The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1903, Page 11

*Blg Bits of Ri C POWER-HOUSE Electrical Plant of the Pennsyl- vania Road in Jersey City ‘Burned with a Loss of About , $100,000. EXPLOSION MADE VOLCANO. -Hot Steel Were Thrown Around, and Many Fire- men Had Narrow Escapes from Injury Thereby. ‘The electrical power-house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, located in the Waldo avenue yards, Jersey City, was wompletely destroyed by. fire early to.. day. The loss is estimated at about $100,000. Crossed wires are said to have caused the fire. The plant furnishing electric power for Tound-house and storage batteries aged on the Putlman cars were charged in the bullding. When the alarm was Fecelved the wind was blowing at the Fate of about fifty miles an hour, The Dower-house is difficult to get to, and | Before the Fire Department could make any headway the building was a roaring tturnace, Several explosions took place inside tthe building. Piles of iron and steel wore hurled high in the alr like a spit- fing volcano. Some red hot pleces of fron fell around the firemen. Thero fwere any number of lucky escapes, The firemen succeeded in saving the ound house and a number of Pullman ware in the yards. —-—. ‘WOMEN SAVED FROM THE DEATH JUMP. . By quick work and presence of mind Policemen Iynch aad Moore, of the West Forty-seventh Street Station, pre- qvented paniv-siricken tenants of a flat- house, at No. 42 West WFitty-third jetreet, from jumping out of upper story Windows during a fire to-day. The Diaxe, supposed to be of incen- w@iary origin, started in the basement, ‘and when the tenants were awakened The halls were filled with smoke. They Fan to the windows and fire-escapes. When the police arrived, several women, @eeing the puffs of smoke from the dower floor, were on the point of Jump- hg. The pollco shouted to them to keep quiet, and then ran through the bellding, dragging women from the windows and helping others down the Bre-escapes. The smoke was so thick that the “BILL STONE. Danger that Some of These Early Presidential Ones May Get Severely Frostbitten, He Says. THE WEST IS IN NO HURRY. The Former Governor Doesn't Like to See Withered a Droepy Timber of that Kind Standing Around Prematurely. * CAREER OF EX-GOV. STONE. = 1848 —Born In Kentucky. 1860-64—Farmhand. 1864-70—College boy. 1870-76—Lawy' 1876-80—Politicia 1880-84—Stock ral 1884-90—Congressman. 1894-98—Governor of Missourl. 1898-1902—Political boss, 1903 —United States Sena‘ “Barly Presidential booms t" United States Senator-Blect William Joel Stone, of Missouri, Viee-Chairman ot the Democratic National Committtee, | and next to William J. Bryan the big- gest Democratic leader of the West, afraid here in the East that some of these early booms will be frostbitten? This 1s early February. The next Na- tlonal Convention is not due uritil a year from next summer. Some of theme early Presidential booms may be weathérbeaten before the flowering tins comeg around, “Seriously speaking, little early ‘the issues of the campaign define them- selves the right candidate will develop. I hear talk of your Judge Parker and Mr. Olney, but the West is not figuring on Presidential timber just yet.” “Does the West still cling to Bryan its candidate?” ‘Mr. Bryan has stated in language that admits of no equiyocation or mis- construction that he will not again be @ candidate, He !s still a man @f dom- mmant force in the Democratic party, and he must be reckoned wita.”” though, ft is a @remen could not get into the basement. Finual vith ‘their fi ‘uighe: rik