hail was ob! q ‘Criminal Courts Building to-day to i yang continuation of the argument MBP MMe motion of Albert T. Patrick, Up fricted of the murcer of Witllam M ¢, for & new trial gounsel, John C. Tomlinson and FE ‘his conviction should de because of errors in his ecause of newly } e. ‘ranchs P Garvan, of the Distri torney’s staff, represented the People \4 oppored the m ne At the hearing last Saturday counsel | ¢ Patrick agreed to present the newly Seovered evidence In the form of afl ‘ts, and when the hearing was called tis morning Mr. Garvan put Robert rich on the witness-stand to question About the s:vorn statement that ykes a part of Mr. Tomlinson’s moving \pers. Aurich {s an attendant at the Morgue e Was present when the auiopsy was ade on Mr. Tize's body. Dr. Hamil- n William at the trial of Patrick wore that he found a partial conge: jon of the Jungs and evidence that M died of & “gaseous Irritant polxon.”” aM@avit says that Dr. Will- # raid at the time of the autopsy the congestion was coextensive that theré war nothing to show of Eat Mr. Rice died sarich Contra yfeplying to Mr. Gar "8 questions. irich sald he took notes at the autopsy the request of Dr. Donlon, who made | and thet he could not be to the words used 5y Dr. Villiame, He said he hac offere! ‘ix Bi\ccistant’§ Pistrict-Artorney, Mr. Os- omae. had declined to call him, Br, Albert T, Weston, another, ants tn the appeal pap by the Assistant, Dis;rici-Attorney Tomlinson hid retained him ‘to re- w the medi nce In the Patrick for his services, t i 1. Dr. orking Sirick t r-in-law Pi Linther-in-law, + against Patrick go iuto Dr, the Reard of Gor ruled that Patrick Defense Fund. Weston.5 g¢piving sto a qui Mr Garvan, could ‘her had that Mr. Miitken had deénosited 00) to teéd to secure a new trial Pawrick. ‘That was all counsel want- estion thing shange pomid be willing ‘o awear to one A irlal for murdes his ytews for « fee? Spats that?! shouted Dr, | striding hack to his seat and ta awyer across the table. hat's all.” put in Mr. ‘Tomlinson in [puprepevmaking sort of wa He i repeat it any time,” said Mr. Wa “Phat will do,” ruled the Recorder the incident closed. petive lergeant James F. Vallely next witness, He had not signed davit prepared for him, because Was not sure of how far the eti- jette of the Detective Bureau held him from counsel for the defense. Mr. ryan told kim to go ahead and sign it. js aMdavit told of the investigation t the time of Mr. Rice's death, sald it was In consequence of Dr. lin's report of the resuit of the au y that no-arrest was made. he hearing was not completed and der Golf sot 10.80 A. M.on Friday the next session. NUN Weston, i) \ E SQUADRON ’s Attacking Fleet: Sails 9 Mayaguez, Porto Rico, jgnd Mines Channel. "AGUEZ, Porto Rico, Dec. 9—The Squadron; consipting.of the Iowa, Albany and Chicago, cap- Mayaguem, at, $00 this morning edia’ at ned’ the channel. the operation was in progress @hville and Eagle were sighted fully entered the harbor, n Francisco and Atlanta had not only vespels sighted by the quadron, were three scouts at wn end of Mona Passage, and iw mnerh.feect entered. She was to escape. Pesult wag due to the plans fol- ‘The problem required the White m ta'taks a position at 6 o'clock fafternoon of Dec. 5 at a point on Jocated f#2 miles east of Barba- ithe objective being Mayaguez, la; Ponee, Ensenada or Cule- | that the Nashville, Eagle, At- d Gan Brancisco were unable to 6 standard speed, twelve knots, ere ordered to be detached and deployed as scouts over the southern coast of Porto Rico, to the attention of the enemy and eastward. remainder of the squadron steam- @ hundred miles westward of the ‘Ye until north of Porto Rico and peralleled the north shore of that # until north of Mo! Fy Passage, be- | Porto Rico and San Domingo. i then headed south unull morning and dro, an Patrick, through | discovered | omer.