The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 12

a _ Them He Will Bring Matter to IVERCROWOIN “Meets Committee from Mer- ohants’ Association and Tells Notice of Corporation Counsel to Take a Hand in the Matter In ‘the Near Future. f Mayor Low met the Committee on Franchises and Transportation of the Merchants’ Association at his office at 11 @’block this morning, and after thorough. ly going over the questions presented by the neglect of the surface and elevated foads to provide proper transportation facilities for the public he expressed himself heartily in accord with the com- * mittee in {ts efforts to compel the roads to improve the present conditions. Mayor to Take a Hand. Me assured the committee that he would write to the presidents of tha transportation companies and would take the matter up with the Corporation Counsel. The members of the committee who ealied upon the Mayor were William F. King, chairman; John C. Eames, Henry | R. Towne, George L. Duval and 8. ©. ‘Mead, and all expressed themselves well watisfied with the result of the confer- ence No definite proposition was made to the Mayor regarding the necessary means to do away with the traMe con- Bestion, but the subject was generally considered. “It {s first necessary to determine What the city's powers are under the different charters,’ said Mr. King. “It ts the duty of the railway people them- selves to solve the problem, and we in- tend to see that they shall do it, “There are two clubs to use, One Is Bo seat, no fare; the other is to take away thelr franchises “Are you golng to take the matter vo Gov. Odell?" he was asked Albany the Last Resort. “Gov, Odell is heartily with us," he Feplied, “but we shall not fo.te Albany except as a last resort. Right here je lace for the work to be done. And layor js willing tc go further even we proposed. He wants the motor- Mén to be protected by vestibules. Asked just what the committee wishes accomplish, Mr, King sald: ‘In the rat plac, we do not want trip service, Want the samo service from 6 o'clock the morning to 12 o'clock at night fpadite riven during tno rush nours, tf it) Is necessary to give all the people who ride seats. We are in this fight finish, and there will be no We want the bookstands, the’ slot machines. weighing machine: dy stands and advertising bill boards joved from the clevated’stations, The | Hons are depots for the convenience | the public and they do not belong, the railway companies, in the sense at they can be used for any other than Failway purposes.” | Solved the Problem, x * Regarding the solving of the problems: thane gongestion. Mr. C._S.. Mead, } tant Secretary of the Merchants lation, sald that if the companies Spent half as much time in trying to solve them as they spent In devising @chemes to impose upon the pubic, | thelr diMculties would very soon disap- ar Peror example, they tell us that the ongestion at Broadway and Thirty- th street cannot ba helped, they eannot devise any scheme to do awa: with the crossings there, But, in fac} four of the crossings at that corn could be avoided by sending the Broad- ¥ cars up Sixth avenue at Thirty- rth street and by switching the Sixth Avenue cars Into Broadway, This Is | only an example of the case with which many of the diMculties could be re- moyed If the companies would only | geek for remedies.’ } A resolution introduced by Alderman MciInness was passed to-day by_ the to a gompromise. Governor May Be Called Upon| FIREBUG SCARE ON WEST SIE. Eleven Incendiary Blazes, All in Basements of Tenements, in Early Morning Cause Wide- spread Alarm. MANY LIVES IMPERILLED. Actress Is Rescued, Unconscious, at One Fire To-Day, and Many Per- sons Fled from Crowded Bulld- ings by Fire-Escapes. Because of the numerous fires of « similar nature on the west side the po- Nice fear that the pyromantac of a few years ago has returned. During the pre- vious scare the Fire Department was called early each morning to extinguish three and four fires in the collars of tenements. Alarms for five fires