The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1903, Page 2

W THE NEW TAX PLAN WORKS UT. Figures by the City's HHS Gity'n Beperts Show | that the 100-Per-Cent. Assessment) Valuation Results in Smaller Rates and Tax Bills. Bre 100 per cent. valuation plan of ‘Maydt Low and Comptroller Grout has Boomed realty assessments 50 per cent. over thosa of any other year, and the Administration Is jubilant over the show- ing. The assessment rolls for 1908 were thrown open for public inspection to- fay. The figures show that the total in- ofease this year will be more than one Dilifon dollars, as against an increase of two hundred million odd dollars for last year over 1901. The total increase this year (1903) in | polind figures wii) be $1,405,452,387; the to- | tal-increase of 1902 over 191 was $296,- amounts to be paid next fail in con- formity with the present plan. If the proposed change In the Sink- ing Fund laws ts effected before next fall the rate will be pipiuced trom the Present 1.60 mark to 1.45, What City's iweawe WH Be. The total increase in real _and per- sonal values claimed by the Tax Com- missioners |x $2,863.308,690. Commission- er Strassbourger declared to-day that he expects the present rate will be reduced to the 1.45 figure now being striven for. The 1.00 rate, however, Is tentatively re- tained. If the full amount of personal assessments stand as now. figured, ne added, the vate would fe, dom to 1.16, 0 not higher than 1.20. le looks forward, however, to the swearing off of many personal’ assessments. ‘4 incre: by Boroughs. “‘Phe' increase In assessed valuation on veal estate in each borough is as fol- Pte 148 $1,425,462, 987 ‘The ‘ayecased valuation in 1902 ‘was ” $3,90,6(7,679 and in this year :t amounts to $4,764,009,966. ‘Personal assesements have also made a showing. The assessment eh cd pagan gust soon As oat, for the entire city show a not n-| Rrosident Wells reached iy office to- of 3 of ‘Na, 183 Man- éréiiee of $987,801.148, In each borouwh, | hatian avenues was waiting’ tor Man” With the exception of Richmond, a sub- stantial increase is shown, Richmond's decrease is $2,100,100, which is more than overcome by the increases In the re- mailning boroughs. Personal Property. ‘The total increase in each borough is anxious to swear off his personal tix. Mr, Jones anticipated the usual notices, which have not aa yet been sent out. He game and saw for himself, Looking over the rolls, he found that he had Assessed for $5,000. The figure is exceasive, he declared Under the law the Commissioner will sit dally fram now until July 1 to listen to protesting taxpayers and thus review in @ measure the work of the assessor. Some On the Hist and of, Among some of the many prominent men, politicians and others.assessed | various amounts on the personal rol ie, are: ce Not increase. Ruane ot cass + Decrease. 8 | Phe total valuations of personal | 700.019 / property in the various boroughs In 1902] D. 0. Mii 800.000, | Nt 1M8 respectively are $3,462,475,002 and | Ny/am B. Sloane. 28h s Sedat yeah Mee. w Wood "30,000 Decrease in Rate. Rivard tener oe awn Taxpayers, by reason of the tremen- feral Sasha ‘ #00 tous increase shown by the new plan, Gould ‘Non. resident | ‘il be Interested to know just what 2 1.000 Tye! Individual tax dilis will amount |i 000 t> this yea Commissioner Wells has Nancrertion’ { Prepared the following tabie, which 300.001 ‘Shows the amount paid on $500 and Job 1 b. spard_ the decreased an BENEFIT |THE PASSING OF UNDER HER WILL.’ FOGARTY’S BOSSISM Alida Van Schaick Leaves Many He Worked It for a Good Thing _ Bequests for Religious Pur-| Until “Frenchy” Moved It on _ floses and to Relatives. with a Punch. in 1M@ and ‘Mayor Low . BN Alida Van Schaick disposes of a large property by her will, filed this after- joon by Russell Benedict in behalt of nic de Peyster Foster, a cousin, Yeho, with two grand-nephews, Grenville Bayard Winthrop and Joba Van Schaick “Oddie, is named as executor. Miss Van Hehaick ied at No, 69 West Forty-elghth 29. Her will bears date March 11 Jast. She bequeaths $30,000 in truet to the " Board of Foreign Missions of the Re- formed Church in America. the income to be used in the work To her brother, Henry Van Schalck, $2000. “It 1s my desire,” saya the will, “that he shail spend this sum in the work for Christ which is so dear to him."