‘ the District-Attorney be- pid tHe Wis! of Patrick, but that the | sald) newer | mileft Mayaguez as Ad-! TELLSHER STORY that Judge Has to Order the Court Gates Locked. MOTHER-IN-LAW TESTIFIES. Says Young Bride Confessed to Her Husband in Her Presence When Accused by Him of Misdoings | with His Brother. i | ed to ofder the gates closed to-day at the end of the corridor leading to the court chamber where he Is conducting the trial of*the| Harlem society couple, Harry and Min-| |nle Powers, of Mount Morris Park. be- cause of the crowd of curiosity atekers who flocked to the scene. The court was packed just the same Tho sweet-faced and domure little | ; Beauty, who is charged by her husband with shocking irregularities of conduct with his brother, Jeese Powers, jr., was to take the etand to-day as a witness in her own defenge. and it was this that | attracted the crowd | | Pretty Defendant Arrives, Tee young wife came t court in an- jother creation of the ladies’ tallor; this one in blue. She wore a fur-trimmed hat, In recognition of old winter's ap- jPearance, and a fluffy white chiffon bow at her throat set off her flushed face | | charmingly “aye HE WIFE, HUSBAND AND HER BROTAER-IN-LAW.|\)} The cross-examination of the elder Mrs, Powers about the occurrences of the night after the celebration of her wn golden wedding in the Mount Mor- vis Park mansion, was resumed by Mar- tin W. Littleton. Mrs. Powers was present to tell what else her son Harry sald besides “Mother, | have caught Minnle and Jesse,” whea | he rushed up the stairs on this a:ca- sion The silver-halred but youthful oid mother fenced end finally wept over tt, and permitted Mre, Powers to write her until Justice Mall came to the rescue answer for the lawyer and tne stenog- rapher. Says Mra, Mr. Litter ently was d | that after the | Minnie Powers nd. Harry L. le Was gullty, Horace B. Bull, jr, a ara elder Mr. Powers, ‘twenty ‘estifted that he ran up stairs with his wandmother when the row began, nigat of the golden wedding. “rushed into Jesse's room, Mr | Harry Powers was on the floor, between jJesse and Harry. Harry had just struck |Jesse in the face. Mrs. Harry Power turned grandmother and ‘sald, Mother, see what Harry yhas done. to, [poor Jesse's face, and “she stroked | Jesse's face with her hands, Co-Defendant Testifies. evoas-examination young. Ba “Munt M ts sitthig on the She wan In evening dress.” That concutded the evidence Mrs. Powers, | {Jease Powers, jr. was ‘the firet wit- Hess for the defense. He denied ail [the charges made by his brother against tin His version of the affair of the golden wedding night was that Harry had been drinking and was quarrelsome stil at tacked him. hout couse. He sajd storace Ball Was not on the scene at al, As for the alleged the hotel Central Valley, he said t in It, except that hy, when it_was so hot that feared to go out lest he get Sunsiroke, Mrs, Harry Powers and 1 did git ou the bed and read the pape: Bu.” added. “father and mother | were In the next room.” | Jesse Powers sald he was “unfor- |tunate enough to go out of my roam |into the had the night of the golden wedding just in time to run Into. |my brother's wife. He came up at, the | moment end that made all the ro | Young Mrs. Powers’s Story. Mrs, Minnie Powers, the defendant took the stand at this point. She tes: tifled In a cool and steady yay, Her vojce was as pleasing as her face. She [sald she and her husband lived at her father's home ak but elght months of thelr marrted lite ‘Percy and Jesse aiso lived at home,” “IT had tved ‘with my parent, Hundred and = Twenty-fourt street, around the corner, and I had known them 4ll for sixteeh years. We were playmates as children. I did the mending, darned the family socks, waited on table, made the beds and took the place of an upstairs girl when we had no other, I had never done such STARVING MAN Without Friends or Money, He ‘sks that He Be Locked Up for the Winter, so That He Might Live. Powers Confessed, cpt right on and pres- vmifited, for Ni fracas that night onfessed to Powers, before he: rt r, thy HE WAS ONCE PROSPEROUS. nding among the human derelicts in the Butler Street Court !n Brooklyn poorly but neatly dressed, who asked Mag'strate Tighe to send him to prison for the rest of the Winter, as he was