The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1903, Page 1

ma *\ fin his overcoat pockets, DACING # GENERA SPORTS SPORTING NEWS |__ ON PAGES 8 & 9 LL by PRICE ONE CENT. SW LATS y aa a SA), ly ay (Ghana VANE PN Wn a vn Tt Ju phy = 4s ~ 74% \) sme ONT ¢ = NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 1903. PRICE ONE CENT. MADMAN HAD “TWO PISTOLS FOR GREENE (hoaded with Weapons and Loudly Declaring He Was New Commissioner, Stranger Was Arrested ABT DOOR OF PRIVATE ROOM. !#11Send Greene to the Morgue!” ti He Yells, and Is ‘Sent to Bellevue, Stripped of Two ;. Blg Weapons. i {Armed to the teeth, a man was ar- ested at Police Headquarters to-duy {@nd it Is believed that Gen. Greene, the | hew Commissioner of Police, was saved from the fury of an insane assassin, While several persons, among them a rominent publisher, were waiting to ee him tn the Commissioner's outer of- ilfice, a young man, excellently dressed (Bnd bearing every indication of retine- ment and prosperity, walked Into the ,Foom with his two hands thrust deeply At the door he ‘was met by Special Officer Glass, .who das charge of the waiting-room. To Glass the stranger sald: “rm the new Commissioner. Send | @ownstairs and have all the inspectors ‘brought up.” Taken for a Joker First, Glass thought he recognized the man fas some attache about the building, Probably a reporter, and paid no at- tention to him, thinking he was joking. ‘As Glass walked away the man left the room and came back in a moment &nd approached the publisher. “What are you duing here?” he de- fmanded roughly. ‘I want to see Gen, Greene,” said the publisher, “Well, I'm the new Commissioner. if | you have any business, transact it with me, or get out of here.” “I know Gen. Greene personally, and I want you to go away from me, I am here on police business," replied the pud- ‘Usher, angrily, Inspector Brooks and the new com- plaint clerk, William Corkill, came in dust then and when tne Inspector heare the man declare that he was the Com- tmissioner, he asked him: “Why are you not in your office?” Prevents a Tragedy. “T am just guing in,” the stranger re- plied, and started for the door into the ‘Commissioner's 1 Inspector Brooks st ed him from geting reene, where 4t is believed a dispute would have re- gulted in a possible tragedy, “No, that’s not your office," said the! Gnspector. “1 will have a man take you down to your office,” and he led him into the hall, Then the Inspector called @ policeman und ‘said to hi “This is the ne Commissioner, Take him to his office at No. 25 Mulberry street." As that is the number of the Mulberry Btreet police station, the officer know that the man was to be arrested and took him to the station. There he sald that he was David Schwab, of No. 218 Bast Sixth street, and that he had ap- pointed himself Police Commissioner and that he was going to sweur himself in soon as “you men quit fooling with (Continued on Second Page.) GLEARS GIRL WNTHEHOTEL MISTER Autopsy on James S. Man- son Shows that the Due to Natural Causes, ‘CORONER ACTS STRANGELY. | Jackson Says Young Woman Who Accompanied Manson Is Bessie Hargraves, but Is Mixed as to Her Address. The autopsy to determine the cause of the death of James §. Manson, the young man who dled so suddenly In the | Park Circle Hotel, at One Hundred and |Tent hstreet and Fifth avenue, last night, shows that he was killed by a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. | Coroner Jackson announced after the Jautopsy that no attempt will be made to | arrest the young woman who was with | Manson when he died. She 1s said,to be | Besste Hargrave, ‘of No, 204 West | Dighty-third street, but the Coroner 1s jmot sure about the name and says It Js jimmaterial, as Manson died from nat- [eal causes. . It was supposed that Manson had died ‘of heart disease, as aflments of tho heart have carried off members of his family. There were other clroumstances, however, pointing to possible foul play {that gre cleared up by the autopsy. A Promising Business Man, Manson was a salesman for the cotton {commission house of Minot, Hooper & }Co., at No. 40 Thomas street. He had | been in the firm's employ for four years and on Christmas Day, as a reward for bis faithfulness and efficiency, he was {granted a $0 ralse in salary. His father ts D, L. Mankon, of the cotton commission firm of Frea Butterfield & Co., of Broadway and Waverley place. | After Samuel D. Tillis, a tailor at No, | 821 Broadway, had fdentified Manson |from his overcoat mark, an Evening World reporter saw the elder Manson at Butterfield's commission house. “For God's sake teil me is my son Jim dead?” he exclaimed when the repor- ter addresed him. “I read of the young |man's death in the hotel as I came {downtown. Jim had not been home all night and like a flash it came to me {that he was the one.'