The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1902, Page 4

WW PERIL A JAN IN CARS les of Surface and Ele- Lines Wholly Inade- ite, with Situation. Daily Worse. FORT THROWN TO WINDS Ff laints of Annoying Delays Met) by Statements of the Officic!s) + —— Sew York 1# face to face with the Proposition that has been before it became a big city, This Is problem of transportation. Never the failure of the elevated and sur- Unes been so absolute, never the wo acute. It has come to this. @ecency, is outraged, comfort ban- Ives endangered and business NEARLY LOST HER LIFE ON THE “L° Woman Forced Off High Plat- form at One Hundred and Six- teenth Street Between Cars, Fell, Luckily, Parallel to Rails. ‘UD. officials of the transportation com- have reached that point where admit they are powerless. The swell daily, the city goes on tnereasing its numbers by and bounds and the supply of stand stationary. Instead of get- better or even no worse, the altu- must become more and more for the «next year unless some for handling the crowds, which has not been suggested, can be NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. A woman almost lost hor lfe at the One Hundred and Sixteenth atreet sta- tlon of the West Side “L’* line to-day ecauso of the frightful crowd of pas- ngera who wore Jammed Into one of the southbound express trains. She wos forced off the platform between the cars and the train started. That she was not Killed was due to the luck which caused her to fall parallel to the ratis Tha viotlm of the prosent crowded got to find out, The Merchants’ | conditions was a Mins Clark, of No, 2 latjinr has taken the matter vp. | West One Hundred and Fourteenth President Cantor has been ap-lgtreet, She tried to got aboard the Ninth to for help in the fight. The Al-| avenue express about & o'clock. There will undoubtedly try to take} was a mass of men and women behind Hon. ‘What it will be is another mat-| nee gna they pusied her forwant despite It is Ne that the Board willl ner eforts until ahe was on the plat- & commission of oxperts to in-/ fon. She tried to stay there, but the . the question and determine | prossure from behind was so great that lene was pushed clear off the platform Bo far as the Metropolitan Street Rall: | 444 ¢01) down on to tho tracks. ‘ fg concerned, President Vreelanl! me train had started by this timo ; on, amg and again asserted that !t '8) a4 the guard was busy trying to close q to think of running more cars ‘ing wate. The other passengers on the fn the rush hours. He has explaine™ | jjatform saw the woman go down and sAhat on Brodway there Is almost acon: | yelled to the guard to stop the train, tinuous Hind of cars from one end of the |-phis was Sone) tee it had gone a halt- d to the other. To put on more | dozen yards, It was #upposed that Miss means that none of them would |Coare Way oad, but she, was Hot eerie ble to make any headway and the | ously hurt, excapt that her nerves, were bly bad running time of Atty ed that she was hysterical and from ‘the Battery to act p Recon od, She was tak ‘would be changed, perhaps, to an where other p hour and fifty minutes by a small In- Ehaher, ra In the number of cars. had been shoved off the *Complieated by Third Rall. one of the station guards, 1 to make room enough to to. the Manhattan Elevated road, present situation 1 complicated by troduction at this time of thi aralt# fem. It proved a fallur t pow storm | yeste was Public clamors, howls showers demands better service. The! tion companies explain and} and conciliate, but the service no better, What is the pubile to do about it? men Must Find Ont. ts what the Board of Aldermen close the cate, Tt was also said that a man was shoved off onto the tracks at this same j station. It Js doubly dangerous now to get on the tracks, ax, since the tnstalla- rd rall system, one may | be run over by the cars bu alecttocited nt BAD MAN SHOOTS SALOON 0 BITS. ! en erie | He Smashes All the Glassware | with Two Revolvers, but Now ; Reposes in Cell. Bow storm, Hut there w when thi