out of employment, had no money and arvation was staring him in the face. the Magisirate had heard his he committed him for six months, The man sald his name was John Short and that he was thirty-two years old, He contrasted sharply with the other prisoners In the dock. and this led Magistrate Tighe to question him. Honor,” sald Short, “I have found that wien a man has no money he has no friends. There was a time that I had plenty of both, but that time Is past. 1 cannot get work, and it 1s elther starvation or suicide with me now, unless you put me away some- where where I can get the necessaries of life at least. Was # Confidential Clerk, “In 1896 1 was the confidential clerk and bookkeeper ‘for Richard K. Fox, the publisher of the Police Gazette, 1 had a good position and had the con- fidence of my employer, until there was some trouble over the affairs of the paper and an examination of the books was made. “The auditors found that the books! were short several thousand aoliars, | and, of course, it was up to me to make | the amount right I did not take the} money and never was able to under- | stand the cause of the shortage. 1 | deeded over a house I owned in Henry | street, Brooklyn, to make good the loss, | and proceedings against me were stopped. “EL also had a good position with a starch manufacturing concern and made as high as $100.a week. I thought I saw a chance to get rich In a Chicago gis deal, and invested $7,000. Then a crash came, and I was left without a cent, Went to California, “T went to Callfornia and got a posl- tion as an overseer on a big farm, I zot along weil there, but the longing for home came over me, so I quit my place and came back to Brooklyn “I didn’t have a great deal of money, and the most of my old friends had dis- appeared, Some of the men I had know didn't care much about belng with me or doing anything for me when they found there had been a change in my condition of affairs. “For many days [ have been near starvation, and if the sergeant of the Butler street police station hadn't given me a place to sleep and something ‘o eat last night 1 would have frozen death.” Short to ag: Impropricties at | idom took me out with t take me out. When we went anywhere I had to take the room assigned to me by my husband's room. mother. oy Ir ‘op Hous “I couldn't select so at the Mountain ‘alley. Harry was there’ three out of the week. He had horses and dogs there. I had the care of them, whether he was there or not. “Jesse and I used to go off walking, riding, fishing, sometimes alone; oftene: with parties of young ple, But she denied that there had been any improprietics, She said Mary Quackenbush, ‘the chambitma'd, lied about what she saw in her room’ when the moon was streaming In at the win- dow, and that her father-in-law spoke untruly about seeing her in Jesse's Mghe sald th Id by h ne said the told by her h band, father-in-law, mother-in-law vied nephew of what happened on the stair after the golden wedding was -all an awful Aggeration; that Harry ha. drunk eight glases of champagne and was Us Loved Him as @ Brother, “I ‘started’ upstairs sto fix Harry's bed. ‘There were lights in the hall all the way up. When J got up to the third floor Jesse Powers stepped out of his ‘room. He said, ‘Oh, ts it you? 1 hadn't ou there more ‘than two minutes when Harry came rushing up. He was ox- clted and angry. He called mo a vile name and struck me a blow on the face and knocked me down. He then struck Jesse, and then his ‘mother and Mr, Powers game up and T sald ‘Look what Harry has done; he has struck me and t Jease.’ “Phen Harry pleked me up 4 me threw. me on a him. He would: used good language in hig story, and it bore every evidence of | being genuine. While he Was in court) some of the officers recalled that he was | the, same man who was fished out of GoWanus Canal several weeks ag: sent to Seney Hospital. He denie the time that he had attempted s ané gaid he had alipped and fell in, ——————_— CAT TOLD OF BURGLARS. They Robbed Thin House of 81,000 Worth of Cofns. A.jot of Jewelry and a coin collection Of a total value of $1,000 were stole: from the home of P, J. McMahon, No. 26 Crotona avenue, In the Bronx, yes- terday. MoMahon's sister, Miss Mary, left the house at noon, after locking the cat in the cellar, No one else was at home, . ‘When she returned at dusk and opened the door the cat met her In the frone telling in ant “He never once accused me of wrong- doing. St “For two days I was confined to my bed. Then Harry and his mother came tom room. She sat on the edge of the bed: he stood ’at {ts foot. Shoving his ds into his pockets Harry said: Now, you needn't say a word. Your guilty. Jease has confessed all, andl PLEADS FO this morning was a man clean and} |chairman of the Caucus and THIRD EFFORT TOCET DNVORCE Latest Attempt of the Erskines to Drift Apart Brings to Light Some Very Surprising Reve- lations. HUSBAND ASKS FREEDOM. Vice-Chancellor Pitney, of Newark, is hearing testimony in the divorce case of John K. Erskine against Marie An- toinette Erskine. This ts the third time the couple have been in court. In New York Mrs Prskine entered an action charging abandonment and cruelty. In return the hustand alleged unfaithfulness, In po'h irstances the cases were dismissed, The testimony in the New York courts was of a very sensatlonal natur being alleged that Mrs. Erskine was enamored of a common tramp, who she drersed in new clothes and then ent: tained. The Erskines are well-to-do, prominent In shipping oircles, It developed on the hearing to-day that young Erskine told Walter R. Beach, a New York lawyer, that his father would be willing to p&y $§,000 In r to free him from his wife, Beach acting for Mrs. Erskine, “dnd the 21s husband admitted in crass-ex- amination that he told Mr. Beach to go into any State in the Union and enter | the action and It would not be defended, providing that unfaithfulness or cruelty Were not charged, “Twanted a gentleman's divorce,” sald ‘Rrskine on the stand, The young couple 106 Kast Fifteenth street. in| ‘skine took up his residen: 1 being lived at ew York. at No. 211 South Broad street, Elizabeth. | June % last, and the bill sets forth that | Mrs. kine committed the charged with one Thomas Ward in this ate subsequent to this date, The defense 1s being conducted by John B, Levitt, of New York, gnd W. im , of this city, whu clata kine was Inveigled into New Jersey by a decoy letter nt by her husband, The plaint: said it had been his fn- tention to secure a divorce from the first, as he belleved her gullty of im- proper conduct. If necessary, he was Willing to pay a good price’ to secure his freedom. He denied that he was her husband jn more than name In interrupting counsel for the defe the Vice-Chancellor sald “It seems to me that it Is quite plain that this man married a woman who was neither crazy nor sane. No one could get along with her, not even he: own family, and they pusned her off on him." ‘The fair defendant, who ts not yet thirty years of age. simply smiled, She wore a large gray beaver hat ang a natty melton coat. She wore a white veil, which she kept over her face throughout the trial, == HORNER SPEAKER IN JERSEY. Elect of Leg- Ofice he Repo gisiature offense ublican Membe! TRENTON, Hean members-elect of the held a caucus in the Assembly chamver to-day and elected these offers Speaker, John G. Horner€ Burlingto: Party Lead- rk, Jam Upton Clerk, aniteat~ As- tr er, R. M. Boyd, § farker, Passaic; Assistant © 8. Jeffreys, Camden; Jo orge J. Coe, Union; Serj Arms, eorge T. Powell, nay Matant, George Lutz, Atiantic; Suj visor of Bills; George A. Gr sex; Bill Clerk. Rdaward 8. Tucten. Mor- | ris! Assistant BU) Clerk, John King, | —— PLEA FOR A BARGE CANAL. Repeat Their De- reer Chanp "The 1,000. » Ewvex; C 1 nal Business Men mands for Li BUFFALO, N. Y., ton barge canal or nothing. “The Inland or Seneca and ‘oute or nothing.” ‘These utterances, Oswego n | the slogan for canal ted by the friends want you to out as quick'as you fan’ so does father : T-sald, ‘If Jesse has said that he lies.! But I got out ae quickly as 1 our and a half, hall. ‘Thinking this suspicious