* ~ (he Boom of Education of the Re Fogarty had been a month in the of- fice. He had learned all the ropes, Four copy readers could yell ‘‘copy’’ loud enough tg stop the City Hall clook and Fogarty could keep right on read- ing abot how the “Biask Demon" knocked out the “Terrible Swede" in ‘two punches and a grunt without ever seoming to char the sound, Things were ripe for a new tender- foot and he came. Out of Hoboken, wearing @ cellujold collar, this new of- flee boy in knickerbockers wandered in three days ago and went to work, With @ French name and an Irish face he buckled to with Celtic yim to the unra> strained joy of those other boys too ‘wise and etrong to lift a finger save when their jobs were trembling on the very edge of ‘the dom He wee Fogarty’s meat. It was Brencby” do this and ‘Frenchy’ do that, Fogarty grew ¢at with loafing and the airs of @ boss. Meanwhile ‘Frenchy’ said nothing and learned things. And it so happened that he learned with amasing rapidity, but Fogarty didn't know it Bo, still with the air of the patron, Fogarty spoke to-day to thle Hoboken recrult to the ranks of Journalism Mich. Alida Ven Schaick Banks, @ grand- niece, receives the income of $16,000 and ‘the power to bequeath it, but df #he dies oWMdiews it is to go to Hope College pe) inary. ‘There was a ‘phone to answer and Fo- i byt books are divided equatly among) gary was very busy, thinking ¥ children of the late ‘Seok V. 8. Here,” he said to "Frenchy ‘Ane a swer that ‘phone,’ and Elizabeth Van @ Winthrop. Fest of the household effecta go to Helen F. Oddie, widow of J, V. 6. The kindled with the fire of fight on sock MRE (boon here enough to yer fur that in he said, PERE Ativan come outnde I'l) poke "Yer is $8,000 cash for Mary Van 8. and \lice Winthrop Goddard,| yoearts, Fogarty. hia authority, shocked at the revolt from hastened to obey the chal- spped outalde into the hall and i ce ter Fogarty wi awaiting tim. There was a rush. a fi ning of smali hard tots, and two Utes later the two reappeared. Wasn't a mark oa the Hoboken tender: foot, but the left eve of Fogarty was red und ewelling. The pride of boas-ship V. B, Winthrop, a niece, re- the house No, % Bast Oddie has the testatrix died and its year end $4,000 in fave d from the bond- age of hig peers. —————— FACTORIES CLOSE DOWN, with the desire that in aiding weak oor- ©} on the Commissioner to grant +hi The blue eyey of the Hoboken Celt CHAPMAN QUITS POLICE FORCE. ha with the Whiskers, Who Once Ruled the Tenderloin and | Made Ineffectual Raids, Asks for Retirement. CAME AS A BIG SURPRISE. Forwarding the Application to Act- ing Inspector Stephen O'Brien, It Was Signed at Once and Granted Immediately by Gen. Greene, Capt, George §. Chapman, Col. Mike Murphy's “little drummer bdy,"' former Czar of the Tenderloin, the man with the most amazing whiskers that the wind ever blew through, has retired from the pollce force. No more will he make Ineffective raids on poolrooma, axe In band; no more 1 honest wives walk his precinct at | ht In sfear of being taken for women of the streets; no more will the emall boy point with awe to those wide, flow- ing whiskers, as they sweep through a precinct eager to get a picture in the newspapers. The police force has lost {ts most picturesque character, The Captain's action was a complete surprise to every one. There had boen no hint that he was desirous of rest. He went to Police Headquarters this morn- ing and addressing himself to Chief Clerk Kip, asked for a retirement blank, Mr. Kip lifted ‘his eyebrows in surpriae, ‘but handed him one, ‘The Captain filled It out and gave It back. Must Go Through Inspector. “You must eend tt to your inspestor, said the clerk. ‘‘Dhat's the new rule. All right," sald the Captain, and call- ing a messenger he posted the blank off to Acting Inspector Stephen O'Brien, who stralghtway indorsed it and sent it back. Then It went to Commisstoner reene, who signed 4t, and Chapman was out | The old man looked very glum all thin | while, His beautiful whiskers were drooping. ‘The pink In his cheeks, which | used to make the girls in the Tender- | join wonder where he got it, had faded away. He was evidently quite down in the mouth “Why did