ces, several nen carried eating into the place and made 8! the fire. Vhen it was discovered ahat the mene ear originated in a hea old rags ‘the coal bin. altofmat Andrew sult way who noticed one of the 8 un arene nn name as James Leddy, of No. ‘est Fifty-second street. and Fire Marshal are making a thor- ough investigation, pt. Schmittberger says there have n twenty-elght Busplol et fires in ‘Gistfict in the past month, ee HEROIC RESCUES inet AT MORNING FIRES. (Special to The Evening World.) BLIZABETH, N, J, Feb. @he Morris Building, Grand streets, The blaze originated on the ‘second H. Astfalk’s cafe, and soon ®pread over Callahan's cafe and Leh- floor of N. man's grocery store, All the firemen were called out, ‘were many thrilling escapes, Ay guifocated with smoke, Mrs, Brittain, ving in the Morris House, ga’ g@larm and aroused the inmates, ive yeats old, limp and Pscneg evs, @nd carried her down a ladder. Policeman boy a carfied Emmett's gins, old boy do: Sse ter picked’ Up Airs. Kimiot ‘was unconscious, and bore her ou @ window and over roofs to his sky it, four. doors away. fe’ rocurned and carried Emmett’ Ret iF mebel, to the sam aay Placi where all were revived. M of the house, Jeanine out of th indow mit air. She refused to leav attics ‘cafe was wrecked, Calla ‘s apartments.and cafe wi badly maxed by wate? and fire. Will be 65,000, mene WOMAN OF 80 iS FATALLY BURNED Mrs. Kate McDonald, elghty years 014, fiving @lone in two little rooms at Mont @omery street and Pine place, Brooklyn, fas Cooking to-day when hér skirt AP @aught fire from the stove. Unable to extinguish herself, whe ran about the rooms, open: Ang the windows and screaming for oa a ge ye Le its responded to the nd ran ith Dlankets } he smothered the fire and carried the aged and now. uncon- lous woman from the house. 9 the Kings County Hos) 1d that because o pavanced sae she would di The house we cant re mr fhe Fire Depariment, hed joulty In extinguishing the fa: —e FIRE OUSTS 20 FAMILIES. Whey Shiver in the Street Til th + ¥lames Are Batinguished, he hy rom her dress, men, families were ousted from thelr 4p’ the four-story tenement No. 420 ifty-third street early this morn- @ small fire which started among ‘the cellar, o of rubble In ood i dampened cloths over ators suspiciously, arrested him. He he police 6—Fire Broke out at 2.30 o'clock this morning in Broad and Bast There ‘All the in- mates of the Morris Bullding were near- aged sixty-five yeare, the John Bemett selzed ittle Mabel Robinaon, wh another ladder, Brittain remained ‘in. the front the flames by Mithe dit je @ Kreat smoke that ‘Does that mean that the Weet will in tty to make ¢ree silver the dom- t inane?!’ ‘Free silver will probably fot be the dominant issue, but It is too early to write platforms. To talk of the issue of 1904 juet now wotfld be only idie speculation." “Do the Western Republicans favor President Roosevelt's nomination?” “Tam not an exponent of Republican thought, but the President seema to stand well with his party, except on the negro issue. I think he has committed @ grave blunder by precipitating a race question into politios. He is doing the negro no 004, and he ts doing hie party hai both in the North And South. reaident McKinley ‘had* to less a sense of what was due our black fellow-cltizens, and he did his duty by them without arousing hostility or race prejudice.” As the successor in the United States Senate of George Graham Vest and Thomas L. Benton, Senator Stone will hecome a leading figure in national af- faite, That he is mentalyy equipped for the position he has already