she went at once to the cellar, She found the Goor leading upstalrs’ broken with an. axe and the basement door forced In Upstairs she found that her and her qister’s trunks had been rifted, No cloth- ing or silverware was taken. McMahon jm secretary of the Dr, MoGlyan Monu+ nel ment Assoctation, oa improvement advo: NO CHANGE IN VANDERBILT, Although Physician Spent Night at Patient’s Bedside, the Bul- letins on His Condition Are Re- assuring. ILLNESS MAY HEAL BREACH. Although there !s no espvclal cause for alarm in the condition of Cornelius Vanderbilt, now {ll at his home with typhold fever, his physician, Dr. Austin Fllnt, of No, 34 East Fitty-fourth street, spent the night at the bedside of his patient, Not until 8 o'clock this morn- ing did the physiclan lie down for a moment's rest. No forma! bulletin was issued from the sick rdom. The butler was deputed to answer all inquirles as to his mas- ter’s condition. He told an Evening World reporter that Mr. Vanderbilt ha¢ lower than vesterday. There was a constant stream of car- rlages and automobiles “calling at the house, the dc | Vanderbi!t anxious to know his condl- thon. Alf G. Vanderbilt, the sick man’s brother, sent his builer over to tnauire on this point, ‘As one Hiness of pects to ar ofar tion will reunite the wealthy family. announcement may be made to-day, ‘The visit of Mrs, Harry Payne Whit- y to her sick brother {s flow the tople conversation among the family's friends, and this visit fs taken to Indl- cate that (he estrangements which grew out of Cornelius disregarding his fath- er's wishes and marryng'the woman of, his choice will be formriten, Mrs, Whitney was Gertrude Vande bilt and was the most bitter the femily, except the’ father, in opposing the match Mrs drove up to her brother's residen Park | J in the house about! she came out her eyes Ing. She 8] as she Was would return pm he sucrificed the] branch of the Vander- | and who has scored « num- ber of high s tiumphs the | other members gf the family, notably the dinner to Prince Henry of Prassia, | Is the sick man’s faithful She {2 by his side almost continually. There re four additional trained nurses inva! Mr, Vanderbil: sovlety ex: whict An avenue aid rema s Whe ly moved. raving, that she His wife, for leadership of h biit famtiy over m many incidents it ts evident tha: the sentiment In Vanderbilt famiiy changing, Reginald Vanderbiit, who iG tn rete: him “Neely H not been cn spea ms with the other members of nily, ff Is sutd that AL erbilt. who Inherited the valk of the fortune and the Jeadership of the wh vellus w cut off, has n note to but this bas not be No visit are admitted to the piillonaire. Mrs W the fa ta de Was not announced vefore vie that others of t him will oe admited neway and Dr. Aus- ‘ in hand, yung man ts express Hope of his early to Cornelius cx prvellus fam the al iney was the first vdmitted. Her cali | serious. recovery ACTED LIKE A MADMAN. x In Bellevue tur fovr venre. whe RL, as his home, was arralg! fore Magistrate Cor- nell in Jefferson Market art to-day | and remanded to Bellevue Hospital to | Providence Man 1 Raising D thirty e lof canal improvement long ago. w aMrmed again to-day at a meet jrepresentatives of the Merchants change of Buffalo and of the sociation of Greater New York. From New York were Gustay B. Schwab, Frank 8. Wetherbee, Fra Bravera, 4 end John J, have his sanity inquire | Policeman the West Twentlets street station. was called to the drug store at the r of Tenth avenue and Twenty-second street an ‘ound Chapman fighting. scratching an piu people in the atore who were at: passed a very comfortable night and | that his fever this morning is a trifle| upants being friends of Mr | result of the present serious | }n trial package of a new a “KEPT INGONDACE \Mrs. Herbert Janes Makes a Formal Demand to His Mother for the Return of Her Just) Wed Spouse. \No REPLY IS RECEIVED. | Mra. Herber* Janes, who was married hursday after having compromised » $2,000 breach of promise awit for $200, | and whone husband deeerted her an hour | After the ceremony, has