you do it?" he was asied. | “Well,” he eald, disconsolately, ‘I've been In the department long enough, I haven't got any home. I'm all alone in the world, I'm tired sleeping in station- houses, und so I just thought I'd got out and go into some mercantile busi- ness. I'm going to eee if 1 can enjoy the years that are left to m Served Twenty-six Years, Capt. Chapman, being a veteran and having served twenty-six years on tne fores, was not obliged to give any reason for his request. As there are no charges against him It was compulsory appil- cation, No matter what the Captain might say as to the real reagon for his move, there are those In the depantment who Say that the tmpelling motive for his retirement ix the wotivity shown by. the new Inspector, Stephen O’Brien and ne District-Attorney. O'Brien looking ‘through his inspection Qiettice since he took hold and he found, it sald, that the Mercer Street Procinot, wfhere Chapman has been, | command lately, Was not In as pe ap it DUN tobe. He is reported to have told the Captain that there would have to be something doing there If he want- ext to pe obarges, and that this) made {t necessary for Chapman to tale tain parts of his district, The District-Attorney is also aaid to have had county detectives at work get: ting evidence as to the existence of pool rooma In the precinet, and this caused the bewhiskered policeman great un- easiness, Now it's all over and there will ‘be no come back for him. Was Murphy's Drummer Boy. t,,Chapman,was born in 1817. After re ey through’ the Clvil War as a drummer boy in Col. frphy's regiment, r he returned to New York, He was polnted to the, police force in 1877. ma: a roundemen in iat, ‘a sergeant in 1887 derioln precinct during the Strong re- ime that Capt, Chapman guined his kreat notoriety ‘by raiding the Seeley Ginner at Sherry's, | Herbert, Barnum dinner Dec, 19, 1898, in nis here formean: ing wedding. ‘There were twenty-two guests present, all of them well-known men, ‘Phe Captain heard that there wus going, to be a dance by a woman in the “altogether” as one of the features and with two of his men he broke into the piace, but an eertul No anrests were ollowel and Capt. ‘before the Board of was trie toe Commissioners for exceeding his author- ity. He was acquitted, Stirred Up the Tenderlotn, During all his satay In the Tenderloin Iho carried things with a high hand. He chased women out of 8 and into the streets. ‘Then he made war on thoxe who walked the streets. He was ao strenuous about |t that respectable women were afrald to go the Tenderloin, He atly criticised, but he seemed to any got b “k into powe: pats over for long, a& he began again nid tactics. He hag been seven times in command of the Mercer street etation since he Was made @ capt One of his spe- claities Was bre into pool-rooms: with axes and 4 ying furniture, but be rarely succeed in making out a case against the waa considered a “grandstand player’ by hia brother officers, Avoit lx “months ‘ago Capt, Chap. man lost his white and then he fas not been quite the same. She had been an invalid for thirty years. and, whatever may be sald about the man, his devotion to her was unquestionable. Captains Oust Devery. Chapman walked away trom uarters to-day with a smile % $1,000 cheok inh of the Captains’ Assoclatic eadquarters. Capt. Del meetin held at Wood or Coal for Fuel, (Special to The Brening World) SUFFERN, N. ¥., Jai. 12.—The fac- tofe Mot @ Cnaringe at the ltories at Mabwab, Suffern and Hillburn Academy. witt fers fo shut Gown, ag the coal sup- Ban. 13-Toe muperin-| BY ot it ot bien a ea te rl MY MOODY HURT. Academy dclation, which ie a! ler, ‘also ous Brotnent for many Bill Devers. who was is stead Inspector care, elected in Oi officers ciation, yenter ae @ Inapector Poa ice A Ut aia spina ae. niky two pie gal er ga! EVENING, 34 CAPT. “LILACS” CHAPMAN, WHO RETIRED FROM THE FORCE TO-DAY. steps that made him unpopular in cer-| Tenderloin when he came | Supreme Court Justices Will Hear the Case of Krulish vs. Chambers, a Sad Affair Left Over from 1901. EACH ONE THINKS HE IS IT. The learned Justices of the Appel- late Division of the Bupreme Court, Van Brunt, O'Brien, McLaughlin, In- graham and Hatch, will give up their time to-morrow to Mastening to argu- ment of