demon- strated by @ix years servive in Con- gress, during which he ranked as the leading ofetor and most telling debater on the Democratic ide of the House, His calibre is established by the fact that.he has been seriously considered by pee) western confreres an a Presi- Jonttal nominee, Osnvelcally the Benator-clect fm not un; like Abraham Linogin, He js tall and nd hia ine cheek bones sete iy t the Ignite of ates onus east s ny eame time he can of his imcouth laue otty eloquence, Sea ty fonts credit iim faenesh ott teah ay yen spe panel oa uke, nick i ole fee ot A yout, R ercuniaw thelr suspl- Henry Green, of No. 49 Thirteenth street, Brooklyn, and Walter J. Orme- pee, of No. 900 Hancook street, were arraigned in the Adame Btreet Police Court to-day chi 4 With interfering with a fire alarm, An offide boy In the Treasurers depart- ment in the Teleptione Building thformed ‘Absistant Treasurer Webb that two men were monkeying with the fire slarm box in the hall, and he had heard one say tothe other: “You broke {t, It must ¢ alarm, be the tre ifr eat Orly. thing Which averted & io it *alg'ant ntti the fact, pted the men and 4 Panis It Mouned ie or two Bei on rent Aor rin, ee hat’ aid nol ket Of the ble mist ae ‘As a result the firemen. arriv pefare aby one in the bullding suspect an alarm had been given. A —— ICE IN OCEAN LANES. Aretio Fields Driving South with Labrador © BT. JOHN'S, N. F., Feb. covers the ocean as far as can be ween and ie driving south, with the Labrador iaye pene Repke cod) os foes jee tho it badies after Dr. Scherer and Aasistant BuperMtendent Ricord, but the daites’ Patents have not given their consent to emiled quizzicdtiy as he echoed ‘the|Puch an arrangement, Khe coldateln query at the Waldorf-Astoria to-day. |. |infant will probably, bear its fathor's Seems Yo me T heard spring thunder /name of Lows when It goes through an evening or two ago and the next} the regu veoe having its one pound of day came a killing frost. Aren't you} "ihe “dye ne waves ite tiny arms aroun hoves manfe: fee resteloted ia such a diminut for foo Was given to dt with a medicine dropper i Dhaai it with the greatest ap- to talk of candidates.” As | fie nopntas pound, was taken to and when these were unroll transfedded to hy praecting care of the foster-mother dnewbator, Was po lt tle that it looked lon and big to Battle with the wrorid) oe Liab E DESTROYED |“BOOMS?” QUOTHTONE-POUND BABY (ASKS LUCRE AND HAS TINIER RIVAL Diminutive Goldstein Finds Com- panion in a Little Knaack That Weighs Less Than a Pound, LUSTY YELLS FOR FOOD. Twe Small Gi Houses at Belle vue Hospital Resound with Gurg- ling Demands for Milk, Ever More Milk. ‘The stork is making liberal visits to Bellevue Hospital with incubator babies, and the pride of Ward 3, who arrived esterday, haa a rival, The newoomer welghs even less than the Goldstein Infant, who tips the scales | At one pound, and as he Hes peacefully sleeping In his little glass house next door to the Tuety Goldstein one-pounder even the nurses, accustomed as they are to these tiny mites of humanity, make frequent visits to the two small atran- gers who are struggling for life, ‘The mortality of incubator babies {s so great that the little visitors to the foster mother incubator do not as a rule live more than a week, Dut from the signs of energy and aniriation in the Gold- stein Daby the doctors and nurses think he will be one of the few bables to win in his fight for existence, The nurwea want to name the two nin still Mm thé little glass tiny sits of eyes s Snerpette. interest” in ia unusual for speck of