deciared that | \her husband 1s confined a prisoner in iis mother's house, No. 748 West End avenue. She has written a letter to Mra, Janes | warning her that she will begin legal | Proceelirgs agatost her for the recovery | of Herbert to-morrow unless he returna | to her by that the: | She alleges that his family | to get him to consent to a commitment to an tr asylum in order to keep |him fem her He has already been ar asylum once. Mes. Janes is also after the Rev. Dr. Houghton, of the “Little |Charch Around the Corner.” who mar- |ried her, but who now, she saya, refuses to give her the marriage certificate | She has consulted her lawyer, Charles | H. Hurtis, of No. 69 Wall street, and | acting on his has sent her tho| following ieti want Janes: Unless Her- Husband. returom to me | to take legal pr y have no desire for y but if it is necessary T shall is iis wife, take steps to have my husband reiurned to me He returped to. vour home yester- Gay after our marriage. He must be or is detained there. If he does not return to me to-morrow I shall see and retain counsel in the case. Re- spectfully yours, | MARION 8. JANES. | | Ne reply has been received by her | Now Im Seclusion, i is trying ant | | Mrs, Janes, who left the Grand Union Hotel on the day following her hus- Dand's disappearance, is now living tn |seclusion at No. 119 West Fifty-*Ixth |street. To an Evening World reporter she told the complete story of her |troubles, from the time of her first meeting with Herbert Janes four years ago to his disappearance two hours after the wedding. on Tnursday last. Mrs Janes, who is a very beautiful woman, {s obviously very much In love with her husband, and her references to him are of the “beautiful angel, fend ngelic,” style familiar to lovers of Romeo and Juliet.” She sald: 1 first met my present husband at the | Hotel Manhattan four years ago. I was [living at the hotel at that time. and (| think I may say I was favorably known there, My first husband, Dr. May, had | \ Ged two years before. leaving me ‘com: fortably off, and although I had a great many men calling upon me at the time I at once preferred Mr. Janes tv any of them. “He made violent love to me, almost from th but we ear, After gaged A Mr. teri his family the mateh Ditn't Mave Any Money, The whole trouble that he did not have any money. Why, when | was in temporary diMcuities and wrote him asking him to help me out on a hotel | I bill he sent me this letter: moment of our first meeting, not become engaged for that the — engagement ng for nearly two years, for { Janes had no money ‘and much opposed to} Oct. 1, 1902 Ma ppy that I Tam miserably uni you. I have tried all. ways a ou know that I would. do anything | Tam ruining myself, but until tam! On my feet you muat try (0 ge along by your: , seit. You must ¢rust me. Ith ts my. enly salva thon HERBERT Another Jetter which Mr. Janes wrote | in July of this year is of a slightly warmer tone. In it he protests that he would take the clothes off his back to assist Mrs. May, but perhaps this was partly due lto ‘the date, July 23 My Mariou—1 ‘amon the ve Let raction 1d not believe me whe 4 that the ket one dollar. Haw | ny tim ou that T could nat so any mone: JT would steal tit t | ould, For you | would ta off my nd go hungry, love near. t can't ‘any money HERDERT | ir. Janes also wrote me a good deal of poetry.” continued Mrs, lanes, |" |was not very good, but he mea lvemember one verse, which 1 love papa Yen 1 de. Buc T love Mamale Deep and (rue Mra. Janes in et Na | net ei | wet I th expla- me. “Mams! nation. DROVE INTO SUBWAY HOLE. | pan Disregarded Danger Si nals and Met Unpleasant Surpr Disregarding a red flag of placed near the subway work east side of City Hal! Park, Jon of No, 615 First avenue, ¢ Ms horses, attuched to wagon loaded with sand, upon feht planking, which gave way team, wagon and himseif were pi Into spaco between the top of the way tunnel and the street a tance of #ix feet he novel feature of the tracted a large crowd, and aiMfculty that Noonat was r or ecelved such | was 1 essary while thi