unbearably, crowded than verters It ares, botual fern from nk distri ts were trying to get which ia , men get Inte t # and lose their tempers, millions of dollars. be. to the dally of hundreds of str either side, dd with elghty. this particular car sank into leance when compared with hu- belnex who jammed themselves the Ninth rvenue cars. e@p one hundred and twen' Were crowded, and there was not a| pire makes a A man who called ckman, announced cowboy from the ¥ himaeclf Henry’ that he was aj; and woolly West, i a two enor. ven-shooters, fied a score keepers along upper Eighth avenue this morning Into alding him tn} ¥ the normal eighty, tions: won the Sixth ‘mvenue cars eax) ttle vetter, Halt the trains, Made tip of the new cars onrated by clectrie motors, pulled hwand with oxcorsive loads. and ‘wan ni to stop the “gates, u Hn four. traine of alk snd Atreet after shooting all the bottles and glasses on several bars. f first got rash in} Racquet, at the} Hundred and Forty | fourth street and Eighth avenue, He | drifted in there with « heavy eea rune ng under bts lee and pulling his mbrero down over his eyes, sald persons, and after ten One over sixty add were crowded upo sot the lust train. Reached Its Limit. levated railroad simply cannot | ond to the demands mete upon it | population which Is three times than that which rode tn cars} when the nex were bullt and operation. While It is true that | ments have been made in ek It iw practically aa when the first c F nt wer the ‘rally, The placing of F t upon the Second avenue gatablishment of the third- ‘while improvements In ne very Httle ta rell demands upon the trainr ear that leaves South Fr SODRENT at night, ond the Badepering tanditions prevali reend of the lines early In the rnin Harlem and the Bronx y UP ‘and start to work. ay als of the elevated admit ue to do more, It ts up to so: city to find out it} anyining more be don re in nothing lett» but to er it unti! the subway is opened. IAIN MADE FIREWORKS. Bhort Civcnit on Brooklyn Trolley Wire. eA a short circuit hetween nd the troliey wire on the} om ve ne Une, ta sn, t excitement as It sent ral feet into the alr, Hcanen were tiraed out ae the crdasing, one from passing res. “When the "out the flames ‘the weapn fixed: oars, which had been tea. could proceed. an’ gimme It qutek!" On-Keeper replied sa Wanytinng we haye, 80 If kk, produc came in a terrific pomp} “1 will sell y vant ad “What? under the ‘oO miniature Ne looked. for u Bee bar, Jus te Klass or bot Wath a-partin e-wiaas mirror ‘at Into a thousand pl Mr. F finally dare h to the teleph yest One Hund atreet stat eral detec the “bad man, PUL on t finally lo: and Seventy-first dtreet , Where he had cast storm anchors after ploughing | a dozen saloons along the route. | p ie now in a cell in the One| Hundred and Twenty-f/th strect station vith his head done up in bandages and HELP CAME IN HIS SORROW. Merchants Befriend Bond, Whose Familiy Was Durned to Death, Mr, Edward Bond, of No, 212 First Ayenye, Whose wife and two children were burned to death tn the fire which occurred at his residenco yesterday, has found friends in his terrible affliction, Bome time previously his wife had Foun | POUEHE Her houschold effects from Cow- perthwailt & Sons, One Hundred and! ‘Pwenly-first street and Third avenue, | died in ®}and tho frm upon learning the eat ct ter making an| cumstances immediately nent 2 Toure, National santas. to, Mr. Bond with a letter of teh 8 recelpted bill in tall tr af Apciosing also $10 in cash ned If buoyancy that fnally led to |t tieatiy; | {s a nephow {William a ae nich BROKER MACOUN DIED SUDDENLY. Business Cares Supposed to Have Brought on Stroke of Apoplexy, Which Ended Ca- reer of Wall Street Man. STRICKEN AT HIS HOME. (Special to The Eventng World.) BABYLON, L. 1, Deo. 16—George Butler Magoun, youngest son of the late Georges B, Magoun, a wealthy and prominent New York broker and member of the Stock Exchange, died muddeniy early to-day at his country seat here from apoplexy. Mr. Magoun was thirty-three years old. After returning