The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1902, Page 1

RACING# SPORTS — GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGES 6 & 7. | “ Cire ] ulation Books Open to All.’’ EDITION PRICE ONE CE MBE 27, 1902. PRICE ONE CENT, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. DEC REFORM CLAIM BI IMPROVEMENT ‘Heads of the Various Departments Ap- pointed by Mayor Low Declare that the Year Just Closed Has Been - Marked by Many Radical Changes) . for the Better in the City. Police, Fire, Health, Street-Cleaning and Charities Departments All Show Def- inite Advancement -Some Interesting Statistics Quoted to Show Comparison | with Tammany Regime. O-DAY ends for all practical purposes one year of re-) form government in the city of New York. The! Evening World presents in concise form the result of | : that year as it appears from the reports of the various heads | of departments chosen by Mayor Low to carry out his ideas. It will be seen from these reports that the commissioners are | well satisfied with themselves—including Police Commis-| sioner Partridge, whose defense of his control of the Police Department appeared first on the day he handed in his’ resignation. The Park Commission asserts that during the year 1902 great improvements have been made in the people's | playgrounds. A study of the statistics concerning this im-) portant branch of the city government is quite interesting. __ The Health Department shows many commendable.im= provements made, particularly in the way of increasing healthfulness in the tenements. Dr. Lederle shows that the death-rate has been decreased, that there has been a re- duction in the number of cases of dangerous contagious diseases and that the public health generally has been im- proved. In the Department of Charities the most important reform was the enforcement of discipline and the general) cleaning up of the institutions for the care of the sick and indigent. Of all the reports present that of Commissioner Folks will probably excite the most interest among the peo- ple of the city. Commissioner Woodbury shows that the Street-Clean- in effic Department has been kept up to its high standard of iency. The Fire Commissioner defends his department. Comptroller Grout gives interesting details concerning the Department of Finance. i STREET-CLEANING DEPARTMEN Btreet-Cleaning Comm| r John McGaw Woodbury said: "The sweeping of this cit been done with an average total force. of 2,484) men, They have swept 412 iniles of streets in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx and 4% miles in the borough of Brooklyn each day. ‘Thirty per cent, of| this distance 18 covered from two to three times daily, We would be able to do! actual physical showing but for the fact that there are fourteen miles of open vubway cuts In Manhattan, and from these cuts are curted dally to the rivers 6,112 cuble yards of earth and rock per day. There are in process of construction 1,289 buildings in the borough of Man- hattan alone: there are hauled daily to the rlvers from theso bulldings about 3,000 cubic yards of cellar dirt, There! are 1,858 feet of gas main being lald and 5.43 miles opened for repairs. There are about 1.29 miles of water main being latd, and the telephone, steam-heating | and electric companies have 22.18 miles | of surface torn up for the purpose of| ‘Got a Hint to Surrender in) ‘NOBODY'S DARLING NOW. |third street and played roulette, as he! 4newaranctioned the spectacular meth- ocs'of Jacobs, but that as long as these | appeared to forecast results he gave} je detective, even better or at least to make a bette: !appeared and said he had “come to de- evidence, goes to Magistrate Brann and denies the evidence and gets a warrant OF Jacobs can now go to a third Magis- $0 on as long as there ig a new Magis- o WHY SLEUTE JAGORS GE HIMSELF UP Order that Robert Fulton Cutting Might Be Re-| leased from His Bond. | | Disowned by Jerome, He Courts | Arrest, Gets Writ of Habeas Corpus and Is Paroled in, Counsel’s Custody. One must not be very wise To catch @ sleuth 10 deep disguise Poet Abe Gruber. Sleuth Jacobs finally succeeded tn breaking Into jail to-day. Then he broke out again through the aid of writs of certorarl and habeas corpus and was taken before Justice Scott, of | the Supreme Court, to have reviewed | the proceedings on which he had been| arrested and committed on a charge of | perjury brought by Samuel G. Hitchins, who alleged that the sleuth never en- tered the house at No. 33 West Thirty- had sworn, Jacobs's Real Renso: It !8 reported that the real reason why the “rubber-faved detective surren- dered himself was because he had been informed that R. Fulton Cutting, who had gone on his bail bond, wished to be relleved. ‘The intimation was conveyed to Jacobs, it is said. that it would be wall for him to surrender himself voiun- tarily and save Mr. Cutting the em- barrassment of giving him up. | The report bas It that Mr, Cutting has them hig tactt support. But when Ja- cobs was accused of perjury and a war- rant was {sued for him on that charge Mr. Cutting concluded that It was about time for him to draw out of all connec- tion with the star Citizen Union sleuth. Jacobs appeared before Justce Scott in the Supreme Court to-day In tac uatody of Keeper John Brady, of the Yorkville prison. The Alleged Perjury. According to the aMdavit of Hitohins ard Ralph Harmon and John M. Roddy, af Burbidge s, Jacobs was too circum- stantial in his affidavit, and swore things that never happened. And they all three make oath that Jacobs did not get in at all. Only Hitchins's name appeared in the complaint on which Jacobs was arrested, and the writ of habeas corpus was !s- sued on the ground that it requires more than one witness to maintain a charge of perjury. Disqwned by Jerome. Jacobs has been disowned by District- Attorney Jerome, who says he Is not a county detective, but a Citizens’ Unlon and Assistant District-Attor- ney Howard 8. Gans was particular to ay to the reporters that he was present not as Jacobs's representative, but to watcn the proceeding for his chief, Then Austen G. Fox, who used to be the chief counsel for the Citizens’ Union, fend tnis poor fellow Jacobs, who had been made the victim of Col. Gruber's ingenious devices.” Mr. Fox then recited the case and de- clared that Hitchins, a prisoner held by Justice Wyatt, on presumably surticient | Jacobs. Carrying the process on, trate and deny Hitchins’s dental ani ‘a | et a warrant for him for perjury, and | trate to 7 Col, Gruber replied that the law re- quiring corroboration of an accusation in a perjury charge applied only to the conviction of the accused, but a war- rant may be issued on an accusation made by an individual just as on any other charge MRS. ANNA TWELVETREE, WHO DIED MYSTERIOUSLY. SIE hens oe STEAMSHIP MINNETONKA SAFE BUT DISABLED. American Vessel Bound for Boston, and Now at Bermuda, Was Towed Miles by Steam- ship Colonia, When Big Hawsers Broke. A despatch received here says that the American steamship Minne- torka. Capt Fowler, which left Newport, England, Nov. 30, for Boston, has arrived at Bermuda in distress, The British steamer Colonian arrived at Portland, Me., Dec, 20 and re- ported that nine hundred miles off Halifax she fell in with the Minnetonka disabled and Hfebcats washed overboard. The Colonian towel the Minnetonka for twelve hours, when hawsers parted and threatening weather compelled the Colonian to proceed. The Minnetonka then rigged up a temporary steering gear, and after steaming 1,700 miles arrived at Bermuda. NEWSPAPER COMPLIMENTED been a mistake in writing P.M, in- stead of A. M, The Court grunted “Well, there are no proceedings as yet to review and the man's body Is not in duress," went on the istrate, "The Presented with Handsome Albom examination has not been held and Jacobs {s out on ball." by Guests at Dinner to Prince, Gruber Is Mercifal. It was explained that Jacobs had sir. rendered himself. Gruber, who ap- ared for Hitchins, said he was will- matter taken before A massive and magaifcent album was presented to-day to the Staats Zeltung ly those who were guests at the dinner given wy that newspaper during the visit Ing to have the Justice Scott and to, make the record | of Prince Henry to New York. The aA be eee Brann Geers pts | Prese! jon was made at the Hard- meant that he would have to stay locked| Ware Club by a committee from the Up all night. ‘The sleuth grew pale. His] tending newspapers of New York, Phlia- tick was succeeding too well. ‘del t ilsac cua Then Mr. Gruber came to