close to each other were turned in last Saturday morning. Three were turned in yeater- All of them were for fires in the cellars of densely populated tenement-houses. The first fire this morning was found in the basement of a Chinese laundry on the first floor of the five-story tene- ment-hous. at No, 812 West Fortleth street. Pollceman Rogers ran through the building awakening the sleeping residents, most of whom are said to be actors, Smoke had so filled the room occupied by Lottie Palmer, an actress, that she was partly suffocated and had to be carried down three filghts of stairs to the street, where she wi suscitated. The haste with which the tenants left the building was so great that only a few stopped for clothes, and the streets filled with men ana women in nothing more protecting than night robes. ‘The fire was confined to the cellar and to an alr-shaft In the rear, After $1, damage had been done !t was extin- guished. Soon after this fire wan discovered in the cellar of the five-story tenement- house at No. No. 428 West Forty-wixth street, occupied on the first floor by Charles Miller, a grocer, and by thirty poor Italian families ox the upper floors. A stampede among. the tenants fol- lowed the alarm of fire, and all who could rushed from the building in ecant attire, Several policemen went through the building and found John and Ar- thur Sullivan, two homeless boys, asleep in the top hallway. The smoke was so heavy they were overcome. The police carried them to the atreet. Many of the tenants escaped by meang of the regular fire-escapes, and others were taken down by the dremen. From the amount of smoke it was believed the whole building was.on fire. The damage will be about $1,000. ‘The third fire this morning was in the cellar owned by Morris Wahlmann, on the first floor of the six-story tenement at No. G12. West Forty-second street. Here there were escapes similar to those in the two preceding fires, and the oir- gumstances caused the police to suspect arson. A number of detectives were put on the case. The damage in this pi will not exceed $500, HORSE PLUNCED THROUCH CAR, Women Passengers Several Board of Aidermen, granting the State Rajlroad Commission the use of the} Aldermanic Chamber for, the public | hearing ay, Dec, 30, when the! matter of the Inadequate facilities of} the Brooklyn Rapid Transtt Company | will be heard | » Protesting tax payers of Brooklyn. who assert that traffic conditions | in) Brooklyn are intolerable, h made ap- | Meation to the ccenmissic seeking | he abrogation of the company’s charter, | MILLIONS IN TRACTION DEAL Emtersinte Railway Gets United Power and Transpor' PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. —Announce- | ment was made to-day the United Power and that control of | Transportation | Company has been sold to the Inter- state Railway Company, at $75 a snare, | payable In forty year collateral trust i nid coupon bonds, to be Issued by the {miersiate Railway Company, The bonds | rill be dated Feb, 1, 1903, and will bear Mmterest at the rate of 3 per cent. for the first year, 31-2 for the second and 4 for the third year and thereafter The Interstate Railway Company was 4ncorporated recently in New Jer with a capital of $10,00.00 for the @ of operating electric @nd street railways in Pennaylvanta, New Jersey and Delaware. The I'nited Power and Transportation is also a New Jersey corporation, chartered tn ison, ‘Its authorized cnpital was $12,- BA, of Which $7,126,000, par $25, fi paid, is outstanding. a SHIPPING NEWS. THE TIDES. High Water, AM. PM | 35 2.40 39 R17 510 Antrerp Antwerp ING STEAMSHIPS. LBD TO-DAY. bee, Ba Sixth Avenue Caused by a Runaway. RIG WAS LEFT STANDING. A runaway horse attached to a butch- er's wagon plunged dalf through the side of a Sixth avenue electric car fled with women shoppers at Thirty-elghth street to-day, injuring several passen- gers and cutting himself so badly that he bled to death before he could be ex- trieated from the tangled mass of o sengers, glass, splintered wood and other