ded for a ing dan, nau, dro’ a heavy some His level, ident at- was with ated 1 doand Wall str above the ty actor John G nd Ei ii Her Marvellous Growth of Hair, FREE TO ALL 4 wondertul rem. ple it actu out, F Se Iuxuri. | sand ody motled free to co ally grows bair, op moves dandray a 3 pam e Altenheim Medical Disp Buiiding, Cincinnati, Onio, Write Wadar®* other igi HUULO AVERT A PAN Put Out Lively Blaze in Gram- mar School No. 67, in West Forty-sixth Street, While the Primary Children Walk Out. MAY BE INCENDIARY FIRE. There might have been a serious fire panic to-day in Grammar Schoo! No. 67, story structure at No, 12 West Mixth street. had not a lot of athletic High School boys extinguished the flames while the younger children Were marched to the atreet through the rmoky halla without confusion. The fire started jn a storeroom fed with excelsior, old desks, piles of inmber and other inflammable ma- terial. The room 1s In the front of the harement and adjoining the gymnas- jum. Tt ts supposed that a boy who sad deen dismissed from the school en- tered the storer m from the street, as he could have done with ease, and tted the fire. Ordinarily it would have burned with- out discovery until beyond control, for at that hour the Janitors were in an- part ef the building prepa rooms for the lunch nin the primary grades, 0 cold that one of the red the basement to put ™ lon the furnaces just as the Haze was ginning to ma In the gymnasium were tw h School boys, numb re, exercising under the Prof. J. Crampton, The Janttor wisely gave the alarm to the gymnasium Ine structor, who formed his dried boys Into a fire brigade without delay Hanging on the walis of the gymnas- fum were many fire buckets filled with water The boys grabbed these, rushed to the storeroom and in « few moments not a spark remained to mark the scene of the beginnig of the blaze. In the mean time the Janitor had sounded the fire-alarm and Pri J. Shepard, his assistant, Mr herty, and’ the various teachers called the fire drill. The children were mu tered in companies in the hails of each of the six floors and marched to the street. Frequent drilling In this had Prepared them for the emergency and there little or confusion, When the fire was out Principal Bhep- ard jearned from some of the puplis that a boy whom he had expelle threatened yesterday to enter the bas xchiool on fire. The po- Hee of the it Forty-seventh street station were notified, and a search {s being made for the boy. the of the ¢ Bur Janitors ent © smoke. clasnes of ng about a Hrection of 5,000 Dress Patterns of Cotton Wash Fabrics, putup_ in neat, boxes for Holiday Presents, at special low prices, Pevcales, Ginghams and Fine Dimtttes, $1.20, $1.50 & $1.75 per pattern, French Cambries, English Percales and Scotch Madras, $2.25, $2.50& $2.75 per pattern, Watst Patterns of imported silk and mercer- ized ginghams, mercerized oxfords and novelty “veste ing,” at ‘ $1.00 to $2.50 per pattern, Embroidered Flannel Waist Patterns, $2.25 to $4.50 each. Broadway & 20th St. Published official figures of the American News Company. proved conclusively that the daily’ cireuld-— tion of The World in New York City is tens of thousands greater thag = that of any other paper. bir Est. 1857. it ASPERFELD Mall Orders Filled. Don’t be fooled b: As STANDARD JEW Value $110. Price $65. Write for IMustrated Catalogue. G CLEVELAND & iWest Sideof street? 144 BOWERY {North Grand St. ‘L’ Station “Bowery Savings Bank Block.” tion we ask a comparison of our goods and ‘others, the saving we can effect will astonish you, you haven't bought of us heretofore, Est. 1857. Mall Orders Fitted. ” h; goods and prices talk us ELLERS of 45 years’ reputa-, prices with Value $100. Price $55. A i'mited nimber of Solitaire Diamond Rings for Ladies and Gentle hen will he sold until Cirisumas monds of rare color and sparkling brilliancy rly selection ts suggested. fing. An € nttemen'a Wat . RoId Bile A 14ekt Cpzn Evenings Till 9. above prices. Extra large dia- Tiffany or Belcher set- denign and va elsewhere UE prices Saturdays Till 11. Senet