the sleuth's 2UR}IAa. Bt. Louts,, Chicago and Atianta, rescue, while Mr. O'Reilly grinned ¥ Dp St Clat f the amiably. | Brookly ation “Let him surrender himself again tn). vcosh tan RA the morning,” sald Mr. Gruber, and the Magistrate so ordered. E So Jacobs turned up at 9 o'clock this A morning in Yorkville Court and was duly , ¢ taken to re ft ats Zeitung. formal pre on a lunch: served. on wv, BEAUTY DEAD. BY POISON UNCLAIMED Unless Twelvetree, Missing Since Wife’s Mysterious | Death, Appears Soon, Body Will Go to Morgue. | STRANGE NOISES HEARD. \Coroner’s Physician in His Au- topsy Found Traces of What! Appeared’ to Be Mercury—' Rumor of Suicide and Quarrel Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon declares | that in his autopry on the body of Mra. Anna Twelvetree he found what appears to be mercurial polson, possibly con- tained in photographic chemicals. ‘Tis only deepens ihe mystery aurround the death of the woman, | The police of the West Sixty-elghth | street police station are looking for her | husband, Charles Twelvetree, concerning | whom they know little or nothing. Much | mystery surrounds the Identity of the couple. wife. a young and beautiful woman of evident Hungarian blood and of « reflned type, was taken from the handsome apartments oe and Twelve- tree had occupied at No. %5 West Elgh- ty-third street early yesterday morning, | Her husband carried her to an ambu- lance, which took her to Roosevelt Hos- pital, where she died soon after, with- out being able to make @ statement, From that moment Twelvetree hae been | missing. He has not claimed the body of his wife, and it will be sent to the morgue unless some one claims it soon. The mystery is added to by the fact that unusual nolses were heard in the home of the couple shortly before the woman was taken away dying. The other occupants of the Eighty- third street apartment house complained to Janitor William Hennessey early yesterday that there was too much nolse and confusion in the Twelvetree apart- ments to permit the other tenants to sleep. Hennessey went to the artist's | rooms and there saw both Mr. and Mrs, Twelvetree, ‘They told him they did not know they were making so much noise and prom- ised to be more quiet. The annoyance complained of was a continual heavy walking, possibly a pounding, with other noises, At 3 o'clock an ambulance from Roose- velt Hospital arrived and a woman was! carried into It. A 7 o'clock a young man, a stranger whom the janitor had | never seen before, called on Hennessey and asked him to lock the door of the Twelvetrees’ apartment, as all had left that the woman had’ been taken to Koosevelt Hospital suffering trom an| acid she had swallowed by, mistake. | At the hospital a physician who made @ superticial examination sa the result of heart dis Jackson was notified a ing an investlgatto: would Ike to find T he had been apartment shortly before 3 o'clock yes- terday md ‘There he watd he fount | Mrs, i: ing. ambulance ferred to he did not d the woman trap t Hospital, He said w ‘Twelvetree or his wife and nad never attended them before. Detective Day, of the West Sixty- elghth street station, said that other tenants of the Elighty-third street house told him that Mrs. Twelvetree had prob- ably mitted sulcide. They told him u ry mentaped 7 woman of whom she was very Jealous, and that she had ga “At last,” he mutt real thing in a di After five minu' again served and ‘ered like the real, otive, he two writs wera facobs was taken out 7| BAKE STEWART, MRS J. M,, and child, Osn- QUIRN, RUSSELL, Chicago 1 WRECK CAUGHT ON FIRE. WOMEN, DYING, SING HYMNS IN BURNING WRECK + Pitiful Scenes when Thirty Are Killed and Forty Hurt in Head-on Collision During = a Driving Blizzard on the Grand Trunk Railway. MAP SHOWING WHERE THIRTY PERSONS Me: MET DEATH IN GRAND TRUNK COLLISION, LONDON, Ont., Dev. 27.