? Mr. Manson's agitation had attracted | Mr. Butterfield and he led him to the rear of the store and told him that his ‘boy was dead. The father broke down anf wept. He left at once for the un- dertaking establishment where his son's body lay. -Mr. Butterfield said after he loft that both father and son had been affected with heart trouble. He Inferred that young Manson's death was due to that. Wept Over His Body. While Mr, Manson was weeping over , his son's body !n the undertaking rooms | of James Finan, at No, 1105 Park ave- Coroner Jackson entered. The not a drinking man, never been sick a day and was robust and athletic. {could not have died of heart failure, | sald Mr, Manson, ‘Well, I'M bold an autopsy to prove that he did,” interrupted the Coroner \brusquely, ‘And I'll show you that | your son was not healthy. His stomach |\was disordered by drinking. His heart was impaired. I wanted no better evi- dence of that than the fact that I found in his pockets both strychnine and nitro- |glycerine pills, both heart stimulants, He might have sickened himself by tak- ing an overdose of the drugs, but there were no symptoms of polsoning, From ‘As soon as I swear myself tn I'll oust | what Dr. Jacoby and I saw death was! out an inetant's hesitation he (Continued on Second Page.) The Evening World's ALL PREVIOUS R. ‘This is the comparison of advertising fo: of the past 16 years, showing that the last ous records and exceeded the corresponding six months of 1901 by YEAR, OF ADVERTISING. 1887 (3 months only) + + 426% 1888 . . . . 1,11684 1989 + ee 41334 . 1,334% wor + + 1,361% 1993 + 2,050% 1993 + - 2,717% .2,388% 1890. . «+ (reatest Six Months, ECORDS BEATEN. Pear ane Tao OO, half of 1902 beat all previ-\ NO. OF COLA. YRAR. OF ADVERTISING 1895 2 6 + 2,801% 1896 » .« «+ ~. 2,370 1907. + » .» 2,053% 1898 6-6 + 6+ 2,867 . 3,321% :1900 . 3,004% wi. dy 1 32% 023,87 1% 3. ba pla ' Young Man’s Death Was| BANKER AND BURGLAR IN HARD FIGHT. Pliny Fisk, Millionaire Fin- ancier, Finds Noted Crook in His Rooms in the Holland House. POLICE HUSH UP STORY. Exciting Experience Leaks Out in Court—Charles Dean, Alias “Nick” Moran, Repeat- edly Convicted, the Thief. A burglar entered the rooms of Pliny Fisk, the banker, who lives at the Hol- land House, early on the morning of New Year's Day, and almost succeeded in getting away with Mr. Fisk's clothes and jewelry. The banker, disturbed in his slumber by the thief, got up, and, after a Struggle, succeeded in having him ap prehended, It was one of the boldest pieces of work in the way of hotel robbery in re- ent years. The thief is Charles Dean, or Nick Moran, who has served eight terms in prison. The most interesting feature Dean's attempt to rob Mr. that !t was made In the Holland If there 1s a well-guarded hotel in the city it is the Holland House. How Dean got in and how he picked out Mr. Fisk's room is a mystery that no- body but Dean can solve, and he re- jfuses to talk. | How the Fellow Worked. | ‘The management of the Holland House 4s extremely reticent about the at- tempted burglary and the police of the Tenderloin station are no more com- municative. ‘The Evening World has afcured the following account of the oc- curence from a man who was on the scene: “Mr. Fisk occupies a suit on the sec- ond floor of the hotel facing Fifth ave- He has been careless about lock- of mie. ing his door, It is the custom of his valet to enter the apartment every morning about 7 o'clock and prepare Mr, Fisk's clothing. “At 640 o'clock New Year's morning Mr, Fisk was awakened by the noise of \the opening of the door of the front | oom of his suite. He thought his valet had come in and paid no further atten- tlon until, some fifteen minutes later, he heard the crackling of papere. He knew that the noise was not caused by his | valet, so he sprang from bed and rushed linto the front room. “There he found a well-dressed