from business in Now York last night he complained of fooling weary, and, after kissing his little daughter good night, retired fhortly before nine. When Mra. Magoun entered the room & few hours later she found him breathing heavily and summoned Dr, W. W. Hewlett by telephone. The physicion worked until midnight to save him, but failed, broker dying about 3 A. M. br, Hewlett noz'tled Coroner Moore and the latter held an inquest to-day and announced that death was due to apoplexy. Due to Worrtment. Magoun's demise, it ts belleved, was hastened by worrlment over bust- ness cares, Resides attending dally to hia interests in the Stock Exchange, he was heavily interested in the Acme Bail-Bearing Castor Company, in which he was a director, and was also ex- ecutor of the large estate of his brother, Kinsley Magoun, who was killed by bi ing threwn fsom his carriage while his way to his country seat at W bury, some three years ago. His alster-in-law, Jessie Magoun, the widow of Kingley Magoup, last spring began sult for an accounting of the estate, and this created a bitter feeling between them, They lived on adjoining estates hero and were practically strangers untll the widow moved to the city, Mrs, Magoun, who was Miss Jessie N, ‘Torrence, a daughter of Gen. Joseph 'T. Yorvence, of Chicago, averred that her brother-in-law had falled to glve an ac- counting a8 administrator of her hus- band's estate, and of moneys recelved from her father's estate, from which she hus a generous Income. Maiter of Detail, the time of the husband tn July, after the te She added that at audden death of her 1998, his brother was appointed admin- trator, and qualifed in the sum of $100,000 for the proper care of her hus- band’s estate, Matters went smoothly ntl the latter part of 19, when Mrs. dition of i B, Whitne trator, bui examination was appointed in the midat Mr. Magoun sion to arbitration it wan brought Mr. Magoun tn discussing the sult at the time sald It was a mere matter of ldetall, Mr.” Magoun had been a member of New York Stoc! ch: since 1869, hie father and brother, both of whom are dead, having preceded wing shot, a mem- Racquet and other New , also of the ‘stminster >, Babylon Club, and vesiryman of Christ Episcopal Chursh. Iv was born in New York City and a graduate of Harvard College. Mra. Magous Is prestrated by her husband's sudden death, “Doc” WOOD RETIRES. Nephew of Former Mayor Was Vo- Itce Examiner Nineteen Years, Dr, Benjamin Wood, who has been a member of the Board of Police Surgeons eit tneteen years, Waa retired to-day by Commissioner Partridge on a pension of 41 Dr, Wood 15 fifty-five years of age and nf the late Fe: do Wood, ee —— HANGED TO TRANSOM. Bryon, Piamber, Ends His Life. William Byron, fifty years old, a plu er, arose to-day, took a plece of clothes!ine and hanged himself from the transom over the door of his room, Byron was out of work, sick and. de- spondent. He lived with his brother, George, at West Seventeonth atr Last night he went to bed very despondent, saying he was old, worn out and unfit to work, 8] ment Despondent | TRANSFERS REAL CLUE TO MURDER Strangled Boy Had Two Crum- pled in His Hand When Found in Central Park, Where He Had Evidently Been Decoyed. GREEK THEORY ABANDONED. the demth the news- death in Two strect-car transfers tn grip of little Michael Kruck, boy who was strangled to Central Park last Wednesday night, are now expected by the police to lead them. to the murderer and to furnish the mo- tive for the crime. With the abandonment of the theory that the boy was the victln of a Greek flower seller the police have returned to the first theory that the boy wag killed by companions, some even adorning the theory with the appellation of the News- boys’ Trust. Real Clue to the Murder. That the transfers were crumpled, a Uttle torn and clutched tightly in the Uttle fist of the dead newsboy {8 In- dicative to the police that {t was for the porsession of these transfers that he fought. Michael Kruck was a hot-tem- peted Httlo fellow, according to his mother, and he would