wreckage. The car line was blocked for nearly an hour while the dead horse was being dug and hauled from the smashed car. The animal was attachod to a wagon belonging to H. Waller, of No. 305 @tan- ton street, and was driven by Jacob Schalter, who left it standing in front of No. M7 West Thirty-eighth street while he delivered an order, and the animal ran away Making a bee-line down Thirty-eighth street, he stopped for nothing, taking a wheel of a hansom that. did not get out of the way quick enough, and scattering pedeatriana tn all directions. At Sixth avenue a car crowded with Christmas shoppers, most of them women, was crossing Thirty-eighth street on the ‘downtown track. The horse made no effort to turn out of the way for it, but crashed head on into me side of it. In a manner unaccountable by those who witnessed it the horse literally rew himself into the car, through the windows, boards and all, His head and forefeet were in the oar and the wagon was piled in a heap on his hind quarters, Cut by the giass and splintered wood an artery in the horse's neck Was severed and the blood, with every heart beat, apurted over the panic-stricken passengers. A shaft struck a woman in the back and for 4 time rendered her unconscious, Bhe was dragged off of the car and when ene rexalned her senges she would not give her name or address, but called a cab and driven to Arouse in Fifty mnth street, west of Fifth avenue. The ctner pas gers got out without MING STHAMSHIPS. |) +) DUE TO-DAY. Beriphos, Hamvure. Du Horatio, Para. serious injury, but many them were slighty cut and #oratoned and several were bleeding. The horse died before it could be lifted from its position and the line Was Used up for nearly an hour hile a. wreoid red, - Haba atlas as a a, day morning and three this morning. | Were Injured in Wreck on|~ “GO0-C00 EYES" IN BIDDLE PLAY. Outlaws Wonderful “Lamps,” with Wicks Turned Up, Are Chief Factors in Plot of New Melodrama. ODD DOINGS IN PITTSBURG. Stage Happenings Are Not Con- vineing, but the Biddle Eyes Are Rea! and They Hypnotize the Women On ->-' Off the Stage. A voting contest at the Grand Opera- House last night would doubtless have 4etermined that “the eyes have it" in “A Desperate Chanc: After seeing the eyes which an orb actor named Orlin Kyle makes as Ed Biddie, it is easy to understand how the irresistible outlaw Influenced the Pitts- burg prison warden's wife to ald him and his brother in their attempt at escape. When the Ed Biddle of the Theodore Kremer. melodrama turned up the wicks of his “lamps'' women all over the house had to hang on to thelr seats to keep from being lured over the foot- lights. As for the women tn the play. they fell under the fatal spell of those double- lensed ‘‘goo-goos’’ the minuto enticing Edward appeared on the scene They received the first ehock in a grocery store. For a minute or so black-eyed Ed stood outside and sent his plercing glance through the window. You could almoet hear the glass crack. Then, with his imitation Panama hat ret dashingly on one side of his handsome head, he came in and worked his searchlights at close range. “Oh, thoee eyes! exclaimed an im- Pressionable widow, who was buying ome canned exes for breakfast. Che and Reanty. “He has a great eye for female beauty,” observed the grocer. Then the warden and his wife—the former looking lke a physical cul- tured Belasco—came in with their dear Mttle bare-legged daughter and got a vivid Mash, They were In evening togs Belasco said they had been to a show, | thus throwing a sidelight on Pittsburg.) night life and disclosing that the grocery stores keep open after the theatres there. | cinating Ea transfixea the war. | den's wife with his baleful gaze and she fell gasping on the codfish counter, A sardonic smile curved Ed's chiseled | Mps. He moved nearer to her, with easy | grace, and, giving Belasco a hard look, began paying her compliments. He said | her beauty was just his style. Her breath came in short pants. Belasco glared. Finally Edward the Bold be- came 80 