learned counsel upon one of the great questions raised by the fight over the election of an Alderman for ex-Sheriff Tom Dunn's Twenty-sixth | District. The elcetion was held in November, 1901, and the public will, perhaps, be surprised to learn that there has been @ fight over it for fourteen months, The case before the court now is en- Utled Jacob Krullsh against Bdward V. President of the Board of Alder- men. ‘The returns ¢rom the election inspec- tors showed the election of Patrick ‘Chambers the ex-Gheriff's Tammany candidate, by 16 plurality over Jacob Krulish in a total vote of 6,706. Krullsh contested the election before the Boaml of Aldermen as a Board of Canvassers, and by mandamus proceed- ings got elght Chambers votes thrown out, But that left Chambers sul a majority of 8. Krulish then carried the contest be- fore the boand as “a legislative body and sole judge of the qualifications of ita members.” Here it was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec- Mons, and the Republican Pigg teed of that committee reported in favor of Kruiiehs While the Tammany minority reported tn favor of Chambers, The adopted the minority re- Port, sentir ¥ Bdwai rd stark who has carried on the fight for Chambers, will tell the Appellate Division to-morrow that the majority of the Aldermanic Committee actually threw ou! over 0) ballots be- cause the cross in the cirelo no been drawn by a draughtsman, and 600 more for equally good reason, thus leav- ing a majonity for Krulish. They de- | these, and the review of Board of Alucmen more than a@ year ihe election is impossible, | be- the ballots have becn destroyed. Krullsh and Marks declare that whatever fh? decision of the Appellate Division the jee il be taken to the Court of Ap Gnd pa by the cause, pel end of ‘oon an after the oxpenditue of thousands of dollars it may be de- cided who wes renily elected to the $1,000-a-year = Aldermanship r Twenty- “eighth “Aldermanic” D ‘Aldermanic’ District. BRAVE POLICEMAN STOPS RUNAWAYS, After Risking Life, Canberry Ar- rests Appropriately Named Pfuhl for Carelessness. the Policeman Canberry, of the Ono Hun- dred and Fitty-second street station, ts fn line for a medal for bravery in etop- ping @ team attached to a heavy brew- ery wagon which was running away across the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street viaduct to-day, Canberry risked [his ife in stopping the runaway and narrowly missed being thrown from the Viaduct, 1% feet, Into Bighth avenue, ‘The team, which was driven by a man appropriately named Charles Ptuhl, was left standing in front of a saloon at |One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street and Amsterdam avenue, ‘The wagon was loaded with empty barrels, Some- thing frightened the horses and they fan south on Amsterdam avenue, spill- ing beer kegs all over the street At One Handred and Fifty-fitth street they started east and charged down the steep hill, Canbenry grabbed one of the horses as they were passing the en- trance to the Speedway and succeeded in forcing them against the viaduct 'rall- ing at Bighth avenue, where one of ,|them tripped and fell. ‘The policemen wes badly bruised and sorate! Yoams and pedestrians on lower end of the viaduct had nar- fow escapes from the crazed horses, Pru) yes aire ted for criminal care- came along to find whet had’ acne of hia horses. FIGHT FOR JOB /ARRESTED ON OF ALDERMAN.; EVE OF WEDDING Young Man Who Was to Have Been Bridegroom To-Night Held in Long Island City on Charge of Larceny. SWEETHEART IN COURT. Bamuel Benton, twenty-three years of age, who was to have been marriod to- night to a beautiful girl of No. 2% Adelphi street, Brooklyn, was arraigned to-day before Magistrate Bmith, in the Long Ieland Police Court, on three charges of petit larceny. He refused a request of the Brooklyn Trousers Com- any, which caused his arrest, to walve examination, and was remanded until Wednesday. The plight of the young man has not lessened him in the regard of his fian- cee. He was arrested on New Year's Day and since then she has visited him dally. She was dn court to-day and cast loving glances at the defen- dant during the proceedings. The girl—she is not more than eigh- teen—deolined to her name, as did Benton, but her \air of