—Thirty persons were killed and { Injured in a head end collision on the Sarnia branch of the Grant | speed, crashea into an eastbound freight. The passenger train was the westbound fast express, which runs 1 Niagera Falls to New York, carrying New York sleeping cars. PARTIAL DEATH LIST. . STEWART, 4 PODLEY, CLEM, Port Huron, STEWART, DEPENIER, GUY, ticketed to Uae” ont. » Washington. Peers f RICKETTS, A., Sarnia Tunnel, fire- WARDEN, Dr., ticketed to Pee” ont. Lady, aupposed to be Pe: wife. 4 BROCK, J. H., Brucefela, \ | BURWELL, 0. B., Port Herom xtra 773. Sarnia Tunnel, engi- FREEMAN, F. S$. O11 Springs or | NORTON, WILSON, Chicago. _ Hensall, Ont. In addition fiftecn bodleg JEFFREY, J., London. to be identified. SOME OF THE INJURED. STEWART, ALEXANDER M,, Wing- ) BANES. JAMES, Woodstock, Ont. ham, Ont. GEDDES. BEATRICE, Sarnia, CUTHBERTSON, CUTHBERT30N, J. J. rt Mich. . Huron, Mich. LYNCH, LOTTIE, Port Huron, Mich. RAMBLIN, JAMES P,, Toronto. BIERD, JOHN, Chicago. CUMMINGS. MRS, SAMUEL,, Port} LIMON, ALBERT, Wyoming, Ont Huron, Mich, COTT. MRS. and MARGARET, ORTH HATTIE, Peterboro, Ont. ORTHEY. JAMES R., Peterboro, Ont COUTTS, NELLIB, Chicago . PRANK E., London, Ont MORSE, W. N., wife and three children, Sarnia. COUTTS, THOMAS, Chicago. GEORGE, Wanstead, Ont. EDWARD, Prescott, Ont, . DR., Chicago. MRS. J. BYRNES, MRS T. Sarnia, Ont. LAIR, ANNIE, Komoka, Ont. UTHBERTSON, MISS FLOSSIE, Port) ~ Huron, Mich, ‘nite PUGSLEU, MRS., London, Ont, Re 1 CARL, Oshkosh, Mich, G9) 1] JACKSON, ROBERT, Petroila, ig STEWART, HOBART, Oshk 2 ) JAMES, Woodstock, Ont. #0” O¢ the trainmen, the fireman of the express was killed, Engineer Mo= Kenzie escaping. The engineer and fireman of the freight train’are missing: kosh, Mich. a The ill-fated express consisted cf two baggage cars, a smoker, first-class coaches and two Pullmans, the Chelmsford and the ree The smoker, which was telescoped by the coach behind it, had the éid knocked out of it, the roof falling and imprisoning the passengers. It Was in this car that most of the awful hayoe and loss of life occurred. The wreck shortly after the collision caught fire, and but for the herols. ut vay , ants.|. Justice Scott will announce his dects- to Justice Scott's Court, | W mheticttartace athe ety Jute nen fon Tuesday noon. Sains writs nate ‘argued. 4) efforts of a brigade of passengers, organized and lea by an old man who. My © y Meantime Jacobs {s paroled in the cus. | —$—$——— —-- was himself a passenger on the ill-fated train, the accident might ‘ha’ a condition of upheaval the work of this department is rendered exceedingly dit- floult. The character of the Inhabitants upon ast side of the city, south of Ei tody of ils counsel, and the dignified Mr. Fox must have the sleuth in court again at that time. It took a lot of time and energy to reach this legal status In behalf of jacgba As must be in anything having | vi 0 do wit! the face manipulator an \ sireot and cast of Broadway. |fisewhieker. wearer there. Was also that within the boundaries of the | much mys ery. Magistrate Brann, As- nth and Sixteenth street sweep-|sistant District-Attorney Sanford, Abe been more disastrous to those pinned down in the wreck. ‘By herole effo this brigade put out the fire by throwing snow on the flames with thelr hats and hands. They then turned their efforts to getting out the wounds who had their sufferings increased by a blinding snowstorm and the thers: nometer near zero. i Miss Qulberteon, of Port Huron, Mich., | BURGLARS IN A CONVENT. CARRIED LETTERS 28 YEARS: Expected to Find Big Christmas Collections. Burglars broke into the Conven |the Sisters of the Holy Family of Na connected with St. Stanislaus’s was imprisoned under the wreck. Daniel O'Rellly and numerous ; Teth, sections, namely, from Broome | others were #0 tangled up over the plot lald by the wily Jacobs to. break Into jail so that he might break out again that the sleuth almost had to stay locked up over night—something he wasn't look- | ing for, ng S8TREET-CLEANING COM3ISSIONER firect to Enet Houston street, and from JOHN MWGAW WoopBURY. Broadway to the Rast River, there are : by the ners of this department elghteen tons o ee ere arate qaronge capoeed In cats i front of the tenements of thts district, but is the refuse and offal thre from the windows of the tenement- houses, falling between curb line and curb Ine. ‘This eighteen tons must be picked by hand daily from the surface of tho strest, In order that it may not be mixed ret | Gruber, A Legal Tangle. The opening scere in the plot was at tha Yorkville, Court, when ‘the ‘sleuta appeared at noon yesterday und told ARRESTED FOR Willian Scully, sixty years o street, for twenty-eight years Church, at the’ corner of