personal in his remarks that Belasco made a rush for him. Bystand: ers interfered, and the dear little bare- logged child got Jack Biddle to promise that he wouldn't let his wicked brother hurt her papa. The grocer nad remarked in the hear ing of the Biddle brothers that his re- celpts that day had been $610. In husky. aside Jack had observed “that much money makes a fellow’s mouth water.” As soon as the lights were out and the wolinists in the orchestra began! plucking stealthy music off thelr strings| the brothers came back with a dark lantern and a sinister purpose, A Sleepwalking Specialty. | They had just broken in when the wardén's little child, who was sleeping at the gro did a sleepwalking specialty. Without responding to an en- core she curled up !n the centre of the still asleep. the grocers clue to come in and get shot. Ed Biddle leaped from behind @ counter and plunked him through the heart. . The little girl slept on, but Ed pe- Heved ner shamming and stole toward her. “Bhe will betray us!" he whispered, fs he placed the muzzle of his weapon close to the ohild's.flaxen head. "Oh!" crled horror-stricken women In| the wudience. | But Jack Biddle raised a restraining | and. "No," he said; “you shall not kill tae oniia! Quick curtain, In the Prison. The next act showed the Biddle proth- ers in the Pittsburg prison. Then’ the warden's wife brought flow- ers for Ed, and even the grocery store eoubrette ‘presented the star outlaw with a bunch. He got all the bouquets, real and verbal. Ed harvested’ the roses and manipu- lated his “goo-goos" through the bars on the warden's wife, Belasco let her sympathize with the Blddies, He be- Meved in her saying such things as; “A good woman's love redeems the hole world.” Ed put her !n such a trance that she cried: "When I look into your eyes L could defy the universe!” She brought the Biddles saws and filas The Old Almanac. > Almanacs were tn useslong before the srt of printing was ‘discovered, but Ince the advent of the movable types and tho sprinting press thelr number and varleties have become legion, Mil- Mons upon millions of them are printed annually, and most of them for free distribution. Each year they, are made more attractive and published in greater Aumbers. ‘The calendar, an. innovation of recent years, was popular for a time but it could not mupplant that old friend of earlier days—the almanac. with its astronomical calculations and \ts more or less accurate weather pre dictions. While the almanacs of to- 7 Insued primarily for advertiaing’ page poses, they must of necessity contain ine teresting matter and be made attractive In every way possible, else they would not be read, and the money. Invested Would be ney wasted, Chas. iH Fletcher's New York Almanac has ever een one of the foremost in-attractives news, and the 1908 edition Is no exception iWthographed cover ‘Take me home with 27 Uk containe the usual number of Jokes, much valuable information relaticg to the care of infants. ® record page 1s blankefor daby's early days, and prope vemm that will help to ps way n a tong evening. Hero | Asked her father how ol ne father replied, that, almost sa: or TE BHAA ADEDAURD i} 983908993 o> BUDE BROTHERS QROGPOBD é e Act 1. Scene 1.—The Warden, } the opera, wander into a Warden's wie, and she tn hin’n, ways had a hankering for petticon To divert suspicion while he sang "The Holy and guns, ed on the bars, The warden's wife went back to the house, sang her child to sleep and doped Belasto by putting Knock-out drops in his wine. Over In the jail Ed Biddle sent one of the guards to wet a handkerchief for his feve:! brow. Jack Biddle lured the remaining guard up to his cell on the pretext that there was something In his eye whien he wanted removed. Thi« kuard was killed and a dummy hurled from the bridge to the floor below. The other guard was shot op his return, and the eseupe was effected In the next act the Biddies and the warden's wife (who stayed “dressed up" all through the play) were found taking temporary shelter In a country