fight et the drop of the hat, In fact, fighting was one of his characteristics. It was through his prowess as a juvenile “scrapper" that he was permitted to sell papers at the two Elghty-sixth street entrances to the park, Other boys had tried to seil papers there arfd they had been driven away. Michael would not be driven McCafferty, of Headquar- ters, has found that the boys at the, transfer points of .ghty-sixth street and Central Park West and at Mighty- sixth atreet and Madison avenue have been doing a lucrative business in deal ing in transfers. Passengers allghting at those corners secure trans 3, but do not use them, The newsboys will trade | such @ passenger @ newspa r the tranefer. ‘Then they will watch thelr opportunity and selt the transfer for three cents, thus making a about two and one-half newspaper, which costs th a cent. The transfers clutched In Kruck’s fst were atich as these, He had had a fight, perhaps with older boys, for the pos-} session of these transfers. Mighty for} the possession of transfers, often thrown | away by passengers, have Veen frequent on those corners “Tt ds just as lik, ruck Was ind! | profit of | ty on the about hale | yas not th hate with for the p 1. these that the dispute led to a uck was chased Into the he w aught and s tall Detective Mccatterty” toda stu iM 1s aeeldental | the fact that when the they had killed a hls head y did away, transfers, fight, that? park and by And but hurri Noyn Will pe to Te “Another thin to gee ty most. snewsboy. 1 from ‘They generally one who ts in u . Bue 1 never Baw. 80m y were willing Information as in this case, all want to shift ft on to # The detect!y are ns hard stood, and they taken to the Arsenal policn where each is mado to give a ful When these aro compared crepancles may be found. a at § Organization WHHL Have a Grent Time, Tho East Side Gentle tlon wl!!l hold thetr four theatre party and bonquet evening. "Blg Florrie’ § many rin the Elx Distrist, ix the honored gue At 8 o'clock five hundred the axsvciation will meet at B, Benjamin club house, Grand street, near Ludlow, and headed by Prof | Woltt's band,” will Dewey Theatre. Atte to Who will part Sullivan, Goldvonte, r be Philip au stays gre trict-Attorney Simon Etelnautes Aaron Canal street,” y of Grand street,” be the mane ter of cere satya and’ grand marshal of the parade, Pneumonia Follows Coal Famine. With the poor shivering with cold, the Dardebips and suffering due to the conl famine are addéd to by pneumonia, whieh: lurks im countless Iittle homes, A case roported yesterday ts only one of thoprands, The family of father, mother a four }itle Rata were) tn sotp sataiss Barn! than a dollar a do: father Ry Hs hardly sie bw ee jof the Carlton and Hovey Company, of |Lewell, Maan. to provide for all such case the Applicant erly recom- mended, by furnishing Fi Faber John's Medi cine without cherge, and we urgo thore | whore edute it In torwoteh out for 0 fo teport to us much densrvin leome to thelr notice, Much « s. ha prevented by a eneral extension of ‘this rellef work, end while thin announcem Benmore ther Joh this been A acer remo! sro ly Ke Bees L” CAR ON THIRD AVENUE ROAD AT BA, M. TO- DAY: SEATS FORTY- EIGHT, 127 PEOPLE SQUEEZED INTO MAD CAT, HUNCRY, ATTAGKS FAMILY. Sinks Claws In CH in Child’s Head, Bites Baby Sister, Scratches Mother, Who Gets It Fast in a Crack of the Door. THENCAME SCHNURZFIETZEL A tramp tortoise shell vat, made mad by hunger and the cold, leaped from the snow-covered porch back of Otto Es- seck’s residence on Richmond road, Sta- pleton, 8. I., this morning, through a window which had been momentarily | opened tn the kitchen, and tacked the children playing with bulld- ing blocks on the floo: Tho cat first landed Otto, Jr, eight, {ts claws dug deep into his scalp. As it fell to the floor tt bit viciously at his leg, Inficting severe wounds. Lulu, his sister, two years younger, | attempted to rescue her brother, and as she pulléd at the huge bushy tail the Established Over N. 5. 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