s'-? ger rifling his desk. In a bundle on floor was @ package containing clothing and jewelry which the thief had packed up. > straggie with Thiet. “Mr. Fisk sprang at the thief, who dragged him to the door and out Into the hall, Being a small man, Mr. Fisk was getting the worst of It when he broke loose from the thief and ran down the hall in his pajamas, shouting that there was a thief In the house, “gome of the gucsis were up and hur- rled to the hall. The thief had disap- peared, and all they saw was Mr. Fisk skipping down the stairs to the of- fice. In a few minutes re came back with two clerks and House Detective Currle. Mr. Fisk's pajamas were some- what torn. “As they got half way up the stairs the thief appeared at the head of the tairway, buttoning his overcoat. With- farted placttly down the steps. His nerve as- tounded Mr. Fisk, who did not recover ‘until the ean was almost opposite him. ‘Another second and the thief would have been in position to make a dash and ercape, but Mr. Currle grabbed him and held him. Policeman Laveran was called in from the street and took the man to the Tenderioin station, Brom there he was taken to Headquarters. “Tt is supposed that the thief came in through the side door, walked ecross the office and up the stairway as though he was a guest, He was weil Greased, At 6,30 in the morning watches change in the hotel, and,in the momen- tary confusion It was possible for the stranger to get up the stairs, He prob- ably tried the first door he came to, which was that of the apartment of Mr, Fisk,” Dean refused to talk—would not even @ive his name. He was hbustied down to Headquarters, where most of th sleuths recognized im as soon as they set eyes on him. Instead of arraigning Dean in oourt yesterday fe was beld in Mulberry street, and had the plans of the detectives gone through there would have been no publicity about the case when the man was arraigned to-day. Heady to Move His Plunder, manner and was al! ready to jeave » Mr, Fisk woke up. He had gathe: Hen (Continued on Second F SSS SS = Te Cure « Cold in One Day ) Dean had done his work in @ thorough | | Mp most of Mr. Fisk's wardrobe, all of | ee an Patt htosls Reports rng ait Macatee, & “ On id . PLINY FISK, WHOSE ROOM IN THE HOLLAND HOUSE WAS INVADED BY A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR. FOR EXPECTED HEIR Representative, So that Child Cannot Be Smuggled Away. BERLIN, Jan. 2—The Saxon court Is determined to make an attempt to ob- tain possession of the expected child of the Crown Princess, according to the Boersen Courier, and has instructed its chief police agent, Sthwatz, at Geneva, to keep a sharp lookout and avoid Je- eptioy by the substitution of another ing the three fall months was one per thousand less than last year. The quarterly bulletin, Issued to-day, TROLLEYS PAY MORE MONEY Chicago Hoads’ Little Controversy with Mea Secures Increni ¥ CHICAGO, Jan. 2—Three hundred em- ployees of the Union and Consolidated traction companies have had their wages Increased 10 per cent. by an arbl- tration boand that has been settling thelr controversy with the roads, The increase 1 for the next year and a half, and adds $27,000 to the pay-rolis of the companies, a SHOTS OF CELEBRATERS. Two Bullets Crashed Windows of Hopkine’s Apartment, Thomas Hopkins, sixty-five years old, of No. 114 Fourth street, Long -Island City, to-day complained that some one had fired two bullets through the win- dows of his apartment last night Hopkins wanted a John Doe warrant, but Capt, Cooney sent policemen out to investigate, helleving that the bullets came from the revolver of some one who was celebrating New Year's, ——— TO FILL TRAINOR’S SEAT. Special Elect In Orderea for dun, 27, ALBANY, Jan. 2.—Govs Odell’ has pointed Jan. 2 aq the day for the ape’ election in the Sixteenth Senatorial Di irlet of New York to fl the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Trainor, — A Retail Deuggtete Assign. Harry and Bernard Newelson, com- prising the firm of Newelson Bros., re tal! dealers in dvuge and cigars, at No, #1 Park ansigned to-day to Kaufman dell ’ b oe Odell ing Her ALBANY, Jany 4.