school- house, She was Inclined to be nensive, but. presently she brightened up and vivaciously sald: "Oh, [ wish I had a fried egg. I'm awfuliy hungr ‘The scene shifted to a wood in which the fugitives and pursuers arrived in sleighs drawn by horses suffering from Stage fright. It snowed pitilessly In the centre of the stage. There was a fusil- lade of shots, and the Biddles were down and out. The last act showed the Blddles dying on cots In the Butler County Jail. If Jack had lasted a little longer he would have got a bunch of violets which the Mttle girl brought. But his ife, unlike Ed's, was fated to be flowerle: Ka | effected Aa reconciliation between Re- Jasco and his wife, and the final curtain fell on more work for the undertaker. A. OTHER HOUSES, At the Garden Theatre Mr. Willard gave his fine and powerful impersona- tion of Cyrus Blenkarn, the old potter, in “The Middieman."—Francis Wilson and his comic-opera associates made merry in ‘Nhe Toreador’ at the Har- lem Opera-House.—David Higgins and Georgia Waldron, in that pretty play, “Up York State," were cordially wel- comed back to New York at the Four- teenth Street Theatre —'The Charity Ball,” with Bijou Fernandez as Ann Cruger, was creditably presented by the Herbert Stock Company at the Circle Theatre,—"Monte Cristo,” with Ralph Stuart in the title role, was re- wived at the Murray Hill—Denman Thompson, in “The Old Homestead” proved a strong attraction at the Weal Snd Theatre—"Are You a Mason?" kept a large audience at the Metropolis in Iaughter.—'Alone in London,” a melodriuna of conflicting emotions, ap- Jed to patrons of the American,— fanion's “Superba” dazzled eyes a the Star,.—''Ten Nights in a Barroom exerted tte moral effect at the Third Avenue—The Topsy (Turvy Bur lesquers tried to turn things upside down at the Dewey. VAUDEVILLE BILLS. Gillette's musical dogs were features of an excellent bill at Kelth'’s.—-The Rus- sell Brothers in their new skit were one of the hits at Pastor's.—Proctor’s the-| atres: An English melodrama, “The) Bells of Haslemere,” was revived at BIG BIDDLE BROT DODPPAE®®®R®D OLD DOOD DOANE ®OOD QOD cery to huy a can of pens. WONDERFUL EYE WORK OF. PER HER. PeedSd Peers B33 pin wife and child, after attending It in here they hypnotic eye on the “He throws hb + thone even,” she gaspa nnyn “nck t Tam SO MUNGERY, How 1 wistoT HAD AFRIED Eco! The Biddle boys and the War- den’s wife esenpe to a achool- house, The woman grows hungry. Oh how I wish I had a fried egK,” ashe anys. the Fifth Avenue; at the Twenty-third | put on with scenic effects at the Harlem ropriate to Christmas was “The Holly ree Inn," “Alone in New York’ was | put on with scenic effects at the Har em house, “Woman Against Woman" was the play at the Fifty-elghth street house, Valerie Bergere led the vaude- ville pM at the Newark.house,—J. Ald- rich, Libby and Katherine Trayer scored hits’ with operatic selections at Hurtig & Seamon’s.—Santa Claus in wax ap- peared at the Eden Musee.—Wallace, the “man-eating lion,” chewed up the honors at Huber’ ESTABLISHED ATTRACTIONS, New weeks were entered upon by Wiliam Faversham in “‘Imprudenc Empire; Julia Marlowe in “The Cava- lier,’ Criterion; Mary Mannering in “Phe Stubborness of Geraldine,” Gar- rick; Eleanor Robson in “Audrey,” Madison Square; N. C. Goodwin and Maxine Elijott in The Altar of Friend- ship.” Knickerbocker; M Fiske in| “Mary of Magdaia," Manhattan; “Twitly-Whirly" and “Tho Stickiness of Gelatine,” Weber & Fields's; James K. Hackett in “The Crisis," Wallack's; Mabelle Gilman in “The Mocking Bird," Bijou; Viola Allen in ‘The Eter- nal City," Victoria; “The Ninety and Nine,” Academy of Music; "The Silver Broadway id and Folly,” a a jouse; “A Country Giri," Daly Darling of the Gods," Belasco’s Theatre; “When John- ny ‘Comes Marching Home," New York; Richard Mansfeld in’ “Julius Caesar,” Herald Square; Aubrey Bouct- cauit in "Heldelberg,"” Princess; "A Chinese Honeymoon,” Casino, IN BROOKLYN THEATRES. William Gillette in “Sherlock Holmes” bogan a week's engagement at the Mon- tauk, Shakespeare's "As You Like It" was presented at the Columbia, TRAIN HIT ONE, OTHER ESCAPED. Brooklynite Killed and Friend Fell Unconscious as Car Tore Off His Coat. (Special to The Evening World.) ELIZABETH, N, J., Dec, 2.