humanity. Ha morning It erled in a ematl vuce nl, and when the modified milk ani t relien, rorhe lattst arrival, who rogistered at te Jast evening, is a bab Walter and Barbara e the ot 8 ‘Third avenue. wack baby, welghing less than a je howpltal it was folds of bi et, nroted thre eae which was the wrapped in folds an morsel mnd bones, evome even in thé Uny glass house which ia to be its home jthe firm for a whole year's salary at VINDICATION, Miss Solomon, One-Time “Fore- lady” for Solomon Bros., Sues | for a Year’s Salary on Broken Contract. IMPERTINENT, SAYS FIRM. A Bevy of Girl Operators Fills Jus tlee Scott's Court-Room with Bright Eyes and Talk of Chif- fon. A bevy of bdright-eyed girl operators from Solomon Brothers’ lace-making establishment invaded Justice Scott'a| part of the Supreme Court to-day to help) or hinder Miss Rose Solomon, the pret- tlest of them all, in her quit againat $14 @ woek. She says she had a contract as “forelady,” but wae summarily dis oharged by Felix Solomon, Sammy Solomon, the junior member of the Arm, waa let out of it by Justice Scott on his plea and the admission of Eugene I, Yuells, for the "“forelady,” that he is “an infant" and not liable in law for his acta. Feltx Solomon clatmed that he dis- missed Ofiss Solomon for disobedience, Impertirence and insubordination, and Samuel Solomon testified that on one occasion he had ¢epiied to an order to finish a piece of chiffon: “I will not," whereupon #he had been told to take her hat and go. And apparently she went, thus ac- complishing a feminine paradox of obeying while disobeying. Miss Jennie Cantor, an testified: “Mr. Solomon complained to Rose that work was turned out badly done. She told him that shé knew her business and for him to go out and mind his.” {Did you ever hear Miss Sulomon télh Mr, Solomon to go to hades? sertainly; several times.’ “operator,” ny other impértinent, remarks?” “Yes; she sald to Mr. Sammie one time, ‘You've sald enough for one of your sige; go, to hades’ ‘Cross~ ining, Yuells ask bet You feel tenaty to Mite oie “Perfectly.” tannes dla you ever see Mr. Felix “Four or five times.” Miss Rose Solomon, al tailor-made, testified: “Buch | ao these young ladics gay I used I never used, 1 “re 4 AA elp unit tt is strong ‘'Dnts youngster demai th con- siderable ES CROSS-FIRE OVER STATE EXCISE BILL Commissioner Cullinan Answers a Drive Made by Assembly- man Keegan, of Kings. (Special to The Bvening World.) ALBANY, Feb. WiilMam Keegan, of the Sixth Dittrict of Kings County, fired a heavy gun into the State Exeisé Department to-day and was promptly met with a return fire trom that buréau. Mr. Keegan wants to compel the Excise Department to reveal all {ts special agents’ seoreix and make known to acdused Hquor dealers just when, where and how their violation of | i; law was detected. ‘The Keegan bill provides that when- the State Department of Excise be ever shall that. any person or violation. a Btate Commissioner of Bxcise Culll- fan wald to-day, when informed of the bill by an Evening World reporter: “Oh, the game is plain to be seen. ‘The purpose Is to effable the violators t the exact date and partment catches them bs Lg Oe a to time thet our and then have @ ters” who will eid that the law was never violated, INJURIES KILL lot of convenient ‘'stt gaining Consciousness. Dr. 464 Bterling place, Brooklyn, died to-da in the Brooklyn Hospital from injuries he received on Jan, 2 by being throw: trom his buggy. The horse hi trala at Fulton street and Waehingto: the buggy, striking on his head, ai horse ran away, At the hospit 6. — Assemblyman