Driggs avenue and Humboldt street, Greenpoint, Cari mas night, and stole 32 sliver spoo: silver knives and 6 silver forks, and cents in money, the lntter from the | pocketbook of Sister Cherbina, Two masses were held in the church 90 Christmas da. at beth of which un- ROBBING MAILS, Id, of No. 126 West Sixty-ninth a letter-carrier, was arrested t t dead bodies from the wreckage were pitiful in the oxtreme. Several fami were on the train, and the air was filled with the anxious cries of separated from their loved ones, not knowing whether they were kl saved, wo hours, but wae not seriously Injured, i The bodies taken from the wreck were frightfully mangled, some of hem almost beyond recognition. The scenes attending the removal of ey: sections were taken in, burglars ex- this afternoon charged with rifiing letters and extracting money feom them. He is connected with Sub-Station N. Carl Lentz, who does a maii order business, has been miss- ing money from letters. Post-Offlce Inspectors Little and Meyer were put on the case. and Scully was trapped, they al- lege, by means of a marked bill. When arrested Scully broke with the ashes and street sweepings In making the All upon Riker’s Isiand. It been oply possible to render these thoroughfares habitable by the method of daily washing with a hose the first, second and fourth districts, namely, south of Canal street, east of Broadway and south of East Eleventh street, w. have been during ail these months dally washing with hose-rangs all of these streets that we possibly could cover, certain of them every day, others of them ry other day until the entire dfmtrict has been covered. This was rendered possible by the loaning to this department of thirty lengths of condemned fire the court officers that he wanted to Surrender himself, His examination in the case was get for 3 o'clock, on Cutting was on the man’s | policemen couldn't under- | , but the court ser- im info custody and had a iceman, alt beside him until his case! cal ‘Then came more mystery. A Miss Nellie Geddes, of Sarnia, was among the killed, She was return with her sister, Beatrice Geddes, from a visit to relatives in this Beatrice was slightly injured, and was brought back to London on ome the early relief trains, Not finding her sister here, she became conying she had been saved and had gone on to Sarnia, and this morning Bt left for Sarnia, confident that she would there meet her sister, Nellie, how. ‘ather pected to ever, Waa Leo Wysleck! ee WEATHER FORECAST. that mon i ed up In the ‘safe of ¥. clerk | hose by the Fire Commissioner and by the purchase of 50 feet of hose by this |srom the law oaice of Parsons, Cicssan ; = 4 threatened suicide. He was arraigned before Com department. & Mclivaine appeare id handed up Forecast for the thirty-six down an reatened suicide. wa " MEN DIE SINGING HYMNS. writs. of certiorarl and habeas corpus, WOME. D FING MNS. In the Boroughs of the Bronx and Manhattan there has been an increase o¢ | Wzis, Of CgtOrar! sand ang POs Phours ending at 8 P.M. Sun- Bee Ge ha acetate Samet (ag sens aco missioner Shields and held in $2,500 bail until Monday. sotahaiks ) aa: ‘ eek ‘LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, ° 22,104 loads collected during the months of July, August and September in 1902 over 1000, and an increage of 17,083 loade over 1901. Also, that while thore were 200,519 loads of material collected under the guise of es in 1901, yet there were only 45,674 loads of garbage collected in that year, while’in 1902 we cutlected 62,889 loads was to review the proceedings, and w: returnable at 11 o'clock to-night, ond demanded that the body of jacol 0% ri day for New York City ana veinity—Falr to-night and sun- day} continued cold until 5 freah westerly “We were running at about forty miles an hour, when, with 7 slightest warning, the two trains met with terrific force. On exam! was found that the two engines were in the ditch, The bags which was alleged ( be brought to court at 40 o'lodk | 3 mont distinctly shows ot only @ generally Increased collec | to; ira = : - : rate, Brann. got red in, the, face, : ‘: ee s (Continued: on Second Page,) clerk expialtea thet’ te Tha 4> ‘puth’R ‘Athlanal 1, Harry 2/'Pride of Galore.2, ”. 7 h¥" Continued on ‘Third Paged foe igh Ps i’ ¥ 4