—Augus- tus Mulcahy, of Henry street, Brooklyn, killed South Elizabeth station by train on the was near the A passenger Pennsylvania Ratlroad here. Frank Syron, who lives on Hall street, Brooklyn, was with Mulcahy and came sclous beside the gracks ‘The train caught his coat and ripped it off him, The men were on thelr way to Phila- delphia and stepped from a passénger train which had stopped hero Just as another came along in an opposite dl- rection. Muleahy's body was taken, to Sehmit's morgue. He was thirty-three years old. Syran went home, or MISSING BOY FOUND. Was Wandcring About the Streets When Apprehended, Frederick Sheahan, ten, who has been missing trom hic ‘ome since Dec, 18, was found wandering about the streets to-day by John J, Madden, of No, 241 West Nineteenth s He was ta’ ‘3 Court. —<—<— Agnes Booth to Return to Stage. Bold as you are fears you Will be on wn mact We th t thi understand tha is Alm may De had for the asking. elther at "Fietotee, Sew wave’ Gia fo BOSTON, Dev Announcement was made here to-day that Agnes Booth, wife of John |B. Schoeffel, proprietor of the Tremont Theatre, will return to the so near being killed that he fell uncon: ! DECORATES TENT WITH HUMAN HEADS Pretender to Morocco’s Throne Decapitates Captured Troeps After Winning Bloody Victory. TANGIER, Morocco, Dec, 23.—The im- perial troops have been totally defeated after a sanguinary battle with the reb: els, headed by the pretender to the throne. The latter decapitated forty of |the Sultan's soldiers. Their heads are now ornamenting his tent. Imperial reinforcements have been Isent to attempt the capture of Taza, the eadquarters of the pretender. Incensea by the succesnes of the. rebels, the Sul- jtan has ordered hia soldiers to spare no Jono at Taza in spite of the advice of the jehtefs, who counselled him not to in- dulge In excesses. —— NO BLACK:SHEEP IN FLOCK. Colored Girl Causes Trouble in Rrookiyn Sunday School, A little colored girl has started a split in the Emanuet Baptist: Chureh, Lafayette avenue and St. James plice, Brooxtyn, whitey 1s lkely to make trouble of a serfous nature in the Sun- day-school before It haa been settled. The trouble comes from the fact that five or Bix Httle white children refuse to have anything to do with a stray black sheep which Mrs, Helen Page, of No, 34 Washington avenue, brought into the fold three weeks ago. * “The girl is going to stay in the school,” suid Mrs. Page to-day, "I had no idea that any Christlan would object in this way, especially the parents. ‘It doesn't seem very charitable, does. it? 29S OFO9IDOURPHIGISIOOF IOS CASK CANS NEW AUREL, She Shines Supreme in an All- Star Cast, Singing “Les Hu- guenots” at the Metropolitan Opera-House. MANY CHANGES ARE NOTED. | te |Production Is Satisfying, Although Memories of Other Days Intrude —Stage Management !- Excellent, but Chorus Fail- to Do Justice. The exploitation of an all-star cast, with increased admission prices, for- merty incident to the annual production jet “Les Huguenots” ts only a memory now at the Metropolitan Opera-House, where everything 1s now run on an all- star basis, Produced without flourish of managerial trumpets, Meyerbeer's much |maligned paraphrase of a tragic his- jtoric incldent is still a potent operatic attraction. Last night's audience at- tested that. The great front line de- manded by the work provokes reml- niscence. Edouard de Reszke was the ‘only one of Mr. Grau's old price-ralsing {guard still on duty, and he did not live up to his old traditions. Sombrich, dar- ing and ambitious, supplanted Melba, |Gadski was the Valentina instead of Noraica, and won her own laure! jWreath. The romantic Jean gave way to the tempestuous Alvarez, forced for once into a mood and manner entirely lyric. Journet and Scotti. Journet had the polish, but not