refinement, splendid, flashing black eyes, luxuriant hair and good attire attracted much attention, Her address was obtained from the prisoner, who said he lived at No, 227 Adelphi mtroct, in order to keep people away from his own home, No. 44 Bleecker street, Williamsburg. Benton's crimes ie in his having ob- tained numerous sums of money from Long Island merchants as deposits for garments to be made by the concern mentioned and to which she failed to make return, It 1s sald that he wanted the money for his marriage to-night, He refuseg to disouss that. Former City Magistrate Kramer, who appeared for the Brooklyn ‘Trousers Company, sald that his clients dki not desire to press the case nor send Ben- ton to prison It was felt that an e: ample should be made of him and with {| that Idea in view the attorney asked the young man to waive examination and if declared guilty {n Special Sessions, the company would consent to a sus- pension of sentenc: $$ Vice-Consul MacLean Buried. PARIS, Jan, 12—The funeral of Ed- wan P. Maclé#an, Vice and Deputy Consul-General, who dled here Jan. 7, Was held at the American Church to- day. Consul-General Gowdy and his staff and many other Americans were present. RUSSIANS MAY GET GREATER LIBERTY, Minister Hints at Home Rule for Peasants in the Empire of the Great White Czar. 6T. PETORSBURG, Jan. 12—In o speech to-day on the occasion of celebration of the one hundredth angt- versary of the establishment of the Russian Ministry of the Interlor Min- inter von Plehwe sald that a conference would soon be held in which serene tatives of the local bodies of the would participate to discuss ant! + eis organizations, various eoonomlc ques- tdone and measures ineuring SOE Sr ©0- operation of governmental eoctal defining their mutual relations pens a ranging for the participation of local people in matters ovcurring in the Gov- enmmment looality where they resid ® The Minister jaid stress on ‘the peasant problems, and anid fe. seared ie ae sistahoe fectual forces of the country hye petting these matters. PUT A BABY ON THE STOVE, Mrs. Kine Says Ghe Left Her with Mrs, Lawler, Who B On & charge of felonious assault, Mrs. James Lawler, of No, 26 Bast Seventy- third street, wae held to-day by Magis ete Orane, in the Yorkville Polloe Court, for examination to-morroW morn- ing. Toe omens ie Ae, Kine, of the same ys olng t wher bp is y NOTED INVENTOR INSANE. Man Whe Developed Submarine Boats iu an Asylum, PARIS, Jen, 1 —Goubet, the inventor jot submarine donts, bes de- phased "charac. che Davy on THREE PLATOONS Police Commissioner at Work on System of Hours On and Off, Which Shall Inorease Ef- ficiency of Force. NO MORE GIFTS TO CAPTAINS. General Refuses to Permit Dooley, Late of Coney Island, to Receive Handsome Baton from His Former Subordinates as a Testimonial. The threc-platoon system will not be adopted for the Police De- partment.—Statement by Police Com- missioner Greene to-day. Police Commissioner Greene announced to-day that he was at work devising a new system of hours on and off duty for the Police Department. He said most positively that the sys- tem to be adopted would not be the three-platoon system, as had been said in certain quarter fe ald he was op- posed to the three-platoon system, first (because it would impair the efficiency of the force and second, because there were not sufliclent polloemen to make euch a eystem possible, “The system to be adopted,” he sald, “wlll be a modification of the present system, but {t can In no way be termed or designated a three-platoon system. That is Impossible. Many New Features. “Tt will embrace all the good features of the custom now In effect and will A ae na arene extent, its defects, many new features Witton Aries will tend to add greatly to, the eMotency of the service, “At present I cannot say just what this system will be, but I am hard at work on it and expect to be able to make a definite announcement within a tov Onya daya. many of the demands made era ith policemen to be just and they will be granted tn so far as it is But with the present iimited possible, umber of policemer: it Ia not porsible to give the Toen all tl fe how- Sven, the Lapisiature prase the. itt to increase the force, a8 we have planned, a great improvement, will be made in the work