informed ‘through @ special agent of ‘the department or otherwise her corporation to whom a liquor tax certificate has been issued ‘has violated the excise law, the Jexcine Commissioner sball within thirty days serve a notice on the accused specifying the date and character of the fwear they were there DR. WOOLWORTH, Victim of Runaway Accident in Brooklyn Dies Without Re- Earl Eugene Woolworth, of No. wa driving was frightened by an elevated avenue, gnd the doctor waa thrown from the a and aT ST FOR WEDDING-DAY SPILL Jacobs and Family Hired Under- taker’s Carriage and Were Thrown Rudely to the Street. Justice Gaynor, in the Brooklyn ®u- preme Court, heard evidence to-day in the sult brought by thé family of Mau- tice Jacobs, A prosperous tailor of No. 147 Broadway, Brooklyn, against the Metropolitan Street Raitway Company and Francia Monteses, a Williamsburg undertaker, to recover 7.000 damage: for injuries received by. being splifed | from the undertaker's carriage by a trolley car while on the way to a wed- Jacobs's family consists of Himself, ife, Caroline, his daughter, Han- nah, and his son-in-law, David J..’ Goetz. Mr.‘ Jacobs. wants $10,000 for Injuries, to pee and $5,000 for loss of his wife's vices. Mrs. eee ee wants $10,000) for nd Mrs. Goetz ch for various injuries to %, the family Dired a carrage trom {inaettendt Monteses to as gta Ty street and wo Jo &@ wedding in this city. The; fet ar Br avenue, when & trolley car hit "he riage and @eattered them about the PHELPS FAMILY BOUTS JAR EBSON. He Once Lived in Philadelphia, and Doesn’t Like Noise of) Physical Culture Exercise. Rufus bson, of No, 29 West One Hundred and @ixteenth street, Jikes quiet, He once lived in Philadelphia His nelghbora across the hall, Mr, and Mrs. William Phelps, have @ hobby. It ts physical culture, ‘They ride it with slx-ounce gloves in fi ten and fifteen round bouts. Though the gloves are padded, the walls are not. The furnl- ture iq not stationary, Mr. Ebson stood it unul Nis eardrums began to give out. Then he knocked on the walls with bis knuckles, but the Phelps finished thetr round amid flying furniture, He went out in the atl Knotked on the door, The gong hing sounded and there waa a minute re the next round started the Dulaiay trembled Whaon got a hammer and knocked. The Pheips, who were aparring for jimie. haard and were wrath, They 1 y ” wes found that hie skull had been frac- tured. He Gid not regain consclousnem ate ak aa a | Wi diesrttal May casemee ee ‘Times Bayes D Al Dr, Woolworth, who was thirty years old, wae married \ast May, and had city physiolan on Black- before cam- hie te a ther ieighbor arrested on @ cha! Knocking. Mogietrate Crane in the Horlem Court ed Iuaon why he hooked. hey make more noise t ae of Bedlam, knocked Dll count ti, {ving "o keep in ph: re et you wo tO Kymnasium?" mt vi bo Uke home," replied; io ga Saturday, February 7th. A GENERAL CLEARANCE. The business of the clothing stores has be lence we announce this conti Jerably upset. to add that MARKED PRICES Saturday, rer unty 7th, will be a 23. 50 Very fine pe aes colors. 1.00 5 40 Ri chilla ing . 6 JUNIOR. 3, 4and5 ‘One A Gotal of 148 10. FRIEZE *GLsTERS— A Cotalot 57 Overcoats 10. Al Complete Round Up OF 130 Overcoats. Chinchilllas, K 5, Black Cheviows: Melons Wote—Of course the above are “Odd Lots,”” but you will find sizes up to 48 and 50 breast included, Clearance of Men's Soft Hats. Ein Grade sam- | Principally samples; in sizes 7 and 714. ack” id all sizes. AT 1. 