the force of Plancon as San Bris, Fritzi Gcheff, a pert Urbano, was only a vocal echo of Scaich! and Mantelll. Scottl, always admirable, was an aristocratic Di Nevers in voice and bearing and shared with Gadski the distinction of coming unscathed through the fires of compari- son. All In all, it was a more than satls- factory cast, lacking in some elements former greatness; revealing new strength in other quarter: The production was spirited and well staged. The chorus alone transgressed. The “Rataplan” was unusually ragged, and the earlier stages of the ‘Benedic- Ulon of the Polgnards" moved without fluency. In Melba’s day her singing of “The Fair Land of Touraine,"’ with its con- cluding burst of vocal pyrotechnics given with perfect vocal art and surpassing clarity and sweetness of tone, was the crowning memory pf the night. Sem- brich did not achieve a like result. Her voice was intractable at the out- set. The top notes did not come with fluency or absolute fidelity to pitch, but she warmed into her work before the close and gave the brilliant finale with all her old fire, sounding the concluding top 8 fat with splendid volume and clarity, Mme. Gadski was a_ re Valentina to those who persist in think- ing of her only as a Wagnerian so- prano. As a matter of fact she sings only the lighter Wagnerian roles, while her repertoire covers the entire field of French and Italian romantic opera. Mme. Nordica, who alone can contend with her in roles demanding emotional intensity, will have to look sharply to her laurels. This season if Manager Grau gives the blonde Teuton her de- served opportunities. Last night she was in superb voice, and in her acting revealed @ temperamental capacity for attaining the highest emotional ex. Drenslon: ava in the “grand duet” of the ai her eyery note rang with tragic intense tty. Phe high C's were vibrant, tien reshness of you ful pay: youth and gloriously Varex Was equally satief, Raoul—one of the mont diMcule roles at the tenor repertoire. For one happy night let it be recorded he sang cone sistently on the key and with unwonted fluency. He began well, singing. the romanza "Vision Fugative’ in admir- able lyric style and he maintained the high etandard throughout the evening. Mmen Frits! Scheff was a smart Ur- bano, a delight to the eye In her page's costume, but her votce sounded. thin after the heavy contraltos we are ac- customed in the role and her sing- Ing of the "Nobile Signori" was almost Mippant. JERSEY TUNNEL GRANT SIGNED, Mayor Low Favors Franchise Granted When Pennsylvania Got Rights from Aldermen. Mayor Low to-day signed the fran- chise granted last week by the Board of Aldermen to the New York and New Jersey Tunnel Company to con- struco a tunnel under the North River between Jersey City and Christopher em Hudson streets in Manhattan Borough, This is the franchise that was passed at the same time the franchise was warded to the Pennsyivania Railroad for their tunnel under the North and East Rivers, and which went through the Board of Aldermen without scarcely ® murmur of disapproval. Tt has been claimed and denied that this tunnel «hen completed will be used jointly by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Erle Railroads, which will erect a fine terminal for passenger traffic in the neighborhood of Christopher and Hudson streets, ——>_—— FRENCH FEAR AMERICANS. m Shoe Dealers Sa: Are Being Forced Ou PARIS. Dev. 2%3.—The Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers of France, representing extensive industries of Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Limoges, Fou- geres, Nancy, Romans and other place: has decided to Immediately advance the scale of prices for footwear. In making the announcement M. Gi- Baro ‘They We may put the little 01 irl da another cla: but she'll See fh the T ae paris $2 bault, Vice-Prealdent of the Apepoletion, ialemongpel st "bevew ated "by PIPER HEARS. MIKE SHIT When Big Police Captain Roared “Attention!” Every Patrolman on Post and the Doorman in the Cellar Trembled