-43oy. Odell, accom: panied by his Mildury Gecretary and \eienographer, lets for New York this af- ternoon. acrtperiae ee > Le PRINCE WILL FIGHT | MAN SUED MORGAN, Princess Watched by Saxony’s|Nevelson Bros., Tenants of the at No. 9@ Park avenue, made an as- signment: to-day for the denefit of tts creditors. "Chie is interesting chiefly be- cause one of the members of the firm, Harry Nevelson, against alleging that Mr. Morgan, the owner of claimed that the cold made him Ill. Brooklyn Hospital dangerously wounded. Smooth as silk—never fails to please ali Lastes.*,* | leaving CAPT. COPELAND WOULD RETIRE. Veteran Police Commander Asks New Commissioner to Take Him Off the Active List. NOW HE ASSIGKS, Millionaire, Who Couldn't Keep Warm, Fail in Business atts Police Captain Theron Copeland, for years in command of the City Hall sta- tlon, applied to Commissioner Greene this afternoon for retirement. He has been in command of the East ‘Thirty- fifth street station about a week. He was examined by the Board of Sur- seons Monday and passed. Born on July 23, 1831, he was appoint- The firm of Nevelson Bros., druxwists, recently brought suit + Pierpont Morgan for damages, ie Intention of the Crown Prince ts] the property at No. 961 Park avenue, y sa eros ieee to claim the fathertiond of the child and rated fo furnish sufficient coal to kesp | c sregenny oe ape ron, tt 188, was made edueate It at the Saxon Courts Haney aay @ sergeant !n 1867 and a captain in 1863. pei or a Me IRE RNID | 8, During a part of the civil war ne 5 he, were never| served as adjutant of the O: served on Mr. Morgan. His real esta 9 One: Bunared NEW YORK’S HEALTH BETTER agents, ation a conference with MiKo | ana Dhirty-third New York Volunteers, : ; son e sult withdrawn. It was ex-|He lives at No, 4 Barrow ’ Figures Show alling Of In] plained that there was enough coal in his wife. In his long te HeIRA mi the cellar, but that a pipe to convay pan oad as Death Rate, steam to {he drug store was out of wi- | ad Gay four charkes br hae ALBANY, Jan, 2—The State Board of | der. , bin ane hee beaten! thes hey Health reports that the mortality dur-| At the time of filing his sult Nevelson hoes SIS store not only Dut drove away custom. ——— WEATHER FORECAST. says tai vie general characterises of SAILOR STABBED THE MATE. the sanita condition of the autumnal Lear erat Forecast for the thirty-six season, measured by fatality, have |Mffleer May Die in Hospital and |] pours ending at 8 P. M. Sal been such as caused a lessened preva-] | His Ansaliant Has Escape: ‘any tar Meow York City: sua’ lence of most Infectious disease and of] ‘Aviliiam Manetos, a scaman on the|[vteluity: Rain late to-night), those diseases affecting infancy and} steamship Erica, lying at Pler No. 3, childhood, with an increase of disease | Brooklyn, got into a quarrel to-day with||S@turas? rain with fog; fresh of the rceplratory, clreulatory and the chief mate of the vessel, Conrad|fensterly winds, Vous systems, Worgen, and stabbed him In the chest , ee He then maie‘his escape. Worgen |: ai | —_——/" pee se Slats “Black & White” Whisky. / Mee EY} routs fron the ur jew York daily for Chic STATE BOARD ORDERS “L” ROA TO PUT ON 300 EXTRA CARS. The State Board of Railroad Commissioners, who have been conducting hearings on the jamming in the “L” cars, made public their recommendation late this afternoon. \t directs that 300 extra cars be placed in service with! six months, that the so-called rush-hour service be continued from the early morning hour until midnight and that a third track be built on Second avenue from Canal to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. A third track on Third avenue to Fifty-ninth street. Also a third track on Ninth avenue, from Cortlandt street to rourteenth street. Se s LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Fifth Race—Star and Garter 1, Glennevis 2, Pirate 3, Sixth Race—Fake 1, Eliza Dillon 2, Bean 3. MISS RANNEY ADMITS MAKING FALSE ENTRIES, The examination of Willis T, Gridley and Miss Edna Ran- ney, of the National Mereantile Agency. of which Postmaster Van Cott was President, went on'in the West Side Court this afternoon, They are charged with forgery in altering the books of the concern to make it appear that Van Cot! owed it $3,000 instead of the concern owing him $21,000, Miss Ranney, who was the bookkeeper, and wh is held even by the complainants to have been merely the agent of Gridley, admitted on the stand that she had made entries in the hooks on days other-than app from the dates written in the examination was not luded, 4 & y GREENE