00 to neck. Sizes 3 and 4 years. tons. 82 STORMCOLLAR REEFERS. Navy chinchilla, plaid lin- Navy Gipson ae mixtures. Sizes | Sizes 6 to 12 yrs. Saturday, PERG eT en so phenomenal that the stocks are (so to speak) General Clearance for TO-MORROW. It is needless ARE BUT MERE FRACTIONS OF ACTUAL VALUES. day of bona fide bargains heretofore unequalled, Overeoats, also Chinchilla Gray ss | 10. 00 Black Frieze Ulsters— Several Sample Coats and Models. Long Coats, Princeton and Bell. Whipcords; 00 7 Coe! Qyergarments. 00 Black and Oxford 00 Manhatt Bo: d finest 88 gal rsted Linings. SPECIAL, EAN SHORE LIMITED, Gaieage. Atl ‘Pullman care, % oR wooo wo oS day. M.—*WESTERN: Chicago vischoth L. 8. ant M. C. Mt AL EXPRESS, vi Mea Fy Ss Paddocks, eitouss, E Bell 00 Coats, Long and Me- 1(. dium Length Coats— Manhattan Box Coats—Novelties. 0 JEN He 15 Coats Englis higenuige Mon- Che Highest Grades of Granites, —Vicunas, Coatings. |tagnacs. 00 SOD = P. P. The, 0 Except HARLEM 1 rata ne ane ore ri m Adame, "Bandage at on metenian sthotatea cy nat fon Bq A, Overcoats. 0 Bi irdseyes, \Meltons 2d. hatal or. al by weet NEW” ‘YORK * Seal NEW YORK, BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND. Via Lah eld and the BOSTON AND Ai NX i var RR, } ite uae Fort Ry ees ong Add ts New x are ere oe a yA. May 112.00 tive New meets at’ New Yor, ‘Central of Oentral .00 P.M. 10. ‘. Licey wisn dy) 50 Dad td Sl PRUDING Tash Gee ere C fiat’ ee 4 WEST T SHORE RAILROAD, sre'Fraatle Bebo ie eens toot Wee td eee zt 260 Suits. Exe style and colori (100 black and blue.) se hate 60 xford and | Nutria colors 2 ew Yor ‘Traine (Second Hoor) Seneral Clearance. AT 2, AT 3,00 ‘ 41 RUSSIAN OVERCOATS.| 40 LONG OVERCOATS, Ox- |Navy, Oxford and Overplaids. | ford, Olive and Overplaids. Sizes |Some trimmed with Astrachan.| 310 11 yrs. A few larger. Navy chin: | : Belt backs. Sizes 2 1-2 t0 5 yrs. and gray mel- y ’ 65JACKTARREEFERS. Brown, fre Chinois and iene bs Gray and Combinations, Many! 3 and 4 yrs. Military style, em- Styles. Sizes 3 to 7 yrs. broidered emblems, Sizes 7, 11, 13, 88 STORM COLLAR REEFERS,| 14, 15 and 16 yrs. Storm Collars Oxford Meltons. Sizes 12 to 16 yrs, | (some red lined). 16 OXFORD STORM ULSTERS.| 32 HIGH-CLASS RUSSIANS. Sizes 2 1-206 years. Esch Garee Dollars. EEFERS, button Ree Ivania RAIL OAD. . : 0% West TWENTY-THIRD erAeens es bese sn, oom ML Ata. roe eure Depree. Cortlandt eige rwantyethire we ea kiven, below oi Sizes 12 0 16] vesT suits | pu ges and Seip Detar. Each Gwe Deslars. oY Gheervation Cars. Fr oa trol, For Sale. Old Watches — And Jewelry Taken in Exchange For New Goods. For To-Day and To-Morrow Only, $15.00 Gold Watches $6. Ladies’ and G Gentlemen's Sizes, WALTHAM, fean maken.’ We Mere 11K, Gold one has been temed fying. Sent to any with the order, oF &. m. to 6 p.m tu G o'clock aharp dere fled iaived ‘on or betor Jeo, {ewe be rma tis 06 tote tae Gone hn Aolld 14K. Gold Locket, {or Wate oe $100 hn Lor Diamonds For Sale Cheap - To-Day and To-Morrow, AT 1-3 THEIR FIRST Os ot ock vart Pin 49, iar atiafactory written Al 7 art: and ‘Guarantee CHARLES A. KEENE, 180 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, $5 ‘Gold Glasses, $i, ‘Thie week our Opticlans will exam ue your Bree FRB and sell you « pair of 6 i Got Premier & ed 5 years, included, D D) 7 A ie or on ‘One Price, ima or Kneaville, ally, ue strictly confidential, it Inconvenient to eal, What would your grandfather thought to have seen a horseless carriage? Now “Autos” are com- mon, everyday sights. What would your grandmother said to have had her teeth extracted with- out pain? We extract them that way every day. 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