Visibly. SLEUTHING THE SLEUTHS. Deputy Was Inspecting Station- Houses and Found One New One Inexcusably Filthy, but Says That Will Be Remedied, Deputy Commissioner Alexander Ross Piper made a tour of inspection of the uptown east side stations last night and though his coming was a surprise at all the precincts he visited, he said this morning that he had only one com- plaint to make—the trifling one of find- ing a patrolman comversing with a citi- zen while on post. The chief reason for the Deputy Com- mi. ner's tour was to find out whether or not the station houses were kept clean, and he began at the East Thir- ty-fifth street station. This precinct 1s now in charge of Acting Captain Shire. |Mr. Piper said ihat he found this sta- tlon house absolutely spotless. He sald also that the men were patrojling their posts Ike veteran soldiers, He then proceeded to the East Fitt first street station. All he could say of that station house this morning was that It was in fair condition, At the Enst Sixty-seventh street station Capt Piper sald he found things in a de- Plorable condition. He said that the station house was absolutely dirty, and as this ts one of the new station houses the Deputy. Commissioner says that there Is no excuse and that conditions will have to be remedied immediately. Capt. Stephen Brown {8 in command of thin precinct. Ae the Deputy Commissioner entered the East One Hundred and Fourth strect station he was staggered by hear- Ing big Capt. Mike Gmith roar “Atten- tho Capt. Piper sald that Capt. Smith's volce reached every patrolman in the precinct on post and even the doorman who was it the cellar tending tne furnace. "Tne inon continued saluting,” said Capt. Piper, “until tne last echo of that wonderful yoice riffled away along the slcpes of Lhe Palisades. If the Police Dyoartment ever needs a tarker Mike man.” ‘The Deputy Ccmm'ectoner sald that he woul} see that acreafter the round: and sorgennts of the different pre- patroied thel: precincts as FHILECMINUTE” promptly and reeulariy as the patrol- | q RESCUES WOMAN Policeman Murphy, Once Speedy Cyclist, Carries Her, Weigh- ing 200 Pounds, Down Lad- der from Burning House, HE SCORNED OTHER AM. Signalled for Extension Ladder and Was Loudly Cheered by Crowd ag He Bore Unconscious Burden to the Ground, {lle-a-Minute’ Murphy, the Broote lyn policoman and former bicycle rider, carried a hefty woman down @ laddew from the third floor of a burning bubld~ ing at No. 1059 Fulton street, Brooklya, to-day. ‘The fire started in Edward Hall's ture niture store at that number and was #0 threatening that two alarms were turned in for it. By the time the fire. fighting aparatus arrived the fire had spread to John Miller's storage ware- house, at No. 1039 Fulton street. ‘Policeman Charles Murphy, who used to chase fast locomotives on his bicyole, Was on that beat, and after ti: aing in the alarm he ran through th. upper floors to make sure that ail the . nante were out. = On the third floor he found Mrs, Pat« rick H. Keliy, who had gone back into the burning building to secure her fire insurance policy. After getting the policy she had been overcome by the smoke and Mutphy found her prostrate on the hall floor. Carrying her to a window, from whieh he smashed the pane of glass, he called to the crowds below for a ladéer. An extension ladder was holsted from a truck and a fireman wanted to relieve Murphy and assist Mrs. Kelly, a two hundred pounder, down. But the laurel were all for Murpny. Waving the fire- man back the intrepid policeman, stepped lightly on the top round of the ladder and descended with Mrs. Kelly as though she were light as a feather. Murphy was cheered by the crowd. The damage to the two buildings wag estimated at $3,500. . NOTED PRINTER IS KILLED. ” Albert E. Sarde Was Chief ef Government Office. RUMFORD FALLS, Me., Dec. 28—= | Albert B, Sarde, pressman of the print- Ing department of the United States: Postal Card Factory here, was killed by a shifting engine to-day. 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