of the men." No More Géfts to Captains, Commissioner Greene announced that would no longer permit the ving of presents to captains by patroimen. Thiy announcement was caused by the application of Capt. Dool tranaferred from Coney. I to Old 0 receive a fino baton, Sought for him by the Coney Island polleemen, ine Commisaloner sald’ that he sould withhold the consent, although it has been customary for ‘Commissioners to allow Captains to receive presents fn violation of the terms of the charter. Daniel Cahill, a patré n, of the Bilzabeth street station, was charged to-day with being drunk on duty and Uae a citizen with hie clib. Hi will tried and pravenly, singe: Commissioner has going to get rid of HIS HONOR IN RAGE LANDS IN CUSPIDOR Magistrate Pool Spun His Re- volving Chair Too Hard and It Came Apart with Him. Annie Martin and Frances Lent, in- mates of the Lincoln Hospital Colored Home, were arraigned in the Morrisesia Court to-day charged with having been bolesterous after absorbing a quantity of gin that had been smuggled Into the institution. “Why didn't you put them In a strait- Jacket?” snapped Magietrate Pool aft Bupt, Link had told his story. Then turning to the two women he said ‘Tho next Ume you want to get drunk 60 to a prison and get drunk tn a ceil You are discharged.” The two old women immediately dropped on thelr knees and Joined thelr voices in thanks and blessings. Magis- trate Pool could not see them, and in order to discern what they were doing, he got off his revolving chair, and spun it up furiously, pulled himself into ta fn vegan: “Come now’—— He fin- {shed the sentence in a huge cement cuspidor a dozen feet away. Me had screwed the top of his chair up and When he got to his feet he i ae e vicious kick at the harm! i then ist out a yell of pai ba en, hopping ai ‘on one foot, he told ‘i e court clerks and policemen tort he thought of them, and wound up with the declaration that every peracn Brraign ed before him chat In- toxioation should go to the Isl nd. {or six mont ‘FUNERAL STRUCK BY FLYING TRAIN, Two Boys Fatally Hurt as Re- sult of a Grade Crossing Ac- cident Near Batavia, N. Y. BATAVIA, N, ¥., Jan, 12.—John Mott aged nineteen years, and Lemuel Mott, aged eleven years, were fatally injured this afternoon In @ gradetcrossing ac- cident @ short distance east of Stafford this efternon, Seven other people were — were on thelr way to @ funeral. Wile Saves Weuld-Be Suicide, James Besmenovitch, @ rag picker, tried to ee Bi end this afternoon e bie heme at 89 Delancey etre CREENE AGAINST [MR HEWITT DYING | No. 9 Lexington avenue, at 4 o'clo WITH MIND CLEAR Ex-Mayor’s Condition Remains Unchanged and His Intellect ls Unclouded, Say His Physicians, Who Give Up Hope. ‘The following bulletin was Issued at) kressively wenker," adding: “He dleepe the home of ex-Mayor ‘Abram 8. Hewitt,| most of the time and suffers little pain,” | They had no change to make in that this afternoon: bulletin this morning. “Mr, Hewitt 1s @till very weak, but is| Many of the city’s most prominent holding his own. Since Thursday he has| men Gre calling at Mr. Hewitt's rest- seen no one but immediate members of dence, Twenty-second street and Lex- his family. “E. L. KEYES, M. D. “E. lL, KBYES Jr., M. D.” At 9 o'clock this bulletin was posted: Siar? changed. His Intellect is unclouded. “BE. L, KEYES, M., D., “B, L, KEYES, Jr., M. The eller Dr. Keyes, who had been) summoned to the house by his son, bedside aN night, said that the patient) longer. In the bulletins issued earlier Dr, E. L. Keyes and Dr. BE. L, Keyes, jr., an-| nounced that Mr. Hewitt's condjtion was At 10 o'clock last issued a bulletin patient had night saying that PLUMBERS HOT, PIPES COLD. Strike in Queens County by Jour- neymen for $4 and Half Saturday Of. ‘Three hundred journeymen plumbers in Queens County have gone on strike, and several hundred families whose pipes were frozen through the sudden change in phe weather last night are in distress. ‘The joumeymen want 34 a day and Saturday half-holidays. They also de- mand that none but union men em- ployed in Queens. The plumbers granted all demands except as to the exclusive employment of unton men. “The follow. ing committee of plumbers will confer to-night with the officers of the Journe men Plumbers’ Local Union No. 1: W._ Perry, of Jamaica; Philp Brads, of Far Rockaway: ani, Seott, of Far Rockaway: George W. O'Connor, Of Teng iatama Citys, George Gross, oi Rockaway Beach, and John F. Rogers of Flushing. the} | latter having remained at the sick man’s! @re Mrs. worse and that his strength was failing. | the doctors | i thelr | Keyes aftor seelng his distinguli “continued to grow pro-! tient at 9 o'clock this morning. |ington avenue, inquiring as to his con- | dition and leaving thelr card: Among | those who have called are Mayor Low, Andrew Carnegie, John B. Parsons, Hewitt’s condition remains un-| Major John M. Woodbury, Edward M. | Shepard, Dr. John B. Billings, Hugh 8. | Gurnee, John p. |S. Dike, Prot. L. Cadwalader, Norman J. D. Prince, Philip Schuyler and George L. Rives. ‘The members of his family at his side Hewitt, Dr. and Mrs. J. 0. Green, Mr, and Mrs. Peter Cooper ‘ was @0 weak that he could not last much | ele Miss Hewitt, Miss Eleanor G. Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs, Edward R. Hew- jt, Erskine Hewitt, Edward Cooper. Gen, and Mrs, Lioyd Bryce and Mr. and | Mrs. Charles Cooper. There has been in Mr. Hewitt's condition, He ts lying quiet 'y comfortable,” said Dre Et no change shed’ pat CRUSHED BY AN ELEVATOR. Electrician Wan Wiring Car and Was Caught Between It and Floor, Lynch, an electrician em- y McLeod, Ward & Co., of No® hames street, was fatally crushed while at work to-day in the new Martha Washington Hotel for Women, at No. 29 West Twenty-ninth street, He was at the eleventh floor, standing with one foot on the Heor and the other in the elevator He was doing some wiring. he elevator started to go down without warning and he was caught between the top of the car and the floor. His screams t the watchman to his help and released, bulance took him to the New pital, He will probably dle, is ribs, his right shoulder and his skull were fractured. Lynch. was twenty-two years old and lived at No. 42 Horatio street. Thus Some of them you must keep—that is, if you are to be able to do your best work in the new year. You must not be careless about your health. You must remember that a neg- lected cold leads to pneumonia, bron- chitis and grip, and that they often lead to the grave. You should never allow a cold to wear off—it wears away your lungs instead. Avoid the patent medicines, “cough cures” and so-called “immediate re- lief” remedies. What you mistake for relief {1s deadening of the nerves by the opium and other poisonous drugs they contain. That weakens your body—the dis- ease remains and gets a stronger hold. If it {s a cold or grip, it turns into, pneumonia, because the drugs have __ - The Evening Works of the past 16 yrars, showing that the ob iavenristxo © « 426% 1,11634 1,41334 1,334% - 1,361% YRAR. 1887 @ months eaiy.) 1888 aie ‘s 1889 1890 « 1691 ee . . 2,388! 2,050%: 2,717% Ylvo3 87 14 GOOD RESOLUTIONS How Many of Them Have You Kept Far? 4 -—__—_ Tobbed your body of vital force—the only power by eaten you can fight off and overc~me dis- ease. We again remind you that Father: John’s Medicine is not a patent med-/ icine nor a cough syrup, and that it! is all pure nourishment, free from oplum, morphine or other polsonous drugs. It builds you up and makes; strength at the same time it cures! the cold and all throat and jung troubles. Mary Regan, of 276 Oak St. Laws! rence, Mass. says: “I am glad toe recommend Father John's Medieini Y I received great benefit from it ooh cold and cough that had settled 0} ’ my lungs.” The $1 bottles contain three times the quantity of the 50-cent size, If your druggist does not have it send * $1 for a large bottle, express prepaid — Carleton & Hovey Company, Lowell, Mass, | For Colds, Catarrh For Sore Throat For Eczema For All Itching For Rubbing For Rheumatism For Aches & Pains For Piles,a Specific And good for many other troubles, SALVA-CEA, 244 Canal st, N. Y. Greatest Sit Nonths. ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BEATEN, This is the comparison of advertising for the last six months of each last half of 1902 beat all previ- ous records and exceeded the corresponding six months of 1901 by 130 ls. NO, OF cOLa. or +1 ar eS vale 1990 9 « 0! «300 1807... . 2,05334" 1998 sss 2,867 199. » . dd21% 1 . 3,004Y 1901, PH 1 32%}.