STRIKES. FRBT HARDBLOW. ATTHE “SYSTEM.” New Police Commissioner Startles the Entire Force by Ordering Every One of the 262 Wardmen Back to Patrol Duty in an Effort” to Stop Blackmail. ae “Some of the Wardmen,” Said Gen. Greene, “Have Notoriously Been the Collectors ¢ Blackmail in Their Precincts, and by Tram ferring Their Corrupt Connections Will Broken Up.” Police Commissioner Greene threw his biggest bombshell into-the: lice Department this afternoon. He wiped out the “system” by back to patrol duty every plain-clothes man and precinct detective: duty in the greater city. He also provided that none of these men—262 of them—shall be elig for duty for ninety days, and that ‘he ‘himself shall choose the men are to do the plain-clothes work. This means the death of the “system,” for the wardman goes, there will be plain-clothes men in the future they will all be new the petted favorites who thave been doing the dirty work of the will be relegated to pounding the pavement. | All these men are also to be transferred to other precinets, ENTIRE FORCE IS STUNNED. ar ‘The whole Police Department is stunned by the news which went. the town over police and underground wires with marvellous 70] From its purport the police are given to understand that the new the head of affairs is going to run things with a stern hand, and) now wearing the uniform feels that his place is safe if he has @ » his conscience. a ‘The order of Gen. Greene making this sweeping change is No reads as follows: “All precinct detectives and patrolmen doing duty in plain whether in the districts or the precincts or whether detailed to duty by Police Commissioner or by the Inspectors of districts or by the O : e precincts, are hereby returned to duty as patrolmen, to take effect at ta M., Jan. 7, 1903, and they will not ‘be eligible for detail at any- time dor ninety days from date,” WIL CHOOSE NEW MEN HIMSELF. This order was also sent out: “Captains of precinots, Sergeants temporarily in commend 4 cinots, will Immediately submit through the proper police channels. . mendations for details of precinct detectives and plein duty men, # to be arranged in order of preference and to be equal in number the number of men to be detailed. From this list the Poltoe Co will make selections and assign to duty as patrolmen and plain duty men.” Another order of a similar import also went out to the fy that there will not be a plain clothes man who can escape the After Jan, 7 every one of them will be wearing the uniform end his beat in a precinct other than that where he has been doing and confidential work for the Captain, . What this means is better known to the members of the foree any one else in this city, and it is no wonder thet the whole foros bling and’ simmering this evening as it has not simmered since the the Lexow investigation. GEN. GREENE'S EXPLANATION. In explanation the Commissioner sald: : In examining the records of the department I find some of the-Wa men have been on duty for over twenty years. This ds a desirable and it does not seem proper that it should be occupied by any one for a long period. Boi “This, however, is merely incidental and is not the principal for the order. Some of the wardmen have notoriously been collect blackmail in their precincts. While there are many honest mena ma th yet in the time available it is not possible to go through the and separate those who are believed to be upright and efficient Delieved to be corrupt, NO EXCEPTIONS WERE MADE, “Phe order was therefore made to send every one of them, ception, back to patrol duty and to make them ineligible for detail kind for ninety days 5 “If it hould Be found that any men specially qualified for ¢his duty and of character above suspicion has ‘been removed where M opportunity to yeturn them later on, if it should be deemed bent to ou “In the mean time by returning all ward men to patrol duty and | ferring them into different precincts it ie believed that any © nections now existing wll he broken up. FORCE WILL NOT BE @RIPPLED. Before making this order I consulted not only with the Ds missioners, but with Chief Inspector Cortright in order to be carrying out of this order within the timo stated would cripple the department or interfere with its practical detecting erime, - ¢% “Tum advised by the Chief Inspector that it will not) and ip this opinion both deputy